skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the example forms has a honeypot input. Any submission where that field is non-empty is discarded.
I wish i could give you more votes. Without race the equation says high if still small chance of something very bad happening vs guaranteed delay but large percentage decrease in odds of a very bad result.

Add in unconscious bias (by race or culture) and the risk seems larger before even without explicitly racist thoughts.

Experience what women do for as long as women do, and the odds rank much higher than they do to a man making that evaluation. I'm sure women sharing stories within their cohort for mutual awareness (odds that a woman has heard more horror stories about women in uber/lyft the a man has heard are higher) further alter the different cost/benefit results by gender, though that doesn't say their calculations are unrealistic, just different.

I'm guessing many men make subconscious choices about what is "safer" (locking your door, deciding where to park, not flashing any wad of money you might have, etc.) but are baffled that women would do so for decisions where a man doesn't (I know I have been) which just highlights how our culture hasn't discussed the threats to/experiences of the various genders.
Can you tell me what substituted phenethylamine is?
The #1 and #2 drugs consumed by far in Silicon Valley are simply processed/refined sugars and caffeine. The former via foods of all kinds and sodas, snacks, and the later via coffee and sodas.

These are far more dangerous drugs in this sense... even a small child can tell you cocaine is bad for you or that LSD is a “drug”, but no one considers soda and coffee to be drug laced.

These are the real gateway drugs, by far.

If Silicon Valley had decent espresso, no joke, there would be no demand for any of these stupid drugs people are messing with. But the espresso tastes like absolute poop. In the bay area you can market and sell poop drinks as artisinal or small batch or whatever. Its essentially poop. E.g. if you think blue bottle tastes good, I could sell you a cup of poop for $10 easy because you have been fooled.

Back to seriousness, the real problem in all of this is failure to understand the real impacts of seamingly harmless things (processed sugars and caffeine) NOT obviously harmful substances. There must be a progression from the former to the latter. Who the fuck wakes up one morning and says: “shit, works been hard lately, id like to try a line of cocaine, i heard its really great for relaxation”. Wake up, it doesnt happen like that.

Yes, i have conveniently left alcohol out of this ranking, but its #3. If you dont know how bad alcohol is for your brain and body... heh...

The real story is the engineer drinking 8+ cups of black coffee or 10 sodas per day... not the coo ceo or vp doing marijuana or cocaine before work. The latter knows what theyre doing, they may be depressed but they know whats up. The former, probably not. And those seemingly safe substances kick off the dangerous ones.
It would make sense for Apple to continue to use both AWS and Google Cloud so that it maintains its negotiating powers with both vendors.
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Seems similar to Formspree[0], which one can self-host[1], but lacks the aliasing feature of your solution. Looks very cool!

[0]: https://formspree.io

[1]: https://github.com/formspree/formspree
> the permanence of objects in time relates thematically to Jorge Luis Borges' own writing

Also very strongly to "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis_Tertius" (1940), which explicitly mentions that topic, but maybe it's anachronistic (!) for your purposes here.
I feel completely the same! I have been working in electrical engineering in Zurich, and I've never seen or heard anyone use anything other than caffeine during and alcohol after work. Now I wonder whether I'm just naive or there is a massive cultural divide between Silicon Valley and Central Europe w.r.t. stimulants.
keep in mind that raw speed (in terms of say, ram access or PCI-E access (which is already faster than this implementation)) is rarely the obsticle these days, the issue is fetch/rtt latency, especially with trying to integrate FPGA acceleration into a codebase for offloading some operations, the penalty for for which can often be tens of thousands of cycles, or more.
It sounds like you would need a stimulant of some sort, just to counter the genetic issue. Thanks for your candor.
Nothing wrong? https://tech.co/top-tech-cities-25-tech-cities-ranked-2017-0...

It depends on the list, but in general Boston is in the top 5 or 10, while being an order of magnitude smaller than either NYC or SF.
I know, DL works only if you have massive datasets, DRL is even worse for the number of training episodes. Maybe you've heard about recent craziness of using GANs to generate training set fillers when your training sets are small, i.e. you have only 1,000 examples but need 10,000 for reasonable performance. Instead of gathering more examples, you use GAN to create believable training data, and it seems to be working quite well (i.e. a bump from 60% accuracy to 80% while bigger training dataset with real examples would bump you to 90%).

What I observed is that many ML companies now run two pipelines in parallel, one based on Deep Learning and the other on classical ML, then cherry pick solutions that work best for the problem/scale they have.
As of a year ago Waze was using both AWS and GCP.

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/02/guest-post-mult...
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I had a bunch of bay area tech friends all become meth addicts while I was out of the country (2001-2008?). It was self-reinforcing. I think a few people on the periphery died, and then eventually it stopped, although I'd drifted away by then. It was just weird seeing people who had used lots of other drugs without becoming addicts become addicts en-masse.
Banking institutions are slowly making crypto more and more legitimate. I hope this trend continues. Disclosure: I REALLY believe in Bitcoin.
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This was a critical factor that led to me relocating from SF to NYC. While it's nice having every tech giant and startup in close proximity, the homogenous conversations and social interactions were a huge drawback.

There's definitely a trade-off -- while it's nice being exposed to the issues people experience in a variety of industries, it was nice having easy access to engineers/friends willing to hack on ideas in SF.
It could (and has been) argued that the welfare state is the continuation of feudal society by different means.
> It asks for small algorithmic coding puzzles

There is no mention of "working on a pre-existing codebase that they know nothing about" in the description of the HackerRank test... so I don't know how your point applies?
You are right, there are homeless in London of course, as I said in my original comment. I had the impression it was a lot worse in SF. I don't know what the stats are on SF v London but I would be interested. And of course, I think it is a disgrace we have homeless in the UK too
My understanding from my American friends and partner is that it's exactly the same in the USA. Students, software developers, people in finance - for all of them stimulants are normal. I think most people aren't really concerned about being safe - the assumption is that because everyone else is doing it and nobody is getting hurt, it's safe. Which is mostly true (the jury is still out on the long term effects, but for pharmaceuticals the risk is miniscule with normal dosages).

Edit - I will say though that Adderall and coke are by far the most common for people from the USA. For whatever reason those are definitely the North American drugs of choice in my sample.
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Stimulunts such as speed or ice, are not so good for me, It’s not for creative work
also comedown is so hard.

Acid and Molly are best.
It adds 20 and 30 year lease stability to DRT's portfolio. DFT still operates under the DFT name for now. Just like telx which was also a DRT acquisition.
That may be true to some degree, but I have also had them happen while purposely chugging water. My migraines are kind of cyclical as well. Could be coincidence.
Do you use all of these? And why do you like Daytrana?
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That's not perfectionism.

If the song never gets 'as good as it can be', that's perfectionism.
I am with you. Although most modern languages would offer shortcuts to reverse a string but the spirit of this question is to see if a candidate has the mental agility to come up with a solution purely from ones knowledge to use a programming language and common sense.

One should be able to devise a solution to a simple problem like this without any CS course at all.
I'm a New York-based finance professional (former investment banker turned private equity investor) with a background using a wide variety of drugs, but mostly heroin. Besides heavy drinking and rare cocaine use among younger peers (analysts), I didn't see a lot of substance abuse. I often felt quite alone, especially in using my drugs of choice.

I started using heroin right after I graduated high school, and used it throughout undergrad, as it honestly helped me get better grades by quieting the turmoil in my mind. I experimented with suboxone and methadone after graduation, and was using a mix of methadone, Provigil (a stimulant, to counteract the drowsiness from the methadone), and alprazolam (to take the edge off the Provigil) when I started my first banking job in NY. I was let go for nodding off at work.

At my next job, I started using heroin again after a brief period being drug-free, and started injecting. I had a short-lived job at another investment bank, where I injected heroin, cocaine, or a mix of both pretty much all day at work, even setting up a way to do it at my desk discreetly to avoid having to get up and go to the restroom so often. That job obviously did not last long.

I used like that for a few months, got another job at a bank, and stopped those drugs, but continued to seek prescription painkillers sporadically, and drink to take the edge off. I managed to keep it together for that job, but my overall demeanor made it tough to really succeed. Before starting in private equity, I got sober (no controlled substances or alcohol anymore), and have been sober since mid-2012. It's been the biggest and best decision of my life.

I used to think I was perhaps one of just a handful of finance professionals with as intense background in hard drugs, but I'm coming to see there are too many of us out there.
I'm thinking this effects paralegal services more than legal services.

- email/scan docs get a highlighted doc back to review with clients, possibly with citations to the legal justification etc.
appreciate this, thanks.
NYC has a lot of java based jobs. Some python, very few ruby ones (compared to the Bay Area at least). It isn't so easy finding certain types of jobs in NYC.
These exist at the top-end of the market: Outlier (https://outlier.nyc/) makes a number of styles using technical/outdoor-gear inspired fabrics cut like more normal trousers and slim-fitting jeans.
I will do that. Forgive me, I'm new to HN. When I click on your handle, I don't see an email. Do I find it somewhere else?
Seth joining Google seems to be beneficial for both the companies!
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Regardless of how the job market is currently, I see it as having a set amount of 'difficulty capital' that can be spent. The fewer openings, the less of this resource you have, but otherwise everything works the same.

Given there is a limited supply, regardless of size, one should try to spend it optimally. That means being difficult when it comes to pay and benefits, and spending some of this capital when trying to determine the work/life balance. Using it to be insulting or patronizing is effectively wasting it with no return.
>This seems... iffy. For one thing, ...

At first I wrote "no oversized ventilation," but I shortened it during revision after thinking, "no, no-one would think I meant something so dumb." Thanks for the correction. :P

Yes, there will be ventilation, emergency lighting, and access paths. Those contingency systems are still much cheaper and take up less volume than the corresponding full-time systems.

>it's a much worse idea to have your car constantly drive through the parking lot than to park it in the parking lot

You say that as though it's obvious, but why? Parking lots are $$$, and this ~quadruples the density. It's not like you're paying drivers, so the only cost is a tiny amount of electricity (a parking robot would certainly use more, since A) it's heavier and B) it moves faster). I also presume the vehicles will be stationary most of the time, allowing them to de-energize power electronics in the common case.

Wear-and-tear at those speeds is negligible, and multiple "lanes" means that if a car breaks down the other cars simply drive around it. Heck, at those speeds the following vehicle could push a disabled car out of a bottleneck (mature shared-use vehicle designs will likely feature non-scratch bumpers).
Arrogance is rooted in self-importance. In fact, if one can glean common themes from science, it's that there is a distinct lack of self importance, that humans are special . The Earth is not the center of the universe, the sun and stars do not revolve around it, there is no center of the universe as every point can be considered the center, all motion is relative, etc.
> cat contract.txt | grep -i "indemnify" | wc

I hate to be that guy, but you have a Useless Use of Cat[0] there.

[0] http://porkmail.org/era/unix/award.html#cat
Somewhat related https://www.kaggle.com/c/the-nature-conservancy-fisheries-mo...
Probably due to not being as diverse, I think the majority of Boston (and Boston's tech sector is focused in health care, HNE Optum comes to mind).
The only drugs I have observed personally are caffeine, nicotine, refined sugar, and ethanol. The only other drugs I have heard about or suspected are prescription drugs for diagnosed medical conditions, such as hypertension, pre-diabetes, and high cholesterol.

But people around here would tend to keep even the legal drugs out of public knowledge, as that sort of thing may affect background checks and security clearances. Everyone in my workplace is very square. My office-neighbor uses a nicotine vape and prescription mood-stabilizing drugs, and doesn't have a clearance explicitly because of the latter.

It would be nice to be able to get drunk or high a few times a year, but the career risk isn't worth it. I have worked exclusively in the Midwest and South. In general, people of those regions collectively have a rather low opinion of people who use drugs of any kind, legal or illegal, although the Southerners are a bit more hypocritical about it.
Yeah you've debunked the "break," so I'll take the trivial task of debunking the "make": It's already made!
It reminded me that one of the most enlightening things I realized about superheroes was when I noticed that recent Superman movies try too hard to tie the Man of Steel to Jesus with a bunch of transparent cinematic metaphors. The best way to imagine Superman is as a messiah, but explicitly not Jesus: He is the messiah as imagined by a Jewish kid raised on mid-20th-century science fiction.
Man, I really wouldn't. My understanding is that of the people who present to the emergency department with chest pain, something like a third of them have been using cocaine. It causes Real Problems.

https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/drug-relate...
As someone who has been on both sides of the table (an employee living outside of NYC and looking to move and a hiring manager in NYC who has received applications from remote candidates), it's way easier to get hired if you live in the area.

There are a few reasons for this (smaller companies don't want to risk flying you in and it not working out, longer interview process, recruiters limiting searches to a geographic area), but my advice would be to just take the plunge and move here without a gig. My partner and I made the jump that way many years ago and had new jobs within weeks. I don't think we're special, it's just a testament to how valuable tech sector is in NYC at the moment and how limited the talent pool really is.

You have a very employable set of skills and the market in NYC is great at the moment, so this is a low risk move.
I think it’s unfocused but there’s a lot of interesting ideas/lessons in here imo.
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Why indeed? That's the question we all must answer for ourselves.
Good thing no one is denying science here. The parent refused to see them as moral exemplars.

If mainstream thinking ignores rather large holes in human rights these people espoused, both in theory and practice, then it makes even more sense to point that out.

If your framework of freedom boils down to "might is right" in rather large amount of cases and brings unfreedom to big enough amount of people, then it is absolutely relevant while discussing your freedom concept. Exactly as reign of terror is relevant when discussing French revolution ideals.
As the founder of a YC company, I don’t really care that much how Dropbox’s IPO goes. I mean, I wish them all the best, but if something goes wrong that doesn’t make me say, “Oh maybe YC isn’t as good as I thought.”

Dropbox is already successful by any reasonable measure, and YC has some billion dollar exits (Twitch, Cruise) plus Stripe, Reddit, Airbnb etc. It’s cool to see a YC company IPO, but whether Dropbox is worth $4B or $10B doesn’t really move the needle, and doesn’t reflect on YC much at all.
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I just checked my own domain and there are three addresses pwned that I don't use and never created. I've had the domain for years too.

Probably someone just making up an address randomly but three times is a bit odd.
Dropbox and Apple are Oranges and Apples.

Dropbox and Apple are completely different businesses with different business modules. If Dropbox suffers downtime, they lose revenue. If Apple suffers downtime, they can point at a cloud provider, while they keep selling their products.
Besides the very interesting insight into how evolution, speciation & fauna dynamics in general work, it is always interesting seeing people's reactions to the classification problems these grey areas pose.

Species, taxa, subspecies, hybrids, populations, chronospecies, trunk species, type species.... All words describing a fundamentally non discreet thing. Yet, knowing that, we (anywhere from casual readers to biology taxonomists) get stressed and obsessed when our leaky categorisations leak.

It's a good reminder that we're natural categorizors. Our minds are all about instances and abstract truths. Lassie the dog, coyote the canid, Socrates the philosopher.
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I work in a major software corporation and have literally never seen or heard of drug use at the company, outside of non-work-related recreational drug use (and even that never ventured very far). Perhaps it's the stability of being at a fortune 100 company.

Those who work here went through a pretty intense interview process. They're pretty good developers, which means if they were fired it wouldn't take them long to find a job. So why bother taking performance enhancing drugs?

Of course, the coffee and sugar is readily available and free.
Often the reason to open source is to get developer mindshare (tensorflow) or in the hope of gaining traction to compete against existing closed source tech (opencompute).
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I would be careful of overestimating the amount of stimulant use based on comments and emails here. People who use a lot of stimulants tend to love talking about themselves and often have a belief that anyone successful must be taking stimulants secretly. It plays into the motivation of most stimulant users which is that the stimulants have given them a special cheat code in life.

I worked in construction in my younger years and saw this kind of attitude from the occasional meth user on the jobsite. I'm seeing more coherent echoes of it in this thread. Another theme that pops up sometimes is someone who says that they used to take stimulants and they were super productive, but they don't anymore, but actually they still do.
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do you just steer clear of those using stimulants of some sort (when you say those you know are mostly the booze/weed crowd). Is the reason it's 'basically water' in the tech industry only because of the hours needed? What's the fear--if you don't keep up, do you lose your job? Does your career flounder?
Huh. That's really close.

Your numbers are off though. Firstly it's ~40ms up to the bird if it's right above you, then 40 down to the base station if it is next door to your house. If it's on the other side of the world and has to travel around the whole mesh, add a hundred ms at best. Then from the base station to the destination - which could be anywhere in the world, and back, then back up to the bird, then back down to you.

It's not going to be 40ms, probably not even 400ms, and there is no way it will be competitive with mobile 5G.

It might not even be competitive with the geostationary birds for accessing nearby hosts. 22k miles is ~120ms, so 240ms round trip - because the base station is generally pretty nearby. Say ~20ms both ways for in-country ping and you're looking at 520ms -ish total, which is reasonably consistent with my experience using it from the Solomon Islands.

Huawei's saying 1ms to the tower for 5G!
there is a yoga position like it. i have always squatted that way, so its easier for me than most. not sure where it came from, but if i am waiting in line, instead of standing there i drop to the 3rd world squat
To clarify, I do not need more storage, I already have what I need with Dropbox + Drive (that I already pay for). But I need more storage on Dropbox, because that's my preferred way of handling Cloud storage (having the files on my computer at all times) and I love that Dropbox has been pioneering the field with a great product.

I want to support them, but not at 5x the price of competitors.
At $29 for 7 items, you're almost better off just buying the Japanese snack packs from Amazon. They're really cheap. Not the biggest variety compared to the crate services, but unless you're planning to stick around for years, it's just as good.
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Not necessarily endorsing stimulants but here is a good analysis of Modafinil suppliers: http://www.gwern.net/Modafinil#suppliers-prices. It's worth reading the whole page from the start though if you're interested. Includes some comparison with Adderall too.