skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While providing a syntactically correct, optimal solution to a given problem is important (this was reiterated many times during my recent interview process at a FAANG), it is also important to be able to demonstrate the ability to synthesize an approach to solving a problem to which you don't already know the answer. That is, how to solve a problem.

These questions, while certainly aimed at identifying core competency areas, are also an opportunity for the candidate to demonstrate an aptitude for problem solving. Nobody really cares "how many piano tuners operate in Seattle". What they care about is, given that kind of question, how a candidate responds. You might be surprised by the number of people totally unable to even generate a reasonable estimate:

- How many people live in Seattle?
- What percentage have pianos?
- How often does a piano need tuning?
- How long does it take to tune a piano?
- How many pianos can be tuned per work day (given commuting time)?
- etc.. driving towards a number.

Did the candidate attack the problem and even attempt to solve it? Did they use metrics? The list goes on... Most LC-style questions (save the "aha! moment" ones) have a similar impetus, but are also much more practical and efficient because they test for many things at once.

And if I'm being honest... most FAANGs aren't looking for engineers that require quiet and time to solve problems. They are looking for elite engineers who can write a solution nearly as fast as the problem is presented (I'm obviously exaggerating a little bit here). The difficulty of the questions presented to me (6 technical interviews) were what I consider semi-trivial. I was able to describe the solution-space within seconds of reading the prompt and code an optimal solution nearly as fast as I could type in all cases. It honestly made me wonder about how poorly the average programmer must perform such that these were the questions they needed to evaluate my potential.

Another commenter posted this article [0] about the interviewing philosophy back in the early '00s. I found it very enlightening, and reassuringly, while reading through it I knew the answer to nearly every question (and could expand upon the topics) just off the top of my head. I'm not trying to sound arrogant here but the idea that a FAANG, who pays top-dollar for engineers, would settle for "10 years experience" as a suitable replacement for "demonstrates ability" is what's absurd. A false positive is way more costly than a false negative.

[0] https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/five-essential-pho...
"The main provider of map data is TomTom, but data is also supplied by Automotive Navigation Data, Getchee, Hexagon AB, IGN, Increment P, Intermap Technologies, LeadDog, MDA Information Systems, OpenStreetMap, and Waze."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Maps#Features
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sometimes i feel the whole market resembles ponzi. things getting expensive because there is a promise of price rising and more people getting into the market.
Isn't the better solution for most users a GUI tool like Avidemux?[1] The point being that those who want to use the command line are precisely the people who need to understand all its complexity.

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[1] https://avidemux.org. Avidemux has a "built-in libavcodec library from FFmpeg (i.e. Avidemux contains its own copy of libavcodec, external FFmpeg is not used)"
I've been using ffmpeg-python recently, and it will do a lot of the crazy complex transforms for you, and you can write sane python code vs. trying to deal with the crazy default ffmpeg syntax.

https://github.com/kkroening/ffmpeg-python
The cheapest Tesla, while expensive for what it is, is not that much more expensive than any other mid-range car. Is it really a status symbol?
This is a declarative kubectl command.
> http://abbym.io/

Sounds interesting, but it seems there's nothing on this page?
Google is fk'ed if wide-scale ad blocking really picks up. For example ISP-level adblocking.
Clearly I'm implying drinking alcohol and smoking weed.

That said, I do think there is much work to be done in the cannabis cocktail area. Flavor wise there is a lot of unexplored possibility, the major challenge in this space is ensuring dosage is correct since the effects of each substance are felt on such different time lines. You don't want to start feeling a bit too drunk and realize that the weed hasn't even hit you yet.

Cannabis oil fat washing is probably the best approach to this (but fairly expensive to experiment with). While going the tincture direction seems obvious, I think that's going to have too little flavor and too much THC.

If anyone has an links to people working in this space I'd be happy to have them.
This is already the current state of affairs. The state has a DMV site which is controlled by the DMV where they post all the information you probably need to know about the DMV, the online processes to do things on it, etc. If you want to talk about it, you can feel free to share a link to it anywhere you want.

For example, the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles website, available at https://www.txdmv.gov/ . They host the site, well, they pay contractors to manage and run the site. The Texas DMV controls the content on the site; companies like Facebook or Discord can't control what the State of Texas wants to publish on it.

They're making more vanity license plates, and so they have example designs and polls related to the designs on the site here: https://www.txdmv.gov/motorists/license-plates/eview we can share this link with our friends and family through Facebook, Twitter, Discord, WhatsApp, Signal, SMS, iMessage, LINE, your own personal blog, whatever you want.
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Key conclusion: "observational studies of interventions with small to moderate effect sizes are prone to bias caused by selection and omitted variables."

Surprisingly few interventions are so good that you don't need fancy statistics to justify them. Really good treatments (e.g. antibiotics) are so effective as to be obvious to all.
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- Sieve: AI infrastructure & APIs for developers to process and understand visual data, from former Scale/NVIDA engineers.

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While the article leads early on with “the laws history” as the justification, that's not really accurate, it's really about the plain language of the law, and the consideration of history is just why the court didn't narrow the definition from what the plain text of the law says.

The plain text of the law, as noted later in the article, defines “fish” as used in granting authority to the Commission as “a wild fish, mollusk, crustacean, invertebrate, amphibian, or part, spawn, or ovum of any of those animals.”

(It's fairly common for news articles to lead with a constructed, controversy-stimulating narrative in the first few paragraphs and then have the facts that undercut that narrative later in the article.)
Why is solar bad?
I'm fairly useless at IC work right now with two kids under 5. I was getting smarter again as the first got more independent and I got more sleep, but now we have another newborn. Just hoping I can coast on previous accomplishments until either I move full-time to management or the kids get older and I'm able to think straight again.
Impact of DNA mutations on lifelong blood cell production uncovered
iirc there were two studies that included audience preference and performer preference, and the truth is the sound is typically average for a high end violin, there are much better contemporary offerings.
Nice point: I would find it hard to believe that any cleric would certify Kosher / Halal for a dirty, low quality, hole-in-the wall.
This is for everyone else since hindsight is 20/20, but heavy and consistent cardio exercise can help prevent issues like this. That and keeping your weight on the lighter side.
Whether the universe is a simulation is unknowable, but the universe could consist of thought. If so, this research is dangerous; like the Trinity nuclear test, the conflagration could alter our neighborhood of the universe.

I had a pretty convincing revelation last night that the simulation was run by insects. I could only get back to sleep by ridiculing myself for such a derivative thought. Or is there a reason it's universal?
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>The institutional owners of property may end up taking a haircut.

This is exactly why Mayor Adams wants people to come back to the office in NYC. NYC derives a big chunk of change from taxing corporate offices, and if the value goes down then NYC loses out on a lot of money.
It's probably better to outsource manual map updates to OpenStreetMap
I'm in my 40s and feel sharp, with some evidence to back that up (such as career success and learning new things well). I believe these things help me stay sharp: I prioritize sleep. I try to get exercise (most often running) every day. I try to write every day; I write about ideas (typically new ideas in math or philosophy). I often read something I'm learning, such as a math book, something for work, or learning a new language. I meet weekly (online) with someone who's teaching me a new language - in this case French, but I think what's important is to keep learning. My work presents new technical challenges regularly, and I made a life decision to change my work whenever I feel burnout approaching.

To address other comments: I have two young kids, and I've been a single dad since my youngest was 3. Some commenters speak as if having kids kills your work or thinking life. This is partially true for the first year because of sleep depravation. And it's a new level of difficulty in terms of organizational demand on your life. It's harder. But it doesn't kill your mental abilities, and in fact I'm a happier person with my kids around, which gives me more motivation and life satisfaction. I've been able to solo run a successful bootstrapped startup while being a single dad. It's difficult and requires focus and deliberate life organization, but it's possible, and in fact quite rewarding and nice.

(Also, maybe the above makes it sound like I've had zero problems, but that's not true. It's been a long journey to figure out my priorities, with many mistakes and setbacks to being where I want to be. I have had times when I felt mentally less sharp, and worked to recover from those.)
Hey, author here of this Show HN post. I appreciate all the comments on the post, but I would appreciate if content you post is on topic. I love the discussion about HN culture but I don't think it's relevant to this post, and it's quite overwhelming to read so many comments. If you'd like, you can start your own discussion on HN about this rule (as long as it is along the HN guidelines).

Other than that, thank you so much for all the awesome feedback, it's really appreciated :)
It came off to me as "VDOMs as a whole are obsolete and a waste of time, including your project that you're excitedly showing us, so you should just give up on it". Which isn't just insensitive, it's not even really correct. There are much better ways this alternate approach could have been brought up for genuine discussion if that was their goal.
You literally have to or you risk losing your trademark.

Patents and copyright you can not enforce if you choose not to but trademarks are a different animal.
> so I think

You can think anything you want. What can you prove? Because a single anecdote about a single institution in a single circumstance is hardly the basis for making systemic policy decisions.
and some require a TS !!
funny that wasn't mentioned...
> I don’t think normalizing the situation is good in anyway

Portugal thinks otherwise.

- https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radic...
Portrait of the Human as a Young Hominin – Science Connected
FYI, Symantec endpoint proection flags this as having "WS.Reputation.1" spyware. Which I think translates to them not being paid off sufficiently.
And trying to expel humans after seeing them in action.
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> “I think I was wrong then about the path that inflation would take,” she told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “There have been unanticipated and large shocks that have boosted energy and food prices, and supply bottlenecks that have affected our economy badly that I ... at the time, didn’t fully understand.”

We put a bunch of money into the economy as a response to Covid. More money means prices go up. But we put in a fixed amount of money, so there should have been a fixed amount of inflation.

The real explanation here is that there is less stuff! International trade is a hot mess right now and things are just literally more expensive because we have become materially poorer.
You'll excuse me if I'm a bit skeptical of the romanticized lifestory version.
> You're just trying to make the man you're a fan of look good by pretending he does things he hasn't done

I'm not parent, but it sounds like you might have the causality of this backwards. Parent wouldn't be a fan in the first place if he didn't think that he's done good things.
The third party buildpacks work totally fine.
I don't understand why this is a big deal. He wants to run his company like this. You guys don't want to work at a company like this. Neither of you wants the other but you're upset by this?
> Free mapping existed before Google Maps.

Not sure if free mapping really existed as an accessible (mobile) product, considering that nearly everyone had to buy the mapdata from dedicated companies (Navteq and TeleAtlas dominated the market, Navteq was later acquired by Nokia, TeleAtlas by TomTom)

In any case, free NAVIGATION didn't exist until Google Maps came along, completely disrupting the whole industry of "casual" Navigation solutions.
Hardware wasn't even the issue, companies worked out profitable compact hardware solutions, introduced different tiers from Entry to Premium and in parallel TomTom (and Wayfinder et al) started to offer Navigation as a subscription service directly and as white-label via mobile carriers, with applications for J2ME, Windows PPC, Series60 (Nokia, Samsung,..), Symbian UIQ (Sony, Motorola).
They had a robust offering, quality maps and plenty of added datasets like POI, speed-information, radar-warning,... (anyone remembers the celebrity voice packages?)

Then Google opened Navigation as public beta, grabbed a huge chunk of this market and later added offline maps to grab another chunk of it (for navigation in international roaming).
The quality was far below any competitor, but it was free and for occasional use totally sufficient...
It depends on how you manage your changes. A lot of people don't have their infra-as-code manage the deployment's image field--rather, that's updated by the application's CD pipeline. There's no drift to worry about.
Reads like science fiction becoming reality. In particular, the science fiction series by Hannu Rajaniemi (Quantum Thief, Fractal Prince, Causal Angel) has 'natural computational substrates' as one of its themes.

This all seems to exist on the borderland between discrete and continuous mathematics, which is a pretty fascinating topic. Digital systems rely on discrete mathematics, while things like fluid dynamics are much more in the world of continuous smooth functions. It seems as if they're really building an interface between the two concepts.
It looks almost too stupid to believe they really assumed pediatric cases will be different. Vast majority of covid cases among kids are asymptomatic and never detected, masking for kids is not about protecting them, it's about protecting their parents and especially grandparents from the covid infection they could bring from school.
Really poor way to do it, since the people with the lowest cost to leaving are the ones that Tesla probably wants to stick around the most.