skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have one in our local Stop and Shop. It has a creepy smiley face plastered on it. It's easy to say that it's super weird and suspicious, gets in your way, likely not cost-effective (at least for its ostensible purposes, who knows what slimey face tracking or whatever it might be doing), which is all true.

But on a slightly positive note, my kids 5 and 7 love it. They pretend like it's a killer robot chasing us, which it oddly does seem to do. No matter where we go in the store it's always popping up around the corner. They play hide and seek with it, try to surprise it, hunt it down. Good training for Judgement Day. ;)
A few people said on the last article that the URL was blocked, perhaps something to do with "advertising" being in the URL. Also, no conspiracy on the disappearing comments, an ad industry person showed up in defence and got immediately flamed, which is why the post dropped pages. Cheers.
Capitalism is about providing others with products and services they want.
It would cost too much money.
> The GPL is the legal embodiment of this Golden Rule

Sort of. It's a bit more like a golden pact with teeth. You can get excommunicated for not following the pact you agreed to. I suppose that's fine. But I prefer not to tempt others to agree -- let them find their own way. Contributing helps the contributor by avoiding having to have local patches, and by getting them reputation and good will points. Sure, a big company might fork an MIT codebase forever and keep it closed, but that's OK with me.
At least HN is a step above Reddit, right? Right?

Funny enough, I actually first read this article when someone in a deep Reddit comment thread linked to it. So yeah, so much for that.
A maintainer who will convert bzip2 to Rust, where the rest of us who aren't sold on the new religion won't be able to run it, because the priests of the new religion don't give a flying pterodactyl about any operating system which isn't GNU/Linux and maybe Windows. Oh, and up until now I could fix bzip2 because it is written in C and I could actually understand the code and fix it. Now if by some miracle I even had a Rust compiler, the "maintainer" would indirectly force me to learn Rust, because of course I should spend days chained in front of a computer rather than having a life, learning yet another fashion fad, extremely horribly put together mishmash of an object oriented programing langauge (if you have methods, you are object-oriented, no excuses will work with me).

We are such a horrid industry. Information technology is going deeper and deeper down the drain amidst trend pandering and wheel re-invention. If I could get out I would yesterday. It's a sad day when a computer enthusiast with a formal education in computer science like me is brought down to that.
FWIW, it is listed as third in his about page.

https://slatestarcodex.com/about/
I'd say the difference is that "timeouts" are putting the kid in a corner to cool down vs. taking them aside to actively calm them down. I think when most people say timeouts they are talking about separating the child and letting them stew for a while.
Please submit a PR. Open source 101
I'm still afraid of falling asleep with a youtube video playing (autoplay) or some live stream and waking up to ~10gb of data usage. My plan is still metered after 1gb, I was under the assumption this was normal as well
Because I'm not an idealist, and I don't want to be one. I'd like to think I'm a practical person who looks at what can be done realistically. It has worked out OK for me so far. YMMV.
One thing that's worth considering making an exception for, no matter your ideological stand point, is cryptography libraries.

I want everyone to get cryptographic code right, ideally with one implementation that is correct, and then that's the end of it for everyone. Because if commerical vendors do their own thing because of copyleft on a piece of cryptographic code, the one that really ends up suffering is all the users that didn't have a choice in the matter of using said commercial software.
Killing someone unintentionally is pretty common (it’s happened to most people, I suppose) but this story in particular is very well written.
Got it- thanks. It really fell several pages but things do when the discussions become less constructive.
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I tried on LinkedIn but most of them can't help or they don't want to.
What's even more scary is the "new" Soviet-style plant just recently "finished" after 34 years in Slovakia[0]. Whistle-blowers have released photo evidence[1] showing major structural deficiencies. It was originally planned to come online this in June but because of pressure from the Austrian government has been thankfully pushed back. For the record I'm not against nuclear, aside from worrying about things like waste-management and outdated reactor designs, but overall they provide clean energy to a lot of people.

[0]: https://www.dw.com/en/slovakia-delays-nuclear-plant-expansio...

[1]: Sorry the video is in German, but it does contain some illustrations and photos if you fast forward: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAhPZ_MDZE4
Or a bright blue LED of one of her bedroom appliances, noise, temperature, blanket, night owl neighbors, etc. Never had one of these studies, but I suppose the lab strives towards an ideal sleeping environment to identify pathological causes.
Rodney Brooks and Gary marcus team up to launch robotics AI company Robust.AI
Doing this during a job interview is not going to give you the results you expect. For every person like you who wants to hear "I don't know" there are 10 people who will pass on you for not knowing something. People's expectations are set by the worst interviewers they experience, not the best (and honestly, trying to trap people isn't the "best" anyway).
I second this. I started reading a lot of his works a while back. He has a very unique point of view from what I know. He was also friends with or friendly with some of the leading authors of the day whom he criticized, notably Shaw. His use of paradox is highly entertaining too and he made it into something of an art form.

The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a fun read (he is notable for supporting distributism); his essays are very enjoyable too.
they don't. this isn't casino gambling this is back parlor gambling.
Can’t read the article without subscribing, I guess the economist just got a whole bunch of new users :)
The big case recently was in Germany against VMWare [0]. They lost that case. But it was controversial partly because the person (who contributed a non-trivial amount of networking code) was asking for monetary damages in addition to bringing the company into compliance.

But setting the money aside, even the enforcement part was flamed by Torvalds and Greg KH [1]. The gist was that they're able to bring more people into compliance by working with companies behind the scenes. And lawsuits shut down all that backroom handholding. So ultimately, the lawsuits result in less compliance and less Linux adoption.

Linus mentions BusyBox specifically, where attempting to bring companies into compliance just led to fewer users and a shitty closed source alternative that these companies started using instead.

From Linus' perspective that's lose-lose: fewer users and more closed source software. But from people interested in GPL enforcement, they are more interested in not having their contributions abused by companies for profit. So if they won't give up their bad attitude, that's not the GPL projects' problem.

[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/635290/

[1] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/...
"We are partnering on technologies that are not only helping us make the customer experience even more personal and relevant but also operate more efficiently and manage labor shortages in our markets"

That's laughable. I wonder what's the top management's perception of working on the floor. From the article it seems that this robot is practically useless (glorified Roomba that doesn't vacuum) and am sure the management has a different plan in mind.
I think of it in the four categories they typically teach in digital design classes for electrical engineers:

T - True
F - False
X - Don't care
Z - High-Z, essentially "don't know" or a null input

You can apply "don't care" to inputs to a logic equation to reduce the complexity of it. If you know a certain input will never be true while other inputs are false, then you can ignore all the states where that is the case. For example, the ECU in a car will turn on a certain light on the dashboard whenever the wheels slip. The wheels can't slip when the car isn't in drive and certainly not when the car is off so the ECU can reduce the logic needed to determine when to turn on that light. Instead of (car is on AND car is in drive AND power going to wheels AND wheel is slipping THEN turn on light) you can just reduce it down to (power going to wheels AND wheel is slipping THEN turn on light). This could would also cause the light to go on if the car was off while power was going to the wheels and the wheels were slipping but we know that case is impossible (engine can't send power if it's not on).

The High-Z is more of a "don't know" kind of input or output. It is an undetermined input that is neither true or false. We still care about it since it's not a "don't care" but we have no idea what it is. You could build a circuit to react to this state or have the circuit do nothing until it becomes true or false. You can also use this as an output of a circuit.
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I'm not afraid to hire people who challenge and ask great questions. I ask that question all the time. The interviewer should be involved with improving the hiring process, not following the cargo cult of "hiring process". Obviously if that question comes up more often, they might start asking "why are we doing X?" and "does X provide better outcomes?"
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libfmt's implementation of Grisu is what the original post (Formatting Floating Point Numbers) concerns, no?
They have @sentry/minimal as one of the 9 Javascript options : https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-javascript
Ignoring all the false assumptions you make about IQ, the couple of weeks I could have spent grinding LeetCode I instead spent applying and interviewing at other companies. Maybe I could have had 3 rather than 2 offers by the time I made my decision if I didn't ignore Company X, but I also might not have, as my focus on LC would have taken away focus from preparing for interviewing with companies who know how to hire engineers.

In my experience, a company using LC usually means that, if hired, 95% of your coworkers will be young 20-somethings fresh out of college. Generally, that is who has the time and lack of self-worth to put themselves through this process.

But the often-mocked LC interview wasn't as prevalent as I thought it would be. As a senior+ engineer I generally saw some system design whiteboarding and some take-homes, with a lot of engineer-run companies proudly proclaiming during the interview process that they don't interview that way. So I get it, LC is the standardized test for college grads entering the real world who have no professional experience to demonstrate. And that's fair, you gotta vet junior engineers somehow, I guess.

The one company that asked me straight-from-the-book LC-style puzzlers was an established SF-based startup that opened an office locally. Luckily it was a puzzler I had already watched someone solve on youtube and had memorized so thanks for testing nothing about my technical ability I guess.
It was an internal project for a large company so no.
I guess only Miller Puckette can provide an answer about the intention.

It also depends what we consider human readable: Does it mean that some or many or most humans can read it? It's a custom plain text format[0] that is perhaps a little bit less readable that HTML. I have been reading and writing Pd patches in textual representation (and I'm human). Not sure if that's an answer to the question.

I've seen a Scheme editor that does visual representation, slightly similar to Scratch, but can't remember the name of it.

AsciiDots is both visual and textual (although it's not two different syntaxes).

[0]: https://puredata.info/docs/developer/PdFileFormat

[1]: https://github.com/aaronjanse/asciidots
Actually it's the very definition of justice.

That's how justice was developed and has always worked since day one.

Aside from hearing God voices, we don't have any other.

It's just that in our days we pretend that we have some "specialists" discussing the finer points.

But something without the people behind it it's not justice, just like something without a power to enforce it it's not law.

When somebody says "What the majority considers justice is not justice" they really only say "My arbitrary idea of justice is better than other people's".

As a cultural thing, justice is only what the culture (shaped by the people) considers as such.

(One could only argue about what's more useful (utilitarianism) but that also needs a commonly defined desired outcome and a somewhat agreed upon utility function).
Commercial reactors are not a source of the materials used in weapons.

I suppose a significant commercial base makes refined uranium more available.
There’s no such thing as a tiny monopoly.
It’s a shame new ones can’t be built! New reactor designs are far more efficient and safe. There are designs you could leave unattended with no power indefinitely and they would never melt down

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612940/the-new-safer-nucl...

The problem is we can’t build them cost effectively. Toshiba had to sell it’s 18 billion memory chip business to cover the losses of its nuclear division.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-toshiba-accounting-westin...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-toshiba-accounting-westin...
That's a trick question. Trick questions are bad because they test interviewing skill and not programming skill.

It's a trick question because you want the interviewee to answer something different (I don't know) than what you're asking them to answer. Confident applicants might feel up to saying they don't know, but nervous people who are very self conscious in an interview setting may respond completely differently than they would if they were asked the same question on the job by the coffee machine. Their mind would be racing "oh no, I'll look so bad" and they'd go into full panic mode.

Don't ask trick questions. It's smug and useless. Plus you'll be missing out on great smart colleagues who happen to stress out about job interviews.
You would have to get a license, either from the NRC or from your state regulator (it is different in different states). Oregon is an NRC agreement state, so in Oregon it would be from the state.

Typically there is a person whose name is on the license, who is responsible for the proper use of the reactor. At an organization this could be the boss, owner, or RSO. In theory, as a private citizen you could get a license, as long as you can prove to the regulator that you have the experience and training to operate the reactor properly.

Of course, you would have to comply with all the rules and regulations. This could be quite burdensome for a private citizen, especially with the additional security rules added post 9/11 (assuming you are not a billionaire).

Edit: removed link to quantities of concern, sorry, rules are different for reactors.

Edit again: better link for security regs: https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/non-power.html
Permissive licenses give freedom to the developers who use code under that license. The developer is free to restrict the users' freedoms.

Copyleft licenses grant freedom to the users of software: a developer cannot restrict a user.
My understanding is that fixed-length conversion to string is more or less trivial, the tricky part is writing a fast algorithm to compute the shortest round-trippable conversion to string, correct?
> the MIT license gives you the freedom to make an awesome change to the free code you were given, and add it to your closed source application with no obligation to give those enhancements you made to the code to anyone else.

It's also the freedom to make zero changes to the free code you were given, reuse it in your closed source software, and pass it off as your own.

In a way, I feel like I should be a big enough person to be okay with this, but I'm not. The possibility bothers me.
How is this worthless scam still in business?
Look at 10 years chart. It's been going up consistently.
I think that’s just another way of saying “rhetoric matters more than logic”. Greek philosophy was obsessed with this argument — which I think is still relevant today. I think the definition of Utility Points and Virtue Points map directly to “points acquired through logic” and “points acquired through rhetoric”.

In a democracy, it’s obvious that rhetoric does matter. The masses will always be too uneducated (even if only contextually) to understand or care about the logic, thus rhetoric wins out. It was true for Socrates, and it’s true today. I think it’s pretty easy to see the same divisions in worldview present themselves around the world.
> A capitalist (ideas) economy requires a state enforcing copyright.

No. Copyright has nothing to do with capitalism. In a completely capitalistic system, there would be no intellectual "property".

If you read the founders of right libertarian (pure capitalist) thought, the whole system is based around freedom. And property is justified based on the fact that it's necessary for freedom. Intellectual "property" doesn't enhance freedom in any way, to the contrary.

Granted, Marx created the term 'capitalism' to refer to the private ownership, and he conveniently bonded that private ownership to for-profit operation. But there can be ownership that's not for profit, and libertarian theory considers owning things without operating them for profit a perfectly acceptable stance.

Marx doesn't say anything about copyright or intellectual property, as far as I know.
Exactly the same for me. For most personal creations, I seriously do not care at all what happens to it. I just don't want to be successfully sued over it.
heh?? most people have killed someone intentionally? That's a pretty bizarre/untrue statement.
Consider licenses like MPL (or arguably LGPL) which are a halfway house here. If someone uses your library, your code is copyleft, but the rest of the app may be something else.
In my experience (also interviewing hundreds of people) this is totally an urban (internet) legend. Not once has someone been able to talk intelligently and at length about a project they built and the underlying technology choices and then been unable to deliver. Once you gain experience building things yourself, it's pretty easy to suss out whether someone is any good just by talking to them. No coding tests needed.
> To me, that interaction illuminated the power of projection. When you (and people around you), suffer from something you deem "bad," of course you're going to assume that everyone suffers from it, especially those who you've lumped into the group as being stereotypically wrought with that trait. He was always talking about how implicitly racially biased we were, but he was speaking from his own experience. He knew he wasn't a bad person, and that he was open-minded, so of course everyone else, and especially "close-minded people" must be even worse. But I suspect his situation was similar to the preacher or politician that is extremely anti-gay, but actually turns out to be gay: you hate that outward thing because you hate it in yourself.

I have a different theory. I think that there's two flavors of racism: good-intentioned, and bad-intentioned.

Good-intentioned racism exists within (not saying everyone suffers from it) the "progressive" community, who are trying to improve the lot of minorities, with good intentions. If you actually happen to be technically racist, say, you actually believe x-colored people are genuinely not as competent - consciously you would explain this as being the result of lack of opportunity, but sub-consciously, you may believe (have somehow come to believe) there is a fundamental lesser competence. As a result, this person will always have a tendency to "take the side" of minorities in any external debate or internal thought process (forming an opinion on an issue).

So when this type of person encounters someone who is genuinely not racist, at all (consciously and subconsciously), which many people on the right happen to be, they will get a "sense" (which typically comes from heuristic processes running in their subconscious) that the person is racist. And in a relative sense, from the perspective of the viewer, they are racist, in that they do not favor x-colored people. The typical person doesn't think about life in terms of absolutes and relatives.

If you ask them to explain this knowledge, they will find they are unable to, but it is impossible for them to shake the feeling, because it is very strong and it not only feels real, it is real, to them - it is the remnants of evolution, which is a never ending process.
From the Open Source Definition[0]:

>The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

From the FSF's "What is free software?" page[1]:

>A free program must be available for commercial use, commercial development, and commercial distribution.

Licenses like CockroachDB's with restrictions on commercial use are "source available", which is a form of proprietary software.

[0] https://opensource.org/docs/osd

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html.en
The problem is that is bound by your regex implementation and how it handled overlaps the search strings :). Fwiw many places will just go the next step of - well implement the regex parsing then!

But this is a dev perspective though. Am assuming a scripting answer might be good if the candidate knows about the actual regex behavior for devops.
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Only tangentially related but: this kind of map is really a good use case for Wikidata and its query service, I think. For instance here's how to get something similar: https://w.wiki/4wz

Drawbacks: not all reactors are known and not all the data is currently here.

Advantages: took me 2 minutes to write, and the underlying data can be edited by anyone to keep it up to date.
People mentioning their experiences here should definitely mention what form they're taking. Magnesium oxide is pretty commonly sold but it doesn't get absorbed very well - to the point where I think it should not be sold at all. I've had good experience with chelated magnesium.
True, but the official deprecation was quite sudden, and anyone using at the time and who expected Apple to be open and sensible about their API direction was caught quite off guard.
This is great! I really wish we'd always create a single system image for both Docker and Physical/VM, preferably with minimal/no-init.

This is very useful when trying to create a basic datacenter specific distro/deployment, preferably Pixie bootable as well.
They moved from Apache2 (a permissive license) to a no-compete license basically.

Copyleft means the license leaves the right-to-copy for the user. But copyleft (AGPL, GPL, LGPL) means that you can't remove the copyleft itself even from the new parts, whereas permissive (Apache, MIT) means that you can.

edit: I mixed up weak copyleft and permissive :o
I always thought that the whole point of DevOps was to stop having dev and ops and just have engineers who can do it all from A to Z