skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That just says that it is possible to approximate functions well with neural networks of "sufficient depth" and "suitable weights".

It doesn't tell you whether for a particular function f:

- a particular network structure is suitable,

- a trained network with particular weight value is suitable,

and it obviously doesn't answer the most useful question:

- given this network with this weights, what's the largest approximation error for this function f?

There are many approximation methods in approximation theory that can answer this last question.

Do we have these answers for neural networks?
The problem is that there's not a clearly viable alternative. Even if we're in a period where the market is going to underperform (likely), will it still underperform cash? Bond yields are so low that they're a questionable inflation hedge as well.
One way to avoid the headaches is to taper slowly off of caffeine over a few days instead of dropping it completely. Just lower the "dose" you intake each day
> "Right now I'm managing people in 8 cities spread across 5 time zones. What possible reason do I have to be in an office?"

taking a step back, this is such a broken way of running a department. How did we get here?
In cost? Running postfix.org mail sever on a VM must have a nonzero cost, with the additional need to maintain the underlying OS.
Curious what companies these are or where you are seeing this data. This has not been what I have seen, I actually think leetcode is becoming more and more common in interviews. Just adding some of my own anecdata.
Yes. Error checking but not error correction. Bit flips are detected, but they are usually handled with a panic on one of the sides.

In Ethernet, on the other hand, packet loss is routinely handled, and higher level protocols can work when physical media is less than perfect.
I do not think they are going away. They are a filter some like to use.

I personally use a dead simple 'leetcode' style program because I want to see they have the basics and can communicate them. I have had to filter more than a few people just because of that. If you can not handle some simple if's and for loops you are in for some real trouble later on. Sometimes they will come in and bust on through it quickly. Which actually helps me decide. Because I can then say 'oh you got through that semi quickly which site/book did you learn from?' That opens up what they know and gives me a good handle on how they are technically. I can then move quickly on to 'let them brag about previous work'. That shows if they were passionate for or was it just a job to grind out. Some cases it matters others not so much. If they come in and really give it a good try but struggle a bit and can say why I may recommend making them a bit more junior and pairing them with someone.

I also do not see it going away. I recently proctored some classes in my org. By the time the 'class' was done most had not bothered to even do 1 or 2 chapters. It was mostly just watching a 20-30 min video with whatever level of homework you wanted. I watched many of them for a few months after. The ones who bashed it all out were ones who tended to be tech leads and suggesting better things to happen.
I travel a lot because I’m in sales, so I’m constantly in and out of the office. I very much want to return to the office, because for me it’s a homebase, where I can connect with my colleagues. It just hasn’t been the same and I feel that my workflow has diminished without the communal nature of the office.
>"Didn't happen... for <insert reasons that are now thought to be obvious but nobody knew before hand>."

That's not exactly true, MMT was right about that beforehand, this is from 2009:

"There are also those that claim that quantitative easing will expose the economy to uncontrollable inflation. This is just harking back to the old and flawed Monetarist doctrine based on the so-called Quantity Theory of Money. "

From: http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=661
Someone is gonna sell theirs on Ebay (or as it’s known 1000 years from now, Eblork).
Is that also true for Xbox games?
stick a bluetooth tracker on them!
To users it doesn't matter whether an app uses JS or Swift, only that it works smoothly and has all the features. It is in Apple's interest to keep web apps clunky, and forever less capable than their native platform.

If "Add to Homescreen" wasn't added in the pre-AppStore era, I don't think it'd happen. This feature has clearly been mothballed. Homescreen web apps were given a second-rate build of WebKit that has been been consistently slower and buggier than standalone Safari (I don't know if they've fixed it recently. Homescreen webapps that I worked on all gave in to the AppStore eventually).

Apple has the same fear as Microsoft had that powerful Web apps will make their native platform unnecessary. Microsoft made a mistake of abandoning Internet Explorer 6 entirely. Apple is smart enough to keep user-facing parts of their browser high quality, and only drag their feet on more advanced platform features. They forbid other browser engines, which magically makes Safari appear as technically capable as every other iOS browser.
The Topre is the only thing I didn't try. It's tempting, but it's an expensive keyboard and I have no problems just using cheap rubber dome/chiclet/butterfly keyboards.

Your experience is just like mine, but mine got so bad I ended up the doctor. The doctors & hand specialists & PTs are very clued in about wrist posture, desk setup, etc.. but there is literally no medical research on keyboard switch travel, force, work, bump stops, etc.. so they never said anything about what kind of keyboard I was using.
Nobody thinks of FAANG as EU creations. Even if Nintendo is headquartered in the USA, it’s still considered Japanese. IKEA is Swedish and so on. Where the companies were founded seems to play the largest role in their national identities.
Widevine is not used by Edge for Windows, as you say PlayReady is.

(Well, Widevine actually is also present for a site to use if you really want to, but other than being too lazy to have two license servers there's very little reason why you would.)

Microsoft have not ported PlayReady to other OSes, so Edge for Mac/Linux does use Widevine and gets Level 3.
Are you implying that Apple should be punished for offering a more open platform than some other companies?
Make sure you stop before it gets to the point of injury if you think you're getting progressively more and more sore.
The mechanical keyboard community has a fetish for switches that have an absurdly strong bump. I don't understand it. I've tried a couple different ones that are supposed to be amazing feeling and both times it felt like way more effort than I should have to put in to pressing a key. And then once you've passed that point you smash into the bottom.

Personally I keep going back to MX browns because the slight tactile bump is easy to press past and gives enough feedback for me to be satisfied. I still bottom out but it isn't a sudden shock as I pass the bump. Though I actually have been thinking of switching to silent MX reds since they bottom out more softly. Or maybe I'll try O-rings again so I can get the softened landing and still keep the tactile bump.
And cgi-bin was really just an evolution of inetd (or ucspi-tcp if you worshipped at the altar of djb). You didn't used to have to worry about binding to ports or long running processes. Something would just send you a message on stdin and you replied on stdout.
Hotbit's Announcement on Emergency Maintenance
The security on iOS comes from extremely well working sandboxing, not from Apple's control.

A lot of scam apps get through app review. From a security point of view app review is not effective at all.

That's just a story Apple likes to tell to hide the fact that they want the power to block anything they don't like.
Automatic reading of a ROM by means of image recognition
There are a lot of people who live aboard a boat but don't travel too far, or only move a few times a year.
> Other LeetCode questions are too tedious or time-consuming to do on a whiteboard in an hour.

Afaik all leetcode problems are from contest where thousands of ppl solve 4 in 1 hr. Its unlikely that there are questions which cannot be solved in 1 hr whiteboard.
Yes I mentioned owning both a TEK (Truly Ergonomic Keyboard) which I believe had the Kalih brown-types and I also owned a Kinesis with Cherry MX Browns.

Neither helped.. the Kinesis is what I was using when things got so bad I had to go to the doctor.
Have you tried an Nvidia Shield?
Do scholars follow Betteridge's Law? Questions in journal article titles (2016) [pdf]
Second the Cloud 9, had been seaching for something like it for a (very) long time. I was a MS 4k user for decade +. There are some issue with it, but so far I'm still on board. The massive space I can spread left/right completely changes my shoulder posture, which is good for me, question will be wether changes impact my fingers (more pressure required I think?!). I find the key feel a little variable, enter key stabilizer bar in particular I'll have to grease if I was actually into that (am not), and some keys feel very slightly softer than others, but not distractingly so.

It's also super macro-able with Karabiner, far more than 4k on Mac, if you're into that.
OOOOR not even that, if functional connectivity is what drives predisposition for coffee drinking in the first place.
> taking a step back, this is such a broken way of running a department.

Why?
You are making the classic mistake of confusing domains exhibiting a normal distribution of outcomes (casino games) with domains exhibiting an exponential distribution of outcomes (the market). This is the sort of thinking that traps people into believing "it went up a lot, therefore it has to revert to the mean and go down" or vice versa - there is no basis for such a belief in exponential domains.
just forget about it and never take the money out
Eh, it isn't great, but you get used to it and it is a hell of a lot better than dealing with all the bullshit of the various bespoke players.
> When you essentially lend money to GOOGL or AMZN, what are you actually getting back besides a story

Buying a stock is not lending money to a company. It's purchasing an ownership claim on future earnings realized by the company.

For AMZN, the expectation of its investors is that it should not realize substantial (relative to revenue) earnings now so that it can grow further and thereby increase the long-tail earnings to which shareholders are entitled.

GOOG, on the other hand, is returning money to shareholders now. In fact, they just authorized a program to return another $50B to shareholders. Our tax regime skews payout preferences, so that instead of paying dividends, some companies opt for share buybacks. But the net result is that cash is transferred from the company to its shareholders. You can see GOOGL's buybacks over time here, looks like they returned ~$31 billion to shareholders in 2020: https://ycharts.com/companies/GOOG/stock_buyback .
At least there's a setting to make the 'TV' button take you to the home screen instead of the Apple TV+ app, and unlike Roku when monitoring network traffic the Apple TV is pretty quiet when not in use, unlike the Roku that is constantly chattering with ad services... ads on the home screen.. yuck.
nice script. came up with this some moons ago:

seq \
--equal-width 1 65535 | \
xargs \
--max-procs 16 \
--max-args 1 \
--replace=_$ \
nc \
--verbose \
-z \
--wait 1 \
${TARGET_HOST} _$ 2>&1 | \
grep --ignore-case --only-matching --regexp "connected.*"

Served me needs on local subnets
It seems strange that Google management would push so hard on this. Nearly everyone I've spoken to has reported that WFH productivity has been equal, if not better than pre-pandemic.

What possible upside could there be that justifies forcing the issue and hurting morale by pissing so many people off? Sure, maybe there's an argument that a fully remote company has a hard time propagating a coherent corporate culture. But it seems like if you let everyone choose, it'd be 50/50 in-person vs. WFH. So, even if you give your employees full flexibility, you'll still wind up with decently full offices that can train junior people, promulgate a corporate culture, etc.
They shouldn’t. Most ISP email providers don’t support more than 10mb.
Your position is ridiculous and unworkable.

By your definition companies like Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, Epic Games, Intel, AMD, Nvidia, IBM, Stripe, Facebook, Samsung, Adobe etc would all need to be broken up as like Apple they are in multiple markets with similar market shares.

YC itself would need to be broken up given your criteria.
"I'll quit!" they say.

It's about as empty a threat as telling the customer service person that you'll sue the company.
But I don't think a "fully abstract class" is the same thing as an "interface", at least in Java? As far as I know, you can implement multiple "interfaces" but you can still only "extend" one abstract class, even if it is "fully abstract" in that it has no concrete member variables and all methods are abstract.
On iOS 14.5 Siri will occasionally ask which service you meant and use that as the default for a while.

Although that’s just a “soft” default. If I press play on my headphones with both Spotify and AM closed it still latches to Apple Music.
> It's hard to find pre-built mechanical keyboards with Mac layouts

Yea isn't that the truth. To be fair I think the market is likely smaller and judging from my own just general experience most opt for Apple's Magic Keyboard - which is a fine keyboard and I'd be mostly happy with one (especially with Touch ID integrated so I don't have to reach over to my Air to unlock) but I prefer the mechanical key typing and feeling.

I have the KeyChron K2 as well for anyone wondering.
No. But chrome is becoming the new IE.
The last two companies I've worked for, and feedback I've gotten from product managers and hiring people.

All of the interviews I've done over the past few years have used leetcode, or some variant, but most of them used it only as one dimension when considering candidates. If someone was leet at coding, but bad at team work, they didn't have a chance. The opposite position was far more favorable (I've heard "you can train people to have skills, so hire for the things you can't teach" more often than once). In fact, I'm seeing companies swing the pendulum a little too far away from skills, but that's to be expected, when doing this kind of balancing.
I tried that, the o-rings made things worse. They soften the bottoming but they also increase the force required to actuate the key. They also make the feel of the keyboard horrible IMO.

There's something about the tactile nature of the keys which just doesn't work for me and/or some other people.. the tactile nature makes us use more force instead of less, and there is no getting around these keys require more force X a greater distance so they literally make your fingers do more physical work.
Nope, the nVidia Shield is miles ahead.

Chromecast with Google TV doesn't have TrueHD support, ethernet, 6/8ch PCM HDMI output, automatic frame-rate switch, game streaming (yes this is an obvious troll, but still it is true). nVidia Shield have those, and more.
The UI is 95%+ ads, I wonder how it looks like with adblocking.
Plus the consultants working with clients have support from:

* The partners overseeing the client relationships, who have each worked with hundreds of clients, been involved with a thousand projects personally, and know something of 10x more. At that stage in their career, a huge amount of strategy consulting becomes instinctive pattern recognition.

* The firm's global knowledgebase, practice areas, research support teams, etc. These hugely accelerate your knowledge of an industry so you can productively and usefully engage with experienced managers at the client right from day 1.

I was a BCG consultant for a few years. Every 3 months, I'd be thrown into a totally new industry: forestry and paper making, clothing supply chains, retail banking sales incentive structures, car tyre manufacturing cost reduction, airline route pricing, production planning for brick manufacturing, ERP systems for electrical contracting wholesaling. Those were my first two years as a junior consultant.

On the day the project kicked off internally, of course I knew nothing. But a couple of days later, I knew how each industry worked, understood the competitive positions of the client and their main competitors, had some good hypotheses on the client's specific challenges, knew the terminology, and was fully equipped to start asking relevant questions.

I never pretended to know stuff that I didn't. Being humble, open, inquisitive, sensitive to others' perspective, and focused on the outcome gets you a long way.
It would be interesting to know the median commute time for those who say they will quit or not. For me it is just insane even thinking about going to go back to 2h commute each day. I don't even know why I considered that OK.
I don’t travel at all, just a developer in front of a screen 8 hours a day. I very much prefer to stay home and get to work by getting to my desk instead of fighting traffic.

To each their own, but remote work is now a perk that some companies will offer and others won’t, not offering it will effectively cut out a fairly large percent of devs that don’t want to go back.
This happened to my dad when he upgraded the other day and I spent hours painstakingly trying to fix it and it seems like the recommended fix is reinstalling OSX. Well, he's on Firefox now but what the fuck - this basically affects all the websites he goes to. I can't believe this made it out through testing.
Apple devices are becoming increasingly unusable for developers.

Fantastic opportunity for Linux apps to gain more dev resources, as anyone with a bit of foresight sees little future in macOS, iOS, Windows, or Android as development platforms.
And once you are out of sandbox mode, it scales pretty well. We regularly send millions of mails in 24hr periods. Some gotchas come in when you need to set up DKIM/etc and other providers may need to handle mail for the same domain.
Wipr works very well for me as an adblocker on iOS/iPadOS/macOS.
Be aware that you'll be forced to share your GPS location with Google during the set-up, there's no way around it. You'll also need to do the setup with the Google Home app which requires you to set up a "Home", which is way overkill if all you want is a Chromecast.

Also, the Nvidia Shield is truly a lot better in terms of hardware and application support. Quite a lot of Chromecast "apps" are inferior to the Android TV versions that also run on the Shield.
I sure as shit hope you don't breeze through. Why should practicing mental leetcode questions prepare you for a job interview in the real world? In my company, you wouldn't breeze through, because we don't participate in 'whiteboard culture', or maybe those sorts of companies you have self selected out of?
fuck that's insane
I didn’t read this because there’s no date on it. Publishers: articles should have a title, a clearly identified author (also often missing), and a date of publication + dates of significant revisions.
The issue is that Apple is leveraging their dominant position to push a Spotify competitor. Apple Music is not subject to the 30% App Store fee, and so they can just simply undercut Spotify by 30%.

Going with your analogy, is BMW trying to push an Apple CarPlay competitor?
What's weird is that a decade ago, bottoming out was a concern in the mechanical keyboard community. A selling point of mechanical keyboards was that you didn't have to bottom out; that's required on a membrane keyboard by their nature. O-rings were a very common way for people to fix bottoming out without having to learn to stop their fingers before reaching the end of the key travel (it was also a way to make the keyboards quieter by avoiding the clack).
He was born there, but he did not remain as a citizen of that country, and not been going back, and forth in line of business.

A situation is different from where a double citizen operates a sales office of a company from his home country
If you're going to rant about details, it helps to actually get the details right.

For example, showing a screenshot that doesn't contain the word "malware" and then saying:

> Using my application name and the word "malware" in one sentence is suggestive and extremely offensive by Apple.

Does not fill me with much hope that the author is detail-oriented. I'll keep reading, and I know already that the notarizing process isn't smooth, but my "snowflake meter" is already in the yellow zone, and I've yet to reach the part of the essay labeled "Part 1"
https://elixirforum.com/c/community/elixir-jobs/16 (most are remote-friendly)
DIY Automatic Retractable Helmet
For me the issue is typing is automatic.

If I am a "conscientious typist" and I am actively/awarely concentrating on my fingers with MX browns I move my fingers with smaller travel and just go a little past the tactile bump and I'm fine.

But as soon as I'm concentrating more on code, or trying to type fast, or under stress I start hitting the keys more quitckly and forcefully and I hit the bottom stop and that's when the keys start causing RSI type forces to build up.

I don't have to be conscientious with most other types of switches. Theres something different about the feedback cycle and for me almost anything provides better feedback than the mechanical switches.
Where there are forbidden or prevented to inform the user that they can register somewhere else cheaper. This is explicitly mentioned by the EU commissioner in the press conference.
The mode is already in the 10-20% bucket in the graph, changing the buckets would not affect the argument that follows, which does mention the 8-12% and 10-15% ranges:

> If we look at the calendar year returns plus or minus 2% from the 10% average (so 8% to 12%) this has happened in just 5 calendar years

> Just 18% of returns have been between 5% to 15% in any given year.

The main point being that the odds of you seeing any returns near the 10% number are quite low (18/100). It's just a lot more spiky than most people realize and not a safe way to get 10% returns unless you're looking at 30+ year periods.
You can make it easy to send email or you can reduce spam but you can’t do both.
+1 - it's often best to organize "knowledge workers" by function/capability/project rather than geography/culture/etc.

(I've been managed distributed teams for 25yrs)
ITT a lot of tech workers with super plush salaries and benefits are going to find out the hard way, that going back to the office for Google is better than going to work for most other companies.
Slackware has been my default distro (for personal use) since the 90's. It has its limitations, which are palpable when you context switch from some of the more popular distros. Especially since I work in Debian and Alpine for work, this can be a little shocking.
It seems to me a big divide in this question is people who derive a sense of identity/value/community from their workplace and those who view it in a more utilitarian light. For me I much prefer WFH but I also have 3 kids and a wife that I'd rather spend time with than any of my co-workers; however when I was younger I enjoyed associating with my co-workers because I didn't have as much other social connection.
Brain pathology recapitulates physiology: A network meta-analysis
What people say they will do when there's no cost associated with an action and what people will actually do once a cost IS associated with the same action are frequently 2 different things.

Bob Lutz, in his self-aggrandizing book "Gutz", describes the initial phase of an automobile design project where a survey is conducted asking respondents whether they would prefer a vehicle with heated cupholders. It turned out the percentage of people who responded positively was significantly higher than the percentage of people who ultimately chose to pay for the option in actual sales.

I wonder if a similar effect will be seen regarding people returning to work.