skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
and so we use finance to bridge time horizons.

The banks should only lend money to people who would be capable of saving for a house. But if you're capable of saving for a house, and someone has money they're not using, why not use their money to buy the house and pay them back?

If every party satisfies their self-interest, their transaction creates value (which is distinct from wealth).

Financial market problems are finance problems to the extent that North Korea's nuclear tests are physics problems. The body of knowledge exists, an actor uses it.

My personal estimation is that a lot of the good things in this world exist because of fractional banking and finance and that humanity is better for it. I think we can do better, but throwing the baby out with the bathwater is a recipe for disaster.

Replace 'finance industry' with 'airline industry'. Sure, the airlines pollute, and planes crash and that's unimaginably bad. But each time a plane crashes, all the subsequent trips get safer. We're never going to make it perfect, but we can make it easier to roll the dice. And people don't fly places and engage finance for no reason - they do so to improve their lives. We should focus on improving peoples lives, whether that's making it easier for them to find a place to live or transport themselves.
> Almost every other industry relies heavily on pedigree, education, social standing, references, sociability, etc.

Almost every industry, including tech, relies heavily on those things as pre-interview filters. Tech is not a meritocratic exception here.
The lowest quintile will see about $60 of reduction which is non-zero. So the plan can say that it saves them money. However, it is not significant.

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/preliminary-dist...
That's a nice list of meta-skills. Do you have any further reading to recommend on identifying/teaching meta-skills?
>SV is competitive with my local tech community, rather than cooperative, so crippling its startups and small businesses helps ours, even at the expense of a smaller overall tech economy. I'm fine with a smaller overall pie, if I get a bigger slice on my plate.

Bang on. I'm mostly glad that my particular corner of the Midwest doesn't seem terribly keen on aping the SV model of shitty business practices, at least. Small victories and all that.
The answer to population growth is poverty reduction, healthcare, education, and free access to birth control.

...And how do you manage that for a fractious planet of many billions?
How old are you now? 20, 30, 40?

Try again, Sonny. :-)

So please. I'd love to hear a rebuttal.

My rebuttal is that I've walked this earth for a number of decades, and the track record of such predictions has been dismal. We've been "almost there" for decades. Tesla can't even accurately predict when they'll ship you a Model 3, and you're just going to take the word of Tesla, et. al. on when this AI-run technological miracle will happen?

But if you want a rebuttal, here it is: you list car companies that claim to have self-driving cars in the next three to four years. And yet there isn't a single company that has produced anything on a smaller scale (Siri/OKGoogle, home robot, or the like) AI/ML-related that has me thinking, "you know, I could imagine this expanding to something that could drive a car in a few years." Nothing, not a single product. If you have something along those lines that you think would fit the bill, that I can walk down to the store and buy today, I'd reconsider my position (slightly).

But that's cars, for which we have existing infrastructure for routes, refueling, and traveller services. And despite my pessimism, I expect self-driving cars in which I can take a nap on the way to happen within ten years. But flying cars? The thing that we can't even make for practical use even if you want to pilot it yourself? And we want to slap an AI control on it? With very little infrastructure to support the idea? Yup, I will be a pile of stone cold ashes before that happens.

But I hope I'm wrong about the "in my lifetime" part. Because if I am wrong, then I get a flying car and I'll have lived way past the point that I expected to. :-)
Can you elaborate? Does google pay 35% on the food it provides to employees?
Yeah, sometimes a task is so boring or unpleasant to me or I'm so unmotivated that I'll do the first step and then just give up.

Other times, I don't even have to break the project down into steps. I just dive into it and crank it out, thoroughly enjoying the productivity I'm experiencing.
Offtopic: Does anyone know what framework they're using for those charts on fork.lol?
The EU doesn't fine to fund itself. Fines are not a good funding source.
I have never seen a correlation between passing standard coding interviews (whiteboarding, algorithms, etc) and how they perform as a candidate 1 year after hiring.

Does anyone have any data that surfaces this information? All these companies like Triplebyte do is standardize incoming interviews, but what's the point if it has no bearing on whether or not the candidate is actually successful.
According to some quick googling, median household income for the US as a whole is about $59k, $65k for CA, $77k for SF. So you're well above median, although I certainly wouldn't call you "the rich" (on a US scale - globally we're all rich).
Thankfully I'm not talking about that at all.
I cannot replicate your result.

https://i.imgur.com/zdAQrIB.png
I like FIREFOX IT IS HOOOT
A project like this from microsoft makes me sad that they killed Flight Simulator. It was such a quality product with a dedicated fan-base, and really could have used one final round of modernization to work better on current gen hardware.
what time is the fork happening?
Great work thus far, Shital. I’d love to work on the AirSim team with you. Where can I apply and what skills should I sharpen to achieve my goal?
The Corporatization of Kindergarten
> 50mph and 55mph roads having stoplights on them aren't particularly uncommon, particularly in rural areas.

Sure, but this is a major artery connecting several residential hubs to the regional capital.
It annoys me personally therefore nobody should do it.
>> capable of flying above congested roads...

>If flying cars became popular, this advantage would be destroyed by the congested skies.

No, it will be destroyed by the noise these cars would make and hence will be forbidden in populated areas == where there are actually congested roads.
Is there an LV2 version of the plug-in so can easily work in Linux programs like Ardour?
There's no magic bullets for this sort of thing. Try something and see if it works. If it doesn't work, try something else. Incrementally improve your processes.
That is still the case. Firefox for iOS is also just a WebKit wrapper. Mozilla mainly released it for the people that use Firefox on the desktop and want to sync their stuff.
CRI-O v1.8.0 and v1.0.4 released
One of the things I found was that I had to use their Beta. Their main build wouldn't even start for me.
I'd love an actually decent competitor to Youtube.
You can remove the search bar altogether. In most modern browsers the address bar works as a search bar too.
> Boy howdy. And create new categories of horrific accidents.

Had this been the attitude 100 years ago, we would not be using cars.

Why should we go from a horse that can walk me home itself without running into a single obstacle, ever, to a big heavy loud metal gasoline-burning machine that has mechanical failures, and requires constant vigilance from the driver?
I'm in the same boat. For long time, I was interested in AI but at the same time intimidated by math. I'm relatively comfortable with discrete mathematics and classical algorithms and at the same time calculus and linear algebra is completely foreign to me. Also, I do not accept way to learn ML without good understanding of core principles behind it. So math is a must.

A few months ago, I stumbled upon very amazing YouTube Channel 3Blue1Brown which explains math in very accessible way and at the same time I got feeling that I finally started understanding core ideas behind linear algebra and calculus.

Just recently he published 4 videos about deep neural networks:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHZwWFHWa-w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilg3gGewQ5U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIeHLnjs5U8

So my fear of ML was gone away and I'm very excited to explore whole new world for neural networks and other things like support vector machines etc
To be fair, I'd reject Linus. I wouldn't want to work with someone like him even if he is a well known programmer with leading a well known open source project very successfully. I don't think he'd make a good cultural fit at most of the places I've worked.
oh what a surprise, thanks
Personally, I think that asking people to write code in interviews brings very _limited_ data. However, from my experience, it usually is also a very _strong_ signal. Narrow but strong.

For example, if a candidate cannot implement a simple algorithm (like the factorial here), he very likely has poor skills.

If he can implement it without too much trouble, that's a good sign, but he only proved that he probably has some good skills.

Again, the signal is narrow but strong.
EU Agrees to Boost Military Cooperation but Doubts Remain
Well one factor would go up (planets with life 1>2) and another would go down (planets with life developing intelligence 1>0.5), resulting in a wash. It does move towards giving additional degrees of freedom on those terms though, making the equation as a whole slightly less pseudo-science.
GitHub as a text content persistent layer for E magazines?
I don't know about iOS but the Firefox Android app is great and works with Firefox Sync, of course.
It would kill the ability for startups to compete with large companies for top talent.

Not to go on too much of a tangent, but: the fact that companies think they're competing with Facebook and Google for the same tiny pool of people, and that that tiny pool of people is the "top talent", is one of the big problems in our industry.

See things like this article:

https://danluu.com/programmer-moneyball/

Or this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11290662
I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_request_forgery#Coo... is flawed too because "Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *" doesn't let browsers send cookies with the request, so any of the CSRF prevention methods shouldn't be broken by it. I was just using "Access-Control-Allow-Origin: malware.com" as an example of a worst case scenario where I still don't think the cookie-to-header method is exploitable, unless I'm missing something. The articles don't give examples or link to sources, so I'm guessing both are slightly wrong. I could try to edit them, but wanted to make sure I wasn't wrong first.
There's a good tl;dr image in the article.

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*rZ_jJWwI9t_p-Cl3K...
Jerks are a problem that everyone feels comfortable discussing because they're jerks! We all don't like jerks. But at least in my experience, not only can you not be a jerk (as it should be), but you can't really say negative things at all without it reflecting on you personally. So keep everything super anodyne, anything you say negative should be extremely blunted in its phrasing, mentioned almost offhand. Don't fancy yourself a truth-teller, just go along and get along.
Ban Parents
> Why should an employee be investing 50K of their own money into the company every single year? It's bad enough that someone would invest 50K in a single company: one that picked them

Recruiting and hiring, after new grad level, is a two way street. You have the choice to accept, deny or negotiate an offer.
> less dependence on planes to get around in the US

Why? How?
I still don't understand how this is something that applies to BCH without applying to BTC. You could equally argue that both of them are based on hype and the opinions of big names.

Didn't Satoshi (before he disappeared) advocate for the BCH approach to scaling? That's a pretty respected name.
Personally I recommend Stanford CSI 231n
http://cs231n.stanford.edu/

Its specifically geared towards visual recognition, but it starts with the basics of machine learning and moves on to feed forward nets and covnets and covers RNNs and attention towards the end.

The assignments are a great set of jupyter notebooks that really get your hands on the material and you can find a number of peoples complete assignments on github just by searching.

The lectures are available online as well https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3FW7Lu3i5JvHM8ljYj-z...

I've done hinton's and Ngs courses and as someone who already has a non-ai development background I found this to be the best introduction. Its really an extension of Andrej Karpathy's Neural Nets for Hackers (http://karpathy.github.io/neuralnets/)
The cost of doing this in a large organization seem high though. Are there good ways to solve problems like this:

- A newbie developer adds small feature, triggering some performance test that was already close to failing. Now newbie has to learn all about the performance of this large project before they can land their first change.

- The performance test has a reasonable amount of noise. At first, 10% of test runs fail it, and people just rerun them. Eventually 90% of test runs fail, and people need to start dealing with it, but the effort required to get it all the way back down to 10% is unrealistic for any one person.

- The product is something like Microsoft Excel, that has a strong guarantee of backwards compatibility across a wide variety of hardware and OS versions that are difficult to test. Asking developers to delete code from parts of the product they're not experts in, is likely to break stuff.
I'm usually opposed to government interference in the free market. However, with China, I believe a protectionist attitude is mandatory - just because the Chinese government makes it impossible for a foreign company to operate and compete within China
I do something similar when running. When I feel like stopping and walking the rest of the route I'll pick a landmark up ahead, like a telephone pole or a mailbox, and say to myself, "I'll just run to that." Once I get to the landmark though, I feel I can still go on a bit so I pick another landmark up ahead that I'll run to. And so on.
You won't believe what happened next: your completely say-nothing title made me not click it.

Had they merely replaced "this" with the actual antecedent of that pronoun, I might have clicked. But they didn't, because "this" probably isn't that interesting, which is why I didn't click.
BTW: if using Android, if FF is not for you, try Brave instead of Chrome.

It feels exactly like Chrome (it's Chromium-based), but has a built-in adblocker, tracker blocking, HTTPS everywhere, no nagging to sign in, and does not throw "suggested news" (with no opt-out) upon you. Brave's founder is ex-Mozilla's CEO (Brendan Eich).

However latest FF on Android is actually not bad, at least if you have a modern phone (the UI feels slowish though on pre-2016 phones).
Sounds like a jerk is just a diva we don't like. Which, you know, that's fine, but starting off with the pejorative "jerk" inherently indicates they are not a person worth valuing.
How many traders at Goldman Sachs don't have degrees from Penn/Harvard/Yale/etc? I bet not very many. Yet some of the best developers I know are self-taught or went to no-name schools.

My SO works in media and I can assure you the hiring process there is completely, thoroughly, perniciously subjective. Experiencing her job search really gave me appreciation for the fact that taking a test is 80% of my interview process.
The key takeaway I got from GTD was just in capturing the thought, and therefore stopping it from cropping back up in thinking, and causing stress about stuff NOT getting done. This, in an of itself, helped me greatly.

Then, one random morning, as I was thinking in the shower (as one does), I had a sudden revelation: As someone who frequently suffered from intrusive thoughts over past pain (as many of us do), could this "mind like water" approach be applied to these thoughts as well?

I started writing out all the things that bothered me on a continually recurring basis. All the bad things I had done. All the bad things that had happened. This wasn't anything special; I just journaled the events, with an attempt to identify why these memories stuck with me, and still caused me pain, and what, if anything, I had learned from the experience. Within weeks, I was mostly finished. It's a Word doc, weighing in at about 25 pages, last I checked.

The difference was nearly miraculous. There's very little else that has changed my life so profoundly, and none so quickly. It's been, probably, 8-10 years ago now. I almost never have intrusive thoughts now. I still do things I regret, of course, but, with experience, I make smaller mistakes now, and my maturity in handling them has caught up to their magnitude, and there's no longer a huge gap between the action and reaction. To use a computer analogy, I cleaned out all my old core files, and now I use a garbage collected language anyway, so I'm not wasting all that disk space any more.

I'm relating this in the off chance that someone like me could see it, and benefit from this as well.
Burndown charts, planning poker, difficulty weights, priority tiers, team velocity over time, milestone progress bars.

I’ve yet to see someone tell me with a straight face that they hold any value like what we want them to be.
eh... I use it now, and it's OK. It's missing a ton of features that Vimperator had, and it will likely never get them.
If you want to succeed with a startup, you need to know how to perform miracles
There's a Light theme, a Normal theme and a Dark theme.

Dark is the default for the Developer Edition, which is what you're thinking of. But Normal is the default for Stable. Light is almost the same as Normal, but with a few more elements in white.
Indeed! I defended JS for this exact purpose after the 2D canvas became truly ubiquitous. Still a minor amount of boilerplate but you can be drawing stuff in no time. With an integrated editor it would be perfect!
People who aren't entrenched now have another service to choose from. people who are entrenched will be fought over on price and quality of service.
Aren't we discovering that our solar system isn't very "ordinary" at all after detecting that most of the systems with extra-solar planets are very different from us?
Did you make this while at Google?

This seems to be for an Android app. But is there a variant that works as a LV2 plug-in or even a stand alone Linux app?

I take it this is the Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.levien.syn...

Would be great to have in F-Droid repo.
Rooms Full of Mirrors
Elitism isn't too helpful. Determination counts for more than skill.
Also the classic 1941 short story “Nightfall” by Asimov. Aliens live on a world that is part of a complex solar system orbiting multiple stars, so it’s only nighttime once every two thousand years. At that point, the civilizations look up at the dark sky, perceive that there are many other stars, which shocks them with the enormity of the universe and how small and insignificant they are, and...well, it doesn’t go very well.

EDIT: It’s online! http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/AST389/TEXTS/Nightfall.h...
Is there any light down there? Would they have eyes?

Stars etc. might be more like totally abstract theoretical concepts like quantum physics is to us, or at least X-rays.

They might not be able to literally look up and see things, having mostly only sonar, hearing, and touch senses; handfuls of surface-explorers wearing special environment suits report the utterly strange sensation that space seems almost totally two-dimensional on the surface and there seems to be total emptiness above. Except that heat sometimes seems to be coming from above in strange repeating patterns.

OTOH they might wonder how a species like us could possibly survive, being unable to see through our own bodies using sonar it must be extremely difficult to develop internal medicine. We would probably just get wiped out by some disease early on.
The Economist and Il Sole 24 Ore are my usual buys!
You get some speedup from both indexes, but not the same.

On a related situation, having `WHERE a = 1 AND b = 2` indexes on `a` and `b` just can not have the same performance as an index on `(a, b)`, because you will inevitably have to scan one of the indexes looking for matches. On the case you posted, of an order by, I don't think you get any speedup on the index on `b` at all.

Besides, that `LIMIT 1` at the end of the clause is important to the question.
There a lot of things that lead to this, including...

1) The whole 10x thing. The implication being that if you're brilliant, you're worth an entire team or more; if you're average, you're... worthless. Thus, you have to be better than everyone else to be worth anything

2) Classic bro culture - somebody who gets rewarded for being obnoxious, bullying, and "alpha" is a very "bro" thing.

3) Tech people tend to be people who put a lot of their self esteem in their intellectual - and work - abilities. This means they get more defensive when that ability is threatened.

It's a culture that rewards being brash and confident. Can you imagine someone saying that they are an average programmer but work well with a team to get done a lot?

There are definitely people who quietly get a lot of work done, and there are people who are "force multipliers" who make the rest of the team more productive (something I regularly try to do, incidentally). Depending on the culture these things can get ignored pretty easily - the 10x developer is an individual with limitless skill in the classic view.

There's not really a space for an "average" developer - everybody has to be a "Rock star" or "10x" developer. We only hire the top 1%, etc. So if you aren't, what else can you do but fake it?
It's not always possible to get cache coeherancy with a ref based language which can be 10-50x difference in performance.
Depends on their intelligence if we find them, right? They might be intelligent and tool-using, but hampered by their aquatic origins.
Yeah, YouTube is completely unusable for me on macOS Firefox 57. The video will completely stop while the audio continues playing and the only way to fix it is to adjust the current playback time. This is on a Retina MBP with 16GB of RAM. Doesn’t occur with the same version of Firefox on Windows.
Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R
http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/

Statistical Rethinking by Richard McElreath gives a good introduction to Bayesian approaches to statistical analysis
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNJK6_DZvcMqNSzQdEkzvzA
Also — I don't see any problem with forcing companies to compensate employees in cash instead of employer equity. Especially for publicly traded companies, employees can go ahead, turn around and plow that cash into company stock if they want to. (RSUs are just cash in the form of stock anyway.)
I'm assuming this is a fake interview to show off the interview feedback for your platform? If so, I think it looks great and is a huge part of what's missing from the current "standard" engineer interview. Receiving feedback like this would be incredibly helpful in figuring out what I'd need to work on to pass technical screens.

The fact that there's very little proven correlation between being able to jump through these hoops and being a good programmer is another story altogether, but I like this!
I got 4/5 on PostgreSQL. I selected "Not enough information" on question 5, which is supposed to be the wrong answer. But I think it's the correct answer.

Depending on the distribution of the data in the table (e.g. all rows have a = 38, but no rows have b = 1), PostgreSQL will chose a Sequential-Scan instead of an Index-Only scan for both queries. This of course leads to the 2nd query being faster due to not having to aggregate anything.

https://gist.github.com/felixge/af97c844cb1f24ac278e0357741c...