skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey everyone, this is my experience with a common interview question where my solution was deemed impossible. This article iterates towards an efficient constant-time algorithm while explaining the thought process.

I had a fun challenge afterward with multiple teams where they bet my unknown-to-them solution couldn't exist.
It's true if you're doing training. But for inference severe quantization is mostly okay. And there are some internal parts of a transformer running inference with a quantized model where you might want the x-bit inputs to do calculations with 16 bits like the dot product similarity between vectors.
I avoided school. Although in that era we called it "skipping school".

We mostly went into the woods and smoked pot, fooled around with our boyfriends and girlfriends, and went for fast food burgers.

I barely graduated high school, but went on to get a BS in electrical engineering and managed to have a reasonably productive life.

Modern kids are under a constant microscope. No wonder they're anxious. Although it's 1/2 their own fault for the amount of time they spend lost in their own minds (people call it "on the phone", but it's really just an electronically enhanced form of "lost in inner space"). The other 1/2 is their parents, who are stiflingly overberaring.

When we walked out of the house, no one knew where the hell we went. The effect of loosing this sense of individual freedom is MASSIVELY underappreciated...
No, in general almost never in tech, only rarely and when unionized or when protected by contract or labor law. And we're not talking about seasonal jobs (logging, fishing) either. And we're not talking about unforeseen circumstances/force majeure like in 2020/1.

"RIF" is US jargon; you can see that ~0% of worldwide Google usage outside of North America for "RIF" is "reduction in force" [https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%201-d&q=%2...]. A tiny amount (<<2%) of usage in UK, Scandinavia, Poland, Australia (possibly mainly from US multinationals).

More corroboration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIF

There is zero reason to adopt managementspeak jargon, or its 2022 neologisms "impacted"/"affected"/"displaced". Just say "layoff" (n) / "laid off" (v), already.

In the very unlikely event [in tech] you actually needed to say "temporary layoff", you can easily say "temporary layoff".

The language was working fine for decades and there's no reason to pander to management euphemisms. It harms clarity.
But his existence as a head of an AI company makes him a terrible choice for any recommendations, full stop. He could be 100% genuine but we can't trust him because we have an antagonistic system.
Context matters. Is a "web developer" someone who makes web pages, or works on a browser rendering engine?
And now you're left with people who aren't good enough to be able to negotiate WFH. There are a ton of other reasons why that's not a prize-winning idea, starting with "maybe it's already been tried". It's been three years, somebody has had to have tried that. And yet I've not seen the article in Job Creator Weekly squawking about their success story.
Yes, and this is (at least today) unsolvable.

It's still got a much higher expected value to do prescribed burns have some of them turn uncontrolled than do nothing, or do what is happening now (pretend we can control for every variable).
Or, "if you work really really hard, you might be able to buy lunch".

Visit the moon, don't make me laugh.

I don't know if you're being intentionally naive or disingenuous.
> However, in this case "massive harms" were incurred when people WEREN'T vaccinated

Even if it was true, do you suggest dismantling the current FDA efficacy and safety testing because it worked in one case? Is this a serious approach to risk management?

> We do know, from data collected around the world, that the vaccine lowered all-cause mortality. We know that vaccine hesitancy led to hundreds of thousands of deaths in the US alone.

The sad thing is that we know no such thing. Early termination of the trial made it impossible to know the real risks.

For example, it currently appears that myocarditis is diagnosed in one in 5,000 to 10,000 otherwise healthy young males (16-19 year olds)[1].

The vaccine has zero benefit in this population group because Covid is so mild in this group. In Israel, for example, exactly zero otherwise healthy 16-19 year olds died or were in any serious condition due to Covid.

In older people, and other risk groups (cancer, diabetes, obesity), the calculus is obviously different. But there was no reason to vaccinate otherwise healthy kids using a vaccine that was not tested properly.

[1] https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.0...
Bureaucracy doesn't end with registering a company.

You may need to also look at what is required to keep it running and the impact of government on incentive and profitability.

Without a realistic hope of a decent return on the time, money and effort invested, of course people won't bother.
The timing of your comment is uncanny: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35974037
The "Attention is All You Need" paper introduced a new way for AI to read and understand language, much like how we might read a comic book.

As you read each panel of a comic book, you don't just look at the words in the speech bubbles, but you also pay attention to who's talking, what they're doing, and what happened in the previous panels. You might pay more attention to some parts than others. This is sort of like what the Transformer model does with text.

When the Transformer reads a sentence, it doesn't just look at one word at a time. It looks at all the words at once, and figures out which ones are most important to understand each other. This is called "attention." For example, in the sentence "The cat, which is black, sat on the mat," the Transformer model would understand that "cat" is connected to "black" and "sat on the mat."

The "attention" part is very helpful because, like in a comic book, understanding one part of a sentence often depends on understanding other parts. This makes the Transformer model really good at understanding and generating language.

Also, because the Transformer pays attention to all parts of the sentence at the same time, it can be faster than other models that read one word at a time. This is like being able to read a whole page of your comic book at once, instead of having to read each panel one by one.
This question doesn't work well for all company types/sizes/stages and not everyone does well on it (including those two people with a confluence of a crummy attitude and outrageously silly answers I mentioned). Judging by your profane response and projection of feelings, you may have not fit in on our small team. I'm sure you've found success elsewhere, and I appreciate your passionate feedback.
> in the 90s (and even somewhat into the early part of 00s) adding any kind of phone-home functionality to code was pretty much universally seen as outrageous privacy violation.

Yep.

And I remember a few very heated fights between dev teams and marketing teams over it. Devs universally fought adding telemetry because it's an abuse of users and user trust. Marketing universally fought for adding it because it allowed them to sell more efficiently.
> ...letting lost junkies harm themselves to oblivion from kind samaritans (leftwing)

This is really the centrist position, a compromise between conservative bans on harm reduction and liberal relaxation of prohibition laws. Actual left wing circles right back to unenforceable prohibition. China isn't exactly a bastion of uncontrolled addictive drug use with hopeless addicts roaming the streets.
Isn't this just reinventing the wheel and just replicating a built in IDE feature? I.e. what is wrong with Intellij's existing right click-execute on a single junit test method to debug and inspecting variables that way?

Also this is seems to be unit testing, E2E (or to be precise "component") testing in my experience is what takes much longer and is where time is lost constructing the fixtures, but importantly E2E tells you if you've made stupid mistakes like using GET instead of POST, or have an XML serialiser overriding the JSON one you intended, which you don't pick up in unit tests.

Now if you could somehow save an entire VM stack/state of a system for E2E tests that wasn't brittle to code change, that could just rebuild that state with a single line of code, that would be my dream time saver. The closest I've seen anything like that is recording HTTP request responses or serialising individual Java objects to JSON and using those as fixtures...
"Studios" don't have a monopoly on porn created through rape and coercion. "Independent" video producers often are aspirational, making nearly nothing for a very large mental toll. Many of them are forced into it by their "lovers", and/or do it to fund a drug habit. I would hardly call myself a heavy consumer of pornography but I've seen an awful lot of almost-hidden needle marks and crackpipes carelessly in the background.

And that's not even to comment on the fact that many/most OnlyFans and similar "boutique" sites are operating under a similar model to this scam. There's often a real face who provides the "Content" as a lure, but the premium "Chatting" services are run by call-centers.
I prefer having a GC, makes things easier. Also a copying GC can be better for some of the stuff you do in a compiler (immutable data structures).
Erdogan is villian, there's no disputing that.

My point is Musk could have easily done what a non-profit organization like Wikipedia could do viz. dragging the Turkish government to their supreme court, which is what the article is about.
Can anyone compare this book to Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track by Will Larson?
Because palintir keeps trying to sell "just arrest all the black people" to the judicial system as "AI", and is also trying to sell "just let the computer blow everyone up" to the military. We don't need AGI for "AI" to make our lives worse.
County sheriffs. Which is to say, if you enter a contract with me, breach it, and get a judgment entered against you, it will ultimately be the county sheriff who will come execute the judgment on your property, sell it at auction, and give the proceeds to me. The federal government is not likely to take a significant role except if I get the judgment from a federal court or the property is someplace very weird.
In FVWM you can configure a workspace grid in whatever dimensions you want.
Excellent point. Seems like NPR is just parrotting Bloomberg on this point and not considering any positive benefits. I keep hearing that in the Pacific Northwest, office buildings are converting into apartments to increase housing supply, but I haven't seen any news organization confirm it. If true, that should be a cause celebree for NPR.
Simplest explanation: you start with a fully connected network of N layers. This already gives you the functionality. Then you remove a lot of unnecessary connections. This gives you the performance.
It's not that hard having a productive economy when most of your workforce is mainly composed of essentially indenture servants.
Thanks for the update, I was near some of the early lawsuits against the BLM to allow controlled burns back in the 90s; and haven't kept up with it much since then.
what button? I must be blind...

This would be very useful because "x reddit" is probably my most common search
Has ELI5 lost its literal meaning? What five-year-old would understand anything in this thread?
It is as long as I have a firewall.
Yeah, but that's also been the case for thousands of years.
If you are not a Bing frontend, do you think it would be please possible to unblock our Fortran webpage at fortran-lang.org?

See here for details:

https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-lang-no-longe...

Bing decided to remove it for some reason and DDG now also removes it from search results, presumably because it uses Bing underneath. For Google it's #1 page when you search "fortran".
The PowerShell WhatIf Parameter: Looking Before You Leap
The Bing version of ChatGPT does exactly this. It shows you the keywords on your prompts as well.
I originally switched just for the hell of it. But nowadays I get annoyed when I use Google since it doesn't have keyboard/arrow key shortcuts. ⬇, ⬇, Ctrl+Enter (open in new tab) or "/" to edit the search box is a great DDG feature.
And Google groups the SO results, which is very handy. I find myself adding g! after I've seen the limited SO results in DDG just knowing I'll see them grouped and I can click "More from SO"
Yeah sorry, it still requires math and probably some exposure to ML basics.
The actions of a few shouldn't be taken as representative of the whole.
Again absolute originality isn’t the metric any more than we expect people to write using the English alphabet but not reusing any existing words.

However, your actual defense is a lack of serious earnings. If you habitually copy significant portions of your work don’t assume it’s actually legal rather than simply not worth suing over.

If you’re concerned about actual credentials my connection to this stuff is through major motion pictures which means serious paranoia around IP. They are actually concerned about being sued and take actual precautions.
GP is clearly being sarcastic and mocking a current streak in US politics to further politicize and ostracize LGBTQ people instead of addressing issues of violence and drug use against and among children and young people. If the comment really offends your sensibilities though:

1. Earn enough karma (501) to downvote.

2. Earn enough karma (what's the target?) to flag.

3. Email hn@ycombinator.com; @dang doesn't summon him.
Sure as a general rule, but that doesn't render those experts free from criticism when they make mistakes. That low confidence scientific hypotheses were treated as high confidence scientific results is a valid critique of expert interaction with the general public, as it led to search engine censorship of objectively true information.
Why did you remove the page that showed your historical traffic?
If you compare firearm & vehicle deaths Firearms Deaths per 100,000 population: 14.7 Motor vehicle traffic: Deaths per 100,000 population: 13.7. You only have a 1 person improvement in outcome with another severely regulated segment.

I doubt putting in a licensing regime would significantly improve anything.
LegacyAI – ChatGPT Client for Mac OS 7 – 10.11
Not an expert (so this could well be slightly off), but here is a physics analogy:

You're rolling a ball down a plank of wood and you want it to roll off the plank and continue to a certain spot on the ground. You know that if the ball rolls past the target, you have to angle the ramp lower. If it fails to reach the target, you angle the ramp higher. If it goes past by a lot, you make a big change to the ramp angle. If it goes past by a little, you make a small change to the ramp angle. In this way your error tells you something about the adjustment you need to make to the system to produce the desired output.

Think of a function from the ramp angle (network weights) to how far the ball lands from the target (the error). The derivative of this function tells you what kind of change in angle results in what kind of change in the error, and you can use that to update the ramp until you hit the target. To say that the model is differentiable is to say that it's possible to infer from the error what kind of changes you need to make to the weights.
But I wanna use xbindkeys and not have to have everything integrated in the compositor. What do I gain when desktop Linux is poorly sandboxed and thus the theoretical security benefits of Wayland are trivially circumvented anyways?
Keeping Bitcoin safe without Trezor, Ledger or HW devices
You can block all .zip with the following uBlock Origin filter:

||zip^

Tell everyone you know.
It's like the argument between internet atheists and internet Christians.

Christians say God exists

Atheists say God doesn't exist.

Christians tell the atheists to prove that God doesn't exist.

Atheists say you can't disprove a negative.

Christians take that as winning the argument.

Atheists take that as Christians being stupid and close minded.

Atheists counter with telling the Christians to prove God does exist.

Christians say you have to take it on faith.

Repeat ad nauseum extremis infinitum.
You can click on his name and read some of his material, and then find out why he isn't getting any conversions. Not everyone who dreams of being a writer is writing something other people are interested in. Substack has problems and I don't use it or read anything on it regularly, but I don't think thats why that particular poster is having trouble.
And who are you to label other people as "hopeless dregs"?

That "hopeless dreg" over there might be the father of a young boy who was murdered during a school shooting; that other "hopeless dreg" might be the highschool student who was abducted and trafficked across state lines; that other "hopeless dreg" over yonder might be homeless because of healthcare expenses for a terminally ill family member.

I find your "net positive" comment absurdly offensive.
It's common for property management companies to arrange for kickbacks with certain repair contractors. I'm not claiming that any particular management company is corrupt but I know of cases where this has happened and it's tough for absentee landlords to detect.
The last item says:

>And finally, this. We normally don't highlight one particular family, but this one must be mentioned. I shall refrain from citing the family's last name, but these are the names of the children: Tia Rachelle, Caleb Washington, Trixie Petunia Pineapple, Ruby Buttercup, Superstar 5 Jemima, Falcon Jasper, Sassafras Sapphire Sophronia, Blackstone Bruce Leroy, Valkyrie Rose Svava Lyn and Royal Teancum (twins).

The un-cited last name is Judd. https://granitebaytoday.org/thirteen-reasons-why-you-should-...
ddg has served my search needs just fine for years now, but I still go to google for image search and maps.

One thing has really bothered me with the state of the web in general though, which has directly affected the quality of results for all search engines:

Tons of communications have moved into undiscoverable forms/walled gardens. What used to happen in public, crawled, textual mailing list discussions, particularly in the FOSS/IT space, is now happening in Discord/Slack/video meetings. Even upstream systemd devs have been using Telegram of all things for discussing development topics as opposed to systemd-devel. It's an absolute disaster.

I sorely miss the days of https://google.com/linux where I'd find pages and pages of relevant, high-quality mailing list discussions for everything I searched for.
I've personally switched to a selfhosted instance of SearX-ng and I can't be happier. Yes, it still queries other engines, but that's fine. I'd rather "average" it out than trust any single search provider, DDG included.
You can define a tree-walking interpreter in an ML just by recursion and pattern matching.
well, sadly, you have to turn on an option to get exhaustivity checking. Which annoys me, because sometimes I forget to turn it on for a small project/script.

I need to come up with a haskell "new project" template thing
Even if that were more than a meaningless platitude, why do churches need to be protected against that more than everyone else?
Even that is being tackled by newer GPU architectures. For example, novelai is currently training an LLM in fp8 precision, using H100 GPUs.[1]

[1]
https://blog.novelai.net/anlatan-acquires-hgx-h100-cluster-4...

https://blog.novelai.net/text-model-progress-is-going-good-8...
So what happens when instead of shipping entire departments to India, companies hire a specific individual in Dublin or Topeka Kansas for half of what a SV employee costs? There won't be nearly the issues of culture or time zones or whatever. For now, remote salaries are holding up to what workers made in their HCOL offices. That won't and can't hold true over the long run.
Go for the startup. You will have more opportunity to shine. With 2 yoe, you will get held back at Big Tech. Even if you know your stuff, the yoe will always be held over your head. At a 20 person startup, you will shine and be given more opportunity. This will bolster your resume and maybe even divert your career in a new and exciting way.

Big tech isn't going anywhere. If you are getting offers from big tech now, you will later as well. I always tell people to start at smaller companies. They are way better when you are young because you will face a wider array of problems, which builds better experience. Big Tech is great when you are older. It is generally more focused, higher paying, better benefits, but can often be less rewarding.
How did rich people keep their wealth? Interesting, they had banking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banking_in_ancient_Rome
That they made it opt-in means that I will no longer completely rule out using golang. I don't know if I'd actually opt in, though. I haven't evaluated that issue.
The entirety of first half was "Nurses and Doctors need the mask, please don't buy them."
Temphia: Platform for Apps
Well our grandparents unfortunately sold us down the river so we have to deal with the shitty hand we have, and until we undo that damage, WFH is a good harm-reduction method.
Exactly. All those ailing businesses must simply relocate to reach their customer base (which obviously sucks, but that's how market economies are supposed to work). Downtown Seattle, for example, has become a shit-hole (open-air drug market, closed businesses, drugged-out vagrants, lack of law enforcement) but that's not _because_ of empty offices; it's just another pull factor for remote work wherever possible. Why risk getting assaulted on a bus or pay for parking?
Thank you. Because what you're talking about is blind trust in someone who has been put into a position of supposed authority. I can't bring myself to do it - I don't know these people so until I'm presented with credible evidence that makes sense to me, I believe a position of extreme skepticism is warranted.
Words like "intend" and "soon" are your enemies. How about you do it right now? At least set a deadline in your calendar to do it. However, chances are it won't have the desired effect. One great method of dealing with a task is to delegate it to another person. Maybe ask someone to remind you that you need to see a therapist?
Did you notice that it made multiple errors for the first two variations? [Edit:] What's particularly interesting to me is the inconsistent counting of apostrophes for #1, and the handling of "theory of mind" for #2 -- though there are simpler errors besides these.
It was never meant to be taken literally, it's just an idiomatic way of asking that something be explained as simply as possible.

An answer to OP's question targeted at a five year old level would likely be impossible given the subject matter, or else need to be so general and simplistic as to be useless on this forum of not actual five year olds.
I never finished "The Rediscovery of Man" anthology, yet "The Lady Who Sailed the Soul" remains one of the most memorable sci-fi stories I've read and one I think about relatively often. (I don't want to re-read it now years later and find that I don't like it anymore).
I thing orgs like that already exist, see: https://ripmedicaldebt.org/ and https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rip-medical-debt-forgiving-medi...
Interesting, is the ability to know when to exit a prerequisite? I would think there's a distribution between those you spoke of and some that just picked one thing and went forever.
It's natural that customer habits change, and that they move around. Brick and mortar businesses need to move to reach their target audience (i.e. to the suburbs, or to non-downtown locations).
The reason I started using DDG a decade ago is because they "censor" their search results

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2181585