skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LOL, this is just called getting older. As you get older, it gets harder to make new friends, harder to see your existing friends. I suspect it's always been this way.
I am never sure how to take these "standard of living" claims. In many ways, the world we live in today is nothing like the one that existed 50/60 years ago.
Author here. Even seasoned developers have to go onsite and spend 1-2 days doing interview.

In this scenario, we are asking for similar amount of time, but with no travel, time that works for everyone and has low stress with an interesting task folks can review beforehand.

Besides, before even going through this challenge, any engineer can make up their own mind whether it's worth for them because we present compensation brackets upfront on the call.
88% of stocks could be overfished and well below their target biomass in 2050: https://www.pnas.org/content/113/18/4895
"Anti-sex worker?" The quote gives no opinion about sex workers, only about the men who buy sex and women collectively as a class.

I can't help but be reminded of how people cast Jewish pro-human-rights criticism of the Israeli government as "self-hating Jews..."
Yup. If a developer wants to have a FAANG company on their resume they're obviously going to have to jump through some hoops and do what's necessary. Non-FAANG companies are going to have to take what they can get and hope it works out because they aren't worth a long drawn-out hiring process.
Cryptopals.
The article itself references many such studies correlating long term exposure to polluted environments with cognitive impairment.
This study however focuses on short term effects (within the same day).
They did the same thing in 2017 during the anti-corruption protests in Turkey. This is just a means to prevent atrocities on behalf of Erdogan's government and the military from leaking out into the public sphere.

EDIT: 2014 also: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26677134

> This comes after PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to "wipe out Twitter" following damaging allegations of corruption in his inner circle.
I don’t work in one but have visited three of them here in Berlin quite recently for meetings. The one in Friedrichshafen on the Spree is pretty nice. Great view.

The other ones more in Mitte had way too much of a semi hipster hotel lobby feel. Everyone was just too fashionable and cool for my taste.
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"It’s not just that power shifts from one country to another, from one political party to another, from one business model to another, it’s this: Power is decaying"
- Moises Naim [The End of Power] The book basically says, it is becoming easier to get power, harder to use it to control others and harder to keep it once you have it.
Very interesting, the steps for the algo are mentionned as:
1) Load an image.
2) Calculate energy of each pixel.
3) Find seams.
4) Remove seams.

My question here is: once #4 has been completed how do you 'merge' the pixels that are left once the seam pixels have been 'discarded'?
I think your conclusions are accurate. For many problems LightGBM or xgboost can often yield decent results in short amounts of time and for many problems that’s sufficient. A lot of the work we do is about pushing the results as far as we can take them and the business case justifies the extra time it can take to get there. For those types of problems, today, we would probably choose a neural network because then we have a lot more knobs as you mentioned.

Just like the rest of ML, whether neural networks are the right choice still depends on the problem at hand and the team implementing the solution. It definitely impacts where the performance / time curves intersect. If we just need something decent fast, or we’re working with another team that doesn’t have the same background, we tend to focus on approaches with fewer moving pieces. If we need the best possible performance, have a qualified team to get there, and have the time to iterate on development then the curves would favor neural networks.
Executives wined and dined.

What do they care? The company is bankrupt: they just succeeded in shedding down a load of responsibility.
I suppose so... I really don't know. How do they find them when they're just over regular HTTP?

Seems like it would be easier to find p2p traffic. But I don't know.
When people say "Enterprise Software" they are not talking about shrink-wrap single-user office productivity applications like word processors and spreadsheets.

Maybe there should be another term to help clarify for people who don't understand the difference, but the difference really should be obvious from context.
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The wording is ambiguous, but they meant the user would need to be paid.
Do the users of the software need to know about all that complexity?

If the answer is: "they definitely do", then you are right. There's no way around it.

If the answer is: "No, they only need to know about 4% of it. The rest can be automated and hidden away." then the problem is that people aren't incentivised to pay the cost of building that software.

There is a broad solution:

Hire engineers, UX designers, and product managers to spend time to solve those problems and to manage that complexity. The problem is that this requires the time and effort of skilled people and that requires a sustained commitment of money. So that requires someone with decision-making power to allocate money from a budget of limited resources.

If the additional UI improvement helps win sufficient revenue, then its worth it. But if the additional UI improvement doesn't persuade decision-makers or only helps 1 client account, then it is not.
There are hundreds of thousands of homes and tens of thousands of school slots. The chance that you were denied a resource specifically because one of your friends got it is so incredibly low as to be irrelevant. If you actually feel that the presence of your friends is keeping you from achieving life goals... your problem is much, much deeper.
You know who is is apparently. Why do you feel the need to be condescending by asking first? Who's JBReefer? The guy who leaves annoying comments?
From the acknowledgements:

> We appreciate the support of the Wild Blueberry Association of North America for their provision of the wild blueberry powder used in this study. Further, we thank the South East Doctoral Training Centre and the Wild Blueberry Association for their financial support.
But when the enterprise software authors want to capture 100% of the marketplace, they are, of course, writing their offering to support those few specific industries.

... which adds features to the product as a whole, which other customers will need to be aware of and might take advantage of.
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> However, the Nobel prize for literature should remain a pure meritocracy as much as possible.

I don't think it's even remotely the case. If anything, just for the fact that literature cannot be measured independently of times, culture and circumstances. The idea of people in Oslo comparing the merits of an Italian poet with those of a playwright writing in Swahili is pretty ridiculous.
Articles and memes like this are fucking annoying. Does the author think male CEOs aren’t fucked regularly as well?
Is the blocking on DNS, port, pattern matching URLs? If DNS perhaps using an encrypted DNS could work.
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Just started reading "Man and His Symbols" by Carl Jung (would recommend), and as other people posted, Jungarian beleive that dreams are more active than random passive thoughts. New ideas can come through the sub-conscious.
A thing we've found very helpful is if something ends up working out well time / place-wise, just suggest doing the same thing again next week. It's like building any new habit. You have to be very intentional about it to start with, then it becomes easy.
>Split your code submission using pull requests and give the team an opportunity to review the PRs

> Not communicating. Candidates who submitted all the code to master branch, which does not give us the ability to provide feedback on the various implementation phases. Because we are a distributed team, structured communication is critical to us.

how do you ask your candidate to split your answer using PR ? We would like this during interviewing but it ends up being a single PR. I dont want to impose create separate branches and a PR for each small incremental feature thing.

I'm assuming you are using Github
In enterprise the incentives are all wrong - individuals who are decision makers for enterprise software/networking/security/etc have an incentive to make their job as complicated as possible so they can be promoted or build their empire through hiring new resource to keep on top of the complex web they've built
Hass.io on a tinkerboard

Basically HomeAssistant

Should work fine on a raspberry too
>Why do you think it is called Microsoft Office?

Some friendly fyi of MS history...

Microsoft didn't use the "Office" branding until 1995. Before that, the computer industry called it "productivity software" instead of "enterprise software". In the 1990s, other software companies (like Borland and IBM) were bundling word processors + spreadsheets + presentations + databases into an "office suite" for a lower package price.

In the 1980s, Microsoft Word was competing with WordStar and WordPerfect and those were all consumer software for personal computers. Consumers could go into an office supply store and buy shrinkwrapped boxes of those software titles. They didn't need a purchase order from corporate accounting to buy an "enterprise volume license". And consumer magazines like PC Magazine and PC World would run articles comparing MS Word to WordPerfect, etc.

Yes, a Fortune 500 corporation today can buy a enterprise volume licenses of MS Office (or Office 365 cloud subscription) but MS Word's roots definitely included the consumer sector. I don't think the example of MS Word fits the author's idea of "enterprise" software.
I don't buy it. I've worked at a Fortune-100 company with "complex and unique workflows", and we used plenty of customized enterprise software, and they were the worst systems you ever saw -- both before and after our customizations were implemented. The best ones were those where we completely replaced the native UI, and the only reason we weren't running our software against a plain database is legacy momentum.

You're either so big you're essentially doing custom development (or should be), or you're small enough you can't afford that and use whatever you're given with minimal tweaks to the UI.

I believe it's possible to make software that's both good, and flexible enough to stay good while avoiding complete custom development, but it's incredibly rare, because the 'users' in that case (i.e., local developers) are twice removed from the sales process.

"We have complex and unique workflows and need to customize the software to our needs" is simply another excuse used by executives to buy crap that users will hate.
> It's also worth pointing out that the simpler the software, the more likely it is to fit in with more companies' workflows

The problem is that's not a continuous function. Leave out specific features and you lose entire industries.

Incentives are not aligned for enterprise software authors to lose entire industries.
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Often they understand Access, they just don't have it.

Office Standard and Home & Business SKUs are without it, you need Office Professional Plus. Because it costs few hundred more for just Access and Skype, most workers will get the Standard one.
You said "half of the people.. would be making significantly more" and then proceeded with further grouping. I assume the subgrouping applies to that same half?

The other half of folks are quite successful hedge fund, private equity and consultancy partner types, and I suspect those folks would not be making significantly more money if they had stopped using Excel and invested time in becoming DBAs, Data Scientists or accountants...
There seems to be an obvious opportunity for upscale takeout food delivery here. Much easier to split a bill than cooking chores.
Enterprise software is a sub-class of business software. Enterprises often operate quite differently from SMBs. Public US companies will have things like SOX compliance. And, the enterprises offering up services, like email, may be competitors in another space. If you are competing with Google on phones do you want them to host your email? Likely not.

The business world is complex.

Some complex business software is fantastic. For example Excel. It's complex but you can do amazing things with data without learning to program (which is most people). You can use it while being on or off the Internet (this is great on a plane).

For UX many have given up security features. Many of us now have free credit monitoring because that lack of security has lead to leaks everywhere. I know people who have had their identity stolen and even attacks on retirement funds all due to companies lacking in security. Our drive for the new shiny has left many vulnerable.
Actually in descriptive notation the move would have been:

P-Q4

Ken padded this out to 8 characters.
Unlike the other code-slinging gods who walk amongst us in this thread, I prefer coding challenges because I'm pretty mid-level and average and I do actually need a job. And I hate whiteboarding. No one should do whiteboarding for code.
There might be people here interested in what area that is to scoop up some of that stupid money or get contracts. ;)
Yes there is overlap, but it's not a predictable overlap and there's no easy way to find out if your time off overlaps with someone else without first reaching out to them (which is a whole other barrier). It's so much easier to turn on netflix or whatever. If it wasn't so easy to do that then maybe people would go through the other hurdle to test if someone they know is available.
Effectively "Enterprise" systems have this already, but the "OS" is called Oracle. Or SAP.
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Zolpidem was a lifesaver for me. Although I always have really strange dreams and never feel like I get “real” sleep while taking it, it helped me get back on track when my sleeping schedule would go off the rails.
The idea does sound silly, because Google and Facebook are not "free". The economic output of Google and Facebook (ad revenue) is already being factored into GDP.

But lets explore the possibility of unaccounted economic value for a second. Today there are roughly about 3 billion people using search engines with total ad revenue roughly around $150Bn, meaning value per user is ~$50/year.

In order for unaccounted economic surplus to exist, all of these users would need to be ready to pay more than $50/year (and that there are no ads). Another scenario is 90% of population keeps it as it is and 10% (300M people) get no ads and pay more than $50/year. With adblockers around and no other value proposition I can think of right now, this sounds unlikely.

There is a big difference between being offered $17k to entirely quit search engines and being ready to pay $17k a year to use them.
Code as you like day as an alternative to hackathons
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Imagine yourself alone in space, unable to get back into the space station....having to open up your spacesuit to bleed air ... His Balls were made of steel. RIP Alexei Leonov:

"Connected to the Voskhod by an 18-foot-long tether, Leonov spent 12 minutes floating outside before struggling to get back inside his spacecraft. In the vacuum of space, his suit had ballooned to the point that it would not fit through the hatch. After opening a valve to bleed off pressure, Leonov finally managed to squeeze back inside.
I used to work for a company that rented a WeWork space to meet with clients in NYC. I only opted to work out of it once or twice, for a change of scenery from my typical office. I think the location was the main perk, since I then got to spend a day in NYC.

Working fully remote now and I enjoy that much more than being in any office setting.
Yeah, I can get a bunch of phone screens for opportunities with nearly no effort. If comp's high across the board and I have, say, three or four promising calls within 36hrs of flying my "I'm looking" flag, and one says "we'd like you to come in for a whole day for a half-dozen one-hour interviews" or "we'll give you a 4-hour coding challenge" and the others don't, guess which one's not getting a second conversation? And they know that, so most places aren't pulling that crap. Economy turns around, who knows, probably swing back the other way, but right now? No.
That argument falls apart utterly, since software writing requires you to demonstrate a vastly more technical and nuanced suite of skills than manual labor requiring a minor amount of mental overhead.
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At least for audio like wireless headphones I've had minimal issues with tech made in the last 5 years. The chip in my desktop is from like 2011 and has some lag but I don't have any from other systems.
We took all their money. That’s not a thing you do when you want to see investment.
Credit Suisse's website should display a counter with the heading: "Days since last Credit Suisse scandal".
> Why china in particular?

Because of their size and audaciousness they have a large presence in almost every issue that needs to be tackled.
I understand your point about Vim not following Unix philosophy, also the way Vim and Blender are similar.

I disagree that the GUI/command line divide is a "surface appearance". I'm not talking about Vim/VS Code kind of thing, where one is implemented in the command line, the other in the GUI, but are basically the same. I'm talking about apps which fundamentally require a pointing device. In Photoshop you point at a pixel and say "do something here", in command line ImageMagick you say "x=100 y=200". This is not a trivial difference to me, it changes everything and generates different usage scenarios.
> first of all this is an incredibly white-collar centric claim

Well yeah obviously I wouldn't be able to live working @30% doing food delivery or cleaning bathrooms...

> there are people working less than full-time.

There are some for sure but so far I haven't found a company accepting my requests. It's probably highly dependent on the country/industry.
That's kind of exactly the point. IMO there are a lot of unicorns out there that have pretty decent business models (Uber/Lyft, WeWork, delivery services, etc.) The problem is they are probably worth much less than their investors paid for them, because everyone is discovering that once the VC subsidies go away after the "growth at all cost" mentality, these are actually pretty low margin businesses that don't warrant their "tech" valuations.
It's worth noting that outlier in size or organization-count may not be outlier in money, and money talks when designing enterprise software.

There are a handful of banks, but they have all the money. The specialized features they care about speak very loudly at feature prioritization meetings.
Right now in Turkey criticizing the operation is considered "terrorist propaganda" (120+ persons already detained), as is reporting that there are victim among Syrian civilians (a few independent journalist already detained and released) any website/tv reporting negatively is being closed by the state TV watchdog.
So it is not only about counter-intelligence.
Settle within a few weeks, whilst we constantly top up with permanently active shipping lanes. You might measure similarly near roads and highways.

Trouble is there are no few week breaks in the schedule that ever let it actually settle out.
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Closer, but there's no way to interface with it from the outside world. If I want to add a tool I have to awkwardly pass data to and from it using to/from-json on the shell side.
I've been seeing what cool things people have been doing with different tools (without code).

Josh Miller shared his chrome browser history tool. Avg. 126 sites/day. 45% of sessions start w/ a Google Search. Visited Twitter 4.7K times in the last 6 months!!
As somebody who has:
(1) At a management level, chosen and implemented and defended unpopular and objectively clunky enterprise software;
(2) As a user, been riled by the utter degeneracy of clunky enterprise software chosen and implemented and defended by others;
(3) As a developer, had to splice additional functionality into crufty enterprise software;
I have come to the conclusion that the main reason enterprise software sucks is because those who choose it are not those who are condemned to use it, and draw benefits (such as additional data) without paying any of the daily costs in maddening workflows and utterly shitty user experience.
By the way, you can find all releases of that party here:
https://demozoo.org/parties/3800/

Youtube captures of all events and competitions are here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1nWnZ0_fy8DvL13vfLD8...

And here's another production which is an insane tech-feat:
https://demozoo.org/productions/268576/
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May be off-topic, but...

What exactly is the usefulness of a felony as applied to a corporation?

As applied to an individual, it is capable of ruining your life through privation of constitutional rights (firearm ownership, right to vote, permanent mark on background checks make it increasingly unlikely you'll ever hold any sensitive position, etc...)

What does it mean for a corporation to be a felon? It sure seems like the concept is discontinuous in terms of scale. Obviously, there's an extra layer of court oversight that's been mandated, so some autonomy is lost. Still doesn't seem though like the the punishment for a corporation is concommittant with the general treatment of an individual having committed the same relative severity of infraction.

In fact, I'm surprised that anyone even wants to do business with anyone involved with the company during the period the felony was handed dowm.

The more I think about it, it seems like all the "felon" label does is act as a signpost for discrimination being okay.

Anyway. Brain dropping. My apologies for the tangent.
Actually ALL data centers hosted in China will be subject to data examination by the Ministry of Public Security

https://www.chinalawblog.com/2019/10/chinas-new-cybersecurit...

The inspection team has complete access to the network system. Inspection can cover both the technical aspects of the network system and the data/information maintained on the servers. See Article 10. The inspectors can fully access the system and they are permitted to copy any data they find. See Article 15. The only restriction on the inspectors copying the data in your company’s system is that the inspectors must provide you with a receipt. Though Article 10 “restricts” access to matters involving national security, the definition of national security in China is so broad that there is no real limitation on what can be accessed, copied and removed.
Do you have any evidence for this claim? Does comparing two separate things automatically make them equivalent?

On the flip side, when Foxconn wanted 7 million gallons of water each day from Lake Michigan for it's manufacturing plant, it hit the news.

- https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-foxconn-air-p...
If it was still a semi autonomous region, and a high enough percentage of the entire population wanted independence, yeah we probably would.
What you did was link to a press release for a paper where they took 53 rats, removed their adrenal glands, injected them with corticosteroids, and saw they were more aggressive.

Few, if any, scientists would say that is a plausible hypothesis explaining the epidemiological results observed above. What you did was speculation with limited data and difficult transferrability (rats with adrenal glands are not representative of people exposed to air pollution).