skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think ultimately the problem I haven’t isn’t that I have been assigned a problem to see my code skill. I think that’s pretty fair. The problem is that it’s not a great indicator if your beyond a staff level, it offloads all of the cost of finding and filtering an employee to the applicant, and like you said, it has no indication of their commitment to the code challenge while demanding an open ended commitment from the applicant.
Your first quote is interesting, as that definition fits quite well collectible items. As the brand grows the value of the collectible also grows, and the collectible is purchased to make profit (or can be purchased to make profit; maybe I do the reverse and by GRAM just for the fuzzy feeling it gives me). Yet we do not see such actions taken against companies that produce collectibles.

This is probably because when adding the second, you see there is a major theme of profit redistribution. In all of those cases profit is collected centrally and then redistributed. With a collectible or a token such as gram it is not -- the item may become more valuable, partially due to activities of the creator, but it is not a profit sharing scheme.

So... do Telegram's tokens grant you some definite share of their future profits? You're giving them money, but there is no legal recourse to claim a return from what I can see.
Can you point to some examples of Facebook bending over backwards to make major figures in politics happy?

Something besides the Warren allegations; MSNBC, NBC, ABC, Twitter, YouTube, and many others also ran the ad.
Why would Visa, Mastercard and others agree to participate if they believed it was doomed in this way? I do not think it was nearly so obvious as you suggest. The way rules agencies had treated crypto so far looked accommodating.
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I'm sure Libra would be useful for payments / economy inside Facebook Horizon.
While reading the article, I envisaged a comedy sketch with a lavish office entirely populated by telepresence robots.
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Probably true, but that doesn't mean it isn't a good thing. Despite the marketing about distribution, this was a power-grap by Facebook.
Founders need to purchase shares in the company they found.

The shares are extremely cheap as the company has no assets, but you still need to physically wire money to the company bank account.

Source: https://stripe.com/docs/atlas/issuing-stock
I think this is more connect with the lack of familiarity with the language ecosystem than anything. I avoid tools written in node.js, even if installing is somewhat easy, most because I don't really know how to manage them later.

Btw, nowadays with a modern pip a simple `pip install --user package-name` works.
> Call me a pessimist, but its too little too late...Python has trounced Perl for almost any task.

Moving forward I'm assuming you're talking about Raku and not about Perl (or Perl 5).

Do you mean little too late to be endorsed by a multi-million company? Or little too late for everything (personal projects, academia, etc.)? I'm trying to clarify this because I've never understood this sailed ship mentality regarding programming languages. And I know you're not saying this but it almost sounds like Raku is supposed to be a replacement for Python. It isn't. They're different languages, both good in some areas and bad in other areas. These areas need not be necessarily overlapping.

Whenever I read this kind of comments, they always remind of the following phrase I came across:

There are two things that a programming language needs to be acceptable:
- Be Python
- Be a language I have used recently

It's almost as if Python marks the pinnacle of programming language research which isn't the case at all. In fact, I daresay no language can since programming languages are a matter of compromises and trade-offs. A language's compromises and trade-offs you're willing to put off with might not be the same for another person. There's an interesting phenomenon I've observed in the Perl community (or at least the Raku for the most part) which seems to be rare in other places: Whenever a situation arises where Raku might not be the best candidate for, community members aren't afraid to consider/suggest/recommend other programming languages as viable options.
> I don't think that inbreeding was a concept back then.

There are evolutionary guards against inbreeding. Its why brothers + sisters can grow up and live together, but for the most part don't feel like dating or marrying each other.

Its beyond culture: its written in our genetic code itself. Presumably, the primitive-man tribes who did do in-breeding were probably wiped out in the stone-age due to the (now well known) problems.

True, there are exceptions. But in the general case, the guards against in-breeding are part of the human's genetic code. Sorta anyway: IIRC the specific genetic programming is against "marrying people who you grew up with".
I'm actually glad it's dead/dying. It was always going to be controlled by an elite group who answered to no one but themselves. They had the ability to monitor all of your transactions and if they didn't like you they could roll back or block your transactions.

People keep saying oh this is proof crypto can't ever work because government. This was never a true crypto currency. It was just a private ledger tracking where actual money went. It was a stable coin at best. Its centralization is what got it killed.
Consider this:

It's become normalized for people to buy houses/condos with large amounts of inflating debt. Because you're indebted, you can't simply sell what you've bought for any less than you owe, eat the loss and walk away, as you might do with something you flat out own. You'd still owe your lender, with interest.

I'd argue that this game creates a significant incentive for people to hold onto a housing units and pass debt onto renters, that it turns would-be owner-occupants into virtual speculators/landlords. I say "virtual" because they are really just tenants of their lenders (banks), and many of them aren't really in it for the "win", they're just in it by coercion, in it for the "not loss".

This whole scheme, and many others like it, artificially restricts supply and inflates prices.
If your name is atypical, maybe they looked you up on social media and described you based on that? Or maybe you're a very generic looking individual.
However well written, it's frustrating to see an otherwise thoughtful work disregard the benefits of protecting public lands under the Wilderness Act, which is to the best of my knowledge the only robust means of doing so.
> The situation is similar to bans on cryptography IMO.

No offense, but a misleading and inaccurate analogy. It's much closer to bans on chemical precursors of drugs like MDMA or LSD. Those chemical precursors have many legitimate uses, but since some people use them to make illegal drugs, normal citizens cannot acquire them easily, or without breaking the law.
Try buying a house in the sunset and turning it in to flats.
This doesn't just have nothing to do with the work you are hiring for, this is testing for something that's actually a negative trait in your work.

Technical writing should be as concise and clear as possible
> Kudos for making this change!

Rakudos, even!
David Marcus update [1] :

Special thanks to @Visa and @Mastercard for sticking it out until the 11th hour. The pressure has been intense (understatement), and I respect their decision to wait until there’s regulatory clarity for @Libra_ to proceed, vs. the invoked threats (by many) on their biz.

I would caution against reading the fate of Libra into this update. Of course, it’s not great news in the short term, but in a way it’s liberating. Stay tuned for more very soon. Change of this magnitude is hard. You know you’re on to something when so much pressure builds up.

[1]https://twitter.com/davidmarcus/status/1182775728431087623
It would be cool if Les Claypool played Larry Wall in the movie.
That would by my error, its actually `BoundServiceAccountTokenVolume` and `TokenRequestProjection`
Switzerland’s attractiveness was always more than its heavily advertised banking secrecy laws.

Before I answer you, did you know that neighboring Austria’s banking secrecy was just as strong and is still very strong for Austrian citizens? Does Austria have a future? Silly question you might conclude.

Switzerland’s attractiveness is in its confederate structure, the national government is still extremely small and the states (cantons) administer regulations on any entrepreneur’s behalf and itnis applicable law in all Swiss states barring any conflict. But the general lack of conflict comes from Switzerland being sparsely population, nothing is happening! So, the fintech sector in the state of Zug pays just as much as Silicon Valley except with the lowest state taxes and no federal income tax. All because a couple people asked the financial regulator in Zug (population 100,000) to accept some useful laws.

You get the whole brand of Switzerland and its sovereignty from a tiny state agreeing with you. Shop around!

Being an EFTA member but non-EU and non-Eurozone allows it to experiment more dramatically without pushback from Brussels.

The mixture of cultures in Switzerland smoothes out some of the quirks of the monocultures in its neighboring countries
Collectibles are not exclusively purchased to be resold at a higher price ad infinitum. They are at least physical items.
off topic but this:

"Unfortunately, I did not get the job. :)"

"as long as I neither named them nor posted the code to my solution"

rubbed me the wrong way. I get that certain things during the interview could be covered by NDA, but interview questions should not be one of them. There is no relationship between you and the company during the interview, there is no reason for them to hide their name or your solution.
Serious answer: from the perspective of a deep learning researcher (me), the right answer would be to surface some metric of probability, and have the officer confirm, upon completing secondary validation, whether the prediction was right or wrong.

With a few thousand officers doing this over the course of a year (collecting potentially a million training samples or more), the accuracy figures will go up tremendously, and the probability estimates will become far more accurate.

That's assuming that the body cam manufacturer has a capable deep learning research team, though, which might not be the case.
It's not just CPU bound problems, handling multiple overlapping i/o operations is more trouble than it ought to be.
> Simply hunt down vendors who accept Bitcoin and organizations who facilitate its exchange.

This is commonly a argument for having drugs illegal too. "If we hunt them down, eventually there will be no one left"

What we know now, is that making something illegal, could make it stronger. If Bitcoin becomes illegal in most country, would the price go up or down? Suddenly there is a black market, and opens up a whole other can of worms, so governments might not be able to simply outlaw it.
I literally said “getting them from plants is of course possible”, my observation was a it’s easier to get the right amounts of the amino acids from a source that already did the balancing for you vs eating a wide range of plant matter rich in some and not others.

Meat and eggs are complete proteins in and of themselves, as a single source they are complete in all the essential amino acids, plants aren’t so you have to be more careful to get a decent mix.

I’ve no dog in this fight, I’m not a vegan or vegetarian but I also eat very little meat for medical reasons so I made sure I ate an increased range of plants to compensate.
Oh man I just love and adore Crystal. I am a long time rubyist and I have to say they just nailed it with Crystal. I just wish I had more opportunity to use it professionally!
Indeed and as a Perl developer I make use of XS/external libraries, cooperative multitasking (event loops/promises), and forking to cover these use cases. It doesn't preclude wanting the additional option to take advantage of threads in a useful way, since they do exist.
Another example is ABB
Does twitter really deserve the trust though? I remember a lot of people I know complaining about getting locked out of their twitter accounts a year or two ago, with twitter demanding a phone number for them "for security". Then a few days ago it comes out that they were using those phone numbers for advertising purposes. Do they really deserve the benefit of the doubt on this?
I have a decent amount of experience with Perl 5 and one of Perl's greatest features is also sometimes it's greatest liability, versatility. It's permissiveness tends to facilitate poor coding styles and methods which is why there's alot of bad Perl out there. Plus Perl 5 is just different for lack of a better term. If your proficient newer languages, Perl 5 and the Perl way of doing things probably seems a little strange.
> I've always been kind of confused as to how the SEC has jurisdiction on this

Because they ask for real money for merely handle you a digital certificate that, the main purpose of which is to wait it to shoot higher to sell for a profit?

Edit: Thanks for the downvote to validate this claim ;)
It works in the other direction, too. I've seen (and been in charge of) a depressing number of projects that spent hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of people's time on writing an in-house replacement for a piece of software that cost, at most, tens of thousands of dollars.

My working hypothesis is that management types don't really think the costs are comparable, because licensing fees are an operating expense while in-house development costs are a capital expense. Which is true, but I imagine in-house development is a tricky thing compared to other capital expenses, since the final product generally has zero market value.
A large number of people "invest" in collectibles only to resell them for a higher price. See: beany babies, trading card games, figurines, dolls. Just like those items tokens can be owned though their representation isn't much to look at. I'm not sure that is a useful distinction, unless you can explain further? E.g. why doesn't it apply to intellectual property?

I keep getting downvoted -- I'm not arguing that Telegram has a workable business plan, just that this isn't really something the SEC can regulate.
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Agreed. This makes it much better parsable!

Although on the phone I initially didn't realize there was horizontal content/scrolling! Thanks for pointing that out! Very neat.
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You should check https://vespa.ai - App containers and first class tensor support is a blessing.
>Bitcoin can be hampered but not outright killed, at least not over night. A death by a thousand cuts is the most likely solution but by no means guarantees Victory.

Ignoring policy attacks, and focusing on the purely technical:

A useful metric here is to compare the cost of executing a 51% attack on Bitcoin long enough to erode confidence in the software to the military budget of the top nation states.

Additionally, the broadly assumed consistency properties of Proof-of-Work cryptocurrencies fall apart in the face of a powerful network adversary who can cause arbitrary segmentation.
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> The founder did a lot of shady stuff, yes, but maligning an entire company with more than $2.5B in revenue as "fraud" is very harsh. $2.5B annual is higher revenue than the vast majority of businesses will see in their lifetime

Using revenue as a measure of legitimacy doesn't make any sense. SoftBank has invested over $10 billion into WeWork since 2017. They'd have made more revenue if they sold $10 billion in $10 bills for $9 each.
So, as idoubtit mentions - it's not a lost chapter, it's another copy of the non-lost chapters.

Anyway, if you want a taste of the "Tale of Genji" - try here:

https://www.learner.org/courses/worldlit/the-tale-of-genji/r...
it is just a habit. Here is a video from 2010 with 97 wpm on iPhone - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNcTE5WJGdw
I have a hard time believing that Amazon's motives are pure. Companies that develop open source software have an incredibly hard time with profitability -- it is no surprise that elastic wants to reduce their own workload by maintaining a single repo for open source and source available code. The "land mines" are cordoned off in one directory. Hard to miss that.
A more accurate term than “crypto” would be “private currency”. It offers very few of the benefits other cryptocurrencies offer (to non capitalists) except for resilience to the failure of a single state issued currency. “Crypto” is a complete red herring.
A 50% chance of recovery in 6 months is still a drastic improvement over a 0% chance of recovery if you lost money in stocks.

Also, loss of wages accumulates over time and you're probably going to look for another job or quit if you're not getting paid. But you could easily invest several years of worth of salary in the stock market, and lose the majority if it crashes hard enough.
I did this the other way around. Started with a Mi Band that did HR/sleep tracking and found it to be great value for its price. I used it religiously for 6 months and figured that was justification to get an Apple Watch. Despite its larger form factor and greater functionality, I find it to be pretty gimmicky in spite of using it for 2+ years. I pretty much use it for notifications (SMS/phone) and activity tracking. Everything else has been pretty meh. I'm ready to go back to Mi Band and don't feel like I'll miss much.
eBay, Stripe and Mastercard Drop Out of Facebook’s Libra Association
How about virtual collectibles in MMOs?
When is the wrong time to use Kubernetes?
Not really, Telegram works as a web app and also, not that many people in the world actually use iPhones (at least outside of the US. In the US though, more people use iPhone than Android it seems)
I think there are two strategic reasons for joining even if they believed it was doomed.

1. Like someone said above, know your enemy.

2. In the 0.1% offchance that it took off they really don’t want to be left out.
This issue comes up with a reused bytes.Buffer.

var buf bytes.Buffer
buf.WriteString("foo")
b := buf.Bytes()
fmt.Printf("b == %v\n", string(b)) // b == foo
buf.Reset()
buf.WriteString("bar")
fmt.Printf("b == %v\n", string(b)) // b == bar

Yes the documentation for .Bytes() says that "The slice is valid for use only until the next buffer modification" but people don't always read the docs for every method they use, especially if it's a method they've used a bunch before. Having a reusable buffer that you return the .Bytes() value from is very tempting. Bug-free code would either copy the result or not reuse the buffer.
You can put collectibles on a shelf to impress likeminded friends. Or to feel happy. You can only trade securities and other similar assets.
Also, generally if everyone bought figures to resell... I dont know how that can work... There is always an "unlucky fool" who buys from "scalpers" and keeps the item.
>Collectibles are not exclusively purchased to be resold at a higher price ad infinitum.

Neither is crypto.

I use it to buy real things all the time.

Usually at a significant price discount, to boot!
This one from 2004 involves a modern regional jet (Bombardier RJ) dead-stick crashing on a reposition flight. The crew's decision-making & remedial actions boggle the mind. I'd call it a case study in horrendous pilotage. Thankfully, no innocents died.

https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/...
And do you have a source analyzing that? All I can find are some off-the-cuff remarks from 2001 with no data analysis.
I'm confused by the intent behind this question. The point of my post was that being able to work in terminal sessions is not survivalism, it's standard tools knowledge.
Cryptocurrency. This is about crypto tokens.
They were. The article isn't saying that there aren't any adult women being found in cemeteries. It's saying that none of the adult women being found in the cemeteries seem to be the daughter of anyone else in the community.
> The problem is people design these things without any sort of actual testing in actual conditions where the software is supposed to be used.

I’ll do YOU one better. </Drax>

I work in an industry where software is still created by good, old-fashioned, by-the-book waterfall process, by outsourced developers. You know: the industry-proven, rock-solid, 20-year-out-of-date, slowest-and-least-agile methodology. Not only do the people who write the software never use it anger, they have no clue what the software is supposed to actually be doing. They don't understand our product, don't understand HOW these KINDS of products work, don't understand what engineers are doing TO the products, and don't understand what would be useful to have from software to help DO that. How many steps removed from actually USING the software is that? Well, you can imagine the frustration that end users experience on a DAILY basis, with ALL the tools they're supposed to be using, both home-grown, and customized commercial.

Gee… I wonder why there are so many shared Excel workbooks functioning as ad-hoc database applications on the network drives…

The most damning part of this is that there were some studies done on our engineering processes in relation to our competitors, and the numbers were bad. Really bad. You would think that senior management would sit up, take notice, and connect the dots. But they don’t seem to be doing that, which leads to one of two conclusions, and neither are encouraging.
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You have a fair point, but if by "more difficult" the grandparent meant "more difficult to maintain", I'd have to agree with him. The failure modes of processes running in the BEAM are much more transparent and understandable than the usual ad-hoc JS nodejs server.
Do you really think a Facebook currency is not going to charge fees and upsell you left, right and centre the first moment they think they can get away with it? That's as well as targeting advertising and selling data of your spending patterns.
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You can run x86 code on an AMD64/x86-64 CPU.
I am not a Go programmer, but this seems like a really nice guide. Is there anything similar for Python or C++?
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I believe that there were multiple defaults, and they intentionally chose the wrong one to make a point. Your quote cropping is embarrassing.

The analogy would be blaming an anchor manufacturer when the "default anchor" for rowboats doesn't hold an oil tanker.
Yes, it can even give you more opportunities that you otherwise would have missed.
Are there other guilds in all caps?
Game of Thrones is not a historical source, it’s a work of fiction created with modern biases.

You say you look to evolutionary biology, but it’s far more common for females to form family groups that kick the males out once they’re of age. Social animals like horses, bison, lions, even eusocial insects like bees and termites- they all send their males out to other groups.
If purchased to resell, then yes it should be and already is mostly made illegal/breach of TOS.

People can buy things to enjoy, not just to resell.
How does a Facebook currency help here?
These types of commons have no utility. How about upgrading the subway or building a high speed rail. Actual contributions to the common good rather then nostalgic addictions to preserving the obsolete.
Bitcoin does not need to be killed because it’s dead already: proved to be useless for all practical purposes, now used mostly for money laundering or other criminal activities
The politicians didn't have criminal records, but were being matched with the faces of unrelated people that had been convicted of crimes