skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Impedance is a difficult and complex thing (which is why failure mode #1 for dudes on the internet being all "objective" and "scientific" is failing to grok the difference between impedance and resistance). So how an output stage is constructed (or an input stage, for that matter) has a lot to do with its behavior in the face of 10 octaves of frequency range and 50+ decibels of real-world dynamics.

Is it transformer-coupled? (Rare in hi-fi, common in pro audio) Capacitor coupled? Direct coupled? Differential? All of these have different and frequency-dependent capacitative, inductive, and resistive behaviors. Put in those terms, it's kind of a no-brainer that cables would matter.

But in "objective" internet-land, it's all straight wire with gain, perfect flat resistance. Which is fine on paper...
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My last company did interviews like this - I was always disgusted at the way most of the team would sit around and just find things to pick on in the person's code. Dumb stuff too. It became an excuse for a lot of the engineers to just make fun of someone who had successfully completed the program, but didn't take the time to JavaDoc everything and follow the same code style best practices we did. Things you can easily address with a bit of training and code review, and that maybe they already do when they're not trying to interview for a lot of jobs while still in school. Sad, really.
I recently Skype interviewed for a local startup run by a former Googler. He was very proud how much the interview process was based on Google's, with multiple stages to ensure they get the highest quality developers.

The startup sounded interesting, and I might have been prepared to spend the recommended 5 hours on the code test, had I had a chance to actually go into the office and meet the team...!

At least at the end of a Google interview you get to work for Google.
Disagree, my family has a history of bad hearing, and both my grandfather and my father wear them in both ears (I'm waiting for the day I need them). A few years ago I thought my father stopped wearing them but it turns out they make them so small these days, they are only visible if you're looking for it. My grandfather got the newer model which comes with a small remote he keeps in his pocket. He turns off all sound when his wife is talking too much :)
These are constraints from computational complexity.

My point is the question "is it deterministic" is wrong without considering the level of detail you're looking at. Even in deterministic universe, a roll of dice is considered to be undeterministic, and this is good enough for casinos.

If you're asking "in principle", then it might as well be unknowable because, as I pointed out, how we might observe the system to be (our model of it is deterministic or not) doesn't have to correspond at all whether it is actually deterministic or not at the lower level. So there always can be another level which can behave differently.
One interesting result of that is it becomes more viable to look for strategies that eliminate the employees altogether, eg the food-ordering terminals that are going up everywhere, as the relative cost diminishes with wage increase.

In such situations, it becomes an irreversible effect, as the cost to transition was mainly up front.
The rule is clearly stated in the swedish article that during these drives a person must be present with one hand on the controls just I'm case. Same saftey net, really, remote or not imo makes no difference
Thank you for the technical clarifications. In the boring, corporate, enterprise software bubble in which I have mostly worked for 25 years, musl/busybox/Alpine are barely a blip on the radar. I have not ever seen an Alpine Linux install in 25 years, unless it is the basis of various busybox based appliances and I've not noticed. Certainly never seen it used for running "mission critical" bloated Java enterprise apps etc.

So within my comment I thought it was implicitly clear I was referring to glibc based distributions, for example Redh^H^H IBM.

You CAN statically link binaries against glibc on these distributions, and in many cases it will work. However NSS and PAM will not work in my experience. Is it a generally a good idea to static link against glibc? No.

> If $code doesn't work on musl 99.9% of the time its due to $code, also musl has dlopen and a dyn linker otherwise alpine wouldn't work.

Is sssd officially supported on Alpine Linux? Does it just work out of the box? It seems to be in "testing" branch from what I can see with over 600 open bugs.

There is a reason that shareholders of large organizations want to pay a large, established Linux vendor for support, regardless of whether or not their engineers will ever use the support or not. They want to pay for stability/security updates. They are paying for a Linux distribution that 3rd party application providers have certified their application for.

They want LDAP/AD and other pluggable PAM modules to work out of the box without too much tinkering. Alpine Linux may fit that criteria for all I know. Doesn't matter. My employers wouldn't use it whether I wanted to or not.

Not saying that I like how things have turned out for Enterprise Linux necessarily, but it is what it is. Redhat and clones absolutely DOMINATE this particular space, at least in the USA, UK and Australia.
To be fair, even though the hourly expectations are often unrealistic, I much prefer a coding challenge (as a former hackathon goer, I likes me a challenge) over a sweaty nervous “whiteboard session” where they nerd grill you on some irrelevant algorithm questions. Unfortunately, most companies do both.
For some reason in these scenarios the workers, who literally construct the product, are always framed as the adversary, and a sunk cost that needs to be avoided if at all possible. Workers are keeping the business from being as successful as it could be by being a monetary drain on the business instead of, in fact, being the business.
China boooo!!! down with Eurasia, murders! murders! ruahhh.

I can't wait for the day they stop decreasing the chocolate rations.
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Xi Jinping has no mandate to rule.
>> You’re saying you dislike or hate his principles. I get it.

> Actually, I was only commenting on the claim that he didn't receive criticism for his 'principles', when he clearly did. I did not pass any other judgment.

If your interpretation of someone’s writing makes no sense try rereading it to see if there’s a sensible interpretation. No one who supports Milton Friedman is going to be unaware he’s widely hated. I said he was principled and consistent and acknowledged to be so. That was wrong. He was principled and consistent and plenty of people disagreed with that truth.

I never said or implied he didn’t receive criticism, anywhere.
The way I see it is that our systems became so complex that we lost sight of what's good for us, as individual and as a group.

Most people are too busy to even acknowledge these issues. When you're barely able to financially take care of your family or when you're too deep in the consumerism game you don't have time for these high level questions.

People are more outraged about the latest episode of Game of Thrones than they will ever be about the current state of humanity and its impact on Nature, the erosion of privacy and freedom, &c.
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It's a polecat. No doubt about it.

Leonardo was, among other things, the period's best anatomist. He captured, in charcoal, light bouncing off water like no artist, literally, ever before. He came up with concepts for bridges, armored cars, clocks, and scuba gear. If he wanted to, he could paint an ermine. He chose not to.

Cecilia Gallerani was the 15 year old Kim Kardashian of the era. After multiple incidents with the teenager critiquing Leonardo's ability ("but it does not look like me" she complained - "well yeah" he thought "in reality your chin is much less pronounced and your nose more so"), invitations to pretentious salons she would preside over which he could not decline, and other confrontations with the slippery social climber he decided (at great personal risk) to pull the wool over her eyes a bit and paint her with an animal more inline with her behavior.

Her lover (and Leonardo's patron) did likely see through all this. Ludovico Sforza was a savvy guy, and having gone on his share of hunts (not to mention being a member of the Knights of Ermine), also would know the difference between a spade and a shovel as it were, but his life was further complicated by a marriage to a different 15 year old later that year. The best he could do was come up with a pretense to not show the painting too widely amongst the cognoscenti - which is exactly what happened.
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I don't think it does. If I understand correctly, these images would not be considered your private data. It belongs to whoever owns the cameras. Ianal

Interesting question though.
> At the end of the day the worker always loses.

Rise up comrades, and shake off the bourgeoisie!
/s
This is inaccurate. Great strides in civil rights have been made through non-violent campaigns to change minds. We've had a slow, civil change to fighting our battles in the court of public opinion rather than on the dueling grounds.

Appeals to tradition aren't effective, we don't need to make the same mistakes as our ancestors.
Same as any crash: If people think the market is going to do worse than a bank account in the near term, they sell. If enough people agree, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Non-baited statement (and I'm aware it's discussed a lot here), but my experience with people saying the candidate wouldn't be a good 'fit' was just a way to enforce bias either unconsciously or consciously.

And led to problems with group-think and an inability to think in different ways.

Now granted my hiring sample is less than 100, but that has been my experience so far.
This is just another false dichotomy theists like to use to argue their case. It's like arguing whether humans are inherently good or evil - no, humans create both of those things. Or whether the universe was created or not. Why make up stories for something we can never know?
Truck drivers in the EU can't spend more than 90h driving during any given two weeks, and they usually go 80-100km/h, so the break-even point in terms of time alone here would be around 22-27km/h.

My take is that at 30km/h they would make a very compelling case - since that's the minimum highway speed in some countries.
Kanerva is also the author of the (vastly underrated IMHO) book Sparse Distributed Memory from the late 80s that set the stage for a lot of this and predates Numenta by a couple of decades...
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It's not about knowing how women's body work. It's about giving the plebe something controversial to talk about while they pass legislation in the interests of certain lobby groups, which will receive less media scrutiny, as everybody will be focused on the abortion thing.
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In having a large private codebase to show prospect clients or employers? Or in having it accepted as an alternative to standardized tests?
Controlled is an odd word in this context. It's both controlled by them and seeking to diminish their capacity to resist it at the same time. I think there's some tragedy of the commons here since you've got many people advocating for more government control in specific cases and it adds up to a police state.

>There's no downside for the wealthy with this tech,

Wealthy people break petty laws (the kind of stuff these systems make it possible to crack down on) all the time. There's a reason you never see the cops running a DUI dragnet at the rich people boat ramp. The wealthy do not want to be subject to surveillance dragnets because while many people can pull strings to get out of trouble very, very, very few people can afford to pull string with the regularity that would be required if the rich were subject to a police state.
Making it work as a selective sound cancellation device would be amazing in open office environments.

I have a few people in my office whose voices I would love to tune out on a regular basis -- Screambo Braydonkey, the Exuberant Yellboy and the Tedious Lizard are some examples.

This tech works by amplifying what the wearer's mind focuses on -- could the opposite work (canceling out what the listener is focused on), or would that create a peculiar feedback loop, forcing the listener's attention to switch between different voices as they're tuned out in turn?
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That’s a bit oversimplified. Automation doesn’t fix everything, it may not be a useful option regardless of how much money you just saved.

It’s more likely the best employees will move towards the company that pays more, along with their experience and know how, probably producing a better product. On one side you’ll have the best people and on the other side you’ll have ones that may be good but also very upset about the disparity.

I would still question if saving on personnel brings the most benefit in most cases. It’s short term benefit, enough for an executive to get the bonus. It may also be long term if everyone is doing it so an employee has no option.
In parts of central Europe, I've found it easier to just speak English even when I know what I want to say in the native language. Lots of people from other countries who are also there getting by with English only, and people are so used to speaking English with foreigners that they're not used to hearing their own language in a foreign accent.
I did transient response measurement while studying recording in college (onto recording media). But when you start getting into things like frequency-dependent phase response, radiation patterns, reflections... there's a tremendous world of logically audible speaker behaviors that could maybe be measured in isolation, but you get so many of them that you can't assemble a meaningful picture of how a speaker is going to sound.

And that's the goal, isn't it? Measurements provide expectations. And that's where the conversation breaks down - the "objective" mind gets so preoccupied with the measurement that they assume what isn't measured cannot exist. The map replaces the territory, and there are no hills because the map is obviously flat.
What's worse, they just treat us as 'Resources'. One single developer should take care of several projects.(ﾉ｀⊿´)ﾉ
Not saying this approach was correct, but given a choice, what type of interview would you prefer? Hackerrank? In person, programming challenges, smaller take-home assignment, other?
Regarding economic growth and growth theories, I found Dr. Paul Romer's (2018 Economics winner) Nobel Prize Lecture on his work, economic growth theories, and hope for the future to be excellent and stimulating.

> Paul M. Romer: Lecture in Economic Sciences 2018
: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZmgZGIZtiM

> Nobel Page: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2018/rom...
> it's really hard for me to use someone elses computer

How often do you type on someone else's computer? It is not comparable to the amount of time you use your own keyboard.
Unfortunately, yes. The College Board is doing this so that colleges can get around a possible future SCOTUS ruling against racist admissions. Apparently, they have also been calculating these and giving them away behind the backs of students and without their consent. More than a little creepy, and certainly wrong. I hope they get sued into the ground for this.
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China isn't a U.S. vassal. An economic partner of convenience, maybe, the U.S. influence on China's political structure is pretty limited.
Actually, I did one of these jumping from one megacorp to another. It took up my entire weekend, but I landed the interview. I then had to take 2 days off to fly out for the interview. Luckily, I got the job.
I agree that they are different because determinism is a (mathematical) property of the model, while the predictability (with respect to class of models) is observed.
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They will always ask you to work harder, put on more responsibilities, maybe stay a little late after you clock out to tidy up, always.
Exactly correct. I think most gun owners (or just people who have fired a fun) understand that they'd be dispatched quickly by anyone who's job is to be proficient with firearms.

There are many more cops, sheriffs and other LEOs than sovereign citizen types. It would be a short battle.
I’m not convinced this article is correct.

Posix defers to ISO C where they differ: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf

See page 391. The encoding of Unix time is explicitly unspecified there.

Posix goes on to say: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/

“ The time() function shall return the value of time [CX] [Option Start] in seconds since the Epoch. [Option End]”

So, Unix time is optionally seconds since the epoch, with no further guidance about leap seconds.

Also, the spec makes it clear that time_t needs to be converted into the appropriate time zone, which suggests it does not reflect leap seconds.

I’d be convinced by source code or documentation for both BSD and Linux showing they’re intentionally not posix compliant on this front, and apply leap seconds to Unix ticks and not their time zone conversions.
The top 1-2% can turn shitty interview exams into successful startup products.

So clearly the process isn't working here.
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> "Note also that left leaning politics, especially from South Asia, is very sympathetic to communist regimes"

I wonder why they would be; there's nothing left-wing about China. They have sky-rocketing inequality and a poor working class working excessive hours under harsh conditions. China is highly capitalist, but under a totalitarian government. Nothing to admire about from a left-wing point of view.
There's a difference between what leadership will say publicly & what they really mean. Reading between the lines of retail manager's inspiring speeches will reveal that their personal careers are directly affected by the store's bottom line, and they're certainly not going to explicitly acknowledge their employees' desperation as a motivational tool.
A company cleaning up their own spill isn't news worthy and so you never hear about it.

When I started here the first thing they sent me to a mandatory class: 2 hours to say (in different ways) "All the drains outside go directly to the river, so if you see a chemical going towards a drain you are to find the cover near to the drain (a sticker) and block that drain, then call maintenance to figure out what it is".

The above happens several times a year, and you never hear of it because we clean up our own mess. (almost all the mess is the brake line on a delivery truck breaking)
FWIW, there is a precedent for treating monopolies differently than other companies. Utility companies, which are natural monopolies, are highly restricted in their ability to refuse service to customers, for instance. Social media companies seem to be natural monopolies.
I love how there's tons of hype from leaders to have employees work more hours but not so much hype to PAY THEM MORE.

It's just your DUTY?
Its similar, the difference being someone who can hear well in quiet environments but has trouble in noise probably has an early-stage minor hearing loss whereas mine has been degrading from a minor loss for many years and so now I can't hear anything below about 70dB unaided. I have a sensorinerual loss, which is the most common, and is also very likely the cause of most people's noise problems - solvable with the same hearing aids doing the same job but with different setups. Someone with a minor loss still uses a lot of their natural hearing ability and only receives help in certain frequencies (usually high go first) and will wear an "open fit" type of ear piece whereas I need amplification across the board.

My point really was a general one, that i felt the article was underplaying the capabilities of today's hearing aid technology.
one imprisons you for political dissent, one doesn't. "both sides are the same" is intellectually lazy.
That's an excellent question! Let's see if we can address it with some math.

I'll start with this: http://ir.united.com/corporate-governance/company-leadership

This says there are 24 executives at United (I counted). If you assume literally every single one of them is paid as much as the CEO is and redistribute all that money across the whole of United, then that's 24 * $200 = $4800. $200 was rouding a bit ($207 is ungainly to work with), so it's actually closer to $5000.

Now, $5000 a year isn't nothing. It's undoubtedly and unquestionably a life-changing amount of money for a lot of people struggling to get by on manifestly unreasonable and unfair minimum wages.

That said, $5k is also far short of the $14k number above. And we had to make several unreasonable assumptions to get here.

Realistically, the policy proposed here is freezing salaries and re-directing raises among executives. Most compensation would be unaffected. Further, not every executive will be paid as well as the CEO. Assuming generous 10% yearly raises and that other executives are paid around half of what the CEO is, you get a result that looks like $5000 / 2 = 2500 * 0.1 = $250 / yr.

Which isn't far from the initial result. (And still includes some unreasonable assumptions)
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My favorite here is "Don’t be afraid to say “I don’t know”". And it applies not only to programming. I wish politicians used it more often.
Oops, didn't see this one coming. Anyone having insights to share?
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This isn't really how this works though. You don't get to elevate economics by tearing into other fields, all you do is drag them down (fine by me).

You invoked "economics textbooks" like some kind of conversation-ender, and I showcased several things economists treat as hard natural law that end up being, at best, oddly amiss in key cases:

- Rent control (Montreal has it, best city in North America)

- Free trade (China doesn't do it, most reduction of poverty world-wide)

- Sweatshops are desired (Except in a controlled experiment where they are not imposed, they are rejected)

- Debt is bad (Incredibly damaging pro-austerity garbage study boosted in spite its flaws)

Feel free to make each subsequent case on its own merits and evidence as you understand it, but please don't point at economists and act like they possess an authority that they do not.

And preponderance of studies doesn't eclipse a key result. Montreal routinely ranks as the best city on the continent, so even if something "works in most places", it doesn't mean it's something you should pursue when you're trying to be the best, or when you're trying to do well by yourself and not trying to be the best. You surely know about the economics "Theory of the Second Best"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_second_best
On macos you can press <Option-u> followed by a vowel and you will get the corresponding Umlaut. (üäö)
Additionally there are other combinations for accents and stuff like that.
Uh oh, now you're greyed-out.

Better fire up that White House site and send in a report!
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This is so beautiful.