skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funnily enough, this response is exactly what the parent seems to be talking about. FAANG originated as a stock term and not as a grouping of companies with similar hiring processes. i.e. Interviews at Netflix are generally domain specific. Likewise, Amazon isn't the same as Apple isn't the same as Google.

> If you don't come up with a close-to-optimal solution in about 5 minutes

Disingenuously hyperbolic. I was only given a single problem to solve in each of my 45 minute "coding rounds" at Google and Facebook. If you approach these interviews like a competitive coding competition you will absolutely not get the job. By that I mean arriving at a non-optimal solution as fast as possible while writing messy code and not explaining your thought process. Not to mention that senior roles involve an increasing number of interviews that focus on design rather than algorithmic questions.

This all seems like nonsense coming from individuals who are (understandably or not) frustrated at an interview process that doesn't align with their strengths.
This has also led to problems with X.509.

Could you explain more about this? I thought the whole point of ASN.1 DER was to have only one canonical representation for a given structured value, and that the signing was done as-is on the sequence of bytes directly. It definitely doesn't have the same problems as XML and other text-based formats.
Test Driven Game Development W. Godot
You are literally misrepresenting things, by quoting the first sentence of the abstract without apparently reading any of the rest, or even internalizing the meaning of that sentence.

Yes, every engineering standard identifies pavement width as a safety feature, but none of them provide evidence to back this up. The few actual investigations of actual crash statistics show the opposite to be true.

Engineering standards aren't scientific papers, they are practical and instructional, and the hunches of their authors is sufficient for standardization, necessary even, because you can't do science on the efficacy of standards that you haven't written yet. Some early road engineers guessed that wider streets were safer, and it has been taken as gospel truth ever since.
How A Medication for OCD Ended Up in a Covid-19 Trial
keep in mind that you should not use your 2016 MacBook with an external monitor (without clasmshell)
You're not missing anything. Police are allowed to rob you under the guise of "preventing future crime". Don't ever get caught with large sums of cash, even if your use is legitimate.
Blog author here; Russell's implementation is backed by github.com/beevik/etree, but like you said, it's just an interface. The tokenizer is still encoding/xml.

Adding better support for namespaces and providing APIs compatible with dsig doesn't remove the underlying vulnerabilities.
The other problem is not providing a stable Windows distribution where updates don't touch functionality and only fix security bugs.
iMessage is E2EE (according to Apple). But Apple can still see who's messaging who. With that you get an intimate social graph. Similar to what the NSA has on US citizens via phone records. Apple also says they don't sell your personal info to advertisers. But they can still use that data however they like, and there's nothing stopping them from selling that data at some point in the future.
If that's the principle involved, then I think, though IANAL, the statute of limitations applies. If my employer from 20 years ago cheated me of some pay, I'm pretty sure he's safe from litigation at this point.

> if you care about your decedents and progeny at all, there is nothing to gain from cheating. You may benefit and die before repercussions occur, but all debts must be paid eventually.

I really hope you're not suggesting that we set a precedent of digging through history to find old debts we might be owed.
Nvidia’s Director of AI research is publicly sharing names of her enemies
Thanks, did not know about Fastmail, admittedly, I've not looked around for a long time. I've been using gmail since the early days.

Gmail has been "fine" for my needs, but now that I think about it, the filter and label dialogs have always been a pain in the ass. They've been more or less the same since the beginning, one would think that Google would freshen this stuff up-- but no. Moreover, gmail has become more aggressive about "categorizing" stuff on my behalf.

Will check it out. I think a key thing for me will be stability and the ability to transition my shit to another provider if needed.
Google Discontinues the Google Home Max
Those certainly help but I have yet to find the right neck pillow for me. I am a side-sleeper at home, almost exclusively on my left side FWIW. I'm not willing to pay for a lie-flat seat when it's my money but I would pay dearly for the pillow that will allow me more than 15-30 minute cat naps on a 10 hour redeye flight.
A Book in a Tweet
> Doubly so because I'm white

This is a logical fallacy (though a popular one). An idea is either good or bad. The traits of the person speaking the idea are irrelevant, and do not make a good idea bad, or a bad idea good.

Further, an idea doesn't become more or less "subject to discussion" as a result of the race of the person speaking it.
Aluminum window frame is really awful. Why we use the material that used for heatsink to insulate?
There's also http://www.night-trains.com/ , for anyone that just wants to see some night train route maps.
I can't tell you all time, but in the a last 60 trading sessions ARKK has gained 21%. This is the breakdown... https://cathiesark.com/arkk/performance
Simon Webb is interesting on slavery history, I'm waiting for his book on this topic to come out in digital format https://youtu.be/qhw1ATYxWcQ
Because the machines don't care whether the humans inside are fed and warm, and won't emit more/less CO2 because of it.

These buildings are very similar. The major difference is that while a capital city train station handles around 10-40 trains at a time with short arrival-departure pause (e.g. Prague main station handles around 10-15 concurrent trains), capital city airports are often handling many dozens of concurrent flights (with longer arrival-departure pause and smaller groups per vehicle) -> the airport takes more area but isn't technically sophisticated at all; the train station is denser, but railroad switching at a station isn't easy. So let's just keep stations separate. Of course buildings required by the machines should be included.

It most definitely is possible to build an airport without any costs other than construction of the runway and a fuel pump, and a 2-4 km stretch of dirt is more than enough. If you want airliners landing there then simply pour asphalt or concrete over it, smaller planes can handle dirt. You'll want to bring fuel - a truck that already often drives nearby (to supply gas stations) will bring it to you, and nothing fancier than the simplest second hand fuel pump and a tank is needed.

It is also most definitely possible to add significant capacity to an existing airport with nearly zero costs and it is routinely done - every year from May to September hundreds of tiny airports all around the world start serving (sometimes) more flights than the country's capital city, bringing in thousands of people from dozens or even hundreds of different destinations all around the planet, with flights coming in every 30 minutes from 8 to 22. Usually a travel agency finds a place they like (that probably never had a single airliner fly over there before), they call it and make a deal, and it's done. They'll set up their own ground handling service if they have that many flights daily to improve efficiency - that's as easy as parking a few cars next to the airport and placing staff they already employ there, and it's not needed if it's just a flight per hour or so.

The thing that's hard about capital city airports is that everyone wants to go to a different destination and be there on time, everyone goes to the airport by their own means, the security theatre, etc. I don't know much train stations with numbers of car parking places comparable to airports, and these that do still don't like cars being parked for weeks there. The travel agency has it simpler because they're moving the whole group either by plane or by bus, and they can do whatever they like with the schedule. Many smaller cities have airports that handle few flights per week and that kind of airport is at most a single building next to the runway, nothing like FRA or the new BER.

Maintaining existing capacity - I already talked about the runway pour... That's about it. The fuel equipment will need a refresh every 20 years or so.
People who are holding real estate exposure in the US are the primary beneficiaries.

Then you add in redlining, and it starts to look systemtic.

So the cure should be appropriate to the disease, make home ownership practical, affordable, and (if you are into reparations) subsidized.

Or at least as subsidized as being a rich person is in the mortgage origination process (via that stealth socio-economic test that is your FICO score).
Likely the Japanese color scheme: https://ruwix.com/the-rubiks-cube/japanese-western-color-sch...
Planting a tree so in 100 years from now, that CO2 is offset, will not in fact prevent a climate catastrophe in the next 20 years.

If any planting even happens; trees for CO2 whitewashing is like the perfect scam opportunity because nobody cares if you deliver.
Well, Ben Eater isn’t the one making them, but Western Design Center (WDC, no relation to WD) who supposedly owns the rights to produce them. Eater is just reselling them which is allowed under the “first sale doctrine”
> I would switch to native Linux in a heartbeat if Davinci Resolve worked well on my hardware

I think this is the KEY reason why I'll probably be running windows forever.

It's not that linux doesn't offer a bunch of benefits (indeed, that's why I use WSL heavily). It's that so much GUI software only really supports Windows or Mac. Linux is less than an afterthought most of the time.
>I think when you hear 2hrs/3hrs/etc per day, often it is the fault of the organization for:

> - Not having good business cases

> - Thinking Engineers don't care about reasons for doing things

> - Not providing distraction free blocks

> - Not sufficiently sharing rewards with the company

In your list, it seems its the company's that's often at fault. Can you explain that a bit more?

As a manager, I expect my direct reports to do the work I assign them. As a good-faith effort I will do my best to assign work that is relevant/interesting/etc. But I accept that in the real world, there is a lot of work that is often boring, repetitive (some of that is going away thanks to automation). Especially in the scientific domain, performing the same experiment over and over isolating for some factor or the other, and there is sometimes very little intellectual stimulation. I think it would be the same in engineering fields as well.
Oppo and Nendo's 'slide-phone' concept unfolds into three screen sizes
>When this continues to happen over the course of the month, perhaps I begin to think I'm looking a bit large around the middle.

Maybe you are. I certainly am. Are these theoretical shirt-sellers trying to convince you you're getting overweight to get you to buy a shirt for overweight people, or have they noticed you're overweight and have a shirt you might want to buy? One is clearly abusive but the other isn't.
Same, I haven’t booted up my Windows 10 installation for at least 4 years. That’s partially because I haven’t needed it, but also because the thought of installing all of those pending updates is a strong motivator for finding Linux-compatible alternatives.
Glad you're finding it useful!
That's fine when you work solo but Java, more than any language, was designed for teamwork and that's where what's idiomatic tends to weigh heavily.
What books would you all recommend to improve your technical skills?
I tried to read widely and thought these 5 books are quite interesting to share with you all

https://blog.phuaxueyong.com/post/2020-10-25-5-books-you-have-to-read/
CNET names the best tech products of 2020
The 7th sign of the apocolypse. I didn't think I'd ever seen a porn site do anything responsible.
Marijuana. Take as much as you want
99% of the time though, you'll just win the same paint job for a car you don't own, or maybe a nifty steering wheel cover you can't see in game maybe if you're really, really lucky, you'll win some cool spinning rims....again...that only works for a car you don't own that can only be won from a different kind of lootbox available only during special events...

Also, all these things are one day trials...that have to be used within 7 days or they expire.
They started with good usability, because that was a primary goal before financial considerations became more important.
> Even though Google is discontinuing the Google Home Max, the company still plans to support it with software updates and security fixes

For now. I don’t think there’s any way Google the product/service killer is going to support this very long
Financial firms such as hedge funds have no issues with such orders, nor should social media have.
The argument is that the delta between normal use and liver toxicity especially if one adds in a few drinks is pretty small. I have heard the same thing and it's probably not an unreasonable argument. (Or, if approved, it might be a prescription med.)
From another point of view, some people are happy to support the devs of the game with IAPs, what is not cool is tricking people to spend money to play the game (eg. 1 coin to continue) or to progress in the game (eg. 100 gems to upgrade to a better weapon so you don't have to farm for 30 days).
Looking back yes not much skills gained. At the time what kept me in there were a couple of things:

1) chasing the next thing. Next item, next perfect build, next stat.

2) the multi player aspect. Be it pvp or a coop game with some online “friends”

Both of these are good ways to keep people engaged / addicted I guess.
This is awesome! However, unfortunately a single legitimate (many "uv led" devices on amazon are fake!) 285nm UVC led is between $7-21 USD [0].

0 - https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/infrared-uv-visib...
I wish they would ban the codeine boosted Tylenol for this reason. People will take more than prescribed at once because the codeine really knocks the edge off, but they forget about the overdose of Tylenol. If they need codeine, just prescribe that and let patients supplement with reasonable doses of NSAIDS.
Those things like meetings, lunches, dinners, golf and social "trivialities" are really work. They do take a toll on you and they're not relaxing. Sure, it's different from intense problem solving, different from digging a ditch, but still very much work.
The lockdowns will not end, period, until the war is over. There’s already probably a new COVID[0] ready to be hyped, even if we get population immunity to COVID-19.

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/...
This is really sad but I can totally see how it happens. Check out this label for Amazon brand Acetamenophen. Under directions, the first line says "Take 2 caplets every 6 hours while symptoms last." If you only read that line you would take 8 caplets, or 4000 mg, per day. Unfortunately, the next line says "Do not exceed 6 caplets in 24 hours" making the max OTC dosage 3000 mg per day.
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71bQIsLJPrL...
Double-Odd Elliptic Curves
Otherwise known as a "megaminx" it's solvable using almost the exact same techniques (with small variation) to a regular 3x3 depending on the method used.
An i5 4460 @ 3.2ghz, 16gb of RAM, SSD, GTX 750 from ~6 years ago. My exact hardware list is here[0].

Every time I export videos of any format with Resolve it adds weird black artifacts and audio pops to my videos. The audio pops happen in every video and it only happens in the exported video, it's fine in the timeline. I'm only dealing with 1080p 30 fps videos too. These issues happen on Windows too with Resolve where as video editing tools like Camtasia are super fast and I have no problems even after 400+ videos.

I tried so hard to switch. Spent close to an entire week trying to debug everything and couldn't resolve it (pun intended).

Besides that, the machine works really well for overall Dockerized Flask + Rails + Webpack development / ops work / recording screencast videos with OBS / video editing with Camtasia / 1080p gaming (although I have a 2560x1440 monitor) so I haven't really had a strong urge to retire this workstation and build a new one.

[0]: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/the-tools-i-use#computer-desk...
In the spirit of gentleness, at HN comments which don't add substance to the conversation are discouraged. So in this case it's not just word choice that people are reacting to.
Below is a link to the existing, published study. There's no date on it, so it's uncertain if this is the updated study that the article mentions will be released tomorrow or if it's a previous one.

https://ij.org/report/policing-for-profit/
This appears to be a VC backed venture. They're not giving their code away.
Facebook query
Find people who work for US Air Force.

Vulnerabilities publicly available are numerous, and I gave no such details to anyone that would give them an easier time finding said compromises.

Its like saying windows 10 bug found --> HEY THE MILITARY USES WINDOWS 10.
their conviction on bitcoin, tesla, etc has been a significant driver of their returns. if they can continue being so prescient about controversial investments remains to be seen. not taking any credit away from them - their performance nothing short of phenomenal.

one thing they definitely get right is risk control/management - they cap individual holdings to 10%, so it provides profit-taking and cuts down single-holding risk by design
I agree that VC wasn't a great choice. But I don't see much evidence that they were reliant on investor money; per Crunchbase they only took $2.8m over 6 years of operation. And I don't think Amazon was their only potential source of revenue. Book publishers clearly still spend money on marketing, and Goodreads would be able to do very precise targeting. I also suspect they could have sold well-targeted ads to others, as some book categories strongly indicate monetizable non-book interest.
sheepskin slippers/booties. best thing I've bought in a while.

https://www.sheepskin.co.uk/product/sheepland-luxury-sheepsk...
I can imagine calling someone a monster in an approving tone, but it's harder to convey accurately in text.
The security boundaries rationale is interesting. I think I need to learn more about that.
I haven't had to autogenerate any code since adopting Lombok. It really brought sanity to the codebases I work on.
Thanks for mentioning that Paul. The sentence was meant as a sign of respect. It was great to talk to you too.
Just wanted to point out that 3 of those 4 countries are surrounded by miles of open water/ocean. And the final one has been lying about the outbreak the entire time. https://www.independent.co.uk/world/covid19-china-mishandle-...
There were three primary groups of beneficiaries - planters in the America's, slave traders in Europe, and the Kingdoms in Africa who were among the procurers and sellers.
American racism, in housing for example, didn't creep in. It came in a bang with slavery and has been going away, in fits and starts ever since.

How do you get from there to:

> racism creeps into all of our institutions. Instead of thinking of racism as a yes/no binary with intention, I think it's more useful to think of it as something like "fairness."

All? I think you should consider "I'm not racist, there are much better reasons to hate people." Even if you find unfairness somewhere, and even if it's intentional, how do you know a priori that it's because of skin color?

> It's like starting the game of Monopoly when a bunch of the players have had dozens of turns of head start.

Right. American Descendants of Slavery (ADoS) really have a shitty position. Worse off from the start and sometimes still facing the racism.

> So this can't all fall on tech companies, of course, but as major pillars of modern society, they bear some responsibility of fixing the problems that persist.

If it's our society's responsibility to fight slavery, have you hunted a pimp? Or do you expect your tax dollars to fund the police who do such things? I expect Google to not try to make things worse, but I'm fine if all the good they do comes from taxes.
> Do you honestly think that forcefully stealing money from someone at the threat of imprisonment if they don't pay is really going to fly?

How many American citizens went to prison because they refused to send in their contribution to the reparation funds for Japanese internment?
This is still my favourite editor
Also worth noting that many "first world" countries are providing a lot of stimulus for workers - many countries covering 75%-100% of an out of work person's pay.

In the US we've had a single $1200 check. American families don't have the option to stop going to work and have to do anything they can.

It's no wonder this breeds resentment to anything the government says, including to wear masks.
I would imagine it's at least partially because Discord skews pretty young, with a large audience of minors.
I've got one of those old grandfathered "limited minutes, unlimited data" plans, so the phone bit doesn't really work for me.

Streaming audio over WebRTC, though...

I'm curious about the business model. This has got to cost a metric fuckton in Twilio API usage. Is the plan to prove growth then build your own pipes to reduce the cost?
I don't think that's the issue (or at least not the only one). I see the same thing and even though I just switched my MacOS/General Appearance setting to Light instead of Auto I still see all black in Firefox.
My kids all require Chromebooks for school!
matplotlib is esoteric ( if you didn’t already have psychic scars from matlab experience and thus already speak their esolang), but at least it documents kwargs and links out to source and doesn’t just give you out of date snippets in broken english.

OpenCV can’t be assed to link out to source, and also won’t even bother telling you what the function signatures are, what the names of all the methods are, or anything else useful.
> When I go to my relatives for which i have installed a version of Linux, even though they don't update it very often it is never infected with anything. No malware, no virus, nothing. Always working exactly as I left it.

If enough people do this for their family members, when the Linux malware comes, it will sweep like a wildfire on dry wood. A complacent attitude, being trained not to worry about updates or malware is likely setting people for a very unpleasant surprise down the road.
Yeah, I really kind of miss the Win 98 UI. It was so much cleaner.

I think the only thing I'd add to it is the quick search for installed apps.
I'm definitely using that metaphor from now on. What a perfect encapsulation of the issues for non-technical people.
I've road tripped all over the US without ever encountering that kind of behavior. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but your characterization of expecting to be pulled over and have a dog search your car is a bit melodramatic.
The Supremes don't roam the legal badlands like caped crusaders, looking for injustices to set right. Somebody has to appeal a verdict in a lower court to them and they have to agree to hear it. Which generally doesn't: according to [1] they receive over 7000 petitions per year, so something like 30 per working day.

Do you know whether they have in fact refused to hear a case against CAF, or heard such a case and upheld it?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_St...