skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I am being too critical of myself. It's certainly a trait of myself that I'm familiar with.

The problem is often that I don't know what's an acceptable expectation of myself. I've tried to be reasonable when it comes to approaching the study of algorithms, but maybe I've missed the mark?

Two problems in 1 day seems like pretty dismal progress, especially when I'm not exactly memorizing / absorbing these problems as well as I'd like to. Most of that day, is spent distracted out of frustration that I didn't / couldn't solve the first, or second problem, and had to resort to the solution.

I know that there are jobs out there which don't do this style of interviewing, but I have noticed that most of the companies doing interesting work, that pay really well, do. I kind of rationalize it like this: If I'm going to work a job (shit, I'd rather not)... Then it damn well better be maximized for interesting work, and pay:

Job = Max(jobs,[Interesting,Pay]);
Things that might be hardcoded are access keys and passwords to PII databases.
I want to be fired. Joined as Staff Software Engineer in pretty well-known company. Turned out they work a lot. There is no too much work-life balance. 95% of these folks don't have kids, and I have. I need to go home at 5, often earlier, cos commute sucks. They allow to work from home 1 day a week. Now I'm in jeopardy - need to stay for 6 more months to have my stocks and sign-in bonus vested. Also new change won't look good on my resume. Next time I'll bet on WFH and WLB. F$ck the money.
This approach really depends on the manager. A manager who has a habit of bullying people will have no issues laying on more pressure/guilt/whatever... in this situation.

Personally, if I feel as though a manager has expected me to do something outside my contract, I just don’t even give it any thought. That’s their problem. If they bring it up I just tell them no in a rather blunt way.

I’ve worked with plenty of bully managers, but have myself never really been bullied by any of them. I’ve watched all of them bully my less assertive colleagues though.
Hate is a strong word.

But I agree that innovation is often incremental efforts of exploration and convergence, like how we got to where we are in VR today. Magical phenomenal change like iPhone is rather exceptional.
Would you program robots to kill Nazis?
China, which is busy stuffing Muslims into re-education camps? Why would you ever think they would open their arms to a bunch of unruly military-age Muslim males (the overwhelming demographic of refugees fleeing to Europe)?

https://popula.com/2018/08/27/baizuo/

https://theintercept.com/2018/08/13/china-muslims-uighur-det...
And there's no such thing as a wealthy country, just distributions of wealthy people. Yet we all understand what it means when someone says "wealthy country"
Interesting. I think I've heard that before somewhere else. I'll have to ask one of my colleagues about it.

Where my family is from, in the northern US, the night sky is very clear and visible (barring clouds etc which aren't uncommon for various reasons). But where we live you can barely see much other than the moon and planets. I wish more attention were paid to light pollution.
Not really.

With his pithy comment, lawnchair_larry touches on an interesting aspect of this discussion. Many of those who support mass 3rd-world immigration (engaging in much grandstanding and moral preening in the process) are entirely removed from the actual consequences of it. They have no "skin in the game" so to speak as they know 3rd-world immigrants will not be settling in their neighborhoods (or guest bedrooms) anytime soon.
Hopefully this isn’t useful for anything because it’s the dumbest thing I’ve seen in my life
Ok, so after reading the Bloomberg article, your 401k is being negatively impacted by order payment flow. You as an individual retail investor is probably ok but your 401k is losing in aggregate.
I worked at a networking hardware startup outside Silicon Valley many years ago (during the first dotcom boom). It was run by two people, father and son, with no technical experience -- one previously ran a garbage collection company, as I recall, and the other was a sales guy -- and shortly after I started, I learned that the antics of them and their cronies had caused the entire engineering staff to have over 100% turnover in less than a year. Not only was no one left at the company who had originally had anything to do with the product's design, there was no one left at the company who had worked with anyone who originally had anything to do with the product's design. During the barely two years I worked there, the company had a system architect who talked about "making the code more flamboyant" and eventually fled the country for legal reasons, had a cold war between that architect and another executive in which the former was (badly) installing spyware on the latter's laptop, had the CEO earnestly tell us about how a former engineer had put, quote, "death code" into the system that the CEO had found and removed himself (this is, again, a man with no programming experience and the former engineer worked on the system-level C code; if he'd put "death code" in there, the CEO would not have been able to find it); on and on and on.

tl;dr: small tech companies run by completely non-technical people may not always be shit shows, but when they are shit shows, the shit can be pretty unbelievable.
Actually it’s much worse than that. $277 billion is the economic cost of car accidents. The cost including lost wages and human suffering is estimated at $871 billion per year. [1]

There’s a difference between direct revenue & expenses and second-order effects.

As a second order effect, roads are necessary for something on the order of $10 trillion of economic activity in the US.

It’s a high price to pay to be sure, for the modern world. I look forward to self driving technology significantly reducing that number over the next 10-15 years.

[1] - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/motor-vehicle-crashes-u-...
Wait, what the heck, why did they pick what is apparently a popular hate symbol for white supremacists? The first google result takes me to: https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/1488
Indie hackers is well known and these guys are legit they don't put out affiliates spam.
I used to use google photos, but got creeped away from it after I found it had been building facial profiles of I and the others most frequently in my pictures.
I appreciate the thoughtful post, with links. Definitely one of the feelings I've had as I've approached these algorithms is that I MUST certainly be lacking in either experience, or a way of thinking, or both.

I'm certainly lacking in the experience boat. But, I've figured the "way of thinking" is likely that I am not thinking in an algorithmic / math fashion. I don't "see" the solutions in the same way that someone with a mind for math would. Instead I just see the brute force, "obvious" solution.

I'll definitely take a look at these resources.
From the Wikipedia article on the Pinochet regime [1]:

> The regime was characterized by the systematic suppression of political parties and the persecution of dissidents to an extent unprecedented in the history of Chile. Overall, the regime left over 3,000 dead or missing, tortured tens of thousands of prisoners, and drove an estimated 200,000 Chileans into exile.

From the Wikipedia article on Carlos Castillo Armas [2]:

> Upon taking power Castillo Armas, worried that he lacked popular support, attempted to eliminate all opposition. He quickly arrested many thousands of opposition leaders, branding them communists. Detention camps were built to hold the prisoners when the jails exceeded their capacity. Historians have estimated that more than 3,000 people were arrested following the coup, and that approximately 1,000 agricultural workers were killed by Castillo Armas's troops in the province of Tiquisate. Acting on the advice of Dulles, Castillo Armas also detained a number of citizens trying to flee the country. He also created a National Committee of Defense Against Communism (CDNCC), with sweeping powers of arrest, detention, and deportation. Over the next few years, the committee investigated nearly 70,000 people. Many were imprisoned, executed, or "disappeared", frequently without trial.

Those don't sound totalitarian to you?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_dictatorship_of_Chile...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Castillo_Armas
Other than using Money Market accounts instead of FDIC-insured accounts, what specifically is better about banking with Brex? And for those factors that are quantitative, how MUCH better are they?
I read the Bloomberg article. You should read it. Basically retail orders are sufficiently random to keep the HFT in the money vs <hush hush "front running" </hush hush> an institutional investor who breaks up their market order. That's it.
Well, what if your broker goes out of business? Like, is FDIC insurance chopped liver? The head of the SIPC has stated publicly that your cash is not covered except if it is deposited to buy securities.

Your friendly broker really wants your cash, because at this point keeping most of the interest is their best source of income.
Yes, this has been a disaster that will be written about in the history books. I hope they take down all the TED talks about these papers that have been debunked.

In hindsight, it is kind of funny in a dark-humor way.
Extremists always whine 'you made me do it' rather than take responsibility for their actions. It's just a gambit to increase their rhetorical leverage and need not be taken seriously.
The CEO has likely given this directive to avoid a paper trail. Any attempt at rationalizing with the CEO will be a waste of effort when this person could (and should) be focused on finding another place of employment.
Ah I see we are playing the guessing game.

Facebook ?
Eh, all you would have had to do is something like “I think this is it! <link>. Let me know if you need anythinng else”

takes one more second to add a little fluff to humanize your message.
I’m pleased to hear about the 1.6% return. I posted a while back asking HNers what they do with their business cash, and no one had a good recommendation. It kills me to have cash sitting in a bank account earning zilch (unlike my personal cash, which earns 2%).

I’ll take a look at this new offering and likely move a bunch of cash over if everything checks out.
This is a super facinating observation. At first it does seem very counterintuitive but after a little examination, the resulting probabilities make a lot of sense.

For sake of easy math, pick C, your threshold, to be fixed at 0, which is halfway between -inf and inf.

Now there are 4 scenarios. The numbers player 1 chooses, A and B, can be both above or both below C with probability 1/4 each. In both those cases, you have a 50/50 chance of being correct on which number is larger depending on which number you chose to see.

Then, with the other 1/2 of the times, one number will be above and the other will always be below C. In those cases, the selected strategy will have you always choose the correct highest number.

All together you are right 1/2 + 2 * 1/4 * 1/2 = 3/4 = 75% of the time. Simple probability but totally counterintuitive from the onset.

Now what if C!=0 or numbers are not being selected uniformly by your opponent? You can replace the 1/2's with (p) and (1-p) in the right spots without making any distributional assumptions and it seems (without doing the math out fully) that things cancel nicely and show that you always have a strictly greater than 1/2 chance of guessing right no matter what. Exercise left for the reader :P
This is the same company that had to scale back production because they couldn't make 50,000 etrons in 2019. So I'll believe it when I see it.
Any word if this app is available on the playstore/fdroid in Android form?
You won’t go to jail if you do nothing wrong, but legal fees. Ugh, yeah, you’ll be in court as a witness and possibly defendant if you don’t leave ASAP.
Interesting little niche market.
FLIR is considered a search under the 4th amendment, and requires a warrant; it'd stand to reason this would face similar scrutiny.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyllo_v._United_States
Fair enough. I'd also rather not work a traditional job, but I take a slightly different approach... I try to go for a $DAYJOB that's as boring and stress-free as possible, while paying enough to pay the bills, and then use my side-project as my outlet for doing stuff I find actually interesting. But I understand that that approach isn't for everyone.
Show HN: Simple React App and Material UI
I switched to Math from CS at my university specifically because of this. Although the CS field does emphasize a lot of theory, having a more general theoretical background greatly helps with picking up new engineering fields as a hobby.

IMHO the main reason people feel stupid about algorithms and the like is the progress isn't as clear and as linear. I wasn't good starting out. Coursera is great, and probably the most flexible and least frustrating way to expand your skill set.
If your country is a signatory to the UN Convention on Refugees then yes, it is your problem whether or not you feel happy about that.
Congrats! I moved to Seattle recently. The Space Needle and the Museum of Pop Culture (mostly if you're into rock and roll) are good tourist attractions. Personally I love the views the most (we have the Cascades and a few mountains/"active" volcanoes here, plus the lake/the ocean close by). A few nice parks in the area to check out too.
One thing I love about Simple that I've never been able to do with Schwab is get notifications on every transaction in my checking account. With Simple that helped me catch some fraud immediately
Schwab has interest on its checking accounts as well. I've been using them for over 5 years and couldn't be happier.
Control Schemes of Steering System of a Multi-axle All-wheel-steering Robot
You can mock anyone. Nobody's sacred.

Don't mock people for the good they do, or they will stop doing good. Nobody's immune.

[https://twitter.com/dakami/status/1151391104698179584]
On call is shitty and I wish it wasn't accepted they way it is.

Either hire people to work around the globe, or people that want to hire in shifts or accept that your product isn't going to be on 24 hours a day.
Will this work for handwritten notes? I was just today taking a photos of my notes with the hope of one day OCR'ing it.
People take offense at the idea someone is profiting off their stupidity, even if it's objectively making them better off because they get a kickback.
What is your Infosec budget and how big is your Infosec team?
the store allows me to sell my own products. i should not need a store to sell you a license to use my trademark.

banksy is using his mark, and so is disney. i am making the difference between disney movies and disney merchandise. how would disney merchandise not infringe on disney movies if they are created by independent companies without permission?
So, it was a joke, however I think it was Jane Austen who said something along the lines of, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a super yacht, must be in want of a wife..” which I'm totally sure is true.
And more generally:

Control Schemes of Steering System of a Multi-axle All-wheel-steering Robot

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21143135
Utter BS, a specious argument we've heard a million times before (often from Larry, who has been here a long time). You should go for a more subtle sty;e, right wing trolls are always endorsing pithiness, perhaps because of Andrew Anglin's fondness for that adjective in his Daily Stormer trolling guides. I'm sure you would not wish to be mistaken for keeping such noisome company.
These accounts are FDIC insured. They're real bank accounts.
Result of Pursuing “Ideal Task Management Tool” → Made by Myself
Very few of the teachers that just go in at 7, leave at 3 and work to contract, spread around anecdotes about it.

And there's more of those around than you might think.
> If the US were providing adequately for its victims, the Middle East taking in their fellow Muslims, and China showing some semblance of humanity in offering a home to some, we wouldn't be seeing the rise of nationalism in Europe that we now are.

I don't think you can pin the rise of nationalism solely on migration - non-European countries are also experiencing sharp increase in (right-wing) nationalism - including the US which you noted hasn't bourne the social cost.

My pet theory is that nationalism is on rise due to economic frustration post-great recession, as well as a loss of social memory on how awful war is. I remember reading that the big wars tend to happen every 3 generation - I bet nationalist sentiment would closely track that, and our last big war was WWII
this is incorrect, at least in the US. If you get fired, you do get unemployment benefits. The only way to not get unemployment benefits when being fired is for-cause. Ie stealing, or something similiar
In California, so long as you do not get fired for misconduct you are (generally) eligible to collect unemployment benefits whether you are fired or laid off. The definition of misconduct in California law is actually quite narrow—there are four standards and you must meet all of them in order to be ineligible for unemployment.

Obviously this is only one state in a large country in an even bigger world, so this may not be applicable to where you are. But wanted to clarify for any SF/LA/other CA city readers that the legal distinction for unemployment is not being laid off vs being fired, but losing your job for misconduct vs losing your job for some other reason.
Writing a KBox that calls a kmalloc and where new() returns a Result<KBox<T>, KAllocFailure> should be pretty trivial.
you're wrong, boys have penises and girls have vaginas
Soo it's like dating a borderline?
Thats cause it is. its snarky. solving someones problem and telling them they could be doing something better are two different things. its often offensive to mix the two. it also shows an incredible lack of empathy—sometimes someone is asking you something because theyre swamped and you seemed helpful, if you respond like that theyll go from thinking youre helpful to thinking you’re a know it all jerk.

heres a better way to communicate the same thing without being snarky:

“here it is! <link> its a pretty good resource, the docs are fairly extensive, theyve saved me a couple times in the past” that gives the person the hint without simultenousely saying “i think you’re a dope for not knowingg how to look up this doc” In fact the “next time you can just <x> :)” pattern in general is nearly always snarky—the smily face is clearly not genuine and is belittling.
Wifi works fine inside a faraday cage. If I need cell coverage I can always go outside.
One thing for GP to consider: I did the exact same thing (worked for three years in software development), but now I’m back at school in college. This obviously depends on if you think school is worth it (I did), but I wouldn’t be surprised if my work experience before college helped me stand out in the application process.
Either way, good luck!
I'm of the impression that back in 1959 when COBOL was released, with a team of 7 designers with 3 women on it, based off the groundwork laid by Grace Hopper, that the technical skill required to be a programmer was actually much higher, and that the women involved in coding were making very technical decisions about that field.
The problem is the vast majority of people have essentially no sense of what they should pay other than the current price. You could ban market orders, but that doesn't completely solve the problem of not having an objective yardstick.
I went from Sublime Text to Atom, then back to Sublime, as Atom was painfully slow in large projects. After a short break from the tech world, I came back to find that VS Code had taken over, and I couldn't be happier. It "just works" and offers a great experience out of the box.
AT&T. Stopped in January of this year for apparently no reason. I can even ssh into my home computer, but my work vpn just hangs.
disappointing, but this was obviously going to happen. there was also precedent as i believe chinese gov has hooks into iMessage, so anyone thinking they were going to do the "right" think was not thinking rationally.
As an introvert, what I like about this approach is that it does not close any doors, it just opens a discussion. Ofttimes that discussion is rapidly helpful. When it is not—when the manager is a bully, or oblivious—I still have the option to be more blunt. It's a diplomatic first foray into tricky topics.
I just walked from a job after a week and a half. Applied and interviewed for a junior full stack java/angular developer position. Really excited for it.

Got and accepted an offer just to show up day one to a weird point & click/drag & drop visual programming thing called BluePrism. Tried to make myself like it, but couldn't stick it out.

Moved 800 miles for that job too, just to get bait & switched.
Looks like cool stuff.

Am I right this language compiles to GPU code?

I'm thinking of a similar project myself and I'm curious what consideration besides loop vectorization goes into such stuff, especially, what about caches and access issues (OK, I ask the same question for any project like this)?

Also, isn't one factor in sparse representations that if you aren't careful, the data becomes un-sparse and slows down a lot?
My strong opinion is that you should not be using your debit card for anything at all whatsoever except for cash withdrawls from the ATM.

I use credit for 100% of all transactions so that there is an abstraction between my money and where I use it.
TDAmeritrade and Etrade also announced $0 commissions in response.

Both brokers also had severe drops in their stock price, with TDA losing about 20% in a day. Seems the entire retail brokerage industry changed within 48 hours.
Shrug, parties change. The democrats ceased to be a party of the left by any measure from 1992-2016. That’s just about a quarter century. Clinton took the party hard right.

The “right” in the US is now staunchly in favor of trade wars instead of free trade. Not what you’d expect given their history.
> Would be cool if these intelligent folks but their efforts towards improving privacy.

There's way more money in bootlicking
Over $7B Raised in Mega-Rounds by 27 Startups
This is such a tired argument and reflects your superficial comprehension of this topic. Yes, NY to LA is too far for rail service. It is the same distance from Paris to Moscow. Nobody takes trains between Paris and Moscow. However the territory between Paris and Moscow, including both Paris and Moscow, enjoy very robust rail service. The fact that the USA happens to be a large and unified political jurisdiction in no way detracts from the fact that we have local and regional opportunities to establish passenger rail networks.
I had no clue that the Sun's orbit looked like that. Bobbing up and down relative to the galactic plane. More or less in a sine wave.
Thirded.

Work at a hospital and in the orientation the first speech is given by the head of compliance who goes over what executives have gone to jail, why, and all the underlings that have been fired for seemingly innocuous HIPAA or PHI violations (looking at a friend's chart, posting on social media, etc).

The money sounds nice but OP could probably make the same at somewhere more reputable with less a chance of feds walking in and taking everything.
It certainly seems like an odd coincidence. Perhaps I'm jaundiced from years of monitoring the far right, but they do like such jokes and it's not like 62 is a round or otherwise aesthetically interesting number.
Just FYI, segway != segue . Unless it was a joke, in which case joke's on me.

Crazy story, thanks for taking the time to share -- makes me feel better about my job!
TopTal's CEO... if he could be...