skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Network at Conferences and meetups. Stay in touch with old colleagues. Listen to everyone’s problem and suggest a solution if you see they are really stuck on something. Reach back to those people and ask about their problems. If it’s ongoing, build a concise document that describes the problem and a potential roadmap to solving. Give it to client (see what I did there?) and tell them to shop around and use that roadmap as a guide. Build sales documents and go back to client asking to implement your roadmap by working on said solution, involve other key personal in that meeting. ... Profit!

Lather, rinse, repeat. Sometimes the above takes 6-9 months. Sometimes you get a handshake on the spot. Sometimes they never call back. Just like dating, keep your options open to stay fluid and keep talking to potential clients on the regular.
Werner Herzog made an entire movie focused on exploring the connected world, and the earlier part of the movie speaks pretty extensively about the first message sent across the internet. Incidentally, the movie is titled, "Lo and behold", as a play on the first message being, "Lo".

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5275828/
Don't know about Page and Brin, but according to the Netflix documentary Gates won state-level math Olympiad at a level three grades higher than his own. So he wasn't a modal child. You can't draw any conclusions from that about education at scale.
Firefox users: be sure to set "network.IDN_show_punycode" to "true" in about:config.

Test with the fake Apple domain https://www.xn--80ak6aa92e.com/ .

See "Phishing with Unicode Domains" for more information: https://www.xudongz.com/blog/2017/idn-phishing/ .
As radical as this sounds, there might actually be something to it.

Service and social jobs are usually those "closest to the base", being in constant contact with people from all walks of life, while at the same time usually the least well paid.

That's a lot of exposure compared to many other jobs, in particular, desk jobs and pretty much most management and executive positions.

Imho the importance of such real in flesh contact to other people, across peer groups, is vastly underestimated these days.

The ever-present social media gives digitally affine people often the misleading idea they can find everybody, with all their issues and opinions, online but from my experience that just holds not true.

There's plenty of people out there that don't even know what Facebook is, as unbelievable as that might sound.
Can someone please fix block quote on mobile?
I'm guessing you are more of an expert on the technology involved than the journalist writing this article, and thus not the target audience. Maybe look for other areas of value in it, and skip that particular bullet point. I imagine mechanical engineers often find laughable lines in Popular Mechanics as well...
You can convert PyTorch -> ONNX, ONNX has a couple of different options to run on mobile.
Lol at "robots" and "AI". The jobs of most old school traders are being replaced by regular nerds with fairly simple code.
Nasdaq employees drink 15,000 cups of coffee a day, that's close to 2 parameters per cup
I would expect this to be more viable than ever, now that the cost of console hardware is so heavily subsidised by online subscription services.
Massive vector compute units.
> The idea of creating a vector of things, applying a true/false test to every element to create another vector of 1s and 0s, and summing those or using them to pick elements out of another vector is a super powerful tool that lets you express a lot of ideas in a compact form that describes the algorithm without getting bogged down in writing explicit loops.

Exactly. APL's syntax and terminology is a bit odd. But what you're describing there should be a concept known to anyone familiar with a functional language. It seems you've just described what I would call mapping a function over an array. Indeed, a very powerful construct, often lacking from more procedural languages. Or, sadly, often eschewed by programmers even in the languages that do have it.

APL makes me think of Forth. Because of its idiosyncratic terminology (e.g. functions are "words") and unusual syntax (strict RPN), it is considered more exotic than it really is.
The Kids in the Conference Room (1999)
(Disclaimer: I work at Cliqz) Extending on that, let me elaborate why we cannot open the data, not even a subset of it. We had the discussion in the past, but for two reasons it is not an option.

Although it is anonymous data - currently we are not aware of any de-anonymization attacks - it is still data that came from real persons. We have a responsibility: once the data is out, we have to guarantee that no-one will ever be able to identity a single person in the data. Take also in account that attackers can combine multiple data sets (Background Knowledge Attacks); that even includes data sets that will be published (or leaked) in the future.

You should never be too confident when it comes to security, neither should you underestimate the creativity of attackers. What we can do - and did in the past - is to simulate the scenario in a controlled environment by hiring pen testing companies. If they would find an attack, they will not use that knowledge to harm the persons behind the identities that they could reveal.

That is the main reason. We don't want to end up in a situation as AOL or Netflix when they published their data. By the way, Netflix is an example of a background attack where they needed to combine data sources.

There is also another argument. Skeptics will most likely remain skeptics, as we cannot proof that we did not filter out data before publishing. In other words, there is nothing to gain for us, we can only loose. Trust is important, but for building trust, it is better to be transparent about the data that gets sent on the client. You can verify that part yourself and do not have to rely on trust alone. That is the core idea behind our privacy by design approach.

Those are the arguments that I'm aware of why we will not open the data. However, getting access in controlled environments is possible. If you doing security/privacy research, you can reach out to us. In my opinion, having more people that will try to find flaws in our heuristics is useful. That gives us a chance to fix it before it can be used for attacks.

One notable exception: https://whotracks.me is built from Human Web and all its underlying data can be freely downloaded. We know that it has been already used for research.
No. Large differences in brain weight (e.g. factors of 10 or more) can sometimes matter. But weight is just a poor proxy for more important factors: Number of neurons, number of neuronal interconnections, and specialization of brain areas. Within a species, brain weight differences are unimportant. Even between species it's often unimportant. Blue whale brains are 4x as heavy as human brains but the whales have fewer neurons, and most of those neurons are dedicated to audio processing.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/news-blog/are-whales-sm...
Got it. We just finished a cohort of food business interviews to help identify and fix these issues. You should see some changes to the booking system and mobile enhancement releases in the coming months. If you ever want to talk to us directly and provide feedback, we are open to it. hello@thefoodcorridor.com
Keeping those planes maintained and serviced is going to cost abit too.
An index fund typically performs much better over any meaningful timeframe because it has much lower fees.

But that's not the point here. The big money in investing isn't in beating the market, but charging fees, so fund managers only need to convince people to give them their money, they don't actually have to deliver results, provided they're working within the fund's stated goals.
Make Bing tracker-free, loose (assumed) income from less precise targeting of all the current Bing users, just to maybe capture a part of DDGs market, large parts of which are going to be distrustful of Microsoft? Seems not obviously better than keeping Bing as is and being involved with DDG.
> (the firearms market in general lacks innovation)

As someone who is subject to the California Safe Handgun Roster[0], the amount of innovation in the handgun space in six years is frustrating.

[0] tl;dr: normal people can't buy a handgun released after 2013 new from an FFL.
We also don’t have access to pull/merge requests or bug trackers or internal docs which may provide context to these things
As a Swedish founder who spent some time in San Francisco I think this is a really good article that founders both in, and outside the Bay Area should read. The mechanics around fundraising are different in most cities and founders should really try learn as much as they can about their local ecosystem and act accordingly. Don’t read stuff on the internet about running a startup in The Bay Area and think it will automatically apply to you.
As a long time Fog Creek customer, the game plan seems to be driving the customers to other services. They have other products in the new company portfolio, but we are moving to Atlassian. Between the products not having been updated in 5+ years, frequent service outages, and support requests not even being answered, we are done with FogCreek.

If anyone needs any tools for migrating from Fogbugz to Jira, I did our last QA load on Thursday, and finished the wiki to Confluence migration last night. :-)
Nothing said here about how entrepreneurs think who have not been to university.

It would have been an interesting contrast.

I wonder is that because almost all people who do YC are university educated.

Perhaps Paul graham doesn’t have much experience of entrepreneurs who are not university people.
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It seems that hackability of tests, along with their purpose can be generalized. Tests, like big company politics, are signalling mechanisms. The totality of all tests, culminating in a degree from an institution of a certain prestige, is a signal of potential to contribute.

Companies and other big institutions need very strong assurance that supplicants will indeed "work out" by comporting themselves to the culture and making valuable contributions to their goals. And the reason such absurdly strong signals of assurance are needed is the ridiculous level of friction inherent in admission to and ejection from these institutions and their hierarchy of stations.

So, to get into Big Company X, you need a prestigious degree, and to advance once you're there, you must identify and play their internal signalling games. Such is the attachment to signalling, that you'd often do much better to lead the holiday decoration committee than to create actual value by solving some important problem.

The relative lack of friction in open source is why, given the ability and inclination, even a dog can contribute at a high level.
And revenge for mistreatment, potentially.
Interactive Data Scrolling in the Terminal
I wouldn't. I take naproxen. That's just whats in the drug if you don't want to wait for the FDA to approve a pill that combines the two.
That effect almost certainly exists, but whether it amounts to anything much at the small relative differences you'd see between members of the same species is much less apparent. And of course, you're sort of implying that this it is absurd to suggest that brain weight explains intelligence; but note that just because there's a correlation between brain mass and intelligence doesn't mean it's the only factor or even major factor. Not that it's trivial to even measure intelligence or that it's even a well-defined concept, but hey.

So before you jump to conclusions: there is obviously research on the matter; e.g. you might start here: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-brain-size-m...

But while the effects in humans may be small, the difference between 35g and 7kg is... huge, so even if the effect might be imperceptible and in any case likely irrelevant between healthy humans, that's another story at that kind of ratio. Not to mention that I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and conjecture that metabolic differences may even increase that difference (i.e. the orca's brain may be running hotter, too).
You didn't. I did.
I expect it's because of `finally`. You can write a try without a catch today, provided there's a finally, however the error will continue to propagate in that case.

try {throw new Error('')} // exception is caught

try {throw new Error('')} // uncaught exception
finally {console.log('finally')}

That would be a bit of a footgun, as adding a finally clause that does something innocuous like logging would result in an uncaught exception!
It's more nuanced than that — things like smart phones require the serendipity of any number of both technological and even cultural events before they are born.

The Newton is an interesting foil.

Why wasn't the Newton the first smart phone? Early internet, barely a high-speed cellular infrastructure, silicon not quite small and efficient enough, no lithium batteries, cost....

Saying the Newton was "ahead of its time" is really a way of saying all the right bits and pieces weren't there yet.

We'll know what the next "big thing" is after it happens. You can't force it though regardless of the dollars you have for R&D.

Just MHO.
Being a hiring manager at a big company, I can tell you this is just as frustrating for me as it is for candidates. I hate “leet code” and frankly find algorithmic interviews to be very low signal compared to more practical, open-ended, domain-specific problems.

I will say though, the problem is one of “standardization” across an organization where it’s too big for everyone to fit in a room.

Suppose you give each team high autonomy to hire whoever they like using whatever “good” process they come up with. 90% of the time this results in good hires. But as you grow, that ten percent of underperforming people becomes large in absolute numbers, and is very painful to deal with.

It becomes a real problem when relatively lower performing people end up concentrated on a team, and then start being the hiring gatekeepers for that team, thus multiplying the number of lower performing hires.

Later you start having institutional problems when everyone starts to perceive that the engineers in Department A are generally better than the engineers in Department B. Engineers in Department A are more likely to leave if they perceive the company is getting worse at engineering - it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Then you get enormous pressure to come up with standardized testing - aka algorithms on the whiteboard, or some other academic inspired exercise - imposed by higher level leadership that wants to address a genuine problem (skill disparity across the org) but does not know any better way to do it.

I think, as PG points out, there may be a real opportunity to innovate here, and probably a big financial opportunity if anyone can figure out how to productize and scale a solution.

I struggle to see an easy answer, though. In a utopian universe (for a hiring manager) I’d do something like pay candidates to come on site and work for a week, then make a hire/no-hire decision based on that. But I think that is far too onerous for candidates (and a big company) to have legs.
This is exactly what I said in my retweet to PG's essay. Having hackable bad tests in the very tech industry proves the point that artificial tests are still the way of thinking for many and something we collectively need to unlearn. The question is how.
A current valuation of $10 billion gives a lot of scope to stop being the flavour of the month.

Groupon debuted at a $17.8 billion market cap with a great deal of fanfare.

It's now at $1.6 billion.
Statement: I say we blast the meatbag, Master.
It makes sense... I mean just look at stock trading. Manual stock traders used to be a high paying profession and now it’s a job that’s almost entirely been replaced by automation.

It’s not a ‘could’ in the future but something that’s already happening in significant amounts. The trading room floors of most the big banks are a tiny fraction of what they once were despite trading volumes skyrocking.
I've been using Brave for a while, maybe a couple of years. Its default ad blocking doesn't work 100% of the time, so I've installed uBlock Origin. I don't use the BAT functionality at all, but I think one of the main advantages to Brave (and likely any Chromium-based browser) is that you get all of the same fast, consistent rendering, plus all of the same Chrome extensions will work without any extra effort.
I imagine many of those personnel won't be redundant until the available technology meets or exceeds their level of output. We used to have people welding cars together by hand; now we have fewer technicians that manage many welding robots.
I suspect that some of the things people do to get good grades, like proofread their essays and edit them down to reduce redundancy, are good things to teach in school, and are broadly applicable outside of the university.
As I recall, a big part of it was that Sony was subsidizing the powerful hardware, selling it slightly below market under the business model of making the money back by selling games to run on the systems (kind of like the printer/ink model)

This meant you could buy much more hardware for the same cost verse buying the parts individually.
I just released Version 1.1.0 of the datascroller package for Python, the first version that automatically fits the portion of the data set to the terminal window. See it in action here [on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mewJAcurJPg). Even if you're not a Python user, you can still benefit from the `scroll` binary to quickly skim CSV files while in the terminal. Hope you like it.
Then what does Dijkstra criticize?

> The fact that the printed or written word is apparently not the proper medium for the propagation of APL may offer a further explanation for its relative isolation; at the same time that fact may be viewed as one of its major shortcomings.
Note that Geoffrey Hinton's first Restricted Boltzmann Machines were designed to minimize free energy. The first Restricted Boltzmann Machine, however, was Paul Smolensky's Harmonium. It maximized a metric called harmony, which was essentially the inverse of free energy. When Hinton and Smolensky collaborated with Rummelhart on a publication, they settled on calling it "goodness of fit".

My point is that saying that the brain is maximizing harmony is quite reasonable -- and much easier to understand.

Rumelhart, D. E., Smolensky, P., McClelland, J. L., & GE, H. (1986). Schemata and Sequential Thought in PDP Model. PDP, Exploration in the Microstructure of Cognition, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, Vol. IIº.
> If I were to steelman The Lesson to Unlearn I think I'd say this.

Is "steelman" a typo or a new slang verb that I've not yet learned the meaning of?
This was the moment that Sony could have made something useful out of themselves here for allowing Linux to be used on a popular games console at the time, as in improving the accessibility of installing Linux on a computing machine. (Or even basing GameOS on Linux).

Instead they cowardly remove it due to a 'hack' by Geohot and locked it down for 'security purposes' and potential researchers, scientists and those without access to supercomputers are the ones to suffer from this decision.

Sony had to appeal to their gaming community over the science community so that's that.

Also it's 'OtherOS' not 'OpenOS'.
> With keto you can have as much fibre as you like as long as it's not paired with carbs.

Plants, which are extremely high in carbs, are where fiber comes from.

High intake of saturated fat is associated with heart disease.
My Roomba kept getting wedged under furniture and tangled up on rug fringes. In the end I threw it away and went back to vacuuming myself.
I didn't make myself clear. I didn't mean to get rid of Bing. MS could keep the Bing brand exactly as it is, but also present the same product under a different brand that competes directly with DDG. In other words, MS could be DDG. Never in its history has MS tolerated the existence of a competitor if there was something they could do about it, which in this case they obviously could. Why start now?
Anyone have a link to the leaked documents?
Lead or "non toxic" ammunition is a big problem. I only do shotgunning, but for these the empirical evidence is that the lead is a better tool to "kill humanely" than for example, steel. Steel doesn't have that "stopping power" that lead has, and requires a lot more, and bigger, shots, and will also have a shorter range than lead...

Also, one of the biggest improvement in hunting cartridges are the 'wads' which used to be plastic, and now are wool or fiber, in any case, biodegradable -- the steel cartridges don't have these as they need a 'cup' to protect the barrels as the shots go out, so you leave big pieces of plastic all over, to be ingested by /other/ wildlife, potentially.

So no real perfect solutions so far; Legally you can't shoot lead anywhere near waterways so we have to use steel, but for example last year I shot a duck, fair an square, nowhere near "out of range" -- this was a 'dead duck' -- we looked for it for 20 minutes to discover it had gone to ground and was NOT dead, it had been broadsided, but some pellets had gone thru the poor bird, and some of the pellets were in the feathers, because they didn't have the energy.

As much as I like hunting my supper -- and I hunt to fill the freezer so I don't ever have to buy chickens -- I really hate to be in that situation where I inflicted undue pain for no reason other than some city environmentalist (who probably sit at his desk all day) making wide ranging decisions like this.

It's going to be difficult to find a metal as "good" as this job as lead; I would love for steel to work really, perhaps we could somehow devise a 'steel shell around a lead pellet' -- that would allow 1) killing power 2) protection for lead leakage and 3) loads of time to use magnets to recover it from pretty much anywhere... I realise a good part of the energy of lead hitting a target it when it splatters, and the steel shot won't do that, but it ought to be better...?

Anyway, that evening we had duck, and we toasted the duck; unsuitable apology as it is.
Given the plug-hole that StackOverflow is currently spiralling down, I really think adult leadership from someone like Joel is sorely needed. But I can see why he would not want to bother with it.
you charge just above $80 per day?
> Isn't that fraud?

No, it's a travel fee. When I hire service workers to make house calls, I'm under no impression that the line items for traveling simply covers their expenses. I expect them to make a profit for the privilege of having a professional show up in person.
There's a lot of tech talent, but most employers are dinosaurs stuck in an ancient circa-2004 mindset (check any job listing from Pittsburgh and it'll be a soup of buzzwords from 2004. jQuery abounds. PHP is king. Even the "senior software engineer" job posting at Duolingo asks if you know "DOM" and "AJAX"). Also most jobs are contract, not even contract-to-hire. Some bank or trucking company needs some webforms worked on for a few months, and then you're gone.

What's the point of all of this? Well, the hipsterism and average engineer tenure at a single company in silicon valley (which last I heard was 1.5 years) leads to everyone in silicon valley kind of being homogeneous cogs that are interchangeable. 20 years ago we all used PHP, Java, 10 years ago it was Rails and jQuery, and now it's React.

I think that Pittsburgh is cut off from the talent here in silicon valley, because if you dropped a React developer into a company there they might as well be a space alien.