skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How long would you estimate it takes to search your question, find the result and read the answer? I think it's optimistic to think it can be done in a minute if you actually time it.

100*1 minute is an hour and 40 minutes. That is not a trivial portion of the work day. Even if it were 30 seconds that's still almost an hour.

If that is truly a micro optimization then I shudder to think of the waste elsewhere.
I'm going to go against the grain and say that interview feedback is overrated (at least for senior people). If you got offered the job, then there's your feedback. If not, the interviewing company isn't going to tell you any more than you could already discern yourself by playing back your answers and conversations with the interviewers. If you honestly feel you aced the interview, then other factors are in play - perhaps they realized they are overstaffed, layoffs are imminent/hiring freezes, or just a slightly better and more personable candidate came along.

One time I interviewed for a position that I wanted badly. I studied and prepped for the interview, then during the interview I nailed every question. I waited a week but never heard back. After a few weeks of silence and giving up hope, I searched the company on LinkedIn, and found the person they hired for the position. It turns out he had more backend experience, which is what they were looking for. It was a painful truth, but them sending me a rejection email telling me this wouldn't have helped me at all.
Yes, and early in my career I was a technical sales person for a product I built... paired with a pure sales person.

I don’t mean to say there was no value to his skills— but I am saying that it was not hard for me to understand enough about sales to hire a good sales person.

They would of course be a better sales person than me.

The problem is people think your CEO should be a sales person and that’s s mistake.

Sales is a process that’s easy to replicate.

Creating a novel software application isn’t.

Ate hnicwl CEO can hire a great chief sales guy. A non-technical CEO can’t hire a CTO and often ends up undermining the product.

I would have no problem being hands off with the sales department.

I have yet to meet a Non technical CEO who doesn’t think he knows how to design products.
How I acquired my first 10 customers for my side-project
How to print an electric motor
> Why are you asking questions about relational databases?

Why wouldn't you ask questions about relational databases? I would expect any decent dev to know the fundamentals of relational databases.
What do you mean by "secure facilities"? Yes, currently the nuclear waste is in intermediate storage facilities. Which are buildings, with an useful life time of 50 years. Unless a nuclear technology for reusing or processing the waste appears, we are talking about safe storage for thousands of years.
At less than a gram per lens, there's only so much damage those are going to do. I looked it up, we're talking about 23 tons worth of lenses for the US. A lot, but it pales in comparison to other stuff we do to the environment. Like traditional batteries for example, which we're talking about replacing with something bio degradable.
Google Play's TOS generally prohibit apps that install APK. This is why apps like F-droid, Amazon(full-featured variant), getChromium, Amaze, etc. aren't available on Google Play.
Even considering the cartridges, vaping is much less impactful as far as littering. Even one small juul pod replaces at least a pack worth of butts. With time less wasteful designs can certainly catch on.
Netflix is not a user. The end customer is. Flipping this on its head, so that it sounds like the "super heavy users" are the businesses, is an anti-net-neutrality talking point. Don't fall for it.

Businesses such as Netflix enter peering arrangements to build out network infrastructure and server farms close to where the customer demand is. It's customers who are driving this, because the ISPs would lose them otherwise.
- Your account was created 8 minutes ago

- defending some press release coming out of Russia.

How is the weather today in Moscow ?
The redesign looks fine. Most people, seeing the log, will never have visited a Library as they fade into obscurity beyond obsolescence. It's good to get ahead and set up the idea that it is THE Library.
If they come to me for basic stuff, I tell them to go research it on their own. I'm not going to regurgitate wikipedia if they haven't put in some effort.

At some point, we need to start demanding basic technical competence from the people around software developers.

Otherwise, people will just be interrupting you all day and how much have we collectively written about that problem?
That’s what I’m thinking.

A large investment in a potentially very large future customer.

Would Boeing invest money in an autonomous flight project by Southwest Airlines in hopes of locking in a Boeing 737 only fleet?
I'd say there's certainly a lot more to take away from this article then just that. It is a specific example for how Riot may inadvertently be harming their culture through blindspots management may not realize. It demonstrates how personal values collide with leadership and the challenges of standing by our values. Most importantly, it highlights how people are affected and hurt in this kind of environment.
It'll be interesting to see if YC adds language prohibiting such arrangements to the experiment contract. It could be that $25k is all the capital needed to start a small business. Maybe YC itself could offer it as an alternative: larger monthly payment or smaller lump sum?
Hacker News is in a big part responsible for the success of my Open Source project.

I posted a screenshot with a one line caption on Reddit one evening then went to bed. The next morning, I noticed that my project had a lot of stars (it went from like 10 to 500 overnight) and I noticed that the numbers kept going up every time I refreshed the page. Then I found out that all the traffic was coming from news.ycombinator.com (not Reddit as I was thinking).

When I got to work that morning, I asked my colleague what Hacker News was and I told him about my GitHub stars. He was shocked when he saw my project on the front page on HN. By his face I understood that it was like winning the lottery.

My open source project is still doing well almost 5 years later so I can say that it was a really big deal in my case. Getting all those GitHub stars helped to create trust at the beginning and gain adoption.
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Second best? At least in my experience, OSM data is leaps and bounds better than Google Maps in every way possible, and it has been that way for a couple years now. The reason that I still use Google maps is that it's fast and well-integrated with my phone, and it has a lot of added features on top of the actual mapping that makes it very useful --- things like location sharing when you're on a longer road trip, creating a notification on your phone to route to an address from your browser, live traffic information, road closures, and business reviews. In terms of the actual data, though, the details available on OSM puts Google's data to shame.

I've been trying to get Google to fix an incorrect path drawn at a state park that I frequent. I've submitted an alternative route twice now, but it's been denied twice with little explanation. The path is a loop, but Google has it missing half of the loop, off by an eighth of a mile or so, and has it drawn where it cuts through private property. In contrast, OSM's data is completely spot on with what my GPS shows.

The park is in a tourist area, and I go to this park often enough that I've actually ran into multiple people visiting who have been standing on the trail with Google Maps open on their phone, thinking they've made a wrong turn.

I've experienced the same thing at GNP in Montana, BWCA in Minnesota/Canada, and all along the Richardson Highway in Alaska. If you're in a rural area or on public land, OSM data is the best available --- even better than what a ranger station would sell you.
Aren't free-market capitalism and net neutrality inherently at odds with each other? My general understanding of HN culture is that it is generally capitalist and generally pro net neutrality. Could someone who finds themselves in both of these general categories explain their position?
I wish they had invested 500 million into buying a self-driving startup or something instead. Or just opening up a new AI branch for Toyota / Lexus. It's not like people en masse are driving around in self driving cars while asleep at the wheel yet so the race for self-driving is still a turtle race. They have the resources imho to do great things, maybe they're afraid after the software issues where cars would keep accelerating, but that shouldn't stop them from getting in on the game.

Ah well, I'm nobody anyway, just a guy hungry to see tech companies compete and see less of tech being monopolized between a few companies.
To be honest I didn't think my comment would get that much attention - and if I did I would've worded it a bit more gently. I think the framework that you've built around this product is really, really, really impressive (the virality and interactivity, for example). But I also think it's a very hard problem that you've set out to tackle. I alluded to it a bit elsewhere in this thread, but there hasn't been nearly as much work put into audio signal learning as there has been photographic signal learning. I'm really excited to see what else can be done, and I'm happy to see that someone is trying to do it. I wish you the best of luck

(But I'm also hoping that this doesn't further dilute the music industry by making music "production" even easier. Pop music is already "algorithmically solved", and other genres aren't as unique as any fan would like to think.)
I suspect a lot of my feeling of whether these people are good or crazy comes down to whether they can contextualize their questions. Most of the questions I get asked are for code I would veto in a PR because there are battle tested alternatives.

I’ve been trying to do something about that when it’s my turn to ask interview questions. For instance, too many front end people struggle with basic data manipulation workflows. I want to virtue signal that it’s better to move this kind of logic to the backend, but I need to test them anyway.

So I create a plausible scenario, maybe this is a POC to see if it’s worth sort or grouping functionality to the backend.
I think you're missing my point. Qualifying candidates based on relational database skill is not a problem; if it's something they'll be expected to do on the job, you should evaluate their ability. I'm saying the kind of Socratic interview alluded to in this article isn't the best way to accomplish that.
> Expecting people to pair off to have a decent place is essentially expecting a polite form of prostitution.

What it really boils down to is that an average middle class family in the past had a full-time housekeeper. Typically, those housekeepers were single women. Nowadays, that same demographic group has kids of their own. I wouldn’t call it prostitution so much as pragmatism.
An email would've at least saved your time spent in LinkedIn search. And what if the new employee wasn't on LinkedIn?
If you come to me for basic stuff every time without effort on your own part, you're not likely a good fit for the team.
It's only logical that management raises money when money is cheap. That way the company has extra breathing room to survive and pivot if necessary. And if it turns out they don't need the cash, they can always just return it to investors.
Toyota plays closer to their vests, so I'm not sure we even know enough about what they have.

I suppose I should clarify since I was downvoted, Forbes wrote a story "what Ubers crash tells us about Japan's silent strategy for driverless cars"

"it illustrates a very important distinction between how U.S. and Japanese companies are approaching the research and deployment of autonomous vehicles.

Japanese firms have maintained a much lower profile in autonomous vehicles than their American counterparts, and many outside the industry assume this lack of publicity is a sign of lagging technology. Speaking with several industry leaders, however, makes it clear that this is not the case.

"While American firms have been grabbing the headlines, Japanese firms have been making steady progress behind the scenes. The fact that they have been less anxious to promote that progress outside of Japan is more a reflection of go-to-market strategy than the state of the underlying technology.""
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Sure, but very different. Mapping requires real-world operations, such as driving cars and taking pictures around the entire world, and doing it again and again.

This is far more cost-intensive, both in upfront as in maintenance, than the translation problem.

Software is easy. The real world is hard.
Google does not have the best base map info. OSM may well be the best global base map, actually. Google's advantage is their applications that use the data.
If I understand correctly from this post on dba [1], HAVING without GROUP BY would have the same effect as WHERE. Seems like they were just being pedantic for no good reason.

[1] https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/57445/use-of-having-...
Docker and Kubernetes are not the same thing and solve different issues.

Containerization (Docker, in this case) packages up dependencies into a working piece of code that can theoretically be deployed with the same operational results in dev, staging and production. It can be very useful if multiple services have dependencies that would otherwise conflict with each other if all installed on the same base operating system. Containers are faster to start up than virtual machines and can have less overhead. Their images are typically smaller than their VM counterparts. Most folks don't likely need the default overlay network it creates and can simply use --net=host to treat their container as yet another service.

Kubernetes is orchestration of containers / services and overlay networks. It certainly can be overly complex and should only be used if your application can be wrapped up in that layer of orchestration. One size does not fit all. In other words, taking a complex set of applications from your IT org and throwing them into K8's can be non trivial and can lead to complexity / fragility as a service. You have to research this topic completely and first understand your goals of how you are going to tie all your services together.
1. Skimfeed
2. CNN
I don't like the logo, but let's take into account that this is supposed to be a identity system and they are designing a logo that is extremely flexible in service of such system.

The identity in this case will not come just from the logo or the colors or a rigid manual that says what pantone codes to use and how many `x` should be around the logo (where x is the dot of the i or whatever) which everybody will ignore anyway. This identity seems to be designed to be misuse-proof.

We're used to the logo being the centerpiece of an identity system but this "flexible identity" trend has the order of priorities backwards.
Google has effectively mandated everyone implement force-push software updating for all software everywhere, under their 7-day "this is a nice piece of software you've got here, I'd hate to see something bad happen to it" disclosure policy.

Google is throwing their weight around to dictate their philosophy on software to the entire industry. It's just good for us that it's debatable whether this particular edict is in everyone's interest, not just google's. Not all that reassuring about Alphabet in general, tho.
You're right. But Audi (with BMW and Daimler) acquired the only provider that can compete against Google Maps in completeness and accuracy. Traditional car makers work in their own ways, which might look outdated from the typical point of view on HN (and justly so). It's pretty hard to estimate how far they've reached.
My read: Once Waymo has released re-usable tech, Toyota will install that on its cars, and Uber will facilitate the dispatch - And that Uber won't do this with another car vendor for X years (in the deal)
For some people it is the most natural thing in the world.
> it's a direct result of the centralization of capital in the hands of corporations.

We need a progressive tax on corporate revenue (ex > 100M 0.1%, >250M 0.3%, >500M 0.5%) so companies have to pay more if they use economies of scale to consolidate power. It should be more expensive to be big.
Why did Prolog lose steam?
Could you please elaborate on the point?
How we can improve?

What potential problems do you see?

Thanks
Really? Is there a replacement?
Sure! It's an objective work-sample process if you can say these things about the challenge:

* It's the same for all candidates.

* It captures facets of the work as it is done on the actual job.

* It's objectively evaluated (ideally, it has a rubric established a priori, such that results can be evaluated by someone other than the person who proctors the challenge).

It's possible to devise work-sample challenges that assess communication skills. I have friends who've done it at their companies for customer service and sales roles. I'm saying, the process described in this blog post does not appear to be that.
I hope this is the strategy instead of Toyota wanting to use Uber on their cars as the main source of AI. To this day Uber hasn't done anything to impress me and probably most people. Their corporate culture doesn't help either.
Sending it on the browser version on Chrome, it shows very briefly the decorated "click me", but in less than a second, it changes back to the literal version
Regardless of the outcome of the YC UBI Experiment, I applaud YC’s effort.

It’s great to see a private company trying to influence public policy through privately funded, transparent, data driven experimentation.

Instead of traditional money driven lobbying(now called non market activity in business school) which I abhor.
Curious, what makes you claim that?
The biggest immediate benefit I think docker has:

The ability to rapidly enable local testing for dev teams (and new hires).

Imagine you have a team implementing a mysql infrastructure but it won't be done for 2 months. The developers need to start coding using this mysql infrastructure ASAP.

Using Docker, you can just pull a mysql image and have your dev teams develop locally using this image as their app's backend.

You could also deploy that mysql image onto a dev server - now you have instantly enabled the dev teams to start working against an infrastructure that won't be ready for another 2 months.
Social rules
> But generally speaking, no, the $1000 would be considered tax-free as for all intents and purposes, it's a gift from the coffers of government's treasury.

If the income is truly universal (i.e., not means tested), then it will almost certainly be taxed so that higher income individuals pay back a higher percentage of the income.
The first step is to not call science what isn’t science. Social sciences is a heavily politicised field which is more akin to journalism than anything else. It doesn’t mean it is not interesting but it does not carry the authority of hard sciences.

Medecine is more problematic. Many studies are at the border of statistical significance but it is impossible to conduct large scale experiments with humans, so it’s not like if we have a better alternative.
> Because of the high cost of housing across the US, a single childless person cannot live on $1000/month in many places. There are cities where rent on a one bedroom apartment is nearly $1000/month.

Let me correct that for you: a single, childless person cannot maintain a lower-middle class living standard on $1000/month. If you start giving up amenities, you can live on less money. You don't need cable TV, nor do you need to have a budget for eating out. Of course, the two single biggest savings you can do are a) move to a lower cost of living area and b) get a roommate or two. Half the rent of a 2-bedroom apartment is going to be about 50-60% the rent of a one-bedroom apartment.

Basic income shouldn't be targeted to ensuring that people can afford to bum around on no income in a high-cost of living area. If you want to live in a high-cost location, you should secure the income to live there.
Our HR asked me to personally call people and thank them for their declined application.

But at the same time requested to not give any feedback because of fear from litigation. Sad world.
>For any arbitrary paper, what is your assumption about its accuracy?

From what I've seen in academia, it varies depending on a number of variables, like who wrote the paper and whether their results help or hurt my research.

Scientists are human, after all. And in my discipline, it was rare that the paper would have enough concrete details to replicate, so this way of thinking was the norm.
Indeed, many people are, for one reason or another, unable to drive, especially elderly. My grandparents were, and soon my parents will be, facing this in Sweden. Even with its comparatively awesome public transportation (Sweden also has services that provide subsidized transportation to elderly so they can go to the grocery store, etc.), isolation is still an issue unless you live in an urban area. In the U.S. it has to be next to impossible.
Yeah SigOpt clearly has taken the space left by Whetlab. They must not be too pleased about this announcement, I mean generally the worst thing that can happen to your startup is a tech giant launching in your space. Then again the problem of hyperparameter/black-box optimization is so ubiquitous that there should be enough space for them both.
So just spell out the whole thing. Just say High Bandwidth Memory. Leave out the inscrutable TLA.
Very few people internally to Apple cared about DTrace, and the person who was primarily responsible for evangelizing it left that particular role years ago. DTrace support has been slowly degrading over time (to the point that Apple has ended up shipping DTrace scripts on the system that do nothing but spew errors if you try and use them, as the probes changed and nobody updated the scripts).

It's a shame, because DTrace is cool and very powerful, but it seems almost nobody bothered to actually learn how to use it or cared about supporting it.
Uh... what? Net Neutrality doesn't prevent ISPs from charging different rates for different speeds. They did that during the existence of the rule.

It prevents ISPs from charging you based on which sites you can access. Without NN an ISP can charge you $5/month extra if you want to access Hacker News, $10/month to access Netflix, and an extra $20/month to access Netflix at speeds that aren't effectively crippled. It can flat out refuse to serve you a website.
I hope it doesn't need an Internet connection for that.
> Second best? At least in my experience, OSM data is leaps and bounds better than Google Maps in every way possible, and it has been that way for a couple years now.

I'm sure that, for whatever product in the world, you can find a subset of people in the world who will swear that such product is, in they experience, the best in the world.
>YMMV but I spend a LOT of time communicating difficult concepts to other engineers (not only mentoring juniors, but also just doing hand-offs and stuff to others), to product managers, sales people etc.

This is a good use of time though. You won't find this on wikipedia, obviously, and is not considered basic technical information.

This is what I want to spend my time explaining.