skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used TripleByte to recruit people for a startup without paying, by asking people to sign up for the test and screenshot the answers and collecting the scores at the end. I already had an inbound funnel, I just liked your test when I saw it the first time.

In 2015, candidates with the same schooling scored about 20 percentage points lower than 2020, the last candidates I used the test for. The number of questions doubled, and then the test got much easier, by eliminating more challenging programming questions and replacing them with questions with giveaway context. By comparison, according to my data, about N=43, until about 2018 being a senior versus a junior in college CS programs is worth about 10 percentage points on the test; going to Harvard instead of Berkeley is also worth about 10 percentage points. In 2020, the last tests had no predictive features.

I stopped using the test, because it became too easy and too noisy to be informative.

I recognize some of the coded language in the blog post. There are definitely more lucrative opportunities in recruiting for DEI. I don't know if it will last. If you're still jittery about the public-profile-by-default thing, which by the way, was totally irrelevant and overblown IMO, this may not be a pivot for you.

One thing I see in the data is that at MIT, women and men performed the same, controlling for seniority. This wasn't true at the 3 other universities that produced enough data to measure.

That said, what really is the best way to hire candidates? I'm not convinced having binders full of engineers is special, there are almost always more candidates than jobs, at least 5:1, in every non-credentialed industry vertical. Anyone who has worked at a jobs (or indeed any matching platform, like the Common App or Tinder) knows that.

Then there's this long thing about asymmetries or whatever, warble garble about missing information... It has never, not once been my experience that someone seeking a subordinate role at a typical private company with preferences like "pair programming" or whatever have ever been better than someone with no preferences at all.

Maybe it helps to engage in the vanity of whatever trendy workplace trend is hot for whatever vertical. But like, if you're being intellectually honest, if you thought pair programming was important, you'd pair program at TripleByte, but you don't, you know in your heart of hearts none of that shit matters, so why are you putting stuff like that into your search system?

Indeed and ZipRecruiter are ad arb companies. They don't care. Private universities lead, not lag, DEI at giant companies, so it's hard to see how to compete against them in that core business. It will still come down to a real defensible opinion.

Do you have more valuable inventory than ZipRecruiter for DEI candidates? Who knows. What an uninteresting question. Apple also hires people who just make shit up on their resumes, I know two - though they weren't engineers.
8000./9000000000. == 8.888888888888889e-07

Scaled to a $150,000 salary, this would amount to a waste of 13 cents.
FWIW, this isn't really true as you get some experience under your belt and have a stronger resume (meaning, having worked at companies that people know of with a clear story of how your own role made a big impact there).

But glad you figured out an approach that worked for you!
I think for as long as the rest of the world wants to export its goods and services to America in exchange for dollars. Maybe a better question is who in the world wants to be the importer of last resort ? Who wants to run trade deficits ?
Trade deficits are a real benefit to the importer and real cost the exporter, but it seems the rest of the world doesn't get this. They want to manufacture using sweatshops, polluted air, local natural resources, so that we can have our Iphones and Teslas and they can have electronic digital dollars in the bank. We should keep doing this till they stop.
I generally agree, but this doesn't work in countries that restrict cross border movement of their own citizens.

North Korea neither gains talent from abroad nor loses talent to other countries. Europe loses talent to the United States. It's a flawed comparison, but North Korea is not a better place to work and do business than Europe, which this comparison would imply.
The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine [pdf]
> ...felt that the tone of the comment came a little too close to...

Making assumptions as to intent or meaning because of percieved tone isn't very charitable. You are correct in that you are far from the only one to do so. I do it sometimes too, but that doesn't make it productive.

I am not saying you shouldn't acknowledge how the tone came accross and explain how frequently that sentiment is faced. I am saying you should do that while assuming the best possible intrepretion of the comment you are responding to.

> ...think that those who do are just babies who need to stop being sad and go outside

While I don't hear that sentiment from other people very often, my own brain frequently says it to me; It isn't very helpful.
If this isn't a real apology then what would you say a real apology looks like?

Of the many public apologies I've read in the past this reads like an honest, genuine one. He admitted guilt, explained what he did wrong and did not try to justify it, and clearly stated that he apologizes. What's missing?
>Scamcoin hit a $70 million market cap within an hour, and PonziCoin absolutely would have hit a multi-million dollar market cap if the dev hadn't pulled the plug.

Fantastic. I genuinely was just coming up with those on the fly and did no research to see if any existed, but added "if it hasn't already happened" because I was still confident enough that some very likely did exist and very likely were successful.

My post with your reply feels a little like movie scene dialogue. (Perhaps Aaron Sorkin.) What a time to be alive.
It's not really a serious proposal, but as I see it there are four groups involved.

1) Ransom-ware criminals -- they are already breaking the law and are subject to criminal enforcement
2) Irresponsible businesses who fail to secure their critical systems
3) Hardware and software vendors who don't care enough about security because #2 doesn't care
4) Presumably innocent cryptocurrency users

Banning paying ransoms adjusts the incentives for #1, #2, and #3 in beneficial ways and leaves #4 alone.

I realize this wouldn't work in practice, so it's not really a serious proposal.
De-emphasizing Turing as an instance of focusing on non-US-centric history? Turing was not American! Furthermore, Church was American, but that quote is aggrandizing to Church while diminishing of Turing. I don't think that quote is an example of what you claim.
> Yet there's no way to bring that up without making people uncomfortable.

I'm pretty sure that there's plenty of ways to do that. What turns people off to the real, actual problems is casual and unhelpful claims like "the U.S. is an inherently racist/white supremacist country" or the like. What that looks like to outsiders is folks who want to seem like they're meaningfully talking about real issues that some might face, but all they manage to do is to be divisive and stir up pointless conflict for the heck of it. At that point, tuning out is a sensible response.
I agree, this doesn't feel like much of an apology.

In addition to the reasons you mentioned, it also only acknowledges a single event, when the original post describes multiple incidents spanning multiple years.

Furthermore, there's no statement that suggests he intends to change his behavior in the future.
Took a hard cs course with fellisen at NU.

Dude is ignorant to his toxic behavior, preaching egoless programming while being needlessly cruel during graded presentations.

I know many cs folks at NU refused to take his classes.
So yes, you're high? You are making so many weird assumptions and jumping to strange conclusions here. Or you're a Google shill, I honestly can't tell which.
It isn't exactly tightening. But the RRP facility does drain liquidity in 24 hour segments. It presents an interesting risk.

Here is a quote from a paper at the Federal Reserve itself from 2015:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/feds/2015/files/2...

"However, a facility that could allow a very rapid and unexpected expansion of ON RRP might
exacerbate disruptive flight-to-quality flows during a period of financial stress and thus could
undermine financial stability. Market observers and policymakers both have described such
risks. For example, the Minutes of the June 2014 FOMC meeting state that “[m]ost participants
expressed concerns that in times of financial stress, the facility’s counterparties could shift
investments toward the facility and away from financial and nonfinancial corporations, possibly
causing disruptions in funding that could magnify the stress” (FOMC 2014a). "
tldr: “I can’t remember clearly but think I had a bad day, sorry dude lol”
There are plenty of rural towns and homesteads with no cell or Internet service in the US where this is the reality 24/7. Even here in the Bay Area in the Santa Cruz mountains and in Big Sur there are places like that and people living a fully disconnected lifestyle.

So from a personal / family point of view, it would probably feel like the 80s or early 90s. You'd have modern amenities with landlines being the primary form of connection.

From a business / services perspective, places would have to have more robust backup and service continuity systems in place to keep things running smoothly during the outages. But this is just best practice anyway, so I'm not sure it would have as big an impact as we might think.
Did we read the same article? After reading your comment and then clicking through to the article, I expected to see a half-ass “I’m sorry that you over-reacted” or something.

Instead, I saw was seems like a clear and genuine apology that takes responsibility for their actions and overtly admits that they were wrong rather than equivocating.
In a bull market, the craziest person with the loudest horn is the biggest genius.
I do recall that now, that even if announcement was not done, search was still possible. The core problem is that your phone number is you ID. Not a fan of that personally
Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1973777
Me too! It can't be any slower than 2019!
11 dBi Yagi Antenna for TV White Space (470-862 MHz) is my choice for extreme penetration. It's several feet long.

I don't trust the specs of the parabolic antennas on the market. They are supposed to be better but I have heard from multiple reviewers on multiple products that their specs are wrong and they simply don't deliver high gain at low frequencies when advertised to be tuned for 4G LTE. I think it is because to cover 4G LTE bands fully you need to support a ridiculously wide range of frequencies from 600 to 2200 MHz.
My low frequency LTE yagi is awesome for difficult wooded areas. It can shoot through at least 3 miles of trees.

I think your Proxicast peaks at 11 dB gain and you need to check which frequencies that's valid for. With such a large frequency range spec'd on that you can't be sure you have high gain on all frequencies. It can drop off drastically on important bands.

That's why I have a dedicated yagi for low frequencies and a similar antenna to what you have for ~2 GHz bands.

I found through experience the best proxy for correct antenna aim is an upload speed test. And the best way to determine aim is by using cellmapper.net and calculating a compass bearing from your location, then using a compass (app) to aim your antenna. Not the more high tech metrics reported by your modem like RSSI and link quality. They can be very misleading in general and especially when the link is idle.
Doordash
> we almost try to convince people that it's simply not possible to be functional and you shouldn't even try

That's not really the way it is, though I can see how you would get that impression. Coping strategies, trying to get the highest level of function out of myself on every given day, and learning how to set myself up for the highest level of function in the future are a big part of my approach to depression, complementary to the reflective, root cause-oriented approach that people associate with talk therapy. My depression varies in a range that includes "not depressed" (I mean, assuming I know what that is) and that is the state I "strive" to achieve as much as possible, using all the means at my disposal.

The thing is, everybody understands the concept of "just try not to be depressed," and they already overestimate its effectiveness, so we don't spend a lot of time talking about it. What people don't get is why it doesn't fix everything, so that's the part we try to explain. To begin with, the reason I put "strive" in quotes: it's not really the right word for trying not to be depressed, because "striving" is sometimes counterproductive and sometimes not even available as a tactic, so you have to try by not-trying, and if that sounds like a catch-22, well, it 90% is.

If you compared chronic depression to a chronic knee injury, you could compare "just try not to be depressed" to using the knee as normally as possible. It helps you get stuff done despite the injury, it's important for maintaining good movement patterns, it helps keep all the muscles around the knee strong so you don't injure yourself further, it's generally a positive thing for promoting whatever degree of long-term improvement is possible (which is near total for some people and not much for others, and you don't know how it will be for you,) but it doesn't cure the injury, and you learn from hard experience that arbitrarily pushing yourself can inflame the injury and set you back.
I read it as I didn't understand how my actions were received, how I made you feel, that was not my intentions and I let other shit going on in my life feed into my grievances of that meeting. I always had so much respect for you that I thought you could be the best replacement for me (a big compliment)

I think he could be clearer on his delivery and it's obviously somewhat new territory given the context but I felt like I read a sincere apology accompanied by personal life lessons
The game using Wasmer is currently fairly early in development, but we have a few games in production built using various technologies, with the most recent one that I worked on done entirely in typescript. Both this previous game and the upcoming game are fast-paced action games. As much as I enjoy typescript, there are lots of annoying things that crop up in game dev in particular with regards to memory management, such as needing to pool instances of small classes, etc, so I figured it's time to switch to rust+wasm since the ecosystem seems mature enough now for it and Rust is a joy to program in.

The architecture of the games are such that the main game logic runs both on the client and the server. The server runs the logic to provide the authoritative game state and send it out to all the clients, and the clients run the logic to predict where they're going to be immediately after you press an input to compensate for the network latency. Since the client is predicting what will happen using the same code paths, the game logic need to be completely deterministic so that it desynchronizes from the server as little as possible.

With the TS/JS game we essentially just hope that running the same JS bundle in node and any client browser produces the same results for all the collision/gameplay math, and it seems to luckily not cause us any problems. For the game in rust though, compiled and optimized native rust floating point math would drift from our client webassembly builds surprisingly quickly, so we decided to pack all the shared logic in to a wasm bundle that gets loaded on both the server and the client, and we're using Wasmer to do that :)

The Wasmer API is super ergonomic and it's been a pleasure to work with. I think the only thing that would make our lives better that I can think of is being able to ignore imports and have them auto-bind to noop functions or functions that immediately return zero in the case of non-void imports. Since we're using the same wasm bundle for the client and server, there's a bunch of client-only rendering bindings that we just ignore and never call from the server-only and shared wasm code in the bundle, and currently we're using a hacky script that uses wasm-objdump to generate a rust module with a bunch of noops in imports!{}.
The valuation game in Tesla is over. Elon won.

The nature of the game changed once Tesla was added to the S&P 500. Now there is a lot of passive money that flows into Tesla stock on a daily basis.
> Because ADHD is a real situation for some people, and for others it's a way to legally take class-B stimulants.

In some cases it's really clear, in some others it isn't. A few of my friends did better than me in school, and they had access to Ritalin. They were pretty good student while I was a problem child. I never really explored the option during school as I didn't really know how it worked and what ADHD was. I tried it later in life and it helped with work. Ritalin probably would have helped me during school. But was it because of some "real" ADHD? Was it because it's a stimulant and it helps anyone? Was my ADHD more or less real than them? I know that for them Rilatin and ADHD was a part of their identity, so maybe they convinced themselves they couldn't work without it? I don't think there's any good and objective way to measure that. Should I feel guilt when I take Ritalin now? I can function without it, but they can too. It's just far from optimal.
> It would be unethical to subject someone to that risk for no possible benefit.

Let's take two people, say me and Einstein. Let's say Einstein has super-severe ADHD and thus performs so poorly that he can fairly be compared to me.

Is there really "no possible benefit" to curing that ADHD? Keep in mind that the real Einstein discovered relativity, and uh... I'm just going to say my contributions to science have been a bit less dramatic.

I don't think it's at all unreasonable to posit that there are plenty of people who are gifted enough to compensate for their mental issues, but they'd still benefit if they could fully apply themselves instead of wasting half their talent mitigating such issues.
It is. If you are competitive you don't need to be around people who try to one-up you to feel bad when they do in fact manage to one-up you.

You will go and reaserch info on how other people are doing with their finances or private life or twitter followers or whatever the arena is.

And you'd do so out of your own volition. This is very easy nowadays with the Internet
40 lines for a text editor?

https://kparc.com/edit.k
Summary of several HN replies:

“Yeah, yeah, whatever. Saying you’re sorry doesn’t cut it. You need to pay for it before we will accept your apology.”

Hence, cancel culture.

Edit: There’s no need to therefor assume the dude is totally changed based on one apology, but good grief people. The lesson I’m learning here is, “Never apologize. It will do no good and will simply drag the situation out longer.”
Have you had any benefits? For example, has it made you much more accepting of the mental quirks of other people?

I really appreciate your disclosure of something so intimate, because it brings a sense of wonder into my world, and it reminds me we never really know what is going on in the minds of our friends (let alone my own mind!). Thank you.
Also,
pi = C/d

in geometry notation :)
you could just set up a file system listener and then trigger recompiles at some arbitrarily decided-upon interval of time. Doesn't seem like a huge pain otherwise.
this kind of thing unfortunately is an old issue, people think they can just dump computers (or musical instruments as another example) on students and it will be enough

as usual, its the hard work to set up the infrastructure, courses, support etc for the students and teachers that is needed and almost never gets done

as they say, the music isnt in the piano, same with computers
Both Bob Seger and Iggy Pop became famous performing at the famous Grande Ballroom. Along with Ted Nugent, the MC5, Alice Cooper and many, many more.

The Grande like many Detroit buildings is an absolute wreck. Any other city would have led restoration efforts of this famous Rock temple before now but the city lacks funds and it's in the worst area of the city.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Ballroom
Ammon not Aaron. Apologies
Spoke German among many other foreign languages, but his native language was Hungarian.
Ask HN: What are your goto no code platforms for building mobile apps
Hello HN,
I’m trying to build a content focused app with features such as

1. Ability to buy and read books within the application

2. Handling payments and user sign ups so they can log into the app and read the books they bought.

There’s not much complexity besides handling payments and saving user info for login and login

I would love to hear the input from the community on what platforms they have used to build apps without code.
No running away inflation? According to what? CPI?

Many people who live in the real world know that CPI is a garbage measure of inflation and life is increasing in price faster than they say.

CPI doesn’t even measure the right thing: inflation is a monetary, not a price phenomenon. It’s not things getting more expensive, it’s the value of money growing less. But they don’t publish the m2 money stock charts any more. Wonder why?
One of the problem with recruiting is not just power imbalance but information asymmetry (or even plain lack of information).

What Triplebyte is trying to do is give more information back to job seekers. But it will be limited to the companies they actually work with (and punishing your own clients sounds like a peculiar business model...)

Why not build a Glassdoor for hiring, that would cover the entire industry? Anyone can go and describe the hiring process they went through, if they heard back or not, etc.

Does such a thing already exist? If not, why not?
this response absolutely sucks shit
"To understand why native graph technology is so efficient, we step back in time a little to 2010 and the coining of the term index-free adjacency by Rodriguez and Neubauer. The great thing about index-free adjacency is that your graphs are (mostly) self-indexing. Given a node, the next nodes you may want to visit are implicit based on the relationships connecting it. It’s a sort of local index, which allows us to cheaply traverse the graph (very cheaply, at cost O(1) per hop).

Neo4j manages to keep traversal costs so low (algorithmically and mechanically) by implementing traversals as pointer chasing. This implementation option is available to us precisely because we bear the cost of building the storage engine..."[1]

"Each node (entity or attribute) in the graph database model directly and physically contains a list of relationship records that represent the relationships to other nodes. These relationship records are organized by type and direction and may hold additional attributes. Whenever you run the equivalent of a JOIN operation, the graph database uses this list, directly accessing the connected nodes and eliminating the need for expensive search-and-match computations."[2]

Resources if you're curious:
[1] https://neo4j.com/blog/computer-hardware-native-graph-databa...
[2] https://neo4j.com/developer/graph-db-vs-rdbms/