skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bullshit.

It has been my personal experience, and the experience of many people I’ve spoken with, that this kind of trivia is learned in order to get a job and then forgotten immediately afterwards because it’s useless.

Anecdotal example: a former colleague is an incredibly talented systems programmer and has had to study leetcode garbage for the last few months in order to feel qualified to interview for a position with a team that he had previously been on at an older employer.

As another commenter said elsewhere, these types of questions are used because they’re legal proxies for “IQ tests”, and because they filter for people who are willing to sacrifice much of their personal time for the sake of the company.
If a store put a random baby formula from a sketchy Chinese factory on its shelves and it made babies sick, they're going to get demolished by the FDA. "Hey I'm just a retailer" is not at all a defense.

As a customer I can't be expected to know about the intricacies of the supply chain for every product I use, so I establish a relationship with one entity - the retailer.
Really cool! It seems like the data synchronization is done manually?
But you claim to understand right in this comment how humans understand other things.

Isn't that self-contradictory?
C# has a `ToLowerInvariant()` variety for that.
From my prior comment: "Even a small nick in the insulation is supposed to change the impedance enough to create a detectable reflection."

This is what I was told by the person who saw the demo. I believe them, because it'd just be a matter of sending an impulse (or sweeping a tone) and looking at all of the spikes in the impulse response.
Compared to the world before Zuckerberg where there was not even that way?
Regardless, the issue still remains that this problem makes the city less attractive as a place to live, and it is a problem that bothers people.
> IBM PC were very open platforms

What about the whole debacle around the IBM BIOS?
> other problems such as fake votes added

First of all, everyone knows we can prove this never happens already, so no big deal.

Second, this is a feature, not a bug.
When you built the real product, which stack did you use?
So you decide to not help people, because then you would need to help people?
Neat, but not very practical. To be of any use you still need board support to drive the I2C, SPI, etc which means you have to use C anyhow.

You can buy one of their boards with the BSP but that's over $40, yikes.

To use micropython you need at least an M4 class micro-controller so that a $5 or greater part.

Or you could just stick with C and use a M0 class micro that costs < $1.

A difference of $40 in BOM cost makes it only applicable to the hobbyist. Which is fine, but its just a toy.
There’s only one meaning for the word, it can just be used in different contexts. For an example, in English, take “hellfire”. It’s a biblical reference to a conflagration in the underworld. Someone in the US military industrial complex thought it’d also be a very apt name for a type of missile. Same word, same basic meaning, different use.
Do you mind giving examples of what you have access to in NYC when so many things are shuttered right now?

As for "white flight" it's more of a "white collar flight" where people with money and resources and higher income remote jobs will leave as long as living conditions suck.
It was called RSS, and there were plenty of free and paid providers who would host your feeds and even feed content (like podcast audio) for you. The most popular was called FeedBurner, and you can imagine what became of it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FeedBurner

https://support.google.com/feedburner/answer/79408?hl=en
The ergonomic mouse that saved my wrist
What are examples of cities with functioning societies? My backup plan was NYC, but thanks to de Blasio that's now out.
Or it's part of an organised cartel between the major SV employers to reduce salary competition and employee turnover.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
How did you get past the resume screening? Or are you from the US, because then it's much easier to get past the screeming, or so it seems.

I have yet to be invited for so much as an HR call when it comes to FAANG (bachelor/master CS from a Dutch university). Maybe I'm not getting past the application tracking system?
But they do have the most extensive transliteration rules library to match everything to that limited character set (ICAO Doc 9303[1]) that is used by many systems outside the aviation world.

[1] https://www.icao.int/publications/pages/publication.aspx?doc...
Please stop doing this. Don't bind lower() upper() functions to environment variables or anything else system related. Sun did this in Java and doesn't even bother to mention the issue in documents. It caused huge problems for more than a decade.

You can just make string lowercase() uppercase() function work the same everywhere, regardless of locale settings. Provide a special case function lowercaseTR() or so. This works very well in Go.

By the way, Azerbaijan has the same problem because they accepted help from wrong guys when they switched to Latin.
He's just not very good at constructing logical-sounding (plausible, testable) stories about things :)
This problem doesn't arise in a 1-1 language like C, because the thread spawning will either fail or have obviously terrible performance. These languages push you into using work queues, etc. immediately.

But in languages with green threads (like Go), you CAN spawn a million threads and performance will be fine, until you make a syscall.

An example of how this can happen: I once wrote a Go tool that walks the filesystem. I spawned a new thread for every directory, thinking that Go only has ~N kernel threads so performance will be fine. I was shocked to see that, in this scenario, it spawns a kernel thread for every green thread!
But there's no reason the models are english specific...
Even though it`s true that ME is not 100% removed, most of it is.

https://puri.sm/learn/software-freedom-in-perspective/
You shouldn't. Email addresses are case-sensitive.
Edit: not greater than exponentially sparse sets, something a bit denser -- exponential sparsity is manageable as well, but not with the 2^-k construction I gave.
Most historians think that this was actually a thought experiment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo's_Leaning_Tower_of_Pis...

An equivalent experiment was famously carried out for real in 1971 on the surface of the Moon.
In Prison, Learning Magic by Mail
A college student used GPT-3, wrote fake blogposts and ended up at the top of HN
Thanks.

How does iMPC compare to something like BeatMaker?

Such as: use of AUs and external MIDI, sequences/scenes/patterns with different tempos or time signatures?

The bit on the App Store video to grab and move a chunk of a pattern looks handy.
MacBook Pro is a tiny fraction of laptop user base.
I need Kubernetes since we're outgrowing Docker Swarm. Docker Swarm has a lot of issues we deal with on a constant basis so it's becoming quite painful.

Can anyone suggest a good migration guide from Docker Swarm -> Kubernetes?
What would call it when one of the richest cities doesn't give a shit about wide-spread homelessness and drug abuse?

Sure, people may talk about it to virtue-signal, but nothing gets actually done that would help.
That's just not even close to the only or most useful application.

I use NLP and associates s2s techniques every day. I struggle to see how so many people don't see the obvious benefits deep inference is bringing to stuff all around them.
It's only Bolshevik to Americans who don't actually understand the meaning of that word, or any related concept for that matter because of the incessant propaganda they're subjected to
What's stopping them from not properly separating the outer and inner envelopes in mail-in voting? Or correlating poll booth entries with checkins? Nothing. The system fundamentally assumes the organization operating the poll is trustworthy.
To be fair, a lot of people who have none of those skills also earn well over $300K at those companies. Just like grinding leetcode can get you in the door, the skills you need for advancement are not necessarily the same ones you need for making good software.

I hope the parent makes the best of it and becomes good at the craft, it will make the job a lot more enjoyable even if it may not be the fastest way up the ladder.
It’s been really stressful. I know python, but not really any other languages. I’m able to get work done. But I’m really nearly the same as a fresh grad. But really, I was just bumming around, then studied for four months and destroyed their algorithms questions, so much so that expectations for me are really high. But all I know is leetcode, literally nothing else...
Kapton is also inside many nuke plants in the US, too. What could possibly go wrong?
Presenting the communications-focused smartphones of old the consumption-focused smartphones of today together as categorical equivalents seems like a failure of language. That was the disruption.
This sounds like people try to compare K8s with what was before and sure, that all holds true.

You get all of this with serverless (be it with managed services or FaaS), with reduced (albeit not zero) complexity compared to K8s.
I’m in the US and the weird mechanical machine that casts my vote is a black pen filling in a circle. That can be read quickly by a simple electronic machine or more slowly by humans if there is a question. It’s low tech and hard to influence on a non-trivial scale.

It is true that some places use much more complex systems and I don’t really understand the interest in those. It definitely don’t see any benefit to fully electronic voting, block-chain or otherwise. Voting doesn’t have to be efficient. It needs to be reliable, understandable, and believable.
Me neither. I did know it's not Constantinople, though.
DP solutions were really in vogue for awhile, and seem to be asked less now. I heard a completely unsubstantiated rumor that FB found them to cause high false negatives because they're such a tricky and specific problem type. Also, once you know the "one trick" to solving them they don't help illuminate candidate thinking.
> who are very much not doing as well mentally and are looking forward to being back in the city.

Why do you think they're not doing as well mentally? Isolation? Lack of things to do?

I've noticed that the pandemic really emphasizes my relationships with my neighbors. We've never been so close, and now all of our world is smaller, so we're talking a lot more from our balconies, sharing recipes and planting tips. It's nice but certainly a throwback to older times where you knew all of your neighbors.
It's not possible to remove, or at least account for all behavior of, the ME entirely until the BUP part is reverse engineered. You can't take that part out yet and have a working CPU as far as I understand.

I'm surprised you didn't mention the FSP which is a binary blob from Intel required to be run by any boot firmware (UEFI, Coreboot, or whatever) very early in the platform initialization process (to my understanding, basically as soon as possible after the reset vector, in the PEI phase) before anything is useable.

Baby steps. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Success here could indicate to CPU vendors there are people who care about these things.
From that perspective, you also read emotion on my emotionless text. I was also just stating what I believe the definition is, with no more or less information than the comment I responded to.
That's interesting, since it looks like the issues raised by the SUSE Security audit are not all fixed yet: https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/projects/4
>C with GNU

Instead of this pondering and retroactive application of intuition in one's head onto history it would help to learn history. (Hint, what is GNU's name)
To add to your point: my friends in the suburbs aren’t weathering the pandemic any better than my city dwelling friends. Even my more rural friends are complaining because their communities are now overrun with people heading up to their cabin, with hunting/fishing/outdoor/firearms stuff all being hard to find and expensive due to increased demand. And they probably have reason to be scared because high quality medical care is scarcer and further away so their healthcare networks are at greater risk of being overrun
My main problem with these bots is they require people to tweet at them in reply to the thing they want processed. So for anything with a decent amount of engagement, the replies get all shitted up with lots of people tweeting “@MyCoolThreadBot” or whatever. Hate that.
I can't believe California is making people where masks outdoors.
Note to the next language designer: don't use strings as a substitute for enums.
MicroPython is stellar. If you're building an embedded system for people to hack and customize, make the highest level abstraction of the embedded system in MicroPython so that users can easily modify/patch/contribute/hack your system with ease.

This is what Arduino and Arduino IDE did for millions of hobbyist, but it is time to ditch C/C++ for MicroPython.

In this [1] PyCon talk by Matt Trentini, a demo of QR code generation proves that with plain C and with MicroPython bindings, the performance is identical - 11.5ms. MicroPython is slow, and if the QR code library was written in pure MicroPython, it would take 1500ms. Therefore, it is critical to put performance demanding code in C/C++ modules and compile a MicroPython bindings.

I think this is one of the best things that's happened to embedded development in a long time. Lua is nice but IMO Python is even better :)

There is also Async IO library support for MicroPython. So ISRs can trigger coroutines!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=437CZBnK8vI
The recruiter just reached out to my LinkedIn profile. My understanding is it’s really easy to get the interview
Shrug. Rationalize their existance all you want, but we will get by just fine.

Do you know why San Francisco has always been expensive?

Because it’s so worth it. We will do just fine without the parasitic green-eyed monsters who have invaded our homes since Web 2.0.
> When I started learning Nim I noticed the docs and even the getting started tutorial just threw the kitchen sink at you, it totally overwhelmed me.

This sums my experience as well. But nowadays there are more resources to learn Nim. The Nim in action book is a few years old but still holds. Nim basics is a free tutorial
for beginners https://narimiran.github.io/nim-basics/
When did you start learning Nim?
now, there is even a capital ß ;)
There's also a big difference between one or two people from other places on an American team, which will still behave like an American team, and a team of people entirely from country X, which will behave like a country X team.

Exhibit A: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/01/tech/cisco-lawsuit-caste-disc...
Ok :- ) I sent an email (last Friday Aug 14 UTC)
I love the feeling of camaraderie arising from that partial mutual intelligibility of Turkish and Azerbaijani.

That connection through language goes a long way.

müqəddəs bacı millət :)
Few people are going to restructure their entire life over medium terms concerns, if they can avoid it.
AI-generated tennis matches are both eerie and impressive
> Do you mind giving examples of what you have access to in NYC when so many things are shuttered right now?

Right now, I've basically reallocated my budget of city activities towards local restaurants, and I've been eating a ton of great delivery. As the cases have slowed, I'm cautiously considering outdoor dining. Either way, I'm eating great food right now.

I live in Brooklyn, so Prospect Park (central park of the borough) is always nice for walks or distanced picnics with friends. My local neighborhood is also just generally pleasant for walks. Many outdoor farmers markets are still in full swing.

There's an outdoor climbing gym in Dumbo that I can walk to from my apartment, and I go there now as well even. Full contact tracing, check-in/out, reservation system, the whole nine yards. Not many places have a large outdoor climbing gym.

All of this is also powered by people actually following mask laws and it being summer. I'm fully aware winter is going to be less fun, but I'm ready to weather that and order lots of good delivery.

> As for "white flight" it's more of a "white collar flight" where people with money and resources and higher income remote jobs will leave as long as living conditions suck.

Well put, and I think that will be a big positive for cities if it continues.
The syncing is done automatically, at least mostly.

TL;DR: ScreenplaySubs fetches the subtitles from Netflix, parses the PDF-formatted screenplays into JSON, and syncs by calculating the sentence similarities between subtitle and screenplay dialogue.

In particular, we use the Universal Sentence Encoder for deciding whether a subtitle matches with a screenplay dialogue. If a screenplay dialogue is similar enough with the subtitles, the former will be tagged with the timestamp provided by the latter.

A lot of the underlying problems presented with each step sounds deceptively simple at first, but turns out to be quite challenging and fun to research. E.g. Parsing PDFs in general are not straightforward (https://filingdb.com/b/pdf-text-extraction), and there’s only a handful of resources on parsing PDF screenplays beside a handful of research papers (https://github.com/drwiner/ScreenPy/blob/master/INT17_screen...), which lead us to create our own open source repo for this (https://github.com/SMASH-CUT/screenplay-pdf-to-json).

Our screenplay-pdf-to-JSON converter is able to contain all dialogues, transitions, actions within a particular screenplay scene. With this, we’re treating scenes as atomic, being able to detect changes in scene ordering based on the tagged scene timestamps. This also means if dialogues are swapped within a scene in the movie, there will be some syncing inconsistencies.

Some scenes do have little to no dialogues, which would pretty much cause the extension to work on a best-effort basis. E.g. The opening scene of There Will Be Blood has very minimal if not no dialogue at all. This is the case where I need to jump in and sync up the screenplay manually. OTOH, the opening scene of Inglourious Basterds will work very well, since there are tons of dialogues in it. This is the reason why I can’t just add movies and instantly upload it to the site.

Would you be interested for me to get into more details? I was thinking of writing a series of technical blog posts if there are enough interests!
Not to pile on -- and I'm sure there would be exceptions -- but I've worked with some large and dynamic (employee churn) dev teams and it's always been worth it in my cases, so far, to burn a half day with new people to get them comfortable with Makefiles (and how to fix the common errors when editing them). Teams I've been on have used them for python, ruby, node, Java and Rust[1] codebases (across the years). It's definitely language-agnostic enough on its own. Oh! And the same Makefile is used in the CI/CD pipeline, to make the entire process more likely to be repeatable by our automation tools.

[1] Yes, our Makefiles sometimes call docker/npm/ant/maven/gradle/cargo under the hood. Its been worth it, in my experience. One syntax on all projects to set up the workspace, refresh dependencies, deploy to dev env, clean, etc.
Certainly if you want both a city and nature, SF can be attractive in that regard. But the comment I was responding to was specifically about nature. If I don't care about easy access to the city and SV, I'd live elsewhere.
Wrongly dropping accents on uppercase letters predates computer keyboards; the French azerty layout puts accented letters on the first level of number row:

http://j.poitou.free.fr/pro/img/tkn/tw-image.jpg

This idiocy carried over. The recent layout update makes dead accents more accessible:

https://norme-azerty.fr/

But I haven't seen much adoption yet.
Bagworm
> "The physicist writes, 'There is a white horse in Iowa.' The mathematician writes, 'There exists, somewhere in the Midwest, a horse, white on top."

I'm neither a mathematician nor physicist...but this seems like a category error to me. What the heck does a mathematician care about horses?
Lets take this even further, then, to demonstrate a point.

Lets say that property taxes were 1 million dollars a year, per apartment.

What do you think would happen? What I think would happen is that property owners would abandon their property/destroy it/remove it from the market, because they don't want to pay that 1 million dollars a year.

This would effect support of housing, meaning that price would go up.

Yes, rents are effected by supply and demand. And property taxes can have an effect on supply. This is clear, in our extreme example of 1 million dollars a year, per apartment.
Have you looked into being a software person in a non-software (or only "software-enabled") company?

You'd probably get a pay-cut vs. FAANG or whatever, but it wouldn't exactly send you tumbling into the working class.

I really enjoyed working on software in biotech, for example, where I started my career... and sometimes think about returning with all my software-company chops to see if it's still as fun!
Even if it were cleanroom reverse-engineered, the code contains many constants relating to game balance (and many other things) that are identical to RCT2 or RCTC (RollerCoaster Tycoon: Classic, the mobile port which was also released on PC), without which the game would not function, which probably makes it a derivative work.

That being said, I'm fairly certain it was not cleanroom reverse-engineered.

The not-so-legal status, then, is "Atari does not care".