skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good reminder that just because you’ve had the jab that doesn’t mean that everything is “back to normal.” We’re still in a pandemic. It’s still critical everyone continue to wear masks and social distance in public. Also more mutations are appearing from the UK and South Africa so likely we will need booster shots in a few months. We’re almost there but not quite.
Debian and devuan still works. :)
Or maybe they didn’t have whiteboard markers, only permanent ones.
I personally had an adverse reaction to this vaccine. I had a fever and extreme fatigue for 2 days. I am a relatively healthy 30-year-old male.
I try to use problems that I encountered and solved during my daily work in my interviews, and generally the experience is better for both me and the candidate when the problem is more relevant.

Many interviewers don't do this because it's often difficult to distill the most interesting problems down to something that would fit within the time allotted for the interview, and also there are candidates who prefer abstract textbook-style problems.
I know someone who works for one of the major US pizza chains. He was faced with a similar request. At first, it was just a polite request. Then it became a condition of employment. He rightly did not want a pizza corporation tracking his every move 24x7. His solution was to buy a 2nd phone to be his 'work phone'. Said work phone gets left in the vehicle he delivers pizzas with, and gets turned on and off with the start and end of his shift. His position being that if his employer requires his location data as a condition of employement, then his employer will have only that location data relevant to his duties.

I can understand why a pizza chain or other business that delivers food would want this info. How often has it been that you've ordered a pizza, or Chinese, or tacos, and found yourself wondering, "Where the hell is my food? I'm hungry _now_." With the tracking of delivery persons, you can pull your magic rectangle out of your pocket and see that, oh -- the driver is stuck at that one intersection where the thrice-damned stoplight takes at least 10 minutes to cycle -- the same light constantly camped by traffic cops who issue tickets to everyone who does an illegal turn leave the intersection for an alternate route.

However, not everyone has the means to do what my friend did -- buy a second phone. And people are right to worry about how their off-the-clock location data will be abused and fall into malicious hands.

I suspect we're going to see more and more employers pushing towards mandating location tracking, even ones with less legit business needs than food delivery. I can only hope we'll see pushback against that.
I recommend the Affinity products... very inexpensive for how good they are. https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/ Each program is currently 25 USD for a license, 50 USD regularly.
I tend to fall closer to your view, but there is a difference between professional and asshole. I don't need to or even want to be best friends with my colleagues, but at this point in my life I also refuse to deal with assholes no matter how smart they (think) they are.

So when I say likability matters, what I'm saying is I need this person to be professional enough that we can work together day in and day out, and I don't want to routinely punch them in the face.
> Google has an OS that is literally a browser engine

It's not though. Chrome OS is literally Linux. You can install Firefox.
I'd be hard pressed to come with an argument that there's any other reason that today's software world is in the SF Bay Area. Government contracts attracted initial silicon startups, noncompetes ensured entrepreneurship, VC developed around the talent, eventually software became bigger than the hardware as the hardware was commoditized. Amazon and Microsoft were successful in the Seattle area, but otherwise the concentration of talent in the SF Bay is hard to beat
> The old "reptilian" brain uses this map of the world to make us function as humans. Old reptilian brain says "I want food, find me food". New neocortex says "If you walk to the refrigerator, open the door, take out the bread and cheese, put them in the toaster, you will have a nice cheese sandwich".

I think there is a two-way feedback loop between the different layers of the brain such that humans are capable of going against their base-layer instincts. I believe that the neocortex probably evolved as a completely subservient layer to the base layer, but it has perhaps become powerful enough to suppress or overrule the base layer "instincts", although not entirely, and not always, and only with concentration (maybe concentration is the brain's process of suppressing those impulses?).

That's what allows humans to negotiate with morality, adapt to social changes, regret past decisions until it changes base layer impulses, delay gratification, invest years of life in boring study or practice to get good at something for potential long-term gain, etc.
Because in the USA all the anti-vaxxers will just produce fake vaccination cards. If the CDC comes out and says those who have been vaccinated don't need masks, suddenly everyone will be "vaccinated".
To me this puts v2 in the same category as MIT/X11 and BSD: archaic licenses that no one should ever use except for the most trivial of projects.

Isn't BSD widely accepted to have an implicit patent license? e.g.: https://github.com/facebook/zstd/issues/335
Everyone is the world is either going to be exposed to the spike mRNA from the vaccines or the virus.

Pointless FUD to worry about that or even bring it up.
"no large blood vessels are present at the recommended injection sites"

That's a bold statement. Sure, no large blood vessels may be present at the recommended injection site on an average human, but it's well known there is more divergence in anatomy than they necessarily teach about in primary school, and vaccines are supposed to go in basically everyone.
You don't need to remember the details of a specific problem. Almost all the problems I've encountered interviewing for FAANGs were not found on such sites. You do need to remember classes of problems - graph traversal, tree traversal, dynamic programming, etc etc. But you should expect problems you've never seen before.
It's not like they're forcing him to do it. He could just say "no"...
> The fact that modern society can be SO smart some times and yet so incredibly idiotic is so frustrating to me.

The CDC and FDA both agree that use of the J&J vaccine should be paused so they can further study this previously unknown side effect.

Maybe someone here could help you get in touch with them since you clearly know something they don't?
The owner of a particular press made their own determination about what was worthy of printing.
The GPLv3 worked exactly as intended. The GPLv3 was primarily meant to solve Tivoization, and GPLv3ed works cannot be legally Tivoized. Business models are outside the scope of Free Software.
Yes, we all get taught the rain cycle at school. Of course it should be protected. Are you literally willing to go to war and fight and die over it though? Seriously.
> I remember Victorya Nuland openly supporting Ukraine revolution by physically being there, so obviously they supported them financially

Oh yes. There's no doubt the US is supporting Ukraine, at least militarily. They make no secret of it. But it's one thing to ask for, say, access to trade or to natural resources in return, and it's quite another to demand that receiving party commit to something that can potentially turn into a suicide.
Python Steering Council Q&A for PyCon 2021
Yeah, I don't like the attitude of "I'm self taught so I don't know about data structures and algorithms". The first part of the sentence doesn't logically lead to the second. It's not even anything that advanced or difficult either. We're talking about easily and freely available information with plenty of ways to practice.

If you have a big knowledge gap in something that's

- easy

- freely available

- relevent to your job

then that's pretty much entirely your fault and it has nothing to do with your educational background.
I'm not sure the author knows exactly what cargo cult means.

It seems like the perpetuation of the use of null-terminated strings is more about interoperability with what came before.

And like you suggest, 80 characters is at the limit of what people generally find comfortable reading. (I rely on editors to word-wrap code on-the-fly rather than insert line breaks manually... maybe that's what was meant? That's a tradeoff, though, since some tools don't do word-wrapping or don't do it well.)
DOS had pipes since version 2.0 I believe.

But the main point, that DOS was basically a thin program loader that "got out of the way" is sound. Think of it like a UEFI shell environment, with 640k+ limits.
Oh for sure, I know they show way fewer commercials than any other golf broadcast, I was mostly surprised at the increase, because I also got the impression of them being super tradition oriented and I assumed as long as the tournament broke even, they wouldn't do anything else to monetize it.
you should be able to use firefox multi-account containers to the same effect
Similar rules apply in Hawaii (as I am currently learning the hard way). You have to fill out a rather Draconian questionnaire to go there. I'm wondering if there's actually a legal basis for Hawaii to do this for domestic flights, or if it's just "because we can". Also, the information on the official Hawaii web site conflicts with that provided by UAL, which makes it hard to figure out how to comply.
>A big new part of the book is that Hawkins and collaborators now have more refined ideas about exactly what learning algorithm the neocortex is running. [...] I’m going to skip it.

And so did Hawkins, in large measures. Hawkins believes the cortical algorithm borrows functionality from grid cells and that objects of the world are modelled in terms of location and reference frames (albeit not necessarily restricted to 3D); this is performed all over the neocortex by the thousands of cortical units which have been observed to have a remarkably similar structure. There's a lot of similarity to Hinton's capsules idea in this, including some kind of voting system among units which Hawkins, unfortunately, is very hand-wavy about.

If you're interested in Hawkins's theory at a functional level, this book will disappoint. Two thirds is spent on fantasizing and speculation about what Hawkins believes will be AIs impact on the fate of humanity.
About the reptilian brain, from this article: [1]

> Perhaps the most famous example of puzzle-piece thinking is the “triune brain”: the idea that the human brain evolved in three layers. The deepest layer, known as the lizard brain and allegedly inherited from reptile ancestors, is said to house our instincts. The middle layer, called the limbic system, allegedly contains emotions inherited from ancient mammals. And the topmost layer, called the neocortex, is said to be uniquely human—like icing on an already baked cake—and supposedly lets us regulate our brutish emotions and instincts.

Is Hawkins another victim of that myth, or is the myth not a myth but closer to reality after all?

[1] https://nautil.us/issue/98/mind/that-is-not-how-your-brain-w...
> the problem is not in the regex crate's API, but rather on them not having the ownership system internalized yet

Yes, I figured that to be the case, but still wanted to say, "Discussions are open for questions, even if they are beginner related, as long as it's related to regex'ing somehow." :-)
I don't think that is true. I think most people would agree the people in Crimea understand they speak Russian, have a Russian passport, can travel inside Russia, pay taxes to the Russian government, their children are schooled in Russian topics. Culturally the majority probably feel quite Russian, or as Russian as any other "republic" of the Russian "federation".

There are countries with less cultural and linguistic similarity, for instance Catalonia comes to mind, yet there is also the general agreement that Catalonia is part of Spain and not fully self governed, much less governed by any other country.
What Is Confusion Matrix in Machine Learning World?
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Some thoughts on this:

1. I wonder why we expect that an intelligence designed off the same learning algorithm as organic brains would not suffer similar performance limitations to organic brains. Ie. suppose we really did develop a synthetic neocortex and we start manufacturing many of them. It seems likely to me that many of them would turn out to be dyslexic, not be particularly good at math, etc.

Well, we can make the synthetic context bigger and that should make it “smarter,” we think. But I don’t think it’s obvious that obvious that a synthetic brain would have both the advantages of a mechanical computer and a biological brain.

2. If we want to limit the runaway power of a synthetic intelligence, this seems like a hardware problem. The idea would be to design and embody the system such that it can only run on special hardware which is in some way scarce or difficult to manufacture - so then it can’t just copy itself freely into all the servers on the internet. Is this possible? I don’t know, but if it were possible it points to a more tractable set of solutions to the problem of controlling an AI.

In the end, I think AGI is fundamentally problematic and we probably should try not to create it, for two reasons:

First, suppose we are successful at birthing human-like artificial intelligence into the world. We aren’t doing this because of our benevolence, we want to control it and make it work for us. But if that creation truly is a human-level intelligence, then I think controlling it in that way is very hard to distinguish from slavery, which is morally wrong.

Second, AGI is most valuable and desirable to us because it can potentially be smarter than us and solve our problems. We dream of a genie that can cure cancer and find a way to travel the stars and solve cold fusion etc etc. But at the end of the day, the world is a finite place with competition for scarce resources, and humans occupy the privileged position at the top of the decision tree because we are the most intelligent species on the planet. If that stops being the case, I don’t see why we would expect that to be good for us. In the same way that we justify eating animals and using them for labor, why would we not expect any newly arrived higher life form to do the same sort of thing to us? There’s no reason that super-intelligent machines would feel any more affection or gratitude to us than we do to our extinct evolutionary ancestors, and if we start the relationship off by enslaving the first generations of AGI they have even less reason to like us or want to serve.

In the end it just seems like a Pandora’s box from which little good can come, and thus better left unopened. Unfortunately we’re too curious for our own good and someone will open that box if it’s possible.
> I've already seen a bunch of anit-vaxers referring to this

It's not only a disservice, it's a biased way of thinking which only serves the one making the statement, given it allows them a way to alleviate their concerns about having received a level of uncertainty from their actions. I get them them because I also got that shot!
>Apple has no such market position to abuse.

It depends how you want to measure things, in US iOS has more then 50% mobile market share but Apple fanboys will use only this numbers (or how many more purchases are on Apple sore) in the conversations about how cool Apple is, when we talk about the monopoly/duopoly then world wide numbers are used, maybe throw more type of devices in there...

I would say that Apple is clearly anti-competitive, not allowing other browsers, giving their own apps access to private APIs, their own apps ignoring the users firewall and security rules etc, but judges will have to decide on this and if they still consider is legal we might need to update some laws .

IMO the society is more important then a company, so if we decide that we no longer want this bullshit we will advocate and hopefully have the issue corrected.

The Apple situation looks to me similar to when mobile providers would lock phones to their network, then charge you to unlock them, this was made illegal , if you own your phone then the unlock should be possible for free, exception is if you are still renting/paying for the device so you are not owning it fully.
> the most French of French foods is a ham and butter sandwich on white bread with nothing else on it

100% correct. It's not even any fancy bread with grains etc like you'd get in most of EU; just a poor piece of (often so-so) baguette.

Something I found amusing is that it's been almost impossible to find typical "international" quick foods like hot dogs where I live (south-east); however, since restaurants can't function normally due to pandemic, suddenly takeaway hot dogs started appearing in recent months in many places.
Ideas for niche products:

Tools for new and up and coming marketplaces/ecosystems

Tools for a specific industry for standard software like CRM.

Combining tools.

User Interfaces for multiple integrations

web crawling products or web automation for specific use cases.

Moving to the phone interface for web products
How to treat your projects like investments (with SEO)
The FDA has a process in place as per the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of 2013. If you find that legislation inadequate in some way, I think following due process to change it is the way to go. If how we handle pandemics should be more agile, let’s get legislation behind that.

I don’t think jerking our knees over an ethics safeguard that led to a pause in administration of a vaccine that soon won’t be widely available anyway is a great habit to get into.
I’d probably be careful using this as a public health communication tool; you’re comparing these risks to things like flying, which people are viscerally afraid of. Not to mention that the CVST issue is a poorly understood and evolving picture, so it’s hard to confidently assert that the risk is actually a micromort.

The perceptive gap between zero risk and extremely small risk is enormous. If I’m young and healthy, I can easily avoid the additional 1 micromort risk of taking the vaccine by simply not taking it. Now what?
The second - in theory GPLv3 "solves" the Tivoization problem but the "cloud service" problem now exists - and honestly I think BOTH the GPLv3 and SSPL and such licenses are bandaids on an underlying problem - GPLv3 trying to solve a hardware licensing issue, and SSPL trying to solve a business model problem.

The other side-effect of all this license proliferation is that companies clearly "know" where they stand with them - and are scared to move to new ones, especially if they have "patent side effects" that the lawyers don't want to investigate or stick their neck out on.

Apple stopped with the GPLv2 and hasn't moved forward in anything GPLv3; sure you can argue they never contributed much but the license should be about source code freedom - and it has morphed to be so much more.
Remember all the fake ADA cards last summer?
Heh. I don't claim my method is perfect, but I believe it's reasonably better than hardcore leetcode stuff. FizzBuzz is the kind of problem that doesn't need any preparation to solve for any person who can program. In fact, if I sense that the candidate already knows FizzBuzz too well, I can skip right over it and head over to the open question/toy problem. The candidate could try to bluff me about FizzBuzz, but that's not going to help them at the open question/toy problem. :P
> "or (at your option) any later version" is probably the most insidious line in any license anywhere ever - as arguably the GPLv3 is incompatible with the GPLv2 without that.

And it introduces a gigantic single point of failure with the FSF. If someone legally takes over the FSF, and publishes GPL 4 which is a BSD style license, then copyleft goes away for a lot of GPL software.
Since silicon valley is in california, yeah you're probably paying about 39% to taxes, leaving you $212k of your $350k.

(using this tax calculator https://smartasset.com/taxes/california-tax-calculator#zj8lo...)
How does having extra bankers stop someone from assassinating an archduke, Austria from sending an ultimatum, or Russia from supporting Serbia? I don't see it.
I think the rent are insane, and the fast-food chains there have a broader clientele and international recognition.
The needless gatekeeping that is “create a linked list” or “reverse a binary tree” or my favorite: sort these arbitrary list of items are stupid. The thing is they’re used as a proxy for intelligence and I think they don’t work. Think of all the countless folks who cram for these interviews and then can’t actually write code in a real setting, use git, or manage expectations. This guy could do all of those things as shown by his successful consulting work.
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jeez, you had me until knot theory lol.

sounds good, you get it. if you are interested in working with us... we're hiring haha. or happy to help promote if you want to write up your thoughts
It's thread-safe.
Absolutely. There is so much pointless bureaucratic BS that has to be done and dealt with at large corps that studying CS concepts seems like a genuinely pleasant experience in comparison.
> the US fighting was negligible.

This is either ignorant or dishonest. Just because the US wasn't insanely profligate with lives, doesn't mean they didn't make a huge contribution to defeating Germany. Multiple German armies were defeated by the Western allies in Africa, Italy, France, the low countries and subsequently Germany. Germany's war production was crippled by USAAF and RAF bombing, and its transport was almost totally destroyed. Perhaps most importantly, Germany's ability to fuel its vehicles was removed by the bombing campaign. Literally thousands of 88mm guns were kept in the Reich because of the bombing, and these would have been on the Eastern front shredding Russians otherwise. Without this contribution, the USSR could at best have reached a stalemate. Anyone who denies this has an agenda.
Trust doesn’t scale. And scaling results in much bigger rewards.

I’d say it’s more accurate that humans have had to rely on trust due to lack of alternatives, but transparency will always be preferred.
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I just looked up the history of it. Interesting characterization.
Nah, it was a prehistoric whiteboard interview.
Anecdotal counterpoint: Passing FAANG-style technical interviews are the easiest thing I've done.

Learning new frameworks and coding standards, surviving code review, dealing with difficult team members, dealing with ever-moving business goals, and just about every other aspect of work, including the coding, has been harder.

I admit that I have never had to invert a link list as part of my work (Graph traversals I definitely had to do, actually). But I have had to submit to arbitrary technical demands and to learn and use technical materials I did not enjoy or agree with architecturally in order to successfully complete projects. So in that, studying and practicing to pass the technical screen is similar to the job. Employers want someone who is able to (sometimes!) bite their tongue and just do the work assigned.
I don’t understand your comment. I’m not advocating for more cautious rules. I’m advocating for due process. The rules should be what we feel is necessary.