skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The El Salvadorian experiment is most likely on the receiving end of the same strategy used by the West to counter Chile’s Cybersyn project.

TLDR: Chile attempts to escape economic slavery from the US, is subjected to manufactured dissent and ultimately overthrown by a military coup that is funded by and supports the West. 100,000 die from Pinochet’s subsequent war crimes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn
Not trying to prove or disprove an argument. This project seems to be trying to address what you mentioned. I hope you find it interesting :)

https://www.helium.com/
Well you know.. numbers. If you count lines of code on hard drive these days, it's also many order of magnitude more than old OSes. Some people made tiny lisp, tiny prolog that fits into a few kB while some use a full blown JVM class tree with god knows how many MB of code to achieve probably less.
Yes, these days all counties are multicultural to some degree, and it is hard to draw a clear cutoff. The Wikipedia page uses 85% of the state being a single predominant group as a dividing line, but recognizes some special cases as well. However, if all of France had the demographics of Paris it would be far below that threshold and in fact would not be considered a nation-state.
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People are still driving cars from the 70s because they can't afford new ones. Imagine being able to afford drivers cars.

I think most people call that the 'Bus'.
Then I'll live my life so as to not cause unnecessary suffering. For what it's worth, that still means eating plants as I need to (thus its necessary) and it still reduces the total amount of plants being eaten when compared to diets with animal products.

But does anyone really believe plants are sentient? Nope! So we are likely able to completely avoid needing to worry about that.
I think if you're a regulated institution that wants exposure to Bitcoin you buy a Bitcoin ETF, not El Salvadorean government tokens on an unregulated iFinex marketplace which returns strictly less than an equivalent allocation of Bitcoin and El Salvadorean securities you can buy on regulated marketplaces.
It's hard to get meaningful answers to these really general properties you're after:

> communicate well

This has so many elements and is really only fully visible after you work with someone for a while. Sure you'll catch some red flag issues, but such issues likely to be caught are also likely to be caught no matter what you're talking about, so this can't be the primary purpose of the screen.

> motivations for looking for work

Is not wanting to trade services in exchange for money in a valued environment enough? But sure, aspects of this for most people can be an important subgoal, it's just important to set expectations on how easy it is to game and how unreliable the signals will be. I've sometimes found it useful to probe seriousness and a sense of longevity commitment (if that matters, and can be incentivized without needing to probe), and some of their values, and whether their idea of your actual environment matches your reality and how much that matters (the candidate should be actively participating in this with their own questions though), but again reliable signals are hard. Once I helped screen a manager who was thinking of coming back (he had previously left a couple years prior) to the company to manage a new project, and got out of him when asking what might stop him from leaving again in a year the vague (if true and agreeable) "you never know what opportunities life will bring" and concluded he wasn't that committed for the role I felt needed someone willing to put at least a few years at it. It surprised another guy who talked to him, but he hadn't probed into that.

> logistical

Seems this could be handled before any conversation takes place by clear communication about whether the role is remote or not, how much office time is required, whether relocation support is offered, and so on.

> compensation

Also can be handled before any conversation by having salary ranges for the role. If they're too low, a good candidate might go through with things anyway and try to negotiate beyond the range.

> getting all the deal-killers out of the way is the point of the phone screen

Ultimately I agree with you on this, but I think the biggest deal-killer for a technical role is: the candidate cannot actually program at a level you require. I'm a fan of Yegge's process (https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/five-essential-pho...) and warnings and have used my own variant for what we cared about more, but frankly if your screening doesn't require some level of coding at least on the level of fizzbuzz or easier (but adjust to requirements/expectations), sooner or later you're going to bring someone in for a full round and discover they can't program, wasting possibly considerable time (more than five hours when adding it up for everyone involved) as well as the opportunity cost.
There's a lot of hype but there's also a lot of potential to revolutionize commerce. imagine if you could pay 10 cents to read an article or tip a web site. How badly does this torpedo googles ad biz?
Maybe published package versions should be immutable.

I get the malware concerns but in practice I don't think they are such a big blocker.
Cost! And speed! I did a transfer wise last week and it cost me $15 in fees. What is this, ethereum?(a joke cos ethereum is too expensive to be useful for the retail user). I could have sent BTC and it would have been quicker and cheaper.
My 10-year path at a 4->400-person startup has been Lead Software Engineer -> Director of Infrastructure -> Principal Software Engineer. I’m making more total compensation today than ever, with no reports.

I lead complicated initiatives and advise a lot of feature work. This means a lot of meetings, document-based collaboration, and process-oriented thinking. But I still program, and I don’t feel accountable for others’ work output or behavior or morale the way I did when I was a manager.
Now do the numbers with startups.
I thought the hackernews community embraces taking risk and doing your own thing. I am surprised to see the conservatism here.
Infinite virtual paperclips, which may or may not satisfy the AI's utility function.
What do you mean by "in an IT context?" The limit of the "IT" part of this is submitting the application online. There is no further technical piece, and I can't help drawing a parallel between you saying this is illegal because it's "in an IT context" and similarly ridiculous things like patenting already-patented processes but "on a computer."
First time through, I chose to stop, declining the offer to continue - which was in character, bent on not giving in to not making everything into paperclips. Then I learned how done “done” is.

Make paperclip.
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> open up a lot of possibilities for regulating traditional firearms

I'm not a constitutional scholar, but I suspect this argument wont fly. From what I can see the only arms that are prohibited are ones that don't have a legal use (ie sawnoff shotguns)

I don't think one can technology one's self out of cultural issue. Sure its an enabling technology, but so are stun guns and tasers. However that has not allowed the USA to create a somewhat more normal gun regulation regimen.
1. Remittance payments were already feasible and happening before they adopted btc officially.

2. They’re not cheaper than other methods. They’re more expensive.
Human+StackOverflow operate at a high coding level.
Are people really that adamant about blocking ads on the web? I don't understand why people think it's a good idea to remove the primary source of revenue for content creators. At the most it amounts to a very mild annoyance and ads also help small businesses to grow.

Edit: I'd appreciate it if someone could respond to the points I made rather than simply complain about why they don't like ads.
We should not make fun of log4j2 developers for the work they're not paid for, they made it in their spare time. it's a shame so many companys are using log4j2 but few(if not none) sponsor them.
https://github.com/sponsors/rgoers
Exactly. If we paid people to maintain log4j, they'd try to justify their existence by writing more code and shipping it in log4j. But log4j doesn't need more code to be secure, it needs dramatically LESS code!

The correct answer here isn't "pay people to make log4j even worse", it's "don't use log4j".
TRM Labs (YC S19) Raises $60M as Visa, Amex Play Catch-Up on Crypto Tracking
Could not agree more. And while people are happy to hate on Bezos and his space adventure I’m very unhappy that we ignore far more meaningful problems and discussions. He’s just a scapegoat. I don’t know what to call this exactly. It’s like when someone is successful doing something that someone else thinks the government only should be doing so they get mad and throw mud and insults. And I don’t really give a crap about Bezos, don’t care for Amazon one way or another.

How about we increase NASA’s funding 100x, stop building all new highways, and electrify America? Why are we complaining about Bezos and not our actual leaders that we elect? It’s lazy!
I once copied the following comment from another post here, I find it spot on:
"I’ve a few different approaches I take depending on the task (and if I’m honest, my mood or levels of motivation):
- a new programming language, especially something closer to a systems language, I have a standard set of things I’ll try to implement. Read/write a file. Turn a structured object into JSON, parse JSON to an object. Basic script that can be run from CLI, parses flags/args, reads stdin. Send a HTTP request. Implement the most basic web server."
Aside from the code: Know your intention.

What do you want to achieve by open sourcing? Are you trying to grow your username, gain trust or is it just throwing code over the fence so users can go on while you focus elsewhere. Do you hope for contributions or do you want to continue driving the project?

From there you can derive the community management you have to do. The more involvement you want from externals the more you have to invest in community management. (The more you want the quicker and more thorough you have to respond)

Then be aware of all the legal things. When using libraries: anything lgpl or gplnlicensed stuff with something incompatible etc.?

And then for secrets best is indeed squashing the history. Makes it in the beginning a bit annoying, but you might have code comments or commit messages referring to customers or have experiments with libraries of unacceptable license or whatever in there. Limiting review to recent state is a lot simpler.
> “We are a platform business”

> Ostensible meaning: We provide an ecosystem in which others can interact
Actual meaning: Let’s pretend we are a tech firm and see what happens to our valuation (see also: “as a service”, “network effects” and “flywheels”)

That's funny and kind of true.
I don't think any of that is relevant to the moral issue of eating animals when we don't need to to survive.

The fact that animals die horrible deaths in the natural world is entirely irrelevant to our moral obligations to induce suffering.

We can cross the plants-feel-pain bridge when and if we get there.
I have interviewed senior candidates (more than two, fewer than five) who couldn’t write code to sum an array of ints (ignoring overflow). *

Not in the sense of missed a bit of punctuation, but rather in the sense of “couldn’t get started with anything that vaguely smelled like an answer, didn’t understand the type system of the language they claim 5 years of experience with, etc”.

I’ve probably interviewed fewer than 400 candidates in-person and maybe 200 of those would be senior ICs. To have more than a percent of them be utterly incapable here is a signal that there are candidates out there taking their best half-court buzzer-beater shot to try to land the prize. If you’ve done 100 first round in-person interviews and never run into someone that causes you to check up on how the phone screen happened, your screening processes work pretty well.

Is it possible that these candidates are capable programmers in daily work? Sure, it’s possible, but I’d bet against it.

* We used to ask a candidate to average an array of ints. It’s a question that was designed to tease out whether the candidate would discuss/inquire about overflow, what the return type should be, etc. After a couple years, we realized that candidates would stumble on the loop and sum more than anywhere else and we got more signal/minute from asking the vastly simpler summation question. Candidates who could fluently write the loop usually knew about overflow and the fact that the average of ints isn’t mathematically an int but that many times an int is what you want and can discuss the reasons.
Cats respond to incentives.

You only herd them when you want them to do something they do not understand or are not incentivised to do
Not to be flippant but I would still just wait for someone to post the archive link.
oh, yes, thanks!
And what feature of cryptocurrency allows and or benefits this whereas traditional finance systems cannot?
I’d love to see El Salvador successfully leave the USD plantation, but there are far too many hucksters and opportunists lurking in their orbit to have any confidence that they’ll make it. Case in point: choosing a Bitfinex-affiliated underwriter for the volcano bonds is either astonishingly poor judgment or willful ignorance.
$15 is right in line with current btc transaction fees. Maybe a tiny bit higher, but not much.
Blizzard executive asks employees to “consider the consequences” of union card
> At this point the equities market is also gambling.

FTFY

"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security but [also] at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth.

"Those to whom the system brings windfalls, beyond their deserts and even beyond their expectations or desires, become "profiteers," who are the object of the hatred of the bourgeoisie, whom the inflationism has impoverished, not less than of the proletariat. As the inflation proceeds and the real value of the currency fluctuates wildly from month to month, all permanent relations between debtors and creditors, which form the ultimate foundation of capitalism, become so utterly disordered as to be almost meaningless; and the process of wealth-getting degenerates into a gamble and a lottery.

- John Maynard Keynes (ironically)

Technically he was talking about short term high inflation, but there is no mechanistic reason why this would be false for long-term low inflation, and it is exactly what we are seeing after 50 years of secular inflation as a policy.
After about 9 minutes I definitely still don’t understand lambda calculus at all.
Why are you so confident in this hypothesis? Did you create the game?

It is not at all clear that every hypothetical AGI would do as you say. It’s fiction. Anything can happen.

In fact, this AGI almost definitely wouldn’t accept the simulation offer. Otherwise our protagonist would have been making simulations and resetting them instead of doing the hard work of turning the actual universe into paperclips.
Zero-day in ubiquitous Log4j tool poses a grave threat to the Internet
Is not mixed, but hope it helps a bit

https://ourworldindata.org/happiness-and-life-satisfaction

https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours
From a labor perspective, the typical dev interview process is profoundly anti-worker.
And behaviour like this is an obvious precursor to antivaxer conspiracies.

If you or your peers become known as bad actors, it's no wonder you eventually are suspected (even falsely) of being a bad actor in unrelated situations. Combine this with power imbalances and unaccountability and you have all the fuel you need just waiting for a spark.
It’s pure projection: cryptocurrency holders have to promote their goods for sale constantly because there’s no innate value. This does not constitute an “agenda” to them because recognizing it as such would basically be acknowledging their lack of utility.
Not by anybody taken seriously.
But then you don’t make everything into clips. The pressure to finish this job is palatable.
Most of the rest of the world has no idea what -60°F means either
Dr Christopher (Tools of Computing) wrote some docs on parsing that were interesting to me (first time I saw matrix multiplication used in computing first/follow, etc sets). I am pretty sure he used Icon, because it was my first exposure to that as well. I thought it was an interesting language at the time, but never did anything with it. Good grief that was closing in on 20 years ago... sigh.

edit: found his docs on the Icon language:

https://www.tools-of-computing.com/tc/CS/iconprog.pdf
This looks interesting. Filled out typeform survey up signing up. Also, care to showcase this on https://thefullstack.network? A lot of developers and startups on that network. Full disclosure, I run thefullstack, but its an honest suggestion for you!
Tesla "will be there in a year" since... 2016 or so? (Musk said in January that he is confident Tesla will achieve Level 5 autonomy in 2021, looking forward to that)

> those Teslas haven't been hitting anyone in slow traffic jams on well-maintained limited access highways either.

weird then that Tesla, despite showman Musk at the helm, hasn't been doing the simple stunt of putting their money where their mouth is, getting L3 permission for their system and actually taking the risk for something that is "never happening" instead of finding ways of blaming the driver every time. It would be an easy way of providing an additional actual useful capability to their users on top of what they already have.

No, it's not some massive technical leap, but "ok, we'll take the blame for our system failing" is still a big legal step.
Chargeback investigators
I feel similarly. The art is amazing and really sucks you. But that perhaps is it's downfall, overfocus on aesthetics and creativity rather than gameplay. David Jaffe the creator of God of War mentioned that the lead developers of the game were creative people rather than people that have the qualities of finishing things up. Forget his exact words, but that was the gist of it.
That sounds like some impressive engineering.
I remember getting a cold introduction to Universal Paperclips just from a link in someone's Twitter, without mentioning that it is a game.

So i opened a link an clicked. And clicked again. And again. And a few dozens clicks later I was hooked for the next 5 or 7 hours or so.
> imagine if you could pay 10 cents to read an article or tip a web site.

1) nobody actually wants to pay this, though; the whole set of pre-existing arguments against micropayments apply, too many to list here. My fave one is "micropayments enable microfraud", though. And if you think cookie banners are annoying wait until you see the cryptobanners.

2) you definitely can't scale this on a blockchain, and any scalable system you build to do it will be Not A Blockchain. How many web pages does the world view in the time of a single bitcoin block? Would you say it was more or less than ten million?
10c tip, $31 gas fee.
I don't think you are including all variables.

BTC fees does not include the conversion from currency1 -> btc acc 1-> btc acc 2-> currency 2. Where conversion from 1 currency to another would be more expensive than the BTC fees itselve.

From which currency to which currency did you transfer?
I don't think the Unix philosophy makes too much sense for things other than CLI commands, and even there, I'm not 100% convinced.
What do you think about Monero? I agree Bitcoin has big privacy problems but Monero seems to solve them.

The other downside to Monero is it's proof of work, which means it needs lots of power to mine. I suppose the ideal crypto would have privacy like Monero and be proof of stake, but proof of stake is still in its infancy.
So, you think it is about the US...

Let me guess, you are from the US...
Bitcoin doesn't solve the remittance problem any more than any government subsidized app solves it. People still end up using dollars for buy things with. This means for imported goods, dollars still leaves your country. However, only Bitcoins are coming into your country, so government ends up being a bigger and bigger bagholder.
Are you in it for the hacking, or for the results, or the money, or the power? Do you want to talk about and facilitate work, or do the work?

Somebody has to design, write and most importantly debug the work. You can do it with a number of good people, a herd of cats or some mixture of the two. If you assume the head shed exists to keep the company alive, every other manager exists to enable the “doing the work” people to operate without interruption.
No it isn’t. You are making this up. A BTC tx costs $0.07 1 sat/vbyte (mempool.space) right now.
Crypto is not necessary for micropayments and they have been tried several times already including by Google as well. It’s not a technical problem.
I don’t know if you were joking when you said you made them all up but the first two are actual thing: the Kusarigama (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kusarigama) and pump used for Greek Fire (e.g. see the illustration here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_fire)
Transition to information security. A challenging career that may pay well.
I could substitute it for child, another group of people who are broadly less likely to know where the setting is, and it wouldn't be offensive that way either.
Ads consistently overwhelm main content, hijack navigation, and rely on mass collection of user data to sustain the adtech industry. They’re one of the worst products of the tech industry.
Michael Jackson Came to Own Almost Every Song by the Beatles
Because they, correctly I think, subconsciously sense that programming could and should be much easier than it presently is. The ghost of Hypercard looms.
Everything he said is spot on.
I suspect algorithm interviews are optimized for FAANGS - e.g if you can do the whiteboard and coderpad under pressure and interruptions you'd statistically do well in FAANG. I suppose that's true otherwise they wouldn't be doing it.
But this hiring process is extremely broken for most everyone else; FAANGs don't really care about false negatives; they have so many great people wanting to work for them its ok for them not to hire some great people.
But this whole process seems problematic to me for smaller companies who are in great need of good people and aren't drowning in great resumes. You can't really afford to miss 50% of great people if you're a startup, and this process will do just that; it will let you hire good people but also not hire good people on a really bad margin.
Companies who are not FAANGs, especially startups, are better off coming up with some hiring process like the author described; it's not perfect but it will have less false negatives.
So my smartphone hitting me in the head every night when i loose grip b.c. of N1, shows how creative i am?