skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The value of the ‘free work’ to the company is the same as the value it has to you

Absolutely none? I somehow doubt that, otherwise only the most incompetently run companies would still ask for that kind of commitment during the process and... Actually, you might have a point. I certainly have rarely liked work in companies that demanded free work from me during the hiring process. That might be one of the reasons why I haven't done an unpaid take home test in a long time.

> But the idea that the company is getting you to do work for its value outside of the interview process just seems

So the company isn't getting the candidate to work for free because it isn't getting value... If we ignore the value it gets from the interview process itself.

Providing some company a service so that it can make a decision on how it operates sounds like work to me.

On another note, this doesn't take into account that pointless busywork is still work.
Why are iPhones so easily hacked?
It’s just reality. The vast majority of skilled developers will take a $450k job in SV over a $100k government job.
The need for precision is such a wonderful thing to teach young people. I start my class with the students typing in exemplar programs and discussing with each other how they think they work. It's amazing how many errors they make in that process; a good reminder of how imprecise we are by default and how unforgiving code is.
It’s not about bringing a criminal case, it’s about being able to say “this evidence was gathered illegally” if it was gathered without a warrant, then having the evidence thrown out.

A defense lawyer may give something like that a shot at least.

I have no idea if it would work in practice of course.
I think it is supposed to be a consequence of my decision so perhaps some sort of punishment, given I'm unceremoniously dropped there upon clicking "your choices", but the text only low-bandwidth version of the article is beautiful. Exactly what I want from a news source. News in text, without all the flashy flashy and 3rd party stalking. https://text.npr.org/965953078
Of course they wouldn't, because "Stripe" is not a word commonly used to describe people in the tech world.
I'd just say "to each their own" normally, but you describe this as "legacy PC" stuff, so I feel compelled to respond. I vastly prefer non-Mac keyboard shortcuts, to the point where I will only use a Mac (even temporarily) if I can run Karabiner and pull in my configuration. I simply don't understand how anyone reliably and comfortably finds the command key blindly with their fingers. The whole point (as I see it) of putting the Ctrl key where it is is that you can instantly find it blindly because it's in the corner.

I'd also mention that there's no way (AFAIK) to have a two-key shortcut delete the previous word on macOS out of the box, whereas on basically every Windows and Linux desktop it's just Ctrl-Backspace.

Likewise with the global menu bar, I detest this way of handling menu widgets. I wouldn't use any DE (on Linux) that forced me into it. I don't want to have to move the cursor farther than necessary, and I don't like being locked into "one app at a time" as my global scope.

So I personally am very glad that there are projects that care about aesthetics on the Linux / Unix desktop without just copying the particular desktop metaphors and approach to user interfaces that Apple seems to cherish. I don't think there's a point in trying to "convert" Apple users by copying their desktops. If there are Mac owners who want to switch to a free operating system, while keeping the exact same desktop, they should start their own project to copy macOS.
Within Safari there are Content Blockers. This is a cool iOS concept because unlike a traditional browser extension, all it can do is tell Safari what to block, it doesn't get to see your activity itself.

I use this app which, among other things, lets you hook up remote sources as block lists: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adblock/id691121579

This means you can for example hook it up directly to this repository (which I've done) and automatically get updated lists
Or simply saying "Hustler magazine founder...."

I immediately got it, but I know who Larry Flynt was. The technical writer in me approves of your observation, though! "Hustler founder" would be a rather odd phrase to use to describe a founder who hustles -- you'd be more likely to say "hustler and founder" or "hustler-founder" or "hustling founder" -- but when there's any possibility for confusion, it's best to be (ahem) explicit.
You are (sadly) correct. The latter example checks that the type of `event.get()` is a Click, then that it has a `.position` attribute that be restructured into a two-element tuple `(x,y)`. It's equivalent to `ev = event.get(); if isinstance(ev, Click): (x,y) = ev.position`
CA law protects independent side projects, even if your employer says otherwise
I don't know who needs to hear this, but California Labor Code 2870 says your employer doesn't have rights over work you do that (1) doesn't relate to your employer's business and (2) didn't result from work you did for your employer.

So even if your employment contract uses language that makes it seem like your employer owns everything you make while you're employed, work you do that qualifies under this code will be protected.
Wow, great find here. Got Larry shot and paralyzed for life...
Hustler would be better; italics (or underlining) is conventional for periodical titles, quotations for article titles within the periodical.
I sat there typing it into my calculator until I built up muscle memory. It's not that much compared to a song, a play or a dance routine.
NPR only has so much content, even if it broadcasts twenty-four hours per day. We can call this total content, TC for short.

Now, if NPR has more and more content about "progressive political ideology" (PPIC), there would therefore be less content about any other topical content (AOTC). If PPIC + AOTC = TC, and NPR increases PPIC as TC is held constant, means that AOTC must decrease.

I hope that clears it up for you.
Semaglutide Effective in Treating Obesity
How many transactions/day is Lightning handling? I recall this same discussion in late 2017. Have they managed to successfully get people using it yet?
Greece Offers Tax Breaks to Attract Digital Nomads
Fooled me with the ETL acronym. Not "Extract Transform Load" but "Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders". Not real world, but Silicon Valley woo-woo.^1

1. Credit: James Randi
That’s pretty definitive: the cryptography module is developed by volunteers that have neither the time nor inclination to support existing users.

The only reasonable options are porting to something else or forking the module.

That’s been my experience with everything I’ve written or maintained in python, which is why I no longer consider using it for new projects.

It’s too bad. I dusted off some old python 2 scripts today, and (thanks to the frozen in time interpreter/modules) they worked fine.
Indian offices, schools, shops do this. Although I don't think its by government order, it is just the it is always. Almost every timings psoster show winter/summer times.
Surprised to see no mention of Acme here. As much as I love keyboard-based tools, I must begrudgingly admit that from a scientific standpoint it is much quicker to use a pointing device because there is no recall associated with the action, you intuitively drive the device. However that said, there is appallingly little effort to actually utilise this power. Anyway, this is a roundabout way of saying that I don't think mouseless development should be celebrated. Good on him for figuring it out, but did we really need to figure that one out?
> The best promotion for BTC is simply its price

How is the astronomical price a promotion? People want thing when they can get them for less, not pay a record price for them. If you think bitcoin is a good deal at its current price then you must believe there’s some underlying fundamental that makes it worth tens of thousands of dollars.

> the ease of setting up a Coinbase account, and mooning memes of $100k/coin.

There’s no value proposition to having a coinbase account except acquiring cryptocurrency. One doesn’t even need to hold btc to post or enjoy memes. These have little and nothing to do with the cause of the high price.

> Tesla, currently less than 1% of the global auto market, is worth more than several of the largest automakers combined. Musk pushing "to further diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity" by buying into an asset which is currently in a bull cycle is a good way to attempt to justify that price.

That explains why Musk would buy it. That does not explain why anyone else would buy it.

> Simply compare the price of BTC now to where it was a year ago, and take a look at its trajectory on the chart.

Obviously, if there weren’t fundamentals, now would be a good time to sell.

> Animal spirits are self-explanatory.

Animal spirits are an unnecessary hypothesis for this event.
Yeah, not using disappearing messages with Signal is just asking for this type of thing to happen. It's the number one reason I even use it in the first place.
Oh totally agree with this
> You're so intent on being offended by imagined offence taken by someone else that you're ignoring them telling you first hand that you've misunderstood them. The irony is astounding...

Oh jesus, the classic "no you're offended" weak defence. I am in a round-about-way pointing out how historically illiterate (younger) people are these days. Especially when, particularly on HN, free software, free speech etc is the de rigueur cause, yet somehow they don't even know the major recent Supreme Court cases that enforce and uphold the right to such things as satire. Hustler was a major case up there with Roe vs Wade. Now if I'm slightly annoyed by that, then so be it.
The very likely explanation is google is trying to do a cleanup - either removing the data from the mentioned apps from ads systems, or building transparency tools to give you more control.

disclaimer: ex-googler in ads.
Yes is is good for the US, but not so much for the Manor Independent School District that is being ask to not collect property (school) taxes on the plant despite the massive increase in attendance that it will generate.
....wikipedia lists DW as IDE :)

I was just joking about the debate, which is running since Macromedia’s times.
> Even "clean" energy isn't free energy.

No one said it was. But some energy sources produce far less pollution than others, and are far safer. Also, everything I'm saying about regulating and taxing pollution from PoW applies to every single energy-intensive industry; PoW just happens to be the particular industry at hand.

> If we want to alleviate this, I suspect that we'll have to consider what the underlying social factors are that are driving the demand for such a network.

This is literally what regulation and taxation could address. If you tax cryptocurrency transactions based on how much pollution their miners create, the problem could fix itself -- miners would then be incentivized to use only clean energy to mine (and prove that they are doing so), since that's the way to stay competitive. Also, because literally every transaction is a public record, a government could (a) require KYC for you to trade crypto -- up to requiring you to register your address(es) -- and (b) send you a tax bill each year for the pollution caused by each block that included one of your transactions. Exchanges operating under its jurisdiction would only let you cash out once you paid that tax.

In addition, suitable regulation could require that no more than X% of a utility's electricity can go towards mining (e.g. only during off-peak hours; only if its excess; etc.).
>Return ("Enter" on Win PC) to open a file is a convention you learned from other OSes.

Yes, every other OS on the planet, since the beginning of time. This is just Apple being weird for the sake of being weird.
My little girl is almost five so I'm not a very experienced parent but I'll tell you what I've learned. She is an individual and she's interested in her own things. Sometimes we share interests and other times, I have to seriously up my own knowledge (and beg for help on Hacker News) to share her interests with her.

For the most part, I just try to build a loving environment where she can feel secure to enjoy the things that she is into. I encourage her to be exactly who she wants to be. Luckily, I'm privileged enough to be able to fill her environment with interesting, somewhat age appropriate things.

Incidentally, here is one of the things that she is really into right now. I don't understand it, but she loves it enough to draw it fairly often. To this day, she refers to _ph_ as a 'really cool dude'. Armagon is another 'really cool dude' as well. I'm still not but I sure love that _ph_ and armagon are!!! :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22993864

Once again, I love you Hacker News.

Edit - I'll find and link to an ask HN that I asked while she was having one of the biggest, most awful tantrums of her life. She wanted to see the ISS and was the angriest she has ever been when I couldn't remember the link.

"Me no yike you," screamed out at the top of her lungs while we were grocery shopping.....joy! :)

Here it is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21576409
If the title was "Spectator founder....", re-evaluate your argument. Also I'm pretty sure "Hustler" is a noun, not an adjective. And adjective is a modifier to a noun, e.g. he was a serious hustler.
Yeah, I like the idea of having a Meta/Command key for common GUI shortcuts, rather than reassigning Control key shortcuts like Windows does.
Ok thanks. Glad to tip you off in that case to some good press for you.
Good luck in your journey.
They forgot because it wasn’t sold that way.

This whole thing reminds me of the whole KDE 3 to KDE 4 transition. “We never said 4.0 would be usable, but also it’s a big major public release, please use it, but also don’t complain about it being unusable”.

It seems that some developer communities always want to have their cake (the flashy marketing / sloganeering) and eat it too (faster ship cycles and shipping beta quality software as production ready because that’s faster).

EDIT: to clarify in Ruby’s case I’m not saying 3.0 was beta quality. But TFA goes through all sorts of gymnastics to try and avoid admitting that they tacitly let people assume there’s be a revolutionary speed bump, and smells a lot like retreating while declaring victory.
The "big deal" is that Google hasn't updated any of its apps since Dec 8, due to ongoing privacy war with Apple over Google's iOS apps. Google refuses to admit, as Facebook has, to tracking everything you do in every possible way.

This is "just" the first big thing to break as a result.
What does that guy actually do with the box then? There’s no way his home internet connection could keep it fed. I’m trying to imagine local uses for all that I/O.
All of the boulder grpc communications use mutual TLS authentication.
I am such a person. I could afford to work for years without money thanks to my high net worth and investments in the tech sector, and have over a decade of software development experience in building robust web scale applications.

Unfortunately, most potential co-founders write me off when they discover I’m ethically challenged.
So, free speech.
I think you're right. Semiconductor manufacturing is not a particularly employee-dense business, and the US must sustain power projection in the South China Sea and on the Korean Peninsula in the status quo, all the time, rain or shine. Even if you don't think about the product and supply chain, but only look at externalities, the US is less trapped in a battle of brinkmanship over Taiwan and South Korea if it has an alternative source of semiconductors in case of emergency. Keeping critical tech manufacturing in the Americas actually makes it easier for us to protect our allies in the Asia-Pacific region, by giving us less reason to make aggressive-looking moves that can be misinterpreted as offensive by China.

Still, there is a clear economic benefit from such a move closer to home, even in times of peace and predictability. The US economy is all about outsourcing the basement and keeping the penthouse. But the hosts of our outsourced industry can "tech up," so to speak. If we let Asia-Pacific totally dominate the semiconductor fabrication industry, it's only a matter of time before they dominate the semiconductor design industry as well.
That's the rumor, but it's still unsubstantiated.
Driving a mouse is far from effortless. Or intuitive, if seeing my family try and use them is any indication.

A wacom screen is intuitive, but surprisingly hard to use.

Then there are all of the rsi implications of a mouse. I use a roller mouse that I love, but older members of my family just can't figure that out.
Internet Explorer 11 will probably be around for 25+ years, knowing Microsoft's track record in Windows.

Though I'm surprised the author continued to support IE 10. IE 10 and below are quite dead.

https://www.w3counter.com/trends

https://analytics.usa.gov/

https://analytics.usa.gov/data/live/ie.json

Edit: Amazing to see there's still IE5 usage on US Gov analytics :)
Determining a valid block isn’t the same thing as determining the correct chain. A node validates blocks by staking, but how does the node know it’s validating a block on the correct chain? As far as I can tell, PoS projects don’t have a trustless solution to this problem.

Imagine a net split, where the network becomes briefly partitioned. Nodes in each partition would keep adding blocks. When the network converges, there would be two conflicting chains. Using proof-of-work the chain with the most work (longest chain) is the valid chain.

Another scenario: Using proof-of-stake I can create my own alternative chain easily (if I don’t want stake money I could create new genesis block), and broadcast blocks to nodes that join the network. When those new nodes receive blocks from conflicting chains, which one is correct? From what I understand of Ethereum, new nodes have to choose trusted nodes when they join the network.

I wonder, if one is going to consider trust a non-problem, then why stake at all? A network like Nano works the same way, by trusting a quorum of voting nodes, but there’s no staking or inflation, which has the benefit of allowing anyone to participate without the rich getting richer.
My problem with pip-tools is that it only resolves requirements.in files for your existing platform (OS + Python version). Say I'm testing something in CI for a bunch of platforms, that means to lock my dependencies I need all of those platforms locally. I run into this as well when distributing internal tools at my company, especially since we force requiring hashes.
Or maybe better said, there’s no way that box could feed the world over his home connection.
Esketamine and its proprietary delivery nasal spray formulation, Spravato, are under patent, which you might reasonably claim was formulated and marketed instead of just ketamine in order to be able to patent it, since AFAIK there's still no good studies about either arketamine or esketamine efficacy versus ketamine. (There are a couple of studies of arketamine versus esketamine, but none that I immediately see comparing to ketamine.)

edit: I found one study of esketamine versus ketamine shortly after posting this. [1]

[1] - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01650...
The state can still manipulate their national currency (which Bitcoin likely won’t replace). Positive things with Bitcoin are that:

1. When the US dollar eventually loses its status as the global currency for settlement and reserves, no individual country needs to have the same perverse control that they US had as a consequence today.

2. Citizens have an exit ramp from the local currency. This means the state doesn’t have the same totalitarian control of the national economy, limiting the impact on citizens of demonetization and hyperinflation.
Does the USD produce trust and integrity - globally? (better than btc?)
Also bitcoin fans say all that swimming in millions of dollars the vast amount of people could never get in a lifetime by simply owning bitcion.
I think this is a case of Google's security team saying "we should automatically warn apps that are two months out of date that they need to update," incorrectly assuming that their own apps would always update at least once every 60 days.

Can you imagine being an iOS developer working on Gmail right now, having shipped literally nothing this year? I'd be requesting an internal transfer (and/or polishing my resume).
This is the weirdest thing to be so aggressively confrontational about...
I worked on both V8, Wasm, and Wasm in V8. The two have separate goals. V8's priority for JavaScript is to run the trillions of lines of JavaScript code found in the wild well and to support the language's evolution. It is no longer primarily about top-level throughput performance on computational kernels. Wasm has the goal of high, predictable performance for numeric-heavy, legacy-, and low-level code. Wasm is also focused on bringing more languages to the web that could reasonably be accomodated by a compile-to-JavaScript approach.
I think I ditched NPR around the run-up to Obama's election, amidst the hand-wringing over "Is Obama too black?" and "Is Obama black enough?" That and Iraq, Iraq, Iraq at the time.

They softball people they support, will hardly ever interview people they don't, and are generally pretty dismissive of those of us in "flyover country." The unceremonious dumping of A Prairie Home Companion, which wasn't exactly my schtick but provided a little variety at least, made their coastal preference clear.

Hell, I already disliked NPR for their bullying in Congress of various Class D stations, pretending that they needed a larger clearance for bandwidth than actual engineers would testify to. They're a big dog pretending to be an underdog.
If you're referring to possible justifications for the delay on app update releases, I really like (and want to believe) this angle and will update the article to include the thought. If it is indeed the case - then it shows that Apple's privacy labels are having a powerful pro-consumer effect on major app developers
The key word being "unpaid work". Interviewers should be required to pay at least minimum wage for any time taken up by an interview. Better companies will pay better rates.

Problem with "work assignments" like this is that there is completely assymetric skin in the game on this. I don't know if you have sent this same task to 1000 other people or just 3.

If everyone who did the interview was being paid, you can at least assume that they are moderately serious about your chance of joining the company.
Ignoring entirely no, but it would be entirely normal to refuse to comment if there was an ongoing investigation.