skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Solving general intelligence" isn't comparable to a 10-years deadline at all.

But still, which of the few companies that work on this has their engineers expressing that 10-years figure? I can also say that I know stuff from good expert sources without mentioning any specific.
Cool, it's OK to start code without a license and still let people see it. Similar to other "open" things, to be truly open you don't have to wait until things are set just right.
Derek's blog is great. I also recommend Bruce Booth's lifescivc blog, which is one of the few blogs written by top tier early stage biotech VCs

https://lifescivc.com/
First step: recognize that knowing JavaScript only doesn’t make you full “stack”, it makes you a web “developer” (at most) who only sees nails they can hit with 500 pound Node hammer with 10000 warts in the form of isEven() dependencies.

Grow your skill set and broaden your until you see what “full stack” actually means.
Well if it's theft then it's been going on and used by everyone for thousands of years. To be upset about this is to be upset about gossip. It's an informal means to disseminate information. It will naturally occur in any sufficiently competitive system.

And the key point may be that the ones being 'stolen from' even allow it because the benefit they get from opening up to new markets usually exceeds the risk of having some of your IP copied.

It's not like the traders who ventured to Japan turned around just because they knew that the Japanese would try to catch up by any means, or that the British stopped trading with Germany. (Or that Apple stops to sell or build things in China)
A lot of the important tech decision take place around a whiteboard where people communicate their ideas.

Whiteboard questions are okay. Only giving tasks is not how a real workplace work
I got screwed like that on my Google interview. You should not be blamed for assuming, when talking to Google, that the O(n!) or O(n^2) solution is not even worth talking about. So I flopped around on O(n), O(nm) and O(nlogn) solutions after trying to whiteboard a recurrence relationship and giving up on O(1).

Interviewer had already decided that somehow the crazy rules I related to him about the industry I was coming from were somehow personally my fault to he had fun letting me twist in the wind.

Personally, I think that given how small the industry is, one of the goals of the interview process should be not to make an enemy of the candidate. Candidates have friends, and sometimes candidates come back in a few years after they've gotten more experience or you're looking for different skills. None of this will matter to Google until they find themselves in a MS-style hiring crisis in another five years when they aren't cool anymore.
The default keybindings are ctrl-w "" (assuming you want to paste from " register - or * to paste from clipboard: ctrl-w " * ).

It's a shortcut for pasting.
This is a great example of the power of norms and conventions. As sibling says, Erskine May in the UK bans tendentious titles. It's not a statutory restriction and could be easily overturned by the House of Commons if it wanted. But no government has had the HoC do that, partly through inertia and partly because that government would then face partisan bill titles when next in opposition. So the convention endures.

The British constitution is, in some ways, built on conventions like this. It changes the calculus from legal to normative, and allows a sustainable banning of cute names even though, as you say, it can't be done in a binding way even in principle.
As a long time Boosted Board fan, and someone who's underwhelmed by the current crop of rental scooters, I'm interested to try this.

I'm also somewhat surprised Boosted Boards themselves haven't released other light electric vehicles like scooters and bicycles. I'd guess the market for non-skateboard electric vehicles is much larger, and a lot of the expertise they have should transfer.

I think a lightweight (~15 lbs) commuter scooter with ~5 mile range, ~16 MPH top speed, maybe an integrated charger and shoulder sling, and Boosted Board's design and quality would kill it.
Did you mean to reply to someone else? I appreciate the reply, but I’m confused about what you're responding to and what point you’re trying to make. I haven’t suggested or advocated anything about doing work for free.

That said, this example doesn’t convince me of much. Doctors have to go though a full year (or more) of underpaid work (called residency), and worse, extremely long and on-call hours. They think programmers are pretty spoiled, at least the ones I know personally do. When I've complained to them about pulling 80 hour weeks in films & games (sometimes without overtime pay), I've gotten words back like "lazy" and "whiny". :P

Doctors also have to do unpaid diagnoses when they interview for jobs, in order to prove they’re real. And they have to do unpaid diagnoses for their family and friends, just like we have to do IT for family & friends.

If you want the job, you do need to demonstrate you’re capable of performing the job, no? What alternative are you suggesting?
It's still the case! At the end of the day, the person making the call is a hiring manager.

It's pretty hard for a hiring manager to be called out as too selective. However, if you let in a few bad apples then you look really bad.

The incentives are for hiring managers to be too careful.

It is, oddly enough, the case that if you are not hiring any bad engineers that you probably are being too selective.
How do you know it is not Russia? Maybe Russia is manipulating China and USA at the same time!
Yes: "... Payments to each of the Class Representatives, not to exceed $5,000 each, as compensation for their active participation in the case on behalf of the Settlement Class ..."

EDIT: see below for correction
I'm noticing a few neat things about there is left-right reflected symmetry.

Really neat! (I still know I haven't the math chops though. Good place to further my study)
Wrong, anybody who obsesses about anything is a nerd by definition.
Deadpool's resume will probably put yours to shame
Link in the 1st comment.
Does anyone think this does not happen in other countries? Maybe even in your own country (but not ours, obviously)? And not just by governments, but by political parties, foreign entities, corporations, lobbying groups, interest groups, etc, any entity with an interest in distracting, muddying, defining a narrative, or swaying opinion?

And once you consider that, consider the numerous potential reasons why social media companies appear to do nothing about the huge numbers of obvious bots, astroturfers, sockpuppets, trollfarms, etc on their services.

Interesting times we live in!
Good point. Thanks for the comment. It's likely a bit on the optimistic side, but this focuses on DP problems typically encountered in interviews.
I have to disagree with the author of that paragraph. Concepts usually get diluted as they pass from person to person, not more clear. They also mention there is often times a "debatable" aesthetic value - to me, that's all the more reason to at least look at the original work and make your own interpretation.
It's equivalent to http://oeis.org/A054521

Cell i of row j contains n elements of an arithmetic progression, with common difference of j.
If i and j have a GCD != 1, they are not coprime, so they share a factor p, as do all numbers in the sequence, so they cannot be prime

Otherwise it's very likely there's at least one prime

If j is prime every column i is coprime with it, so it's going to be black
Not necessarily. It might consist of user IDs (integers, UUIDs) or hashed values of something that can be mapped to the user...
Sorry, I was using the 'singular' they.
Can Pregnancy Cause Osteoporosis
I was born and raised in deep Trump country, and have agree that most people don't take the time to understand the viewpoint of his supporters. Unfortunately, I also think that the deeper you dig, the more you realize it's an embrace of human selfishness. Trump doesn't have strongly held beliefs, he believes whatever -feels- right. You'll find a lot of overlap with Jordan Peterson supporters, and I'll leave you with a quote from one:

“Whenever I listen to him, it’s like he’s telling me something I already knew,” Mr. Logan says. “Learning is remembering.”

( https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/style/jordan-peterson-12-... )
Clearly we need to divert government funding to get girls into trains.
You need to be very careful in that space to not run afoul of ITAR and other export compliance regulations. Not worth it for a side hustle imo.
Ayy, we're one of those sites. Disabling IPv6, if you don't use it, is basically the second bullet point on any system hardening benchmark.
It isn't clear what FDA could actually do in these cases. The companies are basically choosing how to distribute their product, and some pick distributors that make it hard for researchers to access the product

I actually started a company a few years back trying to make a generic version of one of these drugs and we found that there are all kinds of FDA-related issues beyond just access to RLDs -- it is a very murky and complex area of drug dev
You might try the Freelancer's Union (https://www.freelancersunion.org/)
Actually no, a lot of PhD's are a bit smarter than you, some PhD's are a lot smarter than you
If you want to know relatively which does better you need to compare success in each population.

There are a lot of confounding factors in why different types of companies are founded. Saying that less employee owned companies are started is evidence of failure is at best a very shaky understanding of how to look at the business landscape.
Designing tomorrow's tech-friendly fashion
How much do you need?
Along the same line, I find the hardest thing to get good at for junior data-sciency people is how to tell if your model sucks. Too easy to trick yourself into thinking you have a good model.

I think this is an essential, foundational skill for modern data science, not unlike some knowledge of R or Python, but an order of magnitude or two harder to learn. A lot of the difficulty is in lack of good educational material. I also think this is significantly more important than a deep understanding of various modeling approaches; you can learn that as you go, so long as you know if what you have now is "good enough" or if you need a fancier approach.

Unfortunately you can't just throw k-fold CV around, average some fit metrics, and call it a day.
Note that log(n) is the length of the prime, so if you are using 2048 bit primes, log⁶(n) is quite large. I don't think anyone actually uses one of the general deterministic primality testing algorithms in cryptographic applications.
I wonder what they meant by that. I've heard that Bavaria is the most German state of Germany.
Relevant Vice youtube video of the 2015 Ebola outbreak in Liberia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANUI4uT3xJI for those who want more context on why its so hard to stop it in underdeveloped and insufficiently prepared African cities (not the developed ones, those tend to be able to contain epidemics)
Find it here: https://www.hiration.com/blog/awesome-deadpool-2-resume/
If I had to guess, I'd wager that the Venn diagram of Dynamic Programming questions and interview questions is a narrow sliver.

That is, unless you're being hazed, the sort of questions to show up in an interview might be at the shallow end of the pool.
A Scientist Finds Her Child’s Rare Brain Illness Stems from the Gene She Studies
It doesn't bother me specifically, but I've only seen it in the context of a wide boulevard (i.e. along the Embaracadero in SF). Its more to address the potential complaints and potential issues in say the Mission.

There's also the tangential benefit of there being an increasing likelihood, I'll have access to a scooter if they are all clustered in the same spot.

It's a much easier fleet management on the backend as well, maybe some machine learning prediction of where more scooters are needed throughout the day could be applied.
I have. Generally, I don't want children for reasons that I don't think much good would come out of it.
The HTTP 1.1 to 2 upgrade is only going fine due to massive work (mostly by Google) over a period of years. HTTP/2 was also able to benefit from a lot of pain that SPDY and WebSockets went through earlier. Protocol ossification is still a hard problem.
I just accessed the site with javascript disabled (my default setting) and read the article just fine (no cookies, no messages to the effect you reported).
[video] – The problem of China's huge bike graveyards
Am I missing the "play audio" link or did people read this and found it easy to understand. To me, the transcribed rambling makes it a terrible read...
It's easy to fix a false positive, it's impossible to fix a false negative. You figure FOMO would kick in at some point.
My take, but correct me if I'm wrong.

Take the relation to the GCD triangle http://oeis.org/A054521

At GCD(n,k)!=1 all numbers are divisible by GCD(n,k) therefore contains no prime

At GCD(n,k)==1 we have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirichlet%27s_theorem_on_arith... - so those series contain infinitely many primes - and seems like they actually contain at least one prime in all the pixels of the first N rows (but this should be explained/proved, if it is always true for any chosen N, or just happen to be true for the N-s tried by the OP)
What corpus did you train off?
Writing a Time Series Database from Scratch (2017)
I don't think you need to get explicit agreement when using cookies to implement expected site functionality, as long as you don't use re-purpose them for profiling/targeting purposes. IANAL, though.

See:
http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm#se... (starting at "Howewer, some cookies are exempt …")
If you haven't read folklore.org, you're in for a treat. (if you like early startup life type stuff sprinkled in with the tech)
Keep going!

Don't forget: There's nothing bad about no-response - People are much more likely to respond on the web and email when you're wrong. ;)
That'll show em. I wonder if Google even had to move money from anywhere, or if it was fine to pay with profits from part of the day.
The Chinese global trollism is getting worse. From Airlines who don't label Taiwan under China to kids in primary school in Australia who paint a Taiwanese flag on a bull, the Chinese are really becoming more and more belligerent. The Chinese internet army of "hurt feelings" and stupid whataboutism and fake moral equivalence is entering HN as well.

Whenver there is any negative story about china, the downvotes happen immediately and "defends of the honor of china" pop up magically throwing dirt everywhere.

I'm sure when PG made this, having nationalistic Chinese trolls degrade the forum with their "China is always right" bs was probably not on the top of his mind.

I wonder if we can ask the mods. Is there a pattern of downvotes whenver there isa negative story about China? I wonder if a bunch of Tencent/Alibaba "patriotic chinese" simply created lots of accounts and upvoted themselves to get to the point they can downvote across their accounts to "keep the internet clean" of anything that embarasses Xi Jinping and his stupid uneducated bimbo of a wife
Definitely agreed, I specifically decided to start the alpha with the site being quite minimal, instead of trying to build a bunch of complex systems up-front.

I think it's really important that this kind of stuff gets built in an evolutionary sort of way. Trying to predict how humans will use a system before they're actually using it is almost impossible, and I'd much rather do it by seeing how things are being used in practice, and making adjustments based on that (as well as discussing with people how they think the changes will affect the site).
I meant I don't believe that it's going to be anywhere near as much of a burden to implement or comply. I guess I responded to the wrong person?
Why it’s so hard to fix banking: An interview with Simple’s exiting CEO
Maybe they don't want to spend time doing it manually...?
It also doesn't reduce the time to O(1). Each of the ranges is of size O(2^(N/2)) for an N bit prime, so it's really not useful at all.
Startup opportunity? Grind as a Service? (GaaS). Not kidding, although the acronym might make it seem so.

I mean, paying a middleman (the GaaSer) to do something better /
more cost-effectively than you (aka any SaaS startup founder) can (if it is an area they can specialize in, and so achieve economies of scale). SaaS's (and other cos.) already use many SaaS's anyway - at least some of them do, I've read. It's like why we pay e-commerce companie like Amazon, rather than scouting for each item we want to buy at separate vendors or vendor's sites.
Does this get us closer to being able to generate the Nth prime without factorization / primality test of every number?
Sounds good, thanks for the reply :) I'm mostly a passive user so I won't be requesting an invite, but I'll be looking forward to the launch :)
Not the OP, but "male toxicity" does not imply that men have an exclusivity on toxicity.

If anything, it implicitly suggests the opposite. Otherwise the "male" adjective wouldn't be necessary.
Caves are certainly not anechoic chambers. Anechoic chambers are called that because they have no internal reflection (no echos, an-echoic). Caves may be highly insulated from the rest of the world, but their rock walls are highly reflective.

An anechoic chambers sounds weird because there is practically no natural analogue.
I disagree. You aren't asking the right questions or probing enough.
You're saying like it's easy to just find a talented person and associate yourself to them and everything else will just work.

BTW things that Ive wasn't involved in when SJ returned to Apple:

- Bring Next software to Apple and create OSX from it

- Software UI/UX design (Ive is mainly a product designer. And it's much more than "let's make colorful plastic" but how to do it so that it looks right, in which colors or how do you actually build this so that it is thin but resistant)

- Simplify product lines and improve focus

- Be involved in the "Think Different" campaign (the bozos at the top level wanted to go with a "We're back" campaign that was proposed to them)
Also, keyboards have letters
There is no cost benefit. Self-service increases the insurance premiums for a gas station about as much as it costs to pay the people who man the pumps.

I still want the option to pump my own gas, but I have resigned myself to the fact that it will probably not happen here. Even if we made it a requirement that full service still be offered at no additional cost, Oregonians would vote it down.
> Here's the other bottom line: A company wants to use your industry and creativity to make more money than it will give to you. You don't owe the company jack. shit.

Unfortunately, unless the sides are favored to the labor market (in our cases it is not, and even if it was, there is always outsourcing), this equation is not equal.

Both are true, but it is an extremely unbalanced equation. At the end of the day, the company has the money and you have the skills. Unfortunately only one of those helps you pay the bills -- unless you can figure out a way to pay your rent in exchange for your skills.
Ask HN: Do you have a plan for retirement?
Recently, it came to my attention that many younger and younger people in tech do not have any money put aside for retirement, which is a shame since its the best time to establish cash for compound interest to take effect. Most are still paying student debt, etc. My question is for those folks who have a plan, what's your retirement strategy? And do you think you will have enough money to retire someday? Any valuable advice?
This just shows the reduced residues mod n. There are n squares in the nth row from the top. Color the kth square of the nth row black if gcd(k,n)=1, color it red otherwise.
The author, "dick pic" commenters, and celebrities are not really the core snapchat audience. Every single young person around me uses snapchat as a communication medium, not a social network. If Evan and his band of merry pranksters decide to hire people who actually know how to run a tech company (and perhaps the latest CFO hire is an indication), snap may have a very bright future.
Personal-finance app Vota helps catch fraud, turns transactions into recs
I think the last remark about Xi Jinping's wife was uncalled for (I'm Taiwanese American).
What are some things that are easy to describe but hard to code?
What does that look like?
Big Ten Universities’ National Footprint
I think most people don't even know that much, this isn't something that is deeply covered in most intro to bio courses in college; you have to learn a bit about how DNA is packaged and transcribed which you'd get in upper division courses. At least in the field, there is no confusion. Non-DNA inheritance is inheritance of these epigenetic regulatory states in which you've described, but the term used specifically for this is transgenerational inheritance.
Interestingly since charging the electric scooter is such an additional complication w.r.t. unit economics, it'd be great to see them just make them kick scooters (i.e. foot powered with no motor like the OG Razor scooter) with the only electronics being the GPS/cellphone locator unit?

You then mitigate the speed/helmet concerns somewhat as well.
I doubt it, since that's not at all what the paper describes. Here's a quote from the abstract:

> In contrast to prior claims, we show that the Chinese regime's strategy is to avoid arguing with skeptics of the party and the government, and to not even discuss controversial issues. We show that the goal of this massive secretive operation is instead to distract the public and change the subject, as most of the these posts involve cheerleading for China, the revolutionary history of the Communist Party, or other symbols of the regime.
> You know what would be great? A society where people can knowingly disagree on fundamental concepts with one another and remain mutually respectful and cooperative.

I agree.

> And studying philosophy is a gateway to that.

For a very, very small number of students. Forcing every student to go through philosophy education because we can't figure out a better way to select out the students that will care about it is at best waste, and at worst torture. The fact that you and I both actually enjoyed philosophy (and at least for me, school in general) doesn't change that; it means that we have a privilege that needs to be checked.
Google also has a very big pool of applicants.

IMO the biggest problem is that small startups copy the Google's approach while their hiring environment is completely different.
This might sound silly -- especially to the HN audience -- but it's akin to the baptist church problem: one group doesn't like their senior pastor, so they take about half the congregation, go down the street, and say "we will do it right this time!" and now you end up with two split churches. This is basically why there are thousands of baptist churches in the south.

Another example it's related to is the XKCD standards comic. Rather than improve existing standards, the committee breaks off with dissenters, forms a new committee, and now you get "Situation: There are now 16 competing standards"

edit: Better Solution? Talk to recruiters? Let them know you won't consider places that force you to play "dance monkey". The letting them know part is key. More broadly: maybe unionize?
If nothing else, this depiction of prime numbers looks very satisfying for recreational mathematics, much more so than the Ulam spiral. I think students who learn how to generate this pattern will be inspired to learn more about math.
All it takes is one accident or false move and you will have years of pain (and potentially medical procedures and/or drugs) if not death.