skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Meanwhile I’m very good at competitive programming

Not to burst your bubble, but you aren't. You are very good when you get it right. You aren't when you don't get it right. But then you are leaving out that part because nobody likes to focus on the negatives. Consider this - at some point of your life, you didn't know competitive programming. Were you 100% un-hireable at that point ? Most likely, you would have done perfectly fine if you were hired without all this ceremony. That's what people are frustrated with.

People dismiss college credentials as elitist gatekeeping, When you create entire artificial domains out of whole cloth, like "competitive programming", that's gatekeeping on steroids. Because that whole domain is artificial, I can stuff anything into it. The surface area of that domain is practically infinite. Forsure there's some patch where you'd under-perform. And I reckon the area of that patch is quite large. You just haven't found it yet.
Then, the conclusion can be that dynamic languages don't suffer from the expression problem.
Well, I could certainly see in a city where a driver unloads a palette of vehicular drones at an office building which then distribute themselves.

However, this is likely another one of those "the exceptions are the norm" problems where the exceptional cases (long packages, unusual elevators, etc.) happen so often that it's just better to keep a human in the loop.
> It's a shame how our industry is the only highly-paid professional industry where this kind of sophomoric "intellectual hazing" is not only accepted, but also encouraged. I mean, hell, I have like three books on my bookshelf not about how to write good code, or scalable code, or performant code, but merely about how to pass interviews. Yuck.

I don't think it's hazing so much as it is a test, and we're definitely not the only profession that has tests. I'm sure medical professionals and lawyers might have books on their shelves on how to pass the MCAT, LSAT, or Bar exam.

If anything, we've maybe not matured as a field enough to have an actual standardized test for this kind of stuff, which would maybe make things better. But that's doubling-down on the "test-y" nature of coding interviews.
ZoomInfo surges 100% on its first day of trading
Kind of a poor soul with lots of money, i think you are on the point here.
I'm wondering where the raw video from the helicopter came from originally. My guess is that this isn't something you can do with an SDR and hobbyist equipment, but I would love to be proven wrong.
I think the GP's point is that since it's an election year, "Mitch" will eventually give in. Mitch McConnell is many things, but I wouldn't count "stupidity" among them. And although his personal seat is quite safe, he clearly wants his party to stay in power.

I'm actually more concerned about what happens if Biden wins in November, and the Republicans feel incentivized to let the economy crash and burn.
I’ve used react-virtualized to render hundreds of thousands of rows, it’s a great library. React-window from the same developer is also worth checking out if you don’t want all the bells and whistles.
Command-line tools where you glue byte streams are, in spirit, very much like web scraping. Sure, tools can be good or bad, but by design you are going to have ad-hoc input/output formats, and for some tools this is interleaved with presentation/visual stuff (colors, alignment, headers, whitespaces, etc.).

In a way web apps are then more alike standard unix stuff, where you parse whatever output you get, hoping that it has enough usable structure to do an acceptable job.

The most reusable web apps are those that offer an API, with JSON/XML data formats where you can easily automate your work, and connect them together.
I want to experience media in the format and order in which the creator of the media wants it to be watched. The episodic content that I watch, I watch because I have faith in the creators of it that the next one will be of the same calibre as the previous. Not faith in the publishers. 99% of the time, this is in the order or is released. There are exceptions, which is why we have the concept of creator-defined playlists. To present the content to the user in an order which is not defined by the creator is at the publisher's discretion, and the publisher should therefore take responsibility for presenting it that way.

WRT conflating aggregators and creators, any decision the publisher makes, they should take responsibility for, such as promoting some content and hiding others.
Both of the movies The Big Short and Too Big To Fail have a moment where they're watching people come out of a subway or walk down the street, and say something like, "They don't have any idea what's about to hit them."

It sort of feels like that now. Lots of normality still. There is definitely something not right about the stock market not feeling the impact of millions of unemployed and more than half of retail stores missing rent payments.

Maybe there's macroeconomic explanations involving credit and the Fed. Maybe the stock market is in fact disconnected from the general economy as a whole, and is really just a plaything for giant corporations and the 1%. Maybe it's not as bad as it seems. Maybe everyone's betting on a V shaped recovery after the virus fades. But as we saw during the financial crisis, everything seems fine until it isn't - then things go pear shaped in a hurry.
Unix pipes are the a 1970's construct, the same way bell bottom pants are. It's a construct that doesn't take into account the problems and scale of today's computing. Unicode? Hope your pipes process it fine. Video buffers? High perf? Fuggetaboutit. Piping the output of ls to idk what? Nice, I'll put it on the fridge.
Changes to how TypeScript type definitions are managed
Predicting the Price of Bitcoin, Intro to LSTM
I don't see a contradiction. The fund will be dedicated to companies founded by PoC, but with a specific focus African Americans and Latinos in the US because by most metrics those groups are more systemically disadvantaged than others (not exhaustively of course, native americans still probably face the biggest obstacles)
Serialized bytestreams do compose better than graphical applications. But that is setting a very low bar. For example, allowing passing around dicts/maps/json (and possibly other data structures) would already be a massive improvement. You know what might be even better — passing around objects you could interact with by passing messages (gasp! cue, Alan Kay).

While posix and streams are nice (if you squint, files look like a poor man’s version of objects imposed on top of bytestreams), it’s about time we moved on to better things, and not lose sight of the bigger picture.
I wondered about that. Hard to imagine any other useful (because lack of quality) use for these. Will they sue, or embed some new firmware with EURION and wireless whatever uplink?
It claimed that they significantly increased the chances of death.
I'm curious if they have a farm of iPhones somewhere to host this off of. They are sending the iMessages from phone numbers -- not email addresses, which means they didn't just get a bunch of Mac Minis and do it the (probably easier) way.

Jailbroken iPhones where you can automate the UI and (maybe?) access any private Messaging API Apple left laying around would make this scalable though.
I still take most of my notes in Google Keep. I can type faster than I can write. My notes are always on the cloud, searchable and editable from any device.

I also created Markdown Notes a few years ago, but haven't used it much after university.

I still use paper for disorganised thoughts, doodles and short-lived notes, but digital notes are hard to beat for everything else.
New Model of Evolution Finally Reveals How Cooperation Evolves (2017)
If it brings you any delight, I screenshotted that comment along with the article title and sent it to a friend as "hacker news dot png" since picking a keyword from the article title and posting a prepared comment about it is such a quintessential Hacker News quirk.
Are you actually seeing out of commission infrastructure in your city or your business?

I’ve seen virtually no impact on the services I depend on locally (except toilet paper for a few weeks). Some supply chain delays on the business side, but it’s delays due to temporary shutdowns rather than permanent factory closures. The orders are still coming through a few weeks later than expected.
1. All data is bytes

2. Everything is a file descriptor

3. File descriptors are things that support standard I/O system calls such as read and write
> ...this sure sounds like he had third-party screens that he called "refurbished iPhone screens,"

It doesn't sound like that to me at all. From the article I get the impression he was selling "refurbished iPhones" or offering to "repair your iPhone". In both of those cases I don't think using non-Apple parts is misleading - because as the article says "he simply used refurbished iPhone screens that he never advertised to the public as “genuine” parts from Apple".
Here's a more or less equivalent implementation in Common Lisp, using alist-hash-table from alexandria:

(defun csv-to-maps (csv)
(loop for row in (rest csv) collecting
(alist-hash-table
(mapcar #'cons (first csv) row) :test #'equal)))

For CSVs with only a few columns (maybe less than 10?), I'd probably go with alists instead of a hash table to save memory, and it'd look like this, using curry from Alexandria:

(defun csv-to-alists (csv)
(map 'list (curry #'mapcar #'cons (first csv)) (rest csv)))
Thank you.

> once you're used to it, the simple isosurface mesh is super easy to work with

One wouldn't know it from the state of content, or even of much education research, but educational representation is much harder than professional. Students are unable to untangle features reflecting careful correctness, from artistic license. So both seed mis/conceptions. Professionals can downregulate misconceptions... though that can be surprisingly localized - asking first-tier astronomy graduate students "What color is the Sun?"... gets you a common misconception.

Consider that ball-and-stick wrapped with electron density in Fig 9. Imagine coming at it cold. What is that stick? Well, maybe it's a ridge in electron density, thus symbolizing the surrounding not-so-stick-shaped region of increased density which constitutes a bond. But then what are those balls? They're way too similarly sized to be electron density. Ok, maybe they're spherical crosshairs for nucleus location, and the stick is a linear crosshair for the ridge. Variously sized because... something. Oh, no, some of the sticks are doubled, and density certainly doesn't have two ridges, or (here) increased density. So we've a paper notation that badly misrepresents actual electron distribution, blended into a physical representation with a... my head hurts.

I saw a professional chem ed content discussion yesterday, around a misconception, that in a two-species ionic solid, one atom bonds to another, in pairs. Rather than to "4 to 6" neighboring atoms... because one common printed diagram draws 4 neighbors, and another 6. It was like they were non-scientists, thinking they could wordsmith their way to correctness, without the slightest need to examine the actual characteristics of the real physical systems being described, or to consult with someone deeply familiar with them. The focus remained on models, decoupled from reality. I see a lot of that.

Chemistry education research describes chemistry education content using adjectives like "incoherent". Maybe XR can serve as an excuse to do better?
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I don’t need to hear about BlackLivesMatter from the Node.js team. I really don’t like this modern world of people and organizations bringing their “whole selves” to every interaction.
This. A lot of these "counterfeit" parts are just official parts that have been refurbished.

Take a broken iPhone, part it, replace the glass, now you have a refurbished screen to go in someone's broken iPhone.
The study claimed to have found evidence that hydroxychloroquine/chloroquine use is correlated with increased COVID-19 mortality.
>People seem to find it weird that a basket of securities could be more liquid than the securities themselves

Why would this be weird? A basket of securities is more diverse which spreads out your risk. Therefore, it makes sense that, in general, it would be more liquid.
Modern web browsers expose an enormous attack surface with a gazillion parsers written in C and C++. They are also constant targets due to marketshare and ease/flexibility of payload delivery.

Emacs is written mostly in Emacs Lisp, a memory safe language. So security implications come down to either logic bugs, the C parts of Emacs or the C libraries, usually parsers, that Emacs links with (e.g. ImageMagick which should never be enabled by security-conscious folks and GnuTLS which Emacs supports using out-of-process and security-conscious folks that need it should do so).

Let's look at some published vulnerability statistics.

Google Chrome: > 550 total, 121 remotely exploitable code execution, 450+ memory corruption/overflows (potentially exploitable).

Emacs: 0 unassisted remotely exploitable code exec vulnerabilities, 2 assisted ones (CVE-2017-14482, CVE-2012-3479). Finally, note how specific to exact requirements the Emacs vulnerabilities are. You had to either read an email sent to you containing the payload or open a plain text file with the payload embedded in it and clearly visible.

[1] https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-72/p...

[2] https://www.cvedetails.com/product/15031/Google-Chrome.html?...
they're blocking users who use adblocking
I for one want to give FB the benefit of the doubt here. I think perhaps their hearts are in the right place on this one, and I hope they can define a solid set of guidelines.
> They've been building up a drum beat about debt and deficits over the last several decades

FTFY
Thanks for your feedback.

I agree that Grid.js is not a full-featured plugin _yet_ and it's still missing essential features, like those that you mentioned but please bear in mind that:

- I have only released the first version of the library.

- I have been focusing on fundamental blocks of a lightweight _data processing_ library (see: https://github.com/grid-js/gridjs/tree/master/src/pipeline). That's what took most of my time.

- Grid.js is framework agnostic which is a bit different compared to other libs

The pipeline is very easy to extend and I'm confident that most of those features will be added soon.
You're ignoring the employment part of the mandate.

Unprecedented levels of Fed intervention hasn't prevented 41 million (and counting) new unemployment filings in just a few months.

This obsessive focus on propping up financial markets without more direct support for Main St is what I mean about lack of political imagination or will.
I was withholding judgment on General Fusion. They had a concept that, at least in principle, would allow engineering limits on the power density at the first wall to be evaded (since the first wall would be thick liquid metal, not a solid that could sustain damage.)

But they gave up on their original "acoustic" compression scheme, and now will compress the plasma via subsonic motion of the liquid metal. This scheme involves a solid conductor going down the middle of the chamber. It will be exposed to orders of magnitude higher radiation flux than the first wall of mainstream fusion concepts, as well as pulsed loads from magnetic fields up to 100T (which correspond to pressures far higher than the chamber of a gun, and higher than the deepest point in the oceans.) Getting this conductor to survive even one shot would require heroic engineering; keeping it cooled and together as its material properties rapidly degraded would require superheroic engineering.
> Silicon doesn't change state from fake to legit depending on who sells it... it's an IP dispute

This is why I'm somewhat annoyed that this case is being paraded as something to support right-to-repair…
> How will this affect outlets like BBC, NPR, and others? They’re state funded, if not state controlled to a certain extent.

IIRC, NPR and PBS are primarily funded through donations. Federal funding only makes up something like 10 or 15% of their budgets.

IMHO, this is what "state-controlled" media looks like:

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/19...

> Entertainment, social and international news should be edited in the “right direction”, just like ­domestic news, Chinese President Xi ­Jinping said on Friday as he told state media and tabloids to alike to uphold the Communist Party leadership.

> Party-owned media should put political awareness first and let “positive propaganda” be the majority of the public voice, Xi told heads and veteran journalists from media outfits including People’s Daily, CCTV and Xinhua.

> “Party-owned media must hold the family name of the party,” Xi said. “They must embody the party’s will, safeguard the party’s authority … their actions must be highly consistent with the party.”
That sounds pretty great. Thanks!
it really is needed, i hope they do well, and thanks for the links ^^
Startups report increased growth but shorter runways in current conditions
We haven't gone from "BLOCK" to "ALLOW". Instead, we're back to "DUNNO".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phases_of_clinical_research
Apple's products have FAR higher resale and expected life than almost any competitors.

Your insistence that folks buy trash phones that get thrown away (and are totally unsupported software side almost from date of mfg) is ridiculous and actively harms the environment.

By increasing confidence in their products, including used products, apple does a LOT to enhance the perceived long term value of their product. There is a very active apple refurb market, and you can take your phone and get new batteries etc from apple.

They have a huge retail presence with walk in repairs. They have authorized third party repairs. And they have mail in repairs.
Yeah but there's got to be some give in the name of getting signal. Resumes are incredibly noisy signal. I think references are pretty noisy too... a bad reference is very bad, a better than average reference is really good, but I think the average reference, which most people give, is very low signal.
What's the economic interest of claiming the medication doesn't work?
Einstein's life in America shown in home movies [video]
Time in the market beats timing the market. If you continue to invest regularly even in a down market you will eventually make more than those who target peaks and dips.
Most that wealth was created in the last 20 years. Amazon, Google, etc, etc barely or didn't exist in 2000. If you are >20 years old, you have seen a world where there was substantially less wealth and inequality. It would be very easy to reduce the wealth of rich people by returning to how the business world was in 2000. Pretty sure Bezos of Amazon is the richest man in the world right now.

Destroying the wealth would be the fastest and easiest way to reduce wealth inequality that has built up in the last 20 years. It is a terrible idea. So the problem to solve is probably not wealth inequality.

To try and put it simply, halving the wealth of rich people is bound to have an effect - but that effect might be great or horrific for everyone else.
Or, you know, these practices exist to limit hires to specific demographics in the first place.
From the article:

> Such manipulation of photos is typically invisible to the human eye, the researchers found.
My $0.02 exactly. I see this is everyday life. People think if you can't measure something it doesn't exist or isn't worthwhile. I would argue quite the contrary :)
The roadrunner is achieving prosperity. He goes far, fast. He keeps winning because he is obeying his animal spirits[1] -- literally running on roads. The coyote pursues prosperity, but rather than using his animal spirits, which would tell him to hunt like a coyote does, he instead repeatedly requisitions absurd contraptions that are manufactured by "Acme." We presume (because the cartoon is on TVs in America, and America's mythos is pervasive and ever-present) that Acme is a private company which uses the free market to drive its innovation and development cycles. Acme's advertising is presumably based on their mail-in order business, which at the time was heavily oriented toward homemakers and other "normal people." These contraptions invariably have negative unintended consequences, and yet Wile E Coyote turns to them in the next episode for the next great promise in technology, never learning his lesson.

The metaphorical business cycle plays out in every episode: Coyote puts his trust in the Solution To His Problems; he spends money and time buying and setting up the contraption that will Solve His Problem; he deploys it, but because of external (usually environmental) conditions it fails; Coyote is worse off than before because he over-extended himself. Coyote in this case would be a small business owner or similar everyman who is trying to figure out and out-play the game to get rich.

I guess the lesson here is to create an economy that is amenable to the localized, instinctive decisions made by each of its participants, and not to spend time on manufacturing conditions for success by setting up extremely efficient but otherwise very finicky systems, but rather to pursue it step by 3-toed step. The fancy contraptions (quantitative easing being an obvious and recent example) never end up working as intended and instead make life harder for workers in aggregate.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_spirits_(Keynes)
Google's been unable to build a iMessage competitor because they don't have the same leverage with the phone carriers that Apple does - because they don't even sell what few phones they manufacture in the carrier's stores.

They built out a technology and gave carriers the option to implement it themselves, or they could just piggyback on Google's servers. Carriers obviously opted to implement it themselves because they don't want to become dumb pipes, then dragged their feet for years.

As I understand it, Google wants to get a basic version in place with all the major carriers first, then start rolling out many of the other features you've mentioned.

Apple's been holding out on supporting it because it's not encrypted, but it'll be interesting to see how they respond to carrier-wide adoption of encrypted RCS when that comes. Will iMessage chats fall back to RCS with Android phones? Or will they continue to fall back to unencrypted oldschool SMS?