skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What exactly is your point then? Do you not think "great" people occasionally have "fundamental misunderstandings"? Who determines what is simple? Who determines what's fundamental? I also find it strange that you give the physicist a pass in my example, but not the developer.

If someone makes a mistake adding any two 3 digit numbers in their head are they not great? After all, there are people in grade school who can do this easily.
Hey so question - WebAssembly can't access the DOM right? What's the whole point then, avoid Javascript? If we can't just swap out all the gnarly JS garbage whole-hog, I don't see where the business value is, given that there's plenty of language-to-js libraries.
This article reads like it was written by a web designer who coined the usage of brutalism in the web space and uses it to try to sell themselves and differentiate their design work, even though their design isn't particularly unusual.
IANAL, but as far as I know, the world has not yet tested the legal authority of the EU to impose rules upon entities outside the EU. So my general impression is that the EU is possibly overstepping their authority and the world might decide they are not allowed to dictate standards globally.

Someone more knowledgeable than me please correct me if I am wrong.
I can't believe what she says : can one non-doctor person be in charge of its cancer treatment (she says "be in control" in the 6 first minutes) ? Last time I read about immune system/genetics it was super complex and required a ton of background. I would definitely not want to be in control on my treatment. The best I can do is double check some facts on a few forums, have a general feeling about who takes care of me but one has to admit that's not very useful (at best it reassures me on false ideas).

Also she uses the term "consumer" in place of "patient" several times. That seems wrong to me.
The problem with this is that so many companies (especially startups with young ceos) have _no idea_ how valuable an employee is. They negotiate hard and underpay often because that's just a general prescription in business. From my personal experience "great" developers change jobs all the time.
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It really is all about not losing face.

W3C/TBL had “owned” HTML and DOM for way too long to just acknowledge that they botched it and that their work on that has no practical relevance any more.

“We are the organization that provides infrastructure for the standardization of stylesheets, and also some awesome-in-theory semantic web standards that are too complicated for actual implementations, and also some XML standards that are actually relevant for DTP” doesn’t seem to be the mission statement of choice for the creator of the web.
Hey, hey, hey! R IDEs give plenty of options which utterly mitigate such alleged difficulties:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1741820/what-are-the-dif...
There is no need to be rude or yell.

Yes, if your variables are perfectly linearly dependent they get dropped. Did anyone say otherwise? I did not think about this case because most correlated measures causing multicollinearity problems aren't perfectly 'linearly dependent'. Linearly dependency usually only comes up practically if you miscoded some of your independent dummy variables (e.g. adding both 'male[0,1]' and 'not male[0,1]' as two categorical predictors). So I am not really sure of your point.

As to your second point, it might be unbiased but the statistical inference (i.e. p-value) would be incorrect with multi-collinearity..thus again, I am not sure of your point when you are only repeating what I said.

Moreover, it may not be particularly meaningful to the researcher even if the parameter estimate is unbiased. One frequently finds with multicollinearity that the signs of effects will switch (- to +, or + to -) as you add highly correlated predictors into a model, in oft-theoretically questionable ways, but does serve to remind one that the parameter estimates are only meaningful in the context of the other predictors in the model.
They must be having some sort of decent traction to close these rounds, so that means that they have a strong use case. But honestly, I fail to understand what's that use case.

What kind of value do you get from an isolated code review from someone who is totally not familiarized with your business logic or your code base? Can someone here explain what would be a potential use case for this service?
Everyone makes mistakes, only some are punished and even less ends up as subject to the entertainment 'news' industry.

I hope you're doing well and I'm glad that you're not repeating your mistake.
Um, they intentionally “leak” to reporters sometimes when they want to set the record straight without going on the record. But that is always more about setting expectations rather than a “marketing ploy”. For example if a product will miss its ship date, or if inaccurate rumors are really swirling and refuse to die down.

Other than that, there is no 12-dimensional chess inside job conspiracy stuff happening.
> you would delete the records of who DeletedUser4510 was friends with

You erase the friend-linkages...

... Then you find that Jane Doe made a post in response to a blanked DeletedUser4510 post, and responses can only be made by friends, so therefore Jane was at some point friends with DeletedUser4510.

So you put in tombstones for all posts and all post-to-post causation links.

... Then you find that the entire Doe family is tagged in a photo by Jebediah Doe, except for one guy, and the comments are every family member and somebody named DeletedUser4510...

Anyway, my point is that it's really easy to get caught in such a fog of relational data that gaps merely change a certainty of identification down to an extremely high probability, and an event-sourced system -- by design -- makes it extra difficult to remove data or to even plan for its removal.
Right- sorry if that was communicated poorly. I know they don't just automatically remove all 2A/conservative content, but there are more than a few big names that have been picked at lately, more often than anything left leaning. And since you mentioned Demo Ranch, I'd assume you're familiar with Hickok45, and you know that several of his videos have recently lost monetization.

Out of curiosity, where do you feel their bias lies?
The thing is, just like Backpage, Amazon is disincentivized from stopping the sale of counterfeit goods-- they profit from each and every sale whether it's counterfeit or not.

Their decision to turn a blind eye to fraud could easily have contributed to such a rapid growth rate. Of course their sales doubled; you have to buy two of everything in order to get one that works. Try buying car parts or batteries and you'll see what we're all bitching about.

The noticeable effect hasn't happened yet. Eventually consumers will catch on. People avoid the Dollar Store because the products, while brand-name and cheap, are noticeably subpar in quality. Amazon will develop a similar reputation if they keep this up.
> If a company turns away many developers who would be excellent hires but consistently meets its product/engineering goals and hires more good developers than bad developers overall, their recruiting process certainly has a positive signal. It's obviously inefficient, but it couldn't be meaningless.

Actually, that result would be precisely what you would expect from a process that fails to disprove the null hypothesis, and is therefore meaningless. You'd see them hiring essentially a random sample of engineers with the same distribution as the whole population.

I leave it to someone better at statistics than I am to figure out what an actually effective hiring process looks like, but I think the correlation between "is a relatable person" and hiring is much higher than "is a good engineer".
If all they work on is diesel or electric cars, yes.
It depends how you group the age cohorts, but my recollection is that the second oldest cohort (something like 65-75) actually has one of the lowest accident rates, and the oldest one has a higher accident rate per mile but tend to drive fewer miles total (in particular, because they're not commuting to work.) So the benefits of taking away licenses from the elderly might be fairly limited compared to say, more strict testing for teenagers and tighter DUI rules.

Also, a good point someone was made is that it may be easier for technology to solve the problems of elderly drivers who still have good cognition. E.g. you can make up for their limited neck flexibility with blind spot radar and backup cameras, and poor reaction times with collision detection systems. It's harder to do that for a teen who wants to drive too fast or make aggressive lane changes.
Describing any CSS style or design pattern as "anti-bourgeois" is comical.
To the latter point, I certainly had a similar experience, and that's in fact why I value track record so highly. It took a very different set of skills when I made my own transition from contracting -> academia -> bigCo, but I'd loop this back to my "thesis", namely that someone observing my weakness after each step would rightfully observe I don't have a track record within that context.

To some extent this seems logical, would we call a home carpenter "great" within the context of industrial skyscraper construction? The moment you step back from a rather tight focus, (and this may be the root question/debate about "what does great mean", and why my approach has generated some highly opposed responses, because I try to dodge that problem by limiting the scope) any commonalities become much harder to define, and limited mostly to "meta-skills."

So basically, you're right, for me it is very context sensitive, and as I said upfront, I have no silver bullet for identifying greatness without digging into that context quite a bit. In prior threads about the trouble with interviewing I've been very eager to both share the techniques I use/find out how others approach the problem, since summarizing after the fact what I found valuable, much much easier than determining it in a loop. I would love techniques that let me determine how well someone's skills in context A transfer to B, but that is a _massively_ dimensioned question that I can't even begin to hand-wave at, beyond that it might go back to my "meta-skills" categorization.
No? The hate speech by the left doesn’t have to be against the right. In fact I believe much of hate speech by the extreme left is targeted onto people who consider themselves on the left too; generally hate speech targets the vulnerable or at least the locally unpopular; no reason to think that skews left or right.
Yes there are licenses to ensure safety and compliance for plumbers, electricians, and hair stylists. And if I understand what I'm reading, some people here calling for similar "licensing" for anyone who wants to report the "news". While I'm in favor of the former, I am strictly and uncompromisingly against the latter.

Freedom of the press, the freedom to report on the news, opine on the news, and editorialize the news, in my mind is sacrosanct. "Incorrectly" reporting the news is not false advertising, and I would strongly hope that any attempt to license, monitor, or censor any news outlets (no matter how ragtag or unpopular) would be shot down hard by the 1st, barring the well established limits around direct incitement of violence.

Ingredient lists are a public safety measure. People with food allergies eat a mislabeled product and they die. People with an allergy to Fox news can change the channel and listen to CNN if they so choose. There isn't a 1st amendment right to sell someone a product (like a can of soda) and lie to them about what is in it.

I can debate the merits of any article from the New York Times, the Washington Post, or even Breitbart. I can debate how much an article in any of those publications seek to neutrally inform, or seeks to present a specific viewpoint, or seeks to outright persuade its readers of what to think. Reasonable people will disagree emphatically in such a debate.

But no reasonable person can disagree that the can of Coke Zero sitting next to me contains; Carbonated water, caramel color, phosphoric acid, aspartame, potassium benzoate, natural flavors, potassium citrate, acesulfame potassium, and caffeine.

Watch 5 minutes of news coverage of Comey's book on each of the major networks. Now tell me which were news and which were editorial. Spoiler alert: It's a rorschach test. Even objective news is not free of characterization and choice of diction which colors the facts being reported. Newsrooms have editors for a reason. Even the choice of which facts to report and which not is an editorial decision which must be made when reporting the news.

So I submit there can be no news that is entirely free and devoid of editorial. To report on Comey's book, you would have to sit in front of the camera and read it from cover to cover in a monotone voice without inflection or facial tic. And even that itself would be a type of performance art with its own editorial value.

For all the claims that fake news is "killing democracy" or "dangerous to democracy" I think the one thing that truly can kill a democracy is violating the 1st amendment and trying to establish some government censor of newscasts, podcasts, books, or vlogs because you think the message is wrong, misleading, dangerous, offensive, propaganda.
Do you really have meaningful control though? If I trust server A and my friend trusts server B and I publish posts for my friend to see, now I just also trust server B, right?
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From this: https://docs.google.com/document/d/131vjr4DH6JFnb-blm_uRdaC0...

> Go’s garbage collection is fully supported. WebAssembly is planning to add its own garbage collection, but it is hard to imagine that it would yield a better performance than Go’s own GC which is specifically tailored to Go’s needs.

Presumably a runtime will be compiled into the wasm output, including Go's garbage collector.
This is not correct. Logistic regression can be used for classification, true, but it can also be viewed as a way of estimating the conditional mean of an outcome variable that has a Bernoulli, or binomial distribution, depending on the formulation.

There are many ways to evaluate all of these methods, and for classification you may favor something else, but it's completely reasonable to use the (cross validated, or not) empirical risk for both logistic and linear regression. That would be a negative log likelihood in both cases, from the Bernoulli/binomial distribution for logistic regression or the normal distribution for linear regression.
Perhaps a bit off topic, meta even, but the design of the copy here (which borrows from Medium) ruins the experience for me. One shouldn't have to bold text or use quote type styling to make something stand out. Write engaging prose.
What I've tried to do over my career has been to hire people who showed ability to learn and grow, and then offer them the ability to step up to challenges. What I've gotten has been a rather bad mixture of incompetence, cluelessness, etc. They were eager to pass the interviews and get the job. They were not eager to do the work under the timelines we needed.

This isn't just devs. This was sales, ops, and finance.

I don't believe in any hard and fast rules about good vs non-good. I do believe that past performance is no indicator of future ability. That at least has been my experience.

Even more relevant, pedigree is of no value in estimating potential success or failure of an employee at their mission. The best dev I'd ever worked with had a GED (high school equivalency diploma), and never went to college. The worst had a top-of-heap pedigree.

Hiring is hard. You have to be an optimist. In the case of a small company, a bad hire can be a fatal mistake.
If society was interested in maximizing the sheer quantity of fried cooks, society would’ve created those incentives. Instead three sets of incentives exist nowadays:

1) Improve your skill set and move up within restaurant industry, hopefully towards high-end cuisine or managerial position.

2) Get out of the industry altogether and acquire some specialization like a plumber’s or electrician’s license.

3) Use the paid gig to acquire skills, remain in the industry but readjust your stake to equity instead of salary, by running a food truck, a burger stand or a pop-up taco spot.

All venues pretty much scream “Get out of this fry cook gig as soon as you can. There’s no outcome where you’re guaranteed a happy retirement and a golden watch”.
I have no firsthand knowledge on them in particular, but I know that large financial institutions are sorely lacking in this department. If they can pay someone and get something in return then it’s a net win. It doesn’t have to be great. Just enough that an exec can justify a line on a PowerPoint for “N bugs eliminated”.

Combine that with nose bleed pricing for said big banks and this would be a cash cow.
If the user can't see the UUIDs of every object rendered on the page and you are using a non-standard font, your design probably is not very Brutalist.

Brutalist UX is the apache webserver 404 page.
FOV is pretty important. It's difficult to feel like you are in an augmented reality if you have to tilt your head just to see the full object in front of you.

Maybe you could get by with little helper things, but that's just a fancy HUD and not really AR.
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To bad they didn't employ people who understand this stuff to stop them from making stupid decisions on the first place.
> the universal certainty at every company that their recruiting process absolutely definitely results in making accurate decisions about people

The companies I've worked at have always been very aware their interviewing process could be better, and so I've been looped into many, many conversations over the years along "how can we reduce false negatives" or "why are we rejecting all our senior candidates?"
... perhaps it should be called macedonian yogurt and this would appeal to greeks and bulgarians alike...
Much like the slow food movement, it feels like we need a slow software movement. The article talks about the compressed cycles leaving no room for quality assurance. Sigh. After the dotCom crash, QA / test teams went away in a lot of places because it was deemed too expensive. Time marches on and now we have a generation brainwashed into thinking unit testing and "code reviews" constitute QA, and apparently want us to buy into the idea that it "takes too long" so we'd better just outsource it. Jeez I feel old.
Whatever went wrong with his brain, it happened a long time before Trump ran for president.

Scott Adams Poses As His Own Fan On Message Boards To Defend Himself:
http://comicsalliance.com/scott-adams-plannedchaos-sockpuppe...

In April 2011, Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, created an anonymous account at Metafilter, then proceeded to vigorously & furiously praise himself, and insult other commenters. It wasn't the first time he'd done this, but it was the first time he got caught. http://mefiwiki.com/wiki/Scott_Adams,_plannedchaos

Dilbert creator outed for using sock puppets on Metafilter and Reddit to talk himself up (he is also plannedchaos on reddit)
https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/gqzgx/dilbert_creat...

As far as Adams' ego goes … he has a certified genius I.Q., and that's hard to hide.
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https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scott_Adams
AFAIK - entities are required to be able to provide a computer and human readable formatted document about all personal information, when requested, within a reasonable time period.

They don't need to have a delete button or even any action items in the UI - just be able to provide the service if/when requested.
Buying a house in your early 20s is very common in Europe. It's also the most stupid thing one can do, in my view.

You will get an infinitely higher return on reinvesting money in yourself than putting up a deposit to purchase a pile of bricks.

$50k in the bank might give you 5 shots at starting a $100-200-300k a year business.
From the semiparametric perspective, you can still make correct inferences about the estimated parameters even if the model is not correctly specified, as long as you use the so-called robust estimator of the variance.
https://gab.ai is another one I noticed earlier this week, hard to tell what volume of users there actually are though
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Never used it but https://jitsi.org/ apparently does this nicely. I believe Movim does or very soon will support voice and video calls.

But yeah - i'll agree the current situation isn't ideal.
>language-to-js libraries

With huge performance cost and complicated toolchains.
Could this be used to get native gRPC support for the browser?
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But see that's the crazy irony... I guarantee you those large financial institutions used to have teams for this kind of thing, then decided they were a bottleneck and too costly, so they offshored the work or got rid of the function altogether. So they reap what they sow.
I don't get the feeling that you and the parent are taking my comment in good faith; clarification is of course necessary if the parent response is effectively a non-sequitur/strawman vs what the other respondents took my meaning to be; but I'd rather not point fingers here, as that's not useful to a productive discussion.

I chose not to use additional clarification because that unnecessarily constrains "shipping" to me. One can deliver value, and have a track record for delivering value, across a very wide set of variables, and I've found my heuristic to be far more elegant (if perhaps not precise enough to bear the rough seas of internet discourse) at mapping post-factum "Was this a successful business relationship" than a much more hair-splitting definition, as well as helping me keep personal biases out of my judgement re: someone else's success.
"The biggest and most worrisome changes are to the "link tax" proposal, which would establish a special copyright-like fee to be paid by websites to news publishers, in exchange for the privilege of using short snippets of quoted text as part of a link to the original news article. Voss's latest amendments would make the link tax an inalienable right, that news publishers cannot waive even if they choose to."

"...that news publishers cannot waive even if they choose to."

This is horrendous.

I generally favor: "Do not ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."

However this seems like a blatant attempt to shut down any interpretive or third party news sites in favor of centralized media control.
> the motivations of a good person

Edward Snowden and someone who leaks an upcoming iPhone's rounded edges are not in the same category.
email often has DKIM headers, which are fantastic for non-repudiation
> Actually, that result would be precisely what you would expect from a process that fails to disprove the null hypothesis, and is therefore meaningless. You'd see them hiring essentially a random sample of engineers with the same distribution as the whole population.

This implies that the capability distribution at Google is approximately equal to the capability distribution of the entire set of eligible developers. I don't personally think that's true, and in any case even if it is true it's not obvious.
Big financial institutions would have the least of interest of giving this kind of access to source code for reviews by who knows who from some cloud service.
But if Youtube are demonetizing some pro-gun and right-wing accounts, and not demonetizing others with the same politics, as well as demonetizing other kinds of content such as anime and let's plays, wouldn't that imply a lack of ideological bias behind demonetization?