skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. There are plenty of websites which will let you grind away at FAANG interview questions. If you have a few weeks of time to waste on gaming this signal, you'll be coding self-balancing trees in your sleep... And have no issues with passing an interview for at least one of these firms. Depending on your current salary, this may be a much better ROI than your entire undergrad degree was.

2. Some of these firms occasionally host coaching sessions for referrals. Ask your friends if one is currently running.

3. "You don't need H1Bs, just lower your hiring bar" is a criticism that is a bit less applicable to firms with a high hiring bar, than to firms with a low hiring bar. If you are, in fact, talent-limited, an H1B will actually cost you more than a local worker. (Lawyers, immigration sponsorship, uncertainty in whether the visa will actually arrive, aren't cheap - and FAANG does not have a reputation for exploiting their H1B hires.)
Many people are salaried and won't get paid any additional money for working more hours at their job.
Oh, great! Thanks for the link. I had it on my to-do list to try something similar to what you did. Glad to learn from someone else's exploration.
My point still stands. If there's one thing people want to avoid empowering more than banks and governments, it's bitcoin wingnuts.
The parallels between Zen Buddhism and quantum anything has been striking to me lately. Not in every way, duh. But mainly "your classical concepts aren't going to work here" and "you nod your head, but you don't really get it yet." But perhaps the biggest parallel is that a lot of people, maybe most, get it way, way wrong starting out.
> let's take a trip down the street to the teriyaki place close to work. EVERY TAKEOUT MEAL THEY SERVE generates more garbage than my earphones

This is a superficial analysis of waste, because it only takes into account the finished product, not the production process.
Thank you, I'll update the file accordingly.

And I agree: once you have a directive for checking versions, knowing which goes where is pretty critical information. Maybe someone should remind them?
Propositional Logic Calculator
...and a fee for the 99% of sales you already had in the bag before your customer launched his search for a coupon code.
Foreign agents are always discussed because frankly, they are almost completely outside of the law. But what about non-foreign agents? Surely, they exist, and the ones that break the laws to get their way should be thrown in jail, but when do you ever see that?
Allowing trans women to compete against biological women ruins sports
Yes, I invested time but I took a tremendous amount of pleasure building it and I learned a lot in the process. Even if I made no money as a result, I think I would still have considered the project a success. Success because I am proud of what I did and it brings me happiness anyway just to have users (even free one)
Thank you for the quick response. I wish you the best of luck!
I didn't say no one should ever enjoy NYer style articles, only that the Register is better for getting everyone to the point where they can productively discuss the article. A flowery style no one will ever finish isn't as good for that.
KTRW: The Journey to Build a Debuggable iPhone
Have you tried mod_proxy_fcgi? Being able to have similar handling for fpm and other proxied appservers (eg ruby or python stuff) is quite handy.
>turn spheres inside out with no tearing during execution. Magic.

What does "turn spheres inside out" mean?

>with no tearing

Is this painful?
Both Sam and I are from Minnesota so we'd love to expand to MSP at some point :)

Our main focus right now is on people living in urban areas that don't own cars rather than on travel, which is a much more price-competitive market. That said, we're definitely not opposed to moving in that direction once we're a bit larger!
"Family problems, leaving school, bad boss, bad partner, spiteful interviewer, health/injury problems"

Ruthlessly competitive people are affected by all of those things. But because they're ruthlessly competitive, they usually won't allow those things to set them back.

Now, you don't have to be ruthlessly competitive, but you should at least be aware that other people are, so don't think they'll be set back by the same things that set you back.
> Each proposed fix breaks a substantial number of websites, and you're breaking tons of websites for something you know can be trivially bypassed from the get-go.

Which websites? Do you have specific examples?

If your website functionality is critically dependent on manipulating my clipboard in ways I can neither predict nor expect, then I'd argue your website is broken by design and should be burned to the ground and rebuilt from scratch.

The only legitimate use of this I can think of is a "click here to copy this text to your clipboard" type of button, and I'd hardly count that as a critical feature (hell, more often than not it just gets in the way).
> I have looked, quite a bit. I have not found a good use case yet

I'm always surprised that intelligent and knowledgeable people claim this. You haven't even found a single use case?

You don't think buying a VPN anonymously is a good use case? Or see the need for uncensorable donations? (Remember how the U.S. shut down Wikileak's PayPal donations when they exposed their war crimes?) Or that cryptocurrencies allow businesses to accept payments digitally, without the risk of their payment processor or bank completely ruining them? (PayPal horror stories swarm the internet.) Or how people in collapsing economies, like Venezuela with ridiculous inflation, can use them to cross the borders with their wealth somewhat intact?

And it's always dismissed with the same lazy arguments like "volatility" or "nobody uses it". Those are real issues for sure, but they don't invalidate the use cases.
Same here. Multiple iterations of the same product and every one of them broke. While it was nice that a few of them were replaced under warranty by FitBit, the fact that every one of them needed to be replaced is asinine.
Read up on Taylorism / "scientific management" - some industries, particularly ones with assembly lines, have had A LOT of detailed research done, down to the level of "it takes 1.27s to tighten this bolt".
Hmm.

Each destroyer and frigate has 8 Harpoon anti-ship missiles, for a total of 152 ships down. The 4.5" gun (http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNBR_45-55_mk8.php) probably doesn't have the heft to penetrate the armor, although you probably wouldn't want to be in the superstructure of a 1918 era ship.

According to https://www.naval-encyclopedia.com/ww1/royal-navy-1914, in 1914 the RN had 82 battleships (pre-dreadnoughts, dreadnoughts, and battlecruisers (dammit, those are cruisers, not battleships)), 136 cruisers of various flavors, 142 destroyers, and 80 torpedo boats. (The WW1 RN has a significant advantage in torpedo numbers, anyway.) During the war, they built 21 battleships, 32 cruisers, and 232 destroyers. (And I am too lazy to add up the losses.)

So on the theory that 1918 battleships and cruisers are immune to 4.5" guns and that if you throw enough shells at something, you'll eventually kill it, in the surface warfare front, I'm going out on a limb and give 1918 the nod. The modern Royal Navy doesn't really look like it's set up to take on a large surface fleet.

On the other hand 2019 has the Queen Elizabeth with 24-36 F-35Bs and 14 helicopters. Each can carry, say, 6 AGM-158 air-to-surface cruise missiles, for another 216 hits assuming that 1000lb warhead can penetrate armor. I'm sure they'll figure something out. (Worst case, they use the helicopters to ferry marines over and take the ships the olde-fashionede way.)

We won't talk about WW1-era aircraft carriers (or planes for that matter).

Submarine-wise, 1918 had 80 + 156 submarines, including the M class "sub-cruisers". (If you mounted that 12" gun on something modern, we could talk armor penetration.) Unfortunately, most of the 2019 RN helicopters and surface ships are built around submarine-killing and 1918 submarines aren't going to make too difficult targets.

2019 has 4 ballistic missile submarines, each with 4 torpedo tubes (but no indication of how many torpedoes, thank you Wikipedia) and 16 missile tubes, and 6 fleet submarines, with 6 tubes and up to 30-38 torpedoes.

Approximately 300 torpedoes would be a problem for the 1918 fleet. (But it would likely take more than one torpedo to sink a battleship.) However, consider that fleet command and control is a big problem in 1918; they're passing orders with signal flags and lights and attacking in battle lines with a thousand yards or so between ships. With them bunched up like that, those ballistic nuclear missiles begin to get appealing, and 2019 has plenty of 100-500 kiloton warheads to throw around.

Overall, yeah, 2019 has an extreme edge.
Thanks for the link. Incidentally I have that same talk bookmarked. Though for the record, I have needed to render thousands of dom elements per second :)
Does the REPL on Windows have all the features and niceties and quality of life of the REPL on bash or other OSes?

If so (which isn't), then we can start suggesting new features, perhaps better text editing capabilities, or introspection, better access to documentation.
What's with the intertial scrolling on these fancy pages? It's so frustrating lol
Their main problem is they don't properly go to sleep when you put them in the case. They'll often keep reconnecting. If they don't disconnect, they don't charge. Sometimes they spontaneously reconnect in the middle of the night and end up dead in the morning when you go to use them. It's incredibly frustrating.
This isn’t correct. Their devices track sleep (amongst other things beyond heart rate), which IMO is the #1 killer app.

I have a Versa 2. They support Pandora.

I have not tried the subscription yet but plan to.

I definitely would like more innovation too, but IMO it’s still the best in class. I switched from the Band after MS discontinued. I had (and returned) an Apple Watch because of lack of good sleep tracking.
It's hard to answer your question without giving a course in QM, but this is a good place to share a pet peeve about this. For some deeply unfortunate reason, "amplitude" can refer to:

(1) The (complex) coefficient of a component of a state vector.

(2) If we treat that number c as re^(iθ), then r is sometimes called c's "amplitude" (though it's more often called the "norm" or the "modulus").

(3) Some authors even use it to refer to θ ("The argument is sometimes also known as the phase or, more rarely and more confusingly, the amplitude" [1])

Luckily, in quantum mechanics, they almost always mean (1). That's the usage here.

[1] http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ComplexArgument.html
> the economic activity, largely untraceable

This chestnut gets trotted out pretty regularly. We have a case posted here just a week or two ago of someone finally having a good enough reason to trace a bunch of transactions, find the culprits, and arrest them.

These are not untraceable.
Working out: If possible I highly advise finding a workout partner. I lift weights with a (now-ex) co-worker, and it makes the workout significantly more enjoyable, and provides motivation to keep me going, even on days he can't make it (don't want to fall behind!).

Alternatively, consider a class. A dance class can be great for both 1 & 7 (note: don't be that guy who hits on every woman in your class, no one likes that guy), but it could be anything, martial arts, gymnastics/ninja warrior, racketball, etc.
Show HN: Configurable Website Banner Announcements
"CRUD" apps not at scale definitely have their challenges too. Resolving UI/UX/Requirements and pleasing different types of customers with one interface isn't easy.
I use these (don't know why it says "Apple"; mine just use a headphone jack): https://www.bose.com/en_us/products/headphones/earphones/qui...

Sleeping on my side isn't 100% ideal but they don't prevent it, for me. My biggest problem is turning over in the night and getting tangled up in the cord, then waking up slightly when I try to adjust it.
And in the case of building 7, those people are our own government.

Edit: naturally, the hackernews crowd ignores actual science which clearly demonstrates fire could not have been the cause: http://ine.uaf.edu/wtc7

Downvote away, losers.
Apple Reveals $250 Noise-Canceling AirPods Pro
Yes to bring the car too me! And pick it up too! This is a pain and a problem worth solving (in that people would pay for this). I rented a car last weekend to use on Saturday where I was leaving at 7am. I had to pick up the car Friday because the rental place is closed at 7am Saturday and spend 20 min finding a spot. Then had to spend another 15 min finding a spot on Saturday night, and they were of course closed by the time I got back at 9pm. Then Sunday returning the car I had to essentially park in the middle of the street blocking a lane of traffic along with about 10 other rental cars waiting for them to open at noon. At noon a rental employee comes out and starts yelling and essentially tells you to leave the car in the middle of the street and that you are good to go. I guess that was the good part.

Haven't tried Zip car. Too many NYC Zip car reviews of dirty cars left w/ empty pizza boxes etc and wouldn't want to be in such a small car in a highway in upstate NY.
My first guess is that this is about data. Fitbit collects a lot of GPS tracks that may be useful for mapping purposes.
Since you bring up naming, man/unmanned really needs to be dropped for crewed/uncrewed. NASA technically adopted this in 2006, but they still mess it up. Here's more info on their terminology, as well as other options you brought up:

https://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/100509...
Hagen's _IPv6 Essentials_ covers the basics, Coffeen's _IPv6 Address Planning_ shows the amazing things you can do with IPv6.
I'm curious, if people in China or North Korea would use it to evade some of their unjust laws, would you still dismiss it as "just for crime" too?
Learning that Scott Aaronson is collaborating with smbc comics makes me feel like people are having fun at parties I'm not invited to.
It’s all DSP tricks. They can take you pretty far down in receiving signals with bad SNR, but they have limits. The issues here are physics limitations. IEMs are not like subwoofers. They’re more like if your head was inside the enclosure. Porting the enclosure kills some useful resonances. Small drivers need these resonances to make low frequencies because the diameter is simply not large enough.

If you want the quick n dirties about this stuff you can check out IEM design guidelines. They're pretty shoddy and not rigorous, but serve as a decent diving off point.

https://www.sonion.com/wp-content/uploads/Documentation_Desi...

https://www.digikey.com/en/supplier-centers/k/knowles
As someone with some amount of influence over the direction of Excel, I'd love to sit down with you to better understand this scenario better. Would you mind if I contacted you off-HN? My contact info is in my profile. Thx!
(Outside of the USA) On Poloniex you can short USDT vs. USDC (USDC is the non-sketchy version of Tether) and make your riches. If you put your money where your mouth is! https://poloniex.com/marginTrading#usdc_usdt
I can't help but laugh. Make the slightest mention of statistics broken down by race, and the same publication that is despairing of how people no longer trust statistics, would be finding innumerable reasons why those statistics are invalid.
I love a happy ending!

(Especially when many of my compiling-from-source experiences resemble what the author was anticipating)
Dotcom Bust Nearly Killed This SV Publisher, So It Reinvented Its Business Model
I've been reading SMBC for a few years now, and never thought to click it...

thank you! I have so much catching up to do :)
>Lispers need to stop thinking that they are the only ones who can do "macros" and "DSLs". The evidence is clearly on the contrarian side.

We know that one can do "macros" in many other languages including of course TCL. The question is how difficult is to do them and how easy is to have control over there. Lisps, due to code being s-expressions, make macro creation extremely easy, and Common Lisp has useful tools to ease working with macros, for example macroexpand, which is integrated into most Lisp IDEs to easily visualize, in-place within the code, how a macro will expand into, step by step.

In comparison to that, most languages that do allow macros, make it a cumbersome, buggy task.
It's a whole lot more complex to run a build script like this than a simple call to a C compiler, and has many more dependencies: you even need bash installed, and it looks like the script would fail if the kernel isn't compiled with selinux support... The script itself isn't that compilcated, but complicated enough that I didn't want to spend too much time reading it.

Moreover, you cannot compare cloning a git repository with downloading a single c source file...
This seems equivalent in complexity to the good old "git clone; ./configure; make"
My guess is it is unfortunately the bluetooth stack on the phone. I also have a pixel3a and it's great.
My boss at Logo Computer Systems, Brian Silverman, produced a custom version of Logo with Life Game instructions included (implemented in 6502 asm for //e). This was never marketed.
ty both!
An amplitude is kind of like a probability. I guess it's called an amplitude because it's used in complex quantum wave equations. But the rule to get a probability from an amplitude is basically that you square its absolute value, which gives you a positive real number.
About a decade ago now, I was writing a group chat system of the Slack/Discord variety, and I was pondering how I'd like to support markup. I wanted to do something more powerful than just the regular "bold/emphasis/strikeout/links/etc." set, as the users of this group-chat were the type who would enjoy adding animations and other "effects" to their text, especially on top of their custom emoticons/stickers. (Don't fret, this wasn't team-productivity software ;)

What I ended up doing was extending the backend with support for parsing messages using a "command language"—essentially Tcl. The "everything is a string" feature of Tcl-like languages was essential, because I wanted these "commands" to be arbitrarily composable, and both the input and output were required to be strings (i.e. HTML), so commands couldn't pass data-structures to one-another; they had to accept strings, and emit strings.

The user was not allowed to enter arbitrary HTML in their message (this was filtered out as a pre-filtering step), but any Tcl command was allowed to take HTML-strings as input and emit HTML-strings as output, and the string that was eventually generated, HTML and all, was treated as the user's actual message. Many of the implemented commands would parse the input HTML-string into an AST, tweak it somehow, and then re-emit it as a string.

An example of such a command would be something like:

And then [spoiler the protagonist died [rotate 5 [big :ohno:]]]

...where 'rotate' and 'big' layer together CSS effects (combining CSS classes with a bit of custom element style to parameterize it, with each rewriting the HTML AST structure of the previous to ensure the CSS effects "stack" correctly); and 'spoiler' is just a CSS class with pseudo-selector behaviors.

Another example would be:

[type oh nooo[sfx fall]oooooooo]

...which would use a CSS class+JS trigger to display the message one character at a time the first time it became viewport-visible... and embed a hidden <audio> element at the top of the message body, that would get triggered as the typing progressed to it. Sort of like the dialogue event-scripting in a video game.

And, of course, just like an IRC bot, you could rely on the backend being Turing complete, in ways like:

# generate random numbers
[roll 1d6]

# set a countdown timer on a user,
# resetting it whenever the user talks
[deadmanswitch 5mins I'm slacking off again!]

# get the backend to (use a job queue to)
# fetch a resource, plop it into its own download folder,
# and then post a link to the retrieved copy
[dl http://example.com]

# same, but also create a BitTorrent torrent for
# the file, register it with a BT tracker on
# the backend, and then emit the URL of the torrent file
[torrent [dl http://example.com]]

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At this point, I don't really think there's much room for a new group chat system; but this one feature was really cool to me, and I always wish I had seen it implemented in some bigger product.
> I am curious to see if any of the reviews hints at this.

I think it's probably too individual to go by a review, even if it's addressed. This is the kind of thing the return policy is for, though I realize the convenience of this might not be good enough depending on where you live.
You forgot to mention that "Bor" was inspired by USAF program X-20 Dyno-Soar.
This quote was seen on Richard Feynman's blackboard at the time of his death.
There's also a humorous image caption that on mobile you can bring up by tapping the picture.
>Yet UNIX pipes are strings and amazingly popular.

It is still outdated design, right from the 60s. Already in the 70s we had better, interchangeable data structures, like s-expressions for example.
Ha ha - his blog tagline is "If you take just one piece of information from this blog:
Quantum computers would not solve hard search problems
instantaneously by simply trying all the possible solutions at once."
And it's not just the qualifications -- Scott Aaronson is one of the most approachable, honest, and witty science communicators of all time. You almost never see all those traits all together in popsci, even ignoring qualifications.

If there was a Scott Aaronson tier communicator for every subfield of science, the world would be a much better place. I also wouldn't have to type nearly as many comments.
I like them quite a bit, haven't run into any issues like that. I use them with my phone 95% of the time so switching devices isn't a big deal for me.

The airpods do provide a better experience when it comes to connecting and switching between devices (at least apple devices).
Figma feels like the height of over-engineered backends with corresponding low-innovation frontends.