skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That does match up with my job search I just completed. I sent out 5 resumes, got an interview on every one where I had a majority of the qualifications, did not get called on the 2 that were more off-target.

But I'm not sure that the sales pitch this article is trying to make is valid. They claim at the end that they'll get you 5.8x more interviews. But is that good? In my 3 interview processes, they each brought to light reasons why it was not a match in one or both directions. The article even touched on that, as candidates will self-screen out of jobs that aren't quite right. It would have been a huge waste of time to expand that to 10-12 interview processes that were not matches. Especially when I didn't end up taking a job even from the ones that went well, and re-joined an old team instead.

The screening that happens in the hiring process can feel frustrating when you really need a job, but I appreciate being screened out when it would not have worked anyway. It saves everyone time, and hopefully puts me in a healthy long-term role that will last for years.
I think anybody that would say this is very likely completely right about it, despite their age.
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I've always considered the "increasing disorder" definition of entropy to be a simple analogy that most people can relate to in their everyday lives, not necessarily a formal definition. Indeed I would be interested to know if you can even formally define order vs. disorder since it seems to require a subjective observer. For example the universe doesn't consider a glass sitting on the table to be "more ordered" than one that has shattered on the floor. It's just like, our opinion man.

But even if you use the order vs. disorder analogy, it's arguable that the universe was close to perfectly ordered right after the big bang. After all it was a pretty smooth and uniform distribution of matter/energy at some point, and that seems more ordered to me than what we have now with all these random clumps of star junk everywhere :)

Anyway I like to consider entropy as the amount of usable energy in a system. A whole glass has more energy to release (e.g. by shattering) than a shattered one does. Maybe this is the formal definition of order vs. disorder?
Species go extinct all the time, and always have since the beginning of life.
Amazon's homegrown Graviton processor was very nearly an AMD Arm CPU
There are many, many species of mosquitoes. Just a few of the species carry malaria. If you kill those species, they will quickly be replaced by the other species in the ecosystem. There would be no negative effect on the ecosystem and countless lives would be saved.
I find that very frustrating. When a person is looking for a job he or she is stressed out already, and when reading all those huge qualification criteria you sometimes really feel like a total loser, not knowing anything at all. It's really important to still try and send a CV and go to an interview with a positive attitude, willing to learn that is. But I'd really like to see some reasonable hiring criteria, so you can know for sure that you have what they're looking for.
> traffic that would be removed from the roads (and by extension, the pollution)

I don't understand how any pollution would be removed, just because it's now in tunnels doesn't equal it being gone.

Wouldn't it just be blasted back out through the ventilation system? Or were there plans to build some kind of "pollution scrubbing" into those?
The hyperloop has proven to be absolute bullshit, just like knowledgeable engineers predicted at the time it was announced. Which is part of my dislike of him, all the dishonest hype, and the hordes of online defenders like yourself that just talk about the marketing vision but not about the engineering.
> The terminal couldn't do that as it wouldn't know the difference between a user typing `cat lena.png` into Bash from typing the same sequence of characters into vim (for example).

This is not what I am talking about. I mean the binary headers inside png, jpg, tiff files, etc. These binary sequences can be easily interpreted as terminal control sequences, and they are very unlikely to appear otherwise. For pnm files I agree that the situation is a bit more delicate, as these sequences are likely to appear in the wild (e.g., in the pnm man page for example).
> This is Verily, not Google, owned by Alphabet.

That's a minor distinction without a difference in the public's mind. Alphabet == Google unless you care an unusual amount about that corporation's org charts.
I meant comfortable as in knowing exactly how to solve something, instead of first having to read and debug through (legacy) code for 1-2 days everytime you touch some new area of the application.

For me personally the worst unsecurity is not knowing where to put new code, without messing up some architectural separation that I'm not aware of.
I've been hearing about this. What are the chances of resistance developing? In Australia, the introduction of myxomatosis almost wiped out rabbits, but sure enough they developed resistance and now it's just an endemic disease on par with smallpox.

If the mosquitoes are all raised in a lab environment, and they are not descended from mosquitoes from areas that have been subject to this control, I feel like the risk would be significantly mitigated.
What would he have you do if you have a world-altering idea? A company is still the best vehicle for seeing it actually change the world.
> For the former it's mostly that I don't see what he's bringing to the table.

He's trying to build mass transit using sewer tunnel boring machines and sewer tunnel cost structures. It's not "hard" innovation but innovation it is.

Now he's trying to find out if sewer tunnel sized mass transit requires the same level of environmental assessment as mass transit or as sewer tunnels...
PREEEEEEECH!
> ‘matchAll’ looks great but why make it an iterator vs a ‘map’ style callback?

Because that makes it significantly easier to e.g. optionally collect into an array, or to only partially iterate the sequence (e.g. only get the first 3 matches) which is painful to impossible using JS's callbacks. An iterator is simply more flexible.
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This is most likely the reason. One of the requirements for an H2B visa is that an in-country hire isn't possible. And you make that impossible by asking for impossible requirements. You may have seen these as experience requirements in 5+ years technology that has only existed for 2-3 years.
Sure thing. He didn't write an article and doesn't have a plan on how NOT to eliminate all the mosquitoes around the world. That makes him a bad person who doesn't think enough about things.
Once you get to that point, absolutely, I can see the value.

But, counterpoint - I've seen Docker being a gateway to that sort of mess, too. It tears down a lot of the barriers that might have otherwise made it inconvenient to add more technologies to the stack, and some developers just can't help themselves in that department. One fairly new commercial offering I evaluated, which is distributed as a Docker-compose stack, was using 4 different databases. That's just crazy - now their dev team needs to understand the behavior and idiosyncrasies of 4 different data storage technologies, and their clients will end up needing to deal with blowback from all that excess complexity, too.
>or just allow more people to travel.

Which is an increase in quality of life for those who would have otherwise forgone those trips. Either way it's a win.

Whether it's a big enough win to be worth the cost is a perpetual debate with projects like this.
Yep, CEBIT got rather boring when all relevant stuff was already known from Web sites.
I have only seen this in practice once at a little hedge fund called Bridgewater. It sounds like you are making assumptions of what you think the testing is without any frame of reference.

Also, anger is an emotion opposed to a personality designation.
I think that Dunning-Kruger effect in interviews is a very real problem going the other way too.

I worry that the questions that I only ask questions of candidates that I think are important and that I already know the answer too.

If you're looking for good hires you're going to want people who know stuff you don't and finding that out is tricky because of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Racism is in practice a somewhat different idea ("I don't like brown people / I don't like people from Africa / I don't like muslims or what I think are muslims") from race-segregation ("DOB 4.5.1971, race hispanic"), which is something found in legislation (but is also a racist concept, obviously). You are of course correct that racism is at least somewhat widespread in most countries. The latter concept on the other hand is pretty much exclusive to the US at this point.
I don't think this is true. i work with a people who are CRISPR experts, what's happening in cambridge (not boston) is legit and local.
How is this new from solutions that others have already proposed? And what business does an ad company have in getting into this?
It's the perception, I've personally been passed on for jobs I would have been amazing at because I don't have any FAANG experience.

Startup founders looking for VC money want to be able to add "Team of ex-Google, ..." to their pitch.
And that is why libraries are closing.
This JavaScript library popped up recently here: https://areknawo.github.io/Rex
There was never a good reason to install a root certificate for the purpose of speaking securely to your own gear or web services. In that case, you don't need to add them to the root trust store, you just need to create an SSL context that has those certificates set as trusted.

However, the problem is, nobody understands SSL properly. Among the people who don't understand SSL properly is, alas, a number of people writing SSL libraries. Not the actual SSL libraries like OpenSSL, but all the surrounding libraries to make it "easy to use", which includes libraries that try to make HTTP easy to use and abstract the difference between HTTP and HTTPS. Pretty much every "ease of use" library I have ever seen accomplishes its ease of use by dropping features from the underlying SSL support, but it's clear they often don't understand why those features were there and the consequences of dropping them.

I have a particular case where I've got some Perl code that is literally 4 levels deep in "SSL ease of use" code, with pretty much every layer dropping SSL features along the way (even the base level Net::SSLeay is missing a lot of stuff once you go beyond the basics, and it only gets worse as the stack gets higher). Once I had to poke support for a certain feature all the way down through the entire stack because it got dropped really early.

So what you need to do in this case is create your own root store of trust, and then stick your own certs in there from some .pems or something, and then use that to initialize SSL on your connection. But it's complicated to do that at the base level of a lot of SSL libraries, and this is often one of the first features to be "abstracted away" by support libraries, and a lot of HTTP libraries end up trying to "abstract away" SSL so thoroughly that they don't even have parameters to control the SSL elements of the connection, and if they do, they have some ad-hoc selection of random bits that someone once needed, rather than comprehensive support.

The upshot is that I'd consider it likely that they were using one of these libraries, and the only way they could see to get their certificates trusted was to stick them in the default root store, because that's the only thing that would work with such libraries. You can also find web pages and such recommending this approach. It's also possible they just came across one of these web pages or something and put stuff in the root without realizing what it really meant, even though their library allowed them to do everything I said, because it's way easier to slam something into the default trust store than write the code to create your own at run time. (It ought to be easy to write that code. The rather nice Go TLS library makes it almost as easy as I say it is; create cert store, add certificate, set that as your root trust, modulo a bit of error handling it really is just about that many lines of code. But the "ease of use" libraries can really get in the way, when the people adding the "ease of use" abstractions themselves don't understand what that means, or why you might want/need it, or how to make it easy.)
These mosquitoes are non-native in the areas they are being removed. Can you walk us through the "disastrous" consequences of removing them. Why is introducing non-native wildlife OK, but removing nonnative species not OK?
I'd make the opposite claim.
That's impossible. Look at the Nest thermostat - trying to learn when people will be home. It doesn't work beccause most people live messy, noisy lives.

Even I don't know when I'm going to bed until just before I do so. I might go upstairs to brush my teeth, but then go back down to play more video games.

I might go into the bedroom to pick up a book - doesn't mean I'm going to sleep.

The idea of predictive analysis of human behaviour is almost nonsense. Even if it weren't, a quick shout to a robot, or a tap on a button, is quicker and cheaper.
Yup. Of the 3,500 species of mosquitoes, only ~200 suck human blood. And Google is only targeting a couple of species.
Find someone who has experience starting a company and try to start a company together.
You can call them anti-Trump as well.
And they have to serve jail time in Russia, btw.
If it works, they can sell it to governments I assume.
Coupling it with the smart alarm, instead of defining wake time strict would be nice next step.
What makes regular expressions in most languages not "regular"? Is there a standard from which they deviate?
I wonder how Klingon compares. I once read an amicus brief with a substantial amount of Klingon.
Could I draw your attention to iTunes for Windows?
It's very different. They are literally different companies with different mission statements. Just because you don't want to take the time to understand, being content to become outraged whenever you read a specific six letters in sequence, doesn't mean everyone else should, or that you should contribute to FUD.
Sigh, I knew before clicking that the comments would all be low effort "ho ho - but unintended consequences!" snark. Yes, everyone knows about that risk.

At least two points are important: they're not eliminating all mosquitoes, just aedes aegypti, which are the disease carrying ones, and there's a huge opportunity cost in not doing something here. There's always the risk of unintended consequences, but you really have to have extremely severe ones in order to offset the known cost of this species of mosquitoes.

I'm actually very interested in hearing concrete ideas of what the unintended consequences could be and their cost, from actual experts.
Electric blankets don't have timers to turn on. My understanding is that UL won't certify them as it's a perceived fire hazard.
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This is really interesting because I've worked on Wall Street as well and I know exactly what you mean but have never really been able to articulate the difference you've just pointed out. Working on Wall Street I had lots of male friends, not just colleagues. For the most part I felt included and was treated as competent. I also dealt with a fair amount of sexual harassment. Most of it was under the guise of joking/"locker room talk" that I just ignored. Sometimes, particularly from the older men, it was more physical and made me feel very uncomfortable.

The allegations against Google actually really caught me off guard because, in my experience, a lot of men in Silicon Valley seem like they're almost too... progressive (if that's the right word) to overtly harass their female peers the way men on Wall Street sometimes do. On the other hand I really struggle with inclusion in tech in a way that I never did in finance. I often feel dismissed by my tech colleagues. Both personally and professionally. Experiencing that sort of divide is much more difficult to explain and, to your point, much more difficult for me to navigate. Not to diminish women who have been sexually harassed at work, I'm one of them, but this silent divide takes a much bigger toll on me personally.

Thank you for pointing it out.
Well, no. People are trying to draw a functional distinction between two types of libraries that isn't really there.

First, old-fashioned academic libraries existed; later, public lending libraries existed, but only because various people noticed that the existence of academic libraries was a good thing thing that should be more widely accessible to people outside academia and/or religious institutions. At no point has the purpose of public lending libraries been to provide the community centre and entertainment resource that some people want them to be.
Again, this is Verily [0], not an ad company.

[0] https://verily.com/
That's pretty nifty. I did look at a cron - but I'm often out of the house and don't want the energy being wasted.

I'm curious how you cope in that situation? Just SSH in a temporarily stop it?
I strongly dislike restaurants for their extreme noise levels and rarely manage to sit in one for longer than an hour without getting agitated.

There are few restaurants I know that allow us to be seated in quiet areas and/or that are much more quiet due to their design, and those are the restaurants that I'll visit often.
What if said critic is a paedophile or he had a valid reason to believe it such as being told it by lots of locals? If someone is a paedophile, I think to call them it, should be perfectly acceptable.
I think you are referring to where I mentioned a large file copied second time. That is cached in RAM (I have 6GB) and not in L2. I think it's pretty clear from the context that I was emphasizing disk IO is not involved which was your main point of concern.
Not exhaustive but https://waxy.org/2018/11/a-tribute-to-youtube-annotations/
I get what you mean and it's a case by case basis, if people didn't try and push any morals we would all live in vacuums where all we have is the law to tell us what is _right_.

A lot of people have no problem with their countries governments manufacturing and/or selling arms to dictatorships that inflict harm on innocents and supply extremists e.g. UK-Saudi arms trading. As far as some are concerned the UK is just doing what another country may do instead.
Changing the ecosystem can have ripple effects that we cannot foresee due to our limited knowledge. The so called butterfly effect. Throughout history there are plenty of cases of humans changing the ecosystem with disastrous consequences for local wildlife.

Case in point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbits_in_Australia

I don't know if exterminating mosquitoes will be good or bad for us. What I am saying is that we've got far bigger problems to solve first and in this case priorities do matter. What if exterminating mosquitoes will also exterminate various bird species? Well, some people might be willing to pay that price, but thinking of the butterfly effect, this being in the context of global warming and human driven mass extinction of animals, so can we really afford to exterminate animal species right now? And I think the answer to that question is no.

So eliminating mosquito might be a great idea, but I hope the people responsible for it will do their homework.
What does it even mean, to have experienced “more” than anyone else? How do you compare raising a child to starting a company to performing as a top level athlete to losing a parent to ...

Mathematically minded nerds tend to forget that not everything in life can be turned into set theory :)
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This is a direct consequence of how food service employees are paid in the U.S. They have an income of next to nothing and depend on tips.
Tips do not play such a large part in (most? all?) of Europe and are smaller than in the U.S., so customers that stay longer mean less work without too much pay reduction.
At least that is my pet theory. I only visit the U.S. every couple of years and this year I noticed that the "standard" tip crept up to 15%-20% instead of the 10%-15% that I remember. Seems that employers are paying food service workers even less of a wage than before.
I don’t find the problem of creating a company to be an interesting benchmark of discussion.

Why aren’t we talking about creating ethical companies and how to make it easier for companies to not seek to be corrupt, or set up barriers to corruption that are more verifiably not manipulable by those already with wealth or power?

I can’t see how any other angle of discussion about creating companies can be worth anyone’s time until that is better sorted.
Google isn't targeting anything, but yes, Verily is targeting ones non-native to the area.
Most companies could save a lot of money and have similar results just by taking a random resume, verifying that the person can legally work the position and hiring them - don't even read the resume, much interview. If you cannot show your hiring process produces better than the above why are you doing it.
I mean to some degree videos that don't show up in search results and aren't linked anywhere are basically none existant anyway. I don't know why a site like youtube still serves videos like that. Youtube could remove at least 20% of their videos and not affect almost any users, but I don't know if it will ever come to that. The math is just absurd considering the amount of storage that youtube will have to serve 10, 20 years from now.
Open sourcing it.
But backrefs are super useful though. I think it was a mistake to conflate what developers actually want, a DSL to detect the shape of data and extract portions of it, and the implementation detail of basing such a thing on regular languages.
iTunes for Windows is hot garbage
" Too little autonomy for employees results in disinterest, while too much leads to poor decisions."

The author appears to confuse autonomy with a lack of feedback mechanisms. Economies are based on a vast number of autonomous agents (independent organizations) who are selected for survival via market feedback (prices) and the long term trend in these has been towards ever greater agent granularity (vertical disintegration).
I could see a situation where several rival pineapple growers supply several rival pineapple retailers where they are not sure who should control the data store but where there would be an advantage to having an auditable record. If they lie, the recipient of the iffy pineapples could go hassle the supplier.

Not sure about the virtues of signed public database/logs vs blockchains.