skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The dot-com period was just the latest example of what happens when a new technology is widely adopted. Automobiles famously went through a similar period early last century. Many new entrants crowd into the field, there's a free-for-all as everyone tries to make the killer app, then through a weird alchemy of vision, execution, and luck a few brands eventually buy up or force into bankruptcy enough competitors to dominate the field. In recent history at least, explosion and consolidation of new players is the norm when a new technology is introduced.

As to your second question - which I would rephrase as 'why would this technology be widely adopted?' I would say, if the role of a trusted third party can be automated, it will be because nature abhors inefficiency. And trusted third parties aren't a niche field - not just banks but also a large part of any civil service can now replace humans with algorithms. That's a lot of disruption.
With algorithms, I mean if the problem demands some optimization, be it network flow, string compression or some kind of resource allocation (something like register allocation in compilers), one should have the vague idea which direction to pursue or approach. This requires somehow rigorous course-work in school. Assuming everyone takes standard CS machine architecture courses, having the breadth in multiple domain is, essential, imo for a well rounded engineer. Now knowing(or having no idea) how memory access, hierarchy etc works, they won't know when things just get stuck.
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One model to overfit it all
Yep. I actually mention that specific question in the article as an unsolvable question for machine learning, at least given our current constraints.

Those are generally rare questions though because difficult questions for bots are also difficult questions for humans. HQ can't have too many of those questions without degrading the player experience.

Because of that, I don't think we will ever get beyond 10/11 questions right per game. That still leads to a decent chance at winning at least one game per week though.
My issue with Monads (and why I like kotlin and swift nullable types) is that it allows the compiler to infer nullability like the following code:

fun f(a1: Int?, a2: Int?): Int {

if (a1 == null || a2 == null) {

return 0

}

//now you can do something like

return a1+a2

}

In contrast, if it didn't, the code would look like:

fn func1(q: Option<i32>, z: Option<i32>) -> i32 {

if let Some(q_in) = q {

if let Some(z_in) = z {

return q_in + z_in

}

}

return 0

}

Note the deeply nested parenthesis.
I currently work at Google and have received offers from Facebook and Amazon. I don't have a CS degree.

Interview Cake should be your first stop - the questions are the closest to what you'll actually see in a tech giant interview, so the effort to reward ratio is good.

LeetCode is your bread and butter. With any remaining time, grind these problems.

Cracking the Coding Interview is both too easy and too difficult, very few questions hit the sweet spot. Read the section on behavioral questions though. Elements of Programming Interviews is too challenging, I'd skip it.

Optimize for number of problems solved, which means coding in the site's online text editor. I wouldn't code in your own personal text editor because you do want to avoid autocomplete. If you feel like you need practice actually writing on a whiteboard, you can do that a few days before the onsite.
Any company that waits months or years to fire bad hires and unproductive employees could afford to pay it, by definition.
What part of Oakland? You might check out common.net. We can cover some parts of Oakland now and hopefully more soon. I work there.
Targeted Attacks on Speech-to-Text [pdf]
What about Willem Van Lancker, who claims to have created 400 of the 500 original emoji characters at Apple?

http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/emoji-2012-12/
H2 (Tokio based HTTP/2.0 client and server) is released to crates.io
>Except Damore didn't say anything of the sort.

Damore did right here: (emphasis added)

> I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership.

This is a key misrepresentation of the evidence, as it is claimed, right here by Damore. Whether or not it's claimed multiple times in the memo, as you say, does not mean Damore does not make the claim. It is one point of many that is addressed directly by Sadedin.

Again, your attempt to minimize Damore's fallacious statement, as well as unwillingness to continue a discussion you started in lieu of new information you find disagreeable, is confirmation bias.
I can't tell if you are joking, so I'm taking it seriously.

Uber's human resources and or lawyers should have caught many of its missteps.
Common undergrad degrees for HR being in management, business administration, and related business degrees.
Lawyers are well lawyers.

Gender Studies doesn't prepare you for business as well as an actual business related degree, it prepares you for a mostly academic career which has limited spots.

That being said, even STEM and business degrees are worth less and less as competition increases. You now need a degree and often years of experience for jobs.

The only thing that really angers me is charging 60,000 dollars for a gender studies degree, and having a student take loans for it. 1/100 might get lucky and work at a big tech company as a tech evangelist, but it's not sustainable.

We need universities to be far more accountable about what degrees actually lead to jobs.
I think rather than reinvent the wheel and make an OS from scratch, just get involved with one already being developed.

Haiku is an open source free rewrite of BeOS and they are trying to make an OS that can run BeOS apps.
https://www.haiku-os.org/

AROS is an open source and free AmigaOS 3.X rewrite, it can run old Amiga apps.

http://aros.sourceforge.net/

OSFree is an open source and free OS/2 clone.
http://www.osfree.org/

ReactOS is an open source and free OS to try and be like XP/2003 in a way and has made some progress recently.

https://reactos.org/

If I was in charge of Microsoft or Apple, I'd look into one of those OSes to fund and exchange code with instead of creating one from scratch.

While they are not ready for prime time if some billion dollar company invests one million USD in just one of them, it could get it to get out of the alpha stage and go beta or retail in a few years or so.
> I don't want to get into a stupid pedantic discussion about what Christianity may or may not contain/touch on

Except that you clearly don't know all the teachings, so pre-dismissing anyone helping you learn the parts you think are missing seems short-sighted.

That being said, you are partly right... In general, Christianity answers the question of "What do I do?", while Buddhism answer "How do I do it?" But there are internally-focused teachings throughout the New Testament. The Old Testament was more what you describe than Jesus' teachings.

Sadly, when you conclude that anyone who disagrees with you must not be intellectually honest, it makes me feel you are not very far along ANY spiritual path. Even though again, you are partly correct... your approach to all of this is very ego-driven, and it doesn't sound like you are open to much in the way of discussion.
It is very uncommon in US to have trial periods. Alternate interpretation: since in most states employment is at-will and the company can fire you anytime for any or no reason, basically your entire employment can be considered a trial period.
If that's how you ended up with a felony, I'd probably hire you without hesitation assuming you were a good fit and I was in a capacity to make that decision.

There's very few situations where indecent exposure should even warrant a felony, and barring any sexual/predatory motivation I can't really even begin to understand why it would.

You might have better luck with startups. They're usually run by people who aren't cowards, and they tend to be allergic to bullshit. Also consider remote work if geography is a poblem.
Yeah.

Companies should be transparent about the data they collect and how they anonymize it – and should be easily disabled if needed if you need serious privacy, as is possible that some resourceful actor could de-anonymize the information somehow. But this kind of data is not necessarily harmful.

People disabling telemetry will often be the same ones complaining about "poorly written applications and company X should know better". Well they don't because you disabled telemetry, now the company or organization has no data to improve anything, be it performance, crashes or even UI. Bug reports are not enough.
Ask HN: How might the crypto economy redefine the world economy?
Via twitter
“When hiring people these days the first thing I explain is that the crypto economy is (likely) going to redefine the entire world economy and networked computer systems.”

How might crypto do this? What might that look like?
I also thought he was coming out a gay.

Which wouldn't be too surprising given how much HN loves him.
I've been building https://startyourownisp.com - it's a (free) guide to starting a small ISP in your garage. I've been working with companies doing that for almost 15 years in the US.
Is there a dataset of past HQ questions and answers?
Medicine, pharmacy, nursing, and optometry, at least, also require continuing education contact hours in order to maintain a professional license.
Garfield exhibits the perfect banality of good entertainment.

It's not edgy, its something everyone can empathize with, it talks about normal work-a-day problems (without too much depth), and most importantly, it makes you think (but not too much).

It's literally entertainment, for entertainments sake - there is no higher meaning other than to be a distraction for a couple minutes, and perhaps to be reminding that, yes, someones life is worse than yours.
His suitability nonwithstanding, I doubt Bezos can afford to take time off from Amazon to run in the next few years. And I'd like to see how he's going to extricate himself from his business interests as most presidents are supposed to do... cough
+1. As mayor, you're still fundamentally an executive, making practical decisions about city services, police, etc. It feels quite analagous to CEO.

Whereas as US president, you're effectively leader of your political party, and your greatest achievements are essentially legislative even though you have no legislative power. It's a position of leadership through coalition-building, not execution through delegation and accountability.

There's certainly overlap, but overall they feel like night and day.
plus he has about zero charisma
Not firing quickly means you fire slow. Which means the person who should be let go continues to stick around and potentially cause problems for the rest of the people. This can be just as sad, if not more so, for the other employees who are impacted by what the person who should be fired continues to do.

Firing quickly doesn't mean not to offer regular feedback, or not letting people improve, or not setting expectations well, or not being transparent. It means that it's better to rip the bandaid off instead of picking at it weeks or month ignoring the employee with the hope that things will turn around.
It was conceptualized as a universal safety net pension program, not a welfare program or progressive redistribution program.
Always raise uncertainty.
>Let's disable Javascript too while we are at it.

...as if much of HN's userbase doesn't already do that.
> How so?

In the sense that you are cautious to accept that the other side is rather serious about religion and vegetarism.
Not be too pedantic, but if you can’t get elected, you can’t be effective. By that measure, Trump was more effective than every other Presidential candidate, Hillary in particular. He is now President, and she is an unemployed politician.

I think whichever party puts forth the most electable candidate will, by definition, win the next election. Of what I perceive as that pool of individuals, I see Jeff Bezos as one of the better options.
> Your desire not to be a burden is laudable, ...

That's not what I said. I don't try not to be a burden, I just don't expect consular officials to give a shit about my schedule, and set my priorities based on that. Sure they should be welcoming and all, but it is what it is.
Russian troops need to cross Ukraine and Romania first ?
I'd prefer a non-billionaire/millionaire statesman (not a politician). Uber rich people in general have a hard time connecting or understanding regular people - and thats what we need now before the whole thing goes off the rails permanently. Although some may argue that has already happened... We need to get off this train of having famous rich people (or rich business people) running gov. Furthermore we should try to purge the career politicians (who again are usually ultra rich with corporate connections) from all of gov. In most cases, they are not representing us any longer - and haven't for years...

Sort of a dream, but seems like a nice goal :)
Yes, we have been archiving each game going back to October. We augment the questions and answers though so that we get more relevant results when run our web scrapes.
Ask HN: Is is worth using Typescript for developing Node APIs?
Gosper island shapes do subdivide into gosper island shapes, if you want something tricky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosper_curve#Properties
The halting problem is used as a means to stick one's head in the sand. The halting problem imo is fundamentally uninteresting. A question that's almost as useful and is answerable is whether a program might not halt. Using your mapping to nullability, this tries to answer whether a pointer might be null. That's all the tools are trying to do and the halting problem doesn't get in the way.
I was in a similar camp until I understood the actual tech the most advanced companies are working with.

While all the hype is about "autonomous" what these actually are is very sophisticated remote control cars running on "digital train tracks" with humans continually monitoring and able to intervene in whatever they do.

Full autonomous, the way it is hyped, is still "maybe in 20 years" but there are other ways to skin the cat.
There's a lot less teabagging when we win.
All you have to do is pad after compressing.

It all looks the same post-encryption.
The very last thing we need is another megalomaniacal billionaire handed the reigns to an excessively powerful executive apparatus.

People need to remember that billionaires are not your friends. The only thing that can improve society is concerted, collective action. The fetishization of hyper-competent business leaders as the solution to society’s problems is a quasi-fascistic fantasy; it’s of a piece with a yearning for a “strongman” or those thinkpieces that glorify Singapore or the CCP’s supposed technocratic excellence.
If President Bezos could get the government to work as well for it's customers as Amazon does, it's a good deal.
That sounds huge until you ponder that the water that salt is dissolved in is a layer many hundreds of feet thick covering 70% of the surface. :)
No, the military grid is based on (a whole bunch of distinct skinny slices of) transverse Mercator projections, which don’t really line up properly at the seams, plus stereographic projections at the poles. It was largely designed for use with paper maps.

Discrete global grid systems based on hexagons are an idea which differ in most respects from that, except for the part about hierarchical coordinates (which can also be done using any arbitrary other map projection).
Since 2014 Social Security has run out of money, and the shortfall is being financed by general federal borrowing. It just isn't in the headlines these days.
Ha, so you did! I got down to the Nick Hornby question which reminded me of it and then commented here ;-)

You are right about the experience issue, though. It feels almost like they're trying to make it so you can't win with questions worded in that way, since even someone who actually knew the numbers of Grammys all the artists listed had would struggle to add them together in time.
Because we systematically impoverish students, we can only count on the largesse of the fabulously wealthy to rescue a lucky few.
It’s completely breathtaking how massive our planet is in every measure that matters. And then we find out how big Jupiter is, VY Canis Majoris... The universe is a wonderful place!
The one I got does not have a slot for an external SD card, so I'm not sure if we are using the same version.

The one I bought (pre holiday sale for $25) is adequately fast. Launch times are a bit slow, but it was $25 and once an app, book, or web page is launched/loaded the scrolling and interactions work fine.

The dropbox app, web browser, and chess apps I use all work nicely. I also use it for reading PDFs (articles, books) and books from the kindle store.

I've noticed the kid profiles to be a bit buggy, but iOS and Android don't have comparable functionality, so I applaud Amazon for shipping what they have and continuing to iterate on it. Even with the bugs the experience of handing it to a kid is far better than Android or iOS.

Mine installed several software updates in the first week after purchase, so it appears that there is active development going on.

It's incredibly liberating when the device can be sold for such an aggressive price. I don't mind if a kid drops it on the floor, I carry it around in my pocket and don't worry about sitting on it, and when there is a faster hardware version I'll likely spring for a new one.
So what you are doing is looking for someone who can win, not necessarily be an effective leader.

It's the kind of thinking that's got people seriously jabbing about Oprah as a Democratic candidate. We really want to put someone who was a talk show host and has evangelized quack science for the past 30 years in charge of the country, because she's all of a sudden brave enough to speak out against Harvey Weinstein (nevermind that she was his friend)?

The scary thing is, she'd probably beat Trump, that doesn't mean it would be good for this country. It really can't be that difficult to pick someone who is both more electable than Trump and also capable. If we can't do that, then let's fold up as a country and go home.

We don't have to default to someone like Oprah or Bezos. We can do better.
Nintendo sues mobile developer Colopl over patents infringement
I mean, sure – I added TopLevelWrapper so it's still my "fault", but it's not as relevant any more since most people are on React 16.
https://waterfoxproject.org/

https://www.reddit.com/r/waterfox/

Disabled Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)
Disabled Web Runtime (deprecated as of 2015)
Removed Pocket
Removed Telemetry
Removed data collection
Removed startup profiling
Allow running of all 64-Bit NPAPI plugins
Allow running of unsigned extensions
Removal of Sponsored Tiles on New Tab Page
Addition of Duplicate Tab option
Locale selector in about:preferences > General
I think anyone playing HQ should be encouraged by our results. I know a lot of people turned off by playing because of all the "bots" playing. Based on our analysis and results from over a hundred games...I think it's clear that bots are not sophisticated enough to solve HQ.

We're also using a more sophisticated approach than most bots I've read about, and we continuously train out model on new data. Even so, we would only expect to win 7 out of 100 games.

Our goal was not to hurt the HQ community, but rather to challenge ourselves into solving a difficult data science problem.
Not that we can't influence, but that we just have one lever when modern society calls for a whole control panel.

I generally agree with you. Didn't mean to come off so pessimistic. :)
Why do you smile when you see a friend? Was it a rule you decided on or something you just do? What if you suddenly stopped?
Another relevant trade off is transformer size vs. efficiency.

AC is used because it's very simple to step up to very high voltage for efficient long distance transmission and then back down to safer low voltages for use, while doing the same with DC requires significantly more complex electronics.

However, at very low frequencies you need to use very large transformers which cost a lot and look ugly, and at higher frequencies you lose efficiency due to skin effect [1].

50 Hz is a good compromise - transformers are of a practical size and skin depth is about 9 mm, which is larger than most conductors and therefore doesn't add much loss.

If you increase the frequency to just 10 kHz (which is still considered very low) the skin depth decreases to only 0.6 mm, and you would have significant loss on even moderate sized conductors.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_effect
I don't suppose you'd be willing to publish what you've gathered at some point in the near future?
Hexagonal pixel grids have been used for decades by many different people for various GIS/mapping applications. If you do a google scholar search you will find hundreds of relevant papers. They’re still uncommon compared to square grids, because they are less convenient in several ways, and less familiar – every part of our culture (textiles, architecture and construction, mechanical engineering, urban planning, writing and books, furniture, visual art, toys, cartography, circuit boards, computer displays, abstract mathematics, ...) is deeply rooted in rectangular grids.

Like most tools/conventions, there are trade-offs involved.
At the same time, on average the universe contains nothing. It is so vast, that even if all stars were VY Canis Majoris, it would be still pretty much devoid of anything.
The trouble is that "regret" is doing too much work. It's at once a statement of fact and an activity.

As a statement of fact it's ok. As an activity it's usually a waste of time.
Easy Node.js pentest tool for basic tests
For not impressed I use one of these four:

- https://emojipedia.org/neutral-face/

- https://emojipedia.org/expressionless-face/

- https://emojipedia.org/unamused-face/

- https://emojipedia.org/face-with-one-eyebrow-raised/

For hypocritical smile I use this one:

- https://emojipedia.org/grimacing-face/

Obviously context shapes how these emojis are interpreted, but I find they hit the mark for those two expressions.
I agree with you. Engineers of physical things don't fully understand what steel is made of (since we don't fully understand the lowest underpinnings of matter or all of its properties).
Reading disks from 1988 in 2018
"My response is to say that colors are not properties of objects (like the U.N. flag) or atmospheres (like the sky) but of perceptual processes—interactions which involve psychological subjects and physical objects."

I don't see a nod to Robert Pirsig in the article, but it reads like a textbook example of Dynamic Quality.

"I don't know how much thought passed before he arrived at this, but eventually he saw that Quality couldn't be independently related with either the subject or the object but could be found only in the relationship of the two with each other. It is the point at which subject and object meet."

Of course, he goes a little bit further after that. :)
I know, I meant up-to-date specs and no touchbar
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