skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fake it 'til you make it! I imagine they don't actually have a published author on the site yet?
Then buy their music on Bandcamp and pay more than the listed price, since Bandcamp gives you that option.
I would never be able to have interviews with them all in a single day (the constraint was me and the two founders had to travel to another city to get all interviews done in one day and I was asked if I can organize it). So what I, in my naivety, did was to invite them all to single room for an exam-like event and gave them programming tasks in Scratch, if I remember well.

Once we had results, we took 10 with best scores and had half an hour short interview with each one, after which we debated and selected 6.

Yes. That did happen. I even felt quite proud that I was so efficient. I still feel dirty. Have a laugh.

Only after I came back home I have realized what happened and that these people are going to be backbone of the company for years to come. I have realized the founders, coming from a larger company have absolutely no ability to form a team. Because they have always been joining an existing team they have always looked at the team as a collection of random people and decided that it doesn't make much difference how the people are selected as long as they have a team of people who can demonstrate they can program.
You didn't read the comment correctly. Wizardry is from the perspective of the tech aware but not tech saavy users.
I have found that the perfect amount of wait time is, conveniently, how long it takes for the natural pressure release to complete after cooking. Normally that's another 10-15 mins or so, but whenever the pressure lock drops so that you can open the lid the rice should be good.

I always disable the Keep Warm setting though, not sure if that makes a difference.
That it's Bill Gates should probably indicate that "90s" is wrong: what job is Bill Gates applying for in the 90s?

It's actually from the mid-70s, apparently.
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Even if one might quibble with the premise, parent's point is that the fortunes of the many outweigh those of the few. Your point is what... the converse? I don't think I can agree.
Yes, even in Berlin you most times have NFC support if they support cart payment by now. And Berlin is probably one of the cities with the most "cash"-only shops/restaurants/bars/* in Germany and really no one expects you to have NFC support or card support at all (if you are a small shop/*).

EDIT: Btw. they lifted that limit temporary to a much higher value (something >50€) so that less people have to touch the numpad when shopping (at least in/for larger grocery stores).
I feel like the Chinese style social score system won't have enough support in government for most countries, but we'll receive a decentralized version anyway through corporate overreach.

Also, it's always amusing to arrive at an article about data collection and be greeted by this: https://i.imgur.com/d4Z4sdd.png
I still don't understand why this even needed to be fixed. Finding a way to circumvent UEFI DRM seems to be a good thing.
> When the water is gone the temperature of the pot starts to rise.

Water-to-rice ratios are important. America's Test Kitchen has a good video on the topic, especially if you're using a pot and not a rice cooker:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOOSikanIlI

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJFU7ezipbg

The rice actually only 'needs' a 1:1 ratio, but you need to put in extra to deal with evaporation; brown rice needs more-extra because it takes longer to cook (the bran slows absorption), and the longer cooking time leads to more evaporation.

TL;DR: ignore what's on the bag/box, and for every cup of rice add one cup of water (1:1, 2:2, 3:3), and then a fixed amount of extra overhead for evaporation.
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I think parent’s point is that it doesn’t (but it should if it wants to survive)
The only selling point for many developers is that you need a Mac to compile a program for iOS.

Apple would have never gotten any of my money if it weren’t for that.
Don't most computers already have hardware accelerated encode/decode via cpu/gpu?
The point I'm attempting to communicate is that a little effort can go a long way to show your interest in a position. Many people write long & unpersonalized copy/pasta that says nothing about the job to which they are applying.
The US government _especially_ should be handling out tests for free, even if other countries or places in the worth charge a nominal amount.

The US though is has two main problems that make any sort of charge ridiculous:

First, there is a larger-than-normal section of the population that apparently believes the entire pandemic is a "giant hoax", and _most likely_ won't get tested anyways. Any charge at all would be s further hinderence

Second, and most importantly, the US medical system has lost all trust when there is any charge whatsoever (such as in the related article), but more to the point, the system has lost all trust when there is any possible way that they could actually bill you.

In the US I don't care if you tell me that something is going to be $5, or $50; if there is _any cost at all_, which means that _they have some way of billing me_, I have to operate on the assumption that I will at some point get mailed a bill for X thousands of dollars.
Love to see the Perl team discussing these issues in such a thoughtful way. Over the years I have learned to value stability and backwards compatibility, through hard lessons (which were often quite expensive to my employer). But no one value is good or bad, per se, rather they should be selected carefully: and that is the point I took away from this article.
Imagine a FHE circuit that executes a single webassembly instruction. This is a finite circuit that takes as input the program, machine state and external input (all encrypted). As output it returns the (encrypted) new machine state and a single unencrypted bit indicating if the program terminated or not.

Now you can run the FHE step for as many times as the algorithm requires, giving you a FHE-VM that can execute any WebAssembly program from your favorite Turing complete programming language.

The limitations are that you need to define a bounded machine state, which technically breaks the Turing completeness. In practice this is no different from your laptop having a finite amount of memory which disqualifies it as a Turing machine. Real Turing machines don't exist.

The other limitation is that the FHE executor can now see the total run time of the algorithm, which was secret before. This is similar to a timing side channel and similar mitigations apply.

As others have pointed out, if you have a concrete algorithm you can do something much simpler than implement a VM. The Collatz sequence is good toy example of an algorithm with unknown loop bounds. You would make a FHE circuit that iterates a single step using the same overall design.
I'm betting it was just a rating out of 10 the person answering the phone did after each call.
Also not really a black swan event. Plenty of people saw the crash coming. Just not economists or regulators or real estate shills.
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It doesn't, it is his attitude when people ask about it that makes him an ass.
The fact that it’s inaccurate doesn’t make it more acceptable.
With the simplest rice cookers, there's no programming. When the water is gone, it is gone.
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These articles always leave out whether and how much the person actually ended up paying. Being an attorney, she should not have paid more than $175.

Medical providers get away with playing price roulette under the theory that when you show up and ask for help, they're entitled to fair compensation for their services. Their billing department then goes to work manufacturing a bill that justifies "costs" much higher than they actually incur, and there is no specific way to refute them.

But in this case, she had a contract for those services at $175. The provider can't just decide that they deserve more than their contracted rate and send her an additional bill. That would be like going to the grocery store, paying your total at the checkout, and then receiving a bill in the mail for the cashier's time under a theory that you had only paid for the food.

Since the victim here is an attorney, writing a strongly worded letter repudiating the fraudulent bills should have come naturally. Did she do this? Did the provider then go to court and successfully substantiate their fraud, or what?

edit: I don't know what the downvotes are for.

Reading the article again, I guess she ended up punting to insurance and so far has personally paid $0. Although her insurance states that she may have to pay "up to $600", so the matter doesn't seem over. These stories always lack so much agency, its frustrating.

The cost disease is a problem, and it seems none of the businesses involved have an incentive to reign it in. Apart from the future possibility of single payer, cash payers are currently one of the few checks on the market. But the dynamic is never fully explored - just because someone sends you a bill does not mean you have to pay it!
Yeah that's probably the bigger problem!
Secure boot can usually be turned off if its unwanted. I agree its not necessary on every device—but if it is enabled, the OS should assume the user wants security at that level of the chain. It certainly shouldn't just circumvent it as a matter of course.
Things I like to think I’d do if I made 10^9 every 2 weeks:

-pay everyone making minimum wage or below 100$ for registering to vote. Cost about 170m.

-devote some portion of it to animal safety and care taking. Even stuff like sanctuaries for feral cats, dogs, and other non-adopted creatures as opposed to euthanasia.

-public libraries that provide services people otherwise wouldn’t have. Like a public square almost. Have a clearing house match up community interests with speakers and the like. Ie inviting religious people or leaders from religions foreign to the community to come in and discuss their beliefs and culture. I also want people to be able to request and invite things like lectures from theoretical physicists. Also do stuff like letting people request time on musical equipment in the building to learn how to play - or even just see if it’s for them.

Granted, all of this would probably negatively affect that biweekly 1 billion!
I think that people wind up worried about the wrong thing on these systems. The worst case scenario, where some all-knowing system negatively impacts you because it's rating your behavior on some opaque scale, isn't the one we should be worried about.

That by itself is scary enough, but the much more likely case is the one where this system is rating you based on wrong information, and given Finagle's law..

Especially concerning when the justice system starts using this info; you really, really don't want to be the false positive.
similar strategy is for Symfony in PHP for major versions and it works well. For example next major version 6.0 will have the same features as 5.4 version with removed BC layer (deprecations etc.). This allows for smoother upgrades. You just fix all deprecations and then You can upgrade major version without stress
> but I think people sometimes underestimate the foothold of the CCP in mainland China and assume a coup would happen a week after YouTube was let in.

The important point is not what people believe, but what the CCP itself believes.

It seems natural for all governments brought to power through revolution to overestimate and fear the power of revolution. Especially when they knowingly don't have a firm grasp on public thinking, due to continued suppression of open, free media.
They must be 260,000× engineers.
The young "gamer republican" and the people wooed by flashy Milo types really helped push him over in the rust belt last time. How out of date that sounds now just shows how much he's lost that group.

His calculation is wrong. There's a few remaining bowties in the under 30 group but now probably not more than any other time.

Lucky for him the democrats are profoundly incompetent and would find a way to trip over their own shoelaces while walking barefoot so it may not matter.
> With that much money, you could pile $1 million onto each of the 19,368 seats in the Walton arena and still have enough left to give Walmart’s 2.2 million associates about $90,000 each.

Does this measurement mean anything to anybody? It doesn't help me visualize anything.
While I generally think a cover letter, even if mostly generic, is a good idea as a way of at least somewhat personalizing your application, there's a lot about that one that sort of turns me off. It would be a net negative for me.
The possible silver lining is that companies will quickly realize the data is garbage (which is causing then losses) and stop using it.
Well the Screen is much different. You dont get Pro Motion on Mac yet, and you wont ever get it at this price point on the Mac Lineup.
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I'm not inverting the meaning. I used that idiom precisely because it conveys the meaning that going after the two in the bush can leave you empty handed. I think this is a terrible idea and that antagonizing your existing users on the hope that new users will start using perl is going to kill your community, and I hope that the real reason for the decisions made around Perl7 are not actually to attract new users by compromising what the existing user base cares about. The post wasn't supposed to read as if it favors the new direction - sorry if that wasn't clear, it was supposed to convey the exact opposite through the use of the bird in the hand idiom and dismissing the birds in the bush as a mere hope that they'll get a rush of new users.
Golang projects seems to use the same claims too -- even if they're way behind C/C++ etc equivalent projects in performance.

In many cases it's just newby devs surprised by how faster (almost for free) they get than some scripting language they used before...
I couldn’t find the exact stats, but here’s my argument:

If the grounding protocol had an effect on lactate peaks and clearing ability, then the second and subsequent runs would show what you’re seeing. What I couldn’t verify before my point is whether the lactate measurements were different the first day before “grounded sleeping”
Yeah imo law of demeter shouldn't apply for namespace organization of static, globally relevant functionality. The amount of dots in that case is irrelevant to me because it doesn't really imply changing context in the same way. more like drilling down in a phonebook than calling your neighbor and telling them to call Bob for you
The kind of people who make and buy these technologies say, “you just need more data/a better algorithm.”

They don’t get that you could have 99.99999% of all possible information on a person AND that the missing 0.00001% could change everything you know about them.
It really depends. After all, there are UEFI x86 systems using secure boot to boot Linux, but there was also Microsoft's vision of ARM (spec outright prohibits user managed keys, and nobody's shipping with anything but Microsoft keys).
Kudos! It's not so often I manage to spot Goat counter in the wild
$22 million dollars is not "hardly wealthy". It's filthy rich.
More history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hardest_Logic_Puzzle_Ever, https://www.technologyreview.com/2012/06/13/185681/the-harde...
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Only 200 races? That's honestly a lot less than I expected. There's probably at least 100 contentious races in the House and Senate, for instance, and that's before even looking at state races.

And really, the important thing is the amount they give, not the number of targets. One could argue that giving $20 to ActBlue is engaging in hundreds of races, too.
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I am working on a chatbot app for sellers in the middle east and LATAM.

I am curious to visit FB office, and talk to someone there to make a partnership for instagram access.

I know that most of these things happen online these days, but is it possible to get an invite to Facebook HQ office?
So still only an option for porting few special applications for making them available at all and nothing for building applications purposely cross platform.
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Leaving the door open is risky only because there are people who steal around. Not because leaving the door would be risky no matter where you live and who is around.

If people locked bikes in garages, people eager to steal bikes would have tools to cut chains in garages. So while it is safer to lock the bike, the blame for stealing goes to whoever stole it.
That’s a nice idea, but the history of graphics APIs and drivers suggests otherwise. The path between the hardware and the application has only gotten shorter and more direct, not less.
If we could have a hard lockdown for 4-8 weeks and still come out the other end in good financial shape, that would be amazing, and really get the virus under control. If a small number of families could make that happen, let's do it.
Isn't it possible to buy most high-end smartphones with 256 gig of RAM?
Ask HN: I have $450K cash, what should I do to maximize my return?
I recently came into some money and now I have $450K in cash burning a hole in my pocket.

I have about $50K in an index fund, own land worth $150K (paid off) and another $200K in industrial real estate investments.

Given this spread, what should I do with the cash? I'm not comfortable investing the entirety into an index fund, given the current socio-political climate.

I'm located in the Midwest, USA.
> If some piece of code is used to predict my employability based on my facial expressions

Funfact: when I first moved to USA I would practice emoting in the mirror so Americans could read my face and wouldn’t penalize me during interactions. Now people back home say I “grin like an american”

> can’t say anything in public

Ever noticed how Gen Z is switching back to private chatrooms and message groups? Public stuff is all polished and curated.
If the competition was written in say Ruby or TCL they might have had a point in touting the language used as a performance enhancer.

But all terminals people care about are already C/C++ -- Rust doesn't have that much (if any) speed advantage there...

It's all down to algorithms used... It's not like terminal code will take benefit from e.g. memory aliasing related optimizations...
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I am suspicious at the lack of a "pricing" tab. It's free of ads, they won't sell my data, they're "here to help me" - so who's paying to maintain this? Should I use this if I don't know it will still be around in 3 months?
Every single time that I’ve tried Ubuntu it’s been killed by an update.

Manjaro is the only distro that was stable enough to keep running without fail. Been running it for 2 years now. One of the best things it has over Ubuntu is the ease of installing software. No more hunting down keys or PPAs.
> Haven't the most egregious erosions of civil liberties (Patriot Act for example) been implemented using the same argument?

Yes. We should be careful about it. That’s why I’m against secret courts. But this action us happening in the open, and ByteDance will have a chance to challenge it in court. (Something no American company could do in China.)

Just because something can be abused doesn’t mean it is always abusive.
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Are US carriers even allowed to do this?
To put things in perspective, a billion is a thousand million. The Waltons are worth 215,000 million dollars.

A relatively few lucky Americans may acquire a few million over their entire careers. I am a well paid developer who's had a number of good breaks and I hope to have that much some day for retirement.

215B is an unimaginable amount of wealth.
On the other hand, technology has always shaped music: each instrument's specific technology shaped what could be done, or not done, with it. And how disks, then tapes, then disks again, before Internet, all shaped how music was "packaged", experienced and distributed outside of live concerts.
The US ostensibly isn’t banning TikTok to prevent its population from being exposed to foreign criticism, ideas, etc which might reflect badly on The Party. We know this because the US permits lots and lots of foreign media, applications, and websites while China restricts far, far more.

None of this is to say that I think the executive action is a good idea, but there is a middle ground between “a bad idea” and “literally the same as the CCP”.
This would be an absolute game changer.

Everyone aspires to own a Macbook but either flat out can't afford one or can't justify the price. (I'm in the second camp)

This changes all of that.
The product isn't short video. It's making a quick, low friction social connection to a group of people.
I don't buy that. I think procedural programming could do the trick, with details only for key buildings, for instance (which is how Google Maps started their modelling anyway). Yes, that would necessarily mean that you won't recognize your own house, but it would mean that you could drive along in a virtual world that is very similar (simulated even) to the real thing. As before mentioned, Outerra^[1] already did this for the entire Earth. It's a great project. Check it out if you haven't already! :)

[1]: https://outerra.com/index.html
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That’s storage, not RAM. 8GB of RAM is still a large amount for a phone.
Python is highly opinionated towards single-threadeding, and the infamous GIL makes "true" multi-threading hard. Async and multi-threading has only recently gotten some love at all in the language and stdlib.

I'd say single-threading is the right call for 99% of Python's use-cases and users. C extensions are available and widely used for core functionality that needs to be fast and/or parallel, e.g. large parts of numpy are in the c extension.
Johns Hopkins isn't developing a vaccine. Fauci's team is (in collaboration with Moderna). The latter's report on when a vaccine will be available is straight from the horse's mouth. Note that he didn't say wide availability. He has consistently stated that will come later. https://www.forbes.com/sites/karenrobinsonjacobs/2020/07/24/...
A central premise of this article is not correct. If an employer, for example, is using tens of thousands of background data points to deny employment to a person, the employer would need to disclose that to the applicant.[1]. If the things in this article are secret then the law may well be violated. Also, not really the best idea to apply secret proprietary algorithms to these kinds of decisions because you're eventually going to have to disprove improper bias, which can easily and "systemically" be baked into a background screening tool.

[1] https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/background-checks-what-em...
We have a cuckoo rice cooker in Sweden (purchased in Korea). It is great!

Our cuckoo is a preassure cooker, and the rice it makes is the best I’ve had.

We currently live in Tokyo, and the Panasonic we got here is not as good as the cuckoo. Maybe because the power here is weaker?
For a long time, I would have said something similar. For me, the big advantage of a rice cooker is timing. I can start it before the rest of the dish and no matter how long it takes to cook up everything else, the rice is ready to go. And it is ready to go if someone else in the household eats an hour or two later. And when I go to put leftover rice in the fridge, it's still palatable, so when it comes out of the fridge it's also palatable if properly stored.