skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"on the whiteboard"

In real work there is a whiteboard, but everyone in the room is part of the discussion. You're set in the context of the work being done. You are aware of the end goals. You look up things on the internet. You experiment and write tiny programs at a repl. You think about the work being done both actively and while sleeping subconsciously maybe even during your commute. You have conversations with coworkers - stress free. When people say "it took me only 15 minutes to solve this at work" they forget the prior 2 years of context setting.

Your question is on par with a math problem. If they don't immediately think about string manipulation. I would rather see a candidate walk through some of their code on Github as better example of their skillset or having a candidate do a PR review over existing code shows much more insight. Reading code is harder than writing code, especially without context. Both activities highlight communication.

One of the best interviews I ever had was doing pair programming on a real computer. The interviewer was driving (removing typing gitters, editor issues) TDD style. Write a test. How do we get that test to pass? Is there a chance to refactor? Everything that appeared on that screen had to be communicated. That was by far the most fun I've ever had in an interview.

We've done some of the same pairing type activities during our interviews. And I could tell within 2 minutes if the person was used to pairing. When a negative review would come back a lot of the time it was because "their communication could be better". Vibe is a thing and pairing is a skill.

At the end of the day interviewing is about playing games and the employer makes the rules.
Oh. I may have misread the author's intention. If it's just trolling, it ceases to be funny or insightful.
I was thinking about more research which leads to alternatives which are smaller, not the smaller GPT-3.
It's a safety device; it must work reliably in adverse conditions, which is a requirement no consumer device, including €5000 TV sets, can meet.
Also I believe in case of failure it would expose the manufacturer to some nasty lawsuits, hence the cost which very likely is equally spread on research, top notch build, quality control and insurance.
Feature request: Can the events that are free have something other than a "purchase ticket" button? That's making me vaguely uncomfortable for some reason. Maybe just a H1 saying that it's free and more emphasis on adding it to a calendar? Should free events need accounts? You might get more traffic if they don't. And with more traffic you get more eyes on the content that does cost money.
I remember reading about this place once, sounds like something out of some dystopian novel. How was growing up there?
A step function is not computable?
"FWIW this sounds super easy to do within an extension ..."

It probably is but I feel like debug/info URLs are simple and lightweight and belong in the core feature set - especially this one which you can find hundreds of examples over decades of people asking how to get this information.
It would be harder. But that would be regardless of the price. Going from $1 to $1.05 is the same as from $1000 to $1050. I am confused by how that’s confusing.
Or you could push the wiper button on the left, which will bring up the wiper controls on the screen.
> It's refreshing to see that this anti-democratic sentiment is said so bluntly, usually it's covered up in weasel words.

This sentiment is at the core of America. It's not a secret at all.

Pure democracy is necessarily predicated on a rejection of human rights. We have a Constitution because individuals have human rights that cannot be violated no matter how many people vote on it.

Pure democracy is evil.

> Please let me know which of the communist regimes of the 20th century that started out democratic.

What do you think the word "soviet" means in Soviet Union?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_democracy

> That's a sociopathic response to why on earth 71k people should die every year in a country of abundance simply because they don't have any money.

This is a utopian response which is actually indicative of sociopathy.

"There are three questions which will destroy most of the arguments on the left: 1. Compared to what? 2. At what cost? 3. What hard evidence do you have?" – Thomas Sowell
Too many ideas are a good kind of problem. If you can’t decide, throw a dart and pick one. Low hanging fruits picked at low cost is the key.

If you like creating, just create. Don’t worry about marketing. Overtime, you will figure out.

If you start with certain Return expectations, and then don’t get close to those expectations you will be disappointed. Just don’t have any expectations. Just create. Do for the fun of creating.
Well, the terminology matters to me. The language we use tends to frame how we think about issues. I find the language of entrepreneurship distasteful when used outside a business context.
> java will always be slower than the languages the other poster said

That's true, and while Valhalla will help close the gap, it is important to understand that Java's goal is not to be the fastest language, but to be the language where it's easiest to get to 95% of full performance potential. I don't think any other language achieves that as well as Java. The question, then is how much you're willing to pay for that extra 5%.

In other words, for every Java program X, there exists a C/C++ program Y that's at least as fast. But is the cost of writing Y worth it given the particular performance benefit? The reason Java is so popular is that the answer is very, very often no. And remember that the lower Java costs are not just in the "coding costs" of writing and maintaining, but also in observability. These days, thanks to the Java Flight Recorder, Java gives you unparalleled insight into what your application is doing for very little overhead.
Very timely for me as I am teaching my 15 year old programming. I started with python and am using the excellent slides from this course at Cambridge as our guide: https://help.uis.cam.ac.uk/service/support/training/download...
Thank you, but that's not a good workaround because your open tabs might be spread across 10 or 12 or 20 different windows ...

This isn't so much a feature request as it is a request for some simple debug info which can be accessed with a special://url (whatever those are called ...)
I'm so glad these FF config options exist:

mousewheel.acceleration.start
mousewheel.acceleration.factor

I have them set to 1 and 15.

Works with Thunderbird as well!
This is the strategy Facebook did with Messenger. Absolutely everyone complained when they tried to spin it out.
2 ms per 10 files is a huge amount of time.
I imagine it's like a slightly more comfortable Kowloon Walled City.
I tried it but the captcha told me my request looks automated. Any way to circumvent that?
Are there many databases that are accessible over the open internet?
The AWS elastic load balancers don’t support IPv6 targets, and since they are used in almost all circumstances means that AWS’ support for IPv6 is practically irrelevant. Plus, it’s not on their road map to fix.
I would personally feel bad ripping off kids who almost certainly couldn't actually afford the things they were buying from me. If you could overlook the ethical part of this suggestion then I guess it's easy money.
I love Arcosanti. That's where I go when I need to get away for a coding breakthrough. I wish I could live there and help build it, but my family would never agree to move there with me.
Inside a Mound in Hiroshima
I think this is more for serious wilderness hiking and camping, not a trek through a national park with designated campgrounds.

High quality backpacks and hiking boots are around $200, and tents are easily double that. If you’re going on hikes that pose a realistic chance of getting stranded, you’re probably pretty serious and already paying for premium equipment. In which case, another $300 for peace of mind shouldn’t be a dealbreaker.
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> Reels isn’t going to compete with TikTok in any real way for a few simple reasons.
> First and foremost, as a non-Instagram user, I flat-out can’t use it

Huh – Reels isn't going to compete because you need to download Instagram?
Ask HN: 5K 27“ computer monitor recommendation?
I'm looking for a 5K 27" computer monitor but it seems there is literally only one option on the market: the LG/Apple UltraFine 5K 27" display.

I prefer this resolution at this size because it amounts to 220 PPI, which is 'Retina' (HiDPI) at macOS's native integer scaling.

Apparently there were a few models some years ago, such as the Dell UP2715K, the HP Z27q, and the Philips 275P4VYKEB, but they're discontinued. Other options like the Planar IX2790 and the iiyama XB2779QQS are impossible to find now. What's the solution here?

There's a glut of 4K 27" monitors on the market but to get Retina, you'd have to run them downscaled by 4x to 1080p, which is less than ideal.
The vast majority of people that visit national parks stay at campsites that are attached to parking lots, that have running water and bathroom facilities, and that have at least some cell reception. Many of these are attached to well marked, well traveled trails with amazing views that make for excellent all-day hikes. You don't need a PLB to visit one of these camp sites or hike some of these trails.

But if your off-the-grid campsite is a 30 hour hike from the nearest road, and half of that hike includes a mountain scramble and a trek across a frozen alpine lake, then I'm sorry, but you can't responsibly plan such a trip in 2020 and not carry a PLB.

Between your clothes, boots, jackets, shelter, backpack, food, fuel, cooking gear, and navigation equipment, you're likely carrying at least $1000 of equipment. You can figure out how to borrow a PLB.

Spending days flying circles around a vast wilderness where somebody might have gotten lost is expensive and time consuming and takes resources away from other people who might need them. It took 20 years to get Sarsat up and running and for PLBs to get cheap, and now rescue organizations all over the planet are asking you to please, for your sake, for theirs, and for the sake of other people who may also need emergency services, carry a goddamn PLB if you're going to go off the grid.

Contrary to popular belief, going out into the wilderness is not about eschewing all technology. You still need to be responsible, and today, for certain activities, that means carrying a tiny piece of emergency equipment at the bottom of your backpack that you hope to never have to touch.
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The position is open to all remote US/Canada!
It's been a while, so things might have changed, but this article had indicated that while having plants still on the schedule, China had drastically cut their actual nuclear project starts, electing to finish out started plants, with the exception of the one of their internal design.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/12/12/138271/chinas-lo...

We will see if those announcements actually go forward.
I ran a 100k starting at Arcosanti in winter 2019, which left under heavy black clouds, light hail, and a blinding sunrise that illuminated the tall, white dormant grass on the top of the mesa. It was like living in a sepia-toned version of reality. All in all it was an absolutely surreal experience that I'll remember forever.
I'm just pointing out the truth, no bitterness intended.
"ORM is great because it means I have all the data avaliable!"
Hmmm, that's really interesting! Thanks for digging into it a little more and posting these resources :)
Despite the “fix”, it’s hard not to worry about the app ecosystem when:

- There exists a way outside user control to auto-kill software with no apparent recourse. (This time it was one set of apps but what prevents an automation bug from bricking a bunch of other software for at least a few hours?)

- The explanation to the user errs on the side of “developers bad, Apple good” (disabled software “may damage your computer”, not “Apple may have screwed this up for you”). That’s at least unhelpful for solving the problem, if not a lie.

- Like many things Apple ruins for developers, they’re perfectly happy to let users destroy your app rating and send all criticism to the developer and lean on the developer for all tech support.

There really needs to be a way for users to understand Apple’s role in all these things. App developers are not directly responsible for everything you experience.
No, this is literally the dumbest way possible to accomplish the task. It is as close to a brute force approach as you can get, I can see no way in which it could be less efficient without being malicious. And it is the only way of accomplishing this task in the standard library of a language which prides itself on performance and maintainability.

Also, thanks for the ad hominem, perhaps you shouldn’t attach your self worth to a programming language and see how that works out for you.
> the value prop was "you can be yourself when your parents and boss aren't in the audience"

If that's the value prop, what were people willing to pay for that value?

I think, instead, getting sponsored stories in front of eyeballs is the service being provided to the paying customers.
If curious see also

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18671993

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13182726

2016 (a bit) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12627295

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11671730

2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9861294

2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9085158

2014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7593109
This hasn't rolled out to me yet (Canada). I'd be super annoyed about this.
Have you heard about refusal chess? Each player proposes two moves and the opponent gets to pick the move that suits them best.
The problem here is that Clojure only appears to other Clojure code to do what you're describing, but heavily relies on mutation and locking under the covers. Any lazy seq in Clojure is actually a mutable data structure that guards mutation with locks. Clojure, however, could emit instructions that check for interruption at sites that are safe for Clojure to interrupt a thread.
Worth noting that the new ESP32-S2 board has a RISC-V co-processor[1], and SeeedStudios recently released the Sipeed MaixCube with a K210 RISC-V[2] as the main processor (and a screen etc for $25!! I've ordered one).

[1] https://maker.pro/esp8266/tutorial/a-comparison-of-the-new-e...

[2] https://www.seeedstudio.com/Sipeed-Maix-Cube-p-4553.html
I feel your pain. I have similar challenges, my kids are not as old, so I still hold hope, but wonder where did my genes end up and what to do to fire them up.

VI all the way!
Hi; is there anything documented about the following effect of taking high-ish doses of Vitamin D3 for a while: a tooth/jaw sensitivity appears, like you can "feel your teeth"? In the past I have used that as as signal to back off on the Vitamin D. What is the mechanism?
Most ikiwiki sites are in a similar style, and the original c2 wiki too.

And RMS's website.
I donated some amount of money to this fund: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/lebanon-relief

Hope it ends up helping those in need.
I wrote that synopsis quickly and expected some nit-picking but that's an excellent correction. Thanks.
That all rings pretty true for me. I wasn't a fan of math as a kid, or anything I associated with school really. I got into programming through Game Maker, because video games were something I legitimately cared about and liked. It pretty much changed my life and gave me something to aspire to.

Now that I've grown up, my primary interests lie in virtually all aspects of computer science, and I no longer consider making games to be much more than a hobby and passion project to spend my free time on. I only wish I'd have had a mentor of some kind in the world of CS, so that I could have gotten into it earlier in my childhood. Major props to you for being an awesome uncle :)
Well there are 3 fragments related to this, one likely fake. It is a way to wake you up in his crazy paradox.

There are books and articles and may be one can start with the key phrase What is same river

And the hidden issue is you. If you think it is unique every time frame ... what is same river and same you. Can One same you even step into the River

And if step into it and swim in parallel is the molecules mostly the same ...

Back to What is river? If it is keep on changing as any river that is not changing and moving is not a river, the sameness if you accept then you can step into the same river as many time as you like. But that is wrong per the statement. Hence what is “same river”.
Fascinating.

>perhaps fearful of confiscation by a successful enemy or a government tax on capital, a plan that was mooted in Britain in 1920 ...

Hard asset confiscation, in the US case of gold, has been mooted, passed into law, and enforced:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
11yr old has a successful Youtube channel about unreal mods. I'm a prog but I can't catch up with his skills cos he's working in a completely different medium to me (VR, Sound?). 15 year old is a silly sod buying 'gaming' hardware to play click games. His only hope is girls I'm afraid.
People, depending on their expectations, will perceive your app as one of these categories:

- A: not slow

- B: slow, but still using

- C: intolerably slow and no longer use it

Indeed, you can't measure C with a survey. But for most apps, it's probably reasonable to assume a distribution of thresholds where, if B/(A+B) (ie, the result you get on a survey of users for "is it slow") is less than 5%, there probably aren't many in C.
I use Firefox with all the privacy stuff turned on. I have to do multiple, difficult recaptchas all day. I've even missed out on Yosemite campsite reservations because of the delay from all the captchas presented to me when trying to book :(
Does the fact that Google and Microsoft have Indian CEOs, Sundar / Satya respectively, give them an advantage when dealing with the Indian market? Especially when considering the fact this pronounced interest in Jio is largely just as a way to enter into negotiations with the owners of the Indian market/government.
Though, keep in mind that the satellite messenger's battery is going to run lower much faster if you use it much (and paying at least a $12/mo subscription for it on top of the purchase price, you'll probably be pretty tempted to use it), while a PLB never runs down from use because you only ever use it in a definite emergency.
All the software you cited is basically server infrastructure software. I suppose that depending on your definition of important, you could say that this is the majority of important software. Perhaps if important includes only what is needed to develop web properties. But there are a lot of people who use software besides web developers. I don't really buy that your list names even close to the majority of important software by most folks' reckoning of what's important.

Some important (to me and many other people) software you didn't mention:

* Everything besides generic infrastructure that makes
any web property work (Google, Bing, Netflix, Facebook,
Amazon, DropBox, Personal Capital, etc.).
* Microsoft Windows
* Microsoft Office
* Mac OS X
* Nearly all games
* Nearly everything that makes any given bank work
* The Adobe Creative Suite
* Any popular Android or iOS app

I'd guess that the number of people working on the pieces of software I mention here exceeds those working on your list by at least one if not two or three orders of magnitude. I doubt much of it would be economically viable except for government protection of intellectual property.

Anyway, fortunately, the government will likely to continue to protect IP in the foreseeable future. It's working pretty well so far.
For sure! In our cart view we don't ask for payment info, but definitely hear you on this. We'll begin discussing what changes are needed to facilitate this. We are trying to keep the barrier to entry low -- for both creating & viewing so this would certainly do that!
I cannot immediately see how this approach has less environmental impact.

I have thought that underground structures could have less environmental impact. Leave the surface for animals and plants, and live underground.

Heat increases as you approach the center of the earth, so you get free heating. Seismically it may suck, though.

Or, live inside mounds, like the Cahokia.
If your doctor knows nothing about a drug, but prescribed it because you saw it on TV, find another doctor.
Dude, hell yeah. Game Maker changed my life. I was so proud to be able to script my own stuff and be able to hang with the older kids in the irc channel. None of them believed an 11 year old was writing his own pure-GML games!

Now, decades later I’m finally pursuing that little dude’s dream, although games also lost their luster for me on the intervening years...
> You cannot eliminate suffering.

!= improving the collective opportunity to live life without suffering

> There's no guarantee or evidence that there is sentient life in the universe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24067017
Besides captchas, I mostly have issues with trying to watch content from tv channel websites. Especially when trying to link a channel with a cable service.
I've written quite a bit of Elixir and introduced a few people to it, and I totally agree. When people ask me what Elixir is like I basically say, "It's a Lisp with a Ruby-ish syntax." Anyone who has used a lisp before recognizes the patterns immediately.
I am saying that East Asians get funneled into detail-oriented jobs that are about learning highly complex skills that are well paid.

Other people who go to Harvard can get into bullshit-oriented jobs that outpay the jobs East Asian Harvard grads get by more than East Asian Harvard jobs outpay the average American.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_ceiling

For instance,

"As of 2015, less than 2% of Fortune 500 CEOs are Asian, although they comprise 5.6% of the total United States population, and about 30% of the graduates in the top 20 MBA programs in the last 20 years."
Young people just make secret accounts and don't tell their parents. My younger brother is 15 and reports him and his peers are on both Snapchat and Instagram in addition to the usual suspects like Twitch, Tiktok, and Discord. The main reason I've heard for not using Facebook is largely that it's redundant when Instagram provides most of the same features in a slicker package. A lot of fb features like the event planning and facebook market aren't relevant to them yet.
Are you finding all your news articles alright? Let me know if you want a different size comment thread and I'll check the database.
Based on my limited experience (2.5 years based in Singapore (2010-2012) as tech evangelist for Amazon Web Services for APAC, ~25 business trips to India, dealing mostly with businesses but sometimes with government), understanding the culture helps, but I don't think at that level it's going to make a huge difference, compared to what's actually on the table.
Show HN: Nova - an 'innovation management' platform
I bootstrapped this with a partner, and working on it for a few years now part time. I am the only developer.

Nova has an online whiteboard, a bunch of innovation tools (think user empathy maps, story boarding, team building, idea generation etc), card decks, and you can build custom tools and decks and template projects.

Hoping our work pays off. Any feedback is appreciated :)