skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue isn't making a larger percentage of the people buy, it is a larger percentage of the people advertised to buy.

Alcohol companies don't want to waste their advertising money on people who belong to a region that doesn't consume alcohol. Car companies don't want to advertise to the poor with bad credit - by contrast scammy used car dealers want to advertise to those with bad credit and not reach the rich.

Of course there is a real downside to this: you will miss someone who should be a target because they look like the type of person is not. The person who just left his restrictive religion. The poor person who is starting what will turn out to be a successful business. Thus big companies often to have a component of ad budget that reach everybody without concern for who buys - just to make sure they don't completely miss someone worth targeting.
Your downvoted but there is some truth in this.
> Nobel Laureate in Physics

They only give Nobels to living people, and typically only young people.

Maybe there is some other award recognition?
Wow, that is horrific. I don't know how that is tolerable! I had no idea you could have a yard so full of ticks as that. Super interesting, thanks for sharing!
It's true I wrote that independently. Hi Aaron!
If you think you should make a test about it, you might be addicted!
I wonder if you really would get one though
Thanks, building a SaaS is 99% getting the 404 pages right!
Yes, it's based on a study. I'm trying to get a better test made!
Then it works.
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BI = Writing reports
I'm saying there's a huge, gigantic difference between keeping people out, and keeping people in.
> However, porn is unhealthy in any amount.

Uh, I disagree, like a lot.

Porn does a lot of nice things:

- it does some form of sex education when parents/school/society does none

- it lets people realize what sex is about (think about amateur categories and how you can see people not that different from you having sex and realizing that different shapes and sizes, all work)

- it lets you explore your own sexuality (could you have immagine you would have liked that kind of things?)

- it lets you explore sexuality with your own partner (people get bored of the same sex every time, you know?)

And so much more.

Of course as with many other things (alchool, for example) you should not get too much of it.. But I disagree completely with the statement that "porn is bad in any amount".
Unless you know all the details, it could be as simple as "give us the passphrase, or your jail cell will go missing"

There are services that will brute force disk encryption for a fee, but it is very expensive.
It's not an original concept, it originated in print, and inspired the name[0]. So basically, he's claiming that he contributed to a web portal that included the _name_ "Face Book", hence he invented Facebook.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_book
I agree on difficulty of self study by remembering my student days, simply I was asking the lecturer about why we have to study some of uninteresting CS topics. They were quite boring but really got their benefit in the long run.
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First of all I don't like how aloofly this article uses the term Engineer. Perhaps, as a community, we should be more careful when using the term Engineer as in most countries there is a distinct difference between programmer/developer and a professional, licensed Engineer.

In any case, I have to ask myself how seriously one can take the answers given by their candidates. For instance, one of the top answers was opportunity for professional growth. So I tried imagining that I was in the position of a candidate who was answering the questions in their survey. I simply couldn't imagine a myself selecting: flexible work arrangements or high employee retention over something like opportunity for professional growth for a couple of reasons. The first being the one they addressed in the article: what exactly does that mean?

However; the second reason is rather simple. If I was under the impression (even vaguely) that there was a chance that my potential employer would see the answers to my survey then that would highly influence my answers. So perhaps the 99'th percentile is just more confident and therefore more honest? In truth, I too: "...want comfortable and meaningful work..." with "...the ability to choose..." my "...work environment and timing." and if an employer could offer me those things I would take the job in a heartbeat.
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That sounds like something like Accenture, InfoSys, etc. I too hope this business model dies but I don't see it dying for a long time. As long as business school MBA types keep making decisions and hiring those companies, they will keep hiring butts in the chair.
Politicians stealing money isn't solely an African phenomenon, and in many "first world" countries the lower and middle classes suffer due to lobbying which politicians can use to enrich themselves and their cronies.
It probably has something to do with the Abrahamic religions' version of mind control known by various terms, including sin, guilt, souls, and forgiveness. You could at one time in history convince most Western workers to not steal from their employers by telling them that people who steal from and betray their social superiors will be judged by an all-seeing deity and then immolate forever after they die.

In contrast, Eastern religion ranged from "be more empathetic" to "never question the authority of the government", and never quite introduced the concept of a vindictive, all-knowing, untrickable deity. Sun Wukong is a trickster who escapes death and taxes by erasing his name from the celestial census rolls.

In one culture, you can never escape judgment for the wrongs you have done. In the other, you can get away with anything, if only you know how to work the system (such as by employing five different mechanisms for achieving immortality).
You can make it clear that you will be completely unplugged during vacation.

To get to that level you will need to go through levels where you can’t do that without jeopardising further promotions.
What’s Even the Point of Exit Interviews?
Incredible and insightful overview about the life of a man whose contributions to science were unknown to me until today. Thank you for posting.
I go on road trips... I'm largely out of range of decent reception on the road.
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Here's a Numberphile on it if you want to understand the constant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETrYE4MdoLQ

As a nice bonus that video will also help you understand the Mandelbrot and Julia sets.
Considering the export controls on cryptography in the not so distant past [1], I think things have been worse for cryptography. This isn't to say I don't think Barr's comments are alarming, but he is continuing a push by DOJ that has been going for years now and has made little progress.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...
The founding document of software engineering
Ten Market Bubbles Just Waiting to Pop
Ok, we've upgraded to C above. Good idea.
Thank you for being so quick to respond to user feedback - shows how dedicated you are to shipping a high quality product :)
>I think it's important to distinguish between conditions which are unfortunate and conditions which are unbearable.

Ok. Some conditions created by sanctions are unbearable, and some conditions created by sanctions are unfortunate. In war, all conditions are unbearable. War is objectively worse.

>> The people of a nation are still put in a corner, but they don't have a gun to their head. It's something they can get out if, should they choose to.

>This really trivialises the challenges and discrimination economic refugees face, especially those from sanctioned countries.

It is not my intention to trivialize their situation, though perhaps that sense is lacking from my comment. What I mean is that sanctioning a nation does not mean the citizenry is forced to stand on a battlefield and die. When I say, "should they choose to," I'm referring to either seeking refuge or revolution. Both are immensely difficult tasks, but both are a choice.

One of the (stated) uses for sanctions is encouraging regime change. The US tried and failed over the last 60 years to create democratic nations by taking out the leadership of regimes. My understanding of the reason that policy failed so many times is because the people themselves didn't fight for it. The people are so controlled and government so corrupt, they have no easy way to.

Do I like sanctions? Of course not! They obviously create incredible difficulties for everyone in that country. But I'd rather suffer through hardship than die fighting for an unjust cause.

>The consequences of warfare have a much greater potential to make life unbearable for those in power. Being captured, executed or otherwise killed is a likely eventuality.

pizza used the phrase "elite," and you use the phrase "in power." If you're a political figure, you're both "elite" and "in power." The political figure (as well as any subordinate) holds the moral responsibility of waging war. They tacitly accept the risks of conviction and/or execution; incompetence is no excuse. So, yes, you're right, but war would create an even worse environment for the poor than sanctions do. I'd wager that every country in the world has special rules that come into effect when in a state of war. Those rules usually include tough rations, in order to supply the military. If the fighting is happening in that country, it would get worse once the country's means of agricultural production are wiped out.
It's strongly possible the causality goes the other way.
Don't give coding quizzes if they can provide better evidence of their ability.

It's unfair in the least, rude at the worst to pigeon-hole "senior" programmers into scenarios / pop quizzes.

Let them show off recent personal projects. They'll probably have no problem spending a weekend hacking on something they're passionate about.

Be a serious employer:

Convince the best programmers (whatever that means) why they should reorganize their life around your business:

- Pension plans / job security are nice. It's a good motivator to know that there will be an annuity when they're 60 / 65 and would rather spend time with their family.

- Union contract (or something comparable) or a labor system with robust employee rights and unemployment insurance. It's pretty unfair in the US with at-will employment.

- Have strong financials. Be a business that'll be around in 10 years. Can your business keep paying employees if it's in the red for a year?

If you don't offer the above: Why feel deserving of the best?

I'm being facetious on the above points: It's tech, it's a fast cycle and inherently unstable. But when orgs talk about hiring - it irks me to see the entitlement employers have when they have little investment in the welfare of employees as persons (and families)
I haven't taken the test, but I think the parent comment is alleging that this test is merely begging the question.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question]
One interesting place that period doubling shows up that the article doesn't mention is in population ecology. I'm most familiar with the Tribolium work of Constantino, Dennis, Cushing, and some other folks, which you can read an example of here[0]. Basically, the beetles have three life stages (four, actually - egg, larva, pupa, adult - but adding eggs in the model doesn't increase accuracy any so they leave it out for simplicity), and if you model the respective numbers of adults for a starting number of larvae, you can see truly chaotic behavior, including period doubling. It's fascinating work.

[0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1046/j.1461-0248...
Don't be hyperbolic.

The reality is that we should be just as concerned by a guy blowing up a truck at the Apple Store as we should about ICE raids at 3 in the morning. With both right wing terrorists and the government, scope creep has a way of ensnaring us all eventually.

Same is true of any terrorist, and any government.

So look, the question is not: Whether or not compromising my personal privacy will bring me more or less security? But rather the question is: Whether or not compromising my personal privacy is consistent with American Ideals?

I say no. So in my personal opinion we, as a nation, have no business mandating that people compromise their personal privacy.
Are you over 40 yet? It changed for me this last job hunt.
Isn't that the Product something option?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20507104
Again, it depends on your metric for "good". It's clearly good for Joe, and in the semi-feudal power structure of the modern corporation, that's sufficient.

It's also often a profitable way to run a company. Take a look at the Net Promoter Score for the Fortune 500: https://customer.guru/net-promoter-score/fortune-500

The number in theory ranges from 100 (everybody would enthusiastically promote to friends) to -100 (the opposite). Some well-liked companies include Apple at 47, Starbucks at 77, and Costco at 79. In contrast, Comcast is -3, Time Warner is -5, United is -8. There are definitely some places loved by customers in the Fortune 500, but as you look down the list it's far from universal.

Comcast's profit was something like $11 billion last year. Are they customer hostile? Notoriously. Do they care? Not really!
Still ongoing with no end in sight
Young people? They only give to living people but my impression is not that most laureates are young

Edit: 72 years in average across all prizes, although first half of 20th century was lower.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37578899
Perhaps, as with other potentially open-ended discussions, schedule and time-box this?

A quarterly/half-year transparency report or audit post, say, discussed at the time of posting, perhaps.
From their point of view, if technically possible, they would like to listen to any conversation and being able to spot in seconds conversations about any country security threat.

It is easy to see that the risk is that if plaintext data is available, the data can be mined for a lot of other purposes including illegal or not ethical ones. It is also possible that eventually that data could leak to the wrong entities.

And yes, in any big organization, the left hand may not know what the right hand is doing and, while one is concern in matters of public safety, the other may be primary concerned with the hegemony of its own power.

So it is complex.

But just assuming that you do not need them and they are just evil is a massive over generalization.
Any plans to have it generate GLSL?
Microservices, go, containers... I'm worried that I'll need a kubernetes cluster to run this thing, whereas at the moment I can run owncloud/nextcloud off a normal pc.
Why do charts with dates on the x-axis not show up correctly? For example the chart will show Jan 2019 on the label underneath a column that is actually Feb 2019. This is confusing to new users and drives experienced users up the wall. Currently the only thing that fixes it is to convert the axis to categorical.
If every bordering country keeps people out, they're complicit in keeping them in.
For a early super-minimal example, see:
https://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave.Marshall/AI2/node69.html

Later efforts (for attributed grammars, semantic networks, etc.) used many more primitives.
Semantic primitive / "Interlingua" based formalisms never quite caught on for the most part, however.

the <"X---" == left> and <"---X" == right> example is an example of an analogical representation -- these have sensorimotor/perceptual groundings and mimic how we actually learn some concepts, but although there has been some research in AI in utilizing analogical representations internally, it is not typical.
No it is not easy to measure. You can measure immediate success, but not delayed success. I just bought my first order for a product that I last saw advertised on facebook a couple years ago. At the time the product looked interesting but didn't fit my needs, but a couple years latter and I remembered them. Since I've moved and used firefox directly to access their website it will be very hard to put my order with the ad (they have probably closed the books on the original ad where I'm marked as a click but no buy)
Q: Does anyone know if it is typical for antitrust action to last into a new administration once it has started?
You can browse their memory usage in rather explicit detail about Firefox about:memory, but that assumes a rather high level of preexisting knowledge.
No need to invent new file format at the moment. Each node's code is just plain CommonJS module and graph structure is serialized to JSON.
I'm willing to forgo growth if the money is high enough... but I'll be more strict on my time at the office, allowing me time to do things outside of work.
This should be talked about as much a drugs and alcohol. I once watched a great dev get terminated because he would repeatedly and instinctively pull up porn sites at work, like in the same manner you might get frustrated at an error message and pull up Hacker News as a distraction, this guys would do it with porn. So sad. He did it in front of me once, I was like 'Whoa bro, wtf is going on here, not cool.', he just muttered 'sorry' and something about muscle memory. I did not rat him out but apparently he had done it several times before, other employees noticed and had told HR. HR had started to review his web history, one day they asked me to stay late for an emergency meeting, they explained that it had happened again (probably the 3rd of 4th time) and someone made a written complaint so they had no choice but to terminate him for cause, I elected not to fight for him. He is a good developer, I hope he found some help. He was the kind of dev you don't need to micro-manage, his estimates were always fairly accurate and turned in code that met requirements. I had a side conversation with our IT manager after the termination and asked how much time they thought he was spending on those sites, apparently very little, he would bring up the home pages of his favorite sites then quickly realize what he was doing and close them, we are not talking about porn surfing sessions but they couldn't have a guy known as the 'porn dude' working for them.
This is just good business by Microsoft, boost those azure revenues by saying "Linkedin runs on Azure", maybe there are cost savings as well.
> also, when talking about modern communication, as the TFA says, it's all written.

You don't talk to anyone?
which is why blanket noncompetes are terrible.
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I don't know about the experience with others, but I've built a few different online businesses over the years and I am always tracking my ROI on digital spend intensely. I have almost always found Facebook traffic to be extremely poor, especially when compared to Adwords. Obviously display vs. search advertising naturally have big differences in conversion rates, but the difference was always way more extreme than I had anticipated, to the point where I've just completely given up on Facebook entirely.
>For the Facebook ponzi scheme to fall apart, the ads have to stop working.

I am taking the Ponzi scheme here refers to numbers of users? Because for Facebook's Client, it is obvious that Ads is working and bringing a positive ROI. And these ROI are not paid out directly by Facebook ( which could easily distort the number ) but results measured through other channels. Which means from Facebook's clients perspective it is not a Ponzi scheme at all, as there is nothing to lose from its Client.
The map shows cases, not the probability to contract Lyme's if you live there. Ozarks seems to be not very densely populated area.

I live in MA, and these pesky ticks occur everywhere there're deers. They are called deer ticks there.
That is why I wrote "Weakening strong cryptography is not the solution."
> The Justice Department is opening a broad antitrust review into whether dominant technology firms are unlawfully stifling competition, according to department officials, adding a new Washington threat for companies such as Facebook Inc., Alphabet Inc. ’s Google, Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc.

> The review is geared toward examining the practices of online platforms that dominate internet search, social media and retail services, the officials said.

Interesting that Microsoft, the only company worth over $1 trillion, isn't mentioned.

The focus is on online platforms and they don't have anything dominating in that field. I wonder if it'll stay isolated to those companies or if Microsoft will get looped into this because they're so large.
> should've expanded on my example more, since Anglo-American history is not universally taught around the globe.

No worries, I actually live in the States and I have Puritan ancestors. I just don't think your analogy is correct.

Let me see if I can reconstruct your analogy in a way to show why I think it fails.

We can think of two definitions for "puritanical":

A) Devout (neutral connotation)

B) Excessively dogmatic (negative connotation)

In this case, (B) is the more correct definition because it captures the connotation. You claim my definition is closer to (A), whereas I think mine is closer to (B). Namely, by highlighting the fact that the suppression of speech is done "without regard to it's truth or falsehood" I think that's a pretty clear red flag.

Of course, this is more or less consistent with how it was originally used by the people who originally coined the term and had positive associations with it.

> Why would you pejoratively refer to something as "politically incorrect," if you think political correctness is bad?

Sorry, typo. I meant "pejoratively referred to policies as 'politically correct'".
The suspect is currently not in police custody (he was released on bail almost immediately) and there is no evidence of physical threats. He continues to maintain his claim of innocence, while the police claim the decrypted drive incriminates him heavily, so it's unlikely he gave them a password himself.

Can you elaborate about the brute force attacks? I thought if the encryption is strong enough brute forcing it would not be possible?
I disagree that Pinker, Harris, and Peterson are just pretentious charlatans. I do agree that Weinstein wasn't particularly interesting in this podcast. I agreed with Thiel's evaluation of our current technology and culture situation and found him to be quite interesting to listen to. Weinstein didn't really dig deep at all on Thiel's specific politics, which are more where I diverge from Thiel, despite this being a pretty long podcast episode. Hopefully get ups his interviewing game and doesn't just turn into a Dave Rubin 2.0 where he asks softball questions and lets the guest dodge controversial topics or steer the conversation however they want, and just focuses on the same tired topic every time.
Some of this analysis may seem obvious, but it's really interesting to see how much prescription drug spending plays a role. Could a reason that U.S. healthcare spending is higher on average than other countries be partially due to us essentially subsidizing new drug development? It sort of leads into a question of how effective is our prescription drug spending?
> You're not defending the point logically;

He absolutely is

The annoying thing about "logical fallacies" is that if anyone season argument they disagree with that resembles a "fallacy", that quote it and act like theyve won.

He is not saying that everything Benjamin Franklin has ever said is true. Obviously. However, if a well renowned and respected Authority has an opinion that some evil schmuck disagrees with, it provides evidence as to who is more likely to be correct. That's not what an appeal to Authority is