skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an "old person", I feel like I often have an advantage in the types of interviews they give nowadays, since they frequently involve implementing basic functionality that was relegated to a library or made far easier by some other library, so folks who started after early/mid 2000's may not have ever had to actually build those after college.
Thank you for posting this. Let's witness what science and engineering is capable of achieve today.

It is just amazing to think that a robot is roaming around in Mars, and a second one might be joining today.
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> I find the audio issues embarrassing (echo's, feedback, way off volume balance etc.). I would think the congress would install proper equipment in the homes of the representatives.

I'm quite happy with Congress not spending money on not-cost-effective-for-essentisl-legislative-needs equipment in members home for what amounts to a mostly-cosmetic improvement in temporary operations.

> Bigfuckingvalue has the best sound and he's just a "youtuber".

Why is this surprising? A YouTuber is someone for whom digital A/V production values is central.
There's a ton of platforms that Rust doesn't not target, or targets but without many guarantees of support. The can be problematic as its closest competitors (C++, but especially C) generally have much more widespread support.
That's pretty awesome. Although I was thinking of something more like the Microsoft Ballpoint Mouse https://www.microsoft.com/buxtoncollection/detail.aspx?id=22...
Hierarchy of controls! Training is supposed to reinforce technical measures not replace. Have you never screwed up something you've done hundreds of times perfectly before?
From what i can see, it does not seem to work. Here in western Europe in the big cities many people buy locked phones second hand and the vendor explicitly says you have to get it unlocked, which is a service provided by many phone shops (somewhat under the table).

These locked iPhones sold for 50-200€ are acquired by users who will turn to their tech friends/neighbors to get it unlocked. When these tell them they can't help with that (no package in Debian for that yet), they end up spending 20-50€ in a shop to get it unlocked anyway, financing a very shady market.

Previous discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19845934

Quote from the article that sparked the discussion:

> To do this, they phish the phone’s original owners, or scam employees at Apple Stores, which have the ability to override iCloud locks. Thieves, coders, and hackers participate in an underground industry designed to remove a user’s iCloud account from a phone so that they can then be resold.

At the end of the day, if the thief doesn't get the phone unlocked themselves, they will sell the phone for half (or less) the price they would have sold it unlocked, but they're still making a buck.
To me it looks like a victim of cost saving and overoptimization.

Somebody requested that feature, and then someone discovered that if you hack around your system and set precise combination of fields, it will do the trick. So man hours were saved, some memo added to docs, and then the knowledge was lost.

And all of that instead of adding separate form for specific case. I've seen it more than once.
What is the strategic advantage to a bank to oursource an important transaction (ie transferring money in ginormous amounts) outsourced to India ?
Hmm, let me check, I think zsh does have associative arrays and floating point, two features that bash took quite a bit longer to get (and which aren't in the bash in OS X). So at least that's okay.

Compound and active variables are quite convenient in longer scripts. As are namerefs, but I think zsh might have something similar enough.
90k USD in USA and 40k USD in LATAM is a huge difference not in favour of USA
The point is that the odds of any startup to be worth billions, or for an employee stock option be worth a lot more than accumulated high base salary, is very very low.

So if one optimizes by using the expected value over time the conclusion is that high base salary tends to trump employee equity. One can make this sort of inference at any point in time, without hindsight at all.
My local government operates several utilities, and does it very well and at reasonable prices.

And when there are problems - their board of directors and CEOs are very visible and reachable. Some live in my neighborhood.

Of course, the city government isn't dominated by know-nothing, do-nothing antigovernment types. We try to hire for competence and comittment to mission, not ideology.
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No, but at least you won't have two cores incrementing the same integer at the same time.
Nicotine helps calm down anxiety. People with anxiety disorders get addicted to it because when they do it, the anxiety subsides. The anxiety starts setting in once the effect wears out. One doesn't get addicted to it right away because it takes time for the body to model what is this thing that is helping it and how it is getting access to it it. Once the body finds out, it seeks cigarettes; usually the body "overfits" and thinks it needs a particular brand of cigarette... and reliance on a particular brand is a problem, one can switch to another one by alternating with the brand you want to switch to... you can use the same strategy to switch to vaping or other nicotine delivery mechanisms.

For people with no existing anxiety disorders, like you, there is no significant effect so the body doesn't bother seeking it.

Same is true for any other drug addictions. They work by suppressing trauma or sadness or depression... and when the effect wears out, people need it again because the extreme emotions that were being suppressed come back with a bang.
After reading about Reed Solomon codes I was a bit surprised to learn that parity disk was a literal rather than a figurative thing in RAID5 and RAID6.

After diving into consistent hashing I was surprised that all blocks are striped across all disks instead of redundancy+1,2,3 disks, in pretty much any drive array solution I could find architecture docs for. Seems like bigger blocks on fewer disks would have better utilization numbers. You could be doing 2 unrelated reads at the same time from different spindles and tracks.

With a dead drive, you could do nothing and wait for a new drive, or start making backup copies across the rest of the array as if the array were now n-1 disks, or some of both, like this solution seems to do.
I read this a few hours ago and didn't decide to comment then. But I just have to.

I just lost my brother-in-law to heroin overdose. He overdosed because he went into rehab, came out, and then used far more than his body could tolerate. This is unfortunately common. Not because he mixed it with alcohol or antihistamines or whatever.

Overall, his entire life has been extremely tragic. He was a good guy at heart. He was a hard worker and did good work in general.

However, he did did A LOT of crazy things. He was the poster child for "your emotional development stops at the point you got addicted to heroin". He basically acted like a troubled 13 yr old in a 40 yr old's body. This craziness has caused a LOT of problems over the years, especially for his daughters.

I get that the popular notions of drug use are wrong, but when is that not true of anything? Drug use does itself cause a lot of problems. While some people may be able to use them without any issues, many cannot.

The way a lot of this is phrased, it makes it sound like drugs are fine and there is a conspiracy to demonize them. While the popular notion of them isn't perfectly balanced, it is not the case that they are just fine for people to use.
I don't know if people have already forgotten, but it used to cost 5$ - 10$ per trade to buy stocks before robinhood came along. For better or worse, they made trading cheaper and much easier for newcomers. Brokerages like TD Ameritrade, E-Trade, Schwab used to charge outrageous fees for trades, but still sold the order flows.
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How to write an Ethereum smart contract using Vyper
For an unintentional payment, I agree. For an accidental overpayment, an argument could be made that the payer has a legal claim to a refund of the overpaid amount.

If you take out a $200,000 home loan with $200 minimum payments and accidentally make a $2000 payment ($1800 over the required minimum), I can see a request for an $1800 return being legally valid - granted you aren't behind on payments.

If you are behind, I would argue that including the total past-due, whatever is still overpaid, can legally be requested for return. So if you owe 3 payments, a request for $1400 returned would be legally valid.

However, if you are behind on payments, it could also be argued that you've breached trust with the lender and any money they receive from you is now theirs until the balance is $0. This is something that should be explicitly discussed in a loan contract prior to agreement.

Comparing an bank-to-individual loan and a bank-to-bank loan is a bit apples to oranges, but a massive unintentional overpayment can have serious ramifications, and I wouldn't write it off as simply as, "Well, you owe them a grand total of X, and even though you only owe them Y per month and overpaid, you don't get any of what you overpaid back".
I passed on flask-sqlalchemy because it was not obvious to me how it worked together, and I did not see the value over just using Flask and SQLAlchemy with no special integration. Has worked now a couple of years in, will see how it is in a few years more.
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Finally, they found the 'S for security' in IoT
I was having a hard time with that too, I found an airlines but it soon clicked.
Why not ask people with municipal internet instead? My parent's county electrical co-op also works well. You get functional local government if you elect people who actually want government to work.
How does it handle the case where a RVALUE is added to an already processed black node in between pauses?
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Uber shuts down app that told drivers if Uber underpaid them
It'll be a while before I can dedicate the time for that.

Day job and family take time away from the silliest endeavors.
FYI if you set PayPal as your payment method, you can cancel your subscription in a couple clicks. Obviously it'd be preferable to NOT have a ridiculously difficult cancellation process, but that's one way to make it easier.
you can definitely hand solder 0201s without solder paste, if you have thin solder, a thin tip (on your soldering iron) and decent magnification. I have successfully done 01005s with this method.
It’s sad to see so many newly-created accounts that only argue about politics, from a particular point of view to counter what they see as HN’s incorrect groupthink. “There’s this forum, guys, where people don’t think the right way. Let’s brigade. Go there, create an account, and comment.”

I wonder who it is referring people to HN for this purpose.
Since firing an employee won't bring the $500,000,000 back, I'm thinking the linux philosophy is probably not the best one to use here.

The linux approach is "what you are doing is not my problem, so go do whatever you want".

For a bank, what their employees do is very much their problem.
Fair point on being too easy to produce content, yes, can lead to lots of noise.

I think many people listen to people talk, especially at conferences. Imagine a panel discussion: if one is not in the first few rows, the visual info is quite little (can't see facial expressions much) and so it's mostly audio.

I guess for me, I like listening to live conversation, where it has the unpredictability of where it will go. I like to watch live interviews on TV and yet believe that many of them are stale, scripted, and too short, vs CH which yes can be stale but rarely feel scripted or too short. What I like about interviews or live conversations is that things may arise that one wouldn't think to produce without the external stimulation.

I wonder if it hasn't succeeded before because it didn't have the initial crowd. CH is basically just group conversations and if I go to a party where I think the people are not interesting (or more so, famous), I may not be so excited to talk/listen. But if I go to a private party, almost like going to a TED conference, I'm quite interested to hear those people talk to each other and myself try to contribute if I can. That's what it is, based on the audience it initially curated, it kinda felt like being at a TED or other similar conference. I wonder how that changes over time. But still, it lets ad-hoc conversations arise, sometimes with combinations that have not really happened on other platforms, e.g., Shane Battier, former NBA player, asking a question to Chris Voss, former FBI hostage negotiator. Again, sometimes the interactions bore me, but sometimes they thrill me, and that feeds to the variable ratio reward addiction mechanism of the app.
I should have added some context for why in my opinion it's important to have an experienced founder when you're an early employee. Remember - based on the framework I presented, the goal is not to optimize for wealth generation - for that you would have stayed at your mega corp. For simplicity, I am assuming that you cannot predict success at this early stage of your career (although clearly some people have phenomenal track records).

Instead, the goal is to learn the best practices (lean startup, hiring above your weight, shipping early, doing things that don't scale, etc), meet the right people (colleagues and investors), and also very importantly, learn how to build the right culture (this is a far more complicated issue than most first-time founders realize - hence the need for someone with ideally some historical perspective).
I think early model F is far sturdier. Also the F can do NKRO which I don't think is physically possible with the M
I was not talking about recreational drug use. Please read my full comment before replying.
This isn't theoretical: Google Photos was identifying Black people as gorillas, and they didn't fix it, they worked around the bug by removing "gorilla" as a possible label in 2018. Some here seem to be saying that we can't call this racist unless someone specifically intended to do this because of hate. It's not subjective when someone's own face is so flagged.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/12/16882408/google-racist-go...
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Things are changing (slowly). See https://www.coalition-s.org/. That has decent support from Europe, but not from the large US funders (https://www.coalition-s.org/organisations/)
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People doubled their money on paper in unrealized gains. But since Bitcoin is being sold as a store of value and not as a medium of exchange nowadays, if you want to realize that value you need to sell. Where's that cash coming from? Other buyers, i.e. the next layer of suckers as indicated in OP's post. And if enough people decide to sell, then those doubled/tripled/etc values aren't going to last very long.

Note I'm not saying that it's not possible to win in this system - clearly some people will, at the expense of many others. Perhaps it's my own ignorance, but I genuinely struggle to see how this isn't a zero sum game.
This fails to consider the likelyhood of new logic bugs being introduced in any rewrite that didn't exist in the previous code. Unfortunately, I don't think there's good numbers available to estimate any numbers on these. But judging by the huge array of topics listed with bugs there (TFTP, NTLM, IMAP, Krb5, ...) I'm gonna say it's not possible to make a statement either way on whether the balance would be overall positive or negative.

FWIW we have the same problem with a large 1996-started C codebase with a lot of logic complexity (routing protocols.) Our best guess - amplified by the fact that we don't do a lot of complex string/memory ops, but rather complicated algorithms - is that a rewrite would introduce worse bugs. But I'm not sure on that either.

(Would be a nice MSc or PhD thesis topic...)
Why does this guy's blog always make it to the top of HN? Is he like famous or something? Just seems like another "bad idea" post that's just going to be (rightfully) trashed here. Overall, it's a bad idea for a few reasons:

- Someone made a mistake a long time ago, and now you're tasked with fixing it. That's not fun nor interesting.

- This type of work "gamification" infantilizes your employees. My guess is this would only work if everyone's like 22-25.

- John Cutler's "one day sprints" are a terrible idea, but this one is somehow even worse.

> Why the team did not ask the Product Owner about the proof of concept?

Because the product owner wasn't even around for most of the day ("I happen to be in Amsterdam that day, so I will jump in and out, and generally not available"). Yeesh. How could anyone possibly work under this guy? I would've resigned yesterday.
Why not? They are easily intimidated by mining giants.
I used a Microsoft natural keyboard and, while less alien than the Kinesis, it took time to adjust. The best thing was forcing me to press the keys with the correct hand.
This is a really funny joke
True, my implicit issue is that Paolo was justifying the Saturday billion tether prints by saying they were often chain swaps. If you’re doing a chain swap and minting new tokens do you not burn the old ones? Maybe I’m misunderstanding.
Wonderful use case and love how simple of a heuristic it is to implement.

Diminishing returns beyond choice of 2 is also quite interesting: http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~azar/box.pdf
I kind of wish some of the SQLAlchemy core devs spent a bit of time using ActiveRecord to appreciate how an ORM can make defining and querying relations straightforward and easy.

Right now, using SQLAlchemy creates a "now you have two problems" kind of workflow: first you figure out the SQL need, then you spend at least that long figuring out how to write it with the ORM. I never felt this way about ActiveRecord.
"tl;dr" may very well be the problem! There is a tendency of many tl;dr summaries on the web to oversimplify and skew concepts. If those are included in GPT-3's dataset, GPT-3's output will try to match the dataset style (according to the parameters) and likely not meet the legal standard. There is a section following the conclusion in the paper where I touch on other ways GPT-3 might be improved for the legal summarization use case. The only way we get there is by delving into the nuance of WHY GPT-3 is not yet good enough to replace lawyers, and HOW we can improve on it as an architecture.
No, this thread is not addressing trivia questions, only normal questions that might seem unrelated to the day jobs and the fact that there is a test at all. The OP asks about both, studying for questions unrelated to day-job AND about trivia questions, and I agree with them that trivia questions are silly and explain the other point.

Almost no developer "take 3-6 months off to study for their next position", please do not distort reality, that might happen to some but def not the norm. I'd say the normal is 1 week to 1 month of studying on the evenings after work.

Lawyers AFAIK is based a lot on reputation, which includes seeing them work, personal recommendations, etc. Is that better than a test when switching jobs?
Car makers program CVTs to act like automatics, almost completely eliminating the benefit of a CVT. I’ve got a Subaru with a CVT and I’ve become used to it; I’ll never love it. Mine is the H6 engine paired to the heavy duty CVT. It’s a good thing it will last a long time, as it’s going to be my last Subaru (I’ve driven both the NA and turbo 4 with the CVT and would never buy one).
i wish so much they would stream audio and video from the craft live as it descends to the martian surface.
Their actions were directly responsible for a huge number of people being financially ruined and another significant group financially benefitting (who happened to be their friends). They don't legally get to pick and choose market winners and losers. Their responsibility is to administer access to markets, not dictate the outcomes. Their privileged control over the markets, and their actions to protect their powerful friends are a clear example of insider trading, albeit dressed up in a slightly different way than we normally see.
Nvidia limits crypto-mining on new graphics card
This document omits his utterance that "[he is] not a cat", was it edited before being made public? And if so, why?
Were you possibly abusing their Day Trading rules?

FYI: they will get a little testy if you have more than three round trips without registering as a day trader.
Clean feed here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPrbJ63qUc4

EDIT: Congrats to the team! Great success
My personal preference is the JPL raw feed (here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPrbJ63qUc4) but I think that more people watching space here is better! Great link!
Iceland, Norway come to mind as the obvious poster childs for hydro and geothermal and probably there already. If you count nuclear (and why not), France is another big one and even they are replacing nuclear with renewables.

Countries like Denmark, Sweden the UK, , come to mind as places that are closing in on (or over) 50% at this point and have ambitious targets of getting pretty much to 100% by next decade or so.

In many other markets (e.g. Germany, China, the US) renewables are either or both the fastest growing form of energy or the largest (by kwh) form of energy (typically displacing coal recently or in the near future). These will take longer but are probably going to close in on the 50% mark by the end of the decade nevertheless.
I just sold a used one for $1100 that I paid $380 for on release. It's because crypto has gone up so much.
> Time is the most valuable commodity you have, don't squander it for lottery tickets and empty promises.

This should be the first thing someone sees when they load the Hacker News homepage.
> we would be in huge trouble

Could you ELI5 why? Is it because we wouldn't be able to keep up with interest payments on the debt given the fact that we're actually already cash flow negative as is?
I like proper key travel. These flat designs irritate me. That leaves mechanical or Topre boards. Due to nice feedback, proper key travel and good profile I manage only few typos.
I'll sign up. I'd like to be able to petition the government to allocate more funds to improving local infrastructure. Obviously leaving it up to private enterprise is only optimizing for rent extraction with precious little in the way of actual infrastructure improvement.
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People who send their assignments in as late as possible tend to fall into two very different subsets:

* either the procrastination champion who leaves things untouched until the deadline looms, or

* someone who completes the work early, but before committing it, leaves it alone for a while and reviews it later.

Everything else being equal, I would prefer the second type, because last minute rushed work tends to introduce unwanted bugs into the code.

Ofc, the world is full of exceptions.
DNS-over-HTTPS generally works
Republicans are all for states' rights. Unless it's something they (or their corporate sponsors) want to regulate, then they have never heard of states' rights. Democrats are nearly as bad, so it's not like they can claim any sort of moral high ground here, but at least the areas they want to regulate federally are a little more self consistent.

Since the telecom companies have divided up regions to avoid completing with each other, the threat of municipal broadband is one of the few competition inputs to prevent the exact stagnation and poor service that has taken hold.
7. alt-# to comment and accept the current line, alt-1 alt-# to uncomment and execute it

https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/bash/manual/bash....