skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ideally you want one reverse proxy software (Apache, Nginx, Caddy - can be anything). For that one, you use Lets Encrypt. The part between the reverse proxy and the rest of the servers (such as Screego in this example) does not need to run over HTTPS unless the link between reverse proxy and server software (ie. Screego) is insecure. If it runs on the same machine, for example both in Docker, then that isn't needed. And, therefore, its beyond the scope of the installation guide. Look for example at a guide on how to set up Nginx s reverse proxy with Lets Encrypt.
Why would the "free market" be the most important in the first place?
> Presidential Plinko takes that uncertainty and translates it into Plinko boards with similar uncertainty, so that you can experience just how uncertain predictors’ forecasts are.

Nope. To fully demonstrate how uncertain predictors’ forecasts are, you need to animate a few meteorites crashing into the Plinko board, one said meteorite with Hillary's emails on them. And then go read The Black Swan, especially the chapter where one of the reference figures is a Plinko board.
Meditation is a lifechanger if you stick to it. Not just to deal with ADHD, but life in general.

For anyone interested in getting started, I can absolutely recommend Waking Up by Sam Harris. (The idea behind the app's name is just what you do - starting the day with a mindfulness meditation.)

The App has a great 28 day introductionary course (easily digestible 10 minute sessions), among others, and is expanding its content right now. If you can't afford a subscription, you can easily unlock it for free simply by sending a mail to the support.
How would you have broken up MS? The Office programs are better together, Windows might be split of from the rest, but then what about IE? You can't sell a browser anymore, so either that dies (which would be bad back then because it was the most advanced browser) or it gets bundled with something else and the problem continues.
You are indeed "on their schedule" -- see eg https://devcenter.heroku.com/changelog-items/1603. But that's the trade-off you deal with, so that you don't have to manage all this stuff yourself.
just wanted to add there is also data from Bergamo that indicates long term affects for many people (and a study from Germany - see link buried in the WaPo post) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24418561
Assume houses/buildings in those areas WILL burn down each year and price insurance accordingly. Then have regulations (and government enforcement) that owners must have insurance.
Maybe some of the bad comments were removed since I read the thread.

My point was this:
OP said something like "press is evil, Tesla does not need PR"

My point: I would like that maybe 3 paid journalists contact the customer, the dealership and Tesla(so PR contact needed for Tesla) and 3 articles are published with this 3 different sources rather then each individual attempt to contact on it's own the involved parties and try to find the truth.
Mickens is an excellent writer and speaker with a wonderful sense of humor. Here's a collection of some of his articles and talks:

https://medium.com/@soobrosa/my-humble-james-mickens-shrine-...
> It sounds more like some regulatory capture has happened which is keeping prices artificially high

This. Not sure if it's a system bug, or a feature: the system may have been designed for this to happen.
I feel like this is an often overlooked fact about these programming exercises, once you get into solving them they are surprisingly fun.
A standard way of committing rules and communicating it
Do yourself a great favor and read it at night, during a storm, by candle-light.
“The most credible documentary ever made about UFOs”
What you call "premeditated and despicable" is actually a huge value proposition for others. Whereas AWS/GCP have pricing structures based on usage and you never know until the end of the month how much you owe, DO instead has defined "you will pay $50/mo for this regardless of if you do or do not use it" and from what I've seen, many people really value and appreciate that, and specifically choose DO over AWS/GCP because of that.

The pricing model for App Platform seems antithesis to that, though, which is interesting. DO is becoming more like AWS/GCP with every feature release, which I don't necessarily find to be a good thing.
Many comments here are quite inaccurate saying "REIT / Real-Estate, High div stocks, solely VTI/VTSAX." These are not steady 4-5% and have very real risk of losing 50% within a year.

The safest way to steadily return 4-5% nominal is an approximate mix of:

55% VT (Global stocks)
40% BND (Total US Bond Market)
5% GLDM (Gold)

Whether that ends up being a real 4-5% return, as opposed to nominal or a definite 3% real, will depend on inflation.

More info on bogleheads.org
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Q: Since users of Plausible are sending you their visitors IP addresses, doesn't that mean GDPR applies? GDPR mentions "disclosure by transmission" as an example of processing[0].

Since that's the case, doesn't that mean you need a legal basis for processing the data[1], you need a way to allow users to opt out of collection of their data[2], and your clients need to sign data protection agreements[3] with Plausible?

I tried looking for Plausible's point of view on this and how they address the above, but I couldn't find anything.

[0] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-6-gdpr/

[2] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-21-gdpr/

[3] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-28-gdpr/
Maybe not a game changer, but definitely is worth spending one dollar.

Thanks for your kind words! :)
I don't think there were any biases here. The research into the docs came first, and the title seems like the conclusion rather than the hypothesis.

Besides, I don't use databases all that much and I don't write blog posts either, but if I did, and I came across this issue, this might be the exact article I would write (except the liking Postgres thing).
Once I studied a list like this and then got one of the questions in an interview. I did a good job with the theatrics of not knowing the fully correct answer and struggled through it with flashes of genius. I got the job, after a few years I couldn’t really hack it but I’m still reaping the benefits of having that name start my career.
> they are the most unpleasant, unfunny, stuck up people on the planet

> Where does this holier-than-thou attitude come from?

I don't think it's just whomever "they" is...
Numberphile has a Do Storks Deliver Babies? video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n-d1ApBTFw

There's also the amusing Spurious Correlations site with several examples of convincing looking correlations

https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
Looks closer to GPT-2.03234
It's regulation that is stopping me from buying the cheapest price. I don't want the US to force a particular price in the US. And even if they did, I would still want to be able to buy from anywhere in the world, regardless of where the lowest price is.
Everything is an arms race
Povilas from the linked blog post.

Indeed this is a valid point, thanks. On the X server applications will get touchpad gestures regardless of whether one is running Plasma or GNOME. However, workspace-wide gestures are not implemented in either on X yet.

On Wayland the display server is the one which handles workspace-wide gestures. Additionally, all events go through it to the applications. Perfect touchpad gesture support needs support in both. As far as I know Mutter (GNOME) handles both parts already and KWin (Plasma) currently handles neither.

Implementing touchpad gestures on Plasma would fall within this initiative, I will most likely work on that at some point in the future. Please vote in the poll so that we know this is important to you.
Hi there, Can you share some questions regarding Google interviews?
In my experience and also from what my friends and co-workers told me, it's a lot more about your network and your experience. If you have a good resume and people recommending you, you skip the technical interview part.

I interviewed for one American company once. Didn't like it despite the nice hotel. I also didn't get the job.
Not really; The only thing making this hard to do with VR today is a lack of means to capture the HMD wearer's face, because there's stuff in the way and needing to have a dedicated/stationary camera pointed at your face while you're in VR is just impractical.

Future headsets might start to implement some Leap-esque sensors pointed at the user's chin and some eye tracking cameras inside the headset to address this eventually, but that's going to be prohibitively costly for some time (not just in terms of dollars, but in added weight/heat as well).
Bunch of links to papers here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2580933/cosmic-rays-what...

e.g. "2009 Google's paper "DRAM Errors in the Wild: A Large-Scale Field Study" says that there can be up to 25000-75000 one-bit FIT per Mbit (failures in time per billion hours), which is equal to 1 - 5 bit errors per hour for 8GB of RAM after my calculations. Paper says the same: "mean correctable error rates of 2000–6000 per GB per year". "
There's a current MIT course call Introduction to Computational Thinking that's using Julia. I've watch a handful of videos so far. Good introduction to Julia.

https://computationalthinking.mit.edu/Fall20/
For the curious: https://web.archive.org/web/20140918210933/http://www.xenosy...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/avikroy/2020/07/24/trumps-most-...

As one might expect, the pharma companies are fighting his executive order in the courts. Here's one article with some details.
TL;DR

So the answer is just it's for backwards compatibility with MySQL 3?

I was kind of hoping for more.
Thank you for this site. This is a great idea and execution. I have a problem reading continuously without getting distracted. Perhaps typing something down similar to writing will help with retention.
The way some companies work is that there's a set list of question archetypes, but interviewers come up with their own methods of presenting the problem. For example, a seam carving problem might get presented as finding a horizon in an image. I would often present the same problem as finding a pass through a mountain range given a height map of the terrain.

Also, it's possible for interviewers to detect candidates who study the problem beforehand. A couple questions at Dropbox were spread online for years, and it would become clear which candidates read up on those questions online. Some would propose, without prompting, solutions to older iterations of the interview question.
Previous discussion of original source, currently on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24696230
> the balls are not being dropped in the center

They are being dropped from the center of the probability distribution, not the center of the electoral vote threshold (which would be nonsense).

> skewing of the entry point

Skewing from what?

> bias in prior distribution

That's the point!

> color of the end slots should change based on probabilities

The height of the bar changes based on the probabilities.
Yeah, you want to take advantage of the regulation of those other countries, which you can't get in the US.
You've really got to distinguish between different types of agriculture when discussing efficiency, and specify the metrics you are optimizing for. Row crops/grains, fruits, vegetables, and meat all have different growing conditions, footprints, and shipping concerns.

A tonne of wheat costs 0.05 tonnes of CO2 to ship from Kansas to New York, requires 0.6 acres to grow, and contains ~3,500,000 calories.

A tonne of tomatoes costs 0.3 tonnes of CO2 to ship from California to New York, requires 0.06 acres to grow, and contains ~180,000 calories.

The lowest-hanging fruit, so to speak, in food production is reducing beef production to pasture-raised beef on lands that can be sustainably ranched but are not suitable for other forms of agriculture. After that comes producing more (of some types of) vegetables locally, particularly ones that are mostly water and consumed for nutrients rather than calories, and eating fresh foods in-season.

Any plan that tries to get rid of grains or other staples produced on massive scales in monoculture fields in the parts of countries best suited for them runs afoul of the "we need to produce enough food for 10 billion people for at least the next two centuries" constraint of agricultural planning.
GStreamer 1.18 brings CI improvements, stateless codec support and more
Unpopular opinion: solving programming riddles makes you not only a better programmer but a better all-around problem solver and thinker.

Before I could solve your average programming riddle I scoffed at them. Now that I have some experience solving them I feel like it is truly a form of mind expanding knowledge and should be valued not only in hiring but in life in general.
1) Slow RTT
2) Misuse of bitcoin with crazy amounts of blockchain spam (could end up blocked by miners too)
3) Expensive
4) Loss of access to a Bitcoin API means app downtime
5) etc...
Ask HN: If Linux was a food, what would it be?
The low quality of HN comments is universally recognized. It's just why you think they're shit that varies.
It's prodding into personal details that many draw the line with. You might not have a problem with it, but I've personally heard from a few different people how they get annoyed with those sorts of questions being leveled at them all the time, simply because they didn't look white. Aziz Ansari even joked about this a few times during Parks and Recreation, it's such a common phenomenon. Imagine seeing someone who might have some sort of disability then asking them if they were insert disability you are unqualified to diagnose but assume they have. That would be considered pretty rude.
Not a bad idea. The idea of 'fizzbuzz' was to just filter out the total unable to do it at all people. Not to filter for people who can do coding interviews. Honestly, that these questions are out there and people study for them make an interviewers life easier. 'Oh you saw this problem online great! explain why it works'. It cuts through a lot of gruff. Had it happen a few times with the particular problem I like to use. If they can read cracking the coding interview and understand the problems in it and explain them back you are half way there!
> it makes sense for that company to have people attempt very challenging programming exercises

Perhaps. I would also encourage companies to look past programming ability, and consider things like work ethic etc. I would argue that once you can do the job, reliably showing up and working hard every day has a lot of impact.
Unlocking eBPF power
Haven't correspondence courses also been a thing forever?
Note that only happens using the DATETIME data type.

As long as I remember, the documentation for DATETIME [0] has had a disclaimer at the top to not use it, but use DATETIME2 instead.

Of course, that doesn't excuse older systems, but this is an issue that can be avoided for new work.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/data-types/dateti...
What's the point of hiding the interview questions? What does the hiring company care whether the applicant learned that years ago or crammed for it recently?
Brilliant! Thanks!
I'm shocked, shocked that campaign emails would be so biased, partisan, and maniuplative! Shocked!
Yeah, my friend who has a daughter with Type 1 laughed her ass off at that comment.
In all practicality, you wouldn't care to consume wild boar due to boar taint[1].

It's disgusting to everyone, but women are particularly sensitive to the male sex hormone and tend to find it highly unpalatable.

There's a reason why boars are used historically to represent especially unpleasant or revolting men.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar_taint
I think this is the D vs G strains?

https://www.biospace.com/article/mutated-covid-19-viral-stra...
> Unpopular opinion: solving programming riddles makes you not only a better programmer but a better all-around problem solver and thinker.

That's not an unpopular opinion among people who devote energy to solving programming riddles.

The need to validate one's own life choices is a common cognitive bias, if nothing else.
The big players have separate charges for bandwidth and disk and other hidden stuff. They are way more expensive than Digital Ocean / OVH all inclusive. Worse, the costs is unpredictable which makes them a no go for a side project, I can't risk accidentally getting a $1000 bill.

As a real world example, I run a personal blog. If it were running on S3, my personal finance would have been obliterated when it got featured on HN and served 1+ TB of traffic.
Nah... I constantly say ah... fuck this shit! I then proceed to fix the bitch of whatever problem it is. I'm a real programmer though.
Off-patent insulin is $25/vial at Walmart. I’ll yield to any diabetics for additional nuance, but AIUI, this form of insulin is harder to correctly administer.

The newer, patent protected versions are safer and more effective. Again, AIUI, patent protection for at least one form is expiring or expired recently.
It's all fun and games until someone spins up a competitive hosted service using your MIT licensed codebase.
Let's not forget the need for patent reform in this area. The current state of patents around drugs in the US is crazy.
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Good points.

Remembering back to the PRISM disclosures, metadata alone is enough to build a surveillance apparatus. So I guess even without decryption of all objects, confirmation of the existence of known objects could still be enough to conduct mass surveillance or enable other kinds of abuse.
"Until it's time to transition" [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/GoogleWorkspace/status/13135408082017116...
I'm not sure what you are arguing. I'm arguing that political nihilism is a possible position, and that being a political nihilist is different than being a supporter/opponent of the status quo.

Your argument seems to be that there are only ever two possible political positions: pro-status-quo or anti-status-quo. Is it really that simple/non-complex?
There's fundamentally no difference between them.

They are both crappy tools for humans to write anything in and are better as a tools for machines to exchange data, which is accidentally human-readable in case debugging is neccessary.
Cabin fever is a real thing.
This is exactly why electrek get accused of being Tesla's PR department. In no meaningful way is the headline true, it's this stupid trope that Tesla doesn't advertise, but you can look through this thread and see the thousand ways they do.
EFF is doing something. Countless organizations are working on climate change in meaningful ways. Spouting hopeless negativity about their efforts isn't interesting or helpful. In fact I think it is harmful because it perpetuates toxic hopelessness and discourages people from taking action.

You're entitled to your opinion and you have a right to express yourself but you don't have an obligation. Please consider the effect your words can have.

If you have constructive criticism please share it.
It's almost always a combinations of:

* Searching algorithms

* Sorting algorithms

* Dynamic Programming (memoization)

* Graph operations (traversal, best path, minimum spanning set)

* Maps & Hashing.

* Heaps or trees. E.g. finding a median or top-k elements.

Every once in a while you'll get a more exotic problem that requires something like a bloom filter or a trie.

But that's just enough to get the solution. A good interviewer will also see if you can build this solution in a way that has effective abstractions. They'll also probe real-world concerns like data locality. For instance, one solution might be better in terms of big-O notation performance but might have worse access data pattern than other solutions.
> Please vote in the poll so that we know this is important to you.

The poll: :)

https://www.gitclear.com/polls/linux_multitouch_apps
What about for Facebook, Amazon, Google? I've heard they ask whiteboarding questions
When Zombie Data costs you a home
Why aren't there more manufacturers?

Low profits and a giant moat. The civilized world keeps prices down because their governments do the buying, and meanwhile any new entrant needs to prove bioequivalence.

It's not that the market was totally innovation-free. Human insulin was a gigantic breakthough when Genentech brought it to market back in 1978.
The original insulin that is off-patent is very cheap. What is expensive in the US is newer versions that are safer and more effective.
Could you describe a time in your life when the knowledge gained from solving programming riddles impacted other parts of your life noticeably? I also very much enjoy solving these so-called "toy" problems but I can't say they've markedly improved my life aside from helping me get a job where I don't really use them. I've found that learning statistics and linear algebra provided me with more insight into decision making in my day-to-day than just straight algorithmic knowledge
It looks even more realistic if you set playback speed to 1.25x.
Oh really?!
anyone know how vimium compares to tridactyl on firefox?

[0] https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl
My Dell U3014 is showing this pattern -- there is _something_ on the display, but something fundamental is busted. What does HN suggest? I have tried a replacement TCON board from ebay without success.
I think I have found a bug. It is in typing "The Art of War".

The "s" in the first sentence of "Sun Tzu said:" does not want to be recognized. My "s" key works fine in other contexts, and other letters before this one are recognized just fine.

EDIT: Actually, this seems to happen for different books, relatively early on in each. I am also seeing it in "Grimm's Fairy Tales."

I have a MBP 2020, and I am using Safari.
I’m an ex rails dev (from about 2010, so a while back, but still)

ASP.NET MVC (which is now ASP.NET Core) is a fairly carbon copy ripoff of what rails was back then. Initially I was annoyed about this; there were efforts to run Ruby on .NET via IronRuby and thus get a nice rails-on-windows environment, and ASP.NET MVC came along and sucked all the wind out of that like a tent collapsing. Controllers, Views, Routing are all the same, and like rails can be reconfigured if you prefer.

Later on though, I’m happy with it. A new blank project doesn’t quite have all that stuff, but you can add the postgres driver, migrations, etc with a few lines of code.

You do lose out on all the more advanced Ruby meta-magic things that rails does like with_scope on ActiveRecord, but in exchange you get a 1000x performance boost, and static typing - especially now with null safety in C#8 is really helpful as your codebase grows. The productivity hit you take compared to rails is actually pretty minimal I think, and those other benefits outweigh that and some. I would chose ASP.NET core over rails for any web project at any time these days

Good luck!
Redux in Web Workers: Off-Main-Thread Redux Reducers and Middleware