skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are not accounting for the third option: cheating.

I think there's a major disconnect in candidates wanting to be treated respectfully and companies that offer take homes

I have a suspicion that companies that offer take homes expect the candidate to cheat in some way or the other and begin with assuming the worst.

... or they are simply going off the data that they have.

I think majority of the candidates cheat by simply severely under-reporting the time it took for them to complete the assignment.

99% of the take home offers I receive are "our candidates typically take 2 hours to complete this assignment".

These are not tests for basic coding proficiency.

These are tests to check if you can build a full stack application - backend AND frontend including a README, tests and majority of candidates are typically taking 2 hours to complete.

I can get a GraphQL/Express server up and running from a frequently used template I built, in 90 minutes will full support for Query, Mutation and Subscription.

Create new users, tasks, updates, votes?

Check Update users, tasks, updates, votes? Check

Get realtime notification of changes to users, tasks, updates, votes? Check

Apparently there are others who can not only do this but also implement a react frontend that puts the UI support for these as well in just 30 minutes more.

Either candidates are reusing templates they have built in previous projects and not reporting the time it took them to build the template when they report the time

Or, they are grossly under-reporting the time it took for them to complete the assignment.

We are doing this to ourselves. We should not deflect the blame.

If we feed garbage data to companies and then companies base their decisions off that, it's absolutely unfair to blame companies for not being realistic
Just yesterday I couldn't connect my laptop to a new classroom projector with a USB-C input. When I selected "Duplicate Display" it caused my whole system to hang unresponsive. Works fine in other rooms with HDMI to USB-C. I have no idea what is wrong.

My new iPhone XS doesn't connect to my car's bluetooth, while the 4 year old phone I replaced does. My wife's iPhone 8 does. I'm stuck using an audio cable like it's 2003 again.
I'm not here to pile on, I just want to understand why this point of view is so common. I have always felt incredibly blessed by my circumstances (straight white male). Would you really rather be some other gender and/or race? Do you truly believe it would make life easier?
The reason for the superstition is that it is true ...in the 70s when the latest in emission technologies was clogging the exhaust with platinum balls. Now-a-days converters are built intelligently & removing it just reduces performance by fucking up the O2 sensor readings unless you also dump a grand on a new ECU
Firefox releases Android app for its VPN service
Seems like push, pull works. At least for me. Web page, indeed, doesn't - can't create PR, can't review code, comment, merge, etc.
Sounds similar to replicators in the TV show "Startgate SG-1"
I can still remember some of the text displayed when booting up my family's Win95 beige box because stayed up so long. Now if I'm trying to read an error message when booting even a slow modern computer I have to take a video and step through it frame by frame.
Nim works very well with Emacs and Visual Studio Code at the very least, also Vim (from reports by others) - including debug support. What are you missing?
Illiteracy in India and Digital Weighing Scale: A Real Life Puzzle
> Most of the 1980-1995 cases could fit the entire datasets in CPU cache and be insanely fast.

They couldn't then. They had to fit it in RAM.

> Most things I query these days are in the gigabytes to terabytes range.

That still is in "fits in RAM on a typical PC" to "fits in SSD on a PC, fits in RAM on a server" range.

There's little excuse for the slowness of the current searching interfaces, even if your data is in gigabytes-to-terabytes. That's where the whole "a bunch of Unix tools on a single server will be an order of magnitude more efficient than your Hadoop cluster" articles came from.
The Bible as a Quest into God
Unix Toolbox (2008)
Philips bulbs are also at least twenty times more expensive, which is a lot of money for a light bulb.
How Laurene Powell Jobs Is Putting Her Wealth to Work
> Adoption? Standardization?

Working on that.

One of the goals of the PASETO project is to eliminate the use of JWT in modern standards, not to eliminate the standards that currently (but hopefully, temporarily) use JWT.
Things were getting pretty good for a bit with HDMI, but the USB-C, DisplayPort, HDMI mess is a real shitshow. Sure, I don't have to set IRQs on my ISA attached serial cards, but there are still plenty of things that are really unstable/broken.
Hijacking the comments. I have a project that would involve about 15+ smart Lightbulbs. Anyone would know any decent/cheaper alternative to the Phillips Hue bulbs?
My kid has required more effort than my PhD ever did. I enjoy it, but I can’t imagine having to do both.
That's not really grey goo, in the typical use of the term; that's just a novel agricultural pest.
Sure, it's unlikely given what we know about energy, but consider it a thought experiment about the propagation of externalities.

What other seemingly inconsequential machinations create systemic ripple effects? What forest are we missing for the trees?
Indeed it is; he looks into various shady aspects of the marine industry - rogue fisheries, shipping, waste dumping, slavery &c - a grim read by anyone's standards.

On a related, but lighter note, the memoirs of Max Hardberger (Marine repo man, more or less) is an excellent collection of sea stories of the "Improvised ingenuity and brazenness while under fire" kind. I believe it was called "Seized!"
I want better CLIs. The author's criticism is spot on when it comes to those. The CLI flag format should be specific to the shell not specific to the program.
I find teardowns like this fascinating. Especially in designs that are trying to do things as cheaply as possible.
At five times the cost, they had better be higher quality bulbs. $13 is pretty steep for a single bulb.
Do you remember using jumpers to select IRQ and IO ports on ISA cards, or for selecting master and slave mode on IDE drives?
The point of "privilege" is not that all white men have lives of luxury and pleasure, but that society is arranged so that people of type X get cut a certain amount of slack that non-X people don't get. Disabled white men certainly have their own struggles; disabled black men would have even more struggles.
Well, some MUMPS implementations had adverse limitations, but there were also others, and companies like Intersystems managed to gradually expand and continue using the technology successfully. What becaume know as "NoSQL" was already available in MUMPS 40 years earlier. MUMPS as a language has many disadvantages, but the concepts are still amazing today.
It’s not like these bulbs are flickering in a way you can perceive just by slowing it down by 2/3/4x. They’re flickering at 10000+ Hz. The reason cameras perceive the flicker is that they take discrete samples, with an (electronic or optical) shutter in between. This creates a beat frequency with things that also flicker, in effect “tuning into” a HF flicker and “lowering it” into the visible range, the same way a superheterodyne radio tunes into a HF carrier wave and brings it down into the audible range.
Gimp doesn't properly remove image data when an alpha channel is supported
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted. It seems like a good point. Large swathes of Uber, especially people with power, seemed ok with all sorts of ethical failings. I'd really love to know how many of those people kept their jobs.

Of course, large companies often treat major failings as PR problems. So instead of cleaning house or making other big changes, they do the minimum necessary until the heat is off. A classic in the genre is Jack Dorsey, who is extremely good at sounding sincere and contrite, promising to listen and improve until attention is elsewhere.
When networks were new, computers connected to each other using a shared trunk that you physically drilled into. It's a non-trivial problem to send data over a shared channel; it's very easy for two systems to clobber each other. A primitive, but somewhat effective mechanism is ALOHA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALOHAnet), where multiple senders randomly try to send their message to a single receiver. The single receiver then repeats back any messages it successfully receives. In that way the sender is able to confirm its message got through -- an ack. After a certain amount of time with no ack, senders repeat their messages. As you can imagine, shorter packets are less likely to cause collisions.

Ethernet uses something similar, but is able to detect if someone else is using the wire, called carrier sense. A short packet of 1500 bytes reduced the likelihood of collisions.
It's not just Uber. There is an ethos around running companies that succeed at all costs. Getting big is their God and everything else can be sacraficed. They are level 4 leaders...long-term doesn't matter. Burying things is the norm; culture, values, compliance, the law...doesn't really matter, outside of HR marketing speak.

It's hard to be a good company when you can get away with being bad, so long as the metrics still show good.
Nim also works very well in vscode. Inline compiler errors as you edit, and so on.
Not a tutorial or authoritative resource of any kind, but remember you can always open your browser of choice (on the desktop), open the developer tools and start fiddling with the browser APIs interactively, on any page you like.
Check Ikea
Yes, for a good long while UIs were improving and the last few years I'm fighting most of my computers to stay as usable as they were a decade+ ago.

I blame the advent of the "mobile era" and the much smaller screens, and differing I/O capabilities, of mobile devices. And the fact that, at some point, everybody decided "we need one UI that is applied for both desktop and mobile, despite them being completely different types of devices." And now UI design is all muddled up and nobody can (or will) optimize for large screens, keyboards, and mice, because "not everybody has a large screen, a keyboard, and a mouse." But on mobile, the pull remains to keep a UI metaphor that is basically a slight variation of the WIMP interface that originated on desktop. In the end, nobody wins.
Zotero, the reference manager, is actually a good way to store website snapshots. It has one-click-to-save browser extensions, and it generally saves a snapshot of the web page along with any other saving method (e.g. downloading the PDF if you're on a page associated with a scientific article). It also saves the source URL as well. Now that I think about it, it might actually make a decent bookmark manager.
Roughly approximating exponential, but slowing down. And even then with a generational period of… well, of one generation.

Bacteria in the right conditions can do that in 30 minutes.

A hypothetical 1kg clanking replicator that eats moon rock and sunlight and replicates in 1 month would dismantle the moon in just over 6 years. Make it grey goo with a unit size of 1mg while keeping the replication time of a month and it takes 8 years to fully disassemble the moon.
>Web devs are obsessed with the fancy new frameworks that allow you to use even more JavaScript and somehow convince themselves that it's what users want.

Do they really convince themselves of this, or even care about users? Why would they care about anyone besides their employer, who only has an interest in profit, and doesn't care at all about users aside from how much profit they can extract from them?

>There is a strong aversion to simplicity.

Right, because simplicity doesn't generate profit. Simplicity is a web page that tells the user what they need to know, and no more. But that doesn't generate as much profit as having loads of JS which tracks the user so that information can be sold to marketers.

>But web devs want "new and interesting", users be damned. So we get huge kubernetes clusters

The other factor is skill development. Crafting a simple website with minimal JS doesn't look as good on your resume as working with the latest trendy tool, so having Docker and Kubernetes on your resume looks great for future job prospects, so devs have an incentive to use those things everyplace, even if it's just overly complicating the solution and making things slower.
Ah yes, on-prem software: where instead of having an outage and someone has to go fix it, you have an outage and _you_ have to go fix it.
We can if we ditch particles for fields as the fundamental building block.
This is anecdotal but when I was involved with an "Ultra Lounge" (upscale club) the owner had, on several occasions, individuals approach him wanting to buy a % of the club with cold hard cash.

I was there for one instance, 2 guys had asked him for a meeting to get some advice on opening a pizza place or something and wanted the input of a non-competing experienced business owner in the area so he agreed to meet with them and I was there so I sat in just to see if I could learn anything from the exchange. Like we're in some cheesy movie, these guys make small talk before one sets a briefcase on the table and opens it to reveal gobs of what appeared to be 10s and 20s and proceeded to tell him they actually wanted to buy a percentage of the club cash and he shut them right down and asked them to leave. After they left he told me he was approached multiple times in the first couple years of business with such offers. People wanting to dump a bunch of cash in his lap that, presumably, he would then trickle into the coffers via fictional sales as a way for them to launder some money via their cash infusion and potentially get far more back if the club remained successful. At the time I legitimately thought they were friends of his and he was pranking me or something, it was so absurd. I came to realize though that those selling drugs definitely love clubs as we'd have kids in their early 20s coming in 1-2 times a week and buying bottle service at 300$+ a bottle to impress friends/girls week after week with no realistic way of having that much disposable income.

This guy was super shady in general, and his shadiness is why we ultimately parted ways, but even that was too much for him.

It would not surprise me in the least if there was a market for this for bars and clubs that had "creative" income streams on the side. He would regularly have the bartenders pour house shots (An "IV" of OJ/shot of soda water/cheapest well vodka) for free for a group of people to get them to stay (often it was bridal parties) to make the club appear busy and doing stuff like that would certainly be a way to legitimately burn through some cheap liquor that you could ring up as premium-priced cocktails. I could see restaraunts that do free refills on drinks also being able to do this by ringing up some extra drink/burger/fries sales and fudging the numbers several percent, if not ten percent, to similarly sneak illicit money in.
The problem isn’t just ISOC [1]. Further, there were both petitions and RFCs that were completely ignored by both ISOC and ICANN. I was a major donor to ISOC and even attempted to question this and was completely ignored.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/registrars-raise...
Such destructive cleaning of house creates the wrong incentives. Most of the people involved would have lacked either the full story or the power to do anything about it. If it's a fireable offense to be near a big scandal, the rational response isn't to start fighting against the problems you see - it's to build a massive silo to minimize the number of problems you can see.
US Navy Orders AMD, Nvidia-Powered Supercomputer with 590TB of RAM
You're using some words that I do not know if I understand them correctly, but let me just say that I personally think of rights as something that is either given to you by someone or taken by force and the only rights you truly have are the ones you can personally defend with your own force, since the other ones can be taken from you at any time. If you think you should have rights that you cannot take with your own force, that is the definition of entitlement.
1 - YES
2 - NOT REALLY
3 - KINDA
4 - NAH
It works. The US has a remarkable ability to aim for the lowest common denominator -- in movies, in food, in technology -- and export that to the rest of the world. We're very good at finding things that are broadly appealing, and rewarding the people who create them.

Politics is no exception. The world watches us, and they take what works. None of it is ever really novel, but a lot of it lies fallow until somebody says, "Hey, we should try that again." And at first people may say, "You can't do that, because mumble mumble," but the reply is "I can't hear you over the sound of you losing."

Trolling your opponents is hardly new, but we've polished it off and discovered that it's a great way to bond a political party. They feel enthusiastic, and they go out and vote for more of it, while demoralizing your opponents -- who go out and try to make sense even harder, and fail worse, because it's the reason they lose in the first place. They remain baffled that people fall for cheap tricks, without ever accepting the reality that they do.
Understanding Walkable Density
An article like this get posted every so often and it is normally absolute trite.

When I was a kid I had a hand me down computer. Generally it took 20-30 minutes to load a game from cassette. There was no interchangeability between computer manufacturers. I had the choice of BASIC of Assembly to program in and the whole interface was BASIC.

Today I can load up a web browser in a second or two, transfer files between machines with ease (for the most part) and I can download in minutes any language I want to program in.
A Python fork bomb was my first major achievement in college. Four lines of code took out a server. I'd like to claim it was a great achievement in hacking but nope, just trying to grok concurrency and failing hard.
The most noble class in the US right now is "our tropps". Most people don't consider combat soldiers to be murderers.

War is what happens when two or more groups of people find no other way to resolve a conflict other than by killong the other party's people and destroying their belongings until they give in.

Murder is intentional killing of a person outside of acceptable and legal contexts (such as self defense).
You could with xfce. You still can with xfce though, it's just that most people use gnome or kde.
Did not find go in the examples, so here is how you do it:

for {

go main()

}
This is a major source of dissatisfaction for me as well. Especially latency related to keyboard input and program startup. Are there any resources out there specifically intended to help you speed up your (Mac) with these things?
Amazon Enters the Wearables Wars
>Doesn't really apply to EU. Bankers, lawyers, real estate agents, some doctors, etc are the (small-time) rich.

Lawyers aren't doing that great anymore thanks to so many people jumping on the bandwagon and I'd be very wary of AI not completely revolutionizing court anytime soon, considering most of it is rule evaluation. Regarding doctors, aside from dedicated specialists and dentists, they also aren't doing that hot given the effort and sacrifices they make. The other jobs are self-explanatory: they have a long history with money, so money should be the least of their problems. If anything, I'd wager a self-employed tech person working as a senior dev or a consultant will do much better than any of those at an earlier age, and self-employment as a tech person would be much easier than any of those (aside from maybe a lawyer?).
Aside from that, most of these people I'd generally consider upper-middle class. Moving to the upper class only seems to happen if you invest or become an entrepreneur / self-employed, and even then its unlikely. Most people in upper class were born in that state, raised with a huge advantage and require less effort to stay upper class than someone else getting into the upper class.
John Clarke is unfortunately no longer with us.

I did not know that. What a shame. These two did brilliant work together. "The Front Fell Off" was my introduction to them, and I have to say, I don't know if I've ever laughed that hard before, or since.
Most people are braindead, so I think better to upgrade democracy so either voters should pass some test if they aren't braindead or candidates should pass some tests or better both.
Becauase nowadays any retard that is popular in braindead circle can become president or smth.
> It says they responded to subpoenas for each entity.

It says that when a parent company agent was in possession of a warrant addressed to the parent company at the location of one of the fraudulent “Channel Partners” they were ordered to interact with law enforcement as if they were exclusively an agent of the “Channel Partner”.

Now, I suppose that could be argued to not be primarily intended to evade compliance with the warrant but instead to maintain the fraud of the independence of the “Channel Partners”, but either way it's a deliberate act in furtherance of a crime that could be separately prosecuted.
Fixing memory leaks in web applications
You shouldn't be trying to set anything besides Safari as your default browser in iOS: Apple doesn't want you to. Your desires are not important if you're using an iOS device, and you're thinking wrongly to be wanting to do anything differently. If you want to do things your own way, Apple products are simply not for you; they've made this abundantly clear for decades now.
We do have that kind of knowledge when it comes to thermodynamics and the limits of computation, though. And Newtonian physics was incomplete, not wrong.
Let's Encrypt Certificate into Java JKS
Google Cloud acquires mainframe migration service Cornerstone
I don't know about the bulbs, but commercial LED drivers from companies like Meanwell typically let you select a range between 100Hz and 1000Hz for the PWM frequency.
Interestingly, I can copy text from Pages to Word and the formatting is (somehow) preserved, even though this version of Word predates Pages by a few years.

Perhaps the clipboard contents are somehow tagged with their source so the destination can do something intelligent with its contents? This would potentially provide another way to lock down the clipboard: fishy photo filter can get access to an image on the clipboard (or maybe only images from certain sources), but not text.
Personally I would recommend Brother every time for a printer. They're not fancy but they are well built and don't require you to install a software suite. Roommate and I are still using the same laser printer from college. It's not wireless but if we really wanted to we could attach a pi and setup a printer pool but for now a long cable serves us just fine for the few times we need to print.
An old scout trick to get water out of the air is to use a plastic sheet to make a "solar still", moisture condenses on the underside of the sheet and is collected in a cup. The environment provides the energy and moisture.
It's the other way around for me. These planes, and Boeing, are under so much scrutiny I doubt that there will be any other plane in the world that will match it for safety.

I also noticed that the last several issues reported were all reported by Boeing and not by the FAA. I like that as well.