skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dentist El Paso, TX and San Juan, TX
We are searching for a knowledgeable Dentist who can provide a range of services to our patients. The Dentist will meet with patients, assess their dental health, perform scheduled cleanings, handle complex procedures, such as root canals, extractions, and oral surgery, and work with other staff members, such as dental hygienists and assistants, to provide our clients with quality dental services. You should also be able to assist in the management of the practice and promoting better oral hygiene.

To be a successful Dentist, you should be caring, communicative, and experienced in diagnosing and treating dental ailments. You should also be skilled with the various tools and procedures needed to correct dental complaints and ensure the oral health of patients.

Dentist Responsibilities:
Meeting with patients to discuss and treat dental concerns, performing regular cleanings and other preventative procedures, and establish a plan for better dental hygiene.
Performing dental procedures, such as extractions, root canals, and filling cavities.
Correcting bite issues and overcrowding.
Applying helpful agents to teeth, such as sealants or whiteners.
Prescribing medications for dental problems, such as pain medications or antibiotics.
Giving clients sedatives or anesthesia prior to administering treatments.
Ordering diagnostic measures, such as x-rays, models, etc.
Using tools, such as drills, probes, brushes, or mirrors, to examine and treat teeth and mouth.
Keeping records relating to the oral health of patients and the treatments given to them.
Managing and communicating with other staff members to provide care to patients.
The more likely you are to buy the (cheap-ish) hardware, the more likely they are to sell you more games - at the regular price. Also, there is this balance which is unrelated to the cost of making the hardware, the balance between the buyer’s wanting to actually use the hardware, since it was bought not too cheaply, and not making the price of hardware too high and scare off the potential buyer.
With our bug bounty program we also state that researchers should not access customer data or interrupt normal operation of the services. If their testing is believed to impede normal operation we can provide separate servers for testing purposes.

We also provide a test account upon which researchers can use if they wish to attempt to modify or read private information. They should stick to that data and I'd encourage other bug bounty programs to do similar.

In my eyes this researcher should've stopped as soon as they started seeing private data and reported it, it sounds as though they continued to read private information well after they realized it was private data they were viewing.

I realize not every bug bounty program plays fair. We look specifically at our bug bounty triage team (via the platform we use) to make sure we are treating researchers fairly and that researchers are obeying the agreed upon rules. They're the neutral third party in our eyes. They keep us honest and researchers honest. At least that's how I approach it all.
You're right, this algorithm optimizes for "1 point for picking the best option, 0 for anything else", not knowing the distribution.

If you do know the distribution, and have some objective function, and samples are "free", you get a different model that you can solve inductively backwards from the case of "the last sample".

A different model is that your objective function is still on order, but it gives some points for "closer to best". Maybe you score minus n for picking the nth best sample. In that case the model need not have a known distribution (It's different if you do or don't.) And the strategy us different: if the 99th sample out of 100 is the second best you've seen so far, you should take it. (Which can't possibly be optimal in the original model.)
I'm not saying companies should not make money. I'm talking about instrumental vs. terminal values. Money can and should be viewed as means to an end, as instrumental for achieve the company's purpose - be it feeding people, making good tools or getting them to space. But very often it becomes terminal - the company's purpose becomes making money, and what they do becomes means to an end. The entire structure becomes reversed.
Unicorn, e-scooter startup from co-creator of Tile, shuts down with no refunds
This was confusing for me too. As time passes, the less the universe is made up of "something" (observable matter), so maybe a more accurate analogy would be saying the universe is "diluting" rather than "expanding"?
Some indicators mentioned would trigger on mature and complete software.
It seems like you're responding to the idea that "hacking is bad" and that's not at all what the essay got across to me. In fact, it outright agrees that "the focus on learning and doing is important."

Instead of "hacking is bad", the essay was saying "incentivizing young people with a single easily-hacked methodology is bad".
> But the payment laws pretty much implicitly assume that the account numbers are unique, and they weren't in this case

I don't see how the situation would be relevantly different if Teich had mistakenly provided the wrong account number and the correct sort code.

> there really aren't good solutions if the (unintended) recipient disputes the reversal and claims that that's money intended for them.

I also don't see why this is a question we ask the recipient. Wouldn't it make more sense to ask the payor?
This is not the astrology paper I was looking for.
ah yes, the exorbitant cost of $35 for an SAT prep textbook
Oh I see, I was thinking of AFS, I'm sure, I thought it was built on ceph or vice versa.
I think this is spot on. My parents came from nothing but through entrepreneurship became well-off. That said they would rather me join the military for 20 years then become an entrepreneur. Same with my peers throughout high school and college. Very few if any had ambition to venture into entrepreneurship.

Other possible factors: negative sentiment towards business, less hours available to focus on business because of social media and video games etc, higher barriers to entry(though the argument can be made for the opposite too)
You’re mixing up two different things. You can have redistribution without having the government “run the economy” (which is all “democratically run economy” means).
Of course I am not going to argue with the person behind the article as the simplest explanation is that I misread, misunderstood, misjudged etc.

However, I will ask you three questions to clarify this for me, of course optional:

1 - Do you think it’s possible for one person to do half of the things you listed?

2 - Do you think it’s possible for most product people to do most of the things you talk about outside of companies such as Microsoft, Uber and similar?

3 - Should the product minded engineer be interested in users or the stakeholders?
Re: your point about interviewers looking for their expected/standard answer vs an actually innovative one...

I take that as part of my job in interviewing the the company/interviewers. I will very deliberately give a more radical, non-standard but correct answer precisely to see if they fit into that broken/fixated mindset and see how they deal with being challenged. The dynamic of how they deal with that shows everything about not just how clever they are but how intellectually honest, curious, and emotionally mature they really are.
> 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 don't doubt that you did, but I doubt that everyone at your company places the same effort as you do. At my current company, 90% of interviewers half ass their interviews. They don't have much incentive to care, so you want interview questions with consistent standards and produce some signal with minimal effort. Algo questions fit this bill perfectly.
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Because they sold shares to investors for money they dearly needed to build the company.
To answer your interrogation, it's not train drivers that are funding most of their pension nowadays, it's the other tax payers that are paying.

Short summary of the French pension system is that everybody is contributing a percentage of their earning to the state. (There is no private pension fund, it's only a single giant national pool). If you're part of a few select entities (like the national railway) you simply get more benefits from the state, but you do not pay more.

The special pensions are typically in deep deficit between what their workers contribute and what they benefit back. They're only covered financially so far (by the tax payer) because pensions are ultimately a single giant pool in the national budget.
From Iversons autobiography https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/autobio.htm

"To our surprise, the two teachers worked at the blackboard in their accustomed manner, except that they used a mixture of APL and conventional notation. Only when they and the class had worked out a program for some matter in the text would they call on some (eager) volunteer to use the terminal. The printed result was then examined; if it did not give the expected result, they returned to the blackboard to refine it."

"... the initial motive for developing APL was to provide a tool for writing and teaching. Although APL has been exploited mostly in commercial programming, I continue to believe that its most important use remains to be exploited: as a simple, precise, executable notation for the teaching of a wide range of subjects."

The antipathy between Dijkstra and Iverson makes no sense to me. Was Dijkstra just misinformed about APL?
Hell, really?? That's gross.

It's just using the == operator, no? Which, yes, is really gross.
Microdosing LSD in the name of self-improvement
I should have paid more attention to my phrasing. If you were running less than 7 cards per rig you likely did it wrong. Now if you do it at all you're doing it wrong.

ROI is more or less impossible now. By the time you'd get close the reward will halve again. Also back then the diff kept rising increasingly quickly as well. I was doing this back in like 2016 with free power and cooling and made a grip of money.
I think I recall TWiML/AI podcast featured a company that used ML for writing scripts for movies and such. Apparently scripts have tons of filler and other things that could be automated, the idea is to leave the creative work for the human I guess.
Great and inspirational article that’s pretty practical.

That said, the website is a pain to use on mobile safari and difficult to properly capture when sharing it to Notion or Bear. Notion doesn’t capture it at all, and Bear can’t capture the hyphens or line/paragraph breaks. It’s probably because of the read more button. It also has some jaggy scrolling issue where if you switch between apps it scrolls up and sometimes collapses the article or jumps to the bottom of the page.
Debate and a referendum would be the democratic way.

Current French Republic was dubbed "presidential monarchy" (in no other democracy a single person had this level of power)... Since 2002 French President has even more power...
And now with the extreme-right, who does not lose the first round of the presidential election (aside of extreme-right) win.

Macron had been elected by 18% of voters, and have "full powers" for 5 years

I personally don't think it is super democratic
As a teacher, the way to fix this is to give "aligned tests". That is, where the test tests for exactly what you want the student to learn. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_alignment.
I'd say the word you're looking for is Software Crafts[man,woman] but I don't necessarily believe the two are exclusive, but rather horizontal and vertical axes.

There is a difference between someone actively making compromises between time to market and features, and someone who doesn't understand how to write software in a maintainable fashion but can get something quickly out to market. There are even people who are good at neither.
> "minimum lovable product"

I love that quote, and idea. Going to use it moving forward.
The video is an excerpt from a speech he made in 1989. Here's the full speech: https://youtu.be/G2dJ0iBhTcA?t=79.
The operating manual was posted on HNN three weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21553018

One of Bloomberg Beta's investors (@mkim) responded on that thread, which was pretty cool.
Don't get hung up on 51%, or 50%+1 share. Not all shares are equal. A company can issue a single voting share and 99 non-voting shares, and that gives the owner of the 1 voting share complete control despite only owning 1%. It's much more complicated than any simple example can illustrate.

To answer the question though, founders sell equity to raise money. When you've sold 50% the next time you raise (or give stock to a new employee, or reward a mentor, etc..) means you're going to own less than half the company you started.
I'm pretty sure that equipment doesn't just "exist", that it takes plenty of labor to make those pieces of equipment.

Sometimes though pieces of equipment are just uneconomic given the surrounding business environment; "the market" cannot arbitrarily decide to make them profitable. Either people decide to change that business environment for the better, or some expenses will have to be written off and the business will need to move on. This shouln't be a "condemnation" of capitalism, it's a critical part of the system. Mistakes are normal, but they need to be acknowledged, and not stick around as zombies.
Have you used a switch? There is no commodity tablet on the market with the attachable controller form factor & dockable with HDMI passthru that the Switch has, at the Switch pricepoint.
Keras / TPU integration in Tensorflow 2.1 (unreleased)
Ask HN: Any advice for scraping LinkedIn at 10k profiles a day?
I'm looking to scrape about 10K profiles a day for a project I'm working on.

Don't need fake accounts or anything. Just the stuff publicly accessible when not logged in.

Does anybody have experience with this? How many proxies? Residential/Datacenter? Any tips?
>Obviously we would generally expect some correlation between skill when younger to 35 years later

Though this is obvious, it wasn't obvious that the tests given were actually showing who had some amounts of skill. Though, this should more accurately be called "some amount of ability to become prominent in a field," as like you say things other than skill may cause both high scores and success later.
Huawei Preps Motherboards Featuring 8 Core ARM V8 CPUs
If the nurse/technician is good and you are lucky, you get pinched at the first try and the extractions is fast. If they can't find the vein, you may get pinched twice or more times. (It is also difficult when the patients is too young, or too old, or dehydrated.)
There are certainly the graveyard sites out there, but I'm talking about first person stories from founders that detail why they think they failed.
Dell XPS 13 (late 2019) review
What is funny about this is that he doesn't realise most medieval historians have actually recognised this and solved it...answer: no exams. Just get students to write essays. Most history classes do exams but, where it is taught well (i.e. not the US), they give you the questions that will be on the exams...these aren't exams like in maths. This tests for understanding, and actual ability to conduct research yourself (you still get bias from professors, I had a Chinese politics professor who had some fairly inflexible views about the Chinese economy...but it does average out).

I still have no idea why this isn't used more generally in life. Want to see if someone can do this job...hm, rather than actually seeing them do the job...have you ever thought about how many windows there are in New York? All you are testing is whether someone has either been asked that kind of question before or, more likely, whether they went online and looked at what you would ask them.

It is truly stunning how stupid people are about this. And, tbh, I think it largely reflects what most students about the world at university where certain professors seem to revel in the utter banality of pointless tests.
Well, obviously, some do. There is always an agenda to be pursued, but you are right in that companies do not care. Even if they say they do.
I am taken aback a bit by this characterisation:

And then a bunch of the community responded as petulant children and

Sony supported linux in public, people bought their hardware for it, and then, without warning, sony janked the rug from under them. Of course people tried to take back their hardware, for which they paid. The blame here is 100% on Sony.

Sony has a massive internal conflict of interest by being both a content creator and a hardware provider. They sabotage their own products to the detriment of their customers again and again.

Sony worked with the community for a few years, and had the longest unhacked console to show for it. Then They slapped the community in the face and paid dearly for it, as the should. Sony should beg the community for another chance.
its ok for instants but not dates: receiving side may truncate the instant to a date in a different timezone env than the sender (easily done and will NOT be UTC by default in many envs) -and then you may have an off-by-one on the day.
> Yes, that's how it works in the UK. If you, yourself, enter someone's bank details and send them money using a bank's online interface, you are responsible.

Except that you're not responsible. Peter Teich got his money restored using only the UK legal system.

The process was:

1. Sue the bank for the other customer's name.

2. Sue the customer who received the payment.

3. Recover from them. This recovery is (surprise!) enforcible by the bank.

If you were responsible for the consequences of sending money to an account you specified incorrectly, none of that would be possible in the first place.
Unless you work in a crazy place like Germany with the extremes driven by the work councils, probationary periods are an HR gimmick. If people aren't working out, they can be let go. Have simple, clear, legal policies and simple documentation, WIPs, and most importantly managers who actually care, communicate, and help their team members succeed. The fact is that most companies and managers don't fit those criteria and so create their own hells.
It's cheap, especially for 24/7 joints such as many McDonalds or Burger King. Assuming a well built product, the burger flip robot will produce consistent quality at a workload a human cannot physically cope with, with none of the downsides that employees have (wages, vacations, sick days, inability to do the same task repetitive over 8h with no break)... that robot will pay itself off in two or three years, after then it is pure profit (maintenance aside).

The thing is, I (and many other lefties) would welcome a world in which robots do all the work while humans are free to do whatever they want - the problem is that in current capitalism, the burger will cost the same for the customer while the costs implode (most cost in restaurants is staff!)... meaning the extra profit goes to the owner class, not the worker class which has to fight for the few jobs that remain.
Thank you for saying this. I will admit that I did find these kinds of blog posts interesting at first, but the core of the thing just seems to be to have better social skills and listen more.

I think one of the reasons I found them pleasing to read is if I personally had some of the qualities mentioned in them... validation I guess. But I agree with you that these articles don’t provide much value.
My guess is that Firefox and Chrome would push back. Apple probably has too much to lose, though.
Your username checks out here.

Maybe I won't become a specifically-software person.
If they were successful in developing the tech behind the scenes while they were faking it, no one would be saying that. They'd say how brilliant Holmes is, how driven and business-savvy she was to use a stop-gap solution. I've seen many startups lie about their tech, like AI recruiting companies that have little-to-no AI for their first few years.
When I was growing up I was ripped out of my Disney fantasy of nature by a video of wildebeest stomping out lion cubs they found left alone. They knew exactly what they were doing and what kind of threat they represented.
Obviously untrue. Money has diminishing marginal utility.

That doesn’t necessarily justify a theft but $1000 isn’t identical utility to all.
Ivan Illichlready said it 50 years ago. Read 'Deschooling Society', its all there. We are schooled to confuse process with essence, and the bad results are apparent.
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One possible value for $NEEDS_A_NAME is Infrastructure Engineer ... not to say that infra isn't always productized, because it sometimes is, but the instincts required just aren't the same when your customer is the team that works down the hall. Maybe Systems Engineer if you consider the type of engineer that optimizes for speed and other factors. Idk, names are hard.
If there are two shareholders, one of whom has 51% and the other of whom has 49%, then there are meaningful ways in which the minority shareholder is not really a decision-maker.

It's pretty different if there are 10 shareholders and you hold let's say 40% of the shares, in which case you might only need one or two people of nine to agree with you.
When the author literally lists dozens of ideas that me and other people have spent their entire lives working on and dismissed them out of hand, I can’t even bring myself to read anymore.

I don’t know anything about the firm GMO, but this guy is a troll and no one who actually cared about or respected finance would start a white paper with that sentence.
> Unfortunately Elementary has so far struggled with the 1920x1080 screen on my Huawei Matebook D

Otherwise how has it been with Linux on that? I'm considering getting one, they look great!
XPenguins
What do our customers think of us?
$ sudo apt install xpenguins
$ xpenguins
$ # rejoice
What I mean is that if we assume automation reduces the number of people required to complete a job, those that remain have a high pay rate. Agreed?

This continues as technology gets more sophisticated until the only people left producing things and making money are those that own the tools that do the job.

It only costs $120/hr to hire a plumber because of artificial barriers to entry and a guaranteed market. A better example might be a typist who previously had a solid middle class job taking notes and dealing with faxes because their boss didn't have a cheaper way to do it.

That is what I mean by favoring. Eventually Bezos just owns a machine that runs everything he controls and needs no employees. Eventually. Don't doubt he would if he could.

Your statement contains the core of it though -- systems that favor the people who make the highest wages are in an unstable equilibrium where eventually very very few people make all the wages.
You can go above and beyond and still build something nobody wants. It can be a perfectly architected software unicorn and it will hurt even more when nobody uses it.... because they don’t need it.
Bezos says 'country in trouble' if big tech turns its back on the Pentagon