skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have only really done technical interviews. My process is to give the resume a once over to understand what technologies and project they have used that I have a deep understanding of. I then prepare a few questions around those areas and order them in increasing difficulty. First I'll ask someone to describe the project, then I'll hit em with a question that proves that they actually did what they claim, then I'll ask them a question meant to push their limits and see how they react. Finally I get to my most important part, which is taking whatever project they described to me and then asking what they would do if their boss came in today and tweaked the requirements. I'll use a requirement change that would force a serious re-architecturing. Exe you built a crud app, what if you needed to support 10,000 concurrent users? You made a data extraction tool, what if it had to extract 1000 Gb of data instead? You built CI for your project, what if that project had 30 developers? These types of questions tend to show how a developer thinks. The hard part is making sure they are comfortable enough to brainstorm with you, as many technical folks would tend to close up under a lot of pressure. Basing it off of a project that they already know well tends to help give them a starting off point.

In addition to this, I like to give them a real problem that the interviewing team has experienced recently that is within their claimed knowledge base. For example if someone claims to be an aws microservice guy, I'll ask them about a time when our AWS ECS jobs needed to decrypt files that were bigger than the maximum allowed disk size. There are many different ways to get around that limit, but they all have tradeoffs.
I know they're claiming to refute that hypothesis but I do not agree with them.
Anecdotally, I'm in the US and I don't know anyone who has become sick. One person at our company (10000+ employees) became sick and recovered.
> It’s somewhat incredible to see how the “just the flu” crowd doubled down on their views

The same exact accusation is being made by the other side towards the "doomers". That the doomsday crows is doubling down because they can't admit their fault. I'm not siding with anyone here, just noticing.
I don't know D, but after reading more comments looks like auto is also compensating for poor type system. For example functions that accept arguments of many types apparently need to be declared that are returning auto.

At least that's what I understood.
I mean, if gaming it gives you a chance at an extra 10%, 20%, 30% of business, why wouldn't you?

Unless you make the penalty for gaming the system a 'black hole' approach (ie, you no longer show up on searches), people will game the system hard.
I know it’s intentionally made into a diffuse set of states but there’s far more than just those two issues where federal power makes sense, environmental regulation in particular since air and water pollution don’t stop at state lines.

But we’re getting off on a tangent about the fundamental design of the US government made at a very different point in history. I don’t think either of us can convince the other here before we both wind up [dead].

On the topic of bungled mismanagement there’s things like states being forced to bid against each other for various medical supplies on the open market and then after being paid for the federal government taking those supplies to redistribute. Instead of those steps just buy them all an do the distribution based on the need in each state which won’t be tied to how much they have to spend. We could have started programs earlier this year to increase the supply of PPE and ventilators knowing that this would inevitably come to the US. We could have followed through on programs like this [0] to ensure that there were cheap easy to build options for ventilators instead of allowing the existing companies to buy out the company contracted and then get out of the obligation because ‘it wouldn’t be profitable enough.’

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-us-v...
Is the issue that the parents can't help the students with homework? In Grade school I generally did all of my homework. Sometimes my parents would help but it stopped after going to high school. They did get me in an ACT prep course and I also took the SAT early since I was in a gifted program.
Or any other language using IEEE 754 64 bit floats
> max_seq_no = max_acked_seq_no + window_size

What about the packets below max_acked_seq_no which haven't been ACKed? Shouldn't the total number of those be subtracted from the sum above?
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Age doesn't affect it. You just need > 500 karma.
D'oh. Sorry, I read this and the story about Sheffield leaking their while ANPR database and got them confused. I'm an idiot!

Do you happen to know, is this the same thing or an earlier (non ML) version?

https://www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/facial-recognition-te...
> That should not be a problem. It is a problem in D because of a lacking in D.

It is not a problem, the compiler copes with it. The problem comes from the fact that such a type is absolutely not interesting to know how it is written. The unmangled type is unreadable.
> In a fair platform, you could resolve something like this pretty easily

How? It seems that Amazon could provide better communication, but how would this situation be easily resolved?
One could just say

Or you could just give people the benefit of the doubt, read it that way to begin with, and save us all a lot of grief. Regardless...

I believe it is offensive to people...

If you have a personal beef, say it clearly. The rest of us don't need you to run interference for us. I'm of a "different religion" and I think it is an outstanding idea.
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Because that's a fairly reasonable way of handling array items of unknown type. For example: what should `['1', 2]` do? What about `['1e2', 2]`? `['1_000', 2]`? `['0x3', 2]`? `[true, 2]`, etc.

For numerical sort, pass an callback specifying a numerical sort: `array.sort((a, b) => a - b)`
My guess this will lead to a internal Correction of Error (COE) report and there will be some change to either reduce false positives or increase the velocity of addressing them by making some systematic change.
> Even back in 2015 when I went to India every place was gaming it hard. In Costa Rica a hostel we stayed at offered free shots in exchange for a TR review.

Low tech/low cost warfare against the tech marketing power houses always works.
Google already does targeted advertising and operates under GDPR.
Federal guaranteed student loans have nothing to do with UBI. It's hard to argue that college fees would have gone up so much if the government just gave a fixed $10000/year loan to every student-age citizen and let them spend it on whatever they want.

In an important way they are opposite: UBI incentivizes price discovery; government backed college loans decentivize it.
> They do not give answers because it is very clear with a simple calculation that this is unaffordable in addition to serving no purpose.

> Giving $1000 a month to 210 million people costs $210 billion a month, $2.5 trillion a year.

> I believe that the annual federal tax revenue is about $3.4 trillion.

If you're going to implement a UBI program (or any kind of large-scale social democratic benefits program), taxes will be increased to pay for it.
For generations people have bought books they hope to read but never do.
> Once the number of cases is small enough, you can identify and quarantine all of them.

A nation is not a closed system so I don't see that ever working out.
Windows phone had this feature first and I remember it was my go to feature to impress iphone and android users with, together with the low light ability which was comparable to the iphone X at the time of the iphone 5 (on lumia 920). I went from a lumia 950 to an iphone se (first gen) and the decrease in photo quality and featureset was dramatic.

Too bad windows phone 10 was such a slow and buggy mess, and microsoft had by that point pretty effectively managed to kill the app ecosystem by rebooting it three times.
Google was all in on cloud, and they have already had some layoffs in cloud, froze hiring, and are reducing spending on data center.

Either Google never goes all in, or they do not know what all in means
I'm saddened that you don't consider these serious issues in the real world. I personally know a man who used to run a small company (not related to Amazon) and whose wife drained all the money away over a small period of time, as well as taking a few extra lines of credits, before vanishing.

Thankfully scams are limited in time. Freezing funds for 30 or 60 days is an effective fraud prevention tactic.

P.S. Of course in this case it's stupid and there should be a way to contact a human and release some of the funds.
Perfect isn't the enemy of good. Let's use the patchwork solution on our journey to a better one. (As long as it's actually an improvement!)
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Surely investigations or monitoring have been conducted, I'd expect, in some cases, by folks belonging to A Certain Party that tends to oppose making voting easier and so would have strong motivations to turn up problems and, particularly, actual voter fraud, then make those findings very well and widely known. Have the officials performing those complained of inadequate tools or transparency to spot voter fraud?

I'd very much expect so, if it is hard to know and that's pretty much the problem. So perhaps they have.
What do you mean by 'value velocity'? I'm not familiar with the term.
You'd use a CDN.
This thought can be made much more concrete when talking about sets.
Clearly we can understand a collection of things as a set. Clearly numbers are things, so we can talk about the set of all numbers. But how many elements are in this set?
A clever answer could be: It has as many elements as there are natural numbers!
As subsets are also a thing, we could ask next how many subsets the set of all numbers has.
A clever, but very problematic answer could be "as many as there are natural numbers!"
We seem to agree on this: you don't think there's any need for a way to determine whether two real numbers are equal.

For ordinary math, though, using some criterion for equality (for example x>=y and y>=x) is basic and not controversial. So it seems unconvincing (to me) when you seem to imply the opposite.
Thoughts on the roswell ufo incident?
How about you generate a link to visit after getting the user's input and I can come back at my own convenience rather than give out my email to yet another website?
A few thoughts:

* Comparing newspaper to infinite social media feeds and online resources is a very incomplete model

* There are clearly people who see the value in this, so don't be so quick to dismiss it. I feel the same as /u/convolvatron in that the quarantine has really screwed up my routine, and has worsened my addiction to social media/internet/interacting somehow with the digital world. The days where I wake up and make coffee/have a pre-Internet routine are better on the whole.

* Don't assume this post thinks everyone needs this - it is a recommendation for those who do, or those who simply like trying different habits.

* Finally, as a compromise, if you insist on some usage in the morning: Consider only using your alarm, and getting an email subscription or podcast of the morning's news. Though it dilutes the utility of this exercise, I believe the worst part of electronics addiction is the unbounded nature of it. Having a clear boundary of "one five minute podcast" or "only check email / SMS of friends" is much better than "Load up the times, post, reddit, HN, Facebook, messenger, Whatsapp, Hangouts, Slack, Signal, and the city paper".
> Postal voting denies many women a free vote.

How many? Is it more than the number of people who can't vote in person on election day due to work or inability to travel to voting places? If it's not, vote-by-mail still wins in aggregate. If it is, then it sounds like there's a serious domestic abuse issue in the broader society that needs to be addressed.
Have you read much about flow state? Lots of athletes report it but there are other routes in.
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If there is an error in Mick West's debunking of the 'go fast' video that changes the conclusion, then please point it out. How fast do you think it's moving, and why do you think that? Otherwise I'm afraid I have a contrary opinion about who's being dumb here. All you've done in this thread is appeal to authority.
No! The burden of proof is on you. Please explain in detail exactly how Torvalds in 50 years of living has created $140 billion dollars of value. How many billions of value did he create this year? How many did he create last year? And so on.
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Their stock will only rise if they eventually make more money. Meaning that investors expect them to be able to make that $8 billion/year up eventually. Presumably through pricing, because selling stuff at above-cost prices is where their money comes from.

Also, I only made fun of your username and your lack of karma because you were making absurd unevidenced claims like, "They have no power to raise prices and restrict competition." If you're going to say things like that, then it's not so much making a point as doing what Frankfurt calls bullshiting. [1] That combined with your very low karma suggests you're not really worth the time of a serious reply. Note the link in my bio: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit
I had a simple Radio Shack RC car when I was young. When it started to wear out, I took it apart, hoping I would be able to improve it. It turned out to be nearly pure analog circuitry, and I didn't know where to learn more about analog circuits, so that was the end of that.

When I grew up, I got my kids similar cheap RC cars, but when they broke, this time I replaced their circuitry with ESP8266 D1 minis with the D1 motor shield. I 3D printed new shells, added lights, and used PWM frequency variation to play music through the motor windings. I made a simple app that controls the cars over wi-fi. My kids loved them much more than the original.

It didn't take much effort because the tools are all much easier to use today, but I'm rather proud of my little accomplishment. I turned a mildly sad childhood event into something really fun for my kids. I turned the nostalgia up to 11. ;-)

So if you're looking for some way to do something nostalgic and fun, find a way to make something you've always wanted to make, then give it away. The project isn't really complete until someone else enjoys it.
Part of it is that. Part of it is being in a good learning environment (imagine self isolating with an alcoholic abusive parent and learning at the same time, at 6 years old). Theres also issues with differential access to technology and internet. A lot of low income students have fallen of the face of the earth when LAUSD went online.
What's the Atomic Unit of Your Product/Service?
I would still consider WASM a stack machine and not a register machine. Yes, there are mutable local variables in WASM but Java bytecode has them as well - which you consider a stack machine. BTW the designers of WASM explicitly call WASM a stack machine here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/Rationale..... With WASM's MVP it was necessary to store e.g. loop state in local variables, thanks to recent changes this doesn't seem to be necessary anymore. I think this was the main argument that blog post considered WASM to be a register machine. javac also makes heavy use of variables in bytecode, but somehow no one considers the JVM a register machine.

> my observations are that people with experience in the field tend to prefer register machines

That's actually the opposite of my observation, they seem to prefer stack machines.
> A particularly interesting example I remember is the guy who asked what were the digits that made up the number ∞. It's a number, so it must have digits, right?

I don't think there are many areas of math where ∞ is a number. In my experience people have a whole other problem with ∞, thinking that it is some sort of huge concept defined globally in math, where it is just a notation shared by various non-mystical definitions across subjects (e.g. bijection-based definition of infinite set, epsilon-based definition of convergence, etc)
TFA says that the general problem is that

1. Parents are now the primary enforcement mechanism for doing schoolwork, which is not a role they have necessarily been trained to do

2. Teachers do not coordinate the amount of schoolwork, so parents are in the unenviable position of essentially executing multiple lesson plans in place of the multiple teachers, each which is probably complex in its own right.

2 was a problem when I went to public school normally and 8 teachers each giving 45mins-1 hr of homework easily added up and ate into free time. Now parents are actually exposed to the problem.
>Any non-trivial issues

What product issue is not solved by a refund or replacement?
> The language needs fixed so it can express its own types.

The language expresses its types just fine (it's in the mangled name in the object file). The issue is that there is no point in the human readable form of these types.
> This lack of photo ID argue is soooooo old. Most states will issue an ID card good for 4-7 years for a very minimal cost, usually much less than even a driver's license.

If it's not a big deal, then why does the right actively try to make getting valid photo ID more difficult? Things like closing all the DMV branches in poorer areas, or allowing them to be open just a few hours every couple weeks, etc.

The right makes this a big issue, not the left. If the right didn't try so hard to suppress people's ability to get ID, then I'd be tempted to think requiring ID for voting wasn't a bad idea.
> I think it’s simply because it has been a while since disease and pestilence was a worry for the average Western country so the average citizen (and therefore the leaders) are complacent in a sort of “It can’t happen here” way. There have been outbreaks such as the AIDS epidemic or swine flu but nothing as impactful, infectious, and at the scale of COVID.

I agree that this is the main factor. Consequently I proposed the concept of the "civilization immune system" to explain how it works: https://www.sonyasupposedly.com/civilizational-immune-system...
Re: dance. My current cardio routine is improv dancing and it's definitely a lot of fun.
Re: drilling. This applies in any domain, even programming. Pick small problems and do variations on them until they become second nature. It's a surprisingly effective way to learn. Gary Bernhardt has actually turned this idea into a product with Execute Program: https://www.executeprogram.com/.

I suspect there are a few untapped product ideas here for programmers still. I'd be willing to pay for a set of drills in learning the various AI frameworks. The theory is linear algebra + calculus which can be learned alongside the drills for the framework and could potentially be another set of drills.
If we don't have comprehensive audits, how do we know it is not a problem? Eg. How do you know your server is secure if you don't have an IDS? You can say it isn't a problem, but even the supreme court has acknowledged the longstanding and still relevant issue of voter fraud, which is why voter ID is still legal.

I can't remember the source but one study said there are about 3 million extra people registered in the US (people who are eligible - people actually registered). They may not be acting fraudulently, say if they moved from one state to another, or a different precinct in the state. The 2000 election was decided by 500 votes. Another study that I can't remember estimate that the same people without ID are, in general, the same people who are not registered to vote.
Of course. But that's why as a user the service degrades to a point where it's worse than nothing at all.

I stayed in a place in India with glowing Trip Advisor reviews that had rat turds on the bed. When I checked some of the reviewers, I noticed they were cranking out very similar boilerplate reviews for properties all over the place. Almost every place I stayed at in India begged me to write positive reviews for them. I know TA has since tried to clean a lot of this up.

But if you can find a less popular source of reviews which isn't worth someone's time to game - then you get a much better chance at an authentic rating/reviews.
You're working with surreal numbers? This is not what people would expect unless it's explicitly stated. In addition, you're likely going to have a hard time explaining surreal numbers to someone who struggles to grasp that 0.999... = 1 in the ordinary reals.
There are many issues. Perhaps the most obvious is that parents cannot teach their children and work simultaneously, while children accustomed to the classroom setting are unable to focus on a task independently at home. Either the attempts at schooling or the attempts at working are dropped - dropping the schooling seems like the better choice for families that need a paycheck.
Loving the tooling around wasm getting better. I've been debugging my compiler output with hexl-mode and reading the binary format and while it's not that bad, it'd be nice to do more advanced debugging with a text format.

There was a project I saw too that intended to visualize WebAssembly's execution. That'd be extremely helpful too
A good dev shouldn't require crutches
If you leave bluetooth on your phone, they already are.
My first technology job was for a computer store that did the same thing to get an old hard drive to spin up so they could copy the files off to a new drive.
They're not just a renewable resource, the most successful ones represent opportunity. If this guy is selling over $1 mil per month, Amazon has every incentive and resource to assume those sales themselves. One way is to make it as hard as possible on those sellers, without taking the PR hit from the transparency of shutting them down and selling the same products.

If you don't think Amazon thinks that way, ask yourself why it takes so many clicks to unsubscribe from Prime, but only one click to buy whatever you want. Amazon is waging a war of attrition against its top sellers, and Amazon is winning.
Apples and oranges. For any two different real numbers, there's a number between them. Integers work differently.
Yes, but it won't happen. It is stupidly expensive and if you leave mild criminals nowhere to go they will destroy the CCTVs (happens a lot with speed cameras, and that's just normal angry drivers).
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I recommend watching Andy Pavlo's courses:

https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2019/

https://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2020/
"The intelligibility of the continuum has been found–many times over–to require that the domain of real numbers be enlarged to include infinitesimals. This enlarged domain may be styled the domain of continuum numbers. It will now be evident that .9999... does not equal 1 but falls infinitesimally short of it. I think that .9999... should indeed be admitted as a number ... though not as a real number."
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Sears just confuses the heck out of me. They had everything they needed to basically be what Amazon is now, before Amazon even existed. Heck they were basically Amazon before the web existed.
21-year-old here, I do that pretty often. Most days when I wake up I feel super groggy and/or have very little motivation to get out of bed, so mindlessly scrolling Reddit/Facebook or reading the news gives me a slow start to gather some energy to get out of bed.

However, recently I _have_ been wondering whether being on my phone all the time contributes to those symptoms.