skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How crucial is technical fit in hiring engineers?
Whether you were on the hiring or candidate side, I'm curious to hear your thoughts/experiences.

Let's say the company uses Node, Angular, and MongoDB:

Candidate #1: Above average Senior-level Engineer with matching background in Node, Angular, MongoDB.

Candidate #1: Excellent Senior-level Engineer, but background is mainly in Ruby, React, and Postgres.

And please contribute any other of the countless permutations! Would it be a different situation for Python-to-Java (or vice versa)?

Thanks!
Flash, I love you, but we only have fifteen minutes to save the world!

The major problem with nuclear is the up front cost and lead time. The up front cost includes the carbon pollution created by the mountains of concrete required for the facility, so any carbon savings will come at some distant point down the track when the plant has not only been built and commissioned but has been in operation for a decade or more.

The lead time in construction means that it could be two years or twenty years before the plant you start building today will be operational. Simply getting a sufficient supply of the right quality of concrete will be one of the fundamental hurdles to overcome.

The “thorium” cycle isn’t even commercialised yet so there is no option to switch to it. How long until commercial plant is available? Nobody knows.

Wind, solar, and storage are the relatively cheap, well known and abundant tools we have right now. There is no time to waste.
What makes you so sure of your measurement machinery? An advanced alien race may laugh at your rock measuring equipment the way we laugh at early mans tools.

See what i mean about pointless philosophical arguments?
If Superdeterminism means that the initial state of the universe is such that the universe appears to follow quantum mechanics... why? Why would every single decision have its resolution set in a manner that appears to follow QM?
Unless you continue to study mathematics, which you will likely only do if you stay in academia, you will forget what you've learned!

You've remembered more than you think, most notably you do (or would if appropriately prompted) remember that things are possible and probably a bit about the approach. You don't remember the details of how, but those are details you can look up if needed - you have the framework in which those details fit and that's the important thing.
Sociopaths? The groups should be audience, losers, contenders and winners.
Marty the grocery store robot is a glimpse into our hell-ish future
You can pay a beautiful person for a few hours of their time for that price, where as this gets you a shout out and maybe a image of a boob. The former may boost your confidence to meet someone who likes you for who you are, the former will make it worse.
Or Jorge Luis Borges.
It depends, even a decade ago the UI was an absolute disorganized mess. Sometime within the last seven or so years everything was completely reorganized into the beautiful interface we've come to know and love.
The phone started as an extension of the computer (iTunes was required for backup, app purchases, and syncing). The Watch is following that progression, iterating toward a stand-alone device.
It reminds me some of Peopleware, where an argument is made that through a focus on quality of output, the speed of production is actually faster than if you focus explicitly on the speed of production.
So windchill is better interpreted as you will lose body heat as if it were this temperature without wind, but the actual temperature is still the same?
Under Obama's policy, students accused of rape were frequently denied due process, and yet, despite not being allowed to present their case, the burden of proof was on the accused. Many innocent men were punished.

In one case, the court said the accused was not provided any information about the factual basis of the charges against him, was not able to examine the evidence supporting the victim's statements and was not allowed to appear before the panel deciding his case.[1]

In another case, the court found that the university violated the accused's due process rights by presuming his guilt ahead of a hearing, not allowing the accused student access to witnesses and evidence, and informing a hearing panel of his guilt instead of letting the panel reach its own conclusion.[1]

In some cases they were even punishing people who were proven innocent, because the tribunals refused to hear evidence proving their innocence.[2]

We saw this attitude again in the Kavanaugh hearings, when feminists were demanding that Kavanaugh's nomination be denied because of unproven allegations.

As Hillary put it, accusers "have the right to be believed", which she later clarified as: every accuser "should be believed at first until they are disbelieved based on evidence". In other words, the accused should be considered guilty until proven innocent.

1: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/04/14/several-stude...

2: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/campus-sexual-assaul...
I was a math + physics major in college, but I work at an outfit that has a lot of engineers. In my observation, most of them are weak at math -- they got through it OK in college but it didn't come alive for them, which is probably not their fault. And as they start their careers, they can easily get productive enough without using their math, whereupon they forget it pretty quickly.

This isn't a slam on anybody -- these are bright and capable people, and I envy their success.

A handful of people, maybe 10%, gravitate towards the problems that involve math. Maybe they took a personal interest in math while in school, or maybe they're using math to cover up a shortfall in some other area. They become the "math people" in the department, and everybody brings quantitative engineering problems to them. I'm one of the math people, not even officially an engineer, but I volunteer to solve problems that other people hate. I'm actually not as successful in my career as some of the engineers, but at the same time, I'm doing OK considering that I got a more esoteric degree.

I think we could teach math in a way that's more relevant to the people who might actually use it, without detracting from what makes math come alive for math people. Let's teach more computation and proofs, perhaps from the git-go. Computation is how most people solve problems anyway. Proofs offer a much richer palette of ideas and styles than memorized "forms" and algorithms.

Granted, any reform of math education suffers the same pitfall as contemporary and historical methods: Massive attrition. This is the huge unsolved problem in math education.
The frustrating part is the logical leap: You are a man, men have historically occupied privileged positions, therefore you are privileged. A young man trying to find his first job without experience doesn't feel privileged, nor does one that suffers domestic violence. But instead of receiving support, they are told to man up.
this really looks like they are truly after these five large retailers because they probably cannot affect the manufacturers of the products. so in effect a retailer simply should be able to discontinue selling the product but from the press release that is not the goal of the suit. They clearly state they want products using the technology sold but they want to put the onus on the retailer.

to be blunt it is because these retailers have the means to pass on this fee and not necessarily just by individual product sales.
How long until Bezos wakes up and starts doing something to curate/monitor third-party retail products even a little? I know most of their customers don't care about patent infringement but this case is just a byproduct of Amazon's unwillingness to address the problem third-party sellers have become.
Thanks for the answer. I am happy to discuss offline. While I did my master on computational linguistics which is related to your field, I am currently creating a new auto ml platform so I would appreciate your feedback. My goal is to automate the straightforward parts.

As you mentioned, some tasks in NLP like full conversation are not solved and will likely never be solved with deep learning by itself (at the level of the conversation). There should be some sort of symbolic AI or taxonomies/knowledge graph (like RDF) in combination with deep models.
YouTube has been criticized for it's recommender system tending to push viewers to more and more extreme content. I think the porn tube industry no different.
> Physical beauty is empty and devoid of merit.

I get where you're coming from, as my personal values have this element in them as well. I'm probably heavily influenced by my Protestant upbringing, which also gives me the moral that "laying moral judgement on others is a vanity."

That said, it's also interesting to look at moral themes and personal values through the lens of cultural evolution. For the vast majority of history, it's pretty much been a hard fact that one's physical appearance breaks down with age (Keanu Reaves being some Magickal exception).

Therefore the "beauty is empty" moral might be seen as a distilled admonition against relying too heavily on physical appearance, since that could cause some hardship later on.

Anyway, thank you for sharing. I appreciate finding other people that pursue True Beauty, whatever that may mean. The quest itself is a thing of beauty. lol
> And we're still building multi-billion-dollar 20th century-minded war ships???

That's the thing that gets me. If the US is going to buy naval ships, at least get ones with a real purpose.

The ships that are good against 3rd world nations are something like patrol boats. Cheap, small, fast boats with a shallow draft.

The ships that are good against 1st world nations are submarines. Everything else will get sunk by ballistic missiles. One of the side effects of the second space race is that the knowledge to build medium range ballistic missiles is becoming increasingly more common.

To a certain extent, it doesn't matter what the US builds; the last time it's been challenged militarily was the Korean War. It doesn't matter... until it does. And at that point, it'll be too late.
From the start of Chapter 2:

"In the following four chapters, the basic algebraic structures (groups, rings, fields, vectorspaces) are reviewed, with a major emphasis on vector spaces. Basic notions of linear algebra such as vector spaces, subspaces, linear combinations, linear independence, [...], dual spaces,hyperplanes, transpose of a linear maps, are reviewed."

If anyone needs to start even earlier than this, I've actually found "3D Math Basics for Graphics and Game Development" to be a good true intro for linear algebra-related stuff. I think this would probably hold even if your primary interest is something other than graphics/game dev. Some of the text in that book's intro is a little cringey with its reliance on kind of juvenile game references, but I didn't find that sort of writing continuing during the actual text. So just push past that stuff.

I got a copy of it to act as a refresher before diving into Real-Time Collision Detection since it's been quite a long time since formal math for me (as in, high school, because I'm self-taught in CS). I've managed to make up a lot of ground by working hard and finding classes to audit online (Strang's linear alg course on OCW is a good one), but I have found that depressingly few math texts which claim to be "introductory" are actually truly introductory.

This isn't a slight against the linked work, I absolutely love when profs make resources such as this freely available.

"How to Prove It" and "Book of Proof" are also great intros to formal math, if less immediately practical.
To (hopefully) noone's surprise. The innovation mostly hit a brick wall and Cook just seems intent on squeezing every last dollar out of incremental improvements to the iPhone until he sails into the sunset
I've never really heard of it in Netherland either. I mean, playing with dolls or other toys, sure, but never to the level that the child seems to think they're actually real or develop complex personalities, as seems to be the case in American imaginary friend stories.

I expected it to be incredibly rare, but if 65% of American kids have imaginary friends, I truly wonder what's causing it. What's so different about how American kids are raised?
A similar scam just got slapped down by a UKjudge:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/30/virgin_slaps_golden...
By this logic, the fact that there were no stories about the government not being able to spy on messenger apps before, means that those apps were perfectly secure until they added E2E crypto. That doesn't sound right to me.
And yet we have RoboDebt and public drunkenness laws. We have a Pentecostal prime minister whose cabinet toes the line that poor people are bad and deserve to be punished.

Your faith in the administration is sorely misplaced.
Couldn't disagree more, writing apps in C is a breath of fresh air compared anything in java but especially android. I can start with a simple C file and write hello world in a few lines of C (dated examples: http://zetcode.com/gui/gtk2/firstprograms/) and run it on my desktop, IME the complexity curve remains quite flat. AFAIK mono never gained much acceptance (and was highly controversial at the time) and most of the gnome ecosystem is written in C, I'd be surprised if there was more C# code than JS and python in gnome today.

> I fear this OS is destined to become like Samsung Tizen, which is riddled with security holes.

Is the gnome desktop riddled with security holes? I don't know much about tizen but they seem to have written a lot more of their own stuff, the vast majority librem is battle hardened.

> It's not as if we don't have excellent libre languages, e.g. Rust and OCaml.

Rust is not mature enough, especially in it's UI libs and is virtual unheard of outside the HN bubble. The most mature UI available appears to be the GTK bindings though so it's mostly the same stack that you think is a mistake. OCaml despite being older is even more unknown and from a quick google it's most mature UI library seems to also be an out of date GTK (https://github.com/garrigue/lablgtk). Betting on either of those would be the death of the project.

> I applaud the open nature of this phone, but using the Gnome stack looks to me like a mistake.

Gtk and Qt are the only serious options as of today without having to sink in years of dev work. If anyone really wants to avoid C then there's the GObject system that lets you write code in js/python/xml/others, but I'm hoping this turns out to be the phone ecosystem that respects users and doesn't sacrifice their time and battery for the developers convenience.
The math of how stock options are priced
I don't see myself subscribing to any newspaper and paying $15+ per month for having a single source of news, usually with a single point of view and/or bias.

I would much rather pay a fair amount (more or less $15-$30 per year, which is what I pay on my landline), and then subscribe to a number of them.

This for me looks like a more sustainable model, but I guess that's not what their finance departments think.
What about asking companies to voluntarily limit their encryption to bit depths that are crackable with huge resources, but to avoid anything stronger than that? Then you don't even need a backdoor.

This means government can't do it in bulk, and it would out of the reach of an ordinary individual, but it would still be possible.
Fucking IRONY right here
It's just the other side of the coin. The key is the need for acceptance in what you believe. The groups in the article find it by seeking a communities that align with their beliefs, while the groups I am describing find it by conforming their beliefs to the group. The end result is acceptance in what they believe, and an avoidance of scorn.
Just brothers: https://hackernoon.com/my-younger-brother-can-access-my-ipho...
If you're also wondering what are the SF7, SF9, SF11 and unused SF12, I just found [0]

[0] - https://docs.exploratory.engineering/lora/dr_sf
I worked for a company where management tried hard to keep employees happy when it came to benefits and yet, for the most part, they/we were a miserable bunch. It seemed that it was never enough. I'm not saying that the benefits were extravagant but they were very good.

I agree that a happy employee helps a company be better but you can't buy their happiness thru benefits. The way to do it complicated and it starts by hiring the right type of employee and defining the right company culture.
Do you have ongoing guaranteed yeld for coal plants?

No, that is referring to capital investment in the distribution assets, not generation.
Rather odd to list Cuba and Vietnam, places where the US directly lost major conflicts, and places where the US is 'clearly' dominant.

Kind of odd to group places there the US 'was' dominant with places where it is, in a discussion of what would happen if US dominance went away.

You seem to have forgotten to mention Japan, South Korea, West Germany, Israel, Taiwan, Kuwait, and basically the rest of the free world under areas where the US is dominant.

What you've really done is point out that places where the US has struggled to maintain dominance are terrible places to live. Which is true. Living under total US dominance as in Canada or Finland or Hawaii is far preferable than any alternative.

If you fairly listed and categorized times and places, it becomes extremely clear that American hegemony is vastly preferable to residents than any non-imaginary alternative.
I still have an HII access card for when I worked on the USS Chosin and USS O'Kane right underneath the Coronado bridge. I was still in the custody of the San Diego sheriff's department at the time. Many of the few hundred of us that worked there were either currently in a halfway house or ex-cons. None of us received any safety training on asbestos, yet we handled a-cloth every single day. We only had rudimentary safety equipment. Some guys would cut asbestos cloth with a hand grinder, sending fluff everywhere. Equipment marked "TOP SECRET" was covered with a simple piece of butcher paper...assuming it hadn't torn or fallen off. It was pretty much a shit show.
“might be shadier” is a big part of it... many vpn services are fairly well vetted and it’s known they don’t maintain traffic logs, in addition to staking their whole business reputation on a malicious lie if even a whiff became public, with lots of media & security scrutiny

Just like with many car rebtal companies.. very trustworthy and staking their reuptation on not renting you a car that breaks down, etc.
Ask HN: Did the bookmarklet stop working with the “title” param?
How does this interact with the US airport ban on non-tiny bottles?
The short version is you can be sued for pretty much any reason. And as an individual you're unlikely to have the resources to defend yourself in such a suit.

In most cases described as "gray area" it comes down to cases where the stronger party made a compelling argument against what might have been a very valid reason to scrape. The threat is often wielded as intimidation and intimidation alone.
It was discussed previously on this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317
GP is talking about the Gervais Principle analysis https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
You might imply it, but not triggering A should give less B than triggering A, too.

"Turning on my TV at 5 a'clock causes channel 4 to broadcast The Simpsons."
I completely agree with your comment.

Monorepos will not save a company from their lack of discipline. But while you can have problems if you do stupid things in a monorepo, you will always have to deal with the dependency hell and what come with it on multirepos.
> If anyone needs to start even earlier than this, I've actually found "3D Math Basics for Graphics and Game Development" to be a good true intro for linear algebra-related stuff.

Did you mean to write "3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development" [1]? If you did, I agree 100%. I got a lot out of this book and was able to put it to good use for several projects.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Math-Primer-Graphics-Game-Development...
Ah, good suggestion! I'm the OP, but I guess only HN moderators can change the title at this point.
I think Docker is ubiquitous enough that there is a real market for it. It even plays well with Kubernetes. I don't know enough about their pricing model and churn to comment on their viability with much certainty.

Maybe I'm being too optimistic with Gitlab. I know next to nothing about their business, other than hearing good things from people who have used it.

That said, I doubt I would've seriously considered investing in any of them except for Stripe until the previously listed companies had shown significant traction. I'm actually somewhat pessimistic about AirBnB's valuation 5-10 years from now compared to today.

But then, I thought for sure the iPhone was going to flop. So what do I know?
At which point the question is: what transactions does this law apply to?

If my rent is a personal transaction, what about my dope trade? If my million-a-year pot business is not covered what about my prostitutes and arms deals?
It's not merely "lonely being wrong." It's lonely and you face a wall of open hatred and abuse for merely disagreeing or even wondering out loud if maybe the dominant view isn't 100% right and might have some holes in it.

That's completely unnecessary and also often openly breaks a lot of social rules, but people will justify their terrible behavior, the majority will have their back and tell the target of the abuse that they deserve it, it's their fault and the abuse will promptly stop if they will just "stop spouting nonsense."

Only it probably won't. Caving to the demand to pretend to agree will probably be permission to continue to be awful perpetually to someone who once openly disagreed.

The most abusive people typically claim they are being scientific, only they aren't. Because actual science is founded on the idea that we can't really prove anything. We can only disprove things and our current science is all the stuff we have some degree of confidence in because it has yet to be disproven and overturned by something better.

A good example of this is Bigfoot. There are people who believe strongly that Bigfoot absolutely doesn't exist and anyone who allows for the possibility that Bigfoot might be real gets treated like an idiot and a lunatic, never mind that you cannot prove a species absolutely doesn't exist and new species get discovered all the time.

Bigfoot Anti-Believers are typically far more fanatical than Bigfoot Believers, far less rational and far more out of line with scientific principles, yet will justify their terrible treatment of Bigfoot Believers -- or even people who say "I dunno. Could be." -- with claims that anti-belief is scientific.
Turing Uncomputability
Yeah, interesting question. But in the US, the problem right now is 26-year-old diabetics kicked off ACA plans who have to ration insulin (a drug invented a century ago, given royalty-free to the world by the inventors). Sometimes the rationing fails and they die.

So the question should be - can we as a society afford decent late 20th-Century-standard care to every person? The answer is yes, we can, but we don't.
I suppose it depends on your definition of "active" here but having release branches for previous major versions that are still supported with things like backported security fixes etc. is a pretty common setup.
Sadly, being wrong DOES affect others. My fellow citizens vote and I am compelled by the laws they enact. Every friendly attempt to alter their worldview is ignored and every unfriendly attempt drives them further into a rabbit-hole of unreason. I'm left with only one choice- to isolate myself from the consequences of their actions, either forcing them out of my world, or leaving them in theirs.

and that's why I don't speak with my extended family anymore.