skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Life isn't really that nice and tidy. It would be nice if it were, but generally people are mostly good and sometimes unplanned things happen. Intact families need to be a societal goal.

My parents were definitely not financially stable. I grew up in the equivalent of what the US would call "the projects" but a key difference was that it was a community. There was a rec center, a school, groceries, health care all within a couple of enclosed city blocks. Average income was poverty level. All of the services reduced burdens on the parents who often worked two jobs. My mom had two jobs, my dad had two jobs.

If you use an iPhone, you are using my code. If you played a Wii game in the last decade, you're using my code. Many more examples. That's how far I came and most of my friends went as far if not farther. One of us manages a global tech organization now.

Most kids I know who didn't do well or treaded water were the product of contentious divorces as this was the time when "rah rah women's liberation" was at its height and many men were kicked out of their family. I still remember my friend lamenting to me that the only time he can see is father is during school lunches. That friend did better than he would have because he basically lived at my house as a result of his family situation.

Surprisingly, in this area, there were fewer such divorces than the general population. I have looked up the stats.

Raising kids is not hard but somehow we went from village to complete independence. We need to go back to a village mindset. We are all in it together or we will all feel the pain one day.
I've adopted two special needs orphans from another country.. and the childhood trauma is by and far the worst thing for a child. I could ramble on for a long time about this!

What we need are more caring people to adopt, and put their words to action, and give these kids good home. The problem is everyone says it's a problem but not enough people want to do it because it would be an inconvenience to their daily lives or some other excuse.

It is easily doable for all the worlds orphans to be adopted by good families, if only we could get people to see the good they could be doing

Money does not help, people help!
I think you have 2 factors.
Governor Cuomo & Mayor DeBlasio hate each other.
BdB is all rhetoric and mildly incompetent but means well.
Cuomo is a very clever political machine, and doesn’t want BdB to get any wins.
Additionally there’s a lot of state vs local control issues for NYC where NYC either doesn’t have authority or the authority is nebulous so Cuomo can claim things aren’t BdB’s call.
There have been numerous times during the pandemic where BdB called for something like closing schools, etc where Cuomo issued a stinging rebuke and then made the call himself 2-3 days later.

Secondly, this is a national issue.
As much as NY is a basket case.. the state by state stats are quite similar. Depending on the week NY is outperforming lots of states in the vax distribution. Relative to Feds, State governments are not that big and do not have a lot of idle capacity. Whatever idle capacity we did have has been taken out by PPE distribution, testing roll out and dealing with all the sick.

Realistically this is a FEMA/NatGuard issue at this point. We can’t expect to have any nurse capacity for vax considering hospitals are all full. It’s a shame there was no planning for that in advance, but par for the course with DJT.
Fortunately it sounds like Biden is going to pull the trigger on that in first 100 days.
The reporting was about things that Alex Azar said. Is he just stupid and doesn't understand what everyone else is talking about? Here's the article where he is quoted saying there is no Federal reserve:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/01/15/trump-vacci...

If Pfizer is indeed storing the doses at the request of the government, something stupid is going on, because it is reasonable to call that a Federal stockpile.
> It's actually not that hard to monetize browser extensions

It's actually not that hard to become a billionaire [points at some billionaires]

By the way, here are some stats on Chrome extensions:
https://www.debugbear.com/blog/counting-chrome-extensions
I was quite skeptical when you said "2nd place, after Blender".
That was 20 minutes before. I just finished writing down a full score, including lyrics, without ever using this before. This is amazing software, both in looks and usability. I'm just sad I didn't discover this earlier.
Blank page. Does someone have access to the actual content?
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25758652
>using that as the entire basis for dismissing arguments seems disingenuous.

You are right. The tech firms could be more transparent about the rules they apply and which ones are violated. The ambiguity is indeed solvable, but considering the state of the world, it seems like a low moral priority to me.

>We at $bigname law firm aren't corporate, it's just if we hire poc our employees will walk out. -someone before the civil rights era.

That's disingenuous. Your comparsions fails in five ways:

1. Its not about who gets hired, its about who is served as a customer

2. The violated rules of these firms are also defined as criminal behavior by law in all of the western world, so to 'serve the customer' you are talking about being an accessory in a crime. Even if public prosecutors don't make a habit of prosecuting companies when they are simply the platform, companies have an obligation to their shareholders to not take unnecessary risks.

3. None of this has anything to do with traditional or conservative values. Both the far-left and far-right have been creating a lot of propaganda suggesting that traditional values include racism, sexism, sedation, anti-semitism, etc.

4. The employees walking out is a realistic problem, because there is barely any supply of death cult members with the intellectual and educational background required to perform the job. I'm sure lots of people work at these tech companies that have traditional values, like a small government and low taxes, or a more family centric focus on life. But at this point those people are referred to as 'traitors' by the same so called conservative media

5. People's skin color isn't a choice. They are born with it. Your views on the other hand are a choice. There is accountability and liability. You can be an anti-semitic person and post a video about how to cook an egg without it being removed from youtube. You just can't express anti-semitic views on somebody else's platform. Not complicated nor an issue.
> I'm not concerned If someone happens to know some esoteric trick that they could Google search (Unless of course you're applying for a position at a company that manufactures very low level devices like microcontrollers or embedded systems and questions like this are _actually relevant_).

Erasure correction is a very useful trick for data-engineers. I don't think this is a microcontroller trick, as much as a data-resliliency trick.

The XOR-trick is how you implement RAID5 most efficiently. A proper discussion / interview would probably describe the XOR trick, and then see if the engineer is smart enough to understand the difference between erasure and errors.

--------------

With a blog post describing the XOR trick ahead of us: now I ask you (the audience): what is the difference between an erasure and an error? Why can this XOR-trick protect against an erasure, but NOT an error? And how does this relate to RAID5's known failure cases?

But at that point, I'm interviewing for someone who has passed a data communications class.
In one sense, how do else do you keep people away in a society with the right to roam freely? You make it unpalatable.

You could restrict tourist visas but then that impacts other parts of Italy and had to be done at a national level when this is a local problem. You could add conditions to the visas that preclude visiting Venice, assuming the national government went skiing with it, but now you need to enforce the movement of tourists within the country which seems difficult if not impossible. And that's not even considering visitors from within the EU who can travel freely anyway.
You are confused about the problem here. It is not that both values are the same, it is you are applying the xor swap using pointers to values, and both pointers point to the same value in memory.
>They basically triple the number of LED "filaments" you'd find in a similarly-rated bulb

Does it last 3x longer?
The reliability of LED lights is, from my experience, crazy bad. We installed all-LED lighting in the office. Over the past two years way over 50% of the LED lamps have died. Yesterday I ordered yet another batch of 25 new LED lamps. The office isn't even all that big, just four rooms.

And this is without dimmers. In the hallway, where there is a dimmer, the LED lamps (that are marked as supporting use with dimmer) dies after only a few months. Our hallway is dark at the moment, because it is just too much effort to replace the lamps.

IMHO the biggest boost for LED lamps would be for the longevity ratings to at least somewhat correlate with real world life time...
Having the father present in the raising of a boy basically solves the problem. Having a job helps.
You have a single question that is always present in your "initial code screen"?

XOR-only questions are poor unless you're interviewing someone for a very specific kind of role.
"A more correct but less sexy slogan for Julia is that it has the best performance/expressiveness tradeoff you have ever seen."

This I almost fully agree
I think it kind of depends on the type of programmer one wants to hire. There are different roles, solving different types of problems.

There are places for people with technical brilliance, there are places for people with social brilliance, with both, and with neither. That's healthy. You want a diverse economy with different types of positions for different types of folks, and vice-versa.

If I ask a half-dozen questions like the xor trick, I'll have a filter for one type of technical background. Whether you know each of them is pretty random, but whether you know none of them or most of them is not.
I would also argue that while not a Nazi, Trump is a Facist.

He pulled the same 'stop the steal' crap in 2016, but since then has done precisely nothing to prevent vote fraud. If he actually believed it was happening, don't you think he would try to do something to stop it? If it was me I'd make it the primary plank of my administration's policy, but no, nothing.

Firstly he knows it's a lie, but anyway if he did reform the electoral system he would no longer have an excuse when he lost because he would be responsible for ensuring the election was fair. The guy and his stop the steal supporters clearly have demonstrated that they have nothing but contempt for democracy or the institutions that protect it.

They don't even care enough to reform or improve the system. Where are their attempts to do so? Their only policy is to usurp power and suppress the democratic process, and that's a very familiar strategy to anyone who has lived under facism. Check out Arnold Schwarzenegger's articles and videos on this, the guy grew up in post-war Austria and knows what he's talking about.
I should have been clearer, when I say most architectures I mean most x86/x64 architectures not most ISAs. Obviously ISAs with a dedicated zero register don't need the zeroing idioms of x86.
A sad attempt to intellectualize hatred for Trump, and white males, in general. Gotta tear down that patriarchy, right?
The tour operators are often in cahoots with the venue, so paying 3-5x for that can skip the line too.
> I still have trouble with remembering to adjust macro when apm has to be.

“awareness”, as it is called in StarCraft II, is definitely a skill that improves with training.

Seasoned players remain aware of what other tasks must also be done while they are devoting attention to one and thus allocate their attention better.

I personally never had the panic freezes that some new players have in this game, but I did remember having them in StarCraft I at the initial stages, but as I improved I indeed became more aware.

Brain scans of StarCraft II players at high level also indicated that they actually play large parts of the game not with higher, cognitive function, but with lower brain functions which is another thing that improves with training that the article speaks of in terms of cognition, becoming better at it entails assimilating more and more actions into autonomous reactions allowing for better multi tasking, which certainly also reflects upon cooking and computer tasks when many of the actions become more autonomous.
My SO and I are foster parents. I, too, wish more people were trauma informed. We live in a "just suck it up" society, but kiddos in care, because of the trauma they've experienced, have brains that have developed physically different to kiddos who've grown up in a nurturing and caring environment. They can't "just suck it up".

I think we have to be careful when we say "be financially stable before having kids" though. Not that we shouldn't be, but we can't just let certain classes of people have kids. Also, those who are stable now are one accident or emergency or job loss, etc. away from being unstable.

Edit: I think what I said might be unclear. IOW, having kids should NOT be dependent on your financial state.
Most likely because "me too" or "any update on this?" type comments are extremely common.
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Thanks for your work on that. I imagine it will be easier moving forward as most of the issues seemed to be related to pulling in newer versions of Python packages, which broke supplied versions of other packages (boto-related tools ISTR were breaking).
Breakdown of family and community seems to be the big trend of the past few decades. I'm saddened to say that I don't see a real solution, and I expect some kind of cultural collapse to occur as a result. We're already seeing some of the effects of this today.
There are plenty of quality paid extensions:

* Closet Tools makes $38k/month: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/187-jordan-oconnor-of-c...
* CSS Scan made over $100k: https://www.indiehackers.com/product/css-scan/100-000-in-rev...
* Spider made $10k in two months: https://www.amie-chen.com/blog/making-paid-extension/
There will always be parents who aren't, for whatever reason. Apart from all the usual reasons you'd think of - you can get a sudden illness and die. You can be a victim of a major crime. A novel coronavirus combined with incompetent government response can wreck your job prospects (unlikely as that may be). Your employer can go bankrupt, or the markets can crash and take your savings with it. A natural disaster can destroy your house and everything in it. You could be drafted. "Financially stable" is a pretty temporary state for the vast majority of the world.

The realistic question is - what is the considerate, prepared, and loving response of a financially stable society when these things inevitably happen?
Yep we only care about hot chics and Germans. But seriously, was it the same doctor? Then it would indeed be kinda weird, but otherwise there is a wide range of types of doctors, those who love checkups and prescribing stuff and sending you to a specialist whenever you report the slightest problem, and those that just send you home again no matter what, tell you to get some rest, work less, eat healthier, and maybe come back in two weeks if it doesn't fix itself. And then everything in between.
This reminds me of a part of Toynbee's framework for civilisational decline. If the leaders of a society stop being creative, they can no longer lead by inspiration and example and so need to start to dominate to retain and exert power. Maybe you could see censorship as part of that, but it's a bit early to tell for sure.

But what's more interesting is what he says comes after: in reaction to a dominant leadership, the masses withdraw their loyalty and start to devise new religious forms (or maybe repurpose old ones). So a growing religious fervour could be a sign of things going wrong. I don't think we see that yet, but it could be something to keep an eye out for if people lose faith in the power of politics to improve their situation.
Well, the problem is not some "open source culture", but GitHub. Github's specific open source culture, if you like.

Before Github, it wouldn't have come across any sane mind to file a feature request or other discussion/information under the name 'issue', for... they are not issues. It would have gone on a mailing-list (occasionally a web-forum). Issues (identified bugs) on the bug tracker, and the rest in a place of discussion.
There's a lot of incentives in the US, but to simplify it: per-house-price and education funding are linked, via property taxes. Taxes paid by one home vs cost to educate average number of children per one home.

If we funded more local public education directly from non-property-tax sources (or made public education more efficient), a lot of the resistance to lower-cost housing would disappear.
Possibly, although the "healthy living" industry is also pretty large - think about all the vitamins, self-help books / media, non-GM food, etc.
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Maybe "weak" might be better - more about a fear of how others perceive him, than how he himself feels. Not a good look for a dictator with a whole secret service at your disposal, when you can't even make a single activist quietly disppear into obscurity.
Thank you for replying. Just scanned DBT. Cool. It's reliance on SQL is The Correct Answer™. (For SQL capable systems, of course.) The solutions based on schemas, where the SQL is then somehow code generated, are terrible.

I'm skeptical of DBT's inference of dependencies between queries, but I'll keep an open mind until I have direct experience.

Happy hunting.
I think you might be mistaking correlation with causation. Are men raised by lesbians entering the prison system at the same rate as men raised by single mothers? I doubt it.
> You have a single question that is your "initial code screen"?

He never claimed that. It could just be part of the screen
Then maybe the left shouldn’t be clamoring for it?
https://remove-js.com/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2...

Edit: curious, why was I downvoted?
What tends to die aren't so much the LEDs, but the power supply. And those seem to be very heat-sensitive. At home many LED lamps die as well, presumably because our lamps are somewhat flat on the ceiling and enclosed, which gives the heat nowhere to escape. Those where the air circulation is better and the bulb is in the open air the live a lot longer, to the point that I didn't have to replace some of them so far.
A fun party trick not mentioned here is reducing storage in a doubly linked-ish list: Normally each node stores 2 pointers: struct Node {void * prev;void * next}

The trick is to use only 1 'pointer', storing prev XOR next: struct Node {void* xored;}

While traversing, you remember not only the current position, but also where you came from. So forward traversal goes: next= current.xored XOR previous. Backwards also works: Node
* previous=(Node * )current.xored XOR (Node * ) next.

The first and last node can use 0 as previous or next node, or you make a circular list. You do have to store a pointer to the first and last node, as usual.

I've never seen this used in the real world, which is probably a good thing. It also plays hell with garbage collectors like Boehm, as they can't derive the 2 used adresses.

UPDATE: And of course wikipedia knows everything: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XOR_linked_list
> so you have to buy replacements.

They are rated for 15,000 hours, and so are regular LEDs.

The solution is very simple: Return any LED that doesn't last the specified time. Manufactures will very rapidly start making changes if everyone did that.

You can just write the installation date with a Sharpie on the bulb, or keep track of them in a spreadsheet.

I've been doing it for a couple years now, and based on my data I don't think I'll ever need to buy a bulb again. My bulbs last around 1,000 hours, not even remotely close to the promised 15,000 hours.

So I just return them and get new ones.
What motivates all contrarians? Anti-vaxxers, flat earthers, Trumpers, Haskell programmers (kidding).

There was a very insightful article on HN a year or so ago, which explored "The Dangers of Being Right". Many people see personal value and being right interchangeably. At the unhappiest times of my career, where I've felt the most under-valued, I remember becoming fixated on being right, or more importantly, never being wrong.

My take on many of the conspiracy theorists is there is some underlying feeling of insecurity and diminished personal value. Being "right" in a situation where everyone else is wrong, affords them some personal value their lives otherwise lack.

In reference to the article, the hyper-masculinity element is the superficial element. What underlies it is diminished value (i.e. feeling emasculated), perhaps through economic insecurity.
> One could say it's the same as money, but I don't think so. There's no use in hoarding those credits and it's not as strict as real money.

Known as Scrip: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrip
Nominally yes, but they also use more expensive control circuitry.
They're more expensive to make as others explained.

My guess is it's very difficult to make money with superior products in this sort of consumer market without government to force a level playing field where your competitors are obliged to offer a genuinely better product and/or better price to make the sale.
(I assume you mean "we can't just not let certain classes of people have kids"?)
It’s weird to claim that YouTube has a bias against right wing media and then shrug and say well I have no idea if left wing media suffers equally arbitrary censorship or not. That makes no sense as a stance.
The xor, sum pair can't distinguish missing 11, 0 from missing 10, 1.
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Almost everyone is just one job loss away from being unstable. If you have kids then it's 10x more likely. What you're suggesting is just impractical.

Even the professional classes have instability issues. E.g. just look at how stable a high flying banking executive was in 2008. Or tech workers in the 2000s.

We should make it cheaper to have kids, rather than expecting people to wait until they're millionaires.
Isn't this already a "problem" with ordinary LED's though? For instance, I have the following first world problem: I bought a set of (newer, nicer) LED's to replace older bulbs as they burn out, but they've just been sitting in my closet for 4 years because not a single bulb has burned out since I moved in!
Not a really fair reply. I was pointing out that there's nothing inherently hard about monetizing extensions and you definitely don't have to "go down some shady rabbithole" to do it. The services to charge for extensions exist and all that really matters is providing value, which as you're pointing out, can be hard.
Absolutely. It's easy to get lost in the world of cryptic indexes. I generally use and advise S&P 500, because it's easy to find, remember and understand, and it performs very well.

I should probably look into MSCI World SRI, which is a socially responsible index (or a neverending collection of indices) that excludes all sorts of dirty and questionable enterprises like oil and weapons.
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God damn! Exception raised
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I have 4 keys which are stored safely. I do not want a fallback mechanism because that reduces the security of my account. The downside is I have to manage my keys on each site separately. It is a shame that the original OpenID never stuck around as I could have just had one secure account, without having to be part of the current ID provider cabal.