skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You have ‘4–6 hours’ to design a slick product, with a memorable brand and cohesive working method. No one acknowledges the fact that in reality, you’re about to dedicate up to 5 working days on this task, with the potential for them to ghost you straight afterwards.

To make this more fair, why not let the designer work at the company's office, so the interviewer can actually see how much time it took, and the interviewee doesn't waste more time than necessary?
Also, the author mentions this is in the Rust FAQ (https://prev.rust-lang.org/en-US/faq.html) now under the following question:

Why do Rust programs have larger binary sizes than C programs?
I think there's two seperate branded annoucemenst of three or four different vulnerabilities depending on how you count. (There are four CVEs and Intel lists four, but the researchers announced three.) Haven't seen much discussion of the specific differences between them, probably because they're subtle and not terribly relevant to most folks - they all involve one process speculatively reading memory it shouldn't be able to access via the memory access buffers within Intel CPUs, they just vary in which parts of the memory access machinery they use and how exactly they're exploited.
There actually are programs like that. I've seen posters saying something like "Do you like children more than you like? Contact ..."
> They already are causing Western media to censor themselves even on sites blocked in China.

This isn't on the same scale as "enforce their will on the world", and nowhere near US-levels of "enforce their will". (Not justifying this sort of action however.)

My point is you and the earlier poster are happy to extrapolate small events into big ones in a way that doesn't match the historical record. The officials of the Chinese government are not stupid and can't go too far from public opinion, which is generally more principled that you (and other US-centric "analysers") give them credit for, being too focused on the laws and ignoring many "facts on the ground". (Not implying rule-of-law is a bad thing.)

> being German,

Germany has been under US influence since 1945, so my saying your analysis is US-centric is not too far off the mark. There are differences and also similarities.
I'm not saying the arguments in the article are wrong per se, but I did stumble over the one paragraph where I looked at the referenced source:

In fact, residents of Colorado, where radiation is higher because of high concentrations of uranium in the ground, enjoy some of the lowest cancer rates in the U.S.

It links to https://coloradosun.com/2019/02/04/colorado-skin-cancer-rate... titled Colorado has the highest per-capita rate of skin cancer, thanks to sunshine and high elevation, which does not mention Uranium at all. The article does mention a low percentage of people diagnosed with cancer, and a death rate declining faster than average. However, this gets attributed to factors like low obesity and smoking rates and above-average health care coverage. If that's accurate, the article doesn't really allow us to come to any conclusions regarding background radiation effects on cancer rates except that they are less impactful than smoking...
> the realization that luck had nothing to do with their success should happen

Convince me.
HN has a pretty cynical viewpoint on everything. A comment doesn't really feel like a contribution when you're writing it unless you disagree with the parent (like so).

People will find all sorts of reasons to think the article is wrong based on "mid-brow dismissal" or will say any public figure or company is lying about any statement they make.

Plus there's no emojis.
Actually one could even think beyond them to stuff like Hi5.

But no, there is the business value and the added services that the competition failed to offer to stay in business.
Maybe google doesn’t like their search market dominance
I agree on the market access point, to an extent. There an assymetry that can't stand forever, given the size of China's economy today. But, free trade has never really been free. There are tons and tons of caveats, exceptions, special rules and bad faith. So, I think it's misleading to represent china as "closed" and other countries as "open."

On the second point, I disagree.

IP is not some basic, natural law. It's a relatively recent invention, ostensibly invented to promote certain economic incentives. Why is china morally obligated to respect it?

At any given point in time, the biggest effect of an IP system is how it affects the current portfolio of patents & copyrights. That's what tends to dictate the rules. When copyright law is updated, it's the impact on Disney's IP asset portfolio that's considered... not future works that will be created. It's a similar dynamic for patents.

Why should china (or any country) have to subscribe to an IP system under which they don't own as many patents.

Meanwhile, the benefits of a patent system are contraversial, even dubious (imho). Lots of intelligent peoe think they do more harm than good. The billions spent by tech companies on patent lawyers are a case-in-poiny.

I do not think we (globally) are best served by a global IP monolith. This is one area where we can benefit from a diversity of rules.
All the problems I read about Twitter are basically PEBCAK.

"people say outrageous things!" okay so don't go ahead and read them. As an example, replies to Trump are always a shitfest. Don't read them.

"there are evil nazis!" okay so don't follow them.

"even if I don't do these two, other people I follow retweet those and I get to see them!" okay so mute, unfollow, or block that person.

"even if I don't do these two, other people I don't know say outrageous things or follow evil nazis" that's none of your business.

Twitter served me well for a long time, if you've tried to "figure it out" and couldn't (when it's the simplest shit ever) then just don't use it. Why should all services be catered to the lowest common denominator? The only thing I agree with is that they shouldn't show tweets other people liked in your timeline. But the rest is simply bullshit. It's like some people want Twitter to become something it's not and it's never been.
Oh, it's gone now?

I (temporarily) removed it because I claimed the referenced article only talked about cancer death rates instead of cancer rates. That was a mistake on my part.
.ssh/config: Configuring SSH to use go through tunnels
Personal data compromised after Singapore Red Cross hack
Another fearmongering article. EDIT: Google Images finds photos from James Galbraith who took them in early 2018 or earlier, not "8 years on" in the same locations. At first I thought the OP author just took his images and put them on the site with his watermark, but now I think he just took the same tour of exclusion zone and was shown the same carefully preserved locations. Either way it's unfair to characterise the entire "Fukushima" by a few locations specifically preserved to show tsunami/earthquake damage.

How about these pictures from April 2019 instead?
https://tokuhain.arukikata.co.jp/fukushima/2019/04/post_169....
Museum of the Moon
AvE strikes again.
It's not going so well, maybe because there's no recurring fees. Lowtax had to start a patreon after some medical bills lately.

Not sure what the atmosphere is like these days, but the admins were always so constantly mad for no reason you couldn't even post in a thread next to them or they'd ban you. They have real bad irony poisoning.
What they have on the website:

* Chief Executive Officer
* Chief Medical Officer
* Senior Vice President, Human Resources
* Chief Customer Officer
* Chief Legal & Strategic Solutions Officer
* Chief Financial Officer
* President and Chief Operating Officer
* Chief Compliance Officer
* Chief Technology Officer
* Chief Growth Officer

In addition their board has 8 members.
Warning Forbes Magazine subscription website is infected with magecart malware
> offline cross-platform

Electron... "my-budget-3.0.1-beta-x86_64.AppImage" size ~ 161 MB

I prefer Eqonomize, that is Qt5-based. "Eqonomize-1.3.4.AppImage" size ~ 23 MB

[0] https://github.com/Eqonomize/Eqonomize/
I wonder, how they will sing if Xi will get angry for real this time and call for something like blanket ban on exports to US.

If you think of China as a rational player who can be "mindgamed around" take in mind that Xi has goood record of shooting himself in the foot politically, which he has been doing consistently through his reign.

Americans have really have nothing to mentally reference when dealing with this type of person — USA never had real hereditary nobility. You are dealing somebody much more of a medieval lord than a nation leader.

Think if a person who own a giant company as a proprietorship vs. a CEO of public corporation with a lot of vigilant investors.
> The US itself rose thanks to its protectionist policies. Britain too -- as did all others major powers when it served them well.

Same with copying from others. Germany was famous for cheap, bad knock-offs of British products in the 19th century. That's the origin of "Made in Germany". And it seems China follows the exact same path. First the knock-offs were bad and people laughed. Then they got comparable in quality for a cheaper price, people started using them and companies grumbled. And then China started to lead in some areas and now the "established" players are in full panic mode and try to block Chinese companies (e.g. Huawei).
That's what's I thought too. At one of the companies I interviewed at, we had a programming task that could take max 4 hours. The interview was at the company itself.

Less convenient for people who have a different job at the same time though.
Re-read the paragraphs about Spain and the middle-schoolers. It wasn't easy for me to immediately grasp the argument, but I think it boils down to that the way to reduce violence is for society to model a less violent path. Specifically those few paragraphs seem to be saying,

1) Spain has light sentences for murder.

2) Spain has a low murder rate.

3) Leniency in criminal justice begets less violence.

4) Imagine the most lenient system possible--no incarceration whatsoever. That may result in the least amount of violent crime.[1]

Step #3 is I think the most contentious. Is leniency a cause or effect? In reality it's probably both. And I presume that Gilmore could provide much more sophisticated arguments that don't rely on there being a simple, unidirectional causal relationship. But my impression from the article is that the overarching emphasis is that there is some causal relationship and that by refusing to accept that it exists we perpetuate an inflated rate of violence. We can't productively get into the weeds of concrete prescriptions without first establishing the nature of the causal relationship.

[1] Nowhere does the article imply the claim that all violent crime could be prevented. At least conceptually, it may be better to have a few Ted Bundys roaming freely than to construct a criminal justice system that molds many more people into gladiators. In any event, this would be a quantitive question and not something that is categorically foreclosed. Establishing that Ted Bundys exist and would kill doesn't resolve anything, so why require Gilmore to answer how she would prevent Ted Bundys from killing?
A “Dense Bullet of Something” Blasted Holes in the Milky Way
> As someone who watches the very unusual moderation of China-critical comments on HN (+3 one moment, -3 a few hours later) I'm wary of a political piece praising China hitting #1 on HN.

So im not crazy for noticing this...im also highly concerned that HN may not have appropriate vote manipulation filter, and that much of what we read on the front page are increasingly engineered.....
> Double pay and triple pay are not uncommon (although taxes will eat most of that)

People have the weirdest views on how tax actually works. Taxes will eat the same proportion, or potentially marginally more - but unless a persons marginal rate is suddenly >50% you're obviously wrong.

I would go as far as to suggest this is a non issue in the majority of cases where overtime is paid.
As somebody who wrote all of the above (and a lot more) I call B.S. on this one.

The amount of unique stuff in each subfield is not that great, and if you have a wide and solid base in different subfields, picking up the unique ideas and techniques isn't that hard or time consuming.

But after a generalist has it, he is a lot more productive and creative because he often applies stuff from other subfields to come up with better/novel solution to the problem at hand - something a specialist cannot do.
First Look at Clearink 2.0 – 30fps Color EPaper
In jet engines the thrust comes form shoving material out of the end - the jet itself.

In props the primary thrust comes form the force due to the pressure differential on the prop blades basically it’s like someone is pulling the aircraft.
Me neither - I learned this on HN many years ago, so I'm just passing it forward :).
They use the same genetic code as us, what's your definition of life? Having access to Netflix ?
Tho, Einsteins feeling of loneliness might have to do with things that have nothing to do with being genius - like the way his marriage went down. Some of it had zero to do with being genius and more to do with other stuff.

Having to emigrate also makes one more lonely. You would need to compare other people in similar situation to see whether he is unusually lonely.
1. Build a product customers want (kind of important)

2. Write efficient code (have low technical debt too while your at it) so you can keep hosting and operating costs low

3. Get users to use and buy your product

4. To become profitable: either charge enough to reach profitability, or sell more to reach profitability
HBO’s 'The Inventor' explores how Theranos happened, but not why
I would like the level of change of any Commonwealth country with a working healthcare system.
And if you're getting a $365k bonus you are likely already so rich that the money is only going for luxury things while for someone making $7.25 it's quite literally the difference between living in a car or not. I wonder if you could apply this to the rest of American society...
This. Better not to ask, better not to know
A while back the (large) company I worked for was evaluating two web service companies, one was ~4 times more expensive than the other. They both had all the functions we needed and from a practical point of view neither was better than the other. However the cheap one could only be paid for by monthly billing to a credit card and the expensive one was happy to send us quarterly invoices. We went with the expensive one.
Majority of Europeans expect end of EU within 20 years
> These ships alone pollute more than all the cars on Earth.

Do you have a link to figures that show this?
RIP Hyper-Threading? ChromeOS axes key Intel CPU feature over data-leak flaws
Era Swap Whitepaper
One of the biggest blockchain based ecosystem of 2019. Era Swap Ecosystem consists of multiple interlinked applications for users fueled by native decentralized utility token, the Era Swap Token. Go through Era Swap Whitepaper for more details: https://eraswaptoken.io/pdf/eraswap_whitepaper.pdf
Visual Studio Code Extensions for Programmers
Ask HN: Great candidate but company needs more time to make decision
So I applied on a startup and passed all interviews including technical. However, after a follow-up email regarding the status of my application, one of the founders told me that they might need more time (2 weeks) to make a decision, but considered me as a great candidate.

Btw, this is a remote job. So, I need your advice if I should just wait or look for other jobs because this might still be far-fetched.

Thanks!
Just a reminder: George Carlin’s great sequence about ‘your stuff’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac
It also encourages throwing away things that might be useful to someone else, or to yourself in the future.

Especially the emotional way it is presented, that it is cathartic to get rid of possessions, without considering if there was another way to get rid of them but throwing them in the bin.

We should have much more respect for our things, and be mindful of how much waste and energy (and toil) is required to make something like a computer or a set of clothes. We should buy things that last and make the effort to repair them when they break... and spend more time on the toys we have instead of getting new ones.
How to Think More Clearly: Mental Models for Dummies
But those 20 folks did receive their bonuses (if any). What they missed out on was the inflation adjustment (3-4% I guess). Now the math doesn't check out. If 4% of the wages for those 20 is $7.3M, then the total annual wages for the same people is $182M.

I wish he had shared the numbers.
> It is not some authoritarian ploy.

Regardless of whether you think it's a good idea or not, restricting access to guns and free speech is an authoritarian play: it's using the authority of the State to restrict certain liberties in the intent of doing good.
Maybe it is ready to hatch. [https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Kill_the_Moon_(TV_story)]
Yuzhnoye SDO use additive 3D printing for parts of RD-809K rocket engine [video]
500 at the very bottom, many more in between
Can employers require fundraising as part of an application process?
What the hell is even "Chief Growth Officer"? Asking for real.

Growth is either achieved organically or you are just forcing your way to a lucrative exit without bringing any value. Artificial and forced growth is toxic for the economy at large.

The rest of the roles mostly make sense although I believe some of them can be merged so further savings can be accomplished.
The UK Prime Minister made the twit joke in 2009 and it was trite then too.
Well, a good chunk of the US anti-vax movement seems to be ultra-Orthodox Jews: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/nyregion/measles-vaccine-... Their religous beliefs don't permit them to have unfettered Internet access because it'd expose them to corrupting ideas (like, say, the idea that vaccines are safe).
> Confronting China on this today is the US asking China not to undermine the global system that has helped enrich China.

Unfortunately, to the current US administration, confronting China is not a means to change China's behavior for better, but an end itself.
Racket does tick some of those boxes:

* it has support for OS-level threads via places[0]

* it can produce binary distributions via `raco distribute`[1] by packing together the interpreter and your compiled code into a single executable

* while the current implementation is based on a bytecode-compiler and VM, I believe the Chez implementation actually compiles to native code (although the whole process is transparent to the user)

* it is possible to run Racket on ARM devices, in fact there was a recent thread[2] about that on the mailing list

I realize this isn't 100% what you're looking for, but Racket does come with many nice features. Alternatively, you might also want to take a look at CHICKEN Scheme[3].

[0]: https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/parallelism.html#%28part....

[1]: https://docs.racket-lang.org/raco/exe-dist.html

[2]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/racket-users/YEajWJe...

[3]: https://call-cc.org/
Chinese Social credit system “to restore morality”
It isn't the same thing by any means, and doesn't really offer much over cards other than a slight improvement in convenience. Mobile payments in China are essentially peer-to-peer and universal. The closest equivalent is probably something like MobilePay or Swish, but that isn't as good or as widespread.
The reason why most coders (who came to an interview) cannot code is simple: a decent coder gets a job after a few tries. A pretender (in my experience, a degree from IITs or some other degree mills from the same part of the world strongly correlates with that) would go to hundreds of interviews only to be rejected util he hits an equally incompetent interviewers. The pretenders are way over-represented in the pool, and simple programming tasks do an admirable job of filtering them out without much loss of time.
Latent demand gated by price + decreased price = induced demand

It applies to everything, from housing to hamburgers.

I have a hamburger restaurant where I sell hamburgers for $5. Some people buy hamburgers, and some people will not buy hamburgers. Some of the people who will not buy hamburgers would buy a hamburger if the price was lower. If I drop the price, I will induce demand.
tl;dr bloat.
That's why you want to do it on a per file basis, not on a per interpreter basis, which allows a project to incrementally move.

You also want a single version, not a gigantic pile of things to opt in to.
Your idea works until you look at something like the autobahn. Having driven on it I can say what I feel the main factor to safety is driver behavior. I see more turn signals used and when someone is going faster the other folks tend to move out of their way.

Its more of a social mindset that creates safe roads than anything IMO.
It's not "a bit silly", it's ridiculous. It's one uniform holiday in the entire country, recurring at a particular time on a particular calendar day. That's how it's defined, so that's how you record it. If it gets moved one day then you change the recurrence rule from that point forward. The rule you wan't isn't "turn past timestamps into epoch time", it's "record timestamps with their correct semantics for the situation".
Michael Shellenberger is obviously pro-nuclear lobbyist, just look at the list of his articles, they're 100% all pushing the same narrative. That, on it's own, wouldn't be a huge problem, other energy options certainly have their share of equally zealous lobbyist - but I have a serious problem with his style of cherry-picking proofs and presenting them as conclusive and indisputable. You can't debunk an official position of a big organization like WHO just by quoting a single scientist who disagrees, scientists disagree all the time. And another big problem I have with his texts is his seemingly complete lack of any empathy for victims of these accidents. He's pushing this "well, shit happens, people die all the time" idea, treating it all like statistics, but completely ignores the fact that just because some firefighters die on duty here and there, doesn't mean it's OK to sacrifice 28 peoples' lives like Soviets did. Also not all deaths are the same, so you can't really compare it like that. Don't know about you, but I'd certainly rather die in a car crash, than die an agonizing death of radiation poisoning or cancer. It's one of the ugliest deaths IMHO. Even if you want to be purely pragmatic, again, these deaths take longer and cost much more so you can't just sum them all up like it all has the same impact on the society. Not to mention statements like "it is an easy cancer to treat, only 1% dies", like it's nothing to be diagnosed a freaking cancer, undergo radiation and chem therapy and all that shit. He's totally ignoring all the fear and uncertainty and emotional pain it brings, and then the actual pain from treatments, and how much it all costs and what this does to the whole family of the patient. Cancers are one of the most destructive diseases from the social perspective. This is what freaks people out about radiation, as well as the fact that effects are so long lasting and hard to fix. I'm personally not against nuclear power, I think it's very smart option worth considering, but IMO this is a wrong way to push for it. We need less propaganda and politics bullshit and more serious scientists dialog...
Free Movies Download Sites