skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most fields where experience is "believed" fall in one of a couple of categories:

1) Extremely regulated fields with strict education, training and certification requirements (eg: a physician)

2) Fields where you have to show something. Designers frequently need to have extensive portfolios. Carpenters need both that and real world referrals of happy customers (not just nearly automated HR checks we have in software dev where no one will say anything bad out of fear of getting sued)

3) Trial period followed by sink or swim. Come work for us and if it doesn't work out we'll demote you or fire you. There's a few places like that (I think its Netflix's model?), but generally firing someone has everyone around calling foul.
> Once you're a customer, free or paid, there's very little reason to move out.

I find their sales tactics and pricing strategies aggressive and unfriendly.
>If it were not white supremacists but Islamists, it would be closed down in an instant and no one would bat an eye.

This is ironic since Cloudflare has famously been under fire because Prince specifically decided against removing ISIS websites from Cloudflare and vehemently defended his decision that Cloudflare should not be censoring anyone.

Prince himself even agrees with the parent comment, and he goes into pretty good detail in his blog post here [1] about why companies like Cloudflare should not be able to make the decision to remove websites, and that it should be left up to governments. I guess he got overruled on that stance when it came to 8chan, though.

1: https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/
Would love to know what you find scummy about them. I've been a freelancer in their network since 2014 and haven't found anything more egregious than any other agency from my dealings with them.
You're not wrong, Android and Google will always be buddies as long as Google is top dog. But, if you break Android out of Google it allows shareholders to challenge decisions by the management of Android.

There'd at least be the legal hurdle that Google has to actually always be the best choice. Bing could theoretically offer more for the top slot and Android can't factor in the other intangibles of putting Google first anyway like they currently do.
I hope you don't ding them on speed. "My own machine" has an ergo keyboard because typing hunched over a small laptop is always awkward.
You don't calculate a gradient on the data, you calculate a gradient on the parameters of the model.

Whether a gradient exists will depend on the type of data and what you're trying to predict.

But we can represent objects in a non-discrete way, with embeddings, hidden state vectors etc. My point is, people are getting around this problem.

Great progress has been made using that, e.g. advancements in NLU. But it is not a complete workaround. Embeddings don't work if your relationship is non differentiable. And you will lose the gradient for very long contexts (deep networks), even using new techniques like attention and transformers.
http://lalo.li/lsd/ is full of bugs. i made a version without glitches. it was only half as fun.
The root comment said "company wide illegal behavior". That's not the same as "nobody ever commits a crime".
This was insightful!
I'm trying to buy an OLPC XO4, and need 4 comrades to enable me
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO-4_Touch

Videos are basically only available for the original XO1, this update comes with dual core, lower power consumption and better materials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioAsNfmpE8Q

I managed to get a quote of $230 for each unit not including shipping, to me or reship to you guys.

I think this is probably one of the coolest little machines that's ever been made. It's FLOSS all the way down (fw, ec, graphics, peripherals etc) especially

Please do leave a comment if you are interested in coordinating.
>And in the interview, they compete in terms of poise, diction, rapport, and other intangibles

Don't forget the interviewer's arbitrary "system" for weeding out applicants that has no basis in research and varies from one hiring manager to the next.
I can only. speak to companies I've worked at, but their reason is docker.
If you give someone gold long enough, eventually they'll complain how heavy and ugly gold is.

Whiteboards are an unbelievable utopia compared to so many other disciplines. It's an amazing stroke of luck that software developers don't have to do medical-style "residencies". We don't have to rely on letters of recommendation from our professors (hope that professor you slaved away for for six years doesn't have a bad day when he writes your letter!) We don't have to pay thousands of dollars to take excruciating standardized tests to obtain certifications that expire in a decade. We don't have to do unpaid internships, we don't even have to wear business suits to the interview.

Software devs don't realize how many people in the world would kill to have things as good as we have them.
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I would expect to get stock if I joined a FTSE 100 company, if not most of the FTSE 350 as well.
Scaling doesn’t necessarily remove content. If you want to make a picture larger, you’ll have to fill in a hole.

https://perso.crans.org/frenoy/matlab2012/seamcarving.pdf (emphasis added):

”We propose a simple image operator, we term seam-carving, that can change the size of an image by gracefully carving-out OR INSERTING pixels in different parts of the image”

That paper (which I think is the paper introducing the seam carving technique) also has examples of widening pictures.
Slide Out Menu with SwiftUI
Actually making the profits donated to a non-Google entity works quite well. Then Google should have to bid as well. Then it is fair and competitive and would actually drive the market towards a competitive equilibrium
I believe i read somewhere the camera went out of order around the time of stay lol
I think certain pragmatic rich people do say that including Warren Buffet and Ray Dalio to name a couple. Those two have their faults, but IMHO are more directly connected and thoughtful about how actual value is made a little more deeply than your average making money via financial engineering.
4chan is too low status for what their posters do to count as journalism /how authorities actually reason
The question wasn't what pay was deserved for a _good CEO_. It was whether a a raise was deserved simply by being a CEO. And the fact you're pointing out - such a large difference in results between a good and bad CEO - points to the answer being "no", not "yes".
nothing wrong with the basic idea of using words, but this implementation serves as a hash to obfuscate locations through a closed standard. One could form a grid per word and make it finer in steps, but then people would understand buffalo is US, banana is NYC, and bogus is midtown, and be able to use the system without the whatthreewords service... thinking about it we do have those words already, US.NYC.midtown would work just fine...
Shareholders are ridiculously beholden to management during this era, and it almost defeats the purpose of public markets. There is a lot of evidence that shows that paying ungodly amounts of money to a CEO does little for company performance, but boards still allow it to happen.

I almost think there needs to be a way for shareholders to have a bigger say, perhaps a social network for shareholders, where opinions can form on best steps for keeping management accountable, and not wasting money on executive comp.
URL changed to that (from https://www.theinformation.com/articles/at-booming-toptal-no...)
I suspect this is purely for liability reasons.
There's a way of phrasing the arrangement that makes it sound obvious, but that's not how it's ever been phrased to consumers. I don't think that's a conclusion ordinary people are equipped to reach on their own.

To be frank, we live in a world where consumers are apparently too stupid to understand what the "www" in a URL means, or that signing into a browser is different than signing into Google, but are also expected to understand that the magical witch-lady that caries out intelligent conversations during Superbowl commercials has to rely on manual classification by low-payed contractors in a low-security facility.

If we in the tech community are annoyed that ordinary people don't realize that technology isn't magic, it's kind of our own fault.

I personally think privacy is a continuum, and while I recognize that technically a company might hand-process some data, I have expectations about how often they'd do it, and what the context would be.

Isn't it reasonable to expect that some tasks in a company (putting passwords into a database, scanning emails to update a calendar, etc...) shouldn't be handled by humans? If I tell an ordinary person that 'Google' is reading their emails, on average I think they're going to substitute 'Google' with 'a computer', not 'Greg from Sales.' Voice assistants and AI are the same way -- people assume the process is completely automated.
Most universities and schools have a similar setup. No idea how WeWork works but I assume you have some sort of user account already (how do you pay them otherwise?) that you can use to authenticate yourself. Then your AP just needs to talk to a auth gateway (usually RADIUS) which then talks to your actual auth backend (LDAP, AD, or whatever online login form they use).

For guests you either generate guest account or just have a guest network. We don't care if guests fight over the guest network because there aren't that many of them around at any one time... the problem is that actual WeWork customers shouldn't be fighting over insecure APs.
I've looked at your test results and Im sorry to say you did not pass the test. You need to work on your algorithms. Can we keep your CV? /automatically generated message
Without the chance to repair any lack thereof by demonstrating technical competence.

As if it's a given the whiteboard process actually provides a useful measure of technical competence.
I blame neutrinos flipping bits.
"really like? cause your workers are liars?" is not an ad hominem attack, it's contradicting you by pointing to evidence. Eyewitness testimony, by your workers contradicting you, is evidence.
Indeed, an independent Android, no longer with the sole purpose of driving Google account expansion, could charge hardware manufacturers. It's likely literally every hardware manufacturer would accept a modest licensing fee in exchange for not having to invent their own OS.

Something like Google's fake consortium from back in the day could have more impact, too. If Android was managed by something akin to the Open Handset Alliance, where significant hardware platform partners had a say in how Android was developed and monetized, it's likely you'd see a really healthy ecosystem of support for it, not controlled by a single entity.
If we could just accept that not all companies should cater to everyone, and each can pick their methods that work for them (and if you don't like it as an applicant, go elsewhere), things would be a bit simpler.

When Im looking for a job, I make it pretty clear what Im ok and not ok with, which will dictate which companies Ill interview at or not. If we were in a dotcom crash it would be a different story, but right now its definitely something people can do.
That's basically what my team's administrator does; in the old days the role would have been called "secretary". He doesn't seem to be living through a "hell on earth" and has a cheerful, chirpy demeanor, but I'll double-check tomorrow that he's not about to top himself.
Last time I was looking for a job (about 3 years ago in Seattle) I had a lot of trouble getting through the initial screening to even get to a technical interview. I didn't have a lot of luck until I started applying through AngelList. One notable thing about AngelList applications is that there was no HR/recruiter screening step you had to get through first.
I remember a few like Almond and one posted to HN a few months back that could change the color of some lights right in the local client session, no internet connection needed.
Chemists make first-ever ring of pure carbon
How come the text is centered instead of left or justified?
California is burning 26 times less than it did in 2018. Why?
Aren't neurotransmitters and receptors just smaller forms of electrical connections? A neurotransmitter is a chemical that causes a reaction in the receptor. You could argue that a chemical reaction is a data exchange, and a data exchange is just a type of electrical connection.

I'm getting a bit reductionist with my theory, admittedly...
The few times I have been able to get genuine feedback, I have always been incredibly grateful.
I quote that line from The Departed very, very frequently at work. It genuinely feels that way sometimes.
I think it would be amazing to see a co-working brand have locations absolutely everywhere, like 24 hour gyms. One price gets you into any of them and they're all the same. It would help with customer retention because they've already paid $300/mo to get in, so if they move or travel they're not paying someone else. They're sticking with you.

I'm surprised WeWork locations are so few and far between, while Snap Fitness has a location on every other corner. There can't be that much more overhead to a co-working space versus a 24 hour fitness center.
> If you really think anyone (..) can be reasonably expected to derive an optimal solution to problems like these...

I can see an usefulness to questions like these. Maybe you are precisely not looking for reasonable but for exceptional people. Or maybe you want to see how the candidate behaves in front of a difficult and concrete problem, even if you do not expect them to solve it.
Presumably asking questions like these would be fine if the expectation to solve wasn't there, and instead their performance was evaluated based on how their reasoning/approach changes with hints and discussion with the interviewer. But instead gotta be able to solve at least 1 question and make good progress on a follow up to be considered for an offer from a FAANG company.

Now if you'll excuse me I need to grind out some dynamic programming problems.
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I still get a paywall.
See, I think that is the wrong way of thinking about it. It gives the software manufacturer an asymmetrical advantage over the customer that I don't believe is fair.

If the demand for the product is still there, the software manufacturer should be forced to support it with at least basic security upgrades. We are just asking to build an entire infrastructure on a shaky foundation because of some ridiculous dogmatic ideology to technological progress. Progress is great, but maintaining is what makes the world go around, just check out the salary of an experienced COBOL programmer.
What's the subtext of this column?
> For example you can do a transform into the basis of polynomial functions if you wanted to (aka the Taylor series). Any basis you can cook up would do just as well so long as its a complete basis.

Just be warned that the polynomial you get depends on where you center your Taylor series. There are multiple different Taylor-series approximations for the same function, and each one only converges within a disk in the complex plane which does not include any poles.

If you try to fit the Runge function 1 / (1 + 25x^2) with a Taylor series centered at 0 you’re going to have a bad time.

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/uyjyjug07m
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I'm gonna make a bold prediction and say that exactly 0.0% of users were aware that they had this liability and acted on it.

If I make a product for millions of users and every single one breaks the law in the exact same way using my product, and common sense dictates that avoiding breaking the law with my product is near impossible, and I hide this fact in a a tiny disclaimer somewhere, am I completely innocent?

We are talking about a product with a 100.0% criminal ratio here. A product that for all intends and purposes cannot be used in even the most trivial manner without breaking the law.
I'm not sure that would be enough, because Android development is still principally built around Google's proprietary services and integrations. A spun-off Android would presumably support the same feature set for Google Search and say, Ecosia, alike.

Also, of course, Google can just lower their own existing Android spending line and inject it back into Search, to zero out any impact on them. Similar to how my local area likes to justify highway toll increases "we'll spend it on education!" but then stripping out education funding elsewhere to compensate, and using it for something else.
But in this case the organization is pocketing the money because everyone joined the organization without being given any lottery tix at all. That's the issue.

The boss told them that they would get lottery tickets later, but only if a hypothetical third person showed up and gave the boss even more lottery tickets. My point is not that the hypothetical third person never showed up, which in and of itself meant that the employees wouldn't get lottery tickets. My point is that the employees should never have joined the company in the first place on the basis of such a ridiculous promise. It was entirely predictable that they would get none of the lottery tickets. No one is going to pay more than they have to, nor will they pay up after they have what they want out of you. Just ask any prostitute.
Python is very powerful.

Reflection, meta-classes, decorators, comprehensions, slots, operator overloading, multiple inheritance and plenty of other features, some of them with semantics that changed across minor versions.

Python the full language, is at the same capability level as C++.

Many just don't realize it, because it is kind of targeted to teach programming and then people move on.
Odd - it worked at first for me, but I guess they cut it off pretty quickly.
>lured into the company with the promise of a big payoff if it became successful.

Sounds par for the course for startups
All hiring is extremely arbitrary. The reason coding is so bad is because there's this huge myth of lower class workers becoming coders overnight, just by studying for a few months of leet code.

There is an essay about the feminist movement in the 70s (https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm). It makes the reasonable point that people are likely to hire/recruit people similar to themselves. The code interviews are expected to remove this, if you stick a bunch of CS people in a room and tell them to make an unbiased interview process; you'll get the hell world we live in today. To get a job on a sales floor, most of it is just impressing the existing gate-keepers.

Coders live in a fantasy world where gate keeping isn't real. Except it isn't possible to remove that from hiring, no one wants to hire someone who doesn't integrate well in their team. So we have this hellworld where people can study for 3 months on leet code and nail the tech interview, they still won't get the job. Even though the "unbias" process says they should.
It's a property company that's planning tracking everything people do in their buildings.

>WeWork's latest acquisition is a small software company with 24 employees. Euclid is a spatial analytics platform...Euclid's website says the company is "focused on redefining the workplace experience of the future." Translation: optimizing every aspect of the physical workplace so workers are their most productive. Euclid does this by tracking how people move around physical spaces. Its technology can track how many people showed up to a meeting or to that after-work happy hour. The company can see where employees tend to congregate and for how long. It's all done over Wi-Fi.

https://www.inc.com/betsy-mikel/wework-is-trying-a-creepy-ne...
I don't think I agree with you.

The tweet from Amazon she was replying to said "come see what our warehouses are really like" - strongly implying that the workers who complained are dishonest - not misinformed, they work there. So, dishonest.

So her response was perfectly reasonable imo.
Another good one is the "does linked list have loop" question. If you don't know the answer, you have to figure it out from inspiration. Took over a decade for the first guy to do it.
MITM for HTTP and DNS are the main threats. An attacker can use one of these vectors to inject malicious JS into pages for you.

Otherwise, it depends on what else you use the network for. Maybe you set "SSL optional" in your mail client so your email password gets fired off in plaintext. Maybe your special radio streaming app is vulnerable to RCE. Maybe the latest Windows update accidently started sending your keylogs (ahem, "telemetry") over an unencrypted channel.
That's a nice strawman argument but it's not the scenario actually being played out. People may think that the talk to text option is no different than storing predictive text models on their own phone. That IS technically harder to think of because as I have stated most people don't know how that works and how much processing is needed for it.

There is a reason Facebook intentionally hid it's intent and usage and that's because participation would be markedly lower. Their motto is ask for forgiveness later and to hell with user privacy.
Specifically:

template<typename T> struct TD;

Instantiate this as ‘TD<decltype(foo)>’ to get the full name of the type.

Rust’s does seem more concise.
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It is not trivial to estimate how many unemployed people would have jobs as cooks in New York if New York's minimum wage were lower. The fact that NY's minimum wage didn't eliminate all the cook jobs does not by itself allow us to make the estimate.

Grandparent talks about robots, but it might also be the case that many cook jobs were displaced by the decision of consumers who would've eaten out if the minimum wage were lower deciding instead to cook at home or brown-bag it.

Make the US minimum wage high enough and the US might become like Spain where in 2014, 57.9% of young people in were unemployed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_unemployment_in_Spain#Cu...

Spain had a minimum wage of 752 euros per month in 2014:

https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=ml9s8a132hlg_&m...

Of course, Spain was in the middle of an economic slowdown in 2014, but it is not impossible for a severe slowdown to hit the US, and if it does, the US government probably would not compensate for the slowdown by lowering the minimum wage. (The Spanish government didn't lower its minimum in response to their slowdown.)
I briefly freelanced with them in 2014/2015 and I found it to be no better than E-lance or the like. They definitely didn't (at that time) do have any better clients, and they constantly pressured me to lower my rate (which I considered already to be low).
In VSCode, you can assign it to a variable and then mouse over to see what type it infers.
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> CloudFlare has very few competitors

In the personal/SMB spaces, you're right. Of course, enterprise remains their cash cow, where they compete with the big boys (akamai, incapsula, etc.).

> Neither site broke any US laws, but they were both controversial.

This is basically why so many are bothered by CloudFlare's decision. Who decides what's controversial? We've seen many examples in the past of normal views being "controversial".