skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally hate one liners. I used to love them and feel good about how neat the code looked like.

After some time I've noticed that I read the code much easier and understand flow when the indentation is similar to python or go.

Also, I keep my editor on a vertical half of the screen.
A couple good resources for finding datasets:

+ For individual requests, come over to https://opendata.stackexchange.com/ and ask!

+ Wikidata has loads of structured data, but using SPARQL is often a barrier. But you can request help: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query
> Yang is unequivocal that expats should not receive the dividend while they are abroad.

What is the moral basis for this? Pretty much every other U.S. right and rule is grounded on U.S. citizenship, not where you're currently residing. Basing rights on where you live (rather than citizenship) also leads to some weird results. If you deny expats some right because they don't live in the country, then shouldn't you grant non-citizens who are indeed living in the country those same rights? After all, the standard is where you live rather than citizenship.
Honestly I think this article should be reported and banned from hacker news it is probably self-promotion for the purpose of gaining more attention and potential leads and candidates with pretense "we are honest recruiter company"
Self discipline. Just sitting down and showing up is not enough, you need to concentrate. This is why I think open plan offices are terrible for getting real work done, there always should be possibilities for solitude for those that need to work on something hard. Oh, and KISS. No way without that.
An alternative to winner-mode is eyebrowse, for anyone interested.
Maybe Bupropion works better for you
So "the rationalist community" relies on gut feelings? Now I'm confused and it's only the first non-italic paragraph.
What makes you naive is if you put any smidegeon of hope into the fact that insurance companies will not hesitate to buy and abuse such data to fuck you over left, right and central then you really are beyond help.

If you want to risk that, fine. But you're also screwing all your relatives in the same swell process.

And that's not only naive and dumb, that's totally reckless.
To me all kernel tweaking I remember is setting up tonnes of stuffs for MPTCP kernel for my pi and getting it running sith raspibian. Ofcourse, I had followed a blog with instructions but the feeling is undeniably awesome. And results are astonishing too. Really fun.
> If the person was a fraud, how did he get through the technical and management interviews? Surely talking to someone for 5 mins would help you figure out if they were technically competent. So apparently the interview process had zero decision value. Why bother interviewing candidates then? They should just check references and get on with it. Or fix your interview process.

There are many things people evaluate during the interview process. One of them is technical competence. Another is integrity.

From the story, it doesn't appear OP's interview process is broken.
And in other things that never happened...
The interviewee passed the questions, was well liked and the only note of confusion he mentions was 'Sam didn’t have a LinkedIn profile, and when I asked him why he said he turned it off because he got too much recruiter spam'.

For what is worth I also don't have a LinkedIn for the same reason any more..
It also states "Over time, this is likely to disrupt access to services and overall functionality".

That's pretty much the exact opposite of "will continue to work".
Or maybe he had plenty of experience and technical expertise to competently answer all the interview questions, and even to perform the job in question extremely well. Perhaps he would have been a model hire. There are lots of reasons that people exaggerate their experience, and not all of them mean that the candidate is not well-suited for a given job.

I’m not saying it’s a good idea to do what “Sam” did, but you can’t say that their interview process was broken based solely on the fact that the process identified him as a good candidate after he inflated his resume and did some simple LinkedIn manipulation to try to push himself to the top of the resume stack. Their interview process may in fact have identified and vetted the best man for the job, he was just one that happened to be insecure enough about his work experience to exaggerate it.
is this it?

https://opendata.stackexchange.com/a/4308/1511

http://www.hlt.utdallas.edu/~persingq/ICLE/orgDataset.html

http://www.hlt.utdallas.edu/~persingq/ICLE/OrganizationScore...
I would argue there is more to an economy than processor speeds or price of transistors e.g. hardware security, software security, data integration, expansion of communication capabilities, not to mention other industries (biotech, transportation, energy), etc.
Although I must admit that I do not know how much the increase in modern hardware capabilities contributes to the productivity of the economy.
I disagree with your statement regarding significant future discoveries, as that is something that is very hard to predict.

If CPU and computer hardware become commodity, it would certainly be a new era of tinkering that is upon us. Perhaps more pressing problems than computational power f CPUs and transistor cost will then be attacked.
> Yang supporters believe expats should also get the freedom dividend.

Well, this is what Trump believes. A solid 30% of the U.S. stock market is owned by foreigners, and so when U.S. corporations used their Trump tax break to increase their market value, 30% of that effectively gave foreigners a bump.

His tax plan effectively increased taxes in expensive "blue" states and gave that money to foreign investors.
Bernie supporter here AND UBI supporter, (not Yang's version per se though). I support a bigger more expansive UBI that would basically cover all food, housing, and major monthly expenses. We still need education/healthcare though as Bernie suggests. Which is why I support him.

I like the idea of ending the current welfare system because it makes the recipient feel 'less' because they're on 'state assistance' vs everyone gets 3k/month + 500 per dependent per month.

We'd need a different tax system though, and need maybe VAT to offset it a little. It would move everyone above poverty though so pretty much everyone could afford at least some level of taxes. It would also give job mobility and more ability to negotiate wages. Some would choose to stay home and join esports leagues, or start an arts career or go back to school, or start a business. Meaning less people would be required by labor, meaning supply/demand would be in worker's favor -- which would drive up wages.

I think there's definitely a place for UBI on the table, AS LONG as single-payer and free college ALSO exist - -and college debt forgiveness.
Imagine if you read the autobiography of a big name and they told a story about how they hack the interviewing process of X company, getting they first big break which resulted in all the big successes afterward. How much admiration would he get for that, a #1 HN story even.

I do get confused reading this story, at least I wish it continue on for a bit afterward (how was his reaction, other people's reaction. Did you end up hiring someone?)
Amazon (and most successful middlemen) employ this strategy too, so aggressively. Get all the data flowing through you, use that data to screw those who you can profit from replacing. Like the people who made sites with public holidays, clocks, converters, calculators that Google has stolen all traffic from for years. Gradually it expands to larger prey, and it feels like a good experience for consumers so it works.

Amazon uses marketplace to access markets without risk or their own suppliers (making them a one stop shop in the process), then once they have the data, they start selling the stuff directly.

I worked in a music instrument retailer, when Amazon was aggressively trying to capture that industry, and they did start selling through Amazon, and if course Amazon now sells most stuff themselves now.

The problem as I see it is that these gradual monopolies pose huge risks to freedom and choice, as they lobby for themselves, and own bigger chunks of the world. Incentives change once you own entire markets, and it's naïve to think what started as a better experience for users will stay that way with less competition.

Not sure what can be done though. Antitrust stuff is really the last resort, and it's not a guarantee that it will even happen. In the EU it probably will I guess. USA not do sure.
How's https://golden.com doing? I have come across some really detailed Wikipedia articles (for sports events, for example) and at times some really drab ones which I try to edit to improve. But original research articles sometimes do contain a lot more specific information that doesn't survive editor scrutiny on Wikipedia. And the less we talk about numerous advertisment/PR/fluff articles and socio/geo-political edit wars being played out, the better.

Take tech pages for example, I really think an enormous amount of information in blogs, online magazines, research papers need to be out there in Wikipedia pages too, if not as actual texts but as references.

For instance, here's an article on HAMT [0] and another on Radix Trees [1] but the corresponding Wikipedia pages [2][3] for those aren't as consumable as the other two.

There are also cases where pages are deleted because original research, like Willy Tarreau's EB Trees [4] that powers routing, caching on HAProxy.

I tend to research more on Wikipedia than search engines, to be honest. May be, the search engines can get smart enough to amalgamate a page on the searched topic given the amount of open-web they crawl?

[0] https://blog.mattbierner.com/hash-array-mapped-tries-in-java...

[1] https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2017-ipv4-route-lookup-lin...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_array_mapped_trie

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_tree

[4] https://wtarreau.blogspot.com/2011/12/elastic-binary-trees-e...
It's awesome, but it is also just a click away and that data isn't google's. That 'exceptional UX' is at the expense of someone else's work with google reaping the profits.
Apple pushes back against EU common charger, warns of innovation risks
I am surprised nobody has mentioned Gabor Mate's book Scattered Minds (Scattered in the US) which talks about his theory that AD(H)D is just a cope mechanism derived from childhood attachment issues or trauma with their primary caretakers.

After being diagnosed with ADD, and having rejected drugs, this is the first text that has allowed me to first get all the puzzle pieces in front of me and then let me build a proper picture of everything that has been happening to me for the last 20+ years.

I know I am getting late to the conversation and probably this comment will be buried, but I would strongly recommend anybody suffering from this to take a look at this book. It has been eye opening and healing as no other text has.
Hang on... I'm confused here:

> Not only had he lied about his experience, he’d set up fake identities complete with LinkedIn profiles with hundreds of connections, then gotten people who were complicit in his lie to pretend to be those people on the phone.

> I sat down and tried to trace the source of my confusion. Sam didn’t have a LinkedIn profile, and when I asked him why he said he turned it off because he got too much recruiter spam, which was entirely believable. He said he’d turn it back on and send me the link, but hadn’t followed up. It wasn’t much, but it was certainly a bit odd given how reliable he seemed in general.

Why would someone who'd spent months, perhaps even years cultivating a network of fake LinkedIn profiles and confederates, not have a linkedin profile himself when not having one would immediately arouse suspicion? It's not like it's at all difficult to doctor your work links. Even his wife supposedly had a profile, faking as a VP at the company in question.

Something doesn't add up here.
"Jobs had no real engineering experience to bring to the table. He had a small amount of education from Reed College, but it was in a completely unrelated major, and he had dropped out early. But he had a way with words, seemed to have a passion for technology, and probably lied about having worked at Hewlett-Packard.

"I figured, this guy's gotta be cheap, man. He really doesn't have much skills at all," Alcorn remembers. "So I figured I'd hire him.""
No. This is not a trivial matter. The decline starts around the mid 20th century, is occurring globally, and levels have reduced by standard deviations from the old norm. Read up on it. It's way more serious than you think.
What if you missed out on hiring the Steve Jobs of the catering industry?

Jobs had no real engineering experience to bring to the table.
He had a small amount of education from Reed College, but it was
in a completely unrelated major, and he had dropped out early.
But he had a way with words, seemed to have a passion for technology,
and probably lied about having worked at Hewlett-Packard.

"I figured, this guy's gotta be cheap, man. He really doesn't
have much skills at all," Alcorn remembers. "So I figured I'd hire him."
Optimising for quick feedback loops.

Basically it involved writing additional code to set up the app state to the state I need.

It went from changing a line of code, running the app, clicking/filling fields as needed, and then seeing the change reflected, to the app immediately being in the state that I wanted.

Now that I'm working in web-apps, hot-reloading is quite beautiful.
Vapor IO Partners with Cloudflare on Nationwide Deployment
GiveCampus (YC S15) Wants Senior Engineers in DC and SF
Should email remain “dumb” – AMP for email?
Show HN: Devtendo Pro Is Now Free for Open Source Projects
I just found this [0] in their forums from Sonos employee:

“In May, you’ll be able to decide if you want to keep your legacy devices operating with your modern devices, and you’ll be able to put them all into a non-updating legacy system”

So they are actually reversing course to a certain extent.

If there’s one thing Sonos has shown throughout this mess, it’s that they’re really quite poor at communicating things clearly.

[0] https://en.community.sonos.com/ask-a-question-228987/questio...
Betelgeuse Just Keeps Getting Dimmer, and We Have No Idea Why
Look close enough and everything is flawed.

Evolution doesn’t ‘design’ anything, least of all anatomy.

The ‘special power’ is that they have stuck around, for whatever reason or circumstance.
My best guess is to avoid the folks that he has scammed in the past from blowing his cover. Those other seemingly legit profiles presumably have no obvious link to him.
It seems like there might be happy medium between the idea that your accomplishments are insignificant and the idea that you're a Ayn Rand action figure.

Maybe most citizens of 1st world nation states are beneficiaries of an incredible network of mutual support we call society and stand on the shoulders of many who came before... and yet deserve some recognition and reward for individual effort.
in our case they were not only dynamic, but also managed by the administrator on an account (by our customers, not by us the software creator)
If you had just made the effort to skim through that post before you called it spam,you would had found out that it says "The only thing required is opening an account at ActiveState to register your copy".So you didn't even make the effort,but at the same time you figured that you had enough information to name it spam...
Do you think there's absolutely nothing to be learned from 'gut feelings'?

Of course they mean something, so taking them in the equation - at least for trying to recognize why you have that gut feeling, and whether it's relevant or not - is pretty sensible.

Rationality isn't about being a cold calculating machine, it's about arriving at the best answers you can while using whatever actually works.
Otherwise, they wouldn't sell.

The only reason not to sell is because you believe Google can't break your business before you get a better offer or you can IPO. If you think they can do that then you don't really have much of a choice.

Founders tend to factor this in to their thinking from the start. "Acquired by Google" is often considered a desirable exit goal.
It would be hard for the fake profile to get connections with people that he would have had to claimed to have managed or worked with (but was lying about). A fake profile for "Sam" might make it even easier to spot the fraud.

Plus, other people who know him in real life might notice that his profile information is bogus and call him on it. (Why does your LinkedIn profile say you were a director?)
> there is more to an economy that processor speeds ... I frankly do not know how much increase in modern hardware capabilities contributes to the productivity of the economy.

In industrial times, you would be right. However since the "information revolution", a huge amount of productivity gains can be directly attributable to transistors. Sure it started with improving simple calculators, but then came spreadsheets, industrial CAD models, instantaneous global communication, remote teams, global branding and a whole lot more.

In fact, it's pretty fair to say, that nearly every standard of living improvement in western countries since roughly 1980 can be attributable to the transistor.
Game code doesn't need player interaction either to hotreload. See this section of a talk by Bret Victor for some inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII&t=10m42s
I think having to clutter my work calendar with "I'm working" entries is a pretty clumsy way of signaling that I don't want people to randomly speak over Beethoven in my headphones. I my company introduced this, I would invariably "forget" to start the software at all, or would leave it on DND status permanently.

Personally I just don't see the benefit over a chat message saying "time for a quick call about <topic>? <zoom link>".
The 2-bit palettes of CGA were simply colors 2/4/6 and 3/5/7 of the text mode palette, where bit 2 is red, bit 1 is green and bit 0 is blue. The fourth color (encoded as 00) was the background and could be chosen from any of the 16 text colors.

(In addition there was an "undocumented" palette consisting of colors 3/4/7 plus the background color).
I disagree. My parents paid to not have their names and phone number listed in the white pages. So they cared about some semblance of privacy, as it existed back then.

This age of Google and search engines, where anything and everything is captured digitally, and will last forever, is creepy as fuck.

It’s no longer even about your social media profile anymore. Or of the curated pictures that you post online to share with your friends. It’s all about your browsing history now. Your clicks, your mouse movements, your GPS location, your iPhone battery meter, your voice as you wake up. Everything, just to build some profile on you, either now, or in the future, because that data is all there, just waiting to be harvested.

This dystopian nightmare that we now live in, is like some prison that we are born into, and which we don’t even know exists. It’s all around us, and monitoring us, and continuously profiling us.

And it has one and only one goal: To turn us into a penny.

Or a coppertop.
I use a VIM macro for this.
The Famous Easter Island Head Statues Have Bodies
The idea I get from this is that, the quality of a management candidate cannot be detected from interviews?
That is a uniquely scary story. I have only had the displeasure of hiring one person who effectively lied their way into the position. It was really obvious after they started that they had grossly overstated their skills and experience. My point of 'confusion' was that their reference checks were people who had worked with them, liked them but not for very long because they were leaving when that person joined, Etc. I had asked about many short tenures in their resume but as an individual contributor they passed it off as "finding a challenge they could bite their teeth into" and basically working their way up the pay ladder.

At Google people got "starter projects" I liked this idea to get an idea of what they could do, and its an opportunity to understand what they are good at. I gave the person an assignment that, given their experience, should have been well within their capabilities. They kept not delivering and kept up a steady patter of "knocking down the barriers" communications which, valid or not, got me wondering what was going on with this person. At the one month point I gave them a pretty clear deliverable and worked with them for a timeline for when it would be done. They were "almost" done at the agreed upon time two weeks later, so I asked them to present it one week from that date to the group. The presentation was an epic disaster in terms of not coming close to meeting the deliverable, not showing any development in understanding the problem, and generally being something a new hire could have come up with in less time.

At our 1:1 that week we talked about the deliverable, my expectations given the experience they claimed to have, and what we got. I got a lot of "I just need x, y, and z and then it will be done." kind of discussion. Delving into those needs became "waiting on p, q, and r to deliver this part." kinds of discussions.

At the end of our 1:1 that week I asked them if they were satisfied with their performance. They felt it was ok and would get better with time. I told them I didn't feel we could afford that time and that Friday would be their last day. I was bummed that we wasted nearly 2 months on this person. I don't think anyone in the organization was surprised to see them go.
If you pay 350$ for a cd rom u should be able to find a way to digitize it, for example a copy shop or just getting a usb drive.
Perhaps because he didn't want any interviewers finding backchannel references but only consulting the references he provided. If he gave a LinkedIn profile for himself, he'd have to have plenty of connections that could be contacted as potential references.
I'm sure there's tons of patents, but the p6 core came out in 1995 and most of the 32 bit stuff predates that and has all been patent free for quite a while. I guess if you're building your own processor, why make an x86?
> 90 pages were able to gather more than 1M views (Star Wars, The Mandalorian, The Witcher...).

So they could cut their network costs by a lot if they just removed pages about current popular culture, which have the highest view rate and a cultural value of exactly zero.

Edit: I'm being sarcastic and a bit bitter, the comments below all make good points. However I find it sad, though unavoidable, that the highest page views are for highly marketed entertainment franchises that have a slim chance to withstand the test of time.