skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On Prime minicomputers back in the 80's, there was a disk controller order to format a track. That's what broke it into sectors and put sector ID fields into each sector, in whatever way the disk controller wanted.

A read was in 3 parts parts: first do a seek over the right cylinder, then select a head, then read a sector. That least part read everything spinning by until it saw a sector with the correct sector ID.

Sectors were not in block order because if you read sector 1 then tried to read sector 2, it would have already spun past the head, meaning sequential sector reads would require a complete revolution of the disk.

So instead, sectors were interleaved with a skip. There were 9 sectors on a track, so the sector IDs might be written as: 0 3 6 1 4 7 2 5 8. You could read 3 sectors per disk revolution instead of 1.
> “I would have never discovered 99% of the music I listen to if I didn't use Spotify.”

Can you take a step back and recognize this is weird and pathological. Music recommendations should come from experience, people, multiple sources. If a for-profit platform interested in extracting as much money from you as they can (let alone minimize their costs paid to artists) is responsible for 99% of what you believe you are choosing to consume... something’s pretty wrong.

Imagine saying, I wouldn’t have discovered 99% of the foods I like if not for my Blue Apron subscription...
> Initial payload to/from moon seems a bit low as the line at the Moon end can only support 100 kg.

But on the Earth-side, it can support up to 2000kg! And launching from the Moon is cheaper, anyway, since it's a less massive object than the Earth, and there's no atmosphere to deal with.
Bret Victor seems badly miscategorized. He obviously cares more about people than code and validates his ideas with prototypes written in javascript. I would place him squarely in tribe 3.
According to the article:

> It’s programmed to shift between its two speeds at 43 mph, though the computer can be programmed to make the change at different points based on the route, topography, or the distance the driver hopes to cover before plugging in.

I wonder if that shift point has anything to do with the slower acceleration. I'd imagine it would make a small difference.

As for the top speed, I believe Tesla is limited to 155mph and the Taycan is reported to be limited at 161mph. So the Taycan is actually faster, but I'm not sure how much it matters since both are limited by the software.
No. The key to RSA is that it is relatively easy to find two primes and multiply them together. With the sum of three primes, there is no easy problem to be solved which will be harder for someone else.
Both of the parent's examples were in x86, intel and AT&T are only syntaxes for the same thing.
It's the Ayr version of Fyre Festival.
Yes true.
You might be able to get some money out of them, though
They could prosecute the organizers. I suspect it would be similar process as a protest.
Thanks for pointing this out, Peter.

I am going to spur my father and the attorney into action next week.

But I am still interested to hear your estimate.

GC filed when father was GC holder -> Nov 2017

Father becomes naturalized US citizen -> October 2018

Approximately when would I get my Green Card, do you think?

Also, can you picture any political scenario affecting my GC, either for worse or for better?

Thanks a lot. Appreciate this.
Yet the article says:
"Though the order is unprecedented in America"
I thought to myself. How do we know if these are 'secret' orders from the court. The companies are already under the spotlight and don't want to piss off the gov any more.

This sealing is outrageous and it steals our democracy.
The very definition of Kangaroo Court.

The fact that they messed up on the sealing is what is scary. How many times has this already happened and the public has no idea.

Welcome to our new third world court system.
For an ITAR violation no less.
DDG doesn't handle it correctly either (gives the same very-large answer as Google). I assume there's some sort of integer overflow going on somewhere. Wolfram Alpha does ok, though: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28%28-805387388120759...
Most people are makers and hackers.

The poet is a rarity.

I work in a golang shop and when I tell people that json and unions are hard to work with in GoLang because it's missing an essential part of the poem (the coproduct) I get blank stares. Not one person knows what I'm talking about.

I think of it as the next level. Everyone starts off as a maker or a hacker, then if or when you get really good you discover the poetry behind all of it. Most people don't ever get that good though. All they are concerned about is the next implementation detail
> They were apparently working on fixing these bugs for 10 days prior to Project zero.

That’s not what the Apple press release says. It says that it took them 10 days from when they learned about the bugs until they had “resolve[d] the issue” (fix implemented? released?).

Presumably Google contacted them sometime in between when Apple first learned about the bugs and when they finished fixing them.
That's a laughably unrealistic way to run a business, and I'm sure violates Apple's policies.
Well two differing conventions above are both for x86, so you can't "match x86".
It's likely related to the name that is more commonly spelled Goodnow.
This help page[1] claims you can go to Settings > Facial Recognition, but I don't have that option under Settings...

[1] https://www.facebook.com/help/www/187272841323203
They use Vitamin E in order to get the extremely potent THC levels. On some cartridges they get 90% + which is crazy considering the most potent Marijuana in Bud form is like 25%

Apparently that is what the main issue is that when Vitamin E vaporizes and then cools it changes form and may be harmful.

It didn't appear to be in the flavored Nicotine juices, only in the Marijuana concentrates.

Source:

https://www.health.ny.gov/press/releases/2019/2019-09-05_vap...

Products to avoid:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nysdoh/sets/72157710703391248/
I read Chiang's Exhalation [0] prompted by your question. So much story in so few (6505) words! Great use of a crafted universe to tell a story relevant to us. That's the beauty of sci-fi as I understand it. Worth the 30 minutes.

[0]: http://www.nightshadebooks.com/Downloads/Exhalation%20-%20Te...
Ex-CIA spy readies to publish book about undercover exploits without approval
I'm making a video series on DevOps interviews right now. I haven't seen the questions above much, but for non-technical 'warmup' questions I see these repeatedly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mIkRM7ytWc

Things like "what's your favorite software environment," "what tech hobbies have you played around with," "what's the most complicated infrastructure you've ever had to work with," "talk about a difficult outage that you were a part of diagnosing and fixing."

I guess I've chosen to stay technical, so I haven't seen a lot of the questions mentioned in the original article. They seem pretty like fairly easy behavioral questions to game, I'm not sure what the false positive vs. false negative ratio looks like there. Although I guess you can say that for any interview question.
I don't think I disagree with anything you said here, I just sorta see it from a different perspective.

I didn't mean "natural" as "default" or "as found in nature" - I meant it in the sense of a "natural right". Anarchy is the social and political system we start with, and government is a distortion placed upon it. Further, government's nature is to grow in scope and power over time. This growth leads to tyranny, and eventually, to rebellion.

Honestly, I'm not sure that a truly anarchic society is either possible or stable. I see it as an ideal, not something that I think is reasonable to see in my lifetime. To put it another way - I don't want to destroy the government, I want to shrink it to the point that people question the need for it and eventually just decide to stop pretending we have one.
Welcome to the cloud. They're asking for information stored on servers that you don't control or own. Pretty sure the same thing applies to a lot of cloud storage email. If the FBI wants all of your email and you have a Gmail account, are they going to subpoena it from you or from Google?

That's where part of the difference between cloud storage like Dropbox and spideroak show up.
The stores have a single (long, windy) path illuminated with arrows, plus pockets for each product area
EA might not care about making the best games possible, but they sure as hell did care about their employees when i worked there. When i worked there i think i was on crunch maybe 2 weeks out of the 5 years i was there. I worked with people who had been there for 10+ years and they sang praise for how people were handled internally.

I do however know there were a lot of people there who would basically force themselves into crunch mode for no reason, other than to perfect or try to add a specific feature. Even when they were heavily dissuaded by both management. I have a very specific memory of someone crunching for ~6 months to finish their little pet project only to completely burn out.

Also as far as i know when crunch was required, it required a bunch of approval, and we were paid extra during crunch time, and we were allowed to refuse to do crunch.
Same here. The only Chris Roberts game I've played was his last, Freelancer. I liked it enough to give him $60 for Star Citizen.

The only other space games I've tried are in the X series, but they focus heavily on economics instead of flight and combat.
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Please do that and get investors to fund you for a long period of time.
Isn't that what a whiteboard interview is? Proving you can do things without google or else you aren't a proper engineer? (For the record I disdain whiteboard interviews as the accepted metric for testing one's ability)
That's definitely the hard part of switching to Bayesian methods. But the problem doesn't go away if you use p values, it just gets ignored.

Typically people doing research have prior information about what they are researching. E.g. previous studies have found effect sizes to be in some interval.

You can fallback on an uninformative prior or other tricks if you really want to model the idea that you know literally nothing about what you're researching. But that should be very rare.
It's incredibly unlikely that there's anything left that would let us deduce this man's lineage. Given what we know it's dramatically more likely that the aboriginals are related to him than any other group of people.

What I assume you're asking is if the aboriginals really have any right to claim the Mungo Man's remains. Regardless of family relations they disagree that these remains are "property of the scientific community". A lot of grave robbing has happened in the past in the name of archaeology and while these remains were on display at a museum that's not necessarily the most respectful way to treat these remains.
> With this setup, test coverage will be at 100% even though we did not test the case where the toaster is not plugged because it is too simple. Writing a test for this "functionality" would not be worth it. Therefore we explicitly exclude it from coverage. You should revisit this decision if it becomes more complex and needs to be tested.

This is ridiculous. He writes unreachable code and says he doesn't test it because it's "too simple". No, you're not testing it because you can't test it, because it's code that will NEVER run. Instead of deleting the pointless code he marks it as not needing test coverage.
Now you just need to train a NN to recognize raccoons. ;)

Also, it's kind of sad the level of "don't worry, I'm safe and responsible" disclaiming you need to do around here for this type of thing.
> Well, with Python, the compiler doesn't do type checking, so 100% coverage (or close) is very important.

Intuitively I agree with you: In my personal experience, the more dynamically typed a language is, the more unpleasant surprises I get at runtime.

Some years ago I did a project in MLTON [0], and I was delighted by how many bugs were caught at compile that that, in other languages, would likely go unnoticed until runtime.

[0] http://www.mlton.org/
Completely agree. If you're interested in giving insight into your own developer mind, I'm working on a social network to do just that[0]. The goal is to be the sweet spot between Twitter and a blog – short enough to jot down (as blogs take too much effort), and long enough to go beyond Twitter's character limit. And you get markdown!

It's very barebones MVP at the moment, but you can expect more features very soon. Open to feedback!

[0] https://devlog.at
> Nobody hanging out at the mall was lamenting the failure of society to provide anything

This sounds like Plato's Allegory of the Cave: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave
Facebook Introduces Dataset and Challenge to Counter DeepFakes
What's your intent with those apps? If it's it to hit the mass market, that's not looking great.
As I understand it, this gearbox type is key on Porche's intent to make it able to maintain performance over use rather than overheat, notably it improves acceleration and efficiency at high speed. I would expect the Taycan to use less energy to maintain 150mph.
If you can source materials in situ, this might be a useful way to create GEO platforms at lower cost than Earth launch.
You clearly haven't seen code at Google and its "base" library.
Did you even read the about the App he is trying to build? It's for fucking developers.
Hey all, this is a side project I’ve been working on and off that I recently decided to polish off. I initially built it to collect server stats but have since added a scripting engine so developers can write Lua scripts (V8-based JavaScript Service Workers coming soon) to operate on key-values with minimal latency. Would love to know what you guys think and if it’s at all useful to anyone :)
Being asked those questions in an interview is a highly synthetic situation with, in my opinion, very little diagnostic value. But my personal experience with hiring of managers, or indeed being a manager, is nil. So let's say it's a strong opinion weakly held.
> 1) You want to buy something illegal from me, I send you a play store link to an app that costs $800 and is a picture of a cat. You buy the app, I send you the illegal thing. If the feds find this out, and Alice and Bob and Carol also bought the app, don't you think that's probable cause?

You're skipping the part where the feds have demonstrated that the seller of an $800 cat picture is distributing illegal goods. That piece of evidence is the probably cause for getting the list of cat picture purchasers. The cost of the cat picture itself, without evidence of a crime, is not probably cause.

In this case, ICE does not have evidence of anyone committing a crime, or at least if they do they're not sharing it.

> 2) Someone eventually figures out that an app seemed to have one purpose, but is covertly child porn.

You mean, if you get past the first 400 pipes in flappy bird, and hit the 401st pipe, it shows child porn? Certainly throw the app maker in jail.

You mean, if you hit the 401st pipe and it brings up an interface to exchange child porn with other users? Certainly get a warrant for the data exchanged over that channel.

You mean, the app is Firefox for Android and it allows you to browse to childporn.example.com? No, that does not give you probably cause to get a list of all users of that app.

None of these possible interpretations of your comment (if I missed your actual meaning, please explain) apply to the app in question. The app does not appear to be in and of itself illegal, nor does it appear to facilitate criminal activity.

> 3) An app is found to be a private communication mechanism for a terrorist cell.

No. That's every email/chat app in the app market. Every single one of them.
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From what I've read, the AWD versions of the Model 3 (possibly others) actually do this (different ratios in the front and back). As the article says, Tesla had a hard time building a transmission that wouldn't tear itself apart under the torque of the electric motors.

So, they put the front and back motors at different ratios. The back motor is used at lower speeds, and the front motor kicks in at higher speeds.
Canada has a new program since last year which can get a tech worker in in a matter of weeks: https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/campa...

In general, imagine the opposite of US: you have a system where you can apply online for your permanent residence, without the need of a lawyer (I didn't use one), the time to finalize is 6 months to 1 year and during all the process you have a good idea of how long every step is going to take. And a score system where the more skilled you are the faster you get in.

All documentation is put online by the government in very clear writing.
Medium server went down to help up improve our tech-life balance.
Yes, definitely and reentry permits are easy to prepare and generally issued without issue. You just need to be physically present in the U.S. when you file and again when you renew (if you renew) and also you need to get fingerprinted in the U.S. after you file (usually within a few weeks of filing).
They use Vitamin E in order to get the extremely potent THC levels. On some cartridges they get 90% + which is crazy considering the most potent Marijuana in Bud form is like 25%

Apparently that is what the main issue is that when Vitamin E vaporizes and then cools it changes form and may be harmful.

It didn't appear to be in the flavored Nicotine juices, only in the Marijuana concentrates.

Source:

https://www.health.ny.gov/press/releases/2019/2019-09-05_vap....

Products to avoid:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nysdoh/sets/72157710703391248/

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I’m doing this as well. 7am-12pm for Deep focused work.

1pm-3pm for gym

3-5pm for reflection, thinking and writing.
This is used to really confuse me too, but now I can't remember why, because everything's the same:

touch <destination...>
$EDITOR <destination...>
mv <current...> <destination>
cp <current...> <destination>
scp <current...> <destination>
mount <current> <destination>

The place you're putting something is last in each case; we can even include everything that doesn't modify its location.

All I can think of that breaks the rule is `rm`, `unlink`, and `umount`. But they're hardly gotchas, and they're not reversing arguments they just don't have a 'destination'.
Can anyone figure out how to actually turn this off? After bouncing around in Facebook's help docs I found the steps[1] but don't see the option.

Click the down arrow at the top right, then Settings. There _should_ be a "Face Recognition" item in the left but not for me.

This is so frustrating and part of me thinks they just disable this for a bit so 90% of people forget.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/help/187272841323203
The tribes describe domains within programming devoid of external details. Security, UI and ads are external as these can be applicable on things outside of programming.
Came here to mention WindowGrid and WinNumpad Position.

WindowGrid: Drag window with left+right mouse buttons brings up a customizable grid. Release RMB to set first corner, and LMB to set opposite corner.

WinNumpad Position: Win key+Numpad key to snap window into corresponding position (eg- 7 for top left corner). Hit number multiple times to cycle through sizes.
https://pbrs.weebly.com/win-numpad-positioner.html

Both are basically abandoned, but they work well along side the built in Aero Snap features.

Other old alternatives that have various levels of functionality (and clearly inspired many of the tools posted in this thread):

GridMove (free): Used to be my go to, but hdpi scaling and the Modern UI window elements borked it. Based on AutoHotKey, but surprisingly responsive, extremely customizable (though not very user friendly). Would love to see this make a comeback.
http://www.dcmembers.com/jgpaiva/
https://github.com/jgpaiva/GridMove

MaxTo (paid): User friendly and pretty, but less useful since Aero Snap. Rarely updated, but alive. Nice if all you want is a slightly more control over the built in Aero Snap.
https://maxto.net/

AquaSnap (paid): Very similar to MaxTo, but more refined. Free personal version is limited to single display functions. Updated rarely, but alive.
https://www.nurgo-software.com/products/aquasnap

Windock (free): Crashes for me but works for some.
https://www.ivanyu.ca/#/windock/

Freesnap (free): Not maintained, but used to be great. Haven't tried it in a while, but thought it deserved mentioning.
https://mike-ward.net/freesnap/
And they totally will from most of their archives wink wink. Who is really capable of verifying this actually happens that doesn't also have a vested interest in Facebook?
There's no shortage of demands on your time. There's absolutely a shortage of true opportunities. This is because if someone manages to convince you that spending your time on their thing, then they benefit.

So everyone packages their demands as opportunities.
I've never used Bamboo, so maybe that's the solution, but I disagree with your comment otherwise. No one should ever need to SSH to the servers to deploy things, and I would prefer to keep the hand-rolling to a minimum. Is there an OSS solution that will take care of that? Maybe Nomad would work.
"but I would think that the scope of any AAA game would be such that assets and code were kept separate."

Sure, they are. In different files at a minimum, and likely within a separate directory tree in the overall project.

But not in a separate repository entirely!

Look at how the overall software industry is going towards monorepos. Not just (or even primarily) games, but software in general.
Here's a fun example from math which requires generalizing to get a good solution to.

Suppose you have a 2^n x 2^n sized courtyard. You have one 1x1 statue, and unlimited L pieces (2x2 with a corner missing).

You would like to have a layout which places the statue in one of the centermost tiles, and fill the rest with L pieces.

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Solution

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Define a layout function with allows for the empty tile to be in any corner. This is trivial for 2x2, as it's just an L peice.

By tiling these squares, you can solve for the next size up.
Put three with the hole in the center and fill in with an L piece to get the bigger square.

At the end, take 4 2^(n-1) squares and put the holes in the middle. Add one L and you are done.

What was the point of that?

By generalizing your solve function to have more outputs, it lets you build up a structure from it, in which it's easy to solve your actual goal.
WhatsApped father if USCIS knows he's a US citizen. He replied 5 min ago - "USCIS gave me citizenship and one of their officers gave me oath."(sic)
> If your App doesn't do something useful, unique or provide some form of lasting entertainment, [...] it may not be accepted.

> If your App looks like it was cobbled together in a few days, or you're trying to get your first practice App into the store to impress your friends, please brace yourself for rejection. We have lots of serious developers who don't want their quality Apps to be surrounded by amateur hour.

Are these from an alternate universe?

There are a lot of very shoddy apps in the App Store, enough that it can be hard to find decent ones for all the crap.
I'm continually surprised at how quickly non-technical problems come to dominate my time on a software project. E.g. my code doesn't work because two business stakeholders have slightly different, irreconcilable notions of what a "customer" is and it has to satisfy both.
I thought that number seemed low based on my previous memory. Thanks for clarifying :)
The GP's value is for 10% savings, the article says it saves 25% of the fuel, what means 750 tons extra, or 15 times as much payload.