skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried some of the U of Illinois MBA courses & found them lacking in quality compared to the Wharton ones on Coursera & MIT on EdX.

Obviously that's a completely different program & faculty though.
I imagine the best bet for this would be to use Windows' "Roaming User Profiles". I haven't tried it, though.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22404733
Maths has always been a priority for them though.
You don't need a license to own a TV that's right, but damn if you accidentally tune it to ITV4 for 5 seconds while hooking up the DVD player, or if you click on a BBC News (or Sky news for that matter) live stream on the web in your unlicensed house, you are a criminal right there. Literalty that is a criminal offence. Is that proportionate?
Let's look at it from another perspective (and this holds true for most FAANGs): A month of serious work and preparation can land you one of the most paying jobs on the world which will make you a millionare in a few years if you play it right.

Most people (especially if they didn't win the birth lottery by being born in CA, USA) go to schools and colleges for YEARS and YEARS to come even a few steps towards what you can get at Google and FAANGS by working for a month or two to prepare for the interview.

Take a step back and consider just how damn pampered we are in this business when doing exercies for a few weeks before interview for a 250.000$+ job is too much for you.
I did it on purpose, since you obviously thought the rest was interesting :)
Basically, I have one provider, except for emergency care - a large local network. It's fine for me, because my family doctor and both the specialists I need regularly for chronic conditions are in that network.

For my condition that requires regular surgeries (like 3x/year), there are two levels of surgery - one local anesthetic, one general anesthetic. The first time I got the general one done, the bill to my insurance was $35k. This time, with the new insurance, the bill was $19k. So I think the PPO relationship is making a huge difference in how the internal billing works.

At a higher level, the full hospital general anesthetic surgery in January on new insurance cost me less out of pocket than the much less complex local anesthetic surgery cost me in December, on previous insurance.
1. the Fraser institute is a right-wing think tank. They very much have an axe to grind here.

2. "medically necessary" does not tell you anything about the severity of illness or appropriateness of waiting. There are many medically necessary things for which it's okay to wait some time. In the Canadian system, things are dealt with at the level of urgency appropriate to the severity of the issue. Yes, it's not perfect, but it does result in generally better population-wide health outcomes in Canada than the US.
No, since anyone is free to invent and use whatever notation they prefer. That’s how mathematical notation has evolved so far. People come up with new notation all the time.
This is what the future of programming languages should look like. Not necessarily syntactically, but with full-fledged systems out of the box. We're not getting further as a community by just building new source code to plug into our Docker/Kubernetes/Chef/Terraform/gRPC monstrosities. Something needs to tame that complexity. I love that things like sequence diagrams are first class. I've made barely any of these since college and I'd love to see us be able to truly get to working at that level day-to-day
Swift has this as well, but calls them “Optional”. The concept is definitely useful!
This sounds a bit like what osmeta was doing–although it was ironically acquired by Facebook…
This is only the United States. You are talking about problems in the United States and comparing them to other cities in the United States most of which have the same problem. Its worth mentioning also that San Francisco city proper is a tiny area and not remotely reflective of the Bay Area. It has 800K people in an area with almost 8 million people.

For comparison's sake. Seoul, South Korea has 40K people per square mile (total population of 8 million people). That is the entire city. Overcrowded San Francisco city proper has 17K people per square mile and it is by far the most dense part of the Bay Area.
The Day the Standard Library Died
Title is a little (?) clickbait...
Promoting a YOW talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATobswwFwQA

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The other day I was talking with a friend about structured editing and literate programming came up. LP was one of Donald Knuth's ideas, to structure programs as readable documents instead of just machine docs. He was interested in it, I was cautiously skeptical. We both knew the famous story about it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming

"In 1986, Jon Bentley asked Knuth to demonstrate the concept of literate programming by writing a program in WEB. Knuth came up with an 8-pages long monolithic listing that was published together with a critique by Douglas McIlroy of Bell Labs. McIlroy praised intricacy of Knuth's solution, his choice of a data structure (Frank M. Liang's hash trie), but noted that more practical, much faster to implement, debug and modify solution of the problem takes only six lines of shell script by reusing standard Unix utilities. McIlroy concluded:
>>Knuth has shown us here how to program intelligibly, but not wisely. I buy the discipline. I do not buy the result. He has fashioned a sort of industrial-strength Faberge egg—intricate, wonderfully worked, refined beyond all ordinary desires, a museum piece from the start."

The program was print out the top K most-used words in a text.
(and so it goes on...)
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Well, the non-nightmarish stories aren't as interesting and don't get told as often.
I program mainly in C++, and I often start off writing things as:

for (auto x : someContainer) { //do something with x }

But inevitably, I end up needing either an iterator pointing to a particular item at the end, or I need an index to pass to some other function, and this style makes that impossible. Perhaps it's just the domain I work in, but even after years of trying to make this work, it still only works about half the time for what I'm doing.
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Last semester OMSCS. One of the best Masters Program. Loved it.

It's not easy, I had to spend 60 hour weeks sometimes while taking the harder classes. There are easy classes as well, where I spent between 3-5 hours every week. You can take a look at the courses here: https://omscentral.com/courses

Bonus: My Employer pays for it and I work evenings.
Ok, here are some quick musings, I’m open to talking about different approaches for any of this or additional features I didn’t cover here. I’m hearing two stronger use cases here.

1. “Family database” - you tell it facts and it tries to remember and reproduce them later when asked. Like storing your family tree somehow and asking about it. This has a lot of nuance but is likely possible in some way with current technology.

2. Teaching assist. You give it a task, such as an English text, and it helps train and evaluate your kid.

For (1), I think there are three obvious approaches to me:

1. Manually enter the data with a computer, but use natural language queries (some kind of Intent model) to access it

2. Have a strict set of data that you can enter (such as family tree, grocery lists, voice memos), and allow slightly strict natural language-ish statements to add data, and natural language queries to access it.

3. Convince a general understanding model like GPT-2 to learn your facts, and just pipe your questions directly into it. This is the coolest answer but would likely also be wrong more often.

I think (2) is an easier task, and likely would use an entirely different approach for it than (1).

(2) is especially easiest if the system already knows the text of the poem. If you’re making up a new poem, or speaking a poem it can’t somehow look up, it will be harder to match two voices against the text of the poem.

One caveat to all of this is I’ve heard speech recognition doesn’t work as well on children because they aren’t well represented in the training data.
Completely agree. And the product or project is typically super chaotic.
> And H1 was 2-3x cheaper after paying out the bounties.

Perpetuating a system wherein security researchers are massively underpaid for their services because of a terrible abusive platform doesn't seem like a very nice way to do business.
Offshoring roulette: lessons from outsourcing (2016)
I had several pretty ranked insiders as references (one whose name you know), and it didn't seem to help me at all.
These are very interesting! The Legible Mathematics one also made me think of APL, which is very hard to read - but specifically it's hard to read for the same reason that traditional linear programming math is hard to read, the lack of visual grouping[1]. I wonder how it might be possible to redesign something like APL to take advantage of rich text and more complex formatting?

[1] The weird symbols might seem like an initial barrier to this, but they're only hard to read if you're unfamiliar with APL; they're actually very easy to learn and remember, as there's not that many of them and they all do very basic operations. However, APL loves operator overloading and likes to give operators different functions based on whether they're used in prefix ("monadic") or infix ("dyadic") forms, and there are also higher-order operators that consume the operators immediately adjacent to them and then operate on the expressions after that; all of this makes the nominally right-to-left parsing require a fair bit of mental effort instead of being able to rely on immediate visual recognition.
I only see evidence that the experience was disappointing for a single Googler, the lunch interviewer.

Obviously it is to be taken into account together with a whole slew of data points -- not just in the form of online postings, but from close acquaintances who have worked there over there years.
Walmart and Wayfair are mere storefronts for Alibaba, they aren't much better.
I have a friend who buys nearly everything aside from perishable food via Amazon because they will put it directly on his porch and he doesn't have to go to a physical store. I laughed when he told me it was cheaper to have 50 lbs of cat litter delivered to his porch via Prime than to drive across town to the Walmart.
Site is down, but it looks like archive.org got it.[1] But the entire page is blank, because javascript. It has a fallback, which has what looks like the article in a noscript tag.

Hastily converted to markdown with pandoc, and put up as a github gist: https://gist.github.com/tonyb486/eec2f16b06eef4692dac6e56362...

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://buttondown.email/hille...
>> For storage, we continue to have ~3TB, but moved to 3x1TB form factor using NVME flash

Are they not using additional storage for caching? I also kind of expected some GPU's for some tasks.
Private insurance doesnt cost $12000/year, so I doubt medical does.
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I failed my interview with Amazon, but I blame me. The interviewers were mostly nice amd helpful. I missed a few questions. It was a learning experience.

Sure the interview process can improve, but I didn't find it a mess as some people here mention.
What's specifically functional about this advantage. Can't you encode the buisness logic into types in non-functional languages as well?
I'm enrolled in the postbac program. It's good so far and while not a great value (~$30K) compared to some, it's still a good program and worthwhile.
Hmm, they don't look that bad - https://hackerone.com/paypal

Here's an example of something that got paid out by paypal - https://hackerone.com/reports/739737 (15K)

Good writeup - https://medium.com/@alex.birsan/the-bug-that-exposed-your-pa...

Interesting history with paypal - https://hackerone.com/alexbirsan

Here's how duplicate reports are dealt with - https://docs.hackerone.com/programs/duplicate-reports.html

I am curious if paypal provided the OP with original reports. They don't say. I wonder how much the OP is not saying here, versus how much they understand the platform they are working on.

This statement makes me very curious: "Other criticisms have pointed out that Security Analysts can first delay the reported vulnerability, report it themselves on a different bug bounty platform, collect the bounty (without disclosing it of course), and then closing the reported issue as Not Applicable, or perhaps Duplicate."

How can you do that if you're providing the original report?

Also, the guy is just wrong. You GAIN rep points for duplicates, unless you did something dumb and really amateur like not searching first for already publicly disclosed issues.

https://docs.hackerone.com/hackers/reputation.html#effects-o...
Another book similar to Morris Kline's _Mathematics for the Nonmathematician_, which the OP mentioned, is Lancelot Hogben's _Mathematics for the Million_. Originally published in 1937, it has been in print ever since, through several revisions. This also takes a historical approach, beginning with numbers and counting, measure and Greek geometry; and eventually covering calculus, matrices, probability, and statistics.

You can take a look at it, at the Internet Archive,

https://archive.org/details/HogbenMathematicsForTheMillion/m...
The most likely place to be hanging around mathematicians is at a school, and that's also where you would expect to hear students complaining about notation as an impediment to learning.
Top Skills a Cloud Architect Needs to Be Successful
Sorry, what exactly is top-down and bottom-up in this context?
The worse the better I say, as long as it doesn't spill over into other states. The long suffering CA taxpayer will wake up en masse one day, and sweep this bullshit aside, at which point CA might become livable again.
they can put you on 'salary' to get you to work unlimited unpaid overtime, not give you specific days off so that you can have 'unlimited' (no) vacation, fire you at will any day for any reason, and make you go through a vicious gauntlet of dystopian interviewing for the privilege.

i think it's obvious that we're already pretty tolerant
well this is absolutely true. negative voices tend to be more vocal.

All the G engineers I work with have been there a while, so they went through different processes.
Xoogler here: Yes. I'm mid/late career, and came into Google in 2013 and left in 2015 after more than doubling my pre-Google salary. IMHO, it has been worth it for the salary alone.
People have been renting out rooms, houses etc. for a very long time. When I was a kid you could call up the tourist board or various organisations for a list of people renting out rooms in their house. Other than a new delivery medium, exactly what has AirBnB added? The only thing I can think of is the feedback features.
Looks like a stylized desktop that is presenting an error/warning message. I closed the tab. Probably not what you hoped for but I was not even able to tell what your site was actually about.
Then here's where typescript shines. To be able to move fluidly between no static checks of JavaScript and strong-ish type safety of typescript without too much work.

Then again, it's not always without hiccups.
The Case for Rent Control
What kind of parenting do you do where you can't find one day in your life for an on-site interview? Most parents (including us) can find time to have hobbies and life besides parenting (which also includes days not being home), is that really such an overwhelming thing to go through for one of the best paid jobs in the world?!
> build your own smart speaker or make a serverless function

If I build my own smart speaker it would surely be run on my home server. Not so much for server-less. Yeah but I get it. the voice commands should be counted as new "keywords" or "functions". Let there be a general "voice programming" language.
Wikipedia has a list of various basic income pilot programs reaching back to the 1960s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_pilots
They only stop for 2 years and then you have to fill in the form again like a good little boy. That's not the end of the world. The BBC says jump we say how high — fine. But the presumption of criminality (you have read the letters they send, right?) and the fact that you have to proactively contact an organisation on a regular basis to make an agreement with them that you DON'T want to be a customer of theirs, just to avoid being harrased and accused on a monthly basis, is absurd.
> Health care spending can and has bankrupted many people who are very well off compared to Medi-Cal recipients, so if they were forced to give up Medi-Cal to get $12k of UBI per year, and then spend that money on private health insurance, and spend even more of that money on food (since they'd also have to give up food stamps), it makes absolutely no economic sense for them to do that.

So then they wouldn't do that. It says you can't get the UBI if you get Medi-Cal, it doesn't say you can't decline the UBI and continue to get Medi-Cal, right?

The entire point of a UBI is that it replaces all of these hacked together assistance programs with something with less overhead (no eligibility testing bureaucracy) and less economic distortion (giving restaurant workers food assistance when they already have access to food and could better use the money for transportation or education etc.)

If you like Medi-Cal, propose it as a "public option" -- instead of getting it if you're poor, you get it if you pay $6000/year or whatever it actually costs the state. Then people can take their $12,000 UBI, use $6000 to buy Medi-Cal and have $6000 left over. But then it lets people to choose not to, e.g. because their spouse's employer-subsidized private insurance would cover them for an additional $4000/year and they'd rather come out ahead by $2000.

Having both is silly because it doesn't get rid of that inefficiency. If you instead wanted people to have a $12,000 UBI and $6000 in medical coverage then just give them $18,000 and let them decide whether they want to buy $6000 in medical coverage or something else. You can debate the amount of assistance but it still makes no sense to force people to buy specific things.
All true, but Google's reputation is starting to take a small hit on this. They'll always draw people who want high comp, but they may start having a harder time drawing people who really care about tech.
How about the ability to search code on forks? GitLab allows it. At least have feature parity? Thanks.
I actually think income tax is a pretty odd way to fund UBI. VAT makes more sense to me as it's a use tax
You're not necessarily ingesting semi-unstructured data. Common Data Lake file formats (Avro, Parquet, ORC) are in fact highly structured, and even self-describing in their schema, with format-features like schema evolution allowing sibling datasets produced at different times to have "different" schemas which nevertheless have a single defined schema as the output when the datasets are unioned together.

The idea, though, is that, if your Data Warehouse wants the data in the form of e.g. a daily-aggregate accounting ledger, then your data sources might be of various time granularities and might be denormalized in different ways (one source with separate Invoices with Transactions foreign-keyed to an Invoice; another with just Transactions with root-level metadata like timestamp directly on them; etc.)

All of the transformations between the source formats and the destination format here are, in some sense, "transparent"—a sufficiently-advanced DBMS query planner could generate an OLAP expression to turn one into the other without understanding the problem domain. It's precisely because of this that, in many cases, it's cheaper to not worry about these kinds of transformations until you need to compute on the data. It's just a bunch of trivial stuff, that you can easily normalize in the computation step, but where fixing it on ingest would have been a whole expensive cluster operation to rewrite terabytes of data, and would require the OpEx of a whole additional set of always-online Hadoop cluster-nodes to fix marginal data as it comes in. Even though you're just going to be touching it all again anyway when you run it through the compute step.
Yes, although the London underground uses a slightly different convention. The lines have names like Northern, Central etc, and most are linear. The line level signage at a station usually directs you to an eastbound / westbound / northbound or southbound platform. The direction and destination of a specific train is indicated by the furthest stop in each direction (which can vary depending on whether the line bifurcates, or a train isn't going all the way to the end).

For example, you'd think about going westbound on the Piccadilly line if you wanted to get to Heathrow from Central London
Though when you are writing a paper, it's useful to pick standard notation.

But yeah, when working something mathematical out for the first time, picking / making up the right notation is crucial.
ClickHouse is easy to run on local machine and has great performance.
It works better this way around than the other way around - which would be that PayPal gets to pick who audits them with no oversight. You can imagine how thorough that audit would be, and how many times it would find any problems.
I'd guess they'd need to provision massively more to offer compute. They could offer it for some major data centres but I don't believe offering compute at all data centres would be feasible.
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Considering what it excludes the rich will make out like bandits compared to those it claims to help. They already spend less of their incomes on consumption while at the same spend a much higher amount on luxury versions of those categories.

As with any government tax and benefits program, it is what comes out of committee that will truly matter. VAT taxes usually land harder on the middle class than upper or lower simply because of how people typically spend their income. They are great though at masking the cost of government and increases in the cost and goods of services is more likely to be put upon the provider of each rather than government.

Reducing costs, fines, and fees for required government services and licensing would go a lot further to reducing the burden on the poor, that $36 driving license renewal doesn't look annoying at 120k but at 25k it means something.
> This feature is not 2FA

> anti-ATO

ATO [1] is authentication by definition, but again, depending on how it's implemented, not usually the best form.

[1] https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/authorization-to-operate
Because an RDBMS need not be I/O-bound. It might be compute bound (e.g., if the dataset fits in memory), so optimizing the compute-side can help. RDBMes generally compile queries into a "plan" that is then interpreted to execute it (SQLite3 compiles queries into bytecode, while PostgreSQL compiles them into AST-like tree structures). JITting certain portions of a query plan can help it go faster.
FB wasn't so bad when I interviewed in 2016, same ritual hazing but remarkably less pedantic condescension among the panelists themselves.
As far as I can tell, "it's impossible to use stolen credentials" is not part of Paypal's security model or a promise that Paypal has actually made. It's important to distinguish flaws in a company's security model from additional security controls we think they ought to add.
The code is open, if you'd like to decide for yourself: https://github.com/signalapp
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The do in all the observable JS APIs, but behind the scenes there are a number of optimizations in each JS engine to deal with the fact that most JS and JSON source comes off the wire in UTF-8 or ASCII.
What it something was omitted from the spreadsheet by accident?

That's how these mistakes happen.
"Taxes is theft" is about as accurate a statement as "Property is theft".