skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Literally billions have been lifted out of poverty because of it.

i hear this meme a lot. can you point to statistics that indicate global poverty outside of China has materially changed in recent decades?
Calling this a "bug" is a stretch. Similar to saying `1 == 2` is a bug. Could've been prevented by using distinct ID's in your tables and query criteria. When assigning experience, authenticating, selecting user data, etc., use the user ID.

Usernames are just localized, vanity UUID's for client-side pleasure.
Wouldn't the liability from libel me much higher than the conceivable gains?
> You are completely missing the point

Can you please edit swipes like that out of your comments here? They tend to degrade discussion. If you simply provide correct information, your comments will be stronger and their effect on the thread at large more salutary.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If there is a salesperson involved then definitely. If there is a salesperson and it is a larger transaction, there will typically be an opportunity to save $$. If it's a smaller deal, there may not be a whole lot of room to save $$, but our goal would be to get on the phone and save time.
I think you are looking for "eoma68"

https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop

http://rhombus-tech.net/
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I’ve found myself really wanting this, but for the impossible-to-gather complement of the data — how are people doing when they aren’t consuming social media and news media?

My study Mappiness gets closer to that. See, for example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wo2M8Z-ULM
Here's one from just yesterday: the password reset form for sched.com, which the Linux Foundation uses for schedules, is HTTP. I had to follow this link to upload my slides for a talk I'm giving at a LF conference next week.

Yes, the ideal, which we should all be actively working towards, is HTTPS. That doesn't mean that the world is already there.
I was really hoping for more out of this article. I expected a thoughtful analysis of many different types of "shock events" and how they rise and fade from public consciousness. Instead it's focused solely on three mass shooting incidents and how long Twitter kept talking about them. Lazy.
I did that when I was listening, but really I just have a problem with listening to people droning on.

It's just so much faster, more visceral, and more random access to read that I've basically just completely abandoned the linear presentation modes (audio and video).

Podcasts also tend to have a lot of side chitchat, breaks etc which don't add anything for me. I know some people really like that; I've hear it makes the conversation seem a lot more personal and connecting. Great, just not for me.
Part of the problem is that context switches are really slow, so for software that needs maximum performance people will go to great lengths to avoid them.
This is about servicing tens of thousands of connections. Threads are ok in the low thousands, but now servers are in the realm of handling millions of current connections.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22090229/how-did-whatsap...
Try out rubberband. I find that with rubberband and mpv I can get close to 3x and still understand many (but not all) speakers. It depends on their particular accent/annunciation/cadence though. Some accents, like RP, are very clear to me at 1x but degrade more rapidly (for me) than others at high speeds.

https://breakfastquay.com/rubberband/
Or they don't change what it's become, because they like it that way == "by design".
People will die either way. Some people are more deserving of death than others.
If you really think anyone -- short of a faculty-level algorithm specialist at places like CMU -- can be reasonably expected to derive an optimal solution to problems like these on the spot

Eh, you really don't need to be a "faculty-level algorithm specialist" to solve this problem. I wouldn't even really call it dynamic programming.

Just make one pass to calculate the sum of the first n numbers for each n. Call that array prefixSum. Then you make a second pass calculating the lowest prefixSum[i] for i <= n. Call that smallestPrefixSum. The maximum subarray sum is then defined by the largest prefixSum[i] - smallestPrefixSum[i], and you can get the subarray itself with a bit more tracking.

I don't know if it's a great interview question but I think most of the engineers I have hired (at Google or Facebook) would be able to solve this problem on the spot, given 15-20 minutes.
I used to work with a guy who tech-screened applicants by demanding that they come up with the binary-search algorithm: “given a sorted list of numbers, find the fastest way to locate an element in the array”. Of course, if you had any university-level exposure to CS, you would have already seen the solution - I sort of suspected this was his tricky way to filter out non-CS graduates.
That's a reasonable position to take for networks in general like coffee shops, but if I'm paying WeWork to provide office infrastructure, I expect the network to not be malicious, just like I expect not to need to boil and chlorine-treat the water I get from their water fountains.
If one wants to create a wall mounted, always display on, system are there any of like CutiePi with an e-Ink display?
>However I think it is rather pithy to just call them a taxi company with an app, right?

Perhaps you mean reductive? A pithy statement would be one which has identified the core of something or is very meaningful despite being terse. It is very positive.
It starts to resemble a meritocracy once your cv is in the “for interview” pile.

The expected shredinger-distance of your cv is given by G * N^2, G being cv weight and N your networking coefficient.
In the video the author specifically talks why this is not a realistic scenario, plants we can't get rid off in our fields are specifically adapted to the way we handle the fields, without us they will be outcompeted by other plants, the domesticated plant and animal species will give the new civilization a huge head start as most of the time our civilization existed went into creating the species that are able to support civilization, old landfills and cities would be very good mines, lack of oil will be compensated by the remnants of our libraries describing other ways of getting energy.
The only time I've ever told a recruiter off was when I was asked to "spend about a half an hour to write a solution for [problem]" for Microsoft and it turned out to take about that long for me to set Visual Studio up on my laptop at home, and then an equal amount of time to figure out how to navigate the project files, etc. etc. and I could see that the interviewer A) had not given this any thought and B) had no idea how long this would actually take for someone who doesn't develop software at home.
And then you get charged for fraud, SEC doesn't take these things lightly... with this much public attention you'd have to be crazy to try to pull of a scam like that hoping to get the money without showing any proofs to the claims...
Ironically it took me a while to even start using that terminology. Where I'm from, "engineer" means something specific, even in software, and you can't just call yourself an engineer (well, there's no LAW against it, but people will call bullshit pretty fast if you didn't go through the right channels). In the US, everyone's an engineer. Im surprised the person who serves me my burger at the counter isn't a Bovine Product Assembly Engineer.
I would say that the fact that you never see anyone from WeWork post on Hacker News is a good indicator that it's not a tech company.
Each state has a Guaranty Association that provides up to several hundred thousand dollars per policy for failed insurance companies. We've seen this story before with Penn Treaty which was liquidated in 2017. In California it's $560k. https://www.califega.org/
Meh, anyone who knows anything would look very positively on a kid who had the curiosity and ability to do that and suffered ridiculous consequences. The suspension is a badge of honor, a great story, and generally a life long benefit.

When I was in high school a few of us grabbed passwords from unencrypted wifi/network protocols (maybe it was POP3 logins, I don't remember) and "reported" it with some harmless website defacing, telling the admin (who was a cool guy). Nothing happened and I don't think anyone ever even noticed.
No, AI will desperately want sex, money, and lebensraum, just like human dictators. It won't think of either humanity or self-preservation as completely irrelevant and not interesting.

Singularity talk is just projection and self-idealization. "AI will be like me, but perfect, and infinitely more capable of doing what I would do if I were omnipotent, which it will decide to do faster than I could ever make a decision."
On average, how many solutions are there to x^2+y^2=N?
Matthew Prince is a liability or simply is the public face of the entire organization’s political activism that WILL BE A LIABILITY MOVING FORWARD.
why can't they just sit on the money? Wouldn't that perform better?
Hollywood isn't scared of climate change. They are good at understanding what we're scared of and making entertainment out of it.

What you see in Hollywood is nothing but a reflection of our own fears.

Also note that Thanos cutting the population in half isn't going to solve environmental problems. Humans reproduce at an exponential rate so cutting the population in half is ultimately futile.
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It's possible to use dynamic programming but it's such a simple example you don't really have to. If you're familiar with dynamic programming at all, you should be able to get it - it would be pretty reasonable to assign this as a introductory homework program for the dynamic programming section of an algorithms class.
> Are we really sure they couldn't write a simple loop, or were there other factors that prevented them from doing so?

what's the difference? I believe that getting hired by a company is the easiest thing you will have to do for that company. I believe that if you can't perform a basic task at interview time, you should not be working there.

Either because you can't perform.

Or

The mood is not right for you. If this is the case, why would you want to work there anyway?

I see so many people that thing getting hired is the end goal. Mate, you still have to work for them. Those people that can bullshit their way through a job, have no issues getting hired to begin with.
I’m with you on that. Lethal injection is too good for the perpetrators - I say, Death of the Boats.
Something doesn't have to be illegal for it to be a story and it's not ideologically inconsistent to agree that Cloudflare has the right to not serve these customers while also scrutinizing them for it. What is legal/illegal is not a substitute for a personal value system.

A company as large and important as Cloudflare disconnecting a client for moral or public outrage reasons is a big story and they should be watched with a careful eye even if you agree with the outcome.
No thank you, I don't want to have to choose between the two.

I'd like to see an end to both overpaid CEO's and criminal activity.
Can you give an example of a relationship which is non-differentiable?

It seems to me that there is no difficulty in using it to model fixed functions {0,1}^n -> {0,1}^m .

I don’t know for sure that all such functions can be learned reasonably efficiently, but I do know that there are feedforward standard neural nets which, with some weights, can approximate any such function arbitrarily closely.

But, again, I’m not saying that these functions can be learned effectively by backprop, idk if they can be.

Are these functions examples of relations you would say aren’t differentiable.

I’m confident that SOME of these functions can be learned by backprop, but I don’t know what would make these ones “more differentiable” than others,
So, I don’t see how differentiability could be the obstacle here?

But I may be misunderstanding.
Be careful what you wish for. I have friends that are lawyers and they talk about how terrible the bar is for assessing real world skill. You need to be fairly well versed in 20+ forms of law (admin, criminal, civil etc) independent of what form of law you practice. Most of the test is irrelevant to what you do, but you need to know it anyways.

I guess the advantage is once you pass you don't need to re-certify. Which also seems incorrect.
TikTok is not the future we want
After dealing with Apple's process, no one EVER said we need more of that! Among other things, the ease of approval is waht makes Android more loved by many devs, please don't spoil that
Well, at that scale tariffs on other things could be used as a cudgel to encourage enforcement on the Chinese facilities by China, sure. There would still be some fentanyl available, and opioid users are fairly flexible with the specific opioids they use. Heroin, oxycontin, hydrocodone, codeine, and such tend to come from elsewhere. As one lab in China shuts down, another in China could pop up. Or in Nigeria, or in Pakistan, or in Venezuela.

I lived in Missouri before we had to sign for psuedoephedrine. Trust me when I say busting a lab here and there doesn't stop production. Reports I've read say you can invest $4,000 to easily make a kilo of fentanyl and after cutting and distribution it's worth $1,500,000 ( such as https://www.gangsterismout.com/p/fentanyl-w18.html ). Carfentanyl is supposed to be basically as easy to make and about 100x as powerful. This leads me to believe no state sponsorship is required to quickly ramp up production. If you can sell a $4k investment for over a hundred million dollars, you can ramp up quite quickly for your next several thousand kilos.
Obviously the article is a complaint from an app developer, but... sorry, I'm on Google's side here. Rushed, rapidly-updating, poorly-reviewed games with unvetted malfeatures are a plague. The last thing the smartphone community needs is "more apps faster".

I think a soft 3-day review period is very reasonable, even if it comes at the cost of making launch marketing harder for developers.
binary search is very widely misimplemented,

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_search_algorithm#Impl...

> “When Jon Bentley assigned binary search as a problem in a course for professional programmers, he found that ninety percent failed to provide a correct solution after several hours of working on it, mainly because the incorrect implementations failed to run or returned a wrong answer in rare edge cases. A study published in 1988 shows that accurate code for it is only found in five out of twenty textbooks. Furthermore, Bentley's own implementation of binary search, published in his 1986 book Programming Pearls, contained an overflow error that remained undetected for over twenty years. The Java programming language library implementation of binary search had the same overflow bug for more than nine years.”
A thousand times this. I wish more podcasts would have transcripts. I much prefer it to listening to podcasts as I can read at my own speed, which would often be quicker than the audio.
I think you can also do it with WPA2-Enterprise, so a common trick is to set up enough infrastructure to let your users use EAP-TLS or something, and IIRC EAP sets up a per-client session key in the handshake. The public LinkNYC wifi network, for instance, has both an open network and an EAP-TTLS one that you can download a provisioning profile for.
I found it so interesting to hear that finding victims was the top impediment to prosecution. The amount of pain and anguish these scammers inflict upon some of our most vulnerable citizens is almost unbearable to think about.

I couldn’t help but wonder why the FCC hasn’t required CallerID Verification years ago.

Especially in this age where we are all being forced to get RealID cards so that our every move can be monitored...
Thanks for the thoughtful response!

>Government contracting and procurement (especially at the federal level) is very complicated

Tell me about it... ha

I saw your founder Ryan say this in another comment here:

>we are testing non-SaaS purchases. As an example, we recently helped one of our customers save a bunch of money on their SOC 2 audit fees

My company also spends a significant amount of money on SOC2 audit every year. Feels like another synergy point here with public sector procurement and software vendors. You can theoretically help agencies find good software products at the right price-point, coming from certified vendors who you've already helped manage all their certifications and audits in an efficient way.

I know this is all pretty ambitious and not super well-aligned with what you guys are doing right now with private, growth companies, but I'm just spitballing here because this type of thing would have some really interesting effects in the govt software space.
If you are getting your data from an image, you already have a mesh (a quad mesh from pixels which could be broken down into triangles a few different ways).

Anybody know about best/easy/fast/interesting algorithms for doing the opposite of the post and "compressing" the data eliminating triangles for a prescribed error or some other metric?
I am just going on my experience, but according to glassdoor data scientists of the same years of experience earn about 20k more than senior software engineers here in Boston.
Every WeWork member has a dedicated account which is tied to their company and badge (which is used for building access). This account is also used for reserving rooms.
Seems like the other way around: https://www.theinformation.com/go/4146dbb37f
I agree with you, but I think data science has the perception of more money and prestige. While senior software engineers often get I paid more, I do believe that data scientists have more opportunity to be involved in strategy and business decisions, which can help one get more exposure to high ranking employees. But this is not always the case.
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The question you need to be asking is "who is corrupt enough to fall for this nonsense?" The IPO will probably distribute the flaming bag of poo to various pensions, ETFs, and other funds where a PM can be leveraged as a single point of failure.
> Doesn't that defeat the premise of the tech industry as a meritocracy?

If you don't do any marketing of yourself, nobody is going to know about your merit. "Build it and they will come" is a Hollywood fantasy, not reality.
> If you can't think of this utopia, you're mentally stuck to the growth based capitalistic economy we already have.

Oh believe me I can think of it. But see, as soon as you say "maybe we should be careful about what we're doing" you're met with "hold on we can't do anything because we would go back to the middle ages". If we can't get people to do the most basic things I don't see how you realistically can shift to a whole new paradigm.
> We found these guys who live in Bradford, England who are setting up websites and companies so that they can process money for Accostings in the UK.

I'm from Bradford - this is not at all surprising.
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I think its state by state, but even where it is, companies get a pretty bad rep for actually using it regularly on software engineers. In the current political climate it if the company involved isn't one where the koolaid is being drank by the gallon but big enough that it has a reputation, it would quickly end up on Glassdoor and social medias as a big deal.
Yes, I've seen what neural nets are now capable of- they are capable of
exactly what they were always capable of, except "now" (in the last few years)
we have more data and more compute to train them to actually do it. Says Geoff
Hinton [1].

I have also seen what neural nets are incapable of. Specifically,
generalisation and reasoning. Says François Chollet of Keras [2].

AI, i.e. the sub-field of computer science research that is called "AI" and
that consists of conferences such as AAAI, IJCAI, NeurIPS, etc, and assorted
journals, cannot progress on the back of a couple of neural net architectures
incapable of generalisation and reasoning. We had reasoning down pat in the
'80s. Eventually, the hype cycle will end, the Next Big Thing™ will come
around and the hype cycle will start all over again. It's the nature of
revolutions, see?

So hold your horses. Deep learning is much more useful for AI researchers who
want to publish a paper in one of the big AI conferences, and to the FANG
companies who have huge data and compute, than it is to anyone else. Anyone
else who wants to do AI will need to wait their turn and hope something else
comes around that has reasonable requirements to use, and scales well. Just as
the original article suggests.

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[1] http://techjaw.com/2015/06/07/geoffrey-hinton-deep-learning-...

Geoffrey Hinton: I think it’s mainly because of the amount of computation
and the amount of data now around but it’s also partly because there have
been some technical improvements in the algorithms. Particularly in the
algorithms for doing unsupervised learning where you’re not told what the
right answer is but the main thing is the computation and the amount of
data.

[2] https://blog.keras.io/the-limitations-of-deep-learning.html

Say, for instance, that you could assemble a dataset of hundreds of
thousands—even millions—of English language descriptions of the features of
a software product, as written by a product manager, as well as the
corresponding source code developed by a team of engineers to meet these
requirements. Even with this data, you could not train a deep learning model
to simply read a product description and generate the appropriate codebase.
That's just one example among many. In general, anything that requires
reasoning—like programming, or applying the scientific method—long-term
planning, and algorithmic-like data manipulation, is out of reach for deep
learning models, no matter how much data you throw at them. Even learning a
sorting algorithm with a deep neural network is tremendously difficult.
Did the license agreement for messenger mention recording? If so they're probably covered.
Nobody likes whiteboarding

Honestly, I really like whiteboarding. I liked doing programming contests too, which are like whiteboarding except harder and you spend more time at them. There are times when I have gotten together with other like-minded software engineers and given each other whiteboard programming problems for fun. (Also to test whether problems are good interview problems.)

A lot of people like whiteboarding problems and like interviewing with whiteboarding problems. Those are usually also the people who pass whiteboarding interviews. Just because there are a lot of complaints about them, don't assume that represents everyone.
How is this fewer than 32,000 steps? Doesn't the act of running this gem on every file to clean it count as a step?
Most of the developed world is already reproducing below replacement rate.
The whole company is premised upon a conflict of interest. They rent space from the founder. What's another 5.9 million between friends?
> Elusive 18-atom ‘cyclocarbon’ could be a step towards molecule-scale transistors.

Can someone 'in the know' on semiconductor device fabrication expand on this more?
I’m shocked at how important software development is to the 21st century economy while we still don’t have anything even remotely resembling a licensing exam. I’d honestly welcome one, if for no other reason than to be able to make some assumptions about what my co-workers already know vs. what I’m going to have to explain: do they know what a socket is? Do they know how public key cryptography works? Do they know the difference between a unit test and an integration test? It might not be perfect, but it would be a heck of a lot better than what we have now.
My experience is with the WeWork in Berkeley. If we had a good connection our speed was great, but we would have to toggle wifi on and off to get that connection.