skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How fast are you going to come up with sorting one or two lists if you don’t already know this is an option?

Why would I not know this is an option? The word "sorting" appears in every single study guide I've seen. It's used as part of a solution in a large number of practice problems. I'm legitimately curious about what study materials you've used that leaves you uncomfortable with sorting.

EDIT: I might've misunderstood your question. When Amazon asked me this interview question, I'd never seen it before and didn't know beforehand what to do to solve it. I thought to try sorting a list within the first minute of working on it, because that's what you do with Leetcode style problems. I had prepared before the interview, so "let's try sorting" was not a stroke of brilliance it was a basic attempt to use a common tool.
I would say that opt in is pretty Ok in terms of privacy of customers protection.
I love working from home, especially not missing the commute. The only times I've thought 'damn I wish we could be in an office right now' is when:

- Refining stories, it's a bit easier to read peoples body language. Not everyone is super outspoken which is required when you're in a videocall.

- Retrospectives, also a bit harder to do online - though the tools are genuinely improving.

- Working together on architectural issues. Me and a colleague were using draw.io to think up a design and it just wasn't as easy as standing in front of a whiteboard together. I really miss that.
Autofill is a hot mess. If you have more than one address, and also occasionally fill up info for your partner, or with your work phone, things can really escalate. I think my Chrome has 20 different combinations of 2 names, 2 addresses, 2 phone numbers.

And auto-fill always insists to fill out fields that have already been filled in - why can´t it just allow completion of a single form field, instead of putting in random information in all other fields. Before auto-fill, the fill-in suggestions for a single field actually used to be useful: start typing three letters and select the auto-suggested value.

Now, every time I fill out a form I use the autofill suggestions as a way to remember the information that needs to be filled in. But I have to watch out like a hawk to not actually let it "fill" that exact phone number I`m typing in, otherwise it'll fuck up the whole form and force me to start over.
reading parsing finally understanding the torturous titles grammar
The article does seem to agree, and it's wrong just like the BBC article.

Here's an old article from the time of the Higgs Boson discovery that had a great explanation:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/five-sigma...

> Chances are, you heard this month about the discovery of a tiny fundamental physics particle that may be the long-sought Higgs boson. The phrase five-sigma was tossed about by scientists to describe the strength of the discovery. So, what does five-sigma mean?

> In short, five-sigma corresponds to a p-value, or probability, of 3x10-7, or about 1 in 3.5 million. This is not the probability that the Higgs boson does or doesn't exist; rather, it is the probability that if the particle does not exist, the data that CERN scientists collected in Geneva, Switzerland, would be at least as extreme as what they observed. "The reason that it's so annoying is that people want to hear declarative statements, like 'The probability that there's a Higgs is 99.9 percent,' but the real statement has an 'if' in there. There's a conditional. There's no way to remove the conditional," says Kyle Cranmer, a physicist at New York University and member of the ATLAS team, one of the two groups that announced the new particle results in Geneva on July 4.
I just have autofill disabled. To fill in the password, I need to actually click some buttons.
Almost nothing in this article is a "gotcha". It simply describes the features Go has, such as a formatter, bitwise operators, or things that Go does differently/better compared to other languages, such as strings can't be nil, break is the default in switch cases, etc.

> IMO, Java, even with a longer standard, is a safer and more sane language and ecosystem to use.

There's an entire book titled "Java Puzzlers".
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Well, it literally is a conspiracy theory. Whether it's a true or false conspiracy theory is what's being discussed.
I’m in the same boat. I’ve never directly applied to the 3 jobs (including a FAANG) that I’ve taken in Silicon Valley. One found me on angel list and the others LinkedIn or direct email. Similar to you, the places I did apply to would never respond, even with referrals in some cases.
That is something that would be of interest to those working with splitting audio into 'stems', drums, bass, voice, music. Algorithm DJay can do a version of that 'on the fly'. Serato Studio is a kind of remix 'on the fly', but there are many others. Both have automix settings that work very well, especially if you line up similarly grouped tracks.
Maybe you can make use of its userContent.css support (http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.php?title=UserContent.css). I use it to force word wrap on pre blocks.
Ask HN: What's the best FRP library you worked with?
I have been using RxJS for nearly 3 years now and have a definite love/hate relationship towards it. Most of the time it feels like we're using it, because there's really nothing better out there for JavaScript with that level of popularity and maturity. The definite challenges include complexity and testability.

I've been wondering what other people use in different languages and what are the innovations and better ways to apply this programming paradigm.
Maybe because it misleads people into an inaccurate anthropomorphic impression of what these cute little nippers are up to, undermining this-is-serious science. See also: Sea Monkeys.
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Its surprising that a 3sigma results is promoted in such a way. It is not psychology.. in Physics we usually expect a 5sigma.
Right, in that case I completely agree with you.
Your own time, like lunch break?
And don't block VPNs either. At least not mine. Not sure where GP got this information.
If you disobey the CCP, you won't stay around for long. Also they have ironclad grip on the press, so it's no surprise that they are reporting zero cases. Not to put a tinfoil hat on, but it's not exactly like the Soviet Union, and China in the past, haven't been known for prettyfing their news.
Hmm...the EU has exported 50% of its vaccine production.

The UK: 0%

The US: 0% until a few days ago.
AstraZeneca may have included outdated information from trial
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> I recently had the choice between a macbook pro and a dell xps

Which XPS? My XPS 13 9300 has just 2 USB-C ports and a micro-SD slot (I don't mind carrying a small USB-C to everything adapter TBH, you can even have ethernet and VGA with that)
> On a side note, I see plenty of developers click the "Remind Me Later" button over and over and over on the update dialog for their dev tools (and even OS).

It's not like the developers of some OS-es didn't work hard for users to have this attitude. Nowadays you better wait at least a few days before you give in and agree to update your system, it's just a sane approach to risk control.
Women have a stronger immune system, which tends to lead to better resilience against dying from infections, but also greater susceptibility to autoimmune disease. Which long covid might well be.
She did NOT say her statements were not meant to be believed. That is this journalist's own sensational interpretation of the legal filing. That is all. Very important to distinguish headlines from literal quotes. You'll notice in the article that Powell is never directly quoted.

DVS systems were proven to be highly erroneous in Antirim County, Michigan, where machines were observed to have a 68% error rate: https://www.deepcapture.com/2020/12/antrim-county-computer-f...

Besides this fact, DVS systems are socially hackable, and highly vulnerable via the system's adjudication process that gives precinct IT admins and volunteers broad, unilateral powers over determining the intent of huge batches of votes (without bipartisan observers) with an overly simplistic drag and drop mechanism. Nevermind that their FTP server also used SolarWinds.

DVS deserves every bit of criticism levied by Powell and more.

Voting machines should all be banned. Especially closed source, corporate controlled voting machines. And DVS should go bankrupt.
Too many companies don't realize that interviewing is not just about filling a position: it's also marketing and PR, and you are representing your company to the public. And the thing about marketing and PR, if it's not well managed then you can seriously damage your company's reputation, no matter how well you execute on everything else. Of course Google or Amazon are too big to care, but if you're a small company doing basic shit like turning up for an interview or informing later-stage candidates of rejections rather than ghosting them is kind of important.
Clean and easy API configuration with Sylius
Have a look at Miro. Obviously not as good as in person but it’s very useful.
Were I live, it is three weeks.

I find that hard to believe as the minimum interval that's approved by European and German regulators is 4 weeks for AZ. The recommended interval in Germany is 12 weeks. Maybe you are thinking of Biontech, where 3 weeks is the minimum approved interval.

https://www.rki.de/SharedDocs/FAQ/COVID-Impfen/gesamt.html
Not only is it a real thing, at some workplaces it's the main event.
You soundly bested that straw-man.
That doesn't work in WebAssembly, so you will get exactly the same corruption as in MS-DOS days.
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For now, I pay :)
If the project works, I will see how to monetize.

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> ..or turned into an Xbox thing.

That's exactly what they'll be doing. 'Xbox' is now MSs umbrella term for all their gaming stuff, regardless of platform.
I don't know what I'm looking at but this looks like the solution to a front-end interview question.
I would guess there are many more than thousands of such experiments that have been run, testing all the various permutations of dozens (or more) of different beyond Standard Model physical theories.
I don't need anyone to tell me which mechanical part broke because I already know that. It doesn't change that I still need the licensed computer to do a simple mechanical part swap because there are electronics embedded into the mechanical part.
A trail around Mt St Helens (Trail of Two Forests, https://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/trail-of-two-forests) has that kind of thing. There is a short tunnel you can crawl through - two trees were laying 90 degrees to each other overlapping when covered with lava. The entrance reminded me of a scene of a typical campy B horror movie (No! Don't go in that cave! The Monster is in there!) I wish I thought to scream to my wife when I crawled in (pretending the Monster got me) -- only thought of it later :-).
It might be NetApp.
Does the concept of antitrust even exist anymore? Or is this our future: new startups grow for a decade than get absorbed by one of ten monster corporations.
A house in the US that's still standing from the period 1870 to 1950 probably:

- is balloon-framed

- has zero insulation

- might have knob and tube wiring kicking around

- probably has a dirt basement

- will be an absolute bitch to bring up to modern building codes if you want to do anything to it.

- has coats and coats of lead paint

- has asbestos everywhere
Self-sufficient and sustainable city on Mars could house 1M humans
And I wish they wouldn't have, for the sake of scientific clarity.
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Well, my friends and I don't, so perhaps not.

I have a small server, and I can't see the point of paying for Nitro just to have animated custom emojis. Not worth the $10/month to me.
This is where people fundamentally misunderstand what hedge funds do. It's been nearly impossible to lose money as a long only. But hedge funds, which have massively underperformed as an industry have largely done so because the Fed has forced everyone to be maxi long risk assets. There is no alternative. And fundamentally, this isn't what hedge funds do.

I've often heard people say hedgies are just levered beta. Well, that's obviously not true as we've seen indices outperform. Some of the best long/short investors have been absolutely wrecked in the post 2008 QE environment (QEternity) because price discovery is meaningless. The Fed is in the driver's seat, and the managers who have killed it had one simple thesis: the Fed has your back, so BTFD. Front running the Fed has been the best and easiest strategy for over a decade now. And it will continue to be so until it isn't...
If you are just starting with ML a very good start IMO is "Deep learning with Python", by Chollet. The second edition is very recent.

It starts from the basics and takes you to some complex scenarios. It's focused primarily on Keras, which is a very to use library to start from.

The book covers a lot ML on images, so moving from there to generative art should be "easy" once you grasp the fundamentals.

I don't know however how feasible is to do ML on Macs, it might be a breeze or impossible, I genuinely have no idea :-)
If you want to understand Sidney Powell then listen to actual statements by Sidney Powell, not false clickbait headlines.
The issue is not the word "statistical". It's the inversion of P(data | hypothesis) into P(hypothesis | data). I updated my comment to clarify.
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The vaccines do not reduce spread that much, at least as far as we can tell.
Indeed, there have been 3sigma deviations before (e.g. the diphoton resonance) which attracted a lot of attention and turned out to be nothing.

I'd encourage people to read up on the Look-elsewhere Effect when you see something like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look-elsewhere_effect

I'm not saying this isn't potentially an interesting result, but 3sigma deviations when your parameter space is so large is actually not a big deal.
I find existing IRC communities/channels almost impossible to penetrate. The people have known each other for so long, that they are effectively a closed group.

And I'm saying this as a person who was a daily IRC user 20 years ago.
As a rebuttal: you chose either the workplace or home that is a 2 hour commute away.

You choose to buy $15 lunch instead of making something at home and taking it in.

Other people have different situations. My commute is ~30 minutes to a fun workplace with free & healthy food.

I do hope you keep your WFH, though :)
The difference is that the US, EU and UK are highly individualistic democracies, where governments are really weak at enforcing anything. It's no surprise that they suck at handling disease compared to societies with effective authoritarian governance.

Individuals who don't care exist everywhere, but in China government can force them to do the right thing. In the West it can't do that easily. I guess it's the price of individual freedoms.
My broker asks for 4-5 random letters of my password each time, making password managers unusable as well. Thinking about it now, how would you encrypt a password using this method? Create hashes of every combination?
You misread my numbers. We are already at the same numbers as germany, like most EU countries. Doubling it would take care of pretty much all 65+.
The right thing to do is keep controversial opinions to yourself at work, especially when you're in a position of authority or public facing work.
Because working for hours without stopping for even a second is the most effective way of working?
Which systems languages can't do this?
I encourage you to read up on "Doctoring the Tardis" and "The Manual", as well as "I wanna 1-2-1 with you".

These were productions from the artists behind the KLF to expose how formulaic chart hits were. So I would not be surprised if we see AI produce top 40 hits sometime in the future. However, I would be very surprised if AI could replace the vast majority of music that is out there.
As I said, I'm no fan of machine voting. But, to stay in context, I'm finding this really confusing. Can you explain the Venezuela thing? Is this actually legitimate and Powell has evidence of foreign interference through dominion? (You did say every bit..)
I think it's less about the data, but more about the consent regarding the usage of that data.
At least the call message is honest about its intent, so you know what you're consenting to. The Facebook button, however, doesn't state that it's there to track your interests to advertise to you more effectively.
Thanks - I think that does explain some of the potential area of confusion. However, I don't agree that the BBC's explanation differs from what the true meaning is according to this Scientific American article says.

The BBC article says:

> The measurement from LHCb is three-sigma - meaning there is roughly a one in 1,000 chance that the measurement is a statistical coincidence

My interpretation of this is "If there was no new physics, then there is a 1/1000 chance the same result could be measured by coincidence."

I understand why some people may interpret this as "There is a 1/1000 chance that there is no new physics" though.
This tweet is one of the most US-centric ones I've seen.
Yea scientists are up there in terms of the people with the worst ability to name things.

Right there with developers but our terrible naming conventions don't really make it to publications.
On the surface, your comment sounds like praise, but then it sounds like you're saying that this finding is non-significant? Basically this is the typical HN "why?" comment but with nicer words.

Hopefully one day people can accept that people will work on whatever they want and solve their own problems, and by doing that they unlock a lot of mysteries in the world that who knows, might solve cancer or make us better at renewable energy generation.

I hope the authors continue to pursue their interests, whatever it might be, so we learn more about our world from all angles.

Edit: looking into the matter more I'm not sure aetherspawn is even serious, am I replying to a sarcastic comment? As the profile page of aetherspawn links to "https://cuedo.com.au/" which has the tagline "Intelligent business solutions", it's hard to take their "please work on hard problems" comment serious with that in mind.
Account takeover fraud is up 378% since Covid-19 started
I’m no fan of his and ad hominem arguments don’t help anyone. Considering the lack of transparency across the whole vaccine programme, I think the fact he made the point several times without being called out (in a committee hearing designed to call out any BS) is quite pertinent.
> DVS systems were proven to be highly erroneous in Antirim County, Michigan

That report is trash, known to be inaccurate at the time it was published and was put together by someone who has made a series of (highly partisan) incorrect claims. It appears to have been made public by the courts purely to stop accusations of a coverup, not as any sort of endorsement. A fact-checking site has an analysis here -

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/dec/16/donald-tru...

tl;dr there was a lot of human error in that county, but no evidence that any large scale vote-switching happened, or that the machines miscounted.

> DVS deserves every bit of criticism levied by Powell and more.

Do they deserve the "criticism" that they were colluding with foreign powers and committing fraud, for which she had evidence? None of which has been forthcoming?
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>Wrote something 15 years ago? Just set the "Date Modified" to last week and Google will think it's been updated.

...which is awful! Try searching for historic information on a viral topic and the results are littered with incorrectly dated listings that may satisfy the search criteria but are from the wrong time span.
Slack's search is terrible....
Snap is that feeling you get when a train is braking and comes to a halt. The breaking force suddenly falls of, which is noticeable.
In general, snap shows how smoothly the acceleration occurs. This allows anything that flexes (like flesh) to slowly take-up the slack.

I've also heard this is important for self-driving convoys. You want the cars in the convoy to all accelerate and brake smoothly rather than jostle all the things inside them.
Maybe the non-engineers don't have much of a reference on what a better solution would look like.
The academic institution is in the business of teaching. Its job is not to try and predict who will end up being the highest earner. It is arguably to pick students who have demonstrated that they want to and are able to study. Social skills and other activities are almost completely irrelevant, unless they relate to the chosen field of study.
I guess the question is if crowd movement is differentiable.
The probability of winning the lottery if you're a cheater is high, but the probability of being a cheater if you win the lottery is low. More generally, the probability of A conditional on B is not the same as the probability of B conditional on A. Sometimes they're similar, but it depends on the pre-existing odds of A and B.
1M. Goes up in value to 1.5M in a few years. Boom. 500K gain on 100k. Not that uncommon.

Extremely uncommon, even if you buy during a lull and sell on a peak. (SV homeowner 34 years)
Or you can just have an LTS car where a new model only comes out every 20 years. Emissions standards kind of prevent such a car from existing though.
I save about 2 hours a day by not commuting. I wouldn't mind commuting a day or two during the week, but there's no way I'm going back to 5 days a week in the office.
For me, remote work was a huge gain. Until management pushed down hard and essentially tried to turn remote work into "it's just like working at the office!" I don't miss the office and I don't want to work remote with the mindset of working at the office.

With office mindset, I mean:

* Emphasis on video calls over audio-only calls

* Emphasis on synchronous communication (calls) over asynchronous (IM, Email)

* Loads of small yet highly interruptive meetings often (again, synchronous video communication)

* Management still largely sitting in its own ivory tower

* Still pushing a 9-5 mentality heavily favoring morning people

Sure, we got rid of commutes, open offices and the likes. But we can do so much better. It doesn't exactly instill confidence that we can move to fulltime WFH or even WFA (work from anywhere) structures. Additionally, all these things emphasize methods over results, which poor management tries to cover up as "but we are emphasizing results, see, you make your coworkers so much happier with video meetings!"

NB: I'm not trying to enforce my preferred way of working as the "one and only way". If you prefer video calls and meetings often, you do you. I'm just getting tired of the inverse happening, people like me being told "this is the one and only way, and if you don't agree you're not a 'team player'".