skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a big fan of "data monopolies" like Flightradar24. It's as if OpenStreetMaps was a private company that capitalizes on being first into the space and having a community of contributors willing to supply data to a private company for free. I hope an open data project such as https://www.adsbexchange.com/ wins in the long-term.
It wasn’t social science research, the recruiter was working for an actual robotics company with almost exclusively military customers
Actual title: The Age of Outrage
Your could try installing Google gboard and have an Android user show you how to swipe to write.

Almost anyone who uses a keyboard at work will become fast on gboard within a few minutes.

You certainly don't need to correct one in three words.
It's the same as code names that describe exactly what a project is about leaving no doubt about its purpose.
How do we know this article isn’t just fake news being written by an AI?
It's beautiful that the reduced model itself is only 175 lines of Python code, thanks to TensorFlow : https://github.com/openai/gpt-2/blob/master/src/model.py
Personally, I found the (more specific) current title very helpful in deciding to click through. "Technical Recruiting is Broken" is awfully vague -- not to mention that I'm pretty sure I've seen blog posts with that title before -- and (for what it's worth) I would have continued scrolling right past it.

You have a distinct, concrete facet of recruiting that you're talking about -- which is great! -- and the current HN title accurately reflects that.
To use the verbiage from the article: there's a mountain of scientific evidence linking measles and increased mortality in infants, the very elderly and the immunocompromised, such as people undergoing chemotherapy, people with an organ transplant or people with AIDS. Why not argue like this when the topic of vaccination comes up?

Same with rubella. Who cares if some stupid parents' kid comes down with rubella? The problem is that the pregnant woman nearby whose vaccination didn't take might get it and deliver a child with severe neurological impairments!
Google isn't the only search engine. But even if that is the only one you care about, Google said themselves in last years IO conference that it takes them several more days to index a client rendered interface, since they have to send it to a rendering queue, and the line is really long.

Here is the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFwUbgvpdaQ
Null is your friend, not a mistake
Hindustan Times is far from being a leading media outlet.it squarely falls in the same category as The National Enquirer of Jeff Bezos fame.
Having 24MB of RAM but only 650KB usable was annoying and pressure me into learning.
So far Vulkan has been mostly taking off on GNU/Linux.

On Windows, store apps only use DirectX, including Win32 packaged ones.

On Apple you have MoltenVK, as Apple only cares about Metal.

Sony has their own APIs.

Nintendo does support Vulkan, but are more keen in their NVN, alongside Unreal and Unity support.

On Android it is an optional API, and the few vendors that support it, not everyone cares to update their drivers.

So Vulkan is not yet taking over the 3D world as Khronos might advertise it.
Pixar was almost 10 years old by this point, and 5 years after their first short.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_9Tsbduk9E
https://publiclibraries.com/
Psst…you might want to blur those names out more (or even put boxes over them), since it’s possible to make them out if you squint.
That's pretty debatable. I've worked on some gnarly SSR architectures and making changes to the front end almost always involves refactoring some of the backend as well.
I get your point, but have to say I interpreted your previous post as "why would I do something that doesn't maximise profits?" I like messing with electronical/mechanical devices of all kinds, so I'll try to repair most things myself. If you dislike that kind of work, fine, but only caring about money is going to rub many people up the wrong way.
Ok but isn’t this the opposite of OpenAI’s “nukes are safer when multiple actors have them” strategy wrt AI?

I’m also confused by the threat models earnestly put forth in your blog post. Are we really concerned about deep faking someone’s writing? The plain word already demands attribution by default: we look for an avatar, a handle, a domain name to prove the person actually said this.
Can we get rid of recruiters altogether?

Yeah, I know that's an absurd idea, and I don't know any way we could really do that. But we are always going to have problems if we continue to insist on having non-technical people serve as the initial point of contact for technical positions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkNq4TrHP_U
Thank you!

In the case of JavaScript, it means there's no step where you build your source files into a runnable application and then run it. You just run the application directly.

But really this is just a corollary to the "One Language" idea. It means, if you need to build something, build it in the language your app is in, as part of your application logic. Building themselves is part of what applications do, not a thing done to applications.

A lot of this is inspired by the Jai programming language, which is a C-like language that lets you configure the compilation and build process in the language itself as part of the application. I wanted to try to take Jonathan Blow's ideas and apply them in JavaScript and then radicalize them.
> Creating the improved capability for torture is itself immoral IMO.

I can agree with that. Creating is an act and acts can have morality, hence brandishing at somebody is immoral as well. The inanimate object you create is still amoral though. I might put you on trial for war crimes for advancing the state of the art of torture, then go on to use your torture device in a moral way, by putting it on display to serve as a warning to future generations.

To bring this discussion back to the topic of software, distribution of software is an act and can be judged as immoral or moral. Depending on the nature of your software, it may be immoral to distribute it indiscriminately to the general public. Some people will probably find that contentious, but I think the possibility is definitely there. On the other hand, depending again on the nature of your creation, it might be immoral to not give it to the general public. Imagine if Alexander Fleming was a misanthrope and took the secret of penicillin to the grave.
In case you are interested in this kind of things there's also the same for ships:

https://www.marinetraffic.com

https://www.vesselfinder.com

https://www.openseamap.org
Have you been following NLP closely lately? It seems like most of the frustration and/or skepticism is coming from those closest to the field (i.e. researchers), so I'm pretty sure I'm missing a big part of the picture.

I'm trying to get a sense of just how quickly things have been advancing. I read a few NLP white papers about a year ago and never saw anything as compelling as this, but I am definitely an outsider possibly on the left hand side of the Dunning Kruger graph...
"murder robots" is most likely just parent's translation of the job description, for purposes of getting their point across.
Agree. There's probably a reason why lawyers and accountants bill by the hour. FWIW I get the impression that the folks here holding their nose at the idea of billing by the hour, actually are billing by the hour, just in 40h quanta.
Ask HN: Employee at a failing startup
I’ve worked at a startup for less than a year. I joined because the team seemed amazing, the pay was market rate, and the intros were very strong. They are at series A now, less than two dozen employees.

But things seem to be falling apart. A large portion of people have left recently. Other people muse about having nothing at all to do for weeks or months. The CEO is disengaged, and taking meetings with PE, VC, and misc. investors even though allegedly there are 12 months of runway. (No one is supposed to know about these meetings, I found out)

Basic business process surrounding sales and product are nonexistent.

So my question is: for those of you who have worked at early stage startups, how much of this smells, how much of this is growing pains, and how much of this suggests that the company is about to be sold / acquired for scraps? And what did you do about it, or did you just watch it sink?
A Survey of Model Learning and Model-Based Testing (2016)
“Mr Bean” Rowan Atkinson to Kristen Stewart. (DeepFake)
Apparently, Windows has it too (snipping tool), so it looks like the firefox tool is not necessary.
They surely get data from other sources too. You can track planes flying across the ocean, where they get that data from?
Pity that to use those I would need to replace my laptop, meanwhile the DirectX 11 driver still works.
Facebook is not a SPA. It is SSR PHP.
Petroleum oil/grease can make plastics brittle, IIRC they need fully synthetic grease, some manufacturers sell their own but the right type should be ok...
But when ads are so user-hostile that they sometimes include malware, that's when I lose sympathy for the ad-supported web.
You don't even need to get older. Once you add a spouse and the possibility of pregnancy and delivery comes into play...the rates skyrocket.
I thought it would be cool to have some kind of gateway service that collects the data and then sends if off to adsbexchange, flightradar and others but apparently it's not so easy.

Someone else already asked this question before:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ADSB/comments/ar3qrw/feed_to_a_sing...
Not only that but people these days are terrible drivers now that cars have ABS, traction control, blind spot sensors, even brake assist and automatic cruise/autopilot. They crash into the car ahead of them in multi-car a pile up and cry they are innocent.

People using computers seem to be the same people mindlessly click on anything with an OK button on it. Then their entire bank account is drained and they cry innocence.
The phenomenon that makes you cocky in your ignorance [audio]
Is there an open version for ship data as well?
So a small number of individuals decided what's best for everybody?

How is that open?

How is that not centralization of power?
They don't state they are testing their own product as far as I can tell. Strike one. They use a domain that says nothing about them being one of the tested products authors. Strike two. The whole thing is totally biased, testing apples against oranges and then posted to HN. Most papers would force them to have a "This is a paid ad" somewhere. Strike three and out.
I think it’s a bit different because the attacks are not entirely clear. The power of many of the attacks would be for them to fly under the radar because nobody was expecting it.

So having lots of script kiddie attacks (which would be sloppier and easier to notice) would lead to a more rapid adoption of safeguards.
There's also legal reasons why they don't advertise the company names. There's so much engineers don't know about recruiting. I'm an engineer and spent a lot of time talking to 100's of recruiters to understand what and why they do what they do.

It's a) expensive for them b) they have a lot of legal things they must worry about and c) Engineers can be very very crappy to speak with when you are an recruiter. They will treat you like crap based on job title only.
"The Japanese tested their bioweapons on Chinese prisoners. The Tuskegee Institute tested syphilis on African-Americans."

This is a ludicrous equivocation.

The Japanese deliberately infected captives.

The Tuskegee subjects had contracted syphilis on their own, in the wild. They just weren't informed or properly treated.
Yeah, I wonder of "tinkering" isn't bound to diminish with technological progress. If things like cars and computers become more sophisticated over time, presumably that pushes them progressively beyond the abilities of laymen. (More optimistically, they may simply require less tinkering to begin with.)
> Dvorak isn’t perfect, mainly because most computer interfaces have been designed around a QWERTY interface since their inception. For example, while on a QWERTY keyboard the adjacent shortcuts for Cut, Copy, and Paste can all be pressed with a single hand, Dvorak turns most of them into a two-handed affair.

In macOS, you can use the “Dvorak-QWERTY” layout to solve this.
That's somewhat my point as well. There's no perfect world, there will be human errors and there will be natural disasters, but the point with newer reactor designs, is that they have design decisions in them that account for such issues, we have learned from the past, so that even a meltdown can be contained relatively well.
I'm interested in how mens rea squares with the oft-cited "ignorance of the law is no excuse" (is there a Latin term for that?).

If you don't know you're breaking a law there can be no mens rea, can there?
For #2. I’ve had a recruiter that I first spoke to in 2012 after I was laid off. We kept in touch over the years and he didn’t get a chance to place me until 2018. I think the $30K he made off of me was worth the few emails he sent over the years.

You only need about 6-10 placements a year to make a decent income.
You'll be surprised how much data you can easily grab out of thin air, if you probe the right frequency.
I think you could take the authors' example and use it to argue the other way. They say that, in this case, the important thing for a programmer to know is which of two patterns of memory access is faster, not why it is so, and, up to a point, this is reasonable. If, however, you try to do a complete education along these lines, you will end up with thousands of rules to memorize, with little rhyme or reason, and all of them having a bunch of corner cases where they don't apply and priority rules about which takes precedence. In my experience, understanding why things are the way they are is the key to remembering how they are, and in recognizing which issues are relevant to a particular case.

This reminds me of an article I read recently about science's replication crisis: if you don't have a theory, it said, any outcome is plausible [1].

Of course, it would be difficult to understand hardware and OS design if you had no idea what they were used for, but I do not think that is an actual problem in current CS curricula.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/the-replication-cris...
I had sewing lessons in primary school in early 90s in Poland. It was compulsory, on "practical technics" lessons. Other subjects covered were: reading 3d schemas, making some wooden toys, basic electric projects (make engine turn both ways with switches), making pancakes, making christmas tree decorations, such stuff. It lasted for 2 years and was pretty fun. The worst thing was learning "technical script" where every letter had to be perfectly written on a milimeter grid. I never understood the point of it, but the rest was pretty useful.

I was awful at it, but I learnt how to do it and I (badly) sewed a lot of things through my life. Mostly buttons :)
In old days when cash was king, many small businesses used to under report income. Then came credit/debit cards, which require of businesses to sign up with credit card processing companies, who take the fees out and reimburse monies to your bank account.

Since old habits die hard, these small businesses used to under report income despite the trail of evidence left by credit card processors. So, IRS came in and imposed a rule on these processors: send us a copy of payments paid to Mr Small Business X--and that copy is called 1099-K. This is like W2, 1099-MISC, 1099-INT.

Basically, the tax man wants records from the third parties, since self-reported ones are mostly under reported.
https://www.openseamap.org
Similar open source thing exists for gliders: https://www.glidernet.org
It uses flarm data, which is received by many enthusiasts. Has been on a rise the last few years
If you look at their paper, section 4 is entirely devoted to this question. They present compelling evidence that it is generating original content, the simplest of which is it's ability to write coherently about ridiculous things like talking unicorns that nobody has ever written about in the training set.

https://d4mucfpksywv.cloudfront.net/better-language-models/l...
You can't do that for near 0 cost though, nor generate a different story per user on the fly.
I switched about 10 years ago and can still touch type qwerty as well (and need to do so fairly often). I haven't seriously considered going back, but I don't know that there is even any ergonomic advantages much less speed ones.

I think the most relevant thing is that it might actually be worse for programming, both from the symbols and from qwerty-optimized hotkeys.

I use vim with most of the regular bindings which is designed as a combination of mnemonics (which are still fine) and qwerty layout (which obviously just end up in a random spot, though j and k happen to still be together but not in the home row).
Ad networks strive to filter these out, so it's not an argument against ads. Otherwise, you could say let's not use, for example, app stores, because sometimes malicious apps can get through the checks.
>> If anything, Dockerfiles are already too powerful

How? Why doesn't docker allow me to arbitrarily copy files, create any layers and execute shell commands from command-line instead, as opposed to a Dockerfile?
And their assumption is backed up by later cultures, still thousands of years in our past, from which we have written records. People seem to have placed high value on their dogs both as tools and companions then too. Considering the long history of dog domestication, it is not at all unreasonable to assume that earlier cultures had similar relationships.
So every site with "disable your adblocker" will display the message just because a "majority" doesn't use them? I find that doubtful.

Adblockers are impacting revenue from a considerable amount of users, otherwise there wouldn't be such messages.
Yep. Millions of SPAs out in the wild and none of them are good. This whole thread is such a joke. It's a bunch of posturing and no data whatsoever from actual SPAs in the wild.
I don’t fully agree, I bought some thick, expensive raw denim jeans too, and although I really appreciate the quality of the material and the comfort of wearing them, I doubt they’ll last long as I tend to break the crotch area which is much harder to fix.
I don’t need them to be technical. I just need them to put me in contact with companies, tell me where I am in the process and tell me the salary range. The last is the hardest to get from job listings.
The tax break argument always seemed like a red herring to me. I live in NYC and was excited for Amazon coming but most of my friends were against it mostly out of a vague “stick it to the system” mentality. Somewhat ironic since most of these friends are in households earning in guessing around/in excess of 250k. Not one of these people gave a moment of thought about city or state budgets/deficits before and it is unlikely they will do so again.
How are they "fighting one dirty tactic with another"? Clearly they are saying that the whole thing isn't a problem at all! They are fighting for manifest v3 with dirty tactics if anything.
Thank you for setting a positive example of how recruiting should be done!
On Being an Engineering Manager
I do it only for stars... really man? Creating and maintaining such a list is not a simple thing. It's not awesome or other shit in the name.

This is a collection of my short notes, one-liners, useful links, tools and more. I added it to gh, to share with others and get other interesting things. Not for stars! The amount of them is obviously nice but not crucial.
Maybe, but I'm not convinced. With enough velocity, a ping pong ball can blow a clean neat circular hole straight through a ping pong paddle. Fast moving objects can cause extremely localized damage. On the other hand if you shoot a fast at a plastic jug full of water, an incompressible fluid, it will shred the water jug specifically because that water is incompressible. Fill the jug with air or sand and you'll then find that the jug remains intact when you shoot it, save for two bullet-sized holes through both sides.

If the tungsten rod is able to borrow through hundreds of meters of bedrock, it seems to me that's a sufficiently efficient penetrator that it might 'ice pick' straight through the target bunker dumping only a small fraction of it's energy into the bunker, as it then goes deeper through more bedrock.
Erik Torenberg's Village Global [1] was started fairly recently and is already extremely highly regarded in the start-up community. Much more so than Techstars or any other non-YC accelerator in my impression.

[1] https://www.villageglobal.vc/ https://www.villageglobal.vc/network-catalyst/
Sure, if it really was going to take 30 hours, but that's why we have repair men.
Deciding if feeding the media with fear was worth the attention you will get wasn't easy, ha. Let me tell you, you are the shame of the profession.
What are the legal reasons?
Anyone notice who posted this? Ghostery did.

Look at that sub history..

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=kkm

They should be shamed. I'll make sure to tell anyone I see mention them to stay clear.
Separate frontend from backend development and make it even two teams. This makes it much more robust and loosely coupled because both sides protect the interface from each other.
In my experience, Awesome lists are not often maintained and become out of date within months.
I think it is a very interesting question for a lot of scientists, but also an extremely hard one to answer. And an even harder one to implement.

Even obvious wins that almost everyone can agree on, like getting publishing out of the hands of for-profit entities that add no value is taking forever, because cultural, social and political institutions are hard to move.
I wonder what you do with your jeans that they can get holes.

I've had a variety of jeans under 100€, none ever got any hole. The buttons or the pockets break though.
Agreed: theory doesn't matter - until it does. The implementation of abstractions doesn't matter - until the consequences of the implementation leaks out as observable behavior.
I definitely agree. I learned how to sew as a kid for example from my mom, but I sort of dropped it after I realized it wasn't "something that boys do" at the time. All of those functional skills would be so much more useful than a lot of things I was taught in school. There are "adulting" classes now that demonstrate the obvious gap in our education system. [0]

Fortunately, the generation that was born with YouTube will be a lot better off, because the amount of things you can learn to do from watching YouTube videos by experienced people is astounding.

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/adulting-classes-teach-millenni...
> I interpreted your previous post as "why would I do something that doesn't maximise profits?"

And then people wonder why they are miserable.
How is it going to be worse? He's lowering taxes in the border and trying to convince Central American immigrants to stay in Mexico.
In my view, rather than talking about time periods, it might be preferable to consider different fields of science wrt replicability. In fact it doesn't even make sense to put all of "science" in one basket. The medical and behavioral sciences get the most attention these days, but are not comparable to physics, chemistry, geology, astronomy, etc. My field (physics) doubtlessly has its own problems, yet has produced theories of astounding generality and accuracy in spite of potential flaws in the individual studies that led to the success of those theories.

Replication might not turn out to be the big problem. The lack of progress towards a unifying theory might be a more important long term issue.
lawyers and liability -- unless there's something concrete to be gained from being open, being a good samaritan can get you into even hotter water.
The original article's title was “Is Y Combinator’s latest cohort too big?”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19186238.