skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Work at the biggest and best company you can, with the best position you can get hired for.

There is invaluable brand capital, and the network is priceless.

It’s the same rationale between choosing colleges.

I attended a top 14 university. I have instant respect and credibility.

I currently work for a massive global technology company. I have instant respect and credibility.

Do I ask for it? No. Is it warranted more than the next guy? I don’t think so.

If you work for a smaller company, with a smaller name, you are limiting the network you can leverage, in size and industry.

Brand capital. Signaling. Status. It’s a game, and there are gatekeepers. And it all depends on how you want to play it.

Doesn’t matter what I studied at college. I went to a good college. People think I’m smart.

Doesn’t matter what my position is. I work for a reputable global company. People think I’m successful.

I would recommend putting the work in and playing the game early in your career before you jump to smaller ventures, and take risks working at companies with limited track records and speculative futures.

I scour LinkedIn and pay attention to the work histories of people I respect and admire, and have achieved the success I desire.

There is a pattern.
Yeah, especially since we live in countries where corruption is rampant, along with unjust enforcement of regulations that completely violate their spirit.

/s
What do people think about the career trajectory as an individual contributor in an early stage startup? I'm the kind of person who not only enjoys coding, but hates dealing with management, hiring, meetings, etc. I always fear that I will be pushed to take on a management role. At the same time though, I really enjoy working with a group to build something from scratch. In your opinion, do you think it's better that I don't join an early stage startup?
It's interesting you guys went straight to the about page. I've basically not updated that because our analytics show that no one is visiting it.

But can't ignore this. Removed testimonial and will update on Monday.

Cheers guys

Oh and yeah, 1k in Australia buys you a couple of pairs of socks and some McDonalds

(only half kidding)
It was discovered by a white hat; he didn't publicise a data dump.
You can argue that we should be more individualistic, but this is a discussion about whats an acceptable level of control over drones within our current society.

Saying that we should just all be individuals and this society stuff is dumb anyway is about as useful as the people on stack overflow who tell you to use a different stack, even when you said that its a constraint on your problem space
Private security will totally be arrested if they rush up to a riot with guns and get in the way of the police though
Is that recent? I just started getting it this year. Is there a way to opt out?
Yes the house always wins on average, in the long term, especially on American wheel Roulette.

However, a few points of clarificaton.

European wheel poker, when offered to extremely highrollers in Monaco typically, offer "en prison", which effectively eliminates the existence of green 0 if the play has the funds to cover a second bet.

When playing roulette, the quickest and most efficient way to play is to simply bet everything you are willing to lose on black or red. The odds are nearly headsup and nobody has time nor luck to play 100 hands.

If you really must sit at the table for as long as you can (perhaps for comp eligibilityy), then use martingale betting system and avoid tables with low max bets.

This way, if you lose 7 hands in a row and with the 8th, it looks like this:

Lose 2
Lose 4
Lose 8
Lose 16
Lose 32
Lose 64
Lose 128
Win 256
But you're still not supposed to get paid for that.
Perhaps you were just not aware?

"In July 2016 he was permanently banned from Twitter for what the company cited as "inciting or engaging in the targeted abuse or harassment of others", referring to a harassment campaign against actor Leslie Jones and others."
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Wow, you explained this very eloquently. Sometimes I've heard this called intrinsic vs extrinsic risk. Alex generally chooses activities with intrinsic risks instead of extrinsic, and mitigates them. It's more responsible than playing around in avalanche zones or at deadly altitudes. By the way, I talked to him about his recent antarctic expedition and he said it was pretty sketchy at times -- there were extrinsic risks he couldn't control, and he didn't like that.
Sadly, I think you're right. And in the end, this may just end up being great marketing for the data their selling.

Reminds me a startup that I used to work for a while back. We had hired a new hot-shot marketing VP. First thing he does is to purchase 'qualified leads' from some dubious data broker and trumpet how he had generated more leads in his first week than the company had over it's existence. Then the new hot-shot VP of sales hires a couple of inside-sales guys to call through this massive list with a script (which they probably bought from somewhere too since I don't recall recognizing our product from it) provided by new marketing VP.

This was a time when people still answered when someone called from unknown number. I remember chatting with the poor inside-sales guys who had to do the calling, and oh boy were they frustrated, but that was nothing compared to how badly the calling was received by people who got the calls.

I am pretty sure company got exactly zero sales out of that exercise and probably killed a few future deals too. But I am sure at least marketing VP met his KPIs.

Moral of the story: there are shady people out there that are more than happy to pay for all kinds of data sets.

I believe that as a society we should exert more control over our data, and companies selling it should be scrutinized, regulated and taxed for doing so.
Are you a programmer? This isn't how any of the programmers I know judge things. (The college part, anyway.)
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The 9-5 work schedule went away a long time ago. In places like the Bay Area rush hours are roughly 6-10AM in the morning and 3-7PM in the evening precisely because of differing schedules[1]. And that's for white collar work. Factories and service work have much more varied schedules.

[1] There's a long tail, too. IME traffic becomes noticeably heavy around 6AM and 3PM, but there's a long tail after 10AM and 7PM.
> "well, even if I get my shit together it'll still not a Nash equilibrium because the world is irreparably fucked for me"

IMO that's exactly it. At certain point I decided that I will work both harder and smarter because I like money and the peace of mind and freedom they enable... but in the end all my aspirations for changing the world for the better won't ever materialize, I am pretty sure of it.

So in the end it turns out that a happy philosophy would be something like in the "Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy":

"Just do what makes you happy and don't worry about the world."

Even that is pretty hard nowadays because we constantly get bombarded with comparisons. The media REALLY loves turning people on each other.
As I said:

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Some things I have not mentioned:

* vectorization: basically, how to do vector operations "smarter" on non-parallelized hardware[SIMD?], something that many languages (e.g. MATLAB, NumPy) and hardware now support

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Twitter is reorganizing how it is going to work together for the next decade
We can't prevent builders and architects from making mistakes either, but they are required to comply with regulations, and take out insurance to cover their customers in the event of human failure.

If the problem is inevitable on some level, then why isn't insurance to cover that eventuality required?
Spammers freeloading on Google doodle wiki
Someone is adding a link to the first para the wiki page of today's google doodle. Revision history: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prasanta_Chandra_Mahalanobis&action=history

Looks like wiki has a way to handle this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Protection_policy#semi
Harlan Ellison has been hugely influential on fantasy writers including but not limited to J.K. Rowling and Neil Gaiman.

According to Neil, he mostly decided to become a fiction writer after reading one of Harlan's collections of short stories.

Rowling's Death Eaters seems to me to be a direct lift from Ellison's Flop Sweat but as they say, it's the highest form of flattery

Excerpt: Figures in long black garments, with drawn cowls that covered their faces. And strange, sickly purple light, the faintest, most terrible glow, shining out from beneath the cowls. They stared in at her. She could see no eyes: but they were staring in at her.

Ellison, Harlan. Shatterday (Kindle Locations 1028-1030). Open Road Media. Kindle Edition.

Ellison may also be the inspiration for some of Harry Potter's adventures in the shops of Diagon Alley. See Shoppe Keeper

Excerpt: The sign proclaimed Shoppe of Wonders and beneath those words in curlicued but extremely readable Islamic calligraphy: Your Heart’s Desire.

Ellison, Harlan. Shatterday (Kindle Locations 1593-1595). Open Road Media. Kindle Edition.
Let me tell you about an ornery sumbitch I think you may currently love. https://www.buzzfeed.com/arianelange/john-kricfalusi-ren-sti...
I am 45 and I definitely feel* closer to the median at Google than to the eldest extreme.

*Note that I can't back this up with actual statistics. I'm just saying that I don't feel anywhere close to a graybeard elder at Google at age 45.
But Nazis have more in common with Democrats anyway :D :D :D :D banning guns, wanting mass regulation /trolol
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I'm actually fairly certain it was "within working hours" free time. Facebook doesn't have 20% time or anything like that, but, in practice, there's lots of extra time for whatever you want. This was my experience as an Engineer at Facebook and I certainly "pay it forward" as a manager.

Probably worth adding that we ultimately created a python foundation team, of which Jason is a member.

Here's something dumb I created in my "within working hours" free time that Facebook let me open source: https://github.com/facebookresearch/py2bpf
Sales engineer. Not a programmer.
What's relevant to someone can change over time, even at different parts of the day.

I know of no search engine which has always shown what I'm trying to find.
I bet the truth is, when it comes to static imagery, Alex Honnold just registers as excitable about different subject matter.

It sounds like they tried a largely negative gore-oriented image set (injuries and depictions of people in distress) to induce what could probably more accurately be interpretted as an unpleasant state of mind. For regular people of middling intellect who live sheltered lives, being subjected to strange viewing habits in a clinical setting probably registers as extremely odd. Alex, on the other hand approached the experiment after reaching a degree of celebrity that puts him beyond the possibility of an assessment that restricts him from acting freely.

He didn't submit to the experiment, until his career was sufficiently rewarding enough to be innately recognized as highly skilled, and thus beyond the reach of ordinary doctors adjucating him as a threat to himself or others, and thus preventing him from doing what he loves.

Therefore, nothing about the experimental setting was threatening, and he felt no pressure to masquerade with a "normal" response deceptively, or else attract psychiatric scrutiny, perhaps warranting medication and inviting pressure from family members and see other facets of his support network turn against him. With broad fame, he effectively deflects any ordinary institutional authority, and he has social proof of success, no matter what the machine records and reveals unexpectedly.

So then, take other conceptual image sets, and see what does catch a rise out of Alex Honnold, and I bet you'll find he's as human as any of us.

Show him sprawling incredible mountain vistas looking at the sun rise over a himalayan cloud deck, rivaling or far surpassing anything you could hope to see from the top of a tall building and I bet something jumps out from deeper within, than showing him images of a train wreck, because it has to be something real to him. Then the measurements will start showing numbers in keeping with other people's reaction to visual stimuli.

In psychology subject matter specific to the individual counts, and Alex has different tastes.
Where is the american version of GDPR when we need it? This is arguably worse than Equifax one.

edit: nope, this is infinitely worse.
That’s one of the most valid ideas I’ve heard - define private data as personal property.

When one looks deeper into laws like GDPR and this one, at the heart of it lies the fact that a company cannot do as it pleases with an individual’s data without said individuals consent. But given the nature of the legislation, it is not too hard for a company to simply bypass it in ways that adhere to the letter of the law but not the spirit.

If instead there were laws that defined private data as the personal property of the respective individual, the need for all this convoluted legislation would be rendered moot, since such a law would open the grounds for a variety of class action lawsuits against companies perceived to be egregiously abusive. The case law itself would set numerous precedents and eliminate the need for varied “interpretations” of one piece of legislation. IMO, this is what we should be pushing for, not more GDPR-clones which can be watered down by lobbyists.
I agree on those points. You don't get to climb full time and travel the world without playing the sponsorship game, and he certainly has an interest in his legacy, humble is not a word I would use to describe him. But he's not a materialist, he's dedicated to the dirtbag climber lifestyle and gives most of his winnings away.

Honnold is also much more than a free soloist, he's an ultra endurance athlete of the highest order, he's the hardest of hard men. Athletes who dominate other sports tend to be physiological mutants, but what makes Honnold special is what is going on in his head, and I've never seen anything quite like it. Exceptional boldness won't get you very far if it isn't paired with exceptional discipline.
> The very existence of an "if this then that," thought in their mind is performance inhibiting, because even that "if," statement needs to be negated before they can respond.

i guess humans also suffer from branching stalls.
I’ve had discussions with people working in ads at Google that are basically, “so GDPR is the EU’s attempt to kill off all our competition and presently entrench us in the marketplace.”
Oh well, all that's about to change now that EU puts #Article13 into place... :'(
Exactly. See also the Futurists, a strong influence to Fascism.
I’ll grant you it is worrying to see that happening, interesting articles I had no idea about. Though I would think now that Amazon is officially getting into the pharmaceutical game, this will bring them under much more scrutiny for this kind of thing in the future.

I could be wrong, as the first article states, Amazon skated by without so much as a warning while bodybuilding.com had to pay fines for selling the same steroids, but I would expect the FDA is able to throw their weight around more with Amazon now by shutting down their official pharmaceutical operation if they continue to make perscription medications available like this on their retail site.
> aren't there ways to do deopts without relying on guards

Yes, in general. But I was basically hoping to craft a javascript multiple dispatch implementation that mostly landed on V8's existing dispatch fast path.

A polymorphic inline cache for a call site, starts with a check(s) that the object is an expected type. And a bit of inlined code, may start with checks that the inlining assumptions (types of arguments, etc) are still valid. In the JITed assembly, it looks like a bunch of test and jump instructions that come before the real work. But the processor's branch prediction, ideally recognizes that the common case is a still-valid cache/inlining. So the processor's speculative execution, ideally proceeds immediately with the real work. The checks happen off to the side - they don't delay the real work.

One way to do dynamic multiple dispatch is a dispatch tree of similar checks. As with regular dispatch, most multiple dispatch call sites are monomorphic. So if the dispatch checks gets inlined, you would have an extended version of the usual checks. And V8 changed how it allocates it's inlining budget, in a way that made arranging for inlining of dispatch seem more plausible than it once was. My hope was the dispatch checks would also happen off mainline. So multiple dispatch might be as fast as single dispatch.

But then speculative execution implementation flaws were recognized as a security threat, and jits began intentionally disabling or constraining speculative execution. Which might be sufficient to invalidate the whole idea. Since those mitigations seem an ongoing work in progress, and in the past I've found it expensive to tool up for v8 jit code analysis, I thought I'd see if anyone already had a feel for where we're at/headed.
By "approximately 50% of his limbs," do you mean "one limb" or "two limbs"? I'm pretty sure he has four...
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I would guess that the majority of 3D printers by shipped units are made of bent sheet metal.
Has anyone built their business or done a deal as a result of cold outreach? How did it go? What did you say?

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I'm 21. Started at Amazon, Apple, Northrop, then the largest private software firm and have wanted nothing but to exit the corporate world for a remote job at a start up.

Getting closer by choosing a smaller employer that's remote flexible.
"A group is weak, so it resorts to manipulation and deceiving"

And yet the "superior" group isn't smart enough to evade or detect this effectively.
Everything works outside QGIS. There's just something about the environment. I have 7 lines of code that crashes my QGIS every time.
California just passed one of the toughest data privacy laws in the country
not sure whether you are calling my original claim naive or that i imply getting an undergrad degree is an attainable goal.
Consider this: There are other apps that you haven't heard of, with communities completely secluded from the Fb/twit/goog environment, and nobody's complaining that they are bubbleified.
Why? It’s a perfectly reason sentiment to abstain from decrying someone’s legal (and even inspiring) profession.
It's still implemented differently across different browsers, past and present, and despite being mature it isn't exactly future proof.
Yes, it’s not a default opt-in. In fact, many people are unbanked in the United States. You can also choose not to open a bank account as well.
Haha, small world. I knew about QRNN and even tried to find an implementation once to test it on my data. Neat idea.
Does this mean The Last Dangerous Visions will finally be released? Harlan sat on this since the 70s, holding rights to all the stories to be included but never actually publishing it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17411594
I think the narrow answer is, that if the computer has on-chip L1 cache, then if you can arrange for the L1 cache to contain all the information you need to run a program, there is no reason in principle why you couldn't run entirely in L1 cache off the die, and never touch the off-chip memory access channels.

Arranging for state to lie in L1 cache without RAM is a challenge, I wonder if some combination of things from a JTAG header and chip behaviour could get you there?

the Boot ROM, in some sense, is the information you minimally are looking at. So, a boot rom, with state to prep L1 cache and then a run command, which operates totally in L1 cache?

(I imagine some operations on L1 attempt write-back and would be bad, but perhaps that can be mitigated by some clever tricks to act like the write-back worked?)
What? Who are you?
Tunneling costs will come down, almost certainly through automated tunneling. Not because of the demands of urban transit, but because suburbia is fundamentally not economically viable unless the cost of running utilities and paving roads drops dramatically. American society is too wedded to suburban culture to move away from it to any significant extent, so sheer necessity will drive technological innovation. It helps that the costs of suburbia are largely hidden, so either the technology emerges or America continues to descend into a paved-over hellscape.

Like many things America will end up paying 10x to solve problems with sophisticated, overwrought technology that could have been solved through simple social and cultural shifts, but at least we'll get fancy new tools out it.
"There's been lots of people who note that engineers are disproportionately represented among terrorist groups."

It's also been noted that engineers are common among creationists. (The "Salem Hypothesis")
From what I know, it started a few years ago; but not all big stores had the equipment in place to send it (the cc processors give them a discount for sending the line-item level 3 data).

With the advent of the chip and pin cards in the USA, it seems logical that just about everyone upgraded to equipment that does support it; which might explain why you are only seeing this in the past year.
I never thought I'd see the day that someone explained the meaning of the word net to me on HN.
You might be interested in Harvey Mudd's CS5 Green syllabus [1], which "is designed to give you the foundations of computer science in the context of solving real and important problems in the biological sciences."

[1]: https://www.cs.hmc.edu/twiki/bin/view/CS6/CourseSyllabus
It depends I guess. Does a surgeon or anesthesiologist have to know Dutch to be successful? Or even a dentist? Btw the Netherlands has quite a few people who don't speak Dutch at all..
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On the bright side, we do not know that he has leaked it yet :)
Here in India, they'll either cut the blisters to your prescription or give already cut blisters from previous orders.
So you lose all your data if the temperature rises? If it’s not shelf stable it seems a bit niche...?
No, we're using the tech-industry definition of a startup.

I don't run a startup, either. I make money.
Running more processes is often the solution.
I vastly prefer smaller companies due to the outsized impact each employee can have on the success of the entire organization, and the ability to wear different hats.

Barring that, I prefer a Google/Microsoft/etc big 5 company.

I don't personally feel like there's a lot of draw to a low level position at mid-sized companies, and I've worked at a few. You're going to sacrifice the personal agency you get as soon as you go above, say, 10-15 engineers. So if you're going to do that, you might as well go all the way and get the massive paychecks, benefits, valuable stock, fringe benefits, and the in-place infrastructure.

If I were looking for positions higher up the chain (CTO, Director, etc), then mid sized companies start to look more interesting because you have the opportunity to have that impact with a big team and product that's already in place.
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