skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your thesis is that a company that has it together would only write software that is either a shell pipeline or can be solved in 45minues?

> would not advise you to actually write a pipeline like that in production,

So when you are interviewing for a production job, why would you fight for non-production quality solutions?
Why was this headline changed?
While I don't think that whiteboarding aho-corasick from scratch is a good quality interview. I don't think algorithms and data structures are useless or impractical. IMO a basic understanding of the main data structures is important and useful in the day to day.

Granted, some applications will involve more or less use of data structures/algorithms than others, but if you discount them completely you mark yourself out of a whole subset of work.

I would want most of my fellow employees to know what a trie/binary tree/linked list/vector/array/etc is, and I would want them to know how to evaluate space and time complexity of the code they write. What is a good style interview for that is an open question, but I don't think the content is impractical.

By all means, spend your time however you like. I just think it's unfair to call knowledge of these sorts of things "impractical". Impractical for whom?
Great resource! I’ve been looking for something with complete derivations all in one place. I've been looking for a while but haven't been able to find something like this. Thanks for sharing
> The ZFS snapshot and grub update processes increase the install time 3-fold

Creating ZFS snapshots is almost instantaneous due to the CoW nature of the filesystem. Is it deleting old snapshots during that process? If so, I'd suggest checking to make sure you have the async_destroy feature enabled for your pool.
What is QAnon? An introduction to the conspiracy theory that's eating America
The article searches for meaning and finds God. Whoops! It was a good try, though.

Let's use the opportunity to be productive, though. Meanings must live in their own realm apart from sentences, so that when we say that a sentence has a meaning, we imply that there is a mapping from sentences to meanings. However, those meanings cannot be complete and consistent; there must be some sentences which don't have permanently-mapped meanings, because such meanings would lead to self-contradiction [1].

The author should read more Meaningness, especially the section on the fallacies of eternalism [0]. They could also read Derrida on meanings and deconstruction, although Derrida's not easy reading.

Edit: As usual, downvoters, want to reply?

[0] https://meaningness.com/eternalism

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarski%27s_undefinability_theo...
Always. See, The Grammar of Money, by Felous.
the term is "rapid unplanned disassembly"

also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_flight_into_terrain
This reads like 737-Max MCAS. Who/what decides that 'the pilot is doing something wrong'?
Hands-On Tutorial on Named Entity Recognition (NER) in NLP
Till they allow users to side load any changes are just platitudes.
> Would you feel "stacked on top of each other" in a Parisian townhouse with a magnificent shared courtyard, 12 foot ceilings, and everything you could possibly want a short walk or subway ride away?

No, I wouldn't feel "stacked on top of each other" if I were a multi-millionaire in Paris.

But, in the real world, your talking about putting families into 600sqft (at very best) boxes, with audible neighbors on every side of the unit, and no way to go anywhere (no parking, no meaningful transport, because 'everything we'd let you have is a short walk away')

If you actually do what you've described, and give everyone their own townhouse, you've just reinvented the modern suburb. Because that's what modern suburbs look like, everyone in a townhouse, or a townhouse with some small strips of yard around it.

> but there are many different ways to live in a dense city

Sure, but only if you are fantastically wealthy.
Data Scientists Salaries and Jobs Immune to Covid-19
Train PyTorch models with differential privacy
I guess authoritarians have risen to power over the internet but it's hard to imagine someone exerting that much influence over zoom
> because of silly management decisions?

The whole point is, from their point of view those decisions are rational. It's much more lucrative from their (managers') personal point of view to develop a smokes-and-mirrors looks-good-on-ppt AI project. To be safe from risk, don't give the AI people too much responsibility, let them "do stuff", who cares, the point is we can now say we are an AI-driven company on the brochures, and we have something to report up to upper management. When they ask "are we also doing this deep learning thing? It's important nowadays!" we say "Of course, we have a team working on it, here's a PPT!". An actual AI project would have much bigger risks and uncertainty. I as a manager may be blamed for messing up real company processes if we actually rely on the AI. If it's just there but doesn't actually do anything, it's a net win for me.

Note how this is not how things run when there are real goals that can be immediately improved through ML/AI and it shows up immediately on the bottom line, like ad and recommendation optimizations in Youtube or Netflix or core product value like at Tesla etc.

The bullshit powerpoint AI with frustrated and confused engineers happens in companies where the connection is less direct and everyone only has a nebulous idea of what they would even want out of the AI system (extract valuable business knowledge!).
It was interesting to read the scenarios but the result was only disappointing. I'm a non-lawyer expecting there to be complicated nuances that lawyers can use to explain their 'honesty'. Misdeeds by prosecutors (as in ignoring police lying on the stand because they need support from them for their next cases), not disclosing information like in this case cause me to take a very careful consideration of what a lawyer tells me.
>The other reason is that many FP users are too enthusiastic about creating abstractions.

Elm lacks typeclasses, yet I've found this lack is what keeps a lot of libraries at bay that would have otherwise turned out overly abstract (see any mainstream Haskell library, really). It's the same reasoning behind Go: With great power comes great responsibility. At large, programmers shoot their own feet with powerful languages. Therefore, take away their guns, ie make languages less powerful. I still wish there was something like Elm, but tailored for backend/network programming: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21909087
To paraphrase a famous line:

We don't care, we don't have to, we're Apple.
We’ve been making white-label apps for fitness businesses for a few years now. Our white label app allows fitness businesses to deliver better personal training experience to their clients. Personal trainers and their clients can use the app to plan and track workouts, track progress, chat with each other etc.

Recently, Apple started rejecting our white-label app because allegedly we are breaking their "3.1.3(b) Multiplatform Services" guideline. As per the guideline, if a business is selling digital content on other platforms that’s accessible inside the iOS app then those items should also be available as an in-app purchase on the iOS app too.

This was very surprising because we always thought personal training services to fall under the category of "goods and services" and not digital content. And as per guideline “3.1.5(a) Goods and Services Outside of the App” we aren’t even allowed to use in-app purchase selling services.

But Apple reviewers disagree that our app falls under the “services” category. According to reviewers, since clients are getting "digital value" from the app we therefore must add an in-app purchase to the app.

We are ready to add a free tier to the app. But that is a no-go solution. We must add in-app purchases of some kind to get the apps approved.

The "3.1.3(b) Multiplatform Services" guideline does not make sense. You can use the same guideline to force any for-profit business that offers anything useful inside an iOS app to add an in-app purchase. How is this even allowed?

By the same reasoning apps built for physical therapists, doctors should add in-app purchases too?

And why is Uber not giving a 30% cut? Their customers do get digital-value inside the app.

Not sure if this new change can actually help us.
This is not like other batteries - it’s nuclear. Nuclear batteries are old school - they have been powering the voyager probes since the 80s.

And the issues are different - less technical - more political.
What kind of plugins would you need for PyCharm? It has quite a lot of them and you can write yours (well, yes, in Java).

Also PyCharm is quite significantly an OSS, actually.
Convergence?
Evidence for quantum fluctuations near quantum critical point in superconductor
For what it's worth, the same thinking was behind the new capital of Myanmar, Naypyidaw. Paranoid military leadership who thought Yangon was too vulnerable to attack, so built a new capital way inland which is massively spread out to make it harder to bomb.
The origin of Operation Paperclip [1] researchers is not heartening for the "repression research drag" thesis.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
I had it once when I was in Germany in 1989. It tasted like raw hamburger. I didn't much care for it but de gustibus non est disputandum.
> Motorcycles.News reports a retail price of €286.08 (US$340) for the chain alone

Expensive, but I'd replace the chain on my bike with this to not have to do it again. It's a bit over double the price I already pay for a chain on my bike.
I'm even further from getting it now. 240cm being a multiple of 12, it can be divided by 2,3,4,6 without precision loss.
Also this logic around inches only works if you happen to need to divide 1 inch. It doesn't work anymore if you need to divide 1.1 inch.
It actually work exactly the same in the metric system if you need to divide 1.2cm

Engineering is math. You start from your constraints, and finish with an acceptable level of imprecision based on your requirements, your tools and your materials. Whatever you do it's never precision work, exactitude only exists on paper.
> It's what used to be called "retirement" back when businesses were not run by 20-year-olds who plan to live forever.

Isn't this also a bit ageist
Did anyone notice how little green space Siena has? The Houston interchange appears to have 100x the amount of green space as the entire city of Siena! Quite ironic!

How was a city allowed to develop with almost no green space?
Definitely not what I saw - strange that it would be different for different users. Doesn’t seem to be something that would be personalised.
Algorithm could quash Twitter abuse of women
From a logical perspective, should one conclude from this that effort invested into the humanities is a waste of time? If not, what meaning should one take from it (and, how might we confirm whether that meaning is reasonably optimal from a "social engineering" perspective)?

The explicit mechanics of how society makes optimized decisions on public policy and spending seems like an area that needs improvement. Specific areas of what I refer to are global climate change, rules on wearing masks during pandemics, taxation, etc - the manner in which we currently approach such questions seems extremely sub-optimal to me, to the degree that I sometimes wonder if some approaches may be in part designed to be confusing and dysfunctional.
I've also never heard this claim before despite quite a bit of work on nuclear weapons policy. I've asked a question about it on /r/AskHistorians to get more clarification: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ik1v9q/a_rec...
My favorite unusual map is probably AuthaGraph:

> This rectangular world map called AuthaGraph World Map is made by equally dividing a spherical surface into 96 triangles, transferring it to a tetrahedron while maintaining areas proportions and unfolding it to be a rectangle.

> The world map can be tiled in any directions without visible seams. From this map-tiling, a new world map with triangular, rectangular or parallelogram’s outline can be framed out with various regions at its center.

http://www.authagraph.com/projects/description/%e3%80%90%e4%...

> It shows there are no "four corners of the earth" by arranging several world maps without visible seams around a world map with color. You can see Antarctica at the right bottom is close to not only South America but also Africa and Australia.

http://www.authagraph.com/products/map/product-article-01/?l...
The moon maps reminded me of porkchop plots, which are maps of a sort:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porkchop_plot
The whole iOS app ecosystem seems to be drifting lately to random social, shopping and games peddling IAPs rather than being anything actually useful. All the rest brings no value to Apple and just liabilities.

And so their review "guidelines" (how smart of the apple to rename terms of use that apple can change for any company to nonsense) are all slanted to that. All their marketing lingo about fairness is all just plain bull shit.
Rethink plastic: The price is right.. or is it? [pdf]
Read it but it left me curious how it may affect intersex people like XXY and found a better article [0]. So tldr, apparently number of X chromosomes affects cytokine production. "The lower secretion of inflammatory cytokines in women may protect them from an uncontrolled and potentially life-threatening immune response in cases of severe aggression such as sepsis, trauma or extensive burns throughout life."

[0]: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2019.0105...
How/where does one contribute? Is there a guide specifically for this (phone/pinephone development). I couldn't quite figure it out from the mobian repo ):
Well, I suppose I'd have to see the growth rate of how much that 30% cut adds to their bottom line to decide that. But even if it were huge, probably the actual iPhones still make way more money.
Good to know! I'll check it out! I just started diving into electronics a couple weeks ago, so still learning what tools are out there.
MIT wireless system can monitor what care facility residents are doing
localization problem? i believe that is an invented problem. why would anyone write code in his/her native language?
I heard the same suicide tale about The Stack when I lived in Phoenix. I wonder if this is a common urban legend?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stack
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Also was suspended because my phone went dead during 2FA. Wrote several times. They never responded. I opened a new account, no problem, but I can't remember all the people I followed and it would be nice to get my followers back. I prepared a letter to their European corporate hdqrtrs.in Dublin, but there's no mail service from where I am during the pandemic. Been looking at that envelope for three months now...
reads out more naturally

set the delimiter to comma
split 1,2,3,4,5

or

split 1,2,3,4,5 by comma
Internal metrics, yes. If another reviewer finds an issue in an app that you reviewed, then you get your score docked, so reviewers have an incentive to whine about everything, since there's no penalty for bringing up issues that aren't actually issues and wasting everyone's time.
The Case for Video Off
For answering the question "Am I missing my SLA because of slow DB queries on a specific http endpoint?" you might want to look at the trace analysis features offered by Lightstep in addition to or instead of Honeycomb. Lightstep can classify your trace population to find span data disproportionately associated with high latency. It's pretty slick.
Well, in all fairness, s/he did say:

> I prefer to have a car.

> I like being able to use a telescope and not hear cars.

So I am not sure s/he cares much about the commons. :D
I mean is it really that weird that after Apple reviewed the app they came to the conclusion that "while neat we don't think the sensors handle this use-case well enough and we don't want to support/guarantee that all/future models will even be able to take measurements like this."

I'm really not surprised that Apple is wary of an app that with the current sensors can at absolute best guess when you're touching your face. Because if/when it doesn't really work it just makes the watch look bad.
Windows Computers Were Targets of 83% of All Malware Attacks in Q1 2020
Apple takes 30% of all sales and yet can't even hire skilled quality assurance workers to run the approval process for their App Store?

There needs to be real competition in the mobile app distribution space because this is absurd.
In a better version of the article[0], it’s mentioned how they’ve significantly increased the efficiency - by adding Carbon 14 to lab-grown diamonds. Carbon 14 is both radioactive and a semiconductor, meaning more of the beta particles are changed into electricity.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24333019
I guess it depends on what you're looking for. I've seen people working on customizing SWAY to be a super simple launcher. With a little effort you could probably create a simple menu launcher for that. You can run anything* that runs linux & arm so I'm sure something could be done without much code.
There's a possibility Apple is implementing this functionality themselves.
> Does anyone know if you can heavily customize the user interface of the PinePhone

Absolutely. Some guy even made his own cool and geeky interface: https://sr.ht/~mil/Sxmo/
How accurate was your app?
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 732G: 730G Gets a Speed Bump
Is it really only political? Can I buy a working nuclear battery outside the US/EU?
Algorithm aims to alert consumers before they use illicit online pharmacies
The search for the perfect setup script
which book is this? and would you recommend?
I've had the idea for a while to start a club to read through open source projects, compile them, extend them, note architectures and design decisions, look at documentation and CI/testing organization, etc.

Do something like one project per month with one topic among the above per week. Haven't found the right group of folks to experiment on with this yet.

Edit: Send me an email if you'd like and I'll think about hosting this virtually.
What is so messed up about all this system is that you don't have any certainty your app will pass the reviewing process.

If you hit a wall with the reviewing process all your iOS/WatchOS code now becomes worthless. It doesn't matter how much dev time you're invested into the project.
It’s all become too much. I’m deprecating Apple support at my company. Current company-owned Apple devices may continue to be used, and any BYOD is fine if it doesn’t run an Oracle DB instance, but we will no longer pay for repairs to Apple devices and we will not pay to replace them with Apple devices. We have about $45k original MSRP of Apple equipment, so it’s not a big deal, except to us. The trend of Apple hardware and software problems soaking up an increasing amount of time would reach the ultimate limit of complete 24/7 time consumption by the year 2031, if the current trend were allowed to continue.

We are in the robotic manufacturing sector, and also we have a lumber mill for some reason.
Btrfs has lost all the data on my harddrives twice. ZFS has never lost any of my data. That is why.
That's the reality distortion spells kicking in right there by Apple's marketing wizards.
If the US backs down from the treaties forbidding increasing its nuclear weapon arsenal, and decides to in fact increase it, how big of a problem will it be to effectively build the new nukes?
In theory it sounds good. But it seems mighty odd that when somebody does original research like that, it's not allowed to be in Wikipedia, because they don't allow original research, but it's fine for the same person to publish it on a blog somewhere and refer to that blog post in Wikipedia.
To be fair, maintaining straight and level flight— i.e., not falling out of the sky— is the easiest part of flying an airplane. Computers have been good at that for a while; in fact, that’s how airline flights are controlled these days during basically all of cruise flight (by autopilot).

Takeoff and landing are the tricky parts.

(I say this as someone who’s firmly on the skeptical side of the spectrum regarding the near-term prospects for fully autonomous vehicle control.)
My bet is actually on Jevons Paradox.
You realize when standard oil was ruled a monopoly and trust busted, it only had 19% of the US oil market share, right?
Well there’s an airplane manufacturer in Toulouse, France, named Airbus...
Red Hat Has Been Working on “Stalld” as a Thread Stall Detector and Booster
Association Rule Mining
What a language! How could "guidelines" ever be "violated"? Rules? Injunctions? Yes. Guidelines? No

It's a commonly used expression, there's nothing wrong or strange about it. An example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24175233
This should be the canonical example given in discussions about the “principle of least surprise.”
No, 240 new pence has exactly the same number of factors as 240 old pence. You're aware that you're not required to always use a whole number of pounds, right? Because you seem a tad confused.

You liked the egg example until I pointed out how daft it was. Ah, the fickleness of youth!
My Apple Magic Mouse 2 doesn't have a discoverable right click button.
Source(s):

Saw this in a salvia trip once

Edit: Why the downvotes? This was clearly supposed to be a joke.
Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile Goes Alpha
Basic Model Validation in Machine Learning
Different Types of Machine Learning Algorithms
This goes against prevailing SV ideology, but man, it's just a job. Don't ruin your health or wellbeing for a company that would fire you in a heartbeat if it made economic or political sense.

Commit to your family, your friends, your hobbies, and charity. Don't commit so hard to a job, because ultimately it's a business transaction. Companies _will_ take advantage of your good will if you let them. Don't give them that opportunity. You owe them nothing beyond what you agreed to in your employment contract.
The lowest quality of comments and the highest quality comment. Take my upvote now and I might come back when I earn downvote.
Advantages and Disadvantages of different types of machine learning algorithms
App Review is both a burden and a hugely valuable service for App developers.
Most people have some choice about where they live - noise should be a factor when deciding where to live. In a place as busy as NYC, I would think a person choosing to live there places "quietness" low on the list of priorities.
Then Apple should pay their reviewers enough that they're able to do their job without having to jump ship to another employer. It seems like Apple doesn't care enough to do so, though.

It's too bad that there isn't real competition on iOS app distribution.
That crossed my mind, but seems like a bad (and anti-competitive) reason to reject the app by itself
> And "privacy"- meanwhile their App store is full of spyware.

If Apple tightly controls their store, Apple bad.

If Apple doesn't tightly control their store, Apple bad.

The unavoidable consequence of being really big - a large number of people will be unhappy with your decisions no matter what you do.