skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> at Facebook the general hiring process is in two steps. There’s a centralized hire/no hire that most people are aware of and then a second phase where team selection happens

This is not quite how it works. I was a hiring manager at Facebook for several years. It is made very clear to EMs that team selection is not a second interview or extension of the hiring process. We do not consider team selection part of hiring.

Now, obviously there is a degree of self selection. And if you have multiple engineers coming from boot camp you can, of course, choose an engineer you feel would be more successful. That’s OK.

But I couldn’t turn an engineer down because I felt they wouldn’t be a good ‘fit’ on my team: they’d already been through the hiring process. Conversely, it absolutely can and does happen that people go through the specialist interview loops and end up in a completely different role. For example, you could have spent your entire career writing iOS client code and join a backend server team, no problem.

That’s the theory, in practice of course for some people it does turn into a second phase of hiring, which is very much not the intention.
The big deal is that «any new “currency” or speculative digital token that doesn't have a fair distribution mechanism is a multi-level marketing pyramid scheme by default. Hence, not a currency. The earliest adopters of such flawed contrivances will always have an increasingly disproportionate amount of the total wealth as it gets adopted. Early adopters mine or buy large proportions of the total supply at negligible costs while late adopters mine or buy negligible proportions at large costs. It follows that holders immediately have every incentive to get as many people to buy after them.» —https://www.cynicusrex.com/file/cryptocultscience.html
Simple: don't be poor and know people (/s).

The other important question is whether a retail investor can join it. I know someone like baobabKoodaa [1] would shout from the rooftops, "You're moving the goalposts, grandparent, waaaaaaaaaaah!" Well, I'm not grandparent, so my goalposts are completely different from theirs.

My goalpost is whether a retail investor like me can get in on those high-flying funds. If not, then in the retail universe, they may as well not exist. Thus, I'm better off investing in VTI/VXUS and using the rest of my spare time coming up with some funny ways to challenge my party in a D&D one-shot.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=baobabKoodaa
If it helps, a robot will be doing their job in 5 years.
> a measuring square

Obviously was a smartphone, given by the extraterrestrials who helped constructing that temple and pyramids.
Surround Sound in Headphones
Both readily addressable issues with legislation that have long ago been addressed in many places.
Thank you for taking time to explain yourself.

My interpretation of their "discredited" is very different from yours. I did not take it as saying anything at all about the nature of the universe, as such, but only about the purely human activity of hustling Theories of Everything.

Ineffability is an interesting notion. If you have a theory that would work given complete information, but you can never get complete information, even in principle, is that ineffable? If you would need complete information to complete the theory (say, to choose among 10^500 possible variations) is that ineffable? Or just too hard? Can you really call it a difference?
The scrum master decides the work? Why has agile become such a mess?
What questions did the psych doc ask?

(Apparently included something about your childhood and animals?)
Some users like to be spoonfed and babysat till they're 80, smh.
Oddly enough, many people in Cambodia and Laos (Chinese next door neighbors) think the internet is synonymous with Facebook and YouTube.
> With index funds, nobody’s behind the scenes, dumping bad investments and selecting good ones.

That's not exactly true. There's people and committees decided what's in the index, and therefore, what's in the index fund.
I find it weird that in response to this idea that index funds are like socialism, nobody brings up all the positive things about socialism that might be mentioned in some other context.

For instance, an index fund that owns all the companies might not push them to rabidly compete, which looks bad from a traditional antitrust perspective, and as is typical, it's mentioned in this article.

But the same type of incentive means that they are under less pressure to do anything harmful to society in order to compete - damaging the environment, attacking workers rights and ignoring social justice, etc. It is a general way of internalizing externalities. But I never see that mentioned, despite how people love to talk about externalities elsewhere.
Well, humans are also extremely error prone. Spell check, IDE helpers, delinters, automated testing, etc, all help check that things are correct automatically, which saves huge amounts of pain.

I personally would always put more faith in someone who carefully checks their work than someone who thinks they don't need to. The second person is making mistakes and just doesn't realize it.
Stories like this are clearly intended to support the politics behind raising the min wage...and Business Insider is a known propaganda machine for the left.

What the story intentionally doesn't point out is that a hike in minimum wage wouldn't impact Wall Street bonuses whatsoever (or business exec salary/bonuses). The cost would be shifted to non-unionized middle class workers, such as software devs via wage stagnation and reduced benefit quality while at the same time inflation would soar causing reduced purchasing power of that salary.

You think people at the top care if there's one big lower class?
Yep. It could just be an app without a server. Keep the data on the phone. The app can find other users on the same wifi network by scanning the subnet or sending a UDP broadcast packet.

If you need to support remove users, then provide an "invite link" that you can text and it lets people download the app and then connect with you on the app. You don't need an account on a server for that.

To make money:

1. Show an affiliate link to watch the movie on Redbox [0] or another pay-per-view streaming service.

1. Show local theater showtimes with an affiliate link to buy the tickets [1].

[0] https://www.redbox.com/affiliate-program

[1] https://www.fandango.com/affiliate-program
Apple can afford it and the reward is potentially huge! Consider it an advertising spend.
What does spending 8 hours in bed but only sleeping for 5.5 hours mean specifically, and how is this measured?

What is the expected amount of sleep for a healthy person that spends 8 hours in bed?
A lot of "mights" in that article.

Sure, index funds are freeloading a bit in the sense that they don't allocate any resources to scrutinizing the prospecta of each individual company, they just assume that other market players have done they homework.

This would be a problem if every investment was passively managed but that's not the case and it will never be. If we ever came close to that, then actively managed funds would outperform the passively managed ones by large margins.
Yes. It's your wage that's the issue, not theirs. Feeling like you deserve more, should never be a reason to deprive others. New Zealands cost of living is extremely high, and wages need to be commensurate to allow ordinary social reproduction - marriage, children, rent, groceries.
I don't think that one size fits all. Maybe there should be different versions of a website to handle different needs.
I’m pretty skeptical at this point that masks made any difference. Here in Southern California where everyone wears masks indoors, and even the majority of people wear them outdoors. Yet we still ended up with some of the highest infection rates in the country. I’d wager if we gave the people who are most susceptible to the disease N95 masks, we’d have seen a much lower hospitalization and death rates.
The parent is not continuing the practice, and has not for 18 months.

It is noted in many sleep science studies that you cannot “recoup” lost sleep so this is plausible.
No it won't. A human will be flipping those burgers and serving them to customer.
So doing something so disruptive is better than doing nothing even if we end up with the same result anyways because... At least we did something?

Even if that's true, I keep hearing that argument and I think I'll keep hearing it a lot in the future which makes sense as we try to justify what happened. But it's not based on reality considering that the anti lockdown side had a pretty clear plan: quarantine those most vulnerable, spend any fraction of the enormous resources we spent on locking down everything on making sure to provide for those people. That way we could've also focused the testing capacity & PPE on a lot less people, making it that much easier to isolate them from the virus. Instead of allocating thr same amount of resources regardless of how at risk someone was.

You can disagree with the position but I'm not sure how you could argue that it's "doing nothing".
> gcc: error: unrecognized command-line option ‘-fanalyse’; did you mean ‘-fanalyzer’?

;)
Not peer reviewed. Small numbers. Nothing to see here but FUD, move on.
the price of expo is lock in
Depends on the incentives, doesn't it? Most companies are for-profit, they don't have any incentive to do good beyond what PR requires. If you set a company up as a cooperative, you'd likely see different results. It's pretty common for housing in Germany, I'm a member of one and am living in one of their apartments. I pay below market rate, they take great care of the project, are super responsive to issues and they usually pay 4% dividend to all members.

I don't know of many cooperatives that do "normal" business, but I don't see a reason why e.g. a cellular provider couldn't run on the same model, being perfectly aligned with their customers' interests, because the customers are also the owners. Mondragon Corporation in Spain comes to mind, but I have no idea whether they're friendly to smaller competitors.
I must confess I did something similar a long time ago, when hard drive space was expensive. I converted all my 4MP photos to 1024x768 - that was the biggest screen resolution imaginable at the time on the "huge" 17" monitors. Everything bigger was just megapixel race.

Fast forward 10 years and I still have all the resized photos in my phone (cloud), but even the small phone screen is so good that you can easily see the difference.

I've also noticed that people's habits change, I see more and more people flipping trough pictures on their phones and zooming in on the ones they like.

Who knows what picture viewing habits we will have in 10 years. Maybe with some VR implants we will want to enjoy our old photos in all glorious 12 megapixels.
I don't think comparing Google (Play Store) and Apple (App store) really compare here. Google does let you just publish your app, Apple doesn't

1. The author could have offered an .apk outside the play store. Yes, friends would have had to enable side loading so that sucks but once enabled it's trivial to install .apks. This is no different than MacOS or Windows at some level. No similar option exist on iOS

2. The author could have used Progressive Web Apps and just skipped the store entirely on Android and send friends a link. Again, no similar option really exists on iOS.

The situation to me is, Google provides one app store of many. A quick search for "Android App Stores" brings articles listing 10 or more alternate stores. The fact that the "Play Store" won't take your product is no different than your local supermarket not taking your product. As long as you can still reach your users directly or make your own store then it's all good from my POV. Google has made Android so all of that is possible. Same as Windows/Linux/MacOS

Apple on the other hand, it's the App store or GTFO.
You realise your point is moot right? The economic arguments against the minimum wage rely on the idea that it's a necessity to underpay for business to function. The less people underpaid, the less strong the argument for having to ensure a low or no minimum wage.
"Worse than Marxism". For investment fund managers, that's the worst!

"You might make marginally less profit on your share trading ... that's worse than Marxism!
We sold our first million vaccines - article: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-safric...
It could also be a function of their jobs, which weren't specified in the abstract.

While insufficient sleep might cause physical discomfort and contribute to long-term health problems, if their job weren't highly physically or mentally demanding, I suspect that most people could get through the day with negligible detriment to their short-term economic output after having a cup of coffee.
As does an adult with a family.

People who work full-time deserve to not live in poverty.

You make it sound like having a society where hard working people can feed their family is unfair to you.

It's not. You're wrong.
The question isn't whether or not it can happen, I think everyone agrees that this virus can spread through both presymptomatic and asymptomatic individuals.

The question is how common is it? How large a percentage of all cases are caused by it? And the whole "always wear a mask" hinges on asymptomatic/presumptomatic spread being high.

Because if it isn't high, then we're focusing on the wrong thing, we're needlessly being suspicious of every single random stranger, we're choosing something that's easily virtue-signalable, over things that actually stop the spread.
There are two big forces driving this divergence.

First, the last 50 years have seen a series of "one off" increases to global labor supply. Between Asia and former communist countries, American workers have been forced to compete in an environment dominated by the largest globalization of labor ever. That competition pushes wages down for anything that can be done outside our borders.

Second, as the issuer of the world's reserve currency during this period of massive globalization (while all this increased trade is creating a demand for dollars overseas), America's financial sector is involved in exporting dollars the way Norway exports oil. So Wall Street is sitting at the center of an incredible boom driven by international forces + the increased financialization that has come from having an artificially strong dollar (kind of a Dutch Disease for us, where the "sector" thats growing is the dollar-printing sector). Most dollars are printed using private debt, so Wall Street is basically the Saudi Arabia for dollars.

Given these two forces, of course Wall Street compensation was going radically outpace the minimum wage. (Not that I would/could have predicted that in 1970 if I had been alive then.)
Hi, I'm not sure I follow this idea that passive investors don't lend their shares. Is that meant to describe the hypothetical world of no active traders, as discussed above, or is it meant to describe the present situation in the investing world today?

In the world as it stands today, passive ETFs and index mutual funds are a huge source of shares to lend. It's one of the ways they can lower the cost of the passive fund (or slightly increase returns above the passive benchmark), as the proceeds from lending shares are returned to investors in the fund. (Not always, but the good ETF operators do this.)
Of course none of that enters the discussion anywhere. It's just assumed that seeking short term profit is the natural thing to do.
I'm curious about how an interview process would work, if you got to design it? What elements would it include, and not include
Child Bankrupts Make-a-Wish Foundation [video]
There's little evidence that this is sleep related. There are a lot of people who aren't detail oriented and rely on spell check, for a very wide variety of reasons.

If you feel this has impacted your life to the point where you need to hide your identity, maybe you should try therapy or a medical examination. Or just get more sleep
I'll need to dig up the study but this has been looked at. At the end of the day it doesn't matter if some fraction of people can still get sick what matters is the reduction.

I think that I've seen (again i need to dig good up) is the vaccines reduce likelihood of getting sick substantially. Much more important is the reduction of death and severe illness. Which I think most vaccines do well against.

Also in any case none of the variants have been so different that one would need a substantially different vaccine. So a variant vaccine can be produced much easier now
Shouldn't c-suite compensation tend toward the minimum it takes to keep c-suite folk alive?
> ...wearing masks which have become semi-religious in their belief even though there isn’t really any actual solid RCT evidence

My favorite example of how it's become semi-religious is people wearing them on outdoor walks in the suburbs where, worst case, they'll with within 6 feet of someone for a total of 30 seconds. The virus spreads very poorly in those conditions. Ironically, you're more likely to get the virus at home from a family member, but there's been minimal push for masking at home because it's political suicide.
Maybe the intent is for it to be read as "If you're using pytorch and numpy, it's _very_ likely you're making this mistake", but the effect is still that the headline is clickbait
It’s also not hard to notice.
The same can be said for other drugs that raise monoamine neurotransmitter levels, such as amphetamines.
Hey man just wanted to say don’t give up. It will end but requires resilience to get through.

I’ve found if I focus my mental energy on the things in my life I can control rather than the things I can’t, I am much happier.

I felt suffocated from the lockdowns here in Europe and took a vacation to one of the only country accepting tourists and sunny. I was judged and mocked by my coworkers but I didn’t care it’s none of their business. In planning my trip, there were tons of what if’s and worries about flight cancellations or if the lockdown becomes stricter but I was prepared to accept whatever just to get some sense of normalcy. It helped my mental healthy immensely.
At current prices of approximately $20/terabyte I don't really care about storage space any more. I take an average of 500 pictures a month and store a lot of other data, and though I am running out of space on my storage drive right now it took years to fill those terabytes and adding another drive doesn't feel like a big deal. Do I need most of this data? Unlikely, but there are times I find myself going back to images or other data from years ago because of something I overlooked at the time. If I downsize pictures, there's no way to get that information back, whereas space is cheap. I wonder if the author might not be better off with a good vector converter, which would save plenty of space but still provide beautiful image quality at any scale, now or in the future.
So, McDonalds employees should not have a good salary because... It hurts your feelings? I've seen better arguments.

You are playing exactly in the game that the extremely wealthy want you to play. Being disdainful or even hateful of the teenager that flips burgers all day long, while they delegate their entire work, do nothing but lines of cocaine and jet-ski while you kill yourself working 50 hours a week (most likely for them, too), earn hundreds to thousands of times your salary, yet the shit job that is making burgers is the problem?
It probably wouldn't be a good idea because demand would collapse, and there's no work without customers.

This is actually why economics is called the "dismal science", it's not because everyone hates economists, a slave-owner gave it that name because he was mad economists didn't like slavery.
No compression of json docs. Jsonb is even bigger than json text column. There’s an extension out there but it requires manual compression passes and doesn’t allow indexing. Might as well use SQLite
> If outsides are so safe why are curfews still a popular measure?

I think California's curfew in the fall was later seen as ineffective. Why are they popular?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician%27s_syllogism
This sort of inflammatory mind set is not helpful, and in this case the abstract describes they are actually getting adequate time in bed, just having interrupted sleep.

The causes of the interruptions could be manifold but i would hazard a guess that the primary cause would be interruption from young children in small domiciles and lack of could social responsibility within the neighbourhood.

I've experienced both having a young family and currently living in relatively low social economic neighbourhood. Just last night I was disrupted by someone deciding to burn something rather noxious at 0100 in the morning.
That irrelevant so long as the USA controls the world's money printing machine and has the biggest guns.
Which type of novelty-seeking web developer are you?
This is the same line of thinking that pins the country's economic performance to the stock market. Stock market performance is not a strong indicator of the country's economic performance.

Wall Street bonuses are up because Wall Street is making more money. Perhaps because Boomers have all their money saved up and invested with Wall Street banks that use it to make more money.

Businesses aren't making that much more money, and while CEO pay has exploded, there's usually only 1 CEO per company. Walmart's CEO makes $22m total compensation per year, if they made the same as their average employee you'd be able to pay each of the 1.6m US employees $14 more per year. Big whoop. The apparent value that the best CEO for the job can bring Walmart per year far exceeds $22m, but a cashier can be replaced by a machine.

What we're seeing are the effects of automation and the devaluation of replaceable workers it causes.

My recommendation? Middle managers all the way up to C-suite rent-seek when they ask people to do more without raising wages to compensate for the additional effort. Counter-rent-seeking is a totally valid, reasonable response: unionize.
Jack Ma retired completely from Alibaba in 2018....
The study shows that the Pfizer vaccine given in Israel is having similar lower efficacy for the South Africa and Brazil variants as has been the case with other vaccines.

Unfortunate but kind of expected. Why would Pfizer be special?
While it's true that very few people earn exactly the federal minimum wage, which is what your source is discussing, it's probably worth mentioning that "Currently, 29 states and D.C. have minimum wages above the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour." [1] Saying that "very few people earn minimum wage" while referring to federal minimum wage statistics is not particularly informative - and even the statistics you cite are somewhat misleading, as they refer to people earning the federal minimum wage or less, although it's implied that those earning less are mostly tipped workers.

It turns out to be somewhat difficult to find statistics for which fraction of workers earn their state's minimum wage or less; focusing just on California [2], it seems that at least 4%, or ~630,000, CA workers were earning at or below the CA minimum wage in 2017. In other words, the 1.3 million figure given as "the number of minimum wage workers" is almost certainly off by a large factor, once you take into account different minimum wages.

[1] https://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/state-min...

[2] https://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/data/oes-employment-a... the 630k figure comes from looking at the industries in the "State of California" summary sheet that have a "25th percentile" wage of 10.50 or less, then taking 25% of the workers in those industries to get a lower-bound estimate.