skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why you think this is a separate hard problem that can't be solved by understanding how things work.

History is filled with examples of problems thought to be unsolvable until they weren't. Many things were in a mysterious realm of non-explanation before being explained by science.

It could be that the current problem is poorly defined or the wrong questions are being asked, but nothing suggests it's an unsolvable problem 'using any scientific method'. You can also easily see the material nature of consciousness by looking out how physical things affect it (brain tumors, LSD, alzheimer's).

Particle physicists are also continuing to work on the building blocks of matter. You can use science to figure out the nature of reality in the state that it really is, not just how it appears to us in our mental models of it. The map is not the territory.
People have forgotten how to train their core social and psychological skills like resilience and confidence. Unfortunately, these are not things we are born with or can code our way out of. These are things we have to train very hard at similar to how martial artists or athletes approach their training. The thing most programmers and knowledge workers in general are missing is true belief in their own skills (you have been doing this how long? come on snap out of it) and the resilience that comes from rejection after rejection, and failure after failure. After a certain point in your experience you should come to understand that raw skills are not really the end all, be all. If you are not the guy then you are not the guy no matter how many degrees you have. Sometimes the guy with the PhD from MIT is not the right guy because he doesn't connect with the rest of the team, or the vision, or whatever, simple as that.

Also, if you're testing only for specific skill sets rather than aptitude and interest then you already failed as a hiring manager.
I cannot really comment on the difficulty of making the business case for only huge cities. But I am not convinced that marketing to non-Huge cities isn't profitable.
AWS would lose lots of business if their complicity became public. Foreign customers have lost confident in the security/data compliance of public cloud in the wake of the NSA revelations.

It'd be bad for the NSA, too. I assume they are spying but only rarely act on the data they're slurping. If Amazon loses customers, and the NSA has eyes inside, the NSA loses their eyes.
I use Uber in Brazil, and all I see is that the Taxis are waiting in line because they are expensive and nobody wants them (although they have their special places).
I talked to an Uber driver about his salary and he told me that the job is much easier than what he had before, and he's earning 3 times as much money.
Real world 303.

Work for a company and project sending astronaut to Mars, then you can care and be surrounded by coworkers who care too.
I get the point, but what's the solution exactly then? The fundamental problem lies in how ads industry works and how the psychology of ads work. Given Google owns one of the largest ad platform, it has the "power" to decide how an ad should be displayed, right? Because of conflict of interest, then what is the solution? Every problem has to have some solution. The argument here and above is driving us into a circle - no one knows, so Google is the "obvious" choice. I don't want to see ads myself, tbh, and this announcement doesn't really make a big difference anyway, but I am specifically asking if not Google, who and what's next?
Could you flex the shape of the inner donut somehow to change the vortex?
I think there profits are less negative. :)
How many tests does a PR need? One? Five? When would you not write tests for something(that something not necessarily being a PR, but maybe a unit or feature)?

Tests, like any process, should be serving you and your goals.. You shouldn't be serving your processes or testing practices. This sort of un-nuanced thinking isn't indicative of a high performing startup or CTO IMHO. Perhaps your policies are not directly indicative of your real thoughts on the matter?
Not any more. [0]

[0] https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/202931348-Emoji-and...
You're being downvoted, but it is pretty bad. Looks like they set word breaks to 'break-all' for those low-width media queries.
To be fair, for this dev the reason it is better is it makes them happy.

I'm similar. I have my HP 49G sitting on the desk near me. Don't use it much, which makes me sad.

I have several things I like more about RPN. Especially over infix, it is a bit easier for me to decompose what I'm doing. Especially since I can't stand the arrow keys to jump around the bloody equation as I'm entering it. That said, I don't think it is "de facto" superior. I do like it, though.
Interesting find. On the other hand, if anyone like to test H2O web server as well, I’m curious how its handle.

https://github.com/h2o/h2o

There is even a issue reques to bring HTTP/2 feature implement in HTTP/1 for better performance.
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Far too many companies forget that they are also being tested and interviewed. The sort of stupid "let's secretly test whether the candidate can figure out we're screwing with them" kind of thing lets good candidates know one thing: the company is toxic and won't treat them like a human. This is the exact sort of behavior to run away from.
From the DM website:
Compact size - are small enough to easily fit in any shirt pocket or purse or school backpack
Extended battery life - have low power requirements, a single CR2032 will last for many years
Full-sized capabilities - have all of the mathematical functions and programming power of full-sized HP calculators
Connectivity - have an USB connection to save and load the complete state of the calculator including all programs and registers
Firmware update - can be updated to the latest firmware release through the miniUSB connection
Nostalgia - give you the feeling you had decades ago
Prices way up here in San Francisco.

Often UberPool in the $3-4 range are now about $5-6.
A mix between IPFS and onions would also be very promising. There's current work on that.[1]

[1] : https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/37
To be fair - I'd never rely on a VPN provider to protect me from government actors with significant interest.

"YOU’RE STILL GONNA BE MOSSAD’ED UPON" (from https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf )

Whether or not your VPN provider gives you any particular reason to trust them - for some of us, the government has passed laws to require our ISPs to be "untrustworthy".
Many of the job ads are fake. They are simply going through the necessary motions to prove that they couldn't find a qualified candidate; then they can qualify for an H1B visa.
They imply it's in the Austoasiatic language subfamily Aslian¹: "Some of these words suggested a link with other Aslian languages [...]".

Austoasiatic² is the family that includes Vietnamese and Khmer, but not Malay.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aslian_languages

2: AKA Mon-Khmer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austroasiatic_languages
Keep in mind that this device's screen is significantly lower resolution than gameboy, so graphics are downscaled. Text is somewhat readable sometimes.
Cool. I have one as well as 'backup' phone but my oldie's SIM is too large.
The state lottery funded the scholarships that put me through school twice.

Don't worry, the schools are getting their money.
There are two distinct opinions on this "fact" of unequal pay, I was curious to know if a person who noted subtlety in discrimination also had difficulty identifying cases of it - in my experience, typically there's no difficulty whatsoever in them seeing it, only in them being able to get others to see what they see so clearly.

A wise person would just stay out of these discussions. ;)
Since it took me forever to find this info on swissmicro's page, this is for all the portrait calculators:

DMXXL: Same size and features as HPXXC

DMXX: Credit-card sized HPXXC (but full sized display)

They all appear to take cr2032 batteries.

The 42 can run off of USB power (and will clock higher when doing so). It is unclear if the portrait calculators will as well.
It trickles down too. My friend was going to throw out an old computer.

I pulled out the ancient ATI video card and sold it for $50 on eBay.
this is funny because a solid ten weeks last summer was a grey gloom caused by forest fires, at least as viewed in kittitas and yakima counties.
Fanless, Linux-friendly Kaby Lake mini-tower drives seven 4K displays
Do you have any more details around such an attack?

The only HSTS bypasses I am aware of that were possible with control over DNS were dependent on browser vulnerabilities that have been long since fixed or required the domain to not be cached or preloaded (which effectively means you'd only be able to attack first time visitors on sites that have not implemented preload who are clicking on an http link)
It's evolution. Isolation=diversity.
Guessing because it's usually presented as something they should do without changing timelines or resource levels.

Sure, it will pay off, but not right away. Something needs to cover the interim.
Good, I want to be known as actively hostile
> Ask to see their CI dashboard and PR comments over the last few days

This is fantastic advice.
The practical upshot of such a policy would be everyone shipping their own fonts instead of using Apple's system fonts, just to be safe. This would be nothing but trouble - bloated app sizes, more ram pressure, uneven look and feel, and diminished influence on Unicode.

A now-deleted tweet by a different developer facing the same issue stated that Apple apparently clarified by saying that using emoji as "media" was forbidden, but "content" was okay. Whatever that means.

Between this and the gun/water pistol thing, it really seems like Apple thinks of Unicode as their personal playground, and simply do not think through the network effects of their policies at all.
Slightly tangential: Today, one of my staff (we're an IT company, I'm CREST accredited etc etc) connected up a NextCloud client to our NextCloud instance on a laptop and noted that the SSL cert was untrusted.

The cert. on our NextCloud is a Let's Encrypt job. He was using a laptop provided by a customer (he works there a lot) and they deploy a MitM web proxy that he was perhaps only dimly aware of. I haven't look too deeply into the laptop config but it looks like either the MitM CA wasn't installed as trusted or the NC client is a bit clever. Now, I'll plump for: screw up in other corp. IT.

So we have a techie ignoring warnings from an app that is designed to share data safely. OK, the customer's IT dept have their policies but I would have hoped that the default from my employee would have been to quietly walk away and uninstall NC from that laptop (he did after a few words.)
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The performance hit would be enormous
Just a Luddite rant on love of a pedestrian standard. Without even trying out Google's offering, the author goes off on a preconceived notion.

I welcome Google's attempt at this - let the free market decide it's success
BTW, I use a private VPN server which can be setup on aws in a few minutes https://github.com/webdigi/AWS-VPN-Server-Setup

No logging on server side guaranteed as it is your own server. AWS could monitor but I don't mind that
Physics Travel Guide: a tool that makes learning physics easier
Prefer Lyft drivers? Almost every Lyft driver also drives for Uber.
BTW, I use a private VPN server which can be setup on aws in a few minutes https://github.com/webdigi/AWS-VPN-Server-Setup

No logging on server side guaranteed. AWS could monitor but I do not thinking of that as an issue for my use cases.
Would it be possible for you to port your work to I2P as well?

It's good to have a fallback network in case issues arise in Tor and something needs to plug the gap in the interim, and I2P would fulfill that roll pretty well.
I wonder how most people work with their source control system. In general, I find it far easier to use git or svn from the command line because when I'm bouncing around between editors and OSes, it's always the same user experience so you get to leverage that experience better. Works for me anyway.
Right but that link between physicality and mind _is_ consciousness..the perception of qualia. So though they may be caused by the same thing, the process itself is one to be looked at carefully.
There was barely anything new outside of web development.

Java code, C++ and python from 2014 could be untouched and still working fine.
Peloton Tread: “fitness as a service”
That's how helicopters work, and it requires complicated mechanical linkages. Read the wiki article about swashplates for an introduction.
People who bother to practice for coding interviews (using the same website) and successfully land an interview do similarly well on coding interviews... That's a lot of selection bias.
Free market? Is that what we call it when one member of the duopoly controlling most email clients decides to embrace and extend the standard?

Also even if you believe in Santa Claus and free markets, people getting on their soapbox to say “this is a terrible idea” is part of the free market.
Another thing to consider about CoL comparisons is local lifestyles. Those who are living in SF or NYC are probably out of the house enjoying local nightlife a lot, those in warm sunny places are probably out enjoying nature, while those living in cold suburbs probably spend a lot more time on home and hobbies. So, in some places you can buy a lot more house while in others you need a lot less house. In places where housing is expensive there's also a lot less peer pressure to have a big house; it's not like all your coworkers in a SF startup are talking about their 4 bedroom ranch houses.
Coanda effect? Some little jets somewhere to entrain the flow?
Ignore above, meant for another post
It would do nothing about the "wild west", it'd just make it even worse. And no, there is zero reason why such a regulation would be justified.
Devin Coldewey against a bunch of Google employees, who will win? (sarcasm)

On a more serious note, if the idea of AMP is so bad as many people attest. How is that the "bad idea" passed over so many people at a company that praises itself of hiring some of the most smartest people in the field? Hyperbole, the author of this article is just generalizing. Maybe AMP for email works for some people, making it a good idea for them.
I'd suggest some care with this approach. I've seen more than one candidate say they have no side projects, but when prodded further, we figured out they do in fact have side projects, the candidates just didn't twig on that they were side projects.

For example, writing up a silly application to make a daily task easier. One candidate had their own tooling for time tracking. It wasn't much to look at but it was there and working for them. It wasn't on github, well commented or entirely complete. It was however a neat tool and well enough written. The candidate didn't really think about it as a project, just a little tool they wrote.
Same here. The Ola experience is full of friction. Payment options are cash or olapay. Both are inconvenient af. Uber allows normal CC or UPI payment. Ola is slightly cheaper so wait times are always higher. And sometimes the app simply gives up and says no taxi found. Uber has none of these issues. The Uber app also encourages reliance on the app for everything. You need not call the driver and he can see your live location from the app. You need not describe your destination. The driver need not devise a route. Everything is handled in a well designed manner, no surprises, and least amount of human interaction. Truly wonderful.
Free market as influenced by a commercial entity intentionally making most other options unusable.

Yeah, the free market is a good metric there...
At least within SF, UberEats has become extremely fast in the last few months. I've had food come in as little as 15 minutes, and 20-25min seems average. Compared to other services that consistently take 45min+, this is amazing.
> What this means is that top-tier students are achieving the same results as those in no-name schools.

When NYU and Arizona State are "Top 50" while Michigan State and Vanderbilt are classified as "no-name schools", I question the meaningfulness of this blog's baseline and what it means for an interview to be technical.
Point taken. I'll bite the bullet and admit that there is indeed probably something lost when I have to use a modern machine to get from where I live to the experience of pristine nature I crave. Something almost tragic, as if my "normal life" is unnatural or lacking in something primally good for me, which I have to "visit". But to not have experienced it at all, like not being unplugged from technology for a long stretches, would I think be stunting in a far worse way.
The other problem: the electricty cost includes the cost of disposing the nuclear reactors: if they weren't able to price correctly the building of the power plant, are you confident that they priced correctly the disposal of the power plant?
Just run your own, its two clicks. Load this into cloudformation and stop it when you're done. https://github.com/webdigi/AWS-VPN-Server-Setup/blob/master/...
> How many tests does a PR need? One? Five?

Enough so the overall coverage doesn't go down.
No, it's a full compiler that would compile a DSL into JavaScript. Just because it's "to JavaScript" doesn't mean it's a transpiler.
> * How the code is executed on modern hardware and operating systems.

Does anyone know this at this point? With pipelining, out of order execution, vectorisation, register renaming, speculative execution, buffered micro-op fusing and what have you, it's very hard to say general things about how the code executes on the actual hardware.
The chips of the future may be designed nothing like the chips of the past. This will call for more than just basement circuit rehashing. The future of chips will rest on novel solid-state and condensed-matter research.
Stats? From my experience in Austin, Lyft drivers have mostly been "I work from my car starting a business / I drive around in my car for other reasons and I do Lyft literally on the side (as in: I was already driving this way, or similar)"

Driving for Uber may be a second/additional job for many people, but I have never had an Uber driver seem like it was a super casual thing they do for a few extra bucks.
>I personally live in a 3 bedroom apt I rent for $635 a month ($795 if taking into account the electricity used for heating) and the apt is located 25 min by public transportation (foot + metro) away from downtown.

Wow thats incredible. What are salaries like though?
I remember my agency days.

Now days I work on a single long-running legacy project where tests make sense. Back then, I read a lot about how testing was the "right thing to do." But I also realized that most of the time (a) the client wasn't going to be willing to pay for the tests and (b) odds are that once we launch the product, that will be last time I ever look at it.

Maintenance will occur in five years when sales talks the client into scrapping the entire thing and rewriting it -- the client won't be willing to pay for maintenance or automated tests, but somehow sales could always sell them on a total rewrite.
Presumably a remote user is still a user.

My inner rules lawyer does note that this could pose a problem for any bot that emits emoji...
It can be argued that e-mail spam made most self-hosted e-mail unusable.
What the software is constructed has a huge impact on how well it ages. If it's javascript...
Done. [0] At least, it's an AVR chip.

[0] http://dmitry.gr/index.php?proj=07.+Linux+on+8bit&r=05.Proje...
Note that those who want a JS-free whistleblowing platform should look for SecureDrop.[1] It's also harder to setup and may not be possible for certain threat models.

[1] : https://securedrop.org/directory
Also Meltdown/Spectre dragging down most of the incremental performance gain in the latest chip generation.
I'm not sure if the behaviour they encountered in testing generalises to actual production environments.

Specifically:

> Penalty #2: TCP window size will drop dramatically, and all streams will be simultaneously throttled down.

This implies that, for both HTTP/1 and /2 connections, throughput per connection can be limited by min(throughput) for that connection. With a http/2 connection being used for multiple streams, and therefore more packets, the connection is more likely to get hit by a dropped packet.

That scenario doesn't quite seem to be realistic, because it assumes that dropped packets are independent (3% in the test). The rate of injected errors was apparently also not adjusted for any of the factors that would affect errors in the real world, such as package size and (attempted) speed.

But reducing sizes and throttling are direct countermeasures intended to provide maximum throughput even on flakey connections. Since any connection problems are bound to be highly correlated per client, it would seem that http/2 may actually perform faster than /1 because the "information" about connection troubles, and the countermeasures, are applied to a larger number of streams.
Isn't $0/year savings a pretty realistic estimate for Americans? It agrees with the stats I've seen, which admittedly aren't focused on the tech industry or the top 5% income quantile.
But this is just a blip. When Pascal GPUs first showed up gtx 980ti where going on ebay for <300.

Markets are markets.
Good luck! I had the "pleasure" of working on HTML emails a few months back. It was unbelievably painful. Getting even a simple email to display consistently across a dozen different mail clients is a huge pain. This is why so many marketing emails use giant images for everything--it's the simples way to get consistent rendering.

I predict whatever Google launches will work in GMail, and GMail only.
No - expressing an opinion is called "freedom of speech", which goes hand in hand with the free market.

You'd be amazed at the number of initiatives launched by the supposed monopoly (Google) failing in the free market. Nacl lost out to wasm. Chrome OS never really took off.

Despite people's gripes about AMP, consumers are clearly loving faster, more responsive websites and hence it's relevance. Let this play out and we'll see where it leads
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It's funny you mention that you had difficulty having your team write tests. At my company, the CTO has difficulty writing tests and the team has consistently written adequate test coverage.

I fixed this in a new project by starting with jest [1] and failing the CI if the test coverage wasn't at 100%.

[1] : https://facebook.github.io/jest/
I don't know a lot enough about aerodynamics or airflow to be sure, but could they be moving pieces of plastic on the inside of the donut to block some of the airflow on one side to make it bank in that direction?
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>* If I want to share a smallish apartment, I'll pay $400/month in Lehi, or $3.2k/month in NYC.

That's not even remotely realistic. $3,200/mo in NYC will get you a luxury 1bd in Manhattan. $1500 is more like it for a small studio or roommate situation.
Nice regulations! They set a minimum price instead of maximum. Pretty clear the regulation was supposed to protect the industry not the consumers. Such regulations are the reason uber exists.
Amen. Every time I think I have my head wrapped around C++ a new version comes out or Scott Meyers writes a book and I realize how ignorant I am about C++. No one really know all of C++.

I bet Stroustrap occasionally sees some C++ code and says "huh ... I didn't know you could do that."
Google is good at building phones but terrible at selling them
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