skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had this exact same idea in a political context. This could super useful for breakdowns of police footage. Might be wonderful for pro gaming too.
That’s completely false. The skills to get through the “famous interview” aren’t related to software engineering practices at all. Let that sink in.

Their interview process is loaded with false negative and false positive rates, despite what they claim. If you don’t think they have false positives, just look at the poor quality of so many google products.

An interview process that an algorithms/data structure obsessed senior in college can easily pass is clearly not related to elite engineers. It’s sad that people have been tricked into thinking otherwise.
Swatting is quite illegal anyway - and so is plotting a 'swatting' online, by the "clear and present danger" standard. Free speech is irrelevant to this. Brigading might be a problem but both sides are doing it, so why blame only 4chan and the like while letting Twitter and Tumblr off the hook?
I have to say that that is exactly my preferred topological arrangement of those components.
I don't think the wait for cancer patients is 4 months. Even in Portugal you'll get treated and we're much poorer with a much more deficient health system.
I'd love more info how Netflix propagates schema changes to downstream stores. How do you apply migrations to heterogeneous databases? Applying binlog messages only works if downstream stores are the same flavor database as the source. And common message formats like Avro don't have a guaranteed migration strategy like protobuf.

I suspect it's more of a process solution than a technological solution. Are non-backwards-compatible migrations scheduled in advance, and broadcast to dependent teams? Are downstream consumers expected to have a replay/dead-letter queue?
recently: https://notrealnews.net (arguably not ...doesnotexist, but it's using AI: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22314222)
That’s incorrect. An interview process with true negatives doesn’t mean it isn’t loaded with tons of other false positives. Being good at leetcode has no relation to engineering skills, despite it being a skill in itself.
sdf.org is interesting because it is one of the few services running a multi-user capable OS - and using it that way. I donated to them years ago, primarily for the complementary email address, and in setting that up I was poking around in the shell - that was the first I'd seen 'who' return a list active sessions that weren't me.
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I would like to echo your statement. I've always found it bizarre how people conflate insults with threats. In the vast majority of cases we can draw a very distinct line between the two. On top of that, it's not like this has any less ambiguity in meatspace.
link in my comment below.
Interesting. I always have my notes window open in one half of my monitors. I use it for everything while developing, including pseudocode, developing SQL queries, planning my changes, etc. I use it as a digital scratchpad.
Spent some time in college studying the use of this to detect election fraud. A really intriguing concept, but then the question becomes: what next? Is the statistical data enough to trigger a deeper investigation?
Designing user research around watching people do something, and figuring out their needs is something I've covered in a recent post: https://adnankhan.space/user-research/2020/01/28/ask-users-f.... The idea is that your research objectives could be very different from what you're actually testing.
Ah, thanks. I didn't realize they had options to sell at $218, so I was thinking of the market price in Feb 2019.
Yeah I hate the routes google maps concocts with horrible and sometimes illegal turns.

Bearing in mind the no turn between 7-9am mon-fri signs etc.

Another one is the on-off tolls. I want “I’ll pay a toll if it’s 10 minutes or more quicker”
> Likewise an internet without hierarchies, without controls and without enforcement of social taboos, be that by law, by gatekeepers or through exclusion incentivizes the very worst actors to run amok. Social approval should be incorporated into law, (either literal or culturally) because places that don't do it become uninhabitable. (as the current public internet increasingly is).

"Uninhabitable?" To me it seems like the web is plenty full of people, especially in the gated communities of the social networks. Small community forums are still running as they always have. I would even say that things have improved noticeably since 2016, which was a low point.

When you say "uninhabitable", I suspect that is actually code for "uninhabitable to me." I also find certain parts of the web distateful, and I avoid them. There are other places where I spend quite a bit of time, and I don't find them uninhabitable at all, nor do I find them becoming generally worse off.

The problem with your statement about taboo enforcement is the question of which taboos do you select? There is no such thing as an impartial viewpoint here. Creating a moral arbiter with actual power is just creating another cultural battlefield that will oscillate between left-wing and right-wing control. In that, it will further entrench the current two-party duopoly and prevent meaningful change. It will also force businesses to be dragged further into the conflict, and may eventually lead to explicitly partisan companies--something I hope to never see.

Frankly I find the mores of contemporary society to be awful. I wouldn't want their taboos enforced on me. In fact, I would actively resist it using whatever measures I could muster. But since I have the option of moving to spaces where dissent and nonconformism is allowed, I choose to do so.
Information asymmetries are a huge problem in "market solutions" and there's a huge one here: doctors have 8+ years of medical training and most patients....don't. It's going to be very hard for many people to second-guess a doctor's recommendation or estimate the expected value of decisions.

In a non-emergency situation, you can certainly try to read up on your own, but the medical literature is not always easy to interpret. A friend of mine asked for advice after he was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. Despite having a PhD in neuroscience and working as a researcher in a PD Center of Excellence, I had a really hard time making a recommendation. (Neuro conditions are particularly hard, but this is also possibly the best-case match with my experience).
could be a deliberate tactic to sow confusion. I would not update waterfox beyond the pre-acquisition version.
Maybe this is a Silicon Valley bias but I have never heard of anyone scoffing at the founders of failed enterprises. New enterprises are hard even the best prepared ones will require some luck.
A successful start up ecosystem should ensure that people are not punished for trying.
Sure looks like they acquihired him: https://www.system1.com/press/system1-welcomes-waterfox

Also, Alex appears to have stepped down as director of Waterfox and a co-founder of System1 became director: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08071145/filing-h...
Related West Wing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k9IlR3-_-A
One very important thing to counter hate is to try to have everyone in society involved in society somehow. People are much less willing to wish ill on others in society (or society itself) if they feel that they are part of it. A lot of stories about people being radicalized start with a person feeling at end of the rope and alone.

This isn't something that you can really do online, but it is something that can be done in real life and should probably done more. Friends are a powerful force.
What are the most often typed things to chatbots?
I do love the hypocrisy and lack of self awareness amongst people who criticise Facebook and Instagram on websites like Reddit.

Reddit has some of the most toxic communities on the internet bar none e.g. /r/gamersriseup, /r/kotakuinaction.
My concern with #4 would be with this:

"You don’t have to fight back against chargebacks, they do that for you;"

No way would I delegate this customer satisfaction issue to another company to handle; much less one who doesn't want chargebacks (at any cost.)
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Don’t forget a lot of entrepreneurs fail until they don’t.
From a quick survey of the article, it sounds like this instrument is likely to be using conventional electromagnets. Is that correct?
The chances of getting cancer are so low you’d think some smart insurance company would want to sell you a catastrophic cancer policy with a low monthly premium. Then it wouldn’t have to mean financial ruin, the same way I have homeowners insurance (without which a fire would spell financial ruin for most).

Why isn’t this a thing? Can someone in the industry chime in?
> I'm deeply frustrated with Apple and Google for so forceably locking everyone into their walled gardens.

And yet the developers made the app for those platforms anyway, even though an alternative exists - the free and open web.
Happy EDM about death:

Verse 1
Love is stronger than death, love is stronger
Than death has given you. Boy
I flew away from the love I found in your eyes
In love I discovered death

Pre-Chorus
Lust, hate, death
Lust, hate, death

Chorus
A death, sometimes, sometimes
A death, sometimes, sometimes
A death, sometimes, sometimes
A death, sometimes, sometimes

Verse 2
There is no life without it
And there is no death without it
And there is no way without it
Love will be the death of you

Pre-Chorus
The shadows haunting you
Watch them following you

Chorus
A death, sometimes, sometimes
A death, sometimes, sometimes
A death, sometimes, sometimes
A death, sometimes, sometimes

Bridge
I can be strong I can live through your death
Love can kick your life to pieces

Chorus
A death, sometimes, sometimes
A death, sometimes, sometimes
A death, sometimes, sometimes
A death, sometimes, sometimes
I think the main difference is that you have to actively choose to participate in those groups on reddit, but on FB/IG, that kind of content is pushed at you.
It truly is an excellent place to fence stolen goods!
OSMAnd is an independent software. For OSMAnd I have not much knowledge, but GraphHopper you can surely host on your own.

BTW: you can use locus maps with our routing service or our own mobile app demo for Android: https://github.com/graphhopper/graphhopper-navigation-exampl...

> Wouldn't RRT/ACO be faster to find solutions, to some extent?

Did you try our demo and think it is slow :) ? https://graphhopper.com/maps/?point=Madrid&point=Moscow

We not only support Dijkstra and A* but also landmark (A* variant) and contraction hierarchies which makes routing very fast additionally to our optimized data structures.
This leads me to wonder...

Do cancer survival rates differ in countries with government health care vs. private?
This is an objection that could be raised against literally any clinical trial.

If we knew that a treatment was effective and safe, it would indeed be immoral to withhold it from people. But we don't know that. Finding that out is the whole point of having trials!
From what I saw of this at RSNA, they were only demonstrating head scans. The scanning volume is big enough for a head but not a full body. The magnet is low-power enough that you could walk within a few feet of it during operation without danger.

Cool device which could make MRI scans more accessible, and also paves the way for specialized scanners that only focus on a particular body part. I like medical tech that does a "good enough" job in exchange for being much cheaper than fully featured devices.
True, fast food is probably a bit cheaper than the UK, especially when considering cost relative to average disposable income. I've found the prices of a lot of fruit and veg surprisingly high though, including things like oranges, onions and eggplants. Also, bread! Can't find a loaf less than $1.79 in the local Cali supermarkets but would be able to get one for 80p or less in the UK.
I started out taking hand written notes decades ago but got annoyed when I couldn't easily search through them. Ever since, I just keep a giant text file in Emacs and heavily rely on the 'occur' command. Using these more sophisticated tools would actually require me to do some actual WORK...
I hope to see AMD in this list soon. Apple is not using the best desktop and laptop processors nowadays.
This would still be hugely helpful for brain imaging en route to a medical facility, similar to what’s being done with experimental mobile stroke units, so medical practitioners are ready to act upon a patient’s arrival.
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So he wants all the benefits of being a monopolistic platform without any of the responsibilities and he wants all the benefits of being a publisher without any of the responsibilities. Zuckerburg wants to eat his cake and have it too.

Letting facebook be part telco and part newspaper would make it the greatest propaganda machine in human history - one that is controlled by one person. Hopefully countries will start banning facebook outright soon.
>the aforementioned "oh, hmm, that lady has opinions about video games, let's try real hard to destroy her life" dreck that the various chans indulge in when they're bored

What are you referring to when you say this? Because if you're referring to Gamergate then that's quite a mischaracterization. I'm not saying that bad things weren't done during it, but it wasn't about hating on women in video games.

And aren't most swatting incidents unrelated to chans? Mostly it seems to have been about people getting angry at one another playing video games or related to streamers of video games. Does that make Twitch complicit?
Where in my comment do I talk about leetcode or false positives?

Not only are you incorrect, but you are completely off topic.

I am saying Gayle Lackman, the author of Cracking the coding interview and, in the past, one of the board members who decide on candidates in the google interview literally told me word for word that the interview optimizes for IQ. Meaning that there are tons of engineers who can spend a life time studying and never get into google because they are genetically not intelligent enough.

Understand?
In some psychology class long ago, I learned that one of the most self destructive things someone can do is perceive emotions as information. As in "That made me mad so what they did was clearly wrong". A lot of therapy is geared to shifting people away from that cognitive error.

But that concept is thrown out the window when it comes to Twitter/Facebook/etc.

I can't count how many times I've read "I'm literally shaking now" used as an indictment against someone else's perceived transgression. I think out of all the twitter cliches, that one makes me roll my eyes the most.
> There isn't much point in having a secure chat application if you want all your chats to be portable and exportable across devices and operating system upgrades

Sorry but I don't understand this sentence. Why?

Like, I get that it's challenging from a technical standpoint, but I absolutely don't see why it would be pointless?

Riot/Matrix does it: it's far from mature/polished—plenty of room for improvement—but it uses double-ratchet, and it functions.
If they're each pulling down $100k/year (this is slightly bellow amtrack average!) or ~$50/hour in total comp, 3x50x10 = $1500 right there for none of the support staff - managers, staff back in the control rooms switching signals, staff on call for maintainence issues - and none of the associated costs of putting the staff up in hotel rooms on account of being 10 hours away from home when their shift is over, etc. Spread it out over 300 riders and that's perhaps only $5 for the trip and your 1:100 employee:rider staffing ratio. Not so bad!

Of course, there are also 44 hour routes. Or less popular routes without 300 passengers that are run for political reasons, or because they feed passengers into the more popular routes. Or the popular routes when run off-peak, so passengers can still use the route even if they may occasionally need some flexibility in when they travel. The video suggests amtrack employs 1 person per 4 riders, not per 100! For a route half the distance (DC to New York - 3.5-5 hours) they attribute $25/ticket to labor costs.

You've got stories like this where Japan is keeping open a train station for a single passenger - do you think that route has 300 people on it there? And this is in a country where trains are popular and some routes are packed to the brim in the middle of rush hour: https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2016/01/japan-keeps-t...
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Carmack: CUDA function 100k times faster on GPU than on CPU
“According to Connecticut-based Hyperfine, their machine will cost $50,000, which is 20-times cheaper than traditional systems, runs on 35-times less power and weights 10 times less than normal 1.5T MRI machines.”

I believe GE came out with MRI machines a while back that were specific for limbs. This really does not seem much different other than it is on wheels and you can possibly position over a torso in a bed if it isn’t metal.
From Star Trek (Roddenberry era): Prevalence of the idealistic mindset. I do not, however, have any hope that this will happen.
You're confusing things.

Healthcare sometimes has a perverse supply curve, meaning the more expensive it is, the lower the quality. This is true of many drugs: there are generics whose side effects are well understood and have stood the test of time. They're so good that they are still being demanded and prescribed despite newer alternatives with incredible marketing and doctor incentives, glamorous salespersons, all-expense paid conventions in paradisiacal locales, and prestigious studies that show it's for sure at least 1% more effective which makes it a game changer. And even then it's for insurance to cover.

Really cheap healthcare is really hard to get because other reasonable economic factors still play a role. People want more of it because it's cheap and it still costs real money to provide so there's only so much budget for it. But if you manage to get it you will be way ahead. The big factor is that cheap healthcare weeds out practitioners who value your money more than your humanity. Maybe you'll also weed out a great doctor who charges a lot because he's so good, though.
This reads like trolling. "It crashed, because it was not written in Pascal"? Come on.

It may have crashed because it was written in C/C++, perhaps. But on the exact same grounds, why not say "It crashed because it was not written in Haskell"? (Or any of several other languages.) Why Pascal in particular?
I use Waterfox because I still need to run a Java applet for one thing.
I completely agree and am glad I am not the only one who feels like that.

I believe a lot of the internet of that era changed with Facebook: it was the first prominent social media that encouraged (mandated even) you to use your real name and information and a lot of people went with it. Myspace, MSN or similar before that were all aliases even if you knew the people in real life. This removed a level of privacy and made attacks more personal.
I'm a mid-career software engineering manager in the Aerospace sector. Looking at the salaries on levels.fyi for companies like Uber (280k), I'm literally making less than half of that. Further, the most senior engineering managers I know never achieved anything near that level (probably closer to 175k).

Are there engineering positions in the aerospace sector that pay FAANG salaries?
The practice in question, is called "asprodontics". The negative review doesn't even appear to be listed right now. Otherwise, it's a solid 5-star reputation.

"Awkward and uncomfortable" is about what I expect out of any trip to the dentist, but getting sued for leaving a bad review isn't. This guy literally just flushed his entire reputation over a single internet review. He may as well have shot a lion.
Huh? I thought cancer was one of the big killers after heart disease.

While you are relatively young maybe the probability is low. That’s also when you are working so private health insurance and income protection insurance would have you covered I imagine.
This isn't even a topic on programming languages nor was the original post inflammatory yet here you are following me around like a creeper.
Treat it like cancer...
This looks like a tip for someone who has gone to emergency with a high fever, what about someone who is about to faint, in the heart attack, you want the patient to argue with the intake person by showing printed cards ?
Those users and that toxicity spills out all across Reddit.

And not sure how FB/IG would push that content to you unless you were friends with people posting that sort of content.
Depends on the job right?
The fediverse has conversation streams that are mostly in public indexes, which other people can observe and interact with. In addition to these conversations comprised of statuses representing activities, it is also possible to follow the authors providing said content so that their latest posts show up in your stream, regardless of whether those posts pertained to that conversation or not.

Email, conversely, often is a limited-scope conversation that can only be observed or interacted with between the people participating in said message. Of course, this changes slightly with the use-case of mailing lists, which often provide a public archive of prior messages. But email content is generally not accessible from the web in the same manner that a status is.
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>especially in the gated communities of the social networks. Small community forums are still running as they always have

exactly my point, focus on "gated" and "small". What do you think is it that distinguishes gated communities from the generic facebook newsfeed? The right to censor, judge who gets in or not, be able to exclude bad actors, and to have stake and identity when commenting, and to set common rules for conduct. the internet is transforming from a public space to an internet of private gated communities.

In this the internet perfectly mirrors declining cities that do not maintain their commons. A lot of fractured, tribal communities emerge who are not in contact with each other, the marketplaces and houses degrade, and a huge amount of resources is spent on simply insulating oneself from everyone else. It is not a pretty picture.

On who gets to decide what taboos exist? There is no need for a moral arbiter. In communities that function well taboos and rules reflect the consensus of its constituent members. The fact that Mark Zuckerberg gets to make institutional decisions for 2 billion people is another sign of dysfunction.
These are pretty good use cases, thanks! I hadn't thought of it in a political context, I can definitely see it work there considering the lengthy footage.
Those sort of situations are not coordinated.

It's just that companies like Facebook, Twitter etc don't want to attract negative PR attention by being the first to move. Once one of them does move it's far less risky to follow.
You're probably right, but from everything I've seen to date, the representations of functions that neural networks learn tend to be smooth, which is to say if your input is similar to the domain covered by your training data, you're quite unlikely to get totally crazy outputs...though I can't say I've come across anything that proves this.

However, I think the degree to which neural networks can extrapolate is still an open question, so it is important to thoroughly sample your problem space during training. That's a bit of an artform given that these spaces are typically high-dimensional.
Glad they let you off in the end.
Looks like the US has some of the highest rates across the board: http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/cancer-survival-r...