skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not the role you are applying for. I’ve seen plenty of times where interviews were DS&A and the work was yet another line of business CRUD app. The job I turned down definitely was.

And let’s not pretend that all developers at BigTech are solving “hard problems”. I do have access to code for one of the major cloud providers.
> there should be some way of auditing the accuracy of emulators in general.

Not really (and you don't always want perfect accuracy anyway).

You don't only need to validate the operations of the machine, but also the timing with which it operates.

And I don't mean just the clock/frequency/operations-per-second - it's everything.

Every little chip that performs a calculation, every little wire that sends a message.
Well I live on a farm. Imagine what it looks like when a raccoon tears the heads off your chickens just for sport. Being shot in the head with a 44 after a great life on a bucolic farm is about as humane as it gets.
The world is not going to burn if people use gas heaters. Not using gas heaters does not prevent anything bad from happening, or cause anything good to happen.
Just sucks that slim good build good keyboard & a decent screen send you from $400 decent cimputer turf to $1400+ terrain.

Market segmentation is such a real thing; making low end things with deliberate weaknesses, even though being just a tiny bit spendier on parts like a screen would totally gamechange the experience.
"I know false-alarms like mine will be rare, and the potential life-saving benefit far outweighs the inconvenience of my particular situation. But there has to be a better way to distinguish genuine crashes from phone-smashing mishaps."

Just want to stress that training an ML model is going to be really difficult for this scenario, and false positives are to be expected. It isn't like this was unexpected either given that "the phone flew off its handlebar mount".
Honestly, what is the best case scenario for this feature? Sure, text the police, that’s a great idea, but why give your family extreme anxiety with very little information? What are they supposed to do, rush to the scene of the accident? There’s nothing you can do when you get that text but wonder if they’ve died.
He does say 'Wouldn’t you think you’d get a notification on your Apple Watch, allowing you to dismiss the crash alert'.

Notification on the watch is a reasonable and safe change.

I wonder too whether a filter could be applied for situations where the phone detects massive acceleration, but the watch does not. It's hard to imagine a scenario where 1) a crash occurs, 2) the phone imu detects it, but 3) the watch imu do not.
Did the Australian Reserve Bank's money printing cause inflation?
It's often significantly easier to email a JPEG or two than attach a multi-gigabyte video clip with a codec that may not be compatible with the recipient's system.

It's also much easier to preview, zoom, and manipulate a single-frame photo to find points of interest, than comb through a shakycam video for them.

Why not obtain both, a full-length video for personal reference, and a few snapshots for attachments? That's been my M.O. lately.
Just tell Windows not to install the updates.
I have avoided this problem by not interviewing anymore. Every job I have had after my first one has been going to work with someone I worked with before, and they recruited me so I didn’t have to do any formal interview process.

It has worked for me so far in my 15 year career.
Curious how they would compare to a non-cloud option https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-rx.
You could also have a db view that returns a virtual double entry version, as a test that it passes muster with that. This checks for programmatic errors causing money to appear or disappear.
You gotta love the mentality that calls the collabourative framework the "Donner Party." Yikes.
The seed oils are bad for you movement has been debunked again and again. For example https://www.consumerreports.org/healthy-eating/do-seed-oils-...
I'd argue that if you're concerned about your family worrying, you probably should reconsider riding motorcycles.
All too often the search results are padded with advice for some other version than the one I am having trouble with, and it is difficult or impossible to craft a query specific enough to weed them out as the information simply isn't there.

Then there is the problem of authors using product- and version-specific jargon that I haven't mastered yet, precisely because one can usually pick up the basic operations without reading a manual - "1. From the customization agent..."
The phone is a quarter mile away where he dropped it. No watch connectivity.
There are "fuck ups" and then there's committing fraud against the government (or any clear violation of the criminal code). Of course, you are not protected by your employer for the 2nd case - HOWEVER, the company is ALSO considered at fault and often fined accordingly.

Regardless, the FBI lawyer CAN still be punished in this case. Just because we don't know why the judge did not see fit to do so, does not mean they are immune. For all we know, the judge knew exactly what he was doing and wasn't really misled at all.
9 times out of 10 it is a bad idea for an unarmed, ordinary citizen to go tackle a thief and hold them to the ground for any reason.

If a mugger takes my wallet then he's gonna run away with it, and I'm gonna be slowly going home by an alternate route.

When I worked as a clerk in a record store, we had strict orders to never pursue shoplifters or thieves of any stripe. It was the Loss Prevention Officer's job to track that stuff and it was clerks' job to notify law enforcement if we had to, but anyone stealing should be permitted to stroll right out our front doors unchallenged. It was way beyond our pay grade and we did not carry insurance.

One of my coworkers did scuffle with a thief outside, and IIRC, he was commended for his bravery, but it was also an opportunity for Loss Prevention to outline their directives to us about never doing that again.
Part of the issue though can be perceived psychological pressure, that can border on being coercive or even come off as intimidation. Kind of like all the "cool kids" are using X, and if you are not, then something must be wrong with you. And while Mark is probably not trying to purposefully create that kind of environment, remember there are powerful corporate interests involved, that probably wouldn't mind some intimidation or unnecessary peer pressure to promote their agenda.
There is definitely a better way to do so. You can use a magent with a force sensor to detect when the phone is against a metal surface, and only trigger the crash detection if there is sizeable force before the phone detaches from the vehicle.

Then Apple would actually be justified in locking this feature to some models, as if normal accelerometers didn't already go to 16G+ :)

EDIT:

I feel like I may have been unclear. I'm saying the phone should detect if it's being detached from the bike before or after the crash, using a magnetic sensor preferably (since Apple already has their magnetic attachement thing).

If the phone is disconnected from the vehicle before it senses a crash, then it's a false positive. If the phone is disconnected at the same time, or less than a certain before sensing a very strong shock, then this is a true positive.
That's not at all what happened here.

It isn't possible for crash detection to differentiate between "phone falls off bike" and "bike crashed" because everything that happens to the phone could be identical in both scenarios.

If the phone is loose in a pocket (or even in a backpack) when the bike crashes, it can easily hit the ground, bounce, and then come to a stop... just like it does if it falls out off the bike in any non-crash scenario.
> He does say 'Wouldn’t you think you’d get a notification on your Apple Watch, allowing you to dismiss the crash alert'.

As you lift up one hand to look at the watch, and the other to dismiss the alert, suddenly you are completely unable to control your motorcycle and then really have a crash!

Doesn’t seem to be that great!
I'm curious , can you show an example of how to achieve the same in another language that you will consider pretty?
I studied my ass off! I did 300 LC questions and could finish LC mediums pretty easily and I found that most companies concentrated on easy and medium.
Not an excuse.
This happens all the time. It's just not reported on social media.

If you own shares in companies directly, you often receive updates on lawsuits against C-level execs.
There was connectivity at the time of dropping. And the phone should have been made to detect whether it is on or off the bike, anyways.
I wasn't saying langcc was not powerful, just that the shape of the argument doesn't make sense.

That part of the README goes something like this:

1. It can parse Python and Go efficiently.

2. In fact it's so expressive that it can even parse itself, which is a "language of languages".

If you had first shown some hard-to-parse langcc syntax, then sure, _that_ would be evidence of expressiveness. But there's nothing impressive about being able to parse a "language of languages", since a language of languages can be LR(0).
This is a good example of an unanticipated or rare scenario that nobody would have realistically considered when developing and adding a feature. The author's suggestion of displaying an alert on an Apple Watch to seek confirmation is a good idea, and will certainly appeal to Apple sales philosophy of integrating services to sell other device. :)
That leads to a consensus problem. If you have two sensors reporting different circumstances, which one do you trust? Do you err on the side of assuming the crash report is a false positive? Then you may fail to report a real crash when you really have a false negative (the non-crash report). For the feature to be useful, with only a pair of sensors and no reason to assume that the one is giving a false positive, you should err on the side of caution.
> Has anyone considered the fact that there are far fewer powerful women because women aren’t generally interested in working 80 hours a week?

Wtf is this
I think a big part of the problem is consolidation and lack of competition. In an ideal market, if you had a bad experience like these you would stop using that company, and tell your friends to as well. But, in many industries there are at most a handful of companies to choose from, and as long as none of the other big companies have good customer support, they don't have any incentive to have good customer support. And a newcomer doesn't have much chance of competing unless it is extremely well funded, or is more niche.
How? In a crash it won't necessarily be on the bike anymore anyways.
Did you try any other one, or you don't even bother as LinkedIn offers all what you need?

What do you like the most?

Thanks a lot :)
Except that there's sooooo many instances of parents being abused by the "not-weak" to rent seek and prevent innovation outright.
AI will most likely be a far bigger threat to programmers than age in the coming decades
Watches can have cellular service.
Thank you, that's impressive. Good work.
I'm over 60.

> Do people lose interest in programming as they age?

No.

> Is it accurate to expect that older programmers are slower,

I do think a lot more about code before writing it. I don't just starting typing in random crap hoping to feel my way towards a solution. Quick reflexes and high WPM typing is not useful for programming.

> make more mistakes,

Far, far fewer. In fact, one gets pretty good at zooming in on where the bug is in other peoples' code. It's a pattern recognition thing.

> and would rather be doing something else such as managing programmers?

No. Well, I would prefer to race cars.
I buy the meat at Costco. No prep. Just grill it properly.

100x better than fast food "burgers"
Do you only use Indeed? Why by far, what is so good about it?

Thanks :)
I recently rented a car for a few days from a good agency that will remain unnamed here.

I thoroughly inspected both the paperwork and the car before leaving the lot. The associate commended me on that. I took photos, noted minor damage, and asked questions. I was able to accept the first car they proposed to me.

I returned the vehicle early and the associate asked me if I'd cleared out all my belongings; I said "I think so" and he asked if there were any firearms in the trunk. I scoffed and then wondered why he'd been so specific.

Did they GPS-track the car to my visit to a sporting goods store? Was he judging solely by my somewhat tactical-looking attire? I don't know, but he did search the vehicle and returned carrying my rosary. That's a formidable weapon I wouldn't want to be separated from.
> Not all Lenovo/Thinkpads are good for linux (or good at all)

That does not matter. If they have one really good model, that's enough for everyone.

>Dell has been shipping linux for decades now

I'm an Apple hater, like a vegan hates rare steak. Yet, I'm much more likely to buy my next gear from Apple than Dell. Where do I begin? For starters, everything I've bought from Dell starting with a Latitude D850, all the way to the Xps 13 I bought in 2020 and a 32 curved monitor in 2022, they were all faulty. In a large organization that with 30,000 laptops used by their employees, the IT department loves Dell's support: anything breaks, they will fix/replace it in 24 hours or a few hours depending on your guaranty level. But for me? I prefer it to work well to begin with. My Asus N550 worked for me for 7 years and it was top notch until the bed broke and destroyed it. I've never had a dell product that had zero problems. The latitude would flicker for minutes if for whatever reason screen went off and on. The xps's webcam stopped working and would randomly connect in certain angles of the lid. The laptop was advertised to support linux, but there was no fingerprint reader and when they released it, it was Ubuntu only. The monitor starts to flicker randomly and the replacement they sent me has a corner with ~100 pixels showing whatever they like, waiting for a second replacement.

Never Dell again.
How would the phone possibly distinguish that from the rider being thrown from the motorcycle in a true-positive scenario?
I didn't assert either of those things.
Heh - I can't believe someone actually filmed it :-) Thanks!
I can't find the jobs listing, is it actually a job board?

Thanks :)
> X is purely worse for this case. Wayland supports live switching window scaling as they drag across monitor boundaries. X does not.

Gotta say this issue sounds minor compared to not being able to set the scroll speed.
And now we depend on a cellular connected watch for this corner case of a corner case?
Adobe can’t Photoshop out the fact its $20B Figma deal is a naked land grab
Is Oracle performance really worse than GCE or Azure? It's the same processor.
> If you are picking from inside our solar system

That, again, is a pretty big new constraint you are placing to make an argument.

Since we're talking about exo-planets, that's not a reasonable constraint in this conversation.

> Colonizing planets outside the solar system seems to require some sort of sci-fi technology

Yes - yet that's the context of this thread.
Yes. It's incredibly common and still the standard most places I go.
Well, there is corporate financial interests involved, which is sure to push the propaganda machine into higher gear. Expect a lot more trash and FUD being thrown around by converted fanatics and speculators, in regards to all the "inferior" languages.
I don't see why the idea isn't realistic. My car doesn't phone the police or write a ticket when the seatbelt chime goes off.

Just write the behavior and individual rights into a law.

What physical barrier stops my healthcare provider from publishing my health records? The law does, and it works.
What types of apps do you make for there to be 36 total?
That's the same processor GCE and Azure use so performance should be similar.
In addition to verifying the paperwork, I also take a full set of pictures before and after returning rental vehicles as evidence of the condition they are in.

Enterprise attempted to file a claim against my insurance for damage they stated happened while it was in my possession. In reality, I had returned the vehicle in pristine condition that morning and there was a minor hail storm that swept through the area that evening which damaged all the vehicles parked in the lot. It was pretty easy to see what had actually happened and I told them I was taking photographs and was prepared to sue them if they filed a fraudulent claim against my insurance. They backed down but I will never rent from that company again.

Weirdly enough, I've never had any problems with Hertz.
Motorcyclist crashes, Apple watch wearing arm is severed but it lands in the bed of a truck and carries on down the road.

Imagining scenarios that would be workable, that's harder. The chances of the above are not zero... stranger things have happened (and that's from what we've seen on video, let alone what's not captured on film).
The phone will receive a very strong acceleration before being thrown off the bike.

In this case, the phone is being disconnected from the bike while receiving a small amount of force, and then hitting the ground with great force.

EDIT:

In a one vehicle accident where the driver lowsides onto gravel, the phone will receive a lot of forces as the bike deccelerates or tumbles, and this force will start when the phone is still attached to the bike.
You could require someone to type in a code shown on the watch screen, to prevent a false negative.
“The failsafe feature failed the safe way!”
> Emulation reminds me to ask myself whether the computing experience is always getting better.

My opinion is that "the computing experience" as in "sitting and using a computer like a normie" peaked maybe 2010? Windows 7 era. Web search worked better, somehow. Javascript on the average site wasn't as bad yet.
Once the rider is thrown off the motorcycle, the motorcycle will eventually crash, imparting force onto the phone while it is still attached to the motorcycle.

If the phone is in the pocket of the rider at the time of accident, this can be detected using the proximity sensor or nominal accelerometer data crosschecked with GPS velocity, or even capacitive sensing.

EDIT: There are only three possible states before the crash. Either the phone is in the rider's pocket, or it is mounted to the vehicle, or it is held in the user's hand. If the phone is in the rider's pocket, it is going to stay there until the rider feels a strong impact. If the phone is in the rider's hand, then the phone should turn this off completely because it's far more likely to slip. If the phone is attached to the vehicle, it should only register a crash if it begins simultaneously with the phone being disconnected to the vehicle (if it is to begin with).

The fact that the three may be separated is irrelevant, because they will be separated after the crash begins. As long as the phone mount is sturdy enough not to separate under normal conditions, this is fine. If it is not, then a false positive is much more likely than a true positive. And a crash sensor with more false positives than true positives is actively harmful.

This only applies to two wheeled vehicles, obviously. For four wheeled vehicles, the way it's working right now is fine. It is pretty trivial for a phone to make the difference between a car and a bike.
Are you sure it's a fantasy? We have all kinds of similar tests with acceptable accuracy and precision.

Like, why are you jumping to the conclusion that engineers somewhere can't implement that? Seems to me that's like saying it'll never be possible to make a phone call without a phone line.
>Zoom, Meet, Teams and other video applications limit you to sharing your entire screen or an individual window

Not sure about the other apps but zoom definitely allows you to share multiple windows by control-clicking multiple windows when sharing a screen.
What's the best tool to get started keeping track of our finances using double entry accounting?

Ideally, I'd love a tool that lets me import data from my credit card and/or bank accounts through something like Plaid rather than having to manually enter every transaction I make.
You can stop the vehicle. Which (hypothetically) also serves to have you closer to the phone that may be findable and/or salvageable (if the phone can ring). Chances are not high, obviously.
Are you sure it's not possible? A whole lot of things we didn't think were possible are now known to be possible.

Alas, maybe I should rephrase to "an acceptable level of accuracy and precision."
Right, and he could get the alert and broadcast a “I’m fine message”.
It’s insane that it’s legal to have a dash-mounted cell phone in view while operating a motorcycle.
For the record, the vast majority of Androids lifecycle, Google has also not supported RCS. This is a recent uptake, after they shut down their 8th failed messaging platform.

The "RCS" that Google implements does not follow the standards that have been around decades.

The interopability and push for RCS is a marketing exercise.
And how long do you wait before timing out? And how attentive to their device should a motorcycle rider be versus the road?
I have a brand new dell xps 13 and it works so amazingly well I bought another xps 13 for my sister
The most amazing thing about the story is that the iPhone was ripped from its adhesive mount by a bump, flew off the motorcycle, presumable struck the concrete road at 60 miles per hour, and still had enough functionality to activate the emergency crash detection and find and text contacts marked as family!

That is amazing!
This thread baffles me. Turn the feature off if you want zero false positives.
Quickbooks does this. But I Hate quickbooks, I just don't know anything better.
Why is it the author's problem to develop a better system? Is it not valuable to remind fellow users of the caveats of using the feature and provide examples of possible failure modes that might not be immediately obvious?
The key thing isn’t to prevent the alert a crash happened, but to let his other devices know so he can quickly cancel the alert.
I think it was far less expensive for them to team up with Jones in the first place and create a PR buzz, rather than striking out on their own and risking a lawsuit by Jones or his estate, 100 years down the road. They fully realize this will soon be tested in the courts, and they don't want to pioneer that case law.
You're right and now I'm existentially upset
“I left my phone in a crash test dummy’s pocket and it alerted my family, why hasn’t Apple fixed this corner case?”

— latest article headline from this author
This is getting silly. Phone gets thrown out of a crashed car, it should let loved ones know rather than not because it didn’t land in metal.
First point is killer. There's little reason for dynamic languages nowadays outside of scientific computing (e.g. Jupyter notebooks). A decade ago static typing did incur a real overhead in verbosity, but with popular languages adopting type inference algorithms there's no excuse anymore IMHO. Static types have won.
Yep. I know anything web3 or metaverse will be met with immense skepticism. I just hope that skepticism either lampoons closed protocols/software (if it is closed) or is targeted at specific flaws, rather than the typical gut reactive dismissal which is about as deep as the speculators looking to dump bags.
I don’t ride motorcycles for that reason, but this feature applies to cars to. I can’t opt out of those too easily.
You must have intended to respond to another comment, you replied to one relating to imagining scenarios...
The tankless are already at that I think
I bought the "Algorithms and Data Structures for Massive Datasets" book recently, haven't had a chance to read it yet. "Massive" datasets should automatically imply using (mostly) on-disk data structures...

Edit: add link:

https://www.manning.com/books/algorithms-and-data-structures...