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One thing I've been wondering lately about take-home tasks is how everybody complains about time estimates, and yet here's a bunch of "small projects" which someone pretends to have very precisely estimated.

Unfortunately, most companies fail to honestly estimate the cost of the tasks they assign for these processes. Many of them because they just don't take into account numerous small tasks that the candidate will need to deal with.

I've seen a lot of these tasks ask for setup instructions, good unit tests, explaining any decisions you make, etc. In case there's any visual user interface (e.g. some web component) they also ask for it to be nice, as in "we don't want a designer but we need you to make it somewhat nice". And then they'll say it should take just a couple of hours.

I've also seen a fair number of others casually say their task should only take about 8 hours. And I can do that on my free time on five consecutive days, after having worked already 8 hours each day. Sure thing.
At least some of the products in tech are actual products, I'm more sad and frustrated by a generation of Einsteins working in finance...
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I think Google blacklists you after 3 failed onsite attempts.
That starts to break down when people try and fail to commit crimes (attempted theft) or do something that only has terrible consequences a fraction of the time (drunk driving, using bands restricted for emergency use).
I would argue that ICBMs are a peaceful weapon. Look up nuclear deterrence.
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Anyone buying their risc-v IP and socs, other than hobbyists? The company has been around for a few years now.
You hit upon an important cleavage: features vs worst-case perf. A generous lexer supports partial input, syntax highlighting, helpful error messages, etc., while a strict one is not so nice, but guarantees protection against malicious input. But the way you write these are very different! I also would like to write one lexer that can operate in both modes, but with one syntax.

BTW, high five from one shell author to another :)
Thanks Jan!
On a side note, I always found the French word "octet" much better than "byte". First off, it avoid confusion with the unit naming (b = bits, o = octet, whereas B/b can be confused for byte / bit) and it is also much precise, octet = octo = 8, so an octet is 8 bits. On the other end, a byte doesn't really tell you what it is only "commonly" 8 bits.
> Perhaps Google can be convinced to restore the content

The support ticket was deleted, so I guess not.
Those formats exists. For example, I am subscribed to Krautreporter [1] from Germany. They started with a Kickstarter campaign in 2014 and are now organized as a "Genossenschaft" and are entirely supported by memberships and subscriptions.

[1] https://krautreporter.de
In Portuguese the root “pneu” by itself means “tire” (as in a car tire).

Fun stuff indeed!
Related from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20790600
And really as far as I could tell only the title lead people to believe otherwise. The first statement from an actual researcher says the jury is out. So it's pretty honest, clickbait has unfortunately become part of the internet.
Makes me curious about if there's a story behind that?
English basically forces you to remember most of the words. The rules are the maze.
Why do good ideas often not scale?
The real issue with nuclear is not the waste, but the time it takes to build the reactors. We don't have enough time left before we irrevocably fuck up the climate. Solar and wind can be brought online much quicker.
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I don't know the general perceived status of Independent

Poor, it used to be good when it was printed. The online version went down the toilet when they stopped the print edition.
That's a diagram, not a map.
No "principle Mozilla advocates" says that the start page should default to blank.
No, this is the kind of thing that CEOs take for themselves and cancel meetings that teams have spent 3 months preparing for. Of course he will have asked each team to deliver him draft language but I'm sure the final language is his.
To anyone interested in the topic, I recommend reading Duflo & Banerjee's 2011 book "Poor Economics". They pioneered the approach of using RCTs to test interventions in fighting poverty (for which they received the Nobel Memorial Prize together with Michael Kremer). They go into a lot of factors as to why poor people get certain economic outcomes, including but not limited to the poverty trap theory, and take a refreshingly "humane" / respectful view towards the people they are dealing with.
My hot guess: because of capitalism. It needs the exploitation of the weak.
This is on the roadmap, we will work on integrating with https://github.com/timescale/tsbs, TSBS has Victoria Metrics support too.
Wow. But come to think of it, set theory is subtle stuff compared with 1+1+1 = 1 (unless they're talking about characteristic 2?) or reading the old testament under a non-injective mapping (in particular, the Book of Ruth, a non-identity element, seems to be in their kernel?).

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Привет хочу узнать как можно защитить мой-у игру от читов или распознать чит
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привет хочу узнать как можно защитить мой-у игру от читов или распознать чит на платформе Windows

если не шарите скинте программы для взлома или скрытия таких программ(про аналоги таких программ тоже буду рад узнать)(я знаю про: odbg201, procces hacker, cheat engine\artmoney, AntiOS, HideToolz, renamer, WindowRenamer, Molebox, TitanHide, ProcessMonitor(может помочь отследить что делать программа на пк тем самым помочь реализовать чить), Clickermann\autolt v3(не имено но всо же) ) чтоб понать как луди читырать
> probably very unlikely

Literally astronomically unlikely. If at all they might want to coordinate radio emissions.
My main criticism of Victor is that his software demos overshadow the concepts. They're extremely flashy and don't recenter the main thesis.

And the concepts themselves are more like popularizations of the Engelbart-Kay dialectic than an original perspective.

Despite that, I reference his talks fairly often, so I guess this is a case of "Thanks, I hate it."
> That's not what reductio ad absurdum (fancy latin for basically proof by contradiction) means. You're claiming that the comparison is inapropriate. reductio ad absurdum means that the comparison is good, but the thing being compared to is rediculous, and since the rediculous thing is the same as the main thing, the main thing must also be rediculous, and therefor false.

Claiming that overcompensation can be brought to the extreme of justifying death penalty to me is absurd, that's why I said that. But I understand that I may be wrong so, definitions a part, to me it's still comparing apples to oranges. And while oranges may be acceptable, apples definitely are not.
Oh! More then happy to answer. :-)

So, I was just shooting a dart at a target. Translate the target to a Cartesian plan and you can express the position of the dart as a tuple (x,y) with two real numbers.

However, you don't know the exact position of the bulls eye you're aiming at. At best, you're aiming for a bounded area representing an approximation. So, you're basically guestimating the distance between the position of the dart, and any other point within that area which might probably be what you're shooting for.

Maybe I'm close, maybe I'm less close. I could have rounded upwards to 29 million, but unless you know exactly what you're aiming for, it's not possible to establish how rounding impacts accuracy. We do know that rounding within an interval of 1 million likely won't skew the answer too much, so both numbers are acceptable.
While officially `0.y.z` makes no guarantees, unofficially many people and some tools interpret `0.y.(z+1)` as being compatible with `0.y.z`, treating `y` as the equivalent of a major version and `z` as the equivalent of a minor version. This makes it easier to test pre-release libraries without treating every point release as a breaking change.
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What does HN crowd think of companies like hb11 or lppfusion which try to construct much smaller but still powerful (lpp plans for 5MW, relatively small, reactor. They also want to use a different fuel that produces very little neutrons, thus very low radiocativity. And moreover they do not need thermal part as electricity is generated by directly collecting alpha particles (and some Xrays IIRC). It _feels_ to me like ITER is inheritance from old times - trying to build the reactor the way we always did (i.e. thermal; and also using the "easiest" to ignite fuel - but that produces a lot of radiocativity compared to hB11 fuel). As someone pointed out here in comments, there are already better magnets than those used in ITER even now. Don't get me wrong, it would be sooo cool if ITER succeeded and started fusion energy generation, but it is just taking too long.

https://www.hb11.energy/our-story https://lppfusion.com/technology/fusion-energy-generator/
Does anyone using eCommerce web scraping?
Hey, ycombinators does anyone using web scraping for your e-stores? If so delegate that task to eScraper. We can scrape product descriptions, prices, image URLs and other data into Excel or .csv file(Magento, PrestaShop, WooCommerce, or Shopify formats)
> In fact many people forget Pinyin by the time they enter highschool.

Since most Chinese people type Chinese using Pinyin-based input methods (not counting voice recognition and handwriting recognition as typing here, which are also pretty widely used these days), this claim is absolutely, undoubtedly, 100% false.

Edit: Somehow read “many” as “most”. Since “many” can mean anything from one thousand people out of 1.4 billion to all of them, it’s not possible to refute the claim. But the idea should be clear: forgetting Pinyin upon entering high school is not common.
Interestingly it is possible to make it react to non-sequiturs in a sensible way by giving it a certain kind of prompt. See: "yo, be real" by gwern.
I have multiple problems with this statement. First, the problems you are describing are external to breathing. If you suffer from PTSD and get an episode at the grocery store, do you want to regulate grocery store visits also?

Second, breathing has multi-thousand year old legacy spanning multiple cultures and eras touting it's benefits. Why would you obtain your perspective from a click-driven Vice article referring to a study of 73 people instead of the infinitely more robust source of truth?
As for Austrialia, Melbourne's high today is 16, Perth 21, Brisbane 21, Hobart 15, Adelaide 16.

NZ - Christchurch 12C, Wellington 15C, Aukland 16C.

South Africa, Cape Town high of 19, Joburg high of 18, similar to Glasgow in Summer.

South America? Yes it's chilly in Southern Chilie. There's barely anybody living there. Same in Argentina - Ushuaia has a population of 130k and a high of 6C today. Arkangel is 3 times the size and has an average high of -9C in winter. Fairbanks population about 100k and high of -17 in the winter.

The population south of Viedma, Neuquén and Valdivia (highs today of around 13) is well under 3 million, with towns mostly less than 100k.

Santiago's high today is 33. BA has a high of 15. That's not the same as a northern winter.

Compare with Beijing, population 20 million, average highs of 2C in winter. Chicago, 1C, 9 million. Moscow -4C, 12 million.

Comparing a Southern winter with a Northern winter is disingenuous - it's milder, there's far fewer people, and far smaller cities with far lower density.
The implied lack of an incentive to be taxed was good writing in this. Regrettably, for Roman occupied lands, the tax had been precomputed and sold on as a derivative. This kind of CFD doesn't play well when you can take what you want as the tax farmer.

Also led to 1789 in France. Post roman market economy didn't help.

Subsisting is only partly viable as a tax avoidance mechanism. Ultimately, you need a surplus for a lot of reasons
I use it. The system recognises me about 80% unmasked, and about 50% masked. Roughly.
Yes and the whole multi million/billion dollar law business exists around it. Tax law and tax attorneys. Their job is to find legal loopholes.
I am wondering why NASA only sends one rover. Considering the investments into development, planning, and control and the relatively low launch costs nowadays, I would think it logical to send two or more probes to mitigate the risk of catastrophic mistakes.
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The last time there was a "population crisis" fertilizer was invented the problem vanished. Currently GMOs have shown they produce massive improvements in yields and we're still in the early phases of this research. So it isn't exactly naive to think that this won't be an issue (though I'm not saying you should completely dismiss it).

As for land, well Europe is the same size as America and has twice the population. And neither have anywhere near the density that China or India does. So there's quite a bit of evidence that we shouldn't be overly concerned about these issues.

And what looks like the best way to solve them is by helping other countries develop more rapidly (which is actually a bonus for tackling climate change too!) but this is a pretty unpopular opinion.
What you are describing sounds like a "keto diet". It is expected that people don't feel so good until the body adjusts to the low-carb diet. Often people speak of "keto flu" in the initial days.
If you pay attention, one of the nostrils are likely to be more active (as measured in air flow) at a given time and the active nostril will switch side from time to time, perhaps something like every couple of hours.
"ITER will not produce sufficient power for net electrical production. Instead, the emitted heat will be vented" - Wikipedia

What a fucking waste
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I don't get what benefit they get from "lock[ing] and limit[ing] conversation to collaborators" on such issues. Why would you want to deliberately cut valuable user feedback? I mean I can't even put a "thumb up" on the issue!
This is an incredible argument. Abuse and coercion (and poor working conditions in general, and long working hours, lack of holidays and sick leave and all the other things that progressive politics and labour unions have given us) are extremely common part of the workplace outside of western society - say in clothing sweatshops, on deep sea fishing ships, or many other places. This will possibly get better if and when the workers in these places get better opportunities for bargaining, but of course there will be push-back from the factory-owning classes.

Similarly, child labour is still very common and as far as I'm told in some places even on the rise, so there must be more to the story of its disappearance from the west than "children make bad workers".
Can't comment on OP's country, but here in Germany while technically different, in practice it's the same

Car gets stolen: often the case is solved, license plates help, etc.pp

Bike gets stolen: Police take the report, often blame you it's your own fault that you didn't properly lock it (happened to me twice), usually doesn't get solved even if you have the number. It's worth the hassle to report it but the chnace of getting it back are close to zero.
New Zealand claims world first in setting standards for govt use of algorithms
They are really shooting their own feet which such moves.
They confirm, validate and strengthen the already existing trend to avoid vendor lock in at all cost and move to open, possibly self-hosted and export friendly platforms!

This is really bad marketing
The unauthorized use of the 5.8GHz band (usually ham radio bands, and the "race band" is not ham radio too) by drone enthusiasts has gone unchecked for way too long.

You only need a Technician license and your callsign on your OSD, I'm not sure why people are like this.
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I must admit I live in Munich but the amount of commuting BMWs is simply astonishing. They simply can't ALL work for BMW ;)
Does the phone work on this yet? That's the most important thing, otherwise it's just a tiny tablet. How will connecting it with a carrier work?
And as I already said, storage will always be subject to fail.

You can have 10 TB of parity for a 1 MB file but if that data isn’t distributed then you’re still vulnerable.

So the problem is analog vs digital nor the lack of mathematics in vinyl; it’s that ultimately any form of storage media requires a physical device and physical devices are bound to the problems of the physical world.

This, by the way, is also why Amazon has multiple data centres in any given region. Why backups should always be stored off site, and why DR solutions are based in different physical premises.
> What we understand as “capitalism” (free market economies based on voluntary transactions) is incompatible with imperialism

That sounds like a No True Scotsman fallacy. "It's not voluntary? By jove, then it's not capitalism!" Is every person in a market economy that hates their job and does it solely for food, shelter, and clothing, living under not-capitalism? How "voluntary" does a transaction have to be, exactly?

Mercantilism was proto-capitalism. It had all the features - "property rights, capital accumulation, wage labor, voluntary exchange, a price system and competitive markets." - on a smaller scale. Wikipedia mentions it as an earlier form of capitalism[1]. British merchants and industry still enjoyed the benefits of the free market - within the empire - but Indians and other subjects did not. And when Britain made a pivot to free trade in the 1840s[2], they still didn't let India participate. And even capitalist economies have trade barriers or tariffs today. Other than the focus on gold and balance of trade and payments, there isn't that much of a hard-line between capitalism and mercantilism. They're on the same spectrum.

Belgian colonization of the Congo and the rubber farm atrocities happened in the late 19th-early 20th century[3] when Belgium was pretty well capitalist, not mercantilist. Blood diamonds were/are traded in modern capitalist systems.[4] The participation of every actor in the chain of capitalism is successively less and less "voluntary". In some markets and industries, things are pretty good for everyone and even the person on the lowest rung does pretty well. In others...it's not so great.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism#Mercantile

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism#Industrial_Revoluti...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocities_in_the_Congo_Free_S...

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_diamond
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> The New Zealand charter, which the Guardian has viewed, was due to launch on Tuesday with 19 government agencies as initial signatories. In it, departments pledge to be publicly transparent about how decision-making is driven by algorithms, including giving “plain English” explanations; to make available information about the processes used and how data is stored unless forbidden by law (such as for reasons of national security); and to identify and manage biases informing algorithms.

> Agencies must also consider te ao Māori, or Indigenous, worldviews on data collection – in New Zealand, Māori are disproportionately represented in the justice and prison system – and consult with groups affected by their equations.

> “Part of this is driven by the fact that because people are now increasingly aware of how Facebook operates and the extent to which our lives are shaped by the use of and the manipulation of data,” Shaw said, referring to the way social media companies use algorithms to direct users towards content. “This is a really important part of building public trust in government institutions.”
This reminds me a bit of Aeron (https://github.com/real-logic/aeron) which is a reliable UDP uni/multicast transport library with built-in flow control. It's written in Java and seems to have superb performance (I haven't used it myself). Might be an interesting alternative if you don't want to write it all yourself.
> We seek to do this as far as the law allows us to do, and other companies do that as well. We operate within the rules placed on us by the legislatures of this country and its states.

Sure, but this is an antitrust hearing and trusts aren't really legal in the US.
Another alternative is to just build so many renewable energy plants that demand can be served even when production is comparatively low. During peak production hours, you can just blow the energy back into the atmosphere (or run a steel mill with it). This is a question of political will, and nothing more.
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Absolutely. You do need professional who understands the benefits and potential side effects. If done wrongly, it can mess things up.

Anecdotal, but I tried anulum vilom ten years back as a remedy for general anxiety, went overboard with no proper guidance, and my BP shot up. It took me a while to understand that the key is to go slow and increase your practice slowly.
I'm not going to comment about the article without reading it carefully; but just in case there are any aspiring data analysts online there is a chart that is interesting even without knowing anything about the data...

On page 64 (65 as the PDF numbers it), chart (b) "Distribution of savings rate" has an awkward little peak on the left hand side of the chart. It is very difficult to tell from inspection whether that is a real feature of the underlying data or if it is an artefact naive kernel density estimation.

If you ever see that pattern in your graphs, do consider trying logKDE [0] rather than ordinary Kernel Density Estimation a la geom_density() in ggplot. It also isn't perfect but the result is usually a bit better for things that approximate an exponential distribution.

[0] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/logKDE/vignettes/log...