skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been consulting the past year and a half. Recently I decided to contact some companies just to see what the landscape was like, and if I could maybe find an interesting opportunity that also paid well.

On one of the first calls I had, the recruiter heavily implied that I was “not a culture fit” after I explained that I’m only interested in a job if it pays more than I currently make consulting (this particular job paid about half that). I’m not socially inept, I know how to speak politely and it was definitely polite. I mentioned it on the first call because I didn’t want to waste anyone’s time (mine included) interviewing for a job that I wouldn’t take.

The HR lady seemed completely taken aback and offended... says “we’re looking for people passionate about the problems we’re solving, even if it means taking a pay cut.”

Get the f- out of here with that BS. That really grinds my gears. The company is allowed to be profit seeking but the employees are not? No thanks.

I’ll stick with consulting... I like having multiple clients over one employer. I like that there are no “interviews,” just my own confidence and sales skills to pitch proposals to clients. I like the respect that clients show me that no employer ever has. I like the autonomy, the lifestyle. And yes I like getting paid more than I would at a local job. There’s nothing wrong with that.
I worked with a recruiter once and the way she treated me like an object to sling around to make her commission turned me off to the entire recruiting industry. I refuse to work with them again.
Shotgun approach.

Similar to how people apply for a bunch of software engineer positions at a plethora of companies, when they only would really want to work for maybe 1/5 of them.

Back when I was a senior in high school there was a newer (at the time, I suppose) idea that college admission was a "crapshoot", so the common suggestion was to apply to a bunch of universities, even the ones you weren't very interested in as "backups" or whatever.
We probably should get - not pay - money for donating (again) all our data to Google.
Interesting link. Thanks.
A Chemist Shines Light on a Surprising Prime Number Pattern
I don't think that will be solved in time for GDPR.
John Hennessy on the current state in evolution of processors
These are all half-truths meant to avoid the real answer. They want high IQ ambitious people who don't suffer from mental illness. They will put you through strenuous interview processes as a makeshift filter for high IQ.

No technical interview question I've ever been asked has anything to do with "self awareness" as Tammy pointed out. In fact self-awareness for the hyper-productive is a negative for the organization, as that individual eventually realizes they deserve a significant share of what they create and aren't getting it.
Also Medicaid expansion.
I don't mind the software. The estimates are asinine though.
Very cool program, thanks! There are a few programs (both public and private) that will provide funding for starting ISPs. It really shows that access to capital isn't the main roadblock people face when starting ISPs. Or rather, that other groups are working to solve the capital access issue--we're working on solving the others.
> Be among the first to know when Google One is available in your area.

What does my area have to do with an online storage offering? I'm not giving them my zipcode.

Anyway, taking all bets on whether this doppelganger will be killed off, or whether two more doppelgangers will be launched.
I was one of the "eye rolling" crew, but was struck by your comment. So below is my perspective regarding null's as learned over several decades and multiple programming languages/paradigms.

Conceptually, null is a sentinel value representing nonexistence within a value domain. Memory pointers/object references are the archetype of null's use, but as others have pointed out SQL's null support is another. The key takeaway, though, is the concept of "sentinel value." For a (pardon the pun) non-null example, consider the sentinel value "-1" in the domain of integer file descriptors returned by the "open" POSIX function[0].

Sentinel values, by definition, put the onus of discovery on the code which receives it since they can be the result of any computation which can produce a respective domain value. This complicates usage but must be done for correct programs. As a result, it is very common to normalize sentinel value discovery through the constructs available in the language being used in an attempt to minimize defects related to "missing a sentinel."

In my experience, this naturally led to modelling the expectation of sentinel values in its own container type, one where the cardinality is either 0 or 1. Common names for a container with 0/1 cardinality are "Option", "Maybe", and "Nullable." Again, the key takeaway here is that these types in this context serve to normalize the detection of sentinel values wherever a domain value can be produced.

Depending on the language used, "lifting" sentinel values into an option type might be not worth the effort. But the handling of sentinels must always be addressed.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_%28system_call%29#C_libra...
They call it Reduce, Re-use, Recycle.

There's a reason Reduce is first in line. I think many people stop at Recycle and call it a day.
"One" is not a name, it's a number. It's also "Google One" so it's hard to see an argument that someone would see this as a Microsoft offering.
Yes. Sadly, in business the concept of "ethics" seems to only ever apply as jargon for marketing and PR. Hello world, we are humans, not products.
We can absolutely use types to ensure that our algorithms are constant time, e.g.

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity16/technical...

We can use types to enforce the big-O runtime of our functions too, e.g. ensuring that a mergesort implementation runs in O(nlogn) steps: https://www.twanvl.nl/blog/agda/sorting

I have no idea about doing these things in Java/C/C++/C# though; anything we try to enforce can be trivially broken by `NULL` :(
During emergencies, all exits open.
I don't see that "insanely flaky deluded narcissists" went out of style. We just have slightly more checks and balances on them now.
There's a book I remember reading - I can't remember, but it may have been The Dictator's Handbook - which talked about how this is a common management pattern in authoritarian dictatorships (although typically somewhat more extreme in its implementation). The dictator ends up weeding out most people of exceptional talent and competence, but it consolidates his personal power. Bad for the state when it faces a crisis, but good for him personally. Easy to see how this applies to senior management at a public company.
More from Apps of a Feather:

1) Push notifications will no longer arrive

2) Timelines won’t refresh automatically

If you use an app like Talon, Tweetbot, Tweetings, or Twitterrific, there is no way for its developer to fix these issues.

http://apps-of-a-feather.com/
Ok, but jquery didn't exist 15 years ago, and really didn't get popular until after 2008 IMHO. Doesn't matter, I get your point.
Were they actually fired? I assumed that they got tired of the shitshow and quit.
My comment came from the observation that making sampled tracing of a depth buffer is similar to what (current, rasterizing) game engines do for ambient occlusion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_space_ambient_occlusi...

It’s correct that it cheats (samples a few samples and blurs the results) instead of sampling adequately to get ”correct” results
Currently it's not known whether the human was responsible or Autopilot was responsible.

As Autopilot has had prior issues with detecting trucks, resulting in at least 1 fatality, there is significant concern that Autopilot was responsible in this case.
Oh yeah!

I remember I was looking for a "mark as unread" in the android gmail app, never finding it for a long time until I tried that icon, wondering what it was. It was the mail icon button.
Softbank has $150 billion in Alibaba - drew them back from the brink way back iirc. Any foreign ownership in Alibaba relies on the goodwill of the Chinese government. Who knows what relationship they can or will have - don't actually think it's too much of a stretch to question.

Completely agree on the IP
Most bigco has full monitoring and logging of everything that goes on in their networks and on the work computers and mobile devices. A bunch require MDM software installed on computers that access the corp network, so if you 'bring your own device', you have similar logging & control. Also security cameras recording everywhere.

Employees tend to use work computers for personal communication, browsing and shopping. They can do some fairly personal things on those computers because they don't realize the amount of monitoring, and who looks.

Some countries have laws against looking into personal usage of work computers, like Austria. Most don't.
Why the excitement? If you're paying for a service, you're entitled to customer service.
I do not agree with that, this is not just syntactic sugar, for example in case of large 'else if' statements the complexity to choose proper branch is O(n), instead with pattern matching the chosen branch will be at constant time.
Google Duplex was a cool demo but those intents were quite well defined. There is a handful of form slots they are aiming to fill where they can enumerate all the entry points to a conversation as well as misinterpretations. I do agree that this is the direction we are going, however since Google Expert is a broad term tackling a much bigger search space, I'd expect it to work differently.
Well, for starters, it doesn't exist on Linux.
> I have a target of ~170 total comp as an SDE II with just under 4 years of experience out of college.

This is honestly lower than I expected. I have friends who are new grads at Facebook that make more than that with 0 years of experience.
"""That access to live experts — not some barely functional AI chatbot — comes with every Google One plan"""

My guess is they want to collect enough data from these service interactions to eventually replace the service people with AI (or even plan on A/Bing some AIs right away to see how much people notice, sort of a crow sourced turing test).
Why would scenario in GP be nefarious?
SmartOS is a hypervisor, an imaging system (via imgadm), a provisioning system (via imgadm / vmadm / Triton), a geographically distributed datacenter virtualization (via Triton) and an OS virtualizer (via Solaris zones). A SmartOS with a Joyent branded zone runs a native container at bare metal speed, with CPU bursting in the kernel as an added bonus, when the kernel detects a CPU intensive process. The whole thing is backed by ZFS and runs from memory. There is no installation.

As the Joyent branded zone is the native instantiation of the OS sharing the same kernel, there is no hardware virtualization, or rather, hardware is virtualized only once and zones then share the abstraction, as they are just normal UNIX processes. It's a completely different approach than hardware virtualization. One global zone can have up to 8192 non-global zones all sharing the same kernel, and the imgadm / vmadm combination makes the Docker problem become a non-issue.
Yes, it's a common pattern: "Steve Jobs was great! [anecdote about a time he was cool to someone he wanted something from]."

My reaction every time: Yeah, we already have a term for someone who's nice to those that they want something from, and who mercilessly leverages their power against everyone else. It's called ... "not nice".
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Cryptocurrencies are pulling the U.S. back to the 1830s, Fed official says
I think it may be biased to think that medieval life was a nightmare. It's kind of a modern propaganda (that started in the Renaissance - a more bloody period with a lot more wars by the way) to dismiss this old world and impose a new one.
Yes, and by default the menu is expanded so that you see the words.

Here it is shrunk (not default): https://i.imgur.com/liRIiHG.png (left) https://i.imgur.com/zTOooiS.png (right)

Expanded: https://i.imgur.com/zj9P8d4.png (left) https://i.imgur.com/Fv2irRH.png (right)
That was weird for me too, the picture at the start of the article looked like a plastic bag in space.
We aren't forcing it on anybody. They buy it, ship it, and make $$$.

"Junkyard Planet, Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade" by Adam Minter

> Minter traces the export of America's recyclables and the massive profits that China and other rising nations earn from it. What emerges is an engaging, colorful, and sometimes troubling tale of consumption, innovation, and the ascent of a developing world that recognizes value where Americans don't.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/junkyard-planet-9781608197910/
1. This is not human
2. Any pubishment (In civiliaded world is meant for correction)
3. If Law permitted human interaction , there ahould not be any reason to stop it.
4. WRT : Private prisons , this means more surveillance , less policing( need to hire )

Since this is about the inmates, they do it without much resistance , for heavy pockets
> When the a-bombs start dropping, nobody is going to want a piece of steel with an engraved bitcoin wallet key

But they'll want a bunch of a heavy yellow metal? At least the small piece of steel is easier to carry around.
I wish I could do that.
It is an upgrade to Google Drive, per the Techcrunch article

> It’s also rebranding these storage plans (but not Google Drive itself) as “Google One.”

> Google will upgrade all existing storage plans to Google One accounts

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/14/say-hello-to-google-one/
Literally in my linkedin messages right now:

"Hi we're looking for a python/clojure/go/dart/react senior developer. We need 5 years of experience and a college degree in CS"

"I have none of those but forward my resume if you think I'd be a good fit"

"Alright, I'll get your resume over to them ASAP!"

Several days later

"Sorry, they said you wouldn't be a good fit"

No fucking shit, I am shocked
What I mean is that more than likely, you weren't paying attention to it. My main point is that on the whole employers don't pay much attention to the emotional state of their workers, or at any rate less than they should. Most people reading this comment who happen to be at work and managing people, may or may not know what mood those people are in right now. Most people don't care.
Delay based congestion control is the basis of LEDBAT (RFC6817) as used by BitTorrent over UDP. The claimed advantage of LEDBAT is that it is submissive to TCP, instead of dominating like BBR. This allows BitTorrent to run in the background without hurting your videocalls.

What is different about BBR that makes it dominate while LEDBAT subsides?
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And MS has Xbox One. What's with all the 1s?
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He speaks of having no dependencies, so I assume it is the reason.
- And don't ask me if I know "Tomcat programming language"
Following up on this question of cost per TB.

Not trying to shill this crypto(because I dont know if it really works). But this crypto claims to be selling 1TB/2$/mo

https://siastats.info/storage_pricing

So is Sia coin actually cheaper than these big players? Or are there hidden fees?
I wonder how this drop in demand is distributed between American students who are eligible for financial aid and federally-backed student loans and foreign students who almost always pay full price.

As an anecdote from my own engineering school experience, a staggeringly large proportion of my classes were populated by foreign, usually Chinese and Indian, students. My college has a pretty good brand, and I understand many of these students were willing to pay to have its cachet on their resume. Also, many of these students, especially the Chinese ones, seemed to be from very well-off families (at least if the number of Canada Goose coats and Supreme hoodies is any indication).

This is an anecdote, so take it with a grain of salt, but it suggests a hypothesis: maybe the drop in demand is among American students who are mostly paying discounted prices anyway, while demand among foreign students who are willing and able to pay the staggering sticker price remains high.
I think this article is missing the bigger picture—this isn't about storage. This is Google trying to copy the success of Amazon Prime.

They're going to try to unify lots of different benefits under a single, high-value subscription. The storage plans and priority support are just the first benefit they've tied to the subscription.

> In addition to access to experts, the company also promises to provide subscribers with other benefits. Google One’s director Larissa Fontaine told me that those could include discounts on hotels you find in Google Search, preferred rates for other Google services or credits on Google Play. “We hope to build those out over time,” she noted.

That would make more sense as to why they're "rebranding" these plans an not just updating Google Drive's pricing plans. "Google One" isn't a single product, it's a single subscription across many products, just like Amazon Prime.

Of course, I could be wrong.

It does seem like a weird way to launch the subscription if that's what they're trying to do, since the announcement goes deep into the weeds of storage. And the low-end plans seem much too cheap to be able to add meaningful benefits to in the future.

Even the idea of multiple tiers of the subscription might be too complicated. One of the nice things about Prime is that although it's expensive, there's only one option.

Seeing as this is Google we're talking about, I could imagine this new subscription will have incredible amounts of churn in branding, pricing and benefits along the way, and probably end up as a confusing mess in the minds of customers. Amazon's Prime took a very different route. It started out as a very clear subscription service for cheaper shipping, and then added more and more benefits as time went on. These days it's a little confusing, but it didn't start that way. If Google already can't get the messaging to be clear, it doesn't bode well for them adding lots of orthogonal benefits in the future and keeping it all sane.

I bet we'll see a Stratechery article about Google One in the context of Amazon Prime soon.
a world full of heavily armed and armoured impulsive brutes that will murder you and your entire family as soon as look at you...

So, like a 3rd world country or living under a dictatorship.
It's in the third paragraph of the article:

> A SIMD-friendly C structure called STRING_TABLE was derived. It is optimized for up to 16 strings, ideally of length less than or equal 16 characters.
Microsoft OneDrive

Google One

...

Both in storage?

That's a massive trademark dispute waiting to happen. People will easily start assuming OneDrive refers to Google's offering and confuse the hell out of them.
I also had awesome support from the Glass Explorer program when the foil on mine started to peel. But, they charged $1500 for it and it felt like they really wanted it to succeed, so I would expect the support to be top notch. I'd love if they could bring that level of support to all their products.
That's not really tracking. Advertisers track users across multiple web pages to target ads to their inferred interests. An advertising-based site would need a way to associate a visitor with a bunch of other sites. A subscription-based site doesn't have to collect or keep identifying data. A username and password will do, along with something like a Stripe token which only lets Stripe identify the user.
How can this be improved? Is continuing with this website a worthwhile endeavour? Is the idea of what I am trying to do clear?
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17067168.
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Pharma R&D itself is not a major source of costs. It’s around 2-3%. Sure, you could potentially make an improvement there, but its role in our massive health care costs is vastly overstated.
I used to hear that quite a large portion of plastic that you think you are "recycling" is in fact simply landfilled because there is no market for it. Not sure that is still the case; hopefully it has improved in recent years.
You're right and making those things actionable isn't trivial. but even trying to do so is a good start.
Patches welcome :-)

But seriously though, I played around with compression a bit initially: https://github.com/tpn/tracer/blob/master/StringTable/String.... Referenced Hacker's Delight when I was working on it. Granted, this was just for compressing the USHORT lengths into BYTE-sized lengths.

Are you sure your compression suggestion would work for prefix matches? If you can get lower latency than the fastest assembly version, I'm all ears: http://trent.me/is-prefix-of-string-in-table/#IsPrefixOfStri...

All of the compress/expand routines mentioned in that Hacker's Delight section you're quoting seem to mention upwards of 160+ instructions. My negative match logic fast-path only requires 12 instructions.
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Just one Powerwall costs more than the cost of burying an underground gas tank, and you'd need 10 of them to store enough power to charge one Tesla 100 kWh car. That's $35,000 in batteries alone without the cost of installing them. $35,000 is much more than it would cost to put down an underground concrete foundation to drop a flywheel into. House-size basement foundations can cost 1/8th that.
I have a vague recollection that he lost his shirt at some point, possibly building rockets. Possibly there was something in Masters of Doom[1]? I don't have it near me, so can't check.

1: Biography of id software, obviously heavily featuring Carmack. Highly recommended.
One of Carmack's driving visions is creating the metaverase. VR and huge scale computing networks are part of that, and Facebook has some expertise as both.

This is not me inferring Carmack's wish to work there are much as it is just assembling things he has tweeted in the past.
Maybe in some places. In San Francisco criminals can steal and Rob with pretty much impunity. So I don't really buy the American tough on crime narrative.
I think type 1 managers can turn type 2 employees into type 1 employees.
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“Sky” is not a name, it’s the blue thing up there. It's also "Microsoft SkyDrive" so it's hard to see an argument that someone would see this as a SkyTV offering.

Did I do it right?
In other words, time emerges from causality (and our observation of it), not the other way around. Is that right?
I don't find it sad to end a bad relationship. If someone only intends to "use" me and has nothing to offer, that isn't much of a loss.
Knowing that java and javascript are two different things would be a nice, although utopic, start.
It does, though not simple enough: _"This has the same format and value as %Y, except that if the ISO week number belongs to the previous or next year, that year is used instead."_
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This sounds like a reasonable explanation, but do colleges have transparency into who applied where nationwide? I would expect a college to know the absolute exact number of its own applicants/applications, but beyond that it should be only an educated guess, as long as the SAT is not in the business of selling everybody their data. But then, who knows, maybe the SAT is doing exactly that.