skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The part that breaks that is that in the population I'm talking about, I have known the people continuously from age 15 to age 34. Twenty years continuously, over 20 people. No one ever tried to hide the habit (hiding your smoking is a thing no one did 20 years ago). So I can observe this population fixedly and not suffer from survival bias.

It could be selection bias. Maybe I hang out with other people with addiction potential because of who I am. But it's definitely not survival bias (which is sort of what the rest of your comment talks about). The thing that makes it unlikely and the article's premise unlikely is that the weight of evidence is on this stuff being addictive.

But, you know, I'm a huge fan of the therapeutic effects of many scheduled drugs, so I'm open to the idea that addiction works differently from currently understood.
Here are the arguments for digital integration:

• Digital ammo remaining in mag counter - they exist, widely regarded as useless

• Barrel wear / bullet speed sensor - useless outside of AA guns

• Position / camera - usually integrated with helmet

• Target position pointer to squad - feasible, but not on an AK. This works together with the laser range finder and the the position of the rifle to mark a target on the squad map for fire support and such. Again, not on an AK.

In short, gimmick. Will NOT be used in Russian army, guaranteed. If used by customer states, will be used to EW detect targets for arty strikes.
I suppose you want the raw source for all the proprietary software you buy as well?
The above excerpt is supposed to be the guidance for how to design a good door.

I don’t think a door people regularly walk into out of confusion is a good one.
Yeah it's like if people would put nicotine in every product, it would most likely make smoking harder to quit as well.
Well we need to encumber the two dominant parties with the most restrictions in fund raising, block them from setting rules as to who can be in debates let alone setting onerous ballot requirements. We already do not do enough to prevent them from profiting from their position nor enriching their friends and families. That money doesn't come from the people.
Awesome, that's pretty amazing, thanks a mill!
Doctors Want to Pick Their Corona Vaccine, Fearing Reactions, Lower Efficacy
IEC 61850-9-2 sampled value
Does anyone have Python implementation of IEC 61850-9-2 sampled value?
I was a huge fan of the Bon Appetit Youtube channel and thought it was sad they self destructed, it seems like it could have been avoided easily. I wasn't even aware of the Reply-all coverage of the BA implosion, it's ironic that I'm now going to listen to it due to HN discussion of the Gimlet scandal.
Yet when this same retailer takes down half the internet with a bad config change to a large storage system you are likely asking why they didn't have better processes to prevent this dangerous action
Great article, always love to see the law of large numbers fail! You mention that the solution "requires all clients to cooperate" - wouldn't it be in the client's best interest to cooperate (maximizes the probability the request is served, as well as minimizes latency)? I suppose a malicious client could deliberately route traffic to a fully-utilized node, but that seems outside the scope of this problem space
The Richest Black Girl in America
Would be interested whether you spent any time getting Istio to work with Dapr and your experience?
When I saw the screenshot of the app I first thought, "that's Swing". But then I saw that tick mark and I thought, holy moley oculd that be the tick mark from Borland (e.g. OWL)? https://sourceforge.net/p/owlnext/wiki/Replacing_usage_of_BW...
Which I believe was the reason for the new model M. The equipment they got from Lexmark was old, and the new model M fixes a lot of the issues.

I played with one recently, and I found the quality nice. Very much on par with my own original almost new-un-box model M.
Extrapolating that a company with a coding brainteaser interview process unrelated to the job would also have an insane and toxic work environment is incorrect.

There is no correlation.
You make assertions which would require that the author was mistaken, while ungraciously and unfairly accusing them of lying. Posted elsewhere in this thread is evidence suggesting the possiblity that you may, in fact, have been mistaken. Can you provide evidence to the contrary?
I think the industry has this backwards. All the focus is on writing code and there are so many issues doing that within an interview context.

The interview should be all about READING code. The original reason for writing code during an interview was to filter those who can't code. And so problems like fizzbuzz were created and that expanded into leetcode. But does anyone really think that if you ask someone to read a moderately complex piece of code and they can fully explain what it's doing, they can't write a simple for loop? If you can read code, then you can write code. And reading code during an interview if far less stressful than writing. So you will get much higher signal from the interviews since the stress of writing code during an interview causes many good engineers to do poorly. Or never try at all since they don't have time to practice to the point where the stress doesn't matter because it's rote memory.

Reading code is also better at showing the difference between a junior and senior engineer. If a junior or senior crams leetcode and spits it out during an interview, the result will look the same and you really don't know if they are junior or senior. But reading code is where years of experience can really shine.

And I want to stress again, reading code is so important, I think more so than writing. If you're only good at writing, then you can churn out tech debt filled junk quickly. If you read well, you can see where to add a few lines to get the same result. If you only write well, you copy/paste stackoverflow answers without really knowing what's going on. If you read well, the stackoverflow is simply a starting point you modify or discard entirely because you can recognize junk. Or even that the top rated answer is actually not the best one.
There is a difference between needing a car (i.e. I cannot live without it) and public transport being so good that you do not want one and the density being too great to support cars.

My experience living in the Lower Haight a few years back was that buses were slow, infrequent and required multiple transfers unless I was going to a few select places. Cycling was ok, but man were there some big hills (potrero) involved, e.g. cycling back from the dogpatch was pretty tiring even for a young person in pretty great shape at the time. And taking a train from dogpatch to the haigh required going back through the city.

So I could definitely get by without a car, but it constrained where I would consider going pretty significantly.

On the other hand, driving was usually fine, but finding parking was impossible, which self-driving cars don't have a problem with. Of course, parking was constraining driving, so removing the need for parking would make congestion worse, but even pretty close to the city center I felt like driving was pretty easy, and if we structure our streets (and bus lanes) right, the demand for self-driving cars will be in the routes that do not have enough demand/congestion to sustain good bus service.
I would guess the implication might be that Airbnb isn’t a tech company but an accommodation company?

Is that fair? I don’t know. Feels like there’s a spectrum. Can’t see anything Airbnb have done that’s technically innovative, but rather their main innovation is a very novel (and much criticised) business model.
DC's non-compete ban should go into effect later this year https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/d-c-mayor-signs-bill-to-ba... and they have a subway network. Will be really interesting to see what affect this has (though of course it'll be difficult to tease out).

It's possible most non-competes will be banned nationally (US), see https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/biden-can-free-mil... and https://joebiden.com/empowerworkers/#:~:text=Eliminate%20non...
I had done that, but my ssh completions weren't working great at all. I've installed ohmyzsh as recommended below and it's great, definitely a step up from bash.
I honestly don't think many of these people are even capable of downloading an email attachment.
New crystalline ice form discovered – Ice XIX
But population isn't set to go up in any industrialized countries.
Good tip! I repeated a few inputs to see if the variation was significant enough to warrant including that, and as your intuition suggested, it was not with the parameters I selected. A more robust experiment should definitely include repeat attempts.
Live Coverage of NASA Perseverance Rover Landing
I was looking at Milwaukee drills and noticed the new models had wifi capability. At first I wasn't sure why I needed that, but a helpful video explained it to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nib2Ktd7TY

I also recently bought a Nikon camera, and for the new model they removed the cable shutter release connection and instead have wifi capability with a phone app.

I'm not surprised guns are following recent trends. But I think this is one of those dead end trends where the features are neat but in practice too inconvenient to be widely adopted.
It's also a precedent nvidia (and AMD) set well over a decade ago by limiting several features to their quadro line. 5-10 years ago it was 10-12bit color. Today it's SR-IOV. There was also the gsync/freesync debacle not so long ago.

This is the first time the ends have even remotely justified the means.
What is the significance of the stock being divided as 25% plus one share and 75% minus one share?
The University of Wisconsin used (and still uses AFAIK) this system as well. "Shopping" for classes was horrendous, and there were at least three interfaces to search for classes.

I can only imagine how hard it was to populate the available classes. I wouldn't be surprised if part of the huge administrative bloat in the various departments was people who's only job was to force data into and out of PeopleSoft.
"They are still coding, so the test is supposed to asses their ability to do that."

It depends on the test. If you're just doing a simple code screen - that's fine. This thread was addressing trivia questions and testa that don't actually test a person kn the type of work they would be doing.

Do lawyers take 3-6 months off to study for their next position? Are they asked in those interviews to explain things in unrelated areas of law from which they will be practicing? They have an industry standard instead of random (and potentially biased) questions - law school and the bar.
What nonsense is this? I've never heard anyone say that about Belarus (I hold a EU passport and have lived in a few countries). Sure, there is a problem with their dictator, and many, probably most Belarussians agree. Don't confuse that for 'hating Belarus' or whatever you are trying to imply.
Replacing 32- with 64-bit loop counter introduces crazy performance deviations
> One of the main selling points of an AK

This is not an AK assault rifle. It's the “Ultima shotgun”, which is (the article doesn't mention this) a variant of Kalashnikov’s apparently-quite-popular MP-155 shotgun.

Some pieces specifically about the Ultima (the source article here goes back and forth between the Ultima and various production licensing deals with AK assault rifles which provides little insight on either):

https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2020/08/28/kalashnikov-c...

https://www.rbth.com/science-and-tech/332677-kalashnikov-cre...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9240201/The-hipster...
That concept is from the book “the design of everyday things” by Dan Norman. A Seminal book in UX psychology.
Share of U.S. workers holding multiple jobs is rising
A lot of people say if you want to get a job you have to start solving problems on leetcode. My question is that leetcode is great for someone who wants to crack the interview but does leetcode really helps you become a better problem solver compared to someone who has worked on multiple side projects involving different technologies? assuming the person does have the knowledge of Data Structures and Algos.

I'm just curious to know
> If you are a mechanical keyboard fanatic, my comment angered you,

My level of enthusiast is "I built my own." And not at all, everyone has their preferences.

I went with one of the loudest switches you can get (Kailh Box Jade) because the loudness of a switch is strongly correlated with the tactility of a switch. Tactility is the physical "bump" that typically aligned with the actuation point (and sound) of the switch. The theory is that bottoming out a switch can contribute to repetitive strain injury, and the tactile bump allows you acquire the muscle memory to stop before the bottom. Also, typing on the keyboard feels like cracking glass :).

There are really neat force diagrams that show the tactile bump[1].

Gamers and office workers tend to prefer linear switches, which don't have a tactile bump and are actuated by bottoming them out. The sound also arises due to bottoming them out.

> They are loud

You can alleviate 70% of this problem by choosing linear switches (typically red colored) and installing o-rings (about 30min of work). Enthusiasts go the extra mile and lubricate the switches and install a film in the switch that tightens up tolerances (this takes hours). Once you go the full mile, you end up with something like this[2].

You can't buy a keyboard with any of that done, unless you get someone to build it for you.

> The keys are massive and ugly

You can switch them out, keycaps come in all shapes and sizes, but that is definitely down to preference.

> They are expensive

Oh yes.

> Massive travel time (So slow to type on)

You do get low-profile switches, but that that gets expensive. The Logitech G915 starts at $229. Travel distance is only correlated to typing speed if you aren't used to larger travel distances. From what I've seen, the typing speed ceiling on mechanical keyboards is typically higher. In addition most people type incorrectly (myself included) and this contributes far more to typing speed than the mechanism of the keyboard.

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Ultimately, keep doing what you are doing. If you like the extreme low travel of the Magic Keyboard, then that's the perfect keyboard for you. That being said, if you haven't given an appropriate mechanical keyboard a chance then you aren't making a decision with all the possible data.

[1]: https://chart-studio.plotly.com/~haata/417.embed
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2nLxvWvrJM
"Getting rich" literally does mean owning capital.

You are not rich if you have ten billion Zimbabwean dollars.
House Republicans propose nationwide ban on municipal broadband networks
Hard to imagine a useful discussion arising from this, and it’s going to be beaten to death in both old and new media.
Nvidia Launching “CMP” Cards, Limits RTX 3060 Mining Potential
There's a big difference between sampling from a learned probability distribution and "picks words literally at random". The temperature = 0 examples have zero sampling by construction, while higher temperatures having a slight sampling.

That said, it doesn't hurt to have multiple attempts (aside from the cost of using GPT-3, ahem).
This isn't about product segmentation. They're artificially neutering their product.

It's perfectly fine to offer a different product that's designed for better performance but to artificially limit product A so that people are forced to buy product B (that's probably more expensive) is messed up.
I've used a number of mechs with various Cherry and Matias/Alps switches.

They all are handily beat by an old MSI gaming laptop with a SteelSeries chiclet keyboard. The keys on that had the perfect balance of resistance, feedback, bounciness, travel distance, and tactile feeling. That laptop is now a server in a closet and I always look forward to the rare occasion where I have to physically use it.

Most normal cheap chiclets are pretty bad though IMO. Older Apple ones are also pretty good.

Unfortunately I haven't been able to find any normal keyboards like that one - the SteelSeries keyboards you can buy all have taller keys with weird switches. And you can't reprogram them or get them in the layout you want. So I end up still using a mech with a weird form factor (designing a PCB for my next/final kb right now).
That would be much worse than this.
Considering only tobacco, I'd assume he is an outlier. I'd assume so because of the many quite intelligent people who started smoking before the Surgeon General's warning, tried to quit after it, maybe eventually quit after a dozen years of work, maybe never did.

Back during one of the big buyouts of ca. 1980, an executive of KKR explained why it was buying some cigarette company: You make it for a dime, you sell it for a dollar, and people are addicted to it.
Useless. The only digital system on a gun I found interesting and useful was TrackingPoint and some other tool that integrates with the trigger so it can automatically shoot once it asserted the target will be hit. Now that's a game changer, it's literally an autonomous rifle, just with a human handling it.
There’s No Natural Dignity in Work
To quote Nick Cage in Lord of War:

Yuri Orlov : [Narrating] Of all the weapons in the vast soviet arsenal, nothing was more profitable than Avtomat Kalashnikova model of 1947. More commonly known as the AK-47, or Kalashnikov. It's the world's most popular assault rifle. A weapon all fighters love. An elegantly simple 9 pound amalgamation of forged steel and plywood. It doesn't break, jam, or overheat. It'll shoot whether it's covered in mud or filled with sand. It's so easy, even a child can use it; and they do. The Soviets put the gun on a coin. Mozambique put it on their flag. Since the end of the Cold War, the Kalashnikov has become the Russian people's greatest export. After that comes vodka, caviar, and suicidal novelists. One thing is for sure, no one was lining up to buy their cars.
Thanks! It seems like I haven't seen job posting from most of these companies.
So far, they haven’t given any Fs - subscribers keep growing:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/business/media/new-york-t...

Maybe HN and other crowd activism will make them change?
If the comment made here "It's just a job, not your identity. Put in your 40 hours then do something else.", then look at a larger company. You'll be less likely to "make a difference", but you'll be less likely (not impossible, but less likely) to be fired or laid off. You'll get insurance, time off, some flexible time to go to kid's games. You won't be Dorsey or Zuckerberg rich but you won't be working 80-hour weeks for the slim chance of being rich.
One thing I always miss from CLI is the vertical properties view: `\G` in mysql and `\x` in pgsql
I use this as an evidence point that these people should not be entrusted with making decisions about technology if they cannot even understand it enough to use it at a basic working knowledge. Why should a congress person make a statement or decision on the effects of something like cryptocurrency when they cannot understand the basics of the underlying technology? (I'm not saying they should implement a miner in C, but getting a wallet, buying $100 worth, having a cold + hot wallet, doing a transaction might be considered due diligence)
That's a good point about older customers. I could see them being confused. I'm not really sure to be honest though, as I didn't work on this stuff when I was there. I'm not sure about the credit card issue either.
“Everything it likes” is pretty broad, isn’t it?
You speak as if it's impossible for someone outside Google to maintain a project that isn't written in C++ or C...
> "What the candidate has done in the past" is always a good one

A candidate answering this question well is a necessary but not sufficient condition to being a good hire. Some people can deftly spout bullshit about their prior experience, coming across as a high-level expert but completely lacking in any low-level ability. I once interviewed a candidate who initially impressed the whole interviewing panel with a presentation on a complex machine learning model they supposedly developed, yet subsequently couldn’t answer extremely basic questions in probability and statistics.

This is exactly the phenomenon described in Jeff Atwood’s famous FizzBuzz article, “Why Can’t Programmers.. Program?” [0] The reason senior programmers can’t solve FizzBuzz is because they’ve only ever been hired based on their ability to bullshit about their past projects, without any assessment of their ability to actually code.

[0] https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/
I think just changing your DNS resolver to google/cloudflare still works?
I see, I missed that. Either way, I see no real purpose for adding electronics like this to a gun asides from range training tools. It just becomes a liability in a real situation.
Perseverance rover mission control feed (Livestream)
Here is an oversimplified, but still accurate enough explanation of how this works that explains how the pharmacies can be overall losing money on GoodRx, while being unable to lower their normal cash prices.

The PBM represents many insurance plans, but is independent of the insurance companies and is basically a hired entity to negotiate prices with pharmacies on behalf of the insurance plans. The PBM says to a pharmacy: we will give you access to the pool of end customers from the plans we represent as long as you are willing to sell at these listed prices, and with these terms and conditions. The pharmacy wants access to the customers, so they will usually agree.

The prices vary, and a few of them may actually be lower than the pharmacies costs, but many are well above, so overall the deal is usually OK for the pharmacy.

But be aware of a few of the terms and conditions. There are three important terms. The first important term is that if your cash price is less than the normal cash price, you must sell for that. So obviously the pharmacy will always want to sets is cash price higher than they think any PBM will offer. And possibly even higher than that if any PBMs have a term like you will sell to our plans for our price or 80% of your cash price.

The second important term is that the PBM gets a kickback on many transactions as sort of a "finders fee" (and is one of the ways the PBM makes money). These kickbacks and the like are also a mechanism for the PBM to allow negotiating with individual pharmacy chains while providing uniform pricing to the insurance plans. Remember each pharmacy chain has its own negotiated wholesale costs for the medications, so they can negotiate larger PBM kickbacks on some of those they have lower than normal costs, in order to get smaller kickbacks on products where they have higher than normal costs, etc.

The third important term is a term that these prices must be available to the PBM's partners.

Now we have GoodRX. GoodRX partners with many different PBMs, and basically lets its members get the cheapest price from any of them. The PBMs give GoodRX a cut of their kickback. The PBMs agree because they would rather get part of a kickback for non-members through GoodRX, than get none of a normal cash sale to the pharmacy.

The problem is that each of the PBMs have some really good deals (possibly money losing for the pharmacy) on different medications, and GoodRX can basically just use whichever deal of its partners is best. Thus GoodRX effective overall deal with the pharmacies is too good, and pharmacies only accept it because they agreed to partner price sharing with the PBM.
As a person who is used to black or white thinking, I really don't understand what's the point of this whole thing.

RobinHood CEO didn't give a single straight answer. He deflected or ignored 100% of the questions asked.

Not sure what the public wins from this hearing. Someone please educate me?