skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please blog about the details! Are you following the W3C work on synchronized multimedia?

https://github.com/w3c/sync-media-pub

https://www.w3.org/community/sync-media-pub/
The traffic and market share shouldn't matter if these are SEO signals inside the application itself, like in the HTML. Those are independent from traffic.
? There are plenty of cities to move to that are not SF or NYC and I bet the vast majority of those bailing SF are moving to other urban areas.
Yes, the crowds and the humidity are killing me. House is on the market and we’re moving back out as soon as we can.
Kind of a meta point, but why do you call it the whiteboard interview? I think that was more popular 5 to 10 years ago, actually writing code or pseudocode on a whiteboard. In my experience the leetcode style questions most companies use today have you actually write and execute code in a sandbox environment.

It may be that the algorithms you’re required to come up with are still overkill in that they’re things you would not normally need to write from scratch on the spot without being able to references any resources in your day to day work. But as far as the format goes, this style of actually writing and executing code is clearly an improvement on the write-code-on-whiteboard style of interview.

I feel your pain though, the weeks of study that almost any good engineer needs to put into preparing for interviews can be pretty grueling.
神風 (kamikaze) translates literally into divine/a god (神) wind (風)
The eyes to think about the world
I'm not sure what xor's commutativity has to do with this?
> Are you threatening people’s jobs?

Yes.

> Do you think you can reliably get away with that?

Robber barons did reliably get away with it throughout the nineteenth century. That's the whole reason that you don't get to take a copy of your ballot home today.

> It’s totally unrealistic

Well, somebody forgot to tell reality.
> the ones that are in the city for work, and the ones that are in the city because they love cities. COVID creates an exodus of one, but people in the latter category are also moving into cities as well as prices drop and they are no longer priced out.

I think it's short sighted to think that Covid won't impact on the numbers of the latter, who may re-evaluate whether they actually love big cities at all.

I also think that these categories are not fixed, I have been in both, and Covid may alter the dynamics of how many change between which groups and at what ages.
I mean, I'd also prefer watching 8 hours of youtube without disruptions than having to commute for 2 hours each day and only getting to watch 6 hours at work with constant disruptions.
That button to the right of the P that contains four different forms of dashes is... interesting.

Even more if you consider that the minus sign there is not the character - that is used by every programming language.
The child "was verbalizing that she was a girl at least six times a day" and praying for her boy self to die. The mother talked to professionals. She only began to change her mind after a transgender teenager's suicide note made her realize her own child might commit suicide. Even then she studied and prayed for months.

What makes you think the mother assumes her daughter will be straight?
With the exception of a specialized gym for climbing, none of what you've listed is anything unique to an urban environment. I've lived in various suburbs my whole life and have everything else you've listed. For much of that time, I also had a private backyard, which is something you generally don't get in urbia.

You can't beat the efficiency of an urban environment though.
Quantum computers are not useful as general purpose computers.

<Φ| they would not provide any speedup for most everyday computations.

<Φ| For many everyday computations where they provide speedup they provide only quadratic speedup (see Grover's algorithm)

<Φ| They can't interact with the environment when they are doing calculations.
Eh, the USA is working okay all things considered.

There's not one right answer here.
There’s clearly more impact from indoor winter sports, such as hockey, vs outdoor summer sports like football.
My gentle suggestion is to avoid phrases like "a lot of issues" and instead to list some of the top ones. This could give some people a chance to share how they have overcome some of those specific challenges.

At a recent employer, we moved cold turkey from Swarm to Kubernetes (K8s in the rest of this reply). But we did this one microservice at a time. We didn't want our resulting K8s solution to be compromised by a misguided attempt to foist Swarm concept into the K8s way. Probably the biggest decision to make is whether to manage the cluster from scratch (not recommended), by using kops to deploy on a cloud platform, or use a cloud-native solution like EKS on AWS. After that -- here's a good guide to help with the differences in configuring the services[1]

[1] https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/tra...
It's good to quantify and ballpark that damage instead of leaving it as an intuitive guess. If public policy demands the trading of lives, at least it shouldn't be done by way of blind poker.

This study ballparks it around 10-20 deaths per year per 100k residents.
In biotech, at least back in the day, bureaucracy depended on company size and nationality, and there never seemed to be enough hackers for all the random tech stuff that needed doing. I'm sure it's changed a whole lot since then but as a general point, it was a lot more diverse along any vector you like than the software world.

Maybe you should find a startup with no layers of bureaucracy and no cost centers yet? This being HN, there are plenty of them around.
The point was "cities increase it too", not "it's just cities and not sports teams".
So is "controversial" the same as unfair or bad? Journalists often use "controversial" to discredit something that is not in accordance to their ideology. Controversial politicians (which politician isn't controversial?), controversial university professors, controversial speeches, controversial thoughts...
I would suspect yes the pressure will be greater in areas like that. It is one of the reasons I prefer bigger cities on the west coast though; more houses, more jobs, and just as much nature.

I have worked 100% remotely for almost two years now and love it but now I live somewhere with a crappy job market. Yes I save money but I live in constant fear of having to take a 50% pay cut if I can’t find more remote work.

I love working remotely and I think it’s a great idea but I don’t think people realize how much of a leash it is when you choose to work in SV but live in the middle of nowhere.
What is lightweight for you?

I bundled the official Python (CPython 2.7, that was some years ago; but I don't think CPython 3 would be so much different) in an application (http://albertz.github.io/music-player/), and the whole MacOSX app zip file ended up at 11 MB. This includes my whole app + whole CPython 2.7 (including all stdlib) + extra Python libs (all the ObjC/Cocoa bindings, which I use for the GUI). I find this is still pretty ok.

(Still much smaller than Qt, wxWidgets, Electron, or whatever else there is. But maybe this comparison is unfair.)

The scripts to build CPython suitable for embedding it into an app are here: https://github.com/albertz/python-embedded/ (But this is not really updated, and so far for CPython 2.7, not CPython 3. But this is not really so difficult anyway. These scripts are mostly such that you have it as a Xcode project and also compiles on iOS.)

I think Dropbox does the same, as far as I remember.
Do teachers recommend a grade, or a score? If they only recommend grades, how did the algorithm pick which students to change the grades for?
lmao at the idea of caring about $20k when you make $250k
>Do current NLP systems understand arithmetic, and can the do it with unfamiliar numbers they've never seen on?

I don't know if that question is rhetorical or not, but GPT-3 can do basic math for problems it has not been directly trained on, and there's been a fair amount of debate, including right here at hn, about what the takeaway is supposed to be.
Well, there were no exams proper. The algorithm gives a mark for the A-levels.
Heroku costs about a nickel an hour per server, yeah? A dollar a day?

So I'll worry about that price when I get to at least 10 servers
I have an ESP8266 wired into my intercom buzzer for opening the door remotely[0]. It has been unreasonably stable and reliable. Many months, possibly into years, of consecutive uptime. I used the arduino IDE and modified demo code for a web server. The cheapo dev board had it's blue LED die (mercifully) but is still chugging along. It's crazy what these things can do.

[0] https://jeremypoole.ca/posts/put-your-door-on-the-internet/
Niels Bohr was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 (?) Bohr Model of the Atom published in 1913
Remarkably, it has recently gained (still not mainlined) 68000 support: https://twitter.com/micko_mame/status/1256221039308267520
It’s also worth noting that this has happened before in SF multiple times, to varying degrees, and the result has generally been an invigoration of culture in one way or another.
Remember Greenspun's 10th rule?

"Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."

Well, there's a kubernetes version, which is that any sufficiently advanced deployment system will ultimately be half assed version of kubernetes.
People are definitely moving away from the South Bay too. It’s not only San Fransisco. We recently renewed our lease (apartment) in Cupertino and the lease went down 19%. Plenty of complexes nearby went down similar in price and even offer one month free rent.
I know that there are allegedly NLP algorithms for generating things like articles about sports games. I assume they have something more like the type signature (timeline of events) -> (narrative about said events)

What this article is about is more (question/prompt) -> (answer/continuation of prompt)

Does anyone know if there is progress in the (timeline of events) -> (narrative about said events) space?
Q: What do most regular people consume on the internet?

A: Video.

Q: What does Firefox suck the most at?

A: Video.
Surely the tech-minded folks of HN understand that this doesn't actually occur under any reasonable definition of "active." This article is a clear example of how the media twists reality due to their lack of understanding and/or maliciousness.
I think you underestimate the density of restaurants and cuisines available. No suburb I have encountered gets close to matching this situation. Suburbs also typically require cars, something I don't own and never want to own. I don't want a backyard either as that just means another thing to maintain against entropy!

All of this to say, it depends on what you value :)
I don't live in NYC, but I can advocate for the weird idea that the city actually has much more enjoyable COVID-friendly people-friendly spaces than the suburbs.

The retail businesses in the city are open, with precautions, just like in the suburbs. That isn't really a difference. The difference is that shops and restaurants in the city were more plentiful and better to begin with.

Now, try getting food (restaurant or grocery) delivery for a reasonable price in your typical suburb. Suburban folks didn't get stuff delivered before COVID, they hopped in their car. Many suburbs and exurbs don't really do delivery outside of your typical pizza places, and if they do they cost a lot for each delivery. I know a more rural friend who constantly has delivery apps cancel due to a lack of available drivers.

The city already had the delivery advantage in the first place, which is in turn a COVID advantage. I know people who get delivery for 100% of their goods and don't own a car at all, and these deliveries were far cheaper than the suburbs due to the density.

Not only that, when the only safe thing to do is go outside, I think the city wins, at least for me. City dwellers already walk and go outside more than people in the suburbs. In contrast, my relatives in the suburbs and exurbs can't really go on walks outside of their sub-development because the sidewalks disappear and it turns into a 55-mph zone.
Very cool. I have been fascinated by this whole area of what I call “media stapling” since I spent about two years obsessively watching the Big Lebowski as a stress reliever. This film has no commentary track so people have recorded their own and you have to sort of just manually sync up the mp3. I also do a lot of interview transcription where text is stapled to audio.

Anyway I see you have a comment here where you say you use the closed captions to figure out where to staple in the script. Would be cool to be able to staple in arbitrary other media - text audio video whatever.
> I can’t compete against people who essentially seem to have no life or other interests than getting job at Big N (or enjoy competitive programming).

Interview prep doesn't need to be a grind. One of the nice things about Leetcode is that the problems are bite-sized. You can do one or two per day on your lunch break and make a lot of progress in a matter of months, or even weeks.

Don't approach it like a cram session before your interviews. That doesn't work unless maybe you're a new college grad with no other obligations.

> go look at the leetcode discussion forums. There’s almost always some post at the top saying, “I did 1000 problems and won’t stop.

Obviously the Leetcode forums are going to be a hotbed of discussion about Leetcode. You have to keep in mind that many of those people are entry-level developers treating this as an extension of their education. For them, it's basically a miracle that a mostly-free website lets them practice for interviews for $200K-300K+ career paths from the comfort of their web browser. Compare that to just about any other high-paying industry, where getting the right education, credentials, certifications, and test results will take years of your life and potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars of post-secondary education. We really have the easy end of this deal.

Don't let the total number of Leetcode questions overwhelm or discourage you. It shouldn't be approached as a cram session before the interview. It should be approached as a consistent habit or practice over a longer period of time.

If you just don't want to do any Leetcode or whiteboard interviews, that's fine too! There are plenty of jobs out there that won't require any of that.

However, you can't have it both ways: Big N salaries come with a high barrier to entry. All things considered, spending 50-100 hours of your free time solving problems on a free website at your leisure is really a small price to pay.
I question the premise here. Can young children (say <5) who don't know arithmetic at all learn the axioms from just a bunch of examples? This isn't how children are taught arithmetic; they are taught the rules/algorithm not just a bunch of data-points. Do you have a source on the claim?
> “ Even in the limited state, so many things I have access to simply wouldn't be in other areas“

Such as? I genuinely don’t see any appeal in living in a city during a global pandemic when there are massive restrictions on what you can do. Yes pre-covid the appeal of a City was great. But post covid? I think you get a lot more bang for your buck outside of the city (I.e. living in Tahoe or even smaller cities like San Diego)

SF is also incredibly dysfunctional as a city. Walking down market street can be traumatic and disheartening. It truly boggles the mind that the local government does nothing to help the situation and often puts policies in place that exacerbate the situation.
This is often repeated but, as an American who lived in Europe for some years, it doesn't appear to be true.

There are right wings in Europe that carry very strong albeit slightly different conservative beliefs.

In any society, there will be conservative views and liberal ones. It just seems like there is a difference in how those beliefs are exercised. Extremism in one side just brings extremism to the other side.
> so I establish a relationship with one entity - the retailer.

My thinking is precisely opposite.

Because I can't be expected to know about the intracacies of the supply chain, I consider the quality to be determined by one entity - the manufacturer.

I trust Crest toothpaste over some no-name generic toothpaste that might be made by anyone precisely because it's Crest. I can buy it from the immigrant family which owns the corner bodega, and I don't have the slightest idea where they buy it from... but it's still Crest.

In my mind, my primary relationship is with the brand. The retailer I couldn't care less about.

Also, I don't want my health to be determined by where the store sources its stuff from. I want that to be determined at at a governmental level, by the FDA. Sketchy formula shouldn't be allowed in the country in the first place. It's the importer who should be held criminally liable. Again, what does a corner bodega owner know about determining the safety of consumer products? It's the government's job to set safety standards, not store owners making their own uninformed decisions.
I'd definitely be interested to read more about the tech. I wonder if it can be used to time-sync audiobooks to their ebooks counterparts.

This is my use-case:

Kindle has a feature called "Audible Narration." You buy a Kindle book, and the Audible audio book, which allows you to play the audio book while it highlights the words on the Kindle book as you're listening. This effortless switching between audio and text enables some interesting reading behavior. Certain books become easier to read. Note taking also gets much easier (Highlighting text is much easier than bookmarking timestamps on an audio book).

The problem is, getting your annotations and highlights and other data out of Kindle is very difficult, because Kindle does not have a public API. Same with Audible.

So I'm thinking of emulating Audible narration with a hybrid ebook/audiobook reader app. The ebook would be a simple HTML page (converted from epub, formatting be damned) and a simple audio player. As the audio plays, the HTML page would scroll and words would be highlighted.

Challenge is to timestamp tag the HTML with the audio track. I'd guess I could TTS the audio track and then somehow diff the generated text with the epub content. Given that some audiobooks are abridged, some read the footnotes on each mention, and some explain the visuals, I would assume diffing would not be very straightforward.

Do you know of any solutions I could look into?
I believe they recommend a grade, and rank the students within each recommended grade.
The benefit of looking at languages/scripts in isolation is that the combinatorial explosion of all languages/scripts at once is dodged.

E.g. lookalike charaters, and social engineering by using a vs а. (One is Cyrillic). I don't want to even define "a == а". I want Latin and Cyrillic to be different types of characters, and that expression to be ill-typed.

This solves the Turkish problem, where the upper case I is two different charters in two different types (Turkish Roman script?), and the case folding functions likewise have disjoint types.
Ok, if I'm making a category error, then, why do we have this transgender debate over the transsexuality-debate (which imo is different, because people there are actively using medicine to change facts about their body, which is not necessary true for any transgender?)?
And what makes cis-gender then, except the fact that you are fine to be called he/she?

> to choose the gendered existence they most desire

so: what is gender then, if it's neither sex, nor stereotypes?

Thanks for answering all these questions and having this discussion, while I also (like a lot of people here) sometimes question the wisdom of artifical images which are projected as a role model, I don't grasp the idea of non-transsexual transgender (which, if I'm correct today is a thing in the discussion).

Also, while I actually sometimes talk to friends about their feelings, I've not encountered anyone expressing discomfort with their "gender", but I'm obviously not actively searching for that (which you probably do on the internet).
Google employees will work remotely until next summer
Can you elaborate on that? I can't say I'm an SF history expert, but I've never heard of those shifts so I'm truly curious what you're referring to.
I think knowledge of the concepts is very useful, but precise recall of the algorithmic implementations is absolutely useless.

It’s very different for someone to have a solid grasp of, say, cache-aware programming techniques, algorithms and data structures that are necessary for low-latency architectural work, etc.

...but I’m aware of very few positions (if any???) that require the ability to arbitrarily synthesize that information on the spot.

EDIT: Originally meant to lead with the fact that I broadly agree with what you’re saying, I just wanted to clarify my original objection.
This past week, I used this new edit distance library to identify quasi-duplicates in a large dataset:

https://github.com/Bergvca/string_grouper

Saved me hours of work because all the Levenshtein implementations are pretty slow and I’m going to need to rerun the analysis as the dataset grows.

I don’t know about consumer-facing tools, but NLP stuff has helped me solve all kinds of tedious data problems at work.
Has anyone ever looked at the curves for the cost of public services vs the cost of living in a city? What I'm getting at is that if the tech workers flee SF and are replaced by average income earners and lower property values, will SF be more or less able to provide the basic city services it is currently strugging with?

I suspect that the cost of providing basic services rises faster than CoL of an area, just by looking at CA as a whole. Setting aside the possibility of bad management, it seems that CA is incapable of providing basic services(reliable electricity, well maintained roads, water, sewer, housing, etc) despite being the 5th largest economy on the planet. Is CA a victim of its success?
It’s a big reason why people move to the Bay Area over other cities.
The algorithm took the teachers' recommended grades and used them only to rank the students at that school. The actual grades were calculated based on past years' performance for each school. So if you were the top performer at a low-ranking school, your grade would be in line with top performers at that school in previous years.
Programming a Genetic Algorithm in Python
It might be OK if strings are immutable and therefore internable.
I think it's less extreme left wingers in the Anarchist / Communist / Marxist sense and more committed libertarians. Particularly the fintech libertarian segment who were attracted to the industry/area through the original interpreted idea that bitcoin was.

It's less that the extremes are on two opposite ends, but just two flavors of the right of the economic ideology spectrum who share a goal of not wanting to be taxed and don't wish to fund/provide public services.
No, alpha doesn't work, at least in "grep -P" with "ru_RU.UTF-8" locale:

$ echo Test | grep -oP '[[:alpha:]]+'
Test
$ echo Артём | grep -oP '[[:alpha:]]+'
$ echo Артём | grep -oP '[А-Яа-я]+'
Арт
м

This thing works, though I've never seen one in the wild:

$ echo Артём | grep -oP '[\p{Cyrillic}]+'
Артём