skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know how to find them, and leetcode and interview puzzles clearly aren't it. However, we've all worked with folks that get way more done than others. We've also worked with people that are a net negative for company. Your paid internship only kinda works at the entry level, and doesn't fix that the filter is broken for mid and senior level.
I and other people in my team work pretty hard but I have the feeling a lot of the projects we am working on are ultimately BS. A lot of companies are probably BS in total.
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Also the origin story for the Portal games.
Another way to look at this is that maybe our current economic system is failing to find productive ways to put us to work, even though the world is unfinished. We have a world on a collision course with climate change and instead of bullshit, hundreds of millions of people could be diverted to geoengineering and green energy projects. We have housing crises in dozens of cities, but our economies are not putting enough people to work building housing. Children are being left under-educated, elderly under-cared for. Billions live in poverty, but our economies are not creating material comfort for them. And once we take care of all that, we have a system full of dead planets and moons that could be turned into gardens. There is plenty to do, but a failure of incentives to do it.
Based on what? Journalism has always been through the lens of the author and/or organization. Not every form of journalism is meant to be the AP news.
I personally think distance learning is underrated, although I have been doing it for years so I've had time to become accustomed to it. I can understand why some students (including my wife) do not like it, and may never like it.

The ingestion of facts is actually only a minor part of the college experience. Exploring concepts with your peers in organised and ad-hoc groups is a huge, huge part. Not to mention if you go to a name-brand college like Harvard the networking opportunities, and at every college, the social side and the experience of living away from home for the first time.

It is absolutely not worth paying the tuition at Harvard to get what you could get on EdX or Coursera.
A motor company I know of makes their small-runs, specialty, and high performance motors in Japan and the rest in Indonesia. However they recently switched to a fully automated, lights-off factory in Japan to make their new product lines.
Internships are generally thought of as something you do during college (summers or otherwise). Most CS grads would scoff at getting an "internship" after graduating. Internships are also very structured and generally involve working on a specific project within a technical team (I know they're all different).

The apprentice role, the way I've been pitching it at least, is different. This is a role where you join an engineering org and learn the product by QAing it, join technical discussions and help out by taking notes for the team, show off your communication skills by documenting new features and, big picture, you find ways to add value to the team in whatever ways they need. Over time, the bugs fixed get bigger and the person can bite off small features, etc.

The problem is that companies _want_ to hire new grads (even bootcamp grads) but don't feel comfortable paying SWE rates for someone who hasn't worked as a SWE (often rightfully so). The comp for this is equivalent to a QA eng but has a clear path towards being an entry-level SWE (3-6 months maximum). If after 3-6 months it's not clear if the person can add value as an engineer then it's clearly not a good fit.
They can be, although often community members are willing to do the work for free. An example of this working well is the slatestarcodex community, the blog that recently canceled itself because of the NYT piece that was coming out on it. It has a community over at:

https://reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex

and

https://reddit.com/r/themotte

That, despite often discussing controversial issues, remains mostly civil and low cruelty.
The crisis just illustrates our stratified, ossified society: the "essential" workers are those who barely get by. Supposedly important people ("I need to fly around all week") are not that important after all, but for many reasons some professions are able to extract much more value than they contribute (which is an essence of business, after all).

Sad to see, but not very surprising.

Another way to look at it: stock market is up, which is basically owned by the top-X; while "labor" struggles to get by - and will struggle for the foreseeable future. Anyone who thinks about "changing the world" could use a situation like this crisis as a test case; if a situation like this does not punish the poor, that you may live in a "(super-)human" society.
I was very surprised to read your comment, since my last thought after using the website was literally "that website was really nice and simple." Just goes to show how different user experiences can be.

Scrolling worked fine for me. I'm using chrome on a samsung phone if anyone is interested :)
https://www.robscanlon.com/encom-boardroom/
> I don't see how I can work while disconnected.

I'be been programming for many years almost completely offline. It has changed the way I develop in ways that are very powerful.

Having local copies of all of your needs allows for things that you just cannot do with online resources, such as locally index.

Having instantaneous (not internet fast, FAST!) fuzzy search through my entire collection of doucmentation AND all source code was a game-changer for me.

Especially when learning a new language, its powerful being able to immediatly find example uses of functions from within your local collection of libraries without having to hit on google (and wait, and click, and read, and ...).
I was listening to a Radiolab the other day talking about college in the time of the pandemic. Not surprisingly, colleges like ASU, SNHU and Georgia Tech, who already had online degree programs set up saw their enrollment rise in the time of the pandemic, while other schools were scrambling and dipping into their rainy day funds, worrying about sports boosters and admissions. They were piece mealing together online classes, with poor security and having to charge more for classes to cover the costs and the lost revenue from the loss of sports.
I've been consuming his content non-stop for a few months now. While there are other scam baiters around, I feel like Kitboga's approach is the best one to achieve the most possible exposure of these practices. He has a huge Twitch and YouTube audience and I think he absolutely 100% deserves it.
Beyond nepotism, there's a lot of actual learning experiences you can gain from your peers by debating them in case study lessons, working with them on projects and participating in simulations etc.
Curious how they scaled. Just threw money/TAs at it? The limiting factor in my department with expanded online offerings is the number of people willing and able to sacrifice currently strictly limited on campus research hours to TA. There are a finite number of students that a given TA can handle, and it quickly can be an overwhelming amount of work responding to emails and grading.
This was all pretty much guaranteed to happen eventually after the UK handed over Hong Kong to the PRC in 1997.
Hackers Use Google Analytics to Steal Credit Cards
It's not a vulnerability in Google Analytics itself, more so the fact the browsers implicitly trust the GA hostname.
I'm pretty sure many people would be able to learn it much faster if they didn't have to sit through countless boring lectures:

https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/myprojects/mit-challenge-2/
Yes, 1000% -- but it depends on your college and specialty.

Harvard/Yale for Law/Government/Policy - yes

Stanford/Berkeley/MIT/CMU for venture funded startups - yes

Cornell for Hotel Management / Veterinary Sciences - yes

Georgetown/Princeton for Diplomacy/Government/Fed/Policy - yes

Georgetown for venture funded startups - questionable

Stanford for journalism - probably neutral

Most US unis for Investment Banking - * not a chance *

Most US unis for Strategy Consulting Top-3 - not a chance
Would you say the majority of people shop like that?

It makes sense to me that if I buy post hole diggers you should show me ads for work gloves or mailboxes or fences. Not more post hole diggers.

Weird example, I know.
Ask HN: Tips for improving mental word retrieval?
I suffer from words being at the "tip-of-my-tongue" often. I know the basic definition of what I'm trying to say, but I just can't bring up the word I want to say fast enough. I sometimes talk in a staccato rhythm as I'm seeking for the right word to say. I may use a wordy sentence around the point, or a complex GRE-level vocabulary word, instead of the succinct word that I could've used.

Have any of you had this and improved your word retrieval? Are there mind exercises I can use to improve this? "Aphasia" seems to be the closest term, but I feel that is lot more severe and against a simpler vocabulary. And regardless, are there ways to strengthen word retrieval to be a more fluent or clearer speaker?

I don't know if I've addled my brain by being so reliant on auto-correct, if the majority of my communication being written (email/chat) has softened my speaking ability, or if this is just aging. Or perhaps I shouldn't have eaten ground beef in the UK 20 years ago.

Any tips would be appreciated!
while most students do pay much less than sticker price, saying 'most of the endowment is earmarked for student aid' feels misleading. in fy2019 harvard spent $193M on student aid (https://finance.harvard.edu/files/fad/files/fy19_harvard_fin...) -- compared to a $5.2B operating expense spend and a $41B endowment size.
This seems like as good a place as any to discuss. What steps have you taken to protect your parents from these and other scams? I'm looking for both technological and non-technological ideas and any info on what has or hasn't worked.
I had invested in a semiconductor factory early last decade, and it had started making bitcoin miners, it had reminding me of Zion from the Matrix because it seemed like the first time that a machine could make another machine which could immediately start earning a negotiable asset and then transacting for resources.

Very surreal to think about.
It's even more than that. The classroom experience is absolutely central to the program.
You've flipped the causal relationship - societies capable of rapid invention are also going to be more likely to be legalistic.
I started to learn Delphi/Pascal yesterday and didn't like the IDEs either (I'm used to VIM keybinds, better autocompletions and automatic indentation). But VSCode has a plugin for Delphi/Pascal that seems to work fine for console programs. I guess that if you need to develop a GUI app you'll still need Lazarus/Embarcadero IDE for the visual frontend of the app.
Yes it seems so
To everyone trying to read all the text near the beginning but having the scrolling get wonky: you aren't supposed to read all of the text, it seems to just be in the background, and the only thing you are supposed to read is in the center of that... page... the part that goes "Autodesk describes 20 years..."

To make matters even worse, every time you scroll, it pushes a new page onto my history. Author is not making it easy to consume the info they are providing.
I think for the 99% university contacts are not a useful "network". What good are a bunch of entry level employees to you? By the time anyone you've graduated with is in a position to help you out you've already been working for at least 10 years, and your more recent professional network is where the value will be.

So unless you are in the Skull and Bones and your frat bro's uncle is an executive at Goldman Sachs, and that uncle was a frat bro with your Dad who's an executive at Morgan Stanly, no.

But, a college education is still a valuable thing for getting a job. Depending on what classes you take anyway.
Aren't healthy young adults for the most part isolated to a single area sort of a decent path toward herd immunity while minimizing the death rate of Covid-19? Wait, but Harvard, they're rich. I forgot it was poor and minorities charged with face risks for white upper class. Oh, sorry I meant, "essential" people.
Others have given good replies about how to fill the void, and I encourage you to explore those. I’ll stick to commenting on blocking.

It sounds like you went completely cold turkey, and it worked fairly well. You truly had no electronic use outside of work?

If you can manage that, and you live alone, there is a simple solution: unplug your router and modem after work. Plug it back in before work. Then put your devices in a drawer.

This has actually worked for me, where other blocking systems have failed. The physicality and totally of the unplug do it. But it is usually difficult as most people need some access at home. If you truly don’t, this total block option opens for you. You’ll prob have to temporarily give up your data plan as well.

There are other options to block in software, or at a technical level on the router.

You can track your success with this plan on paper. Maybe one piece of paper always on your desk. Write a description of why you’re doing it, then make a “don’t break the chain” calendar and mark it off for each day. You can use this as a log too of how it’s going.

The advantage this system has is you have to consciously choose to plug in, unlike digital systems where you can sort of drift into disabling it. If needed, you can also keep a physical log book on the router to write your checkins, or have a friend try calling you to see if it’s working. (You can keep a voice plan on your phone. Without data or wifi the phone won’t be very addictive most likely)
This is an interesting approach. My concern would be that companies too often consider their senior engineers to be purely technical and set them to work on "the hard problems," rather than intentionally setting aside part of their days for mentorship, exploration, and thought leadership.

That culture shift is going to be difficult for organizations that don't already embrace it. It's not something you can quantify easily for an executive board.
It's well past the point where divestment could be motivated by environmental concern. Coal is a loss maker. If you're getting out now it's a profit driven decision.
same can be said for Firefox though (+300 million a year comes from google):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation#Financing
I like your approach, in fact several people when I started development truly believed that the first 2 years or so, you were only supposed to fix bugs and things like that.

The one problem I see with the approach, and this is an issue with the company not your idea, is that they don't have people to train entry level developers. Most of the senior people I've met are incapable of doing it. They lack real expertise or an ability to effectively communicate and deal with people, or they are simply burned out from it. I've seen a number of places where the senior person is tasked with doing that and it takes up all of the person's time. They get punished for being promoted to that role. Heck I can say that I did for a while too. I took a lower position so I could write code and not deal with all of the politics and stress of leading people.
It's crazy how much the entire country is outraged over Harvard's tuition during COVID. Maybe worry about getting in first? Or even better, focus your anger on your state university system's funding and tuition costs.

The majority of Harvard students receive financial aid anyways, and a fifth of them pay nothing. Whether online classes are worth it or not remains to be seen, but it's not a decision the country's masses have to make.
By understanding the nature of the system I work in, i make a set off tradeoffs that work for me and its treated me very well over my life.

I promise you I do a whole lot less boot licking than average and I'm happy to bootlick when I decide the trade off is in my favor on a case by case basis.

The people who end up licking boots are the ones who can't see the reality of their situations and go in with unrealistic expectations. Then they complain when things aren't working out for them.
> The number one thing keeping me at my most-likely bullshit job is that health insurance in America is only affordable if you have an employer to foot the bill.

I’d say that is not the number one thing. Even though you consider your job to be “most-likely bullshit” your employer is willing to pay you to do it

When your employer no longer wants you there, regardless of the cost of health insurance, you will not be employed
If you want to take a year off you can come right back the next year if you've already been admitted. I'm not sure what incoming freshman are thinking, but for current students, why the hell would you not take a year off?
I agree. My friend got scammed with a variation of the gift card scam. The main difference in his case, fear was not exploited, but rather the search of an amazing deal ( $100 for a new ipad or something like that ).

I probed a little bit since I was curious how he perceived it and he effectively said the idea of getting a deal took the best of him.
FWIW I've used offline docs via Dash[0] when working away from network access before. It works great!

MacOS only though.

[0] https://kapeli.com/dash
The west just lack China's attention span for stuff like this. China was perfectly willing to wait 20 years to make the move and waited for the perfect time when both the US and the UK are in utter disarray.
So as long as you do bad shit and get away with it for 15 years no one should judge you for it?
I’m not sure I agree here. I struggle with the assumption that all processes can go online without any loss of value. For some jobs this might be possible, but the more a job is not just about realizing clearly articulated requirements, the more this will be difficult. Hence, companies will expect a pay cut for the loss in productivity. Again, I believe there is a great middle ground to be found that leverages the strengths of both worlds
This whole whole affair seems as exhausting as it is childish and typical.

Irrespective of these circumstances, journalists need to get off Twitter. Not even stop reading it, that's fine. They just need to stop tweeting if they're so constitutionally incapable of not getting into moralistic pissing matches and turning themselves into stories like they're trying to get on worldstar.
We don't know for sure and it's hard to know how this works. What's obvious is that the current system is broken and we need a replacement of some sort.
Being able to try a company and see whether they like me and whether I like them and the type of projects I am supposed to work would be a major factor in finding the right marriage. We take jobs for the salary tag and quite often we do whatever we have to do to continue getting that nice paycheck but we're not happy with the work we do.
Thanks for sharing these it answers my question
I am probably going to hide this post
The fact that an anonymous quora user is a better journalist than a professional writer at Vice says a lot about the quality of modern journalism. Clicks are more important than accuracy and truth nowadays.
I started working on the app way before Zettelkasten became a thing. My goal is to not force a specific workflow. If you would like to use it as Zettelkasten, it'll work. If you prefer a different system, you can have the app adapt to your needs. It's all just files & folders underneath, only the representation varies.

I'm curious about your folder hierarchy. What kind of files do you keep there to get to tens of gigabytes and what type of knowledge would you like to extract/what type of connections to form?

I'm currently at about 100 MB for roughly 1,400 individual notes (text and images).
So are you saying you're so quick to argue against points you might agree with because of this fallacy you're proposing? Or do you only use it to discredit anyone you disagree with by providing an absurd counterexample that actively insults the intelligence of the person you're talking to?
This looks more like a marketing stunt in itself (it's only 5 pages of well-designed copy) than an open source playbook.
I tried reading the book, but stopped mid-way as it goes too far in unfounded deliberations. The essay is straight to the point.

Read the essay, ditch the book.
I cannot comment fully on remote learning - I haven't done it in a way that is "forced", in other words, being held to account by studying and taking exams and having remote sessions with TAs, etc. I am having a hard enough time focusing on remote work, and I am being held to account daily.

Also recall that the University is, among many other things, a social and growing experience that provides expansion of the mind, a new location to experience the world away from home, and an opportunity to build social networks and connections for friends and work. It also fulfills the mission, hopefully, of a well rounded education in civics, arts and sciences, and your field of expertise.

I therefore understand the drive to do as much as possible to provide some of that, and it is telling they give Freshmen and Seniors the priority (to experience campus life, and to say goodbye and push through, respectively).

We hope this will only last until mid 2021. Philosophers and leaders need to be thinking about what the world may need to look like when this happens to us again.
I've been undertaking a similar project, using an ESP32 currently for testing, also have an Arduino Micro Pro to test yet, during lockdown/furlough. I'm hoping to customise and sell them on Etsy, I've sold code + 3D prints before, but I'm just taking time to get the PCB right before I get my first ever board printed. Aiming for hot-swappable switches and some LED magic.
At mid and senior level, those engineers' peers know who they are. I know we're culturally allergic to using reputation/personal experiences in hiring, but the information is there if you really want it.
Thanks, that was an excellent video.
When I read about these scams, I always wonder how do the scammers justify this to themselves? I can’t believe there are that many true sociopaths completely lacking in empathy. And I believe no one is the bad guy in their own narrative. Do they convince themselves that they’re not really harming “rich people who don’t need all that money” or that their own situations are so extreme that they “need” to steal for their own survival. Or they just don’t think of stealing as an act with any moral weight.

Or possibly I just have too sanguine view of humanity.
AFAIK that only works if the domain's used in "bad faith", whatever that means. Considering that there are gTLDs that literally intended for criticizing companies (eg. .gripe and .sucks), I'd say he's fine.

edit: read a few lines down on the wikipedia article and it says the factors for determining bad faith are:

> Whether the registrant registered the domain name primarily for the purpose of selling, renting, or otherwise transferring the domain name registration to the complainant who is the owner of the trademark or service mark;

> Whether the registrant registered the domain name to prevent the owner of the trademark or service mark from reflecting the mark in a corresponding domain name, if the domain name owner has engaged in a pattern of such conduct; and

> Whether the registrant registered the domain name primarily for the purpose of disrupting the business of a competitor; or

> Whether by using the domain name, the registrant has intentionally attempted to attract, for commercial gain, internet users to the registrant's website, by creating a likelihood of confusion with the complainant's mark.

I think he should be fine
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