skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at this from another perspective.

Having worked in the DC city government for several years and for several nonprofits doing public policy analysis and advocacy, I somewhat understand the challenges on both sides. On the public side, people want systems to work better. On the government side, staff are doing what their director/mayor/governor/grantor wants while the public is saying yes or (hell!) no.

But the fact is that there is not unlimited time or money. So while it's good that people report bike lane violations and illegal dumping to 311, I would venture to say that not all are treated equally. And as an insider and outsider, I understand that this is the case.

In my mind, gathering and reporting (the apps) is as important as working with (educating, lobbying) government officials so both parties understand the situation and work towards some resolution.

All of this to say that the apps are cool and make people feel like they are doing something. And in some ways they are. But real change usually requires much more intensive work than reporting a bike lane violation. (Don't get me wrong. I wanted to drive tow trucks to move cars out of curb lanes during rush hour on my vacation days! Learn a new skill! Help others!)
I think it's a little bit silly, but I went through that phase for about a year, so I don't judge the people too harshly. as long as you're not chucking huge clouds at people in a public space, I think it's mostly harmless.

in a way, it kinda reminds me of the pc overclocking community.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20827574
> It is 2019 and even game programmers still avoid STL for performance reasons.

No they don't. They avoid parts of the STL. GDC round-table as far back as 2001 had 40% of shipping games using the STL: http://www.tantalon.com/pete/gdc01_round_table_report.htm

Many of the containers in the STL have performance problems. Yes avoid those (and avoid the god-awful iostream). But large chunks of the STL have no performance issues at all, and re-inventing it is just a waste of your time.

Games don't avoid things like std::vector for performance issues, they use their own thing because they want even more features.
"inventions" is not used in the same context as you would use it when talking about an inventor, like Tesla or Edison.

It's legalize. It depends on the language in the contract, but it usually includes everything under the sun, including creative works like books.

Sometimes there is a clarification for anything that can be related to your work, my current employer does that, but I've seen others without that. Which basically says they own you and everything you do or even think while employed by them.
Why would they want to sell to teens? Like, the market is huge enough to sell to over 18, selling to 12-17 year olds is only going to get you in trouble.
agreed to you and GP. i always skip these, due to sensitization to browser pop-ins.

they are usually beyond obvious, further rage inducing.

when they are actually useful, again still rage inducing because I skipped it and there is generally no way to get the coach tip back.

sorry, ad pop-ins have ruined what would otherwise be fairly useful.
For compressing your personal collection, you are probably best off doing a parameter search with a desired max/average error. Too many variables in image quality to do anything based on signal chain alone, probably.

As fare as a rigorous demonstration goes, that's what resolution targets are for :)
ska, our aim with the challenge was to allow candidates to not be biased by a fixed outcome and try to solve the problem as they would solve any real data science problem.

This meant we couldn't automatically score/rank a candidate's solution. We do provide them with an evaluation metric in the problem description (Mean Absolute Error).
Here is scoring rubric we provide to the interviewers when they review the submission - https://d.pr/i/hNYY0u

Would love to hear more opinions on our scoring rubric
Working data scientist here. As many have said, this is, effectively a Kaggle challenge. I mean honestly at this point, I don't care, at all, how well someone can predict anything to be a data scientist - there is very little correlation between that and how good of a data scientist they are.

Tools to hire data scientists and going to continually fail until they realize that the interesting, hard part of being a data scientist is closer akin to a business lead (which can't really be tested in 60 minutes).

Concrete feedback:

- You ask for writing and descriptions on why a model was chosen, why features matters - are you grading this automatically? That would be a feat.

- The task is waaay to easy (even if you do believe there is a market for identifying people who can predict well).

- Python is overly limited. Why not SQL or R?
Looks great, I'm looking forward to the mobile app.
Have you tried an electric razor?
The CEO of walmart most certainly isn't worth 22 million/year. If you can't bring in 21/hour as a cab driver you probably shouldn't be driving cab, especially considering you should be pulling in, what, well over 100/hr gross?
I run Windows in Bootcamp too, but gods the keyboard and especially the trackpad are horrendous. I have the 2016 model, and hate the keyboard even in MacOS, but it's really obvious that Apple have deliberately crippled the Windows drivers.

I eventually came across trackpad++, which at least renders it usable, but still unpleasant - I travel with a USB mouse these days (sigh, which obviously means a USB dongle for the MBP...).
Large employer, one of the oldest companies in Silicon Valley.

I can't:

* Be a competitor (in a big company, determining if you are one is harder than it seems, as they have so many projects)

* Use company time or resources in side gigs – even answering the cellphone to talk to a customer would qualify

* Also, the side job cannot negatively impact my position

There may be more things in the small print, but that's essentially what you have to follow. They do not care about other sources of income, side projects do not have to be disclosed.
There's this thing [1]. @timonsku [2] tweets about it a fair amount, seems to be well on its way.

[1] https://hackaday.io/project/164845-dlt-one-a-damn-linux-tabl...

[2] https://twitter.com/timonsku
You’re right, some businesses have probably gone under because of a bad wrap in the App Store review.

How many billions in revenue would you estimate?

The world is very rarely perfect. The proposed “common carrier” cure in this case is orders of magnitude worse than the disease.
Rather than downvoting me, you could explain, happytoexplain, why you are downvoting
SBCL is not Common Lisp. ChickenScheme is not Scheme, nor is guile Scheme. GCC is not C. V8 is not JavaScript. Neither is SpiderMonkey. clang is also not C. tcc is not C. Visual C++ is not C or C++. Delphi is not Object Pascal. Pypy is not Python, nor is Jython, nor is Stackless Python, nor is IronPython. JRuby is not Ruby. yasm and fasm are not x86 assembly or x86_64 assembly or ARM assembly.

I'm seeing a pattern of things that are named tools which are not the exact name of the language they compile or run.
> I had to rely on information I could find on the internet....

Which is? I pointed out why it is that these new Android devices are better from a security update perspective than iOS devices. Your response is to point to non-existent statistics. No amount of wishful thinking is going to make statistics appear that violate common sense.

> It might come as a surprise, but the world doesn’t revolve around you and this is a general discussion forum...

Users who don't upgrade phones frequently have no good options. Users who upgrade frequently have Android devices that fit the bill. I don't consider iOS's security updates reasonable, as I have already explained.
I'm not sure if you have parents or relatives that call you for iPhone tech support, but I do. Even something like resetting a locked iPad requires a call sometimes. It's crazy.

Now imagine people downloading all sorts of scam apps, having personal data uploaded, ransomware, you name it. And they are going to take that sucker straight to the Apple store if they don't have friends/family to fix it.

Aside from that, I personally view the Apple App Store as a feature and a benefit to me. I don't want another App Store even if it were available.
Testimonial Questions to Ask for Great Case Studies
The thing is, there are a LOT of new things in Perl 6. Its approach to regexes (with grammars) feels genuinely revolutionary, and it's got a lot of other neat things about it.

I don't think it'd be instantly super-popular if it were a standalone, non-Perl-affiliated language, but I think it'd at least be talked about like Elixir or F# or Elm.
I was halfway through building something like this just for msyelf. My main issues with existing options are:

1. Mint and others always seem to automatically count transferring money from Chase to an external savings account as spending which drives me insane.

2. Not being able to split transactions (which you solved)

3. Reassign the date of a transaction, or from a technical perspective, create an "effective date" in addition to the true transaction date. I've been back and forth on whether this is actually a good idea or not. But I really want to count my July 5th electrical bill as a June expense, for example.
I had a lot of fun with this.

I surprised myself by remembering some symbols I haven't used in a while but was stumped on a few I should have known (nth roots).

Thankfully typesetting here meant math formulas, not minipage layouts.
Wow, I have casually looked for a tool to get the real resolution of a captured image for years. The best I could do is the comparing the max distance away from a target(checker board or April tag).
My UX professor told us "if you have to explain it, then it's poorly designed"; I think this is right in most cases. That, or it's well-designed, and you're making it superfluous as you're saying.
That's what I mean. Taxi services are lower quality but much higher cost (including to the drivers). Lyft (in the markets I travel) is more expensive and higher quality. So I'm struggling to ascertain who is this mythical Wal-Mart to Uber's supposed Target?
Huh? I made one comment and you immediately acted like I’d posted 20 times in this thread…

Anyway, as others have pointed out to you… Many many many people enjoy candy crush. Look it up pal :-)

Nothing, absolutely nothing that you’ve said to me has changed my view. Apple also puts crapware that I don’t want on my Mac and others in this thread have agreed with me. The fact that you don’t think it’s crapware has zero bearing on this conversation.
This isn't anything but noise. There's lots of funds, some of them go up, some go down. The fact Ray Dalio is famous doesn't matter a whole lot, 6% isn't a huge amount either.
Can echo this - I've used it for years on Windows, and find it better than iTerm or anything else on MacOS
Does the FDA require you are able to explain how drugs work? Or do you just have to show their efficacy and safety in trials?
If you are still using chromium you're still part of the problem
I think it's OK for the top Patreon podcasts to be things Tyler Cowen is uninterested in. This "war" he's ginned up is a pretty silly idea; there is no "war" between the "ordinary" and the "grand".
Although codpieces aren't in fashion, tight jeans leave little to the imagination. And it's not uncommon for dress pants to be maybe a little tight in the crotch.
One of the developers here! Right now, we compare answers visually, so for example `n \choose k` and `\binom{n}{k}` will both be accepted. However, sometimes there are things that look similar to the human eye, but are rendered slightly differently -- this is usually due to alignment, spacing, or size. For example, `\not\in` (bad) vs `\notin` (good) is a pretty annoying example. Making the comparison / feedback mechanism better is a tough problem. It isn't as simple as increasing the pixel threshold: replacing a + with a - has an extremely small pixel difference (and the two characters have the same width, so it doesn't affect anything else), but we shouldn't accept both.

Right now, the website is a super simple static HTML page. If we have time, we'd also like to add some new features, like a leaderboard and (hopefully) better comparison logic. Feel free to contribute, and we appreciate the feedback!
It looks pretty, but unfortunately I found budgeting methods that are not envelope based (such as YNAB where every dollar is assigned a job) are not adequate. After adopting the YNAB method I have seen how far superior it is.

If I could combine YNAB's budgeting method with your reporting & analysis we'd have a true winner.
The IRS numbers are very generous.
What world do you live in? Potato chip companies cause way way more social harm than Juul. It is waaay easier to quit Juul than cigarettes. It doesn't cause cancer. What is actually the issue, besides the puritanism?
You can publish as much of your own javascript code as you want under any license on your website or github, or anywhere. The issue they have is not with the ownership of javascript the language. The issue is that if you wanted to take the frontend code to Facebook, Google Maps, Office 365, or something like that, and modify it to create your own version, you have two problems. One, that it probably isn't allowed by the license and the Facebook/Google/Microsoft lawyers could come after you if you tried to redistribute it. Two, it's likely it will be very difficult to attempt to do that because the code is intentionally obfuscated by a javascript minifier.
I love this paper and have used it repeatedly with clients over the years. I especially love the explanation of essential vs. inessential complexity (difficulties). A proto thesis on yak shaving, if you will.
What do you follow on Twitter? I’d like to use it more
I keep my beard clean. And I brush it occasionally during the day. I also trim split ends, as needed. Other than that, it does what it wants.
I don't know how workable this is in reality. Most software needs some kind of interoperability to be useful.

- Network access

- Direct hardware access (such as games accessing the GPU)

- Sharing data to other software

- Consuming data from other software

- etc.

As we've seen, we wind up needing to turn a bunch of these on for most software, and while it's certainly better than giving them carte blanche over the entire system, a handful of these permissions are enough to work some skullduggery.
Personally I think it's harder for me to work from home, too many distractions. Obviously a coworking space fixes this, but then companies have to pay for those as well. I'm also wary of companies using WFA options as "perks" to pay employees less: "We have a cool, work-from-home culture! Come work with us from your own couch! Save on gas, daycare, and time. Starting wage $15/hr." I'm not saying that to discount the good-intent from some employers that are actually trying to offer flexible work structures to their employees, all the more power to those employers, and good work.
Does right to repair extend to right to install any app? I really believe it does and this is a major reason they are fighting so hard against it.
$6k isn't really all that far away from consumer level pricing. Give it a couple generations, and that hardware will be affordable for most people.

Though I'm going to have to disagree about current-generation VR not being "good enough". For me at least, the $400 standalone headset John showed at the start of the podcast is already plenty good for what I want to use it for (gaming). True it's not perfect; there's still plenty of room for resolution and graphics improvements in future iterations, but it's already easily good enough for multiplayer shooters (Pavlov), rhythm games (Beat Saber), single-player RPGs (Journey of the Gods), etc.

For other use-cases like desktop replacement I agree there's still a ways to go before VR is practical for most people, but for gaming it's already in a pretty good state in my opinion.
I am in the camp to think that this notebook judges data scientists in a way that soon will be obsolete.

If I'm given this clean dataset with all of the features properly set in columns and data types labeled, I could spin up Azure or Google Cloud's ML capabilities and have them run gridsearch and optimize my model.

To test data scientists, it seems like it's generally falling more into the buckets of people that can pull analytics and query databases to create the datasets and features OR people that can build the infrastructure to serve models, engineer pipelines, etc...

FYI though we're working on this now at https://www.interviewquery.com to try to start creating suitable tests to assess data scientists without having them do 10+ take homes every month.
Yeah, the comparison logic is pretty simple right now (see my comment). Unfortunately, `\not\in` and `\notin` look slightly different.

We're figuring out the best way to accept slight variations. It's a tough problem and isn't as simple as increasing the pixel threshold. For example, replacing a + with a - has an extremely small pixel difference (and the two characters have the same width, so it doesn't affect anything else), but we shouldn't accept both.
Thank you so much!!

1. Right now I'm using Plaid to connect to bank accounts which currently only supports US and Canada-based banks (but even then, some banks are not supported fully). The next plan is to allow people to manually import their bank transactions via CSV, and after that, look into a European-based and/or Asia-based version of Plaid. That being said, anyone can use Lunch Money to add transactions manually in any of the 150+ currencies currently supported.

2. So we do a couple of things under the hood– auto-categorization and picking out your recurring (monthly) expenses. Our auto-categorization gets smarter as you make any fixes (via Category Rules). We also offer a lot of transaction management features such as splitting and grouping which you can use to make sense of your own spending habits.

3. Yes, our latest feature, grouped transactions, exactly fits your use case. You can use grouped transactions to link up credit card payments (i.e. -$200 from your chequing account, +200 to your credit card combines to $0 in your transactions list!) or track friends paying you back (i.e. you picked up the $200 tab for a dinner with 6 friends. You can group together that big transaction plus all your Venmo transactions to reflect how much your share actually was).

Thanks for the questions!
That's useful information, thanks. I'll add some thoughts on the rubric.

[edit]. Initial thoughts:

- "data wrangling" scoring difficult given this task
- more weight to "rationale", that's more important the "performance", here.

- not enough focus on communication capabilities

- really need something on validation

- "proficiency" measure you use is pretty much impossible to accurately evaluate from your example question

- way too much weight to modeling section overall
"should you disclose it if there's no conflict of interest?" I think this will vary very largely based on the employer.
This was much more fun after I entered `secondsRemaining = 100000` in the console.
Re: #3 In my own software, I always enter the initial date (or date I expect it to post) and then I don't worry TOO much about it unless say it's right at the end of the month. Because when I view reports, I want the month-end balance to match my real accounts. (For this reason, I also tend to avoid doing things like paying credit cards on the last day of the month, or transferring money between accounts in such a way that the effective debit is a different month than the credit!)
my previous employer was extremely tight with IP - so it pretty much barred any technical side projects or research
Form an LLC, use a registered agent, put everything in the companies name, don't tell your employer, profit. Nothing they can do about it. The odds of them finding out are nearly non-existent unless you go around putting your name on everything
Thank you so much! I do believe it definitely reflects modern spending habits :) If you have any questions or issues, feel free to reach out!
I work as an IT consultant and a midsized consultancy in a European country with generally good workers rights and protection.

My understanding is they have full restriction. I have to ask for permission to do any paid work, even completely unrelated, like working a bar at a festival. They claim copyright on anything produced during my period of employment, which to me seems bordeline inhuman.

They encourage open source work, but I think they can ask to have the company name in the copyright / license section if they feel so inclined.

My impression is they don't really enforce it, it is more a blanket access for if I do completing work, they don't need a second opinion to be right.

I still think that it is completely insane, but my union says it is normal.
> You can't really expect to be paid a living wage at a job that can be done by 14 year olds, can you?

I expect everyone to be paid a living wage at every full-time job. That's the very definition.
Using lisp is like having a very high quality 3D printer. You can make anything like other high quality 3D printers but you start with very little else.

Where I think we've progressed much further is in the way of cloud/managed services and lightweight devops.

Easy app development still seems close like AirTable but never quite here.
Pretty straightforward attempt to stave off right-to-repair laws... and coming after years of attempts to destroy independent repair businesses. Very hard to see this as a good faith effort by Apple.
Sure, that's fine. They're protesting for a government to use force to guarantee their higher wages. I have no problem with someone asking their employer for a higher wage, but just because they aren't productive enough to earn that higher wage doesn't mean the government should be involved.
It's because it works so much better than anything else. But then it becomes insidious and if one is smart, you don't keep it around anymore. But for those with addiction issues, way better to be Juul than pretty much any other addiction
I'm not defending Android. I'm just pointing out the platform you consider more stable and secure is likely only so if you are concerned with certain threat vectors more than others.
Same reasons as the other nicotine companies, new markets and new customers are always a plus since most of them will remain customers.
How Walmart is making its robot army play nice with shoppers
They're not directly selling to teens, but they are indirectly selling them... and the entire big tobacco industry has been doing so for decades. You get them hooked early in life so you have a lifetime customer... that's been their tactic
They almost perfectly match the TCO numbers from AAA. They show an average of $8,849/year at 15,000 miles/year, which is 59 cents/mile. The cheapest vehicle type they list is small sedans, which are $6,777/year or 45 cents/mile. https://newsroom.aaa.com/auto/your-driving-costs/

It seems large because we aren’t used to looking at TCO per mile, and only think about the cost of fuel.
Arm's Architecture Specification Language (ASL) Interpreter
BFloat16 Processing for Neural Networks on Armv8-A
None. We sign NDA's for specific clients. Other than that, we don't have a non-compete or similar clause prohibiting side work. In fact, it's encouraged. We talk about our side projects openly. Also, if you want to have some company backing on your project, you can get paid 50% of your effective hourly rate for every hour you work on your side project if you agree to split potential profits with the company. Kind of an in-house funding.
His job is not to challenge his guest's ideas, it is precisely to give them a platform. Weak people are afraid of ideas and thus dislike this very notion.
I'm not finding what the feature difference is between Standard and Small Business.

BTW... out of curiosity.... how long did it take you to create this and with how many people?