skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It still seems odd. Both Tylenol and ibuprofen are good to keep around with your basic home health care supplies. They are available in cheap generics without a prescription. They have different things they are best at, so stocking both is quite reasonable.

Unless they need to be prescribed in ratios that can't be achieved reasonably with the cheap OTC pill dose sizes, it's not clear to my why I'd want a combined bill instead of just taking separate pills.

Taking more than one pill is less convenient, but except for people who have trouble with pills in general I doubt they would want to pay more for that convenience.

Even in the case of fairly high doses, it is not too bad. A few months ago, for example, I somehow managed to get a painful rotator cuff injury while sleeping (no idea how), and my doctor told me to take 1000 mg Tylenol every 8 hours and 800 mg of ibuprofen every 8 hours. At the most common OTC strengths, that would be two Tylenol pills and 4 ibuprofen pills.
First, sorry for the late reply. I don't log in often. I didn't consider malware using UPnP. But it seems to me that the probability of malware using it to make a residential IP look like a business IP (e.g. opening up ports for VoIP) is pretty low. But always possible.

I didn't know about FluidStack. Looks interesting. If you have numbers on how many people actually use such a service I would be really interested to know :)
When I see a company conducting these kinds of tests during interviews, it's a signal to me that they are probably not a very forward-thinking company, and probably not a good fit for someone like me who tends to think outside the box. If it's another cog in their machine that they want, these kinds of interview tests are probably pretty good. But if they're an innovative company trying to change the world, they'd be much better off with a different, more pragmatic approach designed to attract the independent thinkers.

Beyond that, in my opinion, nearly anyone with average programming experience can hack a typical programming/whiteboard interview, so these kinds of interviews are definitely not the best way to find the best fit for particular roles. It's a good way to filter out the inexperienced, for sure, but it's a pretty low bar to set, especially if it's a company looking for top tier engineers, people with the ability to see the bigger picture.

It's also likely that a great engineer would pass the test with ease, but because their skillset and abilities have been inaccurately assessed due to the poor interview process, the company could have initially assigned them a much more effective role where both the company and the employee could have benefited to a much greater extent, but didn't. Overall, relatively speaking, the "hackable test" approach wastes time and hurts everyone in the long run, both employers and employees. A little investment up front with more personalized, specific interviews can go a long way.

I think we should start refusing these impractical interview processes, or at the very least, from an interviewee standpoint, turn down jobs (if you can) and let the potential employer know that their interview process is the reason.
Well, shit happens, but I don't believe in apocalypses.

I just renewed and I've got another 10 years. Things will be sorted out by then.
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(I'm sure I'll lose karma for explaining Sonys side, since some people just want to be mad)

Linux support was not removed due to Geohot. It was a driver and business priority issue. Geohot just sealed the deal.

Having worked there during the kerfuffle, I can confirm their reason was valid for not supporting Linux going forward. It was a non trivial effort and they wanted those engineers to make it support the new hardware turns. It was a company wide goal to hit break even at retail pricing at that time (Sony was amazing at running hardware coat forecasting internally and iirc hit their 7 year Target by a week). This required the new hardware. So they dropped Linux. That part is real.

Then they effed up by not messaging it well and by dropping promised back support.

And then a bunch of the community responded as petulant children and attacked sonys main business and released products that allowed others to infringe Sony and other game studios property with impunity. These actions killed any chance Sony would engage with this community for the next decade or so.

Sony was also backed into a corner technically as I recall as the thing hot hacked (by realizing it was a null crypto key on the one processor), and thus allowed Linux was also the thing that did the drm. Sony had to choose between another year or so of drm or Linux support.

As in many cases not parties are at fault. Contracts can and are broken. Sony paid multiple prices for it. So did the Linux/hacker community.
I was really thinking more about the upcoming PS5 and Xbox Scarlett, which both should have Zen 2 CPUs and Navi GPUs, along with a generous helping of GDDR6 memory and SSDs.
I'm concerned about the privacy of this. Care to explain how you handle user uploads?
Of all stories you could have used as an opportunity to argue for that absolutist stance on free speech, you're picking the one where it has almost directly caused dozens of needless infant deaths and immense suffering, and that still doesn't seem to make you flinch. The rebuttal writes itself, really.

By that impossibly naive logic, I suppose you also support the unconditional right to bear arms in any circumstances, another absolutist stance that's worked out so well for the US and its 1907 victims in 370 mass shootings in 2019 so far.

Or Facebook's decision to let politicians lie to people's faces, naively thinking citizens are all intellectually equipped to fact-check for themselves and should bear that responsibility (we can see how this worked out with Trump and Brexit)

The widespread support for absurdly extreme stances like these in a nation shouldn't be a source of pride : they aren't the hallmark of an advanced civilisation, but rather that of an immature one that hasn't yet found the right balance. If this is America, then I'll take European wisdom over this any day.
There are unique challenges around learning effective communication protocols that appear in cooperative settings, which was the focus of this work. Getting robust superhuman performance in SC2 remains an interesting challenge, though.
Unit tests are unit tests. Sometimes the unit is the worker.
Nice post.

> I’d also love to see a future where we can just plug in a normal image tag and have all those image processing features out of the box.

This would be great. Currently, headless CMSs are doing this pretty well (for example, Sanity: https://www.sanity.io/docs/presenting-images) but I could see tools like Gatsby offering that too.

> I don’t see Gatsby offering much of a value proposition to people hoping to use it commercially, but I think that paradigm shifts, like PWA becoming a standard that customers will begin to demand from their sites or an increase in the popularity of Gatsby themes leading to a much faster development workflows, could easily help Gatsby overcome some of the competitors it is facing in various areas.

Your points about NextJS are valid but I think there is plenty of room for a few different static site generators to live and thrive in the ecosystem. Even if the differences are small and you can do the same thing on multiple platforms I for one hope we have multiple platforms competing and doing well, the competition will lead to faster innovation and ultimately better tooling for developers.
From the article it appears orcas are aggressive towards sharks in the area since they are competitors. Likely more territorial than “let me protect this weird water monkey.”
I don’t have any smart speakers and have no need for them. Alexa hasn’t taken over my life, nor my family’s. I don’t know of any Americans who’ve come to rely on Alexa to get through their day.

The product is gimmicky in my opinion, and honestly the most it can do for me is tell the weather or something t.

The article is clickbait. Alexa has not taken over our lives, but sure that gets you clicks. I’m sure QZ is happy to publish this content since they (like other media) do compete with Amazon or other tech companies in the ad space.
Open source is a good example of people not acting for immediate monetary gain, you're right, although legally the licenses rely on copyright law.

I absolutely didn't mean to say the comment I replied to was necessarily wrong, I wanted to point out the commentator made a confident claim that completely failed to address any of it's well-known counterarguments. I meant to criticize the commentator for failing to acknowledge that reasonable people have argued against their case; if I had used that to make a case that their argument was wrong I'd have succumbed to the ad-hominem fallacy.
Twitter, McKinsey Ripped by Saudi Dissident Suing over Hacks
It's a trust issue. It comes from grades being used to evaluate people outside the particular schools they attend.

We could give more autonomy to individual schools or teachers in terms of designing tests, but then we'd be facing two problems. One, the grades given by different schools/teachers would not be directly comparable. An A in one school could be awarded only for exceptional circumstances, and in another just for above-local-average. Two, once you start using those grades to judge people in a competitive situation like the job market, you'll have schools selling grades, teachers inflating grades to help their pupils compete against those from schools that sell grades, etc. and the whole system will collapse to uselessness.

Standardized testing mitigates these problems by forcing everyone to grade by the same criteria, but in order to do that, the grading must be done on things that are extremely easy to measure - which removes both individual judgement of the teachers and any relation between testing and understanding of the material.

The more I think about it, the more I feel it all boils down to scale. The grading system needs to be scaled up with the size of the market people compete on, otherwise it'll be either trivially gamed, or deeply unfair to unlucky people.
Perfectionism Is Killing Us
Do you buy Microsoft or Nintendo consoles?

If so why?
How is the YC interview not hackable? It seems to me that it consists of ticking boxes mostly...
We haven't yet analyzed the gameplay to look for examples of these well-known human Hanabi conventions. All the code and agents are open-sourced though, so feel free to take a look!
Im not familiar with his work, but from what you posted, it seems Prasad takes issue with the use of surrogate end points in trials, not fast track approvals. I tend to agree that surrogates and bio markers are a huge problem, but think they are a necessary evil. Drug development would screech to a halt if developers had to wait another 4-5 years for survival data. What we need is more Pase 4 postmarket trials with direct endpoints.

Interestingly, the paper linked shows that in some respects, fast tracked drugs have a better track reccord. This shouldnt be surprising as the best drugs are fast tracked.

>18 drugs failed to improve overall survival (in 6 of 15 accelerated approvals and in 12 of 21 traditional approvals)
Most people would work in a toxic company for the right price. For an extremely awful job it might be very high, but just about everyone has a number.
Is anyone else not seeing the footnotes inline? I'm only seeing the notes section at the end.
I'd be cautious about dubbing the Russians 'friends', but 'enemy of my enemy' is worryingly relevant. Why do we have to rely on hostile superpowers to learn what our own governments are doing? Secrecy doesn't give the UK any more leverage in the trade talks - the documents aren't kept secret from the US, but from UK citizens!
The available data disagrees with you on this:

https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1238041
If we had decent competition in medicine this wouldn't be an issue. Either people would agree with you and not buy it, or some would buy it, and no one would be worse off.
That's the ideal for sure.
Um, no. Distance and time are related by the speed of light, which travels 1 light year (distance) in 1 year (time).

If space wasn’t expanding, the distance to a stationary object (in light years) would be exactly equal to the travel time of light from it (in years).
And many websites decide to implement basics like scrolling with js, breaking reading mode.
The colonizers now begging to become a small colony.

This is one for the history books.
If you want me to talk about language support on a given runtime instead, try to use F# on .NET Native, or VB.NET on Blazor.
Softbank has dumped $10B in WeWork, a glorified office rental company. If you think there are no investors willing to put $10B in self driving cars, you might still be living in 2005.
The managerial class will keep on embarrassing themselves sweating bullets over facile things like tests, college admissions, and school districts until they stop feeling precarious and downwardly mobile.

There's no point looking at one of their idiosyncrasies in isolation.

But then Paul Graham plays himself because all the startups are looking to get or softbanked. Absorbed into the monopolies or put in permanent luxery lift support. What a joke. Playing the VCs is more important than playing the increasingly poorer consumer hoards of the decreasing yield suburban consumer farms. We're years deep into the startup fad, and blinded test takers appealing to their blinded test taker money holders is all that's left.
I wonder if they got this right: "But some shark species that enter tonic immobility are apex predators. So, don’t have many natural predators."

All apex predator younglings are easy game until they are adults.
I was a hiring manager at a big company for years. We never did coding tests, and I like to think that I made good choices every time. I kept a high-functioning team together, under fairly humble pay, and stressful, sometimes demoralizing, conditions, for decades.

I'm mediocre, at best, at these tests. I don't come from a traditional CS background (started as an EE). I tend to take unusual, hybrid approaches to solving problems; often incorporating elements of new-fangled tech with patterns that have been around for thirty years, and I've found that people get VERY uncomfortable with "thinking outside the box."

I also tend to take some time arriving at the final release, going through iterations of improvement. My first bash is usually fairly naive and clumsy. It works, but not so well. I make each iteration improve on it, maintaining that working software throughout; so there's always something working and testable.

Despite all the aspiration to "disruption," it seems that people don't like to step out of their comfort zones.

Making software that SHIPS is a learned and earned skill, and one that I believe, can be most effectively demonstrated with portfolios.

When a designer goes for a job, they bring with them a large black case. It's filled with their designs and working drafts. Much of the interview consists of the designer going through this portfolio with the hiring manager; discussing each example, and talking about why they did this, or why they didn't do that, etc.

No design manager in their right mind would ignore that portfolio; instead, throwing a matchbook on the interview table, and asking the applicant to "Draw Spunky."

I'm actually shocked that there is so little importance placed on software portfolios. A portfolio represents fairly substantial work product. That's why I find open-source contribution work to be so attractive.
As far as I know, the person who took over maintaining sshuttle does a pretty good job - it still works well today on more platforms than ever.

However, I've been thinking that the sshuttle model doesn't completely keep up with the way the world has been going since I first wrote it ~10 years ago. There's a lot more stuff in the cloud now! And you want to be connected to multiple locations, not just a single location, because your team's resources tend to be scattered over many locations.

Tailscale is a more modern approach based on a similar philosophy: minimizing setup time and complexity, while relying on an existing mature layer for the cryptography part so we can't screw it up.

(And yes, it's funny trying to argue both sides in a thread where I'm competing with myself :))
Photocopying currency censors it by detecting the patterns in dots
Add air resistance into the mix, and denser materials do fall faster. Coins vs. napkins. Plums vs. crumpled balls of paper

I'd actually take the lesson the other way. It's hilariously tough for model-makers to acknowledge real-world noise that prevents their theoretically precise models from delivering reliable results.
Add salt, fat, coffee, wine, eggs, and about a dozen other things researchers can’t agree on. nutrition research is hella sketchy
That's excellent, thanks for the link. It's great when citizen surveillance results in police wearing bodycams. It both protects the police from false accusations and protects citizens from misconduct. Of course that assumes, as you point out, the chain-of-custody and securing evidence are effectively addressed, but overall it's a net improvement.
Wait these are the people who mock Americans for checks?
The Xbox One already runs UWP apps. But I guess not Win32 or a standard Windows desktop?
Hackathons are a great example of this. Ostensibly they should just be about the project that is the coolest or most interesting. But participants started to realize that it wasn't really about the most fascinating project. It was about the project that got the usually non-technical, naive judges to go "ooooh". People started hacking hackathons by building projects that were totally infeasible and completely fake in terms of technical implementation, but had some sort of wow factor through buzzwords (AI/ML/CV/VR/etc) or "making the world a better place".

It's no coincidence that some of the largest hackathons are run and attended by students from the top universities pg mentions in the essay.

Which is why YC's hackathon was so satisfying. It was great seeing people pitch the normal hackathon-y ideas, then getting simple but direct questions such as "Why would someone use this app?" or "Why wouldn't I use <alternative> instead?".
A report of it is different than a 4k high-fps recording of it.
We are entirely focused on the self-play setting in which the goal is to learn the highest performing policy for a team of agents all trained together. The Hanabi Challenge also outlines an ad-hoc setting in which you need to adjust to the diverse policies of other agents in the team on the fly.
Didn't they sell a bunch of PS3s to the US Air Force for research purposes?

I'm sure that military personnel enjoy games as much as the next person, but it's probably not why they bought the machines.

https://phys.org/news/2010-12-air-playstation-3s-supercomput...
My recollection is that the PS3/Linux thing was a failed tax dodge, because that meant you could classify the system as a general purpose computer instead of a game console. When the EU decided to categorize it as a game console anyway, they killed the Linux project.
Replying to myself because I thought I should add that in no way do I think it would be ethical to use or building such a surveillance system. Especially one that employs Van Eck phreaking.
Good comments are to the point and flow well
I agree with all you said. However, 99% of major tech companies employ exactly the same process of hiring software engineers. I've been on hundreds of interview loops and unfortunately just one bad interview in a loop of 5-6 could make the candidate look like a "bad" fit and thus receive no offer. That particular candidate might be in fact great fit, but the way he was tested could not reveal that.

I don't know the solution to this problem. Eliminating tests whatsoever and just talking with the candidate about his experience and probing his knowledge on different topics is not efficient either. There are a lot of talking heads around who when given a simple task fail miserably.

We as a tech community need to come up with better ways to assess other people's competency while also making sure those people fit within our company's culture, work efficiently with others and after all create value. This is a hard problem. So, we try to simplify the problem by imposing the "proven" way of finding such people -- give them arbitrary tests and hope they pass them.
Not always how a microscope works though.

This article has a nice little comparison of a few different methods, not all of which measure (only) reflection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark-field_microscopy

There’s also a whole world of microscopy where emissions from the sample itself are measured, often because parts of it have been tagged with fluorescent probes.
Just my 2c but I think RenTech's edge is hiring.

I think people assume that because you hire all these brilliant people that their domain knowledge is the reason you are hiring them (which usually plays into most people's understanding that what you need is the secret knowledge, and once you have your piece of paper then life is over, you have won).

An alternate hypothesis is that RenTech looks for people who have good domain knowledge AND have proven analytical ability translating that knowledge into practical results. Example: Nick Patterson is clearly a genius, he clearly has immense knowledge about stats/probability but he also seems like a very practical guy who has built a reputation on getting things done. It seems like RenTech hire smart people but also people who get things done.

I worked in fundamental equity research. Latency or tech is definitely an advantage but hiring/training processes can be very powerful too (it is often impossible for some firms to replicate at all). I have no idea if it is true here but given the focus RenTech place on hiring, it seems logical that is where their edge is.
Even worse, most tests have a well defined question and a correct answer.

In real life you don’t know the question, there isn’t a single canonical answer, and there is no score-keeper to tell you if you are passing.
I wasn't aware of this anectode. It's rather nice, actually.
Not at all. I like it when people are sensitive. To me that's in the same vein as being thoughtful and mindful of others.
A thought regarding the 4 byte vs 8byte. Both of those will be highly optimizable by custom/manual vector instructions, like the modern AVX512 vector instructions. Likely someone on your team thought of that or does that but in the off chance you haven’t looked into it yet it might prove very useful!

Thanks for the posts, they’re fascinating and the idea of more alternative search engines would be great. Best of luck!
An electrical shock is not at all the same thing as the medical state of being 'in shock'. Also, it sounds like the injury he sustained was an RF burn, which is not quite the same as a 'shock' - although it's caused by electricity, the sensation and damage are local to the contact site.

Basically this guy was likely no more 'in shock' than if he'd hit his thumb with a hammer. In pain, yes, but not delirious.
By eating the whole fruit, you're consuming the fiber, which changes how your body metabolizes the sugar (more slowly), as opposed to say, drinking a glass of apple juice.

The sugar itself between fruits and refined sugars contained in processed foods isn't all that different. Apples contain fructose, glucose, and sucrose, but in different ratios compared to table sugar. The more important factor is the quantity of sugar you're consuming.
Was Spielberg the true director of ‘Poltergeist’? (2017)
That's really bad k. Try Arthur Whitney's solutions from a few years back (see ad.k):

http://www.kparc.com/advent/
We still have and use Cheques.

If the Solicitor had instead posted a cheque to the heir, then the problem likely would not have occurred, and if it had would have been reversed a lot sooner.