skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tldr; don't make them ask; list some projects/work.

i can't fully understand part of your question, so i'll just riff a bit.

i'm braindead from zoomviewing all day. and dealing with aggravations that come with that.

i had one recruiter say today, "Is that unix, like U. N. I. X.?"

only mattered cause i thought i was talking to someone who'd been in the game for more than a day.

my next talk was with a tech founder of a streaming sql company, so at least i didn't have to deal that type of thing again.

my newly re-learned insights from this round of 6+ weeks of intensive interviewing are:

- have a story. what's the arc of your
'career'/employment/etc.? wtf _are_ you?
what do you _do_? what _can_ you do? what
do you _want_ to do?

- be able to tell that story in 30
seconds or less. 45 tops.

- know what you like about the job or
company you're applying to. or
pretending to like. that's at the
tail end of your story. as some
hiring mgr said today, "Why are we
here today?" Fuckin a -- i wish i
got more questions like that. we
could get shit done real quick.

- list any freelancing projects you can -
at least super-high level. this will
show you're not a lazy piece of shit.
not depressed. not ill in some other
way. etc. i.e. capable and willing to
do a 9 to 5.

like, you're gonna run across the gamut of people -- people who don't give a _shit_ that you're a failed wantrepreneur (or whatever you've been doing), and may even appreciate it, and people who can't stand you for it and will ask you some asinine question like, "There'a gap on your resume from v, x to y, z -- what were you doing during that time?"

bro, i literally can't remember what i did yesterday, much less 10 years ago, tf is wrong with you?

so, to me, resume-padding is just white-lying -- it's a social lubricant to get us through this hellscape called 'hiring'.

so, at what point should you stop resume-padding unemployment time?

at the point where have sufficiently removed the possibility of piquing the interest of a recruiter/hiring manager to the point where they have to ask you about it -- which serves nobody.

i've switched back and forth from telling my full employment story from the past two amazingly-shitty-for-me years -- a 2-year contract that ended after 9 months (thanks, Covid, but i was happy at first -- boring job), then a 3-month full time job i quit because i hated it. depending on the day or week, i've left out the 3-month gig -- it can be meaningful that I bounced, but eh -- if i wasn't completely miserable, i probably would have stayed for god knows how long.

good luck!
What would you say to be the main advantages over Deno Deploy[1] ?

[1] https://deno.com/deploy/docs
Yes, thanks. That clears it up. You're right. We must teach no one anything otherwise there would be some people that wouldn't be able to understand. That was exactly what I was thinking and your example helped me understand. What you were saying was clearly tautological and I just didn't have the logical training to understand it.
I didn't realise teachers went under some kind of assessment to teach particular parts of their subjects.

In the UK a mathematics teacher is just a mathematics teacher. They all have to teach calculus because that's part of the curriculum. If you couldn't teach calculus then you couldn't be a mathematics teacher.

(That's not a boast - we're poorer and less effective at maths than you are.)

What do you do if you're a mathematics teacher but can't do the calculus part? Handover to someone else for just that part of the year? Must be a bit professionally embarrassing?
There's a reason China hasn't made this their strategy for the rest of the pandemic. It works as a stop-gap, if you accept low quality of care (read: high mortality) and if you're dealing with a regional outbreak where you can ship in resources from surrounding areas.

It's not going to work if the entire country, continent or planet is in the same situation.
> A gifted program is where you take some kids aside and teach them some random extra stuff, at the end of the day they're still in the regular classes with the other kids also and don't really have a chance to go any faster.

My kid's school did exactly this for "gifted" elementary school kids. What saved him was being in split grade classes in 2nd and 3rd grades where he could move to the older student's side of the room for math and reading instruction. Eventually, he skipped 4th grade altogether and ended up with the peer group he was already spending much of his day with.

In middle school, the gifted kids got to go on one special field trip each year. By HS, there was a gifted program in name only. We paid someone to run the "gifted" program but I have no idea what she actually did. She wasn't even available to assist in college apps and there weren't any special programs that I ever saw. My kid, and his most motivated peers, all ended up at very good universities in spite of the lack of support from the school.
Or - Dammit Jim I’m an IT guy not Military Strategist! Lol
> It never really was. Reasonable conversations were being had, just not on polarized platforms

Does "polarized platforms" include the Washington Post, the New York Times, and The Lancet?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/the-media-cal...
This.

In the lab where I did my postdoc, the folks who went on to work for Amazon, Rackspace and Facebook are doing way better than those of us who went to work for universities, the CDC, etc. monetarily.

I have, what is for an academic a great job, and it pales in comparison to what I could make if I retooled for industry.
And if we were any good at teaching math we would just naturally go with it from there, "algebra" wouldn't even be a subject, it would just be something you do by default as teachers first replaced _ with x (hopefully before you even got too used to _), and then started making the equations gradually more complex.

"Solving linear equations with multiple variables", "solving quadratic equations", "solving polynomials", etc. Those are things you really need to teach as a distinct concept. Algebra is just the language, introduced in a pedagogically sound way you wouldn't even realize you were learning it.
How is that crowdfunding thing anything other than a failed publicity stunt? There is nothing new that was demonstrated.
1000 validators is very centralized. All you have to do is bribe 2/3rds of them control the chain. This is on top of Solana not having slashing in place to punish bad behavior, and the Solana Foundation hosting validators for people who want to delegate.

Solana’s 1000 validators may not even be owned by 1000 different entities, which reduces the attack difficulty.

Solana scales through centralization, not new ideas in blockchain scalability.

I don’t care how many Bitcoin mining pools there are. Mining pools are different than validators since they are made up of different individuals and not a single controlling entity. I also think PoW should die, and that’s all Bitcoin will ever support.

Edit: if all we want is 1000 entities controlling our chain, we can choose 1000 well-known institutions (banks, libraries, etc…). That would be less vulnerable to bribes and random censoring (perhaps I censor txt if a Dapp that’s competing with my investments) than 1000-ish unknown entities running the chain without any slashing.
> These kind of anti-solutions backfire.

Its not an anti-solution, and you provide neither evidence or reasoning to support your claim that it is part of a class of things that backfires.

> Say there's a real problem, the police are killing people

That is a real problem. Education is done in a culturally biased manner which perpetuates the disadvantage or marginalized groups is also a real problem. As is the fact that education is done by outdated methods which underserve even the best served, on top of the inequities. The former one doesn't negate the latter two.

> Like… watering down math classes

This is not about “watering down” math classes, but the opposite; it is about applying evidence to improve the quality and equity of mathematical instructions.

I don't except that my tax dollars should be wasted on broken on biased math just because we haven't fixed racist violence by police.
OK I mean what's stopping NSO from dissolving and coming back as...NS0. Freeze their assets and Israel just injects more money. Put travel restrictions on their employees and Israel will issue new passports/identities. I see no reason or Israel to stop unless the US government gets involved. Even then they'll continue what they're doing, except VPN into Russia.
> [15] Design APIs with migration to new implementations as a first-class consideration; custom migrations are huge time-sinks and sources of unreliability. Every major API should have a single CLI-driven call for switching implementations.

I've never actually thought about doing this as an initial design principle. I wonder how it materially affects the design.
I think there's a typo:

> It is in the shape of a Directed Acyclic Rooted Tree or simply a tree. The neat thing is, a tree-shaped computation is always "one-pass". Each node can only be passed at least once.

Should be:

> Each node can only be passed at most once.
"Under Equitable Math, all children must be at the same level, whether they wish to pursue nursing or engineering."

Should we be striving for equitable or equality?

"Children and their families ought to have a choice, including the choice to march forward toward their individual academic ambition and ability"

This doesn't sound equitable.

Do nurses actually use calculus?
I'm reminded of CGPGrey's video: the Rules for Rulers

https://youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs
Yes this and also some states are highly over taxed / priced so people are willing to pay competitive street prices in blind faith.
My mistake, the limit isn't 5000 but 8500 pounds. In 2027 these will also be covered under fuel-efficiency standards.

https://www.motorbiscuit.com/why-dont-heavy-duty-trucks-have...
Even fewer people have access to cryptocurrency wallets and exchanges than have access to Venmo and it’s international equivalents.
This past trimester I taught a Computer Organization & Design class to middle school students for the first time, with curriculum that I developed.

Observations:

* Wow-- the brighter half of MS students can do nearly as well as bright undergraduates on this material if you go a little slower and make some allowances for attention span. The neuroplasticity, recent memory of learning arithmetic, and lack of fear of the material really helps.

* Holy crap-- I had no idea before trying to teach this how much number theory that I take for granted. Like, I forgot to cover how many possibilities there are for n-digit numbers in different bases and some early lessons on number systems took this for granted. Figuring out what you need to cover, and how, for something to make sense later is hard.
that'd work except that the effects aren't limited to the platform - harmful information has realworld effects on people's material lives
"Educational communism" in that it seeks to eliminate inequality (in education) by reducing everyone to zero, just as communism sought to eliminate inequality (in wealth) by reducing everyone to zero.

Not "educational communism" in the sense of educational systems modeled on those of communist countries.

The analogy is from "if I can't afford a car, then nobody should be allowed to have a car" to "if I can't understand algebra, then nobody should be allowed to learn algebra".
> Definitely DONT'T wait for PIDs like that and if you do want to write code like that, maybe actually use the arrays bash provides?

What pattern would you recommend for waiting for PIDs / parallelizing commands & preserving exit codes? Fair point about arrays being a better fit rather than a string there.
Because the majority of people looking at the topic correlate the introduction of any sort of central bank digital currency with the introduction of efforts to curb the use of physical cash. India in particular had a recent change in their legal tender ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Indian_banknote_demonetis... ) which has made some people concerned about these sorts of moves. If you’re willing to suddenly (from the perspective of those aggrieved by the changes ) declare a significant percentage, over 75%, of the banknotes in circulation as soon to be defunct and basically “turn over” your entire currency over like a compost pile in under a year, people get understandably concerned you might just declare cash illegal entirely as the government has established itself as willing to do dramatic things.
Brutal honesty does not throw out empathy. Throwing out empathy is a disregard for perspective, which may or may not have anything to do with offense perceived or actual. A careful regard for offense is more sympathy than empathy. Brutal honesty is a disregard for social rituals. These qualities are orthogonal as you can have both empathy and brutal honesty.
OMG, I lost it at the gold chains appearing. Thanks for that. :)
The 2x1 covers a1 and b1, not a1 and a2.
Can the op comment on this: "We compared ourselves to big, successful companies". How did you phrase it?
I had to try working with a 100GB single json file. Couldn’t find anything that could work with that sized file.
They will have assets in the US that can be attached
Honest question - how relevant the skill like that nowadays with all the stuff going Web and Electron?

Are there any apps (except for creating stuff) that are being developed in a way that “server” part is running locally? It seems to me that everything goes web now and if you have a desktop it’s “just” a client for something remote?
You’re talking homeless which is a subset of poor.

Whenever someone says “the poor can do this” someone comes along to give an example of poor people who can’t. We get it, but there are plenty of poor who can do those things.
When your sole metric is equality, it is easier to hold all students back than address the issues causing a subset of of students to underperform.

It is most akin those who advocate for harsher penalties for white criminals to because penalties are disproportionately harsh for minorities.
Yeah, so why even have user accounts and not just root everything? I mean if there's no difference...
Not a browser extension but I use Adguard Home hosted on my server to have all ads resolve with non existent IP and it can work network wide, so I don't really need to install ad blockers on every device.

But the difference is, since it can't touch the page itself like extensions, you can't get rid of the ad space if it's pre occupied as empty space.
I did it as well. I witness people I mentor as falling into either will not/will do this approach also, and I haven't decided how to navigate that as a mentor. I think I can often falsely assume people are inherently down with this way of working/advancing or not, but I haven't pushed anyone after witnessing taking the no route. Def wonder how that would work as a discussion or if this risk-taking could be taught.
> several including myself

Nice to meet the unicorn! Meanwhile, how many textbooks are on the shelves at Barnes&Nobel? Not exactly bestsellers, right? Even the University of Washington bookstore puts the textbooks in a separate room in the basement.

> Textbook-level treatment of a subject is usually very shallow

Maybe the ones you read are. The ones Caltech uses aren't, like this one:

https://www.amazon.com/Gravitation-Charles-W-Misner/dp/06911...
LOL. “The Media” in this case is the New York Post, a bird-cage liner tabloid.

Do better.
> But if we want to be pedantic, you are assuming a filibuster and controversy.

Since we're talking about what it takes to force a preferred solution in the absence of consensus, and you specifically said you were targeting the worst case, yes, I’m doing exactly what you called for.
Well, call me crazy, but doesn't that already exist? Free lectures are available in a variety of media and locations in a variety of subjects. Libraries have a ton of content, and often the space available to host talks/lectures. The Internet has pretty much all information you will ever need in one form or another.

If the Catherine Project is indeed just one more form of that kind of decentralized ad-hoc learning, then the only downside is that it'll be just as successful. That is to say, a bunch of random people learning random things without a curriculum. Which is not really "an education", and carries a series of challenges and burdens for a great number (maybe most) of the population, that traditional academia is intended to address.
I’m not seeing the skepticism being referred to but I would imagine this education is feminist and many people have a deep aversion to anything related to that.
Middle and high school already have separated classes, no?

I once took a computer-repair class at a local school district adult school. It was self paced, and despite being bored as hell during high school, I crushed the repair course at like 4x the normal speed. Because I could. There was literally no one to stop me.
Yeah, that sounds cool and all, but somehow I ended up with a job that pays over $100K a year, that makes me work for about 3 hours a week from home and has been paying me for years to do that. And I'm pretty sure my manager knows that.

If I were to quit, I'd end up with another job that makes me work for 30+ hours a week, for the exact same salary. And that's just one example. I know many more like that.

Your supply and demand can't explain that, yet it is my daily reality in a capitalist society. Capitalism is just another lie we tell each other to make each other believe we live in a just world.
You are mistaken. Under the Equitable Math proposal, all children are to be in the same technical class regardless of their ability. Children will not be allowed to take Algebra in middle school, and children will not be allowed to take Calculus until specifically the senior year. Differentiation may only occur at the senior year of high school.

The Common Core does not neglect differentiation opportunity, and neither does it dictate or detail that children must be in one class over another; that is left up to each state. Under the Common Core as implemented in California, children may take Algebra with an Algebra teacher based on their individual ability. The entire Common Core specification for math can be read in one day.

The Common Core does dictate learning targets to be met for any particular official class, whether that is Algebra I/II or Geometry. The Common Core also emphasizes deep learning over rote memorization, but it critically does not require that all students must be at the same level. This is the central point of contention, and not whether the Common Core ought go even deeper.

As a detail, note that Californian classrooms may have around 40 children in a math class, and that penalties for classroom sizes end in middle school. These are the conditions under which math teachers must address individual variability.

Equitable Math would be a SOLID win for private schools and after-school math programs such as RSM.
I'll bet on base64 "encryption"
Ofcourse. The point was about above snarky comment. Go devs took time to implement generics balancing with competing priorities. Java devs taking time to implement value types balancing their competing priorities.
In Soviet Union algebra and geometry were taught from 5th to 11th grade to every kid in the country. And 10th & 11th grade algebra text-book was edited by Kolmogorov himself [0]. No surprise that _Russian School of Mathematics_ [1] after-school program is becoming very popular in the USA.

[0] Search for "algebra" in https://www.kolmogorov.com/Books.html

[1] https://www.russianschool.com/
I’ve got an opinion that may not be a majority here. And I can see how it could go wrong sometimes, especially from the perspective of a founder CEO.

But, IMO boards should be dangerous to CEOs. In the long run it is good, and in some cases necessary, for a company’s long-term health.

There are tons of examples where a CEO change was necessary to resolve distractions, right the corporate ship, and allow a company to pass through a crisis into a new period of growth. And whether the CEO resigns or is literally fired, the locus of pressure is almost always the board’s power to fire them.

Imagine being CEO without that—you’re in charge of everything, with no accountability or consequences for anything. There is no way to maintain perspective and focus over time. Everyone wants to please you or at least avoid your displeasure. The company gets distorted over time by your personal preferences and preoccupations.

I would argue this is the core of the problem at Facebook. That company would be much better off if there was a way to change leadership there, or at least threaten to.
There are lots of stories like this. Lot of selection bias. That is, wealthier and/or smarter people who come to the US.

I’ve taken though linear, diffeq, and discrete. Rarely use them. It’s a massive waste for most people.

They should be concentrating on what I would call “home economics”. That is, economics of the home. Edu on budget balancing, taxes, cost of things so you don’t eat out so much, cost of repair so you learn to fix things, etc.
As long as companies view security as a worthless expense, and the only penalty is some monitoring (that no one uses) and a brief story everyone will forget, nothing will change. I doubt the stock will even be affected.

Maybe the CEO should be required to be put in stocks in the town square or something. With no real penalty, there is no change.
There's a handy site if you see this: https://hnreplies.com/
Eighty people simultaneously broke into a Nordstrom near San Francisco
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This is only one source, there are more with different results.

> That's bound to severely decrease

This does not seem to be the case if the examples of fully vaccinated regions - Gibraltar is an interesting example, the entire population from 12 years up is vaccinated but the infection rate seems to be skyrocketing which has led to the cancellation of Christmas celebrations and new restrictions [1]. Israel is another example of how vaccinations do not seem to curb infections, something which is clearly visible on this graph [2] showing vaccinations (teal line) and daily infections, sliding 7-day window (dark line).

My question to all those who seem to insist on the current crop of vaccines being as effective as they're claimed to be is what you think will be gained by what is clearly a half-truth? Yes, the vaccines seem to have some effect for a limited amount of time but is is clear that they do not provide enough protection to justify the proposed vaccination mandates nor does the difference between transmission rate between vaccinated and unvaccinated justify implementing a 2-tier society as is now being either planned or implemented in several countries. If people are to follow The Science™ they should be allowed to go by actual scientific data, whether those align with the narrative or go against it. Dogma is not science, it is a belief or set of beliefs that is accepted by the members of a group without being questioned or doubted. The insistence on the efficacy of the currently available vaccines against SARS2 has the looks of a dogma in the light of the evidence. Assuming that the goal of everyone partaking in this discussion is to both minimise the impact of as well as the length of the local epidemics and the pandemic it is important for people not to be misled with false promises, something which has happened far too often already.

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/christmas-celebration-gibraltar-vac...

[2] https://c19.se/Israel
Why fix a bad decision for $100 - amirite? We gotta be "smart" with our money.
Well, if you know your grandparents have a family recipe for something, say, and they never reveal it, then sure, it's a knowable thing. But I like the cheek.