skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I admit I only briefly looked at each patent but even looking a second time, I can not find anything more specific basically the devices share clock information and calculate the difference between their clocks.

How is this different than syncronizing transactions between database servers or how GPS works?

I found a GPL license multi-room/device audio player that discussed this very lawsuit last year [1]. The developer raises the same point than anything like this will involve something resembling clock syncronization.

Looking through the lawsuit itself, about 90% of it is just comparing the end result of Sonos' & Google's products in that both let you add/group speakers, adjust volume and playback of the group, etc. I cannot find any claim that Google's implementation is a copy of Sonos'. It seems to try to sugest that is the case by bringing up that prior to Google's devices, Google had worked with Sonos and had access to details of their implementation.

[1] https://github.com/badaix/snapcast/issues/642
> but only one carrier could infect several others and then that cascades to the entire population

Which is exactly how we got here.
> They think we'll freak out set everything on fire or something at the first hint of bad news.

Could it be that they've used this tactic so often just to get this effect when they so desire it, that now they fear that it will be our only reaction?
"I'm glad that we've built up trust with the Afghan people and are able to accept them into our society today."

Do we? We didn't as of the Trump Administration.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/07/trump-i...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-admin-bro...
Almost no one on HN is qualified to take a group of medical journal articles/research papers and form an accurate opinion on the subject.

In fact, trying to do so for most on this forum would probably result in inaccurate views due to misunderstanding the articles and papers.

So people probably downvoted because you have a view on the subject, but no one is qualified to back or oppose it. And we don't know who you are, so how are we supposed to vet your view, or even begin to have a conversation about it?

I didn't downvote (or upvote), but that's my guess.
If it helps, I didn't really start to grok system design and architecture until more than 2 years full time. Before that it was just a bunch of functions/methods, classes that used each other. Slowly though, you start to notice the patterns, you see what failed badly and how it failed (bad design). You get burnt having to solve problems in badly designed code. You get stuck trying to test badly designed code. You slowly see the bigger picture, how to put together these small pieces into that complete application that isn't a tangled mess and unmaintainable (bad design = maintainability being inversely related to time * functionality, or some equation of that sort).

Of course this has nothing to do with what system design questions (most) interviewers care about. But this is the system design that matters on the job.

Read books for the real system design after you land the job, they won't really stick before you get expeirence - refactoring legacy applications, pragmatic programmer, clean coder, clean code, clean architecture (all clean books are by 'Uncle Bob').

For interview system design (I'm not speaking from too much experience here), youtube has some good videos "software system design interview", I've seen "grokking the system design interview" book being mentioned.

Good luck. Hope this helps somewhat.
The issue is in part because WARP routes ALL user traffic over cloudflare - so you can be picking up huge volume for youtube video / netflix etc. Most companies don't want that on their networks.
There you go. You just prioritized size over solving those problems. It is more important to be big than to get it right.
To me it just sounds like the business model won’t scale if you have to solve this problem.

I’m not sure why society has to solve it for the tech giants (advertising conglomerates) though. We should just say, via regulation, that it needs to be solved or we shut it down. Give them a reasonable amount of time to figure it out of course.

My hunch is it’s just not workable.
Agree. I don’t think anywhere in the US did anything that could reasonably be called a lockdown.

“Try to gather in groups of no more than six (at a time).” “When you need food, go to the grocery store (as often as you see fit).”

Is anyone surprised that a highly contagious virus was able to escape these “lockdown” measures?
The tone of his email to Halioua's friend is also completely inappropriate, in a way that's actually rather surprising given the circumstances. He really isn't making things easy for himself. Sad.
The auto playing videos that are not related to the content of the article are, perhaps, the most baffling thing for me. I open an article and watch a video for a minute trying to understand the point - to only then realize that the video is unrelated. What’s the point of this? In most cases I close the website and add it to my blocklist.
Why does that information have to be released? To my naive layman's thinking, if you told me that a black hole permanently destroys that information, I'd think "sure, it destroys lots of other things, so that makes sense". What problem does it cause if we believe that the information is gone forever?
Of course you can. They just did compare them.
wow! the irony is rich. i wonder how amazon impacted his small business?
I firmly want it to be legislated away, but for a slightly different reason. Specifically, you should never be required to disclose a phone number to a business that doesn't absolutely need your phone number to directly render services.

I was eating at a restaurant once -- IN PERSON -- and the fucking web interface they force everyone to use to order food wanted a SMS 2FA. WTF? No. I don't require your waitress to disclose her phone number to order food. And in return, you don't ask for mine. Just take my food order, swipe my credit card, and bring the food to the table, there is no need to disclose a phone number.

I think the ideal law should be: Any business that wants 2FA MUST support at least U2F hardware keys. It's okay to also offer SMS but not okay to offer only SMS.
Yes, the trust remains in place and the legal rights of all the owners are unaffected. The co-owners can simply find another property management company. Even in the event Ancana is still in business but the co-owners are unhappy with our service for whatever reason, they can vote to drop Ancana and hire another company of their choosing
No offense, but your comment sounds like you only know LA from what you read in your social media bubble online.

The "Hollywood" you are referencing is not geographic. Yes the film studios are in Los Angeles but hollywood celebrity culture is not a property of nor exclusive to Los Angeles the city.

And what about the homless population? Yes it is a problem that there are so many unhoused people. But is it really surprising that they would congregate in a city with such mild weather and access to social services? Do they not also have a right to live their lives?
For me, I ended up using both. Opting for wikidata wherever made sense, but a lot of things felt half built/broken.
> Also, swimmers don't swim with weights to improve technique or strength.

They use the aquatic analog to weights - disabling their arms or legs, drastically increasing drag (via multiple swimsuits, or suits with chute-like pockets), swimming against bungee cords.
> The server is hurting today

I get the tech hipster ethos that it's cool to just run one big ass server and supposedly avoid a lot of complexity cost. But it's the year two-thousand and twenty-one. The fact that the most well-known tech forum in the world either can't or won't set up autoscaling is an indictment of the entire tech industry. We're living in the binary age, but we still need humans to push the bits around by hand, like 1960's operators juggling wires on a switchboard.
You're exactly right.

We have a word for what Apple is installing on your device: spyware. And it's worse than typical spyware in that it's using your device to spy on you and report its findings back to law enforcement.
They made a good impression on me too :-) (via what you wrote)
You're arguing that someone who doesn't care to learn anything about algorithms is going to do a good job at optimizing algorithms.
From everything I've read Mississippi is out of ICU beds because they test everybody for covid and if you are covid positive, regardless of symptoms, you get the "covid protocol" treatment. Said protocol adds significant overhead to everything. Perhaps they should revisit testing every individual for covid or maybe stop freaking out over every positive case.

Also, they had 1.6 years to build infrastructure to deal with this. That was the entire damn point of this in the first place. "Flatten the curve for two weeks to make sure healthcare systems can handle the load" There is literally zero excuse for society to suffer because no capacity was added. Zero.

You cannot even blame staffing shortages... they could have thrown truckloads of money at doctors and nurses to get them onboard. It would have still been cheaper and more effective than the nonsense we are doing now.

In short, yeah it sucks hospitals might be "full" but that ain't societies fault and we shouldn't be punished for it.
> It will teach you bad practices, like abusing of dangerous programming constructs or data structures to optimized the code or just save some typing while writing the code (like one letter variable names, macros, etc), global variables and state in the program, not using common design patterns, not using OOP, not documenting the code and in general writing code that is difficult to maintain because it's not well engineered.

These are not “bad practices”. Many of them are bad in certain common contexts, but literally none of them are bad in throw-away code used in the course of root-cause-analysis of problems in other code basis, and most are useful in many parts of proof of concept code. In working on production systems, most of the volume of code I produce isn’t production code, and has a very different set of constraints than production code.

And given history on HN, whether “not using OOP” is ever a “bad practice” is probably a whole discussion of its own.
Agree, this is our biggest hurdle on the buyer side. But thanks for the feedback and support!
Hypergraphs are neat; I used them to implement a perfect hash library in C: https://github.com/tpn/perfecthash.
Not really, the windows file browser also lets you create and move files and directories. I guess you could ask to go down the route of not allowing that, but directory creation for one is super common.
As per new trend even the content is advertisement
Why do you mean? Are you suggesting that the trillions spent needed oil or oil security or something?
I was surprised to hear lotsa talk about FPGAs and basically nothing about HDMI or silicon video tech.

Turns out Lattice bought Silicon Image in 2015, then turned around and sold off the HDMI portion of the business to another company I've never heard of, which was again sold - to Analog Devices.

Huh. Silly me for not paying attention.
You proved my point by bringing a second (more detailed) source into your argument. At the time I commented, there was no second source in any of the HN comments here.
Uber and Lyft prepare for an epic legal battle
> it's more comfortable because you use less energy to get there

I wonder if these people are internally consistent enough to eschew the use of ramps or pulleys.
If by best food scene, you were to take the top 20-25 cuisines of the world and look for good examples .. ?

Probably Melbourne, London and New York.

Have spent enough time in Los Angeles to know that it doesn’t reach the level of the above cities. It’s great at what it does - Mexican, Korean, Chinese, Salvadoran even, fusion - but the geography just doesn’t help it.

Barcelona is not a particularly great food City (sure, there are a few elite chefs but in general the food scene offers little of variety). Want good food in Spain, go to Basque Country.

Tokyo, San Sebastián, Lyon are cities which are insanely good at rocking their own cuisine which puts them in a different category of food cities. You might say ‘International’ v ‘Local’

International food cities -

Melbourne London New York

Sydney Los Angeles

(And probably Toronto Houston Vancouver but have never been)

The above cities are the great melting pots of the world

Something very special is happening in Melbourne’s food scene, especially in the last 10 years. Pick literally any Asian cuisine or food trend. you can name, even something super obscure, and you can find special examples.
i prefer to work on my bicycle. This is both a privilege and a luxury and i recognize such. PNW components are wonderful. I shop LBS for tools and "need it today" parts. I do not find value in paying the majority of bike mechanics (ive been scraping my shins religiously for 32yrs and part of what gives me confidence in jumping them tens of feet into the arm at the ripe age of midlife). I do, however, find value in shop talk and buying the right tools / components (even if special ordered through the shops). Its a mixed bag of bolts
Both asymptomatic and presymptomatic transmission are possible. [1] And there has been a lot of published concern about both.

[1] https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/4/20-4576_article
For a long time I have been a Logitech mice user. When the last mouse finally gave up ghost, a few years ago, it was time to look for a new one. I was unpleasantly surprised how expensive Logitech mice were! I told myself that no way I am paying that much for a simple mouse and I started looking for a quality replacement. I read some reviews and decided to try Gigabyte mice. After a few years I can honestly say this was the right choice - inexpensive, quality mice. I never looked back to Logitech (well... I am still still using G105 keyboard). My few years old, worn ECO500 mouse is still working great. For laptops I use M7700 (smaller and lighter) and other than the rubber grip on the left side needing re-gluing after a few years, no problems. The mouse works like new. No problems in Ubuntu and no need to install any vendor software/drivers.
I thought I share my successful story of moving off Logitech. There is quality at lower price point out there. My 2 cents...
Whats your point, that doesn't invalidate the argument at all.
You can edit IMDB data about yourself.
We seem to be forgetting something here: the aerosols we are protecting from are from other peoples nose and mouth, which are covered by a cloth mask which vastly reduces how much makes it into the air.

There is no "best" here, mitigations all mitigate different things and work together to provide a safer environment.
Necessary edge. There was tons of preparation specifically for competitions.

Not sure why would that be surprising. Same thing happen in chess, scrabble, anything competitive. Once there is enough competition, you can't go in with hope and talent alone. You have to train specifically for competition format.

Chess players don't base their play on pure problem solving either. They memorize and train specific plays.
This is worse than that. With that, the argument sticks with that one definition throughout. Here, one meaning of "muscle weakness" is being used to make it sound scary, and another meaning is used to say COVID causes it. It's the equivocation fallacy.
I’m curious on how you manage large code bases without some kind of static typing and other checks that typescript provides, like object properties, etc.

Personally I find hard and scary to change things in js and being confident that it would work without breaking anything, with typescript I have that, some function rename, change parameter type, add/remove/rename object fields etc.

I found a couple of times when migrating some files to typescript misspelled names that would be hard to catch and passed the code reviews, that’s and easy task for the computer but harder for the developers, also using tools that makes your code reviews easy its great.
Moesif is hiring – Engineering/Sales/Marketing
Well yes.

To get a software engineering job, step 1 is to quit your software engineering job to study full time to get a job doing something very similar.

Doing your job as a software engineer is an impediment to interviewing as one.
Maybe if their rate of infection were significantly lower than the local population, you could argue that we would be decreasing the percentage of the infected population which doesn't feel particularly compelling to me... but we'd really need to know how much each group contributes to the spread. My expectations is that illegal immigrants make larger contributions than average given their density in living arrangements, lack of access to health care, inability to take sick days, etc.

I think we are only in the business of arguing the counterfactual of what percentage of them get covid from interactions with law enforcement vs otherwise.
Conspiracy theories aside, there is something fishy about the Great Reset
Go ahead and ruin it for me. I got as far as a fake article with two giant text boxes that couldn't be closed and had non-working send/submit buttons. If anything exists past this, it isn't loading for me.
One thing that always blows me away (literally) is candidates that will eat like a tunafish sandwich with onions five minutes before they come in for an interview.
Since when are 35 year old in 2021 gen-x?
A few people have told me it reminds them of Orca, although I haven't tried it out yet myself: https://hundredrabbits.itch.io/orca
Thanks for your feedback!

> My main question when reading is how the results compared to manually-written code.

Ah, this is exactly the question. But as you say, much harder to answer. Even if you run a competition, unless you can encourage a wide range of developers to enter, you won't be getting the real value. Instead you might be getting incidence rates of code written by students/interns.
Perhaps if you could get a few FAANGs on board to either share internal data (unlikely) or send a random sample of employees (also very unlikely) to make teams and then evaluate their code... It seems like a difficult question to answer.

We think a more doable way would be to take snapshots of large open source codebases (e.g. off GitHub) and measure the incidence rate of CWEs, but this also presents its own challenges with analyzing the data. Also, what's the relationship between open source code and all code?

Lots of avenues to consider.
This is really skewed to recent or new graduate and elite universities. When I was out of college, 15 years ago, some of the internships listed were hard or near impossible to get into. Take for example Goldman Sachs. They should be listing more regular internships and not those who managed to matriculate into the elite of the elite (hint: not a meritocracy). If anything it creates disillusionment that STEM careers are a straight path to being the next Bezos. It is like golfing: pick up golf to play golf not to play on the PGA tour.
You must be joking? As bad as (some) Republicans are let's not forget Biden, Harris, Schumer, etc saying they wouldn't take the "Trump Vaccine." Not only did that put distrust into the hearts of people on the left, it also gave ammunition for the people on the right. It should have never been a political issue. Unfortunately this is a bipartisan problem (though right now it's more prevalent on the right, I suspect if Trump had won the number on the left would balloon,) a lot of people on the West Coast you'd otherwise call "liberal" are anti-vaxxers and have been for decades. It's a weird coalition of people on the left and right.

Now outside of the US, anti-vaxxers are in every country including Germany, Australia, the UK. It's a global problem. It's actually the "third world" that seems to have less vaccine hesitance. Probably because they've seen the recent benefits of vaccines and they have less access to misinformation.
The fact that previous address is relevant is such a strange thing to me. I can't think of anything this actually solves by using, yet it is everywhere with "confirming" you are you. I know I am me, and here's all of these other government issued IDs that say I am me. Prior address does not.
I suspect this is a trend that'll continue as market buyers and sellers realize Amazon is a poor fit for certain of their activities.

I already avoid Amazon as a consumer when the brand, quality, or delivery date really counts.

But I also avoid Lowes when I'm buying appliances for tenant properties because they can't be relied upon to call before they deliver. And I don't buy from Harbor Freight Tools when equipment failure might be fatal because some things I've bought there haven't survived their first use.

But those places have saved me a ton of money over the years when their model has worked to my benefit, just like Amazon has made a vast improvement in certain areas of my life.

I suspect companies like PNC are coming to similar realizations about Amazon as they see that their returns (or the implications on their reputations, or their confidence in continued sales) paint a picture that's less attractive than pursuing alternatives.
> Third party devices do need automatic driver install of some form.

This is a mouse. It works perfectly fine as a USB HID device. The software install is to unlock optional features on the device, and that can be done after the user has authenticated to the host and gone through a security elevation prompt.

In fact there are precious few third party devices without a usable built-in driver that absolutely need to be available before the user had logged in. I can't think of any.
Yes, it's literally one of the diagnostic criteria [1].

Pacing is a form of stimming. It's something that people with ASD might need to do to feel comfortable while thinking.

There are other forms of stimming that aren't as socially acceptable, but even this one is heavily restricted in a school setting.

A child that gets up to pace around the classroom to think better will be reprimanded; the option to take a walk outside is outright not available.

This is why raising awareness is important. It costs nothing to allow people who need to walk while thinking to do just that, yet the society disallows it.

[1] https://www.healthline.com/health/autism/stimming
Entire industries can have a single culture.
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’
VQGAN+CLIP Experiment: Comparing 100 keyword modifiers with the same base prompt
> We wore them for a year. Covid is still here.

That sounds like an argument against bullet proof vests. People still die while wearing them. LEO have been wearing them for years. Obviously, they don't work.

You don't understand the actual goal of wearing masks: protected people and reducing the spread of covid. It's not going to magically eliminate covid when half the country doesn't actually wear them.
Try to steal a sandwich from a squirrel. It isn't going to bite you out of concern for how you'll treat the sandwich...
please, show me how. i have tried long in the past and was not able.
VBA was "too powerful" in 2 ways. Primarily it was a security risk, it had way too much capability beyond implementing custom functions on spreadsheet data. Secondarily it was too decoupled from the spreadsheet, an programming environment bolted on top of the spreadsheet, while lambdas are much smaller in scope targeted specifically at just reusable spreadsheet functions.
Chicago has a very diverse population.
If you're exclusively running Linux, you actually can't turn off the lights on a GTX3000-Series card :c