skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi James,

The algo to take Core + the best other section, right? As it stands, the test difficulty makes it pretty easy to hit 2 perfect scores, so you'll be competing against those pretty consistently.

How does the CSPA help my interviewing process if I'm a network guru and knock all those questions out of the park, but apply for a ML job where my knowledge is paltry? How does my CSPA testing help me differentiate from the above guy as a network guru when I also aced the ML section? This seems like an obvious area the test can outperform other testing metrics.

As far as I can tell, the only value for the current scoring system is to weed out people who are just plain abysmal at everything. Eventually people are going to game your exam and pop up very close analogues onto google. At that point even the floor function is dead with the added deadweight cost of the exam still being an application requirement at BigCo.

Maybe I'm just blinded because I think having accurate skill radar charts that test takers and employers could use for self improvement and prospect evaluation, respectively, could be an absurdly large value add.
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/
Truly great posts and book recommendations.
I get the metaphor, I just think it’s stupid.

There are an infinite number of things you can observe about the world around you, and there are many many more things you will not see than things you will see. All the way from high society people relations down to individual quantum particle interactions, it’s mind boggling how much there is out there happening at all times in all spaces. It’s not possible to observe all of this and the tiny fraction that we do observe is minuscule.

Pretending that there is some profound way to observe the world comes across as obnoxious and cringe-worthy.
The Story of the 1970s Great Calculator Race
As recently as 2016, Windows Thinkpads were documented to be sending daily usage data to Lenovo. The app is easily disabled, but users may not be aware of the telemetry. You agreed to this in the EULA.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13300357
This method uses rails and a hill:

https://www.aresnorthamerica.com/about-ares-north-america
So you have no references to any econ books that support your views on economics. If you haven't read any, either, may I suggest:

https://www.amazon.com/s?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field...
Mastodon will be dead soon enough and also awful marketing, they really need to change the name as to not conflict with the band.
Elon Musk Didn’t Have a Breakdown
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Lol what? There are good talented engineers at Facebook who work on things entirely different from ads personalization and you want to penalize them too? And what makes you decide it's the engineers who are at fault for how Facebook displays ads?
I’ve noticed the same thing with Walmart in Canada. It’s not a bad experience now.

Although scanning each item individually is still time consuming. Removing that requirement would be awesome.
> But why do humans find this idea so seductive? It's because of an underlying loneliness: we want to believe that we are connected with the universe in some fashion, that our existence has a point [...]

No. It's simply that statistically, we can't believe we are the first, nor that we are unique. It would be (statistically) extremely odd if we were, and there is a bias against anthropo-centric theories.

Heck, I'd be happier if we are alone (less risk and more free land), but if we appear to be, that seems odd, and worthy of investigation. No?

EDIT: Why do you claim to speak for all our hopes/dreams/desires? "We need this" or "We want that". Frankly, that's a little collectivist and creepy.
As far as the crane goes, the article indicates that "Wind could cause the block to move like a pendulum, but the crane’s trolley is programmed to counter the movement." That actually seems like the most interesting part of this system.
I don't know why I have read $500k/month. The weekend bbq effect probably.

Anyone?

But then it wouldn't be a side project I guess.
Yes, this seems to be broadly true. TIL about benefit corporations. I deeply apologize for my repeated rudeness towards your original post.
So you didn't really address it in that sense in your other comment.

I guess I don't see how ad targeting involves force either (it just happens to be effective), but whatever.
Thanks for the clarification. I interpreted this as British people being forced into things they didn't want to do (such as menial jobs) but I realize now that you meant that they were forced into the decision of allowing immigration that as you rightly pointed out they didn't want.

Also I'm not sure if you intended your comment to be patronizing, but it does read that way. Thanks again for the clarification.
It looks like overhead wires?

https://www.aresnorthamerica.com/about-ares-north-america
It's strangely beautiful, especially for something educational. A slow moving version of the animations as a wallpaper would be cool.
wwww.cronote.com

Simple website for sending reminders. It didn't make any money for 4 years until I added commonly-requested features (templates, recurring reminders, and variables for recipient names). Now I have about 60 paying customers and it makes about $600 per month after all expenses paid. It's been running essentially autonomously for the past five months.

The iOS app is still difficult to use. I'm slowly rebuilding it. I'd say the main claim to fame at this point is if you Google "text message reminders" it's the first or second result.
> if luxury foods were eliminated

If someone who's dependent on EBT money is spending it on caviar and filet mignon, they're going to go hungry for most of the month. Restrictions just add administrative overhead without benefit. (They also make the program more paternalistic and potentially stigmatizing, but that's a different argument.)
There is a new series on Netflix called "Afflicted". Basically just exploring a few different people and their struggles with illnesses that are commonly thought to be all in their head. It's pretty interesting. I think the documentary tries not to draw a conclusion. Some of them definitely appear to be totally psychosymatic. The "electromagnetic sensitivity" (wifi allergy) people in particular.
Boy thats an exciting story, and written from the perspective of such an interesting character! My favorite part of the story is when the protagonist met the gang member.

Some notes: crips didn't really exist in nyc until about 20 years ago, so it might be more believable if you changed the gang member's affiliation (Latin Kings maybe? I think they were around then). Also, no one says "waxed his ass", it makes you sound super corny. Keep at it though, eventually you'll nail that hard-boiled detective thing you're going for :)
What about it? I'm just saying this study has nothing to do with a low carb diet.

They made up their own definition of "low carb", then people who read the results get confused and try to apply the conclusions to actual "low carb" diets.
I know the majority of those who read that study will either ignore it,
dismiss it out of hand, or "study it carefully" and find all sorts of problems
with it, the best to convince themselves that it's not conclusive, or that
it's badly designed and its results can't be trusted, etc.

The truth is, it is extremely hard to accept that something that directly hits
your fabled pleasure centers -like fat, sugar, salt, nicotine, alcohol etc- is
so bad for you it's decreasing the time you have to enjoy it. There is an
extreme form of denial that seizes the human mind when someone tells you "this
thing you really like, it's very bad for you".

Our pleasures are immense sources of bias. Take what your heart
desires with, um, a huge pinch of salt and don't listen to the people who tell
you salt, fat, sugar, smoking, drinking etc are good for you when this
contradicts years of research and hundreds of trials, especialy when the
evidence for keeping your dietary habits unchanged is based on a couple of
studies with poor practices and few participants.
Why? This hits at the heart of startup porn. It's about money. It's only about money. It's only ever been about money. This is a good way to make money so it exists. I'm happy for startups that don't hide behind their capitalist mission.
What if I told you that twitter can have celebrity engagement tooling mastodon can be for people actually talking to other humans, and that these are other use cases artificially slammed together by Facebook and Twitter to try and monetize services that no user asked to monetize.

Sit on your high horse until the heat death of the sun, for all I care. But don't think anyone's not noticing you're posting and talking here instead of on a reddit. There is clearly some benefits to sub-selection and partially isolated communities.
Ageing in human cells successfully reversed in the lab
No one wants to advertise their money making niche ideas, especially if they are easy to copy.
After getting into the guts of unix's typesetting system I decided to use it for my resume. I customized the macros used for online help called man pages. Man pages have a reference across the top which cite the command and section so man itself reads man(1).

My resume read RESUME(8) across the top. One person got the joke. One. I went back to using TeX until everyone refused anything but a word doc. Mostly so they could take your information off and replace it the agency info.
Ten Rules of Good Product Design by CPO of Coinance
Pyramids are probably the most effective to prevent it falling down because of wind gusts

You still have to build a base, which stores no energy, and then plan for different storage amounts in different layers.
I'm also not really sure why apples were singled out here, since they're an example of produce that does last pretty well without refrigeration.
IMO You don't need to specialize on a language or famework, but a problem domain, either technical (eg distributed systems, machine learning) or not (manufacturing, video, etc).

It's better to be a good programmer that's deeply experienced in a domain, then a great scala developer that doesn't understand the domains he's working in.

I'm more in the distributed space so I know elixir and scala very well with actor model and distributed coordination tools in my toolbelt. I'm not the best scala engineer but I can get shit done and it will be correct and work through all of the pathological conditions because I've seen a lot in this area. If you asked me to build a webpage I'd fall apart but I'm good at that specialization and have all of the tools I need to work with the technology I know today, and to build on to learn whatever technology is needed tomorrow (eg I've been working with elixir for a year but I'm extremely proficient at it because of my 6 years of akka experience)
Can someone summarize with an example that shows why this has benefits over React? I read the first few examples and it seems simple enough, but I've bought into the whole JSX benefit and don't see how those first few examples allow me to write less code and code that is closer to the HTML I'll eventually be rendering. Is it the tooling that mithril allows me to forget about? Is it something special that mithril gives me a novice who doesn't realize I'm being held back by using React?
The essence of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock stories (and what makes them clever and recommended reading) is that the answer lies in plain sight.

Holmes does not succeed because he is superhuman (although the stories are not without their action bits), but because he applies himself more fully than others, and prepares and experiments more thoroughly.

Is the number of steps important?

Well, it would be if one were attempting to decide between two suspects, one on crutches and one a runner, and the time of path traversal was known.

But by then, others (notably the ever-mystified Scotland Yard) would have already dismissed stair count as unimportant.

Seemingly insignificant facts in aggregate, my dear
albertgoeswoof, a case do build.
I don't think it's a webm thing, they're broken for me in Chrome and FF as well.
> What is the whole point of that "elevator pitch" if not getting more attention for and grow it so it's not that niche anymore?

I think the idea is that they want to use their unique design to grow lots more niches, not make any one niche bigger.

If Twitter is like Times Square, Mastodon is like Kansas City's town square. Mastodon's plan seems not to grow Kansas City into a Times Square sized competitor -- their plan seems to be to grow 1,000 more new-but-different Kansas City sized town squares.

At least, that's the impression I'm getting from reading the third and fourth header's paragraphs.
It's about concrete's density. Denser means more energy.
Yep.

There are probably lots of HN users who have really nifty side projects but won't disclose it for more or less the reasons you cite.
Now this is quite a challenge - make an AI which mimics human intelligence on MTurk. Profit!
If you dont show someone an ad, that's not discrimination. It's just not advertising to a group of people.
I think that's an awful example. Adam Sanders movies fairly consistently do well on very low budgets, because he consistently delivers a certain recipe: feel-good relatively low brow comedies that don't take themselves very seriously. They are worthwhile exactly because of that - once you've seen a couple you know exactly what you get, and when that is what you feel like it's an easy choice. That makes them extremely 'Netflix friendly' - if you've liked a couple, you're likely to like a lot of them. You don't need to sell them very hard past his name - people who like his movies will watch them when that's what they're in the mood for.
I learned how many steps on the stairs in my house because sometimes I navigate them at night, and don't bother turning the light on. I also count steps when carrying something big and heavy and can't look down.
> disingenuous

By accusing the other side of arguing in bad faith instead of engaging with the other side's central, you concede the argument.

Yes, I'm discussing a hypothetical. But it's one that logically follows from the concrete case under discussion, not something I made up out of thin air.
True. I just don't think we should celebrate these startups.
97.5% maintaining

2.5% building

needless to say I'm not where I began my career anymore as I believe the ratio should be more balanced
On the gammon with pineapple thing - I remember a popular science programme when I was young (Tomorrow's World maybe) about gammon and pineapple. It started with a story from the Second World War about some soldiers in the Pacific theatre, who were stranded in occupied territory, and survived by coming out at night and stealing pineapples from the fields. Apparently all their teeth fell out, and this was not because the sugar in the pineapples had simply rotted their teeth as the soldiers initially thought, but because of enzymes in the pineapples softening their gums. And it is these enzymes that soften meat and make pineapple a great meat tenderiser, and hence a great accompaniment for gammon.
Sorry, but there is really no debate about this study. Their definition of "low-carb" is not the one used by people who are adopting a "low carb" diet, so there is no reason to think their conclusions apply.
Does the admin of your server saying "hey people on other Mastodon servers sure are reporting you a lot, stop doing that shit" count as a "wtf are you thinking posting this crap here" signal?

Because Mastodon has a "report" button, and because of the way Mastodon scales, reports actually get acted on by humans who have a vested interest in keeping their users civil, lest their server get a reputation as That One Server Full Of Jerks and find other admins telling their servers to ignore it entirely.
Mm. Also: it seems just as easy to me for self-driving cars to have exactly the opposite effect on how we view jaywalking -- if the cars are more attentive and more careful than human drivers (or if they will be), then jaywalking could become significantly safer.

Maybe you would discourage it to keep traffic flowing, and I can see how the people writing the software want to make their own lives easier, but as their software gets better it might not be so necessary.

(Cynically, changing pedestrian norms to make the driving task more difficult could also make life better not just for pedestrians but for a company with a technology head-start like Waymo. And it might make driving yourself around more annoying too, which could be good for them.)
Sand and water?
I'm in Cape Town and have had similar ideas. Want to collaborate? If so, hit me up on Gmail. Same username.
I tend to agree. Our brains have evolved to focus on what is important, and to ignore irrelevance. (For example, we are attuned to notice unexpected movement.) We sometimes get that wrong, but the strategy is advantageous.
Chrome has issues with your certificate...
Leaks reveal Nvidia GeForce RTX cards ahead of August 20th event
Many people treat it that way, though. Personally I don't care for LinkedIn, but apparently that's strange behavior.
Scutoid
"User experiences" can also be "improved" by selling the usage data to advertisers for tracking.

How's about "Our site collects usage data to inform us about how our site is used. We use only this data to inform our feature development priorities and we do not share your data with anyone else. Thanks for coming to visit"
https://fitloop.co/

A site I built to teach myself bodyweight fitness (from a routine I found on reddit) -- grew a userbase and built up more detailed tracking, configuration, and usability.

The MRR is a bit hard to calculate right now (since I charge annually), but somewhere in the $500 - $1000 range.

Edit: This app grew from feelings of being stuck / burned out / almost depressed that can come from being in front of the computer too much. I was trying to build another startup out of college from my parents' house, and was having little progress or social interaction. There's been a number of threads about depression on HN recently, I felt the same. I realized I needed to be able to work out, but had no good gym accessible at the time, thus this little project was born (and went on to be more successful than the app I was initially trying to work on).
Except that’s literally illegal in housing.

Yes it makes sense in other contexts, but it should never have been allowed here.

I’m surprised it took this long for them to be sued. Just like job notices they’ve been allowing blatantly illegal ads for a LONG time.
I'm not a user, but I have been watching it (and its related projects on github). I believe Patchwork[0] is the social network you joined, and it is based on scuttlebutt[1].

It seems like very early times for most people even considering the downsides of centralized 'social media,' and it will take time and hand-holding to demonstrate the alternative possibilities. A great client app that could unify the user experience, but offer power-user features could go a long way. Most people that I know (older) are not overtly interested in participating in any public social network (i.e. Twitter).

I wonder if one could build a more closed, private, white-list-default (triple opt-in!) type of social network on top of SSB with the right client software?

[0] "A decentralized messaging and sharing app built on top of Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB)." https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork

[1] "A database of unforgeable append-only feeds, optimized for efficient replication for peer to peer protocols"
https://github.com/ssbc/secure-scuttlebutt
Really difficult to find public restrooms in San Francisco as well. just as a visitor there there were multiple times I needed to use the restroom and it was incredibly difficult to find a business that would let me use the restroom.

Los Angeles has a lot of homeless people as well but there's tons of public restrooms and also businesses are a lot more generous with the restrooms.
I started https://usebx.com/app just under a year ago. We now do a few hundred thousand GBP per month in revenue. Nothing fancy, just a solid accounting and project management app, solid service, and good sales to corporate customers (we look after the smaller customers too, but only actively market to larger corporate clients, where the returns are significantly better).

We've just invested more in the code base to offer more features within our app, but kept things pretty simple at the start. Releasing in a couple of weeks!
Giant multinational corporations are squarely last in the "queue of parties that ought to commit civil disobedience."
Ideas are not worth much. Only execution matters.
You could also use neutrinos for the same reasons and they have the advantage that it's a lot easier to emit them as a beam instead of omnidirectional waves.
Your use of the phrase "it's a start" suggests that further restrictions will follow.
Have you actually tried to watch what Netflix recommends to you or do you just feel like it's bad? I'm definitely in the latter case, but I haven't been trying to prove it.
We live in the Ninny Age where our government protectors have to protect the Sacred Minority. Right dang? It's illegal to think otherwise.
Communication is a red herring; the actual Fermi paradox is why huge sections of the night sky aren't black[0] due to all the stars being enclosed by Dyson spheres. Or, for that matter, why the planet hasn't been eaten by von Neumann swarms yet.

0: technically a uniform dim infrared of waste heat
That's how most dietarey studies are conducted, including ones contradicting this study. It's not that this kind of study is very accurate; but it's nearly impossible to conduct a study of peoples' diet that will be more accurate.
Nope but I have read about some people who have a horrible crackling sound.

I do have one weird issue which seems related to installing the Mojave beta which is the machine will randomly wake up from sleep and play the power connected chime then go back to sleep. Very strange and only started happening when I installed the Mojave beta so I am assuming it is some kind of firmware bug as it is a beta after all.

Other than that this machine is perfect. Keyboard is great and much quieter than the previous butterfly models. Screen is gorgeous and with the addition of True Tone it is even more lovely. I didn't realise just how blue my XPS 15 screen is compared to the MBP. Plus it is almost always silent and stays cool even with a moderate workload. Obviously if I do anything serious it gets warm and the fans kick in but for regular work in IntelliJ and Xcode it is cool and quiet.

I am getting around 10h battery life as well for normal work, about 12 for web/Netflix.
Is that something that actually happens? Do people say "let's run this ad on teenvogue.com"? Don't websites (especially businesses of the scale of WSJ/vogue/etc) get their ads from ad networks?
You have to advocate for new features and upgrades regularly. Management typically likes new stuff if you can convince them they'll benefit, either in terms of a splashy project success, expanded head count, increased budget, etc.

Whenever possible, pawn off maintenance on junior programmers, too.

90% new for me, a very grudging 10% maintenance.
I'd imagine since building codes maximum stair rise has been standardized.

So that, plus a limited number of common ceiling heights, results in a few standard numbers of stairs.

Additionally, building to standards allows you to use interchangeable materials [e.g. 1], decreasing onsite time, which usually directly translates into profit. (Labor is expensive)

It seems reasonable the same has generally been true throughout modern history.

[1] https://www.homedepot.com/p/5-Step-Ground-Contact-Pressure-T...