skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I might pull the couch cushions, but I'm not going to start moving furniture until I check other places first.
I know I'm focusing on one small part of your post - but don't forget that guaranteed income could enable folks to live in places with very low cost of living, but little to no economy where that wasn't previously possible for them without guaranteed income
> Most reasonable people would agree that the FDA is a net positive.

A 1974 study by University of Chicago economist Sam Peltzman concluded that since 1962 the new rules had reduced the rate of introduction of effective new drugs significantly—from an average of forty-three annually in the decade before the amendments to just sixteen annually in the ten years afterward.

... The severest criticism leveled at the drug lag is that without access to a drug available elsewhere, seriously ill patients will suffer or even die. Peltzman raised the subject in his 1974 study. He noted pharmacologist William Wardell's estimate that because the relatively safe hypnotic drug nitrazepam was not cleared for use in the United States until 1971, five years after it was available in Britain, more than 3,700 Americans may have died from less safe sedatives and hypnotics. After earning the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1988, U.S. drug researcher George Hitchings of Burroughs Wellcome Company said of an antileukemia drug he helped develop before the 1962 amendments: "We went from synthesis to the commercial drug in three years. That is absolutely impossible today."

http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc1/DrugLag.html

At this rate, the benefits of FDA regulation relative to that in foreign countries could reasonably be put at some 5,000 casualties per decade, or 10,000 per decade for worst-case scenarios. In comparison, it has been argued above that the cost of FDA delay can be estimated at anywhere from 21,000 to 120,000 lives per decade. These figures would seem to support the conclusion that the costs of post—1962 regulation outweigh benefits by a wide margin, similar to Peltzman's results of a 4:1 cost-benefit ratio for the 1962 amendments.

"The Safety and Efficacy of New Drug Approval", https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/feb9/53ab293f24a14b3b3d4b74...
I am in the middle of this right now and enjoying it immensely.
The point seems to be "apply to the frosted side".
Do you get arrested for sending videos of the Falklands or writing blogs critical of Winston Churchill?
> People just expect to be paid top dollar on their word.

And their education, previous employment, etc.

No one makes a neuro-surgeon perform a surgery before hiring them.
...economies of scale.

The other thing is local carrying capacity. A small herd might not have anything done to the manure, and through the wonders of bacteria and fungi not harm local streams at all. Once the operation is big enough to more closely resemble a Kansas feedlot, that shit's toxic waste.
Right, first place would be ebay.de, .fr, .it, .co.uk..
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I’ve been banging this drum for a while, but to me it’s clear as day: the company that cracks this and makes the process described within easier and monetizable will be the next unicorn.

People are starving for ownership of a one-to-many communication address (which email is designed for, but has not been well executed by email clients since email has been seen first as business/office tech).
(no, I don't wonder why because I know why's that. Spoiler: Not women's fault.)

You discount another's account, and with no additional information, you can miraculously assume what the underlying information is. That's going one better than Sherlock, who actually infers from evidence. In my lifetime, I've found that this kind of conclusion jumping is one of the most reliable indicators of bigotry. However we don't need to jump to any conclusions here. In this case, you just up and state what it is you're doing.

Spoiler: Not women's fault.

It's not a good idea to assume things about people based on their immutable characteristics. (Isn't there a technical term for assuming women are innocent, just because they're women?)

That sort of bigotry was done to me as a child, based on my race. At the time, I thought it was cool. Now, I realize that counter factual muddling which separates someone from the consequences of their merits or faults diminishes their humanity. Don't put people up on pedestals. Deal with them as human beings.
Would you want to work with someone who's just a warm body that claims to have experience in the field? Especially in such a high paying field where any random is highly incentivized to just pretend they know how to make software even if they can't pass fizzbuzz?

Clearly interviews are flawed. But I've worked with warm bodies hired through h1b-abuse programs and no matter how much they claim to know about something, a lot of them are just bullshiters. I would never want to work at a place where people with their level of skills could join the regular teams as peers.

I see whiteboarding simply as a logical statistical filtering mechanism. Do they filter out people that are lazy or have difficult personalities? No. But at the difficulty level of places like Google they filter out people who are really bad at programming (which there are a lot of) every single time. They also happen to filter out people who are good at programming too, but enough pass the whiteboarding that the organization can hire to meet their needs, so they don't care that maybe applicant X didn't pass. High false negative rate, low false positive rate
If you don't want to make yourself more productive to make yourself worth more and try to stay at what you're being paid for, that's your option.

I don't understand why you don't to become a more productive person then you may get a better job offer or start your own company where you and your customers will be the one to evaluate your worth instead of a single boss of yours.
You think people that pass technical interviews can’t be false positives?

I think they weed out a few, but completely ignore practical development skills, work ethic, soft skills, design and architecture skills, etc.

Of course maybe this explains why most of the big tech companies have seemed pretty stagnant for the last decade, largely failing with products and decisions that have poor execution and market fit outside of the products that made them big in the first place.

Has anyone actually studied the best way to hire devs? Like a real, independent study that measured and compared results across, perhaps, a wide array of metrics?
yes this is why frosting or mirror coating should be on the inside[secure] surface of the glass.
There is no "deep understanding" of BFS. All it is is look at your siblings before your children.

I wouldn't hire an electrical engineer who complained that he shouldn't have to know Ohm's Law, either.
This assumes that FB is harmful to everyone, instead of a subset of people. I don't think that's very well proven. The mental health studies also have a bit of a correlation issue, similar to drug use.

I think sugar is a more apt analogy than smoking. Facebook, like sugars, provides a source of a required human input. (Calories/human connection). Overdone, both are harmful.

Tobacco is a much more charged analogy, and is more extreme in terms of positive/negative balance. I think it reveals more about the biases of the person making the statement than it does about social media.
I share both of your concerns (while I was very lucky in getting initial experience, I know of other beginners that haven't/arent, so I'm very sympathetic.) . Started coding for work in '95.

> was I wrong then? Or am I wrong now? Perhaps both.

Neither, I think. The Algorithm interviews are bad for 90% of the positions out there, and experience matters much more than trivia, so you were right then.

And today, everyone is trying to hire "senior" (and above), so there's no concept of "will learn, lacks experience" - and the algorthm questions do badly at identify THAT, so you're right today too.

It turns out that interviewing is hard, and we don't know what works well. Most of us think "we" are the ones that can obviously see what's wrong and everyone else is interviewing poorly. Most of us are wrong.

But even besides that, we need to focus more on getting newer coders that DON'T have experience. We'll spend years looking for people that have experience...longer than it would take to grow that experience. We want seniors because we want people that will grow without being mentored, because we have far more work than people...but we skip one of the ways to reduce that workload.

I'd much rather have an interview that was teaching something new, and see how the person processed it. That's not a good interview either, but at least it is trying accomplish the correct goal.

And when we do interview for senior and above, experience will count a lot more than building a frickin' linked list.
LibGyro – Low-Level Multimedia API
Almost. This is valid javascript.

[1].push("foo");
Yeah looks like you can get Chinese pages as well. https://itunes.apple.com/cn/artist/taylor-swift/159260351
Precisely. GP here. I didn't argue against having a great mentor. If you go to a great university you clearly have an advantage. I think it's perfectly doable to teach yourself mathematics if you study intense enough eith correct tools.
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There are career stages.
For candidates just out of school or with little experience asking algorithmic questions totally makes sense.
For more senior candidates (who actually progressed to the next stage, not just spent a lot of years), the questions become more real-life, more open ended and with more than one (or sometimes none) “correct” answer
L4Linux – Linux running on the L4 microkernel
Isn't it becoming cheaper to go with all products pack at that point?
Putting on some wait
“Foreigner” doesn’t imply “outside of China” — there are plenty of foreigners living in China and they have every reason to need to use WeChat.
Playing that game to win means understanding the odds.

Trying to moving up at the cost of your finite life is hardly a great investment.
That chart was an assessment of the situation in the UK in 2011, not the US in the present day.
Is there any studies that show what kind of salary people get in various regions of the world for certain skill set levels?
I'm not from US but I'm interested in knowing what people make around the world for software engineers.
If I were giving a technical interview, after asking some basic fizzbuzz style questions, I would just ask a candidate to bring a personal laptop and "do something cool", i.e. show me what you're good at that is also valuable or useful. Could be spinning up a website, could be some cool parallelized data science or processing job, could be setting up a simple REST server infrastructure, as long as it's done de novo. Has anybody ever been an interviewer or candidate with this kind of interview?
Thanks.. Git Tower and iStats both look interesting. Have you tried Git Kraken?
I was able to land a couple of solid offers but you have to be really persistent. I kept chugging away a hour or so a day and 3+ on weekdays when kids slept in and basically made algos my thing apart from work and family (which worked out for me since I was able to come up with the Aho-corasick algorithm for a question I was asked). After a while I started enjoying the prep process since I was learning quite a bit too.
This is true of syntax, but it’s not true of the language semantics. There is plenty of perfectly valid JavaScript that isn’t valid TypeScript, so integrating TypeScript into the ECMAScript standard would require something similar to ES5’s “use strict”.

I can’t find the link which details this right now, but I believe there are/were some cases where Flow’s syntax isn’t strictly a superset of JavaScript (to do with generics and comparison operators). I’m not sure whether TypeScript has the same problem or not.
I think one trend I'm going to notice is that a LOT of these apps are going to be older apps. I think people have trouble paying for NEW apps as they might go away...
I'd prefer that engineers and scientists made opinionated decisions to work on technology that sustains a free, egalitarian society than just blindly being a cog in whatever machine they work in, and allowing whatever happens to just happen.
IntelliJ

Github - I used to pay, but not anymore. Since, private repos are free now.

Slack.
What is special about the linked website with an opinionated reformat of this classical book? Imho a link to author 's site would be more appropriate.
> Companies don’t hire people based on the knowledge they were born with.

Yes, this, so much.

> Don’t get discouraged. There were multiple interviews I had where I didn’t know the solution and interviewers had to shepherd me towards a solution. I still got offers from everywhere I interviewed.

And this, so much, particularly for those with imposter syndrome. You miss all the shots you don't take. If you're unhappy, and have done your best to find a way to happiness in your present role, start looking. Don't keep telling yourself "in another year I'll be ready" or "once I learn X and Y".
I, for one, welcome our new users.

But seriously, a couple of points worth discussing:

1. Moderation feels much more automated, with default rules cutting broad robotic swaths into (or more often out of) discussion.

2. If HN is this popular, it's leaning closer and closer to social networking platform, with at least one key point: you cannot delete things, but they can.

3. Both of these facts feed into throwaway accounts. Thus, "users" are not all truly users.

The numbers don't tell the whole story.
So why don't you pay once and keep that version for as long as you want? It's a perpetual license.

If you want major updates, it's not weird to be asked to pay for it, which means continued subscription.
It depends on what you are talking about here.
CNC is used for a lot.

The assumption that there is a cam workstation, and that it's in an office building, is certainly not one i would make.
I wouldn't also say "will never make much sense".

You seem to have some particular set of users in mind for which you believe it wouldn't make sense.
Okay - i'm not sure that changes that there are plenty of sets of users for which it will?

I even gave you examples of high end wood machines that have CAM directly integrated.
There are many.

(They can also be programmed offline, but)

As for "knowing" the physical limits.

That's not actually possible since it there is no way to self-configure it even if everything did talk to each other.
They don't know their own physical orientations (and it would be very expensive/hard to do that, and you'd still be guessing in the end)

Most of the non-safety/accessory programming is essentially explaining enough of the physical orientation and placement of things to the motion control that it can do something.
Prevent users registering with passwords from data breaches
Algorithm interviews are good for people that will be writing algorithms. Most of us are just plumbers, even so a solid knowledge about what algorithms are available and what their strengths and weaknesses are is as important as good knowledge about the tools is to plumbers.
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Insulin Wars – insurance companies farm out dirty work to doctors and patients
As a white American that has been fired upon by the police, I find to make these things racial, glosses over the other problems causing so many citizens being killed. From my anecdotal experiance American police are quite racist, especially in a smaller city or town. I was shot at around 10 years ago and the shooting I can reconcile as the "heat of the moment". Five police officer's telling the same lies with the intention of incarcerating me for a long time is much more difficult to process.
This is a great way to detect non-tail losses, and should definitely be a part of TCP implementations. I hope this gets turned into an RFC and pushed through the standards process and widely deployed.

I do hesitate a bit about Google calling it a "new loss detection algorithm" and talking about how "the key innovation in RACK is to use a per-packet transmission timestamp." The same approach was previously described by Sprout in 2013, and I'd bet by a lot of other people before that. ("The assumption underlying this method is that while the network may reorder packets, it will not reorder two packets that were sent more than 10 ms apart. Thus, once the receiver actually gets a packet from the sender, it can mark all bytes (up to the sequence number of the first packet sent within 10 ms) as received or lost, and only keep track of more recent packets." https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi13/nsdi13...) The IRTF awarded this one of their Applied Networking Research Prizes that year, so it's not like it was totally just on the academic plane.

Which is not to say Google isn't making 90% of the important contribution by measuring and documenting how valuable this is in real life, defining and implementing it in the context of TCP, standardizing it, getting an RFC, etc. It's just not quite as new as the I-D seems to suggest.
- Office
- DaisyDisk
- IntelliJ
- iA Writer
and VMWare Fusion
Dummit&Foote imho is the best undergrad algebra book.
I don't think anything other than a for-profit company can ever get the funds needed to aggressively expand, which is what is needed to get to a scale where change can be affected.

A nonprofit would depend on goodwill, not self interest, and to my mind, only one of those things is reliable.
"Resource curse" is really a governance/culture curse. Norway does just fine with huge oil reserves, same with the UK, and the USA. Canada's and Australia's economies are largely based on resource extraction (and especially so 50 or 100 years ago) and I wouldn't say that those countries have a "resource curse" problem.

It is not the resource that is the problem. Plenty of non-resource countries are really screwed up also.
> But lets just say, back then, for the most part the government (and via 3rd parties) was probably surveying people under actual investigation less than they currently surveying everyone in the country.

Only if we selectively ignore COINTELPRO, the Red Scare witch-hunts, the attacks on the Civil Rights & Black Power movements...
Thinking about it actually but for now worried about feature creep. We will see though.

I was actually one of the original inventors of RSS 1.0 and was on the working group.

http://www.datastreamer.io/

Is my other company and we have about a petabyte of content ... so definitely familiar with the space.

I'm trying to look at things a bit differently now though. I have a bunch of ideas I'm going to experimenting with.
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Do you know what changed regarding 23, 25, and 35, and why it was at the time considered correct to pass them, but now considered correct to fail them?
I'd have to dig for the source, but I found a source on the internet, which seemed incredibly credible for being a college professors wordpress blog.

Basically, since 2005, the nitrotesimne levels in US Style smokeless tobacco has declined by more than 75% due to changes in manufacturing (largely), and from say, 80mg to 5mg, in the 1975-2016 period.

Tobacco Specific Nitrosamines are widely acknowledged to be the single largest cancer causing agent in oral tobacco. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco-specific_nitrosamines)

https://rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.com/2016/07/is-snus-safer-...

https://rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.com/2012/10/more-evidence-...

https://rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.com/2012/01/informative-st...
> It's an expression in English.

The expression is “by virtue of” not “becauase of the virtue of”.

I don't know that most English speakers would recognize the latter as a mangled attempt at the former rather than having the normal meaning of the individual words.
I don't think the idea is to make individuals pay market rates for drinking water, but rather commercial water users, especially industrial and agricultural projects.
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Not to mention all product pack isn't as costly as $50 like Adobe's.
In all honesty, it's probably not worth worrying about. The implementation of 2FA you're referring to here is just adding a 2nd secret, with a small twist of having time component.

There are very few scenarios where your (high entropy) password would be compromised in a way that wouldn't also lead to the discovery of at least 1 functional 2FA code.

1) Website is breached. If they can get the account password hashes, chances are they're going to get the TOTP seeds as well.

2) You're phished. Your attacker passes through your credentials (scraping the password along the way), and they get a functional session token. With most services, you can turn off 2FA just by reconfirming the account password.

3) Your password manager is breached. 'nuff said.

The push behind 2FA isn't so much because high entropy passwords are vulnerable (except in a phishing context, but there TOTP is equally vulnerable) -- the momentum behind 2FA is because we can't convince people to stop using '123456' as a password.
>"This happens at any company with any product. Really being blown out of proportion because its facebook."

How does that make it okay?

Why should size of the company matter?
Agreed, rotisserie chicken is the 8th wonder of the world.

Nice nickname, btw.
Which is much lower than it used to be even for the same product type, you can see my other comment down thread.
> If you are optimizing for calorie and health, you eat a mix of meat, vegetables, fruits, etc ( aka a balanced diet ).

If that is so, why are all these people healing and getting healthier on an all-meat diet? http://meatheals.com
I think the data locality benefits would hold for one to many relationships too (that is, one parent with many children).
Unless the poison is immediately making you sick, and you can't afford to drink clean water, people don't get mad enough to riot.

Ape brains are really bad at holding other apes accountable for long-term, distributed harm inflicted on them.

Brown water coming out of the tap? You'll have marches in the streets. A slow poison that will, over five years of exposure drop the IQ of your children by 20 points? After four years of litigation hell and much hand-wringing, someone might finally get around to making your water mostly OK. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis#2018
Have you tried TablePlus? (Not the author but just want to know the experience if you have.)
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That is a decent summary of what I wrote, but there is much missing. It deserves, and I want to give you, a better than off-the-cuff answer (mostly posted at my web site) but with my schedule in the next few days it might be Tuesday or Wednesday when I can post again here. (I don't remember how long these discussions allow follow-up posts, but my email noted earlier is a fallback.)