skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Ideal (Data-Driven) Sales Interview [PDF in Viewer]
You can actually do that experiment. What you can't do is, after having gone into the future and read the book, is go back in time with that knowledge intact. And there's a very good reason why you can't:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2014/10/parallel-universes-and-ar...
I don't think the evidence is overwhelming at all.

Free will isn't an illusion so much as a misleading oversimplification of a complex concept.

The traditional philosophical notion of free will assumes a kind of perfectly rational Platonic ideal of a thinking human who carefully weighs all future options before acting.

This is clearly nonsense, and should have been called out as nonsense much earlier in history.

In reality free will is a mash-up of all kinds of influences - rationality, misguided belief, instinct, genetics influencing brain structure and hormonal balance, culture, previous experience - in varying proportions.

They add up to a kind of meta-freedom - not necessarily rational, but not particularly easy to predict or control with any precision.

Your sense of self isn't aware of these influences, but that won't stop you acting with some form of independent agency - and that's still true even if there's a gap between your conscious model of your motivations, and the soup of real motivations that drives you.
Stanford PM Writes Tips for Remote Work
Hey HN,

I'm Jesse and run engineering at Strive (https://www.strive.co).
I've been a long-time HN user (joined Marched, 2008) and joined Strive
about 6 months ago to help people get a fair shot a great career.

We focus on evaluating and placing salespeople using the tools and techniques
that research says are the most indicative of success on the job. You can think
of us like Triplebyte for the 99%.

We all know that technical interviews are flawed. It's rare that the followings things ever really coincide:

1. What we believe we're selecting for
2. What we're in fact selecting for
3. What indicates future performance / success on the job

You won't be surprised to learn that the same is true with salespeople.

We summarized the research and some things we've learned on our own about
screening and salespeople, here: https://www.strive.co/idealsalesinterviewguide.

I thought HN might be interested.
If you're interested, you can search Berkeley EE16A and if you're lucky you'll find the homework assignment (Berkeley's class materials are always open to public). It was like a Jupyter notebook and the "song" was I think random 5 seconds of Universal Declarations of Human Rights, or something like that. I'm writing this in case it helps your search, I'm at work so I don't have time to search it myself. I took this class a while ago and am alumni so my memory is fuzzy about the details of this assignment.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18031714.
This is the equivalent of me announcing a $3 donation to Wikipedia. PR signaling and nothing more.
Mmm, Price? :-)
Volkswagen – detects when your tests are run in a CI server, and makes them pass
This has little to do with anyone's conscience, and more to do with our fear of Kessler syndrome.
Hm Well think about it...for just a moment...if there is something like a "sphere" for senses, one for the chemistry and one for the physics...the funny part maybe 3x(A= >0) ...and yes, there was a comic about ^^
Exactly! Maybe if you listen to the billboard hits you'll always find a match, but IME it rarely matches the songs I actually don't know and can't find details on.
Right, but there's still a very real lawsuit in play, yes? If I were the defendant of that lawsuit, I'd be looking to burn someone to the ground and salt the earth for suing on behalf of an AI.
I think you have a few minutes to delete comments, but as soon as someone replies to you that link goes away.

I think it's a good thing, because often there are good comments in response to downvoted comments. Letting people delete comments would make the discussion hard to follow.
@annielcook thanks for the post! Really helpful guide that I used for my nonprofit IgniteSTEM!
Yes VCs aren’t stupid (well mostly) - they know you won’t be able to hire as many similarly talented/experienced people in Atlanta. Want to hire some ex-faang empoyee? Fogetaboutit.

And what’s in Davis? For all intents and purposes it’s just more expensive Atlanta
Just to note, there are official [1] Python bindings available for Qt and this can usually be installed with `pip install pyside2`.

[1] https://www.qt.io/qt-for-python
Per pixel noise should never be what matters. What matters is how much overall noise is in the image. To put it another way: how noisy are these sensors after you scale their images down to 8 megapixels?
Is that supposed to be the majority of people that make that much money though? I think that's a small minority of people that are billionaires or close to it. When talking about incentives, I don't think most of those are really a huge draw.

And for the philanthropic ones, are you really going to say, "well, I better not stop now, because a few hundred million might not be enough..."?

There are plenty of things that huge amounts of money can be spent on, but I think in most cases those aren't things most people are specifically interested in. At least not enough to ultimately sway their opinion about leaving early.
Bought.
New music Tuesday on Rdio was like Christmas every week. I loved scrolling through the long list of album covers to see what dropped this week. Sampling interesting stuff as I went along.

RIP Rdio.
> Most "full ad-blocking" requires being rooted on an Android device too.

Nope. https://blokada.org/index.html

> And you've obviously not done very much research about what data Apple collects vs Google.

I showed you exactly how Apple collects more data from iOS than Google does from Android. You're trying to Pee-wee Herman your way out of this with an "I know you are but what am I?"

> Google makes you approve all permissions when you install an app without clearly stating what it means. iOS apps have to ask for specific permission the first time they want to use GPS, camera, microphone, etc.

You're wrong — Android also asks for permission at the time the app wants to use a feature. More importantly, this has nothing to do with what data Google or Android collects, which is the whole point of this thread.

> it's not like you can't use Signal.

Moving the goalposts. You can't use Firefox. An SMS app is nearly useless if it can't be set to the default.

> And Google is currently working with the US government on many projects, which has caused many Googlers to quit the company.

Again, not by sharing user data with them, which is the whole point of this discussion.
That is... somewhat terrifying :-S

I wonder if decades ago people felt about barcode the same way I am feeling about this article: unnecessary complication for the given goal?

Favourite quote:
"What convinced us that this is a solution, and we’d want to scale it, is the ability to trace food at the speed of thought"
A browser needs to be trustworthy and transparent; anything that isn't fully Open Source is simply not fit for purpose.

Just use Firefox.
It can be annoyingly difficult to even configure NFS to enable soft-interrupts that actually work.

On one hand it is nice because if your fileserver reboots for some reason you can be reasonably sure that you won't lose data or have truncated/corrupted files, but it's annoying if your fileserver goes down hard then it brings down everything else on the network with it.
Multi-tenancy in a Single-tenant Architecture
We have rules, processes, annual trainings, etc. designed to ensure that sensitive data is only kept for reasonable purposes; that access is granted on a need-to-know basis; and that people consider both ethics and the law in their decisions. I suspect Apple does too.

I have a hard time believing that a company with that rigor intentionally steals trade secrets from one vendor and passes them to another.
>Even on small scales, deceit and conspiracy are rare.

This is incredibly naive and pretty obviously wrong; a lot of big names have gone to jail for fraud and conspiracy, despite being brilliant and having all the money they could spend to protect them. We need look no further than the front page of any newspaper to discover the latest large-scale effort to deceive.
For me, acting as if people possess free will is a conscious decision. When I'm tired, I sometimes slip into my natural mode of thinking of everyone as automatons. I have to choose to believe that people are conscious. I have to remind myself that people are not merely robots, or even if they are, it's self-destructive if I think of them as robots.
THAT is the kind of startup I wish I could work for.
Yeah it was funny, I wrote this after reading about half of the update and saw that quote after the fact, which almost perfectly articulates what I said here (albeit better than me, as is most of his writing)
Quick thing on “vague lingo”.

Vague lingo is currently accepted, among white-collar crime academics, as absolutely the best path forward for reining in corporate behavior.

When you have very specific lingo, it’s extremely easy to circumvent the law. You want to keep the law vague and open so you have lots of maneuver room to prosecute. This assumes you trust the government, which when compared with companies I 97% do. Bruce Schneier’s latest book, “Click Here to Kill”, makes the same point [1].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Click-Here-Kill-Everybody-Hyper-conne...
Yeah, I try to search artists I find on Bandcamp first.

Also, CDBaby and Magnatune are still great sites for their respective niches.

(CDBaby started as a more traditional CD distributor and has moved increasingly into digital distribution, as opposed to Bandcamp starting with digital distribution and moving to physical distribution. Anyway, CDBaby has a larger back catalog of "older" stuff, and still some cases of for instance bands don't have digital distribution rights to their own stuff, but piles of old CDs to sell.)

(Magnatune is a "not evil" record label. So their content is limited to just stuff they've "signed", but it's a beautiful, eclectic mix of stuff. Much of which you'll see reused in small to medium projects such as the videogame Braid's soundtrack, because their licensing has a good spectrum from non-commercial Creative Commons usage to relatively affordable commercial usage.)
How is this different than capturing real trash, minus some extra Δv to match orbits?
Wikimedia salaries: https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salar...
> you need to be a super user to switch roles like that

No need for superuser, only membership to the role that it's going to switch is required. i.e. a `GRANT web_user TO connector`. Besides that, only privilege the connector role requires is LOGIN.
I think some of these businessy folk see real-world examples of boring enterprise-y companies that most developers aren't passionate about as proof that it really is about sales. And I also think that's how you end up with completely tone deaf business-folk based startups like Juicero.

The incumbent/legacy/first mover advantage is the one thing in tech that allows you to overcome better competition. Yes, as a mature company with a large integrated software suite, sales are extremely important. This does not apply to early stage companies.
Material yes. Not necessarily atomic though. Probably electrical since consciousness seems fairly electrical for humans.

Personally, I think the idea that you and I are separate is an illusion we evolved in order to protect ourselves more fiercely and to be more willing to kill.

Without it, you would understand that you are not separate from the rest of the living world,
that your mind is a space where many immortal psychic creatures cross paths.

And part of life is to locate your self, that specific set of crossings, in the world.

So, immortal life just means dissociating from your body and associating with your crossings as they are in the world. (DMT is a dissociative so you can see how it could help.) A fully “enlightened” person will have located a complete, stable set of crossings, dissociated from everything else in their body, and broadcast that message out into the biosphere sufficiently long enough for it to be recorded.

There is more to this picture, involving non-“enlightened” reincarnation, which is something the inverse of those crossings will do at death as a form of rebalancing the consciousnesses disks, like a RAID array.

Most of these things are psychosocial. Believing them is more a matter of believing that you are as much a psychosocial being as you are a physical one.
If the ninth circuit won't overturn it, then it's safe to say no one will.
Evcxr – A REPL for Rust
To expand on that, every single person I know who has actively tried to avoid Chrome, have all been fairly technical, but still somehow been lured into installing Chrome, at least once if not more.
Could someone conceivably build a reference implementation FOSS client and server so that anybody could start their own Uber / Lyft. It would eliminate the friction to get going.
Relevant xkcd: Customer Rewards https://xkcd.com/2006/

But we need another one where they use the data to exploit you.
There can be a lot of confusion about what "fired" means. Most US states have "employment at will," meaning that there is no implied contract, and an employee can be terminated without giving a cause. Yet in the common parlance, "fired" means "terminated with cause." If an employee has been terminated with cause, they know it.

Also, companies avoid the term "layoff" because it could imply that an employee is entitled to be re-hired if business conditions improve. This can be the case in union shops. The term I've heard for a permanent termination without cause is "reduction of force."

Companies have to be careful about using "with cause" because they can get sued over it unless they absolutely have all of their ducks in a row. They will often pay the severance rather than expose themselves to a lawsuit and discovery process. They may also wait until there's a downturn, and get rid of the low performers all at once.

Of course like you say, if there's a contract, it can say anything.
Very sensible that the mutation relates to the dopaminergic activity, just based on our knowledge of the reward pathway and the effect of addictive drugs on dopamine. There may even been a positive feedback loop here, as any viral gene inserted that increases risky, impulsive behavior may also encourage procreation.
Cool resource.

All this discussion made me really question my tube amp (guitar) collection, though.
You practically have to have every bolt be traceable back to the ore the iron for the steel was smelted from (this is only a slight exaggeration). That puts a huge additional cost on every unit shipped. Software is not subject to that. You can certify it once and amortize the cost over a million copies sold. The cost of testing is also much cheaper.
Thanks for sharing this! I'm close (hopefully) to finishing an app using PyQt5 and the fbs library will be super helpful :)
Can't Uber force a driver it has a dispute with to engage in binding arbitration, rather than resolve the case in court, which is typically the entitlement of both parties?
I'm very glad I have a common ("banal") name, I don't want to stand out for the wrong reason. I don't want to come off as uneducated and unemployable (like it or not, and for whatever reason, people with uncommon names are less educated and have lower employment). With a common name I'm noticed and remembered for my personality/attributes and not my name.
> If you're not a founder or investor it's not worth worrying about since .... at what point as an employee do you become complacent enough ...

You are quick to blame the victims for being complacent, and at the same time you don't realize how important it is to know your company's financials when making employment decisions. Just because you can think of some strawman to burn, don't assume you're so much cleverer than everyone else.
Ask HN: Is there a more economical way to do ingress on GKE?
I am currently using the gke loadbalancer, and it is quite frustrating to see my burn rate for ingress nearly match my compute burn, just for two static sites. The key here is reliability, and kubernetes is the easiest way for me to achieve this. In the past, I have not been able to find a way to avoid this cost, and would dearly love to find a better solution that will work simply with the system.
I wonder at what point arbitration is not really an "option". I looked around, the only ISPs in my area all include arbitration clauses. Is it really a choice when the choice is no home internet, or arbitration that eliminates my access to the courts?
>Fair point. Still, a gentleman's agreement between frienemy titans of industry (though illegal) is understandable

What? No it's not understandable. It's wage fixing and is totally immoral; it works against everything a free market is supposed to be. You might as well move to the communist model and have everyone paid $xxx (hyperbole but the point isn't that far off it).
You need to build your own hardware.
That's assuming there's an infinite supply of jobs.

When you're in financial difficulty - say your 0 hour contract doesn't bring enough money to pay the bills - you'll take whatever terms and conditions Uber is giving to you. Because you need to fulfill your basic needs.

I don't think that many Uber drivers are doing it by choice, they just don't talk about it to avoid bumming clients and getting a poor rating.

I'd like the slickness of the Uber app with a bit more ethics and I would be a good client.
Heavy hitter VCs. Suster & Gigi energy . Thx dpaluy
Using the HERE Geocoder API with CURL and Postman
I agree with your lack of motivation because ultimately everything is connected so there cannot be any privacy actually. One thing this means is that privacy is egoity and the ego is a mental fabrication, totally illusory, however of convenience with a body in the world. In other words, don't worry about it. There is an assumption of practical common sense along with this viewpoint. Namely there is no expectation of publicising your credit card numbers, passwords, and the like. Practically it is usually best avoiding social media, minimizing the number of login accounts and often refraining from commenting on websites. In summary, if you really know who you are, there is no danger of being discovered, no danger of being omitted, nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing to keep private, nothing to publicize.
Have you heard of Poe’s law?
5 Easy Ways to Boost Your Open Rates Using Irresistible Pre-Header Text
This is a process that will play out over 80 years. It's not like everybody will be trying to sell tomorrow. Values for affected properties will go down slowly over time.
From https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Roadmap

> Our long-term plan is to:

>

> Incrementally replace components in Firefox with ones written in Rust and shared with Servo

I don't know if they have a date in mind for the delivery of a 100% Rust Firefox, but they're not stopping the initiative.

The page goes on with a list of stuff they planned to add to Servo in 2018, which will eventually go into Firefox.

Edit: fixed the formatting of the quote
I like the tutorial, but I don't know why you would use PyQt these days. Tkinter is more permissive and has wrappers like appJar which make it disgustingly easy to put together a quick, ugly GUI. If you're building a desktop app that needs to really look good and be fast, why are you using Python?
Cool! Let me know if I can help :-)
So much for unalienable.

Cynicism aside, this is a result of freedom of contract right? I'm still not sure how it's enforceable to agree to use a different legal system: if both parties are in the US they can agree to be bound by French law instead? Or a coin toss to resolve disputes?
PySide2 is now out of beta?
The Online Tech Teaching Hustle: My Year with Udemy
This is a good development. Since this is integrated with haveibeenpwned, I'd expect the next step to be integration with Firefox Lockbox [1] and Firefox Sync (with password sync selected). That would be quite helpful – a free password storage/sync app/service that can also monitor and alert users on Lockbox/Firefox (as opposed to having to sign up on Firefox Monitor with every email address that one uses). This is what 1Password did a few months ago, integrating with haveibeenpwned to alert users.

Right now Firefox Lockbox is not available everywhere and is not out on Android yet. That also would need to change fast for this to be adopted widely.

[1]: https://lockbox.firefox.com/
A Message from the CEO of Mozilla: You are overqualified
I have. It outperforms Shazam hands down for this use case. But still very limited.
The thing is, I don't care what will happen when I can't think for myself anymore. If my family, or whoever, wants to think about what I would have wanted... that's not my problem anymore, I'll be out, and as far as I'm concerned they can do whatever they want.
That's why I'd rather not document anything: if I can make the decision, I don't want anyone or anything to make that decision for me, and if I can't, then I don't care.
Coming soon, Pixel will be able to recognize over 1 million individual voices in your area! Using our enormous database of phone calls to your area code and individualized location tracking, you will be able to find out everything about a person simply by holding your phone near their voice!
I lived in Paris for a year, and I'm now working for a big tech company in the US. I can't speak from the VC side of the table, but France has incredibly technically strong graduates (people with technical degrees from the top universities there are all very good) and young people have a very global outlook. Further, there are more and more programs that provide start up funding/locations/tax breaks.

What is missing is an ecosystem to sustain and nurture these companies. The capital in Europe is incredibly conservative and very old fashioned.
Wikipedia has started to become _dare I say_ hostile to outside editors. The current glacial pace that it is updated at maintains pace with science, and journalism. But rarely the larger internet.

While this is frustrating, when your trying to correct a citation or trivial spelling error in a long forgotten page. While on frequently trafficked pages this pace prevents a lot of malicious behavior.
The assumption is that chrome is evil, without justification. Regardless, what about chromium (open source, free)? http://www.chromium.org/
Show HN: Run machine translation experiments, visualize network activations
As someone who works with Windows forms, I'm wondering where the visual designer to place widgets is.
Really? It seems to work for me for all but the most intricate searches. Recently I’ve noticed the first page of google results is getting a bit useless from all the SEO pushing commercial results to the top—ideally I’d want to filter out businesses from results. I don’t see this happening any time soon, unfortunately.

Finally, the quality of search results is mildly subjective the closer you get to “keyword search” and away from “text search”. Google handles this scenario the best interface wise, but quality it seems to have been going down since they introduced the knowledge base—too many unrelated bits of information being pulled in without being asked for.
I appreciate the author of this library to no end. There is something to be said about software being made in jest.
Leaving the Cubicle to Start a $23K/Month Soap Company
Shows how powerful Google's brand still is with the software industry. Company was built on it, and now for at least a decade it's been exploiting that brand power to subvert any/all expectations of control over our data. And frankly we're all to blame for having the wool pulled over us.