skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really admire Israel on the intellectual front. This is a nation that starts using an obscure liturgical language (Hebrew) at the turn of the 19th century, and today has Silicon Wadi which is second only to SV, the highest proportion of PhDs in the population, and a couple Nobels, Fields, Turing and Wolf prizes! I wonder if there are some aspects of Jewish culture than can be incorporated the world over.

India on the other hand ... It's interesting how the homeland of the Semitic and Dharmic religions have fared (both historically and contemporarily).
Exactly my thought!

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/aug/30/theresa-may...
Or, maybe the city actually wants to improve the transport situation (and maybe even has some money earmarked for it), and the politician will gladly accept this new company that's going to do half of this work for him.
in most languages google ASR works shockingly well.
A free market doesn't mean free from consequences, or that it won't be dire. Many govts have performed experiments on their own people, and people died from it, without telling anyone. It also doesn't mean free from any regulation (at least to me). Not everyone pushing for free market solutions is an an-cap fool.

In most situations, a process that allows for more freedom is the solution. I do not count corporations as people and as far as I'm concerned, they should be required to be far more open about operations than they are currently. I'm also not a fan of IP laws generally speaking and think they should all be scaled back.
With good planning, maybe not dialup, but it is doable to work remotely with a not always on connection.
pure guess: Mozilla will use their DeepSpeech model for that soon
There is: Rob Pike, Jeff Dean, or John Carmack are examples. And I know that no matter how good I get, I'll still be a long way away from the level those guys have reached.
Which is in violation of GDPR, so very odd they go through all the effort to almost be compliant without actually getting the benefit of compliance.
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Is it possible to define a shell script in c#?
Or maybe I'm the crazy one.

If you are then you aren't the only one. A lot of this stuff seems to spill out of companies like Google or Facebook and I'm sure it makes sense at their scale. For most of us we just don't have the same problems and are probably better off avoiding it.
19/20, fooled by Mattel (and guessed lucky on the other all caps texts). My heuristic was to look at the a, c, e, g, and s, if present in lowercase: are the ends of those characters horizontal (Helvetica) or at an angle (Arial).
Google is orders of magnitudes better on trendy words and phrases etc. Just try Siri vs Google.
Respectfully, it seems to me that India (and other countries in the region and maybe elsewhere) has a problem with strictly hierarchical structure, issues with accessibility and availability of resources. There is no investment in improving training for teachers. Typically, people that don't find jobs anywhere else take up teaching. Teaching is also typically a high-stress, low-paid job. It seems to have not a lot to do with language. There are more factors here.

Yes the Germans are able to get ahead cause of the use of both German and English. But it seems like lazy reasoning to suggest that this is solely the reason why they do better. How about looking into what else their education system does that is possibly absent in the Indian system? How about comparing the structure, the resource usage, the training for educators and managers in education and research? Surely, language is not the only difference between the two systems?
Why? It's not like they've made a mistake. They intentionally broke the law; they've displayed propensity for unlawful behaviour. The reasonable thing to do is to give their business to parties who did not, so far, show the same propensity.
I remember the cleaning of the Scott Monument was a very contentious issue - which was eventually abandoned. Nowadays you can see the contrast between the old/dirty stone and the new pieces used for restoration.
Point taken. Can you edit/remove the post for me? It seems to be too late to edit it myself.
It's a real pity that Company caught putting PR before customers' interests so rarely causes a backlash, even when it's plain as day.
17/20. I've spent some time studying the differences and could just rocket through them without bothering to even look at the 'c's and 't's. The one that gave me the most pause was digital, and that was one of the ones I got wrong. When you separate the letters, Helvetica loses a lot. The other two I got wrong were also done without letter-by-letter examination.

Helvetica just looks more 'solid' sitting there on the page. Not only is the font a bit heavier, but the kerning is also tighter. Arial's curves and lines look like a 15 year old who thinks anime art is cool drew them.

Arial is an awful font that I wish never had been born.
Don't worry buddy, my guess is 95% of us are in the same boat.
Wife an I working on our startup whilst raising 3 kids. We never have enough time!
Just like killing someone might be good for society sometimes. Doesn't mean you want to do this indiscriminately, or have this as standard practice.
me. let's do it
>>> but for some reason it has not been covered as excruciatingly as it has for tech companies.

The bank were not spending millions on the web talking how about they profile you to "improve your experience". They were mostly silent about that. That's why Google/FB/you name it is super for me : it says aloud what happens behind closed doors since ages.
> Bytecode or ‘Intermediate Language’ (IL) changes. The main
> place that the implementation of generics in the CLR differs
> from the JVM is that they are ‘fully reified’ instead of
> using ‘type erasure’, this was possible because the CLR
> designers were willing to break backwards compatibility,
> whereas the JVM had been around longer so I assume that this
> was a much less appealing option. For more discussion on
>this issue see Erasure vs reification and Reified Generics
> for Java. Update: this HackerNews discussion is also worth a read.

http://mattwarren.org/2018/03/02/How-generics-were-added-to-...
”We'd like to put scooters everywhere, is that cool?”

That would have gotten a no, but ”we would like to do an experiment decreasing road congestion” could have gotten them a yes _and_ a subsidy for running the experiment.

And yes, that “yes” would have had strings attached, even if it weren’t subsidized, but that’s normal for anthingmyhea affects shared space. If a company goes to the city and says “we would like to park our cars on the street instead of on our expensive parking lot” or “we would like to semi-permanently occupy the space in front of or shops”, would you expect the city to say “yes”, too?
Having been to Amsterdam just last week I was really surprised by a) the weather (it rained intermittedly every 1-2h) and b) that only a small percentage of the cyclists seemed to be prepared for the rain.

I cycle to work most days in Munich, so the climate is roughly the same, and I have rain gear and I'm used to cycling in the rain... I couldn't imagine cycling with an umbrella, but that's a different story... Maybe I was just getting a cold, but I was freezing while being soaked just walking around in the city (with my rain jacket, didn't bring the rain pants).
Got 15/20, although I don't know much about fonts (I just tried to pick the one that looked better or more professional).

To the quiz creator: There's an (R) trademark missing in the imitation "Staples" logo which is a giveaway.
I agree! I only ever see the MEN in my FB news feed. Even funnier: I can see the Lowry from where I'm sat!

Salford is similar. I live in Eccles and there's a few old buildings. One is the Bridgewater mill. It's a big dirty building that's been converted into a business unit. I remember I used to go to a gym in there.

Salford is apparently the most poluted area in the UK today. There's no smog but as you move further out towards Cheshire / Warrington, like Irlam and Cadishead, it's a world apart.
It looks deceptively like it but 'kudos' is not plural of a kudo (or reference to some awesome thing Kudo once did).
Ah I didn't know it also exploited reversed runs. Amazing.
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18/20, they're fairly easy to tell apart, except for MATTEL and TOYOTA which are quite subtle (and I got wrong precisely because I couldn't remember which is which). Both the capital and lowercase R are a dead giveaway.
Is this true? I remember unticking this option back when I reinstalled High Sierra on my MacBook.
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They don't sell our data, they rent us out to the highest bidder.

More data means they can match us to clients better and charge a higher price for us.
19/20, yeah, the tricky ones are the capitals.
It's a shame you're getting downvoted. There's nothing wrong with your comment, and it adds a useful argument to the discussion that's going on here.

I can only applaud Google employees who want to have a meaningful discussion here, and even disclose that they're working at Google.
They are slowly cleaning Cologne Cathedral.

Try the Hold Saviour Church in Gyumri, Armenia, which is built from black and orange stone. It's close to the Cathedral of the Holy Mother of God, also black.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holy_Saviour_Church_...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2014_Prowincja_Szira...
Sure, but some things are done just for fun, others to prove it can be done. It's not all about the $

Also, TFA is talking this vs. CloudFront which is $$$
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Really? Have you ever heard of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica?
>> Well, big companies abusing the system certainly doesn't help.

They already have a legal requirement to pay prevailing wage before they can get a visa. That means at least six figures in the bay area.

There are a few reasons Americans don't take these six figure jobs:

1. Don't want to live in California/too expensive

2. This is the more common reason: Americans don't do STEM much, cannot compete with internationals. Obviously not all Americans are incompetent but given the number of open positions in the bay area, there are just not enough of them.

As an anecdote, my manager has had 2 open positions for 7 months now, paying $125k base + sign on + relocation + bonus + stock for a new grad. Guess how many we've filled after 7 months? A big fat zero.

The only way our product would sustain is by hiring people. So we eventually ended up hiring an h1b Chinese guy who was very very smart and capable. Then, because legal immigration process is choked off, he still couldn't join after 4 months. So we just had him join an offshore satellite office and moved his projects there.

If he plays his cards right, the project will grow and he will help us hire more in the offshore site.

Does this sound good for America?
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Since 2008 working for US/UK companies I have only seen RHEL and CentOS (prior to that, mostly SunOS/Solaris). I prefer Debian personally but for the last few years I have used CentOS for my own projects too - too much effort to maintain two parallel sets of skills now I am not really into OS level stuff anymore.
You've got absolutely a point. But, if you really use Ubuntu for making money, consider an Ubuntu Advantage subscription, that should let Canonical prioritize your tickets.
Which is why a more exaggerated comparison would be this: a person who walks home after finishing work to cook dinner with the family using vegetables grown in the backyard vs a person who eats out in a bar, drives home drunk, gets into an accident, ends up in hospital, and creates a huge increase in GDP.

The example downplays the positive impact of the increase in GDP (eg the drunk driver creates jobs for car manufacturers, police officers, and doctors) but it shows how our narrow focus on GDP rewards behavior that may not be desirable.
They were smoking possible lawsuits from Haas Type Foundry or whomever was the legit owner Helvetica at the time.
I don't think there's much of a difference. If software devs were focused on entertainment value of their output rather than some other nonsensical metric, it might be a much better thing.
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20/20

c's and t's are a giveaway, Mattel and Toyota logo are easy to tell if you pay attention to the font weight.

Bravo to the author, the logos were recreated faithfully
It's worth noting that Scott Alexander is himself a psychiatrist, not a software engineer.

We should remember sometimes that not everyone thinks in terms of bandwidth and scale.
Or what it looks like when you get rid of the cars themselves from inner cities. I got rid of my car over a decade ago and after a few years really started noticing just how much of a burden cars are on city life and how much of an eye sore. Amusingly you get a bit of an impression of what it could be by looking at the present day pictures from the article, because they’re google street view pictures and google tries to remove most of the cars. Realistic present day pictures would have the cars bumper to bumper on most of the roads.

(Getting rid of all cars is probably not possible, but 90+% of them aren’t necessary, could be parked at the city’s edge and I’m pretty sure most city residents would agree after a year or two it is better that way.)
A traditional union with collectively-bargained pay grades and seniority probably wouldn’t work in hi-tech but an even more traditional mediaeval style guild could work very well indeed.
Is the price of oil driving the economy?
> digital

The lowercase a is a dead giveaway.
18/20. I got thrown off by the kerning in CVS/pharmacy. On Crate&Barrel, I was thrown off by the C. Why does it look different from all the other C's in the Helvetica versions of the logos?
You might be right to the first order about language, but having a 'colonial' system is very insidious IMO.

First it means that a large fraction of the population is implicitly denied resources to develop their abilities. Second it means that people who do make it through the system (as it is) have no real incentives to stay back, neither cultural, nor fiscal, nor institutional.

Personally, none of the people I studied with/worked under ended staying in India. It's interesting that British India managed to sustain better state universities, than today.
So, paying competitive is now being "entitled". Engineers have been played for far too long, and this post shows that it isn't over yet. I, for one, am glad that silicon valley is going the right direction in terms of the total comp for engineers, which has been kept artificially low until facebook came to the scene.
This article is very well written. It's a very interesting perspective that I find spot on. The cyberpunk dystopia is becoming more and more real. Also (on a side note), if anybody can link me (and other readers) to similar articles, I'd very much appreciate it.
> Would be good if they didn't tell you the answer after each question...

Indeed, although TBH I only noticed at the second to last one!
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And the "t".
I know nothing about fonts. Got 18/20 just picking whichever felt older looking.
10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister’s official residence, famously has black-painted bricks in order to mimick the effects of coal smog.

Apparently, when cleaned in the 1960s to reveal it’s yellow London bricks, it just didn’t look right!

http://uk.businessinsider.com/why-10-downing-street-door-is-...
Getting into semantics now, but I think entrepreneurialism is perhaps better than innovation, since innovation is not exclusive to business situations. But even then I still have difficulty with what you say about innovation though - tech companies are just one area of business! Germany is the world's third largest exporter, with much of its exports containing cutting edge technology designed and manufactured in Germany, but apparently that doesn't count as innovation in your mind as its not on the Internet?
What's amazing is how little understanding we seem to have over such critical widely-used code. Java opted for a complex and arguably unproven algorithm, so it was always a risk. We now have functional languages that are able to express provably correct sorting algorithms, so the bar is getting higher.
it shared many exact characteristics of helvetica. if it didn’t have any hairy arms, then it would be helvetica.
To be fair to Google, they (mostly) make it fairly easy to move out; exporting your Photos with Takeout returns a nice archive where each image is accompanied by a JSON file with metadata. It's not any standard format, as far as I can tell, but should be easy enough to massage into whatever you want.
I think this is fairly mistaken. As a share of the tech economy, SV is almost certainly declining. That's to be expected and embraced as labor economics evolve.

That doesn't for a moment mean that northern California isn't still the place with the maximum idea flow.

Three major things in SV that aren't declining:

a) Intelligent risk capital being deployed by scientists and engineers, not MBAs

b) Stanford

c) Ambitious unmarried 20- and 30-somethings for whom quality of home life is very unimportant

I'm not bullish on California politics. Single-party psuedo-progressive rule can, eventually, ruin the state by driving people away.

But for density and quality of ideas, it seems to me that the gap between SV and elsewhere is as wide as it has ever been.
As do I. I always like old industrial cities in the north of the UK for the unusual character they have due to the black buildings. I’m sure some buildings look better cleaned, but I hope they don’t get carried away and remove the unique character of these cities.
Which to me is a good thing, Microsoft ripped the band-aid early and got it over with instead of delaying the inevitable.
What makes you think your VPN company isn't selling your net usage data to Google?
Pretty much the same as me, I just tried to be consistent without knowing what each font looks like.
It goes to show they are easy to tell apart.
very nice idea.
I'm itching to make this. Would this be a good intro ML project for a solid software engineer (with a decently strong math background) or would it likely be far over my head? Seems like reverse engineering it from the paper would be tough, but maybe doable :p
Spectre and Meltdown are a problem for Android but it's a smaller problem than on PCs. The vast majority of Android phones use processors that are in-order, and lack the out-of-order execution necessary to exploit.

High-end Android phones with out-of-order processors (the minority) are only vulnerable to Spectre, but it's a little complicated [1]. Then there is only one ARM core (Cortex A75) that is vulnerable to Meltdown, but that was released after the vulnerability was published, so software could ship with mitigations in place.

[1]: https://github.com/lgeek/spec_poc_arm
Just to even out the comments of all these people bragging, I got 11/20, so no better than chance. :)

(EDIT: Okay, yes, technically 11/20 is slightly better than chance - but really, no.

Cumulative probability P(X >= x) = 0.41 )
> it's very difficult to identify which layout is most efficient

Don't worry. The compiler will figure it out. And this time the compiler will have AI™.

> the killer is that dead silicon tends to be a LOT of silicon for any given program

Part of the idea here is that the cost dynamic has changed. Silicon is cheap compared to power so even if you have lots of chips not being used at any given time as long as they can be fully powered off total system cost (capex+opex) is still better.

> why it would work this time

The difference is scale. If you are running millions of CPUs and adding 100k's per month then something like this could work, assuming the AI™ magic that figures out which new chips to build.

Intel is talking up their grandiose vision but practically this is the same as AMD's chiplets on active interposers (https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/design/am...).

The physical technology is real and probably coming soon but it will be limited to incremental improvements to the existing CPU/GPU compute architecture from increasing bandwidth and decreasing latency until the magic compilers arrive.
I scored the same, for the same reason. What I find interesting is that the Helvetica logos are a lot nicer in my opinion even though the difference is subtle. Having things parallel to the baseline improves the look dramatically over the angled bits in Arial.
Oh my, that’s wonderful.

Yes when I was younger I would have absolutely refused (it is ridiculous). Now I’m old and cynical and think everything is insane anyway I’d sing it with all my heart... most places are insane, but few are this entertaining!
Nothing about vertical integration of those two industries would solve that problem. Paying out millions to billions to own drugs isn't going to make their unit economics any better. The $10,000 drug isn't going to magically only cost $100 just because it got bought by an insurance company. In fact it'll probably cost more, because the transaction costs involved in buying the drug will have to get added onto the R&D cost of developing the drug, which is the reason it costs $10,000 in the first place.

It's also wrong to assume that just because a company gets acquired, that there's going to be 'unnecessary levels of administration and other associated costs' that are just begging for the ax. Pharma companies have finance people too that can provide that kind of oversight and recommendations.

The market for drugs is complicated by two factors. First is that people who need drugs generally can't get that need met by any other product / service. So there's an incentive for price creep. Second is the patent system which forces companies to grab as much cash as they can until the patent expires.

If longer patents were granted, or the patent system were more sane in that the patent period doesn't begin until after the drug is able to be made available to the market, then the costs of developing drugs would be a lot more legible, and therefore amortizable.
This way, they get people to think that GDPR has little effect and is mostly a burden.
> You answered 2 out of 20 questions correctly.

At least I'm consistent, but I guess I got them the other way around.
I'm actually sitting in an office in George Street looking out of my window at a stone wall where I can see that the entire one building has been cleaned and the next door one hasn't! :-)

The National Galleries near the Mound was cleaned entirely a few years back - it's actually starting to collect dark marks on it again.
I did hopelessly, then I found out about the differences (which I did not even ever know or notice), I got 100% on a second try. Consider me enlightened about the differences now.
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Same, then I learned and retried and got 100%... Was eye-opening.
I have a friend who says "I left 9-5 to work 9-24"
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Here's a problem MSV guards against: a new checkin in a dependency introduces a massive security hole and it silently gets pulled into your project.

The "security issue" argument is bogus because while new code can fix bugs it can also introduce new bugs.

Every competent dev shop has code reviews.

A code review exists because you don't trust your coworkers to not introduce bugs.

But somehow you're ok with people you don't know to effectively check in code into your code base without as much as running a smoke test.
Not Jewish culture, but Jewish genetics.