skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose, we'd want bots distinguished (by tone, etc). Where's the practical value of not being able to discern an algorithmic speaker, e.g., on the phone. There's probably some value in being able to do so, regarding liabilities and so on. (A contract arises from an agreement of intents. We may not be sure, if such an agreement has actually been reached, or if we were just witnessing a behavioral pattern triggered by a Markov chain. We may also question the nature of the intent or who's intent this actually is.)
There are twelve countries in the European Union with an average net income of less than 1000 euro. The two poorest ones (Romania & Bulgaria) are at 515 euro and 406 euro. So it's not that of a stretch that Americans have phones worth more than a European monthly wage.
Depends on if you're happy just being a hired gun instead of an employee.

The real problem is that they've broken the social contract implicit in the interviewing process, which is that the work you're doing is only to prove yourself and that they won't benefit by it except to be able to gauge your skills. If instead they had been honest up-front that they wanted to hire you short term as a trial period type thing with the possibility of hiring you as a full employee down the line, that would be fair.
> Maybe just ask applicants to spend an hour or two onsite without internet making them to solve project euler-type problems and discuss their solutions afterwards.

I 1,000% do not care about someone's ability to solve a random programming puzzle without the internet.

Again, this is a (bad) proxy for the skill I'm actually trying to hire for. If I'm hiring a backend engineer, why would I ask someone to implement QuickSort? Wouldn't it be better to give them a realish application and have them add a feature or fix a bug?

> Why don’t they expand their pipeline that converts intern/junior positions into more senior positions?

My company has a very healthy pipeline of interns and junior developers. In a year or two, they'll be very good. In five to ten years, they'll be amazing. But I also have shit that I need to get done by the end of the month, and I need people with years of experience to complete them.

And regardless of which level I'm hiring at, I want to see them code, and I want it to be in an environment as close to how they will be working as possible. Google, Stack Overflow, an IDE, a build system, unit tests ... I want to see how they will perform as Software Engineers, not Euler-grinders.
>I don't see why. Free will is a choice made for our own reasons that isn't coerced by another actor's will.

This is exactly why free will evaporates. Your decision making apparatus and the factors that go into your choice are a given. Multiply yourself and the situation by a million, you will always make the same decision using the same apparatus and the same factors, unless there is a random element, but that is random, not free. You're not constrained, but you are, at a very basic level, determined.
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I thought for the past five years FAANG, maybe Netflix aside, was supposed to be passé. Unicorns like AirBnB or Stripe were supposed to be the killer workplaces to strive for. Though I suppose with the potential IPO busts this year (see Uber) the dream aspirant tech workplace might be changing, too.
There is such thing as ambition, and a desire for more power/money than you need. The human condition!
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I think the root of the problem is in trying to use logical proof to reason about things that are beyond the limits of logical reasoning and our relatively small human minds. We know from results like the Godel Incompleteness theorem that even mathematics has very real limits on what is provable through human reasoning. The logical paradox of free will and determinism is like the paradoxes used within mathematics to prove its own limits. It is unfortunate but predictable that we cling to the delusion that we can resolve the paradox of free will through logical reasoning. There are some aspects of reality, particularly those dealing with one’s own mind or self, that cannot be reasoned about. It is also a well known open secret that those aspects of reality, while beyond the reaches of thinking and logical explanation, can be directly experienced. The practitioners of various forms of meditation experience have a great deal to report about such experiential knowledge.
Confess I'm not quite clever enough to know what you mean or to what you're referring.
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I know a lot of Korean and Chinese school kids who cram study until late and night and that is just normal. I suspect 996 isn't that weird to many young Chinese developers because that is what they've done their whole lives. 9pm is probably an earlier end than when they were doing homework.

Even in the US now children are getting more and more homework and stressed out about getting into the most prestigious universities. If that is normal when growing up, spending all your time in the office is just more of the same, except you get paid more than everyone else so society loves you too.
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We've already got a world where anything slightly embarrassing or regrettable you do is likely to recorded and uploaded to Youtube. Maybe once there's tools that can perfectly fake a video and corresponding audio, we'll be free again.
EU laws don't directly apply in member states, afaik.

The UK wrote their implementation of gdpr into UK law: general data protection act 2018. It's the law unless parliament changes it, Brexit or no Brexit.
Back in the 90s when I was building BI software for grocers, the average margin across the whole industry was 1.1%.

Since then there's been an enormous amount of consolidation in the grocery industry... but I wouldn't be surprised to learn the margin hasn't changed.
It seems a little off to me, but perhaps that's because I already knew it was fake. I'd be interested in how this holds up in a blinded study.

Still, it's impressive that the model seems to need such a sensitive test to judge its believability.
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This is absolutely brilliant - I think that this is the way to go for hiring tests! Either that or you get paid for the hours you put in.
There’s a reason Walmart and Dollar General are crushing others, and it’s because either their customers can’t afford good customer service or they don’t care for it and choose to shop there anyway. The proof is literally the fact that mom and pop stores and others like Sears went out of business, customers preferred saving $5 over good customer service.

As I prefaced above, this is true for business where customers aren’t differentiating between vendors except on price.
The new site has a link to the old one at the bottom. My opinion isn't factoring into it.

However, losing i18n is pretty bad. These are the old languages that were offered:

> Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Bahasa Indonesia, Italiano, 日本語, 한국어, Polski, Português, Русский, Svenska, Tiếng việt, 简体中文

However, as someone who regularly studies and works with a non-English language I can tell you i18n is pretty darn important. More important than a very pretty site that people can't read.

Per my own opinion, a FAQ is also a great idea. Especially for a new language that's trying to gain more adoption. Entirely removing it instead of reworking it into the new design before deploying mystifies me.
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Why is it surprising that it isn't fatal? They picked relatively rare codons, and they slotted the changes in sequentially. The process of inserting dna is selective (plating lawns of bacteria and picking colonies), probably the fastest growing colonies had the opportunity to build in compensatory mutations if there were subtle secondary or tertiary XNA features that were mildly deleterious.
When interviewing execs who would be building new departments a few years ago, I would pose the question of "In the wake of Arab spring in Libya, the people decide that you are their next leader. What happens in your first 100 days?".

The answers ran the gamut from lazy to fantastic to terrifying. A lot of answers where generic "coalition building" variety. The better answers identified key areas to focus on like infrastructure, basic services, etc. The best answers had clear goals and possible government structures supporting accountability.

Bad answers had the exec consolidating power and crushing opposition. The worst answers had the exec killing people to achieve their goals. Not joking, I had several answers that where "I would find my rivals and kill them".

Overall I thought it was a good question as those who performed well on it and where hired built great sustainable orgs and those who did poorly where usually shown the door within a year. Those who did well where able to take a crazy situation, break it down into smaller problems, and then solve for them while those who did poorly where usually relying either escaping the problem via committees or flat out crushing opposition.
> If the upper 5% at my company earned enough to double the wages of the other 95%, I'd be pretty damn mad about those leeches.

I'm pretty sure every large company in America matches that criteria.
As a serious question, why do you think that dissimilar groups product faster or higher quality work? How far can you take that concept? Should they even speak the same language?
Calvinists and Sunni Muslims don't believe in free will. Neither one as a class could be said to be in a nihilistic funk.
> A Twitter spokesperson responded to the new tool saying, “We enforce the Twitter Rules impartially for all users, regardless of their background or political affiliation. We are constantly working to improve our systems and will continue to be transparent in our efforts.”

In the discussion with Jack Dorsey on the Joe Rogan podcast, Tim Pool had a good point: some of the rules are intrinsically biased on one side of the political spectrum.

An good example is the rule against misgendering. Twitter forbids referring to a person using a different gender than the one that person choses. E.g., you have to refer to a male-to-female transgender as a "she".

But to conservatives, referring to someone using a gender other than their biological one is the definition of misgendering.

This is a purely ideological take, and Twitter chose the definition of one side over the other. Then they can apply it "impartially to all users", but its the rule itself that is not impartial.
The platform shouldn't exist as a monopoly for discussion in the first place. If all people, when facing a website that sucked, just stopped using the damn website like GP and me, the platform wouldn't have this much power.

Seriously, what's so hard with not using social media? Aren't there plenty of offline stuff to do and people to talk to in meatspace? Is its prevalence a uniquely American thing?
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The SA moderators are extremely touchy about pedophilia and will permaban with basically just an anonymous accusation and maybe some fabricated "evidence". They also don't respond to appeals.
The latest SEC filing does not include executive compensation, having disclosed it at the latest shareholder meeting.

The 2015 SEC filing includes 8 named individuals in its executive compensation program. In 2015, they received between $500,000 and $1.25M in base salary, and between $1 million and $10.7M in long-term incentives. In addition, they received between 110% and 150% of their base salary in annual incentives (bonuses). Two of them received additional monthly cash payments of $100,000 and $40,000 for temporary duties in addition to their normal post.

Granted, that's only the top 8 individuals at the company, but if the lowest-compensated individual among those 8 is taking home >$2M I'm fairly certain that there are a lot more than 10 making more than $500k.

It's also still the case that that pile of money is not much divided among 88,000 people, but you could still raise the income of the lowest-compensated 10k employees by several thousand dollars, or fund employee daycare, or something other than give it to a small group of people.
That's basically what I was thinking. I figure as soon as the system is sufficiently "mature" they'll use it there.

I hope they totally screw it up and touch off the kind of "civil unrest" that you need in order to remind the government that people have rights.
That'd cause a big morale hit & big incentive for engineers to leave. Support staff are great, but at the end of the day they're not what drives growth for the company.
I don't think that's what they meant. I interpreted it to mean: neural networks are not trained in a continuous online manner.

That said, there are neural network architectures which have state, such as recurrent neural networks, time-delay neural networks, and long short-term memory. However, the state is used for covering problem domains with a temporal nature, rather than for reflective learning. It's typically reset between different inputs.
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I use it every day, so thank you!
Or alternatively, after a sufficient public outcry, will reverse themselves after improperly banning an account when they actually screw up.
It also reinforces the narrative that Trump and his supporters are under constant persecution by the organized conspiracy of leftists and globalists controlling all media and purging and all non-leftist speech from social media en masse.

Nothing gets voters to the polls quite as effectively as a shared identity built around a persecution complex and the threat of an enemy at the gates.
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Labor costs are the biggest, if not one of the biggest costs for any employer, and it happens to be one the employer can sort of control.

Again, I’m not making anyone a hero or adversary, I’m just pointing out that some businesses can’t survive unless they compete on price, and that means lowering their own costs. It’s quite a blessing to be able to work in a high margin business.
These companies are providing services for free. Can you force a natural monopoly to provide free services to anyone who demands it?
Having automated trucks clogging one lane at 30km/h would be disastrous for PR, and I imagine it would have a very negative impact on traffic in general. As far as I'm aware, the safest and most efficient scenario for highway traffic is to have cars and trucks traveling at equal speeds.
Interesting bit I learned a while back- boat operating costs run about 10% of capital expense, regardless of size of boat.
>> 0.2 Hiroshima bombs, which I think would be noticeable.

Maybe not. Hiroshima wasn't all that big on geological scales. A medium-sized meteor stroking the moon would have equivalent energy. Tidal forces can also break meteors up, spreading them into streams of smaller bits that land over a period of time. So I am not so dismissive of potential impacts.
Considering there's plenty of ideologues and partisans working at those private companies, I think it's pretty bad either way.
Neanderthals and modern humans diverged at least 800k years ago
First thing that came to mind: licensing famous folks' voice training sets to create audiobooks.
As true as it is that most people have them, they're not a form of identification...
Do you also wonder why the entire Western world doesn't give extra penny to global poverty relief? http://www.globalrichlist.com/

Perhaps we're all just flawed, self-centered people trying to keep up with what our environment defines as the good life.
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If two individuals who had no contact whatsoever reliably came up with the exact same ideas and structures, it is reasonable to view it as something objectively existing.

On the other hand, is this philosophical debate of any relevance?
How did you get your first 5000 users? Was it word of mouth, or did you do any specific marketing?

I am currency confounded by how people get users to sign up to products pre-launch.
Right, its horrifying to see how laws get passed based on few pathetic beliefs.
I rather like this idea in the sense that it tells you a lot about your own codebase. There is a lot of stuff out there that only makes sense to the author.
You chose your units arbitrarily to fit your argument.

Here's my version of it:

Some people think one year is one orbit around the sun, and not exactly 365 days. Leap years help to keep that reality.

Some people think that a day is one revolution of Earth's axis, and not exactly 1440 minutes. Leap minutes help to keep that reality.

And now we are at less than one change every century!
Studies often show Dvorak is faster, but when you dig you discover they are not comparing equivalent. People who learn Dvorak are more likely to be better typists. When you compare equals you discover that the speed of the mind is the limit not the speed of the fingers and so it makes no difference.

As I recall there is one exception: if you are just copying something without having to think about it dvorak is faster. This isn't a common job, but it does exist.
Where do I go for a Twitter sized audience if they ban me from their platform? The only real competitor is gab and there's barely anyone using it. The problem right now is these platforms are basically monopolies and are aggressively censoring people on the right side of politics
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There is also a very handy checklist if anyone's interested. https://ckeditor.com/blog/Web-accessibility-testing-DIY/ Here is to keeping web accessible :)
So I've seen multiple of these ML speech synthesis projects, when am I going be able to use one of these for a screen reader? I'd like to listen to wiki articles with a synthesizer using modern methods, not Microsoft Sam.
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Well yeah, it's literally a survey and it can be any answer you want. It's not to verify anything other than the guise of "if you don't know when it was signed then you're not an informed american and your opinion doesn't matter"
I'm not sure society would be better if everything was geared towards people who are outliers or more productive earlier. It might be worse for everyone else. Several Asian societies seem hyper concerned with academic achievement and work productivity, and have a fairly toxic work culture with poor work-life balance as a result.
He took action and doubled the pay to 15/hr, then it further increased to 16.50/hr. I didn't think he was stumbling on a new lesson, your reading was a bit more cynical than mine. Simply put, he hadn't realized the plight of those on 7.25/hr until he heard what his employees were going through.

How else can we improve things if we don't allow people to change their views? Mocking a CEO for changing his view is the opposite of what we need.
That so far has not been proven. OTOH, Cisco devices [0] have been proven to contain backdoors in the past.

I am cautious of any government tampering in devices, but as it stands such tampering has not been found in huawei devices, but HAS been found in devices coming from US manufacturers... Yet no one is asking a ban on those?

[0]: https://theintercept.com/2014/12/13/belgacom-hack-gchq-insid...
All of the above.

I wish it were easy enough to run a web server that everyone just hosted their own content. A Raspberry Pi is already overkill for most pages, and one could easily imagine a content-agnostic (encrypted?) cache service that would handle load spikes.
I understand it, I wasn't a student, but I didn't have a job at that point (I quit 2 years before to travel the world and had some contracting jobs).

The good part is that it was the last step, and 50% of the people from the last step were given an offer, so it wasn't that bad (though I'm afraid that the offer itself was maybe too low compared to my previous works).
Sounds like they've bought into the Heinlein/Rand general specialist myth (quote below) and were looking for that. Problem is, it's very easy to mistake lunatic confidence for competence, especially in an interview, and especially given the personality traits that work well in hedge funds/general finance.

>“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
There was an electric car startup (now defunct) in Israel which built a network of "swap stations" so drivers of their cars could do long drives without spending hours at charging stations. The process was a bit like going through a carwash: it was completely automated and couldn't have taken more than 5-10 minutes.
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EnTT v3 is out – Gaming meets modern C++, again
A major release that represents an important improvement for EnTT, both in terms of performance and functionalities.

To begin with, this is the first official release that requires and fully supports C++17. Moreover, the library has been converted to snake case, leaving behind the misleading coding style of the previous version.

Most important improvements:

* It's faster and it consumes less memory than ever.
* It can finally work across boundaries.
* It contains its own full-featured runtime reflection system now.
* It has groups now and they allow for different access patterns, from fully random to perfect SoA.

And much more!! Read the release note for all the details - https://github.com/skypjack/entt/releases

I hope you'll enjoy it. :-)
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Recently interviewed at Amazon and I got that vibe as well. Didn't really "sell" the job to me at all, just assumed I would automatically be in love with them. Obviously they're there to evaluate my skills, but in my opinion an interview should be something of a two-way street.
That's a very dumb reason to ditch i18n. Waiting before it finalized wasn't an option?
Ah yes, the party that was in control of virtually all branches of the government in 2016-2018 and nearly all of them right now is somehow getting persecuted and witchhunted because people said mean things about them on Twitter. The media is perhaps the _only_ power they don't fully control and that's still too much for them. I mean, the gall of it is just astounding.
> you need to be able to hold your own in an argument

Then you'll hire a bunch people who like arguing about things they aren't qualified to argue about. I'd much rather have a coworker who admits what they don't know and is willing to learn about it rather than someone who is willing to vigorously argue in support of an arbitrary position.
That's actually quite funny. The Lilium guys also did a much better job cleaning all leaves near the testing area.
Isn't this admitting that he's underpaying women? Because if he paid them as much as he would pay a man then they wouldn't be cheaper.
My brother was asked in kindergarten, "What do you put in the barn?" The expected answer was, of course, animals: cows, horses, et cetera. However, we grew up on a grain farm (no livestock). My brother answered, "trucks," as that was literally what was stored in our barn. He was told that was the wrong answer.
Here's the road (Skruvgatan) where the initial tests are being done: https://goo.gl/maps/mRj1qyMtYckVKzDz5
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