skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same for me. I'm also astonished about the amount of time that is often expected to be put into an interview process especially speaking about take home tasks. But apart from interviews, I think self-taught engineers are still in high regard at most places because solving blocking problems and building things that last is not something that can be learned easily.
It's a bit tricky, maybe, to fire someone in Ontario, Canada because of their politics. With that as the reason. The courts take a rather commonsense approach to wrongful termination.

But I do believe it is legal to make hiring conditional on basically anything not prohibited by the labour or discrimination laws.

Political affiliation or political belief are not protected categories. Though I can imagine some possibly over-stretched arguments if the political requirement were constructively discriminatory against a protected category. E.g. it's probably not legal to require a devout Catholic to hold a pro-choice view on abortion. Such a rule is nearly the same in effect as a ban on hiring adherents.

Other than that, you can be as nepotistic, partisan, or arbitrary as you want. Not American or a lawyer, but as I understand the broad situation is the same in most US states.
https://archive.ph/5dZqn
Are there any credible / non scammy ways to take one of these tests online? I haven't looked much myself but it seemed like they would largely be garbage social media bait, or make you take a long test and ask for money at the end.
Indeed. Put it in your own bag and you're good, I wouldn't trust a box filled with mobile phones. Someone is bound to take the wrong one home when they're done, someone might even steal one. There is really no need to create that unnecessary stress when you're already writing an exam.
> Many companies that depend on Curl would spend $12K on a new rug for the office.

The message states that the project has USD100k at the moment, thanks to "a fair amount of sponsors".

Here's a link to curl's sponsors:

https://opencollective.com/curl

The estimated annual budget is listed at around USD 74k.

I was very disappointed that none of the FANGs is listed as a sponsor.
Nope.

I'm self taught in the sense I never went to university but I like to think of it more as self guided. I've read thousands of blog posts and learned a ton from other people. If you asked me to whiteboard a red-black tree on the spot I'd insta-fail but if you asked me to Google an implementation of it I'd find it and have it running in a few minutes with a few languages.

I don't worry about algorithm grinding because if their interview process expects that then I won't apply. There's lots of options out there where folks will hire you based on skill sets more in line with solving problems directly related to their business. I tend to gravitate towards those which are focused on building and deploying web apps.

Of course not all apps are created equal. If you plan to be operating at a super low level for critically important / number crunchy domains like a custom high frequency trading platform or you're writing Mars rover code then sure having a strong CS background seems reasonable, but you don't need to know shit about time-scale calculus or pulse-coupled neural networks to create a CI / CD pipeline to help a 100 million dollar a year business deploy their apps faster and more dependably which in turn helps them become a 110 million dollar a year business. The same goes for planning out, building and deploying a huge variety of SAAS apps.
“There are undeniably certain kinds of knowledge that must be of a general nature and, more importantly, a certain cultivation of the mind and character that nobody can afford to be without. People obviously cannot be good craftworkers, merchants, soldiers or businessmen unless, regardless of their occupation, they are good, upstanding and – according to their condition – well-informed human beings and citizens. If this basis is laid through schooling, vocational skills are easily acquired later on, and a person is always free to move from one occupation to another, as so often happens in life.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldtian_model_of_higher_...
That's how the "people believe this box is worth a million dollars, so it's worth a million dollars" crowd would like to define "value".

There are other definitions of "value" though, which are usually a lot more useful and a lot less dangerous to lead you into pyramid schemes.
Paper:
"The field-free Josephson diode in a van der Waals heterostructure"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04504-8
Current accepted wisdom is that Putin decided to invade because the FSB told him it would be a cakewalk. I'm really surprised that no one in the media has drawn a parallel to the intelligence failure leading to the US invasion of Iraq, when the CIA told Bush it would be a "slam dunk" to find WMDs there. It seems the CIA and FSB have a similar problem with groupthink.
I think top schools like Harvard, Stanford, Oxford etc. can serve as excellent environments for people to reach their full potential, but due to cultural reasons and funding, they are willing to make large compromises on who can get a degree there. Going to Harvard doesn't mean you are intelligent, but I've seldomly seen such high density of super clever people as at these top schools.
Eeeeeeexactly
It is like a viral infection.

Once somebody spends $400,000 on an ugly ape and then found they spent their money for nothing, they will become a permanent enemy of crypto. It’s just a matter of time before you join us (crypto haters) the difference is that some of us knew it was a scam right away and others will have to learn it the hard way.
Stablecoins are the grease for CEXs the gateway (drug) for - since a lot of people trust their keys in the hands of the exchanges themselves - "claims" on listed cryptocurrency tokens.

In service of efficiency and maximizing profits: claims on cash with claims on digital tokens. I will leave out the massive inflationary use of cryptocurrencies themselves like CEXs issuing their own tokens as a bonus sideline. At this point one could easily argue that the market cap lists are advertisement panels controlled by CEXs disguised as score boards (filled with "sponsors".)

As we know from the practices of centuries old fractional reserving (how much does a bank has to hold on reverseves to create some amount money (credit) out of thin air?) "traditional" stablecoins are most certainly backed by (intransparent) fractional reserves, the most infamous one being Tether. For all we know they could be running at whatever is needed (some percent) to keep the machine barely running by people cashing out.

Sooner or later triggering events will briefly pause the music on those merry trips to Jerusalem - but on this scale of course not equally for all so that those at the centralized sources themselves have enough time and the insight to react accordingly by taking everything they can and run; which again leaves the rest with basically nothing.

So, in short exactly the opposite of what were/are the stated goal of cryptocurrencies.
From that perspective I am eagerly awaiting the next iterations of CEXs and at some point after a lot of financial casualties the growing awareness of their abusive ecosystem of playing into the addictive and destructive nature of gambling fueled by the financial insecurities and disillusionment of social mobility a lot of people are facing in the real world. But I guess, this will be a long fight.
Behavioral and Neural Signatures of Visual Imagery Vividness Extremes: Aphantasia versus Hyperphantasia
https://academic.oup.com/cercorcomms/article/2/2/tgab035/626...
It's like the first step down the rabbit hole of the startup cult.

Trying to make people feel like they are part of something bigger than themselves is the best way to screw them over. It's the base of every religion, cult or exploitation mechanism.

I feel like all these wannabe entrepreneurs get on their knees to worship John D. Rockefeller and Bill Gates.

Well they didn't need to force employees be part of a cult. There were no stock options or RSU back then. Both Standard Oil and Microsoft paid a salary, cash is king.
Yea, but for them at least the lower levels remain fairly classical, right?
Imagine two people own farms. One has very rich soil, full of nutrients, ready to grow amazing crops. The other has thin depleted soil, barely able to support plant life.

The farmer with rich soil has the opportunity to out-produce the other one, but only if he works the land. And the harder he works it, the more productive he will be (up to a point).

Or think of top athletes. Only a few people have the inborn talent to become Olympic champions. But no one becomes an Olympic champion unless they work hard—no matter how talented.

Heritable intelligence is best thought of as a potential. Education can increase a person’s IQ scores for the same reason that working out can increase a person’s athletic performance.

We don’t have a way to directly measure inherited potential in people; we can only measure what they do. Even an IQ test is based on what people do as they take the test.

But also the idea that intelligence is fixed at birth does not align with what we know about brain development. We know the brain develops through early adulthood, and that different life experiences result in physically different brains. While inheritance may put a top-end limit on how intelligent someone can become, it does not necessarily fix intelligence precisely on the IQ scale at birth.
It’s still single machine l, but afaik you can run multiple dynos, and can certainly let run multiple apps and separate web/worker dynos.
Thanks. I agree that they are interesting. (I wrote them :) .) But I can think a few reasons why they are wrong. Anyway, I think they are useful to understand the difference between prions and rna, and why prions are not a good proposal for the origin of life.
It works pretty well but (a) not on mobile and (b) not on blogspam.
He once referred to this on Twitter stating that he's not from Nebraska

Edit: found it: https://twitter.com/bagder/status/1295632478955286528
... so why doesn’t Hacker News do any of that? Isn’t it ironic that it was built by a Silicon Valley VC?
No they don't, you are going to find plenty of horror stories from people who make Google money. Content/app creators, people paying for ads, G-suite customers, Pixel phone buyers, etc...

Maybe it is different for companies literally paying millions of dollars, but don't expect more than bot treatment below that.
They might not do anything nefarious and simply get hacked and now the whole world knows all your purchases, would that also be fine? I'm not saying this as if crypto solves it, because it doesn't, but that's one possible risk of someone having access to all your purchase history in one place.
Unless you hike the night shift...
What if some asshole throws theirs into the pile and cracks the screen of yours? What if the box gets turned over and phones spill to the floor?

Those are objective risks. Then you should also factor in subjective belief that when the phone is in your hands then you control its safety, while when it's out of your hands then anything can happen. When you're not in control, you tend to get pretty anxious.

Then you can add in other nightmares. What if the screen gets scratched? What if the phone gets crushed? What if someone takes your phone and accidentally drops it? What if they take it and leave with it? What if someone spills their coffee into the box? What if someone touches your phone with their filthy greasy hands and you get corona because of that?
> It only proves it does what is in the spec.

Worse than that.

Usually, it only proves that a simplified version of the code satisfies to some extent a translation of the spec to some formal language. And "prove" only means that some rather buggy tool printed "Valid".

Every point in this chain can and often does introduces bugs.

However, this does find real bugs in the code, and formalizing code and specs require people to think deeply and formally on aspects of the problem.

It just doesn't prove the code to be correct, or even that it satisfies the actual spec.
I am too dumb to understand what they actually did. (or too lazy understanding the study on my mobile). Can anyonr explain? I mean the IQ tests were not the same for every batch, right? So how do you milk the result out of the data?
We tried out struct-based enums like this for a while and they're definitely better than the vanilla version, but they still have the problem of "how do you iterate over all the values?" and "how do you create an enum value from a string?". We chanced upon https://github.com/dmarkham/enumer a few months ago and have been very happy so far.
My brother is military, has been to Ukraine, and has studied Russia as part of his degree. They are a nation in collapse. Corruption and a centralized command structure are a really bad combination.

Their military is like a headless chicken if you take out those in command. Compare that to a more decentralized, guerrilla-military operation from Ukraine, and you have the results we’re seeing.

I have no doubt that what we see here in the west is an inaccurate and one-sided view, but I think there’s still a clear enough picture that Russia is reaping what they’ve sown.
It's about target platform and time spent.

Youtube Premium is a perfect proposition for an easy ad free streaming to TV and to mobile. On Desktop browser adblock extension is efficient enough to cut out the ads.

Google search on the other hand is primarily for desktop and is not a streaming platform that consumes your attention minutes, hence Google Premium has little market with effective adblockers.
“Our sires’ age was worse than our grandsires’. We, their sons, are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.”

Book III of Odes, Horace
circa 20 BC

“Modern fashions seem to keep on growing more and more debased … The ordinary spoken language has also steadily coarsened. People used to say ‘raise the carriage shafts’ or ‘trim the lamp wick,’ but people today say ‘raise it’ or ‘trim it.’ When they should say, ‘Let the men of the palace staff stand forth!’ they say, ‘Torches! Let’s have some light!’”

Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness), Yoshida Kenkō
1330 – 1332
I guess the other side got a good idea of the level of importance you had assigned the ongoing FaceTime call.
Thermal run away only happens on fully/close to charged batteries - so couldn't they just only ship <= 40% full batteries and be fine?
I always wonder where this is coming from. I'm sure there are certain well funded industries that would have interest in such FUD.

From what I can see, this technologie is the future to a green world. We could ultimately have a distributed power system where every home has its own battery with solar panels on top. How fucking awesome would that be. Not even an eletrical grid failure would be a problem anymore.
It is illuminating that the paper doesn’t mention lead while discussing IQ decline in the recent decades. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IV3dnLzthDA
They did, which actually indicates that they find value in it already in its embryonal phase. (The necessary satellite constellation is far from complete right now.)
The position of science in society is a discussion worth having.

Excessive optimism toward science has had fairly detrimental results in the past. Often the problem isn't science itself though.

A trap is that you can't actually derive values from science, because it doesn't provide any -- whatever values you extract from science are those you put in yourself through hidden assumptions. That makes it very easy to lean on science to ostensibly support almost any action through some line of reasoning like "Science shows that if we kill the poor, we'll be able to reduce taxes by 90%. Therefore we should get our guns!" Science doesn't care if our taxes are high or low, it doesn't care if we live or die. Even if the premise about taxes is scientifically correct (I don't know), the conclusion isn't based on science alone.

That's a bit of a parallel to the discussion of lockdowns and masks and so on, while science may be able to answer what effects these have, science can't say we ought to do these things. That requires something else to be added, although sadly the discussion has almost entirely been about what the science says about these things, not the relative worth of saving lives versus individual freedom vs GDP, which is the real discussion.
> So far no-one has been able to point me at a single thing that public public blockchains do that either is worth doing and is only possible using blockchain tech, or is better (more power efficient, faster) than using pre-existing technology.

Using privacy coins I can donate money to causes I believe in (eg WikiLeaks) without fear of reprisal and with the knowledge that the funds will reach their recipient. If you have a better way, please let me know.
Fossil fuels are used to make just about every thing you touch. That's the opposite of waste. They're utilized. They can't be replenished but they're certainly not wasted.
Doesn't that just increase resistance to your walking, thus is equivalent to you converting calories to battery energy? Wind and solar would be additional energy over what you brought as stored calories or food.
Paying google for google premium wouldn’t help with the blogspam
> 250e3f7d581acff115537ba38e89ad31 is a handy random 128-bit integer that will appear in every issue of Lab 6 and can be used to search for copies.

I really like this idea for uniquely identifying emails. Our shop had been messing with something similar, but had trouble bridge the gap between the lay people and the technical minded people.
I'm "frothy" about my government (who are seemingly incompetent) too, that doesn't mean that crypto in it's realised form isn't also at fault. I mean sure, crypto as a concept isn't doing anyone any harm, but the realised actually running systems that are Eth and BTC sure as hell are.

> Maybe banning crypto would help them

It seemingly serves no purpose, and yet takes up a huge amount of power, which in it's absence would allow us to phase out a lot of our fossil fuel usage, which could include Russian gas.
> If it really is that devoid of merit it'll die on its own.

Bring on the homeopathy! It hasn't died yet so it must have merit.
not long ago here where i live today it was illegal to be gay, i would have been locked up/ chemically "treated"/ killed. It took people doing illegal things and being able to organise and communicate to build their defence and solidarity so they could stand together and push back against the violence and injustice of the state.

its not that the credit card company might sell you a rainbow card, its that you might not even get to exist.

Many things are illegal, but not immoral. You have probably broken the law in your life, most people have. ultimate surveillance is damaging to society as it strips away our ability to change "how things are done around here". I know a few sex workers whove had their bank accounts frozen and forced into cash/crypto, is that fair? are they really causing damage to society? theres many examples of sexism/racism from bank managers giving mortgages/loans with different rates depending on who they are talking to, could we use zkproofs to prove income/assets/liabilities without revealing personal information? amongst all the hype and speculation (caused by desperation in our current systems) crypto is about these issues and is doing real work to address them.

and thats before we even get into how things might change in the future. maybe its fine for a credit card company to know if you are gay today, what about in ten years? what if it becomes a crime again?
IQ may or may not be learned but IQ tests are very much a skill. The difference between my first test and the second one was almost 30 points. These were not too far apart but the second time I simply knew what to expect.
only shipping, likely this is hosting.
I’ve been running https://scrape.world on dokku + DigitalOcean for two years, zero issues!
Ok so why makes them different from any other company selling loans to consumers?

I took out a loan from hitatchi a while back, I’ve just today had about an exciting new rebranding they’ve had changing they’re name and how ecstatic I, as a customer, will be about it

Do I care? No. At start I care about monthly payments and how many months it is. Afterwards I care how long is left.

If better come out with better rates than any other provider that’s great, but there’s no value add for this type of product, it’s just how much it costs.
You can put dokku in front of different schedulers, kubernetes being one of them.
That’s fair, but your comment on the topic is significantly more measured than is customary for this forum. (If your usual comments are more along the lines of “God I hope this MLM cult crashes and burns soon”, than you fit my idea of angry anti-crypto HN commenter more closely.)

Thanks for reminding me to reread the Scott Alexander outgroup article.
All that verbiage and the best he can do with respect to establishing causality is an offhand remark that causality is “heavily implie(d)”. Controlling for confounders won’t necessarily recover estimates of causal impact.

At the least I’d like to see something like an instrumental variables analysis.
For me, one of the big catches is that you have a single point of failure. Dokku doesn't run over multiple VMs you have. It's on a VM. If that VM goes down, you're down.

I think one of the selling points of Heroku is that if the box you're running on goes down, your service will just be started on another box and traffic will be routed there and you don't need to do anything.
I wish someone would plug this into Searx, then we could reuse its UI.

[Searx upstream doesn't seems to be keen on implementing it though](https://github.com/searx/searx/issues/2622)
> So the more you're willing to pay the more you worth as an advertisement target.

So the common wisdom goes. Alternative thought: the more you’re willing to pay to not see ads the likelier you are to block them or never click on them, making you worth less as a target.
Lol at complaining about being frothy against crypto when crypto is nothing other than HODL Diamond hands cultists (I say cultists to be nice and not call them grifters and scam artists).
"Grit" is another word for the ability to distinguish between surmountable and insurmountable obstacles. Otherwise we would have to believe that insurmountable obstacles don't exist. If you believe an obstacle is insurmountable, it is rational to give up.

Therefore, grit can only be identified (or distinguished from irrational belief) in retrospect.
Any pointers to documentation on this topic?
Content blockers on iOS work well for removing ads on Google. I'm not sure if there's an Android equivalent.

The catch for iOS is that you have to use Safari, unless the browser has an ad blocker built-in. It won't solve blog spam either.
And aren’t domesticated animals generally less intelligent than their wild relatives?
Sure, I'm willing to buy that it's related, but it's going to definitely be tertiary effects and not that the population is poisoned.
This is a good use case for crypto, but it’s ruined by all the speculation and boom/bust.

I don’t need $30,000k Bitcoin to support Wikileaks and my blogger. $10 Bitcoin works perfectly for this.

But people hype and fraud coins to heights they shouldn’t be and make it useless for actual use.

I think Eth is a good idea. I like smart contracts. But Etherium doesn’t need to be $3k and transactions shouldn’t be $10. $1 Eth and $.01 transactions is still perfectly fine for a sustainable system. But that doesn’t make people millions and billions by milking idiots.

I think if we had regulators preventing wash and pump and dump then we can just pick dogecoin or whatever and move on to digital cash. Until then, it’s not going to be possible with dogecoin going up 10x and down .1x along with everything else.