skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's not a rent seeker. Absent his existence, the people on both sides of the trade would be harmed by crossing a bigger spread.
Valid concern. I thought a little bit about this, but the only solution would be an e2e encryption (where the same person is both ends actually). And in this situation, you risk losing all your data if you forget your password. There is a solution that you can think with no such trade-off?
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The above comment is talking about Wiles slowly giving out unrelated results he had saved up before starting on Fermat's last Theorem in earnest.
I see. I disagree then. No one does this anymore. The big tech companies certainly don't.

Modularize your code. Then only rebuild modules that have changed.
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>The second failure in May, however, led to the drone attempting to deploy its parachute again, only to sever the line somehow and plummet to earth, crashing into the ground some 150 feet from a bunch of kindergartners.

why not put airbags on the drones? Getting hit by a slower falling bunch of inflated balloons with 5kg suspended in the middle of it vs. getting hit by those 5kg falling like a brick.
Just throwing in my two cents. I work with a small remote team and our first problem was that most apps would at times lag, hang, deliver messages out of order, etc. We found a relatively obscure app which has been solid and we have stuck with it. All other value (features) takes a hit once these issues pop up for us.

There's a ton of choices out there, but if other teams are like ours, then there apparently aren't many options for this one wish-list item. If we had one more to choose from, then we might look at other features.
Dismissing things in 2019 by referencing that they were tried in the dotcom bubble ... Two decades ago ... Is not a very powerful argument
Good on you! I bailed out of. PhD at 32 and found a new career. You can always have a new start.
Apple sells hardware.

That's what they're thinking.
Frosty the snow man on a somewhat larger scale.
Apple suspends program in which humans review users' Siri queries
You have very cute cats!
I have a docker instance that I need to always be running. Whenever I start iTerm, I open an extra tab, start the docker, and bury the tab so it's just running in the background. I'm going to automate that first. This is something I've been waiting to be able to automate.

I also have some helpful triggers, which I currently have a wiki page explaining how others at my company can set up. It looks like I could replace those instructions with a single command using one of these scripts.

Those are the two things I've been wanting to automate for a while. After doing them, I imagine there will be plenty of things I never thought of before but will now that they're possible.
> I've noticed there are SO many of these "coding interview prep" courses lately. Like, obviously it's a hot job market, but there's just so many and of a certain vibe that it seems like some are selling a dream.

It's akin to the Fitness world. There are tons of people selling proteins whey, their fitness apps, fitness set "reps", etc. Can't blame them, they're selling what people want.
(An ((Even Better) Lisp) Interpreter (in Python))
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I wish people would stop quoting that tweet. mxcl doesn't know how to work at a big company. He failed miserably at Apple as a result, and he would have done equally as badly at Google. The success of Homebrew has more to do with product fit than actual technical ability.
> scubbo's questions already indicate some knowledge of memory management

I'm flattered! But no - I have a math degree, and the Java and Python that I'm familiar with are strictly high-level and self-taught from six years in industry * . I can give you an idea of my lack of knowledge of actual low-level details by saying that I know that the heap and the stack are different concepts in memory, but not how they differ in structure or use.

Thanks for the link to CDR Coding - I'll work my way through that, and hopefully it will spur a lot more puzzled questions that I can then Google to continue educating myself!

* plus I worked my way through Seven Languages in Seven Weeks a few months back, so I can fumble my way through understanding a Lisp (Clojure, if I recall correctly)
Are you a domain expert in that space? How did you come up with the idea?
I'm not saying there wasn't homosexuality.. that's what Saudi Arabia claims for their nation. Homosexuality has an evolutionary purpose, always existed everywhere and always will. Homosexuality is not a slur, weakness, or failure. It was the exaggerated nature of the characterization.
That was really surprising to me. I’m not a doctor but it seems easy enough to assume that patients in a vegetative stage can feel pain and medicate them accordingly. The risk of over medicating in that situation seems to be outweighed by the risk of someone having to suffer in silence.

The assumption that someone who can’t communicate pain is unable to feel pain seems misguided at best.
This is not a GraphQL alternative. APIs that expose GraphQL can potentially use this in the backend to fetch the data, however.
Shocker.

Out of control cost of living (housing) is causing people to not willfully participate in one of the most expensive commitments one can ever make (have a child).

Either you are being purposely coy, or are super daft.
Ancient drop of water rewrites Earth's history
I would love to hear from any people in the hacker news crowd that have changed careers 'late,' or intentionally spent their early years taking career/skill risks.

What exactly are you hoping to hear? Because, among other things, I walked away from a National Merit Scholarship. I think I did the right thing and I think I'm doing important stuff, but the world still sees me as a big fat nobody.

So what exactly are you looking for? "Life advice"? Only to hear from people with some kind of substantial public recognition who got started late?
I hope they take a deeper look at the problem and the root cause before they try and fix the symptom by putting airbags on the drones.

It sounds like a failure of the engineering process. When I worked in process engineering we would do an analysis of the whole system and ways that it could create a dangerous situation. For example, what combination of valves opening and closing could trap pressurised fluid.

I would like to see their analysis on what happens when things go wrong, such as a failed parachute.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure_mode_and_effects_analy...
Yea, I was one of them. I mixed up trading ahead from side-channel knowledge which breaks insider-trading rules, with having a fast engine which can just move bits faster than the other guy.

I don't "like" HFT the same way I don't "like" the market at all, but HFT is not actually stealing grannies money.
Exactly. Lisp rule could be shortened to minutes to explain. From SICP videos for HP, by Hal Abelson:

> Lisp is easy to learn... just as you can teach someone all the rules of chess in a few minutes. But of course, it takes much longer to master those rule... how do you exploit those rule to become a master player.
If your Plan for Saving the World requires on changing human nature, overall intelligence,[1] or mass social behaviour, you're going to be Having a Bad Time.

Markets and information play poorly. Always have, always will.

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Notes:

1. Also known as the Lake Wobegon Fallacy. All the children aren't above average.
Oh god, I was hoping you'd say 42 or something. I'm 32 myself and you gave me some relief from my sense of urgency until you mentioned your age.

Great to see you being an ace though! I hope you keep moving forward.
Fascinating - thanks for your input! I wasn't aware of the CPU cache's extra limitation - that makes a lot of sense. And, yes - as you say, it makes perfect sense that having all the data of an object colocated (and at predictable offsets from one another) would make for a more efficient operating experience.
The likelihood of me being hit by lightning is very low. Therefore, it is an highly unlikely event. And it doesn't happen very often.

The chance of someone being hit by lightning is not very low. Therefore, it is not a highly unlikely event. And it does happen relatively frequently.

Unlikely events don't happen very often. That's just a definition. If event X happens frequently, then it isn't an unlikely event.
> The other funny thing is that your previous experience doesn't do anything for you other than maybe getting to skip the technical phone screen. Everyone goes through the same process

You could also argue that this is fair chance between those who just came to the field.

> On the bright side, it does look like many companies are now realizing this isn't a great way to evaluate someone's ability and are beginning to incorporate more practical exercises.

It's the other way around: many more companies are incorporating Leetcode style interviews as their first "filters" either via online test or quick on-site.

Here's what happened: it used to be the case that only these FAANG companies have the resources and the know-how to either create these "trick" questions or picked a few from their favourite Algorithms book "exercise" part.

These days thanks to many "algo" challenge websites (like InterviewCake.com) that not only provides questions but also correct, detailed, and optimized answers, it is getting easier for employers to just pick a random ones and use that as interview materials.
You know the make arduinos with cortex processor right? Arduino primo, blue fruit nrf52,...
The article uses a simplified version of Scheme as a toy Lisp, for an exercise, which is an excellent choice, but a downside is that it could be misinterpreted as characterizing Scheme well.

First, there's what I think is an important distinction of idiomatic programming in Scheme, for which the first example in the article gives the wrong idea, with a noble lie: that Java code implies an immediate return, but the Scheme code does not.

Were that Scheme expression not in a tail position of a procedure (which it probably wouldn't be), it wouldn't have effect analogous to that of the Java code. And a one-armed `if` makes little sense in a tail position in modern Scheme, and looks erroneous.

Scheme is a full imperative algorithmic language, and doesn't have to be used in a pure-functional way, but idiomatic programming in Scheme tends to lean towards functional when practical. You almost never do premature returns quite like that in Scheme, for example. (One can do most any memory-safe thing one wants, including the less-idiomatic and even the outrageously insane, but hopefully over time one learns the idiomatic ways, rather than overuses/misuses less-idiomatic features, like leaning on a crutch they don't need and that's actually harmful to them.)

Separate from that, another thing possibly misleading about this article is that their Scheme implementation doesn't do what's sometimes called "proper implementation of tail calls" (which would be required to be a real Scheme). Idiomatic Scheme will tend to use tail calls heavily, with impunity, which would not be the case if a Scheme implementation let such calls exhaust resources.
Does anyone know of a more recent book on the subject than that? I haven't been able to find any.
I read this description, `These writers got their start after age 35—there’s still hope for you`, and I was like man this is amazing.

But, when these people we're mentioned to have published after 35, it kinda tells me that these people have been writing for quite some time

Another list that I would like to see is people, who just started writing extensively after 35 and getting published after 35 : )
This is incredibly interesting trivia -- thank you for the context.
They left in good terms, Musk was competing in terms of talent (e.g Andrej Karpathy leaving OpenAI for Tesla).

See:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1096987465326374912?lang...
> I’m just concerned that taken to the extreme it mistakes excessive pattern recognition prep for true comprehension and aptitude. Especially if it’s “whoever puts the optimal solution on the board fastest wins.”

I agree with you on this. They do have taken this to the extreme because the questions are getting harder and harder.

This is hard tbh because if you're an employer whom used to be able to filter candidates by asking "easy" algorithms questions and woke up one day to only find out that everybody knows the answer, what will you do?

"It used to work so we just have to improve it, right?" => make a more challenging questions.
What does this offer over Hive SQL and Spark also supports it?

Below are the reasons given in the blog post and I am trying to compare them with Hive SQL + Spark

SQL compatibility - I need to check this as I am not a SQL expert, but Hive SQL seems compatible

First-class nested data - supported

Optional schema and query stability - supported

Minimal extensions - feels same goals in Hive SQL

Format independence - yes

Data store independence - yes.
Any given unlikely event does not happen very often.

But if you have a whole bunch of possible unlikely events, then one of them (a different one each time, usually) can happen fairly often.

Back to the lightning example, any given person being hit by lightning is an unlikely event. But as you not "someone being hit by lightning" is not, because we are now observing these unlikely events across so many people.

All of which is to say, observing that an unlikely event happened doesn't provide much information on its own, if you have observed a lot of things happening in general...
I’ve worked in both. For the purpose of the earlier conversation, the auctions for ad exchanges happen at about 1 order of magnitude more than for exchange tradable symbols.

That is to say there is no tech reason that financial exchanges couldn’t run auctions.

Aside: personally I think that continuous exchanges are great & people who have problems with them usually don’t know what they are talking about.
If he's so educated why couldn't he pass an analyst test and have to work as a SharePoint admin? Why did he think PRISM was some all-consuming surveillance system, when the documents so clearly stated it wasn't? Why did he think Hong Kong would grant him asylum for leaking Chinese targets? Why couldn't he pass high school? Why is he a libertarian?

I've known many people like that who can convince laypeople that they're smart, but everybody in the field (software engineers at Internet companies in Snowden's case) immediately sees how stupid they are. Look at flat Earthers and antivaxxers for contemporary examples.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/09/what-snowden-get...
These are contentious so please don't downvote for an idea...

To start, I think a severe underlying problem America is facing is just that there isn't much community here, compared to other first world countries. How long have our families been living in the same place? Not long for most of us. I think this is causing some turmoil in the trust department.

Also, we really need to work on our regulations. We have a bad habit of legislating from the heart, but end up producing side effects that hurt us. For instance, laws preventing giving food to the homeless. Over-regulating also drives cost up for business, causing them to raise prices.

Another is minimum wage. Americans have a hard time admitting that increasing minimum wage has negative side effects, especially on small business. We can address the homeless problem pretty easily if we could decrease the minimum wage for them. And before you get angry at this one, what kind of smartphone are you using? There's a reason our jobs go over seas.

Jobs that would pay very low wage wouldn't be difficult jobs, but they also wouldn't care if the person is only half mentally there. Small pay, small work, you can be promoted and given raise. A factory for instance could even build a campground with facilities. How many homeless folks would love to have that opportunity? How many more potential employers does that produce?

We should also consider decreasing the federal budget and start paying off our debt, no? I would think that's a pretty important thing to keep in mind also.

These things are needed in order to achieve a more universal happiness.
Isn’t the whole point of history... to learn from it?
The place i've been to used compressed air for most of the time. reducing the frequency of water washes
It's not little now. Had $45 million in yearly revenues and over a 100 employees already in 2016.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adafruit_Industries
Alister MacLeod wasn't published until he was forty and didn't publish the fabulous novel "No Great Mischief" until he was 63.
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I recently learned from Tristan’s blog [1] about a similar feature in Rust [2]. I can’t wait to try it out.

[1] http://thume.ca/2019/04/18/writing-a-compiler-in-rust/
[2] https://github.com/mitsuhiko/insta
The question was whether it is hard to determine the space/time complexity of ‘a’ function, which firmly placed the question in Rice’s theorem grounds.
Labor costs in Manila are much lower than Europe or the US.
> What about price discovery is pointless? Would you prefer that prices update only once a day? Once a week? Once a month? Realtime pricing of securities and derivatives is critical for an efficiently functioning economy.

Pretty much everything at sub-second resolution is pointless.

I'd like to hear a coherent argument how realtime or even sub-second pricing of securities and derivatives is critical for an efficiently functioning economy, yet the largest markets in the world are closed 2/3rd of the day.

The fact that most markets are closed on all weekends plus over 10 holidays per year suggests that even an update once per day wouldn't make much of a difference.
TMZ is actually a very reliable source. They just happen to specialize in celebrity sleaze instead of serious issues.
Ok so now you're just showing off. :)
Apple suspends Siri response grading in response to privacy concerns
This is why I’m curious about when Carmack published this. TFA is dated 2018, but says it’s republishing Carmack’s before it’s lost. The date could provide some interesting context.
Very impressive this bit about "The DuckDuckGo Hiring Process", I'm very intrigued by that.
I work at Google. I think it's half true.

I would not have passed the Google interview if I had not prepared. After 3 years, I have completely forgotten most of the prep. I couldn't even implement a binary search right now.

That said, I do have an innate ability for problem solving. I know another person, who has prepared significantly more than me (multiple months full-time) but still wasn't able to get an on-site interview. In my opinion, it requires at least a minimum level of intelligence, luck and preparation.
Somehow Telegram shows normal chats as notifications but if its an encrypted chat, it shows a "You received a message". Seems they are hostile to e2e.
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I don't know where you're from but "casually fully expanded" sticks doesn't really sound so scary when police all have handguns, metal batons and tasers where I am.

And I'm in relatively gun-free Australia.
Jeez Deng can't you lighten up a bit here? I'm trying to hit 1000 and you're not really helping.
Here's one: Mary Wesley. Only turned to writing in her late 50s. Ten bestsellers after 70. Took about a dozen years to get her first novel published, which finally was aged 71: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Wesley
>There will always be a majority

Not if there are more than 2 groups. There could easily be 3 minorities with 0 majorities.
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I mean, that's already implied if you look at the comment I'm responding to.
Hmm interesting, will look at this closer. If indeed one can install a gnu/linux flavour as the site claims (had a quick read just now, not in detail), i will pre-order one.