skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because you have a very accurate nose.
People Simply Empty Out (1986)
Most startups, by a large margin, fail either outright or equity wise (ie: sell for less than was put in). Many more sell for only a moderate amount which gives a relatively small equity payout (after dilution, etc.).

The average compensation of employees at other similar companies was probably lower once you account for all that.

You can't judge the outcome of buying lottery tickets by only looking at the winners.
Yep, at some point in the past every business started to use cars to bring supplies or delivery products. Are they all car companies?

And before were all companies horse companies?
I'm curious what their percentage cut is.
> they are guaranteed to lose money

To be fair, I imagine it could still happen that these bonds have zero or positive yield if they are bought at more than a 5% discount, but in that case why would the issuer bother offering negative coupons in the first place?
Why do you think that the paid take-home task which is related to the job (i.e. not leetcode riddle) is worse compared to what you've listed?
I change my mind then change the facts I focus on. I think we all do it at least a little, right?
NPR does that for all their programming -- it's a godsend. From the disclaimer that appears on the bottom of their online transcriptions, it looks like they use this company to generate them: https://www.verb8tm.com/
Not all NMIs cause kernel panics. In fact in a normally running system you are likely to receive NMIs as part of the normal operation. I've seen a typical Windows 10 system handle hundreds of NMIs in a short span, and they are all handled gracefully (interrupt vector 2). (Perhaps certain drivers? Not sure.)

It might be a better idea to trigger a machine check (#MC). That said, AWS probably knows more than I do.
Because they develop their app in house they are an app dev and not a taxi co? Are all taxi companies that have apps and develop them in-house app companies and not taxi companies?

Are their revenue coming from apps or from rides? That's the clue.
One of the sibling comments said it well. It's not the money, it's the fact that giving me take home work shows a lack of seriousness on the part of the company.

Although perhaps an escrow system would work. The company pays me a large sum (say $10,000), which I then pay back if they call me in for an interview. That way I know they are serious, and it actually forces them to consider the cost to themselves.
I think we definitely should look at the political situation in that company. Whatever I have read about Wells Fargo and beginning to see at the company I work there is a lot of pressure from the top to the point where the little guy is almost forced to break the rules. Yes there are bad employees but there is also bad culture that coverts good employees to bad employees.
How to (successfully) launch an ecommerce site
You forgot the API! I have my own dynamic DNS with a raspberry and the cloudflare API for instance, it's very useful.
Good interview method is characterized by:

1. It hires me

2. It can be used to unhire others thereafter
I live in the Midwest. There are two locations in Detroit, 12 centered in downtown Chicago, and one in Columbus. That's it for the entire Midwest.
This is just cheap twitter advertising -- the only thing different about this(from Wendy's twitter advertising) is that Amazon is harnessing Twitter's outrage lust to get more eyeballs on their ambassador's nice words and it looks like it works.

Don't interact with advertisements, folks.
If he was familiar with those servers, he probably had a sense of how likely it would be that they would just "crash" out of the blue. I've seen Linux servers crash, but that's because they were setup by a dumbass and were doing all sorts of insane shit that kept filling up the disk and memory. If a server isn't doing anything stupid, it's pretty unlikely it's going to simply crash. He was working for criminals, and I think they said one guy was wanted for murder, so I can see why he'd be super suspicious.
GDPR says otherwise. Cost of remediation of legacy code vs. 4% of worldwide turnover.
Fascinating, thanks. Not sure I understood it all, but I appreciate the reply.
Apologies, since I don't want to derail your point, but there is little evidence that Keynes ever said that:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/22/keynes-change-mind/
> conditions in the world are better than ever before but I have all these signals telling me that I’m totally wrong about it: I’m surrounded by fear and anger and depression

These are mostly orthogonal, no matter the scale. "Fear and anger and depression" are much more personality traits determined by genetics and raising, than they are reflections of how pleasant or unpleasant one's life is lately.

Due to hedonic adaptation (a.k.a. the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill#Happiness_se...), people mostly act how they act no matter what their environment is currently like. Short, sharp changes (like Christmas, as seen on the Hedonometer site) can make large numbers of people temporarily feel something strongly enough to show up statistically; but long-term environmental states (e.g. recessions, famines, wars) do not cause long-term statistical shifts in reporting on emotional scales. People get used to things, and revert to their emotional set-points.

In other words, a great world and a horrible world would be indistinguishable when viewed through the lens of "how happy people are." You can't get global utility from global happiness.
also, prison, for fraud.

they really better genuinely believe that this is true, and have lotsa evidence - or the fact that they stand to gain financially is going to be used to hit them very, very hard.

Alot of people just lost money, if it's for reasons - they will suck it up. If it's because "you made it up" then they will get their pounds of flesh, and not from the numb bits.
I am a Genius, and my Words are What you have been Waiting for
>Demirkapi passed on his findings to his school's IT department. However, it ended up being viewed by every school in his district and he was suspended from school for two days.
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> This is such an interesting essential part of scams. I guess it's a part of human nature.

Absolutely. It happened to my relatives too.

The way I found out was I was there visiting and they got a call which I picked it up. It came from what sounded like an Indian person. You see, they wanted to "refund the money" and just needed the bank account details.

Aha! I thought, I'll play dumb and pretended to mistype their remote desktop installer's web address and diverted the conversation to random stuff. Eventually they realized I was wasting their time and called me some exotic slang names, I hand't heard before. I am always up for cultural enrichment, so that was fun. Then they started playing this really high pitched sound into earpiece, I guess to "punish" me and trying to hurt my hearing.

However, it became less fun later when the relatives told me they had already lost close to $10k with them. They had contacted the bank and the police and apparently the bank refunded them some part of it. But otherwise they hadn't told anyone as they were terribly ashamed. They were professionals, already retired, with advanced degrees, and they felt like they should not have been the ones easily fooled, but they were.

So make sure you talk to your older family members, and tell them ahead of time to not be embarrassed if it already happened. Teach them how do respond and how to handle these scammers.
Not just that, but there's (slightly) less effort involved in keeping the car at 60.
Another approach to AD is: https://github.com/keithalewis/epsilon.
FreeBSD doesn't have as much funding, resources as Linux and therefore is always behind on various things. This pushes people to switch to Linux for one reason or another even if initially they were using FreeBSD and also pushes software developers to neglect FreeBSD, not providing proper support and giving even more reasons to switch. Like memory compression stuff on Linux that FreeBSD is behind on or Golang, while claiming FreeBSD support, not actually doing it all that well.
Dog Beds
Just curious how much would you be comfortable for paying a high-quality dog beds for your dog?
Well 10yr or 20yr should still be above zero even if short term rates are kept around zero for an extended period of time. This is due to the cost of locking money in for a long period of time. What the article is trying to say by "negative time preference" is that this sound logic: "I'm giving you money for 20 years instead of lending money 80 times for 3 months each time; pay me more for that privilege" is disappearing in the market.
> I know the solution, because I've seen it.

> I have never used it in real-life development, though.

I'd wager both of these are true for the majority of technical interview problems, and I think that's exactly the point.
> credentials and degrees are horrendously irrelevant in predicting your skills as an engineer

I'd suggest that an MSEE or MSCS degree from a good school tends to be pretty good training for working in the industry. The projects you complete are usually challenging, relevant, and intentionally educational.

For example, an MSEE might learn how design analog amplifiers and filters, program a DSP, lay out VLSI circuits for an ASIC, implement a RISC CPU in verilog, implement an internet router on an FPGA, and implement Wi-Fi on a software radio. I'd be happy to hire (or work with) someone who can do all that!
I can never read medium.com so I use outline.com.
> I'm surprised WeWork locations are so few and far between, while Snap Fitness has a location on every other corner. There can't be that much more overhead to a co-working space versus a 24 hour fitness center.

Different business models. The gym gets you to pay your monthly fee based mostly on the aspiration that you'll go to the gym. Most people would ditch their coworking subscription if they don't use it almost every day, since there are plenty of alternative options (unlike the gym, which is the only place to get that kind of equipment).
Gyms have many more members than capacity. They would have to dramatically raise the price if people actually used their memberships. OTOH co-working spaces likely have much higher utilization since pretty much everyone goes to work.
There are only 10 days to accomplish change
https://nikolateslamuseum.org/en/

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla
Paying doesn’t really change the dynamic very much. If the issue is that people don’t have a bunch of time to do the problem, paying them a few bucks doesn’t really address that.
Eu: Cropis – Growing tomatoes in space (2014)
> The solution is to break up Google, and force Google to bid for the right to show up on the list on Android-the-company's platform just like everyone else.

Google already pays more to fund Android than it would cost to place in a search engine listing auction. If all you're really suggesting is that they do separate accounting for part of that funding and call it "large bid in search engine listing auction" then nothing changes in practice.

Which is kind of the point. They're already effectively paying for placement by funding Android development in general.
I've had some good technical interviews and some bad technical interviews. The worst I dealt with recently was the technical phone interview process for a FAANG company (not Amazon) that only provided a basic text editor (requiring me to tab over after every newline) for writing full working solutions to problems, and unhelpful and disinterested interviewers. This was a couple years ago, so hopefully it's improved since then. But it left a sour taste in my mouth.
Yes, you can have a scroll bar - but where do you set the minimum threshold for qualification? If I slap a search box in front of CommonCrawl, have I now created a search engine?
They’re getting into some sort of “accelerator VPN” market. They clearly have ambitions to Be The Internet.
Also you have to wonder about some of the associations like on the day of the shooting in Dayton, OH [0] one of the few positive words is "white".

[0] https://hedonometer.org/index.html?from=2018-02-15&to=2019-0...
I have to say that from all of those, the least annoying has been the pair programming.

But to be fair the problems were not too hard, the interview was set-up properly (problem files on place and a good code editor at hand, no tricks or gotchas)

And the worse of course is having to write fizzbuzz in a whiteboard, I just have to roll my eyes then
Because no one actually gives a shit about $0.50 savings per day.

Nest isn't popular because of its functionality, it's popular because it's associated with Google and trendy to own. It's going to be hard for another company to break into that market.
That's my thought. Now we need to get a KeePass extension that does that. It'd be even better if it generated where you went to high school and your first pet's name as well. Though that too could be Mrs. Sebastian Winifred Campershamp.
No thanks. I don't want there to be more Americans, I want there to be a better quality of life for the Americans that exist now and their descendants.

I don't see how it figures that more people packed into the same territory competing for a dwindling pool of resources is good for my country, even if the hundreds of millions of newcomers are eventually "Americans". I support controlled immigration when it benefits our country, but immigration for the sake of growing our population seems monumentally foolish. Housing, education, and healthcare are already scarce resources - let's focus on how to build our country into a better place to live for the people who are already vested in the system. In before "they'll pay for our pensions!" - debunked, more like "we're already paying for their food, housing, clothing, education, healthcare, and children", at least when it comes to illegal immigrants.

Also, for the environmentally-conscious - people moving here, a high per-capita carbon emissions country, from low per-capita carbon emissions country, is contributing to climate change. It's very frustrating to see publications from Wapo, to Time, to NatGeo encouraging Americans to stop having children to fight climate change, while simultaneously supporting high levels of immigration that contribute very significantly to increasing our population.
I don't know where you found such service, but I had two quotes for over 6k and 10k to get automated lighting in my house in 2009.
What I find most unfortunate in these situations is the number of people with a response to the effect of:

> "I worked at [physically-demanding job] for $n/hr [where n≤other person's/current minimum wage] and I didn't [complain/think it was that bad/die], so what is the problem?"

The problem with this is:

1) In the absence of any addl. context, it's a poor means of objectively determining employee well-being.

All else being equal, shouldn't "we" (humans, as a species) be using an ever-increasing bar of basic well-being in context to historical norms and improvements as the measure?

Besides, there's any number of factors that influence what is "reasonable" (regional cost of living, changes to inflation/buying power, an individual's capacity to work, etc.)

2) People can simultaneously feel grateful AND discouraged in their current circumstances. To be glad you have a job and to feel stung by two generations of stalled economic mobility are not mutually exclusive emotions.

3) Both sides can experience entirely sincere feelings of "rightness". That does not prove, deny, or change any underlying facts.

4) Being (AKA feeling) "right" bears little or no benefit to anyone. It means a temporary rush of dopamine and adrenaline. No ones life has usually been materially improved by that event.
In college I worked at a computer repair center for students. When I was new, and before I knew how to talk around this, some people would describe to me what they were doing when they contracted the malware they were there about - at times being perfectly explicit and specific about what videos, exactly to the title, they were watching when they got malware.

I think the layman expected there was some character of a pathologist to my job. Like I would understand or diagnose that they had porno ransomware X on their system and the only solution was to do computer thing Y.

In reality, of course, regardless of the malware, I would just help the person back up all the data and configurations we could. Use a virus scanner on the backups, and reinstall their OS. How they got the malware was completely irrelevant, and I actually preferred not knowing. With a bit of experience I learned to preempt any detailed explanations by just stating my plan early and being clear that it didn't matter how they found the malware.
Theoretically. But if they're not willing to offer top dollar for iOS, they sure won't for Android. And anyway, if they value Android spots so much, they will be able to bid in this auction and appear on the list. The list is randomized on each startup, so it doesn't matter whether Google bids more than Bing. The only thing that matters is who bids for fourth place and who bids for fifth. I sincerely doubt that anyone believes Google would fail to bid in the top four.

TBH, I find it really interesting that people are complaining so much about this. It's actually a much more competition friendly approach, and less beneficial to Google, than what Apple does with iOS' search default. I guess it's a little different in that for iOS it is Apple aiding and abetting Google's monopoly, whereas with Android it seems like self-dealing. But I have yet to see a suggestion for something else to do that leads to a reasonable outcome.
Truth and the fact one is about goals vs what they are currently doing. Having unrealistic goals isn't fraud if everything is disclosed properly but making claims about what you have now is.

Claiming that you plan on researching the cure for cancer while you flunked high school biology and plan to do your research by trying to research ancient books would be an extraordinarily stupid investment but if you applied the money towards said fool's errand there would be no fraud there.

Claiming you have invented robots when they are really just metal suits with hired people inside would be fraud.
>if Uber's model was subscription-only software that enabled ~unlimited~ fair usage many rides

I have no idea what this sentence means. But if Uber was a company that sold software to taxi companies then they'd be a tech company. As it is they sell car rides, not software, and so are a taxi company more than they are a tech company.
SaaS Sales with User Onboarding
Planning to use FreeBSD on a T480 as my main machine. I admire OpenBSD but need/want ZFS.
I built upon ReactXP with helps with that. A project from Microsoft that powers Skype for Web.

But yes, there can be differences, but that doesn't mean give up and write the application code 6x.
Lesson learned.

Keep vulnerabilities to your self.
It might work, but it's creepy as fuck.
Yes. So we use a Nueral network as a function approximator for Q values and call it deep Q
Even the poor don't have a meritocracy. Plenty of meritorious people have otherwise been screwed by lead paint, abusive landlords, terrible teachers, imbalanced policing, hiring bias, and more.
Isn't everything simpler than modern C++?
if WeWork is a tech compnay, what's their technology?
In the old days in C++ we'd try to assign it to int and look at the compiler error message. (That literally was the instruction of how to figure out the type to use in one of boost's libraries in pre-c++11 times ...)
>Never heard of this before......this is, quite amazing.

the development of human carrying N-copters has been picking up around the world like a forest fire, just search on Youtube. My favorite:

https://youtu.be/EQK9m_OBVgY?t=22

hearing how bad the commute on 237, i think many would prefer the flying bathtub over the car :)
Yes. However Facebook now has their own JavaScript engine.
Using environment files over injected environment variables in Kubernetes
As the USA is at will don't you effectively have a probation period.
_up to_ 4% of worldwide turnover or 20 million $ (whichever is higher).

For local businesses the second one probably sounds much more scary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...
I never needed an adjustment period that I recall to be able to skip right to 2x. That's how I watch any video like Linus Tech Tips or others where it's mainly just talking these days. YT doesn't go any faster but I wouldn't be surprised if I could push it even more.
I love the term "band-aid boxes". Hah! What a lovely thought.
A friend of mine got hassled in the high school computer lab for being in cpanel for his personal website. Apparently it looked scary.

Security on the old Macs was hilarious though - the student user accounts had a limited set of applications they were allowed to launch, but it was only enforced via Finder checking when you double clicked it.

There were so many other ways to launch things. Custom buttons in AppleWorks toolbars, AppleScript, dragging it into Safari and then opening it from the downloads manager, and setting the creator code to match any application you had permission for were convenient options.

Don't have access to run Script Editor? That's ok, type applescript: into Safari's URL bar and it'll pop right up.
Exactly. As long as the LED is disable-able via software it's placebo.
Women in labour given virtual reality to ease pain of childbirth
illegible hierarchy

I like this term, it really packs a lot of meaning into two words. Original?
It can also move by algos that listens to news coverage and they dont do much dd.
Can you partner up with F5 ASAP? The pain! (Insert Spock or Dune meme here)
All things being equal, I'd rather hire someone that seemed nervous in an interview than someone that seemed relaxed, as the former is a good indicator that at least they are excited about the position.
Deploying Ocean Sensors from a Plane
> it's not a great modern language for a lot of internet or IO stuff

I think Clojure is a great language for internet stuff and possibly great even for IO stuff too, depending on what you mean by that. The LISP-iness is probably better for the former but builtin Java interop probably goes a long way towards being pretty-good for the latter.

What exactly were you thinking-of by "IO stuff"? Graphics? Embedded systems programming? I'd think Clojure could be just as good as Java or Python for all of those, tho existing libraries aren't going to be quite as good as C/C++, and Go will probably be better-performing generally.

And there are (because of course there are) LISPs for real-time embedded systems programming:

- [nakkaya/ferret: Ferret is a free software lisp implementation for real time embedded control systems.](https://github.com/nakkaya/ferret)
Do you happen to know what's the encoding time for a DWT based encoder vs H.264? Assuming the same hardware, of course...

Are we talking about roughly the same encoding time, or the DWT is slower by an order of magnitude?
Yeah I've yet to see any NLP solution that comes close to being able to understand sarcasm. It's not an easy thing to do though it requires understanding the whole culture a statement comes from and the message as a whole because of how much earlier sentences change the actual meaning of words.

I doubt we'll have something that really grasps sarcasm until we get close to full human level AI given how much it can trip up even people when communicated by text.