skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was an explanation to your question, no an statement of what I believe.
I too would like to know more. Extending on the computer analogy, even if it is just adding more blank drives — does that mean your brain has additional _capacity_ for cognition?

Or is it more like those people who inject oil into their muscles in an attempt to look more buff without the work (and often end up looking grotesque instead).
> (if something needs to be patented, the filing employee has to transfer out of India first).

That does not match my experience at all. I only had to sign some paperwork to authorize a patent agent to file on the company's behalf outside India. I work with people with several patents granted both inside and outside India and have never heard of anything of this sort.
Specifically in 1973 the US economy was 16.4 times larger than India and 10.3 times larger than China.

Today the US economy is about 7.6 times larger than India and 0.5 times larger than China.

India's economy was equivalent to ~$500 billion in 1973, inflation adjusted to today's dollar (per the US Govt figures). That would be good enough for 25th or so globally, behind Belgium. Not tiny per se, definitely small for what India's market is capable of. They're of course 7th now in national GDP, set to overtake France and the UK this year and move into the 5th spot behind Germany.
This is a bit of a subtle point. In theory, free trade between countries A and B makes the pie larger (or, at least, no smaller depending on your precise model) for A and B compared to no trade. What is at issue is how the surplus pie is distributed. For instance, if you start off with each country having 10 slices, and trade creates an addition 5 slices, basic economic theory would allow for country A to end up with anywhere between 10 and 15 slices.

What protectionism does, from a theoretical standpoint, is provide some control over the distribution of the surplass.

Having said all of that, it should be remembered that we do not live in a spherical void. In practice, it is entirely possible for "free" trade to leave a country worse off then they would have been with no trade.
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Your example is false equivalence - circumcision is harmful, vaccines are not.
Specific examples of what classifies as a “hard” or “easy” interview question would be very helpful to have reference points and assess one’s own interview process.
Iirc, Indian government was on the verge of going broke in 1991, and had to initiate economic reforms which were contingent for loans from large international lenders. It even had to pawn and airlift tonnes of gold bullion to IMF to get loans.
> No copyright holders being paid is theft

No, it isn't. It is copyright infringement. Theft is something completely different. Different laws apply.
I like the analogy between real estate and copyright.

I think a simpler* solution would be to return to limited terms on copyright (say, 14 years), and require periodic renewal by the rights-holder to extend that term. As part of the renewal process, you'd either need to demonstrate active use of the copyright, or pay a fee (or both?).

* Simpler from a process point of view. I understand it's probably not simple politically.
That’s usually the right economics. If you want to make money as an older person, management is the way up.

Very few companies hire engineers above 40. It’s the unfortunate reality of our industry.
This is true. I would be interested in knowing the difference in approaches between vault and coda.
This is one of the advantages of shooting at a higher resolution than the intended target delivery resolution. When downscaling an image, the noise gets 'averaged' out of the image. For HD 1920x10280, a 2.7K resolution was a good choice before having to jump all the way to 4K. There's other technical reasons as well for shooting larger than intended use, but just re-enforcing the 'noise removal' process of downscaling an image.
Which has the knock on effect that championing a smaller project through internal green light is not as good for your career as waiting for the chance to lead a AAA title- I’m guessing
It might be really useful to try to repair some non-cognitive areas of the brain. I.e. grow some new neurons to implant in the motor cortex that can relearn how to control limbs for people who had damage there.
The key word in this discussion is potential.
Don't be silly. If you dedicated your whole life to invent a time machine, succedded at your 80s, met your younger self and gave him your research so he can build it in his 30s, how is that self-consistent?
Did you know that some people consider libraries lending physical books to be theft?
Pretty much, yes
Angular also does this, fwiw. Also allows you to manipulate the styles from DevTools which I hear is a problem in CSS-in-JS
What this says of course is that software vendors and security vendors are not able to or not incentivized enough protect their users, to the point the government needs to become more involved.

The biggest issue I see with almost all security software is that they have no idea what should or shouldn’t happen and the just punt to the user asking them to be a SME on the right behavior, and with enterprise software that’s so complex there’s no way to know if the millions of settings are what the business really intended, and very little software even allows you to express intentions beyond a low level allow deny rule. Google docs is a little better in that they talk in terms of what you’d do with a doc, but very little software is even at that basic level.
In Las Vegas when there wasn't anything interesting for nerdy high school kids to do, you could always drive up the Great Basin highway with your school's Geiger counter and check out the radioactive plants north of Coyote Springs :-)

There used to be a BLM[1] camp ground up there where you could ride your dirt bikes on the trails.

Reading this makes me wonder if it still has hot spots.

[1] Bureau of Land Management - kind of like a national forest but where they care less about the land under their control.
Add a splash of juice to plain seltzer. It gives you that nice fizzy feeling perfect for washing down food, but with a fraction of the sugar of a coke.
Usually I commute to wherever the company is located 4 days a week. I have done all-remote projects before though.
If only we had something like imgur but the images were stored on bittorrent network.That would be great.
Feynman mentions the physicist Julian Webb in "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" [1]. The staff at Oak Ridge were generally kept in the dark about their role in the Manhattan Project, including the fact that the stuff they were producing (purified uranium isotopes) was extremely dangerous if handled improperly. Oppenheimer tasked Feynman with ensuring the integrity of the supply chain and sent Feynman to Oak Ridge for a frank safety discussion with the "big shots," and apparently Oppenheimer knew Webb to be technically capable enough to trust with the technical implications.

Feynman doesn't say what, if anything, he told Webb, but it's an interesting backstory -- it's possible Webb knew more than this article suggests.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=_gA_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT125&lpg=...
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False. Algorand has safety, unless you get confirmation from 2/3 of the "money", you don't go forward. The best you can get here is a denial of service.
The original use case for cryptocurrency (eg digital sound money, not world computers and the like) is as a long-term (and hopefully independent and uncorrrelated enough) hedge against mis-management and failure of national currency regimes. That remains a legit use case but will take years or decades to materialize. Given that the tech is still in the early stages of its maturity curve and needs more time to robustify, that’s a good thing.

But national currencies are getting increasingly shaky, even the USD where it appears Congress has no political will to control the US national debt and deficit, and where the GOP blows bigger deficit holes with tax cuts and the Dems are talking about MMT. Not to mention the risks to the Euro and Yuan, along with the many smaller countries with distressed currencies.

It’s interesting to me that cryptocurrrency skeptics and critics seem to regularly ignore this as a use case, when in fact it is the most important one (maybe even the only one). It seems many people can’t bring themselves to believe that modern national currencies can fail and don’t need an independent hedge, even though the 1800s and 1900s were full of exactly that.
Instead of doing this, read, then follow https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/
>Amazon Prime is a product that costs you money and makes you spend more money on Amazon, and yet people will defend their spending saying that they are "saving" money... The shipping is "free" but you have to spend £8 a month to qualify. If you don't spend at amazon during that month you are still down £8 (that's about £100 a year). If you spend something at amazon during the month you are still down the £8 in addition to the money spent at something.

OTOH you also get prime video and music.

Prime Video has a lot of HBO stuff (Sopranos, The Wire, Curb) and while prime music's selection is limited, they have a few great electronic or classical stations for studying (commercial free).

I'm more likely to get rid of Netflix than Prime given all that's bundled in.
It’s funny that HN doesn’t agree with me, yet civil society does, since we do not have mandatory vaccinations that violate body rights, and we still manage to have herd immunity through education and other incentives.
> encryption or compression

both of these are pretty bad examples, as several modern developments have surfaced in both cases - here are 2 examples

- https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Curve25519
- https://github.com/google/brotli
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i'm trying to learn more about this space as i have a few friends working on building brain-like organoids, converting different types of neural / glial cells to other types, etc

seems like this stuff is mostly at the basic science stage, with main applications being better disease models (which in neuro is huge). do you have a sense for how far along these are translationally? do the cultured / expanded cells build up lots of mutations? can you induce specific neural cell types, or at least consistently end up with daughter cells that have the same function as their parents? are these processes scalable beyond the quantities needed for this initial work? are there quality methods in place for determining the identity and function of these cells?
I think it makes sense. You have an economy built on an economic model rather than an economic model based on an economy.

With the latter you're constantly guessing and tweaking the model and roughly every 10 years there's a crash and the economists say okay, NOW we have it perfect and we'll never get it wrong again.

Why do you need an unlimited money supply? The only thing causing these shocks is that the economy is doing whatever it wants and then the economic model collapses.
I'd recommend something like this: https://www.amazon.com/OXO-Grips-No-Spill-Silicone-White/dp/...
The ice "slots" get completely sealed with the silicone, and I have stuck it in on it's side and it didn't leak at all.
Can we focus on an interesting discussion instead of the usual
> Not being in a position to shop around when you need emergency treatment is another.

That's a BS solution, you don't shop around when you need emergency medial treatment, because you're in the middle of a medical emergency. You might not even be conscious.

And lets say you're a weirdo who spent hours researching ahead of time, chose the "best" ER, and etched your choice onto one of those medical alert bracelets. That does you no good when you're away from home, or even just across town.

Yeah, there are certain cases where market-based healthcare reforms could probably do a lot of good (especially around outpatient and elective stuff), but "the market" and "letting the market work" are not the solution to all problems.
A while ago we had a job applicant who had travelled very far and long to reach us. (literally from the other side of the world.)

So, as a courtesy we figured, why not spend a few hours extra with this applicant in the programming test. We set up a laptop with a clean Ubuntu install, devised a programming test that was quite involved. Not algorithmic hard, just more complex than what can normally be done within a 20-minute whiteboard interview. We expected it to take at least 2-3 hours. Google/Stack overflow/etc access was allowed and encouraged. "Just act as like you would normally do when solving a problem."

We spent like 2x4 hours devising this problem, based on our codebase (cutting out something somewhat easily digestible and making it able to run standalone).

It took like one hour to get productive. Explaining the problem, setting up editors, compilers, etc.

We took turns, but most of the time someone in the interview team (of two) sat next to the guy. We did give him some alone time.

This is probably nothing new in terms of interviewing techniques, but to us it was such a revelation. We learned so much more about the applicant. Perhaps it worked well with this guy because he happened to be a bit more outgoing than our typical successful applicant. We'd never felt so confident about giving someone an offer before.

I'm really looking forward towards testing out this approach with local candidates to see if we can replicate this "data gathering success".
It’s not the first time when swedish gov/public organizations show that they don’t have any notion of security in their world view.
I stopped drinking sugared sodas years ago. It's just not part of my diet, and I hate the residue it leaves on the teeth. But I'd have the same feeling if I couldn't have around one beer a week.
I'm shocked and disheartened by how infrequently environmental concerns are brought up when discussing crypto. Proof of Work vs Proof of Stake, security, storage size - these are problems for the network and those that want to see it become a real part of our economy. (I am one of those)

But the amount of energy being used to mine bitcoin is a real problem - it's not just a technical challenge (like the problems above). This is something that literally affects every human being.

Of the 203 comments (at the time I am posting this), there are only two uses of the word "environment". One of these is about the "regulatory environment".

Let's say Bitcoin, Ethereum, or another coin achieves an economic value & level of efficiency that makes mining an accessible investment for low-income people. Instead of server farms in Iceland, mining would be done by millions of people around the world. Some of the energy used for this would be renewable - but plenty of this is going to be coming from coal. In that sense, the coin would create an economic incentive to pollute (there are plenty of these already), and there's no way to regulate that kind of decentralized network. (That's the whole point)

My favorite summary of crypto is something along the lines of: leaving your car running while it solves sudoku puzzles in exchange for drugs. The drugs part isn't as relevant anymore, but the rest is.

I'm not here with an answer. There are many problems that I think crypto can solve and I'm glad it is something on the horizon.

But we need to talk about the environment.
Important context is that 40m is an incredibly huge sum of money in the context of immediately post-liberalization India. Our intuitions aren't set very well for the kind of explosive economic growth that Asian countries saw post-liberalization, and it's easy to extrapolate backwards too cautiously to the price level of the early 90s.
>The Huawei engineer attended the supplier meeting with four Huawei researchers in tow. The Huawei team spent the next hour and a half pressing the supplier for details about the Apple Watch, the executive said.

the bar for trade secrets theft is pretty low these days
an or condition in a constant; yeah you'll be the judge...
Over engineered much?

> On a previous project we needed to show markers on a map to indicate there was a property, but for privacy reasons we wanted to show the marker on the map close to the property but not at the exact location of the property. So we needed to generate random points within a fixed distance of the original point location.

At those distances, you can treat the surface as a plane and calculate points on a circle. Sure, it won’t be accurate for large distances but that is not a requirement. Nor is accuracy for that matter since the whole point is to obfuscate the original point.
> At this point the only advice you can give is to please ask every doctor you ask to not make any notes or files on you at all, and just deal with that.

Not an option if you have an illness. Also, that excuse wouldn't work in Scandinavia. But journals are kept in-house and I trust that way more than the affected service. If the journaling system breaks so does our banking and national ID-services.

Also, this is a phone in service for what you are supposed to do, the step below going to the ER. Not mcuh you can do because you call them because you need their help. It's not an option not to. It unloads some calls and redirects the others to 911/the ER.
Ha, I have seen this story before. Zimbabwe my country of birth has screwed the economy so bad that no sane person/company is going to invest there. The result is most of the big players have pulled out and all manner of cottage industries have sprung up. I have watched a woman manually pack popcorn packets in her kitchen, all manner of workshops exist to repair electronics and car parts (I live in South Africa (SA) where the old part is mostly just thrown away). In Zim, people make bricks the old fashioned way with not a single piece of automation. Just shovels, wheelbarrows, brick moulds and mud. Without the big players small players can play a role. Zim has taken it too far though, making business conditions nearly impossible without bribes...
any publications you could share?
Well, they're crazy. If libraries didn't lend physical books, academic research would be set back 200 years.
I would assume you would get mixed responses as cryptocurrency "fans" are not of one mind.
I've never been giving given a practical programming test. Nearly all are useless algorithms. Create a function that takes a integer greater than 0. Build an array equal in size to the argument. Fill the array with numbers that when summed together equal zero.

It was worded far worse than that. What exactly is that telling you about the engineer?

On the flip side I'm asked to code full fledged applications but not to spend too much time on them... okay...

Another time I was asked to code a luhn algorithm. Oh and do it while a room of people watches you on giant screen cause that's what your day to day job will look like... I failed miserably and still got the job. What?!?!?
When I was in Papua New Guinea, coffee made with tap water messed up my stomach. I switched to Coke as my morning sugar/caffeine hit and stopped having trouble.
> Intentional deflation is one way of getting out of very serious national financial problems.

How so? For a net debtor, deflation is potentially ruinous.
Where do you think they got those brands? Coke was purifying water long before bottled water was a craze. They simply took something they were already making for use internally and bottled it as a finished product.

Coke was and remains the expert on turning local water into a consistent ingredient. And the simplest starting point remains pure water. I might not like the corporation, but have absolutely no issues trusting them to purify water for me to drink.
Easy - reverse a string, determine if a string is a palindrome, reverse the digits of an integer, determine if one string is an anagram of another.

Hard - implement a subset of regex match in optimal time+space, find the operations required to turn 1 word into another word given a list of transitory words, find the median of 2 sorted arrays in optimal time, find the next permuted value.
It's at least good that they call it a philosophy.
The philosophy at Google is that it's better to filter out 3 good engineers than to let in a bad one.

Corollary: "If I follow (what I've heard to be) Google's hiring practices (despite not having their brand recognition or candidate pool or a comparable engineering environment to offer) -- then my company is on the way to becoming another Google!"
I don't speak from experience with Go, but a simple type assertion at an interface boundary should normally not be noticeable at all. Where performance matters, there you usually do not have parameteric types or similar. Have you measured anything?
I stopped drinking soda in early high school, based on those stupid chain emails about them dissolving teeth and cleaning pennies. It was some years later that it became de rigeur to talk about sugar being The Great Satan, so I pretty much got lucky by completely losing the taste for it pretty early.
Stop the online conspiracy theorists before they break democracy
One could argue that it prevents hashing power attacks, where an attacker can duck with the network with no money at stake. Check the 51% attack websites, it shows how easy it is to duck with altcoins who use pow.
Most people I've spoken with about crypto prefer the way banks work. The idea that losing your keys means losing your money, with no recourse, terrifies them.
Summary: Xerox PARC created the first and best personal computer, but didn't release to the market early/often/cheaply enough to learn and dominate. Waymo is similarly perfecting a ride-share service across all of Phoenix at freeway speeds, while its newer competitors are "just" running service under 25 MPH in senior care communities. The smaller competitors may generate real revenue sooner and be better equipped to build real markets for autonomous vehicles.

I think this is a compelling argument -- but it does ignore the bigger picture: ride-hail service is only one type of market for AV manufacturers. Success for some AV companies is being acquired by an auto OEM. Success for others will be being component suppliers. And success will not only be at the mythical "Level 5" of full autonomy. There's money to be made with safety systems for human-driven cars, for mapping systems, and for other AV equipment. Waymo publicly set its sights on one goal -- but it shouldn't eclipse other potential markets along the way.
But it’s still proof of work, right? If it has a ratchet like bitcoin, it becomes uneconomical to mine at some point.

I think proof of space-time (Bram Cohen’s and spacemesh.io’s currencies are examples) is a better way forward.
Equating advertising with education, even in jest, is dangerous.
It bothers me that the conclusion doesn't escape the framework of code reviews as places of conflict, and that the author feels guilty for his claimed competence.

> No big deal if the code’s not good, I can fix it myself it I need to.

A mentor can't be passive like that. Don't leave 200 comments like you used to, but distill them into something smaller, more cogent and digestible. More importantly, drop the idea of "good" and focus on what the implementor was thinking. I think the author understands the need for more effective communication in code reviews, but unfairly reduces the exchange to an "argument."

It's also dangerous to correlate work-life balance with incompetence. It's not a contradiction to be good at your job, current with the industry, and present for your family.