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From talking to some people who give out these interviews, most of those points really don't matter at all. What matters is A) getting a correct solution and B) being able to explain how you arrived at the solution. Tests, idiomatic code, clean design, etc are not expected and will inevitably waste precious time. Besides, the very nature of the interview (using a walled-off in-browser pseudo-IDE) restricts you from actually writing best-practice code.
But the asking rent is down ~15% y/y all through peninsula, so I don't think this argument really holds up.
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> Sometimes people are replying for the sake of everyone else reading, rather than just the specific comment to which their words are anchored.

Then you can start a new thread, or reply to a more directly related comment.

> This is how conversations work in person, too, where a small fragment of one point can lead to a tangent just based on that fragment.

I know, and in the wrong context that can be pretty annoying as well.
At the risk of being rendered totally invisible, I would have to point out that you still have to hire-on techies to develop and maintain your apps in the “cloud”. Not to mention the latency issues you would experience. That's when you're required to re-install your local hardware to be run in a hybrid/cloud solution. And having your “cloud” provider install edge/devices. Finally you should ask yourself just how much money you are going to save by moving to the “cloud”.
So we would reduce deaths by 7% by abandoning fossil fuels. Hmm, seems like a low priority by itself but I could be misjudging the significance.
From the article:

> SalivaDirect is highly sensitive and yields similar outcomes as NP swabbing.

Doesn’t sound far better? And really, when hyping up a new technology, if I hear “similar outcomes”, my BS detector says “a bit worse.”

With NP swabs, the main issue doesn’t seem to be poor technique, it’s more that samples reasonably often don’t contain enough virus to be detected by the PCR test, unless you’re timing is really perfect (i.e. about 3 days after first spring symptoms). From my readings it’s not necessarily the collectors fault, there just didn’t happen to be high viral load in the part of the body when the sample was collected. Probably similar for saliva? Though I don’t really know.
Accounting for errors isn’t the problem.

Teaching people to use and trust an insanely complex system is. I’ve yet to hear any proposal for an electronic voting system that offers any advantages over current systems AND doesn’t require a PhD in mathematics to grasp.
Peter Norvig’s Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence: case studies in Common Lisp shows how Common Lisp can be used “in anger” to create the compact powerful code people always say Common Lisp is good for.
I built a toy application to do exactly this using IPFS. https://github.com/abhiyerra/ipswarm
How much has life expectancy been boosted by universal access to electricity in the Western world enabled by hydrocarbons aka fossil fuels?
High fat diets are long known risk factors in the development in pancreatitis and high cholesterol. So much so that I don’t think I should have to cite any specific study. The rest of my comment will speak to pancreatitis with which I have actual experience.

Types of fats have no weight in that discussion. “Good fat” not “bad fat”—it doesn’t matter. It has to do with the work imposed on the pancreas in a high fat diet.

I should clarify that a high fat diet is not a direct indicator of future pancreatic issues, but is one of several leading risk factors.

I’d highly recommend going over the diet with a doctor before undertaking it to make sure there are no preconditions that might make a high fat diet put too much strain on the pancreas. It’s known as the “angry organ” for a reason.

I was on a high fat/high protein/low carb diet with plenty of gym time before possibly unrelated inflammation exacerbated by my diet (and since I was a drinker, that as well) in my pancreas resulted in a massive acute attack that caused partial organ death. That’ll be with me for life since transplants don’t sound like a great option for most cases. (Even worse, pancreatic issues can harm surrounding organs including the lungs, liver, spleen, and kidneys. Not something any active person would want to have to live with)

Prior to the attack my blood work was brilliant as well. After the attack my lipase levels were high, my white blood cell count was through the roof, and I was anemic (though I had always fluctuated hemoglobin levels with B12 deficiency, but never so low).

The worst part is you won’t see or feel it coming, and it will hit you like a brick wall. So my comments are only meant as precautionary—which I think is always the best course with any fad diets.
"The alternative would be to make a new network which gets rid of all the extra layers of management..."

In a way, what you did was describe a few of the benefits that IPv6 offers. I'd say "that's coming" or "it being actively rolled out" but we are about 25 years in & usage is still an underwhelming figure.
In human language I think physical reality is always a few layers out.

Yes, the point is you can neglect physical (and logic) reality for a while in a stream of sentences. But not forever and that's where current NLP's output has it's limits. Just a simple level, a stream of glittering adjectives can be added to a thing and just add up to "desirable" unless those adjectives "go over threshold" and contradict each other and then the description can get tagged by the brain as a bit senseless.
Nobody really cares at any of the places I've worked either. I'm usually using company computers and one of the first things I do in the email client is set it to text
The built in php -S can run WP just fine, albeit without url rewrites, aka nice permalinks. One still needs a mysql server though.
It does read like that, but even so, the initial question from Raptor Computing Sys was very well worded and not disrespectful at all. The inability to at a minimum leave it as "We've covered this before, and disagree on some items. We'll have to agree to disagree and leave it at that." or even "I'm doing what I can, we'll see where it ends up in the end" or "See the official account for official statements" is the troubling part. Then a gain, that doesn't appear to be uncommon on Twitter, where everyone seems to have trouble disambiguating their professional and personal lives, and those of the people they are responding to (which is related).
Yes if you are on AWS. Significantly speeds up the engineering workflow.

Not sure if it is a vendor lock-in. If a customer wanted to move from ECS to kubernetes, they will need to migrate the manifests, roles/rolebinding etc. That is a small effort as long as they do not have to rewrite the code.
Adversiarial training means that they specifically search for answers that the network would misunderstand. If this only leads to a 40 percent loss (the network still answers correctly 50% of the time) I still consider that remarkable.

Choosing the best from 8 answers where some of them were adversarially derived should be equivalent to choosing the best from all possible answers, of which there could be tens of thousands. How would a human do in that situation?

Although the kinds of mistakes the network makes seem like a mistake you would never do (i.e. you wouldn't call the condition of air outdoors gradient), the opposite could also be true, that it would easily answer questions you would have a problem with.
True, good point!

Tiered compilation in general does dynamic optimizations, definitely in JavaScript (runtime type collection, etc.) but also to a lesser extent in C# or Java (inlining, etc.). In wasm none of the tiers do dynamic optimizations AFAIK, but tiered compilation definitely helps there too, mostly with startup times.
How many thousands get to not die because of use of fossil fuels? Just for perspective...
Yes because I live in the suburbs, not the country. I'm talking about urbia vs non-urbia, not civilization vs the countryside.
Store your private key on a paper wallet all you want, but what are you going to do during a tiger kidnapping? People look at me weird when I bring this up, but know nothing about real security. I could advice some ISO certified procedures to keep your money safe but your family is going to be the weak link. Go read In Cold Blood by Truman Capote to get an idea on what could go wrong.
There is/are scale(s) in the vegatable/fruit corner, and one next to the self checkout corner.
Indeed. As a person from a comma country, I find these mistakes in most code bases I look at. It makes it frustrating to contribute to open source, for example.

Perhaps it’ll make you feel better about your parsing bug that even the C# compiler (Roslyn) code base had several of these issues.
Most "affordable" food I'd rather just make at home. If I eat out, other than travel, it's because the restaurant makes something I can't easily make myself. (I do get a pizza or whatever now and then but that's pretty widely available.)
Has anyone tried it out yet?
Buying drugs/murders on the darknet and getting untraceable ransoms from your cryptolocker malware are at least two solid use cases. One could argue evading currency controls is a 3rd.

The problem is that there's been no new uses found for blockchain after the initial uses discovered.
Cantonese is, like English and Mandarin, SVO.

E.g. I bought this book: ngóh(S) maáihjó(V) nìbún syù(O).

Contrast with Japanese: watashi wa(S) kono hon o(O) kaimashita(V).

Differences from Mandarin Grammar are listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese_grammar#Differences_...

Classical Chinese is also SVO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Chinese_grammar
They haven’t, NYC is also boring now.

With unemployment rising and poor benefits, civil unrest, and shitty containment policies; I’m thinking about riding the rest of this out back in Canada so we don’t get robbed/assaulted.
I don't understand how the author was able to set up a Jekyll/github/DNS/markdown website and later hitting a roadblock with the whole Apache/PHP/FTP/MySQL stack.

Is the root of all this the fact that github offers free hosting through github pages ?
There's a reason certs have a limited lifetime. People should be trained to avoid such websites.
I think economist is waiting for the free market to sell him a can opener.
Ah yes, locales. Everyone loves them https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...
At a guess: everything is shut down because of the pandemic.

That's true in other cities too. But if you can't take advantage of the facilities a city has to offer, why pay $4,000/month rent to live there during the pandemic when you could pay less than half of that somewhere else?
A couple of days ago I discovered DeOldify [0], so I decided to colourise the pictures from this article. No copyright infringement intended, IANAL but I guess these are old enough to be public domain by now.

https://imgbox.com/ED7IqzyD

https://imgbox.com/9kUgPmJa

https://imgbox.com/Jt1ngFre

https://imgbox.com/RElPFDJf

I've also started colourising photos of my grandpa's 1937 cycling tour of Germany, Austria, and Italy [1]. To make peace, we must actively reach out and befriend all kinds of people. I'm thankful for communities like this where we can all learn from one another without discrimination.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24162561

[1] http://drmarionb.free.fr/1937CyclingTour/
Avoiding Another AI Winter (2008)
That's absolutely not true, there are a ton of modern consumer CPUs with vpro. Here's a comparison of the 10500 through the 10900{,k}, all of which have vpro.
https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/compare.html?pro...

Here's the more complete list of Core processors which have vpro platform eligibility. It's quite long.
https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/search/featurefi...
I can totally relate to this. Just shut down my little hosting business I've been doing since 2002. I just couldn't keep everyone safe.
Seems like solution is open air stadiums, and minimum seat size. Sun's UV tends to kill germs, and fresh air dilutes them.

We should get a study on how much cramped seating contributes to blood clots. This is definitely an issue on long flights. But probably in some stadiums too.

I went to an NHL arena for a concert. Seats were so cramped, my feet were hurting halfway through. It was torture.
The real reason I need WAL mode is so I can read the database while vacuum is running.

The web server runs unprivileged and only needs read permission. Insert and vacuum are done as a user which has write permission.

The documentation says read only WAL mode is possible if there is write permission on the directory. So I put the database file in its own directory and set the mode of the database file to 0664 and set the mode of the directory to 3777. So an unprivileged process has permission to create WAL files which become group writable.
I know this is only anecdotal evidence, but whenever I do have to go into SF for meetings, it's not a pleasant experience. I do feel for the suffering that is evident in the city. But having to literally step carefully over syringes and flecks of human feces everywhere makes my trips to SF a health hazard. Once I was about to sit down on BART when I noticed a syringe left jabbed into the seat cushion, with blood still visible inside the syringe's barrel. Had I sat down, I may have contracted a blood-borne disease.
An example of a similar site that monetizes with ads via carbon
But do you trust him?
It might require physical access, as with https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advi... but that's still pretty bad as it allows for rootkits completely undetectable from the OS environment.
>the problem of determining whether a given program halts. But that is not the Halting problem

Huh? That is indeed the halting problem. More formally "given some turing machine H and an input x, decide whether H halts on x." But it is of course trivially semi-decidable.

>determining whether a program halts or does not halt

That is equivalent to the formulation mentioned above, since if we had a decider W for the halting problem then H(x) halts iff W(H, x) accepts and halts, and H(x) does not halt iff W(H, x) rejects and halts.

I think your confusion stems from the fact that if we had a decider for the halting problem, then the halting problem would be in R. But the fact that the halting problem is undecidable (i.e. not in R) means it is in RE but not co-RE.
Mosquitos, snails, slugs and fleas can absolutely carry worms to your cat. You can carry fleas on your clothing for example if you pet an infected animal on the street.
> The misconception is that people are leaving because the housing is too expensive and its not worth it anymore. Almost everybody I know that moved out had no problem affording housing (high earners / home owners / rent controlled). People are leaving because quality of life has fallen dramatically and the only thing keeping people in SF was their offices.

Whether something is too expensive is not just a function of whether you can afford it. It’s a question of whether it’s worth it at the price being offered. You make make that same conflicting point.

The affluent would simply be first movers in this type of situation as many do not need to time their exits with their leases ending. The cash poor, yet high income tech workers will be the next mass exodus.

If you think SF is a shell of a city now, just wait till 6 months from now.
It's certainly one of those "acquired tastes", though like with 3.5mm elimination, I don't understand the sheer vitriol against it by those who happen not to use it. Why do you care? If everything else in Thinkpad appealed to you, why would an eminently ignorable feature be such a HUGE ("single reason") deal breaker?

In my mind, either a) There are other reasons and this is a convenient conscious or subconscious scapegoat; or b) it's an extremely emotional decision, and as such certainly relevant to holder ("Whatever floats your boat!":) but not necessarily applicable or translatable to anybody else.

I'd be curious (genuinely!) to hear more - were you actually tempted by any Thinkpads in the past but rejected them due to trackpoint, and if so can you elaborate why - what use case did they prevent or what inconvenience did they cause? Thx muchly! :)
This week I’ve both been playing Factorio, and writing code for a new application. So, lots of figuring out interfaces, architecture and modularity, and how things will work together.

When I change from one of these activities to the other, I have the distinct mental impression that I’m not switching activities at all. When I switch from Factorio to my text editor, it’s such a seamless transition, as if I’m just scrolling to another part of my factory.

Not a sensation I’ve had with any other game, or any other pair of distinct activities, really.

I figure it must mean Factorio makes me a better coder. I better get back to it, then!
Could you offer some insight into why you believe this is the case?

As someone in my 20s, I don’t think I know anyone who is opposed to nuclear. From my vantage it’s not clear why this would be considered a lost battle.
I hope their strategy will work, we need to stop being so dependent of so few big companies. Huawei has the muscle to break the duopoly.
> The minister of education's reason for downgrading the grades was so that pupils did not end up in jobs they were not capable of doing. Delicious irony.

Fake news, sorry. https://fullfact.org/education/gavin-williamson-fake-quote/
Doesn't your brain derive knowledge through statistical inference? How else? I can imagine the AGI of the future (having perfected knowledge gathering through statistical inference) some day saying: "Humans perform tricks for treats. The tricks they do are impressive. But don’t be deceived, they aren’t wired to gain knowledge."
I think that would work if you're just checking for equality and want to minimize processing. I guess as a web developer I always just assume people are going to be storing strings in a database after normalizing them, so would want to minimize string length.
I do the same, mutt for personal email and web browser based for others (usually work provided email). I always keep work and private emails separate and correct people when they try to intermingle them (know me in RL as well as at work)
we do what we want!
which is wind power somehow
As other suggested, forcing interoperability would go a long way (it should be noted that e.g. facebook messenger WAS interoperable when Facebook wasn't as large, but they stopped it when they became the leader).

Additionally, separate to instagram / facebook / whatsapp ; possibly also facebook social / facebook marketplace / facebook events ; They should have a level of access that others have. Imagine Yahoo users could subscribe to Facebook events without ever setting foot in facebook.com ... I know it sounds like science fiction, but it's possible. like email....
To be clear, I was more asking how people achieve the sort of fast bootstrapped dev environments the parent comment describes using k8s, especially where you’re not necessarily talking about simple topologies like a monolith plus a database.
Eh, well, if they're the right sort of people, they'll catch it on the bounce.
Here's a short list to get you started:

- Homeless issues. Mentally ill people pissing and defecating on the sidewalks in every significant public space.

- Vehicle vandalism is extremely common and unchecked by police.

- Extremely high income taxes with no perceivable difference in government-provided services.

- Property tax law that advantages long-term owners over young people trying to buy at today's inflated prices.

COVID added some new ones:

- Extremely high pre-COVID rents meant many adults were living in roommate situations that seem a lot less acceptable when your health is tied to the willingness of everyone in your unit to behave responsibly.

- Bars and restaurants that made the city attractive for many are now closed

- Public transit in crisis and may no longer meet your needs
You can learn how to use some function to call into a database and study its behaviour, if you can grind leetcode and solve problems.

It's a good enough filter, the alternative is either way more costly or way worse(if you have seen "interviewing" which are just thinly veiled nepotism).
How Academic ‘Blacklists’ Impede Serious Work on Climate Science
Hopefully the one in this parallel universe.
The IPython notebook: a historical retrospective
Just to point out a caveat with the original idea: all the posts would be stored in a local database. If something where to happen to it, it’s quite miserable to recreate posts from scratch, even if you have the source material. Don’t ask how I know.

PS, author, if you see this, make sure to use a child theme or custom plugin to make code changes. Otherwise a security update (which are usually automatic these days) will wipe out your custom changes.
Ask HN: Need advice – I can't decide on a side project to work on
I have a full-time job as a software engineer. I'm in my 20s, and my eventual goal is to create something of my own (a software project) on the side which can earn me money, so that I can focus on it full-time and quit my full-time job.
When selecting a project I focus on the following criteria: 1. There is an actual need for it - Since it's something that I want to bring me decent income one day, it should be marketable. I can't just create something and hope people will like it. Also, not in an over-saturated market. The world doesn't really need another dating app, or another todo-list app. 2. It is fun to implement - It should be exciting to work on. For example, finance-related software can be a money-maker, but I find it utterly boring. I don't want to dread working on my own side project. 3. I can work on it on my own - I want it to be something I can create the foundations of on my own - not something I need partners from the start. I would only involve more people when the project reaches maturity.

All of the ideas I've had so far cover only 2 of the 3 criteria.

When I start working on a project that covers only 1 or 2 of the 3 criteria, I immediately give up on it and start searching for another one.

My current job involves work on Android, but it's not something I'm particularly passioinate, so that fails criteria 2.

In terms of my interests, there's entertainment (movies and video games), healthy living (workouts, gym, diets), travelling, educational videos, MOOCs, 3D printing, 3D graphics. I believe all of those are over-saturated in terms of software solutions, but I'm happy to hear your thoughts on this.

I've also read several past posts on HN on the same topic, including PG's essays. But I just can't notice any obvious problem that is not already solved.

Is there any advice you could give me? Or a framework I should follow? Or perhaps ideas that come to mind?
I have observed this problem and usually it’s not because the people are incapable but that the incentives are to ship things that move the needle to quickly get promoted. The financial rewards at these companies from promotions are huge.

Where the managers have incentivized quality and stability my team mates have moved mountains and I’ve seen some really good stuff but otherwise not.
>> riding the rest of this out back in Canada so we don’t get robbed/assaulted.

Better come home quick. Canada is getting more than a little afraid of how badly the US is handling the covid thing. Politeness only goes so far.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53742684

"While the border closure has had significant economic and personal repercussions for the millions of people that live along it or have loved ones on the other side, the vast majority of Canadians want it to stay shut."