skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I've heard stories of mid to high level managers crying in bathrooms because of poor reviews from their reports. These factors combine to create an environment where teams are actively working to make engineers happy and content.

Honestly this sounds like a thought experiment.

Do you have any ethical hangups about entering an environment where falling out of your favor can leave someone stress-crying in their place of work and/or about their livelihood.

If so, how much money would it take for you to join the system anyway?

How long would you stay in such a system if you found yourself already in one?

Back in the real world, in a business context, it sounds like an abusive workplace and an untenable system. Like, that obviously can't last forever.
He wasn't paid. He was paid for giving a copyright license for a regional commercial. He wasn't paid for the copyright license Yahoo! needed for everything else they used his yodel for.
You can disagree on whether or not Amazon is pricing things ethically, or whether or not antitrust laws should cover Amazon's actions, but the article title is "Is Amazon Violating U.S. Antitrust Laws" which, in the current state of US law, it (probably) isn't.
An unattainable ideal, sure, but one that noble media organizations can aspire to. Notably through: open editorial processes, balanced sourcing and attribution, a robust correction policy, a non-combative relationship with readers, use of a neutral styleguide, eschewing advertorial content and NO EDITORIALS/OPINION PIECES.
Ah yeah, true true. I tend to deal with the social temptations by "pauperizing", as my wife describes it. I was very, very poor in college, would often eat before social engagements to avoid prepared meal prices etc... So now when everyone is having drinks, I pretend I'm too poor to afford them, always walk to the bar and grab a soda water on the rocks. Everyone assumes I'm drinking a mixed, and I can always DD. It's interesting how being that frugal can improve my discipline, rather than degrade it!
When Futurism Led to Facism
It is illegal to do this when you slip below the cost of production line - at that point your lost profit becomes an investment (if you're doing it right) in either securing long term profits[1] (printers and toner) or driving competitors out of business (predatory pricing[2] or possibly dumping[3] if done for market control)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy) Dumping is a particularly interesting instance since there isn't a direct realized economic gain.
Unsolicited question: Does every man have his price?
Haven’t seen that one in the wild. Can that chain just keep going?!
Which at least in tech doesn't seem to have lost anyone a job. With all the tooling and advancements in modern programming what would have taken years to build 10 years ago could be done in a week now. Broadcasting a message to computers around the world would have once been a very difficult task that took a lot of time and skill. Now its just a chapter in the python beginners book.

The world responded by building more complicated applications.
I disagree. Doing competitive-style programming and learning all sorts of weird algorithms has not made me a better engineer. I can count on one hand the number of times in my career that I have had to design or use an "interesting" algorithm - and no, not in the "not knowing what you don't know" sense where I could have used one if only I'd known about it.
> The opposite is true for online newspapers.

How do you figure? Money is money and every organization needs it.
Reminds me of the old "hack" to use three shear transformations to rotate an image.

The idea being that a shear is relatively much faster on weaker CPUs, relative to doing a "proper" (reverse mapping) rotation.

A nice write-up can be found here: https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~fricke/projects/israel/paeth/r...
It could be done with a new separate branch of government.
It used to be there was good money to make doing it privately, but nowadays the system needs government funding. Impartial and accessible (also meaning average Joe can understand it) information is as fundamental as the judiciary in order to maintain a working democracy.

There are various element of it in various countries. Like national offices of statistic. There are stuff like the BBC and variety of EU initiative to inform about various processes. Democratic government keep complete record and have public service already make analysis and summary for ministers to work with. So it's not like it is out of the realm of the achievable. Maybe an official rating could be created based on a service like politifact that independant newspaper must display on their frontpage like the food safety rating for restaurants. Teach the kid at school that anything not rated is basically fiction and that will take care of the majority of the population.

There is the risk of it becoming a propaganda arm of the government, sure, but you can have the same argument with every branch of the government. There is no intrinsic reason to trust the judiciary, the military or the police, except a tradition of being trustworthy which is really what maintain the whole system running: a lot of honest people everywhere. In any case, that's a moot point since the journalism it replaces is dying, and we know the new media that is killing it is not even pretending to have any kind of integrity.
>Why are all three dying now?

Ads.

I can't block advertisements in any of those three formats, but I can on the web. I no longer consume television, newspapers, or FM radio other than CBC (public radio, mostly news and issues, no ads).
Just because there's a professional organization that pushes a set of ethics, does not mean they will be anything resembling the type of ethics you are envisioning. Building tools, your ethics generally get framed with regards to your client - not the subjects your tools will be used on.

Traditional engineerings have longstanding concepts of ethics, plenty of professional organizations, and even professional licensure. This does not stop mechanical engineers from adding to USG's weapons disparity or civil engineers from constructing more profit-center cages.
I imagine that even if tech has a strong history of conscientious objectors, you could argue the industry needs more because:

* Tech is incredibly, incredibly important and powerful, in its implications and effects on politics, society, geopolitics, everything

* It seems plausible there's far more going on than anyone knows about
It'd be cool to see what language the parent library was written in, so you could explore them similar to Github's language based browse feature.

Although I guess the whole point, as far as the end user is concerned, is it doesn't matter what language it was written in. But it's still very relevant to people using them as libraries.
I'll miss papers.

I was a paperboy and have fond memories of it. I also like to read things on physical media.

On the upside, it's got to be good for the earth to not print papers every day then trash them immediately after.
Is not <bold blue size=16>Nana C++ Library</> easier to read/write than [B S16 C#00F]Nana C++ Library[bsc] (especially for a c++ programmer)?
Teamwork Is Key to Protecting OT/IT Converged Infrastructure
Google reiterates: Google's organic results are not influenced by ads
Chrome, like Firefox, is not an example of modern C++ code. Google's and Mozilla's coding standards enforce a late-'90s style. It is astonishing they get it to work at all.
Shouldn't we wait for a solution to our traffic and resource issues before trying to increase our density? Is it really so terrible for people to consider living somewhere besides California?

I'm a renter now, so I sympathize with people like me who are suffering from the current situation, but I feel like efforts like this just create sub-standard housing and enable more irresponsible growth. Are we just trying to lower the quality of life for everyone in CA until enough people leave?
Samsung Dex is awesome to connect a monitor/keyboard/mouse to your phone
I'd say it is complementary to the nation states three axis model. It doesn't define someone's politics, it defines how they go about their politics and what they proritise about their value system, which is generally just as important to consider.
Could you give an example of a "noble media organization" that comes the closest, in your view, to achieving this goal?
Because you want to program in Rust but have a specific need no Rust library full fills but Python libraries do. Suppose you need to convert between Gregorian, Julian, Islamic, Hebrew, and Armenian calendar dates. No such library exist for Rust but they do for Python. So you either spend (waste) time writing one for Rust or you use this Python binding.
I completely agree.

Even Google suggest to "practice writing syntactically correct code on a whiteboard". This is clearly a useless skill as a software engineers except in getting a job at companies that do whiteboard interviews. Did you try to refactor code on a whiteboard?

How are they able to find people that are able to efficiently debug problems?

When I interview people I tell them, "Bring your own laptop set up to be able to code and debug". And I give them "Fix this site" or "build this thing" kind of problems.

It looks like that it works a lot better to find "hidden gems" and people that are good at "doing" instead of those that are jsut good at "telling".
Play Mountain [Episode]
What is bad with mixing them like that into plain c++? Why may be better to have external tools?
Fake meat maker plans $1.2B IPO
How much does a standard office visit cost? How long do you get?

In Canada it's in 15min increments, you have to say beforehand if you need 30min or longer, because they break up the whole day in 15min chunks and bill each the same. Almost every time they are rushing you, so they can hammer out a ton of 5min appointments and bill them all for 15min. Which is kind of annoying.
This is a review of a book about structuralism as idealized by Lévi-Strauss.

not even anthropologists consider it today. He published pop books and founded anthropology departments all over the world, but academically, meh.

Lévi-Strauss would be at a TED talker today.
> One friend of mine who had access to the HR feedback said I was too confident and I should try to appear less skilled as the manager was kind of afraid.

I totally understand you. I had this experience in one interview. HR took me to the side after the interview and told me I was too confident. I was really passionate about web dev and their questions were good. They still schedule me for the next round, I ended up lying and saying that I have taken another offer. It felt like the HR was trying to lower my self esteem so they can pay me less or something. I have no idea why else they would do this. I was very respectful throughout the interview.
> Online blinded-to-publisher exchange-based ads are the most democratic mode of news support.

The trouble with this model is that publishers like to have editorial rights over ads. A left-leaning publisher, for e.g, will want to be associated with ads for an oil company or to generalize, not publisher wants to be associated with any outrage-of-the-day brand.
Piggybacking? I didn't realize he was selling anything. Profiting from their work is definitely not okay!

And I've only ever read about them attacking people who were actively profiting, which doesn't bother me at all. I don't follow game industry news often, so there's nothing knee jerk about this.
Unbiased reporting has never existed in the history of the US press, and likely never will. The very decision to publish or not publish story inserts a little bias. The press can't possibly cover everything, so they have to decide what should be printed, and it's not always a straightforward decision.

40 years ago, there were several nationally recognized publications (NYT, WaPo, WSJ, etc.), and all of them had a bias. NYT editorial leaned left, WSJ editorial leaned right, and everyone knew this. The political leaning was baked into brand of the publication.

This all changed in the internet era. The collapse of print advertising decimated the industry. Publications became more incentivized to publish questionable reporting because clickbaity headlines brought more ad traffic. The Trump campaign was covered ad nauseum because having his name in a headline significantly increased traffic to an article, and thus revenue.

The online advertising model is fundamentally incompatible with the kind of journalism you're looking for, but we as a society are hooked on it because it means we don't have to pay for the content.
I don't think any comes that close. Most are stuck in an unfortunate race to the bottom against cheap social/internet/clickbait news and the shackles of archaic old media.
Some folks do in Singapore
I think opinion pieces and editorials can be included as long as they are clearly marked and delineated from the actual news.

In fact, I think it's almost impossible to write an unopinionated news story as choosing to write a story is an opinion of itself - the clearer we can isolate these opinions the better.
This is fundamentally a distribution problem. It's not dissimilar to retail or other industries with the design-produce-distribute-market chain.

A journalist (creator), produces a product (manufacturer), a newspaper/magazine distributed it (distribution) and a publisher creates the allure that makes you want to trust that brand (marketing). All that stuff was hard and expensive 15 years ago and consumers didn't have the tools to find the creator and the creator didn't have the tools to distribute.

A bunch of bundled industries are falling apart with the unbundling but in almost all cases there remains a creator that the mass population is now "capable" of finding. And the tools that allow for cheap distribution are basically free.

What's lacking is the arbitrage of the distribution platform's earning power to pay steady wages to journalists.

The worst thing that happened to journalism was no-paywall outlets. It convinced people that content is free. It's as if we buy toothpaste at CVS for $3 and on Amazon it's free just because it's on the internet. At a certain point you start to devalue ALL toothpaste rather than just devaluing crap toothpaste because Amazon makes it easier for you to buy toothpaste you like.

Today I can follow a journalist's work. I can follow a specific topic. But I have yet to figure out that doing that work costs money. So no matter the paywall model, it's gonne be hard for consumers to fund it.
When you need to show the same UI on different devices (desktop, mobile, OSes) and media (screen, high-dpi-screen, printer)?
That has nothing at all to do with the information in this chart though.
This seems to be mostly an umbrella effort, focusing (according to their home page) on the "RTL to GDSII" part of EDA. To the extent that they're successful, it would be quite complementary with other efforts in open hardware design, focusing on generating RTL from very-high-level, parameterized, quasi-functional hardware descriptions. But I'm a bit skeptical about their overall goals, particularly since one key issue with modern ASIC design is the unwillingness on the part of fabs to openly share critically needed info about their design rules or other proprietary details of their design-related workflow - and there's no way that open-source software alone can resolve this. Of course I do think we can expect a few useful tools to come out of this effort, and maybe that's compelling enough.
> the ruling suggests that her behavior was not antisocial by definition.

The law is not the definition of pro- or anti-social behavior.
Largest e-recycling fraud in US history sends owners of Kent, WA firm to prison
Probably considered a win as long as it isn't banned from airplanes. (re: exploding S7 batteries)
If you have insurance—which someone with “seven figures in assets” should—then that is not a risk. Of course, insurance will only pay for so much. At some point of diminishing returns, they will cut you off. Just like any healthcare system in the world will. You can always spend more money for a tiny chance of living longer.
Papers like the NYT, WP and WSJ are doing ok. It's the local ones that are dying or getting bought out and gutted.

This is a big problem, because no one else sits through those hours of local meetings that mean so much to our cities in terms of transportation, housing, schools and so on.
OT: What a pathetically annoying case of autoplaying, non-dismissable, autoplaying video (mobile).

Completely destroys a decent story.
Any time I see arguments to effect of "lawyer X lawyered for Y, and Y is bad, so lawyer X is bad," I remember an episode from Star Trek: TNG called "The Measure of a Man," in which Picard is chosen to defend Data's right to self-determination as a sentient being, and Riker is chosen to make the opposite case for the character that wants to treat Data as a machine, a weapon that can be reallocated freely like a Jeep or a rifle. Riker struggles with this, but ends up giving the best case he can so the matter can be settled without any doubts. Doing a bad job on purpose leaves room for doubt and summary judgement, which is far from ideal.

I think the PATRIOT Act is complete bullshit, but I'm not going to hold a grudge against anyone that worked on it, only those who passed it and continue to vote to renew/strengthen it, who also refuse to listen to arguments against it.
I feel I don't really understand the last line, in that I cannot find any disadvantages-

Google being so widely available means that people stop caring about memorizing things that are easily googleable, but that is pretty orthoganal to "actually learning". Google being available makes this distinction clear. If it can be easily googled for, it's a fact and remembering facts is for paper and bits. Most things aren't on google. Use your brain for the hard stuff.
Maybe the sort of person who has the time/desire/interest to study a guide to figure out how to fit in at google is exactly the sort of person they want to hire.
The problem is these tend to reinforce opinions people have about an organization or "the media" even when clearly denoted.
Nice site, but it's worth giving some info about yourself on the site and why I should trust your advice, given that these books are expensive.

In elementary machine learning, you give two options. You should really include introduction to statistical learning by the same folks who wrote ESL. It's a great book that covers the same ground as ESL but with less math.
https://schepman.org/about/schepman-beach_hud5107476b889d727...

lol.
Sadly, both Congress and the people at the time [1][2]. It was full-on panic mode in response to 9/11. I don't remember much about the constitutional lawyer side at the time. A couple years later the public started changing its mind [3], though Congress arguably still isn't even close.

[1] https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/107-2001/s313

[2] http://www.sheldensays.com/debating_the_usa_patriot_act.htm

[3] https://news.gallup.com/poll/9205/public-little-concerned-ab...
Interesting that vanilla and cocoa cone from the americas but are primarily produced elsewhere (mostly Africa (c) and Asia (v))

Vanilla is more subtle and less overpowering. Chocolate is “decadent”. It’s good on occasion, but too much too often and it over satiates whereas vanilla can keep on going, less filling, more aromatic, more nuanced, more delicate.
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I’d much rather a police officer be able to make the call to not pursue something than regularly have people stand trial for trifles. If you don’t give the discretion to cops or prosecutors, that is the alternative.
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I don't think that retaliating against criminal theft is a matter of debate. If police behave criminally, they are subject to retaliation. This is the long sighted view, in that in the long run, fighting back against criminal behavior is a detterent against that behavior. Am I missing something here? Should we encourage thuggery and brigandry in our peace officers? Dangerous, yes, shortsighted, absolutely not.
I would think it was inescapable if you were anywhere but in the most remote areas of the world.
Yeah, I don’t think my whiteboarding skills are particularly useful at work, but the personality type that makes me obsessively practice whiteboarding for weeks before a job interview tour also makes me effective at work.
Oh yeah. That's Christopher Domas, the same guy that built a functioning compiler that only emits MOV instructions [0] [1].

His other talks are quite interesting, as well!

[0]:https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator
[1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VF_wPkiBJY
Based on what data would you expect that?
I'd like to imagine there's some way for society to recover to the state of semi-trusted media, maybe we just need to have enough voices that the truth comes out in majority - like industry run newspapers, the cotton lobby's paper is clearly biased on this article about reducing fabric tariff's from mexico but the jeweler's quarterly newspaper doesn't have a vested interest.

As I said, it's a hard problem. I like the discussion on trying to find an answer though!
This is huge, even though it is a mouse study space we should really be examining glyphosate more carefully given how prevalent it is in our food.
Looking at the state budget, or anything published by the state doesn't tell you what is just pork and what positions are jobs programs for the politically well connected. I have immediate family members in state government in MA. It's not like I don't know how this work.
Who’s Really Buying Property in San Francisco?
What do you mean by this? I assure you there is no difficulty on making a robot move around randomly.
Maybe the state should just be filled with apartment blocks a-la Le Corbusier. Put them on springs for the earthquakes.
Ultra low latency absolutely improves the streaming experience for community streams like on Twitch. When everyone is +-20 seconds of each other the chat doesn't line up well.
Very cool! Awesome and helpful walkthrough. You should post this to HN! Netlify is the best thing since sliced bread. Checked out Forestry once but haven't done anything with it really...
I hate these style of interviews. I give them to prospective engineers every week for one of these FAANGM companies.

They don't test for good engineers -- they test for people who practice these style interviews, and for good new graduates.

It makes sense to ask these questions to new grads, but afterwards there is so much more experience that I feel like is much more important than acing data structures questions.

I am amazing at whiteboard questions, but that doesn't make me a good engineer. It's because I found the trick to solving these, and have practiced them. A lot of it it is practice 'ooo this looks like a graph problem, let me use a graph', etc.