skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NovelAI prose generator enters public beta
The main problem we had with the contingency model is that it resulted in companies using us for a few of their "hardest" hires, rather than as a bread-and-butter part of their recruiting. For example, almost no one wants to pay a contingency fee on junior or remote hires (because they are perceived as 'easier'). This made our platform kind of suck for junior and remote engineers. The subscription model is more of a commitment from a company (I understand why some companies don't choose to use us.) But it means that once a company signs up, they want to make as many hires as possible through us.
Good thing you sold immediately when they vested.
Many years ago (2000s), and between graduating HS and starting uni I took at a job at warehouse that paid $18/hr after training and certs, $13/hr to start. That place was a butchershop chewing through guys young and old. It was a vicious cycle of working there, workmens comp, and back again. And I met more than a few guys who treated the job as temporary with workmens comp as the career objective.
Should we also then have a local road coop? What about a local water pipes and sewers coop? What about local school districts coop?

Why are some single-goal entities the right decision, why are other decisions better solved by a multi-goal entity?
Similar here! Vimwiki for the more timeless things (recipes, keyboard shortcuts, etc), Google Keep for the (multiplayer!) shopping list and several relatively transient todo lists.
My initial impression was "more of this garbage" - but it was really well done in the sense that it distilled the core functionality of the system in an easy-to-understand form.

The guy above you mentioned manga-guides to stuff, which utterly fail at their job, which again, is to distill key-information in an entertaining, easy-to-read, general (but fully accurate) manner.
Finally, I can learn what kafka is :D
Why did they call you instead of someone else?

Who set them up on GCP?
So what is this tech good for in the first place.
That is what courts are for- to interpret the spirit of a contract. There is a point where hiding deliberate pump and dumps/ fraud/ ponzi schemes through complicated tokenomics or incompetence (we couldn't predict all the edge cases) no longer is an excuse. At this point, there is really no difference between the approach to launching these half baked algo/backed stablecoins and deliberate fraud. It could be easy for a court to make the decision that the contract was designed to be complicated on purpose to hide deliberate fraud, or at least could determine the devs were recklessly incompetent and still responsible.
Local governments could get it just as wrong as federal government does.
Thank you for the kind words _/\_

If you've got any questions, feel free to ask them anytime!
Yes but I don't know if people would be willing to deal with those things now.
Crack has harsher penalties because black leaders asked for them because it was destroying black communities. An example of such a leader is Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), who is black and was one of the strongest anti-drug representatives. From his wiki page:

>In 1983, Rangel became chair of the Select Committee on Narcotics, which solidified his position as a leading strategist on this perennially important issue to him Rangel kept the committee going, in the face of the usual pressure to disband special committees. He battled against proposed cutbacks in the federal anti-drug budget, and advocated increased grants to states and cities for better shelters for the homeless. Rangel's amendments providing increased funding for state and local law enforcement were included in the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986. He traveled to countries in Central and South America and elsewhere to inspect the sources of drugs and the law enforcement efforts against them; Ebony magazine termed Rangel "a front-line general in the war against drugs." Rangel said "We need outrage!", making reference to the slow reaction by both government and religious leaders to the epidemics of crack cocaine, heroin, PCP, and other drugs that hit American streets during the 1980s. He believed that legalizing drugs would represent "moral and political suicide". Nor did he refrain from criticizing those most affected by drugs, saying that Hispanic and black teenagers had no sense of self-preservation, and that drug dealers were so stupid that they had to eat in fast-food places because they could not read a menu. By 1988, Rangel was saying that President Ronald Reagan had not done enough in the war on drugs, but that First Lady Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" campaign had been quite valuable. The narcotics committee itself was termed possibly the most important select committee of its time. The Washington Post said Rangel was "in a powerful position to shape policy on an issue at the top of the nation's agenda". He would remain as chair of the committee through 1993, when it was abolished along with other House select committees.

Rangel is far from the only black leader at the time who wanted harsh penalties for drugs. So while it is true that crack has harsher penalties that other drugs because black people use it, it isn't true that those penalties are because of racist white people. It was destroying black communities, and black leaders wanted a fix, and they thought harsh penalties would work.
The hot new Ponzi scheme is EMAX, which even has celebrity endorsement! What could possibly go wrong. If you want to see an endless number of other Ponzi coins, check out /r/cryptomoonshots
A small bit of feedback here. I tried TripleByte a couple of years ago and the experience was really polished. I passed the interview and got great detailed feedback which I really appreciated.

However, I dropped out completely because TripleByte wouldn't let me see companies without entering in a desired comp number. My recruiter at triplebyte said I could just put in "$1 or $1,000,000" to get past it, but that just feels like the same kind of corporate HR bullshit that people have complained about for years. Just Google "recruiter won't proceed without desired salary" and you'll understand how many folks dislike that question.

The experience made me feel that Triplebyte wasn't interested in putting me in control of the process at all if they have such a user hostile requirement and require me to work around it by putting in fake numbers. I understand that many people will have no problem providing this info, but I prefer to see what companies offer me because it tells me how they value me and the position they're hiring for.
The issues is that we are missing the "why" of how most antidepressants work... so do they also qualify as pseudoscience?

In my mind, psuedoscience isn't just missing the "why/how it works" but also the "who/when it helps" and as a result don't have clear statistical backing.
Blog post which comments on the paper

https://joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com/2021/06/17/is-aging-i...
I quite enjoyed this podcast about this time:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/69ec4DsblB3utgO1PEkLOh?si=3...

Also can't recommend the documentary Valley Uprising enough.
Honestly, I personally feel that the pandemic-led flooding of $$$ into the markets (led of course by the US Fed) has led to a lot of financial experiments like crypto, SPACs etc. succeeding beyond wildest expectations (at least for long enough) creating "economics thought leaders" out of people who espouse them, who then go on to espouse their cockamamie, naive ideas onto the rest of society, since their rationale is that they "understand" some aspect of human society better.

Spoiler alert: They very very rarely do. And when the market as a whole corrects, I'd expect a lot of this babble to quiet down (Remember Chamath?).

"In a bull market, everyone is a genius"
Outstanding! Purchased the eBook. Will read to my son who wants to be a coder when he grows up.
A couple Google searches show that Amazon is the second largest employer with somewhere between 900k-1.3m employees depending on source, and an average tenure of one year. Completely back-of-the-napkin here, but seems like they'd burn through a million workers a year. Google also says we have ~10m unemployed people in the US. I would guess they could over-fish the labor pool at those numbers over a number of years.
Please please put the ScriptProcessorNode back in the spec.
Getting more useful results with differential privacy
If you can emulate blocking calls in user space for backward compatibility, that is probably best. But I wonder about process scheduling. Blocked threads don't get rescheduled until the kernel unblocks them. Can you tell the kernel to block a thread until an io_uring state change occurs?
It is hilarious but man, you would be really surprised how people choke on this. It's weird. People with 10+ years writing software can't do this sometimes.
I had super high hopes when Bryan was developing a MEG (magnetic and electrical signals) helmet... now that it's basically fNIR with some fancy scattering, nodding to you Dr. (infrared basically), he's left my hopes high and dry.

BOLD signals are great, but they are based on oxygenation of blood, which is a latent, and at best a second order effect for metabolic activity, which is then reference to be brain activity...

I'll have to dig up the studies, but if you've been paying attention on HN and elsewhere we are starting to find that 'strengthening' neurons with a fiber like substance around it reduces the electrical activity required to achieve the same neural-result. Combine this with recent papers saying that mice smell a rose with a different, migrating, set of neurons each time... and you end up thinking, damn... this really isn't the right approach to BCI / mind reading.
why are they doing this though? why?

Simply to boost national morale?
Redis has an official graph module called RedisGraph. Check it out.
For third party cloud-based Evernote/Workflowy/todo type services, I think I've only used OmniFocus that has E2EE.
I noticed there's one for sale: https://www.ebay.com/itm/154495674579

I wonder how rare these really were? Only 3,000?
Also more approachable than the little schemer :-)
I keep a pocket notebook.

Field Notes has been my favorite, though I'm experimenting with different brands. Pentel Kerry is my pencil.

https://fieldnotesbrand.com/products/original-kraft

https://www.jetpens.com/blog/pentel-sharp-kerry-a-cool-mecha...

Field Notes 3.5" x 5.5" notebooks are the size of a folded index card with only a few pages in them. So they comfortably fit in my pocket. Staple bound is relatively weak, but their relatively cheap price means that you can just keep buying them as they wear out (moving your legs / walking / etc. etc. slowly weakens the paper and tears it apart).

Realistically speaking, a Field Notes 3.5 x 5.5 is well balanced: I seem to run out of space roughly as the staple binding wears out. (I know people don't want to "waste paper" but.... I haven't found a good strategy for that. The small size and "disposable" nature of these Field Note books are superior in my experience)

Pentel Kerry is a "shrinking" pencil. It has a small size when its stored, but when you pull the cap off and put it on the back, it "grows" slightly and has a better balance for writing. Its a very slight effect, but the "smaller stored size" makes for a nifty pocket-pencil.

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> I make a mark on the back of my hand in ball-point and ONLY rub it off when the job is done. Eq (using your example) if I knew I had to lock a door on the way out I would write either an 'L'(ocked) or a D(oor) on the back of my hand.

Never erase in your pocket notebook (despite using a pencil). Just add more information later: cross out old information with new dates, if you're out of space write down a page-number where you can see more information on a particular subject.
But that's basically an example of what I'm suggesting to avoid (if cheap transportation is the goal, that is). You bought a car with tons of depreciation still to go and sold it cheap. The person who bought it from you for 3K isn't going to experience much if any depreciation from there. I'm suggesting, be that person.

My current commuter car I bought it for 4K eight years ago and the only expense is a yearly oil change and tires every few years. Since I don't commute anymore, thinking of selling it and have been getting offers for 5K.

My previous commuter I bought for 6K and sold 15 years later for 3K.
I'm a huge fan of Rich. Can't wait to add Textual to the toolbox.
Creating an enemy is politics 101 and routinely used by people of all walks of life. It's the easiest way not only to excuse your low performance, which is suddenly made to look good by comparison, but will also keep the people busy with worrying about that "larger evil" while you do your thing. Sets a low bar and distracts you from real issues.

The opposition would have crippled the country even worse, that other country violates human rights far more egregiously, and that other plumber would have needed even more attempts to get that "paranormal" leak fixed.
I found this update somewhat amusing: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/operations/update-on-our-vi...

"The first update I want to give you today is to a policy called Time off Task. If you’re not familiar with it, this policy is a way to measure the amount of time employees are logged on to the software tools in their work area...Starting today, we’re now averaging Time off Task over a longer period to ensure that there’s more signal and less noise"

It's going to be a long road to "Earth's Best" if this sort of thing is the best they can do.

Edit: Although not testing for marijuana anymore is actually noteworthy...I give them credit for that.
... and a small band of programmers quietly sneak out of the room ...

If your mechanic installs the tires in the passenger cabin, no one cares about the mechanics' lien. Depending on the judge they might not even care about the fine print on the back of the invoice, because installing tires in the passenger compartment is that dumb.
So far I'm finding that location search and routing is _faster_ than the last version of Maps was.

EDIT: Nevermind it was just the new app feel. It's about the same. (but still good)
It's not like fusion start-ups don't routinely make the HN front page :)
> many HR teams tell one another and engineering hiring managers that it’s “illegal” to assess candidate abilities on the way in the door, at all

From the position of a candidate this sounds like a poorly run company I'd have no interest in working for. I wouldn't want to interview with them.
” Turing machines can certainly produce results which are "unpredictable", in the sense that the only way to know what will happen is to run the program.”

This doesn’t seem true since all predictions are ‘running the program’
> You think literal geniuses can't solve sligtly challenging algorithm questions ?

(N.B. I was being a bit hyperbolic, but, yes, for example, I highly doubt Steve Jobs could.) The spirit of my point is that most smart people don't care about the kind of idiotic minutia typical hiring panels ask. They care about interesting/creative problems.
I can only take the author for her word, she didn't say anything like this in the article.
Right balance must be struck for extended police powers
Watch this

https://mobile.twitter.com/thehill/status/140521998971242496...

Then read website until you get bored of example after example.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27518459
From the vague claims, weird mysticism, and lofty goals, I would be very careful about this product. It smells very much like bs.
I was also referring to the role of restaurant general manager and owner (Sometimes same person, sometimes not), not just chef.
Yann LeCun: Energy-Based Learning Model
Honeypot?

How do criminals ever trust these sorts of things again?
Eminently avoidable as long as you're not wearing the color of your skin out in public.

That's really the crux of all of this. There are people for whom racism is an unavoidable, daily issue. Yet there's no way to bring that up without making people uncomfortable. After being told, "You can't talk about it here; you can't talk about it there", people will eventually say, "Fine, I'm going to talk about it everywhere, because no place seems to be any worse than any other."

I personally am very conflict-averse, and much prefer it when people remain very polite. But reading HN in particular, I've come to realize that a lot of people are still going to insist that racism isn't a problem in the US and demand that others not talk about it. They assume that if they're not seeing it then it's not a problem for anybody -- or worse, they're deliberately inflicting it and hiding among those who are merely obtuse.

I find that so offensive that it overrides even my conflict aversion.
The same psychiatrist from the hair dryer incident in the link has written about this. He's skeptical about ADHD being a discrete condition, and generally thinks that if ADHD drugs will help you focus, taking them is reasonable whether you're diagnosed with ADHD or not:

> Psychiatric guidelines are very clear on this point: only give Adderall to people who “genuinely” “have” “ADHD”.

> But “ability to concentrate” is a normally distributed trait, like IQ. We draw a line at some point on the far left of the bell curve and tell the people on the far side that they’ve “got” “the disease” of “ADHD”. This isn’t just me saying this. It’s the neurostructural literature, the the genetics literature, a bunch of other studies, and the the Consensus Conference On ADHD. This doesn’t mean ADHD is “just laziness” or “isn’t biological” – of course it’s biological! Height is biological! But that doesn’t mean the world is divided into two natural categories of “healthy people” and “people who have Height Deficiency Syndrome“. Attention is the same way. Some people really do have poor concentration, they suffer a lot from it, and it’s not their fault. They just don’t form a discrete population.

> Meanwhile, Adderall works for people whether they “have” “ADHD” or not. It may work better for people with ADHD – a lot of them report an almost “magical” effect – but it works at least a little for most people. There is a vast literature trying to disprove this. Its main strategy is to show Adderall doesn’t enhance cognition in healthy people. Fine. But mostly it doesn’t enhance cognition in people with ADHD either. People aren’t using Adderall to get smart, they’re using it to focus.

From: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/28/adderall-risks-much-mo...
They'll start to care pretty quickly when they get a visit from a 3-letter agency (just one example [0]).

- [0] https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/fcc-enforcement-bureau-tar...
I suppose I am a bit cynical but looking at the founder’s background I’m guessing she had some funding from somebody to get this venture off the ground. Would be shocked if her family connections didn’t play a part in getting this thing started.
Does IPFS do a good job of intermittently-online mostly-offline nodes with potentially non-linear updates?

Been spitballing the same concepts but with mobile phones (on a person or stashed on aircraft doing their weekly freight/mail run) where unused space is the bandwidth. Can move hundreds of gbs at zero cost but meh latency, as you’re imagining.
I can relate to this. She is bravely talking about a condition that is still somewhat taboo (mental health) in order to 1) help others understand her problem and 2) make it less taboo. This potentially helps her and others in a similar position. I do the same thing when talking about my son who is struggling with addiction, though I am very selective about who I discuss it with. It's surprising how many people have someone they know in the same position or are in a similar position themselves. But you have to talk about it before you find this out. Talking about it helps you (assuming the person you are talking to has some empathy) and gradually makes it more acceptable for the issue to be discussed in public. Good for her.
We've talked about things in this area, but this particular framing is pretty interesting. We're talking about it now.

I personally like this proposal and am probably going to at least draft a hypothetical spec of it and see how it fleshes out. Thanks for the suggestion!
Historically I've used bisect on codebases I wasn't familiar with knew there was a regression I was trying to fix. If you can automate your regression testing with a script git bisect is really powerful and will save you _a lot of time_. Although if it's easy to test given the logarithmic nature of bisect maybe writing the script might not be worth the time.
I didn't say she's a moderate. I just said she's a far cry from Taylor Greene.
Doctors are really good at cognitive dissonance. I think it's a professional hazard of having to compartmentalize.

Those same doctors are probably perfectly fine with handing out methadone prescriptions to addicts.
Cynically, I think they will adjust neither, and instead adjust Z: the number of people they need to work in their warehouses.

I'd be willing to bet that as they rely more on robots in their warehouses (sorry, "fulfillment centers") the worse the conditions will be--because they will be less reliant on people choosing to work there, or being able to keep working without getting injured or otherwise forced to quit.
Scott has OCD. Search for "obsessive compulsive disorder" here: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/11/going-loopy/
We used ArangoDB at my previous job. I liked it, though it was my first engineering job so I didn't get deep into the technicals. I thought it had a nice UI and query language
Nice. I expected Kafka to be a bird, not a river.
> I don’t think it’s particularly fair to compare him to people like Coltrane or Cannonball as they’re almost completely different genres. To me (I’m not qualified), it’s like comparing baseball players to cricket players.

I agree, it is not fair. However, a more apt comparison would be between a top 3 major league baseball player and a top 3 little league player. And many people enjoy watching little league games (often when their kids are playing) and are not interested in pros, and that's totally their right.

Edit: and I just realized my comparison is between Kenny G and Coltrane's performances. It is entirely possible, and even likely, that Kenny G can play at a high level, but he just gives his audience what they want.
If I owned a double digit percentage of voting stocks in a company, I'd work 18+ hour days too. I'm the one giving myself the permission to do that and I'm the one directly benefiting from the work financially.

But just for salary? Hard pass, thank you.
Not quite the same, but "Life on the Infinite Farm" https://www.math.brown.edu/reschwar/farm.pdf
The Arabs themselves colonized the area in the 7th century, but idiots will never accept this fact.
Something tells me that Algeria probably hasn't moved its entire social infrastructure online quite as aggressively as the US. Presumably there is still some offline telephony (POTS? Cellular service? SMS?) that functions to do almost everything that you listed.

Hell, we had credit cards and chain banking long before we had consumer access to the internet, and both of those require communication with a centralized authority.
Awesome! Love the illustrations and the subtle animations underneath.

Quick feedback: My nephew prefers page turns (curling) on their iPad. I assume that he prefers it over a powerpoint style slides that we currently have on your book. Well, at least he spent some time flipping through the animated pages!
I think this is an uncharitable response. There is nothing in this comment that implies the person posting it is not depressed.

I think there is a very fair point being made about the privilege of having the possibility of a four month vacation to deal with mental health issues. For many people, a four month break from one's responsibilities has a strong likihood of resulting in homelessness and/or permanent harm to employability.