skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't change what I said. Every class of functions that has the universal approximation property can be used to "learn" from data. This is what statistical learning is about. You can use trees, random forests, piecewise linear functions, multidimensional adaptive regression splines (MARS), multidimensional fourier series or wavelets, radial basis functions, the list goes on and on. And people have been using all these methods with success.

The idea that the universal approximation theorem is something special about neural networks is completely wrong.

Deep learning is valuable because it represents a class of functions closed under composition. That allows it to discover features at different scales.

You can in principle add composability to other classes of functions. You would end up with deep splines, for example. Or deep radial basis functions, or deep wavelets. And people have tried those, but it just didn't take off. It was probably the advantage of the first mover. Deep NN's turned out to be useful, people built a large ecosystem for them, and then other deep things (like deep splines or wavelets) just did not show a significant advantage. Yet.
its hard to comment usefully without any context

- do you want to work with them?
- do you care, or are you just trying to find anything?
- are you busy? that's a lot of interviews, but maybe you have the time?
- how have the interviews been thus far? interesting and high-bandwidth or a confused waste of time

in general through I would be biased pretty strongly against such a company. either they are small and being fussy or huge and don't really have it together. a company is trying to present their best face to candidates - to the point of being actively misleading. if they can't interview candidates without it turning into a shitshow how together do you think they are in general?
If you want the job you should do the interview.

If you don't want the job, don't do the interview.
>1) I bet a far fewer percentage of people use Shakespeare, Steinbeck, or any other literature in their jobs. Is this an argument for eliminating literature from the curriculum? Why or why not?

How do you figure? I think you should prove that one before you try and pin a point to it.
It's actually a bizarre, economically illiterate regulation. Why shouldn't dealers be able to charge whatever they want for vehicles? If they set the price too high, no one will buy the cars.
No. 5 interviews is already outrageous enough. Show them you value your time by refusing another interview.
> Of course, the first thing that comes to mind is what happens if better solutions are found.

Didn’t the EU previously mandate micro USB A? I believe Apple included an adapter in the box for all EU SKUs.

Edit: it was not compulsory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_external_power_supply
Just to follow up: I watched this entire series and it really captured a lot of the vibe, ingenuity, brutalism, and collaboration that I was hoping for in such a world. Thanks for this recommendation!
It’s a lot easier to remember one specific password. Especially when you need to enter it at regular intervals.
But if we are working four days a week, why not daycare providers? They have jobs that are difficult as well, they would enjoy that extra day off. I just don’t see them staying open and working 5 days a week if everyone else are just working 4. Maybe with extra staff? But staffing is already impossible in that sector.
> I doubt we will need to make a connector that is physically incompatible anytime soon

Didn't USB-C already do that to itself? I suppose that depends on how narrow the definition of "physically incompatible" is. But IIRC you can't buy a perfect do-everything USB-C cable today, because some USB-C use cases are flat out incompatible with others.
I assume the Moon gets quite hot during the 14 day, uh, day?

It's as close to the sun as Earth, with no isolating cloud layer. Then again there is no greenhouse effect, so maybe pure intuition won't figure this out.
Liquid platinum at room temperature: possible revolution in industrial chemistry
> If USB-C is mandated on the phone end:

ever heard of adaptors?

apple loves them and loves charging 29 dollars for them!
Account security is social. It's using social means to solve a social problem, with a technical bridge.
To me JSX is the opposite of what Maud (Kotlinx.html, Elm's HTML lib, Haskell's type-of-html) does. In Maud you write "just code", and "as code". In traditional template engines you have a big string with holes, if-elses and loops. In JSX you write templates as if it is a traditional templating engine, but under the hood it gets translated to JS-code.

Somehow JSX seems to be "worst of both worlds" to me.

Some of these HTML-templates-as-code libs (like Kotlinx.html) are generated from a formal HTML specification. This is really nice, and makes it more type safe (only allow tag nesting that is allowed, and only allow attributes that are allowed; ofcourse with escape hatches).
Doesn't MLM also apply to ponzi schemes and such?
Inflation and Government Digital Currencies
Which xmpp client do you use on the pinephone? How is the support for OMEMO and A/V calls? If there is a Linux phone with great XMPP support there wouldn't be a lot left that keeps me on Android.
If your 2FA was based on the device itself, like an Authenticator app, a new phone with a replacement SIM will not help you.
>5 rounds is insane, and to me it's the mark of a severely dysfunctional company.

Not really. I had 7 rounds for my current role. Granted it's not a coding role, but for many roles that touch many aspects of an organization it's important to meet as many people as possible for both the organization and the interviewee.
See capitalist realism
This is similar to a legal conundrum I once thought of: As a matter of rational jurisprudence, could a woman be prosecuted for drinking while pregnant? Or, at the very least, could either the state or the eventual child sue the mother for medical damages?
I’d recommend against opening salary negotiations before they settle on you. If they have two at this point relatively equal candidates your negotiating power is far lower.
That sucks, that they're not communicating their process well, or not following it.

> Should I go for it? Are they reliable, is it acceptable/worth it? What would you do?

Kind of all depends on your situation.

How have the interviews gone, from your perspective? You have been evaluating the company during them, right? (if not, please start, asking your own questions during interviews is _extremely_ important)

At any sane company, them asking for another interview should mean they're serious, they wouldn't want to spend one of their engineer's time otherwise.

I'd probably just do it, but I'd definitely set a limit for myself (communicating that limit may be a mistake). I'd probably also re-ask what the process is from here, what's the next step(s)?
EU is a densely populated place where having multiple charging networks of incomparable plugs will be horrible.

When you are not happy with decisions the governments make, it usually means that you should be involved in the process of making the decisions.

Europeans don't trust that the industry will always come up with the best solutions for the user, Americans usually don't trust the government doing something well unless it's the military. Let's agree to disagree.

I like that the car plugs are the same everywhere in EU and want it to stay that way and enjoy the Tesla plugs on a trip to USA.
My guess is that the "West" has been king of the high-tech hill for so long that even for those of us who aren't blinkered and blinded by Western-centrism/Western-chauvinism (or tbh just plain parochialism or tribalism) it is difficult to imagine a multi-polar high-tech world.

Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea are integrated into the Western world and, dare I say, feel Western in their outlook/orientation: capitalist, liberal, parliamentary democracies with free and fair elections fwiw. But, clearly, one cannot say the same about mainland China in the last instance. And because m. China has historically been self-reliant, has a massive population (equal to the US, Europe, Japan, Taiwan, and S. Korea combined, surely), has a history of innovation and trade, etc. … the so-called "West" sees itself at an impasse.

Fun times.
In modern world one can`t imagine his life and his every day routine without internet connection,whether on mobile device or on laptop. It`s not just our business that depends on internet connectivity, it`s our pleasure that is now on-line, our free time is on-line, our love and passion we look for on-line.
In today`s world if you do not have social media accounts you practically do not exist.
If Rene Descartes, famous french scientist, mathematician and philosopher lives in modern age, he would have modify his famous sentence from “I think; therefore I am” to "I am on-line, therefore I am". Those are all the reasons why would sudden block or lost of internet signal be treated as a apocalypse or tragedy that is beyond any other dark scenario. Server crashes make serious influence in todays life.
Biggest reason is risk and loans.

Cars typically have pretty predictable depreciation schedule but after you hit a certain point the car could be worth anywhere from scrap value to a few thousand dollars. Few banks are going to write a loan for a 10 year old car, insurance valuations may not cover the loan value in the event of loss and few qualified customers are in the market for an old car.

As a result, you’re limited to cash buyers and parts buyers. Cars that meet whatever the cash buyers value are worth a lot. Even minor variances from whatever the car/truck guys want will take the value from $5-7k to scrap.

State regulations have an impact as well. In New York, all check engine light issues make inspection/registration a no-go. Many repairs exceed the value of a new car. In a place where the state doesn’t do inspections, you can run a beater longer. That circles back to the finance issue - banks won’t write loans for cars that may be pulled off the road.
Very interesting thoughts, thank you for sharing!
I really enjoy some of the optimization details like when the memory overhead of Option<> can be elided completely. Other languages with Options will actually toss data up on the heap that doesn't need to be because it is in a Option and, or at the very least always take up a byte with the tag.

Details like this let you use the safer and more ergonomic solutions by default rather than having to worry if they are worth the overhead.
I sold my pig of a truck. Now I want an EV the $5K local government rebate new or used EV added to a $5K Federal rebate (new EV only) is a big incentive.
This is called "escrow" and is extremely common.
Nice to see that some code I wrote almost 15 years ago is still in use
What does 5 rounds of interviews mean? With remote, I actually prefer that they break up my “in person” day into x separate days so 1 phone screen plus four interviews doesnt seem that bad to me, but I guess it depends on how they’re presenting that. But that was in response to your question as OP scenario is nuts. It absolutely should be transparent up front and a surprise code screen at the end because they forgot something is 100% dysfunctional.
a lot of people use concepts from advanced math routinely

For example?
On the other hand, companies building wholly proprietary infrastructure is just pure e-waste on the back of the citizens of those countries that ALSO limits innovation.

Imagine a world where Ford cars use a different gas nozzle from a GM product in the US. The average person would have to pick and choose stations and if one were to go out of business, the lesser standard would encounter mass disposal and retrofit, all on the backs of consumers. The intent with these products is generally not innovation...it is lock in and licensing fees. The EU law in case here has a committee that reviews the standard yearly and accepts proposals.
Imagine if we had this outlook towards plugs in houses in the US. Standardization is underrated.
Reading charging standards as "weights and measures" is on par with classifying bumblebees as fish.

Not only aren't these strict readings, they aren't even sensible.
30000* Germany.

You get like an entire month paid vacation. Companies are incredibly thirsty for talent there and job security is high. The people are very nice and the job pay isn't worse enough to worry about being poor. Most large cities are within a few hours of whatever small town, so you don't have to be in the middle of a field somewhere if that isn't ideal. And for your kids the education system is waaaaaaay better.

More importantly what does your wife really want?
Like the sibling comment says: we’re currently doing this.
Higher energies are not really feasible without a bigger ring though so we’re increasing the beam intensity (sort of) to produce more physics per time unit. This very likely won’t reveal any new physics processes, but it will allow us to increase the precision in many measurements we do and could allow us to find discrepancies or otherwise increase our understanding of the existing model.

This is effectively a measure to maximize the output we can get from the machine, so to maximize the return in investment.

There’s a lot of debate in the field what should happen next. FCC is one possibility, but I’m personally sceptical (even though I work at CERN myself).

It seems to me there’s a clear need for a Higgs-factory as a follow up to LHC, but that doesn’t have to be a ring collider, a electron positron linear collider could fulfill this purpose as well.
Put it with your will. If you have kids or any amount of savings you should have a will. Store it in two separate locations (your house, and someone else's).
Safety deposit boxes are an unequivocally terrible idea. They have very few safeguards, subject to seizure easily, and contents are uninsured or minimally insured.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20545276

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27106695
I was going to say it depends how much you want the job. If you're talking about the US, you're at very little unemployment, so you have some leverage there. After hearing that this is the SIXTH round with multiple live coding challenges, it sounds like they're not interested in hiring, but are just trying to get free labor out of interviewees.... :D
Join up to 1000 channels

Not sure if I would want that life.
This is super annoying. It's evidence of an immature hiring process, maybe even an immature hiring culture. That does not mean 'bad company' but it is a sign of internal disorganisation and a lack of external market awareness.

your questions:

- Should I go for it?
Up to you obviously

- Are they reliable?
No

- Is it acceptable / worth it?
Unknown

- What would you do?
Depends on whether I have other irons in the fire. If this was my only option and I still like this option, despite being messed around at this stage, then I would stay in process, so long as I could guarantee that I would not hold resentment, as this will come across on coding challenge and further interactions with team.

Good luck, whatever you decide!
I think this is a pretty bad take.

Not all that many companies are doing work for cable standards to begin with, and personally - as a consumer - I very much welcome the standardization on usb-c.

The companies that are doing work on communication standards aren't normally selling the kind of devices covered here to consumers. It's more business to business and military applications. Further, charging in particular is a different beast than communication in general - you're not doing anything other than sending current down the line to fill a battery. there's only so many ways to do that, and I think it makes sense to consolidate them.

Finally - the requirement only states that the device must include a usb-c port for charging. It makes no limitations on manufacturers including additional ports. So even if a direct to consumer device wanted to include a new port - they absolutely could, they just still have to allow filling the battery from usb-c.
This trend is clearly real, but what exactly do you mean “work out how to deal with that?” One of the obvious ways to deal with it, albeit imperfectly, is in fact to keep these technologies as obscure as possible for as long as possible.

Maybe an interesting norm to try to generate in this community would be, “if you plan on publishing attack X, you should publish immediately alongside it your best guess as to the effective counter to X.”
You can store keys generated off-device though. Depends which protocols you care about.
> just very rare

Not really: it is more a matter of "local" (time-space) bubbles, not of individuals. To attempt giving you the idea, I tried a web search for "Bergamo coffins" - I will not offer a selection, I cannot choose. I picked that because the case of Bergamo got famous, as probably the first one, but more were reported (in Brazil, I remember, etc).

In fact, I was not referring to one acquaintance, but many (very many - though, most of them elderly, and yet as healthy as they get). Let me tell you, from time to time I still get asked by skeptics "yes but what exactly did they die from": well, when they die without their lungs, I hold little doubts. This given, as I wrote, I definitely will not rule out that «bad treatments» may have brought the disease statuses to the collapse. What you saw was "normal, infected, healthy, healthy, healthy, worsening, compromised": it consumed them until sudden collapse, when recovery did not work.

Also: I have seen that many reason as if they were afraid of death and not afraid of damage. Some hold exactly opposite weights. And I have heard often, speaking with my local peers, remarks like "he was an Oak - and now he cannot do three steps without gasping". And this also involved young, sporty people.

So, as I am trying to tell, the risks are there, very real, very possible: it's their framing that is, to the best of my knowledge, still mysterious ("old or sick" goes in the direction but remains gross when applied to experience. It has the statistical ineffectiveness that would have you avoid driving a car and only travel by plane).

With the classifications ("died with" vs "died of") a real mess was made in many countries: but this really confused the image, also concealing, as I am trying to convey, the devastation it did there where it did hit hard.

I could say that the emergency management did not speak SAT.
Actually, it is that sidebar navigation which is one of the things bugging me, making the whole RFC harder to read. That said, when I'm implementing, I often refer to the text versions - especially as they're easier to diff.

As to ToC, that 9114 render seems particularly bad for some reason. Whereas this one does have a ToC with links:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4128

That said, if I disable CSS (uMatrix) for the rfc-editor version, the ToC appears inline near the start, and looks a lot nicer. Possibly nicer then than the datatracker render.
This headline as it currently stands ("Dark Sky Has a New Home (2020)") is a bit misleading, as the relevant update was posted June 6, 2022 and is announcing the official sunset date for Dark Sky - not just the acquisition.
> [standup is] not too bad compared to other stressful jobs

My beef with the standup is that it does not serve the developers. It's simply the act of management pulling the oil stick from the engine, wiping it clean and firing the engine up REGARDLESS of what oil levels are present.

So many times I've had the standups used simply as a one-way process. People get their information but theres "no time" to discuss anything at length and the deciders are magically busy all day long afterwards. I don't think its wrong to have brief updates and not get into long-winded discussions during the updates, but if there's not ever time to discuss relevant issues this becomes a social / psychological tactic by deciders / planners to avoid "blowing scope" and "adding additional work" as I have experienced it. Fuck the people working on the thing, we already decided. Stop complaining nerd just sprinkle some PHP on it and get on with your life.

Granted, I am painting a worst-case scenario picture here based on my experiences. The alternative (no check-ins, or hardly ever) is actually worse in my opinion.

The common thread is give-a-shit. Do the people asking for updates actually care or are they simply collecting information to regurgitate to others. One of these two personality types brings value to the organization, which one do you think it is?

I will talk all day to people who are on the same page as me, or people who genuinely care and want to understand.

The ones who actively don't want to understand can go directly in the volcano.
>With their margins they could make the Model 3 priced like that to win market share before other automobile companies catch up.

You've answered your own question: their high gross margins have more to do with accounting differences with OEMS than actual finances. Making cars is expensive.
Roots in blues, and its composition is based on blues paradigms like the pentatonic scale and writing structure, 4/4 or 3/4 time signature. Instrumentation has but is not limited to, at least one electric guitar, bass, drum kit and a vocalist. Song structure will usually adhere to a verse chorus verse chorus bridge trope.
How badly do you need the job? How much BS are you willing to put up with once you start?

This is a sign of chaotic internal processes, not to mention a culture of disrespect toward candidates’ time.

If you get the job, expect work to be regularly dropped in your lap on a Friday afternoon to prep for a meeting on Monday with higher-ups. This meeting will be canceled.

Expect pervasive overconfidence and excessive process (who does six rounds of interviews unless they think they “only hire the best”?).

And, when you need some additional headcount on your team, expect it to arrive sometime the quarter after next, too late to be of much help.

But yeah if you need the paycheck, what are you gonna do?
Work is 80% powerpoint and 20% coding for me. There's no problem with lack of motivation for private projects that involve coding, as long there's some practical usefulness or code is somewhay interesting (why else would private projects exist...)

What is limiting of course is time. Work soaks up too much of it.

But the biggest problem for my list of want-to-create private projects is that the more interesting ones involve some form of soldering, glueing, screwing, ... where I can simply create code without much planning ahead, whenever anything hardware is involved there's something that is stopping me from moving. Too much afraid of failing or something like that.
If they messed up their system, you offer sympathy and assistance. Not your fault or problem.
Exactly. It'll be even worse, I think, because this is what they consider courting. Prepare to be treated like garbage.
That article is linked in the second paragraph of the readme.
> compare cars from 40s-70s to what came after, its a different world

Yeah. we understood that they not only pollute the environment and it's stupid to build cars the size of a starship, but also by 1973 the World (except the US) understood that oil is not for granted and fuel efficiency should be a thing.

Also safety while we are at it, doesn't sound so bad...
He takes soccer classes, will do basketball also in the fall. We are trying to pack his schedule with fun things to do as those things reopen. Going through the 3-5 stage during COVID wasn’t fun.
Serious question for those of you who want to regulate Bitcoin out of existence:

What do you propose to do with those of us who, despite your attestations of its uselessness, have deemed it useful and purchased it with our hard earned money? For example, MSTR has ~$4 billion in Bitcoin on its balance sheet. It purchased it on the free market for reasons that were valid to it. However, you disagree and want to step in and do something about it. What do you propose to do about entities like MSTR?