skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends. It's better to get a candidate unstuck with a few hints and then not give them a perfect score, than just staring at them while they struggle then crash and burn and panic. Sometime a little hint is all it takes, and then you get to see a great solution you didn't expect, or awesome code, and the candidate still passes the bar - while not in flying colors.
Taking out distutils from CPython seems unnecessary. It is rarely updated anyway and is required to build Python itself.

Why should people be forced to download an external package?
Distutils still just works, despite assertions from the packaging crowd, most of whom have no clue about C extensions or compilers. The people who wrote distutils did.
Uhh what about European or the Middle east or any other part of the world
To me the practical problem with FHE is that, if it costs 20 times doing the equivalent non-encrypted computations, it is cheaper to do it on your premises rather than rent 20x the same computational power from a cloud host, unless the cloud host is able to provide computational power at 1/20 of the cost it has for you (which seems too much to me).
> This is an extremely simplistic explanation with, I suspect, very little predictive power.

A fitting note for every idea Taleb has ever had.
I think this is exciting stuff. We're actively building prototypes around FHE concepts. Basically asking the question: "Can we make meaningful care and hospitality predictions, without ever seeing sensitive data?"

We've banged out some stuff with HElib, and some other interesting implementations, but are just beginning.

And we're hiring for both backend and data science positions. :) jobs@theembassies.com
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Great to hear! Now if only it was easier to understand what most of the buttons with strange icons do...
Life vs Items is a totally different thing. Not comparable whatsoever
This is arguably false; for instance, Qt has official first-party bindings for Python. It's just that the tools Qt has make them not that necessary.
Qt has not one but 2 fully functional IDEs (QtCreator and KDevelop) and good designer tools that lower a lot the complexity of writing a GUI. QtQuick is also very nice.

Gnome has what? Anjuta? Glade was nice but it didn't avoid you the hassle of using GObject. I think Vala is a clear proof of what I'm trying to say. They knew the shortcomings of their system, and how difficult it was to use, so they basically wrote a language that hid the complexity of GObject under a thick layer of nicer syntax. It was also a way to discourage people from using C# and Gtk#...
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I hire people and I read cover letters... if they are short. They are supposed to be cover letters, not essays.

Edit: Another tip. If you are sending your CV in an email directly to the company, no need for cover letter. Your email is the cover letter.
I understand this hypothetical, my point is: I don't think it's actually relevant. It's not going to be the tipping point.

I should make my contention clearer: I think that companies are extremely unlikely to forego interviewing a candidate that otherwise looks good because they had no cover letter. This doesn't just apply to the best candidates - if any candidate looks hireable in relation to the rest of the applicant pool, they will put them through to the next stage of the process. Once you've actually sat down and spoken to someone, your written introduction is irrelevant.

I do think it probably matters more for small companies, but they're also going to get way less applications to begin with so it's like... You're really going to just not interview good candidates? Really?
Cover Letter -> body of the email you're sending with your attached CV

But that exaggerated importance that some say is recruiter FUD
> It’s like every social network starts out

Isn't that more reason to enjoy it while it's still great? Early youtube was fantastic, vine was a joy while it lasted, etc.

> but it has especially lowest-common-denominator content

Disagree. The whole point of having highly specialized recommendation algo is exactly to avoid LCD content. If I see low quality content, I instantly mark it as "uninterested". I have not seen a single "dance video" in almost a year. LCD happens on popularity based systems, TikTok's system is based on your specific usage pattern.

> It’s brilliantly engineered to suck your time away

Again, yes and no. It's engineered to match your preference. Personally, I have trained my to give me quality content. Of course it technically wastes my time. So does hackernews, but I still consider it great use of my relaxing time.
Doesn't matter, what matters is sleeping safely at night that if a company gets hacked and loses card details, my credit card being fraudulently used is the banks problem. With a debit card it's my problem that the bank isn't legally required to help with.
When I was responsible for hiring I always checked and often read cover letters.

Cover letters are an opportunity for the applicant to put her CV coherently into perspective. Because a complete application comes with several documents and lists. The CL is supposed to highlight some of the relevant parts.
For what it’s worth, just because the frontline person doesn’t read your CV, someone else still might. If you’re a solid applicant who interviews almost well enough & the company is fishing for an excuse to give you a shot, a solid cover letter demonstrating interest can mean the difference between getting hired and not.

A cover letter doesn’t have to be epic. It can be short and to the point, which bucks the trend of “I didn’t have time to write you a short cover letter, so I wrote you a long one.” Something like...

“Hi Company X!

I was scooping out your web page and found a blog article on how y’all invest a bunch of time in your security audits. I’ve been reading up a lot in security myself lately, and I’m quite interested in a company that takes that seriously. My personal approach to crafting software tends towards secure by design. I’d love to work in a place that philosophy would be appreciated :)

Cheers, PopeDotNinja”

Try this... list three to five things you are good at and like. Stalk a company a bit to find something mildly related in their social media, website, or blog. Connect thing you found to thing you like. It take a little work, but not that much work.
This is a terrible development and precedent. Whatever you think of the CCP and the Chinese approach to censorship and tech, building our own 'Great Firewall' and banning foreign apps/services we don't like is not the answer. It just legitimises the Chinese approach and sends us further down the road to a fragmented rather than open internet.
How long have you used it for, and do you make liberal use of "Not Interested"?
As a pilot and also someone playing the beta, all I can say under NDA is... wow.
Why is cooking in your headline? Is your software for cooks?
Google claims its new TPUs are 2.7 times faster than the previous generation
Reputation, recommendations, and references work well.

You can contact the previous company or previous co-workers if you don't know much about a candidate. I know some companies are very secrets but in practice it's often possible to get a "yes you can hire this person because..." or a "you don't want to hire this person because..." where I live.
So what happens from the practical point of view? Is the government going to delete an app from the phones of 80 million people? Really curious to see this one.
I don't know what you think regularization means, but there is no such thing as "just regularization". Not all regularization is equal, and different types of regularization combine in unpredictable ways. The regularization occurring in the context of this research is as follows.

The model that they are creating is a sparse model. This means that, for the vast majority of possible inputs, the machine should produce no hypothesis whatsoever about what it is looking at. In fact, a good sparse representation only produces a representation when the input is in the space of valid inputs. If the model is given a valid input, it should come up with a representation of that input, if it is given garbage, it should prefer to not try.

Signal is pretty easy to find, you just open your eyes, explore your environment, and update your weights accordingly.

We would alternatively like to train the model to recognize when it is looking at nothing, but we have to be pretty careful about what we show it. If any signal is present at all, we definitely don't want to discourage our model from finding it. That was, after all, the point of the model in the first place. Fortunately, because of the size of the space, we can be certain that if we completely shut off the inputs and feed it noise instead, it is very very far from a valid input, and anything that it includes in its representation was included in error.
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I read a book where the author I generally liked (Phil Rickman, I really recommend December https://www.amazon.co.uk/December-Phil-Rickman-Standalone/dp...) used past tense but for a new book switched to present. It really jarred and I had to make several restarts before I got into it, and that only happened because my brain learned to discard the tense (edit: several retries over a period of days; it wasn't quick).

I guess the theory is it makes it more dynamic, now-ish. In fact it just seems a trivial affectation that ultimately adds nothing.
Comparisons can be done via subtraction.

Result has no bit set = both terms equal
Result's sign bit is set = second term bigger
Result's sign bit isn't set = first term bigger

Multiplying by the result of comparisons (aka 0 and 1, as you state) is actually a common performance optimization. Does not work for everything, but when it works it works well.
”AI may need food too”

“AI may need friends too”

“AI may need training too!”
Nice service, it's would be pertty useful when it can identify this kind of issues before it's too late.

One of the most used word in Mandarin is '那个' which means 'that' and 'Um...', and it sounds like the N-word.

Another frequently used word is '会', which means both 'is able to' or 'is going to', and it sounds like 'хуй' which means penis. I heard some Russian chuckles when we say this word, though I found that funny too when I realized.
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Ban Facebook and Google too? Their data collection is so much more powerful. Never seen TikTok scripts anywhere while most apps and sites send your personal data to FB and Google. Pretty much every American is tracked by Google and FB no matter whether they have an account or whether they install their app.
This is not about TikTok. This is about Trump being desperate.
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I think his comment is insightful and thought-provoking. You might be dismissing it too eagerly. To me, the argument primarily revolves around the notion that music's supply is unquenchable regardless of demand since people naturally want to produce music. They will do it even if there is no financial incentive so there will always be music to listen to.
My (non-expert) take on this...

A neuromorphic processor is a processor that tries to function as the brain does. I say tries to because the models are still very simplified versions of how we think that a neuron works. The spiking part comes from one of these models. A neuron will only send an electrical signal to another neuron once a certain threshold is met, this is what is meant by a spike. What this allows us to do is to add a temporal/time component to a neural network. You've probably heard of "neurons that wire together, fire together". If you have a lower threshold it means that the neuron you are sending the signal to is more relevant for whatever thought process is going on right now and vice versa. New input can change these thresholds.

The biggest promise of spiking neuromorphic computing seems to be a massive reduction in energy usage while still offering decent accuracy. So for example you could use it to train a neural network to get to 80% accuracy after which you'd let another type take over to get to 95%. This field is still in its infancy though, so expect things to change/improve fast.
Interesting. I assume you can hook whatever javascript into it you want?
He was right in 1995 and he still is. Bucky, as he was called at Standford, is one of founding generation of computer science that is still alive. Being 4 years older than Knuth he might even be the oldest one.
> It will make Turkey an international pariah and raise questions about other issues, such as their treatment of their Kurd minority.

Like how Israel became an international pariah for resettlements in the West Bank?
Worst part is it keeps running in the background hogging memory and cpu even when completely disabled. I've tried gpedit, shutup10 and so many other tools to get rid of it but somehow it comes back every time :/
Actually, Gentrys thesis abstract says this [1]:

> Such a scheme allows one to compute arbitrary functions over encrypted data without the decryption key [- i.e. ...]

My understanding is, while FHE can not implement an algorithm to solve a problem of arbitrary size input, it can apply arbitrary computations to a limited size input.

[1] https://crypto.stanford.edu/craig/
Tiny?

2688x1242 isn’t tiny.

Neither is 4K at 60fps.
And hugely successful in Poland despite and maybe even because of the name.
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Also don't forget that what you saw at MTV and your local record store was heavily manipulated by the big music labels.
Why would any candidate seek "vengeance" in an election year toward a cohort who will be voting for the first time (in many cases) in 2020 and who seem overall more conservative than the previous generation? It seems way more likely to me that the jester is cover for or distraction from something much more serious, and I'd rather talk about that than feed the jester's personal vanity by interpreting every major world event through orange-colored glasses :)
It's because we're fighting the symptoms, not the disease.

First you state this, then you state this:

Behind each of these proposed law reforms are the same private actors that try to make their business models legally protected

The disease are politicians willing to create laws that do not serve the public. If they didn't exist, private actors would have no leg to stand on.

That's the disease. NOT the private actors.
> Off the top of my head there is libxml2, libxslt, librsvg, libgda, libclutter

None of which have anything to do with GTK+ as an application development framework. They are independent projects.
Easy, just square it. Also, the Ackermann function is not a primitive recursive function.
When I still had a Windows Phone, I couldn't use Cortana because my phone was set in an unsupported language and it wouldn't let me use Cortana in English - if I wanted to use it, I had to switch the entire interface to English.

I would have spoken to it in a foreign language if they had let me. Instead, I have no idea to this day what Cortana sounds like.
So in other words: if they have a good CV, they'll get through to the next stage regardless, but if they're a punt candidate then the cover letter might make a difference, maybe?

I would then ask: if I'm a punt candidate to begin with, the number of interviews I get is primarily a factor of how many applications I fire off into the crapshoot, right? What's the increase in success rate for applications with cover letters? Is it enough to outweigh the reduction in applications I can send from hand-crafting each of them?
But Google tracks people - their primary business is to identify individuals, and follow their activities online and in the physical world.

This information is then used to judge, to predict, to sell and more.

Their profits are enormous, so useful new services are created, but coincidentally they involve new ways to track.
There has been literally zero proof about that as far as i know. If you do have some compelling evidence apart from “the x community knows this”, please share them.

The issues risen in the “famous” whitepaper about TikTok’s alleged “security issues” were just pretty much standard fingerprinting that almost all apps do nowadays, like it or not.
Regarding content quality, I don’t see TikTok isn’t meant to be an epic dessert at a 3 star restaurant. I see it as a can of Pringles when I have the munchies.
I can hear variations of this as well. "Green Storm" or "Brain Needle" also work, albeit not as well as the real terms. From what it seems like, it is really the same section of the video where I hear that as I have downloaded it and narrowed the time down to 3-6 seconds into the video. Starting and stopping at these times does not break the effect for me, so the strange sound in the beginning might not be needed for it to work.
Without a credible source to back up your assertion that "their data collection is so much more powerful", this is a pretty empty statement.

I also believe that we need to have a healthy concern for Chinese friendly agents/resources acting in concert, even on (or maybe especially on) technical sites like HN.
All non Azure MS products are legacy now.

Windows 10 is probably slow on HDDs because it's updating a load of UWP apps in the background, resmon.exe disk tab will show what's going on.
> Imagine reading a story titled “The Relentless Pursuit of Booze.”

It's called the Modern Drunkard Magazine

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Homage-to-boozers-Bimont...
For what it’s worth, when I was working at a mobile game studio, we looked at this as an engine for a project. At the time we decided not to go with it since all your code needs to live on their server and there’s no easy local dev environment.

Not sure what the state of play for this product is now, but at the time we considered it too risky a proposition (what if they go out of business tomorrow?) and too limiting for the cost they were asking to use their platform.
Well, Microsoft needs to bring back [0]Midtown Madness!

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midtown_Madness
No, its for people who want to send regular reports. Cooking is there because, as a user, you dont need to be in front of the computer to send reports.

You could be doing anything like cooking or driving. Wanted to extend to work-life balance kind of examples and cooking seemed to be a good example.
Don't you think he was kinda quoted out of context?
The US prevented the export of code/speech for decades, in fact I’m fairly sure it’s illegal to import recordings of certain speech.
Bringing the 12" MacBook back with Apple Silicon for $800 could be huge. First of all, the 12" MacBook was the dream portable machine, especially being fanless. However, the processors where really to slow and the price to high.

I guess, the 12" MacBook was designed on a promise of Intel of delivering processors, they never could deliver due to the issues with their 10nm process. This is where an ARM based design around the iPad processor would be an instant win performance wise.

But it is also great news, if Apple really uses the costs saved by going with their own CPUs to offer the machine at a lower price. Suddenly, it can compete with a lot of branded laptops on the price alone. With the additional speed from the processors, it should be quite a good general purpose laptop. And we know how nice the 12" MacBook was from a design perspective.

For the consumer market, the ability to run iOS apps becomes an additional huge benefit. For more and more people, the smartphone is the default computing platform, especially for younger people, the smartphone might be the device they get into computing at all. So when bying a laptop to go along with your smartphone, the Mac running Apple Silicon has a huge benefit, as it integrates more seamless than ever with your smartphone.

I would expect the Mac market share to get quite a boost as a consequence.

While the MacBook is the obvious machine to equip with Apple Silicon for the reasons listed above, I would also expect Apple to hit the market with a true developer machine just so that developers can not only test their software on Apple Silicon, but that it becomes the development platform right from the start.
Or iPhones produced in Brazil

https://www.gizchina.com/2020/04/21/apple-plans-to-assemble-...
The trick is to only apply positive impulses and discard negative ones: https://github.com/IainWinter/IwEngine/blob/6f94a946a90db989... Things will sort themselves out over several frames.

Objects might sink into each other a bit, but that is generally not very noticeable unless you make huge piles of spheres. However, it might quickly become a problem in 2D, since you only need a quadratic number of objects to get a "critical" pile, compared to a cubic number of spheres in 3D.
Unless there's a third path, there really is no choice but to act in kind.
That is, I believe, what they were intentionally referring to when they criticized the quality. It doesn't seem to have a great reputation these days.
I don`t know much about physics engines, but I do know that there are much more sophisticated integrators than x = x + v*dt. For example schemes for gravity that keeps energy invariant.

Are any used in physics engines? I assume yes.
From first principles reasoning, this is a good idea. We don’t ban Chinese websites, books or products. Although we tax their products more now. Apps aren’t like physical commodities. They can be used to gather data, quite invasively, shape and form public opinion in a new and more visceral way, as well as take advantage of exploits. Admittedly websites can do that too, but the scale of adoption of Tiktok makes this a special case. Just by sheer numbers, many important people will be using tiktok, or their families, colleagues and friends. If you ever complained about Russian election meddling, then you are a hypocrite if you don’t support this. What if tiktok was Russia’s? I think some people are getting lost in the politics.

The facts: we gain almost nothing by having tiktok around. We lose nothing by banning it, and gain a little bit of buffer against possible threats like election meddling, data mining for nefarious purposes and other things. Completely leaving politics aside, I basically support this.
Try having a foreign wife!
Really only few? I thought it normal to change your pin in the ATM.
I'm not sure if you read the paper, because the analogy is not tenuous. It is a period of training where they require the model to be completely deprived of standard input, and fed noise instead, so that they can essentially flip the sign on the learning rule.

It is a simple, easy to state, hypothesis of what sleep is doing in organic brains, and you should note that there is an extreme paucity of those.

Perhaps the artifical brain referred to in the article is not the kind of artifical brain you're used to reasoning about, but the goal of these researchers is not to optimize their performance on ImageNet, it is to discover how the brain actually organizes itself. You should give it a read.
I've conducted close to a thousand interviews as an Interview Engineer at Karat (and hiring people before that). And yet, as a candidate I _always_ get terrified during even mock interviews.

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