skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In almost any language, a hashtable check after the base case check could be used in a similar manner.
Yes, just how the system I endorse will work.
I have an ecommerce store and just recently I finished setting up a custom chatbot to ease the communication between my customers and my agents.

What I was not expecting was how annoying setting up a custom AI chatbot could be. There are so many tools out there but they all seem to miss a feature that you REALLY need. Most times they all force you to pay to have that “Powered by….” imprint removed and AI doesn’t work.

How about a done-for-you solution? These Chatifai guys set up a simple custom chatbot for just 19$/m in 72 hours after placing your order!
https://chatifai.datawisepro.com
The price tags come on a 8.5x11 sheet, just like address labels. A stack arrives (monthly? Weekly? Not sure) from corporate in an envelope. I'm not sure what happens when the tag gets lost; fortunately those are usually the handwritten signs falling into carts. Price tags really should just be printed at the store.

I doubt if most price tags last more than a month at clothing stores, maybe a year at grocery/other large chain stores. Department stores and trendy fashion stores have too many sales and don't keep the same items in stock year round anyways.
>I think if you raise your children well, the chance that they'll be there for you in old age is very high.

Our old friend Dunning-Kruger rather spoils this strategy. I know many people who have been abandoned by their children, but none who could proffer even the vaguest hint of why they might be to blame. Very few people intentionally set out to alienate their children, but plenty of people do it anyway.
I think we've come to opposite conclusions.

Fewer children increases unequality. Less children means, that inheritance does not spread across several people. To the contrary, it consolidates within an ever shrinking size of the population. And because as of today it's capital ownership and not work that makes you rich (with few exceptions), higher demand for work might not be enough to offset this development.
oops, excellent point. I've added "For those discovering us for the first time: Element is the flagship secure collaboration app for the decentralised Matrix communication network." as the 2nd main para.
Correct.

Of course, also voted down to oblivion by the statist hordes of HN who've never seen a software or cloud subsidy they didn't like. The other day I even saw a call for a state owned Internet search service (haven't they learned anything from Obamacare's IT debacle!)
Thank you for sharing this. I hope my children bring their grandparents as much joy as you do.

Speaking of this - "tends to be factual, rational, and logical." - do you worry much about what the world will look like when your grandchildren are middle aged? I spent probably too much time concerned with rising authoritarianism, climate breakdown, shortages of food and water resulting from same, and their resulting wars, and it brings a tinge of panic to my thoughts on their future. I certainly stress out about this far, far more than before I was a parent.

I don't really know how best to address it, aside from trying to live in a way resilient to those things, and am curious how you think about this things given the obvious joy in your post (and again, thank you for sharing this; it brought joy to my own day).
Can we take a minute to appreciate that graph

The X axis run at a nice pace, about 7 pixels a year, upto 2017

It then compresses the next 83 years in the space of about 10 years.
The main problem, I believe, is the time constraint and the interview environment, both add a LOT of stress and will reduce our ability to come up with an answer. I think most people can come up with a good algorithmic solution given the proper time to do so.

IMHO take home tests with a following discussion of the solution is the best way to go. Interviewers can judge the code quality as well as critical thinking with the follow up discussions.
I created Post Maker to scratch my own itch of having plenty of Social Media Scheduling tools but with no content being shared for the majority of the time.

Using a pretty simple syntax you can generate, 10s, 100s and 1000s of posts with links/media/hashtags which can be exported to CSV and then brought into your favourite Social Media Scheduling tool
And this reminds me about another story, I can't find the link but it was something like this:

A game developer was making a game for PlayStation and they were over their memory limit. They were approaching a deadline but couldn't remove anything else from the game to fit it in memory (or disk, I can't remember). So a senior dev came by, changes the code in 1 minute and everything could fit into memory now.

The thing was that at the start of each project, he had declared a variable of 2mb that does nothing, so when every optimisation has been done and it still doesn't fit, he could just remove that variable and free up some more space.

It was also his way of insurance.
In my decades of programming I've never had to seriously consider these issues. I have used recursion and have written some pretty deep stuff like cryptography and writing my own interpreter (for a business - not a school project). I've even implemented recursion in a language that didn't support it. I have read about tail recursion several times. I still barely remember what it is. But I know a few books to reach for if I had to use recursion again. This is why the interview process is broken. I've written lots of production code and end up being seen as a lead programmer within weeks of a new job. And your questions would make me look like I don't know what I'm talking about.
Now there are N + 1 competing distros, where N is the total number of active Linux distros.
There are also no pro-pollution op-eds, or anti-vaccine op-ends in the FT, because they hold themselves to a standard of not publishing "he-said-she-said" fair-and-balanced views, but to give some insight into which of the two sides of an argument seems to have evidence on its side. Brexiters didn't (and don't) have the facts or watertight arguments on theirs side, especially economically speaking.
It doesn't matter how well you can optimize if you don't measure in production and benchmark!
Simulations have shown that it can still be faster than fiber even without laser interconnects.
Fibonacci has a closed-form solution! Forget writing loops, you can write one damn equation. Runs in constant time.
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Multiple StartUps. I switched jobs every 6-12 months and got a nice salary bump along the way.

I don't know how the situation is at the moment with COVID though.
"> My ancestors thought it was okay to have kids during times in which many scholars where certain the apocalypse was due in the next 25 years, during periods in which the plague killed more than half of the population, during the 30 years war and in a time when there was a realistic chance of nuclear annihilation in the next 10 years. I am glad they did."

In my opinion, your ancestors had children largely because they had intercourse without accessing to birth control, not because they made a conscious decision to have children despite the circumstances.
Derivation is here http://mathonline.wikidot.com/a-closed-form-of-the-fibonacci...
Imagine what Starlink can do for telcos in Africa. Just put a cell tower up anywhere and use Starlink as upstream.
Riot is two syllables.
For anyone interested in why it was renamed from Riot, znpy posted a comment under a now heavily downvoted comment below[1] that links to an explanation blog post[2].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23842974

[2]: https://element.io/blog/the-world-is-changing/
That assumes there is such a thing as a "I want kids" gene, which I personally have never heard of.
I lucked out a bit. It's somewhere in the West, I got the apartment for 1600 Euro/month but then went to the lawyer and looked and the rent prices around me. My landlord then had to reduce rent.

It's kinda hard right now to find apartment with good quality/price ratio. But yeah, Berlin is still much cheaper then Munich if you look for family-sized apartments.
The actual quote was something like "aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines" which proves your point a bit better.
> 100 years ago there's NO statistic for child under 13yo death rate

100 years ago was 1920. Many countries absolutely had infant mortality statistics by 1920.

See R.A. Meckel's "American public health reform and the prevention of infant mortality, 1850-1929" which (as the name implies) goes back was more than 100 years.

See also I. Loudon's "Death in childbirth: an international study of maternal care and maternal mortality, 1800-1950"
Oh, sorry. I'm not a native english speaker.
I was still on the fence between staying on Github or moving to Gitlab.

All the bad experiences I'm reading in the comments helped me realize it's time to move to Gitlab.

Too bad my company still doesn't want to migrate (too many integrations with Github sadly), even considering all the downtimes in the past few months which have impacted us significantly.
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It has to do with the rest of the comments in this thread
at the time I posted it ... I was replying to that sentiment.

The vast majority of algorithms I use are for parallelizing complex workloads, failure detection, and scoring systems. I usually DIY after I find the OTS ones unsatisfactory.

I'm not "smarter", they're general solutions but all I seem to have in life are specific problems so specific solutions perform better.
Yes the government can do more then one thing. However the US government has finite resources so why should it expend resources on kicking students out but not on more useful things.
I did the exact same thing on a website I used to own ~2011-2012. I went one step further and occasionally redirected the user to sites people generally shouldn't visit through a url shortner. The user disappeared within a few hours.
While your formula is correct, it is not an actual implementation. How many digits of the square root do you need to compute exactly for being sure that the value of the power does not change?

Whether this is "fast" or not depends a lot on the concrete implementation of your arbitrary-precision real numbers.

As a nice thing, the second term (after the first minus sign) is smaller than 1, so you can omit it by rounding the result to the nearest integer; all the game happens in the first term.
> died simply because they believed the marketing

That's really not true. Those are people who consciously chose to ignore numerous warnings presented, both in the marketing (where the exact phrase "requires conscious human attention" is used), and also the warnings of the car itself where it says all the time things like "keep the eyes on the road", "need to stay alert", warnings every 10 seconds, audio signals, turning off in case the car knows the human is non-attentive etc.

It is very unfortunate when people die, but you have to take into account how many people die in other cars in general. If we want to get 0 traffic deaths, we need to ban all cars, period. As a society, we do not want this.

> But Tesla is the only manufacturer who insists they do

This is just blatantly false. No they don't. Show me any marketing material where tesla claims to have operational Level 5 self-driving in currently available to consumers cars. Show me where it says that. Not some article in some mainstream media where a journalist tries to get attention, but in Tesla-distributed materials, marketing or otherwise, where they claim to have Level 5. Where is it? Why would you even make such a claim that is so easy to check...
The mics I mentioned have an internal pre-amp. Sure you can get even louder signal using external one, but they provide enough gain for one person speaking few inches from the mic.
Well chatbots I won't say it is a really new marketing trend since they have been there for quite some time now, but their capabilities in setting up successful customer support agents is definitely a new trend.

The problem though is that setting up a custom AI chatbot is so annoying. With there being so many tools out there which all seem to miss a feature that you REALLY need.
Most times they all force you to pay to have that “Powered by….” imprint removed and AI doesn’t work.

How about a done-for-you solution? These Chatifai guys set up a simple custom chatbot for just 19$/m in 72 hours after placing your order!
https://chatifai.datawisepro.com
"the penultimate problem"

you seem to think "penultimate" is a more grandiose way of saying "ultimate", but it's not. it means "second to last".
Due to the physical architecture of CPUs/etc., data structures that have "worse" asymptotic performance are often quite a bit faster than those with "better" performance. For example, iterating through a small array to find an item and test for existence is often quite a bit faster than using a hash set for the same operation.
Track changes in version control (git) using infra as code tooling
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I speak English, but I can’t follow what this means:

> In fact we have simplified all our naming: Element is also the name for New Vector (the company behind Riot) while Modular, our flagship Matrix hosting service, has become Element Matrix Services.

Is New Vector now names Element, too? Or is this some sort of nickname? A doing business as name?
But it seems to me like if you do not have children all the effort you would have spent raising them must be spent in cultivating social relationships throughout your life instead, otherwise you do not reap the benefits of child free life and will be alone and lonely in old age.

So either way, there’s going to be work if you do not want to be alone.

The worst is when you put in the work and end up alone anyway. No one calls, no one cares, a life wasted on something that was ultimately meaningless. You could have done other things that brought you intrinsic joy.
I was evaluating Bitwarden years ago (before bitwarden_rs), but was thrown off by the lack of support for 2FA tokens without a subscription.

Does selfhosting with bitwarden_rs solve this ? or do i still need a subscription for storing 2FA tokens along with passwords ?

I have absolutely no problem paying once per major version for software, open source or not, but i refuse to pay any subscription. At least when buying a version i can choose to upgrade or not.
It will replace the current Riot Android App. So if you are an early adopter of RiotX you will need to download the main app.
+1

Its about time that "be fruitful and multiply" comes to an end.
>That's not correct. Often DPAs are issuing corrective instruction prior to a fine, but not always, and there's nothing in the law that requires it.

It's not quite as obvious as a clause like "Supervisory Authorities must not fine unless..." but the GDPR clearly anticipates that fines should not always be imposed.

Give Article 83 ("General conditions for imposing administrative fines") of the GDPR a read.

To wit:

Paragraph 1 states "the imposition of administrative fines [...] shall in each individual case be effective, proportionate and dissuasive"

The introduction of proportionality means SAs can't just jump to issuing fines if a warning will suffice (and if they do then it can be overturned by a court or by the EDPB issuing a binding instruction).

Paragraph 2 states "When deciding whether to impose an administrative fine and deciding on the amount of the administrative fine in each individual case due regard shall be given to the following" and then lists 11 factors that the SA must take in to account.

Again, if these aren't taken in to account then the SA risks losing a judicial review of the decision to fine.
> You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?

If this is hard for them to understand, the confused look when you reveal a change was a net removal of lines/statements must be amusing!

> Because the issue was reported with a vague description of how to recreate it

This is something my current management fully understands, but I wish we could get through to our clients. Short of being actively rude about bad requests I've run out of ideas over the years. Luckily these days we are big enough that I usually have a bit of a shield (provided first line support people and BAs who I trust) between me and direct client contact.

I'm quick to put tickets on hold as "needs more information", and been around long enough that I've developed the confidence to respond to "this is urgent, there is an SLA" with "and that service level agreement covers a minimum level of reporting from you before even an urgent matter can be progressed" or more facetiously "then it is urgent that you furnish me with the information requested", but while they accept it each time they never learn to give better details up-front next time - we still get reports of "an error" or something "not working" or, even worse, the open-ended question "is there a problem with...?".

Obviously this can't be applied to truly urgent issues, but they are usually massive problems that we are already aware of and working on before the client contacts us because, for instance, we've had an alert that something is down (sometimes we tell the client about an issue and resolution ETA before they notice, which they seem pleasantly surprised by and thankful of).
electric power bill mainly, if I want to let that run 24/7 at home
Additional to this, can some one help with this -

* Under GDPR, user can request for it's account deletion where we have to delete all the user's reference. If a user signup again there would be no way whether it is the same malicious user, how to overcome this?
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I grew up in Georgia (metro suburbs and later GT in Atlanta) and moved to the Bay Area two years ago. Georgia offers a very nice quality of life at a great price, but in my opinion the Bay Area has it beat in absolute terms on just about everything except friendliness: food, weather, nature, jobs, art, culture, proximity to other interesting places (further drive but more interesting when you get there), universities, international diversity. I’m not trying to disparage Georgia — in fact I’m currently attempting to relocate there as a remote worker for my current company to be closer to family since we just had our first child. But I really can’t think of a whole lot about my time living in Georgia that I prefer over living in the Bay Area except that my family happens to be there and all of the great memories I have of growing up with them.
I cannot read anything on this shirt
Can you?

https://youtu.be/ndT0wnAb8bU?t=160
False negatives is right. You're skipping over a lot of good engineers with this approach and you'd have to interview fewer people if you could avoid that. How many times even without the pressure of an interview have I been stuck on what seems like a hard problem and then I go for a walk and end up running home because the lightbulb goes off and I can't believe how "stupid" I was and how simple the problem was.
I think it's the O(log n) algorithm that uses matrix exponentiation to find out the n'th Fibonacci number.
I immediately thought breathing [0][1][2]. I wonder what happens when they are widespread enough simply because they do a great job enhancing so many other technologies.

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/carbon-nanotube-d...

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4710349/

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-019-0472-4
Was there, in your opinion, a time in history when the world was a nice place to grow up in? When and where?
Thinking about it a bit more, perhaps one reason to a condenser in this scenario is to easily hide the mic from the video. It's doable with a well a dynamic mic and some composition work too though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc7WqVMCABg

Unrealistic scam.
Yes, I also tell people whom I consult to use a short, easy to remember fantasy word. I like a mix, like Mailchimp which evokes images in customers.

Though as Apple, Nike, Windows, Slack, Segment have shown, the generic approach can work.
Something like this (might be subtly wrong, I wrote it in 2 minutes).

int fib(int n) {
if (n<=2)
return 1;
int fibNMinus2= 1;
int fibNMinus1 = 1;
int tmp;
for (int i=3; i<=n; i++) {
tmp = fibNMinus2+ fibNMinus1 ;
fibNMinus2 = fibNMinus1;
fibNMinus1 = tmp;
}
return fibNMinus1;
}

vs recursive solution which is pretty but slow (and will fail when you run out of stack)

int fib(int n) {
if (i<=2)
return 1;
return fib(n-1)+fib(n-2);
}
Both of those routes are trying to contain the tall buildings inside and the single family homes outside. If you expand the route I drew around Atlanta very much in any direction you start to include single family homes.

285 around Atalanta encloses forests and suburbs, a lot more than just downtown.
> Case in point, New Zealand is COVID free

Unlike many countries, they can easily close their borders, many people live in isolated communities and they aren't a major transport hub.
That's amazing. What did you do about retirement, health insurance, emergency funds?
Lie about it. Let them try to prove you did what they asked.
I like Clipperz

Seems quite similar:

https://clipperz.is/
You can claim legitimate interest and keep certain information that would allow you to reidentify them for a reasonable amount of time (2 years?).
Unless you've got leprosy or elephant man disease you're more likely than not lying to yourself and refusing to take responsibility for your present situation

https://www.google.com/search?q=ugly+to+handsome+transformat...

https://www.google.com/search?q=ugly+to+hot+transformations&...

I'm sure you'll rebel against my "tough love" but you can only lead a horse to water ...
I have seen people purchase a single Brussels sprout in order to use a coupon that requires 'any purchase' to get a free item. Getting two of the same item is more common, but having someone go back to find the smallest vegetable that exceeds the tare isn't unknown.
I've also lived in the US and now Europe. Don't get me wrong, each had it's pros and cons; as an individual both my purchasing power and quality of life was better in the US.

Outside of universal education and healthcare, my conclusion is that the value of the European tax dollar is unfairly distributed. At the local level, European grants and subsidies create jobs for educated people who chose the right course of study. At the Eurozone level, you have the northern "export based" economies essentially using a devalued currency to outcompete the southern countries. Relatively that means more tax dollars for the northern countries, when ideally those would be spread somewhat evenly across Europe.

I think Europe needs a technocratic tool that makes the economic performance of all countries everyone's problem. Denmark has an unemployment and retraining scheme called a-kasse that is reasonably well implemented. I could see a centrally funded, Europe wide implementation could be a solution.
Yea, but then you see two idiots spend countless weeks “perfecting” things that don’t matter. Shipping matters. Customers don’t care about the fires behind the scenes, they care about bouncy pixels. The PHB meme has to die.