skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the tip! Will keep that in mind going forward.
It's common in British school to compare and contrast "The Soldier" with "Dulce et Decorum Est".

Personally the poem which had the most impact on me was "Suicide in The Trenches"[0]. Hit me like a tonne of bricks aged about 14, I read it every Rememberence Day now.

[0] https://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~keith/poems/suicide.html
> Doesn't a Fermi problem without domain expertise display more critical thinking and reasoning style, while a Fermi problem with domain expertise is less of a Fermi problem, and more of a knowledge test?

A Fermi problem is both a test of knowledge and a test of reasoning skills. The types of estimates Enrico Fermi was known for were only possible because he had the domain knowledge for his reasoning to leverage. If you remove the domain knowledge from the problem you remove a significant amount of the signal from trying to concoct the estimate. It is a much easier problem if you can just make up numbers rather than infer accurate guesses from the domain.
The crux of the matter is what should constitute sufficient evidence. Is the same level of evidence required for all beliefs? What about things for which there are no evidence, eg value judgements - I believe fairness is more important than freedom (or vice versa). Seems like an impossible standard to need evidence for everything.
The difference is that the lazy evaluation needs to be baked in. There are many scenarios in the nixpkgs code-base where lazy evaluation is used on a not-package level. For example the NixOS module system depends heavily on it.

I haven't used Guix to be able to compare but it saved my life many times. I suspect the advantage for Guix is that it forces things to be better structured.
I guess the alt.left and feminists are busy today flagging the opinions they dont like. Typical one sided liberal debates.
Really what no one wants is a build step that takes forever. I'm more upset about how long nix-env -i takes than what the computational complexity of the programming language is
Some engineers are happy to use the process that works in the company, if that means going with TDD then they do that, but they have no strong feelings either way. That could be a good culture fit!

Some engineers have strong feelings and would prefer not to work in some ways. There are ways to do great engineering without TDD, they may be great engineers, but for a company that practices TDD they may be a poor fit.

To take it to a bit more of an extreme: I like code review. I believe it's a good thing. I want to have my code reviewed and to learn from that, and I want to be able to review my colleagues' code and know that they will take the feedback seriously. I would not work somewhere that did not do code review as I believe it correlates with good engineering practices. In this way, I would be a poor culture fit at somewhere that did not do code review, as I would be pushing to have code reviewed, or wanting to.
A year ago, and jury was undecided

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14459537
Privatisation of Britain’s railways has cost the taxpayer £5bn per year
>Imagine if those “luxury” expenses were intermixed with a dozen other large, more legitimate bills? Apple could be processing $1000s a month per household, taking a hefty fee from some of them.

That's what we need-- another middle man taking a even more off the top of every transaction.
I'll admit I can't really atone for my sins on this, but I genuinely thought GamerGate was about journalistic integrity in gaming journalism. I didn't take place in any of the elaborate social-media campaigns, but I did use the term in some kind of naive attempt at "fighting the SJWs".

I realize how stupid I was at that point, and while I don't think I went "full-on-mysogyny", I was definitely holding a somewhat dated viewpoint which I regret now.
It varies from one company to another.

Responsible managers (and, by extension, companies) don't encourage this kind of behaviour, precisely because when it goes south, it tends to blow up in your face, badly, especially in heavily-regulated fields where legal responsibility is involved.

Irresponsible managers (and, again, companies) encourage this kind of behaviour because they think it better aligns with their business goals somehow.
Okay, thanks.

So in the end, when a consumer wants to replace his iphone 6s that is finally too much out of date he'll have to pay more than if everyone (him included) had bought the iphone that came after the iphone 6s, right ?

So basically selling a product that last too long is a problem for Apple (who has to report to shareholders why revenue is growing less than before) and the consumers (who pays basically more for the same since standard usage between an iphone6s and an iphone7/8 stays the same overall) ?

Apple can't take a drop in revenue growth to the benefit of consumers by selling the next crop of iphone at the same price. So they are condemned to get a more expensive (than the last one) premium iphone out or raise the prices across the line-up. And if I understand correctly they did both, correct ?

That would explain why it seems to me that apple products are getting more expensive and less of a commodity (which high volume would suggest).
Well, I'm not trying to goad a downvote storm. But, having dealt with Apple, getting my China factory approved in the Apple MFi program. In about three months, their terrible and unethical business practices in dealing with their Apple MFI program factories in China, literally made me completely switch my business strategy, and end up telling them to shove it. Blessing in disguise. I'll prefer to build popcorn stands, literally anything, is better than spending our time and resources to be abused by them.
Thanks for posting this! I tend towards the much more conversational interview to get the candidates talking, though this has some handy examples of going beyond the candidates CV and drilling down into the technical details that I'd like to appropriate.

I also have the tendency to take a bunch of whiteboard pens etc into interviews I'm running in case the candidate explains things better using visual aids.
Should we call PANDAS a database?
I don't believe these are "missed opportunities". A true missed opportunity would be, say, Microsoft and the phone market. The train came and went on that because of the network effects of a phone platform putting momentum behind incumbents.

Look at Apple Music. Spotify was released in 2008. Google Play Music All Access in 2013. Apple Music was released in 2015. For being technically 8 years late, APM has 50M subscribers, compared to Spotify's 75M [1] (GPM is probably harder to measure because the subscription is combined with YTP/YTM, I pay for it but literally never use it). If that wasn't impressive, realize that APM is marketed just to Apple users, whereas all those other platforms do everything they can to get users on every platform (APM is available on Windows and Android, though I'd love to see the user counts for those platforms over the competition, likely very low).

Apple Maps and the routers are really weird things to pick on. They're not core at all to Apple's business model. They're fungible products; you can use any mapping software or any router and get 98% of the same experience. Apple simply doesn't invest a lot in fungible products; they invest in products where they can make a true 10x difference for their customers. iCloud Drive is the same way; customers want it so they'll make it, but they're not going to drop $5B developing it.

An Apple TV subscription service is more similar to APM than anything else, with the exception that music streaming services are expected to have "everything" on the platform whereas streaming services just need to host those handful of shows you watch to justify the subscription price. And they might have a great lineup coming up the pipeline here; they've ordered shows from Ronald Moore, a TV adaptation of Foundation, a comedy from the co-creators of Its Always Sunny, a show produced by J.J. Abrams, etc; I think they're in a good place to drop a big announcement and secure a LOT of subscribers. [2]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/careypurcell/2018/05/15/with-50...

[2] https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/07/11/here-are-all-of-t...
Yeah... I really just wanted to translate "monoid in the category of endofunctors" into vocabulary that the average programmer would understand. IMHO the article jumped through a bunch of unnecessary hoops even if you wanted to know what that sentence meant.
WebAuthn is coming. In fact, it's actually already here. There are only two things it needs before it can start to take over the world: a cross-browser, cross-platform implementation with synced credentials, and server-side implementations from a few large companies like Google and Facebook.

A cross-browser, cross-platform implementation with synced credentials will solve the one remaining usability issue WebAuthn has; the need for users to register every device with the site they want to sign up on. It's not acceptable for users to sign up on their PCs and then have to jump through a bunch of hoops to sign in on their phones; and bootstrapping with passwords eliminates many of the benefits of Web Authn.

Implementations from major companies will solve the chicken-egg problem that Troy mentions. Once the system is commonplace, smaller sites will be less hesitant to jump on board with an authentication solution that's different from the password-based one that users are used to.
Keys aren't actually secure at all. Anyone with a lock-pick and a bit of practice can break in. I'd say that's actually about equivalent to a poor password—it's not that secure, but random person off the street won't be able to break in with a snap of the finger.

Yes, with a password on the internet, there are far more possible attackers because you can attempt to break in from anywhere in the world. But that's somewhat beside the point—the standard locks we use on our homes are absolutely about convenience above ideal security. We could use locks that are more difficult to break, or keypads that require you to both turn the key and input a passcode. Most of us don't.
When I was a referee (physics), it was most definitely not considered part of my job. I did it entirely voluntarily, was not paid for it, and no-one at my institution cared whether I chose to do it or not.
With 60% specialty copay its something around 3,000 I month I think. If you become part of their ambassador program they may offer to cover up to ~$16k of those costs per year. Doing that also requires some assistance from the health insurance program to cover it all in a certain way before Humira will cover anything. Took a lot of calls.

Other things I'd recommend: Dedicated medical fridge with internal temp monitors, remote infrared temp gauge to measure package on arrival.

Figures may be a tiny bit off here, going from memory.
> If one retains the traditional perspective, a much disliked but surprisingly defensible position, of the disparate desires of men and women, these results comport well with the presumption.

It's odd though how so often this "traditional" viewpoint is eager to suggest, "These are the preferences of women and their outcomes," when it's suggested women result in a net disadvantage, but is a crisis when men see these outcomes.

An excellent example of this is how a 6-10% wage gap is considered an acceptable outcome of biological differences and choice, but a 10% average difference in primary education among young men is a crisis, with multiple think tanks suggesting society caters too much to young women and that being a young man is "a liability."

This position is so common you can find it represented internationally in both the US and several European nations. It shows up in think tank materials like PraegerU videos and on America's Fox news.

In the context of the paper at hand, it seems particularly poignant how much effort goes to making one case but not the other.
> If someone was arguing that genders are identical

There has been considerable and consistent outcry whenever anyone even hints at the idea that gender disparities could be due to irreconcilable gender differences, rather than disparities resulting from social pressures. Many people have been fired even for suggesting it.
Even before we get to ubiquitous AR (capability), I think the on-device AI tools is a big differentiator. Right now, not so much, but I think public opinion on privacy is shifting a bit with what we're seeing about Facebook, etc.

It's a little like a solution looking for a problem, but it seems like a good bet that we will have some of those problems in the future. I guess more like a solution waiting for a problem?
> If you’re suggesting that we shouldn’t push women into dangerous jobs but it’s okay to push men into them

No I didn't suggest this.

My question was not about energy policies. Let's substitute coal miners for waste collectors (colloquially referred to as garbage men, because 99% of them are male), and ask the question again.

Garbage collection is male dominated -- should we push more women into becoming garbage collectors?
As much as I agree that the process is bullshit, it is no different than studying for an exam, something we took for granted during school, just as a mean to an end (a degree), except that in this case there is arguably a much higher ratio of payoff/effort.

There is no mystery involved, one of the more known books on the subject is "Cracking the Coding Interview", but really there is no mystery to crack.

There is a ton of literature, tools, examples freely available on the Internet, all that is missing is time and effort to go through them and learn them as if it were for an exam.

One of the main objection is "Why I should spend more time in doing something I already do full-time at my job, where I'm perfectly qualified?", but to me it's pointless: if you think getting hired by another company will improve your life significantly (or even marginally), it is something you should definitely put effort into.

At the very least, this process (aside from those lucking out) proves that the candidate is able to understand a non-trivial problem (getting hired) and have the ability and put the effort necessary to solve it (going through the bullshit excercise and questions), as it was in your case.
Sounds a lot like what I hear about google. The internal tooling is second to none. "If you have a problem, 5 people already solved it in a really elegant easy to use way already"

I wish I was working in such an ecosystem. :(
In 4 weeks, I was able to create a data mart that had self-healing (we had issues with Python/events missing data which should have reached the existing data warehouse) and the physical data models in it sped up an existing 6 hour ETL task down to 0.15 seconds AND speed up a production query that took 5 seconds per click down to 0.07 seconds.

No team needed or proof of concepts. Actual working data models, up to date tables + ETL code in production.

Background is DBA.
Nice idea, what did you write the app with?

On Win 10 Chrome the font is Times New Roman which makes the site look a little cheap, but the graphics are cute.
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Make & ninja don't support two key activities:

- Versioning

- Getting the package (the actual URL, deciding if you want the package, determining which variant -- sometimes two packages solve the same dependency, etc.)
> Comcast just recently raised my bill by 15% or so because that's what they do, and I was able to avoid it before paying it. With auto-pay I would have just kept paying the higher rate.

I also disabled autopay for similar reasons. This helped me notice that Comcast had started charging me for a TV tuner that I didn’t have (I don’t have their television service, only internet). It took three months and multiple calls to get that resolved and credited. I might not have remembered to follow-up if I didn’t have to look at the bill each time.
No kidding, just going to [REDACTED] and boom there it is.

With how nasty this guy has been, it's like he's asking for a bad actor to really cause trouble.

I'd be so happy to have anyone file a report like the author did, exposing possible flaws in a platform I operate.
Thanks!
Same here, listened to the first two albums a lot. Had moved on to other genres by the time they released the other albums. When I tried to go back to LP, there were just too many albums to figure out which one to start with. But after doing this analysis, I feel like I should check out Hunting Party since its the closest to the first two albums.
I get it (really!), but balance this against the fact that many companies promote people just for surviving at the company long enough.

I've seen principal engineers (where this was the top of their ladder) that literally couldn't tell me what a hash table is.

For domain experts, Google actually does target domain specific areas (in at least 1 interview) and weigh it against how good people are generally.

However, I suspect most people think they are specialized experts in things they are not.
Thank you. I wanted to write something along the same vein (albeit much less eloquently!) but didn't get the chance.
I completely agree. Apple needs to move into full banking.

Mint, 401k Management, Bill Pay, TAXES, Yahoo Finance, Student Loans, the old Manilla (collecting ALL aggregate statements in one place forever.)

They should buy Schwab, Envestnet, Personal Capital, YNAB, and Motif and slap a Robinhood/Monzo coat of paint on a new frontend. They could go from Apple Pay to Best Banking Experience in the World, in no time. As far as "Services" go apple competes in Music, Health, Maps, Messaging. They dont compete in Backups, Photos, or Banking. I would love for Apple/Google/Facebook to move aggressively against Intuit/TurboTax, if for no other reason to create a more competitive environment.

Imagine Apple getting into LENDING. They have cash up the wazoo. They should be able to determine who is most likely to pay back a loan, and come up with pretty accurate interest rates. And at that point, why is apple just a personal bank, and not a corporate bank as well, fully taking on QuickBooks. And if they dont want to get into business logic programming, become a Financial version of AWS and offer finanance, accounting, and banking APIs as a service, for App Developers to build on top of, like a AWS/Firebase/Pulse meets Chase/WF/Intuit.

I find it VERY odd that none of the big players (Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Samsung, Sony, Facebook, Apple) have done anything more than a Wallet and Money Transfer. Why is Mint/Personal Capital/YNAB not on everyones radar. Why are TurboTax and 401K management not being looked into by ANY of the major tech companys? So many people have a bunch of accounts that need individual management. Make my life easier Apple/Microsoft/Google/Facebook.

Ive outlined this idea before. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12868316

I ALSO think SOMEONE should come up with a "financial ID." Instead of signing into banking sites with "Facebook" or "Google" each one has its own unique login, password, security questions, validation. One Financial ID, isolated from Social IDs could drastically cut down on phishing, hacking etc. Smaller institutions would not be running their own Identity/Trust silos in isolation. Resources to build trust over who is who could be shared. Intuit has something like that for their services, but it really needs to be a Chase/WF/BoA effort like Zelle. "Sign in with your Pony ID"
I think that's a particularly bad example, and I'm sorry you had such a bad experience of startups.

If you had been asked a bunch of questions in your interview that boiled down to "do you like surfing", then you may have "failed" that interview, but that would have been good for you and the company as you ultimately did not have the culture fit they were looking for.

Obviously desire and ability to surf does not correlate with software engineering ability (I assume that's what you applied for?) but things like communication, learning practices, candour, empathy, etc, can correlate highly.
Germany had something similar: a fact-finding committee tried to figure out what to do about NSA and our local spies spying on Germans local and abroad. Pro privacy parliamentarians wanted to rely heavily on Snowden docs, ruling party and anti-privacy required an in-person interview in Germany of Snowden to admit the docs as evidence.

Of course tthey didn't wwant to guarantee Snowdens freedom while here, so that interview never happened and the docs were ignored.

I bet that's going to be the NSAs play here too
Not intolerant, I appreciate the quest for perfection! What the project aims for is ‘considerably better that other ebooks’. If there’s more we can do I’d really love to hear it. Obviously to a certain extent we’re constrained by the limitations of HTML and CSS (i.e. ePub’s internals) but any ideas would be welcome on the SE mailing list or directly to me (robin@reala.net).

Also, and just to check, you didn’t run the epub you downloaded through Calibre first did you? Because that does its own internal conversions that can wreck the formatting (I’ve been bitten by this in the past).

2nd also: what reader hardware / software were you using? It’d be good to double-check there’s not a bug we’re missing that isn’t present with any of the core team’s setups.
It’s available for both iOS and Android. If you visit the page from Android, the button should take you to the Google Play Store.
>Faith in science is not an unreasonable assumption—says me who holds that assumption—but it's faith nonetheless.

Faith is when one acts on a belief without having any rational reason for it. My rational reason for believing in science is simply: it works!
Apple tried that with music [0] - it was disastrous. I do agree it has a lot of the infrastructure and 'network' bit in place though with iCloud, it's just missing the 'social'.

(At least, so it seems from outside the walled garden looking in.)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes_Ping
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As long as they use the same browser on each of those platforms, they're good.

Yes, vendor lock-in is an issue; and I hope eventually there'll be a way to sync credentials across browsers. But keep in mind that, even as things are now, it only locks you to a specific browser, not to a specific OS.