skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much time did you have and which level of engineer (senior/architect etc.) were you applying to?
In my recent memory, Moviepass and Chase Bank already did this last year?... Not sure what makes this different
> How does this translate into practicalities? What laws do I want Westminster or London Assembly to enact?

I think (in London at least), there are so many cameras that we have no idea which ones just record and which have facial recognition capabilities.For all I know, when I come out Waterloo Tube Station into the rail station, the camera at the top of the escalator could be face-id'ing me.

If the police stand there pointing a camera at me, I'll naturally be suspicious, and yes, defensive.
Eating Roadkill Is Illegal in California. But That May Change
It's not the norm but it's not uncommon at startups. Also, it seems to be standard practice for data science interviews.

I personally don't put up with it, but then there are always lots of commenters in HN who bemoan whiteboard interviews and prefer take-homes. To each their own.
Ahh, thanks! You are correct. I had thought that some initial provisions were repealed in the 80s.
The existence of minimum wage at all enforces the property — you can otherwise just keep lowering pay until its not worth replacement (eg india can get away with paying very low wages, so the threat of automatic replacement isn’t nearly as high).

So the real question is: at what point does minimum wage draw automation as a response?

And that of course depends on the economics of automation at any given point in time — if a human isn’t drawing enough value (compared to the cheaper alternative), then the only rational thing is to replace the job entirely.

But minimum wage is also independent of automation (or any other alternative) costs, which is why its a bit of a hamfisted solution — it ignores the possibility that human labor simply isn’t worth that much. So you get this awkward line where everyone above the line is better off, and everyone below the line is homeless — the line being how much value you can produce.

Using India again as an example, that line doesn’t really exist — you have a fluid scale of wealth, where the bottom-most aren’t jobless (we can always produce enough work, if the price is right; you don’t want a daily maid?), but they barely make anything, and they live a lifestyle that we as a first-world country would deem unacceptable, but they find acceptable (especially compared to the alternative — no job/money at all).

Notably the poor indian probably lives better than the poor american, because the economy of the poor is significantly more developed. Partly because there are so many poor people in india, and partly because their income is allowed to be so much more fluid.

So there’s also the additional question of whether minimum wage “starves out” the poor economy, compounding how bad life can be at the bottommost rungs of our society
Hmm, weird article - I wish the author knew more about climbing, as they are getting it a bit wrong.

Alex couldn't have been birthed 100 years ago and climbed El Cap. The route he used still needed to be established by others. Alex climbed that already-established routes dozens of times before committing to not use all the tech the author thinks he doesn't need. The rehearsal was key. If there's a takeaway from him, it's: "practice".

The route also had to be modified to allow anyone to climb it free - I'm talking about modifying the rock itself. 100 years ago, the climb would have been different. Not hugely so, but one key handhold present that was there before could have made all the difference.

The happened in the first free ascent of the Nose too - an entire pitch was chipped in an attempt to free it, by a different person. They failed, but the route, once chipped, cannot be healed.
Yes sadly that is the crux. Whilst the people do have concerns, those concerns are shared for nefarious reasons by your criminally inclined.

Way things are going, how long until we have camera technology as CCTV that is comparable to Holywood camera's - certainly the standard today is up there with 80's offering.

Might even come a time when you can do a film in places like London without needing any cameras as you can just ab-use the data protection act to get copies of any footage your in and get all the camera angles and video you need to edit into a film. Kinda doable now, though not all cameras are 4k and well light area's. But certainly doable.

One interesting legal aspect about CCTV in the UK - the only camera's that are allowed to record audio are the ones located outside police stations. Which is reassuring as with mic-arrays - intrusion into privacy and indeed voice recognition would be far greater than any CCTV/facial recognition. But that is one to watch and keep an eye upon as I'm sure that will change/erode over time.
Yeah, nah. I decide what software gets installed on my devices and I decide when that software is allowed to update. I'm not going to tolerate a self-updating app any more than I'm going to let Amazon unlock my front door by themselves.
I wonder if there should be reasonable cause to take a photo and match it first?
If they are doing it for that reason, that seems like a bad choice. That would stand out even more obviously than had they worn a T-shirt that said "The police are looking for me".
I'm almost certain you are right, especially considering this bus operated in an area where there a lot of tech companies.
It seems totally possible to do it in less than 10 minutes as long as:

1. The button doesn't have to do anything

2. You give them a fast computer with an IDE loaded with the project

3. The developer is familiar with the language, UI framework and IDE

4. You aren't doing anything crazy and uncommon like using a non-standard UI toolkit or using an ad-hoc source code preprocessor

5. The project can be built and run with a single command and can be built and start in less than a minute
I appreciate you having the courage to call them out :)
Yes please? What tool is this? Are you suggesting that ASCII art is required for paging text?
How to Build a High IQ Team in 2 Days
Why all the negativity?

It has always been possible to implement on your own, and often was. It just removes additional friction. It's a feature intended for apps with security updates, or apps that require online communication with the server, like games.
AKA "The Peltzman Effect" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation#Peltzman_eff...

Was too busy to cite sources at the time, but for posterity:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/opinion/the-dangers-of-sa...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2013/07/30/concu...
https://sports.cbslocal.com/2015/07/03/lemco-why-football-ne...
> The motivation for drivers licenses is a real one of public safety.

If the true purpose of a drivers license was public safety there are surely a large number of people who wouldn't be permitted to operate a motor vehicle. Or at the very least we would be required to periodically prove our competency.
No problem! I'm as eager to get to the bottom of things as anyone, so I'm trying to be a careful steward of as much context as I can to keep discussions productive, and to rephrase in as many different ways as possible to increase visibility and reasonability to anyone who can help contribute more context.

>It's the conditions under which the problems occur and the response diagrams that the regulators are supposed to verify, not the binary "has or hasn't" a problem near the

Ah, I hadn't run into this tidbit before! Can you elaborate on it? I'd love to get some more detailed information if only to facilitate my own deep diving. I've been repeating the 727 simimilarity, and if there's any footwork I can do to make that more accurate, I'd be thrilled to run with it.

I do know Boeing was generally considered notorious amongst test pilots for knowing exactly how their designs would fly, so I can't imagine that those diagrams can't be found somewhere.
So XSLT then?
What those who argue that poverty/environmental factors can affect IQ get wrong
I believe it's a CLI tool to display RFCs, on a translucent terminal, with a browser window behind it. That still leaves other questions...
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Is "piss off" swearing?
I'll ask a different question: why should someone use QWERTY? If you're learning for the first time, you don't have anything they to compare to, so you might as well use a scientifically better option, right?

I learned Dvorak because I wanted to be part of an elite group (I mean, how many Dvorak typists are they?). I kept using it because my wrist pain went away. Perhaps that's because I relearned to type and thus fixed bad habits. I had pretty good form before learning Dvorak, so I like to think that the reduced finger travel is helping.

But how will your child feel when they're different than their friends and have to make special accommodations when using someone else's computer? That's a bit more important than any technical benefit IMO, and is why I'll teach my kids QWERTY.
The most compelling use-case for me is the web-api deprecation. It very clearly tells you when a service will no longer be available. Currently there are no standard mechanisms for this and are mostly driven by documentation. If an api used this then a consumer could look for these and raise alarm bells.
My take is that financial crises only happen on years that contain 8, 9, 0, but you should be more careful if the year ends in those numbers.

Looks like 2020 is going to be an unfortunant year.
How powerful would a malicious transmitter need to be in order to overpower the legitimate ILS signal?
I think GPL at any version would be a problem with the app store. LGPL too.

IANAL, but my understanding is GPL means any distribution has to come with source upon reasonable request. Apple doesn't have source and thus can't comply with that, and shouldn't distribute the binaries.

LGPL I believe says that the LGPL portion has to user-replaceable. Seems incompatible with code signing enforcement and static linking.

Now, I think a lot of people are probably breaking the letter and spirit of these licenses and publishing to the app store anyway.

Edit: after googling around, it seems this was a popular conversation topic around 2011, and the part being discussed was mostly Apple's TOS rather than above points about the license.
Making it work as a selective sound cancellation device would be amazing in open office environments.

Then again - this would be a perfect of example of bleeding edge technology being used to "fix" a certain situation -- namely (1) toxic "open plan" office environments created by managers who (2) either have no clue or basically don't give a fuck -- whose root causes are far more mundane, and (in principle) can be treated at the source.

That is - by simply getting enough co-workers to get together and letting management know that you simply won't be having any of it.
Well that makes me want to go read the damn thing. Good job NZ. This is why you get left off maps.
Nonetheless, it feels like there should still be an FAQ for actual FAQs. It's harder to maintain than other documentation?
* As a climber this hurt me a bit to read. They're not boots, they're shoes John!*

"rock boots" is a perfectly fine name for climbing shoes. I think "climbing boots" is just fine
I’m referring to EMTALA, which requires hospitals to provide emergency services to everyone, regardless of ability to pay:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_...

Note that I’m not making a moral point here; I’m only pointing out that we do in fact require a natural monopoly to provide free services on demand.
working ass backwards to what Marx already discovered >100 years ago:

Working class and Ownership class have different interests. What is good for owners is bad for workers. The solution is to merge the two classes (Workers owning the means of production) so that our interests are aligned.
I live in a Western EU capital. Such clothes are rare. Last time I saw one in person was while passing through Istanbul airport in 2015.
Well, there is probably a positive correlation with race because in America wealth and income are highly correlated with race. It is not a perfect correlation though and I'm sure there are many people from rural areas that would benefit from the adversity metrics. I'm not sure if any attempt to address adversity should simply be dismissed because of the correlation with race.
This origin story is at least a century too late.

If you visit the sorting exhibit at the computer history museum, you will rapidly discover that big data and data science predates computers.

Their oldest machine sticks punch cards above a pool of mercury, and then drops a bunch of metal pins on to the card.

The signals from the metal pins activated mechanical counters.

In this way, it could perform aggregation queries for operators with constant-sized sufficient statistics (~= map only jobs). it was used by the US census bureau.

Later machines could sort the punch cards, which enabled map reduce queries.

The term “data base” came about 50 years after the census machine was in use.

A military installation was running the equivalent of map reduce queries and needed a noun to describe their mountains of punch cards (or maybe reel to reel tapes).
Ars Technica covers this story much better at https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/05/the-r...
This is news?

Def Con in 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1QAjCH_1oU
There are many more than just four people who pushed the boundary of statistics.
Seems like having the vehicles catch a train if it's not a local journey would be better.

Add a "package truck" wagon to the back of your train, the truck can book a place, RORO. Then continue on local roads at other end.
I mean the real answer should be "I'm not sure I want to join your company if it is in as bad a state as Libya in the wake of the Arab Spring".
Is less more?
Koalas may be ‘functionally extinct’
Super interesting article.

> Also, I refuse to put up one of those obnoxious “SIGN UP NOW!” pop-ups on the site, because I find them ridiculously annoying

I can't express enough gratitude for this, though.
Enormous selection, and economies of scale (massive purchasing & warehousing ops reducing costs, lower cost/sqft of store area, etc.) are also reasons that Walmart, Dollar General, etc. can out-compete local stores.

It is not only lower labor costs. And they are clearly willing to spend on the appearance of customer service, paying 'extra' people to be greeters, etc.

Viewing it as if the people who produce your products and services are a mere cost instead of an asset is stupid.

And, just because a lot of "successful" finance types implement this view, dies not mean that they are also not stupid.

Oversimplifying is not a solution to most problems.
Well it is just like I learn for driving test that one should remain calm if other driver jumps red light, cut him off or honks unnecessarily. It does not mean aggressor is right, just that one should try de-escalate the situation.
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> Personally it would not sit well with my morals to risk my life in such a way over a completely optional, self-serving activity given the emotional and material cost my death would bring to the people who care about me.

"Personal" is indeed the key word, and people usually bring up the subject of family and loved ones... These are my thoughts on that: Our lives are finite, crossing the road incurs a certain level of risk of death, so it's much safer to stay at home and live as a prisoner your entire life. Any family demanding a loved one stay at home their entire life would be considered selfish.

Here's the thing: for some people, climbing, or even free soling is not an event to post on facebook, not a means to an end, not about fame... climbing is the other side of the road, it IS the end not the means, it is their destiny, to climb, not to "have climbed", it's what makes them happy and is why they can accept the risk.

What amount of risk is an aceptible trade for what style is entirely personal, not selfish.
No one is prepared to be a leader. You have to learn on the spot. Admitting he made one and acting to solve it made him better than most of the leaders.
Okay, now I get it. They cancelled prosecuting him because he couldn't be reached. But now they can.

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/aklagaren-vill-hava-haktn...
Interesting concept. What's tech stack did you use?
I think mistake implies good intentions.
Society has stopped being self-regulating. It's the same result as zero-tolerance for violence school policies, just on a larger scale.
1) The above comment is rather condescending

2) 100 years is nothing in Indian history

3) Our ancestral home, which still stands, is over 150 years old and there are small eateries below which have been family run for ever and are vegetarian.

4) There are probably 1000s of 100 year old vegetarian restaurants in India. Granted they are not probably as fancy as the one in Switzerland, but they are vegetarian and restaurants and over 100 year old nonetheless.

5) If the post said in Europe, I'll believe. But given history of Asia, I have no doubt that it is not the oldest vegetarian restaurant.
Electron will be released every 12 weeks
He doesn't even have an Online Commenting License. A hefty fine under the Against Hate Speech Act of 2022.
So El Cap went from a weeks long project using anything they had for aid

Alex has also climbed that same route, in a comparable style, in under two hours.
I agree. I hoped to grow with them but the design changes and new legalese game playing are terrible. Out of there soon.
Is AI Safety a Pascal's Mugging?
Only problem I see here is that the free tier of GCP limits you to "1 GB network egress" per month. How long before you run through that? (Not long, I think.)

https://cloud.google.com/free/
The Progress of Proton’s Compatibility
"Previously, it was only available to a few select Google partners."
That's a great way of getting an MVP done for free.
That might help as well. But so far our civilisation doesn't work in terms of meritocracy. I am hopeful you are right though.
Wouldn't it be interesting if everyone participating in these types of interview challenges refused to do them unless the work could be turned into a reference piece like this guy did?

I doubt many companies would like that, but if a majority of people refused to participate without that clause, who knows? Clearly several people in this thread felt like they were being asked to do work which would be put into production and this would prevent that (though I personally am REALLY skeptical of those stories).

It seems crazy that people are being asked to do work for even a few hours for "free" much less several days of work. If you are doing that, it seems totally fair to indicate that this work will be made public afterwards and made into a portfolio piece.
> "Random people forgiving or not forgiving Boeing isn't going to change much. Hopefully, other nations' air regulators will refuse to certify the 737MAX,"

Public perception will play a big role in that. If the general public opposes the aircraft, regulators will be more likely to go with that flow. Standing up to Boeing's bullying is easier when you've got the moral support of the common people.
Lots of people know what it's going to do. Nobody knows when it's going to do it nor the magnitude, so the knowledge is basically useless.
I believe the modules it refers to are executable code (dex and so files), which you're currently not allowed to download because it circumvents the app store and its approval process.

Google now supports uploading such modules to the Play store where they can be approved, analyzed and tracked, thereby allowing on-demand features without allowing third parties run arbitrary, unvetted executable code on your device.
> it's hard to see stuff like this and not be extremely frustrated.

I guess you are frustrated because your company doesn't make much money on technology. If the company has a positive ROI on tech, then you wouldn't be frustrated, because more you invest, more you get out. Most companies doesn't need made-to-measure technology solutions.
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> There has to be minimum wage laws

Minimum wage laws, like employer healthcare mandates, are a feudal solution (specifically, viewing employers as feudal lords responsible for the minimal upkeep of their employer-subjects) to a capitalist problem. They are better than nothing, but worse than making minimal upkeep a public function, taxing appropriately to support it, and doing less to impose additional costs or barriers to mutually beneficial employment.
Everything about the interview process is a crapshoot. My last run on the interview circuit had a few like this too, where the "code challenge" is either intrinsically contradictory, or where the interviewers give candidates a "bad score" based on their own failure to understand/process the challenge they issued. Lots of amateurs out there with a "naive cleverness" about this stuff.
Thanks!

Mostly built on Firebase with a linux backend that handles the video processing. Built on top of FFmpeg.

SPA
- Firebase Database
- Firebase Auth
- Firebase Functions

Backend
- EC2

Stripe
- Payment Processing

Donations
- Donations API from Nationbuilder.com
I wouldn't have expected anything less from them, go Uber! Always the worst!
The distinction only exists because you chose it to. Both were drafted by politicians. The only real difference is one was written hundreds of years ago to address problems that existed then and the other was written for a modern era to address problems we face currently.
I think a lot of this has to do with the lack of stable groups of a size that enables social effects and feedback to dominate - things like guilt, shame and reciprocity. Without this sort of group interactions become much more stressful and we don't feel like we belong.

https://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/social-med...
"But I'd swap the second amendment for a data privacy amendment in a heartbeat."

In practice, that would be a bad trade, because you can verify that you still have your 2A rights by being in possession of a gun, whereas with data privacy, all you have are solemn assurances that your rights are being respected, and when you discover you were lied to and you didn't actually have data privacy after all, you've got nothing.

If you mean some sort of impossibly-strong, enforced-by-God-or-aliens data privacy amendment, maybe. But that's not on the table.

(My point here is independent of the question of the 2A itself, but just looking at it as the proposed trade. Trading something concretely verifiable for promises that the promising people have every motivation to break secretly and you have no ability to audit is a bad trade.)
One California company that used cheap labor in third world countries to interact with customers asked me to create a scheduler so that available workers would make the system have 24 hour up time, log all employee actions, and determine employee status (fire or not) based on employee action history, they were doing it mostly manually at that point so the completed task probably would probably have fit into their production system (got access to old production data for making system), also 24 hours for a first pass, and 48 hours for a fully functioning system, for zero pay - also, they wanted someone open to writing software to replace the third world labor after this task was complete.
Can't help but agree. If someone completed a task in anything remotely sensible then I'd evaluate it to the best of my abilities in good faith.

Of course I'd be a little surprised if they chose to use a language not listed as part of the job requirements but if it looked reasonable it wouldn't stop proceedings.
Getting 100% on that list and then posting here would be a trick.