skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Long before that there was IRC. I dunno exactly how old you are, but I'm 36 and IRC was definitely a thing during the 90s.
I feel like this is a bit too tech centric. Poor dopamine hygiene will ruin your life. Doesn't really matter if you're hooked on twitter or methamphetamine.

People who profit from encouraging poor dopamine hygiene will have an outsized influence on the people they've hooked, doesn't matter if you're managing an ad campaign in the US or part of the opium pipeline in Afghanistan.
Just so I'm clear: are you saying the DOJ is on whole more or less corrupted than the orgs "below" it?
First news item in a quick google search: "Cheap covid-19 antibody test shows if you have immunity in 5 minutes". Perhaps stop treating people like children that need to be lied to by omission 'for the common good'?

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2290120-cheap-covid-19-...
I think the film "Cube" is superior in this context, is about exactly your point: [SPOILER ALERT]

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Blind bureaucracy creating a city-cized torture device over the course of decades, everyone built a little piece of it, but no one knows what it is.
I also think he could prepare himself for such interviews. But, one week? Well, that depends:

- is it one week as in 7 days off, and spending at least 8h/day? Then I would say, it may be enough. It just takes one problem you haven't seen before (you haven't prepared for) and you are out.

- is it one week as in 5 days, and 2h/day (let's say, after dinner?). Then I don't think 1 week is enough. Around a month would be needed to match the previous scenario
> searchability

Forum representation is search results on Google in particular is abysmal. The way Google misrepresents the information mankind has created is actively making us less intelligent.
> What is complex is it being Lisp language which means you need to adjust your brain structure to a different level of functioning and focus when reading code.

Even if you do get proficient at this, there is still the problem that reading CL is not enough - it's CL + custom macro/DSL systems per project. Given a bunch of different projects and teams in an org, moving people around is easier with other languages because that second part tends to be less complicated. We have one team that decided to go all in on customizing the common frameworks, inventing their own with bespoke annotations and patterns so now they are basically isolated from the rest of the org and others dread working on projects that involve changes in that codebase.
And it's spreading!
It's not false in the current market. You can spend an order of magnitude less on each company just by learning algos once.
Please make it popular in the research field so you can spin up your own Sci-Hub!
apparently if I am not using <insert vpn> I am going to have cybercriminals litterally reach from under my desk and inappropriately touch me.

Reminds me of the old "ZOMG! Your computer is broadcasting an IP address!! Send us money to save your live!!11!eleventy!1" ads.
Yes the value of the site was much more clear when it was primarily a way to demystify references and slang in rap lyrics - in the same vein as Urban Dictionary.

But since then rap lyrics have gotten simpler and the site has expanded. It's interesting to compare early reactions from artists getting their songs annotated to its place in rap today.

"Rap Genius dot com is white devil sophistry" - Kool A.D., 2012
Growing bubble.io platform (tens of thousands forum members) community [0] use this since multiple years. And bubble community is one of the key aspects.

[0]: https://forum.bubble.io
Curious about how your solution is different / better than nmslib which I've tried in the past?
"Here's a historically hard problem that we've had and experienced for decades if not centuries with multifaceted origins and no clear answer"

HN: "Just use ML, seems pretty easy to me".

I don't meant to disparage you, but that is how your comment came across to me.
That's interesting. The things I was reading before the prices started coming down in earnest were all noting what you're saying here--that mills weren't expanding capacity. But they were using that fact as justification for their belief that prices would remain high since there was no reason to expect supply pressure to ease.
> What if you were being offered so much money that you felt you could achieve a greater net good with it than without?

"The ends don't justify the means" is also a principle. And it's a good one. 'Many a great evil has been done in the name of good' etc.

If someone won't kill their grandma for one billion dollars, they probably won't do it for 10 billion either.
No, someone else, but that one I wasn't even aware of, I wouldn't put it past her to do something like that on purpose to try to avoid jail - and quite possible end up with having her child paying the price for that.
The search engine doesn't do any type of re-ordering or synonym stuff, it only tires to construct different N-grams from the search query.

So if you for example compare "SDL tutorial" with "SDL tutorials". On google you'd get the same stuff, this search engine, for better or worse doesn't.

This is a design decision, for now anyway, mostly because I'm incredibly annoyed when algorithms are second-guessing me. On the other hand, it does mean you sometimes have to try different searches to get relevant results.
I don't disagree, which is why my original post talked about pricing technical debt retrospectively. You don't know when the bear will charge tomorrow, but past bear charges can be highly instructive if you learn from them.

My prod ETL process is an unloved mess, and we've had enough maulings occur to learn from it:

* I learned the problem – data models drift in the production app and changes aren't reflected / properly tested in the ETL or the analytics environment. And we don't have enough monitoring in place to catch the problem when it happens in the wild.

* I learned the cost of inaction – my analytics environment is responsible for $10mm of CARR, and I know the impact to customers when it goes down. Heck, I know how much customer credit has been given out due to SLA breaches, so there's a quantifiable price today.

* I learned the price to fix it - we've estimated the effort and run cost of the new solution.

Now I've got something that I can work with: customer acquisition says they've got $4m in the near-term pipeline? OK, great, but if we onboard them with a broken system we risk spending $+x in customer credits and risk damaging our reputation. And since it costs $y to fix it, and $x > $y, let's fix it.

I have plenty of other unloved systems that are in bear country but haven't mauled me (yet), but even then you can start thinking about risks. One system is small but critical for multiple products, so my exposure is "hey every single customer is getting service credits" – expensive enough to force the monitoring/refactoring work that it always needed. One of them serves logins for ~7k users but only for one customer so my financial exposure is bounded. We don't worry about bear spray when walking around there ;)
That's really all they're buying, right? The advertising budget, the name recognition, and the existing user contracts are the important things.

The software isn't anything special, and the hardware and network connections to actually run the VPN are probably a very small part of their margins - certainly not worth nearly 1 billion dollars.
Then the screening process just worked, and in a very efficient way! Theoretically, the question could even happen before the interview.

Instead of wasting time with somebody floundering tests and offering excuses, or even have a cringe situation. That is why i also like the portfolio candidate.
> Sadly, times change and the way people communicate also has changed. Traditional forums are no longer a popular place for people to come together to talk, and have been replaced in popularity with more modern community platforms like Discord, Twitter, and Twitch.

Isn’t Reddit that killed forums like 10 years ago? People who used to read Eurogamer’s forums probably read /r/games nowadays, and some more specialized subreddits (by platforms, by genres, by games, etc), and some other ones unrelated to video games.
> Crazy to see this endless iteration on ad optimization and maximizing screen time has made disinformation, polarization, and conspiracy so common. Really destroying society from the bottom up IMO

I'd argue the technology that did most of the heavy-lifting for disinformation, polarization, and conspiracy was AM radio, followed by cable TV. Smartphones, the web and social media were not the cause, but a natural progression of, and an amplifier of a pre-existing trend.

There are no technological solutions to the human condition, but technology amplifies aspects of it.
The fact that there is even the idea of a global reserve currency shows that the free market isn't as prevalent as people think. In principle people should be free to pick whatever currencies they want to conduct trade with.
Hats off to you, helping Javascript programmers break out of the matrix ;)
Contextually, I'm assuming the US, because they specifically mention Sirhan Sirhan, the Kennedy family, and high recidivism rates, all things applicable to the US justice system.
I'm kind of with your point but also not. You don't have to actually be a victim of cancer or even know anyone personally who has cancer, to help cure it. To say "it's privilege" is a weird way of phrasing it. It's just a person who needs to do better user research before building a product.
This specific example is kind of a bad place to prove that generally correct mindset.
No, it's not. You have no inherent right to others' work. You can pay the owners' requested price or you can go without. Piracy is neither legally nor morally defensible.
Maybe they both have a's and m's in them.
Thanks for your response! Hope you can implement this as well without too much trouble.

I wonder if you could just assume UTF-8 to be the default these days. I imagine that to fix many other cases as well.
NIH-funded research to address rising male infertility
For some reason we all enjoyed these experiences at my store. I think it helped that local management had just fundamentally given up, so we knew that as long as some somebody from the larger company hadn't scheduled a visit, we'd have plenty of time to slack off later. Which probably improved customer service, and we did have plenty of regulars, so good job management.

"Just get the truck done" could probably have been our motto.
Could you please clarify in what way? I think your accusation that she's lying is wildly off base, but the difference is that I cited an external source to validate my insinuation.
This is probably a bit unfair, because technically things like the object system and conditions and loop are part of the standard library, but they can also be considered part of the core language given their importance in much CL software.
It's actually an AB test—we know the annotations opening under the lyrics is disliked by some users, so we're working on an alternative 2-column design, which is currently in A/B testing.
Isn't this also a case of just... having bash skills? I feel like your two cases are just programmers that have different toolboxes under their belts -- the second candidate does not necessarily demonstrate more problem-solving skills than the first.
is there any advantage to using the mozilla vpn layer or just using mullvad directly?
As a Greek who's lived abroad and has taken a jab at a bunch of different languages, I always talked to my friends about how easy it is to understand most Greek words even if I've never heard of them before. Yes, there are a lot of etymological roots that change + exceptions but it is a lot simpler to make out (or make up) words than it is with other languages. Especially, ones that have a complex genealogical history like English. For example, chicken, turkey, poultry, bird are all different in English but in Greek you can find the word for bird in all of them (κοτόπουλο, γαλοπούλα, πουλερικά, πουλί). Btw this is also why I think that Greek is a relatively easy language to learn (but there isn't much material to get people started unfortunately :( )

TIL that a word I've been hearing and saying since I was 5 does not mean what I thought it meant and it's still baffling me haha made my day really
Yes, I think so. It's a large sales and marketing company which happens to rent VPN :)
I know a lot of people like to look down on their fellow Americans to the extent they even consider them to be so, but the hardest statistics we have on your concern is fatal gun accidents per year, and they've gone down from 800 to 500, actually 486 for 2019 from the CDC's most recent statistics, as the population has increased by 50%, the number of gun owners has massively increased and the number of guns owned by them has as much as doubled.

The "massive increase" is hard to get numbers for due to our culture war, but no one sane doubts it, and there's obvious reasons for it and the last fact which is on more solid ground, the nationwide sweep of "shall issue" or better concealed carry regimes and then add the "troubles" of the 21st Century starting with 9/11. And how many states went "Constitution Carry," we don't need no stinking licences this year? We're up to 21 total per Wikipedia.
You can be very incompetent and also be very powerful. It's quite easy when you have the powers of the state.

I don't agree with the comment you were replying to either, it's just that I don't really find this argument convincing.
Easy is not the point. Neither is “fair.”

I can usually do … OK … on these tests, but I’m probably mediocre, at best, as it’s often the first time I’ve encountered the test.

I tend to write naive code at first, and make sure the result is solid, then optimize. I will sometimes also experiment; trying out all kinds of harebrained stuff, before settling on even that “first try” code.

That workflow has worked extremely well for me, in my vocation, but does not present especially well, in quick whiteboard tests.

My workflow results in very high-quality, performant code, but iteratively. Also, not all code needs to be optimized. Sometimes, leaving the naive code, means it is more maintainable. I also habitually document my code as I go, which has proven unpopular, with testers.

People just out of school, or who spend hours each day, practicing LeetCode, will usually come up with an optimal solution, done the way the tester expects, first go.
That sort of recipe blog hasn't happened just for SEO. It's also a bit of a "two audiences" problem: if you are coming to that food blogger from a search you certainly would prefer the recipe first and then maybe any commentary on it below if the recipe looks good. If you are a regular reader of that food blogger you are probably invested in the stories up top and that parasocial connection and the recipes themselves are sometimes incidental to why you are a regular reader.

You see some of that "two readers" divide sometimes even in classic cookbooks, where "celebrity" chefs of the day might spend much of a cookbook on a long rambling memoir. Admittedly such books were generally well indexed and had table of contents to jump right to the recipes or particular recipes, but the concept of "long personal ramble of what these recipes mean to me" is an old one in cookbooks too.
I watched the video and I did not understand why would they go to such lengths to use "alternative" mode most of the time, only using the proper one when in the NEDC cycle. Only downside I could understand from the talk is that it would use more AdBlue which seems such an unimportant thing.

Is there something I am missing?
If you click through to the About page, I think you'll see that "interesting and unexpected material surfacer" is a fairly apt description of the project.
I agree they should try. Of course MOST will not succeed but that's the educational aspect of the experience. It's far harder than most would imagine. Yet the ONLY REASON 99% of engineers get paid and have their services valued is what is delivered to the customer in terms of value. Without that, engineers would be as non-essential as typists or any other declining job category.

You efforts have NO INTRINSIC VALUE without that customer being willing to pay money for the results!!

That is a reality and universal truth of economics - NOTHING has economic value UNTIL it is transacted for exchanged value. It is ONLY at that moment that the value is known. And even then the certainty of that value decays exponentially with time. After a few time constants/half lives, the value is again indeterminant because you don't know for sure if somone will commit to paying for your value again. It's always "What have you done lately?" combined with "What does the 'market' (i.e. any other individual or group of humans) think they are willing to commit to exchanging?" Commitment = Value.

This is literally how bourses/exchanges work: they do nothing more than record what two parties have been willing to commit to in terms of item and price for the item, on an instantaneous and average basis over time. That's the low-level algorithm of all bourses (e.g. stock exchanges, bond exchanges, derivative exchanges, etc. - it's all ultimately negations between parties and explicit commitments to those trades). There is NOTHING "magical" about it - they are not mystical oracles of truth.

But learning this directly is always more effective than being "told" what a thing is or how things work. Direct experience will responsibility (however short) will make you a better person and more aware of your own specialty. It also helps you know how to look out for yourself and when to say "no" and when to "walk away".
Note that this is _not_ the MIT Media Lab, which _could_ have been an interesting scenario (IMO), but rather a media holding company.
Agreed, the active tab should be a different color, so it can be distinguished at a glance, without wasting brain cycles.

But they also ruined the window itself in a similar way. It no longer honors the OS theme, so I can't have the title bar be a different color for the focused window. Another waste of brain cycles trying to figure out which window I'm in.

Maddening. I went back to Chrome when they did this a few releases ago. That, and the fact that I have to drill down into submenus for common tasks that should be available on the main menus.
Thank you! I actually really do appreciate this. I'll review further.
I’d bet money that this is imposter syndrome at work, and that with a couple days of refreshing they’d pass interviews no problem.

There is always variability, and I think good interviewers actually help candidates a decent amount.. so if you get a bad interviewer they’d fail but that’s not on them. I’d bet they’d pass most interviews.
Weird pivot to an unrelated point, but I find it kind of funny that this article is essentially saying the opposite of what you're implying. They noticed these deaths weren't actually from the virus, so they fixed the data. All 7 data points out of however many thousand.
My father mostly built the house I grew up in. He was mechanically inclined and a skilled woodworker but had no construction experience. So he took a series of residential construction courses at the local community college.

https://success.cabrillo.edu/Student/Courses/Search?subjects...
I left this field, actually. I cofounded Google Cloud Genomics, and when I proposed that we pivot from working with the GA4GH (very stupid APIs) to working with ADAM (real data processing) I got kicked off the team. Since then I've come to see genomics as a minefield of bad practices and don't really work in the field any more, except to help scientists run their workflows in the cloud.
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So would people living in Palestine.
I'm being slightly facetious.

I don't know why Mullvad issued a notice to talk about ownership, but I presume it was because they've gotten alot of M&A interest or it's a marketing move to garner trust from their client-base (i.e. others are getting distrust for selling).

I know more examples of companies who publicly say they're not interested in selling that do than those that don't. In other words, why be public about it?[0] Clearly there is M&A interest for a company like this.

Do you know any for-profit orgs that say publicly they aren't selling and actually don't? Most I know simply aren't public about it.

[0] - Btw - one M&A trick to drive up a valuation is to say you're not for sale. So yes this heuristic is absolutely valid in that sense.
Wow, if this catches on, my original content will actually matter![1] I've always had a love-hate relationship with modern web design principles because my design choices have all the excitement and polish of what we get on HN.

I'm sure I'm not the only one, either. Content-rich sites need more love.

[1] https://adequate.life
I also switched from privateinternetaccess to Mullvad (I think about 3 years ago?). I've had a few issues with Mullvad's speed in the past, but the last couple of years has been smooth service. My only complaint - and please note I havent check recently if this is still the case - is there's no discount for yearly subscriptions. I usually buy 12 months at a time and I wish they'd shave a few bucks off that, but honestly it's a very affordable service to begin with.
You are telling me your employer must give you 100% of the profit? What about:

- building the business

- maintaining it healthy (this can incur additional expenses at unpredictable times)

- the jobs it generates (that never mind, they are bad in your mind I suppose or they just do it to earn money! They do... but you also pick the job in the first place to make money!)

- the expenses they have to pay in case of firing someone if it does not produce.

- social security they pay and contribute for everyone (at least in the spanish system)

Do you find ethical to just ask for more money go and leave them bankrupt, without any regard of how they coud survive, when you just went pick up a position when much of that business was built? Really? I find it unethical also.

Get your best deal, with your employer, they will give you what they think they can or want, but by mutual contract. If you do not like it, go move to the next chance, it is not anyone's fault. Nothing bad into it. It is how you do in life: you choose what you drink (and what you do not!), who you join, where you go... nothing different here.
add http://hexayurt.com in some high tech material for the housing, camping gear for the bedding, a straw-type camping filter or a bio sand filter for the water.

And a decent camp bed.
Because right now the middle class is paying the bill and the working class is getting abused. The ownership class just skates on, doing less to justify their existence every year.

Or do you feel like a billionaire space race is a good use of society's efforts?
why was it malfunctioning? it was doing just as it was programmed to do, learning. maybe in certain circles it might be called malfunctioning on trying to better oneself by learning new things, but around here, it's actually encouraged.
This is, without question, the most naive thing I have ever read on this entire site.

People will and do treat you differently because of your skin color. And how people treat you affects you, whether you think so or not. Either you live in a hole and never come out, or you haven't yet fully comprehended what's going on around you.

It's NOT simple. It's not "getting called names all the time" or anything like that. It takes time to fully get.
> Without having already done the classes you did, it would be very difficult to motivate category theory

The usual approach of teaching category theory is motivated where examples motivate the categorical gadgets, I think the unmotivated alternative (to create intuition for category theory as a formalist game) has not been explored