skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With my bank, the telephone banking password is very different from the one you use to log in.
Commercial speech is heavily regulated.
Start by forcing them to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp.
> I personally have no reason to negate the existence of aliens or UFOs. I've read a lot of testimonies about encounters and everything, and they mostly add up with one another.

The two parts of the sentence doesn't necessarily adds up, I too think that life on other planets exists (or existed or will exist), but that doesn't necessarily mean that alien vehicles are poking us and a global conspiracy to hide their existence.
I would argue this site can make you feel the same way :)
My spoken and written english is very bad, but my score has been 27400. So I think that the test is not that meaningful.
Apple is an undervalued stock. Their Price / Revenue ration is <5x
When I had a VC-backed company what I really wanted was something like this... where everything that was "commodity" would be delivered from the VC, who can negotiate better terms for it. Office space, internet, payroll services, accounting, recruiting, etc... all should come from a VC who can get it in bulk.

Even one level deeper... if it's a consumer Web or enterprise SaaS startup... it could probably be all built on the same tech stack. Why not have the VC own 60% of the business and provide the tech infrastructure and have only the frontend and business logic implemented by the operating team?
Same surprise for me when I got back my password from AMEX over phone.
> a steaming pile of JavaScript a single Alt-Tab away on my laptop

Most of the poetry written in Shakespere's time has been lost to history because it was utter drivel. Some is still scratched on 400-year-old walls.
No, having a kid who you've never bothered to socialize because using the iPad is easier is damaging their brains. My kids are much more disruptive at adult social events than their iPad-addled peers, but 100x better-behaved than those kids would be if you took away their iPads. Sadly, the expected standard of behavior is tending towards the iPad zombies, it's mostly the older generation who sees my kids' petty transgressions as "kids being kids."
The individual contributors are part of it though. If they walk and cannot be replaced, policies have to change. They are pretty much the best pressure point there is to get Google to move on something if you're not representing a large amount of shares.
Amazon has a similar amount of data on me. And yet, their product recommendations are never really helpful. A toddler would probably be better at recommending products for me than Amazon is. So I'm not sure if the amount of data actually helps them financially.
Gayle Lackman is lying though. Well that’s a strong word but there really isn’t any other way to put it.

Their interview process does not test intelligence. It may require some intelligence to pass (meeting Gayle’s stupid criteria that “some people are not intelligent enough to pass”), but having a high IQ is not sufficient, nor necessary.

I’ve seen in your other comments that you’ve let them convince you that you are too stupid to hire you. You need to disabuse yourself of that notion because their interview process does not test intelligence, it’s just a heavy algorithms/ds process that allows thousands of mediocre engineers every year into Google’s payroll and rejects an order of magnitude more highly competent engineers that did not have the time and/or motivation to prep leetcode bullshit.

> lot of startups that forego the whiteboard problem with just a conversational interview or take home problem are putting significant less emphasis on raw intelligence.

sigh. I don’t really want to try to spell this out anymore, but a take-home assignment provides you significantly more material to examine someone’s intelligence. The reason Google doesn’t bother is because it takes more time to administer and poor saps are willing to throw themselves at the machine to see if they can slip through. If Google didn’t receive 100x the job applications they required, they would certainly fix their fucked process super quickly.
you, not we :)
When I went to TSB (UK) open an account for my partner and she was asked to type her password on their computer she asked when she can change the password, are they any limitations, like wait 3 days before changing password. The assistant responded "why would you ever want to change your password? you can type any password you want now, just please type your password". This was so weird we didnt use the account for a few days, changed the password, waited a few days again and after that deposited money.
This might be it, thanks!
One of the leaders at IDEO (and part-time prof. at the business school) spoke to my grad. class. He gave one of the slickest powerpoint presentations I've ever seen.

Good article, but I don't think it says much that should surprise us. Large corporate firms will inevitably end up talking corporate-speak, and sell a service whose actual value is lower than its luster. Moreover, in every field, there will be some practitioners who hold a myopic view when it comes to problem-solving.

There seems to be an aura about/around design stuff/work that blinds people to the very real fact that it is still just a business.
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And risk it all for 40% with another founder? It's not that AWS has a special tier for VC's.
I always disliked Facebook and still don't care much for it, but having worked on ranking there for a few months, comments like this just sound incredibly naive.

Facebook is not "specifically designed to cause addiction". It's designed by a complicated process with many people trying to maximize many competing metrics, some of which might go up when people are "addicted". In fact the complete opposite is one of the main goal metrics for most teams (measures of well being) and only a small fraction of people are even trying to increase time spent.
> most people do not engage in typing for the fun of it. The primary concerns for this are input reliability, ease & speed of setup, and learning curve.

Swipe-style input on phones seems more popular than keypresses, despite having lower input reliability, more difficult setup, and an inability to enter certain words.

It's faster than typing, though, as long as the word you want to enter is part of the swipe input method's dictionary.
The climate happened, I think. Difficult to maintain optimism on the ultimate destiny of consciousness when the science is telling you there's an extinction event on your doorstep.
If having to reach out to real customers and fix their fuckups until they are happy enough to leave a good review, then I’m completely fine with that level of advertising. That’s just fixing your fuckups until your customers refer you, which is the best thing that you can hope for.

That has no relationship to the paid shitstorm of ads on Google.
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> someone who says they want to help you

Why should a founder take a claim like that at face value? VCs are not charities, and their "potential ideas" are constructed with their own interests in mind.

brenden2 has decided that this type of offer (giving away equity in exchange for services implemented by the VC's affiliates) is categorically unsuitable for his company. It's patronizing to assume that brenden2 is inexperienced for reaching this conclusion.
The Windows clipboard has a model where the clipboard contains an abstract 'data object' which exposes a list of supported formats, then you request formats individually. So a given piece of data could expose (not literally this, but the equivalent) text/plain, text/html, image/png, $my_custom_format and then when an application requests a given format it's generated on demand.

This mostly gets used for scenarios where you're pasting into notepad vs into word - the latter will get rich text if it requests it, while the former is just going to request plain text and get it. When copying text or images or HTML out of typical apps, the clipboard actually ends up having 6 or more different formats in it that all represent the same source content.

The 'generate on demand' means that it's theoretically possible to sync clipboard operations over the network transparently for stuff like Synergy, which is pretty cool - no need to copy that big bitmap over unless software on the other machine actually asks for it. I had some custom clipboard sync software I wrote that did this automatically (with a progress indicator for big data like desktop screenshots) in a couple thousand lines of C# and it was pretty satisfying to use.
> ...consultants who give advice. Startups need someone to do the work more than they need someone to give the advice.

I've been on the other side of this with a few startups, and the right answer is almost never to come in and drop a bunch of code as much as founders would like an extra set of hands.

A good SME can come in and have a solid whiteboard session with a team to shave off the first two iterations of development. I've done this before from a security perspective where just making the developers aware of the sharp edges and being available to answer questions was a massive force multiplier.
Maybe that is why journalism serves that many falsehoods nowadays? I don't even want to replicate your train of thoughts to justify the persecution of people making war crimes public, but the surface argument is quite weak.

We should all just blame the Russians, right? Please, in all cases where media organizations were implicated in spreading falsehoods, this is completely mundane.
Stalin famously had people that had “left” his administration airbrushed out of photographs.

I don’t think it will be long before current-day dictators start doing the same thing with old footage containing previous allies they no longer wish to be associated with.
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This is like saying they must not have computer chips in the car because of door tolerances and yet clearly they do. Maybe they just don't care about exterior fit and finish?
I know I'm late to the party, but why isn't everyone mentioning Ron Jeffries infamous TDD Sudoku as a comparison?

A lot of the links are dead these days, I'm afraid, but back in 2007 this was the kind of thing that everyone on HN knew about!

http://ravimohan.blogspot.com/2007/04/learning-from-sudoku-s...
You make a good point. The counterpoint that springs to mind is similar to the California law that requires a warning for anything containing chemicals known to cause cancer.

I’m sure this case is commonly known but I’ll spell it out as I understand it briefly: the bar for “cause cancer” is apparently low and wide enough to mean a huge number of products have this warning, diluting the spirit of the warning. Cynics and critics suggest this over-labeling is a deliberate attempt to undermine the warning itself through over saturation.

In your Facebook example, this could end up meaning any site with user generated content and comments would have to carry the warning — including Hacker News.
Without wanting to get involved in the purpose of your rhetorical question (the purpose being some kind of analogy to the StarLink situation)...

How many compilers were there back in the 60s? By codebase or by install count, your choice. Hundreds of codebases and tens of thousands of installs?

How about now? Tens of thousands of codebases and billions of installs?

Do you think this could have happened without lowering the cost of transistors pretty hugely? (circa 3e7-fold price decrease in 50 years)

Seems to me that lowering the cost of transistors DOES increase the number of compilers, whether by counting the number of distinct codebases, or by counting number of users, or counting number of installed copies, or number of times executed, or whatever.
Clang on my macOS doesn't like the fact that main() takes and returns long long. But it appears GCC on Debian 8 (random linux I have lying around) doesn't mind.

I get it to compile on macOS if I remove the int define but then it segfaults when you run it. I wonder if there is some magic flag to make "main does not return int" a non-fatal error on Clang?

It's fun to read this code but running it is even more fun, you can see the VM code it generates, with source line annotations and all.
After my G13 started acting up I got myself a Razer Tartarus V2 and honestly I'm disappointed to the point I feel like I need to warn people. If you buy Razer, make sure you can return it if you're disappointed.

First the Tartarus V2 has issues with several MMOs where keys will get "stuck" and based on googling this has been an issue with other Razer products for 5+ years. While some may have been fixed Tartarus V2 still has the issue 2 years after release.

Second, the Razer Synapse software pack suffers from gamer marketing bloat and requires you to have a razer account to even allow configuring your device.
In Soviet Union places were named in honor of the people that did something good for the country. Stalin's daughter didn't do anything significant in her life - why would anyone name anything in honor of her?????

People in the West has so perverse understanding of Russian/Soviet realities due to exorbitant amount of anti-Russian and especially anti-Soviet propaganda. I wonder if there was even a single positive thing ever published on the West about USSR.

And people laugh at me when I say I don't believe any news (they believe they're becoming enlightened by reading or watching fake news which is any news source).
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Just want to share that there's also good reasons for employing this technique.

Eg if you select text in Slack that has emojis or formatting, it tries to put plain-text into the clipboard that would produce said emojis and formatting when pasted back into Slack. This is great, and every chat app does does formatted stuff should do this.

I'd hate it if browser vendors would attempt to block this and as a result, break that kind of functionality too.
What's your definition of "advanced"?

Intel, UMC, GlobalFoundries don't make your list??
I have yet to find a use case for AI where I work. We just need simple business apps.
When was this? My uncle used to live in Germany many many years ago, and he told me a similar story when I was a kid. He apparently saw large black object, flying very low and absolutely silent.
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> Having a service that is both the proxy and the new application is a poor separation of concerns

I must have missed that in the first read. Yes, do not do this.

If anything survives the hype cycle for microservices, I hope it’s this: if your company isn’t surviving more than a couple of technology cycles, especially when they seem to be getting faster, then what are you doing this for?

Stop trying to replace one system with another one. Yours will be old and busted someday too. And certainly don’t let one system be the gateway to the other. Put them both behind a thin layer that handles only a couple of concerns (say, auth, making sure all requests have a correlation ID, perf statistics, maybe pick 2).

What we are both suggesting, I have still always called the strangler pattern. It just has three actors instead of two.
Are you under the impression that DRAM and NAND aren't semiconductors?
Then you just base it off of the number of employees overall in the parent company, not the number of employees in the subsidiary.
> or hardcode a 'self' arg in their wrapper and thus don't work on global functions. I'm fine with simplifying it for an article but for production code this is a pet peeve of mine :p

To be fair, this is such an easy class of mistake to make that the standard library does it. @functools.lru_cache is bugged for instance methods.
If this is really happening this is a serious issue that needs to be fixed ASAP and everyone alerted..

but.. something doesn't look right here..

OP is a throwaway account created today, which I can understand for this type of thing.. but...

they withheld the bank name in the title/desc.. okay again a responsible thing to do.. but...

when asked what the bank name was in the comments they were not shy at naming it..

Something just doesn't feel right. Why the sudden change of heart?

For everyone's sake I hope I'm right, that this is just FUD.. to the OP if you really are serious I'm sorry, and please do report this ASAP.
I really like this, but I wonder why somehow "four functions" has to imply "needlessly cryptic variable names". Is that just part of the exercise in minimalism, i.e. art?
That's a "but"? That sounds like you're agreeing!
> so at least he did get to split the work up between two projects.

That makes him twice as productive, not half.
Video is not to be trusted since 1896 and the first of Melies' movies.

The only difference is that the skills and computation power necessary to make it realistic enough are now much more accessible.
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It showed up for my 4K display (a no-name Samsung) but I don't really know the conditions when the scaling options appear.
I honest to goodness thought this was going to be about the video container format. In retrospect this makes much more snse.
Majority of software written today is code bureaucracy, linking together people and decisionmakers.

"AI" can be stretched very far. If I apply linear regression on user-entered numbers to suggest them something, I can call it "AI" and be less dishonest with it than a lot of startups on the market.

(LR at least isn't a glorified RNG, which a DNN can become if one's not careful, or apply it to a domain that doesn't give obvious, visual feedback.)
If you look at it the other way, is there any field where some pro aren’t 10x « better » than other pros, at least by some metrics ?

In sport it’s pretty obvious there are, and you can measure it because there’s a « winner » and a « looser » at the end of each game. But i’d imagine it’s there in pretty much anything.
by "kwargs" the usual approach is to have optional arguments ("keyword arguments") that aren't just kwargs, but are named optional arguments:

def func(args, flag=False, flag2=True)
after jobs killed blackberry (with the no-poach mafia, not with products) blackberry become just a small android clone manufacturer now. The mba thing times are over ...thinking about it, they should just came up with another brand.
AI is the new blockchain. The only difference is that Blockchain now beginning to look ready for real world applications having gone through its wild west days. AI is still in that phase. Lots of talk, little to no substance. Yes, Google Maps, Translate, Siri and countless others are great examples of AI. But there's definitely a lot of snake oil being peddled through it. And unless we as an industry get past it, AI is not going to go anywhere as a tool
Assuming the TechCrunch article’s headline is the same as the HN post headline, then I think you are already too late. I would describe it as inflammatory at best.

I can’t actually load the article because (I think) my web browser’s anti-tracking blockers interfere with TC’s adtech. I’m using Firefox Focus with iOS Safari.
Rural Australian whites were shooting Aboriginals like Animals few decades ago :(

back on topic, we are still discovering new things about the aboriginal civilisation
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I don't know that I've seen singledispatch used anywhere, and the standard library includes a lot of unpythonic code (and entire modules).

As a simple example, the unittest module is entirely unpythonic.

Singledispatch was mostly included to handle specific cases where singledispatch is very clearly useful (the PEP mentions pprint and copy), but not as a generic tool for common end-user code.
> And why not?

To me (and of course, it's a personal opinion) it shows that someone cares. It's like when you do your resume, you want it clean and presentable, without typos, to show that you care.

We all like good user interfaces and experiences in our programs. To me, the look is like the presentation layer of our own UX. Is it required for our work? Most of the times it is not, because our work depends on the logic layers, but it doesn't hurt to have a nice presentation layer.

And I'm not telling about going to work in a D&G suit.

EDIT: and I'm not telling that I would discriminate or think right away that someone doesn't care! I don't do that. My attitude about good looking is mono-directional; from me towards others.
> After 7 months, you start testing the new version.

Translation: after 7 months you stop mucking about and start trying to produce something useful.
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This sounds great. I've used an i3 dmenu setup and is was nice. Re configuring however sounds unpleasant.
It is no longer locked
I agree, it was just an example on how « adding something new » may cause existing hardware obsolete, if you look at it from an ecosystem pov.
I understand enough to think the proposal sounds reasonable, but not enough to know why it is apparently, in fact, unreasonable.
It is designed to increase engagement. It ain't designed so you use it less and/or just enough.
This is why organized crime is very aggressive toward upstarts.
This is awesome, less than 500 lines for a self-compiling C compiler!
I have seen massive failures where management got sucked into AI hype and failed to realize most basic of advantages. Hired for fancy titles like Data Scientists etc. who were great in building simple prototypes but failed every time when met with real world use cases.
Let me guess, you are heavily invested in ai/ml and are well aboard the hypetrain?

What's about to happen is that people who have been convinced to invest in ML infra are about to start pulling budgets because they've had no results.