skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is weather.com a news site, too, now? I thought they were just for banners advertising disasters (and occasional weather forecasts).
My justification is that every life form takes something from the outside. Your pet also would eat other pets in a wild life settings. This is how life forms emerged from ~nature.

I think the debate pops up strongly now [0] because 1) our knowledge is near capable of synthesizing nutrients and 2) industrial based lifestyles have removed the ~fair side of survival eating. I don't think any human ever thought twice about eating an animal when his life depends on it.

[0] I've read a bit in a judaism book that the kosher idea comes from the mental struggle to rationalize taking a life to sustain your own. I know nothing about judaism so maybe the book was just fantasy.. but I found it very touching thinking that in previous eras people did think about this. Maybe (most probably even) other cultures expressed that sentiment in various ways (brainstorming but maybe wearing animal skulls or necklace or maybe prayers for the life taken). If people know more about that hit me up
Thats it exactly. The math lays bare the truth of the hampster wheel in the usa. And Europeans rarely overwork. Its weird to be in the office after 7. In france its illegal for my employers to contact me after hours or on the weekend or when im on sick leave.
Which types of startups are most often profitable?
Unfortunately, this doesn't translate to interviewing in silicon valley. It's a completely separate skill unless your job is explaining out loud various algorithms and data structures to other people to solve a variety of contrived problems. I'll admit I've done things that are close to this for real world situations but it's maybe once every month or 3.

Not a situation for /most/ of us on a regular basis.
> No medical act is a free lunch, economically of course, but from a health perspective either.

Someone else in the comments mentions that last years vaccine was particularly ineffective, at only about 50%. Google says the vaccine costs ~$40, so since it's only 50% effective, let's double that cost to $80 to account for the odd year where it isn't effective¹. (And that's a bad year, so typically, we can expect better.) So, what's cheaper: spending a week in bed miserable, trying to get over the flu and the lost productivity entailed by that disease, or $80? My time is definitely worth way more than $80 — even at minimum wage it's likely a payoff, if not just that I think most of us would willingly just pay that $80 to avoid the misery. (I mean, I do: I get the shot. It's also covered for me by my healthcare, so it's sort-of $0 to me, personally. I don't get $80 back if I don't get it.)

¹I'm not sure if this is quite the statistically right way to do this, but I think it's close enough that the point holds. My point is that, even conservatively, getting the vaccine pays off.
Can the US Treasury run out of money when the US government can’t?
Yeah, if it were easy codify an objectively correct non-contradictory and universally applicable moral framework, we would have done so in the last eight or so thousand years since we started caring about such things. There are reasons human law is incredibly complex and purposely vague.

Isaac Asimov made a career out of pointing out the hubris of it. Three simple laws, what can go wrong?
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Not quite. PowerShell input and output are .NET objects - not just data, but also behavior. This requires both sides of the pipe to agree on the object model and the execution environment.

JSON (or another pure data serialization format) is much better in that regard, because then you only need to agree on some basic data structures at the boundary.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/spacex-environ... says:

> if the SpaceX’s plan for a rocket launch every two weeks comes to fruition, this amount of carbon (approximately 4,000 tonnes per year) will rapidly become a bigger problem

So, that gives us a number... and it's also very weird for the Smithsonian to describe that as a "problem". 4,000 tonnes per year is about a thousand cars worth per the EPA's numbers (https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/greenhouse-gas-emissions-t...) - pretty much a drop in the bucket.
$1M isn't plenty for everywhere. Even in India, $400-500k is what you would need to buy a new 3-4 bedroom apart in a good area of, say, New Delhi. In Mumbai, $1M is the bare minimum
I had the same feeling with my choice to focus on Elixir/Phoenix. My hope is that it can be grouped in with Ruby (a long shot I know). I think in your case Clojure can be grouped in with Java.
I'm getting 2 minutes and 29.98 seconds, with my 2017 MacBook Pro with 8 cores + 16 GiB ram. I'm using GNU tools, could you share more details on how you're getting 12 seconds?

$ time awk 'BEGIN{for(i=0; i<3100000; i+=1) for(y=0; y<10; y+= 1) print i "@gmail.com"}' > email30m.sorted
awk > email30m.sorted 8.29s user 0.82s system 97% cpu 9.352 total

$ ls -lh email30m.sorted
522M Mar 8 17:14 email30m

I didn't have your email30m dataset, so I fabricated one, mine is smaller at 522M and has less entropy, since 'm assuming everyone uses gmail & uses numbers for usernames. :)

$ time shuf email30m.sorted > email30m
shuf email30m.sorted > email30m 15.58s user 1.69s system 98% cpu 17.561 total

I also shuffled the dataset, because that would be cheating.

$ wc -l email30m
31000000 email30m

$ time sort email30m | uniq > email30m.uniq
sort email30m 873.55s user 4.29s system 585% cpu 2:29.98 total
uniq > email30m.uniq 4.10s user 0.34s system 2% cpu 2:29.98 total

$ wc -l email30m.uniq
3100000 email30m.uniq

I followed what you did, but it took way longer when running on my machine.

$ time sort email30m.sorted | uniq > email30m.sorted.uniq
sort email30m.sorted 413.75s user 3.66s system 468% cpu 1:29.04 total
uniq > email30m.sorted.uniq 4.11s user 0.40s system 5% cpu 1:29.04 total

And just out of curiosity, it takes 1 minute 29 seconds to sort & uniq the presorted dataset.
"A vacuum cleaner is loud but not that loud."

You can hear a Kirby vacuum over an opera concert with full symphony from over 100 yards away. I volunteer for a local SoCal group and have had to deal with such nasty interruptions many times.
They use cathodic protection which makes the underwater hull basically immune to corrosion. But this doesn't stop water that gets on top or inside.

Ships rust like hell. I've known some guys in the Navy and they said it was common for everything unarmored to have holes all over.
Too many people make the mistake of learning laterally, a little bit of framework X, a little bit of framework Y, language X, language Y, then wonder how they can be replaced by people much younger than them. Learn deeply, this is something that cannot be replicated by people with not a whole lot of experience. Tech is a double edged sword, it rewards people who are good at what they do regardless of their age (this might or might not be a good thing depending on where u stand on the age range).
We have great relationship with the FAA and our JB10 has been granted experimental certification.
Notepad++ No Longer Code Signed, Dev Won't Support Overpriced Cert Industry
Given the amount of spaghetti I've seen... It's my understanding that being able to think in frameworks is a rare skill. If you find someone who is actually good at designing frameworks maybe, just maybe they have some real skill and they built their own framework to practice and hone their craft because that's a necessary condition for getting good at something?

Granted, I hear what you're saying, but I'm not convinced your blanket dismissal is the right analysis without digging deeper on the individual details.
Not even close. A Falcon 9 has no more fuel than a 777. A few 777s per week is inconsequential in a world where there are 100,000 flights per day. Aviation is responsible for only about 3.5% of anthropogenic emissions per year. So even multiple flights per week are just a rounding error on a rounding error.
It would be nice to make it talk the VS debug adapter protocol. Then you could ironically use it in VS and VS Code, and non-ironically, in any editor that chooses to support that. Given how quickly LSP took off, I would expect there to be a few eventually.

https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/
> You literally step on vomit, needles, dog shit...

Slow down there, hyperbole.
Turning the math into words is subject to interpretation (because it's _so weird_, it's not clear what it means; and I'm no physicist or mathematician either, but my understanding is...), but quantum mechanics seems to say there are physical laws actually limiting how precisely something can be known. Which is part of what makes it not just "what we can know based on measurement."

That is, a "truly omniscient being that would not have to rely on measurement" would apparently violate the laws of physics, is one thing quantum mechanics maybe seems to say.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle

"Thus, the uncertainty principle actually states a fundamental property of quantum systems and is not a statement about the observational success of current technology"
I've gotten feedback, and even more frustrating than no feedback is demonstrably false feedback.

Google said I should try contributing to an open source project to improve my resume... when I had literally a million lines of code in a major open source project, and that was written on my resume.

Was it a mistake? Was there a mixup and had they interviewed me thinking I was someone else? Did they have a corrupt copy of my resume? More likely was it a throwaway comment from someone just saying something to be polite? No idea, but it's more frustrating than just 'no thanks' because it didn't even make any sense.

Imagine if you tried to improve yourself based on that feedback, applied again, and then they overlooked it again and gave you the same feedback!
Tons of Frenchies do that. Hell, thats basically Docker. A bunch of smart Frenchineers that wanted to get paid what they're worth for a while. Im talking about founders and those first 100 hires. But it seems as soon as they want to have kids its right back to France.
> -the number 0. (Although we can debate if this was invented or discovered)

Where can I read up on that debate? Any links?
You wouldn't use Dragon, you'd use BFR/Starship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqE-ultsWt0
If you treat their R&D and advertising as having zero residual value, sure. But that's obviously nonsense.
Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqE-ultsWt0
> I used to get the flu shot every year, and like clockwork got the flu every year a few weeks after the shot.

Correlation is not causation. You get a flu shot because you might catch the flu (ie. flu season).

> About 5 years ago I just stopped getting the shot and... haven't had the flu since, despite spending time with people with the flu.

If you got flu a couple of years running, your immune system built up a reservoir of antibodies. It has been shown that flu "history" is persistent across years--for example, your body fights off the flus you are exposed to as a child much more effectively than something novel.
Perhaps ethics is not something absolute, and is a game thorethic optimal strategy that changes as the rules of the game change.

If hunting is the only thing you can do sane ethics system would allow killing the whale no matter how intelligent creature it is. And letting members of another tribe die instead of trying to share and risking members of your own tribe to die is a sane thing too.

But things change if you a member of a civilization that can produce as much food as it wants without killing anyone.
You might like watching Bleed Out (2018) in 2X if this interests you.

It mostly diverts from the interesting bit but the unaccountability for when remote medicine fails is scary.

Having one person watching over 100 people in ICU remotely is not the remote medicine dream I expected.
I dislike most competitive programming sites as a hiring method, but Triplebyte works more like a recruiting firm. They do their own phone interviews that cover a large breadth of programming topics including a number of things that are often missing from whiteboard interviews, such as parallel programming. Out of the many times I've been interviewed my Triplebyte interview is in the top 3 that best represented my skills.
((The wheel.) (insert Unix joke))
World CO2 emissions last year was ~ 37Gigatons of carbon. A F9 launch uses of order 100 tons of RP1, so global emissions correspond to about 370 million launches...
Isn't raft the default for Bitcoin?
It's not that simple. Here's an overview on paxos/raft consensus algorithms: https://vadosware.io/post/paxosmon-gotta-concensus-them-all/ and even that is incomplete and not necessarily describes trade-offs well. Submitted generalized solution is a better point to start experimenting from.
One upside of PIV-for-SSH rather than GPG-for-SSH is that the Yubikey support for PIV touch requirements / PIN lockouts is more powerful. You can set the PIN to lock after $n fails, and require reset after $n admin PIN fails, and you can set it to require physical touch to auth/sign/etc.

That carries over for SSH: in the most strict touch-mode, a separate touch is required for each authentication attempt. This requirement holds true even if you were to forward your SSH agent to the remote host: SSHing from there to another system would require another physical touch.
And has a very limited support CPU arch / executable format selection.
Sadly there tends not to be much correlation between real life programming and interview programming. Most of the software engineers at my company feel that we couldn't pass our company's interviews because we're out of practice.
Last year, my wife and I found out she was pregnant. We were very excited about this. Unfortunately, she got the flu after a couple weeks of being pregnant. In October, my wife gave birth to a little baby girl. We’d had the anatomy scans but they missed the open hole in her back. She has Spina Bifida, a condition that’s thought to occur due to a failure of spinal formation around the 18th day of pregnancy. Normally it’s blamed on a folate deficiency, but it can also happen due to illness during pregnancy. She’s coming home tomorrow, as she’s been in the hospital all these long months. It’s been a very emotional and challenging several months.

I’m almost certain the flu vaccine would have prevented this as I had gotten the flu vaccine and she had not. Only she got sick. We’ll never know for sure what caused it, because that’s just not how this kind of thing works, but our daughter is looking at a life of having to give herself catheters and enemas and likely kidney failure in her 60s because of her condition.

If we could go back in time she’d have gotten that vaccine in a heartbeat. It just hadn’t occurred to her as a thing to do.

Edit: accidentally repeated myself
Because there are economic incentives to write such articles.
Or an atheist government uses it to re-educate religious people?
My impression is that many drivers are not using ride-sharing as their main single income. Of the last 10 rides I took I think only one was using Uber as their main income. Of the rest there seemed to be a mixture of ride-sharing filling in between jobs (truck driver, real-estate agent) and as a way to make money and socialize during 'free' hours.
As a heads up, you shouldn't need to copy the opensc-pkcs11 library, you can instead launch ssh-agent with the -P flag to whitelist the library path. I have the following as an alias:

yy () {
opensc_path="$(readlink -f $(brew --prefix opensc))/lib/opensc-pkcs11.so"
eval $(ssh-agent -P $opensc_path)
ssh-add -s $opensc_path
}
This is classic example of short term optimization. Sure, prices can be lower now but it might stagnate there for long time because there is no competition allowed. If it is technologically feasible, competition would find the global optimal point eventually in longer term but monopolies will settle in local minima.
What's really interesting, and I think what's unclear is this: what's costs these services so much that they can't turn a profit?

Their costs, other than taking a haircut on the ride, doesn't seem entirely clear, or obviously large.

A 2017 number says Lyft completes about 360 million rides per year. For fun, let's say they make $1 per ride, are they really not able to run their front-end operations with around 1,000 employees? (assuming an employee costs about $250k-300k/yr)?

That seems crazy to me, but I don't know what hidden costs there are. From an outside PoV it appears they need to run a more or less static website, about 4 smartphone apps with some back-end routefinding and accounting systems.

What am I missing?
Speaking of the SS Administration, I ran into an annoyance with them when trying to get a replacement SS card. They would not accept any ID for which the name did not exactly match the name in the records.

So, for example, if you always went by "Ron Weasley", having your driver's license , your utility bills, your apartment lease, your animagus registration, and so on all under that name, but your name in their records was "Ronald Weasley", you would be out of luck.
How do you get to a million lines of code on an open source project? At my full time job, 5k lines in a week would be a lot, and even at that fast pace it would take four years of full time work to get to a million.
In my company it’s also much slower to move up the technical track compared to the manager track. If you want to make money it’s much better to be manager.
For most people this would be astonishing braggadocio, but Bryan Caplan has quite literally put his money where his mouth is.

Of course, he's able to selectively make bets when he feels most confident — but anyone else would be able to the same thing, and yet they don't.
> Although I will seek older programmers to speak at PyGotham next year, I don’t yet know where to look.

You could look at unemployment and workforce offices that offer job search databases to the unemployed. I went to the Arapahoe County Colorado office a year ago, looking for training grants, and saw pretty big listings for coders.
Rockets and the rocket fuel are also in the "easy to substitute" category. They'll never not be hydrocarbons, but significant work has been done on producing rocket-compatible fuels from biological sources, and the marginal increase in cost if you scaled up to industrial production is possibly going to be entirely unnoticeable considering the general purity and refining requirements of anything you load into a spacecraft.

This, similarly, is also the answer when it comes to aviation by and large. The real problems on Earth are ground transportation and electricity.
Fremont family upset that Kaiser let ‘robot’ deliver bad news
I also have configured my Yubikey 4 to require a physical touch for every SSH auth attempt even in GPG-for-SSH. The PIN stuff also carries over to my knowledge -- at least, I need to use my user PIN to unlock my SSH key for the first attempt (subsequent ones require a touch). It's possible that the configuration I am using is not well-known, but it appears to match exactly the PIV case you describe. Except perhaps the n=3 is fixed for GPG-for-SSH (not sure about this) and you think n=/=3 is a valuable configuration option?

(not sure about the SSH agent forwarding as I haven't tested that, would be surprised if it worked without a physical touch)

Basically I don't see the differences you describe in day to day usage at all.
everybody read Robin Hanson and google "futarchy"

it won't work because people don't like it, but super interesting ideas that could potentially be applied in narrow domains
> Would a landing in fresh water like the Great Lakes (or Lake Victoria if they need something more equatorial) meet NASA's requirements and allow the capsule to be reusable?

I'd guess that one of the big reasons they (and everyone else who does water landings) lands in the ocean, is that it is much more palatable to regulators to create an exclusion zone in the ocean, which people can easily route around.

Also, people live on the side of the lake, so there isn't much margin for error, which never warms the cockles of a regulator's heart.
I wish gcc indented all the note lines, to indicate that they are sub-bullet-points of the actual error/warning.
ahh, didn't know that, thanks for the information
I think that something that should be mentioned that these coding challenges are the norm for hiring out of college. It doesn't matter (at 90% of companies, from personal applications) that you have a resume/portfolio of cool and interesting project/experience. All companies count on this coding interview to screen you. Some companies give you rather outlandish questions to screen you on the first try. My cool personal projects have never been mentioned by a interviewer.
It evaluates the quality of the substrate.
I spend time cooking for the family and then eat the leftovers for lunch. Just like a lot of swedes do. Make a dinner that works in the microwave for lunch and you are all set. No time wasted on going to the restaurant and waiting for food. More time to talk over the lunchtable in peace. Maybe even switching lunch with a coworker.
Combined decision. NASA was unwilling to pay for testing propulsive landing, or allow testing on cargo missions, because the parachutes already work, and SpaceX didn't want to front the money themselves.
Exactly. That's what happened to Ma Bell, and lo and behold! AT&T / Verizon still hold a large part of the country in a chokehold.
Please don’t force marketing to conform to the lowest common denominator.

People have some responsibility to educate themselves about the products they’re using.
what are you even talking about, tf is a mess. pytorch, mxnet, caffee2, etc. are all superior fameworks
In two years, I'd bet private bank blockchains will be moving more money than all cryptocurrency combined.
The comment thread you're in literally started with the statement "I have a hard time understanding the benefit of putting flu related medicine".
I could see how this might be an issue with someone early in their career who has a low-profile project or two, but your resume would stand out very quickly among the rest so for this to happen is alarming.

Feels like a very similar occurrence to what happened to the homebrew dev who got reject by google (albeit different circumstance to your false feedback)
Wouldn’t the answer be some kind of government-backed digital currency?
A million lines diff yeah, not standing code, over a few years of basically full time as my PhD on a fast moving greenfield project. A lot of refactoring causes churn.
Because otherwise the companies that do win the global markets do the same thing to US companies that you are saying Amazon does to small companies.

How is it a good thing for the US to limit their own companies, when foreign companies don't have the same limitations? Giant companies will still exist, they will just cease to be US based companies.
Raft is arguably more difficult to understand at a deep level. After extensive study, I've noticed that Raft hides all of its complexity under its leader election setup. There's nuance after nuance. With Paxos, the complexity is explicit and at the forefront, which is actually better, when trying to reason about a distributed system and its invariants.