skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Giant red flag, indeed.
The issue is that without the caps, the insurance companies would be much more motivated to deny lots & lots of claims. Imagine you're a regular person with a middle-class income, you urgently need treatment and the insurance company algorithm says 'denied' because they're simply saying 'no' to x% of claims that week. What are your options? Litigation? Yes insurance companies have regulators, but the sheer scale of denials would start to overwhelm them. At a huge scale, this would degrade the quality of American healthcare even more. It would become normal for legitimate claims to be denied all the time.

Anyways, this was the explicit reasoning of the ACA drafters when they included the profit cap. Maybe they were wrong, but this was thought about & discussed a great deal at the time
ask Leonard R. -- it stretches back to the pre-Internet "multimedia" competition..
For Christ's sake, you already use messed up software.

It is literally everywhere. Your kernel, your networking stack, your interpreters, your office suite.

Almost everything you use has some roots in C, a memory unsafe language that "messed up" and still became the most widely used language ever.

Software will always mess up, regardless of language it's written in.
I see you're getting at with the other points -- but what's not to like about these two?

- People having open relationships.

- Girls randomly make out in club with some random strangers they just met.
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"Due to the quantities we need and the visibility of the posts, drive manufacturers are motivated to give us their best possible product."
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Look, we all need to vent sometimes.

I can certainly agree with this for "apps" but there's a lot on the web that should be accessible without js because it's just static content. If you haven't noticed, HN is working perfectly fine without js, which is how I've been using it.
That's fair, if you've been benchmarking but haven't made the benchmarks public / repeatable yet. Too used to software where the authors claim it's fast with no proof or based on heuristics like what language it's written in :-)
This would make sense as an objection if the taxi driver had specifically been asked to be a dick, to test the candidates. I'd assume they have some idea that the taxi driver is a fairly reasonable person (and apparently they know him well enough to trust his judgement).
Just trying to use this thread for a market demand survey - Julia devs, would you pay $9.99 a month for better tooling? [Maybe responses to this will encourage devs to notice that there is a viable market here?]
So you think there's a cabal of "gatekeeper" scientists who are trying to hold the hordes of capable (yet somehow unfamiliar with the corresponding mathematical literature) engineers from making useful contributions to their libraries, because they use the conventional notation from the scientific literature?

They should instead tread carefully and dispose of all Greek letters in their code to ensure you are not put off, because that's the real reason that stops you from making useful contributions?
Not op, and I’m on the phone so can’t post an example. But I just wanted to add that Rails + Vue (only for those views that require heavy reactivity) is the most productive stack I’ve ever worked.
The only link I could find was an archive link https://archive.org/details/pdf1.7

The open PDF standard now costs 250 USD. Adobe is supposed to have an archive of the 1.7 spec online but they do not care enough to keep that up it appears.

I am trying to think of a reason why they would do such a blindly dumb thing but the C++ people used to do the same thing.
He's saying it's a mixture.
Responses here are really surprising to me. Should a Google hiring committee consider your search history, too?

What's lacking from this conversation is any definition of what behavior we're actually talking about, and the conclusions (understandably) vary wildly. This is a similar dilemma to what a hiring committee would face when reviewing a second-hand narrative from a contractor about a candidate.

I don't think a company interested in having a healthy culture should spy or eavesdrop on people.
I wish more people would admit stuff. A lot of accounts are anonymous, and a lot of people have done mildly unethical things at companies.

Nothing's more interesting than finding out what people are really up to.
He's talking about making 10 million a year and you think the issue is he forgot the 8k or so of self employment FICA taxes?
You're mixing two problems.

Is the issue that Google, as a company, is not addressing user happiness enough? Or is the issue that some organization is letting bugs languish? The first is a much harder problem than the second. You don't need to solve the first to fix the second. I stand by my claim that it is feasible to address the first as an L5, that could reasonably get someone promo'd to 6, and you wouldn't need to involve anyone above a director to do it. Of course, doing so would involve writing very little code, because so much of this is procedural and political, so the engineer who just wants to be rewarded for fixing bugs wouldn't take the initiative to solve this problem. But alas.
All the example PDFs are 404.
> I hate this and I don't understand why the government always agrees to it

Taking things to trial is very expensive, and you the taxpayer is paying that cost. The company is probably never going to admit wrongdoing even if found guilty.
Those 2 places aren't not the only places one gets software for either of those platforms, and are not really solid indicators of the popularity of desktop apps.

The Windows store especially isn't, because (as far as I understand) until somewhat recently, you were locked to only publishing UWP apps to it.
If you aren't responsible for the project's failure, you're not responsible for the project's success, and rewarding, or punishing, someone for what they aren't responsible for is irrational.
so, what was the answer, from the lecture? what had you missed?

Realistically if i was in datacenter ops and a server wouldn't boot i'd unrack it and rack a new one and let the dev/ops whatever team reprovision. Heck, i did this when i was just a cloud engineer, unracked from a local (non-cloud) facility and brought back machines to the office, to be RMA'd, just to help out.

I get the idea that the interviewer had a very specific problem in memory and wanted that answer. After all, if there's some issue with the motherboard, it doesn't matter how many parts you swap out, and an issue with the motherboard could be in the infinite range from "tin whiskers" to "bad capacitor" to "cold solder joint".
It only emits the CO2 that it captures in the first place to make the fuel. As long as the electricity used to make the fuel is itself carbon neutral, than the entire process is. It would be seriously exciting if and when this works.
I've taken it a number of times and had a great time every time. it's an incredibly unique experience. That being said I have access to a syrup that is pure DXM - no other BS that's dangerous in high doses.

I'm adamant people who have bad times really just haven't understood what they're messing with and/or haven't dosed it correctly. I've heard the same story from people during my highschool time in fact. To do DXM for quick, legal high is doing it 'wrong' IMO and people don't expect it to have the effect that it does.

You need to work up your doses to find the right one for you.

Dosage is based of body weight which you can calculate online - though, looking around it seems none of the websites I used to use to calculate my doses are still around, sadly.

I mentioned it in another comment, but "The DXM FAQ" is essential reading for anyone who wants to experience DXM.

DXM is not what I'd call a "safe" drug, it can be dangerous when abused so I'd recommend at least reading a lot about it before trying it out.

Edit: http://www.dexcalc.com/ - Calculates DXM dosage based on bodyweight + amount of DXM in your syrup
Now this is wonderful article, the only question staying is, how can I get a laptop that supports 2x 4k display and still has versability and durability of old thinkpad? (I have x230 at the moment)
Sorry, unless you tell them you are testing their dateablilty you have to ignore any behavior on their part.
I can assure you that more people exist with B1 knowledge of english then folks that have at least minimum knowledge of all math and computer science related domains that are used for deep learning (even subset like audio/video) even if we use only using software engineers/ml engineers as reference you have so much domain knowledge needed to even consider reading notation (without proper explanation in docs).

And most of the variables in code still will be in english or other natural language so it is just easier to read english then read math notation mixed with english/other language for MOST (not all) people using underlying software.
Oh yeah I came here to ask "when". 2-4 weeks is brilliant. Hopefully this is my IAM strategy sorted and I can worry about some other stuff instead :)

I'm really impressed with your strategy and v2 looks like a really great upgrade.
That's really unprofessional. I've never talked to anybody at Google who administered a "I don't know the algorithm" interview like that. They would have been spanked badly by the interview committee, if repeating this behavior.

If I may ask, why in that interview did you just sit there and not ask any questions? I've passed code interviews where I learned an entire new algorithm on the fly (funny how knowing there is an nlogn solution to an n**2 problem can produce workable solutions).
Cause it belongs to Adobe and they clearly don’t want to make it easy for developers to work with it.
This is funny. What was the tst about?
> Absolutely! Because as we all know, everyone speaks English.

I understand the sentiment here, especially as English is not my native language, but for many domains, for anything close to the state of the art, English is lingua franca.
The canvases occupy so much of the screen (on small phones) that it is sometimes difficult to scroll the page. Otherwise, amazing article.
Redux is largely responsible for turning me away from React sending me straight into Vue and Vuex.
> Naming things by their English name is not more universal than using Greek letters.

It is - the people who understand the Greek-letter notation will understand the English words but the inverse statement isn't always true.
> What often happens when an employee doesnt get promoted?

They try again next cycle.
Because signaling quality through clever marketing is way cheaper and more profitable than actually making a quality product. As for why people get bamboozled, P.T. Barnum and Honest Abe had some choice words on the matter.
We first learned of Pulumi a couple years ago here on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22866714

We added it successfully to an existing C# codebase that was hosted as an Azure web app.
I didn’t read it as a deliberate test, but that if the driver let them know the candidate was rude, it would be a negative mark.
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And if Peter Zeihan is right, the loss of Russian exports is just the beginning of oil supply disruption over the next decade.
I am by no means even a decent amateur guitarist but "practice with songs you know" definitely lines up with what I was being asked to do when I was taking guitar lessons as a kid.
@edwinwee will this roll out to Australia eventually?
Clearly, it brings a warped perspective on how a CPU functions.

Do I really have to guess the order that my procedures are called? FP zealots say that I do.
The recollection doesn't say anything about who else didn't make it. I don't think they included the information you're trying to infer from the story.
Try OpenPDF
https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF
> Certainly hasn't been true for those who make up the court. It's one of the least legitimate legal courts in the land.

It certainly seems comprised of partisan hacks these days. I see no other way to describe the recent appointments prior to this year. They certainly weren't endorsed by the American Bar Association.
Pragmatic? I'd call it too generic. It's about as good as "a man's got to do what a man's got to do" as life advice.

Yes, there's no "one size fits all" and there are exotic needs, but there are certain good ways to build web pages that fit a vast majority of the use cases, and on the other hand, there are fads and hype.
Can you please make your substantive points without crossing into personal attack?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm Poor Charlie's Almanac, Charlie Munger explains that cheating is a huge problem, and that if you create a game where people can cheat to get ahead, they almost inevitably will.

At Google you could cheat the promotion system. Just spend more time optimizing for promo than for improving products for your customers, and you would be handsomely rewarded. You end up with the cheaters becoming the leaders and the good engineers leaving in frustration when they need to take orders from cheaters.
One thing I noticed a very long time ago is that most people have not read their religious texts.

Roe v Wade being no different. People havent read it, they havent read Casey, they havent read this draft, and they havent read other Supreme Court decisions to know what normal looks like.

There is a wide degree of room for understanding it from a jurisdiction perspective, that have absolutely nothing to do with one of two “camps” or that camp’s correlation to one of two political leanings. From a legal review perspective, that compartmentalizes the emotional aspect away from any desired outcome, its easy to see inspiration for other outcomes and paths that Roe v Wade shutdown all discussion of. Some of those paths actually reach similar results.

I tried once or twice to point that out, but people were just shocked to hear the topic. so I am kind of thrilled that the opportunity to inspire is now forced upon everyone.
Ha! I remember this from many years ago; when was it first published?
> Also, there are loads of features that were far easier to implement after the refactoring.

Congratulations, you have demonstrated the value and made it easier to do something. As someone who has gotten promoted 2 times (and soon to be 3) primarily off of tech debt reduction and infrastructural improvements that don't themselves do anything, but drive future productivity, of course I think this is valuable. This kind of thing is literally the only work I do.

Now yes, there's a point beyond which only doing that work won't get you promoted, but that point is L5 where you're making 350K/year, and you can continue to do some of that work and get promoted further, you just likely have to

1. Get other people to also do that work
2. Do other work that acts at a larger scale

If you're actively adding new features to a service, you aren't doing maintenance. You're launching new things, and people get promoted by launching new things all the time. And people get promoted for making it easier to launch to features all the time.
It's Gatsby yes. For a static frontpage.

I just started consulting for them on another project so I'm light on details.
> We should be praising progress. Not everything should be a 'sprint', it should be a 'march'. What's all the sprinting for?

I'm of two minds on this statement. On the one hand, "sprint" isn't meant to be taken literally in the scrum metaphor, in that teams aren't supposed to be trying to cram in as much stuff as humanly possible. But at the same time, the idea of each two-week period needing to have concrete goals, and failure to meet those goals being a negative indicator, is a major issue.

For me, the value of having deadlines, or something resembling a deadline, is to make it easier to get started. Once I've actually got the ball rolling, it's less important that the schedule actually resembles the plan, insofar as it doesn't affect other people. But my experience with scrum teams is that progress isn't seen as good enough. You have to execute on the plan, at least as far as scheduling is concerned, and cut corners if you have to.

The issue is this rigid equivalency of plan = commitment, and therefore deviation from that plan = failure. No, a plan does not necessarily mean a commitment. A plan lets you get started without spending so much time in decision paralysis. Once you're moving, the real plan evolves.
I agree with you. I understand that how you behave as a member of society is useful information and it's valid to not hire a jerk. Having the taxi driver as a spy is a bit like bugging a confessional though. Like you say, if they really limit the taxi driver's input to "was he directly a jerk to me", that sounds ok, but like any surveillance, it's unlikely it really remains limited to such a fixed scope and other information doesn't come in and bias the answer. A taxi is where a lot of people feel safe from observation, and may say things not meant for anyone's ears.

As an aside, I'm always shocked at what people will start saying in a taxi/uber, particularly I'm thinking of talking about confidential work stuff. My personal view is you never know who the driver is and loose lips sink ships, don't say anything in front of him that you wouldn't say in public. But I know many don't see it that way.
My source is: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-turn-conservatives-li...

I should have put it in my original message because downvote button is way closer than google search box.
Oh. I think I understand my work culture now. Thank you.
Can you explain the .75lbs number you provided? How often do you anticipate a person to lose that much? Care to provide literature for your claims?
I took Huffman's class at UCSC and he said he had actually thrown the solution in the garbage before realizing it worked and retrieving it.

When we started grad school, one of the professors introduced themself and said they thought it was interesting that adaptive optics was being used in astronomy and maybe the same idea could be used to improve microscopy and 7 years later a new phd was born doing exactly that!
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>... if someone has a bad attitude with me...

It seems pretty obvious to me that the premise is supposed to be that the driver is courteous and professional, and they just see if the person treats the driver decently, or like trash because they feel they're above them.
Please keep ideological flamebait out of your comments here. The last thing we needed in this thread (ok, one of several last things we needed—but they're all tied for last place!) was yet another gender flamewar. You didn't need that to make your substantive point about competitiveness.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31262574 and marked it off topic.
I am a diehard NHL fan and a "beer league" goalie, and it would be my dream to be called up.

However, I am acquainted with some individuals that are members of my favorite team's organization. My favorite team apparently has a roster of about 20 people that are "on call" for and given home game. Whether home or away, both teams in any given game can pull from the same roster i.e. the home team keeps the roster for both teams EBUG do not travel with the team or anything. Most of these people are ex-NCAA players or semi-professional players that have had far more success than your average beer leaguer.
Because everyone there is nice or what's the thinking?
I'd understand if we were asked to pick what we felt was worth highlighting and provide some supporting data, but we effectively were doing the same amount of work on our own packets as before the shift. Just with a due date a couple weeks sooner so our manager could have time to edit.
Quick comment to help explain why this is getting some downvotes (in my best guess): The part where you say you try to treat service workers with respect but have your limits is fine / personal experience / probably broadly relatable, but the parts that are basically calling BS on someone for claiming they never lose their cool in such situations is… presumptuous and personal.

Some people really have the ability to keep their cool (for one reason or another, trained or personality-driven).

Personally, I’m with you, but, I think, making progress on becoming more like the person you’ve replied to.
Well he also added one too many zeroes, but that's just a surface level problem.
Well, you have to maintain things after they're made. New things are usually made out of multiple old things. Figuring out how stuff works, then fixing and reusing, supporting, or replacing it is the bulk of every programming job I've done or heard of.

I can't even conceive of what programming job wouldn't be describable as "grunt work" from the point of view of some hypothetical super-genius. Writing "new" code that just does the same thing as something you're tossing out, but with a different set of mistakes? Cutting-edge science work is mostly glue code between hardware and spreadsheets or databases. Cell phone firmware is mostly repurposing and updating the old firmware. Anything involving a GUI is going to be a massive time-sink getting the GUI to work the way the non-technical people using it want it to work.

How much time do you spend in any given year figuring out how to operate debuggers, find the right log files, narrow down some crash, etc?
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No, but I am saying that you have essentially no control over that, but you do have control over your own person. Focus on the thing you can control rather than wasting your time arguing about the things you can't.
That seems like an unnecessarily convoluted interpretation of a simple idea: does the candidate act like an asshole to a powerless person?

OP can report back on what the bar was, but I doubt people were getting rejected simply for being aloof or untalkative. And it's unfair in the opposite direction to try to apply the "Magical Negro" trope to anyone with a blue-collar job. By that bar -- it would be better to completely ignore the driver and treat them as a nonentity, which we (hopefully) know is wrong.

Use whatever resources are at your disposal to vet candidates.
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That's an excellent point that I hadn't thought of. If one could just pick one's favorite notation, that would make the "competition" between traditional notation and others more fair. And more and more music is being notated digitally, so this isn't completely a pipe dream.
Hello. My project is essentially a replacement for a small subset of LaTeX. I use LaTeX for a lot of my own work but the massive amount of converters going from LaTeX to PDF is the reason I started this project in the first place.
To be fair, the comment you were replying to was strictly a response to someone's personal claim, not about the taxi driver scenario in particular
Simplest way to generate pdf is to generate xsl-fo document which is good old XML and then convert it to PDF using one of the processors, e.g. Apache FOP.
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Doesn't e.g. cairo solve this problem? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(graphics)
You could have a look at how ghostscript does it: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=tree;f=pdf;hb=r...
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I have no expertise in this, and can't even claim to have followed the entire article or video. But the PS5 has been out of stock ever since its release in Nov 2020. That is an astonishing fact to me. I can't think of anything like this in my lifetime. The flagship product of a multinational corporation has been sold out for 18 months. Empty shelves where a product should be.

It's just one isolated data point, but it's hard for me to understand how we could be seeing a coming bust when we are still in the midst of such a shortage.