skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think most of the dislike comes from the tendency of typical whiteboard questions to favor someone who happens to have seen a very similar problem recently, the same way someone who comes up with the correct answer to a brain teaser very quickly is usually someone who's seen it before. Many rely on that, in fact, since otherwise they'd be asking people to come up with a publishable (once published, perhaps) finding, under pressure, on the spot, in maybe an hour.

This might be fine if the "very similar problem" is something you'd likely have encountered in your work, but often they questions are drawn from a pool that most people in this line of work see rarely if at all, and if they do it's likely to be some very small subset of the questions, so dedicated study of the remainder of the pool still puts one at a large advantage, regardless how useful it is in doing your actual work.

They're measures of "how bad you want it" (how much of your time you spent memorizing stuff you don't actually use to prep for the interviews) and/or how recently you took an algorithms course. And maybe those are things worth measuring, I dunno. Maybe the absence of strong enough signals on either of those is important enough that it makes sense to use them to reject people who are otherwise very capable of doing the actual work.
"AI" today isn't well defined. Many people mean deep learning. Others mean ML. Others mean even more. More than anything, "AI" is a marketing term, where vague buzzwords thrive.
What’s the solution to so many world governments now being led by totalitarian intellectual degenerates, especially since it increasingly negatively affects the whole of humanity? Are we waiting for a vague, benevolent singularity to conquer us stupids? Or are we humans becoming the yeast cells in the brew of our own demise? I seriously posit this for intelligent answers as I’m stumped.
Why would we need 5G to do this? Is there something cheaper about it?

I thought it was just faster, and generally only usable at closer rangers because of higher frequencies. And those higher frequencies make it less capable of penetrating into buildings.
I think the point was that we would have roughly the hardware needed to create superhuman AI. Then it would follow that "shortly after", someone would have figured out the rest.
What gets me is the entitlement around OP's post. They're older so clearly they don't have time to brush up on DS and algos. That rubs me the wrong way, as some one who transisitioned in to CS from another field and worked on learning that stuff. Yeah the signal is mostly on how many hoops you'll jump through and base analytic ability, but everyone has to do it and expecting a free pass just because you're old pisses me off.

I think the previous generation is so used to the idea of "pay your dues and skip ahead" popularized by their parents that even the idea that a fresh grad might work harder and be a better fit destroys their whole world view.

I've known plenty of talented engineers of all ages; they all can crush a white board interview; just because OP doesn't want to doesn't imply discrimination (or at least unlawful discrimination).
Well I don't know about q learning being talked about more but unsupervised reinforcement learning definitely needs more attention in general.
I've used Gin for several small to medium projects without too much difficulty. I think Gin is a good way to learn quickly since its ecosystem introduces you to a lot of the pieces you will need. Personally, I don't do enough web development to grow out of it, since my web related projects are not a primary focus.

One thing to note is that Gin's Context is not the standard context.Context, which some find problematic. Most (vocal?) Gophers prefer sticking with the standard library and Gorilla.
Yep. Normally we'd like to think that the Senate confirmation process would stop outright unethical enablers of presidential misconduct from getting confirmed. But, here we are.
an interesting article from the other day, Confused investors keep buying FORD, thinking it's Ford - https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/12/investing/ticker-symbol-confu...

Maybe they are trying to stop these types of scenarios by using NET.
GE did not sell all of GE Capital; they are still in business and part of GE. From GE's answer to Markopolos:

> The Company ended the second quarter with $16.9B of Industrial Cash excluding BHGE, $12.5B of liquidity at GE Capital and access to $35B of credit facilities.

https://www.genewsroom.com/press-releases/ge-addresses-claim...
Code generation is quite possible. See for example the one-shot program induction in Excel's FlashFill:

https://people.csail.mit.edu/rishabh/papers/cacm12.pdf

Which btw is absolutely an artificial intelligence application albeit one that has nothing to do with neural nets and deep learning.

Perhaps, if your company has trouble with acquiring data and training large deep neural nets, you could benefit from looking at other techniques that do not have such stringent requirements and that are much better suited to smaller companies (i.e. anyone but Google, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix et al).
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> I confirmed and started reading it out to her, and she hung up on me.

That's... troubling. I would have called back specifically to complain about that person. That's absurd.
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Note the link mentions tire abrasion not burning.

By their estimate, roadside tire grind results in more microplastics in waterways than clothing, lost plastic pellets and building paint combined.
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I’m not saying it’s right or wrong. But the reality of the job market is that if you’re 40+ and not willing to spend months doing leetCode and don’t do what I’m suggesting, you are going to end up in a situation where you can’t find a job.
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> so it makes sense to put the important information

Both sides of the equality check are equally important.
That future sounds depressingly like the present!
I wasn't there, but from what I understand, the whole place looked like a concept drawing from a magazine, and there was nothing as convenient or comfortable as a couch with actual cushions. So that's one problem solved. As for the bathroom, maybe an infrared volume sensor of some sort?

Yeah, the whole thing was pretty dumb.
...and the top skill of most tech people is spreading superficial, malignant stereotypes of professions they fail to understand. Those include everything that is not a direct derivative of classical logic and mathematics, because they refuse to consider any creative or social domains to be "real".

Because of this narrow view of the world, the tech crowd is constantly perplexed by the continuing dominance of that other tribe in their organisations as well as society at large. This inferiority complex causes them to indulge in ritualistic in-group demonisation, whereas the reverse manifests mostly in brief interludes of eye-rolling whenever the internet goes down.
As Daily Stormer and 8chan have shown, CloudFlare has very few competitors and seemingly none that don't censor.

8chan jumped ship to BitMitigate when CloudFlare dropped them, and then BitMitigate dumped them when they had their backbone link yanked out from under them.

Neither site broke any US laws, but they were both controversial.
People and companies that can rush do rush but there are still lot's of projects where developers are using old frameworks.
Satellite boxes would have plugin modems for this.

Sometimes they’d give you a bit of credit, but others wouldn’t activate the program unless you phoned home.
Should people not complain about a company's poor work conditions on a public forum? I'm really confused, because what you're arguing here is that there is no reason to say anything ever unless you are taking immediate action to fix that.

I mean, by your logic, couldn't I ask you why you are making this post and not instead making lasting change by starting a competing social media site where no non-impactful conversations happen?
For me, the bar is not high. If you can just replace the knowledge worker that is lower than 1 standard deviation less than the mean worker, that will be enough for me to say that it is General AI. What is a good test for this?:

In under 4 hours can you have a program where I write something like a very detailed email (maybe I spend 10 minutes trying to craft the email) where I give a direct link to an internal file folder where there is a .pdf file and a .xlsx file. Each file contains names and birthdates amoung other things. I need the program to combine the data in these files and output it to .xlsx for me, giving me a list of names and birthdates from each file, combined in some sort of coherent manner that I can make sense of.

If you can get a program to do something like that via a detailed email-like directive before lunch, not a bunch of python that constantly breaks every 6 months, that's beating about 30% of the workforce and might as well be General AI.
There are heat-sensitive stickers that change color if above some threshold.

It's on packaged meat in Norway I believe.
A second to realize what you did there it took me.
thanks a lot for articulating my point better then I did, but I don't really care about the downvotes because I know that my opinion will be accepted within 5-10 years if the trend keeps going the way it is... ;)
Time is money. They claim they've been investigating this for a year. That means they have a lot invested into it.
Me too, but others have problem with hearing me. It's harder to control my own volume and I tend to speak more softly because of the feedback the earplugs create.
What if the singularity already happened? How would we know? It’s unfalsifiable unmeasurable woo-woo.

The singularity and AGI are apocalypse for atheists.
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But why sample on realworld data from non-employees?
It seems clear that the bond holders will not be getting any positive coupon and they are guaranteed to lose money. That's why this is in the news and we're talking about it.

As far as I understand the issuer cannot just sell the the bonds at 105% or whatever to account for the loss upfront with the price converging to 100% in 10 years (because these are callable bonds) and apparently they have some technical problems to implement negative coupons: "The negative callable bond is creating some technical difficulties. Jyske said it will initially be registered as a floating-rate bond until the systems of VP Securities, Denmark’s central securities depository, are adapted to handle negative coupons for fixed-rate bonds."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-05/first-10-...

In case you think negative yields cannot happen, it is definitely possible. Many government and corporate bonds in Europe are trading at a price which is above the value of the nominal plus all the remaining coupons.

Germany has issued last month zero-coupon bonds which were sold above par and they are trading now at 106.87 euros (and the only thing you will get back if you hold them to maturity is 100 euros in 2029).

https://www.deutsche-finanzagentur.de/en/fact-sheet/sheet-de...
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Is that really true in practice, though? Are there any (ANY!) examples of the issue actually arising and not going in the owner's favor?
> I think I should move to correct-horse-battery-staple style in the future.

The KeePass plugin Readable Passphrase Generator[1] is great for generating Diceware[2] passwords/usernames/security question & answers

Source: Found on KeePass plugins page[3]

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Operator: Story checks out, I'm going to reset it to "Smith" for you.
I always wondered why nobody had release a tablet / laptop type system that accepts the compute module... I guess it's finally happening!
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I guess this is just a matter of prioritization. Though Google has internal infrastructures tightly integrated to each other, which might make the situation harder to introduce new external technologies like Rust.
It seems like an intentional reference to this quote (Jamie Zawinski):

"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems."
Anyone applying for a junior position should expect to have skills matching or exceeding the other people applying for the same position. Saying candidates should get a free pass because of age sounds far more discriminatory than an even playing field.

If you've been in the industry for years, have a stalled career, and are looking down the ladder for a job is there a sinister bias against age, or are you just not qualified?
That's a much better reason than the legal one, imo.
>it's just sneaky paid advertising is bad.

Not possible to detect under these circumstances, then.
My understanding was that 5G enables you to have a ton of low-bandwidth subscribers in a cell, in a way that LTE isn't able to.

Maybe i'm wrong, I'm no 5G expert
In an earlier comment, you said you weren't a "framework guy".

If you were you would have heard this cogent argument dozens of times already as it's fairly common knowledge to people who are into frameworks.

Consider trying to understand why frameworks are created before using them. Understanding the motivations behind a framework will help you navigate the api easily and could change your opinion about whatever frustrates you.
If you are just using the basic service for a firewall/DDOS protection and CDN there doesn't seem to be much lock in. If other competitors come along, and they undoubtedly will if Cloudflare proves the value of the market, it should just be a matter of switching your DNS records to said competitor. Maybe I'm not imaginative enough, so please share if I'm not thinking of something, but it doesn't seem like their market share makes it harder for other competitors, they aren't monopolistic.
Are banks, airlines, hospitals, or big retailers not named Amazon tech companies? If you took their tech away now, could they stay in business?
Disclaimer - I'm a VP E at Engineer.ai

Happy to elaborate - in a nutshell what we're trying to do is automate as many parts of the traditional software development lifecycle as we can, and for whatever cannot be automated, put in place the right tooling to allow for repeatable results.

Our thesis is that most applications today have a huge amount of duplication at a code level, and process level. We're trying to use reusable building blocks (well structured libraries, templated user stories, wireframes, common errors, etc.), in order to immediately solve that duplication. That being said, we're not talking about automatic code generation, it's more about being able to assemble these reusable building blocks together at the beginning of a project so you have a better starting point. There will always be customization required for any project however, and that is a human led process.

Apart from actual development, we're also trying to automate processes around project management, infrastructure management, and QA.
For example, what we've already been able to do is automatically price and create timeline estimates for a project without any human involvement, determine which creators on our network are best suited for a given project, evaluate and onboard developers on to the network, setup developer environments, and a lot more!
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I use Vim/vi. The best decision I've made in programming.
You can use Tor Browser set to Safest mode and read it easily.
Am I reading this right when it looks likes they spend twice as much money on sales as engineering?

There was also a very strange spike in stock compensation in 2018, $27,000,000 compared to $2,755,000 in the previous year and $1,849,000 in the next. What happened there?
They can change Ísland to simply Island.
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It's more that this is stuff you haven't used in years (because people don't write heapshort algorithms for a living) but you have been practicing and learning a ton of others (adding value to your company) that simply get eclipsed behind damned pedantic interviews.

Let me put it this way. I use 4-6 prog languages at work. On a weekly basis. But you can say that I confused the syntax for the language I wrote in the interview and fail the interview on that basis and you would be legit from your PoV. Point is -in real world- I don't need and it offers no value to remember the exact syntax between Python, Ruby, Nodejs to do this or that. The thing is I can search the syntax and have it in a sec because I know the logic behind them all. And most of actually working people I know are very busy staying sharp in what they do rather than wasting time upskiling in WB sorting algos.
We will never know. CD32 was cool but way too late, it could have worked if Commodore was flush with money and had some sort of plan, but it had neither. CDTV was cool but very expensive.

But what I meant - what if there could have been arcade games based on the Amiga, so you would not have to port it to Amiga, but it would have already have been Amiga?

And games console with Amiga hardware but say, 256kbyte RAM and 32kbyte ROM cartridges would still have been an awesome games console. All games for that hardware would have been trivially ported (and possibly updated with more graphics and sounds) for the computer Amiga.
> Why couldn't we ...

Steps involved:

- Convince people that it's necessary ("do we really need it?")
- Find a commonly accepted measure ("how much can I personally still travel")
- Prevent loop holes ("But my neighbour has been to Mallorca recently")
- Put laws into power. Globally (And one small country won't join the stuff and you'll end up full of envy at the point before, but on a higher scale).
- Enforce the law. Globally. Fight corruption.

Sure, we could... But try to limit gun posession in the US, or speed limits in Germany. Whatever people feel will reduce their freedom will make them oppose.

If your idea is to implement all this democratically, it's a very weak selling point for politicians. If you pitch it, you're even missing the pain point. Most people do care way more about their next weekend than about the "future of mankind".

> 8bn isn't a problem in itself, the hard cap is at least 50% more.

Also a strong claim. What is it based upon? If we cannot scale the western life style for any of the 8bn, even if we could technologically, we're already behind the hard cap. It's not just "feed" them all, it's making them all "happy", reducing "envy" etc. More people, more conflicts.

8bn is a number this planet has never seen before (like it has never seen before this amount of pollution), and yet you claim that this "experiment" can be enlarged by 50%?

> Somehow anything short of the status quo became "getting back to the middle ages"

According to climate science, ~0.6t - 1.2t is the annual budget per person, if you want to stop climate change[0]. Now, look at this map[1]:

Below 1 tonne per person is the lightest colour on this map. Compare the living standard of these countries to the middle ages and you'll come close.

[0]: https://www.quora.com/What-should-be-a-persons-average-carbo...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
They are "just tools" in the context of the way that term was used in the comment I was responding to.

I'm not sure you were following the point. It was about the culpability of the manufacturer/creator. In your example, it would mean Dell should shoulder some responsibility for somebody misusing their product. The fact is some people think use/trading of certain financial tools should be illegal and that those who caused problems with them should be held responsible. I'm not sure where that line is for financial tools but we already have guardrails in other areas of society to address similar concerns.
I'm curious about the example code at https://vlang.io/compare (apologies if you answered this before):

- Does the compiler use escape analysis to determine that the `cursor` variable needs to be heap allocated? If not, how does it know that the worker threads won't outlive the stack frame that owns `cursor`? If so, when does the allocation get freed? And does implicit heap allocation conflict with the goal of being as fast as C?

- How does the compiler know that the `lock` block is the only code that touches `cursor`? Does it still work if the `lock` block is in a subroutine? Does that require whole-program analysis? If two different `lock` blocks touch the same variable, are they implicitly a single `lock`?
One of the founders pulled $700m out of the company, bought properties with that money, and now leases them back to the company. This could've been a solid company if it owned the properties directly.
Well then you're violating the CFAA. You're a horrible person who deserves to go to jail for what you did. (I never said I agreed with the how the CFAA is written…)
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The ones that are used the most. Accurate numbers might be impossible, but not many search engines see heavy use, and those are the ones you want to show if you care about consumers. This is the best you can do in the absence of lookng inside the brains of consumers.
CloudFlare offers Privacy Pass where with 1 captcha completion you generate something like 20 tokens, meaning you can bypass 20 captchas after that. Sadly nearly every website just uses pure Google captcha which forces you to go through the ordeal every single time.
You can. Just use DVB-C or HDMI instead. Don't connect it with ethernet or WLAN to the Internet. That way, it becomes a "dumb TV". We do pay for the whole package, unfortunately.

Also, you might want to opt out of using an Amazon or Google HDMI dongle for privacy reasons. Another thing to consider is that dumb TVs traditionally have IR which has its pros and cons.
Yeah. This gives me about 0 pause.

Imo personal opinion, 'AI' at this point is about augmentation of human action to reduce costs (time, materials, human attention, compute, etc), and actually, if you know what you're doing, it works and can make you money.

My group works extremely heavily in this space. We use a combination of human annotation and ML to speed up human annotation and improve the products of the ML component. Rinse, wash hands, recur until 95% of predictions are 95% accurate or better. Use ML to find the 5% of predictions that aren't up to snuff and lay hands on them (this is the part where you have to pay people). There is nothing shameful about including humans in the process.
Very interesting.
The downwards spike of the Trump election is very similar to the upwards spike of xmas day.
Nothing more, just an observation.
Yes, it uses Mono under the hood as the .NET runtime.
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"Missing drivers" doesn't quite accurately convey what Apple did. They bastardized the NVMe spec, requiring OS developers to add Apple-specific workarounds to their existing drivers.
One option is, instead of a single representative communicating with all of the other groups, a group can appoint a different ambassador for dealing with each of the other groups. Most people then will have both their normal job and also be responsible for one inter-group communication channel, jointly with their counterpart from the other group. I imagine this sort of a structure would have plenty of its own faults and idiosyncrasies, though.
I like where this is going. Almost daily now, we're seeing reports of "AI startups/companies/products/features" getting unmasked. Technical people knew it all along, but corporate-speak, prefabricated demos, half-baked products and puff pieces were slowly inflating that bubble. Glad it's bursting.