skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you get rejected for a code sample don't take it too hard. You're probably being graded by an engineer who views this part of their job as a distraction and tries to get it done as fast as possible. Sometimes code will fail to run due to some issue on their machine vs yours. Sometimes you'll hit their hobby-horse issue and be rejected for trivial reasons... Not that any of this is malicious. Grading the code sample is a one-way code review for a piece of code put together on the spur of the moment, with a tight deadline and no prior context. How many times have you received feedback on a PR that you've disagreed with? That disagreement gets resolved (or not) via discussion. But for a code sample there's no discussion, and everyone is trying to set the bar high, so one "slip up" is sufficient to reject the candidate.

Sometimes I read rejection comments and realize I would never pass the interview process at my own company, at least with certain individuals. It's depressing but that's just the way things are.
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The prefix check in this case is used as a means of typing the error, which many Lisps do via symbols.
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Presumably several ICBMs are launched at a particular destination at the same time; unlike a payload of paying passengers an ICBM's payload is somewhat fungible so more risks can be taken.
I don't think it makes sense to call something a bonus unless it's also a goal.

I never said all goals were equal, so asking which is the main goal is irrelevant; my point is just that both goals exist as goals.
See also the Fuck Token (http://www.fucktoken.io), which raised over $30K in 30 minutes :)
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yep I can remember reading the book sin th e60's in the UK and its always the fat controller - who incidentally was always portrayed as a blimpish establishment figure
Older men having children probably does reduce the IQ of future generations given they will pass on more mutations, but no this is not what I meant. Think of all the people you know, think of how smart each person is, and then count up how many children each person has. Unless you you know a very small number of people I think you will see what I mean.
By some people he means researches mentioned in this Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ#Heritabilit...).
Agreed; there are many facets colluding.

I believe others of significance may be the exhaustion and stress many feel at the pace of life and coping with it.

On the educational side I think it very much depends on what culture, which country, which region, which politics, which teacher and even who your contemporaries are.
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I rather like the idea and I'm probably give it a real try once I'm at home, but is the potential double-entendre with "keyShit" intended?
You can make that argument about regular stocks too. When you buy a stock, you're not really getting any equity, not any share of the profits. You do get the indirect benefits, mostly through other people believing in the success of the company, buying the stock, and pushing its price. And occasionally dividends, but not many companies distribute them.
It's not been established that there is a trend to spot.

Here's a recent and fairly pro-eugenics survey of all the results they could find showing a reduction in IQ:

https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/2016-dutton.pdf

And even they basically are only at the stage of saying "maybe there's a hidden trend, that's obscured by other trends moving in the opposite direction" (they think society becoming more abstract has caused a false rise in IQ, due to IQ tests measuring that socially taught facility with abstraction rather than raw intelligence, this may have disguised an actual drop in intelligence).

So maybe it does help to have a preconcieved cause to spot this hypothesised trend.

Regarding their hypothesis, it's kind of a philosophical question about whether you'd rather have a society full of uneducated bumpkins (not sure there is an english word for someone with raw intelligence but no education) with sharper reflex times or ability to discern colors, than a modern post-graduate who scores slightly worse on those tests but better on IQ. It's also somewhat unlikely that the former is going to be having less children than the latter, so they whole dysgenic thing seems to be on shakey ground.
Ops ! You're right. Too little coffee I guess :-)
"So we decided to call it BFR"... crickets

Clearly no gamers in the audience, I died.
Not a problem. English is an easy language to begin, but a very hard one to master.
The advantage for anyone trying to find out-of-bound exploits in text buffer handling.
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There is significant difference between punishing absence of good behaviour ("be helpful or be punished" - Henry example) and punishing bad behaviour ("don't pour your cereal on your brothers head or you will get time out" - your child example).
Aren't supersonic jets more affordable? I mean I know SpaceX is about changing the world, and I know SpaceX is about rockets, but in terms of market, I think having a new Concorde would better fit the idea of earth to earth travel.

I like how SpaceX innovates, but I think this is a "too soon", bad product idea because it will be too expensive at first, and supersonic jets would be a better competitor.

Although I have to admit I really like the disruptive way of "showing the way to the future" communication ad. But to be frank, I wonder if people at SpaceX are not full of zeal sometimes. One bigger problem for SpaceX might be "how to sell space to consumers, or make money with space?".

Maybe that is the reason NASA existed as a government agency, because there is no real, direct ROE with space exploration. In the end SpaceX might make money with wealthy people who can afford going to mars or the moon, but I doubt that many people would be interested if there is no financial gain (or maybe for the hell of it). Innovation from NASA research was shared or benefited the military.

I want SpaceX to endure and succeed but I really wonder about the money/market sides of it. It requires a lot of vision, which goes beyond the reality of capitalism.
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As 1ba9115454 says, most of these ICOs are for tokens. Like the dotcom bubble of 1999/2000, the majority are garbage or pie in the sky but some are interesting and backed by decent teams. A few that are at least plausible (in no particular order and with no implied comment by me on their chances of success/utility):

https://funfair.io
https://omg.omise.co
https://cosmos.network
https://0xproject.com
A feature of any AOT compiled language since compilers exist, nothing C specific.
Yes, you get equity. What do you think shares represent?
Yeah, but your explanation conflicts with the article explanation.
In 603, White Hat flies from arguments to preserve his naive positivistic view of the world where things fix themself magically.

"You arguments are wrong because Flynn effect, and if this one is reversed then your arguments are wrong just because."
One thing you could do to have telephonic at early hours or late night- this way you can attend before or after your office. That's what I did.
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Historical accident, it is all a matter how libc of a specific compiler was implemented.
Most companies these days employ recent grads with the expectation that most of them will leave after a short time and be replaced and that very few will make a career
Well the Netherlands is a bit of special case. Small, densely populated countries are trivia to cover in mobile reception
>He said that he spends about 80% of his SpaceX time as and engineer.

Fair enough, but that leads me to believe he needs to hire more engineers. He shouldn't need to be that hands-on, even if he wants to be.
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> That's wrong. A service model gives me leverage — I stop paying the rent whenever I want and return the washing machine.

It's more inconvenient to you not to be able to use a washing machine when you need it than it is for a service provider to have a random customer unable to pay them on time.

> BTW, what's "SOL"?

Shit Out of Luck.
I find it funny that the 'Great Kingdom' didn't sell electrical appliances with a plug fitted on the 1980s since that was standard in pretty much all the rest of the world.

It's not about convenience, it's about selling a functioning and safe product

And yes I do agree the knowledge of replacing plugs is important and is getting lost, I didn't learn it by having to fit it to newly acquired equipment (rather by fixing equiment where that - or the cable - became faulty)
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this seems to contradict what you're saying:
http://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/older-men-have-geek...
Well yes, but using the tool he made you could argue that very few would deny it since the truth became so obvious. Even if it was known a long time before that, a lot of people still believed that the earth was flat.

With increased technology it was easily disproven.
The whole article seems very poorly-researched: the primary material wasn't consulted, and it's extremely easily available[0]. The moralising is extremely obvious when you're reading 2-3 stories at a time.

0: https://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Tank-Engine-Story-Collection/d...
My favorite MS-DOS editor back in the day was Q.
I think you are missing my point which is noticing a trend does not mean you are advocating for political position.

Unless all the people I personally know are very unrepresentative of society in general I have a hard time believing that there is not a negative effect on IQ due to differential fertility.
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It's my understanding that they only download the assets when you first read the message. So it protects your IP address, but it doesn't protect the fact that you read the message.

[edit] Yes, I have just confirmed this by using emailprivacytester.com
Yes, it is quite nice. But how good things go, this might just be standardized post C++20.
We also really need a test that measures risk-taking and ability to bend rules to achieve positive outcome.
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You only do enough research to get the p values just right so you can publish. Scientists are not rewarded for more investigations that might weaken their theory.
That's not quite true. A lot of these ICOs at least claim to be trying to add some kind of unique features. A lot of them are "utility tokens" which are supposed to be used to pay for the services of a decentralized network. I agree that most of them are garbage, but this isn't like the crapcoins of a few years ago when they were literally just forks of bitcoin with tweaked constants.
This is by design. The primary goal of session tickets is to resume a session without doing excessive crypto (no asymmetric cryptography).
The citizens of South Korea love to trade financial instruments. The KOSPI 200 index future used to be the most liquid equity index future in the world - mostly fueled by Korean retail traders [0]. Eventually, then, as now, the government had to step in to prevent things from getting too out of hand.

[0] - https://www.ft.com/content/231fa13a-e4f4-11de-817b-00144feab....
> Are laptops allowed?

No idea. But the fastest flight (non stop) from NYC to Shanghai right now is almost 15 hours. This promises 39 minutes.

Would you rather fly 15 hours with a laptop than 39 minutes without?
This was/is really interesting work but should maybe be marked [April 2017] or something so waking sysadmins don't get a fright.
Internet shutdowns in Africa cost $215mln since 2015
Any kind of upopian sci-fi would be great. Like many, I do have a soft spot for dystopia, but what $people seem to be lacking lately seems to be some positive [outlook|vision] for the future.
wouldn't that return the value of currentChunk before it was incremented? So it would need an additional line to be equivalent to the example (making it a bit more readable in my opinion):

currentChunk++;
this.chunks[currentChunk] = [];

Which is perhaps what you meant all along. Please excuse the pedantry.
The older men who have the opportunity to have children are not representative of all older men. The average 50 year old man is not having children, just the small percentage partnered to much young women. Have a guess what attributes they might have?
I can’t access the original study (sci-hub too slow), which countries are affected by the effect and which aren’t?

It would be interesting if China, Japan, Korea aren’t affected while Western countries are.
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Embedded stuff like routers? Serving a user manual for some network connected thing with a microcontroller?
We do get that in the UK
> Yes, but is there something that Ripple is doing here that could not be done by any non-blockchain distributed system?

Yes... as far as I'm aware, most (all?) other non-blockchain distributed ledgers require complete trust between parties. Its hard enough for two banks to trust each other completely, let alone all banks to trust all other banks. The old way of doing things is to either trust a central bank completely, which is easier to do, but far from distributed, or to trust a third party with a days worth of transfers and settling at the end of the day. Still not distributed, but requires less trust.

> The chief value in blockchain seems to be in getting people to agree to do something at all.

Exactly!

Blockchain technology is essentially nothing more than a cryptographically secure distributed ledger. There's probably other ways of having a secured distributed ledger without technically being a blockchain, and I'd be interested in hearing about them, but I'm not aware of their existence at the moment. Either way, I'm not sure why there's so much pushback on blockchains?
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> Nicholas—the self-centered, boastful troublemaker

Norman Price? He always gets his comeuppance + a fire safety tip. Maybe have a chat after an episode to talk about what happened to Norman & what about his behaviour got him in trouble.
Speaking of Borland does anyone else remember the Brief editor. Was my goto for about a decade back in the early 90’s. Highly configurable, macros, column select and easily opened giant files.
> Because MB don't matter

I beg your pardon, but since Linux is increasingly used nowadays in quite resource constrained embedded devices, MB definitely does matter. (No, I don't claim that the individual 10 MB is very much on most devices that are actually capable of running linux. But once you go down that road and start having something else bloated than just the text editor, you are a few hundred MBs poorer in no time, and that is a lot.)
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Do you have a source for the claim that a lot of people believed the Earth was flat in Galileo's time? (Galileo was born decades after the Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation of the world.)
Not at all as there are two effects going on.

You become dumber as you get older (I unfortunately know this from personal experience), while the average intelligence of each generational cohort can also be changing through differential reproduction.
Gmail actually takes steps to protect privacy when loading images. Apple's mail apps are the ones that load images indiscriminately. Pretty sure that's for UX reasons not ads.
You're confusing common stock (what most people buy) and preferred stock. The common stock doesn't entitle you to the dividends of the profits, it only gives you the voting rights. The preferred one does.

Common stock is also shielded against liabilities, as in it can go to zero, but can't go negative. Equity can.

Common stocks are really strange, they are much closer to tokens, than to actual pieces of the company.
Totally. Because NASA, ESA, and others use public money there was less (or little to no) incentive to strive for reusability.
I always thought that Consider Phlebas would make a great movie. Although it has enough going on (including the history of the war) that it could easily work as a series too.
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An aging population is the obvious explanation--unless you can think of some other major demographic shifts that have occurred in these countries in recent decades.
There was not. I appreciate your helpful attitude toward people on the fence about getting a license, but the parent to my comment was saying "I'm licensed, now what?" And I said ~"I'm in that exact same situation".

But now that we're chatting and you obviously do know your stuff, any pointers for actually putting it to use?
Well, i love Mercedes as a car. I only don't like the electronics.

Some franchise here in my neighboorhood ( belgium) has bought every garage in 50 km's. Since they are ridiculous expensive ( eg. my uncle got charged 80 € for grabbing a part from the garage, that was excluding the part cost ...). It's me last Benz, my cousins also.

Except if i can find one without electronics.
The problem with the US is that outside of a handful of the biggest cities, transit is extremely lacking and the roads aren't bike-friendly at all. It's very difficult to hold down a job without access to a car, especially low wage jobs like retail that change the schedule around on short notice all the time and are often outside the operating hours of transit. You can also get a used car for around $1000, insurance can be had for $30/month, and gas is cheap so owning a car isn't nearly as expensive as some countries. I still drive a car I bought 5 years ago for $1500, it's over 20 years old now but runs fine.

Even some of the big cities (like LA) have woefully lacking transit and everyone just sits in gridlocked traffic for multiple hours every day.
Always knew this was a single person's fault! Okay, and that other guy's.
> You think that the importance of the rule of law (obedience) isn't something which should be instilled at a young age?

If you think that the rule of law is about obedience, I think you are completely missing the point. The whole point of the rule of law is to avoid arbitrariness in how the state treats people. You could maybe say that it is about obedience of sorts on the part of those people who work for the government, to only use their special powers in line with what the law says. But even then you have the option to resign from the job rather than to obey if you object to what the law says.

While sometimes following rules while at the same time disagreeing with them is appropriate (and that also should be taught to kids), civil disobedience is also a very important factor in fighting injustice, in particular the kind of injustice that the state produces when it rules by unjust law.

Given how much injustice in the world has happened essentially because of obedience to laws, I find it hard to believe anyone would consider obedience a virtue. Laws in general should be followed, but not because it's a virtue to follow laws, but because enlightened self-interest should inform you that a society that has clear rules that everyone is bound by has tons of benefits, because by respecting the rules in favour of others, you gain that others respect the rules in your favour. But whenever that balance is clearly violated, it should be everyone's first priority to disobey.
All of these things are not related to investment in science or technology for the betterment of society.

But we also live in a time with least war and a lot less suffering in general. Technology may be a tool, but science is not. With science we can prove that x makes more people happy and reduces suicide rates and hence make that choice.

The issue is that science is not really that present in the chamber of politics. With a more science-heavy government investments would look a lot different.

I am not advocating for technology alone, basic science plays an equal or even more important role in shaping the society. Science has values and it is the only true values that exist. I would argue that with help of the scienctific method we can figure out what makes people happy and implement it politically. But the progress still starts with science.
We call that a Ponzi scheme...
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If you take money from individual A put it into a common pot and then give it to individual B then individual B is effectively getting individual A's money.
Although the post-increment (x++) operator was part of 'JS 101' for me, I've never knowingly seen the pre-increment (++x) operator before. TIL.
> The trains, who have children's minds, are unquestionably servile

The trains, who have children's minds, are constantly breaking rules, forming petty cliques, tormenting each other, and ultimately getting some comeuppance.

How could they be used to teach obedience if they never showed the folly of not following instructions??
Is "69 bytes" for the binary, or for the whole container image? I would expect at least some metadata.
I thought CH4 was ~four times more potent in the greenhouse effect than CO2, significantly worsening the global temperature rise.
Wow the Snap install is > 80MB ..; for a console based text editor...
> Reuters journalist

They're 99.9% freelancers.
I'm not a lawyer, so I can't say, but with numbers like that the former CEO could afford to have an entire law firm working on the case for him. I can't imagine that implications would go very far.
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"3years is not a long time" says the std committee.

If it's in standard in 2023 we can use it at work in 2025-2027 for those of us at particularly fast companies
On the other hand, ads that load as simple images would be a big step forward compared to the current situation where rendering ads can max out a CPU.
Not everyone is a student anymore.

I'm 31, married with two kids, and we have housemates. It's nice having more people around, in addition to being cheaper.

(We've lived in four places since getting married, one without housemates and the other three with. We've definitely preferred the latter.)
Why do people trade OTC penny stocks of small companies that are almost all deeply flawed with continual share dilution and little to no prospect of future viability?

I see ICOs as the more hip cousin of the OTC penny stock. 1 in 50 will turn into a real business and support the narrative that this is legitimate investing and lottery-style wins are possible. The rest will be traded up and down for speculation and entertainment, most eventually headed to 0, to be replaced in a continual cycle by new ICOs with new operators, new narratives, and new speculators. The tech is different but the human nature it taps into is the same.
Well, as the cost of fuel goes up people are incentivized to purchase more fuel efficient vehicles. When the supply isn't unlimited you have to be more careful about how it's used.

In my lifetime I've never seen a government program cut costs or gain efficiency. At the point something like that happens I'll be much more open to government programs. In the current environment both in terms of bloat and political hostility, it's really hard to see any benefit.

Rather than worry about throwing more tax money at the problem, why not focus on how much better things would be if the department was 10% more efficient?