skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a) how I can assess if the team is bleeding talent

Nothing wrong with asking the average tenure of people on the team imo, that is something you can frame in a way less likely to make them lie.
Try to target a saving rate (post tax income - essential spending)

and then from that a budget of whatevers left into:
fun stuff | investing
I'd assign scientists a "pension" every time they make a worthy discovery. That pension would be a monthly payment of a fixed dollar amount, it would be inalienable and paid for the rest of the scientist's life regardless of other achievements. Publishing a minor, but worthy, paper would give a 100 usd/month grant. Getting a Nobel prize would give, say, 1 million a year. However the deflation would gradually erase value of the grants.
I wish there were solid alternatives to school.

I hate the current system but I also want my kids to be socialised and have friends.

I'd definitely pay a private company providing "home schooling" and using a different model of education where kids are learning by doing instead of memorising crap and at the same time can share a location with other kids of the same age (+ a few tutor available to unblock kids when needed but not delivering frontal lessons).
I have the same question.

I've tried working with UpWork, but their developers seem more geared towards "known"-type of projects, involving specific tech, or specific type of jobs, or fix it jobs.

I presented a project of some advanced JS, nothing too serious, and almost every developer declined or couldn't understand the requirements, likely because they didn't read any of my material about the project.

The job is pretty simple: add support for https://play.Presenta.cc .json files to https://github.com/pseudosavant/player.html#playerhtml. I want to be able to have a Presenta File player, so I can play the Presenta slideshow files and video files from my local folder using the html page. That's generally it. Upwork couldn't deliver.

This job was step one, in a very few number towards an MVP.

Nobody on Upwork seems to be able to do this.

I'm pretty disappointed with UpWork.
I have a call with TopTal next week
I have a call with Iron Forge next week, as well

If anyone here has reviewed this, is able to do this, and want to get paid doing it, leave me a message.

Thx
It's ambiguous. I'm pointing out some grey areas. When speaking loosely, we can talk about what a loan is "backed by" meaning how people expect to pay it back. Or you could talk about what property secures the loan, legally.

Regarding investment, there are startups that got off the ground by running up credit card debt. It's not what I would do, but it's more like investment than consumption.

Or you could pay for your car to be repaired using a credit card, and if you need the car to get to work, well...
Connor Leahy, who I think is a sort of BDFL figure for ElutherAI, mentioned in a Slatestarcodex online meetup I attended that Google donated millions of dollars worth of preemptable TPU credits to the project. There is a video of the meetup on YouTube somewhere. Struck me as a really smart kid with a lot of passion.
Software 2.0 is happening right now. GTP-3 and Tesla FSD are examples of this.

On the other hand software 1.0 was a victim of it success. People realized that they could build software companies with SQL hard coded into windows forms buttons. Theses people have never even heard the word extensibility. Like the rest of corporate America they are mostly focused on the next quarter results and drown out any voices from people who want to innovative for innovation sake.
I'll have to find the title, but long ago I recall my parents listening to an audiobook of a polish emigrant (to Switzerland) deciding to go around the northern hemisphere on car. Asia was crossed by driving through Siberia, though I'm not sure if he followed the same land route to Kamchatka as described in the article. This was in the early 1990s, I think it might have been just after dissolution of USSR, and more than once it was his quick talking that helped.

Ultimately, the road trip ended in USA, where highway patrol took offence to his heavily-modified Land Rover or something like that.
It's basically identity theft. Should have been banned from the beginning.
Each ground-level classroom could have doors which open onto the surrounding garden. Upper floors can have external stairs, like personal residence buildings.

A school building could provide maximum natural light to the occupants. For example, it could have shape and orientation so most of its windows get sunlight throughout the year. Interior spaces can have skylights and be used for short-duration activities like restrooms, locker rooms, and equipment storage.
Unfortunately, through much of school "assertive" is interpreted as "aggressive" and punished. I would classify it as assertive if a student, after raising their hand without results for a minute, said they had to go to the bathroom & then got up & went to the bathroom.

The teacher on the other hand might decide it was time for a trip to the principal's office & call home to parents because the student caused a disruption to the class by leaving without permission.
Putting a security.txt file up on our site has generated a ton of noise from people sending us their interpretations of burp suite results. Nothing substantial, yet everyone wants a payout and sends follow up after follow up. Feels like the Hacktoberfest Github thing. If you have a real security issue that someone cares enough to disclose to you, they'll find a way to contact you.
To make it worse unbelievable software bloat makes most advances in hardware invisible to the end user.

And then we got an ugly business model surveillance capitalism. Users expect everything to be free and happily (or unknowingly) with their privacy and ways to be manipulated.

Monopolies instead of interoperability and federation.

Computer science can't be proud of the current state of affairs.
This is called selection bias. You are cherry picking Amazon in the present and going back in time to a past where there were many more e-commerce contenders.

I'm sure you have heard about the dot-com bubble. Do you know what all those companies were doing? E-commerce. In some alternative universe Amazon is Pets.com
Are we reading the same bill? There does not seem to be a provision to require the government to first advise a suspected carrier to self-quarantine at a location of their choosing and only detain them if/after that requirement is violated.

If that provision exists, could you point it out to me, as I've obviously missed it?
VPRI's STEPS was a great research project in this direction

https://alarmingdevelopment.org/?p=229

https://www.hackernewspapers.com/2017/1146-steps-toward-the-...

But, then they published their final report.. did other stuff for a while... announced they brought together a great team with a long-term funding... and they've been doing... something? Nine years now and I haven't heard of any more progress on this front.
When I read this, I had to do a double-check and make sure I wasn't on reddit
The Italian occupation of Ethiopia was largely ended by conventionally organized forces. Likewise the the Japanese occupation of Burma. The British fondness for irregular warfare in WW II largely came from the need to do something, combined with the inability to do anything much. Blowing up stuff in Norway did make some contributions, but the war in Europe was won largely by the Red Army overwhelming the Wehrmacht. Wingate played a useful role in Burma, but Slim got the job done.
> We're driving around in electric cars, carrying around cell phones that are orders of magnitude faster than desktop PCs from 1996, and communication technology

I'd argue that these are primarily hardware innovations, not software innovations. The OP mentions software, not technology in general.

See also Moore's law (hardware upgrades double computing speed every ~2 years) vs Proebsting's Law [1] (compiler upgrades double computing speed every ~18 years).

[1] http://proebsting.cs.arizona.edu/law.html
Apparently! https://www.americastestkitchen.com/guides/air-frying/the-be...

(disclaimer: I don’t have one, but America’s test kitchen/cooks illustrated tend to be pretty reliable with their advice I find…)

edit: see also https://www.americastestkitchen.com/videos/4115-air-fryers
Not only do I agree that it would probably be less enjoyable, but I also expect it would be less safe.

A driver actively piloting a car will be focused and experienced at that task. That same driver will not have had any tuition or assessment on their ability to judge whether a car with advanced assistive piloting* is acting sensibly.

In the case of some event requiring manual intervention, I'd be surprised if the driver's focus would be significantly worse than a similar event while actively driving. Not only that but the judgement, knowledge, and experience of being able to identify such events in a timely manner.

I'm genuinely shocked that this feature is allowed on public roads. It's one thing a car owner consenting to being a trial participant, but pedestrians and other road users have no such opportunity to provide or deny consent and are at equal or greater risk if things go awry.

*I refuse to use Tesla's irresponsible 'self-driving' marketing nonsense
So, you didn't look up the history of Typhoid Mary [0]. "Typhoid" Mary Mallon was so called because she could spread typhoid fever despite not suffering its symptoms. She also refused to stop finding employment as a cook, a choice which killed at least three people and probably dozens more. People did not just tolerate her: they died for her right to do as she wished, including her right to work.

While there are indeed obvious ethical issues about the incarceration of people like Mallon, and we should have a much better legal framework which isn't as intrusive to their rights, the fact is that an inability to enforce social distancing for just this one person caused tallyable fatalities.

Like, you don't think that the ice-cream licker should have been tolerated despite obvious stupidity, right?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mallon
So zero court cases then.
This can be hard to do, especially at a place like Apple where you’ll often just get a basic idea of what you’ll be working on. And how are you supposed to judge your coworkers by the hour or so you spent with them in an interview?
Well to be fare, file extensions are more of a Unix/PC thing. In the old day, MacOS Pre-OSX extension doesn't matter, extra info about a file are stored in another meta file.

Extension are only made for backward/universal compatibility file compatibility on different platform. However I do agree with the parent post, computer ought to work for us, not the other way around. Then again changing convention is harder than just type 3 letter extension.
Things seem to have changes for the better since my time: How old are you? < 30? I have two kids in grammar school right now & they no longer face this same type of issue, but I also don't know if that's a local change or a more general re-think on students' biological needs.
Developers absolutely don't need Jira to manage expectations. And we don't need it (or managers) to set expectations and track goals. There are more things, Horatio.

I get that Jira may be a way that works for you, for a local definition of "works". But there are a lot of good ways to make software.
Density has gone from about 7.5 on GF to 28 on TSMC if I read correctly.
Seems like there is just a general lack of emphasis on the improvements that have been made.

It makes sense that progress cycles from a big breakthroughs to years of seeing how far we can push it.

Even so, the world is significantly different than it was in ‘96. “Stagnation” doesn’t feel like the right word.

What about advances in quantum computing? Is that not a large enough paradigm shift for the author to acknowledge?
There's more than 800GB of fanfiction in the world.
Thinking of teaching people how to code through streaming
Hey everyone, happy new year.
To rebound on the title, I'm not sure whether it's a great idea to teach people how to code through streaming. Would you recommend just going down the standard blog path? or it sounds like an idea worth shooting for? Thank you for your time & opinion.
My Approach to Writing Maintainable CSS (2019)
> developers PAY THEM to distribute their wares. They are Apple's customers too!

See stocking fees in physical retail stores:

* https://financialpost.com/news/retail-marketing/loblaw-follo...

* https://www.canadiangrocer.com/top-stories/headlines/loblaw-...
> I'm lost as to why the author wants to work so hard to dismiss these technologies

Some people just want to find negativity in the world.
The ZedRipper: Part 2
Is the problem solvable? Of course it is... Just use the provided wallet software, use a password to encrypt your wallet, and back up the seed phrase, or backup the actual wallet file.

It is literally already solved.

EDIT:

Proposal:

buy 6 different 8gb flash drives for $40 or less, backup the encrypted wallet on each of them, with a printed piece of paper with the wallet. Buy a $50 fireproof lockbox and keep the key with your regular car/apt keys. Boom, redundancy. All for less than a hundred bucks.
> People realized that they could build software companies with SQL hard coded into windows forms buttons. Theses people have never even heard the word extensibility.

Is there anything wrong with this?
There are many excellent youtube videos of people doing long solo hikes through beautiful lands. Those can also be a nice escape, especially while having a lunch break "at work" (at home).
China is bound to win in the long run, given the resources, captive market and most importantly competitive/cost of talent.

Japan, US, India and possibly some EU countries are partnering today to build an alternative to Huawei in 5G.
This is coming 10 years late.

We might be repeating the same mistake but now in semiconductors.
Lol, nobody I know took this approach and they are very good at these types of interviews.
I see that they made a commercial decision. I don’t see any moralizing or lecturing.

Is there somewhere they are saying the name is morally wrong?
I'll be honest, my default perspective is to expect filibustering and non-answers from all but the actualized and self-aware teams, who if reading this thread and many, many others like it, and lived experience are anything reliable: are less common than their frustrating counterparts.
Well, that's truly scary!
There have been studies, just not many. It's hard to get funding to study something where there isn't a theoretically plausible mechanism for damage, and where the few experiments to "double check" found nothing, as expected.

Millimeter waves aren't "new" either. The "new" part is using mm waves for data. For decades now there have been tons of applications for mm wave radiation, and often at much higher power levels. All sorts of satellite communications, radar, etc...

This isn't a situation where some scientist discovers an entirely new mechanism as says "wow, this funny radiation that makes things glow in the dark might have some practical application". Instead, it's just a matter of VLSI digital radio circuitry finally reaching the point where we can utilise a very familiar part of the spectrum for high bandwidth data.

Most of the anti-5G commentary is by uneducated Facebook moms "just asking questions" and "worried about their kids".

If you want to reduce your personal risk from mobile phones, don't text and drive.
Probably the easiest and most painful trick cure for insomnia is to wake up really early (around 4 AM), take a cup of coffee, and by night time, you'll fall asleep.

Learning to meditate helps too. A lot of us are kept awake by stress or caffeine. Meditation helps to reduce stress levels, often to the point you fall asleep.
> The hypocrisy of the gatekeepers is infuriating.

Just because they're hypocrites doesn't make them wrong:

* https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/tu-quoque

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
At the end of the day though, consumers prefer free. Even if they say they want privacy preserving products, they really don't (otherwise we'd all be using Linux and Fairphones). I'd also be careful about the last statement: Computer science is much broader than internet advertising companies.
They will, but you won't have to register as a sex offender. Major difference in life outcomes.
Don't be too hard on yourself. Given that these companies are structured to keep criticism from reaching the people profiting from the bad decisions, there aren't a lot of good options. Giving an earful to somebody paid to be their buffer isn't great, but neither is just accepting the awfulness.
Hey, sorry, I didn't see this.

I'm afraid I don't have any good secrets to share on that front. Online purchases I've made mostly through sellers on Discogs. Some are better than others. I'm in the UK and most sellers who stock Congolese records seem to be based in France, postage can be a pain sometimes. afro7.net has some interesting 7" records from time to time.

I've been trying to get back out to Africa for a while, but plans have been put on hold. Haven't made it to Congo or DRC yet, but hoping to at least make it back to Nairobi later in the year. Melodica in Nairobi sell online but I haven't bought anything from them before.
FWIW This was also my experience in Australia.
Wow this was a great break down. I've never really heard it in this sort of fashion and it's an interesting approach to teaching types. Language and 'lingo' really does muddy the waters educationally.

I appreciate you writing this out for me. I understand the 3 types you described quite clearly.

The compiler stuff I fortunately won't have to care as much about (unless I do this fulltime or go even harder core into types) but I appreciate your approach to it.

I believe learning Rust has helped me understand Haskell and the utility of even basic things like Maybe/Option types. Compared to like Go or whatever I want it plus pattern matching in every language I use now (pattern matching is another thing I gleaned from Erlang/Elixir as extremely useful).

Anyway, I'll find time at some point down the road to understand this better.
Yes, same here at a high school in a medium-sized city at around the same time. Although there wasn't any restriction on where you could return, either, but I think that's more of a smaller vs. bigger city thing. I do remember that some kids got their privilege to leave campus rescinded because they got caught extremely, obviously high after going to do bong rips at someone's house near the school.

In elementary and middle school, we weren't technically supposed to leave the schoolyard but the monitoring was lax enough that older kids frequently got away with it.
There's nothing far-fetched about compensation being less in Waterloo vs Silicon Valley due to factors unrelated to "skill". Google indexes compensation by cost of living. Not sure what the disconnect here is, since that's the origin of the topic chain. Also not sure where you get off making claims about people's skill levels, or who you are and what your knowledge of Google is, but you're making some very questionable claims. There's a reason Google has an office in Waterloo and it's growing aggressively, and it isn't to get lower quality or cheaper talent. Saying it's a "fraction of MTV" is also exaggerating. Google pays generously in Canada.

Maybe you should apply and see how loose the standards are.

There's no re-interview to move between offices or countries. The only "interview" would be to be accepted onto a team at the destination and then request the transfer. I know people who have gone both ways. For what it's worth, these days more people seem to be coming back to Canada than the other way around. Ability to move around is actually one of the perks of Google employment.

As for acquisitions, I came into Google via acquisition 9 years ago. Of a company divided between US and Toronto. I am not privy to the details on North, and I haven't met those people yet because of not being in the office due to COVID etc, but they report up into the same general product area as me. They definitely brought in many of those people as employees in Waterloo. If it's like the acquisition I was
part of, not everyone gets an offer, some get put on contract, etc.
Not necessarily. There might be some things that are already set in stone. E.g. the companies build and version control system might be fixed, you might be deemed to use protobufs, etc.

But there can still be one area to innovate on! It's usually not productive trying to reinvent everything anyway. Pick one thing, and excel at that. There are enough of those challenges also at bigger companies. Maybe not at every team, but there is likely enough internal flexibility that one can find a suitable team.

And really, inventing the 100th iteration of a custom CI or RPC system at a small company isn't that exciting either.
Eh, trees are the least of our concerns though.

Like, trees aren't gonna put the carbon back into the ground which is where our problem started (coal, oil).

I don't see trees as a solution or even as a delaying factor.
The NYT is an American newspaper serving an audience that is mostly American. Hence the American cultural comparisons and measurements.

Should English language newspapers from countries that aren’t America have footnotes in feet so that Americans - a plurality of native English speakers - don’t have to do some basic math?

Probably just easier to remember that 3.3 ft. is a meter. Plenty of Americans do it everyday when they read articles that reference the metric system...
Not to legislate solutions to private businesses' disputes.
I see the heavy influence from Powerthirst in that video.
I find majority of anti-aging articles to be way too optimistic. Consider the following:

We still cannot treat many well understood diseases, including tuberous sclerosis, allergies, asthma, etc.
We don't know the exact cause of multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, type 2 diabetes, etc, despite studying those diseases for decades.
We can't help you keep the color of your hair or regrow your missing teeth, despite tons of money dedicated to such therapies by the industry.

And articles like these talk about combating aging - a combination of development, damage, and likely an evolutionary mechanism, within 10-15 years. I cannot help but be skeptical.
Healthy eating habits and exercise is different for different people.
Murfie Back from the Dead
I've been on a city bus several times when the driver just pulled over, turned off the engine, said "I'm going to the bathroom", entered the business he'd parked in front of, and came back after a couple of minutes. It didn't cause a problem, so municipalities who don't allow that are abusive. I'm sure that in general drivers try to keep that to a minimum.