skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't that the exact point of the surrounding article? The author emphasizes the importance of asking clarifying questions.

In that context, I think it's a great question:

> given a list of numbers, return two numbers such that one times the other results in 220

It's highly plausible that at some point in the candidate's career, a nontechnical coworker or manager will use nontechnical language to ask them to do something technical, and they'll need to ask for better specification.

A candidate who smart-assedly ignores the input list and returns the numbers 10 and 22 is demonstrating that they assume the asker is an idiot not even worth the time to ask clarifying questions. The candidate has messed up priors: what is the chance that the only piece of information provided in the question is utterly irrelevant? The candidate is also prone to unilaterally making assumptions that reduce their workload, possibly while smugly patting themselves on the back for Kobayashi-Maruing their way past the idiotic interview question. That's bad.

A candidate who has a modicum of social intelligence would reasonably assume that the asker expects them to limit their consideration to the given list (otherwise what's the goddamn point?). Even then, there are ambiguities, which the article rightfully points out you should ask about.
> Everyone who visits the site will need essentially all of these files.

Not necessarily.

For instance, I wholly block JavaScript and as a result I could avoid downloading ~283 KB of JavaScript resources from your page (out of ~412 KB resources in total). I could read your page fine.

If I understand correctly, with a WebBundle there would be no way for me to avoid downloading resources which are explicitly meant to not be downloaded by the way I configured my user agent?
My wife was talking about OHP which she used when teaching while explaining something today. I was a bit confused as we didn’t have anything called OHP when I was in school. After a bit of explaining we realised she had only ever known it as OHP. She has never stopped to think about what it was an acronym for. Turns out she was talking about the overhead projector which we had plenty of in school. Reminded me of the five monkeys experiment https://workingoutloud.com/blog/the-five-monkeys-experiment-...
Prior to getting an interview you read the job ad. They want original, problem solvers, dynamic, goal-oriented etc. etc.

I've always wondered why they don't somehow all me to demonstrate this before it gets to an interview. Let the candidates winnow themselves out. It could be so easy, it should work, but they don't. IDK, perhaps it works only in theory.
I fully agree. I'm also very indecisive at times so it helps when I only have a few options haha.
I think it's a combination of human nature and a side effect of marketing.

Since neither human nature or marketing are liable to go away any time soon I doubt the team mentality to buying things will either.
IDK, having never seen or used Go's contexts, the `With` prefix immediately made me think that it likely created a new context: it's a common naming convention in Rust or Python.

I'd have expected `SetValue` for updating keys in-place.

That `WithValue` creates an "inheritance" relationship surprised me a lot more, that I did not expect.
Yes a few people suggested that.

Note that I am maintaining ZERO infrastructure here (important! also since it can help prevent DOS!), so it doesn't cost me anything to send these. A lot of these messaging infrastructures are free to users too. So does it really matter that it's O(h * n)? h will always be not that big too, (n as well!) so it's not that much data. It is not much data, and costs me nothing, and costs the user nothing. Does it matter?

I like that OTP has perfect secrecy and is super easy to code and audit the code (NSA hasn't snuck in any weird matrices, no weird goto return bug, buying a bigger quantum computer doesn't break it, etc).

You could also use Horcruxes to set up public key encryption or a key exchange, then do the rest of the communication on a new channel directly using public key encryption.
The only way a town like Paradise can exist is with a lot of state subsidies. The state should just flatly refuse to maintain SR-191.
On the opposite side of the spectrum, I love the (rarely-found) type of restaurant where you enter, and they start serving you food where you have no choice in the matter. Like some family joint in the middle of nowhere that people go to for what they know will exactly be served, as if at home.

Of course, that's probably out the window after all this settles down. Those types of restaurants are probably highly likely to fold.

By the way, here's a funny parody of "every trendy restaurant menu": https://www.eater.com/2014/7/24/6181765/heres-what-every-tre...
both sides of the argument
Foundation of advanced math in 106 terms
I used to listen to instrumental ambient music all the time while working. But know I prefer the silence. Especially when I want to be productive. I think your brain has to process the music in the background and thus use up some of the valuable processing power.
Not meaning this in an derogatory manner but this sounds to me something like what Peter Pan wanted. He didn't want to leave neverland and he wanted to be everything (pan). This is also well studied in the Jungian psychology under the term puer aeternus, the infinite child.

The problem with this is, personal harm it causes aside, if all adults wanted to be infinite children, it wouldn't leave space to (at least compete with) the incoming, actual children. It would cause great intergenerational conflict. Not leaving resources for the next generation also means endangering the continuity of species altogether.

If we take a step back, one might even argue that this is already what is going on today.
The 42% of the world that doesn't currently have internet won't be able to afford Starlink anyway, and unless Elon has discovered a way to make satellites 99% cheaper, Starlink will never be the solution for them.
Item: a woman friend of mine recently told me that she'd broken off a (hitherto) stimulating exchange of e-mail with a young man. At first he had seemed like such an intelligent and interesting guy, she said, but then "he started going all PC-versus-Mac on me."
What the hell is going on here? And does the operating system business have a future, or only a past?

1997!
Longevity studies in humans are pretty hard. You have to wait until the person dies. So instead signals are used, like "had non fatal heart attacks", if you're lucky. Most signals are going to instead be closer to "lowered or raised some metric that, from other research, we believe will lead to longevity".

I don't know how many papers there are on negative vs positive effects of exercise, but HIIT has had plenty of research done explicitly to determine safety, or to see if there are more effective exercises with lower rates of injury.

No question that there are very, very few studies that are directly "X leads to longer or better life", it's just "X leads to Y, we separately think Y leads to a longer or better life". Of course that's not as good... but it's a symptom of those studies being expensive and difficult.
I agree. All three major OS platforms have their own faults. I hear Mac people praise Mac as dev ready but just like Windows you gotta install additional things to make it useful for building things you can deploy to a Linux server.

Linux has its own flaws especially with how they handle package management: I wish Debian would differentiate between system required packages and user app packages, imagine letting the system run their sanctified version of Python but as a user being able to run any and all versions of Python.

I could easily argue Windows is easier than either one with WSL. Unlike on macOS you need to install Homebrew or similar plus then all your utils. With WSL you can install all sorts of Distros that may have everything you need OOTB.

They all have their benefits and trade offs and from year to year I go to and from Linux and Windows, I dont get compensated enough to be buying Macs so I only have the one Macbook Air but its enough to asess all three imho. I have also used dozens of Linux distros. I used to hop from distro to distro. My favorite thus far is still openSUSE.
> "Root Cause: An offending flowspec announcement prevented BGP from establishing correctly, impacting client services."

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That doesn't really explain the "stuck" routes in their RRs... maybe it'll make sense once we've gotten some more details...
In the late 90s, my dad was really mad about me experimenting with Linux on my personal computer which I built from parts bought with money earned at a summer job. It was kinda hilarious. He has zero involvement with microsoft, very little knowledge of computers, and tended to be mildly anti-establishment... and since it was 100% my computer, it had zero impact on his life. It really felt like a "my role is to crack down on my rebellious teenager no matter the cause" situation. Of course, he shut right up when I lined up a sysadmin job starting immediately after graduation.
I think we used to call that a poison pill message (still bring it up routinely when we talk about load balancing and why infinite retries are a very, very bad idea).
Not really. I just don't practice them. I'm way too busy writing shipping software that has very little use for the kinds of academic exercises in LeetCode/HackerRank stuff.

Sometimes, I do great at them. Most are common sense.

Usually, I'm mediocre.

There's thousands and thousands of energetic folks out there; young and old, that practice these every day, and can usually ace them in an interview.

There's no way that I'm even gonna try to compete with them. They'll smoke me. They worked hard for that, and I respect them. I would hope this is indicative of them being good employees, but I can't really see how these tests would indicate that better than a simple conversation.

That said, since I've been writing deployed/shipping/sold software for decades, I suspect that I might be doing something right.

In fact, today, I am polishing up a simple Observer infrastructure[0] for a mesh networking driver that I'm working on. One of the basics of my workflow, is if I'm working on a project, and see that the part I'm working on might be more generically useful, I stop work on the main project for a day or two, while I break that section out into a general-purpose module. It helps me to write much better software.

I'm rather obsessed with Quality, and this practice is one way to get that.

I'm not sure that there's LeetCode for that kind of practice, and I can't really see it happening in a timed whiteboard test.

It is, however, very easy to see; simply by looking at the GH repo.

[0] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_GeneralObserver
With NoScript (https://noscript.net/) blocking all of the javascript by default, I got no autoplay video and no article coverup at all.

I simply got a blog post that I read through from start to finish without anything else getting in the way.
I would say: budget your time.

Try to ask: how many exercises do you have to solve, and how many parts does the current exercise have.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24318367

Here's one, with a few more in comments. There were a bunch more posted over the past ~72 hrs that I can't seem to find now
The situation would probably be a lot better if the human habitation in those areas was built with resisting forest fire as a primary design criteria. If they were built with fire as a fact of life, fire could be allowed to regularly sweep through & clear the fuel load.
This works well for me if the price is known in the beginning, but it probably necessarily varies. Perhaps itdoesn't matter in fine dining contects tho.
I mean as a user not as a developer, are you fine if a judge will declare that Apple can force developers not to say certain things, not to link to certain pages that Apple does not want? If you are OK with Apple doing that then are you OK with Google and Microsoft doing the same?

Second question, why as a user you are OK with Apple preventing developer to inform you of better deals? It is just a piece of text with a link, you are not forced to click the link, is this information causing you some kind of "damage/distrss"? When the average user buys an iPhone do they get a giant EULA read to them and there it says in the clear "by using our product you agree that Apple will hide better financial deals for you because it can hurt our shareholders ?"

If judges in US will premit Apple to do whatever they want Google will have the green light to be as shitty as Apple, lock the store, do even more censorship, maybe Chrome and Google Search can also hide websites that Google does not like, you can use Safari if you don't like it.
I believe these are mostly non public channels where backbone and network infrastructure engineers from different companies congregate to discuss outages like this.
That's total monthly expenses. If you look further down specifically at housing, it's around $1900/month for a 900 SQ ft 1 bedroom apartment in an expensive area.
This makes me think of this book:
https://www.amazon.com/OBD-Obsessive-Branding-Disorder-Illus...

The author outlined in part of it a move from appeals to ego to appeals to id for marketing, and how this is a more powerful approach since it appeals to sense of belonging.

You see that in the fathers commitment to particular brands, and how they define him.
Caution : the last update is from a long time ago. See also the Roadmap text at this page : https://github.com/kiwibrowser/src
Controlled burning would prevent neighboring fires from encroaching but they don’t stop the community itself from becoming a tinderbox, which it will since it’s basically a forest with houses in it. I don’t even know if it’s possible to do a controlled burn in a reasonably densely populated area.
> Liking Apple does not make you cool, not liking Apple does not make you cool. Apple produces hardware and software, it is not a religion.

I disagree: For example accepting or rejecting a golden cage is a deep decision about one's moral values - thus near to a religion.
Yeah, I’ve considered that as well and it seems to be the biggest downside as well. In my case, my wife and I would be on the same schedule so there wouldn’t be so much impedance there, but it would make weeknight get-together a with friends more difficult. However there should still be weekends and vacation time and so on. I’m at least confident that my employer would be flexible about me shifting my working hours to something closer to noon-8PM and respecting that schedule.
This is incredible! wow!
I always wondered, since the NSA has intimate knowledge of the inner workings of AES, then can we presume they know its weaknesses, or have compromised it in some way? Excuse my naive question, I'm not a crypto nerd.
Airbnb Has a Hidden-Camera Problem (2019)
My wife always insists that we not handle any of our cutlery until we’re finished handling the menu and we’ve either used hand sanitizer or washed our hands. [1]

Unfortunately, mobile phones are also notoriously dirty [2], so we still wash after handling those as well.

[1] “Slideshow: The Germiest things in restaurants: #2 Menus“ https://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/food-poisoning/ss/slidesh...

[2] “ Nasty Bugs Lurking on Your Cell Phone” https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20111014/nasty-bugs...
Yeah, you won’t really save on taxes. The real benefit is if you want to work from an island and go to the beach a lot. Hurricanes are the main issue on that during this season.
Would you say that this can be compared to what leetrout commented with the difference that instead of scripts there is only a single command?

Is the playbook always called "play.yml"?

And how do you handle multiple repositories (or is there only a sinlge one?)?
The forced Windows pre-installation on laptops, which I don't even use since I install GNU/Linux
Is it a coincidence George Clooney's face looks the same as a lot of those renders?

Now I wonder if this has to do with the learning set or that those face types are very common.
No one is saying evolution is all random, only mostly random. Natural selection obviously plays a role in shaping the direction of individual mutations - deleterious ones get purged relatively quickly. When those are culled, the vast majority of mutations are neutral or nearly neutral.

>Brute forcing the genome to something better is clearly possible, but if you converted all of the matter in the visible universe into DNA and mutated every strand a trillion times a second for a trillion years, it's very possible you would never even encounter a viable strand of DNA for that organism.

Yes, but consider the following. I just ran:

>>> np.random.random()

0.8867453976799686

What were the odds that I ended with this specific 18-digit float in the whole set of floats in [0.0, 1.0)? And yet, here we are.

The word you're looking for is contingency. Gould spoke much about "replaying life's tape" and how it would yield different results every time it was "replayed". Interestingly, people have actually attempted to put this thought experiment into practice at a very prosaic level [0] [1]. They find that although there are convergent patterns of adaptation, over the long term populations diverge considerably.

[0] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6415/eaam5979

[1] https://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2019/09/contingency-selection-...
If water cost is the key concern then surely alternate technologies such as drip-lines, inter-cropping, greenhouses/poly-tunnels, windbreaks and mulch could be explored? Also, selecting less water-intensive crop varieties. Fundamentally, spraying water through the air is a great way to lose a lot of it, both in transit and in evaporation thereafter.
US and Israel looking at China's strategy at BGP-level in 2018 :

https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/mca/vol3/iss1/7/
> you don't see tradesmen getting all pissy about people buying DeWalt power drills.

Tribalism is everywhere. Dodge vs Chevy vs Ford is one that certain tradesmen might be inclined to take part in. Certainly even tool brands like DeWalt vs Makita.

I don't see a problem with it. This is like complaining that people have opinions and that they might argue about them. It's 100% human nature. Arguing against it is like arguing against the wind.

Perhaps there's even a tribe of folks who think that opinions are bad and everybody should just think like they do and not give a fuck. Well, that's just like, your opinion man.

If my opinions are not part of my identity, what is?
Hobson's Choice
It’s just back-filling a personality when you don’t really have a strong internal identity. We all do it a lot when we’re very young - defining yourself as someone who likes a certain Venn Diagram of interests whose intersection makes you feel unique and cool.
Deletion Protection is amazing, but the true way to fix this is to use IAM roles, and groups.

Remove the user that is being terminated from the group and 'voila', it is safe.
I remember working on a simple peer-peer chat using WebRTC [1] and it took me a long time to actually grok what the whole protocol was and how it worked, even with off-the-shelf libraries available. This would have saved me so much time!

[1] https://github.com/cktang88/markdown-chat
> When Apple decided to use an adhesive rather than screws they could would have had excellent consideration of cost/quality/aesthetic issues.

I'd bet a lot that the primary reason they did this was to make the device a fraction of a millimetre thinner; Apple seems to obsessed with thinness at the cost of everything else.

Personally, I'd much prefer an ever-so-slightly thicker phone with a removable battery, and I rather doubt I'm alone in that.
Slack fixes 'critical' vulnerability that left desktop app users open to attack
Wow - first dial-up in 1997-8.

I grew up on the Peninsula, Back when Silicon Valley's northern edge was pretty much the Oracle buildings on Redwood Shores and was just starting my path in the tech industry. One of my first jobs in tech was for Excite@Home in early/mid 1999 - so that was when I went broadband - and never looked back.
The Price of Success: What It Takes to Achieve a Goal
Actually, many tradespeople are pretty elitist about their power tools. There are a lot of brands that have gone downhill or been amalgamated so there are those that hold out for older era models that were allegedly better built (ala Thinkpads).

I’d be a real power tool guy if I could afford Hilti, but I get some cred for being a Makita guy.

While tribalism does have its bad points, am not sure modern capitalism/consumerism could survive without it.
Congratulations! I’ve been fruit free and almost vegetable free for 3 years and it’s been the best time of my life. I’ve lost over 200 pounds and kept it off for longer than I ever have in 3+ decades of weight loss attempts.
If don't find decorator / tags in programming elegant, it polutes your code so much.
> Anyone don't want longevity for humans?

Not sure what the downvotes are about but problems of longevity is studied under vampire stories, e.g. Interview with the Vampire. They eventually get nihilistic and lost in ennui because they have lost connection with past and future generations and lost a lot, if not all, meaning in their life.

There is a school of psychotherapy (existential psychotherapy) that builds around death along with other existential problems (isolation, responsibility, meaning). A proper relationship with death seems to be meaning enhancing and anxiety alleviating than not, but it heavily clashes with other people who don't simply want to think about death.
Having a US salary doesn’t imply claiming that I live in the US. It just means my employer continues to pay me my salary which is negotiated based on the US job market. I wouldn’t lie to anyone (my employer, the US government, nor the host government) about where I live.
When you login at Cisco WebEx, they warn you of criminal liability. However, if you report a security concern at Cisco they treat you like a criminal. Basically, as an employee at Cisco you take on all the liability but they won't protect you from their own negligence.
You have to look at where the proposal comes from. This and Signed Exchanges are Google's rebranding of AMP as "open standards".

Signed Exchanges are considered harmful by Mozilla [1]

There's concern that Web Bundles are just Google's power play to be the sole gateway to the web [2]

[1] https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/

[2] https://twitter.com/Rich_Harris/status/1299015418913460226
Why would you need to sell federal holdings for timber production? BLM and NFS lands are heavily logged. They used to be much more heavily logged, but the decline is market-based, not policy. The national forests aren't some kind of tree museum. They exist for providing wood to the nation.
"by force" I mean force Signal to ship code to the end user to upload the private keys so they can give it to the government, as described in the doc....

Oh I see what you mean about modifying. Good point. That's not in the threat model, I haven't heard of people doing that, but if it is a worry and you want to add it to the threat model, it's not hard to add a hash to the messages that will be a commitment scheme to ensure that you have all horcruxes and they haven't been tampered with. That's pretty easy.
I'm not the author, and I'm sorry to share something which is essentially an ad for one of IQMatrix's products... but as a solo entrepreneur there many points here that resonate strongly.