skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, and commission sales is a heck of a drug. If you need money, and a company is paying you to sell people a product... you may find yourself selling products you don't really believe in in a call center, where you know the person buying isn't really getting a good deal. Only a tiny step further to actively trying to take their money for a nice bump in your commission check.

Add that your scam call center employee might have family to feed, and suddenly scamming the rich senior's retirement fund seems like a minor transgression...
How do you do that? Are you able to pay all your bills?
UBI will never be successful because it short-circuits the innate need to survive. Many people are not self-leaders and some will turn to drugs when they have no purpose to live. In this case, you've taken away their ladder to climb which is used to measure self-worth. Think about how many people struggle to find the discipline to exercise. People need structure, it's a fundamental part of being a pact mammal.
This was potentially interesting but then:

> They are in no way the most effective means of deciding who to hire because they maximize the role of bias and minimize the role of evaluating competency.

I can believe that badly planned and executed job interviews do the above but I've overseen or been directly involved in the interviewing of hundreds of candidates over the years, for dozens of roles, and the hit rate has been pretty good. Two probation failures, and that's about it.

We're looking to assess skill and character in our interview process. We are interested in whether you can do the job, and whether you're a reasonable human being, and that's it. We have strong structures and guidelines in place in terms of questions, answers, and evaluation. And inasmuch as it's possible we strive to make our hiring process a pleasant experience, regardless of whether a candidate is successful or not (obviously there's some level of stress inherent in going through a selection process). We also give feedback that we hope will help unsuccessful candidates in future (I realise this is unusual and even frowned upon in some circles but our experience has been that most people appreciate it enough that it's worthwhile to deal with the headaches caused by the odd person who wants to argue about it).

I get it. There's a cohort of people on HN who don't like job interviews. Honestly, I'm one of them. But done well, they work well.

Our process isn't perfect, and we're always looking for ways to improve it - there was quite a lot of tweaking early on, for sure - but for us it's worked well. We've spent a lot of time on it because - although my role is as a CTO in a mid-sized firm, and this might not fit with everybody's expectations of that role - literally my most important job has been and continues to be hiring, building, and maintaining a strong, effective team.

And I am very happy with the people we've hired. Just as important, I'm also happy with the decisions we've made about people we've chosen not to hire.
All the execs make for-profit salaries, and profits flow back as investments of the MIT/Harvard endowments. They qualify as a not-for-profit on paper, but they're no different than any other investment of the MIT/Harvard endowments.

Virtually everyone at edX who was mission-driven left in the great purge of 2017 (or was it 16? or 18? I might be off by a year). More than a third of the organization, including the author of the platform, left around that time.

The CEO walked around, publicly announcing he'd switch to paid models as soon as Coursera did. If that's not an attempt at market collusion, I don't know what is.
>So I don't appreciate new codecs coming out and obsoleting my hardware

You could say something similar about any other technological advance.
>> A companies purpose is to make money for its shareholders.

As a blanket statement that is false. The purpose is whatever the founder(s) wants. If shares are sold then agreements have to be made which may or may not involve changing the purpose.
More young people going out = more cases. Those people infecting their parents and grandparents may lead to more deaths in due time.

And it has been news.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/health/coronavirus-mortal...
Meatspace hobbies help a lot with this. If you're knitting or gardening or painting or planing a piece of hardwood it's a heck of a lot easier to keep going than to switch back to your Skinner Box devices.

I get properly irritated when I'm doing yardwork and my phone blows up, because I have to stop what I'm doing, pull off the gloves, check for how much dirt got through/into the gloves, then pull out the device and deal with the glare to see that... nobody is dying, they just wanted to show me something funny. God. Damnit.
Because it forces their competitors (in the video conferencing business) to take similar costs.
My friend just did a full course load remote summer semester it was significantly more taxing.

Group study is harder. Keeping attention in class is harder. Having your eyes stuck to a screen the whole day is harder.

> The idea that good online teaching is just like some free MOOC is not reality-based. It needs to be very hands-on.

Kudos to you. From what I've seen, online courses continue to be MOOC-esque or even worse. At least MOOCs have mature systems in place that facilitate learning through their system, however inefficient.
I don't really disagree with anything here. Lots of jobs are probably counterproductive to the employer, and probably equally suck from the employees perspective.

But the only entity which gets to make the call for if that job should exist at the end of the day is the employer.

If you don't believe any malicious intent to provide intentionally purposeless jobs on the side of the employer (and while you could say many bad things about modern corporations, I don't think they have any incentives to do this specific bad thing) , the only rational assumption is that their organizational structure, to the best of its decision making ability, thinks the existence of that job does benefit their bottom line.

I think people are reading my response as being some kind of corporate apologetics, and from my opinion that couldn't be further from the case. I intentionally stay far away from large corporate entities in terms of jobs because I think they suck. My point is that is the only vote any off us get and that is the way it should be at the end of the day.

Complaining that some big Corp isn't providing purpose to you is the same as complaining about gravity. I mean you have a right to do it, but you aren't changing anything.
I travel internationally a lot and my parents and grandparents get calls like this on occasion. I send them an annual email reminding them that I will never call asking for money. I also give them a password in the email and let them know that if someone claims to be calling on my behalf about an emergency they will know this word (I give it to my lawyer and girlfriend plus business contacts that might actually have occasion to call in an emergency). My relatives know that if the person doesn't know the word they should hang up immediately.

I established this system because it is possible I will be involved in an accident or something and I do want my relatives to be able to trust someone calling if I am unable to do so. Many scams start with news of an accident so this usually stops them before they get to the asking for money part. I also make it explicitly clear that an emergency call would never be a request for money. I have savings and insurance and there is no occasion where I would need money from relatives, ever.
I'd add some nuance to that - in my experience, networking is a multiplicative (not additive) effect to your actual skills. You can get a letter of recommendation from a Nobel Prize winner, but even then it has to say something other than "Liz Lemon numbers among my employees", you know?
Is Tesla model S was made to be manufactured on a "lights out" line, it will look like their Cybertruck.
The businesses willing to spend tens or hundreds of thousands dollars for these bullshit jobs to be done are usually massive faceless corporations where the incentives are far more complicated than you think - and many of them are fed by the government money printer. See many of the corporations bailed out in 2008. Also, anyone in technology who has worked in the IT department of a non-Valley company knows how much utter stupidity and bullshit is wasted on IT simply because no one understands how to do it properly.

Silicon Valley startups are far more efficient at IT and have fewer bullshit jobs, but their mission is often to attract more and more VC money to get acquired by some faceless corporation, or IPO to become a monopolistic rent-seeker. So they’re extremely efficient at working towards their bullshit end-goal.
It's not whether they should be prosecuted, it's about what their ethical / moral stance is on the topic. Some people think cloud services should be like fire or water; available to everyone agnostic of what they choose to do with it. But that's a moral stance, and one reasonable people can have disagreement over. Google employees, for example, pushed company leadership on weather they were comfortable with the notion the company would provide machine learning services to the US military for target identification purposes in drone video.

Software as a service gives technology companies incredible power, and it is possible that in a world of potential existential risk to humanity, it is power they should leverage. Possible. I have no idea if it is a good idea.
> I don't necessarily want the "journey".

Aside: The 'journey' is typically structured wrong, dramatically speaking.

With development, the product is released at the end of the 'journey'. Boom, it's done, the end, Fin.

In a 3-act drama, the 'crisis' occurs at the midpoint of the story. It's the turning point. The iceberg hits the Titanic halfway through, Obi-Wan dies halfway through Star Wars, MacBeth kills Banquo halfway through, etc.

The product should be released at the halfway point of the 'journey'. It's the turning point for the humans in this story. We finally have the elixir and we've used it for the first time (ie. we get real feedback from the market and customers for the first time).

We're missing the rest of act 2 and the whole of act 3: the 'flight' part of act 2, the 'crisis point' at the end of act 2, and the 'synthesis' part that is act 3.

Those missing elements exist for the actual product, it's just that they are not included in the 'story' of the product. The humans in the 'journey' only make it to the intermission. It's then handed off to another team, typically. Hence, there is a lot of frustration with these 'journeys'. We don't get any synthesis.

To fix it, view the release as the halfway point in the 'journey', not the end of it. Keep the team a part of the product through the end of the dramatic 'journey'.
This kind of absolute nonsense is the sign of an ideologue.
Fun/learning. This is actually quite a sophisticated engineering challenge and there is a ton of stuff to be learned. I would love to do this if I had the time.
I wouldn't call Bottas an average driver. His temperament and consistency of top performance is commendable. He has played second fiddle to Lewis for a long time, which is a shame. The car does give him an edge but I would bet most teams would hire him in a flash if he decides to shop around.
I view projects like this along the same lines as maintaining classic cars. It a fun and rewarding project, and you learn things along the way.
Curiously, a lot of the big problems you mention can be mitigated by slowing things down. We're seeing directly what happens to emissions when we reduce the number of people commuting and flying on a daily basis. And getting rid of bullshit jobs frees up a lot of people for child and elder care, for people they care about beyond their economic relationship.
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Nevermind the model - those Illustrator skills!
I've installed AT&T call protect on my families phones, and I run the family accounts for the cell phones and streaming services. I setup all tech for the family to make sure adblocking, virus scanning, updates are done in a timely manner. iPhone+iPad has done wonders for my mom's tech skills and I don't have to worry about viruses anymore, it just works for her. My mom knows that I am always available for her to contact me anytime someone wants more than $200 from her. The family will forward me any emails that they think are suspicious for me review.
The marketing corollary is that metrics only tell you what happened, they cannot tell why. Yet somehow, entire companies have been built on the promise that they can answer the "why" by looking at the metrics.
Yeah that definitely helps a lot. But it means you won't get to hire great people from outside your two-layer deep professional circle (people known by people you know).
The original intent of the duoplasmatron breeder was to eliminate the dangers of going supercritical, actually to eliminate HE fissile material entirely from the bulk, as the plutonium would have to be neutron-bred by the fusion reactions triggered by the tritium beam. Also short pulse control. This was mainly to make it safe and cheap. You could also just use a subcritical mass of HE-fissile material surrounded by a neutron reflector with aperture in the direction of thrust. Recommended only if you are certain to be far enough away from humans to avoid recovery and conversion to a weapon. Aliens too; they might send one back. There is a design for a safer and simpler cylindrical slow-burn wave reactor that may also work for low levels of neutron propulsion.
Campus will be back the year after.
I would not be so quick to throw away "drugs" as they have the strongest efficacy compared to any method shared here.

Anecdotally, I used to follow a lot of these methods described here, but more specifically:

- Keeping a journal

- Reducing blue-light before bed

- Diet & excercise

- Meditations

I do agree that there is merit in each one of them, but absolutely nothing worked better than the "drugs" that was prescribed to me.

In fact, when first speaking to a specialist, it was like he already knew me. He knew my problems better than I did (goes to show that your problems aren't unique after all).

I do wish I had sought help sooner - my life changed dramatically in the time span of initial treatment to now.
We have roughly this concept in my org (field consulting for a major cloud provider). I've been very involved on the training side and on having people directly on my team. Some notes from my experience

1) We still have a pretty intense interview process. We largely aren't taking people from code camps, but people with programming experience in university but who may have not been CS majors.

2) To work, it is necessarily VERY labor intensive. I ask teams taking on of our early "apprentices" to expect to have a senior level person spend at least an hour a day with them for at least a month, and multiple hours a week for a year.

3) You need to have long timelines- On-boarding is hard with well trained with lots of experience. In my experience, "apprentices" often take 6 months plus to be value adding. For a project that will be over in 8 months, this can be hard to swallow. The program and adoption has to be driven at a strategic level.

4) The benefits of the apprenticeship program often do not accrue to the group doing the investment. If it takes 6 months to get someone to the point where there are adding value on average and then another 6 months to the point where they are more than covering their salary and cost, then they are a year into the position. We see a lot of our people choosing to transition at around 18 - 24 months in role. We just sunk a ton of time into people to get them competent, but the benefits of that training are going to another group or company and would have been better off hiring no one.

5) Despite all the above, many of the best people in my org have come through the program. Beyond just being good at their jobs, they bring a diversity of background and experience that really adds our ability to execute on problems.

I'm a big supporter of apprenticeship type programs and think they pay off in the end, but as I've described there are a lot of failure points along the way.
The pandemic is particularly challenging for a school like Harvard, as it makes the implicit thing obvious: a prestige school like Harvard is about the social connections far more than the education. If you get one semester on campus, maybe, then what’s the point? You can get an online education anywhere, for far less money.
Doesn't have to be direct. It would at least show up as a possible route. Bonus if you score by airport size (where it relates to city not country of course)
You are mixing up essential and scarce.

Here is an analogy: Just because water is essential does not imply that water will be always more expensive than gold if water is available everywhere.

This may sound harsh but it is almost a universally true law of human behavior.
...I will have to hide my elongated skull now...
Because you are being misleading?

1) Avg age of infected is 36-37 now instead of 60+ as in April, so there is a lower death rate (plus, infections today will only translate into deaths in three weeks or so)

2) Test positivity rate is UP, so testing has gone up "a little" while cases have gone up a lot.
All of these tasks seem like more useful than assigning jira tickets. How do we fix the incentive structure to incentivize all these tasks?

I'm genuinely interested in helping, but I'm not sure how except through some effective charity.

I feel like you've done a great job of summing up what a large percentage of white collar workers are thinking.
"just wait two weeks!"

People have been saying this for months now, and it hasn't been true at any point. Daily deaths have been falling as cases rise.
Perfectly convenient.

The standard system excels when doing actual work. If you have a rod with 1" diameter and you need to take it down to 13/16", you can use a lathe to make 3/32" cut. Or if you need to divide up 13/16 into 4 parts, for example, 13/64.

The metric system's strength is teaching in elementary schools where skills with fractions are not as strong.
When I first heard about someone being "grandfathered in", I (incorrectly) assumed the analogy was "old people are senile and can't be expected to adapt to new laws, they get a free pass". That is, it's modeled on an exemption for (those old enough to be) grandfathers, not based on who you have as a grandfather. And thus, if anything, is a smear against the old rather than black people (or grandmothers).

With that said, as others are noting, it does, for some people, evoke the Reconstruction-era practice, so is a bit more complex than it might seem.
Cases started increasing above norm 4 weeks ago.
>>More testing = more cases.

Please for the love of god stop repeating this extremely misleading claim. The increase in new cases cannot simply be explained by the increase in testing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/06/22/no-more-te...

>> Deaths, which happen regardless of how many tests you run, are down and have been trending down for months.

Deaths are a lagging indicator. Cases started to spike recently. Deaths will start to increase soon, especially when ICUs fill up and non-covid patients can no longer be treated in intensive care either.
https://news.mingpao.com/pns/%E8%A6%81%E8%81%9E/article/2020...

The newspaper searched the catalogue of the Hong Kong Public Library yesterday. At least 9 books were listed as "under review". The former assistant professor of the Chinese Department of Lingnan University, Chen Yun, had six books, Huang Zhifeng had two books, and Chen Shuzhuang had one. This (see picture). There are a total of 379 books in the collection of 9 books, of which the most is "Hong Kong City-State Theory II Restoration of the Native Land: Restoration of the Native Land, Fan Huaxia, is the only way out for Hong Kong. There are 76 books in 58 pavilions; in addition, "Hong Kong City-State Theory: One Country, Two Systems, City-State Autonomy" is a matter of life and death in Hong Kong. 》It also occupies 73 books, spread over 55 pavilions.

https://www.thenewslens.com/article/137304

According to the report of "Hong Kong 01", at least 9 books are temporarily unavailable, including "Hong Kong City-State Theory", "Hong Kong City-State Theory 2", "Body of the Earth" written by Chen Yun, a former assistant professor of the Chinese Department of Lingnan University, "Hong Kong Defence War", "City State Sovereignty" and "Hong Kong Adherents' Theory"; "I am not a hero" and "I am not a fine road: around 18" by Huang Zhifeng, former secretary general of "Hong Kong People's Comrades" Legislative Councillor Chen Shuzhuang's "Walk While Eating and Fight" The report said that the total number of nine books involved in the "review" in various libraries in Hong Kong is more than 400.
> Hospitalizations and deaths are the bad numbers, not number of positives.

Sort of, but the fact that "deaths are lower" is likely a cohort problem.

Let's say I am looking at the bread in my cupboard and trying to figure out what percent goes moldy. I've got one moldy loaf, and I buy 9 fresh new ones. Boom, current moldy-rate is 10% what a relief, looks like mold is less of a problem than I thought--only 10% of bread goes moldy! Looks like the previous estimates of mold-rate were misleading.

If a vaccine is forthcoming, it is not at all inevitable that we will all be exposed to it.
A big issue with documenting what the code does is that the code and documentation can very quickly fall out of sync. As this posts says, it's much more useful to document the intent of the code, or why there's this mess of seemingly hacky code (see issues #80681, #82108, #66065).

Also be wary of unit tests that are overly tied to the specifics of an implementation. These can be worse than useless when it comes to changing code. I.e. asking "why are my tests failing?" and finding out it's only because I breathed near the code.
> This sounds like what most internships are intended to be?

Does anyone take interns in their 30s?
I had a very similar experience teaching a class of 23, including the Slack, which students found very helpful. I was also a student in a class of 60 and quality of discussion suffered, although I'm not sure it's 100% because of the online format (I think the instructors could have done a better job facilitating discussion)
> To get advertised speeds on most of the cards, I am guessing you need to work for the SD association's marketing department

Note that there's all kinds of special, video camera-oriented things in the SD standard, where you can preallocate/pre-erase a big chunk to sequentially write, stream data in and do big commits. That's where you actually hit the rated speeds, because the flash controller is able to benefit from all the hinting.

Using SD with general purpose filesystem drivers, etc, is really just a very common edge case.
I was having a similar conversation a few days ago. I think that people are conflating how essential a function is with how essential any given person in that function is.
I meant, from a modern day perspective of the respective languages.

Oh and people write old dialects, the old Delphi geezers at the previous workplace also wrote pre C++98 C++, today. Impressive isn't it ;) Bigco's are all about decades old code bases.
Doesn't this indicate that the information we used in weeks and months past to open up and make decisions about the fall was flawed, since we may not have understood the full severity of the infection rate?

I'm glad that death rates are down, but unless universities completely waive all attendance policies (and adjust grading systems accordingly) infections can't be ignored. Additionally, not dying doesn't mean a quick infection: there are long-term effects.
I see. Also, I'd configured colordiff to use green and red as well.