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Some technical questions are really sink or swim. [0]

I've seen interviews get totally derailed by a simple FizzBuzz question. [1]

I wonder if the GRE situation doesn't have more to do with selection bias, ie applications with a score lower than a certain threshold aren't considered at all or that folks that aren't convinced of their ability in math & science simply won't apply to graduate school.

[0] https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22338415
Seems a common issue with open world games. Rockstar, Bethesda, and Ubi's open world efforts often get amazing reviews, and I know plenty of people that love those experiences outside of reviewers too, but often I look at a map the first time outside of the tutorial/opening missions, decide there are too many options and simply choose none of them (go off to play something else).

(Though it's stranger for me in that I will have less trouble with the MMO version of that experience. Don't know why it it irritates me more in single player games. Something to do with having more people to show off my grind status to, and maybe more acceptance that an MMO treadmill will "never" end so I don't have to 100% it, but a single player game does have a 100% completion to try for.)
This is why the GDPR is a bad law. Of course nobody wants to be tracked. If you believe that the harms of tracking outweigh the benefits of increased revenue, then just ban tracking altogether. Instead, the GDPR incentivizes sites to come up with these dark patterns so they can claim that users "voluntarily" "consented", when everyone knows that's not the case.
In essence, this is a supercomputer.
SiriusXM to Buy Stitcher Podcasting Unit from Scripps
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I can see a need for this. I'll look into it!
it was foolish to think that this would stop where we personally thought "the line" was

i hope we have all learned a valuable lesson here
I guess. I took a look at a test we have to take here in Brazil, if I want to get a master's degree. no way I can score high enough without studying for a few weeks. Calculus, statics, propositional logic...

When looking at the test I thought "man, I learned this in college, I should know that" but my brain was like "forget that, let's watch something funny on youtube"
Unless you can see their books you really have no idea how their revenues did. And you really have no idea what additional expenses they're incurring due to COVID mitigations.
NPM advisory for lodash: Consider using a different package
I think people care a great deal more than they have words to express. We're not very good at educating our customers in ways to discuss and analyse technical performance. We're getting better at it when it comes to uptime, but latency discussions still lag (hah!) behind.

(This is from purely personal experience. I have only had one customer ever, when asked about performance requirements, who could list some. Everyone else has been "I guess I want it to be... good?")
The language does not prefer anything, one way or the other.

The community is overall very excited about async right now, and so the community may expect things to be async-first, even if the language itself does not have a preference.
This is part of the difference between the classicist and the mocking styles of testing. The argument for the latter goes that if (big if!) your collaborators are well designed and have good interfaces, then asserting that something is called is a meaningful assertion in the language of your domain (e.g. "check that an email is sent with exactly this content" is a meaningful assertion, even when you mock the mailer).

I agree that in many cases, APIs are badly designed and expose implementation details that you shouldn't couple your tests to, but many still do that. Mockist proponents would claim that this is not the right way to do it (for example, they argue you should wrap bad APIs in better ones and write your assertions against the latter, see also "don't mock what you don't own").

I can understand the point of view that even then you wouldn't like these kinds of tests, but for me they do provide some assurance that "the right stuff happens" (of course, you need integration tests to test the wiring etc.) at a still lower cost than "you have to extremely strictly separate pure from impure code" (which has other benefits, yes, but is also really hard to enforce especially in a team).
"Look, you can shop online, but we're not gonna load it and ship it until we get back from our families."

Many (most?) of their warehouse workers are not Jews- B&H has been sued in the past for discrimination: https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/ofccp/ofccp20170814

Which is too bad- their showroom in the city is like tech Disney. I definitely have mixed feelings about buying from them now.
Interesting app, I see you've got an Android app planned too, just curious if you're going cross platform and if so what you've created it with?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23751931

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23755301

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23753413

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23753182
Map, no. Plain object, yes.
The people downvoting you were clearly not watching the streams of protestors chanting and screaming into megaphones. The rhetoric was consistent across the country.

The premise is that the system is white supremacist in nature and must be torn down. From there it is implied that if you do not support tearing down the system, you are a white supremacist. And what do we do to white supremacists?

Except the vast majority of people who are iffy about what's going on aren't supremacists of any sort. The word "racist" is quickly losing effect.

Politics might not be 1 dimensional, but pendulums are.
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Could the waiting be attributed to your country of citizenship? I know there's a long wait for citizens of a few countries because there are per-country limits on green cards.
Good one. TAN (the keyword, not the 3 letters) is hex C9 which is also RET in Z80 machine code. The address of the first byte after the keyword in the first statement in a ZX81 program is 16514. USR 16514 calls this address, which immediately returns. The PRINT statement then prints the result of the USR expression, which is the contents of the BC register on return, which I guess happens to contain the start address (since not otherwise set) as a side effect of the implementation.

16509 is the address of the start of the program in memory. Bytes 16509-16510 are the line number (2 byte LSB int). Bytes 16511-16512 are the length of the line. Byte 16513 is the command keyword (REM).
Precisely! A lot of folks have already built their businesses and processes atop Google Sheets, so it seems a no-brainer to me that any SaaS dealing with data should have a way to bootstrap from that.
Not really. Lack of data is very different from proof.

Flat earthers believe in something that empirically and rigorously has been proven to be false. There is no discussion required here, philosophical or otherwise.

Religion might be false based on the absence of evidence, but it has never been - and probably never will be - empirically proven to be false.
Better late than never? Some level of open retrospective analysis might allow for more carefully crafted policies in the future.
We'll move it. You can edit the 'wrong thread' bit out if you want.
Chicago Times dropped their photogs and just gave reporters iphones. That's powerful.

Even though it's harder to be a pro photog, there's more great photography than ever, and there's still quite a lot of them.

Everything you see on the internet ... someone had to take that. It takes some skill most of us don't have, so we 'hire'.
Academic research and education is normally focused on silo'd content and not holistic system design. To use your example, a parser that gracefully handles bad input is a completely different region of study than simple parsing/grammars. It's outside the context.

That does not mean that academia does not cover the topic, you just probably wouldn't get to it in an undergraduate course on (frankly trivial) compilers and parsers. If you read into research on things like semantic fuzzing, the slow death of batch compilers, and the various error propagation mechanisms out there from PL researchers you'd see those topics bring up lively academic discussions.

Academia lags in many ways behind practical designs because they aren't governed by deadlines and market realities, but they lead in many others precisely because ideas aren't constrained and they can focus on things that don't have immediate value to markets. It's not wise to discount an entire domain of expertise and culture of development just because it exists in a different context than professional engineering, particularly when we owe our entire industry to the efforts of academics in the first place.
Huh? There are rules that if followed allow for forgiveness. The rules will presumably be applied fairly and equally to everyone. That's about the exact opposite of favoritism.
Why Page 2 of Google Search Results Is the Best Place to Hide a Dead Body
I agree, fake objects are a good alternative to mocks especially for complicated interfaces (databases, external services, etc.). But they require more setup, which is why I still think mocks can be useful in some situations.
Please, Write a Cover Letter
> Should they not have taken it?

I seriously considered not cashing my stimulus check until I talked to multiple well off people that cashed their dead relative's checks. There just isnt a cultural expectation in the US that you wouldn't take what you're given.

EDIT: Rethinking my comment I'm giving myself too much credit. Since I never got a physical check, I couldn't have "not cashed it" if I wanted to.
Without a comparison to a commercial developer, it's very hard to tell what the effect on the negatives are. The roll of 120 he held up looked very dense to me, and looked like it was suffering from a fair degree of fogging between the frames. Saying that, if he's scanning the negatives there's plenty you can do in post to pull an image off of the negative.

I'll stick with Xtol as my developer of choice, but that's just because i've been using it for such a long time it's a habit rather than an informed choice from having compared the options today :) Funnily enough it's active ingredient is ascorbic acid as far as i'm aware (vitamin C).
Does anyone know the requirements around getting these loans? For example, if employees were furloughed without pay (but kept healthcare) are they still within bounds of the loan if they indicate they retained the jobs listed?
If it's any consolation, even after doing the course I don't know either.
http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/counties/SanFranciscoCounty4...

1940 was 95% white and 0.8% black.

so in the 30 years from 1940 to 1970 it went from .08% to 13.4%. that's gentrification too, which was my point.
Claiming they are library, they launched "National Emergency Library" initiative which made 1.4M works (of which some are copyrighted) freely available online worldwide. They have ended the program since.

http://blog.archive.org/national-emergency-library/
The incentive isn't to build something that is successful. The point is that the people involved are proving they can A) go through the engineering motions or B) showing the world how they can analyze and draw conclusions from the data where A is for undergrads and B is for grad students.

None of the people working on this are primarily invested in the widget's efficacy (though I'm sure they all would rather see the widget work than not work). The participants are primarily invested in building the widget in the manner they need to to check the boxes required to get their piece of paper that says MIT at the top.

This incentive structure plagues basically every widget that comes out of a university engineering program/lab/department.
All these large companies seem to be fighting each other to create the internet
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> There might be a case for some very basic experience with programming in schools.

The high school (mid 2010s) I went to somewhat recently had ZERO programming classes and about 4 AP classes. Middle schools had basic typing classes. I am unaware if this is changing at a rapid pace but I would hope we could improve computer literacy by making kids take a few basics classes about things they use every day.
Edit: Removed my comment, the original comment was refuting the $20k cap, but I misinterpreted the parent's comment when first reading it. Sorry!
I guess it would be better to change "founded" to "founded or cofounded".

Your formulation is fine too, although immigrants are Americans, so I don't love that distinction. Regardless, these all conjure up the same idea for me. For the purposes of this discussion, I don't even see much difference between founder and cofounder. Typically if someone is called a cofounder then the business probably wouldn't exist without them.

To settle the argument, why don't we agree to stick with this sentence from the original study: "43 percent of these companies were founded or co-founded by an immigrant or the child of an immigrant."
The article in question also linked to Scott Adams who recently said and I quote "If Biden is elected, there's a good chance you will be dead within the year. Republicans will be hunted." [1]

So it seems rather ironic to write an article about 'political witchhunts' using someone who is claiming that Republicans are going to be systematically hunted down and murdered. I don't think the article was written in good faith at all.

[1] https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/127830983545328435...
Yes, definitely. I'm hard at work building Google Sheets API integration, so you wouldn't have to make your sheet public. DM me (@tjchear on Twitter) or email me to discuss your use case.
The Cicada Principle, revisited with CSS variables
Really? I thought this at the start as well, but downloading games is fast, I have a wired connection (20MBd/15MBu) that I feel like is pretty solid. I also wondered if it was just my drive getting full, but I have about 180gb of space.
In case you dont want to go hybrid but go all the way: https://github.com/knocte/2fsharp/blob/master/python2fsharp....
Your response was to flee, right?
Having been born in 1984, I'm definitely not ready to be 50 just yet.
The classics are all covered in other comments. For some hyper-relevant content (the sand to fill the in-between spaces filled up by big philosophies and principles), I've found Will Larson's blog (https://lethain.com/) and book (https://press.stripe.com/#an-elegant-puzzle) to be really useful.

It provides tools for solving specific problems, and a language to discuss what's going wrong and what the solution looks like. https://lethain.com/durably-excellent-teams/ The concepts he covers in this post, in particular, have been invaluable.
HomePod Beta Allows Changing the Default Services for Music/Podcasts/Audiobooks
My impression is that is what NetherRealm already is (and why their name is an allusion to the hell described in their own games).
> Asking people to pay for a human reviewer is a recipe for bad PR. Inevitably, some content creator is going to pay $10 and disagree with a ruling even if it's justified.

I don't really see how this is any different now. Google is already generating bad PR by not having an appeal process for these issues and plenty of people are already complaining that it's all a scam.

If a nominal fee gets you a written report that details exactly how you offended YT's policies and creates a possible scenario which you're given the opportunity to course-correct perhaps, then it's a win. What you're arguing would happen is already happening.
Apple chips have one custom extension (AMX), but IIRC, they don't give third party developers access to this, so from a developer's perspective it's a standard ARMv8 chip.
This is the problem with combining services for infrastructure and services for discovery. Discovery, by definition, requires a carefully curated approach to filter based on interest, applicability. This forces discovery services to take for the material shown and promoted. Given the scale that services like YouTube operate at, this requires automation that is invariably going to make stupid mistakes.

Infrastructure services on the other hand are dumb pipes, giving them a lot more leeway. Historically (e.g., the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA, the recent debates around Cloudflare and the far-right), society has proven to be far more tolerant of services simply hosting a video or a stream, than services promoting it or deriving benefit from it (e.g., through ads).

Arguably, the latter is also the more critical. A lot of smaller-scale entities (like your church) can tolerate losing promotion for a day or a week far better than they can tolerate losing their infrastructure.
I once did a pretty broad GIS analysis looking at different kinds of data related to census block groups in conjunction with published standardized test scores and the correlation between income and education is practically a straight line.

Money and Education are a chicken and egg problem in terms of causality.
I added one so far (Product Catalog), you can click on it in the use case section. More to come :)
Caffenol is a pretty popular technique, you can find many detailed posts online comparing it with other developers.

I've used it a few times in a pinch when traveling, it's nice. Unfortunately I've never been able to find a fixer formula that's as easy/off the shelf.
Of course. That's what the huge scandal is about. $Billions going to wealthy political insiders who don't need it to pay furloughed employees.
Definitely missing some, one of my companies is not listed (sub-$100k loan).
And that includes an addition year (or two years of STEM) of work visa after graduation. Plus something like 6 months of CPT in summers.
This Is Not a Normal Mental-Health Disaster
If he was "that" stupid and thought it is just flu he would never close borders with China, he'd never sign that money stimulus bill, he'd never install Covid task force; he would never have done so many things - so he clearly understood that Covid is not flu. But politically agree - he made a huge mistake.
Watched a bit as I never came across these terms.. Staring at the wikipedia page of "Regular language" and I still dont get what is the purpose of this.

Anyone, not in academia preferably, using this for practical applications? What ARE the practical applications?
I think you've misunderstood. I didn't say I agree (or disagree) with the OP. My point is that simonh got the cause-effect relationship of im3w1l's argument backwards. The cause is not necessarily stated before the effect.

For example: "I don't like eating brisket. It always gives me heartburn." In that case, the heartburn causes the dislike, even though it was stated after the effect (non-enjoyment).

In this case, im3w1l described an emotional state (effect), followed by his reasons (cause). You're free to disagree with his reasons, but it's important to understand the argument or you're responding to a straw-man.
You don't get forgiveness for wages you don't pay.
Ask HN: Thoughts on Corporate Spyware on WFH Laptops?
In the past, I've always thought it was reasonable that the corp I work for have spyware on their laptop. It is theirs after all.

But, now that it lives in my house, my thinking has changed.

Now I think the corporation should be required by law to not have any kind of remote access to a computer used for WFH purposes.

Any thoughts? Any ideas how to get this change at my job?
Because it is business. I think we all should stop calling “startup” any project. But. That’s how people like to talk these days.
YES! I've wanted solutions related to Reclaim's concept for years! I can not make and stick to a strict schedule of tasks at specific times. I have routine tasks to do, that I want automatically suggested to me at opportune moments during the day. I hope Reclaim inspires similar innovation.

As with sleep management apps, they all seem to enforce going to sleep or waking up at specific times. I want to have it suggest when to sleep, then detect once I am asleep, count from there, and wake me in the best phase after the optimal length for me that day. Length determined depending on whether I have to get up or can sleep in (use calendar).

Is there a calendar with automated suggestions and drag-and-drop preset events? Events should have flexibility in how long they can and have to be.

Please do not require me to hand over my calendar data. Please do not silo the calendar into an app; it should use or synchronize without issues with regular calendar.
Why would anyone pay tens of thousands of dollars to take a class at 3am and be at risk of not being able to come back into the country to finish their degree?
In the Enterprise organizations I've participated in recently, most of them have Teams & Slack. Business users and leadership go with Teams -- especially because it pulls in the Sharepoint connections they've been using for the last decade.

Devs, devops and other tech teams gravitate towards Slack.

And product/project management teams end up using both.
It is much harder to bypass the you-really-meant-something-else algorithms and search for the exact terms I need. I don't need you to "correct" it, I don't need the helpful synonyms, etc.

When I search for information about specific strings like class method names, now I quite often have to resort to GitHub search.
I knew 6502 people would improve it :-)

>moving it into the zero page and not using indexed mode

I'm not sure I follow.. you mean restrict the memcpy to only within the zero-page?

>jmp inner..

Yeah, it doesn't matter to much, not in the inner loop. You could move the start of the code to right after the rts also..
That wasn't the question. If cancer is the deadliest disease, that doesn't mean we can't talk about the obesity epidemic(or vice versa depending on the actual stats, I'm just making a general point).

Imagine if, every time someone wanted to talk about helping end the obesity epidemic, many other people chimed in about how dare you talk about obesity when cancer still exists. And the only way you could make a point about obesity is to put a disclaimer that cancer is totally worse than obesity.
It does feel like a downgrade. I would have paid more if I could have picked optional features. I'm not sure if they don't get that people don't buy a console to play the dashboard, give it to me barebones and lightning quick.
>- John Carmack signal boosting[1] Sarah Downey's article "This PC witch-hunt is killing free speech, and we have to fight it"[2]

Is this really a "bright spot"? Expressing a fear (without any reasoning or evidence shown as the basis for that fear) that one's opponents approve of an atrocious campaign orchestrated by a totalitarian regime?

There's a lot of room to criticize "cancel culture" and deplatforming. Comparisons with mass killings and state-orchestrated oppression is an odd choice, and (to take the other side of the fence here) with about the same amount of merit as saying that people critical of BLM have similar opinions of the Nazi regime.
It’s years since I’ve read it to be honest. I remember finding the parts on how to conduct one-on-ones useful at the time. I don’t recall feeling the author was unsure of himself (and he’s a pretty successful tech leader btw, currently VP Eng at Slack).
As a ML beginner, seeing this new offerings, does a local setup(2x nvidia 2080 8gb) make sense or it's better to learn using the cloud and let hardware get even cheaper.

The cloud it's a bit scary from learners perspective because it's not exactly clear how much power one would need to practice the core concepts and see actual results.

In the other hand a pc build, it's an upfront investment, less scary because it's a fix cost, but also feels risky in case things progress quickly and hardware gets outdate soon.