skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't doubt that it's quite stressful for some people. In general, I think any element of an interview process is going to be stressful for at least some people, just given the stakes involved. That said, at least this guarantees it's not stressful and a big time sink.

Also, I do think that some people are able to complete it in a third the time, but I think the more useful evidence is that many candidates complete it and do a perfectly good job, some even with a healthy chunk of time to spare. If it were a totally unrealistic time goal I'd expect we'd quickly notice when no one finished.
Performance monitoring tools for enterprises can be very lucrative. Surely they’ll move to an “open core”, closed source commercial license for the useful bits, if they haven’t already.
This story started really bad, but what a plottwist!

I saw this very same posted here in HN or Reddit last week methinks, and one of the top comments was complaining preciselly about numpy.

You disarmed that point right from the start, so kudos.
This looks awesome. I wish I had made it.

Makes me wish I had finished writing my book on making your own video game console!
Massive amounts of innovation have coincided with the activities of despotism, and far more and far longer than the historical record provides for "capitalism."
This will sell to indie gamedev scenesters and they have the perfect designer roster to hit that audience.

From a commercial success standpoint, I'm bearish. Common pitfall in comedy is to make jokes for comedians. This scene has a similar problem where they love to make games for game devs.
Digit: A Robot That Could Change the Way Self-Driving Cars Make Deliveries
I reject this analogy, it's like saying "You walked into a supermarket to buy an apple for a dollar, it ended up costing you eight dollars because of taxes and fees and unfortunately those seven extra dollars were spent before you ever got the apple, so I guess the apple still costs a dollar but when you walk out of the store you'll be eight dollars poorer."

Advertising isn't voluntarily entered into by us, it's forced on the consumer. Personally I try to avoid patronizing sites that use heavy advertising (except interesting articles forwarded to me) but I am more speaking on the harm to us all. I suppose I could reword my comment above a bit more accurately to "I reject the normalization of advertising in society."
This is awesome! Is MakeCode a subsidiary of Microsoft? It looks like it’s based on some Microsoft tech similar to Google’s Blockly I hadn’t seen before. I’m curious because I’m working on a product in this space.
The cameras are probably deployed to prevent crime, and there's very little crime in the tunnels because very few people are stupid enough to risk their lives by entering them. Besides, the tunnels are dimly lit.
From the git changelog, it doesn't appear to be completely unmaintained, but not very vital either: https://github.com/dagwieers/dstat/commits/master

Red Hat's announcement (posted in February 2019), also cites lack of Python 3 support as another reason for replacing the original dstat, but Python 3 compatibility was added last January.
protip: get a sintech adapter and stick a big fast nvme disk in there. another 1-2 years before you need a new computer.
Wow this is nasty stuff.
I hope this becomes popular. Unlike iOS and Android it has physical controls and hopefully I can develop for it cheaply.
Not yet, right now I just have a tutorial window that shows up the first time you use the code builder feature, and the videos on the home page. Open to suggestions!
... and still rising. Also not accidental.
> By the way, "batteries included" is one of the BEST features of python.

None of these libraries need to be nuked from existence as a result of this change. I'd wager they'll move into PyPI modules so that teams relying on them could safely continue to do so.

> Have you tried to fix something in your house with a "homeowner's toolkit" which is usually something like a hammer, pliers, 2 screwdrivers, a putty knife and a few more basic tools? It is REALLY tedious, like writing a C program with a few basic tools like stdio and ctypes.

That's one extreme, but I don't think that's what's being proposed. The proposed model is closer to what Rust does today, where the core is slim, opening up new potential use cases, and the more complex functionality built on top of it is left to the community to maintain.

Take a look over some of the modules they're deprecating, like smtpd. What kind of standard library requires an SMTP daemon built in? That's akin to a homeowners toolkit including a planishing hammer [2] for some reason.

> I think if the cost of deploying a script is 1, deploying it + a dependency is literally something like 100x. You have to make assumptions about all the environments the script will run in, and they are usually wrong.

Depends on how it's done, honestly. Check out this Rust "scripting" system [1]. It has full support for third-party crates.

[1] https://github.com/DanielKeep/cargo-script

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planishing
When cemeteries where first created they were generally put on relatively unproductive hilly ground outside of the city or town. Not sure why you think they got all the best real estate?
I stando corrected based on a comment form the author that is found below: Last week's post was the previous one in this series.
Las Vegas Approves a $48.6M Contract with Elon Musk’s Boring Company
Is that just sharing stuff with yourself, or sharing with others, because the recipient would also need to be using Tor to access it?
So you're saying one can pay $35 and get something with a click, and only get charged a few bucks out of that for conveniece?

These guys are Amazon Prime for Viagra.
I saw this guy speak at the yale club or something in midtown (NYC) in 2017 on risk modeling. at the time he was arguing that what the industry needed was a return to fundamentals and more intervention from traders ie the algos had run away. I haven't read the article but seeing as how he was one of the first mathematical quants on the street I wonder if this from 2003 is contrary to his opinion from 2017.

Here's his book. I haven't read it but it's probably interesting.

https://www.amazon.com/My-Life-Quant-Reflections-Physics/dp/...
Looks a lot like Linux with a fvwm95 interface on top. I mean, it's always great and so exciting to see something totally new being created from scratch! But you don't actually need to switch to some entirely homegrown, untested kernel for that 1990s UI fix! ;-)
> and the 90s was without a doubt the peak of OS design.
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Also, and surely not at all correlated with my youth, it was the peak of good music.
I agree with you that this isn't the same country you grew up in. I'm only a decade behind you, and the country is certainly not the same country that I grew up in either!

The common nostalgic "this isn't the same country I grew up in" topic just gets brought up all of the time, I'm guessing because it garners a lot of clicks from us who miss our naive childhoods but I just don't see it being as illegal as you do.

I can google around for all sorts of "florida man" stories. Just because I can find some very weird and newsworthy stories, doesn't mean that everything and everywhere is like that. I can probably live in Florida and have a normal life, and raise my children however I would like.
Panic never stops surprising me. You'd think you had them figured out, they keep jumping onto another shelf.

It must be fun to work at Panic. It reminds me of how tech companies were in the 90s. Clear mission, but open horizon.
De-automobiling Paris is a wonderful thing. It's evidently come a long way from the 1960's, but I don't know the history.

https://www.unjourdeplusaparis.com/en/paris-insolite/photos-...
Just the opposite.

NYC is not some small town somewhere. It can be a little difficult to get ethnicity correct. For instance, is that robbery suspect white with a tan? Latino? Or just a mixed black guy maybe?

Oh wow! Turns out he was Armenian and the other was Arab. Who knew?

That sort of nuance may not be important in a place like small town, Flyover Country, but it's critical in a place like NYC. That's why places like NYC are so big on police artist sketches. They are more helpful in that context than, "White looking guy, medium height, medium build."

People think it's racism that police tended to state the race when the suspect was black. The reality is that blacks were one of the only race groups that would not be easily confused by laymen. (Asians as well.) But we even messed that up because of unreliable witnesses, etc.

Now a days with cameras everywhere we can just blast the suspect's face over the local news and we don't have to worry about figuring out if the suspect is white, or arab, or latino or what have you. With video evidence, you don't run that same risk of people in, say, the Bronx being less vigilant because, "They're looking for a white guy."
Every ticket I've ever created on the paid Developer support plan was within the "24 hour" and "12 hour" windows for guidance and system impaired issues. However, always always always at the far end of those windows.

Meaning if I had something I really needed help with, it was going to be a conversation for the following day.

I'm not really mad, we're just pre-release, and the number crunching to go from Developer adding 3% to cost vs. Business adding 10% to cost is too damn high. Our infra is about $10K/mo right now (pre-release), so we're talking $1000/mo for live chat and a shorter window vs. $250-300/mo we're paying right now.
> API 101 - there is very little cost to leaving them in

That's not true as newcomers will typically bias towards bundled modules instead of 3rd party ones. If it's well accepted that the bundled modules are bad in some way then you are encouraging further use of them by leaving them in. That's real cost, and not just on the Python maintainers side of thing.
I literally use dstat all the time! This is very sad.
You say that like those are bad things.

Yes, the borrow checker is a PITA vs. Go, but there are compensations.
It looks uncomfortable to spin the crank while using the other controls, which means you’d want it to be used exclusively if at all.
This is excellent timing. Google & Facebook's lobbyists are trying to get a weak US national law to overrule California's strong new privacy law. Apple's proposal will help the few pro-privacy people in Congress to push for a stronger national law.
Maybe if they reduced the force required to click the button by about 75% I could get used to it. It's so hard to push from my normal typing position that I feel like I have to use leverage from my arm instead of just a finger. Plus it's not comfortable to click and drag when you have to continually push down - I'd still want tap to click available even if they improved it.
The same can be said about many things Costco sells.

And yet people are willingly paying about $100/year for Amazon Prime to buy things from Amazon at a higher price.

Not understanding why people would prefer to do that is a big part in how companies like Sears died.
How do you cap Bezos at $250 million without taking Amazon away from him?

> I doubt Jobs, Zuck and Gates would have said "Forget it" if they knew they only had the opportunity to acquire a quarter of a billion dollars.

They might have if they knew their companies would be taken away from them at the first sign of success. Jobs was worth well over 250 million in 2001 (probably earlier thanks to Pixar, but cannot confirm at the moment). You would have taken Apple away from Steve Jobs before the iPhone was a pipe dream, and Pixar away from him before Finding Nemo.

Bill Gates was worth 1.25 billion in 1987, and I'm not even going to start talking about what Microsoft did after 1987 (tbf there's a case to be made that MS wasn't so great for the world after 1987, but my point that founders would totally say "Forget it" stands).
Freelancing Has Changed
Wow! I was not expecting this at all. Exciting!
Varies by country. The US has huge amounts of unselected immigration and makes no real effort to enforce its immigration laws so you get loads of Mexicans and before them Irish and Italians. All of those populations were negatively selected; the average immigrant to the US from those countries was less educated than the average for their country during the period of greatest immigration. Countries with selective or skills based immigration like Australia or Canada, with their points systems have immigrant populations that are a lot more educated than the native population or the average for the source countries.
Isn't that what UML was supposed to be for?
Yeah, we're a team at MSFT (same org as VS Code). All* our code is open source. We use Google Blockly, and we've made a number of contributions upstream to them.

What's your product?

* Our server code isn't open source, but it's basically just a node app serving a SPA. Everything is client side. Works offline too.
Used 2DSes or 3DSes are ubiquitous and around $110 or so.
I've been using their software for easily 14 years. It's really cool to see them expanding like this.
I'm left handed. But when I use a mouse, I noticed after decades that I'd always been controlling them with my right hand. Attempting to switch now feels as awkward as trying to write with my right hand.

So I guess the answer is, it's whatever you're used to. Using my right hand for mouse-related tasks was not something I decided on consciously, or due to convenience, since early models (I'm talking C=64 era) did not have the handed designs of today's mice.
Not a new thing

2017 derailment https://imgur.com/a/7Bn0bqC

2013 ignornace and fuckery https://imgur.com/a/lPrB0Gx
That sounds like PAKE. I'm not qualified to opine on that; it's above my pay grade. I can see a lot of implementation issues, though, if you wanted to make it a browser component outside the control of the developer.
Part of the issue is they have been patented to the hilt by parties like S3. It hasn't been an issue in video games because companies just agree to implement other S3 apis in return for a patent license, but in cases like this that obviously isn't an option.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3_Texture_Compression

It has been an obstacle for open source drivers too, but luckily this specific patent expired.
It mostly works well on mobile, but the layout results in hilariously big images on desktop.

The top unit could benefit from scaling to the viewport height. Right now the grey section is 100% the height of the viewport, meaning that scrolling is not an obvious interaction. Having some yellow and text peeking up could make that more intuitive.
Depends on the toolchain. Everybody knows how to generate ugly source files, but it takes more effort to add AST nodes during compilation (or symbol table entries with types plus object code) and might lead to errors nobody understands how to fix (because you can't read the declaration of the thing you're trying to interact with).
Who doesn't want an acreage in the hills just outside of town?

Also, many towns and cities have grown, so what used to be a small hill outside of town is now, unsurprisingly, prime real estate.
Exxon knew that fossil fuels were influencing the climate in 1978
Yes, considering that per capita Canada has more money than Japan and spends more on healthcare? I think total population density is misleading when Canada’s population is very concentrated in a few cities.

I accept that Japan has the most MRI machines per capita in the entire world, but the question is why is that? It could be economy of scale, but that doesn’t explain why Japan is such an outlier globally
Not just awk but cat, grep, etc.---even python itself. It's nice to have something that "recommends" such a common Unix convention, a lot like getopt but moreso. In Perl this would be `while (<>) { ... }` and in Ruby `ARGF.each_line do |line| ... end`. I'm glad they are keeping it!
"Male enhancements" haha
You're probably right. People tend to post more negative than positive anyways.
It also opens you to many subtle mis-configuration bugs that would result in your anonymity being removed completely. Are you sure you're tunneling DNS over Tor? IPv6? Are you sure that Chromium isn't phoning home with your real IP?

Tor Browser (despite its many faults) has lots of patches that are applied in order to stop these sorts of leaks. If it takes the people who develop Tor to continually patch Firefox in order to make it actually anonymous, I would argue you have a worse chance of making it work properly.
IMO it isn't that it strips people of human rights per se, it is that it removes opportunity to disrupt the status quo. Whether you believe this is a good thing is up to you. Terrorists are trying to disrupt the status quo, but so are protestors, people who write to their Senator, etc. By the ubiquity of facial recognition, you are essentially making it harder to disrupt the status quo by non-legal means. This all has the effect of increasing cohesiveness of the existing system. When people talk of "dystopia", that doesn't necessarily mean it is a bad place to live, at least in principal. Brave New World was tyrannical and oppressive, but not necessarily a miserable existence (you always have SOMA). What distinguishes this as a "dystopia" is the inability for the system to change itself. So while it doesn't strip human rights, per se, it certainly strips people of the ability to affect change on their environment. If knowledge is power, then the more knowledge they have about you, the more power they have over you.
C also doesn't have a standard package manager. I think that's the big problem.

Built-in functionality is less important if you can easily use packages.
That was my first thought as well. But would it actually be practical? Anyone have an educated guess as to how much cranking it'd take to get 30 minutes of play time?
If it’s working downtown where there’s dense housing, like 1-3 apartment buildings per block with only one stop for each, 600 stops could cover a lot of ground.
> I'm not really that convinced anyone is substantially closer to artificial general intelligence that anyone was in the 50s or 60s

Well, Douglas Hofstadter said back in the 80s that we'd first have to get a computer to know what the letters "A" and "I" are, and we've certainly achieved that.
We just don't know enough about life or planet formation to know how this bodes.

On its surface, everything that makes the formation of the Earth appear rarer would suggest life, in general, is rarer but honestly we don't know. We don't even know if there's life on Europa even though there would appear to be all the conditions present to make life as it lives at the bottom of our oceans.

We don't even know if water is a reasonable prerequisite for life. We don't know if life has to be carbon-based. Sulfur also presents a reasonable alternative. Would we even recognize other life if was right in front of us if it relied on completely different mechanisms? Maybe even our idea of time is too short lived or long lived to even recognize other complex systems as alive.

We shouldn't extrapolate too much from a single data point.
People love to pick on the intensive meaning of "literally", perhaps because it is more recent, but it's really not much different from the range of uses of "really", which also can mean both 'in fact, truly' as well as an intensifier sense like 'very'. E.g. "I was really shocked", "I was literally shocked" have similar ambiguities. Competent human speaker generally provide enough context that potential ambiguities aren't too problematic -- for other human beings, if not for machines.

Human languages are more ambiguous than you might imagine, and lexical things like 'what meaning of "literally" is the speaker using' are pretty tip-of-the-iceberg stuff. (Think about what "Every man wants to read some book" or "the girl saw the man with the binoculars" (can) mean.)
Playdate is way more usable on mobile. I can't really read the text of teenage engineering
Aren't the emergency brake cords on the outside of the engineers' cabs, where anyone can get at them?
> Even if it weren't his property, if you were in the public aren't people legally allowed to take photos of you and upload it wherever they want? If it weren't legal there wouldn't be paparazzi I would think.

This is probably one of the areas where the law's not quite caught up to reality.

50 years ago, the probable life story of a picture of you taken by someone in public was that it would be developed, maybe reproduced once or twice, possibly sold to a magazine or displayed somewhere, and then it would spend the next half century in a drawer somewhere.

In 2019, the life story of a picture of you taken by someone with an Android phone is that it is uploaded to Google's servers, where it's analyzed, tagged via facial recognition, combined with location data, associated with your profile, and used to build a better understanding of who you are, who you know, and who you associate with, so Google can package that data and use it to target better ads at you (and Google's one of the "better" players in this space, in that the worst they're likely to do is advertise to you).

I don't think it's quite caught up to people that the average amount of processing being applied to any given picture of them in 2019 is about on par with what the CIA would've dedicated to a picture of the Russian ambassador back in 1969.
"The last man alive was alone in a room. He locked the door."
I don't know about the NYC subways, but a number of jurisdictions in the US see metro councils / transportation authorities deciding to not check tickets at all, because of "disproportionate impacts" for certain racial groups.

It seems absurd to me to advocate petty lawlessness, but the public transportation systems are all so far underwater that checking ride tickets isn't going to practically move the needle anyway.
I don't think they intended for it as anything but not a substantial cost loss because they wanted to make it, not because they wanted a 3DS IT PRINTS MONEY GIF of it, so that's probably a feature, not a bug.
IMO they should have dumped HCL once they caught a whiff of what Pulumi is up to, much rather go with actual languages that when you learn them, you pick up some valued knowledge. You can also do a whole lot more with Typescript than you can with HCL 2.
> I want Firefox to update ASAP

Firefox is the perfect example of why I hate user facing apps updating constantly. They're always adding random features, breaking plugins (still don't have vertical tabs working properly) and shifting the UI around. It was much better back when they had stable releases.

> The distribution model should only apply to libraries and base tools.

As long as nothing breaks it doesn't worry me how many times libc is updated, it's the user facing changes that interrupt me I want to avoid.

> And even those should be versioned so they can coexist easily and I'm easily able to install any app, from the ones that want GTK1 to the ones that want GTKLatest.

If they can't commit to stable releases and non-breaking API then they aren't going to commit to maintaining the 15 versions of GTK that you'd end up with on your system, that's the worst of every world.
Habits Always Form
Well, lojban tried.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban
I still own perfectly functioning hardware... but functioning only if the Windows 7 is running on it. Nobody made newer drivers: Intel didn't and Microsoft didn't. And the hardware is surely nothing obscure: it's the Intel chips.