skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate that going through hiring process is challenging, and it is stressful and time consuming to need to prove or demonstrate yourself again and again in a process that can be rather artificial and seem unrelated to the job, often while getting negative feedback.

On another hand, think about it from a company perspective: maybe 100 people apply for an advertised role. 25 might be excluded based on CV. Remaining 75 are phone screened and given coding tests online. 35 might be excluded based on that. 40 invited to proceed to on site to interview. 5 out of 40 candidates might demonstrate reasonable ability during on site interviews in terms of actually being able to write code, and demonstrate some problem solving ability, and some familiarity with common data structures, and not have obvious red flags about how they relate to people. Two of these 5 candidates who gave a strong performance drop out due to competing offers, one runs into visa issues, remaining two offers are made and accepted.

Some candidates will apply for roles with no relevant experience, some candidates will demonstrate no ability to program in their preferred programming language during on site interviews after doing well during an earlier remote coding test (e.g. they got a friend to sit the test for them), some candidates have 10 years commercial experience but cannot assess when to use an array versus a hash map.

This might boil down to something like 150 - 200 hours of human effort, much of this engineering effort required to assess engineering ability, to identify a single candidate who is a strong fit and goes on to accept an offer.

From the company's perspective, the company has an imperfect hiring process. Sometimes candidates have a rough day, freeze under stress and don't perform well during the interview- even if they could be a good fit for the job. Sometimes the hiring process emphasises measuring things that aren't necessarily the most important things for the role. But it costs the company a lot more money to hire the wrong person versus missing hiring a person who's a great fit, so it's probably the right tradeoff to bias the hiring process to reject more often than accept, and risk rejecting a number of candidates who could have turned out great.
You don’t talk to anyone. You click on “request refund” and give a reason. You’re much less likely to have negative consequences from requesting a refund than a chargeback.
Eh, in some instances you can define extremeness relative to alternatives, not number of believers. Execution as a punishment is more extreme than a fine regardless of how many people favor execution over fines. I would argue that generally a position being extreme results in fewer believers, not that fewer believers results in a position being extreme.
Easy Data Transform is a tool to help you quickly and easily clean, merge, dedupe and analyze table and list data, without any programming.

It is aimed at professionals who have data to transform, but aren't programmers or data science professionals.

Use cases include:

* making a list of all the people in mailing list A that are not in mailing list B

* filtering a log file

* joining two spreadsheets

* renaming, reordering and adding/deleting columns in a table

* reformatting dates

* de-duplicating a postal mailing list

It is desktop software for Windows and Mac, so there is no latency and you don't have to upload sensitive data to a third party server.

At some point we plan to start charging. But the current beta is free until the end of November. And there may be another free beta after that.

We would love to get some feedback. Particularly from people using it to solve real world problems.
This is widely acknowledged as being one of the key intellectual antecedents of the Toyota Production System and various similar systems in Japan. My flippant but not terribly controversial phrasing for it: Japan’s economic prominence was based on a 50 year de facto worldwide monopoly on applied mathematics.
Just describing what I see. I don't disagree that there may be a few people who do fine with it, in general, it is a huge overhead to make sure you are getting enough as a vegan. As a omnivore you can grab that steak and go.
Neither have I. What I have heard before is that the Windows kernel is VMS-like rather than Unix-like.
Right along with charles schwab [0]. Amazing what a little competition from Robinhood can do.

[0]: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/01/charles-schwab-is-eliminatin...
Okay, overturn the case law - state your thesis and advance a novel argument.

So far I’ve seen driving:traveling::printing:speech. Not only is that not an argument, it conveniently overlooks that we have restrictions on speech today - libel and slander, incitement, etc.

What is your thesis? Driving should be completely unconstrained by the state? Why? Or is it that we should have national IDs? Why?
Pretty sure the devs there did just go to other companies and make other software.
What do you think they do with people that walk in the door with meaningless certifications?
Concerning point 1: Of course it will always be cheaper to pump Oil directly out of the ground. Nobody claimed otherwise.

Concerning point 2: A few billion investment seems to me far less than forcing everybody to switch to electric and building a vast network of charging stations and additional power plants to power those cars. (Which right now predominantly work with coal what everybody somehow seems to be ignoring)

Concerning point 2,3 and 4: Generating Hydrogen can easily be done with heat which you have plenty of when using solar as your primary energy source. Using electrolysis is overkill at that point.

Besides that, 69 cents per liter diesel is really not that bad considering most people in e.g. Europe pay vastly more per liter because of massive taxes.

The real problem I really see is the CO2 capture. As you said, nobody tried that at a huge scale. But maybe there is innovation possible.

It won't work if synthetic fuels are taxed the same way as fossil fuels. That is entirely obvious. I agree with that.
A thread from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12220091
The extreme is an entire country unprepared to deal with the end of the emotional meme they’ve spent their lives soaking up.

It’s pretty simple:

Ownership is unwilling to spend on the mess their wealth relies on.

The masses are too incapable of adaptation on their own, having been trained to fit radiators and hub caps, not participate in the political process.

Adam Smith’s concern over extreme division of labor making the masses emotionally ignorant & complacent animals came true.

There are few options. The country isn’t going to handle tens of thousands of laborers with 40+ years of life left in them mulling about.

A new New Deal is in order. Social welfare work is about the only job left for the masses once automation is doing enough.
When I was in college I would zone out in lecture and wait till I got home to do the homework because I was being graded on homework and exams, not how well I paid attention in class. Now I zone out in meetings because I don’t think they’re important and pine for the moment when I can go back to my desk and do my individual work. Homework trained me to behave disconnected, I don’t known if it has stuck with me because I’ve been able to get away with it or because paying attention in meetings is unnecessary.
Does the difference in expected value (from preventing rare, expensive issues) actually exceed the cost of adding preventative maintenance? It is not obvious that this is the case.
The issue is the unnaturally fast push towards the extreme left ideas being presented as average/desirable. Most people are caught unprepared, and a subset of people (which is overrepresented in IT) also has an issue with authority and being forced to act a specific way, regardless of the validity of the way.
Discussed a couple day ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21136348
I agree — band-aids aren't per-se a bad thing. However, a VPN isn't the ideal end state. Even if you can't modify the underlying application, the goal should be "wrap in a reverse-proxy that handles authn / some-amount-of-authz so you can minimise the risk".

VPNs handle network security, but don't protect you against an attacker able to compromise an endpoint in your corporate environment.
I didn't set up that strawman. They're too expensive for a lot more than that.

Seriously, watch Bill's response to this and I'd be interested if you or anyone has a better answer: https://youtu.be/d1EB1zsxW0k?t=520
> Joe Schwartz, a 1992 graduate and former lawyer, said of his band experience, which began by playing a blowtorch, “It’s probably not a coincidence that I’m in the chair asking the dean for one more chance and then I’m the one in front of the judge asking for one more chance.”

Nice.

While the administration's disingenuous rulebook-throwing is fooling no one and tarnishing the university's reputation, it is healthy to have an occasional reminder that the government/administration is not your friend, and a movement of the people, which a scramble band is, would do well to find its way as independent citizens.

Columbia University football team sues for divorce from the band? My bet is on the band coming out on top.
They obviously don't store their passwords in plaintext. It would be terrible practice even if their incentive is just to save their user info in case of a breach.

They just hash common variations of the password (e.g. missing the last letter) to make it easier to login. Is that a good usability/security trade off? I think so but that's more debatable.
This used to be in the same category as bigfoot and UFOs, now it's written up in major media. For a lot of people that makes it harder to dismiss which leads to serious "cognitive dissonance". That's what I find fascinating to watch: society going through the process that I went through as an individual to come to terms with what happened.

If cognitive dissonance happens on a wide enough scale to enough people simultaneously all kinds of weird stuff can happen. As the mind recalculates and recalibrates belief systems new information has a chance to take hold. (E.g. the Reformation; or the founding of USA, there are more new religions in the US than the rest of the world combined.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_movements_th...)

I have no idea what will happen from this particular revelation.
people, I did say "cultural gene pool"

I get the downvotes now lol
Recognizing a failure to disclose a conflict of interest is not “digging into this person's private life“
Here's the teacher's riveting account, from 1972: http://libcom.org/history/the-third-wave-1967-account-ron-jo... (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2480260 from 2011, but only one comment there).

Here's the article from the school paper at the time, which includes details missing from the other articles, such as that the senior class staged a coup and kidnapped the teacher: https://imgur.com/t/nazism/hXgrmKX. The timeline disagrees with the other articles too.

Can anybody find a previous discussion of this on HN? "Wave" and "third wave" are such overloaded terms.
I don't understand the question. E2E encryption used in what? Consumer social-network software? High-security government communications?

Bad actors will always have access to E2E encryption so any argument which discusses this is misleading. So the question is then should the governments have access to the communications of the general population? No.
> These people think they saved the U.S economy? What are they smoking

That's like saying the poor bastard that ended up in Normandy during WWII didn't help win the war.

Obviously they didn't do it single-handedly, but they did make sacrifices that kept the automakers from going completely under. The auto industry might not be very important to people on the coasts, but it's a big deal in Michigan.

The people made real concessions and now that GM is posting record profits, they don't see why they should be conceding further. And they have a union behind them. So they are raising a fuss. Because they can.
Haven't used check for 20 years now, I just transfer money, what's the problem transferring money from one bank account to the other? especially today when you got the bank app on your phone. Who doesn't have a bank account anyways?
None of those people are demanding an industry guarantee their jobs. This is a valid question when the burden is being placed on the car companies to give them work, it’s fair to ask why they can’t find work regardless if they are skilled workers.
My point is that they can easily proven that.
Most electricity is produced by burning coal heating up water and sending it through a turbine. The efficiency is limited by the maximum the carnot cycle can give you. In general less than 60%. Still not as bad as 10%, sure. But if you get your energy with solar cells we could get into regions where the efficiencies are comparable. All Fisher-Tropsch needs is heat and using solar you have plenty of that.
How much were you able to sell?

Could you do it again at a different company or do you feel lucky?
Were hot, humid summers the key to life's origins?
This argument has been a bit winding but to recap. I started out saying BTC was getting less efficient over time, you said it wasn't, then agreed it was. You suggested it wasn't manipulated, but we agree there's tons of data that shows its brutally manipulated. Then I argued Bitfinex/Tether is shady, you said it wasn't and that I should short USDT. I said the manipulation makes that a bad call. Next we talked about investing, and you said it was doing great, but over the last 2 years it's down 70%. Then you said it was good for Venezuela, but a single transaction costs a few weeks wages, and takes enough power to run their home for a month. Then you agreed it wasn't good for them, either. So far we agree it's performance is better than the bolivar but worse than the turkish lira. Yes, if you bought for pennies and can sell for thousands you did fine. The question isn't how much money it could have made you, the question is where's it going next. It's also probably not the single best investment in history, if you ask anyone who invested in Facebook's seed round.

It's not good for anyone, anything, or the environment. It's a crap payment system, with limited capacity, consuming an entire country's worth of energy to do what could be achieved with a single AWS instances and a DynamoDB table. And the big feature? That you can circumvent sanctions. Boy if I had a nickel for every time I wanted to pay someone in North Korea, Iran or Syria using a month's household usage of electricity, I'd, well, I'd not have any nickels.

Nobody can point to a single thing Bitcoin does better than anything else already out there except making the early adopters wealthy.

Not to mention "[a study] estimate[s] that Bitcoin generates a large welfare loss that is about 500 times as large as a monetary economy with 2% inflation." [1]

[1] https://www.bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/swp20...
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This is a real bummer. Is anyone aware of an open source alternative that ONLY does window management for macOS?
Binary systems are simply more popular because anything beyond two objects of similar mass can’t have a stable orbit for a long-ish time.
You have to love attention to detail
To be clear: it’s not impossible, but it’s simply highly improbable.
My cynicism about the widespread disregard for software bloat in the industry is tempered whenever I see stuff like this. Ask a javascript developer to do this and they'll end up with 1500 npm dependecies with an oddball collection of incompatible React plugins, 3d visualisation frameworks, and a codebase that'll be incompatible with the latest and greatest versions of all of these six months from now.

Yeah I know assembly language isn't a sensible choice for all but a tiny specialized niche of projects, hardware/bandwidth is far cheaper than developer time and so on but it's still refreshing to see people doing this kind of thing just out of pure passion.
I suspect many of WordPerfect's employees did, in fact, go on to work as programmers writing other software.
What application code language are you using that doesn't already have one or more source doc-generators? Can you just tweak or post process the output from them?
The Stanford Prison Experiment and the Milgram experiments are well known in the US, and in the same space, so I don't think this generalization works. (Edit: Also the Asch conformity experiments.)

Edit: after reading the article, maybe there's a more interesting reason why this episode is less known: no one talked about it publicly for many years after it happened. "Silence is what happens when you feel shame."

Edit 2 — and then there's this: "I'm not proud of the Wave, and I don't want to see it repeated," said Jones, who has turned down inquiries about how to re-enact the Wave from everyone from cult leader Jim Jones to a British television company wanting to turn the experiment into a reality show. Say what? Jim Jones?

Edit 3: if the 1972 date on http://libcom.org/history/the-third-wave-1967-account-ron-jo... is accurate, then the OP is wrong that nobody talked about it publicly for over a decade.
There are areas where Japan manufacturing is still above and beyond. I remember reading a few years ago about Canon Tokki, which at the time was the only manufacturer of OLED production lines. It was in the news since Apple could not get their hands on them fast enough for the iPhone.
And no one prosecuted for it, to date.
The UAW has had job guarantees and “job banks” as a part of their contract negotiations for decades, it’s not new at all.

Not disagreeing that electric cars concern them, but asking for job guarantees is not proof of it.
Space is niche right now, and will always be niche until we get off this rock and have space colonies.
Dear mods, if anyone on the left said something as polarized as “socialist anti-cow climate nut job“, they’d get a personal reprimand from dang. Is that going to happen for this guy, or not?
> The researchers speculate the bug is being used by NSO, an Isreal-based group known to sell tools to authorities to exploit iOS and Android.

> Due to evidence of in the wild exploit, we are now de-restricting this bug 7 days after reporting to Android.

Why is this a good idea?
Does anyone (outside Robinhood) do 0 commission options trades?
When I finished high school I interviewed for a couple of programmer jobs and was offered both. One was a spot on a technical team which paid quite little, the other was a role where I would be the sole technical person which paid much more. I took the former job without much deliberation, and it turned out to be one of the best decisions I have made.

When you’re new to the field it’s better to work with others than alone. Even if the others are terrible at their jobs, you can learn a lot about what not to do.
Mods get a diamond () next to their name to identify them as mods.

Edit: HN stripped the unicode diamond from this post.
How bad is it? For the last 30 years i eat 400g of sugar a day (i make whole cakes pretty much everyday and thats the amount i put in), on festivities about 1kg but then i get so sleepy so fast i kinda pass out. Nothing else serious so far.
An overview of build systems (mostly for C++ projects)
To be pedantic, OP included the words "at large". There is always a special case that counters the generalization, for example you being taught this material whilst your neighbor or coworker was not.
Isn't it more the opposite?

Active learning is about promoting things like talking to other students face to face or on classroom-based chat systems about assignments.

It's more of a social media flavored experience compared to watching a lecture. And it feels a lot less like work.

I don't think I've seen active learning implemented very well, but in my experience the more actively students work in groups and discuss their opinions the less actual material you cover.

What does happen in group settings is that the best students re-explain the material to students not doing so well. This might lead to increased average performance, but I'm sure they've accounted for that.
Wow, you had a lot of brain matter removed. I just got out of video EEG yesterday and am hoping I can have surgery, or that it otherwise goes away. Mine is left temporal lobe, which seems like a delicate place for them to operate on. Seems like it’s in the neocortex though, so I’d probably keep my hippocampus and amygdala. I still have a lot of testing left - I don’t know how I’m going to do it all. The video EEG was bad enough. Any regrets or defecits?
So how do they make their money? Front-running? Payments for order flow?
Agreed. Closest is this .... ' we are exploring improvements to our tools and processes to facilitate a finer grained, more incremental deployment method for wide, system-level changes.'
I agree with you. I also feel the same way about people studying a "worthless" degree at a university. I think it should be much more heavily encouraged to let us develop deeper thinkers, artists, and others. We should learn to celebrate that not everything needs to be economically/financially driven.

> We just need to realise that life happyness and meaningful work doesn't mean generating profits for some ceo.

I believe that's GP's point in a nutshell. The thing is for the USA "just need to realize" is a major cultural shift. Not to say it's insurmountable by any means, but making people just realize something is very tricky IMO.
I was shocked when I first discovered that US sockets do not have a switch!
Well, Google are themselves the vendor here. Also seems it's fixed and this might encourage manufacturers to push out an update.
It doesn’t seem unplausible, but that’s not the point of doing research. The causality could be the other way round (people who are mentally fit also enjoy sports more, or see more benefits in doing it), or it could be driven by unobserved variables, like influence from your family or friends that leads you to both study and work out hard.

What you’re interested in is the treatment effect of doing sports vs not doing sports. With enough and the right kind of data you could try to estimate this effect while accounting for the potential endogeneity. Randomized experiments are a good way of generating such data, but even then the inference is tricky (subjects will know whether they are in the treatment or control group,...).
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Yeah, but they're all separate from any other preference pane. Everybody gets the same framework to create completely independent prefpanes, not hijack Apple's existing ones.

There are no hooks, for example, to modify the Displays prefpane; if Apple decides they want to update it, they're free to do so. On the other hand, a lot of graphics card vendors still needlessly add their own little tab to the display adaptor control panel and the desktop's context menu.
I've been using a somewhat related technique in my research: Principal Coordinate Analysis (PCoA) also called Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) which works on a dissimilarity matrix. See [1] for the differences.

[1] http://occamstypewriter.org/boboh/2012/01/17/pca_and_pcoa_ex...