skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So are you assuming that your service will never grow? Because vertical scaling up is nice and easy as long as you know the limits but once you cross a threshold, not matter how many CPUs you throw at a problem it just won't scale. Your senior lead seems to be anticipating that and preparing in advance.
|Q-Z| is countably infinite, but |Q| = |Z|. There are countably infinite rational numbers that are not counting numbers, yet there are exactly as many rational numbers as counting numbers.
> The text of the contract is unambiguous.

Text is often ambiguous or can be interpreted to be ambiguous. Tort law isn't as simple as "read the document and make a judgement".
"Trust" is overloaded in a CS context thus adding to, not reducing, cognitive load.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_system

Where does this whitewashing (err, denywashing) stop?
I am wondering if the NSF program officers responsible for overseeing the grants should be contacted as they would be in power to make the University and the PIs accountable and/or start their own investigations.

They can be easily found in grant webpages, eg https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1900713
The classes thing is even worse than what you are describing since it is the only way to create correctly functioning sub-types of built-ins (e.g. `Error`). So not only is it still syntactic sugar for prototype-based inheritance for most things, there are also these edge cases where there’s actually no fully functional prototype-based equivalent.
I came here just to search this. I'm also not able to access Google services.
Yes, it's clearly ZFS' fault that WD lied about their drives and made them run 16x slower than previous years models under use cases that they were expressly advertised as being suitable for.
Their status page doesn't even load for me.
Sounds like Datadog's interview process.
Coinbase hasn't scaled very well IMO, probably because of people like this. Once you try out Kraken it is like night and day difference in terms of features and supported currencies.
> Was Dickens’s fiction shaped by the nastiness he never consciously acknowledged?

No, as a writer he would be very aware of where his inspiration came from and would be good at creating imaginary characters for dramatic effect. Without the villain the hero could never overcome adversity and achieve redemption. Is this yet another example of judging a historical text by current standards. Will Dickens have to be rewritten to remove the bad bits. What'll be left. I can remember that scene in Oliver Twist where he asked for more soup. Completely unlikely to occur in real life. I mean they actually got soup before eating.
Certainly, if I could access Google, which I can't.

Seems like it's not just me though: https://twitter.com/search?q=google%20down&&f=live
I am honestly and hearteningly surprised to even hear these sentiments from someone else here, which I have now observed for years. It's one reason why I love HN.

I'm not in the science field, but I absolutely am a student of human nature (and mindfulness). It's unbelievable how much the mechanism of science is dirtied, distorted, and abused by our emotional pride, greed, tribalism, fear, and all other aspects of human nature, which show that - for all our intelligence - we humans are wired for survival, and only wired for truth if and when it helps that survival. If truth comes at odds with it, we will lie - even if to ourselves, and at very deep subconscious levels - as much as we need to.

Rationalisation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization_(psychology)

How this biological reality plays out is complex. It's not just in our lizard brain, but the entire realm of our secondary limbic brain, with its 'tribal' swirl of social emotions and resulting behaviours. 'Survival' means a great of things, not just literal survival right in front of you right now. It's a powerful and primary goal coursing through our blood and all behaviour at the deepest and most subtle levels. We would do well to educate about this fact, and practice mindfulness to be able to see it in ourselves.
Life 20 years ago was kinda nice. Computers were cool. Sunday news is what you need to read to get global coverage. No social media or friends showing off their best and hiding the worse, neighbors and LAN parties, 9/11 happened and the country got together, I don't know... we didn't have insane Javascript frameworks. Things were much better. Ecommerce wasn't that big, so I actually went to the stores to buy stuff. Malls were cool.

I am pretty sure I am wrong.
Yes, that's when the parking issue arise.
It is a strange move for a company that takes user data and privacy so seriously to require last name in their user model. I've been using Telegram sometimes with friends and also found it weird how incredibly difficult it is to find where to enter a username in the app to add someone, instead of their phone number. I thought it was supposed to be a super secure messenger, shouldn't secure go hand-in-hand with anonymity? It doesn't have to, but it can be.
I'm obligated to mention xmage: http://xmage.de/

Think cockatrice that trades ergonomics for a rules engine. Much easier to play when the game just 'works'. It even has loop detection for when you go infinite with triggers.

One thing to note is the community run servers are plagued with performance hitches at peak time. If you play regularly on xmage with friends, I'd recommend making an image on your preferred VPS provider and spinning up an instance when y'all want to play.
Glad I'm not the only one. Does it seem to cover all Google services? That's what I'm experiencing and seems like folks on Twitter are seeing the same:

Are you in the southeast US as well?
(Not an expert.)

I've learnt from HN that the most valuable thing in improving your software is watching how people use it. Not being told about that or reading about it, but actually observing.

So maybe watching people in various walks of life, seeing what problems they actually have, will be more valuable than any amount of reading about it or they telling you.

At first I was thinking that to get such access you could say you're making a documentary or writing a book/article about something, but maybe the truth would be fine here, since the goal is to help them and their field. Ah although you say it has to make money for you. Maybe focus on the helping first?
You pulled out one small statement and ran with it. The problem is it's out of context with the rest of what I said. Also, there is far more history than what you just outlined which falls into "folklore" and "cult of personality."

You're statements alone have great truth to them, I'm just not clear how it differs from mine and why it's a rebuttal to them. Oh-well :-)
Both Physicists and Quantum Physicists talk about "spin".

But, if whatever is spinning is unbalanced in some way (i.e., wingnut in outer space under zero gravity, see video), and that spinning causes a reversal in orientation across some axis in some period (amount of rotations), then shouldn't those effects be considered as having the potential to happen, in whatever is spinning?

In other words... consider quantum particles...

Perhaps a quantum particles transition to-and-fro other quantum particles during specific very small periods of time, where "period of time" is defined as the number of rotations a particle makes, relative to a specific scale.

Sort of like the wingnut re-orienting itself after a certain amount of rotations, in space / zero-gravity...
Don't rule out a 3rd factor: in the facial recognition industry it is difficult to earn a profit. In general a FR client already has an existing camera network they want to add FR - meaning the quality control over the image quality is already gone. They also already have a security video management system, so whatever FR solution IBM proposes has to interoperate with that other pre-existing video management software. So right there, two traditional sources of major profit are already occupied, and in order to play in this industry one's FR software needs to be able to work with any pre-existing camera network(s) as well as interoperate with any pre-existing video surveillance software... setting all that up is not cheap and the customer is often low-tech and expecting magic...
Thanks, helpful to know! I would have thought reposts would be penalized. Is there anyway to potentially mitigate the randomness factor though? For example by measuring things like impression time, bounce rate, and so on.
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>I don't see what Amazon is really afraid of if some random developer leaves and goes to a competitor

I don't see what's not to see. Preventing someone from going to a competitor is generally not so much the goal as the means of discouraging someone from leaving at all.
Yep sounds like it's something in the southeast. It works over my Verizon LTE but not Comcast cable.
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> Probably cant get it delivered but there may be a CSA around where you live for vegetables, etc.

CSA's are a good option, but in addition to them in Colorado we've had Milk Delivery going strong for a while via Royal Crest Dairy, who also will deliver other things like bread, eggs, bacon, pizza kits:

https://www.royalcrestdairy.com/

It was so successful it got more players into the space outside of Denver and there are a handful of them still delivering during pandemic.

I don't drink animal based milk anymore as its pretty harsh on my immune system and allergies, I was quite find of raw milk when I was farming, so I have no use for these services; but it is a cool story in how localized food supply chains can prove to be resilient despite pandemics.

But also a reminder how everything old will eventually become 'new' again given enough time out of the limelight.
Somewhat related, there was a recent frontline documentary that delved into this: https://youtu.be/RVVfJVj5z8s?t=5000
Who is we? The divided population that’s ready to ignite? The corporations that are ruining the planet? The politicians that are as effective as puppets? The billionaires that are stocking their bunker mansions? The onepercenters that are doing the same (minus extravagant luxury)?

The system is on a hairline trigger and the control room is empty.
That's fair; all of this is heavily influenced by your operating environment. If you can run GKE or if you have an ops team to deal with that stuff, then yeah k8s is great. Unfortunately, I'm part of the ops team, and our company is too small to have a dedicated k8s team and too low-budget to (likely) do well with a managed service (we get absurd value per money out of bare metal servers, which is very much a tradeoff that is sometimes painful). So to me, k8s looks like a very iffy tradeoff. Bigger company, bigger budget, different constraints? Yeah, k8s would be great.
> arguing with package maintainers who could never in a million years pass a technical skills test at the company I work for.

So why on earth are you using their packages?
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I don't think there is a disconnect, the K8s team knows about it but this is not a problem meant to be solved by K8s alone. Project like Knative, OpenDeis, Fargate, Cloud Functions are supposed to provide Heroku-like PaaS on top of Kubernetes.
At least the abstract says something different:

> Nevertheless, rare but recurring RBD-specific antibodies with potent antiviral activity were found in all individuals tested, suggesting that a vaccine designed to elicit such antibodies could be broadly effective.

Very low levels, but still produced. (Note that I still have to dig through the paper.)
Objectively? You have to show some evidence, otherwise this just sounds just like "yall look alike to me".

To add to this considering that genetic variations between peoples on the African continent are larger than the variations to anywhere else, this is also very unlikely. I think it's a reasonable assumption that genetic variation and variation in physical features are somewhat correlated.
Cooperative bargaining is a positive-sum game. If you and I work together to negotiate a contract, we can get better terms than either of us could get individually.
Independent testing of the Abbott assay found lower sensitivity, 94%. The blood samples used to establish sensitivity are also from patients who got sick enough to seek medical care, who likely have higher levels of antibodies than milder cases. It's still one of the better tests, just not as perfect as their marketing numbers imply.

https://academic.oup.com/clinchem/advance-article/doi/10.109...
I wouldn't classify social interaction as a need. There's plenty of examples of people without any human contact surviving, to the point that we have a well established word for these people; hermit.

Imperial Japanese holdouts after the end of WW2 are the classical example, and to a lesser degree you have hikikomori in modern day. The most extreme example is Christopher Thomas Knight (the North Pond Hermit) with only one claim instance of human interaction in that period; he said, "Hi" to a hiker.

A need has a specific meaning; more or less, you will die if you don't have water for more then a week. It doesn't matter how strong willed you are, lack of water will kill you. Lack of social interaction will not universally kill everyone.
Did you consider that perhaps you may be perceiving the majority illusion in regards to the prevalence of rioting as opposed to the prevalence of peaceful protests?
Perhaps you weren’t a member of any groups affected by the issues that have been protested recently and throughout recent history.
try your cedh deck in a casual game and let me know how it goes
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What if you’re entertaining an offer that doubles your pay?
I don't think anyone /does/ write tests that simply check they're giving the correct props. They write unit tests, and props are part of that.
I probably didn't do a good job explaining it, but using your obstacle analogy...

When you say "an object in my path caused me to go around it", you're switching the cause and effect.

A more accurate way to say it would be "an obstacle on the path meant that only a handful of the population can go around it".

The change that allows you to go around the obstacle was not caused by the obstacle, it would have happened regardless. However, the change is only important if the obstacle is there - that's what drives evolution (selection).
The emergency-service voice transmissions in the clear around me are fire and medical. I am presuming that the busy digital signals in the same VHF band are police.
HN has been seeing an increase in these types of posts lately.
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Your line of argumentation seems to argue the opposite: since it's the candidate who's the prospective engineer, wouldn't that imply that it's their job to clarify the nebulous spec?

FWIW, many of the FAANGs are famous for asking intentionally underspecified questions, and the candidate preparing properly by figuring out what's in scope and what's not is part of the scoring. But at least in an interview you're timeboxed to 45 or 60 minutes!
Be anonymous, create your own proxy server with AWS EC2
Quote: "However, facial recognition does not seem to have been making the company much money, if any."

Right there it's the real reason why. Rest of IBM's blah blah is just dust in eyes.
Check out https://reasonml.org - created by Jordan Walke, the creator of React. Reason offers the best of both worlds - type safety without getting in the way and faster JS than what you'd write by hand.
I have thought about this quite a bit recently as well. I think the main thing to look for in interviews is "does this person have a clear and sound thought process?" In theory, the whiteboard questions are meant to suss this out, but the prevalence of Leetcode and other interview prep websites blurs the signal.

I wonder if just asking for a one or two page design doc on something would be a much better signal, since that's probably what you'll need to do on the job anyways.
Good luck with this wiffle-ball strategy. :)
Watch out for Trashless, "the milkman for everything", it may expand to your area if you're in the US. I'm not affiliated, but I'm a happy customer of the locally-sourced, minimal-packaging, meal kit delivery service from the same company. I hope they succeed at both this business model, and at inspiring others to do the same.
This is just pure age discrimination in comment form. I've seen incompetent developers at all age levels and similarly brilliant developers at all age levels.

Age and years of experience does not exclude developers from mediocrity.

I have seen countless 10+ YoE candidates with awful practices and performance.

Implying you need to be 26 or over to be a good director is ageism.
Are you sure about this claim? I live there and I didn't hear such region wide figures, only local city data.

In Bergamo it's closer to that from early data, but for example in Milano it might be from 4 to 10 (but in this case the sample was blood donors, so skewed towards younger and healthy).
Their system seems very sane. I'm jealous, and I hope it stays that way (sane, not static). It's also entirely dependent of features of AWS. I used to work for a company that had a very insane hybrid datacenter/aws deployment environment, and containers provided some sanity.

Service discovery, cluster management, secret storage, these are all problems that we _already_ had. Containers (for us on mesos) just solved some parts of that picture.

I lived and breathed containers, distributed systems, config management, deployment pipelines etc. for years, and I forget that to many K8s is just seen as one magic bullet solution. You will have to pick it apart and interact with pieces of it if you really want to use it at a medium sized company. That takes a lot of research and understanding.
The program officers were contacted, leading to the OIG being notified on 6 December 2019 and supposedly an investigation was openened, but we have not heard anything back since then.
I agree with you, but IMHO it's trying to solve the wrong problem. The real solution is identifying a major pain point (such as annotation, co-registration, etc) and solving a lot of the small annoying steps to make the radiologist better at his/her job.
During the rise of social media I tended to think the same way, but now I think it’s vital to be able to distinguish between “democratic” and “accessible.”
It goes even deeper than that. If you look at the history of photography, film, and television you'll see a bias towards white skin tones that standards have been built up around. Just looking at "leader ladies" or common reference images there isn't a bunch of diversity. In practice I've heard cinematographers and photographers bring it up around filming different ethnicities. It starts with changing the exposure, but means you have to spend more attention towards color reproduction.

This can extend beyond the film or image sensor to biasing lighting equipment, defaults, standards, and thresholds.

Looking through the literature you'll see things like, "the design decisions in the NTSC’s test images effectively biased the format toward rendering white people as more lifelike than other races"

https://sterneworks.org/Mulvin-Sterne-Scenes.pdf

I'm mostly familiar with the history in the US. I'm earnestly curious about how other countries accommodated these types of things as they adopted the technologies.
I would advise my child to follow up with the teacher regarding their expectations. "Assume and you make an ass of u and me".
This is a farcical argument. Facial recognition apps aren’t looking to distinguish gross features like Irish vs Italian features (whatever those are). They can tell two brothers from Ireland apart from one another, they should be able to tell two brothers from Malawi apart too. Their mother probably can, so why the hell shouldn’t their phone?
Even the Google DNS servers seem down. Can't resolve anything with 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4

Edit: Location Atlanta, GA.
Edit2: I can access Google services, for me it just seems to be their DNS servers that are down.
Also in Southeast US (Orlando, FL) on AT&T Fiber. Can't access any google services. Thought I was going crazy.
"The same is true of any other algorithmic sorting."

This is the same problem that Google creates.

Imagine if the Yellow Pages advertisements, listed categorically and alphabetically, were re-sorted according to an algorithm according to whomever was accessing them.

To use a popular term, sorting has been "weaponised".

It is a form of filtering, curation, gatekeeping. Businesses compete to pass through the filters, past the gate.

For example, when a user selects an app for her phone, she selects from a "top 10" or some such. As with being on "page one" of Google search results, manipulating the algorithm becomes a goal. Another popular term online, "winner take all" or "network effect", is in part enabled through sorting. All those hundreds of thousands of other apps are sorted out to create a "top 10" for which all must compete.

Instead of letting users sort results on their own initiative, e.g., according to popularity or rating, listings are sorted by default.

Alphabetical listings do not create the competition that drives up the value of the "top 10" or "page one". Alphabeticisation is a transparent algorithm everyone can understand, not a trade secret.

Even on HN, we see comments re-arranged in their order in a thread, in order to manipulate reader response.

There is certainly an element of utility and convenience but, in effect and perhaps by intent, there is more to the sorting than simply what may benefit the user.
I don't like open ended coding interviews because they are too easy to game. I assume that a place with this style of interview is full of people who gamed the system, and that makes me not want to work there. This is more of an emotional reaction, but it makes me less likely to complete a coding exercise. And if I feel that way, that makes me think the company is less competitive in attracting the kind of people I'd like to work with.
It is very possible to have a systematic way to evaluate a coding test. I'm sure many people on this forum have been on the receiving end of such assignments while in school. But unlike school, companies usually have a disincentive to sharing their rubric and final evaluation.
I learned the ins and outs of how to resolve a stack in CS from experiences playing MTG at a young age. I absolutely would perk up if this was on someone's resume, but I'm also biased and sentimental.
Accuracy is a little wonky even with real speech to text toolkits like Kaldi (which I’ll mention is a pain to even get started with it).

I’ve had some decent results with the following:

https://cmusphinx.github.io/

I have to research how to hand tag my own samples to see if that offers significant accuracy improvements (let’s say I want to accurately transcribe one voice consistently).

Google and Watson APIs are not too free, and I believe Watson has a audio length limit (possibly limited by free tier, or possibly limited in general for all tiers).

Cool to see some real world attempts using this stuff.
> Ok but that can still be true (blonde hair, blue eyes) while there still being much more variations in the white population than in the black population.

Even the man who coined "Caucasian" as a racial category recognized that there was more physical variance among African populations and individuals than compared with Europeans.
google and google cloud and google services are down in the south east:

https://twitter.com/_jayphelps/status/1270204647144390657

From what I understand google fiber is completely down also