skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder in what situation exactly would a company legitimately have a need to interview a candidate for a total of 5 rounds? Wouldn't they run out of questions to ask? Are you applying for a CEO position?

All it does is displaying for everyone to see their indecisiveness and wasting other people's time. They obviously couldn't make up their mind even after the first four rounds and that's just bad in any businesses.

If I ever had to go through a five-rounds interview and they ended up turning me down, I will not care if it burns bridges as I will track down their boss and he/she will receive some nice hand-written letters from me to let them know how their company performed. A working relationship always goes both way and they obviously have not valued much of your time.
I can guarantee you that regulated, legalized sex work licensed by the government would greatly reduce illegal and immoral activity such as you describe.
Should you even use microservices? I'd argue probably not. In my experience most people start looking at this because they hate their existing code (often for good reason) and just want to spend less time working with that code. It's just easier to do than refactor a monolith with serious problems...but then you have all the issues of a distributed system, and it's never been worth it in my experience.

If you find yourself in this situation, I'd recommend identifying the problems you have with your current monolith and hopefully refactor it, otherwise it's a lot more sane to gradually migrate to a new monolith by slowly moving responsibilities to it rather than attempting to go down the microservices route.
I mean, I have cancer and my health insurance in the US is about as good as can be expected, which unfortunately means almost nothing because we're terrible at cancer we can't cut out of the body. If I didn't have this healthcare I'd probably be dead already and leaving a mountain of debt for my family. The costs to my insurance company are insane for treatment. I'm easily costing over 100k/mo for basic treatment.
Of course they can, because an NN can be any function. If we can pick tanh as the "activation" then we can as easily pick arctan as the activation ans say our NN computes arctan. What an achievement! A better question is whether conv+relu based NNs can approximate any function. But that's most likely false because there are many weird functions that are impossible to compute, not even approximate (I'm talking about those curious counter-examples in math).
Ok, I was following "luck" as in "non-deterministic."

Pulling it back to what I think you are saying, though; there are still some obvious points that need more exploration for a causal factor. And if it can be found, then it should be exploited more.

So, if there really is a link between mother's diet and bone health, we should find out what that link is. If it is diet related, we should find out what about the diet leads to it.

I'll note my bias. I have the best teeth of my siblings. I likely have the worst brushing habits. Even in grade school, when I had braces, I would brush the night before the dentist, and would generally chew gum/whatever whenever I wanted. Easy to say I got lucky genetically. But what if there is more to it than that? What if my genetic luck was my allergy to damned near all food which knocked out some specific food that caused issues? (Would be almost poetically ironic if it was milk or some such.)

So, colloquially, I don't disagree that luck is a big factor. I just don't think luck should rule out looking for causal factors that can be exploited. Pretty sure that is standard for exploration/exploitation strategies in any learning scenario, no?
Sleep quality and stress level matter more than languages or practices
A German magazine wrote that Peterson came "with a pocket-knife to an artillery fight".
Thanks for the tip, bought it.
Wow, I honestly wonder how this is possible?
You can only pick the ones you're qualified for, and the special operations jobs all require pre-approval to retain into. Similar with aircrew, if you want an aircrew job you have to get medically qualified before you can select it. If you don't pick a new job you just don't get to re-enlist. They don't force you into a job you don't want as far as I'm aware. I'm sure they have the authority (and your agreement when you signed the enlistment paperwork) to do so if they really needed to, but when I went through they just gave you a re-enlistment eligibility code that would prevent you from serving beyond your current obligation if you declined the jobs they selected for you. I'm sure it'd put you high on the list for force shaping if that was going on, too.

E: forgot special duties were an option, too. If you applied for and were selected to be something like an MTI, MTL, or recruiter then you didn't have to retrain. I'm not sure what would happen after the special duty was done. Usually you would return to your career field once you're done, but I don't know if that's the case if you do the special duty to avoid NCORP retraining.
Very. Colour vision defects are not something you really want to have.
Agree: What I do now is pointing out I'm not considering it at all for anything less than my current salary + a good raise.

With that I might or might not consider it.

I've made a simplified version for recruiters here: http://erik.itland.no/step-by-step-instructions-choose-your-...

If anyone likes it they should feel free to adapt and customize it for so it can work for even the most annoying recruiters :-)
I don't know - I still think that you can replace twitter in a weekend. You just need a couple of markov chain outrage bots shouting at each other, porn scraping bot and a bare metal web server that can process couple of million requests per second.

Jokes aside - the biggest error this software developer makes is not realizing that software is not the crtitcal part of AirBNB success. It is the thousand manyears of boots in streets promoting the app and getting people onboard.
I’m getting errors trying to add the repo to 19.04. Any updates?
I'm not an end user, and I should have the ability to bypass expired/invalid cert errors on both my own sites, as well any other site out of curiosity. Sure, lock it behind a flag or other hidden setting, that even covers enterprise clients because they already disable setting those on their domain computers, but it should be possible nonetheless to bypass the error.
Oh I get you. Credentialism is another level in health care.
Not sure I get your point. People will cut corners and mess up the code, but somehow the history could be excempt from this?
> 1. You're setting a record here in moving goalposts.

No, you're replying in a subthread that you didn't want to apparently. To quote myself: "I believe that many Americans don't have a good idea of what it costs to run a Western European welfare state".

> Free public education has made this country what it is today

Possibly. I think high skill immigration has also played a very strong role.

And again, since nobody is reading what I'm writing before flagging or angrily replying: I'm not arguing that a high tax welfare state is necessarily a bad idea. While I do believe that it creates bad incentives and has to be very well calibrated (which is hard and usually fails in my experience), that's not what this is about.

The point is that it does not come for free. You will have to pay for it, and you will pay via taxes. You should be aware of that, and I'm interested in finding out how much more people are willing to pay. The reactions I get (anger, disbelief, flagging) lead me to believe that people are vaguely aware of that fact, but don't want to face it. I suggest they do before they implement it.
I think with good simulation tools, optimization processes, maybe even deep learning, we could make it a lot less of black magic. Make it boring and approachable instead.

It kind of reminds me of chemistry. You have physical laws that are fairly simple but the interactions are hard to describe without a bunch of computation.
I'm pretty sure that at least some of the German financial regulations require that you can audit administrative actions on systems that are relevant for the financial transactions.

Now, you could try to implement that on the systems themselves, but how do you establish a mechanism that logs actions of an administrative user, and at the same time cannot be disabled by the same administrative user?

So instead you use a shell control box as a bastion, and regular administration of the target hosts don't have root access to the shell control box, so they cannot circumvent logging.

I haven't yet any standards that explicitly demand bastions, but it seems to be one of the standard implementations that have proven to pass audits, and so it's a pretty low-risk implementation of the logging requirements.
why not a million
Sure, but it sucks to be left with code you have to rewrite because you're donating your time to the cause to find problems and smooth the path for other people in the future.

Maybe some people are in to that for fun, but the for the majority of people, the message should be:

stick with stable folks.
> there's no excuse not to use TLS anymore

I have a personal site that consists entirely of low-value static assets:

http://flownet.com/ron/

Why should I use TLS for that?
If you cannot detect a poor performer does it matter if they are a poor performer.
That's exactly the kind of "self-reliancy" and "small government" BS that hasn't worked for the US the past 100 years. Well, it has worked for a small minority which has increasingly enriched itself.

If you promote "giving people opportunities that keep them off the streets" as a solution, you profess to a total ignorance of how homelessness in the US (and most developed countries) works.

It's not poverty or lack of employment. It's more about mental health and substance abuse. You can offer those people all the jobs you want, without medical and psychological/social help, they don't stand a chance.

So yes, "1B on bandaids", like better mental health care for the poor, more social workers, more social housing would be a very good start.
>> Sometimes those are small lies, sometimes they are very big ones.

Been there. But lies cut both ways. Once a company is dishonest with you, it is 100% fair game for you to be dishonest with them:

- Side consulting gigs

- During work consulting gigs, especially if you have "unlimited vacation"

- Sneaking off during the day to do whatever

That said, that isn't healthy for either party. The best situation is where both sides are honest and both sides work their hardest to reach a shared goal.
I'd argue that this is closer to a market rate than it seems because, as you mention, on the open market they can go somewhere else and paying them this much is needed for them to not do that.

How are you defining market rate if not by how much someone thinks they need to pay an employee to stay?
A Cosmac1802 Emulator in 300 Lines of Common Lisp
Not sure if this counts, but I heard fman released its build system. Its based on QT and I found this link

https://github.com/mherrmann/fbs-tutorial/blob/master/README...
Follow this for updates: https://github.com/regolith-linux/regolith-desktop/issues/5
Here is an alleged video of the event, there's a large explosion: https://twitter.com/Astronut099/status/1119825093742530560
This "H1B causes low wages" meme need to stop. It is such lazy thinking it is amazing. On this very thread people are commenting about outrageous salaries in the valley and peanuts pay in Europe and Canada. Guess which place is full of H1Bs.
Victims of a culture of victimization. Good stuff.
This is totally fine, but it isn't a "shortage". It is poor product market fit, poor pricing, or just a bad business. If a business cannot support input costs, the business is just a bad business.

If I start a business that sells Ferraris for 20k, then complain how I cant buy them cheap enough wholesale, there isn't a shortage.
I was just about to point that out. Thanks for doing that!

Imagine a 100x100m piece of London with an 80-storey high-rise where every storey is a massively luxurous penthouse apartment. If you own one of those apartments, that would be 1.25% ownership of an area which is 1% of a square kilometer. -- But it's pretty obviously worth more than 125 square meters of agricultural land.

Add to that the fact that the majority of land by area is agricultural land. Add to that the fact that the land ownership of an agricultural business needs to be of a certain size for the business to be profitable.

This will inevitably lead to the conclusion that this statistic is completely an artefact of the weird way it is constructed. At the same time it pretends to be saying something about wealth disparity.
I know many who have them and know they are crippling but in another type of world where our colors aren't as important, would these defects still be a handicap? Or have we manufactured a society that cripple those with a certain gene combination?

Edit: spelling
Angry Chickens – Easter slingshot game in 130 lines of pure JavaScript
Yes, that's the bad feeling all right. Classic anti-pattern.
https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Amazon-reveals-priva...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-10/is-anyone...
FlowCog: Context-Aware Extraction and Analysis of Info Flow Leaks in Android App [pdf]
There's no one system I'd point to as being ideal, but there are plenty of excellent examples of best practice.

The UK does many things badly wrong, but one crucially important programme is Early Intervention in Psychosis. EIP works with young people experiencing a first episode of psychotic symptoms, with the goal of preventing that episode from developing into an enduring psychotic illness. A majority of patients should be treated within two weeks of being referred. A care co-ordinator provides a single point of contact for the service user, guiding them to access clinical, behavioural and psychosocial treatment. The service provides integrated care for comorbid physical conditions and support for social issues such as social isolation, unemployment and homelessness. The available evidence suggests a 90% reduction in premature death and cost savings of £15 for every £1 spent.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/mentalhealth/wp-content/uploads/s...
Sorry, perhaps I wasn't clear. The first link I gave has two graphs. The top one indeed has the same data you linked to - the 25 year satellite record. The second link is the one I was actually referring to though - that is the almost 150 year record including tidal gauge data. There is a pretty clear acceleration there. The earlier rate is lower than the later rate - in fact you even said that too (12" vs 8"). So I am a bit unclear why you said originally there was "no acceleration in the rate"?
This is a non sequitur in this context. The universality described here depends only on changing connection weights, not the neuronal activation functions. An important caveat is the approximated function must be continuous, but that covers a very large family.
Fake.

The extent of which you can let your Googling decide.

No one writes it up well, for instance no one pins down the date, it was released in 1993 probably, is his clothing/film quality/watch 1970's or 1990's? This should not be hard to work out.
I think that's fine; if a user action depends on a service being up, and it's down, the whole system appears to be down to the user. There is no way to make an unreliable component reliable without taking it out of the critical path for a request.

Consider a case where you have a bunch of apps that generate PDFs. There are two ways to structure the system; either every application bundles the PDF-rendering logic (i.e., a copy of Chrome and its dependencies) and needs to be provisioned to run it, or you have it as a standalone service that each application calls for its PDF rendering needs.

There are advantages in either approach. First consider the monolithic approach. Say the "foo" service finds some crazy edge case that causes your PDF renderer to use all the RAM on the machine it's running on. The foo service obviously goes down. But the bar service, that doesn't have data that triggers that edge case, remains up, because they are isolated.

If you have the PDF rendering functionality out in a microservice, then foo's bad behavior prevents bar from rendering PDFs, and both applications appear broken for anything that involves generating a PDF. But of course, only the PDF rendering functionality is affected. If foo is in a crash loop because its built-in PDF renderer is broken, it can't do anything. If it's just getting errors from the PDF service, everything else it does still works, so that might be better.

You also have to consider the maintenance costs. The PDF renderer has a 0 day security problem. How do you update it in all 100 of your applications? It's going to be a pain. But if it's all behind an RPC service, you just update that one service, and all the other apps are fixed. The downside, of course, is what if you want some experimental new feature only in one app's PDF renders, but not in the others? That is harder to do when you only have one version of the renderer deployed globally; if each app bundled their own, you could safely upgrade one app to the experimental version without affecting all the others.

So my TL;DR is: it's complicated. There is no one true answer, rather there are multiple solutions all with separate sets of tradeoffs. I generally prefer microservices because my development strategy is "fix a problem and forget it". It is easy to do the "forget it" part when new features can't interact with old features except through a battle-tested API. Your mileage may vary.
Disliking something is fine, calling it shit is pompous and ignorant for someone boasting of being well read.
Was unable to get it to authenticate with a NextCloud instance that had 2FA enabled. Will take another look into this later, seems interesting.
All of that is moot. It’s writing off 99%. I can see no situation where he couldn’t protect 1% of his wealth, or even just 0.1%.

And anyway this is missing the point. Even if Facebook got delisted. He still controls Facebook. The cost of the shares means literally nothing.
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I dont think this is a joke -- because sellers (workers) believe it and because buyers (employers) believe it...until they realize the project

- crashes under load,

- cannot scale to even 5% the traffic,

- doesnt have all the myriad required compliance and transnational side systems

- has underinvested in accounting and all support systems

- is un-maintainable, etc. etc.

And that is when serious businesses realize you get what you pay for and that you need to pay for real experience to real systems.
Most contractors I know don’t work 40hrs day, every week. Also if you look around at advice you’ll find that you shouldn’t quote an hourly rate, you should quote “for the job”. If you’re good and the work you’re doing is even mildly specialized you can get a job done quickly enough that the effective hourly rate is pretty absurd.
Let's say I have an interesting problem, like classifying cancer from images. What are some classes of symbolic systems that can reason about types of cancer the system wasn't trained on? Even humans don't know what to do until they've seen it. And then, the grown up answer is "variance is infinite when N=1"
Thanks for answering! Does that mean the perception system that's trained on real world data does well on the synthetic data coming in during testing? Or are the perception systems' training data kept separate (synthetic data for training the perception system used when testing in the simulation and real world data for training the real world perception system)?

And yeah, I've come across quite a few companies working on simulation platforms in my reading (cognata, metamoto, applied intuition, etc.) which made me interested in what they're selling but actual details are quite sparse on their websites.
What are the upsides to such a system, to you, the employee?

You get to learn first-hand why being a non-founder at a startup is almost always a bad deal in terms of compensation.
Juggling the Jigsaw: Automated Problem Inference from Network Trouble Tickets [pdf]
There is some considerable precedent for it though.

This was an age when many things at average and cheaper prices were adulterated. There were assorted ways of reusing tea and coffee by adding spices and chemicals to once used remains, not just the example discussed. Even expensive was no guarantee of purity as few could tell when something had been adulterated, or often what pure and fresh was meant to taste like. Things aged and changed taste considerably in the weeks or months on ship - there's a few coffees and teas that still try and simulate this effect - Monsooned Malabar is one well known one.

Bread used to contain alum, chalk and other things to bulk and colour it. So did sugar, flour, pepper, well, you name it. Adulteration remained endemic, both sides of the Atlantic until food legislation and associated testing started to arrive in the later 19th century.

Yet tea drinking - almost exclusively black tea from India when it arrived in quantity - which became a huge part of Indian trade, took off. At the better end this developed into a culture was more than had existed in India or China. Emphatically not better, more and different - it was a combination of British and tea drinking from China or India. Rather like Chicken Tikka has almost become the staple British dish - that is a combination of British and Indian today. Like the cliche obsession with making the perfect espresso today, a couple of decades ago every Brit had an opinion on how to make a decent cup of tea. Clearly this has to start with ignoring tea bags entirely, or you will get what you deserve. :)

I will very quietly note that getting a decent cup of tea in any of my US visits proved possible, but damn it was hard work. :)
The single most valuable attribute in a corporation is loyalty. Skill is an illusion.
Reading the original post it seems to say 1.5K plus "tons of eng time", I'd imagine that it's the opportunity cost of the engineering time that ends up being by far the most expensive part in this and that the 1.5k figure was just the other fixed costs.

"Seems like you would realistically need about 5-10 phone screens plus 1 or 2 in person interviews to fill a position. 3 if your phone screens were really off the mark." Just curious what your thought process is to arrive at these numbers?