skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I would fix about JavaScript is that currently "return" followed by a newline returns undefined. I would say that only return followed by ';' should return undefined. Else it should return the value of the expression following "return", whether on the same line or not, until the next ";".

Not sure how how much backwards compatibility this would break, but at some point we must allow for newer better less error-prone versions of the language to co-exist in different modules. That is not difficult at all. Consider the case of "use strict"; which does just such a thing. We could have "use strict 2020" etc.
Maybe the French don't under-count Employment like they do in many other countries; see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment#Alternatives
Here's a short story about orcas, keeping orcas in captivity, and what might happen if we could figure out how to communicate...

Peter Watts & Laurie Channer "Bulk Food": http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts/WattsChanner_Bulk_Food.pd...
Most people scoring 700+ on SAT-M experience no time pressure on the test. (That could be read as tautological, but I’m fairly convinced that there is no real time pressure that would dramatically shift the “SMPY/SET eligible” from not. The questions are straightforward and there’s more than ample time provided for those with a realistic chance of scoring 700+.)

The extent of my tutoring was a public school guidance counselor explaining to our whole class who was taking the test that there was statistically no penalty for guessing and how the “A is greater, B is greater, C means equal, D means indeterminate” questions worked. That was 30 minutes at most.
> At Amazon, perhaps one of the largest and most successful employers, the solution to this is that when interviewing, everyone's main goal is to hire people better than the current average of the team.

At this point it's Kool-aid. In practice bar raisers have so much more interview experience that you can very easily pick them out, but so much of their behavior results in simply weeding out the bad.

I have received LOTS of offers from Amazon over more than a decade (only one accepted at one point), and my friend used to be a bar raiser. In his first interview at a new company he was both rude to an interviewee and flat-out wrong technically on multiple points along with it.

You can't raise the bar if you can't pick the bar raisers.
The reason they’re moving out is because the cloud business is not profitable for Rackspace.
It's two fold, there is no work AND there is no point in working. If you get unemployed at 58, you get 2 years of unemployment benefits at almost full salary (was supposed to be reduced to 18 months earlier this year). If you have side income (rental properties bought long ago since you're 58) or some undeclared work on the side, you're golden.

That's not to diminish the issue of there are no jobs, it's a real problem, but there isn't any hurry to find or accept a job either.
Well, what's your goal in going to school? If it's to learn a foreign language, this is a perfectly reasonable viewpoint.
"The universe does not expand "into" anything and does not require space to exist "outside" it. Technically, neither space nor objects in space move. Instead it is the metric governing the size and geometry of spacetime itself that changes in scale."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe
> Write a function to return if two words are exactly "one edit" away, where an edit is: Inserting one character anywhere in the word (including at the beginning and end) Removing one character Replacing exactly one character

I've been writing code my entire life, and I've been employed as a software developer for longer than I'd care to admit. I don't have a quick answer to that problem. I know there's an algorithm for computing the "distance" between two strings, so this is probably about that. I have no idea how to write it, and it would never come up in my job, and if it did I'm sure I'd import a library to do it.

After searching it, this is what they're talking about https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance

That means my only chance of getting this problem correct was either:

1) I prepared for it by studying the bank of questions and memorized the formula for Levenshtein distance.

or

2) I considered this problem for the first time during the interview, was immediately struck by the same insight that mathematician Vladimir Levenshtein had in 1965, and developed the algorithm on a white board in real-time.

At least they're transparent that if I do lots of HackerRank, LeetCode, and CodeLab then I'll be able to pass their test. I suppose that's better than only those "in the know" realizing how to be employed at FB.

I really hope I never have to do another job interview again.
Nothing has changed since this happened to me, in reverse, in 1996.

18-year-old me had an account with the Halifax, then a building society. One week, £50 appeared in this account. I knew it wasn't for me, and didn't want to spend it as I knew I'd have to give it back at some point. (I'd asked my girlfriend's dad, a lawyer who worked for the Crown Prosecution Service, if I could just keep it. He compared it to someone parking their car on my driveway. They shouldn't leave it there, but that doesn't mean it becomes my car.)

I wrote – on paper, in an envelope – to the Halifax. They said they'd do something about it. They didn't, and a month later another fifty quid arrives. This went on for a few months, from memory. When they finally sorted it, I pointed out that another bank (HSBC?) was, at the time, offering a £25 'sorry, we screwed up' payment. I suggested that they might like to send me £25.

The manager wrote back and told me that as 'no inconvenience or cost was incurred by me' as a result of this error, he didn't see why he should give me £25. Looking back, this event shaped how I feel about corporations, about how the 'little guy' is treated. I was fucking furious, so I meticulously detailed all of the costs, including my time at the minimum wage of the day, and put them in a letter. I mean down to the cost of the envelopes, the stamps, and the landline calls that I'd made. Everything, itemised. It was beautiful.

I called and got the manager on the phone. I explained my stance, and read through each line of the letter I was about to send. "Do you agree that this was a cost incurred by me?", I asked after every line. He couldn't disagree. I think the total was somewhere around £60. I finished the call by saying that he'd be getting this detail in the mail, and that it wasn't a letter this time, it was an invoice. Then – oh man, I remember this – I just hung up on him.

They sent me a cheque.
What is up with your SSL certificate? snazzygal.co.uk ?
I am French and had to read the text below the audio a few times to make sure that what I am hearing is indeed labeled as French.

There is nothing French in how she is speaking. Some weird German-like vibe maybe.
> The PS3's CPU was a single general-purpose core and 6 SIMD coprocessors

6 usable for games but 8 physically in the silicon, with one disabled and one reserved for the OS. So a dual thread PPU and 6 game usable SPEs for the advertised "9 thread" (sometimes just referred to as 9-core) CPU.
I've found a generally higher bar than places like Microsoft but definitely a much lower bar than other FAANG companies, unicorns, and even tiny-but-potentially-elite startups run by people who know what they're doing.
The problem might be a lot bigger.

Possibly most of one's life is spent (over?) fitting to some "test" in a system, or "expectation" someone else has, instead of doing what they truly want: trying to pass a test at school, trying to land that job (you think) you want, trying to be socially acceptable in the schoolyard, at a party, or in the office, trying to please a parent, a friend, a partner, trying to conform to some unconsciously shared vision of "success", trying to conform to your own vision of "success", etc.

The list is long.

Fairer, unhackable systems would definitely help in reducing the amount of such "tests" we artificially created as a society. We should strive for this.

However is it possible to solve human nature? To solve "affinity bias", "confirmation bias", "psychological needs", etc.? Is it possible to create a society in which everyone is truly free? Or at least as free as possible from all this? Is it possible to solve freedom & wisdom? :-)
Equipment and people exist, they just are. It is the market that decides whether to open a position or to use a piece of equipment is unprofitable. The fact that the market persistently and unresolvably fails to employ everyone that wants a job or produce things that people need is a terrible flaw in the economy and is a condemnation of capitalism.
There is no such animal as an "average participant". For a start, a low-wage male worker has a life expectancy of 74 while his manager has a life expectancy of 84. Conveniently, the managers pension system have amassed a huge cash pile of 150 billions (that the government -- these evil bastards -- plan to snatch away instead of spending it to pay pensions for the poor and the sick).
I believe that Tesla thought it's best value per dollar truck was the $40k rear drive model. The Tesla rear drive truck would handle better than rear drive ICE trucks because of the distribution of the battery weight. So they might well have thought that this would be the most popular model.

However when the pre-orders came in the rear drive model was much less popular than the other two models and so they rearranged their production schedule. This just makes sense given the market reaction.
> When I was a kid, you could either become an engineer and make cool things, or make lots of money by becoming an "executive." Now you can make lots of money by making cool things.

Software is outrageously accessible. The threshold cost for make-lots-of-money-by-making-cool-things has fallen to a used laptop and a wifi password. The prerequisite talent is mostly the ability to focus relentlessly while illegitimi non carborundum.

But since those are rare talents the laptop can only elevate rare people. It's a path to relative wealth for only a pareto distribution of people, like pretty much anything else. But it's a path to absolute wealth for most of the rest of us. Cool things that make money tend to make our lives better.

Make-lots-of-money-by-making-cool-things is a recipe for both more absolute and unequal wealth.
Anyone have a good description of the demo which is what wowed investors?
> why do we actually care about grades at all?

Because jobs are at a premium and evaluating prospective hires is hard, so employers look for anything they could use to filter and sort the stream of candidates. Education - both the what and the where is somewhat correlated, so that's what's being used.
Rest assured, they undercount employment like every other country.
I feel like you’re over-indexing on the word “hive”.

It’s not about having a queen or mindlessly following. Being a part of a hive mind doesn’t make you a lemming.

Example to demonstrate: assume you know calculus. How much of calculus did you discover yourself? How much of the corpus of math that led up to calculus did you discover yourself? How much of that corpus is your individual contribution vs. how much of it represents the brain power of hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of other humans throughout history exploring that problem domain?

For any given problem domain, humans have documented it in a shared corpus that you can “download” into your brain. You are an individual. You still get to choose what to download and how to interpret it. But you are still sharing in a commons when you do this. That commons is what I’m referring to as a hive mind, it’s a shared consciousness where our collective brain power is building a corpus that no single brain could. It extends far beyond ourselves.
A whirlwind introduction to dataflow graphs (2018)
As always, no. The problems with the biological species concept were well known decades ago. They are covered in standard high school textbooks.

Language like this:

> What is a species? It’s a question that has agonized scientists since well before Darwin. With some exceptions, the thinking has landed on an evidently firm reproductive barrier: Members of different species don’t mate. If they do, their offspring are sterile and can’t contribute to future generations. The reproductive barrier has thus created a useful demarcation of “what is a species”—until a deep dive into butterflies showed otherwise.

is deeply dishonest.
This is a thing. There are plenty of people who will fund your lawsuits against others and take proceedings.

Source: I'm a plaintiff in a lawsuit that is very likely to win damages, and get contacted all the time asking if I need funding for the case.
Yes, see Renaissance Technologies Medallion Fund* which earned their employees a 66% annualized return (39% after fees) over 30 years. It's one of the most well known examples out there.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeanbaptiste/2019/08/02/amazon-...

AWS - 47%

Azure - 15.5%

GCP - 4%
It isn't optimal for known distributions. If you're sampling from a normal distribution with known parameters, and the first of 100 samples is 5 standard deviations above the mean, you take it.
Never use the product, the product is for the customers
Yes, the reason is that it takes around two years before a user realizes how ineffective the site is. That’s about the maximum amount of time a user can fool themselves into thinking “I’ll start to see some progress any day now!”

If Duolingo were as effective as sites that require the user to make actual effort, its popularity would be more than justified.
I dated someone with an external pump. It came off one day and caused so many problems. Just slid from sitting on the couch to the floor watching tv and the cushion caught the pump and broke it off.

I immediately thought that type of failure should be recoverable without a hospital visit and surgery and tried to figure out why it wasn't.

My mind immediately set to making it so and was held back by the fear I could go to prison for practicing medicine without a license.

"I love you. I wish I could fix you. I could fix you."

"I know you could. I wish you could."
Nintendo has always sold at a profit AFAICT
You're seeing "the bank" as a faceless entity, when in fact "the bank" (not sure about this particular bank, but in general) is owned by shareholders, some of whom are almost certainly disabled old ladies whose dead husband put their retirement savings in bank stocks because those were considered to be a safe investment.

If enough people steal from "the bank" under your theory, the old blind lady winds up eating cat food and not being able to pay her rent because the bank is no longer profitable.

That doesn't sound quite as "defensible", now, does it?

Note that things like banks and insurance companies (another favorite whipping boy) do tend to have their stocks owned by things like retirement funds, precisely because they are considered low-risk investments with a safe (albeit small) yield.
This depends a lot on what the intended effect of the law is.

The cost of risk externalized by one person speeding is about the same, modulo driver skill and location and whatnot; it is not very sensitive to rich the driver is. If the goal of the law is to impose enough additional risk of a fine to compensate for the externalized risk, then it makes perfect sense that millionaires don't need to obey speed limits--as long as they can pay up.

If the law is intended as a deterrent, this obviously isn't working.
Very interesting idea to put this on GitHub.

As a side, I think there's room in the market for a company that builds a place for companies to version control their manuals. I've seen several companies that would like to keep a GitHub-like version control history of their mission, values, operating guidelines and track major changes in company.

GitHub seems too complicated and non-reader friendly. Any tools out there for this?
One question I have when I see articles like this is: what are the downsides of this sort of person on a team? What kind of projects should they not be involved in? When are they the wrong person for the situation?
> What has been driving me to startups is the fact that creating a profitable business has no place for hacks.

I feel that this hack/not hack distinction comes from confusion of goals. If your end goal really is creating a profitable business then hack/not hack is not a useful distinction. Everything you do either gets you closer to your goal (then it is good, hack or not) or not (then it is bad, even if it "feels right"). But suppose your real goal is "doing most good for society" or whatever and you think that you can achieve this goal by building a profitable business. Then if you e.g. create some bullshit product and market the hell of it (thus achieving your proxy goal), it will feel like a hack that doesn't get you closer to your real goal.

TLDR: hack/not hack distinction arises when there are two goals: a proxy and the real one. A hack is something that gets you closer to your proxy goal but not the real one.
Sure you can. You can talk about the hard problems that have nothing to do with the fact that it was part of a missile guidance system or whatever. If you worked on anything non-trivial there are always some interesting problems you had to deal with be they algorithmic, engineering, human, or whatever. If people press for inappropriate details when you've given them plenty of other interesting bits then that's telling you more about them (and whether you want to work with them).
I was in the protest with my friend entrepreneur, tour-guide, teacher, unemployed, artist-assistant and a bartender...

Special pension is only one point of many, and there are different ways to deal with it.

Note that for some special pension people pay more on their wages every month, and that special pension was also a way to stay attractive on the employment market with low salary...
robomartin is not really wrong though:

"I did not join IBM until 1960, at which time I was just finishing up my A Programming Language, published in 1962. It included a chapter (called Microprogramming) on the formal description of the IBM 7090 machine."
What?! No, this is an insane view.
On macOS you can also type things like Opt-U to get an umlaut, followed by typing the letter you want underneath it (eg for ü, ë, ä, ö). ß is Opt-S, I think é is Opt-E E, etc. I prefer that to the AltGr+key shortcuts, which I find harder to remember. I don't use the Mac as my primary OS anymore, but that's one of the things I miss the most.
This whole argument is pretty weaksauce. Learn to use the non-toxic stuff or stop doing it and just buy your meat. Either way don't go spraying a bunch of toxic heavy metal all over the show just because it's "humane" - lead poisoning is pretty inhumane.

There's also no practical reason you can't have biodegradable plastic cups for steel shot.

I grew up hunting, mostly bigger animals, I never bought meat until I moved away from home. We didn't use shotguns at all, mostly because it's been clear that lead is bad news for ages, and you couldn't really get steel shot where we were. And a bonus of hunting bigger animals is that if you do it right the projectile doesn't exit. The whole post above just sounds like a bunch of entitled whiny "I want to have my cake and eat it too" bullshit.
features an affiliate program, but no price shown, just 'get started'.

I don't give up privacy and set myself up for spam unless I know pricing up front.

I can only assume the price is higher than $130 / year, which is about what it would cost to deploy a wordpress + buddypress on a DO droplet and have the same thing.

Aside from that, I've been saying for years that there is a need and market for owned instances of a community portal and ones for families. I just think the market is more like $15 / month for a group - I think if it's attempted to be a per user fee it will completely fall apart, but a charge to one in the group... that could work.
You didn't have to do that work, it was your choice, hence you were not entitled to recompense.
France lack 4 millions jobs at least... hurry to find or accept a job don't change this !
This does already exist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litigation_funding
This is simply wrong. $1000 is $1000. Period.
Florida is likely in for a double-whammy with climate change compounding with the Silver Tsunami.

I wouldn't want to own property in Florida in the long term.
Can that be boiled down to something like "the brain is optimised for maximum performance without breaking down."

Always being just bellow the activation threshold.
As someone who got very high grades in my CS degree I agree, transitioning to the real world with my first job was 12 months of pain.
Relationships were central to pit traders as well. Doing deals in the steam room was a cherished & central ritual.

It didn’t save them when the bots came.
>> - What would prevent you from "cutting" the smallest possible particle in 2 parts?

>Max Planck.

For those who did not understand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_length
So... not get caught?
>"The value of high paying jobs in finance doesn't come from activities that can be automated, but from stuff that can't like connections..."

relationships were expensive (and thus valuable) when people had to cultivate them through temporal and spatial investment. relationships between computer systems are not bound by those constraints and are thus fast and cheap (via markets and networks).

but more to the point, the value of a relationship in finance is really the highly valuable non-public information you can glean from them.

knowing who has (or will have) the resources you want at or below the price you want to pay for them (or vice versa) is the hard part. people (and the algorithms they create) will actively try to hide that information because it maximizes revenue.
Here's technical info on the Drucker machine, which you can buy right now.[1] It needs 65µL of blood, which can be obtained from a finger stick.

The real cleverness of that system is in the sampling tube, which contains all the chemistry, has the needle used for taking the sample, and can be centrifuged. The machine is just a centrifuge plus light sources and cameras to look at the tube. The tube is about $6 each.[2]

Apparently this isn't new; the concept dates from 1977. Nicely executed here in a compact one-button desktop unit.

[1] https://druckerdiagnostics.com/products/dry-hematology-analy...

[2] https://www.devineexpress.com/products/429625-qbc-diagnostic...
I'm not seeing the bank as a faceless entity. My point about the comparison with two people should clue you in on that. Your theory about if enough people steal from "the bank" doesn't hold any water since if that happens it's proven that the government will swoop in and save the bank as happened in the 2008 financial crisis. That's not even to say the vast options banks have to detect stealing if it would become such a huge problem. A person on welfare has little option.

It's simple to me. a single person stealing from a bank incurs a lot less suffering then a single person stealing from a welfare recipient. The damage done is simply not even comparable.
Reducing the Performance Gap of Intel's MKL on AMD Threadripper