skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So attacking people for living a different way is obviously wrong. At the same time, if a lifestyle is based on bad ideas, it seems like a benefit to attack those ideas.

Yes. But the point is that it should be attacked because it is a bad idea, not because it is a different idea. There is no need for tolerance to be limitless in order to be considered tolerance, just as there is no need for democracy to accept the election of a dictator in order to be considered a democracy.

> I see nothing wrong with being intolerant of caste systems.

Sure. But that doesn't mean that you are intolerant, the same way that attempts to assassinate (democratically elected) Hitler were not anti-democratic. It is neither necessary nor helpful to define those terms in such a way that they are self-defeating, there is a useful concept there that can sensibly be labeled "tolerance" that encompasses only the non-self-defeating aspects of tolerance.

> ie. the caste system is based on beliefs about reincarnation which we now know to be false

I am not too familiar with it, but is it really something that we know to be false, or just something unfalsifiable and therefore epistemically irresponsible to accept, as most religious claims the world over are? Not that it makes any difference for the relevance of those beliefs, but it's usually better to avoid an unnecessary burden of proof ;-)
tony at hofstadter dot io

I can answer your other questions there
IANAL, but is it really anyone's responsibility to consult that database? I would have expected the firm to designate its own trademarks whenever it uses them. Besides, the firm under discussion in TFA is not a competitor of this firm and couldn't really be confused with them.
More like magritter I thought. just wish everytime someone comes up with something new you have to install yet another package manager.
The short squeeze in HYG over the past few weeks is insane, up nearly 6%. It had moved +/- 1% all year up until then. You’d have to hold through price moves like that.
> No one has proven they take some special kind of intelligence

This isn't true. We have overwhelming evidence that these "skills" originate in different parts of the brain in all humans and if we disable those parts, those "skills" disappear. Those parts of the brain are unique and have their own structures. There is strong evidence that they require unique "hardware" and as such, are a "special kind of intelligence".
The difference is it’s more common for someone to be able to derive it in a SWE interview.
That article is from May of last year.

(I also just got the email that OP quoted.)
But they did receive the gift card. Why should the payment processor assume the risk that, possibly years later, someone doesn't honor the gift card?
Because it is listed separately, you know which rate you're paying. Isn't it good to have more information?
> You will no longer be able to eat until you are full, ever again.

Wrong. I just ate and I'm very full. I could even fuck off and eat like shit more often than I do but I choose not to. I'm 6'0" about ~175lbs/80kg.

And yet I often have people approach me in the gym to ask questions, advice, etc: https://www.instagram.com/adamjmorgan/. It's possible to eat until you're full and still look good.

-Signed, former chubby kid.
sorry. it's meant to be motivating.

it's telling you in compressed form what you need to do to be successful
Ask HN: Are you homeschooling your kids? Why?
Absolutely love that Hillel seems to have single-handedly assumed the role of taking formal methods to the people. His Apress title (https://www.apress.com/gp/book/9781484238288) is a wonderful example of technical writing that's somehow accessible, yet deep.
> If a journalists says something incorrect about me, I can complain to him or his newspaper/magazine, and this will be taken seriously; indeed most journalists give me an opportunity to fact-check anything they say about me before it is published. If Experian says something wrong about me in its credit report, I can report this and they will take this seriously. In fact almost all organisations which give out information about me allow me to complain and point out problems. Except Google, who clearly doesnt care.

That's what I was commenting on. This quote came from the article.
Done is better than good!
This...ain’t it chief.

You won’t pass HC if you don’t at minimum solve the problem at all. And max flow is a nontrivial algorithm, more so than any of the ones I’ve ever known people to get.

You have to have pretty amazing natural talent to be able to get it cold without much studying.

I think it’s a shame that there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground opinion between the elitist “you mean you don’t know about Ford Fulkerson without studying?” and the anti intellectual “all coding interviews are just luck and not a good signal”...
Tipping point implies a hard boundary of "too far," making politicians believe it is someone else's problem until we reach that point.

What we have is an accelerating process that will soon pass beyond our ability to absorb, deflect, or survive. The words absolutely affect the thinking for how to deal with the problem. The words also affect the arguments one will have to overcome in order to act. (Not counting the head in the sand argument of "no it isn't".)
They're not assuming the risk, the merchant bank is. And the merchant bank should be mitigating that via holding back a portion of credit card receipts from companies for the specific purpose of honoring chargeback demands.
Never heard of them. Probably would have tried their service if I had. Epic failure of marketing, I guess.
Why use repeated textures? Just provide a low resolution "pattern definition", say some blades of grass, and fresh unique textures could be generated by a network. probably pretty computationally cheap too
I don't think you can chargeback years later, it's usually 45-120 days.
Protein has as many calories as carbohydrate, and fat has even more. To feel full you have to stuff yourself with placebos like fiber instead of food.
Addendum: I think most reasonable people reading these comments can agree that the author is hostile to the topic, bordering on being an asshole, and he probably knows this. However, this has NO impact on his assertions. They are good, especially the references to older arguments against the potential of QC's, which still seem quite valid.
does that mean VCSH (Short term investment grade debt) is a good or bad play?

https://investor.vanguard.com/etf/profile/VCSH
"It's not me, it's the killbot algorithm I designed, patented, and licensed!"

In seriousness, though, I agree and we're already way behind the eight-ball on this one, given predictive policing and bail algorithms.
What is the "75-year economic event" timeframe based on?

We now have "1000-year floods" five times in a year [1], is there good reason to think the economic predictions are more accurate than the climate ones?

[1] https://www.edf.org/blog/2016/09/01/we-just-had-five-1000-ye...
Most of the studies I looked at would "enforce" diets through direction, coaching, and meal plans, while a few provided meals to participants. Very few required daily calorie tracking. So while it is possible there is an adherence improvement for certain diets (e.g. low-carb has better satiety, better adherence, and therefore better weight loss), that improvement doesn't appear to be significant enough to regularly appear in research studies. Of course, one could make the methodological critique (e.g. "the studies aren't good enough yet to detect this"), but at least it seems to set a ceiling on the magnitude of a possible adherence improvement.
Perhaps you could point out what's 'stupid' about the assertion I made, rather than overtly violating the site's commenting guidelines.
> Fair enough. Though in context you do seem to be promoting it as an investment strategy, which still seems a tad sociopathic to me.

I was just providing a potentially more lucrative investment than Greenland. That said I would by future farmland if i had the kind of money that could wait for 50 years for a return.

> If by 'we' you mean H Sapiens

I was referring to homo sapiens global civilization, not a specific civilization. This civilization has survived terrible wars in the past. I agree that its range of dynamic stability is very narrow for optimal performance. But disagree that falling outside that range triggers collapse. I think it is a much more adaptive and fault tolerant system than you believe it is. It may be damaged by easily but it fixes things relatively quickly.

By the way i didn't down vote you. I'm enjoying the banter. And I am very much in support of curbing emissions to prevent further warming.
I quit sugar five years ago, didn't diet, and was surprised when I lost of ton of weight. It never came back. I can't be the only one.
I'm not sure what you mean by "the temperature difference between frozen and unfrozen is very little". This sounds as though you are implying it is very easy to go from frozen to melted.

When ice melts to water, it absorbs a fair amount of energy without changing temperature, is my recollection of high school physics.
You want it to be one way... but it's the other way.

-Marlo, from The Wire

As other commenter's have pointed out, the data you're citing is completely wrong and/or woefully out of date. There's always 4 parts of compensation that you need to look at:

-Base

-Target bonus (depending on your level could be 15%-20%+)

-Initial stock grant

-Refresher stock grant (offered each year to protect you from a cliff)

An incoming SWE with 1yr experience at Google would scoff at a total compensation of $125k (this would normally be the bare minimum base salary). Same goes for Facebook. And while Netflix isn't known to hire junior engineers, it is well known in the bay area that they usually pay top of market rates fully in cash; this routinely exceeds $300k and much more so for seasoned engineers.
From personal experience * with weight loss, diet is good for short terms but will not work in long terms.

I have tried limiting calories, intermittent fasting, and keto. The only thing worked long term was loving exercise and setting challenges (cycling 20 miles a day, running 10k .. etc). Exercise will allow me to eat the food I like (within limits) and not caring if I will gain some weight as I will lose it potentially with exercise.

* I lost 20% of my body weight in 8 months doing strictly 1500 calories a day for 8 months with moderate exercise then gained 10% of it back and since then I will lose/gain 5% every now and then.
The Intercontinental and the Serena are the main hotels that house journalists, pilots and aid workers. They have both been attacked multiple times.

If you need to travel to Kabul, as many people do, there are no truly safe options. Both hotels are beautiful and well guarded. They are also high-profile targets.

If your employer doesn't have access to a lower-profile private compound with private security then you are going to the Serena or the Intercontinental.
What, no love for the fox shriek? https://youtu.be/zBpZTo1dlPM?t=26

Also, not as ungodly as the other examples, but I always liked that bald eagles chirped: https://youtu.be/PQ2uMauyBow?t=36
There are reasons to expect another such event again. First, those kind of shocks are not necessarily isolated, can happen in clusters. Second, the fundamental problems of 2008 were never fully solved, just transferred to govt/Fed balance sheets and pushed forward in time. It’s worth stress testing your current endeavors against a repeat.
> if you are not willing to adjust your lifestyle and consistently make the better choices when it comes to diet you will fail.

This statement applies to anything in life you want to get better at.
I could've sworn that they closed down a year or two ago. Are you sure you just got this?

Edit: yeah, looks like this happened 8 months ago (https://munchery.com/blog/a-letter-to-the-munchery-community...)

Edit 2: oops, that was only NYC and Seattle - looks like I remembered incorrectly!
I have a 100+yr old house, no vents. Old style radiator. Doors have large gaps underneath them, the holes on the floor that the radiator pipes travel through have gaps that you can feel the draft. It's annoying, but the house really does breath and is noticeable comfortable for me unlike houses with forced heat that are sealed well.
Sure, there may be a correlation between a candidate's ability to answer every kind of algorithm & data structure problem across multiple respected CS textbooks and their performance at any one of these companies, but what of the many other confounding variables? What of the benefits, day-to-day perks, prestige, future open doors, workplace culture, or scale of the products they launch? Do those kinds of variables not also greatly impact the ability to attract and select top talent?
I've always wondered how I can write a specification in a language which is complex enough to cover the problem, clear enough to be verified by the customer, and not have it be as complex as writing the code.
I've only used macbooks since the white polycarbonate versions, but my 2016 macbook pro will probably be the last time. The issue for me is that the keyboard is completely fine 99% of the time, but then a key randomly sticks or doesn't trigger and it just throws me off. I can't even replicate the problem reliably.
Maybe they are shutting down by geography?
> Maybe I'm missing something

This may be the case. The filters you cited are not countour filters. Having the option of pixel matching entire regions by color makes any image look better, regardless of how many or how few contours you match.
True success is the acceptance that, no, your life will be worse in very real ways. You will no longer be able to just eat whenever you feel like it. You will no longer be able to eat until you are full, ever again.

None of these things are true. With a good diet and exercise, you will feel better and be happier, with way more energy. That makes your life better, not worse.

As another commenter mentioned, abstaining from sweets increases your sensitivity to sweetness. If you go long enough, you'll find most candy cloying rather than addictive. So throw away those cheap, mass market candy bars. By some expensive dark chocolate candy from a reputable chocolatier. Eat one piece instead of a whole bunch and just take your time to enjoy the flavours. It is sooooo much better!

The way I see people (including myself at times) eat candy bars and potato chips bears more resemblance to a starving dog than a human who really enjoys good food. Stop being a dog! Take your time and enjoy something really good instead of swallowing a whole bunch of junk in front of Netflix.
First study:

>"During the test phase, high, moderate, and low carbohydrate diets varied in carbohydrate (60%, 40%, and 20% of total energy, respectively[...]We randomly assigned participants who achieved the target weight loss to high, moderate, or low carbohydrate test diets for a 20 week test phase.)"

Second study:

>"14 days of a low-carbohydrate diet (21 g of carbohydrates per day)"

So the first study went for 5 months but didn't include an actual low-carb diet:

100 g -> ~400 cal -> ~20% of 2k cal/day

The second study only went for 2 weeks but did include a low carb diet:

21g -> ~84 cal -> ~4% of 2k cal/day

Now someone just needs to combine these methods into one valid study.
> their particular approach has led to [...]

So, paraphrasing part of that: it's too easy for too many people to share too small pieces of their code; and too easy to use them; which reduces the incentives for centralized monoliths? Ok. :P :)

I'll agree that javascript's ease and culture of fine-grain sharing raises still regrettably-unaddressed needs for social and technical infrastructure beyond the "1990's CPAN, but now as a github ecosystem" currently in widespread use.

> I don't totally buy this comparison.

Hmm, so upon reflection, maybe that's right. Consider an "npm code quality can be abysmal" complaint. Which in part unpacks as "I wish it was harder for mediocre programmers to share their code". An analogy for "this airplane, is this slow wifi really the best they could do?" might be "Sorting on aggregate project-level stars is the best we can do? Really? Not even Consumer-Reports-like multi-attribute ratings?" In contrast, an "isn't npm horrible - there's so much bad code" seems more like "abysmal wifi... we should be driving instead". Pointing at the community-wide fine-grain sharing as the problem, rather than at associated technosocial debt, or at renormalized-by-success expectations.

Yes, the npm ecosystem has various and serious flaws. But it still seems the closest we've yet managed to come to a large diverse community easily sharing code.
> The hardest part of dieting is realising that in order to keep it off, you will have to continue like that forever.

Why would that be? To lose why your are taking a net negative mass balance, once the weight is lost you probably can't go back to the exact diet you had (otherwise you wouldn't need to lose weight) but an mass neutral one should suffice to keep you at the same weight.
I didn't downvote, but I still see a significant difference between HED and the author's algorithm.

But you're correct, it is difficult to make a confident judgment given the small number of sample images.
The original iPhone was 2G, not even 3G (I owned one, along with a Palm Treo). I built Wi-Fi networks at the time, and suddenly we were inundated with iPhone users who were frustrated with the 2G speeds.

OP author doesn't seem to know their history...
Distrowatch did a review of it (which I would bet inspired someone to submit genode to hackernews) https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20190121#sculpt
stop being a dog :| unless it's in another context where dog-like qualities are appreciated ;)
Munchery Shuts Down
I keep hearing this, but every time I dig in to the details, I find that the person or group in question is actually intolerant by any reasonable definition of the word.

I've yet to see any example of a truly tolerant individual or group being unfairly labeled as intolerant as a pretext to discriminate against them.

If you have examples, I'd love to see them.
> Although the companies with these levered loans are a lot smaller than S&P 500 companies.

Netflix isn't an S&P 500 company?
I never thought about algorithms this way. However I would argue it’s much better to study functional patterns and understand why those patterns are useful.

Architecture is also another part that most programmers fail to grasp.

I think of algorithms as good to know but rarely used. It’s has an answer to every question. So what you get is a bunch of people cramming questions and answers until they memorise it; defeating the entire point.
ALL DIETS WORK IN THE SHORT TERM... The problem is keeping it off.

Please, please, please read the Obesity Code by Dr. Jason Fung: https://www.amazon.com/Obesity-Code-Unlocking-Secrets-Weight...

He provides all the science behind the current obesity epidemic, backed up with studies done on humans.

Obesity is a hormonal problem... Insulin makes us fat.

Current fads suggest eating ALL THE TIME.

This puts people in a state of high insulin all day, everyday. This is bad.

Intermittent fasting based around a common sense diet (limit sugars and starchy food to special occasions) will lower insulin levels, and cause the body to burn fat instead of insulin.

The keys is not what to eat, but when to eat and how often... and drink Apple Cider Vinegar. :P
California, Virginia, Vermont, and Washington all seem to allow it. There are caveats, of course.
There are some really great self contained pre-built SheepShaver OS9 appliances. I don't suggest building your own unless you need to.

Columbia University offers this one:
http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/macos9osx.html

Direct download:
http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/Mac%20OS%209.zip

You can have an OS9 VM up and running in minutes.

These support networking:
https://www.macintoshrepository.org/7751-sheepshaver-ppc-emu...
https://www.macintoshrepository.org/15339-sheepshaver-packag...
Obstetrics and Gynecology?
We use higher bitrates during recording to lower the noise floor, in turn giving more headroom in the mix. Once you mix down this becomes irrelevant because the difference between silent and full volume at 16bit is enough to cover the full capability in terms of sound pressure levels of the human ear. 1bit = 6dB which means 16bit is 96dB. As we don't start at absolute zero but with a background noise of the room at 30dB using the full dynamic range of 16bit at playback you risk deafening yourself.

In your example if your single tone is out of phase then 1) how do you control this at any bit rate and 2) this is controlled by an acoustically treated room and a skilled engineer during recording. When you listen on headphones you already eliminate this concern on playback and unless you are listening in a professional designed and treated listening studio you will always have some element of phase cancellation. This is the listening character of your room and will occur at any bitrate.

Read this https://www.mojo-audio.com/blog/the-24bit-delusion/
Their code make actual outlines, it doesn’t merely detect edges and applies a transform to those pixels. Basically they can make inks automaticelly, if poorly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

AHA! Thank you for giving a name to a phenomenon I've talked about for years!
It isn't the calories that matter. To feel full your brain needs to receive signals from your body that you should feel full. It appears that carbohydrates mess with these signals so that your brain thinks you are not yet full when you should be. You can easily try it for yourself.
Google fined €50M for GDPR violations
How to Make Liquid Goo Effect in HTML with SVG Filters
Sure it does. We often have designers jumping in and programming UI code themselves. Teaching them all about type systems would be very time consuming.
Who said anything about punishing anyone? 1) tptacek advocated for a specific kind of interviewing, 2) I asked him if he had ever seen a problem that I thought might be an issue with that method, 3) he explained that he wasn't worried about it because of X, Y, Z but acknowledged that for other companies it could be a problem, 4) I thought his answer was very reasonable. Also wool_gather and swish_bob added some useful ideas.

I'm not sure why you felt the need to come out guns blazing.
In certain states, money used to purchase a gift card is required to be held in escrow, which would be held separately in receivership. Definitely worth asking about.
Well I think this depends on what you're measuring as the impact of screen time.

There are some negative effects of screen time that are not in doubt. It leads to a sedentary life style, this has negative impacts on fitness and health. It also isn't great for your eyes to maintain the same focal distance for long periods of time.
The solution is to write partial specs.

For example, if your client wants a piece of code which doesn't crash and sends a message over the network. You can write 2 partial specs i.e. 1) it doesn't crash 2) it sends a message over the network.

The partial specs can be individually simple but the program which satisfies all of them will be complex.

This idea of partial specs follow the general SE design practices as well, where we describe fine grain tasks the program has to do (like when I click this button, this should happen).

Another trick is to create domain specific languages to specify certain kinds of specs. There is a DSL to write memory safety constaints and a special DSL to write Distributed coordination between machines. Each of the specs written in the respective DSL is easy to understand but a program written in general purpose language won't be.