skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As PaulHoule has pointed out, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24179043 , Kapton is the final "gold foil" layer in a foil sandwich to insulate almost all spacecraft, inclusive of the LEM. It was used extensively as insulation in almost every Apollo subsystem, including the Command Module, and it became a small tradition to take pieces of the foil with you after splashdown. A final keepsake after a mission gone well.

Others adopted the tradition and pilfered more pieces of foil. They were fairly indiscriminate. And spread the fruits widely. You can buy your own from places like here, https://shop.minimuseum.com/products/apollo-11-command-modul...

Personally, I would have loved to own a piece of our robotic explorers. Kapton has been used in incredible ways in craft like New Horizons. It's possible to overheat instruments in an object millions of miles away from the sun! https://mattcbergman.com/2015/08/02/new-horizons-thermal-con...
They think it's "not real" because the scale of the reaction to it isn't justified by the data and people can see that. If you really know several people who died of covid19 your very unusual. The vast majority of people will know none.
Can anyone explain/interpret what leetfree.com is saying here?

> ... don't try to solve it with online judge ...

> ... Try to learn from the solutions we provided as quickly as possible ...

> ... Interviewers only care about your WhiteBoard communication skills ...

Are they implying that rote memorization (memorize all problems and their solutions) is the best/easiest way to do the interviews?

If yes, wouldn't that trip you up the moment you're asked something new/original?

If no, what are they saying? Is the best leetcode stuff paywalled and they're providing a free version?

what's the latest on step-by-step most effective way to get ready for standard coding interviews?

Context: I'm trying to get back into this after many years. I've used leetcode in the past but don't remember anything about online judge.
Emacs has been able to do this for a very very long time
They're into the low thousands. That's certainly much smaller than McDonalds, but it's large enough that I'd expect similar operational challenges to have kicked in - there's still going to be multiple layers of indirection between individual store management and any central leadership effort to get them in line.
Then there should be a documented process to allow him to establish his identity.
That seems very easy to bruteforce.
Why do you do such a thing? You hope you don't spoil it but you just did the opposite.
A very informative interview with Araq (the creator of Nim) was posted a few months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9SGIB946lw It's mostly up-to-date.
Well TIL after using git for 8 years. And yet 90% of the time what I'm typing is "git checkout --" which has nothing to do with the branch of the file, im just getting rid of something. It's a bad UI when the obscure case is favored over the common one, and believe me I can pick out 100 other cases.
Looking at that ballot for Newport News doesn't seem at all ambiguous to me.

The instructions aren't just for those filling it out. The reader should only have interpreted the properly filled in circle. The ones with marks through them are a near universal indication of "Don't count this," everywhere I go. I've also been known to either annotate, leave an instruction to th He reader, or say screw it and ask for a new ballot.

Given the significant other was completely flummoxed though when asked cold, I see your point.
Fftw as Backdoor
FWIW html2canvas is pretty good for all html-screenshotty things. Might work here as well.

https://html2canvas.hertzen.com/
Here are some of my current subscriptions:

Making Sense (Sam Harris)

After On (Rob Reid - this is on a hiatus)

Revisionist History (Malcom Gladwell)

Against the Rules (Michael Lewis of Moneybal etc.)

Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend

Case File (True crime)

Last Podcast on the Left(True Crime/Comedy)

Deep Cover: The Drug Wars (Series)

In Our Time (BBC)

Great Lives (BBC)

Desert Island Disks (BBC)
> Am I the only one still against network-based, and to a lesser extent electronic-based, voting?

I think that’s an extreme position that would be hard to argue keeping, in particular in the current situation.

I see it the same way we deal with money: what is fundamentally different that makes us accept electronic money transfers as core part of our life but argue there’s no way electronic voting could be possible ? Saying current proposed solutions are not good is different from being against it on principle.
I very much hope that was a joke about C++.
Based on conversation in this thread, we updated our Terms to include:

"If you are unhappy with a book purchase, you can request a refund by contacting team@builderbook.org. We will grant refunds within 48 hours of book purchase, no questions asked. After that point, we cannot guarantee a refund."
Precisely.

In my experience hosting services in VMs on-prem I was able to achieve roughly 30% efficiency across 3k instances and hundreds of nodes. In my experience hosting microservices on k8s, I was able to achieve 80% efficiency across hundreds of nodes.

Both were the result of a great deal of work to optimize efficiency. In this case, I use the word "efficiency" to refer to a blend of CPU and memory utilization.
I found the source. It appears that it is an etilqs_ prefix rather than .etilqs but the story is somewhat humorous:

https://github.com/mackyle/sqlite/blob/3cf493d4018042c70a4db...
Using development expertise to strengthen a fintech company
Being pure ruby helps. Building nokogiri somehow got harder as building binary packages continuously break between ruby versions and not many ruby gems are maintained in an intraday fashion anymore.
> Why is it the retailer's responsibility, rather than the manufacturer's responsibility?

Because the customer has a relationship with the retailer, not the manufacturer.

If this doesn't get overturned, I would expect Amazon to just require anybody who sells through Amazon or supplies Amazon with products to provide indemnification of some sort. Either that or they would just buy insurance to cover payouts due to defective products and their margin would shrink by some tiny amount.
Thank you, appreciate it!

For sure, you can just set it to Markdown and use it for snippets of text. For now just in the monospace (Mono Lisa) font, but if that suits your style you can do that.
Slow oxidation underwater isn't useful for anything, though. You can't use it to do work without a lot of additional technology to capture energy over long time periods.

Set aside what we know about human technological progress. You need some energy source to be the base of your technology pyramid, and it needs a few properties: it needs to be naturally occurring so that you can discover it by accident; it needs to be controllable or predictable enough that you can use it selectively; and it needs to be fast/intense enough that you can transform materials without massive time investment. What do you pick? On land, you have fire, flowing water, and, at a stretch, the muscles of large herbivores. Underwater, you have... ???

Also, that's not what "anthropic principle" means.
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Yeah, won't argue there; I was responding to the notion that python is somehow cheating by using numpy. Python has at least 3 paths to cpp interoperability now, but they've all got their warts.
> Mark 1 Eyeball

Gonna have to remember that one
OP here. You make a valid point. I was speaking in generalities in a short high-level blog post. I liked microservices better the first time when it was called SOA (service oriented architecture) in which there was an emphasis on the logical encapsulation of services. How they were to be deployed was a separate concern.

I was really trying to emphasize the logical separation vs. deployment separation and not the "micro" nature. Thanks for picking up on that.
So I removed auth for the main page you login at and the links to tags. Everything else will require login. I think this was a great idea, I've been in my own bubble and yes, not everyone is just gonna login.
NimConf 2020 [1] also took place just recently, was great success.

[1]: https://conf.nim-lang.org/

Hacker news coverage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23585006
But interestingly that was not the case for Python which is definitely in the top 5 most popular languages today. I wonder how/why Python accomplished this without any corporate backer?
I don't know about that - https://jimjefferies.com/podcast
Also, I imagine the number of returns a product gets factors into whether stores want to carry it, so reducing that return rate can be important.

Even if the manufacturer refunds/replaces the item, I can see it being better for the manufacturer in some instances. If they are relying on store prominence instead of brand recognition, it's very important that stores want to actually carry those items, and low overhead return could factor into that.
Yeah I think of it as a verb, whatever good or bad is up to the person to interpret on their own.
In germany, the retailer is responsible for handling defects and warranty. This makes it easier for the customer, as they can just go the store they bought it from and handle it in person or send it to amazon and they have to deal with the manufacturer.

This isn't about safety testing, this simply means that a mom&pop store needs to either trust the manufacturer, buy insurance for defective products or contract with the manufacturer so that they can just send back defective items in bulk at non of their cost. Up to them.

In germany this works perfectly fine with mom&pop stores.
I mean just go through the thermometers you see on Amazon or in your local drug store, and look up the data from the independent tests on their accuracy.
For American companies I'd imagine the violent overthrow of society being a centrist thing? Washington, for instance is celebrated, and the violent overthrow of Iraqi society was a bipartisan affair.

Characterizing black racial supremacy as left wing extremism also sounds strange; supremacy infers a hierarchy based society which is antithetical to what leftists want. Extreme something, but maybe just another form of extreme right wing politics?
Lisp, ruby, PHP (unless... WordPress? I'm pretty sure Facebook is "tail end" of php)...
> Makefiles are nice in theory but don't scale well to team members who don't know how to use make

Just learn it then? Running make commands is trivial. Writing basic make targets is trivial too.
When companies should go to the public cloud and when they should come back
> Arabic is one of the two official languages

Not anymore. It has special status. National state law lowered status of Arabic and lowered status of all non-Jewish (as in religion) citizens.
I have a ~1TB SQLite database (genetic data). All my queries run really fast, and overall I'm very impressed with the performance.
But S62 is special because it's constantly accelerating very fast (going in orbit). And that makes it special and not equivalent to us. Twin paradox is very similar. It's an apparent paradox but not real.
More alarming than having someone to tell you what you can say and what you cannot say?

If you find more alarming a stereotype than censorship, you have a real problem. Actually we all have a problem.

If you're that worried about stereotypes, you should know that censoring them makes them true in the eyes of the people. Or do you think that people who are stupid enough to hate other because some stereotypes will change their minds once they see they can no longer talk about it?
Does anyone know the legal status of this project? I was pretty excited about it as it bills itself as a “re-implementation”, but looking at the code like this for example [1] it seems suspiciously like a straight up disassembly/reverse engineering of the original. That would explain how they’re able to keep the logic practically identical.

[1] https://github.com/OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2/blob/develop/src/openrc...
It will run on (stable) browsers when the WEBGPU spec gets finished (it's in nightly for firefox/chrome right now).
Schools. There was ba major push to teach python in high schools and colleges.
Come to think of it, CSS isn't its strongest side. No support for filters I think. Maybe worth checking it out anyway.
And they are require you to write wrappers. Peep the julia interop https://github.com/JuliaInterop/Cxx.jl you just import your cpp code and it works.
I ran into the exact same situation. Have been trying to get in contact with their support for weeks without getting any response at all. This is absolutely ridiculous! (Yet at the same time they get "hacked" by teenagers and I can't help but to feel karma has been served...)

edit: Should anybody from Twitter read this, please unblock @FrontAid_CMS. (I guess it's worth a try...)
> I'm going to be a grumpy old man ...

Ironically, the site is made using tables for layout! Like, the really old technique where the left and right margins of the content are actually td's with a bunch of &nbsp's inside.

I'm really surprised that someone would make a site this way nowadays. It is a lot more work than necessary and the end results are not great (as you can see here).

PS: Running this in your console will get to a mostly workable state (not great, but better):

[...document.querySelectorAll('*')].map(e => {e.style.width = 'auto';})

Edit: I did my good deed of the day by opening a PR that modernizes the site's markup and CSS, fixing the issues too:

https://github.com/GaijinEntertainment/daScript/pull/70
Well, not really, no. You shouldn't import into the global namespace for clarity - "from numpy import *" is very unclear. But importing specific objects is fine and is done all the time. And if you're in a notebook setting and value "less typing" over everything else it's certainly encouraged.

Dynamic dispatch would help if you also defined a "rand" function in scope, but that's a way more general argument and IMO you'd lose more than you gain with it.
Thanks Daniel for your response! I hope my GP comment didn't come across as hostile or discouraging to future artists who want to explore this kind of art. I want to be clear that I'm not offended by your work.

My discomfort stems more from my belief that a non-technical / layperson audience is much more likely to conflate "each step towards realism" with a "step towards ground-truth", the exact opposite to what you suggested. The writeups make clear when information is not available, but the artistic medium itself (a rendered still image showing only one possibility) does not showcase this.

> In response to Cocci’s findings, Voshart removed all mentions of the site and revised several portraits to better reflect their subjects’ probable complexions

You graciously made corrections for plausibly Nazi historical propaganda. However, not every artist/historian may elect to do this, out of scholarly pride or a personal politics or just laziness. The artist subsequently wields tremendous power over the images that show up on Google Image search, and their decisions may unintentionally contaminate future historical research by way of inducing subtle prejudices.

We live in an age of misinformation - and I think the information that must be protected most carefully is information of the past, specifically around people. DeepFakes of living celebrities are fairly easy to verify and disprove, but as soon as you go back ~5 decades or so, some people start to challenge whether certain events (Holocaust, Tiananmen Square Massacre) even actually happened.

Some ideas on how one might mitigate this:

- Provenance technology that shows the editing history (potentially including a MD5 of the dataset) of how an image was synthesized.

- A simple, unobtrusive watermark on the center of the image indicating that it is but one of N possibilities, where N gives a rough estimate of the entropy over the distribution. Sort of like the recycling triangle numbers.

- GIF form showing multiple possibilities given the data you have.
Please provide a mainstream news article (not opinion piece or editorial) disputing that Trump won the election.

Pointing out that he lost the popular vote isn’t disputing his electoral victory, it’s a fact. He won the electoral college, which is what truly matters for the presidential election.
I don't know how that goal has actually progressed - governmental deadlines are often pushed and there are plenty of ways to technically meet the deadline by taking on other debt. The comment I was responding to was talking about increasing funding as "bailing out" the pensions, so they at least think the pension is still a problem.

As far as the USPS costing money to run in current world conditions. First it is a public service, of course it costs money. Second, since its rates are set by congress, congress could easily fix the problem by changing the rates.
> both of your points seem to illustrate the complexities of the languages, not "...that Unicode is a flawed idea"

The flaw in Unicode is that it punts on the intrinsic complexity---pretending that codepoints have language-independent, plain-text, semantic meaning.

A couple of threads that have molded my views over time:

I can't write my name in Unicode https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9219162 (Specifically these two comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9220530 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9220970)

Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23016832
Yes, they are able to track original sources (by never putting commingled units in the same bin), per seller help pages (and e.g. Amazon comments in this article: https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2019/04/03/1554287401000/Amazon-...).
Of all the tech companies people advocate breaking up Google is by far the most reasonable.
I bet that’s part of it. I live in the burbs and all the other places are also full of teens (McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, Popeyes, etc). Those places seem like their teens suck a lot more (don’t know my order, don’t know their menu, don’t smile, don’t say “my pleasure,” don’t make me feel like they care if I exist).

When I visit locations downtown the employees seem to be much more full adults, but same character differences.
Python, TCL, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Lua, and more. So it happens, just not recently.
> or using an Arduino when a 555 would do, or...

This is becoming a horrific meme. You didn't read the article, made an assumption and reverted to this cliché
>I think whiteboards are the most important tool for network design (...)I can’t even tell you the number of disasters averted by 2-3 great network engineers arguing over a whiteboard.

I strongly agree with this statement and think it holds true for a lot of IT/dev/ops fields.

That's something I miss when working remotely. Has anyone found a tool that is seamless enough to allow for true interactivity, as much as be in the same room and sharing a whiteboard?
I would argue that they are not created by tech hackers. The ones known about in popular culture are created by businesses, and quite often great minds in those businesses. The people using them are often the ones taking them further then their creators imagined.
Azerbaijani too. Moreover, Azerbaijani has an additional letter ə, which sounds like /æ/.
Compare two directories for missing files in Linux
Exactly, llvm doesn’t support many unique backends. Be sure to use the ARC garbage collector! Certainly checkout c2nim.
Something in common with the President
There's an XKCD for this: https://xkcd.com/2030/
Firefox says, "Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead" for that website.
They do, in the UK. Supposedly this is due to the possibility of pens containing disappearing ink. More likely this is to avoid ink being accidentally smeared across the ballot, since it has to be folded.
This seems like a weird point when arguing against a closed platform. You are saying that it is hard to report misinformation. If we were using a distributed platform it would be impossible. So in this aspect centralized platforms are superior even if they are closed and not great in an absolute degree.
I think it is better to call this a noncommutative operation and phrase it as such. Duals are often in fact, different things.

But I think what you are doing is pretty cool! I don't know much about machine code, but whenever XOR becomes noncommutative, for whatever reason, but executes commutatively, then this should become possible.

Of course, by the way, XOR also has the vanilla ability to reveal information through: plaintext XOR cypher = cyphertext and then you do cyphertext XOR cypher to get back plaintext. In this case, XOR is commutative, as we are only looking at execution, and moreover each binary string is it's own inverse: thing XOR thing = 0-string. So, you can think of XOR as reversible sequences of encypherment.
> There are lots of Israelis living in the west bank, they aren't going anywhere

This problem can be easily solved: let everybody out, don't let anybody in, don't let them vote (as it happens with Israelis living in other countries). We did it twice: Sinai peninsula and Gaza Strip, we can do it again.

But this is very small problem. The real one is return of 2-5 millions of Palestinian refugees. Integrating them into Israel society would take time and effort.
Hm, this sounds like a good example of something I never encountered just by chance. Be it svn externals or git submodules, I never string them around the codebase - I put them in a subdirectory that's just for that purpose.
Voter rolls are maintained by the separate states.
Those limits seem so... arbitrary. And at that scale, why bother having a limit at all? Genuinely curious for the justification.
Most browsers can play them, except for Internet Explorer and Safari for the mode you usually want to use (webm or ogg container).

https://caniuse.com/#feat=opus
Would you support a feature request to make an API call to the Wayback Machine (at the Internet Archive) to archive whatever threads you’re creating into the Internet Archive?
False-positive like this are 99% of the time based on (dubious) heuristics, you can usually see that from the name of the match which will be very generic.

Semi-related note, AV tests of the last 2-3 years consistently show the Win10 built-in Windows Defender perform on-par or outperform other AV products on security, and outperform nearly all of them on performance.
> I still write Elixir only, and don't really leverage BEAM (not yet)

Since you're using Phoenix you are already reaping the benefits of the BEAM because Phoenix helps you use good patterns with regard to process isolation. In many web apps you won't really need to deal directly with OTP for quite a while (unless you're doing something rather specialized).
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> do you have about a million dollars to spend on building and maintaining it all? Then you need Kubernetes.

I think you're overstating the investment necessary to overcome the initial complication of Kubernetes and also understating the benefit of being on a platform with a massive and thriving community behind it.

As an example, in a prior role, there were a set of data engineers that would receive data in the form of MS SQL server backups from which these engineers would need to query and transform data on an exploratory rather than production basis. Certainly one could use an "undifferentiated" service from a cloud provider, but it was also a roughly 5-minute process for me to use the rather high quality helm chart and docker image commonly available to stand up a new service for the benefit of each engineer that had the need.

The process of creating that automation necessary to deploy the helm chart and restore the backups took approximately one hour and could be repeated ad nauseum in the aforementioned 5-minute time period.

There are many, many other examples of this. Want a data-science platform complete out of the box with no vendor lock-in, how about data8.org? The list goes on.