skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Social networking sites usually project perceived happiness vs Real happiness. It is hard to measure real happiness - people often wear diplomatic masks on internet to protect their real mood :) Having said that, I get the idea & this could be a great platform if we extend this to other emotions, political swings etc.,
> Whiteboarding simply tests for skills that are not needed nor exercised once you're out of uni.

In today's tech industry, these algorithm questions is now used as an effort to trip up candidates and to always try to "See how you think" in an unrealistic scenario. The questions I've been given and have seen are mostly irrelevant and are always done for us in the libraries I use at work.

I had interviewed at one startup in the UK who asked me a algorithm question that they admitted that they don't use and their excuse is the same: "To see how you think." Not only this doesn't make sense if one has already seen this problem, but the fact that they don't use it makes you wonder the real reason why they are doing this.

The simple answer is: Because it works for FAANG (Who actually do use these algorithms); Thus everyone else copies them. This is why hiring in this industry is a complete circus.

> Things like improper syntax and not getting the damned recursive solution fast enough.

A problem statement like that is like: `Design and implement the optimal solution to this 'problem' in X language in less than 15 minutes.`

This is a red flag for you as a candidate who is allowing room for the interviewer to nit-pick you here to waste your time. It should never be that important to worry about the specific language semantics here due to the time limit. But again the interviewer is there to be impressed on how much the candidate knows about the intricate details of the language + data structure + algorithms all in 15 minutes which is nonsensical requirements for a typical software engineering role.

Frankly speaking, the interview dance in the tech-industry is an excuse to trip up candidates who have not practiced for more than 6-9 months on data structures and algorithms and the latest tools that everyone is adopting. It is so 'broken' that interviewing at FAANG companies is an entire industry itself.

For them, whiteboarding like this is essentially trying to find a silver needle in the sky.
Why, that's how mobs work, of course! We've see plenty of instances of mob justice on twitter.

https://theweek.com/articles/787650/how-twitter-facebook-are...

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-t...
I'd happily pay $5/month if it covered all of my hobby projects.

I'm not interesting in paying to run just a single project.
Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson.

You have quite the fitting user name.
> Type a sentence quickly and then hit undo. You don't want that to just undo literally the last character.

I am continually irritated by this behavior.

Yes, I do want to undo one operation. If I need to go fast and have little regard for correctness I can hold the button down.

Don't make me play the game where I hit undo, it undoes the whole sentence (or several), so I hit redo to bring it all back, and then I have to click backspace 5 times to get to where I wanted. Worse when I'm using multiple cursors and doing operations of different lengths to each line.
was it the AI Pacman? I did that project, it really was mind-blowing
.. or Nihilistland. It's by far and away not so much Niceland. It's always trying to kill you - as Ed Sheeran. https://www.icelandreview.com/news/ed-sheeran-suffered-burn-...
Ask HN: Poor Adnetwork Participation and Usage
The following third-party study shows an incredibly poor participation rate by websites in what is probably the dominant "website monetization" method. I'm concerned I have read way too much into this lack of participation by websites. I'm looking at it like 2/3 of website operators fail to monetize their web traffic and are letting that potential income go down the drain. I'm looking for some other perspectives to explain why only 1/3 of website participate in ad networks operated by some giant companies (such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, yahoo etc)? Here's the link: https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/advertising/all
What If the Singularity Does Not Happen? (2007) [video]
so if humans do it, is it called 'Organic Intelligence' which could then be called 'Artisanal Intelligence' aka AI.
I don’t want to post my own company since it can be traced to me IRL, but yeah, all tax returns are public in Sweden, personal and companies alike.

Here is Spotify’s financials from its inception to today:

https://www.allabolag.se/5567037485/spotify-ab

You can find the same data for all companies.
Ha! This company tried to recruit me a little bit ago. The CTO walked me through the business model, and it was pretty obvious they were just a typical agency. I pointed that out, and he got defensive and tried changing subjects.

In their defense, there is a slight twist in that they subcontract to hundreds of other agencies when those agencies have additional capacity. Essentially, they arbitrage on that.

But, yeah, the pitch that they use AI to build apps -- it's pretty ridiculous. They don't. Even with a very open mind to that phrasing, it's still a huge stretch.
FWIW, that React demo should not be used as a network perf comparison in any way:

- It's using an ancient version of React (0.13.3)

- It's a debug build of "React with addons", not a minified prod build

- It appears to include `JSXTransformer.js` as a separate script to handle in-browser JSX compilation

If you were to redo this using a modern version of React and a standard CRA build, I guarantee it would be _much_ smaller.

edit

Just for kicks, I did a quick search and dug up a pre-existing React "TodoMVC" app based on CRA ( https://github.com/ChrisWiles/React-todoMVC ). It's 3 years old, but it was trivial to bump the requirements up to the latest versions of React and react-scripts.

From there, running `yarn build` says that:

File sizes after gzip:

39.22 KB build\static\js\2.3ec0f98b.chunk.js
2.14 KB build\static\js\main.4514f0a8.chunk.js
1.73 KB build\static\css\2.bc2ff3bb.chunk.css
782 B build\static\js\runtime~main.0ff4d30b.js

The actual sizes on disk are:

2.3ec0f98b.chunk.js : 128435b
main.4514f0a8.chunk.js: 7259b
2.bc2ff3bb.chunk.css: 5423b
runtime~main.0ff4d30b.js: 1577b

So yeah, Svelte is certainly going to result in much smaller bundles than a React app, but you have to use a legitimate fair production comparison.
Don't even compare Uber Lyft WE with Cloudflare..
To be precise: lifetimes are denoted by an apostrophe. (Backtick can be used in comments for Markdown formatting.)
Sure. But “they have skin in the game therefore the analysis is invalid irrespective of any actual criticism of the content of the analysis, which I have not bothered to mention” is OP’s insinuation, not mine.

I’m just pointing out that that cuts both ways. If there’s a problem with Markopolus’ report it should be critiqued on its merits. OP didn’t bother to bring any of that forward and just focused on shortselling.
I guess if it's getting a good response on HN along the lines of "it's better than the other ones," it's close? :)
I guess someone beat them to CLOUD?
You can get many many nice PVC rings worth more than that startup.
> Who cares about reality when there's a narrative waiting to be pushed.

What narrative? These are hard numbers. There's no debate. If you took my income and compared it against American tax law and Swedish tax law, I'd be paying literally over double, nearly triple in taxes if I was Swedish versus if I was American. There's no "extra 10%," your math is just plain wrong.

What a perverse argument; I don't even try to justify anything in my original statements.
Good grief.

When will people wake up and realize that AI today is just capable of "curve fitting"?

Yes, that is a bit of a simplification. But not far off.

Neural networks depend on back propagation. They are really just another type of optimizer for maximum likelihood, using gradient descent. They work better on high dimensional, non linear data than other methods before.

But if the function you are attempting to model is non differentiable, neural networks won't help you.

They certainly aren't capable of performing magic tricks like writing an app for you.
As a long time Cloudflare user, I wish them luck on this! They've been a great service to use.

I usually don't buy stocks individually, especially around the IPO but once it settles down, I might buy some of these.
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Looks like he’s willing to put his money where his mouth is.
If you think they banned sites for PR cover against the moral high ground before they went public, just wait till you see them once they are public!
Malcolm Gladwell has a great piece about how all the information needed to piece together Enron's fraud was always available in public records. Worth a read.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/01/08/open-secrets-3
NASA Giving Away Apollo-Era Saturn Rocket to Anyone Who Can Carry It Out
From my understanding, SARSA could be more ideal when there is a greater cost associated with making a mistake whilst learning. SARSA is more conservative, as it takes into account possible large negative rewards during the exploratory phase. The classic example problem is "cliff walking."[0]

[0] https://github.com/cvhu/CliffWalking
My comment was my obtuse way of pointing out that companies will therefore always have the excuse of "some users are using the system heavily" for pushing up prices.
Ups has been quietly delivering cargo using self-driving trucks
"we may maintain relationships with customers that others find hostile, offensive, or inappropriate" these dudes would be neutral in the face of Sauron.
Figma Tutorial: How (and Why) to Use It for Your Next Project
How do you spy on other people's connections at a WeWork?
It's not an unsolvable problem. Software is much easier to read than to write. It's much easier to see if something works than to make it yourself.
Looks like CFR and CLD are already taken, to be fair
I liked the article. And agree with it's premise. Softbank has apparently driven up the valuation of We to $47 billion or so for no apparent reason.

The entire company structure exists to serve the founder. The company even paid $4 million to buy the rights to "We" from him so that they can change their name from WeWork to We.

It will be interesting to watch.
When you get the device home you'll need (edit: be asked) to sign up for an Apple ID and an iCloud account, I believe? They may not bother you at the point of sale but that's only because they know you'll be giving up your private info soon enough.
I don't see the issue. The password isn't to protect you against other WeWorkers, it's to exclude people on the outside.

Personally, I think any attempt at them to provide serious security on the shared network would be a really bad idea. It'd make people feel comfortable but somebody would find a hole and suddenly have access to a ton of devices.

If security is an issue, just use a VPN/Wireguard.
That exchange was Orwellian.
> on the aggregate it does shift the conservation.

I think this is totally overblown. Reddit thinks they did it. Twitter thinks they did it. Politicians think they did it. News organizations think they did it. People in the streets think they did it.

Sure everyone contributes, but except for some limited circumstances, I'm going to give the least credit to those of us on the couch and put the most credit at the feet of the investigative reporters and researchers who provide more than mob shame and anecdotes.
Simple Kubernetes clusters on cloud providers for development
If you spend all day walking, you rack up miles. As a furniture mover I was walking 8-10 miles a day, carrying furniture for a significant fraction of that.

If these workers are walking across giant warehouses they should definitely have bikes laying around. Rollerskates seem dangerous
Could you go into more detail about this? I'm using Gin currently and would like to avoid any potential landmines if possible.
Not parent, but probably. If they weren't legal, there wouldn't be an issue: Cloudflare complying with the law to block illegal websites would be a non-story.
Hey, this seems pretty cool. What are your thoughts on landscaping/ outdoor water use?

If that seems interesting to you and your team, you should hit me up.
They list it as a key element of their business model:

> Free customer base—Free customers are an important part of our business. These customers sign up for our service through our self-serve portal and are typically individual developers, early stage startups, hobbyists, and other users. Our free customers create scale, serve as efficient brand marketing, and help us attract developers, customers, and potential employees. These free customers expose us to diverse traffic, threats, and problems, often allowing us to see potential security, performance, and reliability issues at the earliest stage. This knowledge allows us to improve our products and deliver more effective solutions to our paid customers. In addition, the added scale and diversity of this traffic makes us valuable to a diverse set of global ISPs, improving the breadth and economic terms of our interconnections, bandwidth costs, and co-location expenses. Finally, the enthusiastic engagement of our free customer base represents a “virtual quality assurance” function that allows us to maintain a high rate of product innovation, while ensuring products are extensively tested in real world environments before they are deployed to enterprise customers.

(page 80)
Cloudflare is getting too big so I'm all for anything that could possibly make it smaller
> Blazing Saddles was a comedy. Django is acceptable because it's a drama

That's not at all true; except perhaps for extremely historically-grounded drama (which Django is not), drama tends to get less license than comedy.

> but Mel Brooks' style of humor is no longer socially acceptable

Mel Brooks style of humor was never “socially acceptable”, it’s was always transgressive. It's probably not as commercially acceptable in the mainstream film industry as it once was, but that's more because transgressive video entertainment has other outlets and the mainstream film industry is a more mature and more narrowly-focussed industry than it once was.

> We can take issues like race and anti-semitism deadly seriously, but we aren't allowed to laugh about them anymore.

My experience of currently successful (both live and distributed on major video platforms) stand up and other comedy suggests that, yes, we are very much still allowed to laugh at those things. The particular currently successful forms may not look exactly like Blazing Saddles, but while the latter isn't stale, it's also very firmly grounded in the time it was produced (which seems generally true of Brooks’ comedies).
It's quite refreshing, right?
This article also quoted DuckDuckGo and Qwant, which are search aggregators and not just pass-through.

I agree, Ecosia isn't a compelling alternative. It's the same business model as Credo Wireless and various do-good credit cards. Good for them for speaking up though.
Uber was ride sharing company with some tech. They are a little bit different than a taxi company
I got an error too but I am running Firefox/Sway/Nixos/AMD GPU and WebGL has never worked:

Content Security Policy: Couldn’t process unknown directive ‘prefetch-src’
THREE.WebGLRenderer 107 three.min.js:187:462
Error: WebGL warning: <SetDimensions>: Failed to create
WebGL context: WebGL creation failed:
* tryNativeGL
* Exhausted GL driver options. three.min.js:190:415
Error: WebGL warning: <SetDimensions>: Failed to create
WebGL context: WebGL creation failed:
* tryNativeGL
* Exhausted GL driver options. three.min.js:190:440
React at least had ReactTestUtils 'officially' and then recommended ReactTestingLibrary & Enzyme as the ecosystem matured: https://reactjs.org/docs/test-utils.html
So we're on the same page, I understood qwsxyh to be making reference to hacker news. In view of that the up/down votes clearly aren't what make twitter what it is, or else HN would be the same, and I hope we can both agree that it isn't. So what is the difference? Id say culture, you're saying traditions (potato, potahto), so what is that culture? I would say at minimum communicating a reason for downvotes, rather than than just the blunt instrument of the downvote alone. Another cultural trait is frowning on ad hominem attacks, because its the message that should be debated, debating the form of the message seems closely related to me.

So it isn't about "you're proving my point by down-voting me"
This is a sure sign that:

* You won't get allocated any shares

* Trading will start at a ridiculously high valuation, maybe 10x sales or more
What is the alternative? There is a finite amount of screen space for listing alternative search engines. How do you choose what shows up there? (I'm not saying there couldn't be a better one than whoever pays most, I'm just not sure what it is, and none were suggested in this article).

If you just put, say, a text-entry search box (or select menu with dozens+ of options?) there to choose any of unlimited number of alternatives (with none on screen to begin with), it will definitely result in even fewer users choosing something other than Google.
All I'm asking is for people to consider saving lives as having a non-zero value .
Enabled by Softbank. An investor who just throws an unlimited amount of money at things.
It will end when the regulation catches up.

I worked in the gig economy space for two years. Literally, the only reason to be a "tech company" is to claim you simply provide the technology and aren't responsible for how people use it (aka employment law)
>Now, how would you know? What steps would you take to that you suspect these people did not?

Hire two or three ML people for the VC firm and have them audit the company's code. Anyone with some engineering experience is going to be able to tell if the company just shows you random tensorflow code or has actual data and a codebase.

With all these blockchain and AI mumbo-jumbo companies it would probably be a good idea to have more tech workers around rather than just business types.
I absolutely agree that it is relevant to the discussion but not where/how the author introduced it. The image is just distracting and confusing without any sort of commentary. The author even plainly states that they don't understand it in the caption:

> This is the planned structure for The We Company after its IPO, as it appears in its S-1 form. I’d try to explain it, but I don’t understand what the fuck is happening.

If you don't get it but you want readers to be aware of it then either just link to it or put it at the end after you have made your argument. Don't place it at the beginning before you have even fully explained the premise of the article.
Zoom stands out in this category too. Random blog on Medium, but the points all stand:

https://medium.com/@alexfclayton/zoom-ipo-s-1-breakdown-1192...

Growing >100% YoY, profitable, generating cashflow, NPS above 70, just an all around solid business.
That is pure ad-hominem. You are not engaging with the argument being made, you are attacking it solely based on who is making it.
Nah, thank God for the GDPR.
Wizard of Oz prototypes aren't meant to scale...
The structure of the company is mostly about making sure that Adam Neuman can minimize his tax burden while maximizing his compensation. It's not really about stealing the IPO cash, but on the other hand nobody is better positioned to take advantage of the value generated by the company than Adam Neuman, and you can be sure, based on the history, that the governance of the company will be driven by primarily what is good for Adam.
Second this, I've used this as a resource for ramping up medium-experience web developers in Go. It's great because it sticks to the `net/http` basics, and is fairly concise and blunt.
I own a 2003 Mercedes W203 C230 and it has 400k km.

No problems with the engine and transmission other than the valve cover gasket blows every once in a while and starts leaking oil. Simple fix.

Some of the other parts on the car aren't quite as robust. I had to get the front end rebuilt. The key fob died. (That was a fun day since the steering column was locked, and there was no way to get diagnostic codes out. The only
way to diagnose that it was the key was to buy another key and see, so that required a trip to the dealer with the title in hand.) The starter failed twice. It started leaking oil from a gasket around the oil level sensor and got onto the wiring harness, and had to replace the wiring harness. The transmission gear in the panoramic sun-moon roof wore out, not worth fixing---just keep it closed. The motor actuator units under the seats both died a year apart from one another during a cold snap and started drawing 1A all the time, replaced the drivers side, and just disconnected the passenger side.

As long as there aren't any major problems with the engine/trans, I'll just patch it up. People just want too much money relative to the value of the cars. We'll see if there's a correction in that market once this next recession hits. Convincing people to finance $50k vehicles for 144 months, so that their payment is roughly $500, isn't a sustainable market.
Show HN: ApolloDeveloperKit – Visual Debugger for Apollo iOS Client
How Life Sciences Work: Findings of a Year-Long Investigation
> Facebook has also begun internal changes that make itself harder to break up. The company has been knitting together the messaging systems of Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp and has reorganized the departments so that Facebook is more clearly in charge, said two people briefed on the matter. Executives have also worked on rebranding Instagram and WhatsApp to more prominently associate them with Facebook.

The speculation on here over the past few months that all the services are being "integrated" so that they can claim it's too difficult technically to split up the company along service lines appears to be correct.
> Remember all the ancient civilisations that expanded too quickly or were not able to sustain their lifestyles ? I'm sure they were thinking just like that.

What makes you think, this civilisation is collectively going to behave more sensible?
We (broadly) accept the idea of evolution in biology. I'm pretty sure this works well on sociology, too. Or, put differently: We _will_ fuck it up. If it's not the climate crisis, it will be something else. Or: In a world where one nation alone has enough weapons to literally nuke the whole world, it is a strong bet to say that we'll be doomed on pollution.

> multiply that by 8b and you're doomed, there is just no way to make it work.

I believe the the 8bn are a problem on its own.
A History of Patent Drawings
Facebook Transcription Opt-In Says Nothing About Human Listeners
And now you have 32 cores just waiting for slow HTTP clients. Apache with the prefork MPM does exactly that.

See http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html for an in-depth, if old, discussion.
Vimeo Is a Total Joke
Just created an account at Vimeo and almost went for the upgraded version immediately at sign up. SO, SO glad I did'nt. I didn't even finish building my profile, had not uploaded a thing, had not done anything that violated any policy (yes I read the policy outline) and up pops a screen saying "your account has been disabled". There isn't even a way to contact them to object. Crazy!
I had heard some really good stuff about Vimeo and was looking forward to getting away from Youtube even if I had to pay.
I will never go to Vimeo again. To be treated like that is just absolutely insane. Thank god they got none of my money.
I can't belive this behavior is not all over the internet. What a total joke of a site!