skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm open to the idea of breaking them up and separating the paid and organic sides more fully (and with much more outside accountability, but the auction model isn't terribly instructive.

Auction houses virtually always charge fees, typically as a percent of the close price, with some allocated against the buyer, some against the seller (on the order of ~5-15% on each side).

They also have listing fees for sellers and bidder registration fees for buyers, so if no lots change hands they still cover their expenses.

The requisite hotel rooms for the auction staff are typically comped by the hotel attached to the venue, and venues are often comped as they attract bidder bookings during otherwise slow periods.

Auction houses don't pay themselves to list their own items or merchandize their own services.

It's almost pure upside the auction house. Their big risk is nobody will register to bid and/or buy and next year's auction is dead in the water.

In Google's case, the advertiser is covering both fees, and the user is "paying" (if you will) in terms of giving up their personal data in exchange for search results (more or less) so Google can charge their pool of advertisers more (in aggregate).
A relatively badly paid and low status utopia at the same level of experience and you don't get pushed out at 45 as to old.
People who care about size have probably self-selected out of Rust.
All companies cargo-cult some version of this nonsense today.
There's a lot of truth in that.

But I'm not sure it's that developers are being given gold and don't recognize it. It's that developers are being given mud and recognize it, while most other people are being given shit instead.

I'd rather be handed a pile of mud than a pile of shit, but it's not hard to feel that there must be some alternative that's better than either.

(Maybe there isn't, though. Matching candidates to jobs is just hard, I think; everyone's incentives are misaligned, performance is difficult to predict, it's amazingly difficult to get past your initial snap judgements or even to realise that you're failing to do so, etc.)
unknown_nmi_panic is not entirely reliable.

Amazon should IMO come up with a little ACPI spec by which it can set a flag saying "diagnostic interrupt requested" and then send an NMI. That way it would be a known NMI and would work reliably and without magic command line options.
Fair enough. Although I'm familiar with quite a few situations where most people just use a single network for wireless (whether employees or guests) and confidential company resources are put behind SSO and/or VPN using 2FA.

Others do have separate networks of course and maybe that makes sense in the case of something like WeWork that probably has more people who aren't employees/paying customers coming in and out and getting on the network than the typical company office does.
> I see no evidence anywhere that he's shorting them using his own personal funds

From page one of Markopolos' presentation:

> [...] members of the Company are personally in possession of securities, derivatives, and/or other financial instruments of, and correlating to, GE, which may generate profits should the price of GE securities decrease

To be clear: I think Markopolos is on to something here, and the presentation does a pretty good job of showing how GE is sitting on some really really bad news for its investors. But yeah, he's definitely shorting GE personally in addition to whatever he's getting from the sponsor.

And there's nothing wrong with that! This is the whole point of having public securities markets!
Up to 1.4 is not a big deal, somewhere around 1.5 or starts to get a little strange. Since I generally have technical or industry related podcasts going while doing other things too high a speed becomes a hindrance.
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Doesn't that defeat the premise of the tech industry as a meritocracy?
Heh. When I was in school (maybe dating myself here), there was a blanket prohibition on accessing "DOS Screens" because the total morons that ran the school's IT department couldn't lock it down and someone sent a bunch of popup messages to the entire campus using net send.
Heartbeat monitoring async using SQS written in Go
Most landing pages that I've gone to for podcasts are rather dated and not aesthetically pleasing. This seems to kind of remove that for me. Wondering what people with actual podcasts think though.
You’re forgetting the third knob you can tweak - the exposure compensation dial. That’s arguably the most important control for the metering system!

If you understand how your camera’s metering system works (area selected, 18 percent gray etc) you can often work with the Metering system and compensate for when you know it’s likely to get it wrong - for example it’s not uncommon to dial a +1 if shooting a bright snowy scene, as most metering systems will be overly aggressive in trying to preserve highlight detail in the snow.

Similarly, if shooting in darker conditions dial in negative compensation.

Metering is pretty sophisticated in modern cameras, the exposure comp dial let’s you work with the tool and augment it’s measurements with your own human input.

Exposure comp plus histogram reviews with metering on is a pretty effective way to work a lot of the time.
AMU is a public central university. My argument is specifically about places of worship. Educational institutions are an entirely different discussion.
You should spend a weekend doing a deep dive into how cancer works.

You’ll come away fighting off the idea that it’s a sentient adversary with a much better understanding of biology than our own. The complexity of the environment it operates in is already astonishing, and then number of tactical mechanisms it employs to thrive in a healthy body seems one tick shy of statistically impossible to stachastically occur.
I can see this backfiring in the form of intense micromanagement.
> Who decides what's controversial?

CloudFlare, in this case.
That correlation is very frustrating -- people should take this more seriously, but those who discover things are punished... should be pretty obvious why security is way it is, right?
That depends on what exactly the company said to candidates and how upfront they were about the terms.

In my experience companies do far more selling than just sending out an offer. Furthermore, the offer in my experience doesn't include the paperwork for equity unless you request to review it.
I don't know why he was downloaded. I mean, come too Florida and talk to some 80 year old guy who has nothing, due to being scammed or ID theft.

Frankly, be better if you just killed the guy. Now this guy has to decide between food and meds because his SSI doesn't cover it all. And his savings are gone.
Cloudflare ipo...I like

Buying into IPO at top of market...not so much

So I've got mixed thoughts on this
How a disillusioned software engineer built a successful climate change company
100% agree. It's just an "are you willing to put in the work?" filter.
I think about this a lot, and how it happens in the Foundation novels. A whole galaxy-wide civilization with FTL spaceships and everything - but where nobody knows how anything works. The story vaguely resembles The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which is also frequently discussed as an analogue for current times.
Perhaps it works for radio, but I agree that it is jarring to read.

It also left me wanting for more. Why did the family member refer Fernandez? What is the psychology behind operating a scam as a business? What motivated Emilio to be a "really good boss" when he was proactively hurting so many other people? I realize that this is a human interest story that isn't intended to address such questions, yet the frequent interruptions seemed to encourage such mental wanderings.
> (also, you can't control all the toilets in the world)

But imagine if you could!
It looks to me like a wall of talking points designed to shut down criticism, weirdly speaking in unison across multiple accounts. And even assuming, against appearances, that these are real workers, they are certainly not free to say what they want. This is Amazon's corporate voice, it can't possibly represent "the people she is supposidly trying to "help", and it's weird to me that people are conflating them.

> I think really only the employees should have a voice here.

Then let's give them a soap box free from the threat of repercussion and hear what they have to say. Maybe from an union representative?
No it just reveals the weights of the economic indexes for new hires
Awesome work, however:

> OpenBSD would need a Thunderbolt NHI driver for that.

> requires a new Cannon Lake GPIO driver. I'll need to work on this.

> but OpenBSD does not support Bluetooth

> Synaptics 00bd via USB, not supported.

> The non-removable Intel 9560 802.11ac wireless chip is not yet supported by iwm,
But who manages renewing Vendr’s subscription? Lol, just messing. Great idea!
definitely not. soft skills are as important as hard skills are in the workplace. demonstrating effective networking skills shows that you are personable and could be tolerable in a work environment. its just as important for your co-workers to be able to get along with you as it is for you to get your work done correctly and on time.
Only if you think the merit of being able to form social connections and work with people is orthogonal to the skills being hired for. I'm not sure it should count for as much as it sometimes does, but how we measure "merit" and how it translates into outputs is a complicated process and I'm fairly sure it shouldn't count for nothing.
> Are we really sure they couldn't write a simple loop

I mean I suppose the stress under pressure could have made them forget the loop syntax in their favorite language, but that is unlikely. I literally asked them to implement FizzBuzz in their favorite language during a phone screen where they even had internet access to look up syntax. But since I was interviewing them for an SRE job, coding under pressure is actually part of the job anyway.

Regardless, I'd expect someone who claims to have 3+ years of Python experience to be able to write a python loop.
Do you know of any good resources?
I think this program was a great idea because it gives Amazon a chance to defend itself by letting the people who have been accused of slave labor, speak for themselves about it. It lets the general public see the opinions of actual employees who work in fulfillment centers for Amazon.
Who actually believes that? The entire word Meritocracy was invented in a satirical paper in the 50s, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy

The fact that this is lofted as a goal 70 years later is just comical. Someone much wiser than me once said "First as tragedy, then as farce."
LOL, obvious #MagicalPixieDust peddler is obvious. Real AI is currently three-to-eight years away, just as it has been for the last 40 years. They shoulda just said it uses “computers”.

In the meantime, you know what does work here and now? Building up a domain-specific language to the level of that domain’s expert users, empowering those users to tell their machines what they want without requiring a CS degree to do it.

Small steps make Progress.
Assuming you’re already integrated on AWS, just using Cloudfront is a lot easier than Cloudflare. You’re likely already using S3, maybe use CloudFormation as well. Then it’s often much more straightforward to use AWS services rather than a third party provider.
I found the same thing in high school. Except that I didn't tell anyone, and it was fixed after a few months. I guess someone was looking at request logs after all.
Static Analysis at Scale: An Instagram Story
I think whether "hate speech" falls into that category is a more complicated question, mostly because the term can be applied so broadly, but a handful of specific things have been illegal enough to get pulled from the public internet by law enforcement from the beginning, and I think it's naive to suggest that we don't need a category like that at all. Also, it doesn't require man-in-the-middle attacks or weakening of encryption to find public websites that host illegal content.
I guess this is what the article’s main point — putting sites on notice that no matter how much they obfuscate their cross-site linking practices, WebKit can always hard code mitigation’s for that site.

If social.example links to blog.example, limit cookie storage to 24 hours, no matter what is in the link.
This isn't quite the same, because governments can simultaneously ruin these businesses while still failing on their goals.
I'm not sure there's any reason to believe the tech industry is any more a meritocracy than most other industries. Look at sales just about anyplace. Your success is very tightly linked to how much stuff you sell.

In any case, how much merit someone has often isn't obvious. Pretty much anyone involved in hiring will tell you that internal referrals are one of the best ways (if not the best way) to at least figure out who to put into hiring pipeline.
How to Correct 32,000 Incorrect CSV Files in Fewer Than 32,000 Steps
Why does all this WeWork thing smells like a Ponzi scheme or something?
> the entire internet behind a single entity

You're giving CF too much credit. They are very small fish, as it seems from the S-1. But still dangerous because they MITM while operating for free at loss, so don't reuse passwords and logins between sites.
There's a big shift towards privacy happening now. If Cloudflare came out a decade ago I'd also be in their camp. But the risks are too high and developers are starting to recognize that Cloudflare is far from free and comes with long terms consequences for the health and resiliency of the internet.

I appreciate how they pushed HTTPs widely. But now that's Let's encrypt exists there's no excuse.

Ill also never forgive them for making Tor completely unusable for accessing any normal website. It's almost impossible to pass the security checks and if you do another one is coming once you switch IP. I understand Tor is a niche product but it's an important one for activists and other persecuted people. And it will only continue to grow in importance as the dictators all learn how to do NSA style mass surveillance.

The DDOS stuff if the harder problem to solve and I don't know enough about it to judge the competition's ability to offer it safely and privacy friendly way.
There are 10's of thousands of CS majors every year, and probably hundreds of thousands of people who think being a data scientist would be "fun". No company is going to weed through that pile to find the literal "best" candidate, because acquiring that information is expensive.
That trick of marking a stylesheet for print media use only, and setting it for use with all media only after it is fully loaded, is very clever. Worth the read for that little gem alone.
Broken Windows is actually not a fallacy (classic Keynsian vs Hayek argument)
If past decade has proven anything. Keynsian economic policies worked (printing money forcing people to spend) while a Austrian Austerity would have been disastrous.

Again, HN will not understand the side effects of destroying a major ecosystem. They all think they are much smarter and can stand on their own and VC money has no effect on their livelihood and it's their superior linux skills that keep them making tons of money
Lots of companies don't charge for work that falls outside the estimated amount of time, you guys are far from the only ones doing that. It doesn't take AI to do that. And anyone would find your description of the methodology vague to the point of being useless.

> NLP, CNNs, and regression analysis

No one is asking you to reveal your algorithms in detail, but any information at all besides just naming 3 statistical methods would go a long way in convincing people of the validity of your assertions.

Maybe you're just using human estimators and are using NLP/CNN/regression analysis to compute their daily coffee supply.
Right but there are plenty of other options for DNS providers.
You're right about the 'homoiconicity' but there's more LISP-iness to JavaScript beyond just "processing lists" too.
Thanks to these comments today I am finally running WebKit on Windows for preliminary Safari compatibility testing purposes.

This blog[1] explains how to get Windows builds[2] from the WebKit Build Archives on S3 that require Apple Application Support[3].

[1] https://medium.com/@alSkachkov/how-to-load-the-latest-webkit...

[2] https://build.webkit.org/builders/Apple%20Win%2010%20Release...

[3] 7-zip the iTunes installer to extract & install just AppleApplicationSupport.msi https://www.apple.com/itunes/download/win64
This, while potentially true, is ridiculous. I'm just going to pick a big company, ATT (I have no services or interactions with this company). If they believe in this effect of paying more to get the best, then why not the workers? Would not paying more for better workers ensure better end results? I want my cell towers and fiber being serviced and programmed by the best, after-all. Oh what's that, they don't give two shits about hiring the best, and just want it done cheaply? Seems a one way street to me...
Sidenote for anyone who encounters the same: Medium is giving me a paywall, so I opened a private window and it works. Does anyone know how Medium paywall works? Is it the author that says "premium" content, or is it medium based on traffic?
Again, this is someone who doesn't understand economics
White boarding is the worst form of interviewing, except for all the other forms that have been tried.
I think that would be a good outcome. We would be better off with many small companies.
Heard of https://peacekeeping.un.org/en ?

The only people complaining about it are the ones who aren't benefited by it.
This doesn't make any sense at all. What are you basing it on?
I think you're putting a bit too much faith in due diligence for a market that is largely run by algorithms. There was some Google traffic for "GE fraud" right before market open and then search traffic spiked at 10:40am.[1] Now look at the trajectory of GE's share price this morning.[2]

[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%201-d&geo=...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=GE&tbm=fin#scso=_RrNVXabVDev...
This is an awesome analysis of the situation. Some things I have noticed as a data scientist of 4 years so far:
- Increasingly, data scientist is just being used in place of senior analyst because it attracts more applications.
- At the firms I've worked that are software tech companies, there was an outsized interest in mid-level software engineers wanting to be data scientists, mostly because the career development prospects at that stage are grim and data science usually means a pay bump. This demand has had the opposite effect - software shops are leery of promoting engineers to data scientists for fear of inciting contention among the ranks.
- Building on the data scientist usually means senior analyst, it has also come to mean analyst that can build their sql query into a scheduled ETL or daily process of some sort. You work in pandas instead of excel sorta thing.
- I have personally gotten all my data science jobs from talking about the business side of things. I think engineers approaching the field from a hard-skills perspective is totally wrong. My last technical take home was in a language I had never used before and likewise my execution was shitty, but I was able to well explain the problem, how the data could be used to predict the variation, and how the data science product fit into the business. I got an offer before I left the building.
Do you negotiate for marketplace apps also? Like Slack apps, Github apps, etc. or is that too small fries for this?
I think you've hit the nail on the head here. A homework assignment does not indicate seriousness on the part of the company. Great insight!
George Church's Nebula Genomics claims to be only company using NGS
Subscription Portal UI for Stripe Billing
Gnosticism, look it up.
I've always wanted to use BSD as a desktop -- it just seems so much better thought out, and laid out together as an OS. However, it's /never/ been _quite_ there -- a bit like Linux in the early 2000s. Linux, meanwhile, made the leap to being mainstream enough such that support is widespread and I can count on one hand the number of times I've had to do things like add "noacpi" to the boot string. I wish the same would happen for BSD. It's just a popularity problem!
I will never forget my interview at the 2 best fashion houses in London. Both failed for what I still consider was a massive loss to them as I had all the skills they needed and more, but either management or the devs had no idea. Im not bitter for I earn much more now than I would have, it was just crazy to see the disconnect between management and programmers, in opposing ways.

Fashion house 1:
2 guys sat me down and ask me to answer a question about some node.js code, which took around 25 minutes to get running on my laptop. Once it was they were hoping for progress, when it took me a few minutes to read through several config files ( over a hundred lines each).

After 30 minutes they gave up and asked me what library I should use for a certain task. I said I had built alot of code in that domain didn't recall which library I used for that specific task.

Suddenly I was walked out, but not before one of them took pity and tried to explain to me how, when you make a request you can write code which waits for a response from a server (async programming).

I ofcourse thanked him and left.

This was after I spent 3 years developing a successful networked engine in my spare time ( with a custom 3d engine bolted on it ) which enabled 20 asynchronous connections for a war simulation I built. They both had 30 minutes and hadnt thought of reading my CV or asking me about any of code / experience. Just drank their coffees looked at their mobiles and waited for me to somehow decipher their 10k line codebase. (Management had already OK'ed me but were not around for this part of the interview and blind to what was happening ( or the lack of it.)

To this day I dont think the engineers even looked at my CV. Just thought I was some confused kid who didn't understand how basic network code worked.

Fashion house 2
I also interviewed at their competitor, who had looked at my CV, lead engineer was about to extend an offer, CEO walked in, not knowing who I was, asked a casual question ( culture fit ) type, but I was unable to answer, I had trouble understanding what he was saying. Failed interview, but that is ok atleast I was not as offended this time as there were no quips.

The icing on the cake, was that both companies had a 20+ engineering team, that relied on an app, which just framed a webpage.

And I cant help feeling I know the reason why.
If those are your options, then you should go head first into the dam. You're not going to survive, so you want to die quickly, not suffering in pain for a few minutes.
"The numbers have fucked up the way people think and behave"

les measurables
Maximum subarray is a typical problem solved by a dynamic programming algorithm.
believe me, capital will find a way to automate any potentially automatable job: it's just a matter of time and incentives. if you believe in what Andrew Yang has to say, truck driving and even some white collar stuff is on the chopping block, and those people aren't making minimum wage. therefore one must conclude that automation is driven by capital trying to save on labor, and the rest is a matter of intensity and investment/risk/reward tradeoff.

sure, you may turn the dial up on the acceleration by bumping the minimum wage, but if you're arguing that people working full time yet still being relatively poor is worth briefly "saving" these jobs, i think you won't win many people over.
Kashmir is already part of India, since 1947. No question of 'annexing'. It was given 'special' privileges, which lead to nothing for 70 years. Now they were revoked.

Imagine if Florida had special privileges like No Federal Tax , and yet continued to remain a s*ithole like, say Missisippi? How would other states take it?