skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My father's last word was "Wow!". He was at the end stage of esophageal cancer at the age of 46. He fought until about a week before his passing and made the decision that he did all he could and try to go with some grace. By the point the pain was constant and unbearable, even oxycontin wasn't getting the job done. As a family, we said our goodbyes, and said everything that needed to be said.

Over the course of the next few days, people from his life came from near and far to visit him in the hospital. After about 5 days, the flow petered out. The night he passed, he was in and out of lucidity, and in a clear moment we talked about all of the people that came to see him. He was clearly impressed and humble. At the end of the conversation, he exclaimed "Wow!" in a voice that was barely a whisper and then closed his eyes. Several hours later, hid body finally succumbed to the cancer and he exhaled his last breath.
As one of my university professors said before exams: "I know which parts you don't know." Meaning that if he wanted someone to fail, he could easily arrange that. This was his way of motivating students to attend the lectures.

There's really no way to prepare for the full set of eventualities, and unless you do something spectacular (chances of which are slim in a high-stress situation), their opinion of you is formed in the first few minutes of the interview anyway.
> just should pay more because of the virtue of having more.

First off, is having more really a virtue? Secondly, is it a bad thing that we expect people that have more to pay more? They'll still end up with more in the end - someone who makes $10m a year and pays 80% of it still ends up with quite a bit more money than someone who only makes $15k a year.
I encourage you to read the essay, and then also imagine your last paragraph with "cigarettes" instead of "FB."
i love "The best budget phones you can buy" *

* of course only in US, where you are limited by nonstandard LTE bands excluding 90% of phones available elsewhere
We have recently been playing with a laser cutter for protyping, and have been using different applications to get SVGs to the cutter. Illustrator has actually been a pain for this. Illustrator's SVG format does not retain the dimensions correctly. After trial and error, it turns out that the Illustrator SVG must be scaled 133%. SVGs coming out of Inkscape do not suffer from this problem.

At this point, I have not used Inkscape as someone else has been using it (not a power user). However, hearing about its command line options makes me want to investigate that immediately. I have been suggesting a CLI approach would be much better for us with all of the automation we are looking to implement. Thanks!
You can't link debug builds with release CRT. Won't link. Here's an example of missing symbols: __imp__invalid_parameter __imp__CrtDbgReport __imp__CrtDbgReportW

You can workaround by undefining DEBUG, _DEBUG, defining NDEBUG, etc., to make headers think it's a release build, but then it won't be a debug build anymore.
I think companies are trying to find superheros. I would say maybe 5% of the people I've worked with are worlds smarter and more productive than the average programmer (like me).

Those people generally also do well on those whiteboard questions.
> It's a false sense of higher morality to claim "ethical reasons" for not buying those chicken. You aren't saving or improving the lives of any chickens when you do that.

I don't see how this statement can be held with confidence to be true.

If I buy chicken whose precise provenance is known, and which are raised in humane conditions with high-quality feed, with a process that is minimally negatively (or, ideally, positively) environmentally impactful, then indeed there is an ethical gain in doing so.

If I buy from Tyson, I have no way of knowing any of this. Nor does Tyson even claim that I can know these things.
It's a communication platform. You want a censored internet.
Your post provides a great data point supporting your thesis, but the real problem with the intelligence of society is rational ignorance. People don't expend a great deal of resources trying to understand things that don't matter to them.

For example, you're happy to fire off about how dumb everyone is for reading tabloids because the finer points of how people unlike you consume media are not particularly important. And, likewise, the typical person buying a DNA test as largely a conversation starter isn't going to invest a great deal of effort to understand how DNA tests work.
dude at AirBnb asked me why didn't manage to get into (indian) IIT. Umm..because i am not smart enough?
uh, I thoroughly search each room, starting at the left corner and recursively iterating via a hilbert curve.

doesn't everybody?
2.5 years out of college sounds like it's still in that sweet spot where you can just grind Leetcode and pass interviews.
Yeah, I agree.. Doing enough prep to get a hundred percent acceptance rate is not worth it. And it is a level I couldn't achieve anyhow. I've done fine on my career with 50 percent or lower acceptance rate at interviews. It's one of the things I'm the worst at in this industry, but you only need to change jobs fairly infrequently.

I also question a lot of these "I landed every offer" claims. People often exaggerate their victories.
Why would anyone read the essay titled "The case against Facebook" and hope to get a balanced view?
Yeah honestly, I think those are the type of engineers that are more suitable for managing other engineers, and the really heavy ones are more suited for strictly engineering.
Interestingly, the CAFO I wrote about in another comment has a manure bio-digester, and they ended up disconnecting it years ago because it broke down so often / didn't work. I believe the thing costed over $1M, although I don't know how much was paid for by the CAFO versus the electric company.
GP's point was, I think, that if you wish for something to be permanent, then it won't be (have backups). Not exactly relevant but not contrary to the core concept we're discussing (being pessimistic about the quality of service).
Failure of the DARE program? It worked for me. Take responsibility for your own actions, nobody put a gun to your head. Also, what is your solution? I don't see one.
> As for safe and organic feed,

I'm all for "safe" feed, but assigning "organic = safe" is disingenuous. Like it or not (because the studies are not conclusive), but GMO is the only current way we know how to scale food production.
When I'm feeling apathetic it's a sign for me that I've gotten too comfortable and I need to have some sort of adventure or new responsibilities that push me out of my comfort zone.

If you are feeling apathetic try something new, even if your apathy is telling you it's a waste of time, just go for it, you might be pleasantly surprised. Even if the new thing doesn't pan out, at least it frees you up to move onto something else.
Haha, no. Keep telling yourself that, shill-boy.
With 2.5 years of experience and nothing that special on his resume? Sounds hard to believe.
> None of those are newsql other than MemSQL

Why aren't citus, nuodb 'newsql'?

> there's also TiDB

One more example doesn't qualify the statement "most are built on rocksdb". I wasn't saying there is only one newsql db built on rocksdb.

Of the 14 examples listed here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewSQL

only 2 that you mentioned seem to be built on rocksdb.
NSO Group sells exclusively to governments. There is a quote from them in the top section of their Wikipedia page. [1]

>According to the company, it provides "authorized governments with technology that helps them combat terror and crime".

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSO_Group
I think another way of looking at it is the same way people try to avoid taxes.

In China, with the One-Child policy, you would be fined heavily for having more than one child (now the limit is two). However there will be scenarios where rural and poorer folks have more children so they will under-report or even neglect to report the size of their children because they don't want to be hit with heavy fines. The disadvantage is however that extra children won't be officially registered and have a hukou and won't enjoy official protections of a Chinese citizen. On the other side of the spectrum, very rich to rich Chinese can pay for the fines and thus might choose to have 2 or more children because the fines are not that expensive to them. I have observed both scenarios when I was in China.

Note that there are exceptions to the original one-child policy, ethnic minorities don't need to abide by the one-child policy and rural parents whose first child is a daughter can have an extra child. As well, people from the previous generation who don't have siblings can have two children to make up for the lack of people in their family.

Thus the official numbers will have to be taken with a grain of salt in the same manner people and companies report their taxes as there will be individuals with more than one child who under-report to not incur fines.
Experienced engineers can BFS the tree. They may not remember djikstra.
Verizon will give subscribers free access to anti-robocall tools
What is this Venmo method?
Yup, a quick google turn this up. I remember being confused as a child when adults would tell me theses were healthier. They would always just smoke more.

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/18/business/new-philip-morri...
These processes are optimized to reduce false positives not false negatives. So they already know that they might be missing on some great developers.
Yes. However, oft recommended books are classics from the ancient times and in them days people weren't in the habit of writing directly to the students (for the most part). Learning from stuffy old books builds character, but robs you of your time.

Instead, pick a subject. Say, abstract algebra. Input this query into the search field on Amazon. It's spits out 100 or so pages of book titles (each page probably has 10 or so books - haven't checked). That right there is a treasure trove. Methodically check through each book. Each book will, in turn, have even more books in the suggestions area. Clicking on any of them will lead down the endless rabbit hole. Going back to the search field and slightly tweaking the search query to, say, "group theory" or "sylow theorems" will result in yet another wildly different list of titles. This shit grows combinatorially :) Along the way you'll come across spectacular books you weren't even searching for (say, textbooks on stats, category theory or measure theory or algorithms). Don't forget to search by date and other parameters, too, as there is a constant churn of new titles. This will introduce you to a ton of phenomenal stuff that never get any mention anywhere (you'll mostly hear about tired old cliche titles). Check out the interesting titles on libgen.

Other sites where you can learn about old, current and upcoming books of interest are Cambridge Press, Springer, MIT Press, MAA etc.

I had to write this in a hurry and forgot a ton of what I was going to say not to mention most of what I typed up above is probably hard to parse as I didn't edit this whole thing. The bottom line: do not depend on the classics. You can always do better and you'll save a lot of time.
> When Democrats argue for increased taxes it's not because they think it's good to have high taxes, but to fund particular programs

What does the concept of the government having more taxpayer money have to do with thinking it's good to have high taxes? I made no such connection, you did. My concern is with the lack of accountability to actually use the funds gathered to put into effect the types of programs you mention.

> 85% of the budget

Sure, yeah. They do. A tremendous amount of money gets wasted/misappropriated in these sectors, much of which is manipulated back into the pockets of those in office, and those whose backs the people in office must scratch to keep the gravy train moving along. I'm not sure I see the argument you are trying to make, unless you were agreeing with me.
> GMO is the only current way we know how to scale food production.

That can't be true. Do you have a source?
LaGarde is obviously going to claim she was right when she was actually wrong, there's no incentive for her to change course at all. But look at the guardian article. The IMF says under "long negotiations" the UK would be in recession in 2017, in fact growth was awesome that year. I'm no fan of either the guardian or the Indy, but in this case I don't think the issue is the journalists. The scenarios the IMF presented for the situation the UK is in were just wrong.

Of course for people who still believe, economics is unfalsifiable because these predictions are often of the form "x.y% less than it would have been" but there's no way to tell what any given stat "would have been" unless you accept the premise that these people can predict the economy ... which they clearly can't.
> It seems incredible that people would want to use such a restrictive service when much more open ones exist

people use it because:
1. If the conversation is not about criticizing gov in group chat or "moment" timeline, it's ok. Group chat/Timeline are not treated as public space, and talking bad in public is prohibited.
2. friends/family are on it and professional network is also on it.
3. store member cards are on it, you can order food and checkout in restaurants or online on it, you can send/receive money on it; using third party integrated services, you can book hotel, train, flight, pay utilities; you can even play games using the internal "tiny apps".

It brings so much good things, while you just need to keep silent about specific things. Privacy is still a relatively new concept to China, and the true freedom of speech is just so distant that the upper level doesn't seem to like it and you can't really oppose such overwhelming power. So why don't they just relax and use it.
Heh if you haven't heard you should check out Mike the headless chicken. That shows you how little brain chickens need.
what do think he meant by that?
Twitter leaked protected tweets on Android
Nicotine salt versions of "vape juice" have been available for ages - unsure how Juul have managed to patent this (possibly when used in a cartridge system with a juul brand on it).
If you consider vaping to be a smoking cessation device, then I can't see how the salt version "isn't good" - it better mimics the thing you're trying to kick.
To take an example of what existed before from pharma. Cessation was originally 'patches' - that gave you a low and slow release of nictotine.
Problem with this was that it didn't mesh at all with the experience of smoking ~ "I feel tense, I need my hit hits Ahhhhh shudder"
All the wonderfully approved pharma solutions recognized this. We had gum, we had mints, we had raw nicotine we could spray under our tongues to mazimize that hit to the brain. Anyway - my point from this paragraph is that I fail to see how quitting with a 'hit' based approach is suddenly wrong now it's done by vaping.

Secondary point is that "addiction to nicotine" isn't actually "bad for you".
Well no more so than a double-espresso-shot.
If you have a puritan streak in you that feels that all chemical influence on your mood 'is bad' then 99% of your potential target is not vaping. Let's start with "glass of wine after work"
No problem will present in such an easy way as "oh just apply BFS". As part of a big project you often have to use many different algorithms for sub parts, often modify them to suit constraints.

I think the HN crowd is heavily inclined to web apps and also front end. I can't tell you how important fundamental CS knowledge is for backend. I bet you can't use a library or API for how caches work or when paging happens. Knowing these things makes you a well rounded engineer ready to tackle different problems. I can trust you to write a mobile app or work on some part of a self driving car because you have the building blocks to do so. Most of the comments in such threads have no interest in interesting and diverse jobs because "why bother, when will I use this". To any new grad, yes the interviews can be better but please spend time on these things at school. They are an investment in your career's stock.
not really, it's more like running an apps on Desktop, you only have one window for example
>where anyone contract for the hacking of any target

Unfortunately, the law does not reflect this. Governments still have a monopoly on these sorts of attacks. If you do it without the government blessing, you usually end up in a cage.
You know, the mines were making a loss and Scargill could have said, sell them to us for £1 and we’ll run them as a collective and prove to you they’re a viable business and more importantly provide an income and dignity for the Workers.

But he did not do that. He betrayed the Workers for his own political delusions. He just wanted to be the one who brought down a government, he didn’t give a stuff about the People. Why do you think the DUM split off from the NUM? That’s why he can never be forgiven.

By the way the previous government to Thatcher had closed twice as many mines as she did, and not a squeak from Scargill. Doesn’t that strike you as a bit odd?
It's early in his carreer. I think getting some years of solid experience at a company like this will probably improve his skills a lot, and then he still has plenty of time left to find the really interesting problems.
IMO, its very close to a black and white problem. Corruption is an extremely cancerous thing to a state, and I'm not convinced things will get better with the current level that's present.
While the TSA doesn't do more good than bad, if all the non-paid TSA workers leave tomorrow, the airports aren't suddenly going to stop carrying out inspections and simply let everyone walk onto the planes.

That is, the service that TSA staff do, right now, is to let people continue to be able to fly, without (say) 5 hour lines.

So if you are a person who does fly regularly, then you may think that it's worthwhile to contribute something so you can keep that ability.
The bitcoin address is different :), mine is 1Mzpnco6nKkHTRNr9bhMa7JqGt7ABtqLBx and they ask for $943
Actually QT GUI is pretty popular in embedded space(if you're not using Android that is)

in my case I want to build a file manager and after some research I ended up with Pyside2
I think that 6days for most property based crimes is plenty of time for "smart" criminals to clear up physical evidence and establish an alibi. for crimes like kidknaping or assaults [of various types] there is a window of opportinity to rescue a person and preserve life, then after a week, a shift into recovery mode so the family of/and a decedent will have dignity.
You won't be able to Google it, because you never ever asked to BFS by name.

You will be asked to find the biggest file in folder structure, find largest modúle in dependency tree or the person in data structure that has no department and thus caused null pointer exception.

You also won't google it, because it is simple and ylnormal programer don't need google for this.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2016/01/20/u-twittert-wel-heel-vee...

Tweet: "The city council of Sliedrecht proposes to accept 250 refugees in the next 2 years. What a bad plan! #Resist"

Result: Police visits his mother's house asking for him, after which they visit his work address and sit him down: "You sure Tweet a lot. We have received orders to ask you to watch your tone. Your tweets may be construed as incitement."

Especially for opponents to immigration, the Dutch police has a special unit and visits lots of homes, either for Tweets or for maintaining a Facebook page about the subject. Currently the focus is on stopping any Yellow Vest protests from taking root in Holland.

Police: "We want civilians to be aware of the effects a post or Tweet on the internet can have in real life. We monitor Tweets and act if we feel these go 'too far'".

Facebook post on own timeline about a plan to host 1.200 immigrants in a town with 16.600 inhabitants: "Let them fuck off, these assholes. We will all go to the town hall."

Police visits home: "You are inciting an illegal demonstration. We demand you remove the post to avoid further trouble.".

Teacher tweeting about the terrorist attacks against Jews in Belgium: "How can you address this serious topic in class, when you have Muslim students that loudly cheer this on?".

3 Police men knock on door 4 hours later: "We are here ordered by the mayor. They were scared senseless at the town house, but don't you think we have better things to do, no? Do you realize that your tweet can also attract believers that want to do you harm, and can find you, just like we found you? Identify yourself."

Mayor after Streisand Effect: "I did not order anything, and this entire situation sucks. I am sorry and called him to apologize. I am 100% for freedom of speech. Internally, the last word about this drama has not been spoken.".

https://www.bndestem.nl/nieuws/excuses-burgemeester-depla-na...

Other examples with police visits:

> LAST CALL!!!! Everyone who is done with taking in more profiteers, especially because our grandfathers and grandmothers can't receive proper care. [...] Do not let them play you for a fool, but stand up for your country, and come to the market next Monday at 19:00!!!!!!!

> 19th of January the council will discuss accommodating 250 refugees in the next two years. We won't let this happen?!

> Raided by police. My god. Had to hand over our mobile phones. Asked if we had Telegram and if one could search for pictures with us wearing a neon-colored outfit (don't dare say the word).
I would pay for a packaged Mac version that dropped Xquartz and fixed the painful hidden windows issue mentioned in gp.
They changed their tune since.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1073341/brexit-news-dover-...
My interpretation was that he was expressing amazement at the number of people that came to see him. Friends, relatives, co-workers from 15+ years ago, etc. It was the topic we were discussing at that moment.

Of course, it may have been something else, too.
Show HN: Tengo lang – A fast script language for Go
Someone made a website for it too:
https://www.opticaldistortion.com/
No, these tests are carefully devised to target young college graduates who will excel at these types of interviews because the material is still fresh and they have the free time to study.

This is age discrimination disguised as "technical proficiency" exercises.
Math is not just a tool; it is an area of intellectual exploration. By the same logic studying history or philosophy is a colossal waste of time, too.
There are some positive aspects, as it allows for more diversified opinions on various issues. I find that it is great that there are chicken farmers, bridge builders, etc on this platform. But I agree. There have been less and less articles on directly tech relating things, and more on general world news. Some of the things are important and worth posting, but HN has become a little bit of a general news aggregator.
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> First off, is having more really a virtue?

It's an expression in English. It means "as a result of"[1].

> Secondly, is it a bad thing that we expect people that have more to pay more?

Yes, very bad thing. You mess this up and millions of people die, you get this right and millions of people will emerge out of poverty. Please at least acknowledge that.

> They'll still end up with more in the end.

Here's the problem though. At a higher tax bracket, I now have an incentive to find ways to avoid it. At 10% income tax on a $100K income I might not care, but at $10 million and an applicable 70% tax rate, I am willing to spend upto $5 or even $6 million to keep more of my money with me. (Personally I would even spend $7.5 million to avoid paying the taxes as a moral issue).

1. https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/by-vi...
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