skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A gun if fundamentally designed to kill. That's the only reason it exists. Yes you can use it to eat cereal, I guess, or you can dip the nozzle in paint and create wonderful art, or maybe you can load an AR-15 with 30 rounds and shoot at a giant wall of cheese to make hipster Swiss cheese, but most people realize why guns exist - to end life. Human life, or animal life, but some form of life.

I hear various arguments how somehow a bunch of rednecks armed to the teeth are the reason why the Government hasn't yet come and locked me away in a FEMA Death Camp, but I don't buy it.

Alcohol does not exist to end life. It can be used to end life, yes, either through abuse, or by someone driving intoxicated - but that's not why it exists. It can, and is, used safely, by millions of adults world-wide.

I can go into a room and see someone "brandishing" a shot of whiskey and not be concerned for my safety. If I walk into a room and see a bunch of nutters brandishing guns, I'm getting the fuck out. At best, they're a bunch of insecure-in-their-masculinity macho-wanna-be's - at best. No normal person looks at someone obsessed with firearms and thinks "that's just a normal person with a normal hobby like my aunt Tilly who collects stamps" - nobody.

This is why this whole argument how guns are awesome and we shouldn't be afraid of them but should encourage them and, hell, let's arm teachers and doctors and soccer moms and even the kids' lacrosse teams, why not, it's just like giving them a glass of wine - is starting to sound more and more hollow.

It was, after all, a lunatic with a gun who killed a bunch of people at that Vegas concert, not a guy with a beer keg and some Jaeger bombs. Unless I'm not quite remembering the facts.....nah, pretty sure it wasn't Jaeger bombs.
He might be trying to say that there are enough people like him in the market that it really shouldn't be a seller's market; but those others are mostly undervalued/ignored, while his value has been artificially inflated because of the (incorrectly!) perceived rarity of his skills.

This is the pattern that goes on all the time inside companies: constant attempts to hire talent from the outside, coupled with complete ignorance of the skills (perhaps developed post-hire) of their existing employees. I know more people than I can count who know everything required to be doing "data science" for a company, but—since they were hired to be maintenance dev-ops people—they will never be considered for "promotion into" a data-science role when there's a vacancy.
:) I knew it, but now I won't forget it!

Added, thanks and thanks!
And that is your problem, your basic economics doesn't necessarily need to be the only way that the world works.

Marketable skills should be better paid? Of course. Should it pay 10~15x more to be writing scripts at Google than to be frying burgers at some place? I don't think so.

If you care about people you should care that everyone has a minimum liveable wage, not that some should suffer because they can't/won't learn a high paying skill. What if instead of 10 to 15x a job at Google paid 5x what a burger flipper earns? It's still a quite good salary, incentive enough to not stop people from trying to learn better paying skills and would make the lives of people who aren't at that level a bit more comfortable.

Remember the human.
The way I see it, the question is not whether the instrument in question has legitimate uses, but rather whether there are (reasonable) non-violent uses for which this is the best tool.
Very true. These people literally don't know what they're talking about, or what they're asking for. They've thought their plan through about five seconds into the future.

Either that, or they're blatant featherbedders who aren't bothering to disclose their interests.

In neither case do they belong on this site.
I provided some sample code recently, it was experimental, rolled-at-home 'research' code that was, I think, in line with the mission of the team I had applied to, complete with test data and instructions. Needless to say, the interviewer didn't want to talk about what the code did but instead grilled me on various technical language details. In some ways it is a great litmus test, because the people I have enjoyed working with in the past would have had endless questions for me about what the code was actually doing...
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> I don't think Java is a meaningful competitor.

Just curious... what would you consider a meaningful competitor to Haskell?

Just to lay my own cards on the table: I'd prefer Haskell to almost all other languages if we were only talking about the language (well, the GHC dialect). I do use Haskell quite a bit, but unfortunately I also have to do quite a lot of work in the "enterprise" space where ridiculous things like being able to read e.g. Excel spreadsheets is a big deal. (That is, one cannot rely on people sending those spreadsheets over email to convert to CSV in any meaningful way, so...)
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May you share freely, never taking more than you give.

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> Depends on the job.

It doesn't.

> I'm currently hiring and the live coding exercise is a must for the position

It's not.

> because I want to see how the person problem solves while under stress

Why, it's a totally bullshit proposition. The stress of not having memorized some algorithm is not the same kind of stress as a live system going down.

You do it this way because you aren't able to come up with anything better.
That's 800 credit card transactions a second --- thats people making deposits into their accounts to bet with. (btw I think that's peak - I'm not 100% sure)

The frontends (where the casino / betting games run) do a lot more than this, but they work against the balance in the account, it's the payment gateway that's doing 800/s
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Genuine questions for those participating in this market (on either side):

-How is the performance of $1M AI researchers measured? Like, at their six month review, what do you look at to tell if your money is being well spent?

-How do you tell if it makes more sense to hire 1 famous AI researcher vs 10 additional junior data scientists? What sort of products are suited to different hiring strategies?

-How much of $1M AI researcher hiring is long-term/speculative (i.e., based on hopes of future products/revenue) vs short-term/measurable (immediately measurable as soon as a code commit hits the product)? Are there examples of products where profit went up by millions after a famous AI researcher was hired?

It sounds like quite a few companies are grappling with these questions today. I'm really curious to know how their thinking is evolving on this topic.
I find it reminiscent of a religion in that adherents subscribe to certain ideals that can not be argued about ("it's the right thing to do" as the author says). My amateur psychologist analysis is that people need a higher cause, and in the absence of traditional religions they instead join political movements such as this one.
This absolute trend of garbage behavior has happened to me for a while now. That mixed with this so called absolute inability for employers to provide feedback because their so called policies do not let them. It is absolutely ridiculous how someone in a position of power is treating others who merely are trying to be part of the ingroup and get a job. This ingroup/outgroup "do these steps, and you will join us" mentality is complete shit. Especially on the part of these so called HR departments which claim they are having such a hard time finding right candidates. Before this jumping through all these hoops crap was invented, companies were hiring fine, people were working fine.

Then these geniuses decided to profit and "flatten the world" as they call it. Just so they can make a buck.
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The only thing that is going to get you is a flat brain. Unable to think creatively, unable to respond to uncertainty but very very good at memorizing solutions to problems.

And all this is based on this ignorant viewpoint that you can observe something or a product for a short period of time and somehow ascertain anything which you can use to form a useful opinion of a candidates future performance. Bullshit!!!

No HR department should be allowed to ask any candidate to do any work without compensation. It is work since the HR department is using this information to make their decision therefore protecting or enhancing their companies performance. I don't know how this is not related work to a companies success.

I am sick of it. I have started to send templated emails in response to them which explain i do not work for free. I can share personal code from past projects or my github.

A few months ago a PR representative even called me once to make sure i was not going to sue when part of the application process was a take home assignment which was asking me to implement a new feature for their actual product. What a sham.

When i said to her "You mean to tell me that over the past years when you claimed that this process has been the same, no interviewer has derived any benefit from free work of past candidates." She didn't even know how to respond.

The more candidates that do not put up with this behavior, the faster it will stop and hopefully move onto something more agreeable by both parties.
I was exposed to this essay really early on in my career and it completely changed how I thought about programming. Thank you so much for writing that; I still link people to it today.
What if all of the uplinks were self contained pizza box sized devices?
This idea of 'post Snowden' world makes little sense. The idea that you have to agree to everything your government does smacks of jingoism and is inherently anti democratic.

It's far more important to stand up for fundamental democratic values and protect whistle blowers like Snowden who stood by these values, than fight imaginary battles with a 'siege mentality'.

This whole idea of 'us vs them' and this narrative of constant threat has always been a tool of despots everywhere.
Thing is with red flags people can see them left and right, but the need to put food on the table and pay the bills results in color blindness fast.
Fake it till you make it dude
Yeah we definitely aren't convinced that a quiz is the optimal format for this evaluation.

Statistically, it does an OK job at being an initial filter. My biggest concern at the moment is that it's too coarse of a tool and it might be mistakenly turning away competent people.

Definitely a work in progress. If you have ideas on alternative formats or better questions, please email me. (Email in my profile.)
I did phone screens with google and facebook. Felt like Facebook went kinda bad.

Turned out good enough, went onsite. Failed. Oh well.

Tried again a while later. Failed FB phone screen, got told Google wanted a second. That was the point I said fuck it and cancelled.

shrug
what's your background and what is the general compensation of those around you?
You in Australia? We built 9now.com.au using a degree of ‘progressive enhancement’ thanks to server-side react. I left a while ago, but Normally, users get a single-page-app-like complete with prefetching to instantly display subsequent pages. Turn JS off and it ‘degrades’ into a typical server-rendered experience. Sure, get far enough in and some things will break (videos won’t play), but we were pretty happy about this degrading nicely.

We built Qantas’s in flight wifi portal using this same technique, a necessity to deal with providing users with an instant ‘web’ experience over a high-latency connection.

Toy sites or for academics? Hardly.
Part of the interview process is selling the organization and its people. Maybe companies prioritize phone screenings and interviews first to steer the process and educate the candidate about the company and the position. Maybe candidates would be less likely to try the coding project if they hadn't built some rapport with an employee.
Me and my colleagues never asked this trivial question when interviewing for Amazon, just like you don't ask a driver what a brake is.
Interesting, outside of the academic merits of the research, I wonder if they could partner with Blizzard (or other similar RTS game studios) and start shipping games with AI that is very difficult to beat? That would usher in a new era of solo and offline game play that could be very fun and challenging! Plus we'd be training Skynet, err, I mean the neural network in the process!
They can: with FizzBuzz. That's the whole point.
When patio11 started working for Stripe, he mentioned that there was a cool (somewhat simple) internal tool, that he think every company/startup should have? Is this that?
I want to see this programmer who doesn't jump at the opportunity to give their opinion on programming :p you're welcome
I've only seen Peter in his guest spots on Flite Test. One of the sweetest and coolest dudes on that channel. Always down to experiment and obviously thinks big.

Edit: Case in point, magnus effect plane - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6geOms33Dk
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Indeed: you can become a "licensed dietitian" in a day or two.
Does it really?
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OpenAI is funded by a few VCs and big name tech leaders. It got to be a research incubator and pay well otherwise everyone will go off to a big tech company. To some extent they can focus on research as directed by the board as well. Otherwise you wait for academics to publish something OR for people to leave the big techs.
Having seen this exact line of reasoning used to reject varying levels of harassment in a variety of settings, I do not believe this.
They're large companies recruiting pretty much in all area of technologies. If you have experience in something, you should be able to get an introduction through a recruiter or find an existing employee to reference you.

The only trouble is that finance is only in the NYC area. You can't be there if you are in the valley.
The thing with StarCraft is that there are many types of units and types of damage, you need to alternate between moving and attacking, different units have different roles in a formation, etc.

When I pick targets I prefer to kill units that deal the most damage or have low HP first.
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The court has a remedy called "specific performance" at its disposal. If my problem is that you took my dog, the court absolutely can say "give back tialaramex's dog".

Now, there's a philosophical sense in which this doesn't force you to actually give back my dog. But you could say that about all court remedies. I recommend just giving back the dog.
If you don’t mind staying in your current role (other than the location), it would be worth having a friendly chat with your boss to see if they can offer you remote work.
They meant that, at a bank's scale, "the top 5-percentile" requiring human sign-off would mean 1000s of transactions per day requiring human sign-off.
includes dev-ops, pace of development, how and when does code end up in _production_? It is important to ask at least two different people separately because you are likely to get different answers.
Hasn't this been going on for like 2 years? Or has the trend line made this more common.
Facebook users don't pay facebook however, only advertisers do. It seems only a small percentage of non-EU advertisers went through the ireland HQ
essentially public, and also basically requires downloading and storing the entire history of a "feed" to verify it.
Uber built something similar years ago...(Whober)
Onli the lonely.
The zeitgeist in tech and in culture generally is a moving target. Look at dandyism in the 19th century, no one would argue that is how grown-ups dress today.
Have you seen the videos of Kivas at work?

https://youtu.be/cLVCGEmkJs0

With enough money, they could probably reduce the amount of warehouse workers needed.
Do they want to be doing data science though? Otherwise they might as well not know how to do it.
While awful, one of the problems with that facilitator is that you don't shoot the enemy when they threaten you in an FPS. You shoot them when you see them.
Only because they are too easy, or for profit, or focused on using a given product or unimportant concepts.
I guess you'll be paying in cash then!
Who do these people think they are anyway? College football coaches?
short answer is - yes, we've reached that point. https by default is a reasonable default, in part because cpu and latency costs of https are basically zero for most implementations. And the implementations where it's not zero can afford the cost.

Given the almost-no-cost of the choice, why default to the less-secure alternative?
I was under the impression wing tip vortices were an inevitable result of having air deflected downward under the wing. Do wing tip props just change the behavior near the center of rotation, or eliminate vortices completely?
I think there are a lot of deep learning dilettentes, and a large number of them on HN, overestimating their abilities relative to the experts being hired by google. The guy who is stuck doing dev ops but can be doing data science is not the 1mm+ guy at google even though some of them find it hard to accept
The fantasists are back. If you can create so much value by yourself why even remain in society and crib for decades on end. Go create the value and enjoy it. Show us. No one will come to your wonderland to steal the fruits of your genius.

If this anti-human ideology actually worked, these self appointed geniuses would have long left society and created value all by themselves, but currently its as petty as putting up a stall in a club and refusing to pay the fees.

It takes a huge amount of time, generational effort and resources to build a functioning civilized society in which everyone is vested and thus peaceful. Nothing is free, and it appears its the 'makers' who want to be the takers while feigning a childish self serving ignorance of how civilization works.

Even animal species that are social look out for one another in order to survive and thrive, human social instincts are far more sophisticated. To deny it altogether and seek to reduce human relations to economic interactions is to regress to barbarism.
It is not clear if Neruda died from cancer as his death certificate indicates. Most likely got killed by the regime because of his political affiliations.
This is neat!

Is there an equivalent of graph.cool's hooks, subscriptions and resolvers?

Can I stick Hasura in front of my existing Postgres Db? Can I use my own migration tool?
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The confidences comes from listening to the thing that reddit and its founders say and claim themselves.

They self identify as being strong supporters of free speech and strong opponents of censorship.

They literally founded their platform based on these ideas.

This stuff isn't a secret or some mystery. Just listen to the actual words that come out of their mouth and read the things that they actually write.

And they aren't shy about this kind of stuff. They speak frequently on these topics, both online, in person, and in their public official media posts.
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A big problem with teleoperation is lag and packet loss.

JAXA has been looking into this. It seems that highly motivated operators can tolerate a full second of lag.

In the DARPA robotics challenge, competitors were able to create movable views with lag by 3d scanning the environment and streaming the 3d scans.

That's entirely suitable for a "work bench." In fact, the background might as well be blanked out and replaced with a synthetic grid.

You need an application where humans cannot go or the labor the operator is doing is more valuable than the cost of transporting the operator there and the robot.

I can envision many contexts in the upcoming decades where teleoperation is going to be very useful. The long term health costs of human beings suiting up to go into environments without protection from radiation could be quite high.
Does that work like a stack or does it just swap?
It sounds like their signalling on culture achieved the right thing for everyone involved. I wouldn’t want to go anywhere near that company.
Eh.

Only certain companies though are able to execute and maintain this type of stuff, and even then it’s still questionable whether it’s worth it or not. I would love to see where Home is in 2 and 5 years.

I worked at a company that used its own homegrown timekeeping and HR tool. Over the years it became poorly maintained as people came and gone and the company (and its needs) grew. Eventually it was decided to jump ship to an "off-the-shelf" product and everyone loved it because it actually did what it was supposed to do.

I highly doubt employees are going to feel more loved because the company decided to build their own wiki and address book.
Also need to figure out if the candidate is a lizard person - having a real life conversation with them about the company is a good start.
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Lots of tech companies do this. It's like a rite of passage. Twilio built Bacefook once upon a time.

I'm most curious if Stripe will productize this. That would be massive.
I'm not sure anything that came out from OpenAI so far, justifies that sort of compensation... Maybe they have some aces up their sleeves...
Of course you can do business with non-EU companies, and the bilateral laws between the two countries apply. Having an EU presence gives tax advantages and a centralized way to avoid dealing with each EU country separately.
Maybe not all data is replicated across all zones, so zones provide consensus but replicas provide data. Basically you have witness with enough information to provide consistency but without the full data store.
Perhaps a more charitable explanation: Mr. Zaremba has expert knowledge of statistical analysis and hence what his true value is (in terms of return on his salary, and in comparison to other equivalent candidates). The current market, though, is essentially in a "bubble" for AI candidates, and so is mispricing the actual value of this "asset".
We've reached peak Stripe glorification.
Don't take weekends off )

Really. Read to them every night in bed! It is an amazing bonding experience. Read fun books for both of you. I don't think you will have anything that you will regret less in your life!
Completely agree.

I am very interested in the UI/UX opportunities for training the decentralized generation how to interface with decentralized systems and manage their identities, especially across devices and contexts. This has been my biggest criticism of pretty much all of the attempts at a decentralized version of an existing mainstream web service that I have seen.

I love the decentralization community but it often feels very much like an engineer's realm, probably because it's mostly interesting from an engineering perspective. Maybe it's just who I follow, but I don't see a lot of activity in this area from user experience designers. Some collaboration could really help build a decentralized service that stands a chance of truly competing in the global space. Thus far I think it's highly unlikely the average mainstream user will convert.
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While I'll definitely give PB credit for being one of the first, Delphi and VB gave it a run for its money in the custom business software space.
What if where your gear is located is someplace where shooting could spoil something very valuable to the authority? Earth orbit might well qualify. Shooting down a 1000 satellite fleet sounds like something that could precipitate a Kessler Syndrome cascade.