skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of this I find immediately plausible. I would absolutely expect to find a positive correlation between "experience with doing technical interviews" and "likelihood of passing a technical interview." Plausible, easily verified with concrete, objective information.

The first half seems iffy to me, though. It sounds like you're performing a technical interview, then calling the result of that a measure of "skill," then using that to judge how well skill aligns with FAANG technical interviews. But what I think you're really measuring is the correlation between your own interview process and the FAANG interview process, which seems like a very different measurement.
Alacritty is my current go-to terminal. I've been very happy with it.
Didn’t Microsoft create hundreds of millionaires out of it’s initial employees? I mean, the people building the next generation of Microsoft products aren’t going to have trouble entering the upper income brackets of American society.
I saw a hybrid Cadillac ELR on the road the other day. That's damn fine looking car. I predated only 3000 sold 2013–2016?
BioNTech and InstaDeep to Establish a Joint AI Innovation Lab
I've been watching this one for a while. If it works out, it will be fantastic (well, not for optometrists)
> too frequent

Depends on the line and destination.
Given the employee's general attitude, I find it easy to believe her manager was already not happy with her.

See her previous (potential) legal troubles with Google that she even acknowledges herself.

> I was in the middle of a potential lawsuit for which Kat Herller and I hired feminist lawyers who threatened to sue Google (which is when they backed off--before that Google lawyers were prepared to throw us under the bus and our leaders were following as instructed) and the next day I get some random “impact award.”

https://www.platformer.news/p/the-withering-email-that-got-a...
Whatever dude. You people are delusional. Stop bending over backwards to defend dumb ideas. To do so otherwise opens you up to mockery and ridicule of your otherwise substantive thoughts.
More about the technique here:

"Quantum computational advantage using photons"
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/12/02/scie...
The first guy who allegedly said that was a "robbery knight" (Götz von Berlichingen) to a collector of his castle, and he said "er kann mich im Arsche lecken!" Mozart and Goethe (1) just took that...well because their where Mozart an Goethe :)

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6tz_von_Berlichingen_(Go...
The eye was selected as the area for this research because it is self-contained in multiple ways. Viruses used to insert the OSK genes in they eye will stay in the eye, so there is less concern about possible effects elsewhere in the body. That provides an easier path towards translating and getting regulatory approval in humans.

But the very cool thing is there is no reason to believe that this technique couldn't eventually be used throughout the whole body.
> I don't know about World of Warships but in Warthunder you can get a lot of kills without meaningfully contributing to your team.

Its harder in World of Warships because of the absence of respawns. Each kill has a bigger direct impact on team win/loss probability than in War Thunder.
“Declining brand dealerships accept generous buyout offer”

Edit: Auto dealership businesses are traditionally lucrative (service revenue, mostly, based on my conversations with franchise owners), and if $200k in capex wasn’t worth it (based on forecasted future revenue and profit), I think that says volumes about the future of the Cadillac brand.
If you didn’t threaten to quit then it’s not an ultimatum at all.
Lesson: Don’t talk in extremes. Hell, some people still program in QBasic.
For (much) more on this topic, check out Christopher Alexander’s Notes on the Synthesis of Form, especially his commentary on “unselfconscious vs. self conscious” cultures and their built environments.
> "anything that inconveniences me is bad"

I didn't say these words, nor imply them. I find it befuddling how you act as if non-owners of pets are the selfish ones. Let's replace "dogs" with "cigarettes". After all, smokers like nicotine as much or more than dog owners like dogs. Am I also selfish if I don't wish to endure sitting next to a smoker on a flight?

Lots of things inconvenience me but are inescapable or benefit society at large. Dogs are neither of these things, and the burden of owning them should not be externalized to those who derive no benefit from them.
>I wonder if players are more likely to continue playing if they have ups and downs.

If the ups and downs were fairly close, then I could see that. But that's not what people have been complaining about with regards to the new CoD game. The issue was that a lot of matches end up being disproportionally one-sided one way or the other.

And that's not fun at all. While an occasional slam-dunk game is fun (or maybe even most slam-dunk games are fun, i don't know), I cannot find anyone who would have an increased desire to play the game after they get absolutely annihilated by a vastly superior team that they cannot do absolutely anything against.

And that's a sign of a bad SBMM system. A "perfect" SBMM system would always put you in matches where you are either slightly better or slightly worse than the other team. Turns out, that's the scenario that optimizes for engagement the most (at least from personal observations across a ton of different video games and real-life competitive sports I participated in).

If I won a game by a tiny margin, I feel proud and exhilarated. If I lost a game by a tiny margin, I feel incentivized to play more, because "only if I did this one small thing differently, we would have won, let's play one more game and see". If I won by a giant margin, it feels good too, so I might as well continue playing more. But if I lost by a giant margin, it drops all desire I had to continue this gaming session, because no amount of incremental improvements to my gameplay I can do within a day that would have let me somehow close the 30-100 point gap in that game (so, in a sense, it feels like i was set up for a game that i stand zero chance of winning, and that's pretty demotivating).

Losing by a tiny bit is a learning moment that makes you feel like you can win if you try a bit better or improve in one specific aspect a little bit. You learn from those kinds of losses, and the feeling of improvement is good. Losing by a giant margin makes you learn nothing. Just like in basketball or chess. Playing against someone who is slightly better than you are is fun. Playing against someone who is a pro (while you are a beginner) isn't fun, because of the sheer width of the skill gap. There is no "victory carrot" hanging in front of you to motivate you to continue playing, because that "victory carrot" is located on the other continent, and you aren't keen on swimming across the pacific ocean in one go.

So, at least in this case, the incentive of the matchmaking system being good aligns with the increased engagement. Or so I believe, based upon my personal observations and anecdata.
Counterpoint: JK Rowling is now using her billion dollars to fund various "TERF" groups and programs that fight against trans rights and inclusion.
Gov.uk – Front end developer guidance
> Most dealers who accepted the buyout also own one or more of GM’s other brands—Chevrolet, Buick and GMC—and sell only a handful of Cadillacs a month, the people familiar with the effort said.

Most of these dealerships amount to hobbies or upselling opportunities for other GM brand dealers. This is probably less of a story than it appears.
> Dealers across brands say they are weighing costly facility investments, such as electrical-system upgrades, against uncertainty about demand for the vehicles, which now account for about 2% of U.S. vehicle sales. Some retailers say they are putting off orders of electric models, worried they will sit too long on their lots.

It was probably a bad time to make such a request ($200k investment or sell) in the middle of a pandemic.
Over the years I had many friends ask me for tips on negotiating their salary. I always though this was a very dense guide which brings up to speed starting from 0.
Recently a friend was negotiating an offer (he ended up increasing it by more than 50%), and I thought there might be many people which are not familiar with this topic.
Spending 1h on salary negotiation is going to be the best ROI you'll ever get in your career!
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Before node.js there was Rhino.
From my time in a corporate research lab: The formal review process was conducted in parallel to initial review, with the goal to amend to prevent internal details from being widespread and amending for camera-ready. While people would freely review each other's papers, the goal was to increase initial acceptance rate. However, our lab notably, and perhaps exceptionally, mirrored the structure of an academic lab with corporate funding, even though all researchers were employed by the corporation.

Google's story would not fly where I worked, or where I work now.
"SOCIAL TIPPING POINTS", please read with irony.
You're probably using Cloudflare's DNS. https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/135222/why-does-...
Is that the only form of anti-social behaviour? The description of the rejection process is similarly inflexible...
> My naive theory is that clothes are designed to break faster

Yup. I've long suspected that tee-shirt manufacturers do extensive research to find the cotton-blend that goes from crisp white to dull yellow after just one wear and stays yellow no matter what amount of bleach/detergent is applied.
What do you think of Chapelle's recent monologue on the ethics of voluntary contracts?
This stuff could be BIG deal. Currently, most of therapies involve taking the cells out to reprogram them back to ipsc and trying to stuff them back again. IF this is viable in humans - adenoviruses work for us, too - or nanolipid vesicles. So, it should. Source: wife epigenetics postdoc in ipsc therapy
> ergonomic (Rust, Go, Kotlin, Swift, TypeScript, etc), that it's kind of painful to go back to Java.

I really don't know how you can include Go here. It's extremely unergonomic to manually write for loops, and to deal with pointers and references.
>> Now they have a separate triage process so no better quality item can end up in thrifstores

I know people who run a vintage store, and they still hit the thrift stores. Along with garage sales and estate sales. They can go through racks in a thrift store and find items they can get for $5 and turn around and sell the next day for $200. I love the smell of arbitrage in the morning.

Although now that they're established, they've got other people doing the digging and bringing stuff straight to them.
Sometimes the local population can only see into the local future.

Unfortunately, those decisions impact the local grandchildren, who will live in the long-distance future.

It's refreshing to see a singular board room decision lead to a better long-distance future.
Australia and NZ are dont have an authoritarian govt but still managed to get the pandemic under control.
Really? Because value and market price are separate things in marginalism.

Using the rational model somebody will only purchase something when it's price is below how much the person values the object.

It's related to consumer surplus. To make it measurable we use money as an approximate judge to work out much somebody values it. But the market price and how much somebody values something are different things in marginalism at the core.
And after reading it you realize the author is ignoring everything that happened before them, but if they did put their own experience in historical context the profoundness of their insights would disappear.
I actually don't think it's particularly weird. I would cite various research on studies investigating "fairness" [0] (Citing this one re: corvids since I need to get back to work and this was a quick google, but it chain-cites papers in primates, dogs, humans, found what appears to be a meta-study here [1] as well)

Namely, that individuals will decline to participate in exchanges where they would benefit, if another individual would benefit inequitably. I think you sell short the systemic advantages by framing it as "Feces-hurling"; namely that it may serve as an important societal and evolutionary pressure, for instance, as [1] suggests improved social cooperation.

Some of the comments on this thread even touch on this, although I'd frame it a bit differently, with comments such as "many people find the existence of a billionaire implicitly unfair." Namely, judgements of morality, economics, society aside, one has to be rather stoic to feel _no_ envy when comparing ones own lot to the life and resources being a billionaire enables, so that it would trigger a "lizard brain" instinct seems entirely natural. (and again, similar to you, trying to keep this argument-free WRT the contention around that and making a meta-observation, one may disagree as to how justified or sensitive one should be to this feeling, I'm just pointing out "I can understand it on a very pragmatic level.")

We may be agreeing loudly here, my response is primarily to addressing your stated surprise, as well as try and paint the cause and effect in a more... detached? perspective, to better contemplate its nature and incentives.

[0] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4451566/
Jeff tweeted that Timnit “resigned”.

I mean... come on man.

Jeff is way better than this so I really have no idea what’s going on here.
Yeah I wouldn’t read too much into this. It’s good for the brand to cull the heard of non-believers.
I wondered the same but their work output is evident. I can see the commit history and their responsiveness to issues.

Not saying anything about whether this is a good idea or not. Just saying that I know people like this that I used to be skeptical about before.
Is he? I have showdead off, and I can see it.
Cadillac of sales?

...I’ll show myself out.
I wonder how advertisers would feel about their ad showing up in arbitrary unofficial applications. I'd guess ads sent via API to be shown on unofficial apps would be less desirable than ads on the official app (which has known behaviors that reddit can document). Maybe the price would be lower or they'd only pay per click?

Do any other APIs include ads to be shown to the end user? It's an interesting idea!
Agreed. Really poor conditions, here in Germany they are housed really poorly, are treated badly because of loopholes in worker rights. Some of those have been closed, because this year we had major corona outbreaks in slaughterhouses.

- https://m.dw.com/en/europes-meat-industry-is-a-coronavirus-h...

- https://m.dw.com/en/germany-meat-industry-conditions/a-54033...

- https://m.dw.com/en/germanys-exploited-foreign-workers-amid-...
Your point seems to be that not willing to compromise on a specific point means the employee is lost forever.

There’s tons of issues I wouldn’t compromise on, and better leave the company if I had to. Does that mean I’ll be fired the very second these subjects become remotely relevant and/if I make clear where my boundaries are ?
But he did, haha.
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> Why more experience with technical interviews helps you succeed in future technical interviews

Job hoppers have a huge advantage in this. If you stay in a job for 5 years and work hard you will have some good stories but likely not do well in interviews without a lot of practice first.

Its worth just having interviews every year at FAANG and others just to keep you up to speed.
The idea (how to organise society if you won’t know your position within it) is discussed extensively by philosopher John Rawls. It is called either the “Original Position” or “veil of ignorance” thought experiment. The idea itself goes a little further back, as discussed in the linked wiki article.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_position
oops

well, what's your excuse now Antonio?
> I bet most js devs would not be able to make a "hello world" in C.

Like if you just gave them a text editor and the gcc manpage? Why would they know? It's an entirely new language to them. How are you going to learn a new language's syntax or library functions without a reference?

If you gave a JS programmer a C programming textbook or tutorial they'd type out and run Hello World in about 2 minutes, like anyone else.
Display PostScript[1] maybe? Developed by NeXT in 1987.

Or NeWS[2], also based on PostScript.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_PostScript

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS
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There's a selection bias there: people who think YC or YC's startup model is out-of-touch don't apply to YC, and certainly don't get selected.

Personally, I've watched YC grow from something that I thought was an obviously good idea but nobody else agreed with me about (I applied to the first SFP in 2005, as a college student), to something mainstream that lots of people aspired to (~2010), to being something at best ho-hum and at worst actively bad for the world (today). Getting rich is just not desirable anymore; technology is only desirable insofar as it helps solve pressing problems for the world as a whole.

In 2010 I was the one who would go to parties and young people would be like "Oh, you work for Google, that's so cool!". In 2014, it was "Oh, you're founding a startup to fix unemployment, that's so cool!". Now when my wife (who works as a professional impact investor) goes to a party with young people, it's "Oh, you're solving climate change and funding reproductive healthcare and working for racial justice, that's so cool!" Meanwhile, I say "I work in software" neutrally and omit that it's for Google.
Buffet may not directly exploit anyone, but wage-labor in itself is exploitation. If he's investing in companies that hire employees with the intent of extracting surplus value from said employees, then he's indirectly participating in capitalist exploitation.
You have exposed the problem with electric cars and dealership though. Electric cars do not need as much service, ALOT LESS infact. Thus the dealership will have to get more revenue from the initial sale instead of reoccurring service revenue.

If the brand/dealership is already struggling switching to electrics is likely going to be a negative revenue hit for any dealership that survives on service revenue
National debt in EU countries in the first quarter 2020 in relation to GDP
Adjusted for inflation, income growth is 0. Capital is capturing all the productivity gains.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us...
The metrics that matter when trying to become a more efficient software engineer
The general structure is that people are allowed to own the things they make. If you start a company, it belongs to you. Your company might become very valuable and mine might not, which might create some disparity.

There are other systems, like where everybody owns everything, but historically when you allow it so one person can own something that someone else has to create it doesn't work out very well. People don't have any incentive to make things if they can just own things that other people make.
Plenty of our democratic leaders have made idiotic self-serving decisions concerning the pandemic too (I'm looking at you, Nancy Pelosi)
My meaning "investing well", was similar to your meaning of "investing long". I don't meant investing well in the short term.

Even a low percent gain over the long term is very, very difficult. You can tell this by noting how much endowment managers get paid.
I think one of the guys who founded Moderna originally wanted to inject mRNA to induce pluripotent stem cells. It would be great if that can somehow work for this. Instead of using an adenovirus to insert the genes, we can inject mRNA to induce expression of the transcription factors long enough for it to take effect.
Some billionaires shoulder others out of the way by censoring forums that might criticize them.
I'm not familiar with the research on transmission occurring primarily in private social gatherings. In fact, I've seen some researchers suggest the opposite. Do you happen to have any helpful links or search pointers?
I remember first learning about it in elementary school in ~1997.
There’s the rub. Depending on who you ask DeepMind appears to, as of a year or two ago, be running deep in the red.
> A manager in ethics shouldn’t ask Google to break the law by not providing confidientality that was requested.

It is not implied anywhere that the reviewers requested confidentiality. It is certainly not implied that Google would be violating the law to rescind that confidentiality (and, to be clear: they almost certainly would not be).
Agreed! All dealerships are dead long term (with possible exits/buyouts offered by manufacturers for service center/gallery conversions to match what Tesla has). Just like layoffs come in waves in struggling enterprises, this is just the first salvo.
It's not "runaway activism" if you hire ethics researchers who find ethics problems.

Reasons for not citing research, especially recent research, range from lack of relevance (since even though environmental improvements could have been done, they were not done! So the actual impact wasnt lessened by them at all!); To simply not having known about it. The correct reviewer response to this would be an "accept with corrections" to "revise and resubmit"; retraction is overboard. Moreover, that's the role of a conference reviewer, not the employer. Once your employer starts interfering with what you can and can't publish, it's time to find a new affiliation indeed.
Creating demand through marketing is terribly inefficient. Imagine the ability to produce and commoditize whales[1]. As long as the cost of neuro-implantation is less than the return on investment the incentive to maximize neuro-implantation exists.

Of course, just like many ad-free experiences today, it's always the consumer's choice whether they want to pay to not be manipulated.

[1] https://www.brandunited.com/article/whales-in-customer-base/
> Isn't the definition of "ultimatum" that no further compromise is possible?

Given that, at least in Timnit's narrative, the email included a request to discuss the issue in person when she returned from vacation, I don't think that the "ultimatum" characterization is uncontroversially accurate for the immediate case.
It is fun considering I was not yet born yet when this came out. Most all of the SW languages I use are older than I am... python, C++, Java, JS, perl, elisp.
From the whitepaper on the EFForce website (https://efforce.io/WP_ENG_V1.pdf): "Each token represents an Energy Performance Smart Contract, which guarantees the savings obtained over a certain period of time, thanks to a specific energy efficiency project. The energy savings generated become a tangible asset held by token holders, who may decide to sell them or use them to reduce their electricity bills."
The real details are buried in the article. Dealerships were required to either spend at least $200K on charging stations and other upgrades, or they could take a buyout offer for $300K to $1 million.

About 17% of total dealerships took the deal. I assume many of those were already declining and chose the convenient exit option instead of doubling down on their already declining dealership investment in the middle of a pandemic.

> The buyout offers ranged from around $300,000 to more than $1 million, the people familiar with the effort added. About 17% of Cadillac’s 880 U.S. dealerships agreed to take the offer to end their franchise agreements for the luxury brand