skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The world's burning here too. Thanks to widespread and unusual drought, there are huge wildfires burning all summer long, all over the West. They start well before the usual beginning of "fire season" and continue well past the end of it, into the late autumn. Fire season is now 3/4 of the year. Pretty soon I suppose it'll be all year long. There's a hot wind and choking smoke everywhere. The sun is blacked-out if you're in the immediate vicinity, or else there's a thick smoke haze for miles. It feels like the goddamned apocalypse. It feels like you're in hell. Or rather, hell feels like this. Because those who came up with the concept of hell, based it on this. It was one of their worst experiences of divine retribution. Along with floods and storms etc., and those are coming fast & furious now too.

On TV here comes another car commercial. The disconnect is amazing. This shit needs to stop TODAY, if there's to be any hope of stopping or even slowing the catastrophe already in motion. But "good people" are not getting it. Certain other people work overtime to make sure they don't get it. And of course cutting them in on the spoils (a.k.a. "issuing them a paycheck") raises their mental barriers against getting it. Insert Upton Sinclair quote here.... "It is difficult to get a man to understand bla bla bla."

The minute good people realize they're screwing over other good people, they might actually find it unpalatable to do the work (or buy the product). Either that or they're not such good people. But they don't always have a choice, right? At least that's what good people say who want to absolve good people. Gotta pay the rent, right? Well that's what my landlord says anyway. Gotta keep driving to work to pay the rent, right? Well that's what 80% of Houstonians and 85% of Detroiters say... but 70% of Portlanders agree too. (Everybody's a liberal as long as it doesn't mean getting off your ass.) Maybe people just naturally exploit and screw each other to profit themselves, and all morality is just an idealistic and optimistic overlay. Maybe people in general just aren't that "good." Maybe it'll be better after a bunch of us die the hell off. I need a drink.
I live alone, and generally I do about ~400GB of data transfer on Comcast a month. I work from home, and spend a lot of time downloading Docker containers and other such things to do my work.

Last month apparently I hit a new high for me: 890GB. Lots of devices needing updates/games downloaded...

I am really surprised that with a 7 person household you don't go through your data even faster.

I even run a local caching server for all my Apple devices, which over the last 30 days has saved me about ~50GB from having to be served from origin, with about ~100GB being served to clients.

Although I tend to also be a heavy user of Apple's iTunes and particularly their movies service, so I have a feeling a lot of that cached data is me putting movies on in the background and them being streamed from the cache rather than from Apple directly.
Summary from the article:

Pending home sales ... counts how many contracts were signed rather than how many sales actually closed that month. ... This morning, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) released its Pending Home Sales Index for November, an indication of the direction of actual sales to be reported for December and January. This index for November fell to the lowest level since May 2014 ...

...

And the index plunged 7.7% compared to November last year, the biggest year-over-year percentage drop since June 2014.

Nevertheless:

"There is no reason to be concerned," the report said, reassuringly. And it predicted "solid growth potential for the long-term."

Later:

And this is a true and huge problem: Home prices have shot up for years, even while wages ticked up at much slower rates. At some point, the market is going to run out of people with median incomes who are willing to stretch to the limit to buy a starter shack, and the market is going to run out of people with high incomes who are willing to stretch to the limit to buy a median house.

We in the US want housing to solve all sorts of self-inflicted economic ills: our lack of savings; our inability to sacrifice in the short term and plan for the future; our longing to live an unsustainable lifestyle promoted non-stop in mass and social media; the homelessness problem; the fraying social contract.

As some point it will become apparent how counterproductive policies promoting home ownership were. In the meantime, the economic distortions on the upside and downside will continue.
The last person I knew who managed thousands of people hit that after 7 years. It's not the norm, but it happens.

And with 15 years of experience I was being groomed to be promoted from an L6 to L7 "Uber Team Lead"... it wasn't easy and wasn't coasting, took a ton of very hard very impactful work... but it's possible for a mere mortal.
You're getting at intuiting requirements, which I think of as a mid-level or senior dev skill. Super important for orgs without massive product/design resources, but it's different from this garage test.

I can certainly believe a good number of programmers couldn't, for example, figure out how to build a database on their own, or a 3D game, work with cryptocurrencies, or reverse-engineer an API. There's a reason FizzBuzz is still a valuable gating test.
The Page-Fault Weird Machine: Lessons in Instruction-Less Computation(2013)[pdf]
I must admit I didn’t figure that one out till I saw the solution which was a “oh duh” moment. I don’t think i would have ever stumbled upon it without lots of hints during an interview.
On one hand, it looks pretty cool and convenient. On the other, using a DNS server requires a lot of trust.

Giving some unknown company the ability to trivially man-in-the-middle your connection or sell your browsing history is pretty scary. The fact that their code is open source helps a bit, but there's no way to tell whether the code running on their servers is the same as on github.

I'll stick with my pihole/hostsman [0]

[0]: http://www.abelhadigital.com/hostsman/
I like this, and something like this seems to be the step-zero of all of the rest of the methodologies. If you don't have enough people who generally know what they're doing, the project will fail, regardless of method.
They have their own shortcuts for the basics: j/k or arrows for jumping between entries, (ctrl+)enter to open (in background tab). Doesn't excuse hiding focus outlines though.
Black bar for Larry Roberts but nothing for Lil Peep?
It'll just log it... and then you get to play "let's find where it's coming from" as each switch just forwards that bad boy on as fast as possible.
I just read Pagliucci's summary of the exchange [1]. Taleb's disdain for academics is well known, particularly the humanities, and that seems on full display here. I don't see anything specifically misogynistic though. Did Pagliucci simply not quote what you're referring to?

Edit: by which I mean, what definitively demonstrates his misogyny as opposed to a gender neutral disdain for historians in general? He's definitely the abrasive ass I described earlier, but misogynist doesn't seem warranted, and it's a label that's thrown around far too freely these days.

[1] https://iainews.iai.tv/articles/beard-nassem-taleb-twitter-f...
startpage.com as far as I know is a wrapper around Google results.
The European Commission also has additional calls out for intermediaries to re-distribute funding to open source projects (ICT24), and some of the intermediaries have their respective calls open for projects (from 5k€ to 200k€):

https://www.ngi.eu/opencalls/
https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/port...
I found both the article and comments enlightening.

The article did not feel ideological/partisan/political in the least. Yet after reading comments and giving it a second look, I can absolutely, definitely see why it could be perceived that way.

Upon trying to examine my different reactions during reading and afterwards, I think it boils down to:

As a white straight white collar man - democrats, republicans, liberal, conservative, libertarian, etc - these are matters of ideology, perspective - choice.

If I were gay/lesbian as the author though, it's not ideology - it's people who actively wish you harm, and people who do not actively wish you harm. It's a matter of simple survival. Reading the article through the eyes of the lesbian forced to enter strange peoples' homes, I empathized.
I was once in a scientology church, went through exam, it was all fun and games until I realized were were two floors below ground and a man with shifty eyes, intense stare, and who couldn't take no for an answer, was between us and the room's door - and dozens more like him between us and safety of the outside.
Somewhat similarly, it feels like the author in each new home/environment has to quickly figure out who she's dealing with and act accordingly as a matter of survival. These folks I can be normal with. These folks think I'm an aberration and wish me harm. These are just creeps who want to rub on me.
I feel like that very rarely in my life - occasionally as an atheist at a public gathering in really enthusiastic prayer, or back when I was a refugee immigrant in a room full of entitled locals - but most of the time I'm just safe wherever I am. The author is not.
Rise of cockroach startups
AFAIK, when they were all made to compete against each other in MMA it quickly became obvious that Brazilian jiu-jitsu was top dog.

Not really. BJJ was very successful in the early days of what we now call MMA because everyone was playing a new sport with new rules and those rules allowed new tactics that were unfamiliar. BJJ's style of ground fighting was alien to practitioners of many other styles and they hadn't trained to defend against it, but also crucially, within the rules of MMA taking your opponent to the ground is something you can often achieve and with relative safety, so BJJers initially enjoyed a big natural advantage by being able to move the fight to their territory. Fighters from other styles quickly learned to sprawl, posture up on the ground, and so on, after which BJJ still offered effective techniques but wasn't nearly as dominant as it had been in the early days.

The analogy is quite flawed anyway, though. MMA is a great sport for those who enjoy it, but it's still a sport and still has its own rules. What works in the octagon, with a fence around the outside and a clean, flat floor, between exactly two fighters wearing fight-friendly clothing, when both are unarmed and neither is allowed to employ "dirty fighting" techniques is... well, not necessarily what would work without those rules, whether in a different sport or in any sort of real life altercation.
Uber, Tesla, and Waymo all struggled with self-driving in 2018
Well, you just described waterfall. And the track record of trying to compile accurate progress reports, only starting testing after development is ”completed”, and only involving actual users in a one-way communication... is not exactly great.
This may sound silly but I think I have my first Macbook to thank for removing me from the world of addictive gaming.

If I wasn't gaming, I was reading or watching movies. Like the person in this article, I would ignore friends and largely spent much of my childhood and teenage years alone. It's hurt my ability to relate and converse with people. I don't know if it's the main reason for my depression and social anxiety diagnosis but there does seem to be a correlation if not causation.

I ultimately stopped my serious gaming when I moved completely into the Apple ecosystem. Nothing ran well and those that did weren't in the genre I was interested in. It was a roadblock.

That didn't do anything for the other aspects of internet consumption (which I'm still working on) but one down, a few more to go.
You might have another app using the FB SDK (as described in the app).

Or .. they have a database from mobile IP to rough location - or even, without knowing your exact location, perhaps both of you were using the same convention free WiFi, or the same Verizon proxy (or whatever), which would indicate close proximity even without giving the location directly.

Are you using iphone or android?
The link to the third stage does not seem to work (https://btc2018.formapi.io/d63c04b...). I get "btc2018.formapi.io’s server IP address could not be found." When visiting a wrong address, I get "Page not found" instead.
If Kubernetes was designed with stateful workloads in mind why did it take until version 1.3 to introduce petSets as an alpha feature?
I've tipped cable installers (and I'm not a bluecollar worker) - I assume that anybody in service industry in principle can be tipped for providing excellent service. Painters, movers, furnace people, superintendant, anybody who can provide crappy, basic, or excellent service -- I want to support, reward and encourage excellent service.

I cannot tip the phone customer service reps, but if I get a really helpful one, I'll ask to speak to their supervisor and put a good word - for what little it may do.
In my mind, it's partly about showing gratitude, partially about encouraging behaviour we want to see (understanding that in terms of natural selection, I can tilt the outcome very little compared to the priorities and prerogatives of the company and management, who are typically at odds with me as a customer)
Why do you think so? I know many companies that pair for interviews, Thoughtworks, and Pivotal Labs for example
Privacy is one major reason you might want to switch to a dns provider you trust. Not to mention security as well as it isn't uncommon for ISPs or rouge actors to 'take over' domains solely using attacks via DNS.

If you're not using DNS over TLS or HTTPS, I suggest you start right now.

If you're undecided abt DNS based adblock, consider reading this blog post: https://www.troyhunt.com/mmm-pi-hole/
More is not better - definitely not in interviews.

I only skimmed a couple of bits but there ought always to be more “thinking” questions rather than “remembering/knowledge” questions.

And of course if you wanted to use some sort of list of interview questions the cultural non technical questions (which isn’t the scope of that curation I think) are the most important questions of all I believe.
I didn't say the googles of the world fizzbuzz you. I just said that fizzbuzz is so basic and simple that a developer shouldn't be studying for days or weeks for fizzbuzz. I said people respect google on your resume because their interviewing process is robust.
What I am trying to say is that you just can’t take basic research and take it to the market, selling it as the fountain of youth.

And Dr. Sinclair cited Dipak Das in his research and knew him personally, when they both served together on the scientific committee of the “first international scientific conference of Resveratrol and Health” in Denmark in 2010
I feel like these have been standard practices in most of the startups I have worked with over the past 10 years. It is interesting to see that this isn’t the norm already.
In assembler, the function prologue has to set up the stack frame with enough space to store local variables. Having all local variable declarations come at the beginning of the function was an extension of that - keeping C closer to assembler and perhaps making compilation conceptually easier. With modern optimizing compilers, though, we're not necessarily directly translating to assembler line for line, and might optimize out some variables entirely, so it doesn't matter as much.

EDIT: Looks like beagle3 beat me to it while I got coffee.
C has permitted mixing declarations and statements since the 1999 standard.
I think, because he didn't understand the purpose, he saw it as poor company interviewing to make him jump though that sort of crap. Once he understood it was just a simple screening mechanism because of the high number of dodgy applicants, he calmed down.
I wanted to avoid the impropriety of shameless self-promotion; but the URL is my username plus dot com.
I found that when I wrote C++, I almost exclusively ended up using features that were already in C; obviously there are no classes in C, but I was happy enough using structs and functions that just take a pointer of that struct type for the first argument.
I'm not so sure, there is more than a grain of truth in it. Years ago after dropping-out of uni I ended up doing building work in the UK. Finding somewhere to have a pee was all consuming a lot of the time. I think it would have been terrible for a woman! If you were working on the exterior of a house you would almost never be offered the use of a toilet. In fact often you would be locked out.

Lots of middle-class customers seemed to relish having some 'help' for a day. Seemingly normal people turned into the 'Lord of the Manor' and talked to you like dirt. I found early on as a young and naive team member that clients would come and chat to me hoping to find some information to use against the boss. I could work at someone's house for 6 months and watch them avoid me in town a couple of months later.

I once finished work at a house and saw the owner was sat at a table on his lawn with guests. I walked over to say I was leaving, and the old guy dropped his drink and ran over to me all agitated. He didn't want to talk to me with guests there!

After hours I have had 'friends' I would chat too for a few weeks in the student pubs about literature or something. I'm no Will Hunting, but... I remember one week discussing mediaeval literature with a girl (who was interested that I knew some stories from the Mabinogian, an ancient Welsh text), who then found out I was a builder and said some unkind things and never spoke to me again.

One kind gent always had a cup of tea for us at his house, and kind words about our work, but actively avoided me in the street.

It really confused some of them years later to see me in my regulation pinstripe suit, they didn't know what to say! The fact that I had been a builder was a drag on my career for a while, even with a few years of office experience people still got strange about that on my CV. One former employer told me he nearly blocked my appointment for it without meeting me, and was pleased to admit he was wrong. I don't put it on my CV any more.

So yes people can be real a-holes about manual workers. Believe it.

Tipping is not really a big thing in the UK at all, so I can't help there.
Thank you! This is amazing.

I've recently started getting back into electronics and am learning how synthesizers work. This comes in handy. The simplicity of the circuit and the richness of sound is really mind blowing to me.
I wonder if they knew how powerful this infrastructure would be at the time they did it. This presentation [1] (by Larry Roberts, actually) indicates that basically nobody other than ARPA actually wanted this capability - the other big institutions at the time either didn't want to share their data (universities) or thought the whole technical approach was crazy and brain-dead (telcos).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkD4HVRnGJE#t=580
Ray Kurzweil introduced the idea (to me) that aliens might roam and observe this planet in the form of insects.
Paul Graham wrote an essay on this exact question. I read it while in high school but only after years later aimlessly wandering through life did the words pierce my soul.

I'd say read this: http://paulgraham.com/hs.html

And really reflect on it deeply, aside from that just try to do things you won't regret not doing later.
It's neither. There's a DP solution for this problem and a recursive solution without memoization (with exponential complexity). The shortest solution I have seen was 18 lines of code.
Have you seen musicbrainz? https://musicbrainz.org
Here are the new all-electric vehicles coming in 2019 – Electrek
I know those two, but they’re definitely outliers in many ways. I’ve never seen it done for a non-consulting company.
You make it sound like Python and Java are esoteric languages and that VS Code has replaced all other text editors and IDEs.

Sublime Text became popular because it was a cross-platform graphical editor that used a popular language for extensions. Atom became popular because it was all that and free. VS Code became popular because it was like Atom but faster.
Does

a ^ c | d

mean

(a ^ c) | d

or

a ^ (c | d)

? The answer is unambiguous, and can easily be found by consulting the standard or any decent reference, but I've been using C for decades and I couldn't reliably answer without looking it up.

I dislike some overuse of parentheses, but in this case I'd definitely use them.
By having the app removed from the store. Which Apple is unable to do because it doesn't allow third party security researchers to scrutinize its app store. This resulted in the massive XCodeGhost infection, which Apple couldn't fully remove from their store for weeks after.

XCodeGhost was first found by Alibaba - a third party.
Show HN: Crypto Bonsai – Grow your own crypto coins
Apparently, I can't post a .live domain. I guess that must have tripped some filters. I only used it 'cos it's very cheap. After all, I am on a budget. Anyway, the link is in the comment. If that's not okay, then moderators: feel free to remove it. Thx.
I can totally see that. Once I went to college, I stopped watching TV because my roommate and I were both too lazy to get one for the dorm room. I haven’t had cable since (5 years later).
> ("Aha, you youngsters don't recognise that this is clearly a dialup modem tone!" they say with misplaced confidence to their slightly-younger cousins.)

The tweet thread would have been better without this. As mentioned in the replies, the closed captions literally say that it's a modem connecting.
"19.26: How do you pronounce char?

Like the first word of char *. The accent is generally on the first syllable."

https://www.seebs.net/faqs/c-iaq.html
> That didn't do anything for the other aspects of internet consumption (which I'm still working on)

Have you considered getting internet service from CenturyLink?
Here's the link to my project: https://cryptobonsai.live
Ip helper usually only shows up in the context of DHCP so its easy to forget it forwards a lot more than just DHCP broadcasts.
"Irate," eh? Maybe if the cable companies weren't local monopolists that operate with the business ethics of a purse snatcher their employees wouldn't have to deal with angry people.

(Aka why I have slow DSL: because it was either that or sue Mediacom until they actually supplied the service I was paying for. Yeah, there's a grudge here.)
History of technology, videos from YouTube
The question was: Write a method that can take in a regex and a string and return whether the string matches it, with the regex limited to the characters . * ?
(And backtracking is definitely where I started coming unstuck)
I believe Cisco umbrella(opendns) public resolver does similar filtering,although not sure if they have one for AD filtering.

Some mentioned trust,for me support for dns ovet https is much more important since I'd be using it over a VPN anyways. And for those thst dont,NAT and inability to correlate DNS lookups with actual (especially encrypted) traffic makes privacy a less significant concern for me.
Obj-C has not been deprecated. And in fact the only parts of Obj-C itself that have actually been deprecated were during the migration to "Obj-C 2", where a slew of runtime functions (that nobody used) were removed, as well as direct access to the `isa` pointer (I don't actually remember if the `isa` pointer access was removed when Obj-C 2 was introduced or later when we got tagged pointers).

What the parent is likely referring to is APIs from the SDK, which do get deprecated, and then years later (many years later) removed.
There is a really great documentary about Kevin Carter and the bang bang club called "when under fire, shoot back" [0]

It's much better than the fictionalized version that TFA references. Although it doesn't seem to be widely available so it might be a bit of a chore to hunt down.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3478564/