skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was once accused by a Windows C++ programmer who just couldn't grok UNIX to be a "string cutter", but honestly, there is nothing so viscerally information technology as extract-transform-load. The irony of his accusation was that it was just one of many facets of things that I do and can/know how to do. ETL is really the core of IT by definition.
Have you tried putting your burger back at the plate and lift it up again?
> I mean it's simple and clean and everything... but doesn't fit the subject of the site nor the use case or the targeted user base

I believe it does; the targeted user base is the group of people who're tired of the on-line shopping experience being rotten to the core. Also, this site is pretty much a collection of articles, that happen to be shopping recommendations.
> Stop being obtuse, it's not like the first guy specifically said "The U3 unemployment rate".

Are you seriously trying to insist that he could possibly have meant anything other than U3? The common meaning of 'unemployment rate' is U3. Google 'current unemployment rate' right now, and Google will tell you 3.7. Aka U3.

> The point he was making though can be made even if the OP was referencing U3 which is if the fundamentals are looking better for employees (Which can be inferred from improving U3 numbers) then why are we seeing higher homelessness?

Because the population looking for work and the population falling into homelessness are not the same population! Which is exactly the point I was making about U3. There is a massive population that has left the workforce completely, many of them are subsisting on disability or some other unknown way. It is highly likely that those people are the ones primarily falling into homelessness.
Maybe it’s a problem with translation? “Limited” comes with negative connotation, as in “you can’t do as much as the other, non-limited guy”. Maybe you wanted to say “minimal” instead? s-expression based syntax is as powerful as it gets, as it allows to concisely represent any AST.
> They want to be who they believe they should be, which, at least based on the 6 metrics I see in the paper, seems to be generally nicer people.

My impression is that there is a lot more social pressure on women to be nice in western countries and especially united states. To the point that expectation is sometimes that women dont swear etc. I dont think I encountered that in Slavic countries that much despite them being less equal overall - the expected differences are elsewhere. The whole women and niceness issues sounded to me like crazy talk, until I learned more about western culture and spend more time in it at which point it started to make sense.

The other thing is that I was personally the most like stereotype when I was stay at home with kids - and I was most unhappy during that time despite it being "choice". It seemed from outside I am choosing stereotypical things, but it was mostly adaptation to situation that looks good and sucked in ways that are hard to explain. Everyone chooses similar friends, but I was not alone in that.

Similarly the least happy women I knew were wifes of well paid men (googlers) who effectively had to stay at home for social/practical reasons (she earned less and it was easier to organize kids/life this way). It was their choice, but primary topic was depression despite seemingly having zero problems in life.
What he means is regulatory inflation, not the monetary one. A few years later, the customer threshold would be amended to a few thousands, ten years later, the thresholds would be abolished.
A lot of "homeless" people are actually "people suffering mental illness who haven't had adequate treatment".

It seems crazy to you to think that somebody giving you a free bus ticket out of town isn't serious about your not being able to return... but to a mentally ill human being it's not so cut and dry.
> Why anchor it to sunrise instead of solar noon?

Our circadian rhythms sync to the day/night cycle, which is sensed by changes in light levels. Sunrise is a major driver of that, and so syncing our schedule to sunrise works out well biologically for us.

If the day is synced to solar noon, so that the time we need to wake up relative to sunrise changes throughout the year, then we may need to work to keep circadian rhythms synced to our schedule. For parts of the year where our wake up time is significantly after sunrise, we may need to block sunlight from our sleeping rooms. For parts of the year where we need to well before sunrise, we may need to have bright lights with the appropriate spectrum go off when it is time to wake up.
Drum memory [1] and hard disks [2] have been used in nuclear tipped missiles, which are supposed to operate in an environment where EMPs are expected. Both types use magnetism for storing data.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASC-15 (Titan II)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-17B (Minuteman I) (note that the hard drive was used as RAM)
Basically every flashlight app on Google Play contains adware or malware and wants non-negotiable (thanks, Google) access to my contact list and files and network. Same with many task managers and qr code scanners and other random little apps and utilities.

Fuck that. I'll install Uber and an IM client or two, but that's it. No more "that looks like it might be cool" apps for me. I've said this before - the app ecosystem on Android is like software on Windows circa 2000.

I don't know what the story is in Apple-land, but Google did this to themselves, and they deserve the oncoming fallout. Google Play has been a neglected disaster for years.
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The problem is that there is almost no correlation between how candidates do in whiteboard interviews, and the ability to perform the job on a day to day basis.

Also, and the article says it: you are being tested mostly for personality compatibility with the interviewer, which again has nothing to do with the ability to perform the job.

This plus the fact that the interviewers are volunteers, creates overtime an effect where lots of people in the workforce have similar personality traits, which is not a great thing because it creates an imbalance in the normal personality balance that a group needs to work properly.

Personality imbalances in groups usually lead to dysfunctional situations over time: too many sloppy people who just cowboy code until dawn, too many excessively cautious people that won't touch a line of code any more with fear of breaking something, etc.
I suspect all large company interview systems are about ensuring you have a large sunk cost of effort in the ‘debit’ column so that you’ll be pleased to accept substandard terms if you get to the end point.

Much the same as the student degree systems with its non-defaultable loans designed to keep you firmly in the rat race with no time to question whether three hour commutes and twelve hour days are a sensible way to organise a society.

The singular most useful skill anybody can master in IT or any other profession is the ability to write off a loss and not let it worry you.
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This might prevent Apple from eavesdropping on your microphone.
Spring has for some time solved this by using a bon with set versions of each library.
Works great in Maven, and with Gradle via a plugin:
https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/ht...
Equality of opportunities and equality of outcomes are incompatible as long as the source groups differ in any meaningful way, even "just" in preferences, which is a very big factor in choice of profession. In order to get equality of outcomes, you would need to enforce inequality of opportunities.
Just open it in a private window.
But then I had to use the Nix language. And that was a great displeasure, and I ended giving up NixOS all together because of this one pain point.

Could you articulate why? I have only been using Nix for ~3 months, but so far I do not really have qualms with the Nix language. Maybe it is because I have written a fair bit of Haskell before.

(Of course, I understand the argument that it would have been more comfortable if an existing language like Scheme was used.)

My biggest concern for Guix is that they will restrict the available packages by being overly zealous a bout package-licensing (like everything the FSF does).

Same here. When I got interested in NixOS/GuixSD I seriously considered using GuixSD, because Scheme is more familiar. But there are just some proprietary packages that I need for work (Skype) and at home. I didn't really feel like having to rely on third-party repositories, etc.
This is a very Western centric point of view. Even if most of the RN like apps become "good enough" there will be a market for those apps that want to differentiate with the sluggish good enough apps.
Do you (and the company) try to find new ways to interviews such that e.g. mid-career candidates don't need to practice in advance?

The current interview process at Google and probably at other companies as well seems to be frozen in time - one needs to be a fresh grad or prepare weeks/months in advance or be "into" competitive/sports programming, which in most cases has nothing to do with the daily job.

So no plans to have a fresh look on this?

Or maybe you keep these practices (and other companies follow) so that it is harder for engineers to change jobs easily?
They shouldn't, but they do because understanding a little bit of mathematics is at a premium these days and it's very much in vogue to crap all over computer science majors even though we had the same kind of mathematics curriculum as they at the university.
Do you mean you don't know anyone personally who tries to push this idea? If so, neither do I. If, on the other hand, you mean you have not heard of anyone pushing this idea you have not visited a university, heard a political discussion, read a newspaper, turned on a (modern equivalent of a) radio or (modern equivalent of a) television. It might also be that you live in a country which has thus far been freed of this nonsense in which case I can only congratulate you and urge you to make sure it never gets a foothold. Let men be men, women be women and let them decide for themselves how they want to be, act, think and do without any ideologues trying to steer them this or that way. Let boys be boys and girls be girls without telling them they make the wrong choices if they want to engage in 'gender-stereotypical' play.
It's funny, at around the 32 minute mark Gates even touches on 'free information publishing', which seems to surprise the journalists. This 'free information publishing' would later replace his Encarta, which was costing ~$30m alone to translate.

What a great video! It's fascinating to see the perspectives on the media, content, advertising, etc, in contrast to our current ad-driven world.
On many Russian websites (including some pirate online libraries where you can read/download books for free) one can find a message saying "if you find something misspelled please select it and press Ctrl+Enter to report". I have never used this facility as I'm hardly too literate in Russian and have never found anything looking like a mistake on such sites (perhaps because others have already reported all the mistakes) but it feels odd I've never seen anything like that on non-Russian websites.
You listed 5 categories, 4 of which are defined in relation to the well known binary classification. Intersex and asexual are well understood variations of that classification system.

In a nutshell, I'm saying your 5th scientific category of "make shit up" would be more accurate for a broader subset than your framing would tend to suggest.

It's a little like the concept of Newtonian gravity, which was made obsolete by Einstein's Theory of Relativity, yet we still use mathematical formula based on that for calculations here on earth because it's sufficient to that scenario and less work. Theory of Relativity calculations matter for interplanetary travel. Using Newtonian formulae would get you very off course in a basically deadly fashion.

For many situations, male and female are broadly sufficient mental models. Where they aren't, they can be actively harmful. But the fact that higher levels of accuracy are frequently not needed doesn't mean they are actually true anymore than using Newtonian math here on earth makes Newtonian physics not obsolete in a post Einstein world.
Absolutely. Self reported data like this is nearly worthless in a serious discussion about policies and their consequences.
> The system is _highly_ prejudiced towards suppressing false positives

I wonder if the algorithm centric interview style at Google can really achieve that. From my experience, algorithm centric questions + plus white board coding have bias towards academic people. (Maybe that’s fine for google) However, the way to crack that kind of interview is really just practice like hell on leetcode. Just take a minute and think, who are most motivated in doing that? Good, experienced engineers have no trouble finding jobs in Bay Area, and why would they waste their time on leetcode for skills that are mostly going to be useless in real work? New grads and engineers that have trouble finding jobs are most likely to spend hell of their time on leetcode. I think the interview style at Google is in fact increasing false positives instead of suppressing it. It also has high false negative for sure.

There are tons of other ways of doing interviews, in which interviewer gets a lot more and very relevant signals from candidates while keeping candidates pressure low, and not wasting their time, but Google is not doing it, like asking practical questions, letting candidates write and test their code in their own computers, has a debug session, etc.
You can implement synchronized in a couple of lines in Swift, thanks to trailing lambdas.
Only as much as the parent's argument was a non-sequitur argument.

Parent mentioned startups with lim -> 1 million users unable to comply. If they can't find VC money at the million user stage, then perhaps they didn't have a viable model in the first place.

(Plus, where all these I mentioned "VC funded" from the first user? If not, the argument holds for them too).
I generally take the view that any time you are dealing with a biological system, whether it be a single cell or the global economy, should you find yourself in a quandary where you are wondering if something is caused by this thing or that thing (nature/nurture being the classic), the answer is nearly always both, plus a whole bunch of some other stuff you hadn't even begun to consider. Biology is horrendously complex and messy, and anything built on biology is even messier.
I got interested in this back when California was having blackouts because the power industry managed to convince the legislature that a totally free market with an auction every half hour was the way to run the power grid.
I wanted to see how other places did it. PJM has a "day ahead" market and a backup spot market, so generating stations mostly know what tomorrow will be like. California now has something similar.

PJM has online training courses. Taking "PJM 101" is worth it to get a sense of how the market system and the actual operation interact.
A few hours and you know more about the power grid than 99% of the population, but less than any PJM employee or energy trader.

One of my interests is how market-based systems fail. They're feedback systems with delays. Some of the delays are short; others are measured in years. A point I make regularly is that such systems have no guarantee of stability. In short-term energy markets, the consequences of this are immediate, because there is not much inventory in electricity.
This looks excellent. Is it intended to be integrated with other Node libs? I.e. can I use it as an express middleware somehow, or is it explicitly intended as a standalone thing - more like Nginx-but-configured-with-JS-instead-of-a-weird-custom-language? I can see value in the latter too, but I'm curious about the motivation here.
This seems like a highly optimistic, happy path description of a nigh-impossible process. Testing for leadership in an hour long interview one-on-one? Yeah right. Sounds like a way of hitting your talking point of "we hire for great leadership!" Don't get me wrong, what they say they are trying to hire sounds great, and I think they think they are trying to find those things, but I'm highly skeptical of both the process and effectiveness. Any large corporation has a problem with diffused goals. If you are a small business owner, you interview and have direct skin in the game. You might do a bad job, but you are close to the metal in terms of what you think you are hiring for, and you get the results of your choices. If you personally believe you can spot a leader, then maybe you can, great. But a large company that puts out talking points about hiring great leaders and team players probably can't even elucidate what that would mean (especially when the team member isn't interviewing, so you go for the generic common denominator and average blandness, with no real idea of what it means in particular), and if they can then I'm skeptical they are finding it-- there's a limited number of great leaders around and they typically aren't interested in doing the grunt work of maintaining an obscure cog in an obscure system in perpetuity, reporting to a faceless committee so they can make more ad revenue. You usually find great leaders somewhere more exciting and independent, it's the nature of the beast.
The thing is that people are no nearer to understanding why it was that this spying on the general public had to happen.

Capitalism - and any other system - has to have bogeymen and terrorism as a fear, the thinking being that anything outside the system is a fate worse than death and therefore the system, in this case capitalism as we know it is better than the alternatives. We all know there aren't any 'al-qaeda' terrorists really, it certainly is not necessary to monitor everyone's phone just because of that.

Going through the courts to discern whether these Stasi style systems were/are constitutional or not is noble and good on the EFF for doing these things. However we have not acknowledged why these things had to happen, we still go along with the 'al-qaeda terrorist fear' meme.

The point of surveillance and letting everyone know that they are under surveillance is to stop people communicating in a way tantamount to dissent. The Catholic Church and the Stasi had these things in place, not to root out protestants or Western spies, it was always to keep people in line with their system of rule. When it comes to our own Western surveillance we somehow believe the authorities that it is to catch the terrorists, a noble cause that nobody could possibly argue with. Yet really it is to keep people in line and not dissenting.

In the Bush years the powers-that-be were genuinely concerned they might have a Berlin Wall moment where people just see through the lies and decide not to stand shoulder to shoulder waving flags.

Their fears were seriously unfounded though, people really were deeply wedded to the system to the point of being indoctrinated and brainwashed. No matter how feeble the phantom enemy was people went along with it, it sold newspapers and meant people didn't even dream of getting organised in some revolutionary way. Occupy Wall Street was about it, a very damp squib.

Whether the details of the mass surveillance infrastructure were technically constitutional or not does not answer the bigger question regarding what the Bush government were so scared of.
Do you need it in two days?

AliExpress isn't for everything - it's for when you can wait two months and don't care about quality.
That would actually be a really awesome name!!!
Isn't choosing to sub in 20 just helping you build more on an unstable foundation?

1 - how can you be sure the method implementation is the same? That there aren't side effects you don't know about. (I don't think you can!)

2 - when it emerges that B2 really does need 25 what are you going to do? IMO it would be better to resolve this earlier than later.
This is clearly a dependent type, as it implies checking on values.

This is a value.
No, I assume that certain past trends are based on things more than oppression, e.g. gender differences.
Not that expensive: https://ebay.us/G7Jk1S

I have not bought from that seller, but they have sold 765 of them, with 100% positive feedback.
>What I am trying to say is that it was a convergent decision to buy from a single manufacturer (although perhaps cost-driven), rather than a decision to, in order to reduce costs, have only one manufacturer.

Isn't the end-result the same?
On certain forums that allow signatures people are putting links to their companies/projects or affiliate links, etc. This disrupts the flow of conversation in pretty much the way you describe.

It was (maybe still is) particularly annoying on Bitcoin forums for example, where signatures can contain images.
People tried to crowdsource curation, and this is how we ended up with Amazon reviews being gamed to death.

Real people having a real opinion backed by their own reputation may be "web 1.0", but it works.
I recommend Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent by Peter Godfrey-Smith.

A great read, reflecting on an Octopus "city" which was briefly established around some sea bottom clump.

The stories about how Octopuses escape routinely from enclosures in marine parks are fascinating.

(I realize this is off-beam from a story fundamentally about cross-species friendship, but I do think this book goes to a lot of questions around what another kind/form of intelligence might look like, if we were of a mind to look for it)
> ridership is down from its peak

Because Metro's reputation suffered when operations couldn't keep up with rising ridership. What will prevent Metro's operations from suffering again when an influx of Amazon employees stresses the system again? Would it be better if those workers got onto the already-jammed freeways?

> against the prevailing flow

Only if they board the trains between the downtown core and Crystal City. Odds are, if they're boarding from the northwest or from newly gentrified neighborhoods, they need to pass through the downtown core to get to Crystal City, which puts them on the same trains as people commuting in from the suburbs. They may get on pretty close to where the suburban commuters get off, but there's still an overlap. Not to mention the overcrowding on the downtown core platforms themselves. Keep in mind as well that Crystal City-bound trains from the downtown core stop at the Pentagon first, which has its own non-negligible share of commuters - those trains may not be full, but they sure aren't empty.
I don't follow how that would do that.

And in fact there's no need for explicit animosity by the failed interviewee. Someone who misunderstands a question badly enough to call it a brainteaser when it isn't is also likely to have performed badly on it.