skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It creates unusual demand patterns on schools and daycare which you need to decide whether to run on a four or five day pattern.

Schools can run a 5-day pattern even if some of their employees are on a 4-day pattern (as long as they are not the same four-day pattern). In fact, it's not unknown for various workplaces to run a 5-day every week pattern with employees on a mix of 9-8-80 two-week and 4-10-40 1-week cycles with different cycle days off.

Faculty (especially in pre-K through primary grades; scheduling can be more creative without disruption at the secondary level) probably need to be on every open day, generally, but other than that,..
Note that in my experience, heuristics for spotting good engineers tend not to work unless you yourself are a good engineer. You don'tnecessarily have to be the same kind of good, though that's obviously the least effort, and tends to overemphasize other points of similarity that are conflated with the "goodness".

Specialists and Generalists tend not to respect each other, for example. Folks with CS degrees and autodidacts likewise (though both can have impostor syndrome comparing themselves to the other).

There are also three personality types (or cultural types) suited to different maturity stages of the system being worked on (which also implies different processes, BTW): Pioneers, Settlers, and Town Planners[0][1]. Many businesses tend to collect one or two of the three types. Pioneers+Settlers is viable, as is Settlers+Town Planners. Orgs that only have Pioneers+Town Planners tend to have interesting pilot programs that never get successfully rolled out.

[0] https://blog.gardeviance.org/2015/03/on-pioneers-settlers-to...

[1] https://swardley.medium.com/what-culture-is-right-for-you-ba...
Secondary follow up.

I don't think that a human reader in the loop will be going away for a long time. Sure, they can be at parity, but does a combined read have better results? This is an active research question.

I think what will happen is that over time, human interpreters and AI systems will "co-evolve" in a sense, where people will pick up on where models are wrong and also learn how to use models to understand their own blind spots. These are also active research topics that are in their infancy.
> fluorescent imaging which is in widespread use for imaging large populations of neurons (or even the whole brain in drosophila) at decent spatiotemporal resolution.

Where can I learn more about this?
I don't understand why you deserve a huge raise in pay because someone else developed an off-the-shelf database. Investments into capital and tech go to the investor, not to you. That would be a complete mis-alignment of incentives. Why would anyone invent, develop, pay for, or work on improvements if all the benefits went to you? Should accountants have gotten massive raises across the board when Microsoft Excel was invented and they didn't have to use paper any longer?

You're not more productive than a web developer in 1995, your tools are.
The Orient Express (Venice Simplon-Orient Express) can "start" in London, but the restored antique train has never run in the channel tunnel. I've seen it done differently in most of the YouTube-hosted videos I've seen. The current method uses Eurostar to get to France and transfer to the antique train. Previous methods involved transfers on the British side from a fancy "Pullman" train.
Very good compared to Google and Facebook, or is that a subjective statement?

But to be honest, your answer is not likely to change my opinion. For the vast majority of new grads leetcode is the obvious recommendation to maximize income. People grind for 3-4 months because it actually works, that's the reality.
Do they pay comparable money?
Didn’t they do this in The Dark Forest?
I believe there was a study that looked only at highway miles driven (where autopilot is mostly useful), and the advantage of Tesla's autopilot vanishes compared to a human.

It turns out it's a lot easier to not crash on a highway than to do it on surface roads with many stops and starts.
It has became a quite common way around platforms for sharing results etc. in Germany to give out a QR code which is actually an specific URL to the patient where the password is the birth date.
This way the patient just needs to share the URL/QR code because the doctor does already have the birth date.

It's terrible but this seems to have become the way to go here...at least until it backfires spectacularly.

The actual idea was to make this patient -> doctor way unnecessary by giving the doctor an account and automatically uploading his patients data to the doctors space on the platform. Unfortunately you can already see doctors giving up because they have too many accounts for too many platforms.
> don't talk to the police

Fully agree.

> you can't talk your way out of charges

Fully disagree. I can think of many situations where you talk your way out of charges. One is a traffic ticket. Another is a domestic dispute where someone is making false accusations about you that are easily disproven.

That said, I don't talk to police.
Nice to hear from you, Alexey. Thank you for pointing out this glaring omission. It's fixed now - https://github.com/db-benchmarks/ui/blob/main/readme.md#note... , https://github.com/db-benchmarks/db-benchmarks/blob/main/REA... ,
I think it's a legitimate problem though that schools and daycares operate predominantly on a five day schedule now that works for a large number of workers. If we go to a model where we have something resembling a 50/50 split between longer 4-day work weeks and shorter 5-day work weeks we end up with a huge problem in how to schedule services so that they work for the majority of people.

There will be overwhelming pressure on schools to have days that match the shorter length of day in the five-day workweek so that parents who opt for five days can spend time with their kids. There will be overwhelming pressure to have four slightly longer school days so that parents who opt for the four-day work week can spend time with the kids on the three days off. It's very difficult for schools to opt for both solutions as it would require doubling the number of class types being offered which makes it harder for smaller schools to have sufficient students in every class to be financially viable. Even if we solve financial viability schools would need the ability to tell teachers which schedule they had to take rather than letting the teachers freely choose.

I can't stress how much this choice of working approach would be bad for the school system.
I was a professional penetration tester focusing on network security for a couple of years and Impacket was an Essential piece of tooling that I used constantly. The "examples" folder in this repo contains enough utility that you could successfully pwn a bunch of windows environments with no other tools.
I've definitely seen "Have you ever been arrested and held for >24 hours?".
I disagree with this take to an extent. Take it to the other extreme and you get folks who can’t even solve fizzbuzz. So some coding bar is good.

Leetcode is a very learnable skill, and I would argue any decent programmer can learn it well enough to pass an interview. I for years thought I wasn’t good at it, then I actually practiced and I got job offers at google and Facebook. I have also optimized code quite a few times using algorithm skills I picked up practicing for interviews so it’s not totally a waste.

There is a limit though, and some companies are pushing it with absurd questions that you couldn’t reasonably solve unless you had seen it before.

In summary, algorithms are useful and learnable, but some companies take it too far.
If you are a large company trying to migrate to Python, you might also want to have a look at bamboolib.com which was acquired by Databricks.

bamboolib is very similar to mito (hard to tell who was first).

The advantage is that it runs within Databricks which gives you the ability to scale to any amount of data easily and Databricks has many (and growing) security certifications e.g. HIPAA compliance.

bamboolib can be used in plain Jupyter. Also, bamboolib private preview within Databricks is about to start within the next days.

Full disclosure: I am a co-founder of bamboolib and employed by Databricks
Many startups cargo-cult these poor hiring practices.
It's not a solution. Local police sieze. Hand over to general fund, and somehow, their budget grows.
If you can leetcode, there's decent chance you can program other things well. If you can't leetcode, there's decent chance you can't program other things as well.

It's just a simple filter with the usual caveats of false positives and false negatives.
The problem with environments like that is that they are never perfect. There's always something that at least some users need that they left out. But, since they're trying to be everything, they don't leave you any way to leave their world to go get something from the real OS, or the bare metal, or wherever "outside" is.

So, if you're trying to build an "everything" environment, sure, try to get everything in. But know that you will fail. And therefore, don't trap people. Leave them a way to get "outside".
> Even more absurd to see the left attack Elon who is the person doing the most to make their policies actually work.

A person can do good, and also do bad. Reward the good, punish the bad. You're exhibiting black-and-white thinking here and treating "the left" as a monolith. One could just as accurately claim that Elon is attacking "the left" despite "the left" being responsible for the policies that have massively helped Tesla get off the ground.
An Open-Source Chrome Extension for Bionic Reading
Intro to Document-Oriented NoSQL Databases
I was thinking we might soon be living in a future where we can accurately say how long the coast of Britain is https://users.math.yale.edu/~bbm3/web_pdfs/howLongIsTheCoast...
Yeah that's the whole point behind fractional banking. The government regulates how much money you need to hold to satisfy demand.

Oh wait, I'm just getting word that Tether isn't a bank. I wonder what ratio you can have if you aren't a bank?

Weird to think about because I thought that it was very illegal to have an unregulated bank. Oh well, I'm sure nothing bad ever happened before bank regulation.
Just practice it. It is a skill in itself just like anything else. It is true that it doesn't actually measure your real skills, but just like an IQ test can be corollary with lots of other mental faculties, leetcode skill can be corollary to programming skills.

I highly doubt that we are talking 3-4 months of memorising riddles. There are a few recurring concepts that you should memorize, sure. But after that, if you have the programming and logical thinking skills you claim to have, you should be able to think on the spot for the rest of the leetcode question.
I’d say just keep on keeping on. I personally have and will never work at a place that does leetcode challenges during the hiring process. I wouldn’t worry about it. It’s a self-filtering process for places you don’t want to work anyway.
I think part of the discussion will be realizing you do NOT need teachers who are expert in the subject to teach; you need teachers who are good at teaching - especially at the elementary/high school levels.

And part of that may be having the same teacher or group of teachers throughout the student's career, and with authority and flexibility to modify the curriculum as needed.

But we'd also have to admit that some students are going to do better than others, and the outcomes may not be all equal and at the same time.
oof. Somewhere in here they missed the point of adding additional inclusivity, rather than becoming exclusionary themselves.

These concepts and their implementations are not very sophisticated right now, and clumsy implementations do a lot to cause harm, rather than to help.

Not teaching the history of slavery does not erase the historical consequences of slavery. Not teaching sonnets will similarly not erase historical colonialism. Treating not teaching sonnets as if it is a step toward inclusivity is puzzling and certainly requires an intellectual step I am not sure I follow.
Become a Haskeller :)
It's losing its peg to real world things at a rate of 8.5% a year.
I think you shouldn't need to program if you don't want to understand the problem domain.
You don't need to completely avoid SV-style companies as some people recommend. Check out: https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards.
I rode the overnight train from St Petersburg to Moscow back around 1992; there were many vendors on the train who were extremely happy to sell a bottle of vodka or shampanskoye to anyone who neglected to provision themselves.
What about federated learning to deal with the little memory issue?
It's difficult and disruptive for students to be on a 5-day pattern of education with a homeroom teacher on a 4-day pattern. This basically necessitates scheduling entirely non-core subjects on the fifth day, potentially even resulting in multiple sessions of gym in a single day. It's also not clear to me you can viably do this without increasing costs unless the school is free to choose which of the four days the teacher's work instead of the teacher doing so. For example, if the standard 4-day work week is Monday-Thursday then there is ridiculous demand for non-core subject teachers on Friday and those non-core subject teachers may even be working Monday-Thursday themselves resulting in reduced supply.
> It’s a common thought among my circles that interviewing is the hardest part of being a software engineer - once you’re in somewhere it’s a lot easier

I’ve heard a similar sentiment from my circles too. But lately

I’ve also met people for whom it’s the exact opposite: they can clear the first round of the interview and they fail in the subsequent design rounds (which in my opinion are a lot less challenging)

I’ve also met people who manage to get hired but are soon overwhelmed with the real work that they have to do and some even get pip’d
There's also an interesting paper written on the Vatican's view of the American Civil War: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25018756
Simula's Software Stack
I think this comment is perhaps a bit uncharitable.

Even if you have done everything you are supposed to do in the process, at the end of the day you are looking at ROC curves or equivalent and trying to understand sensitivity vs. specificity trade offs, and often you have some sort of (indirect) parameters than can move to different points of that tradeoff.

This is quite critical in deployment, if you are screening you usually want something different than in diagnosis; as alluded to elsewhere if you raise the work-up rate too much you definitely risk killing more people from biopsy complications than you help with higher sensitivity (it's more complicated than that in practice)
Neptune's Apprentice is a memoir by Marie DeSantis, who was one the first woman to break into the commercial fishing industry in California in the 1960's.

I'm biased because I work in commercial fishing myself, but this was a very good read.
> Did it help you or hurt you?

My gut feeling is that I was successful in spite of these things, not because of these things. With counterfactuals there's no way to be sure though.

> One could argue it was a failing on your parents to set proper boundaries/discipline. I’m a lot of environments, you’d certainly not be helped by it.

My parents did everything short of beating me to try and get me to do my homework. After school they sat me at the dining room table with nothing but my textbooks, pencil, and paper. I had to have my list of HW assignments signed off on by my teacher; if it wasn't signed I wasn't allowed to go out and play after school. All of that resulted in me sometimes doing my homework.

By the time I was in high school they loosened up on the structure just because they believed that I only had 4 years left to figure out how to do this on my own, but I still was banned from attending various social events because of my lack of effort in school. By the end of 10th grade, I had grown distant from my main group of friends just because I essentially never hung out with them outside of school so there was a lot of missing shared-experiences.

As a parent now, I have no idea what they could have done differently. My own personal nightmare is one of my kids acting like I did (despite my parents saying I was the "easy kid")...
They _should_ be like criminal proceedings, but actually operate as civil actions. Civil Asset Forfeiture - it's right there in the name.
Will poke around at this later, but it looks very cool at least X)

In addition to the default project - maybe also have a random/shuffle option (and consider having the default project randomized, or load from a set of curated random configurations). Maybe "random" could only be applied to parameters

And a slight bug report - the "[] Legend" box in the bottom right corner obscures error messages when a parameter "box" is missing a connection. I'd also consider having that highlight the specific node/box/etc. that's got an issue - if you make something very complex, you'll be scrolling around, zooming in and out, quite a bit to find the specific named object.

And a question - is there a way to delete an object?

(sorry if any of that sounded on the harsh side - was trying to provide constructive feedback with enough detail to be useful, but that length can come off "ranty"...)
Quite right on optogenetics, that's the other way round.

I should have been specific but I didn't mean what scientists think is useful but what the general public thinks will change how we understand the brain, andrhe most popular news in the last couple years relating to brain imaging and BCIs is surely Neuralink. Certainly neuroscientists know their own business better than that.

The V1 stuff is what I was referring to, in that there are coherent and common pathways for recognizing low level details like contours. As I recall it is just way more purposefully structured than the more generalized frontal cortex areas. Definitely not suggesting we have achieved anything like complete understanding, or even what complete understanding would look like!
I took objectiv for a test drive a couple of days ago in our React application. It was pretty easy to get up and running. As soon as the data comes in you can use it directly with familiar tools such as a jupyter notebook. Pretty cool!
Unfortunately, it's just a matter of time before someone gets severe complications for whatever outcome your program gets wrong. You have a false negative? Big problem, you just gave someone worse treatment options (if lucky) or led to someone being diagnosed too late and potentially getting metastasized breast cancer. Those bone metastases are quite painful, you know.

False positives are even worse, because they are far far far more likely to happen in practice. Imagine your program telling someone it has a malignant mass (VERY bad wording, only the pathologist can say something is malignant). I speak from experience that this WILL lead to the patient going to the doctor, and the doctor, seeing these very strong words, might want to take a biopsy to confirm the malignancy. These are painful procedures that can and will go wrong, eventually (complication rate is ~1%, which is not a whole lot on its own, but is unacceptable on a known healthy population). If lucky, the biopsy can be done stereotactical, but if unlucky it'll have to be done MRI-guided. You just cost society a few thousand dollars/euros/yuan. And that's if everything goes right, worst case it'll be hospital admission due to complications, like an infection.

Your blog post says you are trying to fight cancer, which is a noble cause. If the tool is not for diagnostical purposes, it's not doing a whole lot in fighting cancer as it is just a play thing then. At the moment, it's more like hindering cancer by taking resources from people who need them and giving them to people who don't need them.

Source: researcher in AI for breast cancer screening/diagnosis.
> For example; the overtime laws just create incentive to work more than 40 hours a week.

They create incentive not to allow workers to work more than 40 hour weeks.

> On average US workers work much more than other OECD countries

That's because the US has low minimum wage / cost of living compared to other OECD countries and relatively week social support systems.
That's not the definition given though. That's why I'm saying if That's the definition we're using, then it could be applied to just about anything.
It’s been a few decades, though I recall Rand’s antagonists fully believing in the protagonist’s chance of success - and actively discouraging it.

To me there’s a distinction between this and disbelief.
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Get good at leetcode because it's not that hard and the best way to make tons of money as a young person.
it look like a lot of people here doesn't understand RedHat's business.

when billions is on the line, companies doesn't want you to google/stackoverflow for days. they want the problem solved in hours. that's where RedHat come in.

its like auto insurance, you are paying for nothing until a fatal crash happened.
> Silicon Valley and its satellites seem to disproportionately favor code interviews compared to the rest of the US market, for some ungodly reason.

I work at a well known SV tech company with about 3k ppl and we got over 50,000 job applications last year. Code interviews suck, but they're a scalable way to assess skill with minimal bias.
I couldn't care less about leetcode, I literally have done less than 10 leetcode exercises in my life. I have been getting hefty pay bumps every 1-2 years since I graduated, and there are no signs that curve is flattening. FOSS / side projects and soft skills seem to be pretty underrated by most developers.
Both communities define themselves by their opposition to mainstream establishments that find them destructive.
Can you please clarify what you mean by "mito is open-source"?

Last time I checked the code was under a proprietary license.

Edit: I found in another comment below that mito is now available under GPL license here: https://github.com/mito-ds/monorepo/blob/dev/LICENSE

Edit2: Just saw your answer now - thanks for the clarification and links!
I would not trust Scott Alexander on real science. He's a pseudo scientific hack with an agenda
There is a sizeable contingent in education that ascribes to the theory that learning styles is mostly bunk. The differences in outcomes for students taught with a preferred learning style vs students taught with their least preferred learning style is consistently quite small. There is also the practical consideration that teaching each student in their preferred of n teaching styles requires n times the instruction time. A large number of educators believe you get best results by just letting the teacher pick the approach to teaching they are most comfortable with.
wow, really gross that they don't take vitals
> The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

That's great and all, but how did they ass-pull the third trimester restriction? Courts recognizing rights not explicitly found in the Constitution is what the 9th amendment permits. But to ass-pull a restriction to a right, when that restriction isn't found in the Constitution or any law passed by congress? Is that really what the 9th Amendment is about? That's hard to swallow if so. What if SCOTUS ass-pulls a restriction to the 1st Amendment and says it never applies to computers? Is that the sort of thing the 9th Amendment permits?