skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The vast majority of Alex's climbing is trad. So he benefited from thousands of pitches with modern safety equipment: harnesses, lightweight cams, ropes, crash pads (when he was training in Bishop) and so on. Free Solo was his magnum opus, the result of all that training.
I agree with your statement. The core machinery for transcription and translation is still the same -- I will be impressed when a synthetically designed ribosome or DNA/RNA polymerase is created.

The redundancy is probably there to so that the DNA->RNA copying is more robust against chance mutations in DNA that occurred during cell division.
Does anyone know of a good text that will better help explain the concept of 'free will' and the agruments around it? Kant et al are completely opaque and nearly unreadable.
Note that he's not necessarily willing to pay men more - the reporter says the senior staff was "mostly female," not balanced. He might have just been willing to pay men and women the same salary, which was less than what other companies were willing to pay men.
Japan has had Shojin ryori for centuries before this. It is a purely vegetarian strictly codified cuisine. This claim is false imo.

https://www.saveur.com/japan-shojin-ryori-temple-cuisine
>If the true purpose of a drivers license was public safety there are surely a large number of people who wouldn't be permitted to operate a motor vehicle.

That's silly. Driving in America at least is a quasi-right: while not technically a right by law, as things stand the economy and much of society in the country would collapse if most adults were not able to drive. But at the same time driving is not natural and definitely represents real danger. So the law reflects a balance between these two competing interests, with safety concerns slowly getting pushed harder over time. Driving requirements are relatively forgiving, and removal is taken seriously. But there are a lot of laws and thinking around how to improve safety. The licensing process has become more of a ramp too, with many (all?) states having increasingly graduated licensing and some starting to have rechecks needed for the elderly. Licensing for non-necessity driving (commercial vehicles, motorbikes etc) sees a significant spike in requirements.

People very much care. In highschool I had a good friend hit and killed by a drunk driver while they were walking right near school, and I would strongly resent any putting down of how devastating that was for the family and our group. But "individualized mechanized arbitrary point to point transportation" is also very much critical, and with current technology that means "a human driving". It's very unfairly glib to impugn that society isn't trying to balance here. What is needed to radically change the status quo is to finish the car technology so that a human is not needed. Once that is the case and manual driving becomes a fun luxury I expect we'll see licensing requirements and training increase a great deal, looking more like what professional motor racers do. The converse from a privacy perspective is that no, many people will not bother to carry drivers licenses with them anymore, nor will they need to.

Generalized authentication is and should be an important role of government, so some form of ID will still matter. But in terms of needing to have it on you? No, I do not think that legal requirements around that will change. The "true purpose" of a drivers license is in fact trying to have some minimum level of competence and personal responsibility attached to the act of personally controlling a multi-ton pile of metal moving at high speeds.
I point to the discovery behind the source of the broad street cholera epidemic in 1854 as an example of sophisticated pattern recognition that predates computers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outb...
> European concept of creating new rights to suit a political agenda.

Compared to ? The US ?

> Right to Bear Arms.

Why are Americans so emotional about that ? How is that a basic liberty ?

What about the right not to die of diabetes because you can't afford insulin thanks to the unregulated "free market" they call "health industry" ? The right not to have > 70% of your population overweight ? The right to have a proper political system which isn't "democratic" in name only. The right now to be systematically spied on by 3 letters agencies ?

It sounds like anything could happen but as long as the right to own gun is kept no one would bat an eye. The recent Alabama abortion law is a very good example.
This analysis is great, but I think there's a highly underrated economic point to be made; technology has unlocked crucial business innovations for climbing. 50 years ago, if you are into climbing, others might hear about it in a specialized tv show or magazine. You also needed to be very rich to be able to afford the time and equipment costs of climbing.

Now with social media driven by the internet, the sponsorship model has enabled people with a passion to be able to sustain a living pursuing that hobby. Independent of the knowledge transfer, deeper knowledge is being created from more people being able to devote their lives to the hobby.

Here's an article about FreeSolo's earnings from sponsorship: https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-us/magazine/money-diary-alex...
Every time a new language is posted on HN I spend ~15 seconds looking for code and, if I can not find it, I close the tab.

I can't imagine that isn't the case for many others.

I think Go nails this with the multiple code samples.

edit: In retrospect, I'm sure this is beating a dead horse and you're all well aware of this. I wonder, instead, what the approach is to fixing these problems when they reach a standstill? It sounds like no one could agree, so progress halted.
As someone who learned to type in QWERTY, Dvorak, and Colemak (in that order) my belief is that most people attribute ergonomics and improved typing ability to the new alternative layout they learned instead of the fact that they finally learned how to type properly, seeing as very few people I know seem to have learned how to properly type - even ones who can type much faster-than-the-average (80-120wpm where average is well under 60wpm)

I found Dvorak to be significantly worse than QWERTY in both speed and comfort, seeing as Dvorak is more heavily biased towards the right hand and I am left hand dominant (although mostly ambidextrous). I then gave Colemak a try and found it to be a bit more comfortable and eventually trained to reach my previous QWERTY speed of 165-170wpm. I use QWERTY at work but Colemak at home.

Note: by "mostly ambidextrous" I mean that most tasks I can use either arm/hand. I write with my right but throw and punch with my left.
I had that type of "interview" 10 years ago. I got the job. It was the worst job I've ever had outside of being a grad student.
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High-paying and comfortable jobs(government jobs, state-owned companies; for example you need to bribe like 30K usd to stay in the military and get promoted) in China are reserved for people with connections, even then they hardly have to do anything if show up at all, there's a hierarchy, those who don't need to work and those who have to work extra.

So while the examples in this story sound good, but majority of people don't really have a choice.
It was inevitable, that eventually we would end up with an oversupply of Software engineers. I think we're now getting to that point. No one likes getting rejected, but, when you have too many applicants and not enough jobs, rejections are going to happen more frequently regardless of what interview process you use.
This addresses my biggest pain points with the way Mastodon used to "route" people to an instance. It was either "go to mastodon.social and get to know the place, then eventually move" or "here's a bunch of random instances with varyingly different policies".

As to those that'll cry free speech in response to this, let me preemptively say that if a system allows you to be an ass, it still doesn't have to support you beyond existing.
This is pretty impressive. If they get good at strawberries and other produce susceptible to bruising, they’ve got it made with a captive audience of farmers who will get a tireless 24x7 robot bringing an end to backbreaking manual labor.
This one? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis
> What actually happens of course is nothing good. It doesn't mean it's not a bad interview question, but a good answer is not the factually correct answer.

OP is hiring executives, not yes-men. You want people who give you the factually correct answer, because you want people who will behave ethically. Execs have to worry about regulation and corporate risk and you do not want liars in those positions.

That's why this is a terrible question.
Why do you want to do this work? It seems outside of your skillset and wordpress is a technology that is notoriously cheap to get develop for.

If you're just doing a friend a favor and picking up a little extra cash I'd charge $50/hr and let him know you're doing it at a family and friends rate and set his expectations accordingly.

If you're trying to break into freelancing I'd just not do it and spend the time reaching out to people who have problems they'd be happy to spend 125-150/hr fixing from someone who works for a big 5 tech company.
> 1) I think free will is a concept that has to be approached in a practical matter: as in we get better social outcomes if we assume people have free will.

> The concept has utility.

This is a thinly veiled argument from consequences. You're not the only one to do this, I see this from many people arguing in favor of free will.

Edit: I would also question the utility of the concept compared to the alternative. Show me some hard numbers for what happens in a society constructed around the lack of a metaphysical free will, and then I may reconsider. (I suspect that this sort of society hasn't existed and may never exist, because free will is such a persistent illusion that it may as well be a phantom limb for most people. We're probably hardwired for it at some level, like the incessant drive for reproduction that most people have.)
> This is a good feature.

I disagree. This will just encourage app devs to engage in more forced updates, and forced updates are always bad things.
Yup. Will anyone who cares find out that a competitor paid you to do some task? Probably not, but it seems like an iffy proposition to violate your current employment agreement to have an interview.
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> I have also heard that the FBI is notified if you buy more than a certain quantity of fertilizer.

I'm not even sure it matters any longer; have you ever tried to find ammonium nitrate based fertilizer at your typical big-box store?

It's pretty much unobtainable unless you're a farmer.
And yet there are stores like Costco which do pay their employees quite comfortable wages and manage not to immediately bankrupt themselves. How is this so?
For the last month I have tracked my productivity with a spreadsheet. I punch out between breaks, lunch, Reddit, etc.

On a typical day I average 2-3 hours. Hitting 4-5 hours or more I feel burnt out.
Is because the top tax brackets were reduced so much under Reagan, it made sense to pay out all the profits to a few at the top rather than the hundreds or thousands below. Now is easier with computers but the execs got greedy.
The way forward seems to be enforcing the distribution at the state level, rather than forbidding automation.
I don't see how it's more dangerous to have cars merging into the slowest lane than to have cars merging into the fastest lane.
ActivityPub is too complicated and loosey-goosey. There are a couple of dozen partial implementations out there, but most of them don't federate properly or at all (which I thought was the entire point of the spec!).

Ideally such a standard should be really easy to implement, so we get true diversity, and democratisation, but implementing ActivityPub is a nightmare. Of course it doesn't help that the test suite has been down for months. https://test.activitypub.rocks
Just my two cents, but as a candidate I much prefer the tests to a whiteboard. I've had interview tests for a majority of my recent (senior level) positions in NYC, but the questions generally aren't to this extreme, certainly not basis for a new startup level problems.

More like "we've laid out an API contract, implement these 3 endpoints in a language you like along with these few extra small requirements and some unit tests". Usually takes 2-3 hours and I think it's a more fair assessment of my work and at least I get to use my own environment and work on my own time with tools I know rather than with someone sitting over my shoulder and a marker. It also helps drive the discussion during in-person interviews away from the binary tree puzzle type questions and focuses more on design decisions and other considerations I took in to account.
Terribly vague naming. As a non-native speaker I would've never guessed the purpose, and I've been in the English speaking tech sphere for many years. Does anybody actually say "this website will sunset in 5 years"?
> People complaining are forgetting that apps aren't applications

Wait what
Maybe, just maybe, the feds and the states (in the US) should pass laws like this: Employers are liable to the government for four times the cost of providing SNAP (f/k/a food stamps), public housing, and other welfare benefits to their employees.

1/3 of any fines collected in this way would be payable to citizens who report the problems.

It's totally unfair for the taxpayers to subsidize businesses by feeding and housing their underpaid employees.

The point of the draconian 4x charge is to make it less expensive for companies to do the right thing and quit with the starvation wages already.

But legislatures work for their donors, not their citizens, so it won't happen.
Given how superficial its results are for me, and how for the subjects I searched for it missed several very obvious 'experts', I'm not very concerned.
Big Mess o' Wires is another good one: https://www.bigmessowires.com/bmow1/
Particularly, since app developers tend to be pretty abusive in terms of data collection, my default position is that any app dev cannot be trusted until they've proven otherwise.
For an actual in-depth look at the origin and deep history of data science and statistics, check out the book the "The 7 Pillars of Statistical Wisdom"[1]. It recounts historical anecdotes such as the Trial of Pyx[2] at the London mint (an early example of random sampling, how the "foot" was defined by literally having a bunch of guys put their feet end-to-end, how least squares was applied to orbits by Gauss, how in the 1940's inverting a 14x14 matrix (for Leontief's input-output analysis in economics[4]) was a big data problem, and so on.

I personally believe data science began with Bacon's Novum Organum[5], which describes an inductive method[6] starting from tables of facts and simplifying them until you reason general truths that may be treated as axioms for the purposes of deductive reasoning. This is no different in principle then the model fitting and prediction we do today.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Pillars-Statistical-Wisdom/dp/0...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_the_Pyx

[3]: https://www2.stetson.edu/~efriedma/periodictable/html/Ga.htm...

[4]: https://www.math.ksu.edu/~gerald/leontief.pdf

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novum_Organum

[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baconian_method
> Art, culture, nation, justice...

Hence why there can be no true hard science based around these areas, and indeed no agreed-upon "truth".
Ignore the hysteria: Cloud Foundry is just fine
The dubious management fad sweeping corporate America
If work is boring, it's probably repetitive. If it's repetitive, you should automate it. I think this applies to any kind of development.
That sure sounds like a flaw to me.
Good heads up. This background (if it is to exist at all) should be done properly as an alpha blend, not as a transparency with opaque off-white pixels, so that it works with various backgrounds. I will look into it.
Pilots aren't always that eagle-eyed, and it is of course much more difficult at night. The very close call of the Air Canada jet that nearly landed on four or five other jets waiting on the taxiway at SFO is a testament to just how badly this can go. And an attack that leads the aircraft into terrain or buildings could put the aircraft into a local minimum that it can't fly out of.

Frankly aviation is ripe for cyber attack. The problem is not simple to solve, mainly because introducing crypto into critical navigation systems will also introduce failures where legitimate service is interrupted due to system glitches. It will take crashing a jet before the industry decides to take this seriously, and it is entirely possible that a terrorist group or state actor will use this weakness. Government and industry can and would respond, but it would take money and time.
Realistic Personal Finance Hacks
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Very interesting, thanks! But that would make the explanation from the article false, wouldn't it? If it's not an ermine, then it cannot be a "message" to Cecilia's lover, a Knight of Ermine. This secret message is lost if both Leonardo and Ludovico know it's not an ermine but a polecat...

(As an unrelated aside, polecat-ferrets are forever linked in my mind to Sredni Vashtar, that wonderful short story by Saki!)
>If anyone is capable of describing the appropriate response to this kind of threat — it has to be them.

I'd be willing to bet any competent actor would realize trying to use something on EFF would probably result in their staff noticing their computer acting oddly and passing along the malware sample to a place like Citizen Lab. Then they can wave bye bye to their zero day.

I don't have a source but I could have sworn some leaked doc at some point mentioned they (various intel agencies) don't like to use fancy 0 days on savvy targets. Probably something that's used on places that want to Free Tibet or let Saudi women drive, not savvy tech people.

I also think EFF probably practice what they preach (another poster mentioned their great surveillance self defense guide).

There's also lot to be said for just leaving your phones in the other room, turning on the radio, then having a meeting in a conference room free of electronics.

People often focus too much on infosec, instead of opsec IMHO.
Especially annoying when an update comes out that is known to have issues on your device and you'd like to avoid it until the issues clear up. For instance, I don't update my Macbook to the latest version of macOS immediately after the update comes out -- this is because I know there are likely to be bugs and I don't need to live on the bleeding edge most of the time.

Another example: venmo recently updated on my iPhone SE (very small 4" screen by modern standards). I can no longer send a payment request or pay a friend because the buttons for those options are literally displayed off screen. I can also no longer dismiss the "get the venmo card!" popup that appears a few times a day when I log in because, you guessed it, the dismiss/ok/cancel buttons are all rendered off-screen. I actually knew this was an issue prior to updating because of a friend, but auto-update pushed the new version to me before I could stop it and now I can't use venmo.

Software needs different release channels for different users. A lot of us would rather be on stable stuff than the bleeding edge. Of course, with modern alpha/beta testing techniques bugs are going to show up in most applications no matter what (looking at you, Spotify)... but it would at least help a little.
This sounds like the Genesis of the movie Splice.
Fiverr Files for $100M IPO
> I hated the idea that schmoozing outperforms merit, but it's absolutely true

Try thinking about it quantitatively. Someone who spends the time to schmooze (read: invest time in developing a human relationship) has essentially posted that time as collateral. They added chips to the figurative pot, and if they were a fraud or recklessly destroyed that relationship, they forfeit that collateral (lose the relationship, lose the honor and respect they earned). So that's why it's convincing to invest in people who are willing to post collateral. Now certainly, there are people who have no shame and will pull cons. So this method isn't infallible. But they can only get so far before they get exposed, especially in our industry.
How much is a banana, like $10?
Because that's what you want in your organisation. The person best at being an unchallanged dictator.
You still need to bundle in the library and code for this API.
Agreed. But I think it goes to show how blurry the line is between "know" and "have."
Chris Riccomini on the History of Apache Kafka and Stream Processing [audio]
The article sets up the idea that 80-90% of a project gets done well, but the rest gets ignored because it is boring. However, the article does not describe what the boring parts are, or how to integrate them in scheduling to dull the pain.

I did like the idea of taking a break before product launch. The push to make a deadline carried forward into a release brings charged emotions that won't match the new users'.
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If the title ends in a ?, the answer is a definitive "No".
>Also, they force companies to share their technologies/IP if they are interested in coming into Chinese markets - and then they just steal it to undercut the foreign companies.

If the companies are willingly going to the Chinese markets on their own accord under an IP sharing agreement, you can no longer use the term "force". They have a choice to not share it by not entering the market. You can critique this as an inherent weakness of capitalism, but China is not forcing anybody in this situation.

And why would they have to steal it if its already shared? This doesn't even make any sense.
Maybe it's regional but I have never heard of climbing shoes referred to as "rock boots", much less "climbing boots".
> Does anyone know why RFCs are still formatted as if they were written on a typewriter in the seventies?

They are formatted in plain text with fixed page sizes because that's what they've always done, it works fine, and there's no compelling reason to change.

> also, how do people write this?

The thing about keeping the same format for a few decades rather than changing it with each shift in popular fashion is that there is plenty of supporting tooling.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/pubprocess/tools/

https://tools.ietf.org/
Ask HN: What's the name of that text whiteboard web app?
I'm thinking of a web app I saw a few years ago. Essentially, the UI is a large canvas of whitespace, and the user can scroll around and insert a block of text on any point in that space. It is also collaborative so you can see others' writing in real time. An important feature of it is that the writing space is not shaped like a page or limited in width.

I can't for the life of me remember the name of it though.
As a citizen, you are very much a customer of your state. If your roads suck, because things are cheap thanks to tax avoidance, you have yourself to blame.
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I'm not sure about the self centered part. It's not the people at work helping everyone who are promoted. Is the ones dishonestly taking credit for all that work who get the praise and promotions.

The self centered ones kiss up, slack off, ask others for "help" etc and don't get fired.
See ebay listings for how you can buy R-12 by stating you are a reseller:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/R12-Refrigerant-12-Virgin-Pure-R-12...

>An EPA certificate is required to purchase R12 Refrigerant "OR" a statement saying you are purchasing this for "Resale Only". The "Resale Only" statement can be in the form of an e-mail.

Pretty easy for Joe Handyman to buy.
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