skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work on the team that built this and many of our other ranking tech. I can answer any questions people have.
Also shameless plug: using this tech we released some artificial search sessions as an exploratory dataset. https://github.com/dfcf93/MSMARCO/tree/master/ConversationlS...
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Eh, you take it out of the stock grant refreshes and the noise of stock fluctuations will make it rather difficult to notice in your total compensation.

EDIT: Also, you're taking income off the top of the tax brackets and giving it to someone at the bottom of the bottom, so you get a tax multiplier where you take $1 from me and give $1.50 to someone else. Also, you probably don't need even a 2% or 3% haircut off the engineers' salaries to make every support position a $100k/year job with full benefits and 401k matching, unless your engineer : support ratio is crazy.

EDIT EDIT: Yeah, pushing everyone to $100k/year is probably overselling the idea. You could still free up a life-changing amount of money for people making minimum or near-minimum wage.
You either got very lucky or you're far more effective at pre-screening companies than I am. The last time I spent that kind of time on a test was for a megacorp in the top 50 of the fortune 500.

The process was much the same as you described: multiple day test followed by taking two days off to fly out for the interview. Except I didn't get the job and nobody who interviewed me ever looked at the take home test.
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Not all journalism though
This implies the old site wasn't nice. Which is not true. The old site isn't as pretty as the new one for sure, but it wasn't a bad site. It was straightforward.

Personally I don't like that the new website doesn't even display rust's syntax (what it looks like) on the homepage anymore.
Perhaps I'm in the minority here, but I don't like this question because you know there is a politically correct answer and then an actual course of action people would take.

The proper answer is: introduce democratic government, clean up the country, introduce proper amenities (healthcare, etc) and spread the wealth for the benefit of the people.

Fact of the matter is: absolute power corrupts, and plenty of people would loot the oil money reserves for their own benefit if they had the chance. Just have a look at what happens in Russia.
See this video by ibxtoycat where he beats a laughably bad Guinness world record in Minecraft, applies to have his result recognized, and then has his application expire unexamined because he didn't pay the large fee for priority application:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5YzeUWJ2xk

Their business model clearly no longer involves providing accurate information about records to people who buy the books.
I'm making it like that again. I'm back down with the blue collar proles in Mountain View, landscaping and moving and waiting tables and the like. That's how things work outside of speculation... employer has a business where they get paid, and they outsource their own functions. I'll never run an engineering org like Silicon Valley again, it's so broken in delivering results as a result of the speculative nature. I have a project website up serving two cities. We use Clojure and static generation, and operate and maintain IT like an old tractor. I train my replacements to keep myself available and customers getting a good price (minimum wage). It lets people start their career with hands-on work. It's in BigTech's interest to make us think tech is hard, but I'm using most of the same stuff as I did when I was 14 and self-taught 20 years ago, and it's gotten far far simpler and better.
That's because even though productivity does not scale linearly with hours it can continue to go up. That little bit extra can make a big difference where the margins between success and failure are small.
The people who actively tweet are the minority of a minority of Americans.

https://www.pewinternet.org/2019/04/24/sizing-up-twitter-use...
I wonder if this is running afoul of campaign finance laws.

The Trump administration has been doing that a lot recently, and while this can easily be misconstrued as a “report to the government” tool, it is not hosted on a .gov site.

Will the executive branch be acting on the information posted here? That also seems legally dubious. [edit: because there are security issues involving using non-government computers for government business. I think Hillary had some problems with that; maybe Trump didn’t hear about it?]
Sorry, I was not saying remote controlled. I was saying fully autonomous but only from interstate to interstate with specially designed and designated on/off ramps. They would drive highway speeds (except in traffic).
He never said you had to spin the chamber by an unknown amount, aren't your odds even better if you make sure the bullet is in the next chamber before you shoot left?

Of course, many game theory calculations assume all players know the payoff matrix and equilibrium strategies of the others; making sure the bullet isn't in the next chamber is the rational universal strategy if the game has a fixed number of rounds.

Presumably the actual question has a bunch of provisos making sure you can't intentionally miss, or accidentally miss, or dodge, or shoot early, or fail to pull the trigger, or shoot the gang.....
"Because of this, at this time we will not be releasing our research, model or datasets publicly."

Seems like people are designing research for this conclusion, begging their own controversy. However, it rings hollow, especially presented thusly, on medium, with the first person plural voice of a corporation.

Ethical discussions in machine learning technology presentations are becoming trite and self-congratulatory ("we've made an AI so good it merits discussion of the ethical implications") especially when a discussion of actual applications is missing.
What about vixra.org?
Samsung and Huawei agree to settle patent disputes
Is this like https://podsync.net/?
Then you keep interviewing. I don't understand why you seem to think negotiating over salary is somehow "risky." It happens all the time.
What would your thoughts be if the interviewee, after that question being posed, asked for a 10 minute break (or thought session) to gather his thoughts about how he would act within 100 days?

- Would you discount the person for not being able to answer your question right there?

- Would you think that this is a person who doesn't like to make rash decision (or the opposite)?

- Would you be thinking that this person is wasting your time?

- Would you allow it or have 'em answer right then and there?
Not clear on how showing that you're willing to argue a position that you don't have any background or evidence to support is a positive.
Why do you need a Twitter sized audience?

People were able to organize and communicate effectively on the web before Twitter, Facebook, etc. Not being on one of the big social media silos isn't de facto censorship, it's just slightly less convenient than being on them.

But it's still entirely possible to build an audience elsewhere.
This particular company was neither "big" nor one of the "top" companies to work for. I strongly suspect they were getting noddy developers and were happy with them. The reason I didn't want to work for them was categorically not because the test was too hard, it was a trivial spring-boot app. I didn't want to work for them because of what it, and the test process, said about them ...
I'm pretty sure in the vast majority of these "red meat" studies they don't differentiate between a steak bought raw at the butchers and a hot dog. I would bet that if there was a study on the difference between good quality steak vs processed garbage like hot dogs and spam, the results would be different.

Sadly most people will uncritically gulp up these "studies" in order to justify their being influenced to going vegetarian or vegan. One could argue that the authors themselves are working under such confirmation bias.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLk5AAKRem8
Nobody is entitled to a Twitter-sized audience. I agree monopolies are bad but the fact that right-wing tolerant platforms are shitshows and niche compared to more mainstream ones is perhaps not the fault of the left. Maybe, just maybe, there aren't that many people holding (and willing to listen to) the kind of opinions commonly posted on gab et al.
Huawei poses security threat to UK, says former MI6 chief
If you are not at a keyboard often a few days spent learning to touch type is wasted: your brain will quickly forget and you are back to looking. You need to practice ANYTHING to retain the ability to do it (some things are easier than others which is why you can ride a bike after years of not touching one).

If you are going to use a keyboard often, then the time spent to learn a keyboard is well worth it. However if your day job doesn't require a keyboard those classes won't be helpful.
Probably drivers from the local transit union. I've seen/read about (union) activists doing some crazy things and it wouldn't surprise me that someone or some people would try to show with their life that this is a bad idea and therefore shouldn't replace a human driven system.
This is entirely untrue.
I believe iCloud does otherwise work normally. Reminders is the only app I can think of (including all Apple and non-Apple apps) with any sort of obvious glitches, sync-related or otherwise. I'll give the reset a try--thanks!
That last one is a dangerous argument, imho. There're versions of that argument applied to labour laws, environmental laws, corporate law... It's often made by the radical EU-left. Yanis Varoufakis, most notably.

Unless you play by the same rules, free trade is unfair.

That argument is extremist, imo. It creates a dichotomy between trade or sovereignty. Want your own environmental laws, liability laws, pension schemes, oh&s rules? No trade for you.

It leads to both conflict, and the extension of the massive and very problematic trade agreements into every every facet of legislation.

IP laws can stay local. I agree on the middle point. Whatever the case for china making its own IP laws, they need to follow their own rule of law. Hacking/stealing is not justifiable. Deciding that pharma patents are not valid in China is.
Here's the problem with doing this in the US: if you're out of a job, you're out of health insurance. If your whole family is on your health insurance plan, you'll never accept a project-based gig that might not become full time. So with this approach, you're filtering out a new and different subset of the applicant pool before they even interview.
"working on it" in aviation terms is a decade or two. Look up how long basicmed took. And that was an easy change.
Recreate Reminders? Wow. That app has an entire team of engineers to build that. It isn’t trivial, despite being “simple.” And to do it in two hours? That’s just insulting.
It's an extremely dangerous conflation of terms to suggest that private speech and private moderation are the same as censorship.

But forcing a "fairness" doctrine onto the tech world is exactly what the current political parties, who feel like reporting for them has had insufficient deference and whatabout-ism, want to do. Uniformly across the center of the political spectrum most of the US government represents.

Speech Rules enacted democratically by small communities are fine. Speech Rules imposed top down by the owners of infrastructure for communication are not great, but at least customers can make choices about them and it's not so unimaginable to find alternatives. Speech Rules enacted top-down by the executive are impossible to argue with and ultimately one of the most dangerous kinds of authoritarianism. The infosec community can tell you they've been fighting a slow, losing battle against going to jail for saying something that is not illegal to say out loud for some time now.
This feels like the glass-makers fallacy

If the money if free, distributing it will stimulate the economy. But since that money comes from somewhere, any growth due to that distribution competes with the lack of growth due to wherever you took it from,

e.g If you took it via taxes, people have less money to spend because of the higher taxes.

If you took it from the rich because they don't spend it on things, they also don't invest it, meaning banks have less capital.

> reject humiliating jobs

serving fast food is humiliating to people with people who think of themselves as better

> create better opportunities, and make sure they are accessible to everybody.

like free school? and those people who choose not to attend?

You seems to think the only problem is lack of opportunity, it isn't. For example, if a community has a drug problem, a better economy isn't going to fix that.

> The whole reason people withdraw from society

people don't withdrawn from society fully, they just stop contributing to it. They need society for food, shelter etc. You are suggesting they get these things unconditionally, ensuring their withdrawal is indefinitely viable.

And drug addicts aren't simply poor, that's an entirely different issue.

> And if rich kids drop out of school..

So what? The state, and by extension the taxpayer, don't fund that, so it's none of our business how that works out. The state shouldn't micromanage all of society to ensure equal outcomes for all, and if it did it would need far more power than it has now.

A "rich" kid isn't guaranteed anything beyond what their rich parents decide, and I'm not going to tell someone how to spend their money.
I had the same improvement as you, except I went in the other direction.

http://meatheals.com/
i agree that the general-purpose programming language space is fairly crowded ... the lisp dialect/user ratio especially so.

DSLs, otoh, are in short supply. while awk or plain sed are great for shell programming, this is the only (open source) DSL i'm aware of targeting certain types of NLP-esque "munging". this space is mostly full of statistical approaches, which, while conceptually pure, don't allow the kind of flexibility that would be useful in many applications.

i wonder if, eventually, the DSL portion of TXR could be sheared off (possibly via metacircular evaluation of the TXR lisp?) into something that's portable across lisps or at least to semi-standardized scheme implementations?
Running Successful Teams at Google
Avoid that at all cost if you are trying to bootstrap a startup effectively.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_You_Really_Want_to_Hurt_Me
It’s one of the ways, for sure. But it is really interesting to me how a person without deep knowledge of fundamentals can lead or mentor anyone while being on a non-management position? They are supposed to gain authority from their professionalism, but without theoretical knowledge they won’t be able to justify their decisions, and then what? What exactly they can teach anyone?
I think we're seeing the start of a push for Unionization in the tech sector. The old concepts of what a Union is supposed to be are starting to change, and the whole "power to the individual" culture in the industry is starting to lose some of its shine.

I don't see how labor organizing, in either this specific case or generally in the industry, is a bad thing. Yes, it makes it harder for kickstarter management, but that doesn't mean they'll crumble.
A while back I made a career change and I was looking to break into the land of programming, where there are a lot of bootcamp noobs like me trying to do the same.

I did an interview and one guy just didn't want to be doing interviews it seemed. Later when I was asking questions it became clear that he was a "senior dev" who just didn't want to talk / work with anyone he deemed less knowledgeable or just not capable or something. I also find out he's the lead for the spot they're hiring... bad feelings started for me.

Later I got some positive feedback that the take home assignment I completed was one of the only fully completed and "thoughtfully done" assignments they received (one of the only times I received useful feedback during a recruiting experience).

Bad vibes aside, I was a noob and beggars can't be choosers so I was surprised when they asked for a second interview and felt I had to go to the interview (need a job!). Second interview and it was the same thing, and when I asked questions he didn't even answer them really / his random technical statements seemed like sort of ultra truisms / not related to the actual problem we were working. It also seemed this dude's team kinda worked on their own island (kinda appealing) and he was the guy running the island evaluating people (very much not appealing). More bad vibes....

It was a big corporate place (good pay, benefits I had heard) so that meant, MORE interviews if we were going to move forward..

But by that time I had a good interview at a small place (less benefits, probabbly less pay, fewer people to learn from / with, long commute, but it seemed friendlier and the lay of the land was way more clear)... I decided that I just had too bad a vibe from the guy who would be my boss so I declined the interview.

I was pretty honest with the HR person that just from the interview this guy really seemed like he didn't want to hire me / didn't really want to work with anyone like me and if they were going to hire someone they might want to work on that. The HR person said "yeah we know".

I still wonder what that job would have been like, would have been really nice to work at that place...but that guy... you just get that sense in an interview sometimes.
>But you're correct it's not as good as others (e.g. Singapore Airlines).

Yep, I just flew twice on Singapore Airlines, on 777s, and it was excellent, even in the economy section. Service was fantastic, food was fantastic (for airline food), I couldn't complain.

I think, at this point in time, the Asian and Middle Eastern airlines are what you want to fly on, because the American and European ones mostly suck. Some of the European ones are still supposed to be pretty good (like KLM I think), but all the American ones are horrible, and many of the European ones don't have the greatest reputations either (e.g. RyanAir).
Well, for insects and also for naked mole rats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_mole-rat#Roles
We haven't really even come to terms with the false positive rate associated with just looking at people. When law enforcement wants to check ID all they have to do is say they thought you looked like someone. The high rate of false positives is a feature not a bug. You could set up an empty box with a lens drawn on it with a motion detector aimed to go off 4% of the time and the result would be almost as useful to law enforcement as a facial detection system that actual did something. The facial detection just increases the efficiency of the "papers please" checkpoint.
We are civilized people and don't need to shove contracts in each other's faces for everything. Somehow we have gone from being too violent to too litigious. Not bad compared to violence, but can be better.
White noise for an extended time damages your hearing.

If you want isolation from other passengers, wear some headphones. But noisy engines are not good for your health.
In separate discussions verified by Motherboard, that employee said Twitter hasn’t taken the same aggressive approach to white supremacist content because the collateral accounts that are impacted can, in some instances, be Republican politicians.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/04/25/twitter-cant-ban-ra...
Non paywall link: https://medium.com/p/scalable-python-code-with-pandas-udfs-a...
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Choose a comfortable layout but also consider hardware and software support for it. Dvorak is a good choice. Comfortable enough and well supported. QWERTY is probably one of the worst layouts for your fingers.

I'm using Dvorak and I can still type on QWERTY keyboards with 70% of my normal speed.

I'm pretty sure the total amount of time that I'm typing on someone else's computer (QWERTY) is less than one hour per year and I don't need speed or accuracy when it happens. Not to mention, my external keyboard supports Dvorak in hardware level. So I could just connect my keyboard and type Dvorak on any computer without changing any configuration. But it happens so rarely that I don't bother to do it.
Google's published numbers put their engineering headcount at below half their overall headcount.

I'm not sure a 3% haircut on engineers at Google would give them enough funds to make every support position $100k while also doing what you suggested and bringing all the contracted services in-house.

If we assume a 3% haircut on an average engineering compensation of $250k, and 45% of the organization, you have $6k and change per support headcount. And this is without bringing TVCs in-house.

Unless the support staff are all making right about 95k, this seems like it might not quite work out.
Other potential investors would benefit from knowing the valuation, and if they invest then maybe founders and earlier investors benefit, no ?

What’s the benefit from announcing the funding amount ?
Thank you, his work is amazing
there are some DNA enzymes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deoxyribozyme
In a data science interview at a respected company I received a take-home with the framing “A Product Manager wants a dashboard with a massive amount of features (including interactivity, model prediction and GIS)” and received only 48 hours to do it. I thought there was some weird trick because that assignment had an unreasonable amount of scope in that timeframe. I found out the company uses a BI tool to streamline such tasks that is only available to enterprises and not consumers.

I eventually made the dashboard but it took 16 man hours; on the on-site, the interviewers implied they didn’t like it as it was not feature complete. (I called them out about the BI tool; they weren’t happy about it but admitted I was correct that it would be more efficient)

Now that I have had more experience as a data scientist, the real-world response to such a framing is to push back against the PM and write an implementation spec with a defined scope.
Matthew is a contributor, doesn't mean he is the Jony Ive of every single web page they publish.
1984 was not intended to be a how-to manual.
So finally Canada is getting the support that they sought and deserve.
There's no way in hell I give up three days for any company!
A tweet can be true, in fact many are, but the medium can still be dumb / encourage dumb things.
> South Indian vegetarian diet is primarily vegan.

Please don't spread misinformation.

I'm a South Indian (Tamilian specifically) and we consume a lot of milk, curd, eggs on daily basis with meat and seafood (goat, chicken, vanjaram, crab, prawn, etc.) on at least weekly basis.

It is only a subset of Indian population categorically known to belong to the "Brahmin caste" that tend to be vegetarians. Otherwise we South Indians generally enjoy eating meat; it is being limited only due to economic reasons (for Brahmins the reasons are religious taste--they consider meat "repugnant"--yet they consume dairy).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_cuisine

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-43581122