skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's almost impossible to do that though isn't it?

Not at all. It IS hard, but that's because research is hard. If it were possible to easily show widely-held beliefs to be wrong, someone would have done it already. (No different from any other scientific field!) But it does happen.

>Economics isn't a hard science, it's not like you can run RCTs or experiments.

Also wrong. You can in many areas. Indeed, there is a gigantic literature on field experiments, and the whole field of development economics runs on RCTs. In macro it is difficult, because no one is going to give you a whole economy to play with, but lab experiments in macro exist. Most empirical work in macro is not based on experiments.

But that does not make it impossible to learn anything, it just makes it hard. Indeed, that is why we have spent years developing methods to solve this problem, then more years criticizing and refining our own methods. That process will never end.

> And all actually-existing economic systems are situated within an actually-existing political, social and historical context, meaning we only ever observe a tiny fraction of the possible universe of economic systems. There is no possibility to explore counterfactuals.

Again, this is what makes it hard. It is not impossible. To answer certain questions for certain models may be impossible b/c there is no way to identify the parameters in question empirically.

You make these claims like it makes our whole enterprise worthless or impossible. We have taken it as a challenge to attempt to develop interesting methods to answer hard questions.

Exploring unseen counterfactuals on the basis of parameters estimated from models given existing data is literally my bread and butter EVERY day (I am not a macroeconomist, but I am an economist). And it is the bread and butter of many of us.

Give us some credit, an overwhelming majority of us are not conservative ideologues. And if you really want to know how it works, HOW we learn things from data (in macro and elsewhere) I can provide references.
On page 29 the author says that you should use three spaces after a full stop, 'for the customary space between sentences'. I wonder if number of spaces was as contentious then as it is now?
2 - Because different companies do want entirely different people.

Some managers want a quiet, obedient, polite, gentle, patient, effective-communicator who will never embarrass or break anything.

Some managers want a self-starter genius who will solve an incredibly hard problem by himself without help (since he won't get any) and couldn't care less about anything else.

Etc.
> It absolutely can

No, it can't.

> If they didn’t inflate the money supply then businesses would notice decreased demand and fire some workers, thats what you said.

No, it's not. They notice whether they are cutting real wages or cutting jobs (and the increase in general prices, which affects all inputs which the industry shares with industries not facing demand drops—including those segments of labor with mobility—assures that they notice even if the inflation means nominal market clearing price remains the same.) What inflation does is increase the range of alternatives they have to deal with the demand decline to include addressing some of it decreasing real wages in some areas, particularly jobs with low mobility, reducing the degree to which it is addressed by production cuts which cut jobs in the industry, cut orders to suppliers and force second-order and beyond job cuts, etc.

> in fact by increasing the nominal price of inputs it can make it more difficult for businesses to even survive.

It only has that effect if businesses have long-term fixed nominal price commitments made in ignorance of inflation, which is why central bank policies tend to focus on avoiding significant volatility as well as maintaining moderate positive inflation.
so many its not even funny. AI this and that. Personality and behavior assessments. Automate everything. chatbots to save recruiting. BLAH BLAH Fucking blah. Some have certainly made sourcing and outreach better but as iwang mentioned very few of these address the personal side of hiring engineers.

The idea that you can assess an engineers ability to code AND collaborate with your team in a 3-5 hour window is just a losing battle. Hackerrank and triplebyte are good for the very large corps to rule people out and slim down the funnel. Not a real reflection of the work, code, or problems you will be solving in the job if hired.

15yrs tech recruiting corporate and agency. I have seen almost every tool out there and I will say very few have stood the test of time. Hiring is really hard and the fact remains there just isnt a one size fits all solution. Find the tools that suit your goals.

Personally I think small companies would be far better served investing in sourcing tools to attract and located the right talent. Have your leadership pitch these people directly hunt talent versus tools to automate volume (95% of which are not the people you are seeking any way).
Yes, this! Your lib looks awesome. Thanks for publishing it and sharing here!
We use a document based DB to run a massive azure SaaS service offering and it gets the job done quite well, why the hate for non-relational?
Many/most? Viet immigrants also take on English first names, which could also complicate this search.
Yeah, the four year thing is a great point. I got a psychology degree, which definitely could've been done in three (I know this because I switched sophomore year). I have friends in hard sciences whose mental health probably would've been waaaaaay better if they spent 5-6 years on their degree.
"You are wrong and should feel bad! I rest my case!"
Noted unbiased participant "the defendants attorney" has been quoted in a pro-Bitcoin publication ;)
We'll just award each lawyer with an in game Tom Ford suit and an in-game Rolex.
So we have a suite of B2B products, hosted on p1.com, p2.com, p3.com, with an OAuth2 provider on a1.com. a1.com isn't very "well known", and it won't be, because we run it privately for auth and user management for our own products only. There are no subdomains anywhere, only individual domains.

Does this break our setup? And how do we tell users to un-break it? And is there a way to tell Mozilla via directives that we have a private list of sites we'd like to share a1.com cookies in?
For #1, you simply mandate it as a requirement. Many things are mandated to generator owners by regulatory bodies that the generator owners would never opt for otherwise. This is no different. The regulatory body should make the decision about what is necessary to deal with low-probability events, not market participants.
I think the reason most people don't pay for privacy on the apps you listed is the value proposition isn't there. e.g they can do it manually cheaper, faster and easier then the app would allow them. So that could be bad app design, bad problem statement or low value to cost. With consumer apps you have to convince people the value of the app is more then what they spend, and consumers are picky. Not to mention you have to stand out in a crowded market, which is an even harder problem in many ways.
Every reply to you is repeating the same thing and they’re all wrong. Woe on the next great sociologist, philosopher, or artist who gets discouraged from study because “just do CS so you can make money” or “just go to the library it’s literally the same thing as four years of training under experts in the field and discussion with other smart young people.”
I will try to answer:

>1. Why there is no consistency for hiring?

Because there is no consistency in humans. Jobseekers lie to me all the time, so do companies.

>2. Why companies have to be so different in assessing values ?

Because companies consist of humans, which are inconsistent, see 1.

>3. Why standardized leetcode kind of problems? instead focus on creativity & unconventional thinking?

That is only a SF/Nyc/big tech thing. Normal firms here in Switzerland (or Europe) rarely do this. The big brand names do it because they can.

Google et al. has a revolving door of applicants, so they can make them suffer. Also, if you show that you can study 3 months for an interview to balance a red black tree, you likely will do whatever the firm tells you to do. You likely will be a good worker!

If you are full of creativity & unconventional thinking, being employed (especially in a big firm) isn't a good bet, start your own firm instead. I did exactly that because I suffered as an employee, not because of the work part, programming was great, but because of the being employed part, and this is how I became a self-employed tech recruiter. Btw. if you look for work or career tips, my email is in my HN handle.
One million percent yes.
Fab numbers are astronomical. "TSMC recently announced plans for a $19.5B 3nm plant for 2022". How can the next computing paradigm even take off when all the oxygen is depleted in chasing "proven" technologies?
Perhaps that has something to do with endocrine disruptors too.
I don’t think anybody thinks going is expensive, the expensive part is getting in, something fundamentally out of reach by design for 99.9% of the population and 95% of the applicant pool.

Something is really rotten with this country if the only tools to get ahead are a 5% shot at a “better life” (though people seem far too politically correct to provide a counter factual outcome if you don’t get into an elite institution).
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>Some features which previously worked are broken.

Examples?

>Also, I think just calling it "old." feels a bit condescending and patronizing to the user. It certainly communicates that its days are numbered, so why would I want to invest any more of my time into it?

I guess they could call it "classic", but that'd be longer to type in the address bar.
I love this, but I'm a bit surprised that you do not include the ability to "unexpound" an "expounded" term. Is that intentional?

If I were reading a technical text, I would definitely end up reading most paragraphs at least twice. It would make no sense to keep the expounded terms in the second time; I'd be tempted to hide them back as soon as I was finished with them the first time.
This probably just reflects greater uncertainty in the application process due to lack of standardized test scores. In other years, have a better sense of where they stand and can strategize appropriately (i.e. a few aspirational applications and a few safety schools). This year things are much less clear. It may not be a long term trend, or may not accelerate a long term trend.
Can you explain why the security guarantee disappears in more detail?

I thought that the security of a block-chain comes primarily from the difficulty of rewriting the chain of blocks.
To do that you will have to fork and recompute the chain from some point back in history (say 5 blocks ago).
This puts at a disadvantage since the rest of the network is ahead of you by 5 blocks and will continue adding new blocks.
So you will need a lot of computational power to rewrite history and also overtake the rest of the network.

Why would some additional reward for mining (by solving a useful problem) break this?
At least in a casino they comp you physical goods and services that have a real value. Who knew the mob and wall street were the good guys?
There are a few different mechanisms. I might be missing some, but here are the ones I know about.

* The interest owed on loaned DAI (called a stability fee) changes depending on the market price. So if DAI goes too high, the stability fee increases which makes getting a DAI loan less attractive. If the market price goes too low, the stability fee drops. If it drops to 0, this would mean interest free collateralized loans.

* There is a savings account smart contract that generates a variable savings rate on DAI. The savings rate changes depending on the market price.

* There is the Target Rate Feedback Mechanism which frankly I don't understand. It has something to do with changing the amount your collateral is worth depending on DAI's market price.

* When the value of the collateralized asset drops to some defined percentage of the DAI withdrawn (currently 150% I think?), the smart contract can liquidate and auction off that asset for the value of the withdrawn DAI. This increases the value of DAI and also ensures that all DAI is overcollateralized.

* MKR token holders function as the governance for DAI and vote on stuff, like the collateralization rate mentioned above. They get rewards for holding MKR and in normal circumstances the amount of MKR is static. But in the event of a black swan, if the collateralized assets drop to below 1:1 faster than the normal system can handle, MKR is automatically generated and sold to raise the additional collateral needed. This devalues MKR in order to keep DAI stable.
Reddit is a monetization of Usenet.

The farther they drift away from admitting that, the more tenuous their value proposition is going to be.
I suppose because some of them are in the standard and not implemented in other browsers. Or there are some 20 year old bugs (reported) that are not fixed while pocket and robot are featured.
“Plenty,” sure. But not a majority or anything. The median family income in the US is something like 68kb
I would like this as well, please share once you do.
Hehe, all the hacks that we did!
Oj is actually pretty well known as a Ruby JSON parser. The OjG project is in the same family.
Given the C was named because it was derived from B, I think there's an effective tradition in compsci of naming things by just playing with the letters.

M comes after G so the name tracks perfectly while also being weird and distinctive.
Cython has a similar feature: https://cython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/src/tutorial/pure.ht...
Could that make such inflation hedges a good pre-inflation hedge? For example buying gold with the expectation that people will soon want more hedging than they do now, though this relies on getting in earlier than others.
This quickly went downhill lol. Thank you for your suggestion, I’ll stick my $5M in VTWAX and hope for the best.
Correct link: https://aluma.io/resources/blog/switching-from-c-to-go-for-b...
I'm sure there are ways to use 2FA or OTP without externalising access management to Facebook, Google or another SSO provoder, unless you want to pick convenience over privacy and security.
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It's an Opel Ampera, i.e. a Chevy Volt. That range, fully electric, is the best I've reliably gotten out of it, attainable on summer days (no heating!) driving on slower country roads. Highways and wintertime are a different story - this time of year I get maybe 45 km per charge. And currently it won't even run on battery only since it's so cold the car insists on intermittently running the engine for heat.
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I agree. The "story" VCs care about the most is: do other VCs want to invest in this?

That's the narrative people who raise large rounds are spinning. It has nothing to do with the tech, product... only how desirable it is to other VCs. The only way you craft that narrative is to be close to many VCs and pitch them all at the same time to create FOMO. Only those with strong existing connections make this happen.

Yes, if you built something that millions of people use the VCs will take a bet on your sure thing. That's super rare though. Most funding is going to their friends as it always has.
Yes, many miss the impact of the illness not just the death. This is why a lot of white collar remote-able firms have kept us home.

It is in your companies self-interest to have everyone home&working than having large numbers of staff out sick for days to weeks in batches as the virus cuts through open office floor plans and poorly ventilated conference rooms..
I was a relatively happy user of the app until they started making text blink in comments. The endless stream of awards was bad enough, but blinking text is where I draw thr line.
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I'm much more scared about the singularity (AI safety) in the ethics field than models having bias, while the models are improving accuracy over time.

People say that AGI is still far away, but I haven't seen any results of being able to contain the harm AGI can do to us humans.

What these researchers are doing is the easy part of AI ethics.
Relevant: https://www.profgalloway.com/uss-university

Scott Galloway made a prediction last summer of what colleges and universities will thrive, survive, struggle, or face challenges given the current situation. Basically, the higher ed market will consolidate around more elite schools.
Table sugar is entirely made up of sucrose. A polymer which is composed of one glucose molecule and one fructose molecule. Fructose is also in most fruit sugars. Honey is one of the worst offenders from a natural source. Finally corn syrup is the absolute worst.

Avoiding refined sugars in general is a good thing, but removing fructose completely would require not eating any fruits or berries either. The rule of thumb is that whole fruits and berries are okay if you get the plant fiber along with the juice and don't eat too many. Fruit juice drinks and refined sugars should be avoided for sure. Especially corn syrup, honey, and maple syrup.

Right now I only use refined sugar to feed yeast in baking breads. Even then, it doesn't take much. I don't drink fruit juice and only occasionally eat whole fruit as a treat. That seems to work okay so far for me, so take it as you will.
don't. keep your side project separate form your job.
Sugar derived from cane and beet and honey are exactly as bad for your health as high-fructose corn syrup.
per usual I believe the issue here is that the government has been subsidizing schools which have created strange distortions. if Harvard were strictly private and received no government subsidies, funding or advantage a few things would happen:

1) poor people probably wouldn't be able to attend

2) it would be substantially more expensive

3) the acceptance rate would be much higher

ideally this would result in schools like UMass Amherst (which ironically is the best public university in Massachusetts - weird considering other states have better state flagships, but that's another issue) being able to compete far more effectively.

why would a smart poor kid ever go to UMass when you could go to Harvard for free? it has never made sense that you get better financial return from say, MIT, even though it costs the same as RandomPrivateU.
IMHO, this is what YAML is actually for.

YAML is “a superset of JSON”, yes, but there are two separate meanings to that:

• YAML has alternative syntactic sugar for expressing the same underlying JSON-equivalent semantics (sort of the same as Avro being canonically a binary compact expression of underlying JSON — in both cases, libraries for the codec expect JSON-encodable data structures as #encode input, and produce JSON-encodable data structures as #decode output)

• YAML has its own semantics (like node type annotations, or references) that JSON doesn’t have, such that documents that use these are no longer transposable into JSON.

I love bullet point #1. I hate bullet point #2.

Personally, I wish there was a name for the reduced subset of YAML that is still a “syntactic superset of JSON”, but which has none of the extended semantics of bullet-point #2.

Many systems that “consume YAML” already actually require their documents to be this “strictly-JSONifiable YAML”! Kubernetes, for example: it might seem to expose a YAML manifest API, but actually, internally, it does everything in JSON. All the resources in k8s etcd are stored in canonicalized JSON. The k8s controller just prettifies that JSON to YAML on its way out to you; and uglifies it back to JSON when you send it in. Which means that any YAML features that don’t survive that translation, can’t be used.

IMHO, if YAML hadn’t been designed with any extended semantics, but instead had strictly targeted being a “sugared alternative encoding of JSON”, I think everyone would have switched to sending YAML in place of JSON a long time ago. Browsers would have likely added YAML parsing as well.

But those added semantics are just so much extra work for everybody. Type annotations are source of so many vulnerabilities in programs that were unaware their input could “reach in and do things” through those types; and yet many YAML parser libs don’t have any flag to restrict them from decoding these type annotations (i.e. no way to “defuse the bomb.”) References change the entire way you have to write a YAML parser, disallowing some types of parsing grammar altogether, meaning you might no longer have access to the first-class parsing solution of your language runtime; meaning that for many runtimes, the YAML codec lib for that runtime is much slower — and memory-intensive! — than the JSON codec lib for the same runtime. Etc.

Honestly, if we could all agree on a name for “strict, JSONifiable YAML”, and create libraries that only parse/validate/accept that subset of YAML while rejecting the higher-level semantics, those libs—and that interchange format—would be immediately more popular than YAML. The time for this to happen hasn’t passed! We still have a chance!
The better way to do this would be if you could configure your preferences once and for all in the client which then transparently communicates it to the website providers.
> Do people here not realise that people give them bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies for that in exchange for tethers? If they were only a week late in converting it to USD they'd be up tens of billion in profit this year.

So they're speculating to cover their "1:1 Backing!", and relying on BTC still being hyped, like they said all along?

No, wait, hang on. They were the ones who said they received 1:1 USD inflow for each and every Tether printed.

Now you're like "mindless mob mentality!" while fully admitting that their claims all this were exactly as the mob said.

Tell me, what happens to Tether's ability to create backing out of BTC (or whatever) arbitrage and trading if and when BTC craters again?

> Bitfinex has banned US customers since 2017.

NY is still investigating and believes that Bitfinex has knowingly kept US customers while claiming that they don't.
You are wrong. Not every reply is saying that.
the old reddit UI is a lot better and you can still use it. The new reddit UI has been around for a while now, and I think it's actually getting slower. I really tried to like it, but I opted out a month or two ago.
The code, which is backed by Labor and will become law, sets out a framework for forcing Google and Facebook to broker commercial deals with media companies for the value they obtain from having news content on their platforms. Facebook and Google have both fiercely resisted the code, describing it as “unworkable” and threatening to curtail their services in Australia if it passed unamended.

I don't see the big deal about this. FB and G have done well in monetizing their work and good fortune in centralizing people's attention and some part of the value is derived from FB and G's linking association with content providers like newspapers and such. Those companies are seeking to capture some of that value through a law. The law conceptually seems to favor private negotiations with a tax or tariff-like backstop.

This wouldn't be an issue if FB and G hadn't done so well in centralization or if they had been craftier in disguising it. As it stands, Australia seems to be saying "nice business model, shame if something happened to it." One might not wish governments to behave like gangsters but seems pretty standard for tariffs. Getting too far ahead paints a target on your back.