skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a documentary about a guy in Michigan who had the idea to purchase all of the blighted, abandoned homes so he could tear them down and restore the area as a community farm (or something like that). The locals flipped the fuck out, apparently they didn't want anyone solving the blight and drug problems in the area. To them he was rich, and that meant he had to be stopped. Took him years to convince people that he wasn't the devil. Turns out their only real opinion was that change made them nervous.
That makes more sense than simply "pricing data" which is the focus of the article.
Huh, that's interesting. The Android team was absolutely hounding me for an interview back in ~2009, to the degree of finding my parents' home phone number and asking them to convince me to take an interview.

I reluctantly obliged, and had a couple of phone screenings where they said they were looking for experienced embedded systems developers for low-level hardware development. I was specializing in 8-bit microcontroller firmware and Linux kernel drivers, and the recruiter said it was exactly what they wanted.

When I took the first technical interview, they grilled me on MapReduce and cluster storage, and then asked me to design a collaborative text editor for the web. The interviewer didn't have a copy of my resume, hadn't seen it, didn't know what position he was interviewing for, and didn't know anything about hardware. We had a really awkward moment when I explicitly said, "there must be some mistake, I'm supposed to be interviewing for an embedded role." I bombed the hell out of that interview, and never heard back from them again.

If my experience was typical, then no wonder the Android team had trouble with staffing.
[any] project that is longer than a politician's term
will leave them open to sound bites they can't recover
from. It puts them in a position at reelection time
of having all the cost, and none of the payoff.

Yeah, this is my take. We've designed a system in which literally all that matters is continually preparing for the next election, which is typically not more than four years away for any politician.

I challenge anybody who thinks this is okay to take a long, hard look at their own lives and think about what they've accomplished in the last four years. Hell, it took me three years just to get my garage door replaced for a variety of reasons.

Four years might have been enough time to do something meaningful back when a mayor's biggest project might have been, I don't know, installing new hitching posts for horses on Main St. It's not enough time to do anything today, and that's why nothing gets done.

And yet, I don't know the answer. Longer terms for politicians seems like they would create as many problems as they would solve.
> As one of those who commented on the first article [1], I would still like to figure out how his problem could be solved from first principles if it isn't interpreted as depression.

I think your parent's point wasn't "these are the wrong first principles to bring to the attempt to solve their problem", but rather "no-one who's only read this post is in a position meaningfully to try to solve their problem" (setting aside whether that's even the right goal).
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The article only makes assumptions and I guess a debugging session would also stimulate brain regions needed for higher thoughts. Perhaps different ones of course. But there certainly are people that basically do nothing when alone and very creative people on the other hand. It would be surprising if the negative effects were the same.

On the other hand even as a passionate programmer I see some form of mental decay in people describing debugging as fun. It can be fun but it probably shouldn't.
Even if you think you use database-agnostic SQL unless you actually run tests with multiple DBMS you cannot be sure. One can write code which depends on some DB specific behavior unintentionally, Hyrum's Law [1] works for databases too.

[1] https://www.hyrumslaw.com/
You might be thinking of the "genetically enhanced" Uruk Hai orcs created by Saruman.
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Good point. I'm wondering whether they intend on placing the battery in the keyboard compartment, and perhaps carry the power wires next to the hinges.

Can't really tell from the CAD renders, but I can imagine there may be some space still left there.
Without reading the linked article: they have accounted for this by following up for 12 years and finding that isolated people have 26% higher risk of dementia. Which points to the direction that it's isolation causing the function loss and not simply a lack of function causing isolation. (Though, of course, that direction may very well be there too.)
I read somewhere that the movie business runs sophisticated algos/ml to maximise reach of upcoming movies. Makes sense, given how expensive and complicated those projects are. Unfortunately end-products end up entirely forgetful
The updated version gives me this (after successful setup with the example alien thing):

UnfilteredStackTrace Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-2-0e20e3adf861> in <module>()
2
----> 3 image = generate_image_from_text("alien life", seed=7)
4 display(image)

67 frames
UnfilteredStackTrace: TypeError: lax.dynamic_update_slice requires arguments to have the same dtypes, got float16, float32.

The stack trace below excludes JAX-internal frames.
The preceding is the original exception that occurred, unmodified.

--------------------

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

TypeError Traceback (most recent call last)
/content/min-dalle/min_dalle/models/dalle_bart_decoder_flax.py in __call__(self, decoder_state, keys_state, values_state, attention_mask, state_index)
38 keys_state,
39 self.k_proj(decoder_state).reshape(shape_split),
---> 40 state_index
41 )
42 values_state = lax.dynamic_update_slice(

TypeError: lax.dynamic_update_slice requires arguments to have the same dtypes, got float16, float32.
We are just stalled as a society. Brazil is quite similar. All the legislators are having a lot of problem moving forward in either direction. This is not a problem with the system and it is not one party to take the blame alone.

Until people find the middle ground or convince the other side, being stalled is not the worst solution. Dictatorship, civil war, and most other alternatives are worst than stalling legislation.

Take carbon tax as an example. I myself believe human action is destroying the environment and I want to reverse it. But I do not think carbon tax is the way, and I know many moderates on the same position as I am. How about removing all incentives first before imposing punishment? How about triple the nuclear plants, that are safer than never with newer tech, and make it impossible financially to justify carbon based electricity generation? There are dozens of ways to take the first steps without punishing people and getting more money in the government hands. Carbon tax is just shifting money from one hand to the other, and other bad actors will do something bad with it. I prefer to fix this with less money and less power to governments. And there you go. Better stalled than move forward in the wrong direction.
It's a bit weird to call a future product "better" when it being "better" relies on availability of a SoM that you'll also be able to get with the Laptop when it becomes available. I very much doubt they'll sell the Pocket with SoMs they aren't also selling with the Laptop.
Kind of criminal that I have to scroll this far down to see someone mention Saruman industrializing the Shire.
Well, then you guys have to do something because, honestly, some famous cities in the US are in a deplorable state.

You know what your problems are and you don't even have to come up with anything new or revolutionary, as solutions are already invented and tested.

The US can build public housing and can manage it properly. The money is there, and it has already been done (built, not managed properly). Mix public housing with transit oriented development, mix-use zones, more lax private development and you'll get nice neighborhoods for modal income people which is what's really important.

As for cars, you can build multi-story car parks with commercial and/or residential development on top too. Not cheap but necessary given your constraints.

The US has IMO very strong civil society organizations. Take advantage of that and go advocate for this.
Compared to the very lucrative job of digging for coal...
They had to write code pixel by pixel, timing the beam generation as the TV signal swept across the screen.

My buddy Howard wrote one in just a few weeks, but normally it took months to finish a title. He did it as a challenge to meet a movie debut deadline. Not a great game, but it had a display and controls and moves and scores.
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But clearly thats not strictly “English” or “British”. The mythos of Nationalism was strong in Tolkiens time (which sorta continue to this day). Every “Nation” needed a homogeneous population with a shared culture and strong bonds that bind them together; one way of doing this was to appeal to an origin myth.
I’m being recruited to interview at Amazon but I’m not great at timed tests; I do best when I can spend a few days thinking about a problem, researching best practices and proofing code snippets. I guess I’d likely bomb the interview, though I’ll still take a look at the preparatory materials.

Meta/Facebook has a hiring freeze right now, as do some units of Netflix and Amazon. Maybe it’s not a great time to be seeking a position in a FAANG anyway, except for a few elite positions. Feels like that ship has sailed.
I expected Terry English [1] to be on that list, but he wasn't. Very cool anyway of course!

I love the kind of thinking that makes someone switch into a job they know is extinct, from "the outside" (i.e. not being born into it), that is really taking a chance at doing something fun and worthwhile.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_English
> in _medieval_ fanatsy setting, there are no pump guns

well, if there was pump guns, it wouldn't be a medieval setting anymore, as you need some industrial base to manufacture them, industrial base which isn't exactly compatible with a medieval setting. Not to say you can't have guns in fantasy (Pillars of Eternity and Warhammer fantasy come to mind), but they are usually more primitive.
Disclaimer 1: Opinions are my own, not Google's.

Disclaimer 2: I interviewed with Google twice, and I was hired twice. This might bias me.

Are we talking about interviews by FAANG, or interviews by startups that cargo-cult FAANG? In my experience as a candidate (twice) and as an interviewer (O(100) times), I was never asked, or asked, the kind of Leetcode question people love to hate.

The questions involve a whiteboard, yes; and they involve reasoning about algorithms and writing code, yes; and I don't see anything wrong with that. I see people putting down whiteboard interviews and people almost proudly saying their job consists of gluing together fragments of StackOverflow code they don't fully understand, and that just won't cut it at a FAANG, so you need to know what kind of candidate you're dealing with.

The most complex my go-to question gets is very basic recursion and very simple caching. A surprising fraction of the candidates I interview, who always have a nice-looking CV and have gone through recruiter and phone screening, can't do basic recursion and basic caching. I'm not asking a trick question, you don't need to remember an obscure factorial formula to find the optimal solution, none of that crap.

Recursion and caching. Table stakes, IMO. You can get away with not grokking recursion and caching for some kind of role where you can copy-and-paste StackOverflow answers and random tutorials, but you probably won't do well as a SWE in a FAANG where you're handed a vague feature request and you're expected to deliver a feature that will be used by a billion people by the end of the quarter.

Not saying that every feature requires recursion, caching, and complexity analysis, but these kind of skills are a good indicator of whether you're the copy-and-paste variety or the build-something-new variety, and it's important to know which one the candidate is.

Now if you're interviewing for a startup whose product serves a small number of users and you're asked the tricky gotcha Leetcode questions for no good reason, sure, that's dumb. But don't hate the good use cases just because the cargo-culters get it wrong.
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My business partner Tom, it was a 'cocktail' version of Asteroids. A glass-topped cocktail table with controls on two sides and the screen under the glass.

He ended up writing a disassembler for the roms and hacking it to give infinite lives. Still has it in his basement. 40 years of coding.
My personal pet theory is that they select for people willing to put up with completely pointless bullshit, since that's what you'll be faced with every day in gigantic companies like this.
Because they don’t care to vary from what’s easy to find and wear for most people.
I don't think all the Kingdoms of Men would have turned their noses up at a few cartloads of nice Dwarven culverin, regardless of what the Dwarves themselves (or those snooty elves) thought of them.
Ah you're right, modern scholars are leaning as you say. Let me repair my comment saying that Bach could have played all WTC in equal temperament had he wanted. Thanks for completing.
Freiwirtschaft...
Wealth of the Ignorant
Companies have tried for years [0] to make progress here and none of these problems (ghosting, refresh time, price) have proved solvable given the quantity of units demanded. I wonder if anything has changed or if this is just an exploratory survey that precedes any of those advances

0: https://cloudconfusing.com/2020/02/07/e-ink-monitors-ready-f...
Not a CS guy: These animations are always nice, but which of all the sorting algos are actually used in practice?
Maybe physical distribution still has some advantages. Instead of sending DVD/BR by mail lets sell disk and drive in the cloud?

I know that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aereo failed in supreme court by trying to argue they were renting remote antenna/tuner. The difference is:

1 they were leasing

2 it was OTA broadcasts, made them look like a cable company

What if you could buy a movie disk and a dedicated drive. After your first purchase you would have right to resell it back to company (at a fixed price) or anybody else wanting to watch it with a drive in same data center at whatever price you wish (open market). Subscription would cover power/colocation and egress VPN. No Video streaming would be taking place - your drive would be mounted remotely over the network and work with any DVD/BR player.

Would that survive lawsuits?
Energy-hungry data centers are quietly moving into cities
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> It's still a thing even today with shit like html escaping; I don’t understand why we’re so explicit on so many things in programming, and then as soon as we try talking to another system we just drop everything back to stringly typed nonsense

To be fair, most web-browsers today supports Content Security Policy[1], where you can explicitly declare that NO, nothing inside this HTML is ever allowed to be executed as code. The only code allowed comes from script tags, from these domains, which you may optionally require to match a specific hash.

It's not that hard.

Ofcourse the application has to be built to deliver the front-end payload that way for this to work, but it's not exactly rocket-science.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CSP
Instead of blaming people for trying to live in clean and peaceful places, try to figure out why low income housing projects in Vienna or Amsterdam don’t decay into dens of crime and despair in a way those same places in US do.

This right here. How have we constructed a system in which we can pour thousands of man-hours and millions of dollars into a neighborhood and make it a worse place? That's the big question, and until it's answered I can't blame people for voting in their own best interests.
If we're talking about wish-lists, encoding performance on low-power IoT devices, maybe? It has decent SIMD support on ARM/x86 and tweakable complexity settings, but if your device is weaker than an ESP32, you'll be hard-pressed to encode audio in real time, even on the lowest complexity.

The new kids on the block in the speech encoding/real time communications space (Google Lyra/Microsoft Satin) have fancy AI models, promise decent quality in ultra-low bitrates (3-6kbps), but don't look like they're any easier to run on micro controller.
And this is supposed to be a good thing?
I tend to agree with the gist of the comments that say, "If you have to ask, you are not ready." Yet I also hate to gatekeep people, so I'd recommend changing your approach to be less about, "who should I follow?", and more along the lines of: "Who could I contact to start to learn the industry?"

Ultimately, that is your goal - to learn the industry, understand what problems exist, which are solved, and which need help, and find a niche where your talents can fulfill a need. Following people is a tool to reach that goal, but only one tool of many. Seek other ways to achieve the goal and you not only will likely have more success, but your questions will be taken more seriously.
That’s just false. The $500M is just as much worth it for Google (to prevent a huge huge lawsuit) then for Mozilla. I really don’t see why would it incentivize bad things (I would worry much much more about a browser vendor having the biggest adnetwork, but to each their own).
> they gave you a number like you were Patrick McGoohan. It'd be like 71477,134

So nice. I bloody wish we still had numeric IDs instead of email addresses and nicknames.
It may not be lucrative now, but it was needed to launch the industrial revolution.
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> Never do they mention the price data. After doing some research...

Can you share your research? Because the cease and desist letter they link to clearly says "images and data"...
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I went through this process at 52, i.e. not with all the algorithms still fresh in my mind from college. Also, this was despite the fact that I already knew what team I was being hired into ("hard allocated" in FB lingo and very rare) and had already proven my relevant skills by being a maintainer for the open-source project the team was built around. I didn't prepare, and had no trouble passing.

The interviewers did a pretty decent job within the constraints they were given, but it really was an almost complete waste of time for all of the reasons others mention. Even for a junior developer - who the process is designed for - it barely seemed to touch on the skills they'd actually need to succeed there or anywhere. Maybe it also weeds out impostors among those with no searchable record, but if that's the purpose then such an interview should only be done in those cases and skipped for those who have plenty of evidence that they can do the work.

The design interviews were more useful IMO, and less skippable, but those don't seem to be the topic here.
There was an industrial revolution, but it was being developed at Isengard/Orthanc (saruman tower) and at Barar Dur.

The middle earth kingdoms (Rivendel, Gordon, Rohan), were feudal domains with little incentive to change.

Fortunately for the kingdoms, their counterparts were also corrupted totalitarian regimes without balance of power.
You seem to be seriously saying you trust all governments and corporations to always penalize, imprison, and murder the correct people and we should give them as much data as possible to make them efficient in doing so.

I honestly can not tell if you are a troll or a psychopath.
> A company makes security seals for this very purpose and markets them under the name "TamperTell". They have a serial number on them and a matching receipt tab that you remove before flight then check against on arrival.

I wouldn't put too much trust into the marketing of products like this. Time and time again they fail to protect against the most basic of "lockpicking", and unless I've seen multiple skilled people failing at unlocking the "TamperTell", I'd put it in the same bucket as the rest.

> DEF CON 18 (2010) held the first ever "Tamper Evident" contest, where contestants were given a box sealed with a variety of tamper evident devices, many of which purport to be "tamper proof." All of these devices were defeated, even by those with little experience and a limited toolkit. Like the computer world, many of these devices are overmarketed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W07ZpEv9Sog
Surprisingly, it's pretty varied, but Timsort and quicksort are pretty common in language implementations.

I don't know that people are reimplementing these in practice all that often rather than using std library but writing and comparing them was part of my earliest CS education at least.
Numenor always sounded like a reference to the United States; virgin land blessed with immense resources, ideal conditions for a centralized power to grow wealthy materially and dominate the rest of middle earth.

I doubt if they had “industry”; they probably had “advanced feudalism” with large capacity for shipbuilding and manufacturing arms. But that was because of the large continent and population. In a sense, its more similar to the Roman Empire.
Slack supports it, though I suspect most enterprises (on Slack and elsewhere) use SSO instead, if they’re actually paying for the enterprise tier.
I left the interaction feeling thankful.

* I was thankful I have good parents who set boundaries and expectations.

* They made me work for things I wanted, and they punished me when I was wrong.

* They set good examples of how to act and how to treat others. And because of my parents, my golf partners don’t worry about me impaling them with my three wood in a blind fit of rage.

My parents left me well instructed—a gift that money can’t buy. When the time comes, I’ll do the same with my children. Because a society of temper tantrum throwing, golf club breaking hooligans isn’t one where we want to live. And if we all do our part, we won’t have to.
> lack of interest in social relationships, a tendency toward a solitary or sheltered lifestyle, secretiveness, emotional coldness, detachment and apathy.

> Affected individuals may be unable to form intimate attachments to others and simultaneously possess a rich and elaborate but exclusively internal fantasy world.

> stilted speech

> a lack of deriving enjoyment from most activities.

> feeling as though one is an "observer" rather than a participant in life.

> an inability to tolerate emotional expectations of others,

> a degree of asexuality.

>idiosyncratic moral or political beliefs.

> Symptoms typically start in late childhood or adolescence.

Jesus, TIL I might have a Schizoid personality disorder.
Why does smash-and-grab continue to work? Why wasn't that protected by lexan or something?
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Inkplate (https://e-radionica.com/en/inkplate.html) might work for you. It's still something you have to program yourself, but it's fairly streamlined.
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