skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
proper clothing is fine, but it gets dark in couple of hours after their school ends and by the time I get home which is around 6PM, so 5 out of 7 days a week just go by like that.

And I don't see much difference between books/ board games and screen time (except allowing them to browse youtube etc)
Most people don't really have a narrative that explains the recent rise of nationalism. In America, they blame Russia because that's easier than taking a critical look at why a voting majority of people in their country think building a whites-only wall is a good idea.
smoking weed?
We just got a new governor, so potentially laws could change.
This candidate reminds me of someone who went on a date and is bitter they didn’t get a call back for a second, despite their qualities that obviously made them the right choice as a partner. Dating must be broken...
Costco mattresses ftw
Relevant Adam ruins.. (The Mattress Industry is One Big Rip-Off) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvlA9UxGvSg
I don't get the entitlement of people who try to interview with Google. The ROI of a few months (or in my case years) of preparation for a Google interview is huge. In Google you are supposed to work on things for a year before it comes to fruition (and you get promoted), but people are patient. Getting to know a few algorithms is like real work: you put in the effort and you get a nice paycheck at the end.
Almost all those you listed are not decentralized at all. That’s where it gets hard- to provide both decentralization and speed. EOS and many others like that aren’t much different than a normal centralized server, so of course they have increased throughput.
Things like this, https://www.ghostscript.com/faq.html in the 'Can I embed Ghostscript in my own apps?' section:

"The AGPL explicitly prohibits the deployment of AGPL software in a SaaS (Software as a Service) environment unless all of the software on the server (including the operating system software) is also released under the AGPL with full source code."

BS like this confuses the otherwise very clear language of the license itself. Removing the arms-length uses of GS from our SaaS because nobody wants any possible legal problems.
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>Still, if someone comes along who can actually deliver on the search quality then the market will change.

Not really? We've already been here. We had multiple search engines of similar quality. Google came along as a superior product, and therefore raised superior money, and no one else could keep up. It's a zero-sum game in a lot of respects.

Even your smartphone example is zero-sum. Try to buy an Android device that doesn't use a Qualcomm chipset. Unless you go buy an Apple device you're just buying different configurations of the same hardware. Huawei has their own, but they aren't really even allowed to have a considerable market in the US.

The US kills competition. At best in a lot of regards you get two options. Even within the political system. If you don't have money you can't compete.
Good for you, you can go ahead and prop up the industry with your word of mouth.
Who said that RPA was only for large enterprises?
sorry for sounding green, but I've been tinkering in electronics, and PCB design is has been the part that's daunting.

I would prefer to make PCBs, but how do you handle the footprint of some components? like do you measure each one and then design it in eagle?
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18921714
“The mainstream public is aware that these networks don’t scale.”

The mainstream public is barely aware that these networks exist.
And privacy.
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> the companies with the better programmers were the ones where they actually looked at your past code

How common is it to actually be able to do this? I've worked at Google and Amazon and Goldman Sachs; I can't show any of that code. I've occasionally dabbled in coding little scripts or projects at home, but nothing terribly challenging or complicated.
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I have not pursued a degree in psychology, but read numerous books on the subject and learned much from a published sibling who pursued a phd in psychology.

I found it helpful in dealing with my depression (and other behaviors/emotions) and understanding its mechanisms. Though, you should be wary of labeling yourself with what you learn, or entertaining the illusion that one can analyse oneself.

Psychology is such an important subject it merits attention even if, however unlikely, you would derive no benefit.
The United States does not maximize revenue in the slightest. We routinely use the justice system to unnecessarily prosecute and incarcerate the poor at a huge expense.
prediction: (private, not publicly accessible) blockchains will become mandatory for all financial institutions.

Easy prediction since to a small extent that is already true:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2017/08/10/practica...
"they weren't sure that they would be able to remain in the EU if they left the UK" - to be more precise, they were 100% sure that they will never be allowed into EU, Spain would never agree for this, as this would open path for Catalonia to leave Spain and join EU.
And all the pro-Google articles are what?
Because Google Search sucks these days. (To be fair, this is not by any fault of Google themselves. Rather, like any monoculture, Google Search is especially vulnerable to external attacks, such as from SEO's trying to game the system.) If anything, DDG today is a lot closer to the quality Google Search itself used to provide back in the 2000s, before it was SEO-gamed to death.
> history has mostly shown a zero-sum game when it comes to search. Didn’t all of those other search engines you listed die off? Even Bing has been mostly irrelevant in comparison to Google. Also a lot of DDG users came over because they were unhappy with some of Google’s practices. Therefore it’s natural for them to want to justify their decision as a good choice by hoping the rest of the world comes to the same conclusion.

What does that imply about sustainability of free market capitalism?

After all, all market benefits and dynamics die off if people on the market are unable to exercise choice.
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Yes I thought this article was going to be about Zilliqa, which is also created by academics, has sharding, and is releasing its mainnet at the end of this month.
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is."
> The eastside wants all of the perks of being a large(r) city, with none of the less desirable components.

Doesn’t everyone? Who actually wants the less desirable components?
There's a difference between "Paris Hilton" and "The Paris Hilton." "Paris" isn't a completely unheardof first name. Again, a human capable of working with context will understand that, as should a proper AI. Simple string matching won't.

Also, there is no "Paris Hilton" hotel. There is Hilton Paris Opera, Hilton Paris La Defense, and Hilton Paris De Gaulle.
Providing trustworthy transaction logs that can be shared between multiple organizations that don't trust each other, which is of course the central part of the problem we call "banking".

To be more detailed. Currently a lot of banks constantly create third-party companies whose only function is to get transactions from bank A, and transactions from bank B, and just record them, providing the logs when either the banks or the government/court requests them. Or when the banks want them. In some cases this is done by central banks, but central banks also do this amongst themselves.

There's 2 problems here:
1) those companies are not always trustworthy
2) the jurisdictions those companies operate under are not always trustworthy (in the central bank cooperation use cases)

smaller issues: those companies are usually expensive, and staffed by idiots.

So cryptographically provably unchangeable logs (which is what blockchains are, at their core) certainly have their function within the banking system. Lots and lots of these are needed.

Plus they're already used for that purpose.
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Haha. I'm still sitting on a binder and a box of hockey cards from over around 30+ years ago— thankfully I never had to spend a dime on them.

Some are still calling for a decent price, but I'm not sure there's the market for them quite as much.

On the plus side, we might see a minor resurgence in their popularity: https://theplantnewspaper.com/2018/03/the-evolution-of-colle...
It was leavers (just check how the DUP and Tory brexiters voted) and some remainers together that voted down that agreement

> Or do you think Parliament has a 230 majority for leaving with no CU agreement?

Well, at least against that deal, that is a fact, more than 400 votes were against May's deal.
One binding piece is the "backstop", which is in there to guarantee no hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. It essentially forces the UK to remain in the customs union if they can't work something else out with the EU.

There are many and various extremely good reasons for the backstop, but its very existence is anathema for many Brexiters, since it would force the UK to follow EU regulations indefinitely. Alternatively, the UK could put a customs border in the sea between NI and the rest, but that would put NI in a different regulatory regime, and that's anathema to the Tories' partner in government, the Northern Irish DUP, which will not accept anything that could move NI closer to the RoI. So 1) most Brexiters don't like a customs union and don't care about NI 2) the DUP don't want any borders on either "side" of NI (but want Brexit anyway).

https://www.apnews.com/eb12b6eb1da3436cba22bd64de6d9ec8

The actual contours of the UK/EU relationship after Brexit would otherwise be mostly up for negotiation. If you didn't mind a possible permanent customs union, then exiting with May's deal followed by a bunch more negotiations would seem like a sane thing to do...
We sure do, and our stuff is generally a little more expensive than the Chinese-made import but a lot higher quality. My go-to example is brooms and mops. Libman makes their brooms and mops in the US, and I'll never buy another brand. They break like any sort of cleaning product does, but a lot less often than the imported ones (IMO).

Sterilite boxes are also made in the US -- cost a bit more than imported, but again, much higher quality.

It's a shame there isn't a "made in the US, and slightly more expensive but a lot higher quality" option for everything I buy, cause I'd do that in a heartbeat. I hate buying shit that breaks; waste of my time to even have to think about that stuff.
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This contrasts with my son who is graduating in 3 yrs. with a BS in CS from UT, did a internship in Austin at a major tech company last summer, created an interface for their EE's to use, did a presentation for an auditorium full of EE's there, got an unexpected offer even before he graduates for $101k, plus all the goodies. Many of his CS college friends would only work on the West Coast for the top 3 tech firms just to have it on their resume and also higher starting salary so when they jump ship in 18 months anybody who wants to interview them will be staring at those salary numbers.
They all know that the high costs of living on the West Coast will actually result in less savings after rent, food, transport, etc - - - than if they stayed in Austin and worked for tech here.

Some background: My son is only a "B" average in CS, got the Google call since he registered for and used Tensorflow once for a project, Google clowns asked for his transcript, never called after that.

His roommate with better grades got through 2 google interviews and a flight out to Mountainview, no call back, will probably take an offer with MS in Seattle.

Another friend from his HS is a Turing Honors student in same Dept at UT (only about 3% of CS students at UT get Turing Honors). He also got through 2 Google interviews and no call back.

oh, and by the way . . . he never was asked to do an interview or any whiteboarding algo's, etc.
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Another way to look at the trend - a lot of companies are moving to the cloud because they can't get the people to do it on their own.
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20% of $20 has a MUCH smaller impact on someone who is suffering financially than 20% of $1000 so your analogy is not really the same in terms of impact.
I have followed Kirby since the very first post, when Bastian announced his new company launch in order to build Kirby.
I have always be impressed by the heart Bastian and now the team around him put in Kirby.
Having tested Kirby 3 a lot in the last weeks, I can confirm that the Kirby 3 version is just incredible. You can at the same time build your website and its admin interface.
This admin interface becomes then the best I have ever seen. You can taylor it to match exactly your needs or your customer needs.
My opinion is that to use Kirby with pleasure, you need to have a good understanding of OOPHP (oriented Object PHP). But it's only my opinion.
For advanced PHP developers it is, without any doubt, the best CMS available. And I like also a lot Drupal or October CMS, and I even appreciate and use WordPress, trying to forget this strange thing named Gutenberg!
I really enjoy using Composer as well but my exposure is limited. Does composer do anything for security that npm fails at? The most I've seen is that packages in composer tend to have way less dependencies than npm packages but that's not really a great reason to call it more secure (better, yes, but not ideal). Just wondering if Composer has some security features that I'm not aware of.
True about Vietnam.

With Iraq the issue was just the lack of manpower to maintain control security and manage various factions (providing them a sense of security). In Iraq more troops did actually (for the time being) provide a lot more control and stability that was sorely needed.

Long term it may have been doomed to fail no matter what.

I agree, the goals of both were not thought out and likely not attainable, ever.
I stopped reading in the middle.

I sympathize quite a bit with his frustration, but he does a good job of making it difficult to sympathize with him. He goes on about how there are books written on how to interview at Google, yet it's patently clear he didn't even try to read one of them. It's one thing not to know BFS on the spot because you didn't want to prepare. It's another thing to be totally shocked that they asked the question. A few minutes of searching the Internet, or casually browsing the table of contents of several books, would give you an idea of what they want you to know.

And not to defend Google or other companies, but frankly, BFS is not some super complicated academic problem that only smart people can code on the fly. It is one of the more basic recursive[0] algorithms there. So even if you haven't memorized it, it's not ridiculous to expect you to "derive" it.

And equating maze solving with AI. Really?

I've gone to interviews without preparation, just because "Why not?" However, I don't go on a rant when I do poorly on it.

[0] Actually, it need not be recursive.
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I find empathy hard here. If the author had said they froze or panicked and blanked on BFS, then that's understandable. But that's not what happened here.
They're only manufactured at the rate of obsolescence though. If people don't feel the need to upgrade due to a lack of software updates or their current device slowing due to increased requirements of newer versions of their OS, why would the rate of manufacturing continue? The demand drives the supply, surely?
In saying that, the external hardware also degrades over time, I imagine a phone with entirely replaceable parts would be important in life extension also - à la Fairphone [0].

[0]https://www.fairphone.com/en/
I've had a successful programming career since the 80s. Including a fair share of browser front end programming.

As far as I remember, I have never written any BFS code, and I would also find it absurd to be asked to do so in an interview. There is great library code that does this in any reasonable situation.

If you're the kind of shop that would rather write your own code than use third party libraries, then that's a really great sign that I shouldn't work there.
This couldn't be farther from the truth. More speed means more page views means more ads seen means more revenue. Walmart Amazon plus others have done studies showing faster load times translates directly into increased revenue in there retail.
That would assume it's something about a specific screen technology that have this effect, while my understanding is that it's about the concept beaming virtual information to your brain that causes the issue.
We don't need a lot of people to do all those things.
The psychological industry inventing new disorders and diagnosing normal human behaviors as a disorder, something that needs to be fixed.

https://www.ted.com/talks/jon_ronson_strange_answers_to_the_...
I thought you used the ash to make lye-water, and that had other uses beyond soap-making, such as making noodles.
I am finding it very hard to avoid saying 'Bullshit data for bullshit analysis', but I do get it, from a security perspective it's not a bad idea.
Exactly. It's a Quixotic battle against our collective myths of the EU. It can't be addressed by the actual EU.
This was my impression as well. There were likely real issues that made the process annoying, but the tone of the post is basically "how dare you ask me those stupid questions at the interview you invited me to?".

On site interviews usually evaluate not only technical competency but also whether that person is OK to work with, especially during crunch times. Being able to point to a few github projects is good, but not sufficient. When faced with a question one cannot answer staying positive and trying a few options is often sufficient to get off the hook.
We pretty much already know it's flimsy. It's been nearly 3 years and we've had nothing. Now, the question is whether it is outright propaganda on the level of mccarythism or yellow cake.

That a country with a GDP the size of australia is dominating britian and american politics seems laughable to me. But perhaps that's just me being naive.
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If you don't forget the storage cost and shipping effort. Sure.
Agreed, but a lot of collecting involves talking the monetary value of the collection. Some people will never sell it, but they will tell you - with some sort of pride, even - the thousands of dollars it is worth.
I have kids age 5 and 8. cooking is a great idea. but I dont see much difference between screen time and board games and books unless they are watching youtube or things like twitch ...
> Did we know what we wanted in Iraq?

Saddam was a dictator with a history of reneging on promises, playing the international community for a fool, terrorizing his own people, who might be harboring WMDs [1], and who is vulnerable to an attack with overwhelming force. There was no competent planning of what to do after removing Saddam from power, though.

[1] In retrospect, we know he wasn't. But at the time, he was definitely trying hard to play up the idea that he might have them, probably to try to gain leverage in international negotiations. Even the UN weapons inspectors had to conclude their report with "we couldn't find anything, but the Iraqis are being so shifty we can't be sure."
Yeah, precisely. BFS and DFS are part of a very small collection of algorithmic questions I consider fair game — but I would never ask them directly. Instead I'm likelier to ask something like pretty printing a directory structure, so a function that prints out something like

bin/
sh
usr/
bin/
local/
bin/
var/
...
Reading this, I was reminded of Herb Simon's "Sciences of the Artifical," which makes the point that often complexity is the result of interaction with the environment. His example is of an ant walking through sand. The ant follows a complex path, even though its behavior is governed by simple rules. This seems like the same lesson, at another level.
Please tell me how to use a smartphone without being locked in the Apple platform or Google's. I'm well aware of LineageOS (and other ROM) and of F-Droid (and Yalp and others) but in reality, it's impossible not to supply Google with vast amount of personal data.

So for now, it's true that "nothing can stop google". Unless we change the situation (e.g legal/political actions), this won't change. But of course, if we collectively admit nothing can stop Google now, then we'll do something that makes it possible to stop Google and have some real competitors.
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I'm more than happy if Google continues to exist and I have an acceptable alternative for my own use.
San Diego resident here.

One of the more valuable things I would like to see from this network of sensors is heat maps of traffic issues.

For example, California rolling stops are the stuff of legend, and yet failure to stop is a significant cause of accidents and injuries. A heat map of the day of week, time of day, when these incidents are most likely could provide for selective and useful enforcement.

Alternatively, that same data could be used to indicate that stop signs should be replaced with a yield sign in a particular direction or convert the entire intersection to a roundabout to ease traffic flow.

My hope is that the data streams will be used in aggregate and not for individual enforcement. Trends are your friend.
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How do you know that implementing a feature very close to how BFS works won't be necessary in the job? You can't. At this point asking if a candidate can make BFS is akin to asking if they can count. Same thing for inverting a binary tree or doing fizzbuzz. They're general and easy enough that anyone with a programming background should be able to figure them out.
If you're concerned about this for yourself I highly recommend looking into NoSurf (https://nosurf.org/) to read about the effects on attention span and mindfulness caused by humanity's most powerful means of easy distraction, the net.
Could you outline, specifically, what about the linked study was faulty that you disagree with?

I'm inclined to believe the data first, but if you find fault with it it should be surfaced.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0506-1
I grew up in Houston and I never heard the term “affordable housing” until I went to New York. Houston doesn’t have zoning, nor does it have a housing “crisis.”
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Sounds like full on imposter syndrome. I feel like a little bit is healthy, but this is quite a lot.
Use Privacy Badger. It's basically Ghostery but made by EFF.
Hopefully other CC companies follow suit even though it hurts their own revenue prospects.
So what happens to the border in a hard Brexit? A hard border between NI and Ireland? Does DUP prefer that?
Hasura is a boon to productivity and keeps gaining very useful features. I really wish they had a hosted version (like netlify); I don't want to manage servers.
Dunno, the OP just says possession. Why do you ask?