skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These files were originally put on GitHub in the VirtualAGC repository [1] in 2015. The code was publicly released and digitized into these source files in 2009, through cooperation with the MIT Museum.

[1] https://github.com/virtualagc/virtualagc
> If the constraint is 4 hours, the manager can't expect nothing but 4h quality.

Yes, but how does the manager estimate that it indeed typically should take 4 hours when the numbers he gets are:

1. From his employees who work at that company, intimately familiar with the problem domain, tools and possibly came up with the problem statement in the first place and solved it in 4 hours after thinking about and working on it with no other distractions

2. From candidates self reporting the time it took to complete the problem severely undereporting the time it took them because they want to impress the employer?

Is 4 hours of focused, uninterrrupted time equal to 8 4 hours of unfocused, interrrupted time?

How does the manager discover the truth?
How to scale Python multiprocessing to a cluster with one line of code
If you can do the second factor, why bother with the password?
Not OP, but how about we start from far away and not assume education is necessary.

There is a strong correlation throughout human history between a discipline not being taken seriously and the same discipline growing by leaps and bounds. It is of course usually unintentionally or intentionally covered up by academics of various sorts. One major example is medicine - most of the ridiculously useful developments we got come from people experimenting and discovering without much formal constraints. Leonardo Da Vinci comes from a "guild of arts and medicine", the discovery of the nicotine patch came from the scientist almost killing himself with concentrated nicotine, incredible discoveries from WW1 till the end of WW2.

Just my 2c.
> that heat is being generated less efficiently than a purpose-built device.

“efficiency” is meaningless when heat is desired. if you pump 100W into a device, and it “wastes” all that power, you have successfully generated 100W of heat. only heat pumps can be more efficient.
with google everything is sunshine and rainbows until the moment you expect to get paid by google

then they will use every excuse not to pay you

1. suddenly you're frauding

... you fix that ...

2. suddenly you don't have proper paperwork

... you fix that ...

3. prove that you're a legal business

... you fix that ...

4. we found inconsistencies in your paperwork, we will hold the money until you prove to us that those inconsistencies are minor

... you fix that ...

5. your bank has refused our payment (bank then says they never even seen the money), please try a different bank

... you fix that ...

6. with so much time has passed, we will not send you the money right now and will bundle up the payment with the upcoming billing cycle

... you wait for that ...

7. GOTO 1
Notice that he said the discovery was unacceptable, not that having the debris was unacceptable.
Explorabl.es
Sounds like the TLS-SNI-01 challenge that had a fatal flaw in some circumstances: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/2018-01-09-issue-with-tl...
Global Commerce: Show Prices in Local Currencies via API = 30% Sales Lift
Hasn't Gates been driving Porsche forever ?

Plus when you have Gates' level of money you probably don't give a fuck about autopilot (which is tesla's only advantage) since you can hire as many drivers in rolls royce as you want.
In the most general case (and more commonly than it ever was) each app is just a rectangular area where it renders using gpu hardware with. This used to be how games rendered but now even shells and text editors are getting there. If one has to manage this case too then basically the only places one can copy from are in the compositor (images ie screenshots) or from apps. Even when text drawing is passed through the OS (or platform libs e.g GDI on windows) it’s difficult to imagine APIs where the OS would know what is “selected”, ie what should be passed to the clipboard.
Don't be swayed by anecdotes; all carriers are totally insecure.
Dogelang – A Python with Haskell Syntax
This is not true and just more political talking points. You're contributing to the problem you describe.
I think we already have the tools to do this, but there might be issues with fidelity.

First: Use AI to generate the text description of an image. http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/keller/publications/jair16.pdf
https://www.captionbot.ai/

Second: Use AI to generate an image from the text description. https://news.developer.nvidia.com/ai-model-can-generate-imag...
Why would the IRS have to sue? They're the IRS, they have the authority to levy backtax and if Facebook doesn't like it, _they_ get to sue.
Though they may be better off as a result of getting an H1-B, it's not clear that the system benefits them compared to other possible immigration methods.
Yes, think of OT as the device that connects sensors to actions: When this limit switch is tripped, that servo is activated. You may also want to know how many times each switch is activated, and the status of the servo, so the information gets sent over to IT for logging and display in a HMI.
VAT is charged on the consumer of the product. It is as the name says: a value-added tax. Let's look at an example of a physical good. Let's say the VAT rate is 25% and you buy a graphics card for €500. 25% is added as VAT which makes the total cost €625. Now you resell that graphics card for €1000 and have to add €250 as VAT. However, you get the €125 you paid when buying the product back (realistically you simply pay the government 250 - 125 = €125). Essentially, you added €500 to the value of the product and that's what you pay this tax on.

I assume (don't know for sure) that in the case of FB ads FB just adds on the VAT rate to the cost of ads and that is then paid to the government. In the EU VAT has to be paid to the country where the purchase originates from. So if a French company buys ads then France should get the VAT.
Pigeons have a "refresh rate" of around 100 frames per second. It is believed that a bunch of smaller animals and even insects have similar or faster visual processing time, though I'm not aware of specific numbers.
Won't the polycarbonate suffer UV degradation?
Not exactly a filesystem, but it doesn't work on SMB shares, which is an enormous pain in the ass. And I'm not even talking about concurrent access - just one user. I get that SMB file locking is a mess, but making it a hard fail by default was a big mistake IMO as most develoers using the library don't make special cases to allow this.
Numba: A High Performance Python JIT Compiler
I replaced the mish mash of bulbs in my house with all GE "Reveal HD" LED bulbs of different temperatures. Nothing super fancy, just name brand hardware store bulbs.

In the variety of old bulbs, the Feit ones in particular were causing issues with dimmers and also getting slightly discolored and buzzy. Only one had outright died, but seemed that more were on their way.

All the new GE ones have been great so far (only a year), but I'll let you know in 10 more years.

Refreshing all the lighting in the house with modern, matching, actual-dimmable LED bulbs (along with nice dimmer switches) has been a really nice ambiance upgrade.
The power button for my commentary or the power button for exclusionary immigration policy?
I have been looking at clean architecture and trying to apply it to a Unity game. My impression is that industry wisdom favours a lot less OOP and a lot less abstraction in their architectures (eg, Jonathan blows talks, hundreds of posts on Reddit), mostly for performance and velocity reasons.

Do these techniques apply to games, or are they the wrong tool for the jobs?
Did your friends learn to code?
A Mixed Approach for Building Extensible Parsers
Well, no. You simply tax their activities in other ways. Things like VAT and income taxes for employees etc.
Fixing UX Papercuts
I have been thinking about this for years! I think we need a new marketing term along with a independent organisation to push for a new LED Standards.

Let say it is called CLED,

And it requires the following features / spec before it could be called CLED. From PWM, Colour Correctness, Energy Efficiency, heat etc. The different between a low price light bulb and higher priced is relatively minimal , the difference in LEDs is massive. To be point they should not even be allowed into the market in the first place.
> ... I do want a map that works like a map - something I can explore and annotate.

You can do that with Google maps, if you're logged in. You can create a custom map, with multiple places marked, and with annotations. You get a URL for it. And looking at it later, you can zoom in as needed.
Related theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variability_hypothesis

I first heard of this when researching chess. Men rank ~200 ELO points higher than women at chess, which is a fairly significant amount. Men also seem to do better at several other non-physical competitions like Go, video games, and Jeopardy. Plus, the history of math and science is dominated by men at the top.

It seems like men are not smarter on average, but they do peak higher (and valley lower).
Here in Europe, we destroyed our forests more than a millennium ago. Since then, we are profiting economically from all the agricultural land that destruction created. It made us rich.

But we really don't like it when other people want to do the same!

Solution?

We should fill Europe again with thick forests. Not the groomed artificial woods we have now, that really only exist because we can sell the wood after 20 years. We should destroy all our agricultural land and convert it back to dark natural forests, full of large and dangerous animals. Why do we expect the Third World to have all the the economically useless forests?
I learned to stop worrying and love systemd
True, however they are worth the price. I used various brands of LED bulbs for a long time (such as Cree), basically whatever Home Depot was selling. The failure rate was extremely high. In 2017 I switched to Philips LED bulbs, and just last night the first one failed. Overall they are worth the extra up front cost, they'll save you money in the long run.
To Disrupt or Not to Disrupt?
Resistive heaters are very low efficiency when compared to heat pumps. How much more efficient depends on the climate you are in, of course. So, in net, they require more cooling in the summer, and the heat they provide in the winter is more expensive than the heat pump that you are likely to be using (in a home anyway).
Generating Diverse Synthetic Medical Image Data for Training Machine Learning
Retroactive: Run Aperture, iPhoto, or iTunes on macOS Catalina
"We don't know who's about to be President in a month" is a fairly uniquely urgent scenario that doesn't apply here, though.
Is that why Obama went 8 years without ending a single war?
My current display does include a lot more data.

It's also driven by a graphics card with more RAM than I had HDD space back in the day with a dedicated CPU that's also a whole lot faster than 133MHz.

Every piece of hardware is better but software has bloated up to remove those speed gains, except when it comes to things like AAA games where they're still pushing the envelope. That's the only place you can actually tell you've got hot new hardware, because they're the only ones caring enough about performance.
>> The "benefits" were forced upon you without your consent

> That's not how democracy works.

That's exactly how democracy works. Unfortunately, a democratic society is not inherently a just society. It's just a bit more stable than autocratic societies due to integrating periodic small revolutions in lieu of less frequent but more severe transfers of power. The better versions have certain protections for minorities, which makes them less democratic but more just.

Moving to another country isn't a solution. That other country (yes, even Somalia) will already be infested with its own form of protection racket, and anything you could do to defend yourself against governments and wannabe governments in some other country you could do equally well right where you are. Moreover, why should you be forced to move away from the place where you were born just because someone else has drawn some arbitrary borders on a map and thinks it's too much work to create the system they have in mind without forcing everyone in that area to participate? How does their inability to exclude you from whatever benefit they think they're creating suddenly become your problem?
SQLite is a brilliant lightweight database which is available everywhere. All mobile OSs support it and it's a breeze to run on even embedded Linux. I just wish web browsers would also support it and make webSQL a standard, it would make programming for the web so much easier.
There is clearly some sort of graft involved here. Some Sacremento official's sibling or spouse sits on the board for whatever company is building these.

If California is like other states, you get your little registration sticker in the mail, stick it on, and you are done for the year (or two). Paying $84 each year for someone to put the sticker on for me seems quite excessive.

Autonomous already have tracking systems built-in them. They call home so why bother with an additional tracking system, especially a state-run one? It can't even control the vehicle so you wouldn't be able to do anything important. The battery life on those can't be very long either so I'm sure it isn't reporting it's position very often. To run a system for managing autonomous cars and their routes, you need fine location and you need it often (i.e. the built-in tracker that runs off of a huge rechargeable battery).

Turn the license plate into a giant tamper-evident sticker if you're worried about theft, it could be designed to still show the plate number if someone tries to rip it off.

Spending over $1000 over a five year life of a car, per car, is a little much for a redundant tracking system, the convenience of changing the registration year for you, and the PRIVILEGE of running ads on the back of your car (making even more money off you). You could probably save money hiring someone to run all over the city putting yearly stickers on the fleet once a month.
The value of the ISA's as sold depend on the company success. The alignment is really the same...
I mostly encounter eastern pondhawks and Halloween pennants, which are medium-sized and typically easy to approach.
Politics Without Politicians
Yes, it is a rant. Yes, the examples are terrible and there are plenty of counter examples. Yet there is also some truth to what is being said.

There is clearly going to be added complexity to address what we expect of modern computers. It is going to have a negative performance impact. If it isn't carefully planned, it is going to have a negative impact on UX.

Yet there is also a reasonable expectations for things to improve. The extra overhead in hardware and software should, in most cases, be more than compensated by the increase in performance of hardware. The UX should improve as we learn from the past and adapt for the future.

In many cases, we do see tremendous improvements. When a limitation is treated as a problem that needs to be addressed, we have seen vast improvements in hardware and software performance. Arguably, the same applies to UX. (Arguably, because measuring UX is much more opinionated than quantitative.)

Yet so much of what we get is driven by other motivations. If inadquate consideration is given to performance or UX, then the experience will be degraded.
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Pick a web app that can render without JS. Then remove all JS and they will render 5x faster.

Some aspects of computers got better, sure. But the web is at an super shitty state. I mean were here posting on a website that has bare mininum design and features. Why is that? Twitter and reddit are absolutely horrible in terms of usability and performance. If you know that they could do better makes tham even worse. It is an attack on humanity. You can try to find excuses in unrelated things like noted, but that wont change anything.
People still use Citrix?
Advanced Concurrency Patterns in Go
Traditionally it's been true that you need SRAM for the entire packet, which also increases latency since you have to wait for the entire packet to arrive down the wire before retransmitting it. But modern switches are often cut-through to reduce latency and start transmitting as soon as they see enough of the headers to make a decision about where to send it. This also means that they can't checksum the entire packet, which was another nice feature with having it all in memory. So if it detects corruption towards the end of the incoming packet it's too late since the start has already been sent - most switches will typically stamp over the remaining contents and send garbage so it fails a CRC check on the receiver.

Which raises another point in relation to the 1500 MTU - all of the CRC checks in various protocols were designed around that number. Even the checksum in the TCP header stops being effective with larger frames, so you end up having to do checksums at the application level if you care about end to end data integrity.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tcpm-anumita-tcp-stro...
Three reasons digital transformation stalls
The administration's use of legal defensive measures is not itself illegal or prohibited by the Constitution.
This is really neat work. I'm curious to see if smaller and more portable versions of this can be made - obviously a prototype is always going to be bigger and be relatively limited. Now that the research has been surfaced, this appears easy enough to follow so it'd be neat to see how electronics enthusiasts run with it.
thanks for writing what I've been thinking for so long
Well the issue I ran into was that I wanted a SQLite db to have one writer and many readers. However, what I was seeing was that queries were failing because the DB was locked at the time of reading. The solution is to switch journaling mode to WAL[1].

However the particular platform I was developing for was an embedded system using the JFFS2 filesystem. JFFS2 doesn't support shared mmap, which is a feature SQLite needs for WAL.

So basically, it was big pain - I had to setup a tmpfs mount point where the WAL-enabled DB resided and then periodically sync it to flash.

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html
except deforestation is no longer a requirement for development and really hasn't been for 100 years. Look at Japan and South Korea (67.00% and 63.20% forestation respectively). Indonesia is already down to 46.46%. Go look at Brazil outside of the Amazon. Mostly deforested already for farmland and it hasn't really brought the country into the 1st world. Agrarian societies are a dead end for development.
it should work on nim source level as well: if there are any problems ,that's a bug,so please report it. (disclaimer: me & my partner also work on a bit more advanced commercial debugger environment which also targets nim, so I guess there are many kinds of efforts)
"only heat pumps can be more efficient"

Exactly. And if you have a whole house/apartment electric heating system it is very likely that it is in fact heat pump based. So you are better off using that for heat than the lights.

If your whole house/apartment heating system is gas or oil based, that will probably be even cheaper than the heat pump electric version.
I though cattle were more like 1/10.
A lot of brands in Sweden started advertising "no palm oil" a couple years ago. Now it seems they replaced it with shea oil in some cases. Is that any better?

I feel like the food industry is always in a race with ethics to find the cheapest process.
This. For anyone who doesn't see it, please check out the film The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013).
In a fast-paced world, walking is a 'radical' act, says Norwegian explorer
I'd say there are a load of reasons, all of which combine together to make it unbeatable:

* Simple to embed into you application (no setting up a separate database, &c).

* Fantastically backwards compatible

* Public domain (so easy to comply with the license)

* High quality: Reasonably fast, reasonably efficient, reasonable feature support.

The lack of any of these would add significant drag. It's difficult to imagine any other project catching up and displacing it at this point.
> You pay quite high prices to have such components developed.

Exactly!

I would be VERY happy if I got the software I needed for the hours quoted on take home assignments.

I heard about this last year from a co-worker and became so intrigued that I started to fill out some applications to really see if it was the truth!

It indeed is!

What confuses me is why are managers falling for it?

One hypothesis is that they have bad data - something I commented on elsewhere on this thread.
He's been shitting on bootcamps for a while. I want to say it's been at least three years since he first did so.
I don't even.. wow..

Talk about buying the election.

Are anyone going to be fooled by this?

Edit: does facebook and twitter require that you disclose any payments you get for posting?
Hi, the creator here,

Here is the video component used in this app with instructions on how it can be installed and used - https://github.com/lewhunt/react-video-looper

Feedback welcome! Thx.
If he was Russian, he wouldn't be running for president.
The “Core” Stability Myth
Are you implying that "Indians" are the worst aspect of "Americans"?
For what it's worth, I use "simple" for talking about the complexity of the thing, and "easy" for the user experience. Quite frequently easy things have to be complex because the cognitive load gets shifted into the machinery.

E.g., compared with a Model T, modern cars are much easier but much more complex because the car itself understands things like adjusting the ignition timing and safely getting the motor turning, things that a Model T user had to understand if they wanted to avoid getting a broken arm before they got out of the driveway: https://www.fordmodelt.net/how-to-drive-ford-model-t.htm
The tricky thing about protocols is that you have to be willing to follow them and deal with the consequences when you step off the normal path through the flowchart.

If the protocol says "(1) Check out tools before using them. (2) Check in tools when returning them. (3) Verify all tools checked out have been checked in before marking the job complete." that's one thing. Sending employees to training on how to do this and seeing daily clipboards by the tool room with initials might make you think the protocol is in use. And if there are supervisors making sure that the clipboard is full of initials at the end of the day, that can give you a nice warm fuzzy feeling.

The problem comes when supervisors want to 'look good' by having no deviations from the protocol. If people are post-dating their check-in or pre-dating their check-out, or checking stuff in that's still in use by a coworker, the protocol is less than useless.

When humans are tasked with following those protocols, they'll make human mistakes sometimes. If there are no mistakes that's not good, that's bad - it indicates the metrics are being fudged. I think any supervisor that fails to find a deviation from the protocol or who can't list an event when the protocol required action outside the norm does not look good.

Similar stuff applies to software development: If you're doing code reviews, or testing before check-in, or signing off on releases, and can't point to a time when the protocol said "nope, go back to the drawing board" you're not actually making your development safer you're making it a hassle.