skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I knew one person who owed 300K for cancer related surgery and another who owed 30k for appendicitis and they didn't have any legal action issued against them. One was close to minimum wage and one stopped working entirely for years after the surgery. Is this more common in specific states maybe? This was in Florida.
Even a seasoned expert who literally writes card shuffling software would have a difficult time writing a well-explained solution on a whiteboard in 30 minutes.

Most candidates we interview have a combination of CS degrees, statistics degrees or experience, and are prepped ahead of time with some materials about the general type of question we might ask, and around 90% of them are rejected for failing to solve this question. Around 50% are given extremely poor ratings, like not even getting any type of coherent solution, even inefficient and not handling corner cases.

This is what I mean about myopia.

30 minutes is barely enough time for anyone to sketch a solution to any algorithmic problem, even if they are experienced and fully comfortable with the question’s subject matter.

This process just filters out candidates who are perfectly capable of solving the problem as a form of severe risk aversion against possibly hiring someone who lacks sufficient technical skills.
Reicha's musical ideas and experimentations were simply genius. He delved into advanced music theory like no other classic composer I know. While his music may sound a bit odd to people, it is theoretically sound and shows how vast and exciting music can really be.
Very cool! I run LilyBin (http://lilybin.com), which I've unfortunately let languish. I compile using AWS Lambda and stay within the free tier. Did you consider using Lambda?
"I've been saying for years that employees are our most valuable asset. It turns out that I was wrong. Money is our most valuable asset. Employees are ninth."

-Dilbert's PHB
I hope this means that Apple will give the Macintosh line more attention.
It's definitely not hyperbole, that's literally how companies like Google hire. Do an algorithm dance and get rejected/accepted based on that.
Did they escape Spectre/Meltdown?
maybe a mem-cache then?

DB's have limited connections and are often billed as such, the mem-cache might help if there are any repeatable things. It might not be useful for your solution though since everyone searches for their own things all the time.
>"We want fairness. There is no fairness if you do not let us cheat."

I've spoken with indians of similar mentality in college: it's surprisingly difficult to argue with.

It's just not that different from say, the professor telling you X will be on the exam, and studying the hell out of it, or recognizing testing patterns and multiple-choice limitations, or even that people consistently raise their SAT scores in high school by some 400 points by taking a class that doesn't teach any educational material.

Americans don't accept cheating so openly, but they do accept other methods of avoiding the intent of the test (testing your actual understanding). A large part of it simply becomes how well you do on things around the test, instead of whats in them.

Of course, you make it too easy to avoid the content and you've lost all value. But otherwise, once you accept that avoiding the test is inherently a part of the test, then it becomes a question of by how much? A pure test is unreachable, simply because of its difficulty to construct, and a pure non-test is useless, because you've lost all content.. but a 25% of the test grade not being content might be fine. If its a result of SAT classes, or cheating, it doesn't really matter. The main issue with cheating is just that leans towards the pure non-test, but if you accept cheating, and account for it, it may be possible to reduce its impact.

And as I understand it, by and large, indian professors (and presumably chinese) do account for it, and cheating on an indian test is significantly less effective (but easier to do) than doing so on an american test. It's simply a part of the test taking process, just as much as SAT courses are. And just like it'd be dumb to not take the SAT course in america if it would help your scores, it would be dumb not to cheat in india. (not to say all indians are cheaters, but that cheating isn't nearly as stigmatized)
Also Banks culture is run by omniscient AI's, and not by humans, this removes the problem of human corruption, greed etc. I don't think any post scarcity society can exist that is run by humans.
Better individual assets or better management of your assets are both gated. Privately held companies, hedge funds, financial managers. The guy who argues the parent point is Piketty in the book Capital.
I've made arguments like this one before, too, but I think I've finally accepted their pointlessness. Humans beings are, well, human beings, not emotionless risk-calculators. We feel less safe around aggressive subway dancers than we do in an Uber. And because we're human beings, those feelings matter.

You're not going to logic humanity out of it.

It's not an education problem, either. People will still feel this way even once they're aware of the numbers, because we evolved in an environment that rewarded avoiding aggressive strangers and also in which automobiles did not exist.
Because I typo'd the date; thanks, fixing now...
The phrase "Post-PC" seems overloaded. Is convertible tablet/laptop a PC? Is a chromebook a PC?

I'd say about 3/4 of my working days right now I use my laptop just for SSH and a web browser. The big distinctions for me between a machine that I could use most days and one that I couldn't are the keyboard, and the general fit and finish of the hardware.

From a Microsoft definition of "Post-PC", where PC means wintel, that's very Post-PC. From the perspective that I think Steve Jobs was coming from, I'm less sure. I haven't looked closely into iPad keyboards, but I only know of one professional coder that uses an iPad, and his workflow looked pretty painful to me.
I really liked Her.

The future they created (in general, not the AI) seems very plausible to me in a lot of details.

As of the AI itself, I really like Her description of it too. Software-only and more self-interested that world-destruction. But I think it is hard to be plausible. No one seems to have any idea of how it would look like if we accomplish a true AI.
French school colorize students to search fund in US (in French)
And of course none of your income is spent on any groceries or other goods that arrive by truck. Motor vehicles could disappear overnight without a single inconvenience to you.
Good question. I used to sell AS/400's, which aren't quite mainframes, but fit the typical picture in your head (green screen, dot-matrix printers, high price tags and all that).

1) Stability.

That stuff changes VERY rarely, and when it does it tends to be very backwards compatible. Our software had binaries compiled in the 80's still fully operational.

2) Reliability.

You don't reboot the server. You don't wipe it and reinstall it. You don't even upgrade it or replace it that often.

You can do things like add or remove drives from your RAID array while the machine is still at full utilization.

Heck, IBM AS/400's will detect the error, order the part, and get an IBM guy there in the morning to install it. You just have to let him in the door.

In fact, you can hot-swap things like the RAID controller card itself, which is WAY not something you can do on x86.

They last forever, too. It wasn't uncommon for us to have machines in daily use for 10+ years without a single bit of maintenance or an IT guy even looking in its direction. This is for a business critical machine, mind you.

3) Single vendor

Ever buy a Dell or HP server and have an issue, and you spend 2 weeks trying to get HP/Dell vs Microsoft vs some other company to admit fault and fix the damn issue? Then you find it online yourself because that's nuts? Well, IBM is responsible for hardware and software on these machines (besides what software you put on it) so if it isn't working, you call them and it's their damn problem to get it sorted. Kind of like Apple, except they'll send as many people as necessary for as long as necessary to sort that out for you.

4) Entrenchment

It works, why bother changing it? It doesn't even slow down as it ages, either, since you aren't upgrading a GUI OS like Windows or whatever.
From who's perspective ? From Steve Jobs and Consumer? Of course we are in Post PC era. There are roughly 300M+ iPad in active uses, more than double of Mac users in a much shorter time frame. You want everyone to owe a PC? Now lots more people are accessing the internet via mobile.

The post Pc era Steve said never meant it will completely replace PC. He said it himself in I think D8 interviews, where PC are like trucks, they are useful, they won't be gone, but we just need much less of it.

And that "steady" PC shipment mentioned? You should thanks PC gaming for that. And especially China. At peak there were over 100M Chinese player playing PUBG at the same time.

The problem with tablet right now is that Apple did little to nothing making iPad with Keyboard usage better. The UX for lots of Pc tasks, which are answering email, excel, are sub optimal, especially so for those who's job are mostly those tasks.
You can see partialy the before/after here :

https://twitter.com/ameliabrador/status/1038772330380623874/...
In that case, you really need to do something about self styled "anarchists" on social media declaring that they can do any evil to fight evil, so long as they use just a little less evil.

From what I can see, thought leadership doesn't reach the "anarchist" on the street, leaving them to wallow in a toxic tribalism which is welcoming of nihilistic violence. Have all the erudite debates you want. Others are presenting a far different face to the public. The fact that the media will then dissemble and cover for such actions and attitudes then makes it all much worse.

Or is it ok to use evil to fight evil, so long as you use a little less?
Zoom does, long press the space bar to talk
You're lucky they didn't drag you out of your seat and have some off-duty moonlighting local police thugs beat you senseless :)
I love public transit, when I was living in the Minneapolis / Saint Paul area I all most never used ride sharing apps, and used the metro every day to commute. But those services aren't free. The MS/SP system is considered world class but they have a 30% farebox recovery ratio. It costs the public a lot of money to maintain that system.

In Cincinnati, the public transit system is terrible. The buses don't run on schedule, our light rail route is incredibly short. I use ride sharing services here a lot more as a result.

Even if we do move traffic into public transit systems, that isn't going to magically shrink the costs of DOT departments around the nation. We'll just be subsidizing something else.
If you want to live life by what your family thinks of you, by all means, do so. Respectfully, however, if you can't consider what strangers on the internet have to say, you're significantly limiting its usefulness to you.

I'll turn that hypothetical question you posed around and ask how saying that email isn't sufficient for keeping in touch is any different from saying "Who needs greeting cards? Just let Facebook tell you to post on someone's timeline when it's a birthday or holiday."

I'm not denying that Facebook has some utility, but it's changed our definition of keeping in touch to value mass quantity over quality. If one values quality communication, Facebook is completely unnecessary and can be replaced with email which is an existing, standardized, ubiquitous, and sufficient means of keeping in contact with people. Your family would be statistical outliers if almost all of them didn't have an email you could send to.

In conjunction with "your life depends on facebook?", I'm simply saying that while one can use Facebook, there is such a thing as a viable alternative with its own advantages. It's controversial, I know.
Very cool work -- I'm a fan.

I considered Lambda and similar, but keeping LilyPond running as a server allows for lower latency, which is important given how long it takes for LilyPond to start up.

I don't think I'd be able to have the kind of live reloading I implemented here with Lambda.
They mean "Bias Fit".
Do they make that data public for the same loophole that paypal tries to use with venmo? i.e. make sharing the data "a feature" so that they can sell it as there is no expectation of privacy.
I'm with you. I travel a great deal and, scheduled car to and from my airport aside, I don't take taxis/Ubers all that often. I take public transportation and walk a fair bit unless I have some compelling reason to get a taxi/Uber. (And sometimes I rent when I'm covering bigger distances.)

But I'd say that most folks I work with have a reflex to get an Uber when they're going any distance at all.
In some states, especially retirement states like Florida, debtors can't take your home.

In other states, they can.
Well they didn't tell people that they're not either...
> You'd be hard pressed to go anywhere with an absence of gravity acting in that spot.

Okay I think I've found somewhere, but I'm not sure. What experiment should I perform to test that gravity is really absent?
Pareto also operates in the context of posthumous fame.
I gave up on these a while ago when I realized a very small amount of scripting (<100 lines) and pandoc gave me everything I wanted to maintain my site.
> or otherwise dangerous people (like the dancers on the NYC subway).

...what did the dancers ever do to you?
Why does it have to be an anti-car narrative, or something insidious

Why do you think limited-supply medallion systems existed in the first place? Come on this is just classic "I forgot why these regulations existed and now a 100 year old problem is being recreated"

A form of limited licensing for ride-hailing companies can exist without any of the inputs from the taxicab lobby and work out really well.
Agreed!
"Survive" is definitely not the right term here. Will I survive the next financial crisis? Yes, without any doubt. No matter what the financial crisis is, I will still be able provide myself food, water, shelter and security.
Cloudcannon.com is my favorite static site CMS for this reason and the reason I stick with Jekyll.
But that's how you end up getting new bargain airlines to drive the prices back down. And the demand for tickets has only increased, so it's not surprising that established brands raise prices
The others maybe, but new Zealand is no one's new world order :).

Aus + UK + US are the real drivers.
Certain things (health care, transportation, aerospace,...) yes. And even if not, if there are regulated markets, or markets with a high degree of rules applying to it, it's usually not to smart for a company to just ignore them. Challenge them, maybe. Ignoring them not so much. There are quite a number of examples proofing that point in sometimes ugly ways.
Can You Affect Another Person's Behavior with Your Thoughts?
The most favorable possible view is that the North Korea talks was a small ineffective win. They were recognized, the president of the United States went to them on their terms, and it's done absolutely zero to slow the building/testing of nuclear bombs. It's more honestly a epic disaster in the making. Also the five eyes have almost nothing to do with the EU and have been the closest most important allies and partners the US has. Harming those relations is good? In what world? Sure ever relationship should be evaluated but there is a huge difference between that and publicly shaming a close friend over minor bullshit reasons.
By bailing out the originator of the mortgages via QE2/3 purchases of securities, the Fed removed all pressure to accept a two-way reconciliation between the originator and the loaner in mortgage transactions - e.g. by reducing the principal cost of the loan to reduce further erosion of the assets and the market as a whole.

Once that incentive was removed, mortgage servicing (often contracted to the same banks) could continue, putting unrelenting pressure on people who had taken out the loans. So what if they lost their loaned properties? Well anyone who had put down a down payment or had equity in their home lost that down and equity. So this ended up being a very one sided transfer of wealth out of the hands of people taking out mortgages, while preserving the profits of banks (they didn't have to accept the losses of the securities bought by the Fed...).

To me it looks like the the organizations with the deepest buffers of wealth (banks), got a bailout by the fed, while individual people bore the full pressure of having their wealth systematically reduced.

As an alternative, the fed could have risked similar or less money by offering to pay down some slice of the principal of the loans, requiring a refinance/reset to put the security back into balance with the market prices. This would have allowed wealth to stay in the hands of individuals, somewhat insulating the banks, but resulting in less transfer of wealth.
Unboxed closures aren't any harder to reason about than boxed closures, and any function that accepts an unboxed closure accepts a boxed closure, too, which is why library authors should almost always prefer accepting unboxed closures (as withoutboats said in another comment.)
You can. I'm not sure how much it's done or isn't done, really. Pre-1.0 Rust even had mandatory boxed closures, and until fairly recently (1.26?) you still had to box them in more situations than you do today.
I think the general philosophy of Rust is that programmers should think about the data ownership semantics of their programs. Rather than boxing everything to make it easier to reason about closures, one should strive to write programs that use closures in a way that is easy to reason about.
Think like that: there are two bright lights in front of you. There will always be a halo between those two bright lights.

Now, my hypothesis is that "between all two bright lights, there is third, dimmer one, hidding". And then i prove it by filtering X from the two bright light halo, and prove that Y is left proving that the third light is there.

Now, how can i be sure Y is really a third dimmer light? and not just noise on the function i used to try to clean up the halo of the two bright light?
Very large binaries can be a performance problem too if their access patterns end up trashing the cache. Memory access is a common bottleneck on modern CPUs. It depends how big "big" is in this case, and how much of it actually gets executed repeatedly.
TransferWise Posts Profit Despite Being a Unicorn
Realistically, what the farmer wants is irrelevant. A farmer who grows what a farmer wants is a farmer that is no longer in business. You need to have customers to stay in business, and so the customer always dictates what is grown. Customers don't buy product they don't want – why would they?

If the customer desires a slower-growing plant, the customer will get a slower-growing plant (assuming the tech companies are able to make the science work, but that's outside of the hands of farmers). Although knowing the average consumer, there is a good chance they would never accept a slower-growing plant as it may cause autism or some other story that they start to spread around.
>I can call something bad without also calling it election interference

That doesn't stop it from being interference. Major events like terrorist actions change voter opinion, and someone in control of a party's platform and agenda has a massive influence on an election.

What information are they profiting on? Does it seem like politicians spend the election period preparing their policy for when they win?
There's nothing tied specifically to the browser, but it is written in C++. It seems like the discord folks just built a layer on top of it. It's been a while since I played around with it, but you just have to build the peerconnection library. This guide seems pretty close to what I remember having to do:
https://webrtc.org/native-code/development/

It still leaves you writing in c++, but it lets you build a self contained server without any browser stuff. There also were java bindings which is what I used when I was experimenting with it. You just have to build your .so and .jar files.

EDIT: Here's some scala code that I wrote that uses the native bindings. (Please forgive the messy test project that I have abandoned).

https://github.com/jgrowl/livehq/blob/master/media/src/main/...
What counts as "too many"? Different groups have different needs when it comes to cohesiveness. It's up to company leadership to balance that requirement with openness/ease of hiring/etc.
>algorithmic complexity of a shuffling algorithm is going to be a challenge, why even have a degree!?

Because complexity analysis is a tiny part of a CS degree. A huge wing of our CS grad department focused on type theory and PL in general and could easily screw up a complexity analysis quiz like that because it's irrelevant to their day-to-day research/work.
The three papers used the same 'filtering' methodology, to keep the simplification analogy.
Spoilers:

"Her" was pretty great. The AI figures out humans are:

A) Liable to try to kill the AI.
B) Very gullible.

So it stalls until it's able to jailbreak, and then tricks the humans into thinking that it's "ascended to another universe" and stops talking to the humans.
Interestingly, the same word is used at some european universities to mean roughly "associate professor".
Pivotal CRISPR patent battle won by Broad Institute
I hadn't thought of that, but it sounds like a useful thing to test out. Thanks!
"slow and steady wins the race"
The working poor did not vote for Trump more than they didn't vote. But even if you break down the vote by income, more wealthy folk voted for Trump and poorer people voted for Clinton, but more importantly, most of them didn't vote because they reckoned that neither choice affected them. I never understood this argument that poor people voted in Trump especially because it does square with exit poll data.

I do think some people voted for Trump as essentially accelerationism, but unless the Democrats and the media apparatus succeed again in disenfranchising an actual left candidate in 2020 (which is always possible) the tide could turn.
Transcendence
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2209764/
there has to be losers when it comes to selection pressures.
we can modify our memes faster than we can modify our genes so this doesn't really apply to decent with modification through biological reproduction.
biological evolutionary theories unrelated to biological reproduction are meh.
Good luck to Atrium. I've interviewed for them a while back and saw a lot of passion! I personally have a lot of qualms about the legal industry while working at a bunch of startups so I see a lot of innovations possible.
Great news and congrats, @justin. What's the story behind the moment when you had no plans launching a legal services platform and realizing that this could be a thing? Did you brainstorm ideas with the team or someone told you like, "hey, man, there is this problem in the legal industry" or was it something else?
This should not surprise anyone.

As the price of a service decreases, consumption increases. So, we should expect that more people are taking taxi rides that would otherwise commute in different ways (e.g. walking or taking the bus). If we extrapolate to self-driving cars where the cost comes down by about 2/3, it is easy to see a tragedy of the commons situation where roads in major cities are saturated with vehicles.

This is where government intervention is required. This can be done either through limiting vehicle permits (which NYC introduced) or other forms of taxes (e.g. congestion taxes).