skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Where are the papers that correlate this niche, specialized skill to general job performance and productivity?

I would love to read this research if it existed in the public domain. However, much of this comes down to trade secrets and business practices. It's also not very amenable to controlled studies.

Practically speaking, these companies have a lot at stake in their hiring process. It's strange that so many people are convinced that the Big N companies are shooting themselves in the foot or otherwise making poor decisions with these interview processes.

Leetcode-style interviews might not have supporting research in the public domain, but absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. That is, just because the research doesn't exist doesn't mean that the Leetcode interviews are bad or worse than the alternatives.

Even if companies did eliminate Leetcode-style interviews, they have to replace it with some other alternative. Most of these criticisms fail to suggest actual replacement interview processes.
Probably the point was that it’s hard to use the internet if you’re starving
There used to be Jython, for embedding inside JVM apps, but the 2/3 transition killed it.
The same arguments apply to hardware and software. Cloud providers’ core competency is cloud infrastructure and services and they have the scale to economize their offerings. Your business very likely can’t compete with them, so to the extent that you’re owning things that cloud providers could sell you, you’re throwing away money and that figure very likely dwarfs the risk adjusted cost of maybe having to migrate to another provider one day. (Of course, there are services that are overpriced here and there, but the general principle holds).
> using that definition, ME can never be “removed” at all!

This is my point. It can't be removed. It will always remain a security problem.
If you're a renter and you when lease renewal time comes up and you see twice as many open units in your apartment, wouldn't you also bargain more aggressively with your landlord?

Conversely, if you're a building manager and you an X% occupancy rate target, you're going to need to cut prices in order to maintain that rate if a bunch of tenants don't renew.

This is pretty much textbook microeconomics 101.

Going a bit further, occupancy rate is a signal that both sides of the market can (noisily) observe, so if the prior non-occupancy rate was very low, you'd expect a shock that doubles the rate (say, 5% -> 10%) to lead to perhaps a larger price change than in a less tight market (such as 10% -> 15%)
There are plenty of Bay Area adults who can't remember the last time there was lightning here. It's that rare. Fun times!

I worry about wildfire in the hills, since it hadn't rained for months. Thankfully, it wasn't an entirely dry storm. We had quite a bit of rain in my corner of Palo Alto last night - more than the 0.01 trace amount officially reported.
Entirely depends on who is writing it. I like to read the forecast discussions because they tend to give more of the rationale for the forecast. You learn the thought process that goes into it, based on what they're seeing.

That said I'm also a trained severe weather spotter so the forecast discussion is where I go to see if spotter activation may be likely or not.
App Store is not really the best environment for niche apps, I suppose. What about Android? I'd presume F-Droid could host something like this even if the Play Market doesn't?
#include <kentonv.h>
I think a big theme in tech in the last decade has been there's a lot of extra margin to be made if you can find a way to circumvent regulations designed to protect the general public.
I'd expect geocentrism from local media but not a federal domain.

There are numerous bay areas in the US. Maybe drop an SF in that headline NOAA?
My wife and I both qualify as being in the high-risk, elderly population. Once we had some grasp of the situation, we were both in immediate agreement that our lives would have to be very different until there was an efficacious remedy. We even postponed our 40th anniversary celebration indefinitely, ala Ringo Starr. In the temporal realm everything can be replaced or done without except for life itself. It makes no difference to us what others say or do in this regard. We have cast our lot with science and best practices...
The prepayment period ended in 2016. It is not to blame for current losses.
It’s quite unexpected weather for the region— though of course what’s seriously abnormal in one place might be old normal hat for another. The dumb example here is “Oh, snow in the sahara? Well, here in Alaska we get snow all the time so what’s the big deal!”

For me the chief concerning thing is the “literally dozens of new fires” around the area.
Coupled with the ludicrous rain storms we’ve been having there is clearly something going on. 36deg one day and then inches of rain the next and 18deg!!!
and they don't own IMDB where much of this information is already organized into a usable state.
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I always thought a sensible approach would have been a sort of "payment tag" that browsers could render directly.

Something like
<payment name="transactionId">
<amount>30.00</amount>
<currency>USD</currency>
<ordernumber>123456</ordernumber>
<method name="WireTransfer" account="234567" routing="3040567" />
<method name="PayPal" destination="company@company.com" />
<method name="CreditCard" url="https://secure.gateway.com" merchantid="123456" />
<method name="Dogecoin" walletid="D0304050600405kgjfd" amount="2600" />
</payment>
This would render as a group of buttons representing the payment choices. The browser would pop up an appropriate form-- potentially in an isolated context where the fields can't be sniffed by on-page scripts, perform the remittance, and submit a structure of verifiable confirmation details in the field transactionId when the form was submitted. Since the flow is steered entirely by the user's browser, there's a stronger degree of trust and control; I could imagine, for example, bank-provided plugins that required a seperate authentication before relaying the card details, or more sophisticated 3-D Secure style checking and fingerprinting. The entire PCI compliance and trusting merchants with the card number problems would never have come into play.

There is the Web Payments API now, but it's a clunky ball of JavaScript with limited support. This could have been demoed in 1997 and universal by 2000.
I'm sure this is abnormal for the Bay Area, but insane seems kind of overblown - this doesn't sound out of the ordinary for the midwest at all. Thunderstorms, hail, and occasional tornados are routine in the summer.

Just last week, the windspeed equivalent of a category 2 hurricane rolled through IA/MO/IL, destroying homes, business, and billions of dollars of crops: https://twitter.com/coldbrewedtool/status/129407960042804429...
Who is to say your method is any more fair? There's nothing they can do to please everyone. Someone is going to benefit. Someone is going to lose. In the big picture, good students will end up with good marks, and bad students will end up with bad markets.
On the boards it has been ported to, I2C and SPI are directly supported (https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/library/machine.SPI.h...). No C coding necessary. It's not a replacement for C on every embedded application, but for prototyping and one-off applications it's hard to beat the productivity gains. It will run on an ESP8266-01 module for as low as $2 ea.
For some of them, there is. Russian (my mother tongue), for example, has the kind of morphology that makes linguists' hair stand on end. Also, verbs and nouns are gendered (and therefore they must agree, and you must know what everything refers to at all times, often pretty far away from where the noun was first mentioned), and there are declensions on various parts of speech, and they must agree as well. And words can be freely formed out of several roots, prefixes, and suffixes. For any of this to be understood or generated, your model has to be able to model all of that, which is much harder than modeling English.
Actually I love leetcode (the website) and do it for fun once in a while, and if I decide to go for a big grind later on then I don't think I'll particularly mind that part even if it doesn't get me my ticket to the Google Bus.

The risk of cynicism is that I've been doing this for 25 years or so and there are some things I'm quite good at that can add a lot of value to a company, but it appears that the highest-paying outfits will judge me on things that are at best very tangentially related to how I can make/save them money.

Sorry if my comment came off as anti-leetcode, I have a low opinion of the thing so many people use it for, not the site itself. Before hearing of my impending sabbatical I was even planning to subscribe to the "pro" level and build it into my work routine, just as way of differently exercising my brain once or twice a week.
I use the Macintosh keyboard map in Linux. So I do <right alt>+e to ‘, <right alt>+n to ~.
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I think this is one of those things that you don't "solve" and it's done. You might be right that things tend to centralize, that's why there is a need for some force to break things apart once the players become too powerful. Maybe it's regulation, maybe it's competition, maybe is people being loud enough (probably not...)

Just like democracy, you are never "done". "Oh great we are in a democracy nothing can remove that from us!" nope, gotta fight to keep it that way...
Only if you've owned a house for decades. If you bought recently, then your property taxes can effectively be %1.5 with all the extras they add to bills.
Can someone direct me to some code where I can see the full potential of Lisp?

I have programmed in Scheme before while taking a course using SICP. Final project was a Scheme interpreter. But I didn't have any epiphany/awakening like many others seems to have.
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I was wondering the same as the parent, and in my case it's library support (e.g. NumPy) and compatibility/familiarity in the space (VFX) where Python is everywhere and Lua is unheard of.
> Command-u

option-u (aka alt-u).

Generally speaking, command is for application-level or os-level commands, control is for text edition, and alt is for alternate characters (all can be shifted and command "overrides" the rest).
So, I think the downside of those systems is that they tend to be specific to a provider, so you get some lock in, and not all of those things are easy/possible to run locally, whereas minikube or docker swarm can replicate a cluster locally, which I think is really important. Otherwise yeah, those systems can be used to accomplish the same goals.

One thing that I think is non-obvious: there are easy ways to set up a kubernetes cluster, it's just that there's so many options out there that the easier solutions tend to get lost in the noise. If I had to manage kubernetes nodes manually I'd probably never do it, but setting up something like AKS/EKS/GKS -- they all have their own issues, but they're pretty easy to get started with.
Putting aside the valid complaint about the noise from get-rich-quick opportunists in this field:

Implementing simple "Web Bucks" is not pedestrian at all. There are real reasons why all Paypals suck, and you can't simply ignore them and hope to build an open cash alternative unbothered.
I was wondering about that too. In Dublin, which has vaguely similar dynamics (inadequate housing supply, very large presence of tech and other industries which have gone all in on remote-for-now if not remote-forever) rental inventory is up by 60%. Which sounds like a lot, until you look at how tiny it is normally, and how much of what’s showing up to rent is very clearly hastily decommissioned Airbnb stock.
The red flag conditions make it ideal for fire starts, combined with high winds that can get out of control real quick.
Exactly. Google could simply have changed their algorithm to penalize that behavior and it would have led to the same outcome.

Instead they created their own monster in response.

A reasonable person might ask why they didn't go the simple route.
This is fair. I was thinking of Bohr's work on establishing a proper school of QM. This is also why I didn't list Einstein et al.; he rejected that school and its work. It's true that many pre-QM concepts were laid down between 1890 and 1930, but the concepts that we embrace today are usually associated with the Copenhagen interpretation, which comes from Bohr's work in the 30s at his school.

To be blunt and opinionated, I see the 1890s as asking the questions which we would answer in the 1930s. We found that set theory has gaping holes, and the answer turned out to be that all maths has gaping holes. We found that classical mechanics can't describe ovens, and it turns out that we need QM for describing lots of low-level physical phenomena.
I've been reading about rolling power blackouts in California due to excessive demand. Shouldn't this situation be ideal for solar power? high power demand during the day, lots of daylight hours?
Neither k3d (k3s) nor kind support building of images since they use containerd directly, which [building] seems to be a requirement for development environment.

This means that you need to build your app using Docker, and then import it to k3d/kind environment, thus needing local registry (not enabled by default), which means that images are duplicated.
Thankfully pytorch does all of that calculus for us!
It clearly marks the San Francisco/Bay Area office in the header of the site and in the header of the content.
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Yes, that why I'm advocating pen and paper in this thread. Nothing is simpler than counting ballots by hand.

It's blockchain that makes is impossible for the average voter or even for people with math or CS degrees.
The A level is a two year course with assessment at the end. There are no previously examined grades, only estimated and mock ones. https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/science/as-and-a-level/chemi...

(Modular and coursework based A levels were popular under labour but reverted by the Tories)
So this is news because lighting is so rare there, it’s literally ‘once in a lifetime’!? I couldn’t figure out why this was here :) It is kind of weird to see this kind of reaction, to those of us in most other parts of the country.

Edit: I didn’t really appreciate the drought conditions, let’s hope the wildfires don’t get bad.
"but the existence of yet another now-quantified danger does nudge your average 'danger score' higher"
Or lower. I would say that these numbers are actually smaller than my intuition suggested.
> I good reason not to use kubernetes though is if you know your app is probably never going to scale

Suggesting that you can only scale with Kubernetes just isn't true. Our tech stack originally ran on AWS in multi-regions. Then we moved to GCP. The architecture was the same for both:

- public facing Load Balancer

- instance groups attached to the LB

- add health checks so unresponsive instances get killed

- add scaling rules based on whatever metric you want (AWS's offering was far better than GCP's)

- choose your instance type(s).

And for the record, we handle ~15 billion HTTP requests per day (traffic is seasonal). Our busiest data centre is us-east, which has a max of 50 instances (16 vCPU, 31GB RAM), and we rarely need them all. You can also mix spot and non-spot instances too, so we know we have a least one or two machines that GCP won't kill.

Rolling out updates involves building a debian package, building a new VM image, and then clicking a 'deploy' button (GCP makes this easier than AWS).
You chose to read it that way for the sole purpose of finding fault with it

There are other ways, try again

Here is a hint, read it under the presupposition that a marginalized population is the worst thing possible, and that “productive” doesnt mean industrial
This is an amusing bit of sci-fi. But it's just that, and it's got nothing to do, specifically, with amp.

The rhetorical strategy used here was to make up a dystopian example of search being bad, and then say amp.

Amp isn't more expensive, WordPress templates handle it automatically today. And the whole tangent about misinformation is interesting, but it's not how things really work. While speed is a signal, reliability is also one, which means that it would be cheaper to advertise you're vet article and it would be more likely to appear near the top anyway.
What are the odds that the chips that don't feature AMT/ME don't have it physically as opposed to it just being crippled in firmware ? In which case if one is worried about government backdoors this should alleviate exactly zero concerns.
> Naively implemented directly-executed parser-combinators aren't any more powerful than recursive-descent.

Parser combinators are recursive descent, as in, they are just a neat way to write down a recursive descent parser using a compositional style. The reason they're popular is because they compose well and feel more declarative than traditional recursive descent.
It's just really unusual for the area. I've lived here for about 8 years, and during that time I've heard exactly two claps of thunder (until last night). Thunderstorms are just not a thing here.
Only if you’re using the literal definition of “absolute.” I think most people would find per-capita a much better metric for the “worst homeless problem.”
Indeed, I don't know if you "understand" anything. I know that what you and GPT-3 are doing is rather different, and so it's remarkable that they seem even the tiniest bit similar, but it doesn't really matter whether one is "understanding" or not.

Being so different and yet so similar, it's maddening not to know whether they're converging, or if it's a dead end, or even if it's going in some entirely third direction.
How many managers and engineers do they have?
In the 26 years I've been in the bay area, nothing like last night has occurred here. So, a qualified "insane" for the Bay Area.
Thank you Noah! I appreciate you saying that.
It's very rare here. I grew up in Oklahoma City so I know thunder, but last night I leaped out of bed because it was so spectacular, and the character of the thunder is pretty different with all the mountains around here. Initially it wasn't raining and I assumed the oil refinery in Richmond was exploding. Then after a moment it started hailing and I felt right at home.
It would be interesting to have a TTS synth output the screenplay on another card, one which could be used by a blind person to plug some headphones in (not covering all the sound, in order to hear the environment and speeches). Maybe even optionally disable the spoken words, and only output the scene description, and emit a beep on a cut.

The demo on the page looks great, and this is stuff which should be automatable at some point by AI.
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On a Swedish keyboard, there's a dead key for ¨, so you press that followed by i to get ï.

It's not very clear why the Swedish keyboard has that key, since ä and ö each have their own keys. The layout has other quirks as well, such as keys for §, ½ and the useless "currency sign", ¤.
The problem is that the prior appears to be placed over the school, rather than the individual -- ie if your school had a low proportion of high achievers in previous years, students are finding their grades marked down, almost regardless of their performance. This results in particularly high grade disparity between independent and state schools. So it is not so much the case that good students get good marks, bad students get bad marks, but rather good schools get good marks, "bad" schools get bad marks.
It's a local area forecast discussion from the local office and the local area is officially named "San Francisco Bay Area/Monterey". What do you want from them exactly?
Nope, they excluded small schools (expensive private schools) from the algorithm.
The one and only place I am persecuted is on HN. Without exception this is the most toxic community I have ever seen. HN is the worst possible example of an echo chamber. Every dissenting opinion is immediately downvoted into oblivion. The only discussion which is permitted must reflect positively on big tech and startup culture. HN is free with no advertising precisely because the user base serve as free advertising for YC and the moment any user reflects negatively on YC in any way then that user is no longer serving their intended purpose.

The stated purpose of HN is intellectual curiosity. The reality is there is no such thing as intellectual curiosity at HN. The assumption that I should belong here as a nerd who is enthusiastic about programming and computers as you say is directly at odds with the reality that everyone else here is enthusiastic only about marketing and money. The focus is not on making technology or using technology. The focus of HN is only on selling technology.

Bjarne Stroustrup isn't the only one to suffer from the rise of social media and use of technology to banish nerds. Little people are affected too but you don't see news items about regular nerds who get banned from toxic echo chambers.
But they are not in the Bay Area. This sort of climate change is probably due to climate change. Who knows what climate change climate change will bring to the Midwest. If it is the sort of unpredictableness happening where I live it will be unpleasant.