skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is, this demo is done with CSV's b/c we can't read Apache Parquet files with strings yet (changing very very very soon). You can check out how here: https://docs.blazingdb.com/docs/database-administration#sect...
It's possible to purchase goods in such a way that there is no disposable plastic involved on the consumer end. The problem is the processing, packing, transportation and distribution. We need a revolution in these fields that prioritizes reusable materials and methods. After industry changes how we receive the goods, we can work on getting people into the habit of reusing materials rather than disposing of them.
Transferwise does £ to pesos, to where. As stated, bank accounts in the country do not have a SWIFT code assigned.
You have to triangulate the money (Please check my other comments below).
Re: Kraken, the 2% I'm talking about is in the local broker I'm using to convert BTC to pesos. I doubt Kraken can help me there. Not to mention that that Kraken is an exchange. A completelly different bussiness model to Localbitcoins.
> You can study lots of vocabulary to achieve better results on the verbal section of the GRE or similar tests. But afterwards, you will, in fact, have better vocabulary, I submit.

Maybe for a few days after the test anyways. And then...you push out those words you never use or read to make room for actual useful stuff.
If that were true, when we impose sanctions and embargoes on countries, their economies would surge.
reminds me of fsv, the 3d file manager

http://fsv.sourceforge.net/
It does not really matter how it started but how it is now. I would bet that all these selfless visionary nerds who believed in bitcoin from day 1, now are less than 0.1% of the people who deal with bitcoin today. The rest 99.9% are there for the easy money. At least, this is what I see from my surroundings and the feeling I get from the internet. It might have started great, but it got alienated along the way.
Plan9 didn't go anywhere. So other than UTF-8, there's not much to speak of. He's not a reference on programming language design, and it shows.

Compare to Leslie Lamport for instance, and the tremendous effect he had on large scale systems and software engineering correctness.
Do you have a link to the nytimes article? Can’t find it in the twitter thread though it is mentioned there.
"Normal economic theory says protectionism makes the pie smaller for everyone"

If A protects, and B and C are open, A can get way further ahead by strategic investments, dumping, etc..

'Free Trade' only work if A, B and C work.

If A doesn't open their markets, then B and C should close theirs to A as well.
Yeah, was thinking along these lines during this discussion. Sounds like a good idea and something that everyone would be fine too. The idea being that the interviewing pattern should shift from hard theoretical questions to practical problems that needs to be solved as you have suggested above :

"3-4 hour programming task, preferably based on a real problem or task that arose in the company's code base, suitably extracted, simplified, and scrubbed of proprietary information. Internet resources are allowed, as is asking any questions of the interviewer, without penalty."
My daughter who did her master's thesis in computational biology on modelling the western pine beetle would agree with this. Her research showed that western pine beetle populations were expanding (no need to tell Californian's this but there it is) in part because their available habitat is expanding with changes in the climate. Her take was that the mix is changing because the climate is changing. It takes time for ecosystems to adapt and as they do some species "lose" and some "win".
> When you say Bitcoin "hurts the environment", what, concretely do you mean?

We mean that mining Bitcoin is extremely energy-intensive by design. This is to say that the energy consumed by Bitcoin's economic activity is deliberately and gratuitously significant, not incidentally so. Moreover, the energy consumed by Bitcoin mining scales commensurate with how many Bitcoins have been mined thus far.

So yes, that makes it categorically different from other energy-expensive activities like farming or hospital maintenance. We are actually economically incentivized to consume less energy over time in most energy-expensive activities. With most cryptocurrencies, energy consumption is a design imperative.
Do you have evidence for a lack of correlation between democracy and economic development?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUIrR_mj9fQ&index=4&list=PLS...
cmu talk series
This isn't a conspiracy theory - it's literally exactly what business schools do...

Teach a bunch of people to think in a certain way, speak a certain language and respect authority. Someone who excels at the repetitive mundanity of business school will be a perfect junior marketing manager at BigCo.

It's basically taking the way the Army trains new recruits and applying it to white collar jobs.
That's called college, and experience has shown that the people who have the certificate aren't guaranteed to know how to write a fizzbuzz.
She's right, the media does tend to pick up anything that spurs the amygdala and run with it. I would consider insectageddon to be nowhere near the kind of established science as say, climate change. We have some suggestive studies, but no clear and definitive proof, so further study is very important right now.
Better headline, "Apache Spark Is Very Slow". Only 1 megabyte per second per node? (3.8GB/(8 nodes*500 seconds)) Even with single core nodes, that's utterly feeble (pro tip, please state the kind of node you're using)

Seems fishy that the benchmark is small enough to fit into GPU RAM as well
Or fewer CTOs who think they deserve the 1% working for them
Bitcoin is wasteful because of its energy profile not because of an arbitrary value judgement regarding how energy should be used.

Rendering images is useful work.
Processing transactions is useful work.

With gaming computers, increasing energy costs means increasing detail and complexity in the images that can be processed.

Bitcoin is wasteful because the increasing energy costs does not increase the total number of transactions that can be processed.
Absolutely, this is useful context, thanks!

I completely agree there's a lot of danger of ad hominem analysis in these kinds of cases. From my perspective, I probably would not post about this sort of thing at all, if it were a more mundane issue. But there seems to be a lot at stake in the climate crisis issues, so I'm trying harder than usual to figure out how to get my bearings.
Why do developers complain so much about hard interview questions that can be supposedly be gamed by studying to the test? Every high paying industry heavily engages in gatekeeping, because the number of people who want to make 400k/year is far larger than the number of 400k/year jobs available. The traditional forms of gatekeeping involve requiring that people have the right personal/familial connections, or have an elite school pedigree (finance, consulting, law), or that they spend several years and half a million dollars in post-college schooling (medicine).

The tech industry's preferred form of gatekeeping is asking people to do algorithmic puzzles, which is far tamer and less exclusionary than what other industries do. If you believe that the only thing standing between you and 400k/year is a few dozen hours of practicing leetcode, why are you whining about it instead of taking advantage of the situation to wildly enrich yourself with a fairly modest amount of effort?
Oh thank goodness.
Their pre-screening quiz uses a bunch of questions on various technologies to ensure that some subset of the questions tests you on technologies you're familiar with. Which is good, since not everyone is a web engineer.
Actually thought about building a 3D Dropbox. May do that next...
I completed a Masters in Mathematics back in 2014, involving a lot of historical research into the development of geometry. At the time, the ease with which I could open up books written over a century ago, search them and read them, was a fantastically useful tool.

I have some of those sources still on my hard drive in their scanned PDF format. They've now effectively vanished from the open internet. So much, available for such a short window. Our children will never believe us when we tell them what was once right there at our fingertips, and those that do should never forgive us.
>No, we don't.

I stopped reading.
This sounds pretty similar to the benefits of MimbleWimble, the design behind Grin (and another earlier system whose name I forget). Grin recently "went live" in the sense that now there's a network that isn't the testnet.
I propose a "proof of workout" cryptocurrency.

It will make miners fitter with no cost to the environment.
Dude was truly hardcore doing all these things: https://www.irt.org/articles/js156/index1.htm

Fond memories and a reminder, how far we came. Access 97 as a database - I remember that this was the Gold Standard when I worked part time at Centfox.
What’s your source? From what I’ve heard bitcoin mining farms in China are located in regions taking pretty much all energy from hydro.
I suggest you read up on the effects of market friction. 300k/year could very well be a bargain for these people even if it sounds like a lot to you.
Thanks for pointing this out. I'm graduating relatively soon and was disappointed that I couldn't download books after that. Just tried my Library of Congress login and everything worked great.

Note that a Library of Congress card expires every 2 years as I recall.
There are plenty of games I find that aren't dumbed down or geared for younger audiences but then I find the opposite problem: they're way too in-depth and require way too much time commitment. I picked up The Witcher 3, and that's certainly not a kids game or monetized in stupid ways, but it's also not a game I can play for 10 minutes and then set aside for a few weeks and come back and play again. RDR2 is like that as well. Most of the open world games are, in fact. And games for adults that aren't open world game, I'm finding them to be super difficult. I assume I'm just getting worse at gaming, but it really sucks to be locked down to only a handful of games that are single player, casual friendly, made for adults, not so difficult that I'm throwing my controller across the room, and not nickel-and-dime me to death.

We need a "dad's games" genre.
>If anyone were to get access to my things I'd rather it be the government

I feel the complete opposite way. The government having access to my things is worse than cyber-criminals having access to my stuff.
I was referring to generics systems that don't suck.
No, it increases the trust of the system. Is it the best solution? Perhaps not, but it is not without utility.
So I can see RL augmenting traditional optimal control in regimes outside of previously modeled spaces.

For instance, a machine would operate via optimal control in regimes that are known and characterized by a model, but if it ever gets into a new unmodeled situation, it can use RL to figure stuff out and find a way to proceed suboptimally (subject to safety constraints, etc.).

An illustrative example is Roomba. Roomba is probably based on some form of RL, and it does a decent job. But suppose we have a map of the room that Roomba can use -- this would let it plot the optimal path. However suppose the map of the room is incomplete. Roomba can still operate near optimally within the mapped area, but will have to learn the environment outside the map. Or if the layout of the room has changed since the map was created (new furniture), Roomba's RL can kick in.
I have started putting made up email addresses, or `abuse@domain.com` into these boxes.
> We don’t know anything about most insect species on Earth. Only about one-fifth of the estimated number of insect species are known to science.

This is simultaneously incredible and unsurprising. There is still so much to discover about the world!
So, if someone created a falsifiable model of the soul that produced sensory interactions, would that mean the soul is physical?

In my mind this demonstrates 'physical' is not very well defined by physicalism, since souls etc. are considered to be non-physical, yet could in theory meet the requirements of physicalism.
>An enormous amount of energy used to support a tiny minority of people participating in a highly-manipulated wealth redistribution mechanism is, objectively, a complete fucking waste.
You cannot look at bitcoin by any measure and say that it's a practical success for any of its goals. And given the amount of energy it uses to perpetuate its own failure, it's nearly sinful to keep it going.

This is begging the question.
An impediment by its very nature is unfair, even when it's something clearly genetic, because it impedes one group from doing the same as another group. However, to my knowledge there's no evidence of predispositions to fields of study based on (sex or race) genetics despite lots of effort to find scientific basis for such claims.

I can't imagine a good reason why young gay singoporeans wouldn't dream of being plumbers any more than the next kid.
If you're trying to find a situation where that exact solution is going to be useful, you're not thinking about the problem from the right perspective.

Handled correctly, a problem like this answers several questions:

1) Can you correctly break down a problem like this into its components parts?
2) Can you recognize the overall class of problems that this falls into?
3) Can you transform this specific problem into the more general class so that you can solve it in a known fashion?
4) Can you think about and implement the movement?
5) Can you communicate while you're doing the above?

No one cares about solving that particular problem. But the answers to the above really are relevant. Being able to map novel problems onto known solutions is absolutely a skill that any competent software engineer needs to have. "Oh, you want me to do X? That looks a lot like Y, this thing we've already solved; maybe I can just implement it in the same fashion (or re-use our existing system!)"

I'm not saying that this particular problem is a wonderful example, or that I'd use it in my own interviews. But this overall class of problems really does have a place in interviewing when it's handled well by the interviewers, and arguments against it on the basis of the specific problem being irrelevant are really rather missing the point.
Nano does it in action.
It's A Unix System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFUlAQZB9Ng
I don’t even want the ability to refer someone into my company. That’s very risky and puts pressure on me to be right, when I might be wrong. I have referred friends who’ve been rejected, and I’m glad because that’s better than hiring my friend and having them not fit in. Then it’s my fault.

I’ve interviewed and referred many people and made a lot of hiring decisions, I would rather have everyone agree, I don’t think the ability for a single person to refer someone past the interview process is a good idea at all.

None of the risks listed even compare to the risk of hiring someone who isn’t actually very good or doesn’t get along with the team.... and despite thorough interviews that still happens all the time. If the candidate is worth referring, then the interviews will not likely be a problem. Things do go wrong occasionally, but not very often.

Edit: I also meant to add that I think referrals are already weighed very heavily in interviews in my experience. Sometimes even too much. Interviews are already easier for candidates when someone who’s respected makes the referral, so to some degree the proposal here already reflects reality.
> But streamers will play any game that they’re get paid to play unlike players from community

They're also paid by the community through subscriptions and direct payments (Twitch bits). They'll get more people watching (and more bits/subscriptions) if they play an already popular game that people are interested in watching.
Yes!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29879370
>A very high percent of any race dates only inside their racial/ethnic group. And so on. It's natural preferences.

Are you making this claim or is there evidence that supports it? Would be interested to see a study on that
The email was from contactredcross@adexelec.us
This company sounds terrible. You have to be hazed by all the other brogrammers at the end after doing 80-160 hrs of unpaid work, ridiculous:

https://life.taxjar.com/taxjar-traditions/
That is the dreaded inflection point the CPC wants to avoid. Its interesting to think about what would have happened if the sophisticated system of censorship currently in place would not have been present: if the great firewall didn't exist, would we have already seen riots, revolutions and such?

And that's the horrible conclusion I get from that fact: technology has always been celebrated as tool of liberation, but the CPC has effectively yielded it as a tool of oppression. And if the CPC can do it, why not other countries?
1.1.1.1 is definitely the least worst option of the two here.
It is a subsidy, in that this was free energy that renewables were unable to profit from, previously.

Before: The energy from a hydro plants gets wasted when it is night time.

After: Now they get money.

The hydro plant is now making money on something that they were just throwing away, previously, and thus it is a subsidy.
I mean, if your thesis is something like "the embarrassing truth is that the vast majority of Scotsmen is actually people born and raised in Kazakhstan", then yes, you will get the response that Kazakhs are not true Scotsmen and there is nothing particularly fallacious about it.
Proof of stake may not involve energy costs directly but it has far worse consequences - costs are just shifted into political plane. Which is essentially what bitcoin was designed to avoid.

You do know that idea of pos is older than PoW, yet nobody cared for it exactly because you end up with financial system run by politicians - exactly where you started.
> "In practice, front-end encryption works like this: on start, the server generates two keys, a public one which makes its way to the client in a cookie, and a private one which stays on the server. In the browser, the public key is used to encrypt a certain payload before sending it to the server via a XHR request."

What's the point of that?
Most probably because it would compete with the Canon EOS product line.
I grew up poor, and out of (mechanical) engineering college new a grand total of zero engineers. I would still be unemployed to this day if this type of hiring were the norm (although it is not entirely uncommon). I can also say, that the engineers that we have had come through our organization based on referrals have not been the best quality. They tend to be engineers that are generally likeable, but not very good. Referrals are probably the way with the least friction to hire someone, so any time the way with the least friction is not being used as much, you have to wonder why.
Thanks for this "Down the rabbit hole" article, that led me to the innocence project, the Stockholm syndrome [condition that causes hostages to develop a psychological alliance with their captors as a survival strategy during captivity], Patty Hearst Trial, the SLA and the life of psychiatrist Joel Fort. You have made my day :D
A carbon tax would be fairer and easier to adjust than any other method. And it has been recommended by economists for over a decade. The problem is it doesn’t offer enough opportunities for graft and corruption to our ruling class, so was never a real option.

Cap and trade, now there’s a system to make our rulers and well connected, rich.
Aren't there groups who have exercised some form of nepotism to "raise the bar?" Haven't some early stage startups been able to do this?
I think because some people can't train themselves up through the gate. This is not because they can't figure out the leetcode problems, but because they have more difficulty dealing with the kind of pressure you see in interviewing situations than others.
MUSL is statically linked, and so you don’t have those dynamic symbols. That’s the point!
You might want to re-read your own post because whether 300k/year is a lot of money or not is a non sequitor. You claimed that companies ask hard interview questions to depress salaries, which is a trivially falsifiable claim when you note that companies that don't ask hard interview questions can get away with paying less money than companies that do because they are less picky about who they hire.
From the article, it sounds like it uses sharding and pruning to scale. Both are nothing new, pruning has been implemented in many crypto-currencies already, sharding is currently an area of intense development.

Quote "Vault, a cryptocurrency that lets users join the network by downloading only a fraction of the total transaction data. It also incorporates techniques that delete empty accounts that take up space"
"Easier interview questions are also less stressful, which is an important advantage. Stress causes candidates to under-perform. But, on the other hand, when candidates are more comfortable, they perform their true best, which actually makes interviews more predictive."

I cannot believe that any interview situation is comfortable.
I'm pretty sure it's age discrimination plain and simple. The only time in my life I would have been in great shape for the standard interview process without a good deal of study was a couple years in early graduate school, where nearly all of this "breadth" stuff was fresh in my mind.

The relentless scepticism about people's achievements is to some extent understandable (we've all run into the senior person who can't do fizzbuzz), but it ties neatly in with the idea that every new hire should be 25 at most.
Basically just stay away from EA, Activision and Ubisoft and you won't find that much of this stuff.

Did I miss any?
I don't think there would be too much correlation between CS degree and ability to answer that question. There are lots of CS degree programs that don't deliver such low level instruction, and there are plenty of people without CS degrees who can answer that question because they were curious about how computers work or have been exposed to low level programming.
Only applies to foreign investors that are trying to gain a permanent monopoly.

You cannot expect to invest 1 dollar to call dibs to control a growing nation.
Apples and oranges. Most important problem with DPDK and Netmap is that they require a dedicated network card. We don't have a network card to spare for each of our applications. Read on more:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/kernel-bypass/

https://blog.cloudflare.com/single-rx-queue-kernel-bypass-wi...

Also using dpdk and netmap kills usual tooling (from basics like tcpdump). We very much like iptables, xdp, conntrack, syn cookies and other technologies deeply embedded into linux kernel. Doing DDoS once on linux kernel is hard enough. We don't want to redo the logic for each of the possible kernel bypasses technologies:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-use-the-linux-kernels-tcp...

https://blog.cloudflare.com/syn-packet-handling-in-the-wild/
"Increasing trust" doesn't add value if the system is already sufficiently trustworthy for the task of processing transactions. Based on that reasoning the cost should ('should' meaning: it is beneficial) increase forever because an infinite amount of energy burned is infinitely trustworthy.
Isn't that a validation of the value created by locals though?

And if they could create successful cola brands, what stops them from creating other things?
it's a "constant" so it's value cannot be altered during execution of the application.

basically starting a rant about being a tightass about code review with a bad piece of code
> out of (mechanical) engineering college new a grand total of zero engineers

How did you manage to do an engineering degree and not get to know any other engineers?