skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think I would want to hire someone couldn’t code: a linked list, hash table, and binary tree.

If you can do a AVL or RB tree from memory, that would be a bonus as well.
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When talking about programming languages, technically superiority is not correlated with popularity. Using Python means that if in the future I need to do data analysis I can use pandas, matplotlib, etc. If I need a web framework I could use Django, Flask, etc. NIM needs more packages in order to be considered.
Everything isn’t relative. The middle is still the middle.

When you are in the top 10% by income claiming to be in the middle you are failing to realize that their are some 250 million people in your own country that are below you. The people who make your coffee, butcher your meat, package your products. You are failing to realize that there are 100-200 million people living either an actual middle class life or are in poverty by any standard you would understand.

Living in a place with high costs is a choice. It’s s choice that wealthy people get to make. Living in San Francisco in a small studio on a $100k+ salary and jokingly “feeling poor” is a choice that wealthy and privileged people get to make. It’s a choice I’ve made. It’s probably a choice you’ve made. But I’m not going to pretend for a moment, if I’m being honest, that my life even approaches an actual middle class life. I get to live in one of the best places on the planet with the best food, weather, museums, drinks, bars, technology, etc.. I have access to the best of everything… how the hell is that being in the middle? Go spend a summer in middle America where everything is cheap and see how most people actually live. Hell, take the BART to the end of the line and drive one town further and try living and working there for a bit.
There are many local EV brands in the recent years. From Tata, Mahindra & Mahindra, Bajaj, Maruti etc.
Just ask them directly. I've simply asked my Indian coworkers if anyone else in the workplace also speaks their native language and they have no problem talking about it. I've learned a lot from asking them about their languages.

I've discovered that they generally share the same native language when they are from the same region in India, otherwise they don't. The only exception I've seen so far in Punjabi, since it seems that Delhi also has a significant population of Punjabi speakers who have migrated there from Punjab, which is farther to the west.

Sometimes my coworkers do share languages, and that's obvious if I hear them speaking to each other in a language other than English. Sometimes they have to speak English to each other because that's their only common language.
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Meh. Not educated enough to tell if this is FUD but sure seems like it. As if the US pharma industry has not been caught countless times hiding data and making patients sick.

"They just don't make it in that India or China or whatever like they can here" comes off as incredibly racist imo.
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Looker has always been owned by a corporation.
It only there were some kind of system self hosted blogs could use... that you could use an app or site to subscribe to... Like a Really Simple Syndication or something like that. You could pop open your app, and get through all the new posts from everyone you follow really quickly.

Nah, Medium and google's fast republishing proxy thingy are so much better.
Nitpick: North/south exist due to the planet's rotation, not the magnetic poles.

The magnetic poles happen to be near the rotational poles, but that's incidental.

Sorry to be That Guy today :(
> I'm seeing a serious trend toward unhealthy social interactions, cyber bullying

Admittedly the "cyber" part is relatively new, but that's called being a teenager. I'd rather my kids have this learning experience for the future. Me having to help them through it is simply part of being a parent. Especially if it's difficult, there's a learning experience in that.

> If your country doesn't allow it, you may not have had the chance to observe the difference

I've travelled and lived in other countries...

> but the vast majority of homeschooled kids I've met are very well socialized, capable of reasoned debate, and quite well-rounded in their outlook on life

...and I'm pretty sure this is selection bias based on your social circles, and not a universal truth.

Finally, it's bizarre to me that in a first-world country, smart and rich parents have decided the education system is so broken, it needs to be worked around instead of engaging with it and driving change. Seems to be a very selfish attitude: at least my kids are doing fine, and screw other kids who's parents may not have the time or resources to care and improve things.
Who are these stakeholders and shareholders in Public Universities?

As for non-sequitur - the administrators are making their money off of the sports teams, not tuition.
I saw more dicks drawn on random objects when I was in the service than anywhere else.
> what, if anything, is outside the observable universe

The answer is similar to the time. Remember, in cosmology there's no really separate space and time, there's only space-time.

So when you're looking at the edge of the observable universe, you really looking back in time. So the answer to the question "what is outside" is the same as "what was before".

Or, in simpler words, the question is meaningless, as there's no space to talk about "outside". Not sure the last phrase is correct, as I've just talked about separate space from time.
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A few decades ago, that was widely believed as the most likely state of the universe. However, it's now known that the big bang is essentially still accelerating and this is blamed on an unknown force called "dark energy". It doesn't have much effect within galaxies, but galaxies themselves are blowing away from each other at ridiculous speeds.
> Right, it prevents you from taking part in the public political debate that tens of millions of voters are participating in.

I don't think that's true, but even if you could prove it, it doesn't matter. You should not be entitled to use YouTube just because its popular and people discuss politics there.

> You can't talk about your political message on this popular street corner where there are actually people to hear you

Bad analogy. YouTube is not a public street corner, it's a private business and platform that you don't pay to use. It's more like saying you can't talk about your political message inside a popular tavern because the owners have decided they are not friendly to the political message. That is not a violation of your rights, that is how private property works. I get that you don't like it, but its their property and its a non-essential service, even if its very popular.

> Ah, so middle/low class people should grovel to the elites that gather here

Wow. That's a very disingenuous reading of what I wrote. I didn't say anything resembling that, AT ALL, I even explicitly stated that my only point there was to demonstrate that the popularity of a site doesn't necessary correlate with its political importance, but you still managed to twist it into a completely ridiculous strawman. Since you're arguing in bad faith I see no reason to continue wasting my time trying to have a conversation.

Have a nice day.
The language, to me, seemed very precise and inoffensive. "Free rider" isn't a word that he just made up.

"In the social sciences, the free-rider problem is a type of market failure that occurs when those who benefit from resources, public goods, or services of a communal nature do not pay for them.[1] Free riders are a problem because while not paying for the good, they may continue to access it. Thus, the good may be under-produced, overused or degraded"[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-rider_problem
It's always been my dream to build one. Now that we have things like Raspberry Pi zero W, I want to hack up my Kuerig and make that internet connected
> “The BMS is to control temperatures,” she says. “In our case, we don’t have to have that.” In fact, she adds, up to a point, rising temperatures only increase the electrolyte’s performance.

No need for the stainless steel bunkers to isolate cells. This IS an important breakthrough (if verified).
Is it just me that thinks whenever a western media writes an article about India, they show an image of India in the worst possible way.

For ex: Why does this article have to show a picture of a political rally ?
Americans also call US customary units "imperial units", even though they're not the same as the British ones.
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That says a lot more about you than the interview question.
WooHoo! I'm very excited about this. For me, nim has been the perfect glue language in many ways. I hope other people will give it a shot, try out the https://forum.nim-lang.org or their subreddit https://old.reddit.com/r/nim
> In Python you can also write performance critical code in C as the standard library often does.

As a sloth I can become a horse to run fast.

I like Python, but let's not take an obvious weakness and try to present it as a strength. In the modern programming language landscape where you can get expressive and fast, Python is still slow.
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I went all metric when we started the new millennium. I try to do all my personal measurements in metric. It has been my own personal battle to make progress, every little bit helps..

It's funny how life fights with you though. My wife and I share a scale in the bathroom, it's a fitbit wifi thing and she finally laid down the law, it uses pounds now. Chasing 130lbs is somehow more satisfying than 58.9 or 59Kg. Our electronic outdoor thermometer is in Fahrenheit now too; this one sort of pisses me off, metric is simple, below 10 you need a coat, 10 to 20 probably want a light jacket, 30+ is shorts because it's hot. Mind you, she is an actual scientist, a real deal scientist that works on viruses and immunology, which is somewhat frustrating. You wouldn't believe the fit she had when our electronic human thermometer was found to be metric... When you call the doctor because your child has a fever, it is better to use whatever units the doctor uses.

I suspect that major new papers could probably start using metric units with translation in parens and only the wingnuts that think the papers already harbor a liberal bias would say anything about it. Other than temperature and like human height, you can toss out metric measurements to most folks when they ask something and they seem to absorb it well; from time to time you get a question or push-back, rarely I'll translate the unit for them. We're at the point where people just need to see it more. It would be an interesting experiment if some media organizations started to make metric more prominent. Hell the US military uses it, mostly for NATO reasons... we could probably somehow put a patriotic spin on it.
The purpose of "current" is to ground you and give you a baseline. If you're relatively happy with your current lifestyle, can you lock it in now and stop working? If yes, then rich, if no, then keep saving/investing/growing your income.

My overall point is that there is an upper limit to that number, after which no lifestyle (barring crazy outliers like buying a yacht a week) would require you to keep working.
A false "entropy of matter natural law" argument used to be forwarded by "evolution debunkers." Richard Dawkins debunked this fake natural law with a thought exercise involving an hourglass with water in one chamber and salt in the other. You can tilt the hourglass to mix the salt and water in one chamber, but if you sit the device in the sun, such that the sun shines on the full chamber, you will eventually see the hourglass return to a state where water is in one chamber and salt is in the other.
> I think there's an important distinction to be made between rich and wealthy.

No there isn't, these are synonyms in any decent dictionary. Chambers uses them to define each other.

"Rich: having a lot of money, property, or possessions; wealthy"

"Wealthy: possessing riches and property; rich or prosperous".

Everything else in your post is just stuff you've made up, which is mildly interesting but has nothing to do with those words as they're used in the real world.
I don't think we need a centralised publishing platform like Medium ever again. Anyone can create a blog for free using Wordpress. RSS feeds are amazing and it can easily serve the job of subscribing to these blogs. Look at the podcasting community for example. It's built on top of RSS feeds and it is thriving. Nobody needs a Medium.com in Podcasting world. What we need in the blogging world are more platforms and apps that are built on top of RSS feeds. Better RSS readers. Platforms that makes it easier to easily find and subscribe to blogs using RSS. Platforms that brings audience to self hosted blogs.
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Am I wrong, or are they arguing on matters of belief rather than evidence?
How the world’s poor are discovering leisure online
plenty of people support a family on $60k/yr so take the remaining 440k minus taxes and buy two porsches outright. You should be able to save enough for a down-payment on each house given a year of saving.
I very strongly suspect that the overlap between people in the 1% income level and people in the 1% wealth level is extremely high.
This is pretty much what supermarkets did to the high street in the 20th century and I fully expect it to happen to the web in the 21st.
Turing was a minor figure in computing history until it became known that he was gay. Since then, he's hyped a lot more. Turing didn't design Colossus; Tommy Flowers did. Turing didn't design the first bombe, Marian Rejewski did. Turing figured out a way to make it 26x faster at the cost of 26x as many wires and contacts. Neither of those were general purpose computers; they were key-testers, like a Bitcoin miner. The top cryptographer of WWII was William Friedman, who turned cryptanalysis from guessing to machine-powered statistical crunching. The first programmable computer was built by Konrad Zuse.

Few people know any of those names today. Zuse should be remembered more. He had the right idea, and built a working machine, but it was destroyed by bombs during WWII.
Wouldn't increased monitoring also increase their liability when something does go terribly wrong?
Most comments I see about Medium tend to have this sentiment of "The service and tech suck, but the community and distribution are powerful."

In my very anecdotal experience, I've found that posting on Medium only gets me distribution if I choose to publish it on a popular publication; but does mostly nothing if only published on Medium. I have a Writer role on HackerNoon, which is one of the larger pubs on Medium. I also have about ~200 followers on Medium on my own account. I've found that when I post an article and publish on HackerNoon, I get a lot of reads and claps quickly. When I post one just under my own Medium account, it hardly gets anything. I'm not sure having someone "follow" you does much at all in surfacing your post. If my post is about a topic that is frequently searched (e.g. how to set up something on some Linux distro, etc.), eventually the SEO traffic starts flowing in and I get a clap every now and then. But that can be true of a blog hosted anywhere.
Yeah, the author curiously neglected to factor dependents into all his numbers, which makes a massive difference. I think lots of people have kids as a "default option" in their life roadmap, without considering how big of a sacrifice it will be in terms of time and money (and the fact that it's optional!). It's important to put things in perspective before making that kind of decision; making kids may be free, but raising them is anything but.
I've only just noticed it, but mostly because I've forced myself not to install the Twitter app nor login to my account on the particular device I've been experiencing all these "Something Went Wrong" errors. I assumed it was a "feature" to encourage people to login to the app caused from a bug somewhere in the ad stack, and this seems to corroborate that hunch.
Wikipedia's 'Timeline of the Far Future' is a great article on the posibilities of our universe's fate [0]. Of note are the entries near the end of the list.

Year 10^(10^(50)) : Estimated time for a Boltzmann brain to appear in the vacuum via a spontaneous entropy decrease [1]

Year 10^(10^(120)) : High estimate for the time for the universe to reach its final energy state, even in the presence of a false vacuum.

Year 10^(10^(10^(56))) : Around this vast timeframe, quantum tunnelling in any isolated patch of the vacuum could generate, via inflation, new Big Bangs giving birth to new universes. Because the total number of ways in which all the subatomic particles in the observable universe can be combined is 10^(10^(115)) a number which, when multiplied by 10^(10^(10^(56))), disappears into the rounding error, this is also the time required for a quantum-tunnelled and quantum fluctuation-generated Big Bang to produce a new universe identical to our own, assuming that every new universe contained at least the same number of subatomic particles and obeyed laws of physics within the range predicted by string theory.

Suffice to say, our understanding of physics and the universe is still in an infant state when it comes to predictions of the universe's future. Much more funding is needed :P

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain
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From a purely personal point of view, I don't really want remote work. At least not full time.

Work is a distinct social environment. You meet different people, do different things, etc... It has value. It helps see things from different perspectives. If things get hard at work, going back home gives you an escape, and vice-versa. You don't need for commute for that but it helps.
Why the “Digital Ocean killed my company” incident scares the hell out of me
Because the rally is collocated with a traffic jam?
Tangential: What has people's experience been with Google Flights? It's quick and I like the calendar view for seeing different price options, but the results don't always correspond with the reality when I click through to the airline's website.
Superior? You mean a language without community or ecosystem and pretty much not used by anyone.
Would you let your children read random tabloid crap and ad flyers? No, you'd build a safe library filled with interesting, educational and valuable books.

So why won't you do this with digital media? An okay NAS costs about a same as year YT subscription, and there is a lot of great content.
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It must be where i grew up but in St.Louis and Kansas city, you could give your children most of these opportunities with roughly a middle class dual parent income. The smartest kids in my class became doctors, stanford phds, etc... None of them were what i consider upper middle class (provided they came from both parent educated households).
Thanks! It is completed. But I can't do anything, clicking it does nothing, I cant see any files in the folder of the torrent. Long press does nothing. No documentation, help pages empty.
We are easily 1%-ers in terms of income level but we don't consider ourselves rich

I'm forced to wonder how many policy problems in America are due to people like this failing to acknowledge just how good they have it and thus failing to be comfortable contributing to the greater good because they "don't consider themselves rich."
Magic mushrooms should be decriminalised
What has building roads and highways got to do with switching from gasoline to electric cars?
If I remember correctly, the runtime keeps size of the array in the header of the object along with sync block, etc. If you have VS, you can view the object in memory to see the sync block value, array size value, etc.
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There can still be an unobservable (to us) universe outside ours.

If you assume the universe started N billion years ago, there is an event horizon expanding at the speed of light that fit this definition of an "observable universe" for us while allowing for an infinite number of equal universes, some of which are partially shared with ours.
It seems to me that the benefits of Nim over Python are far smaller than the benefits of Python's library ecosystem.

I'm pretty happy with Python though. It seems like Nim's benefits couldn't be that big. I consider Python "great", so the best Nim could be is "great-er", as a core language I mean. I've been rooting for Nim, but haven't actually tried it. And my use case is pretty small, I admit.
It's not clear from the article how the system monitors encrypted social media traffic. Perhaps Twitter as it is public afterward, right? Or does it look for public posts to local groups in Facebook? Or everyone has location tagging on posts on other sites?

How are these companies getting their information to analyze?
Haha that's pretty good. I also considered connecting to unsecured wifi and renaming it (since 99% of the time it uses default creds) to something like "Brother Tim's porn server" but that is probably too far.
Forgive me while I make some gross generalizations:

Objective-C -> Swift
Python -> Nim
Ruby -> Crystal
JavaScript -> Elm—or maybe TypeScript?
C/C++ -> Rust

The future looks good.
Jupyter Notebook based blog site?
Well it's more that space itself is expanding. It doesn't affect small scales because other forces collapse everything back together fast enough to overcome it. If the increase in dark energy is consistent though, eventually it'll be expanding so fast not even our atoms can hold themselves together.
They don’t own their own fleets, do they can’t change what they don’t have.

It will be up to whoever is working on their platforms to procure EVs, and with India’s lack of developed EV production capacity and super high tariffs on imports, this goal completely unworkable by the deadline put forth.
Wouldn't you want a higher tax earlier to offset the higher EV cost?

A 1% tax isn't going to help if EVs are twice as expensive, whereas in 20 years time where hopefully EVs are approaching cost parity a 20% tax shouldn't be needed.

But on the other hand you want to broadcast to everyone that in the medium term your taxi will need to be electric, so plan accordingly. Taxes are hard!
Yep, I could easily imagine Bryan being crushed by this. I know I would be, knowing I have superior technology to anyone else and yet being told I have to withdraw from the competition.

It's like coming to a race track with a car and being disqualified because one's car is too light and powerful.