skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to think like you do, but what changed my mind was that I tried to consider whether a hands-off approach will maximize total freedom.

If, by regulating the way people do business, we can increase total freedom in the world, I think that it's a worthwhile exchange. The way we do business is already regulated, and is one of the powers that we explicitly grant the government in the constitution.

The way I see it, forcing social platforms to accept free speech is really just a commercial regulation, and not a speech regulation. After all, we all understand that this post doesn't reflect the opinions of YC, and thus forcing YC to accept this post doesn't restrict anyone's freedom of speech.
There is no monolithic "modern tech" to keep up with. If you think there is, you work in a bubble and don't have nearly enough experience to say anything intelligent about how to hire senior developers.

Moreover, if you're proud of how hard it is to learn ins and outs of your tech stack, you're likely using a shitty tech stack and costing your company tons of money.
>his is about 1,800 calories a day which puts me at a steady pace to lose about 1 lb of fat a week assuming I don't cheat.

A pound of fat is 3500 calories, so you've really got to be hitting a 500 calorie a day deficit to get there. 1800 cal a day seems a bit high to achieve a lb of weight loss per week (2k/day recommended intake), unless of course you're very tall in which case your baseline might be 2300 cal.
And they had to shoot the lions to get to the man. Hmmm. Ok. Man, some people are just so stupid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ_3BN0m7S8

I would bet this bear actually would have eaten the crow, had that been its intention.

I'd think the leopard taking care of a calf is more likely to think it looks "cute" for similar biological reasons we do, and take care of it for that reason.
I would guess that a leopard in particular, if it wanted to store food, would be inclined to save it for later by just caching it (dead) in a tree.

I also think "instincts" manifest themselves through emotion / emotion is how we experience instinct.
We feel fear, love, etc depending on the situation, and then it's these emotions that drive us to act in the manner we do.

Our actions are moderated by language-enhanced reflection, which is were we're really ahead of other animals.
Historically, they would just plop the file right on their .emacs.d

With Emacs I'm more likely to try and extend some part of the editor than I am with Vim. A significant percentage of Vim users make heavy use of plugins; and I feel that "don't do it myself" lends to fewer plugins of higher quality.
They eat large sprawling problems for breakfast, but they balk at 45-min algorithm challenges.

If a candidate can solve large, complex problems but bombs your interview, the problem is your interview. TripleByte should focus on this problem and educate these companies on effective interviewing techniques. For example, if your interview overemphasizes coding challenges, puzzles, quizzes, or otherwise feels more like being on Jeopardy than real-world applicable, you're doing it wrong.

Candidates should be focused on their skill set and filling in gaps (i.e. I've toyed with Python but I see it being in demand so let me get better at syntax, packages, thinking in pythonic way).
I'd agree that doing projects is a better way to learn in general, but some level of practicing interview questions is needed when applying to companies that do whiteboard interviews. Projects can boost your resume and get you in the door, but they're not a huge help in passing some algorithm question.
We agree on space. I honestly think we will have cars we drive for a very considerable time yet.

While that is true, yeah own a car.

Leasing is kind of like that now, as is apartment living.

I dislike both because I can't generally do what I want.

In a home, I will build, modify, etc... same for a car, only just modify. I love better quality used cars for this reason.

I do not want to worry about resale value, just use value.

Good exchange here.
That happens every February for spring festival.
For some time now I've been tempted to start eating eggs on a toast for breakfast daily so I'm curious: has this impacted your bad cholesterol?
Taxes don't solve these problems. In your setup, companies would "break up" but only on paper to take advantage of tax code. Outside of papers filed in Delaware no one would even know these were separate companies. Many billionaires often have few 100s LLCs filed in such a complex graph of ownerships that would take days to decipher.
We can acknowledge the suffering caused by the bear.

Perhaps the overall utility of having a happy bear in your ecosystem beats not having a bear, or a starving one. Since we can't know for sure, the precautionary principle tells us to just let the bear be a bear. But it still sucks for the salmon, and therefore a human capable of forgoing the salmon clearly should at least consider it.
Fixed wing can glide, helicopters can autorotate, open rotor e-vtols don’t autorotate because they don’t have variable pitch blades and their inertia is way too low anyway. jet-vtols have no rotor blades at all so... you’re right if an e-vtol or jet-vtol experiences a catastrophic failure then it’s going straight down! Many of the e-vtol companies say they solve this by having x levels of redundancy..we don’t buy that at JPA. We want to build a saftey system that can rescue the pilot from 5 feet or 50 feet or 5000 feet. Now that’s a challenge! But we believe doable.
Sure, and since companies aren't paranoid about discrimination lawsuits... oh wait.
Yeah sometimes I feel like I don't want to use emacs anymore, but then I think about magit and org.

After using spacemacs for a couple years, I've started rebuilding my own. There was too much stuff going on I didn't understand and when something breaks I have no idea what to do.

Now that I know about general, ivy/swiper/counsel, use-package, and some of the other building blocks... It's pretty cool.

You know what it reminds me of?
npm ~ducks~
Use of fire

Domestication of dogs

Agriculture
I think you’re totally right, until you consider the shared/pool options. Those can be both really cheap and really profitable if you have the density.
Isaac Arthur has a whole series of podcasts that cover all the current ideas around the Fermi paradox, which ones are more or less likely and why. Really interesting stuff. Here's a link to his Fermi Paradox playlist on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIIOUpOge0LulClL2dHXh...

He's also got a Soundcloud for audio-only format and a Facebook group.
> Without net neutrality, ISPs would be free to charge big players like Google and Netflix more money, and that would leave a lot more room for smaller players to get involved.

When ISPs decide that they should charge more for all video traffic, the smaller companies can't pay it but the larger ones can. Why would the ISPs act in the benefit of small companies when they can make more by charging more for all streaming video.
> These are concepts that are far more common in interviews than they are in production web programming

So of course let's talk about a dozen different types of them!

Welcome to Ford! To be considered for this position, please list every GM Model from 1983 to 1987.
Taking on increasingly risky projects can be a sign of risk aversion though. E.g. working on (or funding) moon shot projects can be a way to avoid having to hold yourself accountable if the project fails, whereas it's much harder to put all your eggs in one basket behind a strategy that should actually succeed if well executed.

I'm not saying YC is guilty of this generally, but I do see it sometimes. E.g. I think pursuing the artificial kidney thing is kind of a cop out compared to getting states to change their laws so that people are opted into organ donation by default, since if the former fails you can just say it was because the technology isn't here yet whereas with the latter it concretely shows that you just weren't able to get it done.
I don't disagree with a thing you say. I'd just add that super-short-term rentals that are mostly available when you want them aren't going to be super-cheap either. You're taking a minimum wage driver out of the equation. That's all.

You do have to ask expensive relative to what though. I was at an event in SF a few weeks back and ended up staying with friends rather than staying at a hotel. Which saved something like $2K and was pretty easy given Lyft--and still would have been a bargain at 2x. (Local Muni was under construction.)
> NASA killed the propulsive landing for Dragon 2

Are you sure NASA was to blame for it? I remember Elon saying they are not perusing propulsive landing anymore because of the amount of resources it would take to develop and validate the design. From what I gather, it was SpaceX's decision.
Go for it!!

I decided to change careers to software development at 37yo. Best professional decision in my life. I got a job after 8 months of full-time study.

Here you can learn more about my path, might be helpful: https://rodrigohgpontes.github.io/

I just focused on freeCodeCamp.org, which is a great resource. But I have the impression that taking a shot with https://lambdaschool.com/ might be more promising.
Also, note that I do maintain an environment with Pro licensing, not Enterprise. So I am both aware of the limitations, and the steps needed to mitigate them.

If you know how to mitigate the antifeatures like forced updates, reboots and telemetry in Windows 10 Pro in a supported and future-proof way, please share. I'm sure a lot of people would like to know!
I can't see the legal system changing either, but thousands of years ago after a hungry winter i can't believe people feeding the non-growing children, or letting the real children to die because they don't want to kill and eat the 'broken' children from the forest.

Many hunter gatherer societies were ok with killing ill or unwanted children, because those who didn't do that didn't survive.
When does a company stop innovating and start becoming a rent seeker? Don’t most companies eventually become the latter?
My votes are for:

-the use of fire

-the number 0. (Although we can debate if this was invented or discovered)
Pet owners can also tell you that most of what their pets do makes absolutely no sense

If my cats were human, they would both be in jail

One of my cats is pure breed, has never lived outside of a house, loves eating plastic, olives and chips but shows no care for fresh meat

The other one was a stray cat, she still hides food that she doesn't eat, because that's what she's been doing for the initial part of her life

In a way she adapted to live in a house, but she never learned that she's not been living in the streets for the biggest part of her life

So yes, they have their personalities, very different from each other
They get bored, they enjoy snuggles (until they do not and scratch you for no reason), but can they process their feelings beyond reaction?

I'm not really sure they do in a very complex way
Maybe related: If you look at the skype uservoice page[1], one of the most requested features are people asking to be able to delete their account.

[1]: https://skype.uservoice.com/forums/914527-welcome-to-skype-i...
One suggestion -- make the $2.75/user/mo not apply to the first 10 users. So when I hit user 11, you bill me $2.75/mo. User 12 makes it $5.50/mo and so on. That way you don't have the big jump, and you're not losing a lot money because if they had 10 users it would be free anyway.
Hadoop is intended to be used if you have exceeded terabyte scale of data and reached petabytes. That is when simply moving the data around has become incredibly difficult due to network IO limitations.

Let me know when you have a solution for using command line tools for sorting through our 4PB of data in our Hadoop cluster!

Use the right tools for the right jobs :)
Spoken language, and written language. For my money, shared communication made everything that came later possible.
wouldn't it be possible to define other goals along with it such as "Never ever hurt humans"?

I'm not even close to being an AI alarmist, and I'm skeptical of a lot of Nick Bostrom's arguments. But he does do a pretty good job of articulating the problem with this scenario in his book Superintelligence. He makes a good case that it would be very difficult to articulate such values for the AI. If you're interested in this topic in the general sense, I'd suggest reading the book. I don't think it's perfect, but I will acknowledge that he makes some good points.
Mukbang
This is a huge aspect. We've already got lots of precedent of splits between nomadic vs. agricultural societies. I think we would naturally group ourselves into 'travelers' and 'settlers', with a small amount of migration between the two-- and eventually in the long run, species differentiation.
> - No compensation

Curious if anybody has ever billed the interviewing company for their time if they didn't get the job.
Really not true in my experience. For senior devs with one or two solid infra/CLOUD/multi app deploys under their belts. Hired.com and LOCAL french recruitment firms (talent.io) regularly send me Paris intramuros based (forget idf) offers between 70k-100k depending on the job.

My first job offer upon arriving in France was 110k at Thales as a lead DevOps Sngineer. Red Hat EMEA offered me 100k as a solitions architect.

I ended up taking a lower offer but in a much more relaxed environmemt at Publicis Groupe in the 11eme. If you aren't hitting the pavement doing inteviews and keeping yourself up to date, and be willing to jump from time to time, you will miss out on higher salaries.
France is slowly realising they have to match a bit more with the rest of the world.
Yes they are and it’s great but...it suffers the same limitations as any open rotor drone configuration, it’s really slow and really large
The magic allure of spark is when you have a team of 20-30 analysts and 10 data scientists working on a 4PB dataset stored on an 80 node cluster. Let me know when you have a solution for this without using big data tools like Hadoop, spark, etc.
Cool, but you do realize that not a single person on this thread is disputing that, right?
> And how quickly is France's number going to grow given that France's second largest ISP recently cancelled its plans to deploy fiber? https://www.reuters.com/article/altice-sfr-france/altice-aba....

Most likely unaffected. You rightfully pointed that the state is paying for much of it. A significant part of the deployment is actually done directly by the state (via the equivalent of counties) which owns the infrastructure.

> Also note that the French deployment is being heavily subsidized by the government (to the tune of $24 billion). Except for a small amount during the post-2008 economic stimulus, broadband deployment in the U.S. is not subsidized. Whereas the French government is paying a direct subsidy to build fiber in rural areas, in the U.S. rural deployment is financed by a cross subsidy (taxing ISPs in urban areas to subsidize ISPs in rural ones).

I don't really see what this has to do with my initial point: mandatory leasing of ISP private infrastructure to their competitors successfully create competition.

It is not subsidies to ISP by the way. Most of this money goes to counties so they can build their own infrastructure which they then lease to ISP. It makes a lot of sense because while this infrastructure wouldn't be profitable if privately built they have a significant positive economic impact on the region where they are deployed.
Space – A Browser the iPad Deserves
My business is building sheds, and I've shot myself with my nail gun twice now in the 9 years I've been building.

The last time I did it, I came up with an invention while waiting in the emergency room: pneumatic coil nails with the Tetanus booster coating.
I wonder at which point we will start worrying about the carbon footprint of these launches, though. I didn't do the math, but it seems it might become a global factor once you get to multiple launches per week.
Biggest limitation in the free version for me, as somebody who likes to tinker with old games as a pastime, is that it does not support any other instruction set than x86/x64 and not many executable formats either.

There are a lot of good and interesting games that were made in the DOS era for PCs which used the DOS4GW DOS extender, and their binaries come in the OS/2 executable format (LE/LX) which is unsupported in IDA's free version. A lot of good and interesting games also happen to run on game consoles which use non-x86 processors.

Ghidra probably won't have plugins to support all of these weird old legacy formats and CPUs which the full IDA package does for a while, but hopefully it'll get there eventually. If it doesn't seem too difficult, I might even try creating a LE loader for it myself.
I was initially taken aback by Moscow's gates for the subway but in restrospect they make sense and fit that model. They are (were?) gates that default to open, and stay open if you insert the token/pass. Otherwise they slam shut right in front of you. During rush hour, it's brilliantly simple as the gates just stay open as people pass through. (As a tourist, it was more "interesting" to get the occasional misfire and have it slam right in front of my legs, but that's a different story.)
Literally the exact same offer I accepted for me, but in Berlin. I prefer Bavaria but all my biz is in Berlin.
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This is fun an interesting.

I tried using an actual random number generator to generate inputs, just to verify with my eyes that, as expected, the computers guess rate hovered around 50%, and didn't get more than 5% off usually. (I realize it _could_).

I tried picking a 'random' (knowing surely I'll still have unconcious patterns) number 1-5, and then doing that many lefts, pick another number, that many rights.

That got me a really good percentage (computer was only around 30% right) up to ~40 or so iterations. But didn't last, eventually it got to around 50% or so as usual, and then I started to lose.

It would be interesting, if knowing the algorithm the guesser is using, if you could devise an algorithm to defeat it, and "win" lots of money from the "bank". I mean, I guess, the obvious thing to do, if you had the algorithm the guesser was using, you could just run it on your own past input, and then always pick next whatever the opposite of what it would pick is. It seems like that would have to work, and that it couldn't possibly work, heh. This becomes an interesting illustration of... something or other computer science-wise, it reminds me of Godel Escher Bach or something.

What this whole thing makes me think of is surveillance. Say, in an old detective thing, trying to "lose a tail" by making "random" turns. In our society of increasingly universal surveillance, _plus_ computers analyzing the data (and you don't know the exact algorithms being used)... there's probably no way to "lose the tail".
Find accelerators and either reach out to the accelerator’s leadership (they’re sometimes willing to pass candidates along to their companies, who are always voracious for developers) or to each of their portfolio companies individually.
Our species is special because we can communicate our feelings directly through language, and language is also a great tool for applying your own inner feelings. A baby feels hunger and cries. An adult feels hunger too, but also has the capacity to think "I bet he is hungry", "I will be hungry later", "the last time she ate this she was still hugry after", etc.
...that's why you develop systems designed to bring them to a safe stop (in addition, stable IMUs can assist for several seconds, plenty of time to come to a safe stop). That should be standard on all autonomous systems, TBH.

And BTW, there are 4 GNSS systems, each run by a different country/entity. The odds of them all failing at the same time is very small.
In the 1980s a spell-checker was a very complicated project and now it's simply a hashmap lookup. But it's not because we invented the hashmap since then, or nobody in the 80s would have known that, it just wasn't possible with the RAM limitations at the time.

Likewise, moving from ASM to C to Smalltalk is a night-and-day improvement... that we made in the 1970s. The difference again is what hardware we get to run it on.

Video game construction kits existed in the 80s, and 80s GUIs looked pretty much the same as they do now if you ignore resolution.

Drag and drop application development was huge in the 90s, and the CRUD applications of the time weren't significantly different than now, other than they didn't run in a browser. HTTPS wasn't hard back then, and you could write a Perl endpoint in half an hour easy.

When it comes to things like playing video, it's easy now but I don't even really consider it programming. You're just installing software that does it for you.

Libraries and OSS and StackOverflow and various services have made a real difference. I'm not arguing that we haven't made progress. I'm just saying that I can see how some people feel that this year's incremental advance or retreat is not nearly as exciting if they've seen how the last 20 worked out.
I'm glad the student legal clinic worked for you.

In this post's case, if the student is innocent, I think they need a high-powered lawyer who will take the case on contingency. Which I think probably means not just reinstatement, and extra help in getting student's career back on track, but big enough damages/fees to make it worth the lawyer's while.

Winning legal action that hurt would also help protect other students. Universities understand money and reputation. Individuals within universities understand their own careers. Everything else varies by individual and faculty.

(Though I should add that I only recall hearing positive things about the university in this post, and I think of the broad space of medical/health practitioners as highly ethical and thoughtful. I'd be very disappointed if it turned out that the university made a big mistake.)
The problem is that, unlike ships, they're generally not designed to be water proof. It's not the exterior that's the problem.
True. Another commenter linked to an article about Warren ragging on Comcast... back in 2016. What has she done about Comcast since then? Anything?
I know they have feelings

I eat them anyway

Iknow plants are fundamental for supporting life on earth

I still eat them

That's not how you draw the line or you would also have to say "I know pollution kills people, let's stay still, living in the dark, until death comes (spoiler: very soon)"
What fraction is that of people who got the flu at all, though? More to the point, albeit harder to define, what fraction is that of people who "could have" gotten the flu, but were prevented by getting the vaccine? That's what you need to prove/falsify "rarely an issue".
And if Microsoft didn't treat its customers like sacks of exploitable data and idiots who need Candy Crush forced on them, then maybe people would've been more inclined to upgrade. The fault is with them, not the users; by actively alienating customers Microsoft has inherently made the world a less secure place.

And no, for those with massive Steam libraries and other Windows only software "just switch to Linux/Mac" isn't a viable or acceptable alternative.
EDFs are really power hungry beasts! You have to use them for takeoff and then transition onto a wing ASAP or you’ll be out of juice at 250w.h/kg No loiter time possible. The issue with folding wings is that they can big stability issues. Probably not unsolvable but not simple.
While those two companies are large employers, does their labor force makeup the majority of developers in Silicon Valley? If not, then that’s two companies who have done well with upsetting the old balance, but what about the rest?
FreeBSD is using this in its base system (although I don't think it's all or even most apps as yet).

http://juniper.github.io/libxo/libxo-manual.html