skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Would I have passed an interview for that job? Hell no. Did I succeed in the end? Hell yes.

Not the point of the article, but it pretty much sums up big part of job interviews in tech.

Also, the article feels very bittersweet - it seems like Mozilla is full of enthusiasts caring about its mission, it's sad to see it going through these rough times.
In 1992, I worked for a company that had been founded by Les Comeau (one of the VM/370 authors mentioned in references 8/10/11). Because of that, and because I'd worked in some similar technical areas at my previous job, I was absolutely delighted to find that my (not yet) father-in-law had copies of some of those documents, with handwritten notes by the authors. Seeing this reminded me that I need to do something to make sure those get scanned and not lost. It truly was an under-appreciated precursor of many things we now take for granted.
Ah yes, traditional media used to give us the truth before it was murdered and replaced by social media. Imagine what might have happened when George Bush was trying to invade Iraq, if we didn't have a robust media that cared about truth to stop him
Disclaimer: It’s one of the Smashing Books I’ve been working on as their (ex-) product manager.

TypeScript in 50 Lessons was written by Stefan Baumgartner (https://twitter.com/ddprrt) and technically reviewed by Shawn Wang (https://twitter.com/swyx).

There’s a sample PDF chapter available at http://provide.smashingmagazine.com/eBooks/typescript-sample...

I hope it may be worth a read or perhaps even buying the book. Enjoy!
The problem is not that we don't know how to create a fair tax policy. The problem is that the unfair winners under current policy spend their wealth to prevent one from being implemented.

It's a human greed problem; an AI cannot help us with that. This AI's advice world either be ignored, or its algorithms corrupted before it began.
> This article added a bit to the confusion: pomelo comes from grapefruit?

Other way around. In english, the Pomelo is "Citrus maxima", one of the "ancestral" citrus varieties, which is very large with a very thick rind.

The grapefruit is (believed to be) a hybrid of the pomelo and the regular (sweet) orange, which is itself a hybrid of some sort (a much removed descendant of pomelo and mandarin).
I sympathise - we’ve also experienced a bunch of issues with celery and rabbitmq and observing what’s actually happening is awful.

I actually tweeted out some similar issues a week ago: https://twitter.com/jarshwah/status/1310820638655877120

There are ways to scale rabbitmq past 1 node without giving up too much throughput.

- use multiple queues as each queue is single threaded

- use sharding plugins which present a single queue externally but use multiple queues across a cluster internally

- use lazy queues to get messages straight to disk, lower throughput but higher message count

It doesn’t really sound like the other options were seriously considered and it was more about moving away from celery. That’s fine - just be honest about it.
Neat. I hope screenplays are in the pipeline! I think it's even more exhilarating to type words you've heard agreeably rendered.
I'm not entirely sure why my work is here or if will stay here very long, but I was tipped off about it so thought I could provide some context! :-)

I run a company that publishes a wide variety of newsletters like Ruby Weekly and JavaScript Weekly (both now ten years old) to almost 500k subscribers now, and in a discussion on Twitter the other day mentioned I started a popular BASIC 'fanzine' on Usenet in the mid 90s which I guess was sorta the newsletter of its day. OP has linked to the first issue of that fanzine. Looking back, I feel very privileged I eventually spun out a childhood interest into my day job 20 years later!
I wonder when the first GPLd software will be public copyright and I can modify it and sell it at my wits? 60 years?
I'm curious why anyone would think programming is an essential life skill, considering how many successful people are alive today who cannot code.

Another thought: when ML starts getting applied to solving programming (see recent GPT-3 demos for many examples), do you think by the time that 5 year old is 20, programming will still be a viable career for humans?
Their conclusion is inaccurate and may be disproven simply by leaning oneself over to a 90 degree angle, or greater, while leaving the mirror and the text source stationary.

Meh. Onward.
But why would it be in any voters interest, for the government to let cheaper workers in, that bring the wages down?
I was on L1-B. I had to return to India due to a combination of several problems including the Visa issues. Some people just get filtered out of the race. As an Indian it takes more than just a Visa to settle in the US. You have to be in the good books of your bosses if you want to move up in the GC category chain, which involves making it into inner power circles of office politics where the plum budgets get allocated. Its a complex equation of age+politics+luck+health+family situations etc. The equation becomes less favorable to you as you enter the 30s.

People like me, just do our time and return to India. The company was happy to let me continue working from Bangalore office.

Working in the Bay Area was a net positive for me. You learn so much from working with the smartest in the world. Everything changes, your motivation, drive, ambition, your imagination gets re-modelled as to what's possible and how far you can go. I have learned tons due to access to a awesome peer group. I used to visit Stanford and just walk there so many times just to be in the company and see the specialness of the place. My imagination itself has evolved. I learn to take failure less fatally, and take more chances these days.

For this reason alone, I advice young people at work and friends circle to try and work in Bay Area, even if its a short stint. Its a net positive to one's career.

In terms of concrete steps, I've been promoted at work. I learned to swim(Thanks to the hiking I did around Bay Area, all those people who were so focussed on fitness had a good effect on me).I had good savings for a head start in my peer/age group. I also made decent real estate investments in India. I had a start up in Bangalore before moving to Bay Area, now I want to start up sometime again. I have read dozens of books, and have developed appetite for taking on hard projects at work. My eventual plan is to be financially independent, so that I can have mental space to take time off and do things and projects I like. So I'm working on it.

Who knows what's next for all for us due to COVID and what else is to follow. But my experience in the past failing and getting up so many times tells me, as long as one is interested in doing work, learning and have immunity to handle tough times, general direction is always a upwards trajectory.

But I'd like to come back and again work in the Bay Area. This time around not that much for money but just for working with smart people.

Sometimes I really wonder. What stops people in US in other states to buy a ticket and relocate to Bay Area.
I wouldn't be surprised if the decision is very narrow in this case or if it is even postponed again until there is a ninth justice. But I have a bad feeling it will be decided in favor of Oracle, since considering specific APIs part of the "idea" rather than the expression seems to be more of a convention among software engineers rather than actually part of the law. APIs can be "expressions", after all, it just depends on how literal or pedantic you want to be in your reading of the law. The real solution seems like it would be to update the outdated law.
Do not use Slack/Teams as your water cooler. Don't add the clutter...please. Look how popular Yammer isn't. That is water cooler talk for Slack and Teams.
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Take 2 flat mirrors, set them edge to edge at an angle of 90°, mirror side facing into the angle. Position the mirrors in front of you with the edge horizontal and both mirrors angled at 45° towards you, i.e. look into the inner corner made by the 2 mirrors. The image you see in that corner will be flipped vertically.

The same trick can be used to create a horizontal-flipping mirror, simply by positioning the mirrors so that the edge is oriented vertically. You can make one of these by sticking two pieces of mirror in an inside corner in a room somewhere.
Tailwind Play
Two ways you can take advantage of types in JavaScript (without TypeScript)
But as the parent said, this doesn't apply

And guess what, all the American services have the upload filters already. So the point is moot
A brief history of CRISPR and its key contributors:

https://www.broadinstitute.org/what-broad/areas-focus/projec...
In addition to the specific claims and their validity, one fact remains. Oracle bought Sun for the sole purpose of suing Google. Full stop. I used to date someone involved in the case when it was just getting started. Oracle can go pound sand.
Agree. I don't mean to belittle people that get confused by this (many other things perplex me), but this always seemed very intuitive to me.
My desktop has really flaky WiFi. Its WiFi adapter and a few peripherals are connected using USB3 ports. I just thought I was too far from the router (it's a room away through two walls). Is it possible switching them to the 2.0 ports could make my signal better?
Computer graphics use Z as the depth axis.
I love the Feynman video on this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msN87y-iEx0
I stopped at the white/Black capitalization nonsense.
Deep learning takes on synthetic biology
PS5 Teardown [video]
Interesting approach: the manufactrer knows for sure that a teardown video will be released by someone as soon as the product gets into the hands of customers, so they pre-emptively release their own, PR-department-controlled teardown video. This is a good trend.

Also, it's good to see how small is the amount of parts. I rememer the "fat" PS2 was monstrously hard to disassemble.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLZW8Deq8vE
> If Oracle ultimately wins, it seems like millions of programmers will have to reach for a thesaurus to find synonyms to name functions. We'll have to waste brain cycles coming up and alternative spellings of methods to stay away from copyright infringement.

It's worse than that isn't it? Naming is how you link things. What happens to WINE if it is illegal to use the same names Kernel32 does?
The first 2 sentences of the article, literally:

"Mirror image is a tricky thing, but it's pretty clear when you look at words in a reflection, that mirrors flip things horizontally rather than vertically. Or, at least it seems that that's the case."

Majority of HN comments:
"A mirror doesn't flip anything"

The "At least it seems that's the case" clearly suggests that there isn't an actual flip. But ask a regular person whether a mirror flips that is what they will say. The article addresses both the common wisdom and the actual science.
Transparency around image cropping and changes to come
Having done cocaine in the past, sure, sure, why not?
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Billionaires see fortunes rise by 27% during the pandemic
> How did you come to the conclusions that, life for life, a drug user's death is any better than someone getting shot in Afganistan?

Because getting shot in Afghanistan (especially during a war) is a random event, and the risk is spread evenly among society. The risk of drug overdose is concentrated. You don't accidentally trip on heroine, it takes a set of (largely predictable) circumstances to get there.

Society correctly assesses this risk, which is why solving the opioid epidemic polls a lot less favorably than policing and defense. The idea that society (writ large) cares more about preventing genocide and war than preventing isolated drug deaths isn't really that controversial.
Yeah this is a good point and why I think it's important to make sure young children still get lots of physical playtime
You mean something like the Intel TPM chip which was hacked last year?
Well I am more skilled in HTML, Javascript, and CSS. So, I am going to use HTML, Javascript, and CSS. However, I am not really good at coding, most of the time I have to look up how to do something (when it comes to coding). But, I am a great writer (in my opinion), so I most likely be primarily making the storyline.
They're smart people and these are not hard concepts.
No. She came up with the idea, she built the prototype, she had the vision. To name some lackey who only did what they were told an inventor is a disservice.
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Use east/west instead of left/right and you’ll see there’s no flipping.
Left and right are defined with respect to the person, and so they are different for the person and their image. East and west (or up and down) are defined with respect to environment, and they’re not flipped.
Point me at some of this 'false advertising' then, please?

No-one (at least, no-one reputable) claims that anything is 100% secure. You'll only hear that a product feature makes it 'more secure'. And that's still (slightly) true, since you could reasonably argue:

1) Even with an exploit, hackers have to do some extra work to bypass the feature.

2) The product was more secure for a time, until the exploit was discovered.
Because public good overwhelms private property, and stakeholders will be compensated in the process. Moreover, they are an essential business, where a split would cause unnecessary expenditure, whereas making them non-profit would not. Maths win. I even coined a name for that: utilisation.

I explained the process in the nutshell 2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24094535
These material science innovations takes tens of years to bring to the market - and they will take a lot of time again.
The critical word here is believe.

Most people don't believe this statement is true (or, at least as true as you do) because if they did, we probably wouldn't be talking about any of this on HN.
Indeed, it is always interesting to see these articles that never mention the positive side of these exploits, i.e. enabling freedom. I guess it shouldn't be that much of a surprise, given the authoritarian nature of the security industry (and most big corporations in general, including Apple.)
Congratulations to David for living his dream. He certainly is more optimistic than I would be. To live and breathe the mission for so long, constantly move around and help where needed, stepping outside his comfort zone and it sounds like working more than 40 hours a week, he still gets the axe because of incompetent management.

I wish him the best going forward, it sounds like he is an awesome developer and teammate and whatever company he goes to next will be lucky to have him.
I’m wondering, why not take advantage of this and add the grapefruit furanocoumarins to drugs to make smaller doses more effective?
I think they may have been referring to varying citizenship laws across the world. The USA has citizenship by soil and blood, meaning that the country belongs to the people born here and the children of it's citizens. (Let's set aside naturalization for a moment, as that is not a birthright.) Some other countries have citizenship by blood only, so in a sense, those countries belong to their ethnic groups, wherever they may be. So in essence, the USA is more inclusive in bestowing the birthright of citizenship, which befits a nation of immigrants.

I support the free movement of people, but also the sovereignty of individual nations to decide who that country belongs to. For a strange example, the UK belongs to the queen, but she's nice enough to let her subjects have the use of it.

And back to naturalization, these H1b changes highlight why naturalization is important and should be achievable for anywho who ties their life to the USA. Citizenship confers privleges and protections and asking people to make life altering investments into a country without offering citizenship in return is exploitative and immoral.
Yes I am parent.

And parent "living exclusively through childrens achievements" is object of criticism. That situation is not good for children, because they end up being pushed into parents dreams. It is unfair to children to expect them to be your source of proudness or whatever.
mine was:

`if guess == str(lulu + boonie):`
Do people eat that?
I would have definitely been interested in it before school. I created my own story games using papers and letting people make decisions which lead to a next paper with a story/picture on it. Kind of like a text based game. It would have been amazing to be able to do that without having to use tons of papers... I also loved maths though, but sadly nobody taught me :(
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> Essentially every high dollar professional in America takes full advantage of this offering as we all expect to have out of pocket medical expenses and it makes no sense to pay them with taxed dollars instead of pre taxed dollars.

Not really. HSAs are common for sure, but people with high incomes often can afford lower deductible policies. You can't open an HSA unless you have a high-deductible health insurance policy.

I've done it both ways, and I personally prefer paying more for a better insurance policy and not having to bother with HSA paperwork.
If you explain to a judge the difference between distributing a library and app code to the user, and expecting the user to download the library themselves and then you combine the app-code and the library afterward, will they care or will they see the two methods as being practically identical in terms of forming a single derivative program out of the library and app-code.

In the past people argued that streaming could not be copyright infringement since the recipient never received a copy of the movie. Courts however did not see much of an meaningful distinction between streaming a movie and downloading a movie since the experience from the user were close to identical and the perceived impact on the publisher were also identical.

During a conference I recall a lawyer explaining that a judge does not like arguments that try to use tricks to walk around laws. It makes the judge look like a fool and that annoys them.
Moreover, the argument becomes invalid work as soon as someone finds a method that does work. Which creates an incentive for anyone with a vested interest in this spying to create such a working system.
Battery noob here: Will this achieve the energy density of fossil fuels? In other words, a 50 litre tank of petrol gets me around 500 km. What will a similar volume of these batteries get me?
I wish this article had more embedded examples. I'm not really a big soccer fan, but this sort of intersection of athletics and game theory are always interesting to see.

As a tip, if you are watching a YouTube video, you can use "." and "," to go backwards and forwards by one frame when paused. It lets you see to what degree the goalkeeper is anticipating vs. reacting.

The other issue with the article is that it focuses on successful attempts -- it would be very interesting to see what the unsuccessful attempts look like as well to get a feel for how close to a randomized decision matrix the process is.
There is very much time after crossing the event. It happens to not correspond to the "t" coordinate that a distant observer would call time, but it still exists.

The mathematics describes 2 singularities with black holes. 1 singularity occurs when describing the black hole using the coordinate system of an observer at constant distance. This is a coordinate singularity and goes away under an appropriate change of coordinates.

Another singularity occurs at what the constant distance observer would describe as the "center" of the black hole. This is not a coordinate singularity. The curvature there goes infinite regardless of your coordinate system.

Whether or not you want to call this singularity the "center" is a matter of opinion. An observer within the event horizon would describe the singularity as a time, not a location, so "center" certainly has some connotations that you may want to avoid. On the other hand. In the coordinate system that I normally see used to describe the interior of black holes, the singularity occurs at the surface r=0; which sounds kind of center-ish.
As time goes on the more essential it will become as it is one of the last jobs to be taken by AI.
The truth in media was murdered by people who where cited in support of the article, like Ellen Pao, the former CEO of reddit who had to step down after a failed extortion gender discrimination case and who's ideas of diversity is anything that doesn't include white man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Pao
For me it worked in the opposite direction, the more I learned how all the World elements are connected, how laws of Physics made live possible, how those laws are connected with the logical rules that our World has to obey (like causality) the more I become convinced that all this had to be designed.

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." (John 1:1)
Your pedantry is outdated: there are Serato-compatible decks that have MIDI pads built into them, not everything is trying to mimic the SL-1200s aesthetic these days.
Nice! I'd add dr martens made in UK series
In my university baby foot (table football) circles, matches usually came down to a series of deciding or guessing on near gap vs. far gap.

Shannon's Mind Reading Machine used three bits worth of address space to model humans for a very similar game: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23475069

(At less elite levels, paradiddles are a great low-budget pseudorandom. At more elite levels, using outside signals for an entropy pool has been attested.)
> And why, when you raise your right hand, does your mirror-self raise its left hand, but it still moves it up rather than down?

The words “up” and “down” are absolute, but the words “left” and “right” are relative to you. If we instead of “left” and “right” use the words “south arm” and “north arm”, then the mirror suddenly does not “flip” anything. This is a strong clue that the apparent paradox is conceptual, not real.
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All I'm hearing are good reasons to support unions.
The usage of the z-axis is absolutely correct in the article.

The author has essentially defined the x and the y axes. Useful physics (or math), as opposed to what appears to be an arbitrary common convention in whatever field you're familiar with, would suggest placing the z-axis in the direction that is co-perpendicular to the defined x and y axes.

That a z-axis represents height and not depth is the least physics thing I've ever heard. Frankly, I dont think that's a thing at all.
Awesome idea, one could essentially upload their current resume, and the model's could suggest alternatives to how you could word it.

PSA: Sorry for the gibberish, we didn't see much utility in the project (hence why the OP's comment is great).

We will keep working on training the models.
I would change shipping to "Availability" which is a list of country tags. Great idea, bookmarking it
I think you underestimate the complexity of tax policy. There are problems even with the definition of "fair".