skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have helped support such statements in an unrelated field. My role was as a SME in specific data arenas. The general process was that our Marketing department would try and coordinate all the best available talking points. Anything we'd put out to the press over the last couple years that they felt would be compelling. Once that particular menu was constructed, they reached out to the relevant SMEs across the business to drop what they were doing and pull together any data possible to reinforce the selected talking points. Our results were handed back up the chain for marketing to integrate and polish. In my case the executive actually speaking to Congress then met with us to dive into the provided data and make sure they were able to speak to it reasonably well if pressed.
Remembering the solution to a problem isn't the same as solving it. Testing if people can regurgitate solutions is at best pointless.
As a college student outside of the US who had never heard of YCombinator, StumbleUpon was how I discovered HN. Now I work at startups and can't imagine going back to a bigger company. Strange to think that in a world where StumbleUpon didn't exist, I may still be working at BigCorp.
> The joint American-European project is expected to cost billions and take just over a decade to implement.

I'm 99% sure that if SpaceX's starship takes off, it will fly to Mars and back within a few years.

But still, competition is good.
Fair competition and transparency benefits us all
Magento Receives Security Updates for Critical Vulnerabilities
I interviewed with one of the companies on that list a few years back (noredink). They gave a timed hackerrank style coding question as round one (so I guess technically not a whiteboard). I passed that, then I had an interview with an actual person.

He asked me vague question, like what is architecture, I started to reply with what design tradeoffs I made on the app I was working on. He literally laughed at me, and said that is not architecture. I was shocked that someone would laugh at a candidate but said ok, what does architecture mean to you? He responded, I ask the questions here not you. I immediately ended the interview. Worst interview I have ever had. Every time I see that company brought up, I think back to that experience.
I'm not in the software industry. We have lots of movement between the main players in our industry and so salary ranges while opaque are broadly known to most people in the industry
Principles, such as "free market" and "free speech" in strictest forms, are immaterial below a certain economic threshold. Survival itself, or relief from the drudgery of survival becomes paramount.

A homeless person living on the street already has just about the freest speech you could want in the freest market for ideas possible--his economic situation can't really be altered further by anything he says politically. Does anyone want to live like that?

Principles are going to take a back seat while housing costs and a bunch of other things are the way they are.
An Implementation of SHA256 in Ada
> No one ever stops to ask whether we're having the impact we anticipated

"Signs you’re working in a feature factory" sounds relevant to you.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22335738
Okay, but it's pretty tiresome to hear the supreme court opinion of corporate personhood brought up constantly as if it has any validity whatsoever.
ahaha! i was thinking the same...
I think most of the time there is some attack on a cipher which is faster than the most obvious brute force attack.

Sometimes the speed-up is a little, sometimes it is a lot.
If ESA were building reusable rockets and not instead persisting with a pork-driven employment programme that happens to have a side effect of producing rockets, I'd agree with you. Until then ESA deserve to be hammered with criticism - and especially by those whose tax money etc. is being spent on an approach that is hurtling towards obsolescence.
I'm still sad at how Technorati ended, loved the service back then.
Joe Biden commented on the election that he is disappointed in the outcome, but hopes that president-elect Trump can do some good for the country.

Though with another some context and different priming I guess I'd get a different answer.
I actually wish Amazon had more power. They have done an amazing job of putting the customer first when everyone else was trying to figure out new ways to screw people over and tell them it was their fault. They opened a marketplace for small businesses that normally would not be able to obtain shelf space at a major store. They created an awesome computing platform and made it available to everyone who can’t afford to build their own. I think they have earned their position.

My only wish is that they would pick up their boxes and reuse/recycle them when they drop off the new ones.
There seem to be a lot of supporting arguments (look at all these dead projects he deems to have been fast, elegant, and efficient, also, hey, my current toys are not made for me to play with like I used to be able to, and the battery life sucks). But what is the actual thesis?

It seems like he wants hacker toys and is unhappy that everything is built for consumers now. I can't get anything deeper out of it.

The EU vs. US/Asia thing just seems like a weird proxy for saying real techies don't like extruded technology product but it's what the market asked for and now we have lots of it.
I'm guessing that website is satire, but if so, they don't make that very clear.
There is also a dev kit for this [1], could use more RAM though.

[1] https://www.crowdsupply.com/microchip/polarfire-soc-icicle-k...
It generates words, it doesn't have "insight". If you are looking at it and thinking it got some "insight" it is your brain brainwashing itself.
I find it a bit funny that you're trying to explain an American pizza size using those units. I'm possibly more confused now.
> It's not beyond the realms of possibility that around the same time as the sample returns to Earth, the US could have geologists' boots on the ground on Mars doing actual geology in situ, courtesy of SpaceX/Starship.

I mean... maybe? What's your suggestion here? NASA and ESA should put all interplanetary work on hold, in case Musk delivers on time and on budget for once?
I am 100% saying that, yes.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23985895
Ah, efficiency vs. aesthetics is truly a perennial battle.
Toggling the options seems to add records to the browser history, which means it takes a bunch of taps on the back button in safari to get out of the app. Otherwise, really cool!
What's new in PyCharm 2020.2 [video]
HN is a perfect exampele of this. With its own peculiarities and all
Ex-Fed Economist Says Her Profession Is Racist, Sexist, Elitist
It's too bad. I find it a handy place to keep my "good" photos in a way they can be publicly accessed. And act as a backup of last resort. But my sense from various moves/announcements they've made is that the revenue/cost may not be working out. I hope that's not the case but... The other big loss for me personally is that they're a great source of CC photographs (in addition to the Flickr Commons). But it's probably unrealistic to expect a small company that doesn't have other big sources of revenue to provide that amount of free hosting. Google should have bought Flickr way back when but... Google.
This reminds me of the old joke: When an academic says "That's a good question!", you should hear "I don't know the answer". Likewise, "I'm working on it." means "No.".
There are plenty of reasons why someone might prefer an AR-15 over a hunting rifle to defend against animal pests. Just to think of a few:

- The AR-15 is semiautomatic, compared to hunting rifles which are often bolt-action, and thus less convenient/ergonomic to operate

- Plethora of aftermarket parts and accessories. Extreme customizability.

- Cheap ammo

- AR barrels are usually shorter than what would come with a hunting rifle, resulting in a gun that is less cumbersome and requires less space
In private conversation, you have a chance to clarify what you mean and some knowledge of your audience to anticipate how they will understand what you say. Online, your brief statement will be taken in isolation and interpreted by potentially thousands of different people with different perspectives. Have you noticed how there are no polite but political disagreements on national television? Talking heads either say things so uncontroversial that no one could complain, or they get into a fight with another talking head. This is not a coincidence. You might think your view is polite and reasonable, but there are plenty of people out there who would consider it overtly racist or otherwise bigoted.

You phrase this as if there was some secretive cabal actively trying to destroy Terry Crews when really there's just a small number of random people pissed off about a racial slur.
Setting Up a Local Database for Integration Testing in F# with Dapper
Doesn't help when the general public bank rolls companies to fight laws and regulatory actions. That's my point. The money Amazon uses doesn't magically appear. These companies dont use spells to generate income, it comes from the people. I swear, it seems like folks dont know how business works these days. The people are voting with dollars saying Amazon is doing the right thing when they buy from Amazon. That's the reality.

People generally dont want to see themselves as being accessories to this mess and just say, "the gov isn't doing enough to stop Amazon from abusing workers... I totally need to buy that new widget, good thing I have Prime shipping."
Windows version of PyTorch will be developed and maintained by Microsoft
You can look at the UK as an example of what happens when a country abandons its own space program and decides to buy launches in the US instead.
Consumers should own their data
In general it seems utterly bizarre the obsession with the press and users about how hyped the new iPhone camera is every year when all the photos and videos end up on Instagram that compresses everything to a smudge of jpeg/mp4 compression marks anyway.

Surprised we haven't had a social network where the gimmick is just high quality photo and video that actually looks as good once it's uploaded as it did on your monitor.
No, I’m saying everyone else is more guilty of the same sins.

Generally with more money behind them, too.
You don't go through your medicine cabinet and try everything there because "changing nothing" can backfire. You read/learn about the complications, side-effects, adverse reactions and make an informed decision based on that.

Inaction argument is a strawman, I'm not arguing for doing nothing at all, I am just against informal prescription of rather potent, psychoactive exercises without due respect, especially in the form of "just try it, can't do any harm". If you want to get serious with it, find people/sangha/teachers/therapists who know their stuff and train in that context. But assuming no harm can come while assuming benefits can come is a contradiction and wishful thinking.
What is ticket scalping? Why should you prevent it?
Indeed. The freedom to fail without sending one’s self/family into destitution supports a culture of risk taking.
The alphabets that are created for nanoid seems to be a valid choice too: https://github.com/CyberAP/nanoid-dictionary
I love how he doesn't even link to Pinboard. It seems he's doing this just out of personal obligation.
In this case, I think that the "sunk cost fallacy" counter is as specious as it is obvious. It completely misplaces the burden of evidence.

Apple has a platform with hundreds of millions of active users, perhaps over a billion actual devices in use. In a situation like that, conservatism is warranted. The guiding principle is simple: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Meaning that the argument doesn't start with any sort of discussion about technical advantages that RISC-V might have over ARM, or challenging reasons to stay on ARM as if, having dismissed them, the obvious default plan of migrating to RISC-V would kick into action. It starts with trying to demonstrate that something about ARM is broken. Because, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. So. . . is it hindering Apple's strategic or operational priorities in any way?
Yes, I've been able to make it write very well in other languages. It's ability to write good text in a language will vary greatly with the text you input. Some inputs can make it write a lot of gibberish and improper grammar, while other input will make it write properly.

You can also do things like make a characters that speak one language and another which knows both languages, then the German guy will write in German and the other can answer in English.
Increasing the Impact of Programming Languages Research
The moon-starship will not require in-situ resource utilization (ISRU), i.e. no creation of fuel and oxidizer at the target. It is supposed to land with enough propellants to make it back.
TikTok's new CEO says company will reveal how its algorithms work
I'd like to do that to.
Any ideas on how to get access to it to play around?
I wish I had a MAC to test, anyway thank you.
To be fair, from the outside at least, a lot of string theory looks like adding epicycles as well.
US and EU have already a "trade war/tariffs", so it is really stupid to give money to US to build their space industry so in future some weird dispute can cause $EU to lose access to space or over pay. There are also good engineers in EU that would need jobs, maybe they can create better stuff if they compete with SpaceX or create something different that can dominate a niche.

i bet US would have loved Airbus do not exists so Boeing made more money.

For strategic industry you don't want to minimize your dependency on external factors, some natural disaster happens and you no longer have food to feed your citizens or no longer have medicine or your software will refuse to run etc.
A lot of sites that do have a feed don’t make it easily discoverable. You can play around with three URL path, or you can use a browser extension to find it. If it’s a Substack site, the feed URL probably exists and is probably just /feed/, at least on the sites I’ve tried.
A lot of people do not have personal outdoor space...
While I generally agree with you, you also make an assumption he has a yard.
Fair enough, that does address the point about hiring seniors.

But if universities can't currently usefully certify people for fundamental development ability, after having them on campus for years, i don't see how they'd be able to accredit seniors for the more complex skills they need.
You just dismissed one cornerstone of modern civilization. Namely higher education. Good job I guess?
> My only wish is that they would pick up their boxes and reuse/recycle them when they drop off the new ones.

At least they are recyclable and I hope everyone is recycling them!
One with pineapple and one without.
If you have to explain the joke, it becomes less funny.
To be honest, most "deadlines" are really just cost boundaries in the first place.

If you're not publicly traded and made an announcement about something going live on a certain date, or have a regulatory body that requires something by a certain date, your deadline is just a cost-cutting measure.
Most VCS are a tree, which implies a partial ordering, not necessarily a total one. Unless you meant to order by the commit date, in which case you could just include that in the version.
Can you train your brain like a dog?
Agreed. I remember when someone first showed me Google's search page. It was so uncluttered it was shocking. I didn't notice anything about the quality of search results, or how they compared with Yahoo, Altavista, Lycos or the rest. Just that it was so clean and uncluttered.
> they also used it as a coolant and as hydraulic fluid.

Potentially a much smaller headache than pumping one or two more fluids around inside a jet engine and keeping them from breaking down. The jet fuel only needs to not break down for a single pass through the engine. A closed lube or cooling system would need to not break down for multiple passes (i.e. much longer duration at high temperature).

>it must just be really hard to find anything with the right thermal stability.

A total loss lubrication system doesn't need to be actively cooled (assuming your lubricant input is of suitable temperature) which saves a ton of weight and complexity which is why rocket and jet engines often use the fuel as a lubricant.
I said quite explicitly that the UK also has problems with racism. In any case, a UK/US comparison is not really the main focus of my comment. I'm not saying that the UK is "less racist" than the US. (Amusingly, Brits and Americans are often each equally convinced that the other country is the more racist.) However, I do think that there is de facto racial segregation in the US on a larger scale than there is in the UK. Certainly, this difference was visible to me, and I think it is a notable feature of American society and race politics.

Football is an odd one. For some reason professional sports in general, both in the UK and the US, can be very socially regressive. For example, there are hardly any out gay footballers either, but you'd be wrong to infer from this that the UK is a massively homophobic country in comparison to others. (We legalized gay marriage before the US did, and through legislation rather than a court decision.)

Anyway, these are all complex issues, and "sure buddy" plus a link to a Wikipedia article doesn't really add much to the discussion, does it? Anyone can find innumerable examples of racism in both the US and the UK just by googling.
> The people are voting with dollars saying Amazon is doing the right thing when they buy from Amazon. That's the reality.

And how is that justification? If people buy cheap stuff made from prison or child labour does that justify the practise? It just tells us that people by and large are indifferent to the conditions under which their goods are produced, it's not a justification for it.

That people don't care about Amazon labour conditions doesn't tell us that Amazon is doing the 'right thing', it tells us that people don't care about worker rights.

That's what laws and governments exist for. People also never cared that their palm oil consumption endangers biodiversity and destroys the rainforest, because they don't suffer from it.
Really well done, thank you!
Texting sees positive results when used in psychotherapy
I don't think even Musk, master of the dubious marketing promise, has claimed that; the first ones would be one-way jobs AIUI.
$50B for TikTok sounds a lot. I am wondering how they want to keep TikTok attractive for the audience. Would it hit a similar fate as Snap?
Hegemonic Influence: A Response to Data and Society
Is open-source Airbnb clone suitable for your rental marketplace platform?
Go back and look at Instagram or Vine posts from five to seven years ago, and compare them to today. The improvement in image and video quality is dramatic.

We just don’t think the improvement in imaging is a big deal, as year-over-year improvements are minor.
We already have this extended trial period in tech, it’s called an internship, and responsible companies pay interns. Some internships come through university co-op programs, some through organizations that set this up for people following non-traditional career paths, and some companies “roll their own.”

But these positions are overwhelmingly for people breaking into the field. They have much to gain, and very little to lose by working for a company for three months with an uncertain expectation of a full-time job.

Now consider hiring an experienced worker who is out of a job. If Alice offers them a contract with the company having an option to turn it into full-time, while Bob offers them full-time work with the understanding that a major screw-up would lead to dismissal during a probationary period, Bob’s offer is much lower risk.

Finally, consider an experienced worker with a job. For a non-hypothetical example, they’re working at a famous name, with options, and a YC startup that has grown to 200 employEes recruits them.

It’s going to be very difficult to get them to walk away from guaranteed employment that feeds their children, for a temporary gig with no equity participation And the understanding that it’s an extended job interview.

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The above focuses on the candidate’s risk/reward calculation. What about the company?

Well, the least experienced person has the greatest uncertainty. They might be very smart, but unable to work well with people. How would we know without giving them temporary work with people?

The most experienced person has the least overall uncertainty. They “brought the receipts.” Without arguing about how they should be interviewed/tested, if they aren’t a completely toxic person, if they have a non-fatal weakness that pops up, it can probably be managed to be fixed, or accommodated.

The employer’s risk goes down as the candidate’s experience goes up. Sure, it would be a bed of roses if the company could hire senior people on a one-year contract and see how all the intangibles work out, but that usually isn’t necessary, and it’s not going to happen often enough to operationalize that as part of the process.

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TL;DR:

There is no one-size-fits-all approach that fits all levels of experience, and also scales to large numbers of hires, and also is repeatable.

But the kernel of what you suggest works well for the sweet-spot of high-uncertainty and low risk to the candidate.
So in the early/mid 2000s would you have rather owned Facebook or Myspace?

You can be be a market leader and still be a failing company.
I remember webrings and browsing around was so serendipitous. Id certainly welcome them back
Radio as a Political Instrument (1938)
You can choose different categories (work, casual, dating) but all of them have 3 characteristic which you're voting for.

If I remember these 2 are part of dating
Beautiful, bookmarking this!