skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, I was in a similar spot when I was graduating.

I honestly took a year off to just teach math to kids and work at the mall.

Same story, quant finance. Math background. Didn't go anywhere with that immediately.

Here's what I wish I'd done.

Take the minimum amount of steps it requires to go to grad school or line up a quantitative finance job. Even if you don't care about those possible paths, you have the privilege of applying whereas many do not. At least talk to some of those people and see what they have to say to you. It sounds like you're coming up with a catastrophic idea of your future without consulting the very people who are supposed to navigate these waters with you.

If you want a 'realistic' answer, it sounds like you just need a job. Any job. Give up the idea that the work will always be interesting. I guarantee you, once you abandon the pretense that you need to be working on interesting problems, you will see that others will bring interesting work to you anyways.

As math major to another, there are interesting problems everywhere and literally all people are interesting and full of problems.
As someone who's spent a lot of time coaching new EMs, I agree with these bullet points. The thing that makes me sad is that this is only correct if the EM's director agrees with it. The true bullet point of what is expected of an EM: whatever the EM's boss expects.

I'm currently writing down a lot of the management lessons and coaching I usually give new directors as they learn their craft. It's mostly for my own sanity during startup building, since I miss coaching, but thinking of publishing it. There's a lot of EM guidance out there, but it's lacking for directors.
Make a significant number of courses much more self-study oriented with pass/fail exams to demonstrate basic understanding.

Move towards projects (mostly individually done, but at least 1-2 larger student-team efforts) that are heavily guided and curated by 2-3 professors/teachers with the goal of requiring real effort and a portfolio-worthy finished effort.

Most professors at my institution barely, if even then, pull this off for MS students. Most undergrads are lost in the noise . . .

We ask too little of students and I kind of feel like we insult them with "check-list" courses. Students who struggle seem very passive to me - when I chat with them individually, I sense most are ambitious, but not particularly vested in the practice required for success. But they mostly bloom if nudged into a "just get going and try hard" effort mode.
Newspapers are publishers. They've never tried pretending they're platforms. They have editorial control because they are clear and forthright about who they are and what they do.
> "Being who you are", "Staying true to yourself" etc, are very negative things to tell someone

I disagree with this though I think I understand how the lack of nuance in "be yourself" can allow it to be easily misinterpreted.

> I used to really like X, it was a core part of my identity. One day I simply decided to not do X anymore, I didn't like the people doing X and I didn't see any successful people in my orbit, and I replaced it with Y & Z.

This is basically the textbook definition of "Being who you are" or "Staying true to yourself"
I'm not even sure if it was intended, but I chuckled reading the word `circumlocution`.
What other books would you recommend regarding management of SWEs?
list ;)
Watched both, and it was clearer to me to go through the sped up version three times than watching the whole 3 min on youtube.

Most of us are used to faster paced information delivery, and we still go back to what we missed or want to check more in detail.

That’s what we deal with day in day out, and I don’t think we end up with an understanding that is shallower than when stopping at each frame for 5 seconds.

I find it sad it becomes some “kids these days” rant material when it’s just a matter of preferred watching pace.
The original tweet (as I understood it) wasn't complaining about this in a legal sense. They know the license allows this. They were complaining from a place of asking for a little respect and acknowledgement.

AWS has appeared to be doing a better job recently (from what I can see) in that regard. It's all around good PR. They lose nothing by thanking the maintainer/community for the work, even though the license doesn't require this. On the other-hand they build good-will.

Given the AWS response linked above, it would appear AWS recognizes this, and so maybe they will better accredit the work.
For the people downvoting my comment, please note the following from Section 230:

"No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher..."

FB and Twitter are interactive computer services in this case, and we call them "platforms." The law says they are not to be treated as the publisher of the content that users post on their site. Thus, there is a big difference between a platform and a publisher. That's the whole point of the law.

Downvote all you want, but... that's the law.
Approximately none of this reflects my experiences with rationalists I've met through things other than LessWrong meetups, etc. If you define rationalism very narrowly to mean "the type of people that religiously attend LW/CFAR events because they aren't too busy for that," this may have elements of truth, but it's also intentionally excluding a lot of people who are meaningfully members of the rationalsphere.
I was referring to both cities' proximity to places named Oakland.
> Rationalists seem extremely common amongst the $300k+/year software engineers I know

I'm a programmer who lives on the other side of the world (so no chance for me to make $300k+/year) and I must say that all this "rationalism" discussion makes me a little confused: do people really believe in this sort of stuff? Do they actually equate "success" with (mostly owning) "money"? Do they really think a "rational"(-ist) person would mainly think about how to earn (supposedly more) money? Why on Earth would he/she do that? Money is just a tool. Holding an important position in society (CEO, founder, whatever) is just a hindrance, it keeps one away from actually thinking about the stuff that really matters.

I'm pretty sure all this stuff was explained a lot better a long time ago by people a lot more smarter than me (right now I'm thinking at one of Plato's works, maybe "Symposium"? I'm not sure, I've last read many of them ~20 years ago), point is this specific "view of the world" seems very US-specific to me.
"I really like making things and while I always have really enjoy programming, I'd like to use it as more of a tool to solve problems that I find interesting"

-Either an entrepreneur and build something of your own and then build a company around it.
Or among the first 5 coders of a startup (Shel Kaphan, Javed Karim sorts). You get in build something and get out to find the next intellectual stimulation.
> Normally I do not pay attention to ads but was curious to know - what was that Santa selling!

Haha, you mean the long bearded guy with a dog sitting next to him? That was a commercial for a search engine [0]. The premise of the commercial is that people come to this wise old man for advice and he seems to know everything, while in reality he just uses the search engine to look up the information.

> 1:26' into the video - Is that guy praying? Read there are statues of Saints on the bridge.

There's a lot of statues [1] but my first guess would be that the guy was simply begging for money. I could be wrong though.

[0] https://search.seznam.cz

[1] https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sochy_na_Karlov%C4%9B_most%C4%... (the English version of the page doesn't have that many pictures)
I wonder how the tax burden is distributed. I know next to nothing about California system, but here in Europe it is typical that financial investment gains etc. fall into a low bracket (usually 10-20 pct), while highly paid professional employees pay through the nose, easily more than 50 pct of their gross wages.
That's an unusual diet, it seems. So did you calculate the weight in grams (and fractions thereof) of all nutrients humans need, or just use gut feel to work out the meal ingredients, particularly in the salad?
This. A full-time minimum wage job will net you only $1,160 per month. It's delusional to think that 20% of this, or even 10% of it, might be just sitting around.
But the first amendment prevents the government from telling me or my company that I have to follow the first amendment like they do.
I noticed you wrote a book on "Raja Yoga". Super interesting. Do you attribute your superpowers (the fact that you are knowledgeable about and created all these books) to concentration meditation?
Exactly. Imagine a republican-backed FCC arguing that, because more voters in the US are democrat, it's not politically neutral to try to show a news article to everyone in the US and the algorithm should try to show it only to an equal number of republicans and democrats.
It seems pretty insurmountable to me. Can you go into more detail about how they'd do it? I've seen a lot of fights where one side says "putting this post up is biased against me" and another says "taking this post down is biased against me", and I'm not sure how Facebook could resolve those disputes with confidence the FCC won't say they did it wrong.
Nobody is dying. The only endpoint that improved was recovery days.
The China Ambassador’s Son Who Got Rich in Trump’s Swamp
> punching Up instead of Down
Are you implying Mensa holds more "institutional" power than teachers?
Cloudflare also sent out an email to this effect today.
some discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24793170
Yes, separate legal entity, combined financial entity (although I know little about the financial details).
It's working on my side. Can you please put the URL you are getting there? Or tell me what's showing?
I didn’t realize this is something other people can’t do till reading your comment and the responses. I’ve been able to give myself goosebumps and chills on demand since I was a child. I wonder what other SNS responses can be controlled.
Perhaps further evidence of too reductive of an approach:

>The LSD has an estimated $5B in annual revenue, with an estimated $100B in funds, and protestants can make claims to nearly every US president.

Importantly, this is the LDS, not the LSD. Do rationalism's thinkers engage seriously enough to be able to make important cultural contributions? Or do they have such a surface-level view of everything (too much breadth, not enough depth – too much depth is unpractical, and practicality is key for rationalists) that even in this post they cannot be bothered enough to cross the t's and dot the i's enough to avoid a confusion between a psychoactive substance and an influential religious institution?

More to the point, rationalism's great age has passed. Rationalists did carry import in the post-Reformation era, but in philosophical concepts, we have long left the era of classical Enlightenment behind. We have even left Modernism behind, which was arguably born out of Rationalism. We are at the tail end of postmodernism – of course you don't find "highly successful" "rationalists" in the post-modern age. While you don't necessarily have to be conversant (or even aware) of Barthes' structuralism, "success" (at least, in the sense that is discussed in this post – cultural import, legacy, etc.) is dependent on living and breathing postmodernism.

Like a fish in water, you don't have to know what postmodernism is, exactly. I do not think any TikTok star knows what postmodernism is. But they intuit that they must be a chimera that is the product of its audience, that the signs they create must be readily meme-able and able to live a life outside of their author. Rationalists do not breathe in this water – their hierarchical approach is stuck at the turn of the last century, and so they will not find themselves carrying import at the beginning of this one.
Quicksort isn't O(n), as far as I know, the best you can do is O(n log(n))
Implies isn't something I've ever had to program... and it took me a moment to figure out that NOT B implies NOT A, which is interesting... but I don't see how it's useful.
>Nonsense

> The problem is any idiot can get a drivers license that let's them pilot around a 5000lb steel cube

I don't see how it's nonsense, given that the driver's license problem isn't going to be solved any time soon. The problem is that our society practically requires basically everyone to be able to drive to function, unless you happen to live in one of the relatively rare places with good public transportation.
The hypocrisy of the same FCC that said that network neutrality was too much regulation to now demand "political neutrality" is outrageous.
Certainly no city is recession-proof, but Detroit _was_ almost totally invested in a single economic industry: car manufacturing.

Silicon Valley's emphasis - digital computing devices and software - fuels multiple economic sectors. It seems far more diversified than the auto industry.
DRM is a system for prohibiting legal conduct that manufacturers don't like
See also "The Peter Principle"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
Can we leave section 230 as is for non profits and small businesses and treat FAANGs differently with different rules. Scale matters.
The geography and logistics were wrong for either a successful covert assassination misson or installing/supporting an anti-pope to oust for one. The reason Anglicism lasted was because it was a large island such that it was hard to both have a navy capable of overcoming it, raising an army large enough to defeat it, and transport said large army after the naval fight.

Anglicism was a branch born of cynical political power struggles and everyone knows it.
Throwing out all online discussion fora is rather throwing the baby out with the bathwater. The replacement would be centralized media companies that have total and absolute control over information flow.

Goodbye Mastodon (every Mastodon instance is liable for all toots). Goodbye Internet Archive (can't host content that might be defamatory, they'll be liable). Goodbye GitHub pull requests (Git would be liable for any defamation contained in them). And so on.
I think that libel laws could be eased just a bit. As it stands, to sue a newspaper for libel you need to prove that they knew what they were reporting was false, or that they showed a "reckless disregard" for the truth. It's a very high standard, but occasionally you will see cases settle (e.g. Covington High student).

I do not think the government should be intervening on content decisions. I think;

(1) publishers & platforms should be legally responsible for content they host if they are going to editorialize on it

(2) from a 'net neutrality' standpoint, that utilities and platforms should be mostly blind and entirely blameless for the packets they carry, and

(3) we should allow some level of packet and/or content classification in the middle of #1 and #2 without making the utility/platform fully liable for the packets/content they are carrying, if that classification is based on fairly protecting the network/platform from "attack".

The only reason I can see for a fairness doctrine would be based on a theory of anti-trust. To the extent that Twitter, Facebook, Apple, Google, etc. are monopolies, their ability to censor non-obscene viewpoints on their platforms should be limited... and that's a spectrum not a binary switch.
Honestly, the long-term answer is to not make these things out of plastic. If we were to use net or cloth bags, and if all new bags (and fabrication materials) were taxed to the point that the only economically viable choices were sustainable overall, then that would achieve sustainability (e.g., people would repair bags--by sewing or weave--instead of discarding. This is the actual way to solve the problem.

The issue there, of course, is that we have a whole modern civilization built around consuming and discarding, and it's hard to achieve change once these habits are built and there's little direct incentive for change. It's entirely feasible--sometimes people point to "labor specialization", but it takes a day (if that) to learn to do basic sewing and weaving pretty well--but we would need to drastically shift (back) to a rather un-capitalist society of home industry with very strong incentives for mending rather than replacing.
The First Amendment is in conflict with the government regulating what viewpoints companies allow on their platforms.
Yes and that’s a problem. The way to fix it is not part of the system and that’s a major issue. You need freedom of speech at a very minimum. China does not have that which is why “no one sees it”
reddit tier
> In fact programmers should not be interviewing other programmers at all, it's not their job.

In a scenario where a programmer leads a team of programmers, why shouldn't they get a say in who will be on the team? Who else would be in a better position to judge team fit? Or aptness at the daily tasks?
Garbage Collection in Dolt
What kind of weird and fascinating things happened?
Blindsight, a short film based on the sci-fi novel
4000° Lightsaber Test (Cuts Anything)
“Right” can always be interpreted in many ways. There is nothing wrong with that. In fact, it is when “right” is just one thing when we need to worry.
Why are so many replies under this post shown in faded gray?
In the Netherlands it's the AFM. It has been very critical of the quality of the audits it has sampled for several years now. However, Dutch courts have placed the onus of proof in establishing that the auditing system at the big-4 is defective in the hands of the supervisor. That's hard to establish via samples.

External accounting has a basic function in society. But when the auditee foots the bill and is also the one to provide information on his / her own (possibly faulty) procedures it's not hard to imagine things going wrong.

Currently the AFM demands higher standards and asks for more budget for oversight in order to be able to look at more cases. Guess who pays for that oversight - the companies already paying an arm and a leg for the audit.
I think it really comes down to what your purpose is.

If you're happy hitting grade 1 and hitting that brick wall just to have some fun, the apps do have their place, because these are people who wouldn't otherwise shell out for a teacher. It may even help people gauge whether or not they like an instrument before they move forward or change instruments.

I do 100% agree with you though that for anyone who wants to be even remotely serious, the cost of a teacher is a very good investment.
That assumes the effect in the study is real and that there is no increase in mortality or ICU admission: unfortunately stopping the trial early casts doubt on that.
Interesting! What lineage have you studied?
What makes Section 230 a complicated and contentious issue isn't the actual details of the law - as you say, that's quite simple - it's the consequences of such a broad, powerful, simple, thing as protecting "interactive computer services" from almost all kinds of legal action for content created by others that they keep up, regardless of what they remove, with few caveats, across a vast swathe of causes for action, business models, moderation policies, etc.

For example, suppose you're an online service Twitbook used by a vast swathe of the world to communicate, and you decide that you want to allow calls to murder politicians you dislike but not (obviously) ones you like. Section 230 gives you pretty good protection from liability over your decisions as to which political figures get threatened with murder. Probably even if one of your users gets inspired and puts a bullet in the head of someone you'd like to see dead.

Or suppose you've got a nice legalized extortion racket seeking out negative claims about people or businesses, getting them to rank highly in Google, not allowing the original posters to remove them, and demanding money from the targets to take them down. Section 230 offers pretty much ironclad protection for your business model by making it nearly impossible to get a court order forcing you to take the content down, meaning you can ensure the only way to make it go away is to pay up, and you can even literally call the fee a charge to remove libellous or defamatory content and there's not a damn thing the court system will do about it. There's a long-running website Ripoff Report that has this as their business model, and they've won every case trying to get them to remove defamatory content without paying them money for the privilege thanks to Section 230. There's also plenty of imitators going after individuals, seeking out (say) claims they've cheated on their partners and charging money to remove them - again, solidly protected by Section 230.
From what I understand, once serotonin is depleted enough in the synapse, the serotonin reuptake transporterss begin to bind to dopamine (instead of serotonin), and that by itself is toxic to that part of the neuron. To make matters worse, the neuron then converts the uptaken dopamine into hydrogen peroxide, which is VERY toxic to that part of the neuron (the axon terminal), which then causes it to fizzle away.

I recall a way around that (other than by just not taking MDMA at all, obviously) is to take an SSRI (like Prozac) at some point after rolling, which would bind to the reuptake transporters, preventing dopamine from doing so.
Excitement grows over mysterious signal in dark-matter detector
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Precisely. Enforcing "neutrality" on private parties would be unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination.
> any claims beyond that seem unrelated (and unscientific).

Maybe, but science hasn't even been able to properly define consciousness. So following your logic, how can there be anything strictly scientific relating to consciousness?
Well it’s either Facebook chooses their party or the government chooses it for them...
Maybe the cure can eventually become worse than the disease? Also, as terrible as the medallion system is, the taxi industry weren't uniformly as bad as SF's in every region, so ridesharing probably unintentionally wiped out some quality cab companies in the process.
How about we leave Section 230 completely alone and if we have problems with FAANG we pass new laws to address those problems directly.
Haha amazing. I guess I was still waking up. It's too late to edit so I must leave the mistake for all to see. Thanks for pointing it out though.
> But they're still made of components (including radicals) arranged in horizontal and vertical orders.

Yes, you have symbols in Japanese, but each of those symbols can also be written out in hiragana (their phonetic script). And there are no special rules for pronouncing hiragana that change depending on the word (with a handful of caveats). Today's Japanese is very, very straightforward and easy to pronounce. Now, please note that I am not talking about accents - having an accent is a whole another issue that will take loads of practice to get rid of.
I'm also following FX-322 and keeping my fingers crossed that the trials result in a real significant effective treatment for my SSHL in my right ear. It would really be amazing!
The author (Tim) appears to be in Germany; under German copyright law he in principle has the moral right to be identified as the author of any computer program he writes, just as it if were a book or piece of music.

Unlike other types of work, this isn't necessarily true elsewhere (eg in the US & UK), but I understand moral rights originate from France and German and are especially strong there.

(I see that page now mentions "Credits: CloudWatch Synthetics Recorder is based on the Headless recorder. " - is that new? )