skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fascinating.. I wonder if their creating a high barrier of entry actually backfired and caused them to hire less competent people?

Depends on the exact question; degrees trigger Berkson's Paradox [0]. If you do a survey of company workers doing [task X] then there will be a negative correlation between formal qualifications and competence. That is because all the the uncertified individuals doing the task will have gotten in by being very, very good at it but the statistical outcome is that the certification becomes a negative competence signal.

Such as this anecdote, in fact.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox could be considered a variant of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
It has been my observation that some people are really bothered by structural or technical problems in storytelling—and, conversely, highly value structurally and technically sound stories—and others don't seem to notice at all.

This doesn't seem to be a trade-off thing either—I find that few things actually are, just as "the truth lies somewhere in the middle" is more fairy tale than dependable guide—that is, those who appreciate technically-sound storytelling aren't somehow deficient in appreciation of humor or good characterization or well-written dialog or whatever. They are just very bothered by sloppy or poor plotting, while other people don't even notice. (presumably there are also some who notice but do not care, though I believe they're a rare species)
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Frances Arnold Joins Alphabet Board of Directors
This man's hatred for javascript only matches my own. He's after my own heart.
Nothing in C is thread-safe out of the box.
The Hue bridge is capable of this type of scheduling without any other devices. Philips simply hasn't included any useful level of flexibility in their app, so the use of All4Hue or other low-level apps is required.
Joe, I don't mean any offense, but I think your view of what the current field of working people looks like is severely out of date. In my age group slightly more women work than men, industry aside.
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Important to note it was only determined to be biased on the basis of disparate impact, which I think is a baloney concept. In other words, if one group of people doesn't do as well on something as another group on average, the thing can be considered a violation of the 14th amendment.

The NY City fire department recently had to shell out millions to people who weren't hired because of a similar ruling. No discrimination found other than that black people didn't do as well on a test as white people.
I don't think this is how it works at the moment, but I see no reason why it could not work this way. Public key cryptography is certainly capable of verifying the origin of a caller against some certificate authority.
You completely failed to answer my question.
Reinforcement Learning Upside Down: Don't Predict Rewards, Map to Actions
Company B. Work should be a place where you nurture your mind and be alongside link-minded individuals. The 12.5% payment decrease is not that significant. Without the bureaucracy and the old structure, you can't hide anymore. You will notice there are fewer free-riders, your visibility is increased, and the work pace is faster too.

Source: I been in the same position as you were (I'm 27), and I do not regret any single time my choices. Even today, I decline any positions at companies such as company A.
Public schools employ eachers that teach at more-or-less the speed of the slowest student, where the time of the teacher is divided n-ways. If a student can learn more quickly than that of the slowest student in the public school or with anything-but-the-least-divided-attention, then the home-schooling adult would not need to be 'full-time'.
I'd say it is. While I'm handwaving based on what I've read - wg should be better for voice and video chat, due to being low-overhead udp - which should translate to lower latency.
I said it in different comment yes i inflated it a bit but..

Made in USA is just part of it and it doesnt strictly mean it was ecological process.

For example where was the cloth made? Coloring is where lot of the worst stuff happens.

I don't really like sensationalist documentaries because it's never accurate but try "True Cost" or "River Blue".
I think companies just want to make sure you are not so out of shape that you will have health issues. They can use that as an excuse to get rid of a person with health issues so they don't have to deal with a person having medical leave.

My company, for example, requires us to be able lift 30 pounds. They don't have any sort of test or anything like that, but I doubt anybody (except maybe people who deal with printers) lifts more than that.
GM Will Launch Robocars Without Steering Wheels Next Year (2018)
California governor encourages '100-day challenges' to fight homelessness
The "thread names" clause was a hyperlink to an article I wrote a few years listing all of the problems with thread naming on Windows. Microsoft took the suggestions seriously and basically landed all of the features and fixes that I requested, so now when I'm profiling or debugging Chrome the threads all have nice names.

I just kinda like trolling Microsoft for not using their own thread naming API very much.

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2015/10/26/thread-naming-i...
Her first desktop interface will be a command line, so after she learns to spell, give her a year. :P
Taken to extremes in actual science fiction, this tendency yields "wiring diagram fiction [1]." It was more prevalent in older SF. A few contemporary authors produce it often enough that I prefer reading the Wikipedia entries for their novels over the actual books.

I prefer the "immersion" approach where neither characters nor narrator bother to remark on what is considered ordinary from the perspective of their fictional setting. Science fiction also ages more gracefully when the author doesn't base some key element on a now-discredited New Scientist article that he read while the story was being written in 1980. Just describe the effects without being overly specific about the mechanism, and adventure-oriented readers miss nothing while technically-minded ones can fill in the blanks from their own imaginations.

[1] From the delightful Turkey City Lexicon: https://www.sfwa.org/2009/06/turkey-city-lexicon-a-primer-fo...
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> who had to scrape together the $700 for a Christmas present for their kids

Maybe people who scrape money together should not be on kickstarter? Is that not obvious?
Isn't that true of any market though? Everyone wants to pay less for everything, and will shop around and haggle and negotiate to find the best deal. I don't see how that alone is a problem, if you get an offer and the salary is lower than you want to work for, don't take it.

> Ask anyone who has a middle of the road white-collar job how confident they'd be in quitting and getting a new one and they will laugh at you.

Again, I'm not sure what to make of this. That could mean the job market is weak, or it could also just mean that transaction costs are too high (not the same thing), or maybe they're just perceived to be very high and scary. If we instead look at what people actually do instead of what they'd tell you they feel like doing, we arrive at the definition of the unemployment rate - number of people who are looking for a job and can't find one. And that is quite low.

Now I can't say for sure that you're wrong, but I have to say I find the traditional unemployment rate methodology a lot more compelling than your method.
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I don't think it's true for modern science fiction and also for the good classics.
I wonder how the ratios are decided. 4:1 sounds pretty generous. There are families out there with stay at home mums that have 5 kids, and the mothers there have to do housework too. So the government is mandating here the child:carer hour ratio is better than some actual families.

Do infants actually need the kind of attention these ratios imply? What happened to the era when families with lots of kids would just let them play outside all day?
The purpose of the term structural racism, instead of just racism, is to distinguish the theory of historical racism and its downstream effects from the category people who hold views of racial superiority.

Besides that, there are plenty of people around today who actually are racist and they are major proponents of punishment-based approaches. If you try to switch to rehabilitation and intervention, they will resist you. They hold views that some races are innately of lower intelligence and have higher criminal tendencies. You aren't going to counteract that pressure by saying "the racial angle is a waste of everyone's time."
Did you contact them with your concern?
> That being said I would recommend toning down the rhetoric of how much better you're off for not having kids

We could also entertain the reverse: that too much emphasis and pressure is being put on someone being a parent. There is a very widespread self-congratulatory element to being a parent (to the point that many people list it as a job title). But having children is something that people have been doing quite easily and nonchalantly from the beginning of time until these last 2 generations, which spend twice as much as before with their kids (https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2017/11/27/parents-...). There is a parenting bubble that is scaring people away from having children, and maybe it should be addressed as a problem.

Edit: Also, i feel a lot of people have dogs because there are no societal expectations about how to raise your dog. They are much easier to have than children.
What if I don't want to follow the specialization trend to it's logical conclusion? I think there is a cost to personal well being that's not being considered here.
Agreed. I've given "new" reddit tons of chances. I've tried it out for days at a time, only to find that I was annoyed enough by the interface that I was using it MUCH less.

The only reason I'm still there now is because the old version is still accessible.

And encountering the mobile site from a mobile search is incredibly painful when just trying to view some simple information. Should not require an app or a purposely-hostile mobile experience to simply view text on a webpage.
If you go further back, it's easy to argue that the dissolution of the extended family in favor of the nuclear family as part of the western industrial revolution caused even more problems that were hidden by the high rate of economic growth during this time.
To echo this sentiment, I probably only attended ~45% of my classes throughout all of college.

With some notable exceptions the classroom experience was pretty poor and all of the information and resources were readily available on the internet. And if you're not the best autodidact there were plenty of study groups were students got together and figured things out just fine.

That said, I still think self-directing yourself through that kind of environment takes a lot of agency and skill, agency and skill that companies require for jobs where neither ageny or skill of that magnitude will be required.
I use zerotier in a similar fashion. It has been great.
Here is my guess for other 4 : #6: NYC , #7 DC Metro #8 Greater LA #9 Austin
> They could support this new scheme AND just store every thing in plain text.

Could they?

I am not clear that this is possible. I thought the entire point of "Alice provides a zero-knowledge proof to the server that she possesses an AuthCredential matching some particular entry" is that the server learns nothing about Alice other than her possession of a matching AuthCredential. Indeed, the paper says: "Because of the zero-knowledge property, the server has assurance that the user possesses such an auth credential without learning the UID certified by the credential, or other information that might link this use of the credential to other uses or to credential issuance."

It would be nice if someone more knowledgeable could confirm whether it is indeed possible for Signal to compromise user privacy while using this scheme. Is SheinhardtWigCo right when they write, "In contrast, I cannot verify this new claim that my group memberships are protected. I have to trust them."?
I checked, and you seem to be right. It feels weird, considering all the jokes that "never is named after its stabilization date"
I wonder how my mother did it: she was a one room school teacher during the Depression and moved to Manhattan for WW II after getting divorced (where she met and married my father).
Because markets aren't perfect (in the economic sense).

If they were lots of things wouldn't need to exist, like companies and employees. You could just hire someone on the open market for 5 minutes to type up a letter and it would be perfectly efficient so you'd know that if you couldn't afford to hire someone then it wasn't economically worthwhile.

That doesn't work in reality, and neither does expecting every young parent to negotiate childcare while putting them in a catch-22 regarding finding work when they can't work without childcare and they can't afford childcare without work.

Markets are a great tool, but they're not the only way to resolve co-ordination problems to maximize economic prosperity.
Not everyone can or should homeschool. My wife and I were both homeschooled our entire lives, and we are absolutely not going to homeschool our child.

I think many homeschool parents vastly overestimate their ability to educate a child. I know mine did. It's hard work and you have to cover all the bases, including socialization, or you'll be responsible for some pretty important shortcomings in your kid's development.

Yes, it was awesome being able to rush through my "boring" school work by lunch time so I could program computer games and read books all day.

No, it wasn't awesome feeling totally incompetent while trying to talk to girls or make friends in college. Turns out, all those "dumb secular public schoolers" were pretty good at some things, like having fun together and bonding.

I would not call homeschooling a "hack". It's an alternative system of education that takes a lot of hard work, a single-income-bearing parent, and enough awareness to fill the gaps that your child is losing by being at home all day, every day.
So those is wrong on two fronts: we don't live in Neuromancer's future and many of the ideas you attribute to him predate him quite significantly.

Technologically augmented humans? Nope.

Pervasive VR? Hardly.

Dystopian future? Not realty.

Corporations supplanting governments? That's a stretch.

There was a book from the 1950s or 1960s (the names escapes me) that looe decline in sending bits, the natural conclusion of which was that in the coming decades you would be able to share your experience in real time to anyone else the planet. Off that's not VR I don't know what is.

Gibson may have popularized it in sci-fi (although I'm not entirely convinced of that) but nostalgia really seems to be trying to cast there present in Gibsob's future more than I think is justices.
And credit to Reagan for following through with it, and not just dismissing it as his predecessor's failed policy. Even through the 1982 recession that Volcker caused, which finally brought inflation down below 10% and almost cost him re-election.
Blinks – Helping book authors and readers
I am creating a Saas application by which reader can read books as messages on their favourite messaging application such as Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp.
Now a time people are spending a lot of their time on mobile phone and of which they spend 80 percent of their time on social media or messaging platform. They wanna read books but not able to get time for reading. So, we are creating a platform where users can select a book from our collection or upload a book and we will split the book into small twitter sized messages and then user will schedule the messages according to his availability ( no. of messages user wants to receive, In how many days he wanna complete the book ) and based on his schedule and our algorithm we will send him the text snippets.

For Authors :-
1. It is very difficult for authors to do marketing for their book and as every year around 1 Lakh books publishes all over the world and of fiction books consist of a big section of this number. So, we are creating a platform where book authors by taking a little bit theme plot of their upcoming book and creates a small and interactive Facebook messenger based story which he can easily used for marketing and It will increase the sale of his upcoming book.

2. Now a days, people are more interested in interactive books where they can be also a part of the book and there are sounds, images but for authors creating a book on top of messaging application is not possible due to technical issues. So, To tackle this problem we are creating a Saas application where book authors can easily create an interactive book which going much into the technology.

It would be very helpful if you all give a review about my idea.

Thanks.
Letter to Twitter's Board Asking for Jack Dorsey to Be Replaced
That's the outlier, though. Most states tend to hover in the 5% range. A few states have 0 income tax, but typically make up for it with property tax. But nowhere close to the Federal tax rate...
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If you are interested in Transputers you should purchase an XMOS dev kit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMOS https://www.xmos.com/

https://www.digikey.com/products/en/development-boards-kits-...
Nobody with a CS degree wants to do tech support.
Equally very cool to see someone who went to SUA on HN. Fascinated by Makiguchi’s principles and it’s definitely play a part in our startup’s values.
I miss stories written in that style.
What about this seems reasonable? The positive ROI could easily be overwhelmed by quality of life changes for current residents. Also not clear that this type of tech hq is great for a neighborhood.

How beneficial is this kind of a deal, compared with the other options of what could be done w the resources?

There is also an ick factor of negotiations like this, between private for profit enterprises and governments. It sounds a bit like publicly funded sports stadiums, which have been very popular yet financially terrible.
If you're in a Fios area, Verizon's running a deal on 940/880 Mbps right now for $74.99.
> Nobody cares if you graduated from mit with a 4.0

Well, besides the hordes of employers who would jump at the chance to hire somebody who graduated from mit with a 4.0 you mean...
I learned to read watching Sesame Street & The Electric Company. My aunt was quite surprised when I wrote a response to her note before I ever talked.
> I believe one of the wrong points in our 'free' society is that it's perfectly acceptable to basically rely on your spouse for financial stability. That is a frequent source of abuse, resentment, unfulfilled dreams, and the regular 'i raised MY kids' narrative during divorce proceedings etc..

But here's the opposite view point: as parents, both my spouse and I would rather have either myself or my spouse be a full time carer of our baby, than sending her off to daycare and have both of us working.

What do you suggest is the solution then; other than making enough money / hitting the startup lottery jackpot and retiring before having kids?
Unfortunate for the (clean) Russian athletes who won't be able to compete, although I imagine most of them still will be able to assuming their data wasn't tampered with. Its definitely a good move though.
The deal gets a lot harder when you move to new york or another country for a better job.
Take this from a hiring manager: college degree alone is not worth the paper it's written on. What counts is what you've actually learned. Easily 8 out of 10 people who nominally have "CS degrees" can't implement fizzbuzz on a sheet of paper. It's nuts. I don't get how they even graduated.
Ask HN: Solutions to Easy Tip for Sites
I see a lot of sites now locking down with per month article limits etc. As annoying as that is on one hand, I also see the value of content without ads. I ALSO don't want to go through the whole process of creating yet another account / giving them my paypal et al.

Anyone working on solutions to tip small amounts? say with per day maximums, one click tips, reviews monthly for fraud etc. IOW if this resembles a tenner in my wallet, I would be much more comfortable tapping a button to donate. I am obviously projecting that's a case for many folks :)
What truly makes Magit powerful (like many things in Emacs) that it is extremely extensible.

Example:

When I'm ready to commit my changes:

I can spin-off a new branch:

- If I have an Org-mode task that I'm currently clocked-in, it can check if it contains a ticket number, then query the issue-tracking system and generate a branch name based on the description.

All it takes is pressing two buttons: `b s`, and the rest is done automatically

- I commit my changes, it can use a template and fill out the details, I just need to add a description. I can even make it so it compliant with git-commit format enforcer like gommit. I can add fields like reported-by, cc, etc. with a single keystroke;

- If I suddenly find out that I forgot to add something, I don't have to amend, I don't have to modify the commit, I can just stage my change and press `c e` - "extend". It will quietly add it to my previous commit.

- Using Forge I can create a PR. Once I push the PR, I can trigger a request to issue-tracker that marks the ticket as in "code review"

There are bunch of things that other Git clients can't do* and even when they do it, it's not so easy to extend them to work with different projects, issue-tracking systems, etc.

* e.g. you can select a bunch of files in Dired and see git log pertaining changes only to those files https://twitter.com/iLemming/status/1193025618742349824
But that would not be hyperexponential as GP claimed.
By specifying "prominent" climate change deniers, I meant those deniers who were in a position to know better, and whose actions were intended to mislead a large number of other people.[1][2] Also, as I said, the world I was describing is a dystopia and not a world I "want" (but not least because it is one where major European cities are under water).

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-...

[2] https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/04/29/epa-r...