skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I failed at FizzBuzz in a coding interview, my first coding interview in fact. It wasn’t because I don’t know what modulo is or couldn’t forgive out the core logic... I just completely choked and my mind went blank. I made a function using a switch operator, but I couldn’t figure out how to do a for loop or apply. Hot Shame!

I work well under pressure. I generally have no issues with speaking in public or performing; I majored in music in college. My programming skills have lots of room for improvement, but that hasn’t stopped me from writing lots of useful, maintainable, performant code.

It sucked to fail at FizzBuzz. I’ve been working at my algorithms and syntax, but also trying to code in front of others as much as possible.
Why would I try it in Atlanta? I'm not arguing nobody should be allowed A/C. My point is that there's a lot that I do to lessen the amount that I use here in DC.
Probably against the terms of service of most websites.
Were you referring to my comment?
Pythonic way to reverse a string would be my_str[::-1].
I am sorry for delay.

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Google employees do not agree with all of the things Google does.

Disclaimer: also google employee.
Saying it's okay, that's up to you. Do they get away with it? YES!
Electric will make a huge difference when it takes diesel engines off the roads.
> So the win is not having to manage something

Exactly!

> How is that a fair comparison?

Not only is it a fair comparison, but I'd say it's the entire raison d'etre of using any orchestration platform: You get to farm out bits of the infrastructure to others. Getting on k8s enables you to not have to run your own infrastructure, whereas having VMs being your abstraction sorta by definition does not.
Not the application itself. ITA was mainly acquired for their data, Flights was developed from the ground up.
I've been using that trick for a few years... The problem I have with it, even with hiya installed, is that it still causes me to lose concentration and all of my blood to boil. If I had my hands on the people doing this...
I think _theoretically_ the way this is thought to work is that Amazon or Google could take out daily ads in all major media that say "vote for John Doe, he's a great guy!", i.e. well-heeled companies could do candiates' campaigning for them, while we ordinary people can't afford that much public exposure.

That may be true enough, but it's not a phenomenon we've been seeing. What we _have_ been seeing in the past few years, especially after _Citizen's United_ and the dawn of PACs, is wealthy corporations legally handing money to candidates to do their campaigning with.

This would and should have nothing to do with free speech, except that there have been recent (SC?) rulings declaring financial donations, i.e. money, to be a form of speech, so basically unlimited political donations are considered protected under the 1st Amendment. I personally consider this a grave error in judgment, undoubtedly politically motivated.
I agree, but the test is also dreadfully easy. Literally it's hard to see why anyone would fail.

The more interesting question is why did they fail? Why is this a bad barometer or what is making this a bad barometer despite it being so easy?

If you took a career software engineer that would otherwise fail a fizzbuzz interview and put him alone in a room with a computer for an unlimited amount of available time and made it known that he's just solving a fizzbuzz question for fun and not being judged for a future career... I'm willing to bet that he will could walk out of that room in reasonable time with a working fizzbuzz.

If you did this for 100 individuals with the exact same credentials as the person above I'm pretty sure you could get 99 people who walk out of that room with a working fizz buzz in reasonable time.
The flip side is something like trying to sign up for an Instagram account when you have a pi-hole running: completely broken experience, a cryptic "Something went wrong, try again later." message followed by an insta-ban for the account/email, with no indication that is was because you're blocking ads/trackers, nor any indication anywhere that you should not try to sign up whilst running any blockers.
This would be bash-0.93, around March, 1989.
So it might actually be worse, since news of the indicators might already mean that cutbacks in payroll are taking place. We would see that with the August jobs number (due out in the first week of next month). Smart companies want to be ahead of the recession curve.

The good news is that the labor force is at record highs. IOW were as close to full employment as we have ever been.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/02/us-jobs-report-july-2019.htm...

The bad news is there's no where to go but down.
> This is a top-of-the-front-page, well-researched article in a leading newspaper -- it's the kind of coverage that destroys hard-earned reputations built over decades.

It's the kind of thing that _should_ destroy reputations. But that doesn't happen all that much anymore.

We're in a weird place with information and communication where shameful acts are accepted either in ambivalence, apathy, or bullheadedness.
AFAIK Italy too.
Are you sure? I don't recall it using GTK3 on Mac.

> A native Mac OS X GUI application

> GTK+ and Qt GUI applications for Linux, BSD, etc.

https://github.com/transmission/transmission
Pray tell me how exactly should a news publisher survive without targeted advertising.
Public should pay for stuff or accept targeted advertising
Congress only did that to protect themselves. The data broker industry is too big and important in modern politics for them to take action against it.
> What does "mofo" mean here

Motherfucker
The plague of advertising will always find a new home to infect.
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Ah yes, machine learning architecture transformers, I knew that.
Thanks for the insight, also for mentioning convolutional LSTM, I wasn't aware such a thing existed.

> Attention is basically a memory module, so if you don't need that it's just a waste of compute resources.

But aren't CNNs also like a memory module (ie: they memorize how leopard skin looks like)? I guess attention is a more sophisticated kind of memory, "more dynamic" so to speak.

Anyway, I'm glad to hear that a transformer architecture isn't totally stupid for my task, I will look up the literature, there seems to be a bit on this matter.
Rich?! Rich Stallman is that you??
These type of behavior has always been prevalent with any for-profit corporation.

This type of behavior has always been prevalent with any corporation staffed by humans.

You don’t need a profit motive to get these sorts of things. Look at what the gov’t has done in the name of national security, war against crime, etc.
Magit is probably the most productive git client I've ever used. The only caveat is that some operations on certain repos can take a lot of time and CPU power, and lock up Emacs while they're going on.
You sort of can’t directly calculate externalities. That’s what makes them externalities.

The common answer is to not calculate it but to add a carbon tax. If you make gas more expensive, road taxes higher and non-renewable energy higher cost, the market actors will change their behavior.

As for the infrastructure cost, you pay that in either case and it’s more efficiently built the denser things are.
It's also a matter of the government allowing a city to be built. This sounds trivial, but is actually the biggest component to the lack of affordability in SF and NYC.

There are places where a lot of people want to live, but the gov't is actively preventing housing being built there. Instead of allowing the next increment of development (SFH -> missing middle -> mid-rise apartment buildings -> high rise apartment buildings), many US cities do their best to block development wherever possible. The only developments that can make it through the process are 1) huge, 2) well-backed by capital, and 3) hugely profitable.

We need less Hudson Yards, and more of https://twitter.com/mnolangray/status/1163863367439802369
Everyone? Seriously, there is no recycling. There is trash that ends up in the United States and trash that ends up in Asia.
They should have switched to year based versioning. It makes a lot of sense for products that have a major version every year like Android, iOS, and macOS.
"Android 2019" would be far easier to remember than a random number, and you can tell how old a version is right away.
I love the Do You!!! show. Great recommendation.
Exactly... HA is about being able to sleep more peacefully each night.
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Bear with my potentially dumb solution, but i'm trying to understand what an interviewer would look for in answering questions like these. For the third, in python, could you make both sets and print the symmetric difference? Does this (a) demonstrate practical knowledge of python or (b) necessitate a follow up from the interview to provide a solution that does more of the "work"?
Thoughts on Project Soli
How ever ad locking and do not track extensions does not block ip tracking. Say that you can read browser window size + ip that is unique enough to track you.
Ad analytics and optimization goes far beyond Facebook and Google, although most of the resulting ads are run on their ad networks. Numerous established companies and startups in the space.
And there's no cost to mining coal? It also can't be transported through a pipeline like gas can.
Much like communism, agile is only agile while it is working well.
Even with decent containers, making software that's good enough for everyone to use is considerably more difficult than making it for yourself and a few friends.

It's okay to do things that don't scale at all, and also okay to make a proof of concept and let someone else worry about scaling it up.

That said, you might want to look at Chromebooks and the Windows and Mac app stores to see what's going on with containerization beyond mobile. (Also, web browsers.)
If you have a shellfish allergy you are told to avoid eating insects. I know that is the case for crickets at least. So having them compared isn't that out there of an idea.
Ya, my rule is that if it's under $10 then I can probably find it on aliexpress (unless I need it relatively quickly). If it's a well known brand, I'll probably buy it from that brand's website. Everything in between is usually ok to buy on amazon, but even that list is getting shorter and shorter for me.
Just to be clear: I was not at all advocating less regulation.
David Koch, conservative donor and philanthropist, has died at age 79
My suggestion is to avoid cookies completely since they'd be shared with all services on the same IP/hostname because they ignore ports. I'd also add a random "key" as the first thing in the URL path so you'd end up with something like "http ://127.0.0.1 :1234/Lxk8gE7qnClf/actual/path/here" and have everything else tell the user to open the app with your icon or something.

This prevents malware from accessing your app while avoiding leaking authentication cookies to other http services on localhost.
Sure, but I submitted first. For some reason the engine accepted the latter one too.
It's more of a gray area because the same author wrote them and clearly intended them to be used together. Intent can be a very large factor in civil cases.
Maybe I'm just falling victim to corporate propaganda, but I'm pretty sure wild (Alaskan) salmon is truly sustainably fished, as are sardines and anchovies
Wasn't he hired by Obama?
https://writingstreak.io/ shows me the following in Firefox:

Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead

Firefox detected an issue and did not continue to writingstreak.io. The website is either misconfigured or your computer clock is set to the wrong time.

It’s likely the website’s certificate is expired, which prevents Firefox from connecting securely. If you visit this site, attackers could try to steal information like your passwords, emails, or credit card details.
Europeans always bragging about their functioning governments.
No disagreement there. I'm just curious what this looks like if we advance our infrastructure enough. I'm not suggesting we prioritize suburbs at all. (I wasn't actually suggesting any course of action)

I am curious if the intent here is that people should not live in the suburbs or the country, just in cities where transportation can be most efficient.
I feel that the brushed metal tone or shading that earlier gnome/2.x gtk+ had was very aesthetically pleasing, not seen it replicated anywhere else.
Facebook and Google are the monsters on the scene. Most sites make even less money. So the problem you get into isn't even the $5/month-too-many-places problem, it's the microtransaction problem, where broadly speaking the fixed costs of the transaction, both monetary and cognitive effort, exceed the value of the transaction. We haven't fixed that even in 2019, where transaction have gotten a lot cheaper than they were in 1995-ish. Hence, "alternate universe". I won't quite say it's an impossible alternate, but it sure isn't a likely one. Even if I could travel back in time with the power to mandate it in 1995, by 2000 someone would have had the bright idea of being advertising-based and it would have a very good chance of strangling the for-pay industry.

Probably more interesting is the question of what's stable in 2030. There are steps governments could theoretically take to really turn the tide of things. One of my favorites is a 1-cent-per-impression advertising tax. I am well aware of how expensive that it relative to a normal ad impression today; it's part of the point. Let the really lucrative stuff like luxury goods and mesothelioma ads continue, but kill the massive surveillance industry sprung up to wring literally .001 cents per impression more out of you at the cost of creating 80% of a ready-made police state. I think the costs the advertising industry are externalizing on to us are hard to overstate; I would quite literally and with full knowledge of what I am saying put them as on par with environmental externalities.
There should be a plug and play mobile app for that?
Wow I actually thought of building a tool similar to this for CTFs, specifically this feature:

https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef/wiki/Automatic-detection-o...

This is REALLY cool. Basically given an unknown string or file from something CTF-y you can run this tool on it to look for low-hanging fruit like it being e.g. base64 encoded.
Sure but many websites load resources and such with JS - the request might not contain the content but 3 seconds on the page with JS to let it fill in everything, etc.

SPA's often (but not always) do this. Content is loaded in via React components and such...
It also helps to have that phone number in a low-value NPA. Robocallers have advanced beyond just random numbers now. They're targeting specific area codes and prefixes based on conversion rates.
On the 
: GPT-2 and this model were trained by sampling fixed-length segments of text from a set of web pages. So if the sample happens to start near the end of one page then it will fill in the rest of the length with the beginning of another page. The model learns to do the same. TalkToTransformer.com hides this by not showing what comes after the 
 token.
I have read about this idea many times and wonder how it hasn't been made yet.

I personally feel like lisp in the right clothing could accomplish what you describe. I am currently working on http://colortree.app to do some of this, but it is still in its early stages.
In other words, this Amazon is burning as well!

It's time to reconsider the relationships with these kind of markets, which contributed to the demise of countless small businesses across the country, these were typically run by passionate people who cared both about their product and customer generally, sure, exceptions were to be found.

We need to move on from the get something for nothing attitude on top of the fact that we don't need to buy unlimited stuff (as one could say the smaller stores system cannot cater to all of our cravings).

Quality over quantity; and let's take back our internet, build a website, a nice following, take good care of your customers and build a brand. Personally, I never went for any kind of markets, stuck to my website and I am still in business (since 2004) due to my customers whom I care for dearly every time they need my services.

The internet was designed as a decentralized system, why would anyone give that up so easily? Cheap stuff and convenience.

A quality obituary is in order if we continue this way.
What is alpha, in this context?
Books are a good source. But if you want to learn how to become a real leader the best two things you can do are, have always been and will ever be these two:
- understand yourself. Become aware of your internal system and what moves you in life. You have an entire ecosystem and forces inside of you that you're not aware of. Learn how to master them and people will follow you. They will follow you cause most of them are clueless and aimless and just go through the motions. And when they meet someone that even slightly resembles a person that figured something out in life and for him/herself, they will follow.
- dive into social relationships. No amount of self-help books can benefit you like real life experience. Go out and talk to people, mess up, embarrass yourself, look like a fool and then mess up again. Only in this way, you will actually learn something of value that will stick with you until the day you die and that will make you a true leader.
Hope it helps and good luck!
The Jobs things was bad and it makes it harder to defend things like this, but this is Apple legitimately trying to inform some of their more clueless customers.

Of course any card is going to get dirty, there is literally nothing that can be done to stop it. But some people aren't that bright and would just automatically assume the "Apple" one is perfect and will stay perfect.

What I'm trying to say is, don't hate on Apple. Hate on the users who make running a story like this necessary.
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Its a brilliant tool, has replaced visiting 3 or 4 different mini sites to do some basic conversions etc..

EDIT: Other thing to note, is you can define, a set of operations, ex: https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/#recipe=ROT13(true,true,13)

and get a shareable link
I'd have more faith in it if it didn't include the phrase "use best efforts."
> To be honest I don't know why so many programmers fail.

Because many people are not capable of programming.

More importantly, the school you go to has nothing to do with your capability of a programmer. I worked with quite a few people in my CS department who couldn't program their way out of a paper bag. Most were still very bright people who I assume figured out successful careers.

I suspect a lot of the recent CS grads who can't do fizzbuzz end up following careers that don't require programming.

It's also important to understand that Computer Science is not Software Engineering. Computer Science is fundamentally a mathematical field. Don't conflate the two.
I really hate people think that China is so green, while they are building coal mines in other countries.

They just import it without pollution in China, but it's happening elsewhere.

So a carbon tax like you suggest would do more harm.
I started getting the "Apple Support" scam robocall a couple weeks ago, and I decided to have some fun with the operator who tries to get you to install malware on your system. Slow playing, playing dumb, acting like they are talking about fruit not computers, and so on. It was fun for a little bit.

So they must have put me on a different list. Now I get the same call with the same intro, but when you press "1" - it connects you not to the scam operator, but to another hapless individual who's been robo-dialed. I get this call about 10x a day now.

I hope they throw the book at these clowns.
If you miss IRC maybe scour through the networks on https://netsplit.de, find some channels you’d be remotely interested in and hang out in them.
Decentraleyes to defeat CDN tracking. Random user agent to make fingerprinting harder.
IMO that is one of the most annoying misfeatures i've seen... on websites it is practically always used to distinguish between mobile and desktop, which misfires completely if you have a 1366x768 monitor and you aren't running a fullscreen browser, whereas on desktop it is always done because the application is ignoring all the screen real estate it gets by padding everything like balloons, using titanic font sizes (ignoring the system wide settings for fonts and sizes, of course), etc.

In theory it should be applications automatically showing and hiding features based on the available allocated area so that you could have (on desktop at least) multiple applications visible at the same time and have a dynamic view of their content's details just by resizing them. Which is a good idea.

In practice however it ends up as a band-aid for self-inflicted deficiencies.
This is good, no doubt, but judging programming ability based on how they answer these questions is severely prone to fail because 1) this relies heavily on the interviewer's skills and 2) its so easy to game this system.

I've had so many co-workers talk, passionately, about stuff they don't have the faintest scent about. It's shocking.

Unless you actually oversee a candidate work and reason through a representative problem, implement it and articulate it, there's no good way to gauge competence.
I must be getting some real low-end robocallers on my work phone then, because I got six of these neighbor prefix calls just yesterday.
China is grasping at straws with this. They are really out on a limb.
Silicon Valleys' slave labor force that makes the tech plantation work.
>Great, so now on top of all the other $#!% farmers have to deal with they also need to be concerned their going to get blood cancer. So what is the suggested alternative? Farmers can't just not use weed killer. They need an effective weed killer and it has to be cheap.

I really don't think this should have been downvoted to hell. We spend every Monsanto thread talking about how bad the company is and I think we can all agree at this point that the company would be best off dead. However, there are still very real farmers out there who need real solutions to avoid going bankrupt. Why can't we talk about all the good weedkiller companies that we should be buying from?
Is there a more widely held image of teleportation held by lay people?
It's not ultra realistic for less populated areas. But large cities have no excuses.
Submitting a HN link with a URL that was posted recently will give it an upvote.

Per the domain submission history (https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=starterstory.com), he does not employ this strategy for all submissions, likely only ones with traction to obfuscate things.
It's transferred, not cloned (which implies a copy). If you could clone quantum states; then you'd get FTL communication.
There's also the huge sargassum seaweed problem that is heavily influenced by the mass deforestation of the Amazon [1] (among others), which is significantly harming the beaches, impacting wildlife, and values of properties in Florida and Cancun and on all beaches along that whole side of the peninsula.

I just came back from a trip to Mexico and it was everywhere and smells awful. You can smell it driving on the highway from the airport. Its diverting lots of resources from the Mexican navy, local governments, and volunteers who have to clean it up constantly to keep the beaches usable.

There was plenty of sea turtles who love to eat the stuff.

This is a good opportunity for some international pressure as the consequences are very much here and now. Not some hypothetical climate change in the future.

1. https://youtu.be/whqaV8xfOTg?t=85
Yeah my Dell account manager was good at acting clueless about this history when we discussed Dell's lack of AMD servers.