skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found this quite amusing having read about many tech job interview questions here and around the web.

Back in my junior days programming interviews were more about finding subtle syntax errors in some snippet of code you would never imagine writing. At the time many argued this is what compilers/IDEs are for.

It seems these days it's all about regurgitating computer science algorithms or something similar. Again many argue this is where you'd leverage an existing library. If one didn't exist you'd perhaps spend some time researching + testing your implementation. Quite a different environment to a time constrained interview with someone waiting to see you trip up.

I feel there's also a bit of a catfishing element going on here. If you pass the interview having nailed the inverse binary tree problem; you might expect the role to be just as intellectually challenging; what you find might be very different..
How? You'd still have meetings with them.

The problem is that you need a VP exception for remote work and many VPs don't believe in it at all. So there are entire orgs where the number of remote people is zero.
Composted manure has value and no objectionable smell.

Fresh from the horse hot solids have the opposite of both of those qualities.

It takes time and biological action to turn the second into the first. The manure pile bears little resemblance to what comes out of the bag you buy at the home center or farm store.

Of course, I have zero sympathy for folks who move in next to a horse farm or near an airport and are somehow shocked (more likely feigning shock) to learn that horses and airplanes do horse and airplane things there.
That is the case, but you need some DMA in the OS, so it’s up to the operating system driver to expose some portion of memory to data coming in with these means.

The difference between non-DMA and DMA is staggering.
All they need in that case is a signed contract with Comcast saying they’re allowed to connect to Xfinity networks.
I wouldn’t say it’s that interesting, it’s more or less the standard way that leftists are portrayed by the right wing. Left wing political groups are usually coalitions of people without much institutional power. But in order to bring together enough people to challenge institutional power you have to get different kinds of people who have different problems together under the same roof, so you wind up with white women protesting about black peoples rights, black people protesting about tenant rights, and so on- everyone has to take on the struggles of everyone else, so from the outside it looks like people are always complaining about problems that don’t affect them.

From the point of view of people with a lot of institutional power, they need to see the people beneath them as undeserving, to justify their own position. So the explanation they will give for what they see is that leftists must just have some kind of inferiority complex about their own failings to be always so upset about things that don’t directly affect them.
Nice. I live inside tmux as well.
As far as I am aware, newsbeuter is no longer maintained, and the newsboat fork exists to pick the thread. Newsboat gets continual bugfixes and has recently added some commands that fill holes in the macro system.
Not my experience with open source at all. I get very few bugs and PRs about actual defects. By and large they are feature requests that are very important to the submitter but not necessarily to me or other users of the project. And they do not care about quality at all - they only care about solving their own problem as expediently as possible and don't care if they introduce new bugs, break compatibility with existing users, or reduce maintainability of the code.

As for paid vs unpaid work - I care about quality in both cases. But I'm much more motivated to care about someone else's use case if I'm being paid.
As far as I recall, Walmart bought Flipkart. I haven't seen it mentioned much in the business press related to Walmart after acquisition though.
Not OP, but I would never try to build an open-source community on Slack.

I'm not going to pay $6/month for each person who wants to sign up to check it out, and I'm not willing to lose message history (quicker and quicker as popularity increases). If someone comes in with an issue it sure would be nice to be able to refer back to the conversation when somebody else had a similar issue two months ago.
> So yes, there are layers of colonization and each prevents an accounting, a true embodiment of truth and reconciliation.

True

> There is a need to “un-settle”, to question the orthodox histories.

That is where things go wrong. As you stated yourself, colonisers are often colonised themselves by later colonisers. The success of mankind as the dominant species on the planet literally depends on groups being displaced by other groups, otherwise everyone would have stayed in Eden - being the fertile parts of Africa where Homo Sapiens Sapiens evolved. Some groups got displaced, moved into neighbouring territory and displaced or enslaved whatever group of people happened to live there. Fast-forward a few decades or centuries and the process was repeated, the former colonisers now get 'colonised' themselves. At this moment in time it gets hard to decide who is the 'oppressed' and who is the 'oppressor' since both groups will have done their share of 'oppressing' and both will have undergone 'oppression'. If you only look at one specific groups as being the 'oppressors' the way people like Ibram X. Kendi and Robin diAngelo do you end up with a distorted view of history where you assign 'victim' status to oppressors and ignore potential 'victimisation' of the designated oppressor, a good example here being the many African tribes who partook in the capture, transport and sales of slaves to Arab and western slave traders being assigned 'oppressed' status versus the Irish who were enslaved themselves being assigned 'oppressor' status. Since the 'oppressed' status has been turned into a form of social currency lending speaking rights and preferential treatment to those who carry it while those who carry 'oppressor' status have to stand back in line and provide for those with 'oppressed' status this system often leads to more injustice and with that an increase in social tension and a decrease in social cohesion. In other words, it breaks up society.

We do not want to break up society. Those who do want this should state their goal honestly and go to the elections with this stated purpose, if enough people vote for them they can get their way. Those who want to break up society by means of force have to accept that the majority of the population opposes their intentions and that the force of law can and should be used against them, just like it should be used against any other group which commits violence.

And that, in a nutshell, is why the need to "un-settle", to question the orthodox histories - in other words why deconstruction according to Critical Theory - does not work. The cake is too thick, too much mixed up to say which layer is the most tasty. Better have the cake as it is and make a note to tweak the recipe so it comes out better next time.
Economies are usually considered by looking at GDP though. Walmart, Apple etc would still be impressive, but not quite as much.
No matter what happens, there'll be a vocal minority complaining about this too. Digital Ocean could employ reviewers and still nobody would be happy. There'd be comments about gatekeeping and rejections will be too subjective.

Unfortunately, the majority is mostly silent, so I'll just say: Digital Ocean, good job on trying to make things better. Whatever your motives, you created a discussion about open-source promotion and hopefully some good will come out of it.
New Thermometer Measures Temperature with Sound
Previous discussion (linked by the author) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12021195
Sorry, I meant 'grid built using flexbox.'

https://css-tricks.com/dont-overthink-flexbox-grids/
Seriously, I hope lists like these will assist regulators to systematically address the offending companies to phase out this practice.

The fact that opt-out is default is a symptom of how badly law makers have allowed these companies to exploit the public. Those that implement dark patterns (no opt-out, or intentionally frustrating the process) ought to receive additional fines and more (i.e. consider it criminal behavior).
If they can't get to their preferred DNS servers directly then they use DNS-over-HTTPS which you can't block.
An Unprecedented Attack on Press Freedom
I think we need at least some 50yrs of physics to understand how to even begin tapping into the cosmic internet

As with fusion and processing power, some things are faster if you wait for the advancements instead of building it with today's technology.
IT cell must have learned how to inject apps with RATs.

an app store would allow them to inject RAT into every app thus giving them the ability to spy on every indian device
For some people their code are like their kids; precious and they can do no wrong. These tend to be a problem when bugs crop up, because bug reports are like a personal insult to them.

Personally, I've long held the view that practically all code is buggy one way or another and that many things can mean throwing code away is the best way forward, so one just shouldn't be attached to a few bytes. One should rather feel attached to the project at hand, which then naturally results in one trying to improve it, which means bug reports are GOOD and EXCELLENT because they give very clear hints were the project can be improved.
Interview with Dylan Field, CEO and Co-Founder of Figma
Summation of this article: “you’ve got it wrong. Our cigarettes aren’t bad. We pack them full of flavor to provide you with ‘value’”
WebAuthn (and its predecessor U2F, you should not roll out new U2F deployments but old ones are slow to upgrade) sits on top of FIDO, which has a protocol CTAP (Client To Authenticator Protocol) for this purpose.

https://fidoalliance.org/specs/fido-v2.0-ps-20190130/fido-cl...

At the extreme case, when you're asked to sign in with a Security Key you could have an authenticator with dedicated flash storage, screen and fingerprint reader so it can display like:

"Site news.ycombinator.com is prompting you to authenticate as blueblisters [484D2A8BBF] blueblisters@example.com - You last used this credential 16 hours 41 minutes ago. Touch the fingerprint reader to continue"

But in the real world the cheapest options have zero flash, zero display, just a push button and an LED. The LED flashes to indicate that you're being asked to press the button, your pressing it means you signify that you're present. All the data is still sent to them, but they can't display it, you have to trust your browser to validate what was sent.

This means it's unsafe to "press the button" when plugged into a general purpose computer unless prompted by an application you trust with your credentials, like a web browser you're using to sign in to sites

If the authenticator has no storage it can only really act as a Second Factor this way. But a device with storage can replace all steps of logging in if you want. No need to enter a password, an email address, anything, just one tap to get in. Apple is promoting this for the new iOS. A current Yubikey does have storage, and so it can do this, but the storage is very limited, unlike an iPhone with gigabytes of Flash memory.
Yeah thats the problem. I'm definitely not happy with this trade-off. I'd rather have an apartment than a smartphone. But growing up I unfortunately spent too much on technology. Video games, laptops, cell phones that I didn't take care of and broke too quickly, the list goes on. I wish that I didn't value these things so much growing up and kept the money for other uses.
I think I made a point that “if you could fit the whole HTTP request in one UDP packet”, have you read my message?
Anyone aware about the merit of the gambling claims that the apps were indulging in, as mentioned by the article.

While I don't like censorship of any form, if that violates Play Store or AppStore's TOS, the violating app would get removed.
First, the orbital option described in the article is not L2 but rather a low lunar orbit which spends only a small fraction of it's time in the lunar shadow.

Second, in my comment I literally quote the "first step" claim and explain why it's an extreme understatement, in particular because the shielding is not worse except for undetectable wavelengths and sources not actually pointed at the telescope. It's like saying we should we should build transparent houses so we get more vitamin D but of course as a first step we should go outside or take a multivitamin.
Agreed, also "processing in order" != "consuming from the sink in order". If everything upstream and downstream of the sink doesn't also happen in order then using an ordered sink is pointless.
This sounds like a mangled explanation. It seems to me, somewhat naively, that the resonator must be held at a higher temperature than the rest of the circuit to produce work on the load.
> When I review resumes, I spend about 30s per resume on my first pass through. This is where I just visually scan the document for keywords. For example, if I was hiring a Django developer, I'd look for Django...Once I've completed the first pass, I take a deeper dive into the shortlisted resumes, decide who I want to interview, etc.

The way I see it is that this kind of resume is explicitly reverse filtering against hiring processes like yours. Creative people don't want to be compared in the hiring process as part of a "shared folder" against 300 other people, because it becomes basically an SEO game. (Note that this is not saying your process is wrong, it's just not a good fit for more creative and freewheeling programmers).
> Treating the two schools equal understates cost, as the per student average is higher.

Maybe I didn’t make myself clear: the data pulled from the WSJ tool is per student. It’s what the middle individual (per university) expects to owe vs earn. The size of the university doesn’t matter in the context of that data.

> Also, did you “forget” about people with degrees again?

No I didn’t, but people without college degrees earn the median wage and do not have to worry about paying off student loans, which was the earlier contention.

People with college degrees earn above the median wage, at which point the median numbers here don’t really apply to them.

You have to pick your grievance: either you earn the median wage OR you have to worry about paying student loans, but not both. The (wage - expenses) amount is, on average, positive in either case.

The ROI number represents the true value of college, because it not only incorporates the price, it incorporates the net expected returns. Not including the latter obscures more than it illuminates. Simply comparing the price now vs the price in year X is not apples-to-apples, because you were essentially buying a different thing in the 1980’s that was worth less than the unique thing you’re buying today. They just happen to both be named “college degree”.
lol would get removed? This is a fascist govt. They'll ban Google and Apple stores in a whim.
Yes, and they are gone mostly now.
But those comparisons are googleable.
Hitchhiker’s beginner guide to lossless data compression
While deprecated, intel has also an opensource machine code analyzer called IACA.

It is also worth pointing out that these "analyzers" are just tools that simulate particular CPU architectures. Their models are just approximations and aren't perfect, so don't take them as a source of truth.
I think sokoloff is going further than you: he thinks private conversations should be "sacrosanct", you seem to think they should be intercepted by anyone who suspects they "turn towards criminal action" and can reach the low bar of obtaining a warrant.
and user spam as well. I am thankful for new versions of Android giving notification control to the users.
You just wrote that 1-day (barely) battery life is okay for Apple Watch since Android Wear can't do whole week. What kind of argument is that?

BTW, I use neither of those two.
Apple's FY2019 revenue in India was ₹10,538.3 crore ($1.50 billion),[1] which is 0.58% of its global revenue of $260.17 billion.[2] India has a growing smartphone market, but it does not yet have a large market for Apple products.

1. https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/apple-india-s-reve...

2. https://www.statista.com/statistics/265125/total-net-sales-o...
If this is representative of press releases from universities it's no wonder that people can't tell the difference between free energy scams and real physics.

Sounds like nonsense to me but the article is so badly written that it's hard to tell. In fact it is hard to be sure whether they have actually created a prototype or merely simulated it.
India is a democracy...
It will never be easy to control what people use in India. Also if I won't have to pay $25 just to publish my free app to users, I will be much happier. And if I decide to monetize it, I will again perfer to pay Indian govt a cut than others. Google already knows what I think and what I am doing and it fulfills govt requests too, with precise details so it's better that India govt sees it directly. At least I know how I can stop that easily.
> Go by the average rating, not popularity. It’s better to watch something a million people love than something 10 million people watched and consider okay.

... but the average rating is a measure of popularity :/. The best movies I have ever seen are rated poorly, because most people didn't understand them or they weren't "easy" to watch; if you want to find good content, you need to read reviews and find people whose recommendations matter to you, not work off ratings.
Grand Theft Auto 3 GTA3 Is Running on the Nintendo Switch
It's just a guess. The kernel support should be a lot better, also the graphics driver support. But with those low TDP Intel processors that could be completely wrong.
Freedom needs friction: lessons in choice from French history
F-Droid's press release actually explains their decision not to ban Fedilab even though it allows accessing Gab and they don't like it. https://f-droid.org/en/2019/07/16/statement.html
How is this different than Synergy (which I’ve been using on Linux, mac, and Windows for years)? Is it the same functionality?
Yes! If there are issues with Apple and Google they could create laws to fix it.

If the idea was to help citizens, laws or regulations to stop said practices would be better, not that I agree with it.

But thats not the idea, they see Google's power and they want in.

Can you imagine thinking a government having all your data is better than a corporation?

People have forgotten the governments were the perpetrators of the worst thing in human history.

No corporation has rounded up people to be shot like governments did.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit...

"This man is a frothing conspiracy theorist, a vainglorious peddler of nonsense, and yet his book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, is a runaway bestseller." [1]

"Although the accuracy of the content has been questioned, the book did well in terms of sales, placing on the best-seller lists of both the New York Times and Amazon." [2]

Who needs evidence and reasoning when vacuous, fact-lite writing makes for great sales!

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine

"Klein is not an academic and cannot be judged as one. There are many places in her book where she oversimplifies." [3]

"Klein isn’t an economist but a journalist" [3]

Stiglitz (cited by the author herself!) states that Shock Doctrine contains no understanding of actual economics. I'm sure the spy thriller narrative makes up for it though.

"Friedman and the other shock therapists were also guilty of oversimplification, basing their belief in the perfection of market economies on models that assumed perfect information, perfect competition, perfect risk markets." [3]

Ah when you've nowhere else to turn, let's do some what-about-ism. We cannot back up our arguments, but the other side cannot either! It's rich to accuse Friedman of oversimplifying when his own writing shows otherwise. He is against precisely what he is being accused of supporting. Never let the facts get in the way of a good story!

"I do not believe it’s proper to put the situation in terms of industrialist versus government. On the contrary, one of the reasons why I am in favor of less government is because when you have more government industrialists take it over, the two together form a coalition against the ordinary worker and the ordinary consumer. I think business is a wonderful institution provided it has to face competition in the marketplace and it can’t get away with something except by producing a better product at a lower cost; and that’s why I don’t want government to step in and help the business community." [4][5]

It helps to read multiple perspectives on an issue as complex as economics and development. It may not provide the easy answers we crave but it does act as an immunizer to shallow, doctrinaire thinking displayed in these "works".

I'll forgive the downvotes if you'll read a book by Friedman (or Hayek or any economist with whom you disagree) for every one you've read that's critical of him. Then make up your own mind. We might still not be in agreement, but at least we can have a factual discussion.

[1] Sebastian Mallaby https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/0...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit...

[3] https://tsd.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine/reviews/bleakonomi...

[4] Milton Friedman: Free to Choose

[5] https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/bp102.pdf
True, and companies spend a massive amount of their revenue in operations, whereas I would assume governments have much more disposable income for activities other than putting capital into daily production.
It's a different kind of watching, but you can find saved streams from geohotz / comma.ai. Those contain things like learning about blockchain contracts and finding a security bug in one of them in a very informal 8h live stream. Or building a toy computer vision project from scratch for a recorded dashboard footage. https://youtu.be/7Hlb8YX2-W8

It's an experience... Try watching at higher speed when it gets boring.
> 3. It's hard to compete against MS VS code.

I agree, but as an emacs user that has tried it multiple times, I really don't "get it".

The main thing that excited me about Xi wasn't Xi itself, but rather that its technology stack could be user to "build your own editor" using a solid foundation. That includes a more modern emacs, vi, vs code, or whatever you like.
A record-breaking 0.3% of their 2019 gross profit.
> But tepid compared to what?

Compared to the fact that this is not an issue of a lack of resources? Extreme poverty in the midst of an extremely rich world. That should be pretty humbling and not a cause for celebration. It's an embarrassment.

If China is removed this "Good News Narrative" falls flat. Should we be praising the CCP and authoritarian state-capitalism?

> The rate of extreme poverty has dropped much more drastically

The problem is that people with more than $1.90 a day are still living in extreme poverty. That figure simply doesn't work in reality.
Shouldn't this have been communicated better?

On your own forums the best answer people can find to this situation is basically "we have moved to snaps, this is not our problem".
Beyond the sata ports and second gig-E nic, i was thinking maybe 8GB of RAM...and then you have an offering not only for the tinkerer market but also the mini, on-premises server for the SoHo (small office/home office) market.
As I have said - you fit in in a single datagram
If they want to give back to open source, they could use the money they're spending on seventy thousand t-shirts to sponsor projects or pay maintainers.