skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been involving in causal inference analysis since 2015. We use a mixed model of decision tree and fixed effect regressions. I read your paper and could not find a reference of why, while one cannot do AB test to verify the relationship but can use observational analysis to do it. Could you share a reference please?
Thank you for this insightful article!
I'm a big 'ol fan of Stripe, but large scale change isn't going to happen through corporate self regulation.

I wish tech companies that insist they want to make large, positive changes would come to terms with the fact that putting pressure on political levers is fundamentally necessary. I would be far more aggressive in my support of this effort if it was explicitly "we're doing this effort to cover our own tracks and we're contributing to a PAC that will support politicians who prioritize sensible environmental policy."
I have noticed this in supermarkets as well. Either it is to trick the consumers but could equally be consumers would rather buy 6 cans of X in a pack than go to the effort of taking 6 cans individually off the shelf.
The key thing is that you filter out anyone you aren't willing to risk paying $800 or more to do the testing before asking them to commit to the extra time.

This is pretty onerous, but it should be pretty damn good at rejecting bad candidates.

I do wonder how many good or great candidates you lose with this method, though.
I mean, where does this stop, does it include people who sell accessories for the iPhone?
not even wrong
Because — and this is amazing — NO ONE at Toptal has equity other than the founder: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/at-booming-toptal-no...

I find this sort of bonkers. Basically they all have contracts saying they'll get equity at the next round ... and the company is profitable and the CEO has no intention to every raise another round. So he currently owns 100% of the company: "As a result, even though it looks like a typical venture capital funded company, all of Toptal’s stock is in the hands of one person, co-founder and CEO Taso Du Val. Even Du Val’s co-founder and colleague for eight years, [redacted], has no shares."

That said, I do wonder whether there's some bigger story in the background (since [redacted] is referred to as co-founder in the Information article, and is getting sued in the parent)
You can make an exam that can't be passed this way. It just takes work to both create and grade.
If that site's developer is reading this, the top of the page can't be seen when the width is such that the upper links in the navigation bar wrap. For example, at the typical width of my browser, I can't see the years above the graph. I can't scroll high enough to see them.
This is like Google counting everyone who indirectly works on developing of a website that displays/sells via Google Ads, which is the majority of the digital economy, am I right?
Not only that but my understanding is that when carbon fiber breaks it explodes into a mess of tiny strings. Which is very unlikely to kill you directly though it might get wound up in the other three props and bring the whole thing crashing to earth.
The difference is that Quality Inn represents itself as "quality". Amazon is advertising other products as being chosen by them. We know not to trust a company's claims about its product, but if you ask an employee about a product you expect an honest answer – not one based on a kickback, for example.
If you have your own business you'll definitely work 9-5 but you'll also probably work 5-9 ;)
The real reason behind this will be automated generation of spammy apps.

Imagine you write a script which creates a spammy app (eg. no content, 100% ads). You launch on the play store, and instantly insert a few 5* fake reviews, and then for the next 10 minutes you do a heavy ad blitz all over the internet and other mobile apps to get a decent installed base.

All those users now see what 'appears' to be a brand new app, already getting decent reveiws! They install it, only to find it's junk. Many won't bother to uninstall, so the app maker gets to keep popping up modal ads and running a background service for years...

Repeat the whole process 20 minutes later with another procedurally generated app on a new account...
If you are implementing a documented technique, what are your claims of originality for a patent?

I’m asking because we are building our own implementation of mSPRT. There are some variants but I didn’t expect enough to patent. We are confronted with internal debates and I’d rather have actual examples than ageing memory of my law class.
...how about we give you a project that more closely reflects problems we solve here day-to-day that you can solve in the comfort of your home on your own hardware in whatever IDE makes you comfortable?

Me: How about we do something that more closely reflects problems you solve there day-to-day there and during the day? Your interviewer being present throughout means you'll get to see how I work and you'll be able to provide clarifications or answer questions as well. As a convenient side-effect, we'll both know that the exercise is a sufficiently valuable use of everyone's time to give up the equivalent amount of salary over it.
Then the costs of YouTube probably balloon so high that it doesn't matter for creators whether their videos are demonetized or not, because they aren't going to earn anything from them.
Look at you for doing homework and having an independent mindset to find your own truths rather than blindly follow others... what's wrong with you? That's not allowed here. This is capitalism bad only allowed rhetoric.
Is that a joke? Is that a hyper parameter!? I can’t google things on my phone, it takes too long!
Hardly orthogonal: better to exist in suffering or not exist is rather acutely the topic of interest to those contemplating suicide.
How many people will watch the hearing on C-Span and how many will watch the condensed and heavily editorialized version released by the news source most closely aligned with the preexisting political opinion?
One thing I do like about the 9-5 grind is the consistency.

I know when I'm working, and I know when I'm not. Yes, it's inflexible, but it's also predictable. I don't need to work at night, or on the weekend, I don't miss important events in my loved ones' lives because I'm away on a work trip.

I would like more flexibility in my ability to take time off (it was a really nice day yesterday and I wanted to go to the forest), but I enjoy the security and stability I get. Running a business, or contracting, or any kind of hustle isn't really how I want to live my life. I've got enough stress and other shit going on in my life, having 40 hours a week where I can switch all that off is actually quite nice.
> Significant taxes on electricity.

They tax all electricity while subsidizing Nuclear generation. Much like how the US has both farm subsidies and sales taxes on food. This is arguably due to non domestic production. EDF‘s finances are also wacky with huge debt both on and off the books, plus a very odd insurance situation.

>Yes, demand is not in a steady steady, but that's a far bigger issue with wind and solar energy, where unsteady demand meets unsteady output. That would require far more buffering than steady nuclear power.

Not so fast.

Nuclear needs both daily storage and unused capacity seasonally, just like wind and solar. The issue with nuclear is it also costs vastly more per kWh and due to long build times you need over provision pushing that kWh figure up more. On top of that they still need maintain them so you need to over provision even more again increasing kWh costs. And you still need storage to hit 100%.

The France model is to actually use a lot of non Nuclear power. The numbers look much better until you consider what customers are actually using vs just the raw production numbers for the country vs total demand. Something like (450 * .75 -61) / (450 - 61 + 21) so consumption is ~67% Nuclear which is not bad, but a long way from 100%. And this is also with regularly reducing output which again increases prices.
Load of crap. Based on misinformation.
Just shilling to the same ignorant customer base that uses microtransactions that hide the realities of debt and interest rates.
> "...how about we give you a project that more closely reflects problems we solve here day-to-day that you can solve in the comfort of your home on your own hardware in whatever IDE makes you comfortable?"

"How about you, a highly trained professional, do 5-10+ hours of unpaid work for us, that will be judged against desperate candidates who invested 25+ hours into them and/or bought a solution online, so you will get nothing for hours of work, except a meaningless rejection notice by some overworked programmer who didn't even read much of your code since he had 50 candidates' solutions dumped on his plate?"
I don't think it was feedback in this case. It was increased concentration of precursor that inhibited the enzyme, not increased concentration of product.
“This is “how I tricked my co-workers” into using Racket.”
No, it doesn't sound like that
Lies. Farmers didn't work that much.
https://oceancurrents.rsmas.miami.edu/atlantic/spaghetti-spe... shows the Gulf Stream as being pretty far away from Maine, though. From that map, I'd expect it to warm the US east coast below Cape Hatteras, and not much north of there.
No offense, but borrowing from a parent is not really borrowing, at least in most cultures.
The big question is, how did that person at the 2004 conference know you had the right stuff?
Analysts have been doing data science long before Data Science was a thing, unless i am missing something, it's a rebranding of tasks that have always been performed.
so basically benzene without the hydrogen?
Have Virgin Media services (UK). They asked me to create as many email accounts as many services I signed in. I dont use those email addresses anywhere else, just to access they pages to pay bills. Who are those programmers, where are they from and how much they get paid. :-(
The entire point of the app store is to further concentrate power with Apple.

Whether that is good or bad short term or long term can be debated separately, but it is fundamentally a shift of power away from independent developers towards a giant megacorporation. (I personally think app stores are fine but that the public has an interest in preventing any entity from having too much power, so it should be illegal to prevent sideloading.)
What's true is that they can and have imprisoned people. What's not true is that the basement features a jail cell.
I also want to abolish patents. (And I do not patent things myself, since, that would make it difficult to use. And, I am the "little guy".)
I consider this a feature more than a bug. I don't come here for the links. They're the same links that get posted to all the other link aggregators. Often the content is disappointingly thin, poorly written, or just a ranting opinion. Usually the content is packaged with an inane amount of bandwidth-hogging privacy-invading tracking scripts and malware. I make a point of not clicking the link unless something in the comments leads me to believe it will be compelling.

I come to hacker news to find out what the hacker news userbase thinks. I get a lot more value learning about a topic from the questions and answers smart people are posing to each other on a domain that isn't trying to cram garbage down my throat, even if they do end up rehashing one of the scant details or traipsing off-topic from the original submission.
the idea is to drink a bunch of beer while coasting through the easy classes and then the meeting people and networking just happens
They do do due diligence. I meant they don't care if the due diligence turns out to be wrong because it's part of the risk profile of the investment. This was a response to GP's question of how could VC's due diligence miss the mark so badly.
Gray goo?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo
Not necessarily. I'm not going to vouch for someone who is terrible. That reflects poorly on me.

I will vouch for someone who I know and is not terrible. I'm not going to vouch for someone who I don't know. So there is an element of having connections. There is also an element of social skills as in any endeavor that involves more than one person.
OTOH let’s say you spent $1M a year on a PAC. In this political environment how far would you be able to go?

This feels like trying to establish some sort of technological catalyst. This also might not be enough but it’s something.
There is a reason why online education is so cheap when compared to traditional schools.

The reason is very simple. Most people don't have the discipline to finish. It's just too easy to quit. You can try this or you can try that but ultimately you won't get past a few courses if any. I can almost guarantee that a few years from now you'll still have the same problem of not being able to finish.

Bite the bullet and find a regular school where you'll be accountable and are pushed to finish. And use the online courses as supplements. At least you'll start moving in the right direction. We hear about students that bitch about their large student debt. That's just the price of not having elite level self control to do it online. So their debt is well worth the fact that they have an education.

One possibility is to volunteer to do something you want to learn. That might force you to complete something in order to deliver it.
This was a big value point for Twitter in the early days (2008 and 2009 era). Identity is fluid.
Say I wanted to be a modern web developer and that I spent 10 years maintaining an old ASP.Net WebForms app. Would it be “discrimination” if I had to spend a year learning the modern $cool_kids stack to be competitive with younger developers who may have learned everything in a boot camp?

Was it “discrimination” that I had to spend six months to be competitive in 2008 after being at the same company for a decade writing VB6 apps and writing programs in C++ with MFC/DCOM?

What about the six months in 1999 I spent playing around with C++/MFC because I spent the first three years of my career writing C and FORTRAN on DEC VAX and Stratus VOS mainframes?

If you want to stay an active software developer you have to always be learning to stay competitive.
Wow!

Sounds like there are better places to work.

I hope you landed in a good place.
Nope, some people just aren't wired that way. I used to think I was a traveller, but then I discovered I was running from my problems. Not saying that everyone else is the same, but that was just me. I didn't have a desire to explore new places, it was a desire to escape familiar places.

In the end I found a place I liked and I settled down. I still enjoy travelling, but I've got a home and a community and a life here.
The same argument could be used to say that it’s completely unreasonable for a CEO to make x amount more money than their average employee. If you can shoulder being somewhat responsible for 10,000 employees’ work, you get your 8 figure salary. Otherwise, put some of it back into the company.
Thanks. I just read first the few pages, thought it was lower.

If the COO just kept quiet, I think it would have been worth it to forget even $630k, but I guess could say it also sends a message.

I don't think most people on HN knew about the interesting events related to ownership of Toptal, so good for us the suit happened.
Wow that explains it. Thanks. A picture=1000 words.

This even shows a cold pocket of water by northern Florida.
Japanese researchers build robotic tail
I disagree. While there is no guarantee large scale change will be fully driven by corporate self regulation, I'd argue that corporate self regulation, and initiatives like this, have the potential to be substantially more impactful than waiting on help from dysfunctional big government.

yes we need political levers to move, but I'm not holding my breath, and I welcome any and all corporate efforts.
Document.designMode
> I guess, but then your commute will become a nightmare.

I mean, not really? I just hopped onto the A train straight down to NYU; it took me like 40 minutes door to door, and being on the train allowed me to read, so it's much better than driving.

I make substantially more than that now, but have moved to Brooklyn since then; door to door it takes me about 50 minutes, but I wouldn't classify that as "a nightmare".

> a software engineer is a highly trained professional working in an high-demand field.

At the time I was a college dropout whose only professional experience was in startups, 4/5 of which had gone bankrupt, though the university actually paid their actually-qualified people pretty poorly. My coworker had a masters degree in data-science, and was only making $75,000/year.
>I wish tech companies that… want… large, positive changes would [accept] that putting pressure on political levers is fundamentally necessary.

I agree that corporate self-regulation is the laziest political solution. But instead of doubling down on a mistake, let's get all company hands off the political levers and have real separation of corp and state. Company influence on politics is an arms race that entrenches the most powerful firms, many of which are fundamentally opposed to climate change regulation.
That's quite peculiar. I never had that happen and I have over 10 domains with them that I'd describe as basically zero traffic.
I believe the point is that you if you don't need to raise any money, you can do a direct listing instead of an IPO. Then you allow investor liquidity without selling equity.
Or maybe we’re cutting down on cognitive overload because we can’t independently dig down into a rabbit hole each and every time we read an article.

Also, none of what was said contradicts the notion that the wage gap is getting wider.
To be fair, Apple forces you to use their proprietary hardware and software.

This means you must join the Apple ecosystem to compete, even if you strongly disagree with their practices.
> Why is Apple entitled to security research at anything less than the current market rate?

This is not only about Apple. This is also about their customers. You are essentially advocating that people should sell exploits in the black market, legal disclosure be damned.
I've wondered that myself. I don't know of a good way to evaluate that. I've thought about looking at bounce rate on the job description page or even showing a popup on bounce detection asking for feedback on the job description and application process, but haven't executed on either yet because I'm not convinced the effort would be worth it. If someone is going to bounce, how likely are they to take the time to tell us why.

It's also more than just the $800 we pay out. I personally proctor and grade the tests. That takes me 4-6 hours. Given my billing rate and roll in the company, that's arguably a greater cost to us than what we pay out to the candidate.
Like it or not, it's how a lot of job hunting works. I haven't gotten a job in over 30 years that didn't come about primarily through one or more personal connections.
It's an LLC so chances are they don't have a plan and were just waiting to get the C&D/Lawsuit.
My grandfather was an “analyst” for GE, which involved a lot of physical calculation, but also FORTRAN and COBOL. It used to be before programming became its own profession that managers, accountants, secretaries, and other disparate jobs were just expected to program off-handedly. It’s interesting that we’re somehow in the same place again, but in reverse, having to make new names for jobs that involve programming but not “software engineering”
What reason do you put for the return? Because usually they end up charging a return shipping fee unless I drive to their hub.
Small animals tend to puff to look bigger :) 10% of whole internet on a budget of 50-80M / year is hard to believe.
Does this suggest that a larger ring would be more stable because the bond angles would be more obtuse?
Security research doesn't really have anything to do with Apple's complaint of copyright infringement.
Sure it does. If you continue down the chain, the contribution share declines. The company or person selling $0.99 stickers specifically for iPhones, isn't contributing much to the footprint and isn't particularly relevant to the numbers, however they are part of the footprint regardless. You wouldn't focus on that contribution because it is very obviously small, which is not the same as it not existing at all.
The funniest thing is I could not use my original email as it is already used somewhere in the system and I have no clue when it happened. :-)
I like working. It doesn't need to be on a project of passion either, I enjoy digging holes as a labourer just as much as I enjoy working on an interesting engineering problem. As long as it's useful work, I'm reasonably happy. The worst I've ever felt in a job is working on doomed or failed projects, where none of your work ever comes to light. It's a waste of time and a waste of my life.

I wouldn't say that I live to work, and I definitely need my breaks, but I haven't been without a job for more than 2 months since I was 15. If I made a windfall, I couldn't quit my job and travel the world for a decade, I'd go crazy. On the other hand, I have some friends who simply don't like working. They can't hold down a job for more than 6 months, and just bounce around doing whatever odd jobs they find.
The express trains will get you from inwood to columbus circle in... 5 minutes? 10?

I have no desire to live north of 59th st, but lets be real here.

Anyway, NYC software engineers do not need to compromise on their living situation. Google alone has bought two billion dollar blocks of Manhattan pays just as much as in the bay area.
I have no problem with the proof. It's easy to come up with non-computable abstractions. All of calculus is one
(in fact, Turing himself pointed it out in "On Computable Numbers", and he invented and used others when he found them useful), yet it's commonly used to model natural systems without anyone considering it a proof against Church-Turing. So the fact that an abstraction is non-computable is unsurprising and has nothing to do with the thesis. The Turing thesis is relevant when you're talking about a physical realization, and you have not provided any proof that you've found one that's not Turing-computable.

Every physical object does have an a priori bound on the amount of time it can take to do something, unless that time could possibly be infinite. The reason is that it needs some sort of a counter, so it needs some state, and there's only so much state storable in the universe to store a counter.
Domain reg/renewal, once you have the infrastructure, seems like it would be minting money.