skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Also the interviewee needs to have exactly the same assumptions about the world as interviewer (or whoever come up with the brainteaser) and the knowledge of the same basic facts.

I mean how do you even approach questions like -- how many snowflakes on the south pole? how many fish in all of the oceans? how much grass is in Mongolia?
The Recode analysis was decent but problematic in that its test searches are pretty contrived. Does anyone really search for "shoes" or "cereal". There was only 1 reasonable search attempted "justins peanut butter" and the results were indeed mediocre. But I would have liked to have seen better testing.
> Especially since Tor is usually used to access hidden services instead of the clearnet.

My assumption is the opposite but I have no data to cite here, is it even possible to tell?
I'm going to try this. The questions my team comes up with haven't been very satisfying and this seems like a good way to find out what they do know vs what they don't.
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My comment was referencing the fact that computer science is ranked 30th by their metric of 'value', which does indeed seem to be much lower than one would have expected not that long ago. In terms of specific numbers, I'm also very curious but it's surprisingly difficult to find precise numbers. So what I did was grabbed an archive of the Burea of Labor services page on software developers. Here it is:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130305174000/https://www.bls.g...

Unfortunately that only provides 3 data points. The first number is the nominal value, the second is the inflation adjusted to 2016.

2010 = $90,530 = $99,643

2012 = $93,350 = $97,584

2016 = $102,280 = $102,280

Not sure what can be taken away from the numbers as there's only 3 points and with mixed directionality. But probably better than nothing. Do let me know if you find more indicative figures.
> How would you solve the counterfeit goods and preventing people from gaming the review system problems?

The big issue is co-mingling inventory. This is where they mix same product from different sellers in same batch. I only order products from Amazon.com LLC. But I have still received items that seems fake.

Some says that co-mingling inventory saves Amazon a lot of money but to me it seems like Amazon is actively shielding bad players by making it hard to trackdown who is selling fake products.
> There was a long period where I would buy things from Amazon without considering other sources. That's gone now and they can't quickly get it back.

That's probably true, but the truth is that situation was an unstable equilibrium in the first place. There's absolutely no reason in a functioning market to expect (or want!) one provider to be the uniform best option at all things. Eventually everyone else starts competing.

To wit: the situation over the past decade wasn't so much defined by Amazon being better (or "not evil", given the framing I'm saying here), it was that everyone else sucked. Now they don't suck so much, and Amazon is having to compete in ways (like profit!) they used to be able to ignore.

That's a good thing, not a bad thing.
Macros cannot reach back like that, no. The renaming of the variable is due to sweet's hygiene system that operates on the program as a whole - if two variables with the same name exist in the same scope it will rename them to ensure uniqueness.
I don't know about other legal states but here in Washington the purity, composition, and dose of cannabis products are highly regulated and come with standardized labels.
Thought people were exaggerating but I recently purchased a cheap USB keyboard and the third party company sent me a CAT 5 network cable.
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Only recently I've had tons of issues with search on Amazon. It seems bizarrely unfriendly now.

I'll search for a thing, I know what it is called, and the results are an absolute mess. I'll search something skewed but close to the other terms.... find thing. It's very odd.

Let alone the mass amounts of totally categorized wrong stuff. No socks with one word in common aren't the same as some PC parts...
Well, considering the entirety of the landmass of Italy is approximately the same size as the state of California, it's not really a surprise that Americans tend to move farther away. If Italy was the same size as the US, its centers of industry would probably be much further spaced out as well, as it is in the US.
The book focuses on classical (statistical) methods of forecasting. In this sense, it provides the fundamental notions needed to deal with practical problems. Real world problems are much more complicated and first of all because of the natural of source data which is not limited by univariate numeric data. In most practical cases the success depends on the ability to extract (manually or automatically) good features from heterogeneous data sources. There exist the following frameworks for that purpose:

o https://github.com/asavinov/lambdo - Combines feature engineering and data mining with strong focus on time series analysis

o https://github.com/blue-yonder/tsfresh - Automatically extract informative features (also from time series)
This form of user interviews with existing customers also inoculates your customer against marketing from competitors, since they are now more invested in defending their decision to buy your product.
That's an interesting explanation. "We have decided to disclose this exploit as it has reached its end-of-life and it's not affecting Tor Browser version 8 which was released last week. We also wanted to raise awareness about the lack (or insufficient) security auditing of major components bundled by default with Tor Browser and trusted by millions of users." is the explanation provided by Zerodium. End of life? Raise awareness? Sounds like shitty PR to me... There must be other explanations. Anyone has any idea, beyond the one already provided above?
It's much less harsh & will prevent you from possibly coughing at all. It usually smells like burnt popcorn instead of Cannabis, so you can relax on that aspect as well (illegal states, smell may trigger paranoia). You can control the certain chemicals you're getting, control the amounts more accurately, and it just feels much more clean and relaxing all around. A lot of being able to handle Cannabis is setting & mental state.

I had the same problem being paranoid and getting panic attacks, but that was relieved by vaporizing. It's a more calm and chill high in my opinion.
You could have guessed that a chair mat (big) and cat litter (heavy) might not be products Amazon would be competitive with.

I find they are mostly good for mid-price items that are not too heavy or bulky, especially moderately "niche" items that are not carried many places and benefit from the super saver shipping. (Super niche items are no-go of course)
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After going through volume reduction, so maybe not _strictly_ every packet:

> The processing centres apply a series of sophisticated computer programmes in order to filter the material through what is known as MVR – massive volume reduction. The first filter immediately rejects high-volume, low-value traffic, such as peer-to-peer downloads, which reduces the volume by about 30%.

They have access, but it isn't necessarily analysed or kept.
I suspect if you dig into the origins of Perl, you'll find some interesting stuff. If not on purpose, as a case study of what happens when a linguist makes a language (and what he thinks worked and what didn't).
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It's possible, but Watermelon is specifically designed to be a local database, not meant to run on a server.
Amazon does not have an Irish store either. Amazon.ie redirects to the UK store where all prices are in GBP, though they happily deliver to Ireland.
They don't according to this article: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/06/google-...
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> DONE means DONE, if it needs QA, Documentation, install script, whatever, it stays in DOING until it's truly DONE.

Once you have this, you can expand the DOING with additional columns to represent those other stages.

If you implement a new (particularly user-facing) feature, you need to update your manuals. That may be a technical writer, it may be the developer or the tester, may be a team effort, doesn't matter really. So your columns (if this is a requirement for your business) become:

| TODO | PROGRAM | UPDATE MANUAL | REVIEW | DONE

This is one of the nice things about kanban. It's very fluid, really nothing is set in stone. Allow the board to represent the real process as you discover it.
And my point was that "extreme" health care incidents represent only a small part of treatments needed, and that people NEED INSURANCE, not to be told "it's OK, you can just not pay".

Your point about "fraud" is just a nitpick over a moral vs. legal definition of the term, and it too isn't helping anyone live a happy life.

Get. Insurance.
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I was giving a counter to the claim that it was the 2008 financial crisis which led to the anti-establishment.

I am not judging the merits of the anti-establishment. All I am saying is that those other factors played a much bigger and important role than the crash ever did and given that we are far way from that crash and still see a rise of anti-establishment I feel pretty confident that I am correct.

If you look at the rise of the right-leaning nationalistic parties today one of their primary issues is that the welfare systems and political systems seem much more occupied with helping immigrants than it's own citizens.

Again I am simply pointing to the actual rationale from these people which isn't about the 1% or any other such thing. They aren't against the rich they are against the cultural elite and politicians who support globalization without taking care of it's own citizens first (again in their mind)
I'd just like to point out that the tech pay explosion likely has a lot to do with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
You have no other online merchants in the UK besides Amazon?
Bureau, like bureaucrat, bureaucratic, or bureaucracy.
Also exercise and sleep are not independent. When I run 5 times a week it is pretty easy to go to bed and fall asleep. I might even go to bed at 9 and wake up at 5:30 simply because I am so tired at night that I have no interest in Netflix or computer games
Exemptions for religious purposes.

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Agh! Chunks is what I was looking for! I was trying to whip up an example[1] and was positive I had used a pair-wise iterator before. The best I came up w/ was zipping two iterators of the hi/lo bytes. -- I feel the parent's pain, because this is coming from someone who has been programming Rust since it had green threads and `~ / @` pointers.

I love Rustdoc, but I really wish it wasn't so obtuse when it came to casually browsing the various iterator traits. Perhaps Steve, for the benefit of myself and thread parent, you could point us to some better-edited literature for the various iterator methods?

P.S: just wanted to add, if I were faced w/ this issue in production code, I likely would've just reached for the excellent byteorder[2] crate. It's so useful for "bit twiddling" like this.

[1]: https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=4b4ff7263d9744caeb8bacd4c0d...

[2]: https://docs.rs/byteorder/1.2.6/byteorder/trait.ReadBytesExt...
There’s been rumblings in the BUD (big ugly dish) community that 5G will start to ruin C-Band for TRO (TV Recieve Only). Most birds are going mostly Ku but C-Band is used for backhaul & feeds on a lot of soon to be retired: Galaxy & AMC series.

For Amatuer Dx’ing C-Band offers way more unencrypted and English channels than Ku. There’s way more weird channels too. I just pickuped an old 8ft Dish for free off Craigslist simply to watch North Korean TV.

From what I gather one will need a much larger dish for C-Band in the US to overcome spectral interference or that it will pretty much put an end to C-band in the US.

https://www.multichannel.com/news/fcc-votes-to-open-c-band-f...

https://spacenews.com/fcc-votes-to-open-c-band-for-5g/
I'm surprised no one is discussing how unethical Zerodium is. Selling undisclosed vulnerabilities to the government for a tool designed to protect users from government oppression is about as unethical as you can be.
I think that you are being a little naive.

I've encountered counterfeit parts several times with OEM equipment. Storage, memory and NICs in particular. If you care about this issue, I think it's reasonable to be cautious about the provenance parts in general, as sub-components may be ultimately sourced by China or on the general market, depending on the product.

Calling that racist is a little much -- understanding your supply chain is meaningful in many scenarios. There are vendors who audit samples of products for supply chain integrity, and they do find issues.
The last three orders I placed from Amazon took over a week to ship. Every product was sold directly from Amazon, and shipped from their New Jersey warehouse to Ohio. It's my opinion that they are intentionally delaying orders that aren't Prime.

I've never been someone who used Amazon for everything, so a Prime membership never made sense. I'd estimate 2-3 orders a year at most. Placing 3 orders in a short time frame was an anomaly. But, all three had abnormally long delays compared to nearly every other retailer.
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Further support is the fact that most politicians support punitive action against people with drug possession charges, rather than mandating treatment. There's solid evidence that drug crisis can be solved in the long term by access to treatment, and more evidence that punitive measures increase crime and continue the poverty cycle.

The only reason to support the current drug laws is literally because you want more crime and drug use.
The point still stands: soldering-iron wielding neo-hippies having an orgy in the desert for a week isn't a model for society. It's more of an indication of boredom in a society blessed with extreme abundance, yet lacking a clear sense of purpose.
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I'll probably cancel as well. I don't use amazon for its music, tv shows, groceries, rentals, or any of the other stuff I never asked for when I signed up for prime. Two day delivery used to be a thing without prime, all you had to do was spend over a minimum on certain items. Then prime came and was always 2-day. Then it got more expensive and more lax about deliver windows, and then it did that a few more times. Meanwhile I have pretty much no faith in buying staples from amazon anymore because of fake reviews, fake listings, and counterfeit products. Even when buying more expensive or niche gear, you have to keep a careful eye on what you receive, as some suppliers will send an outdated model of the thing you're buying at the new model's price.
As further suggestive evidence of this, watch the correlation between donors/friends of those same old white guys entering the MJ business, and the rapid "evolution" of the willingness to switch stances on legality.

You can even evaluate this without malice: Some say MJ is dangerous, and some say it's great. The status quo is that it is banned. Changing that creates the risk that it is bad and the change will be blamed on you, but legalizing will not bring you much glory, so you support the status quo until you have sufficient incentive (most likely $$$, but a strong push from the public instead of "meh" would also count).

That said, I find a mix of opportunism and greed to be the most likely explanation.
I actually had no idea I could by from the brands directly. Nike's store seems fairly decent.
Not much books on Komplett :) Amazon to me is still a bookstore.
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How is this any different than any other library?

Basically, you shouldn't pull in a dependency that permeates your entire codebase. That it is a macro based library shouldn't change this. Right?

Language features often blur this, because people attach an unreasonably high level of trust on them not changing. Used to be, this was completely warranted. Truth to tell, probably mostly warranted even today.

However, this does mean you go at a much slower pace pulling in those features. And, the more any of these permeate what you are doing, the less you are in control of what it is you are doing. Probably fine for many cases, but this is the definition of technical debt. You are taking out a loan on someone else's technical asset (code) to accomplish your goal.

I liken this to being a kitchen builder. If you are just trying to build a few quick kitchen's in standard layouts, Ikea/HomeDepot/Lowes all have fabricated cabinets that are actually quite serviceable and likely build what you want. As soon as you are getting non-standard, those will start to cause some grief, and having not built up experience with custom cabinets is likely to be a source of trouble.
Maybe an independent group could manage the schedule and have lab tests done so the drug details could be determined. Then the academic researchers could track the subjects, analyze the results and publish.
To get some historical perspective, this all started back with the stitch in time that saved nine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_switch_in_time_that_saved_...

FDR's pressure on the supreme court brought about the abuses of the commerce clause. Before this, things like Prohibition required a constitutional amendment rather than a law like The Controlled Substances Act of 1970.
I'm pretty sure they just used a crane to prove the concept. It would be pretty dumb for them to use a bunch of expensive cranes for a permanent installation.

I have to say, though, I think you might be onto something with your horizontal/angled conveyor idea. I would be worried about the energy lost to friction, though? The nice thing about a straight up/down solution is that it doesn't have that problem.
Ah that's interesting. Hadn't thought of it that way before. Have you seen any more research about that topic? I'd love to see more.
I don't think the underwriters fully understood the consequences of what they did. Rather they were numbed by their previous ability to invent new products and systems that would solve the problem of the previous.

The system is larger than anyone ability to understand it.

So yes what they did were wrong but not in some grand mastermind way and thus the real problem IMO is the system.

And yes if you do something illegal you should be prosecuted. But have they?
That may be a good conversational start but I'm less certain that anyone really knows at any deep granularity what they want to do (professionally). There are a lot of roads to autonomy, mastery and purpose, and a lot of speed traps/bad exits. My current job, which I've just resigned because it became so awful, was on the surface what I wanted to do, until it changed. It would be difficult to discuss the before and after in this context, for example.
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Of course, because everyone should be using /dev/urandom instead. \s
It does look like they have moved away from closed server components like RedPhone and claim all sources are published now. I appreciate that correction.

The source code for -a- signal server is a nice gesture for anyone that wants to build a signal fork but it does nothing to prove the signal server actually in use is fully open source and does not have last minute patches applied. Can't run my own for the real network so I must hope an employee won't be pressured into changing live systems or signing malicious client binaries at any time with no one noticing. Seems we both agree this is a real problem.

Verifiable security and centralized trust are incompatible.

I do still generally consider any code that can't be verified to be closed but I agree accuracy is important.
> If you know how to call a function, you know how to use macros.

Wrong, there are many macros that are impossible to grok without reading the docs carefully, there are also scoping rules. They are nowhere near at the usability of functions, macros should be written judiciously. Most uses of macros can be eschewed by higher-order functions, unless you are making a language.
Tor could be the future protocol of the Internet of Things if big corporations wouldn't want to sell all your data.

https://github.com/n8fr8/talks/blob/master/onion_things/Inte...
"Fermi estimate" questions are stupid most of the time. Why? Because they leave out the educated part of educated guess.

The idea is that inaccuracies in a series of educated guesses would tend to even out (though they're just as likely to compound). There is no such tendency in blind guesses, which is what most of these questions require.
In "their mind" sense.
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Brainteasers are good for psychological evaluation. How does one perform under stress or when they are challenged in social situation.

If the goal is to to find out what somebody can do, state a problem and start working together to solve it. For example ask them to help you to solve some problem and guide you trough solving it.
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Now I'm reading my comment again, I see how I offensed some people here. My idea was more like "globally thinking", like in "geopolitics", in that case, even a few deaths is not much (it's like people who allocate money for cancer research : they have to make sure the population is globally better; it doesn't mean every one should get out alive). And my wording was rather poor. Sorry it was absolutely not the idea I wanted to convey. Mea culpa.
I disagree, as long as getting the right answer isn't important. I flat out tell people I don't care if they get the right answer, that I just want to hear their thought process.

Such questions used in this way are extremely valuable.
My issue is more with tricky algorithmic questions. I faced these tricky interview questions, where you either have to know the trick beforehand or there is NO way you can come up with a solution in an interview. I never understand the point of these questions. Because these esoteric hypothetical questions will almost never come up in real-life. They don't test someone's skills, because these problems don't follow any standard algorithmic problem solving procedure. They mostly test whether you know the trick or not, which is not a valid metric of skills.

One famous example of this type of questions is to find loop in a singly connected linked list. Now almost everyone knows the trick. And thanks to that, interviewers have stopped asking questions like that.
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They have to work out the air traffic issues. I work for an organization that does mountain flying in SAR scenarios (airforce, helicopters). We can be re-tasked mid-air to a SAR scenario at any time. We need to know within minutes, seconds, that the low level airspace is clear for us to operate. Can these drones avoid large helicopters on their own, or do we need some system to ground them all automatically?

This matters for us in particular because SAR can happen literally anywhere, not just in restricted airspace around cities or airports. We really do operate at less that 100 feet. We have landed in hospital parking lots. No notice on the ground. Just suddenly a huge helicopter is parking itself beside all the SUVs. That's what emergency means.
So a large number of metal drones is a real safety issue.
Wanting a specified query language for a database API isn't really an excuse IMHO. (and if it really were just "a bit of work", one has to ask why the proposers then didn't bother to just do that. As cool as sqlite is, tying browsers to a specific version of it seems questionable)