skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's still a frustrating experience for candidates though. If you were to split the candidates into three buckets, with the first bucket being people who would never pass a FAANG interview (can't code their way out of a wet paper bag), people who can pass a FAANG interview but not reliably, and people who can reliably pass FAANG interviews (PhD in computer science or just leetcode grinder), most of the people in the first two buckets would complain about the interview process.

As someone in the second bucket, the process feels rather random (eg. passed the Facebook L6 interview but failed the Google L4 one somehow, passed the onsite at half a dozen other companies), which is mostly because it is. Maybe some interviewer really wanted to see a topological sort algorithm implemented in 20 minutes and there's not enough time in the interview to derive it from first principles, or maybe an interviewer felt grumpy that day, and then that's it, better luck next time. Combined with the policy of not telling candidates what to improve on, it's a pretty frustrating experience.

Yes, there are reasons for the company to behave that way, but it's still unpleasant to be on the receiving end of it.
Ugh.

Curious tho, is this perhaps more prevalent in fish from areas like the South China Sea vs fish from the North Sea? It would be fascinating to see a comparison.
I knew the top comment would be why this will never work. HN never disappoints.

May be true, but I take these top comments with a grain of salt.
LOL so you should limit suggestions to what people already know of? What is the point of suggestions then. How completely assinine.
Religions are usually quite adaptable, otherwise they don't survive very long. For example Christianity was originally a doomsday religion that expected the second coming any generation, but it eventually outgrew that too.
Any recommendations for finding a professional therapist/coach?
10 years ago, the story was that solar could never produce energy at an affordable rate, and if we ever got past 5% renewables we'd see rolling blackouts. Then the panic point was 10%, then 30%, then 50%.

Now the FUD has switched to "you're not taking into account the cost of backup fossil fuels." Well turns out that coal is being shut down everywhere, because it can't even compete. We don't need them. There's a chance that we might need natural gas a few weeks a year in 2040. The statement should be "how are natural gas plants going to shift payment schemes so they can survive in this world," not "you're not taking into account the cost."

We have storage alternatives that will make natural gas obsolete at the next spike in fuel prices. Storage deploys quick. The fossil fuel guys had better get their lobbying straight if they want a piece of the pie in 15 years, or they will be engineered around.
If you average over the entire population, it's privacy preserving indeed. But this averaging happens on the side of the server, not the client, so I can't really verify whether the server stores away the deltas of interesting/all users or it averages really all user deltas. I know apple has some means to anonymize users by using random changing IDs instead of the apple ID, but they can correlate it to an apple ID via the ip address or other means.
I flew high-power rockets under a Tripoli certification back in the late 90s. The Aerotech hybrid system looked really attractive to me at the time. I wasn't in a financial position to take the plunge, though.

I've thought about getting back into the hobby and it looks like all the hybrid systems have disappeared. The ATF permitting for solid fuel motors seemed pretty onerous back in the late 90s (I always flew at launches where I could purchase reloads for my Aerotech RMS on-site so I didn't have to deal with transporting motors) and I assume it got worse after 9/11.

Anybody know what ever happened to the hybrid systems? Aerotech's website looks like it stopped being updated about the time I left the hobby. Same goes w/ their competitor Hypertek (which I thought had a ridiculous ground-support system).
There are plenty, at least pre-pandemic.

• Explore a national park, go on a few hikes (guided by paper maps and a compass), and refine your photography skills with a DSLR/mirrorless. Budget ones can be had for a couple hundred dollars and they still beat phone cameras.
• Cook something with your friends, or go out and eat dinner.
• Play some board games, join a dungeon and dragons game. A great thing to do when the weather is bad.
• If you have children, spend some screen free, activity free time with them. You could just chat, teach them spontaneous new skills, or explore together.
• Have a maker itch but don’t want to look at a screen? Play around with physical hardware. Get a soldering iron, some components from Digikey, and make something yourself (and have fun).
• Go to a party, festival, or rave.
• Drive somewhere and just camp with good company and some drinks.
• Meet a friend or colleague spontaneously for coffee and just catch up.
• Draw.
• Learn renovation and make your home better, just the way you want it (and increase its value).
• Learn how to change oil on your car and start doing maintenance yourself. Fixing a car is kinda like fixing a computer.
• Go for a swim.
• Go to the gym, or workout with mates.
• Read a book.
• Go for a walk while listening to your favourite albums.

Life is filled with meaningful, screen-free alternatives. You just have to appreciate them.
I think you rubber-ducked yourself so well you obviated your initial question.

My answer still stands and may be considered authoritative (webarchive hint).
Any recommendations on finding a therapist/coach specializing in professional growth?
Also crashes my iPhone 8+ running 14.2. The page is noticeably lagging when just scrolling past that image too.
Same here- Firefox 84, search doesn't work on the OP but does work on the link above
Not sure about actors but I just use joblib for parallelization. It is way lighter than Dask and friends but still depends on (cloud)pickle serialization.
Confucianism is a fantastic belief system with amazing humanistic values and a track record of not fomenting any conflict. Not everything is going to fit progressive mindsets and believe it or not large segments of the population like the stability that comes with the mild authoritarianism.
The government imposes its will all the time. It prevents you from shooting me or overthrowing the government. Surely this imposition is just? Surely this is more benign then letting you shoot me or letting you overthrow the government.

Why? Because it reduces human suffering.

Also surely with better technology we will be able to transform prisons into rehabilitation centers and thus reduce our countries prison populations and thus become a FREER country, albeit one with less rights?

I think comparing our government to a beehive or a pack of wolves is ridiculous I guess you can call governments "natural." Even if we consider this government natural, surely it doesn't have a natural state. What is the "natural state" of a government of 350 million people?
Cool, keep your fingers crossed! :-)
I wonder if the review system is stack ranked?
that depends on how fast intelligence evolves. If most intelligences are still young (claim in this paper) then we are more likely to understand them. If we ever encounter something which had a billion years head start, then yeah, no way we would comprehend anything
He's planning for an F15 engine, which is another class entirely. If new, it's either the F100-PW-220/220E or the F100-PW-229. It has has a thrust of 17,800 lbf (79 kN) dry, or 29,160 lbf (129.7 kN) with afterburner. If he got the old F100-PW-100 it would be 23,930 lbf (106.4 kN).
You do realize the rust belt is enormous and only an infinitesimally small area of it was factories, right? Sure. Don’t try to grow food in Detroit. But vast majority of PA, OH, IN, MI have always been rural and are not some polluted hell scape.
This idea is known as Gall's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)#Gall's_law
Don't outsmart yourself.

If you told anyone, on their death bed, "if you had run 25 km a week since [n-15 years] you would have been able to move better / dance with pretty girls / play [tennis | golf | etc] until two years ago," I think most people would say WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME.

/Acey
Difference between Web developer and Designer
Are there enough lithium reserves to store billions of kwh? (Ignoring their usage in cars, phones, medical devices, and everything else)
In many sub-fields of physics, authorship is alphabetical.
> Schell said a college in Latvia still teaches a curriculum on this outdated programming language, so North Dakota opted to hire two Latvians to help manage and maintain the state's unemployment insurance mainframe.

Wouldn't want someone working on a project if they haven't had a university course in the language, after all.

I wonder what language it is. I also wonder why the article went out of its way to avoid telling us.
Ah I see, so for the claims to be credible in the long term they would have to operate it like a chip fab clean room. That does sound quite expensive, thorough decontamination of all personnel, air filtration, etc... I’d be curious if they could keep truly keep that up and make profits.
Looks good, but one suggestion is to consider recommending GrapheneOS[0] over CopperheadOS on the Mobile Phone Alternative Firmware section. GrapheneOS is a continuation by the actual original developer[1] after the other party in the Copperhead project reportedly went a bit rouge.

[0] https://grapheneos.org/

[1] https://twitter.com/danielmicay
Its almost definitely COBOL right? That's always the langauge featured in this type of story.
Does the same on Chrome on an iPhone 8. Interesting.
actually I don't think that's what you'll see in a given time. I think if you take the tiniest living organism and look at it under a microscope you won't see it breaking down over time you'll see it reproducing or eating or moving around. I think it does those things with greater frequency and on shorter time scales then it breaks down. And I'm pretty sure there are some tiny organisms that you know don't break down at all.

But I'm not denying that breaking down and entropy is an almost universal fact of life for most of life.

and I agree that from an evolutionary perspective there's no point repairing the body after the sort of population average procreation age. and in fact I think someone else mentioned in this thread that you know there's some organisms that die immediately after procreating. And I'm also not disputing that repair mechanisms and things like telomeres have a genetic origin... that seems obvious.

However this sort of decay behavior and repair behavior is not universal there are some things that are a lot more durable but even if we assume that it's universal, i don't think you can tell or I can tell whether, nor the extent to which, decay is a disease or genetically evolved solution to some problem that we don't understand yet, or some complex interaction of the two.

The possibilities of some of the potential consequences of immortality have been discussed in this thread and people have proposed aging as a genetic solution to that, and an explanation for why agelessness which, on the face of it seems like it would be adaptive, has not evolved. So I honestly don't think we know the degree to which aging or agelessness is genetic or is diseased, or a complex of both. And I don't think your relatively simple, but still on some level convincing, example establishes that either way.
Good call. That one was memorable.
Raspberry Pi PCIe Devices
I wonder as well. I was thinking the submitter name might be a hint, but I know for sure that is still widely used globally.
The estimates back then were 0.5%, but many media outlets were conflating them with case fatality rates, which were the percentage of hospitalized people that died (and are well above 1%)
Surely American colleges still teach COBOL?
There was a very similar story (minus the Latvians) out of New Jersey a couple of months back, and it was COBOL.

As as a sibling commenter noted, its always COBOL in these types of stories.
Aye I mentioned somewhere how I doubt it's as bad as I read into it
Are you sure you want to trade farming of land for whatever development or use of that land may occur when/if our hypothetical 720 acre farm is retired from ag production? Their seems to be an assumption that the next owner will be a steward of these lands.
Incredibly annoying lying paywall that disallows reading even after you comply with its annoying turn-off-your-adblocker bullshit.
I'm a huge fan of the ideas behind this library. Using the stable ABI of "magic numbers" is brilliant. Would love to see this solution gain more usage!
I think the article couldn't tell us because it seems as though it's reporting on a statement from the Governor, who probably doesn't know the language himself. (nor is it important for him to know, whoever he has on staff clearly explained the issue for him to get a grasp on it)
This is anecdotal, so take it with a grain: I worked for a credit card processor about a decade ago, and it was routine to have the merchant run a penny transaction on the terminal, and refund it post testing to make sure it works.

They're fairly large processing over $40b in annual transaction volumes, and there wasn't any stress about not doing it again post testing (the only stress was the customer wanting a refund for the transaction costs).

If it is a merchant bank, or network requirement, it's either explicitly for card not present transactions, or not well followed. The important factor was handling of the credit card information (PCI DSS compliance).
The implications for a dystopian society abound! Minority Report billboards or 1984 actual silencing of unwanted voices...
I just turned of JS using UBlock Origin
I don't think you'll see much increase beyond the current size of DC networks. DC from the solar panels to battery backup, but AC to everything else. Single room lighting on a single DC power supply, etc.

There's just too much momentum behind AC circuits, and with modern electronics you can do AC->DC and vice versa quite efficiently. Additionally, AC has some nice benefits, like having safer/simpler plugs and switches due to minimized arcing.
GitHub now has a separate Discussions feature for that (still in beta I think):

>Discussions is the space for your community to have conversations, ask questions and post answers without opening issues.
Stability and guidance are both covered, specifically "gyrostabilizers or automatic pilots and integration
software therefor" per ITAR. The MCTR has similar language bit I'm too lazy to find it. This is why most rocketry hobbyists won't release airfoil designs, propellant formulas, or advanced flight control systems.

The issue isn't you building a rocket big enough for the feds to care about, but the people who can build (and use) big rockets using your designs. Iran for example relies heavily on open source for its drone program.
Why not do everything in Emacs? I'm sure there's a plugin for everything here in Emacs as well!

Use whatever tool to create the product you want to create.
Your ears do breathe. So that’s problematic for long term hermetic ear seals.
Hi Jeremy,

Is there a port of Redox OS which runs under xen as a guest OS (paravirtual or otherwise)?

Lots of tiny OSes, such as Minix, have been ported to this environment and I think this could be a fun way to run Redox while leveraging the broad device support of a traditional Linux Kernel.

Thanks!
Their website[1] hints at the language at being either "COBOL" or "NATURAL":

"NDIT is maintaining several customer systems that were written in the COBOL programming language. These are batch and on-line applications that run on our mainframe computer. Our direction is to phase out COBOL programs as systems are re-written in newer technologies."

"NATURAL is a fourth-generation programming language that NDIT runs on our mainframe computer and Linux environment. NATURAL applications can run in batch or on-line mode. Our direction is to phase out NATURAL programs as systems are re-written in newer technologies."

Edit (Additional Note): The University of Latvia seems to create content about both[2].

[1] https://www.nd.gov/itd/services/application-development

[2] http://dspace.lu.lv/dspace/handle/7/15258
Works fine without JS, which is my default browsing mode, so I didn't notice any paywall.
We teach that it was a thing once. And that meteorologists still use it. The rest of my COBOL knowledge came from my dad :)
Could be Autocoder or Easycoder. How many of you have heard of those?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocoder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell_200
Clearly you've never been a New Yorker subscriber.
Best science communication piece I read ever, with parallels to my funniest travel experiences.
The overhead of adding/removing new people and risking potential internal chatter on an external thread.
Honestly who gives a fuck. Everyone cries when the people who entertain the elites gets axed but no one gives a shit about the countless masses that offer nothing to the elite but cheap labor. People who do real work can't feed their kids and society is supposed to give a damn about people who trained their whole lives to be a prop for the rich. The out of touch society they live in can burn to the ground.
"So they used a remote acoustic sensing system built around a laser Doppler vibrometer (LDV), which measures non-contact vibrations over a wide range. In their tests, they placed a tiny, jewelry-sized, retro-reflective membrane in the ear as a pick-up for the LDV."
These sound curious: these are the devices that three letter agencies have used to suss out sound from glass, aren't they?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Doppler_vibrometer
"Security – Laser Doppler vibrometers (LDVs) as non-contact vibration sensors have an ability of remote voice acquisition"
If you look elsewhere in the thread it seems like a solo individual worked on this for years and posted it here today. Your comment is needlessly negative and mean.
It's one of the hard bits of decarbonization. The current trend is towards lighter varieties of fossil fuel (especially liquefied natural gas). In the long run, it could be fully decarbonized with hydrogen.

See https://safety4sea.com/cm-shipping-decarbonization-what-does...
This is the catch 22. Stand up for the principle or just “pay up” to not have that stress. They know this too.
You’re not taking asset inflation into account.

Prices of consumer goods may be flat, and nominal income may be increasing, but workers increasingly can’t afford housing.

Also, as someone that refinanced a house this year, I can assure you the wealthy are receiving much larger payments than the working class got from their stimulus checks.
It wasn't a novel for everyone. For others, it was Sports Illustrated or a comic book or the crossword or Reader's Digest.

Or, if they weren't reading, they'd flip on the TV and watch whatever was on for four hours, then brush their teeth, then Johnny Carson in bed. It's not like the average American was spending their evening sculpting before the internet.
The links don't seem to work on text posts. For example, this Ask HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18469649 instead shows the title link as (literally):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=${el.objectID}

...but the comments link works fine.
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I think a lot of it is based on locale. Many of the foods may not be easy or possible to grow local, imports are expensive, food grows faster in greenhouses, additionally you can have many grow cycles over the entire year including winter, where that may not be possible with just typical land. They are growing greenhouse operations exponentially, it is a multi-billion dollar business in our locale.
Try using a landing page builder such as FastPages
https://www.fastpages.io/
Indeed, that's the point. Either you make your patent make money for you, or sell it. Otherwise, you let your exclusive rights go.

A ton of patented stuff is regularly reinvented by people. In many fields, key ideas are so well-understood by practitioners that who patents them first is mostly a game of chance.

There's no point to allow someone (usually a company that does nothing but sits on patents) to do nothing while blocking everyone else from independently reinventing and implementing it. It is especially spearheaded against companies which buy and then bury an idea to preserve their incumbent status for 25 years more.

A monopoly is a bad thing. Sometimes it's a lesser evil, but most often it's not.
I have been following and using this for a while and it works great for small to medium sites.

I built from source and self-host.

Congratulations on gettiing it launched James!
>"Original game

The original Dungeons & Dragons, now referred to as OD&D,[78] was a small box set of three booklets published in 1974.

With a very limited production budget of only $2000

— with only $100 budgeted for artwork[79]:26 — it was amateurish in production and assumed the player was familiar with wargaming. Nevertheless, it grew rapidly in popularity, first among wargamers and then expanding to a more general audience of college and high school students. Roughly 1,000 copies of the game were sold in the first year followed by 3,000 in 1975, and many more in the following years.[80] This first set went through many printings and was supplemented with several official additions, such as the original Greyhawk and Blackmoor supplements (both 1975),[81] as well as magazine articles in TSR's official publications and many fanzines."

PDS: Also, the Dragon Dice -- are a great way to visualize Platonic Solids:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid

>"Geometers have studied the Platonic solids for thousands of years.[1] They are named for the ancient Greek philosopher Plato who hypothesized in one of his dialogues, the Timaeus, that the classical elements (Air, Earth, Water, Fire, Aether (AKA "Akasa", "Space", "Plenum", "Dark Matter", etc.)) were made of these regular solids.[2]"
Apologies for this! Someone's very kindly put up a PR[0] that I suspect will fix this, but it's past my bedtime so I won't get a chance to review/merge/relaunch it until tomorrow.

[0]: https://github.com/jameslittle230/stork/pull/93
Similar project: https://endler.dev/2019/tinysearch/
I graduated in Europe ten-ish years ago and even then I never came into contact with COBOL, and if the article is to be believed apparently there are a few more legacy systems here than in the US. I honestly doubt there are a lot of people under 40-50 who are proficient enough with these systems to work on government infrastructure
Why will fusion arrive in the next 40 years? I feel like that's what was stated 40 years ago too. Are there 0 barriers at this point and it's just a matter of obtaining funding and starting to build plants and by then there will be a big enough track record for widespread deployment?
Crazy how what we identify with historically depends more on what we decide to teach children in school than actual history, no?
Yes - likely growing lettuce, cabbage, tomatoes, cucumbers, maybe some simple berries... That’s the same stuff that’s been growing in hothouses for over a century.

I think GPs point is that those aren’t the high-calorie, high value crops needed to make this a real revolution in food production.

Show me vertical vineyards, maize, grains, stone fruits, apples etc.
It’s almost certainly COBOL with some shit sandwich front end put together circa 1998-2004.

The PR angle on this stuff is weird... they can downplay incompetence by throwing the 1980s card, and razzle dazzle the ignorant audience of North Dakotan journalists and political types by unveiling the Latvians.

The Latvia angle is rich, because it isn’t India or China (bad political optics). In the public mind, Latvia is sort of like European Canada, except fewer moose and different hats.