skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I really want to see is for Jack Dorsey to attempt to sell an NFT to his first tweet (currently at auction for 2.5 million) another time. People buying NFTs are all in on the hype of an irrational market. What is more irrational than selling a good that you've already sold? Honestly, there might be even more novelty in owning First Tweet NFT #2 than there is in owning First Tweet NFT #1! If nothing else, we'd be able to see just how much craziness a mania-induced market can bear.
This is tricky. On one hand, as an interviewer you want to leave room for interviewees to express themselves as fully as possible. On the other hand, the purpose of the interview is for both parties to gain as much information as possible about whether both want to work together - and this is often not optimized by having each question point go its full length, but rather by getting just a bit of information on each topic and then moving to the next.
Pretty sure you’ll have to rename it or license the trademark. USPTO database has “Hercule Poirot” trademark registered by Agatha Christie Limited for lots of categories, including computer software.
I think part of the problem is interviewers at companies are (a) not properly trained to be interviewers, just pulled from their jobs and asked to interview some candidate on short notice (b) funneled into a certain way of interviewing that isn't optimal.

Large companies have almost always given me the traditional "coding a whiteboard" interview and nitpicked for the whole hour at things that would be irrelevant for the job. Many interviewers approached me with an attitude of "I'm smarter than you and I need to figure out at what point I can outsmart you" rather than trying to discover "How are your abilities complimentary and useful to the team" i.e. "What do you do well that my colleagues and I don't do well, or could use help on".
The US's national debt is someone else's wealth fund.

To be fair, having the world reserve currency is sortof like a wealth fund.
I hope 7-Zip will support Zstandard someday, .tar.zst is getting more and more common and having to point people on Windows to install either modern7z (7z plugin for several new compression algorithms) or use zstd from the CLI is complicated.
My university had terminal labs in the early 90s, tables full of Wyse terminals hooked up to the central UNIX cluster. PCs and Macs were common in other labs, but a terminal lab was still a convenient place to check email or get on IRC between classes. I would log into two terminals next to each other in order to have a screen for IRC while coding on the other one.

One early morning, I walked into a lab that was vacant except for one person. He was slumped over the keyboard with a hand around an empty Coke can. The amber screen was scrolling upward every few seconds:

YOU ARE HUNGRY...
YOU FEEL TIRED...
>
YOU ARE HUNGRY...
YOU FEEL TIRED...
>
If curious, past threads:

You Don’t Need All That Complex/Expensive/Distracting Infrastructure - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19358259 - March 2019 (121 comments)

You Don’t Need All That Complex/Expensive/Distracting Infrastructure - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19299393 - March 2019 (82 comments)
The CSS is less than ideal. I clicked “Japanese”, and despite I have a 4k display with 150% DPI scaling, difference between す and ず is barely visible.

It’s totally OK here on HN because 99.9% is English, but I think this is quite important for language learners.
How are these phones with regard to an unlocked bootloader and passing Safety Net? Online banking apps refuse to launch on some de-Googled Android versions, on the grounds that the device is now supposedly insecure. The new COVID vaccine passports, which several governments have announced will exist only as an Android/iOS app producing limited-time QR codes (because paper certificates are too easily forged), might have the same demands for the Android they are running on.
I don't know the answer to your question, just adding that you can work around that by using tar to preserve ownership, permissions, extended attributes, selinux contexts, then use 7zip on that tar file. This can all be done in pipes in one command line.
I was hoping you would share your simplified version of the GitHub quote. So let me attempt it instead -

"On the evening of March 8, we logged out all users from GitHub.com who had logged in prior to 12:03 UTC on March 8. This was done to protect users from an extremely rare, but potentially serious, security vulnerability affecting a very small number of GitHub.com sessions. No user accounts were affected"

I really couldn't simplify much without losing information. Logging out users isn't the same as invalidation of authenticated sessions because this probably revoked access to bots / API calls etc.
I think a good solution would be that the base price of .com domain registration go up from 10$ to 100$ or even 1000$ per year for premium domains.
Sure, money.com would still be sold on secondary markets for more, but the vast majority of domains sitting in squatters "portfolios" would get released.
in case anyone is wondering - $4500-5500 13.0kW motor 9-13kWh battery mobility scooter dressed in car shaped shell with a "quality somewhere between economy car and a public bathroom".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11ExTYIEJm0

tldr: great alternative to a scooter.
A fair wrinkle; I want there to be some way for all sides involved to have a fair and equitable process.

As I see it there are three stages of truth that might exist. I am not a lawyer, what's a good way for the company to signal during these contexts?

After a candidate passed the final interview:

# other interviews still ongoing

# others passed too

# all parties waiting

As a pre-requisite, an active communication feedback loop is a base requirement, even for rejected resumes at the filter stage.
I'm looking at that now out of curiosity. I don't know if I'm more outraged that they link you to multiple sites (for more information) which are clearly just reskinned versions of the same underlying code, that the sites are clearly trying to harvest more and more information from me as a user, or that they are using a "please wait while we search for more information!!!" anti-pattern to keep you on them forever.

[EDIT: And oh look, the "more information" site asks for your money after dragging you through the longest anti-pattern in the world.]
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That’s a very nice library. BEAM + Elixir + OTP supervision trees + Obama for background jobs + PostgreSQL for persistent storage seems a killer combination. And like you said you can scale horizontally naturally with the Erlang plateform without even using k8s. Really interesting.
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You can't really quantify attributes like curiosity, ability to learn and ability to listen so it's difficult to interview for them without having all kinds of biases sneak in.

How do you deal with this in your process?
> 1. Your interviewer is only open to solving the problem ONE way

This may have also been the interviewer wanting to guage how the candidate would react to being asked to do a task in another method which was dictated vs. their preferred method.

A lot of development is a team sport, and quite a bit of it is subjective and opinionated - you're not always going to get to do it your way all the time.

I don't actually see this one as a red-flag right awya.
You are completely missing the point. I'm not arguing that any other solution can't offer the same kinds of things that the mainframe can.

Imagine you are a CIO. You have mainframe apps. Everything I said is true of your existing solution. If you keep it as is, it works just fine for the foreseeable future. Every other way forward requires a total rewrite of systems that have been stable for years and are typically mission critical financial and transaction processing systems.

That's what I mean by IBM having a compelling offering.
In the UI? In file names? In the file contents?
I have no idea what this person's resume looks like, but I believe there are a lot of jobs out there for people with certain skillsets right now, _especially_ given the massive shift to remote work. It's likely impossible to find & attend 60 interviews in a month _locally_, but when they're all remote it seems challenging but not impossible.
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The fed currently takes in about 3.8 in taxes total spends about 4.2 (minus giant things being thrown about currently). About 2.3 is towards 'entitlement programs'. This 'UBI' I would assume would take over the 2.3? Leaving a gap of about 1.5 trillion to make it to the 1000 a month, minus what is given back to those who 'wash'. Plus whatever other deficit is going on?
It's lousy in a vacuum, but it's a good tool for a subset of the problems associated with learning a language. There's no singular tool that solves all of the issues, so success in learning any language unfortunately relies on a certain level of self-guided learning (and perseverance more than anything).
If they opt not to pay then the bug gets fixed according to severity and priority in the regular development cycles. It's possible it will never get fixed. I see your point with paid support contracts that don't give you anything, and you would be justified to cut your losses, but I think this was more specific to individual bugs that a company wants to up the priority for.
You can do that with 7zip IIRC
>Someone will have to explain to me how is that any different than a tabloid, or even a legacy newspaper/news broadcast.

Speed, scale, pervasiveness, profitability, automated algorithmic microtargeting based on individual psychological profiles.

>The more shocking it is, the more eyeballs it attracts and the more add revenue it gets.

It's the same concept, just taken to a never before seen technological extreme.
I made sure to specify "at the moment" as I'm well aware of the consequences of mining the resources to produce both computers and nuclear energy. I was trying to avoid this exact conversation.

I'd be dead if my computer was producing anything comparable to nuclear fission at the moment.

Also, I've lived off grid on solar power for over a year, I'm well aware of what it's like.
My intention with this blog post was only to write down my story. No marketing intended :)
Exactly the reason everyone should do research before giving to charity. Since unlike products you buy, which you can test out and even return, charitable donations provide you with no feedback, you must research charities.

The great news is GiveWell has been doing this for over a decade (full time!) and has excellent recommendations.

https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities
> Eventually I had to switch to Google Calendar for work. Plenty of our users are in the same boat and Google Calendar doesn't support native functionality.

Dog you can sync Google calendar with your built in calendar then run Next Meeting[0] in your menu bar. You can even have a global shortcut to open the meeting link. All my work meetings are in scheduled through Google Calendar and take place in zoom, and all I do is hit Hyper-Z[1] to open the correct meeting link.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/next-meeting/id1017470484?mt=1...
[1] Hyper being Cmd-Opt-Shift-Ctrl which is remapped to one key on my keyboard. You can make it anything you want, obviously. My point is I don't even have to touch my mouse to get into the meeting.
YC funds widgets ? What are the economics of this thing. A thousand developers can copy or open source similar alternatives.
awesome-python-in-education > "Python suitability for education" lists a few justifications for Python:
https://github.com/quobit/awesome-python-in-education#python...

There is a Scratch Jr for Android and iOS. You can view Scratch code as JS. JS does run in a browser, until it needs WASI.

awesome-robotics-libraries:
https://github.com/jslee02/awesome-robotics-libraries

FWIU, ROS (Robot Operating System) is now installable with Conda/Mamba. There's a jupyter-ros and a jupyterlab-ros extension: https://github.com/RoboStack/jupyter-ros

I just found this:
https://coderdojotc.readthedocs.io/projects/python-minecraft...

> This documentation supports the CoderDojo Twin Cities’ Build worlds in Minecraft with Python code group. This group intends to teach you how to use Python, a general purpose programming language, to mod the popular game called Minecraft. It is targeted at students aged 10 to 17 who have some programming experience in another language. For example, in Scratch.

K12CS Framework has your high-level CS curriculum: https://k12cs.org/ [PDF]: https://k12cs.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/K%E2%80%9312-Co...

Educational technology > See also links to e.g. "Evidence-based education" and "Instructional theory"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_technology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_technology
If you're over 25 with no income, you're eligible for the RSA (~500€/month). Healthcare is free if you don't have any income.
That’s not how it works at all.

First of all interviews are a two way interview. Your company will be judged based on it.

Also people come in touch with hr later, and usually in high pressure situations. If HR was difficult during the interview that’s a big red flag for later on in case you have to deal with them.
> WinRAR is much easier to use than 7-zip in my experience.

In what way?
I also developed intuition after methodically working through a Ruhlman book (Ruhlman's 20, in my case). Just wanted to add it seems to be his style, focusing on imparting intuition rather than recipe mastery. For anyone wanting to become a more intuitive cook, one of his books will carry you very very far.
One option would be to use Visual Studio Build Tools (https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/thank-you-downloading-vis...).

You could stick with makefiles by using nmake. It's not nearly as full featured as gnu make, and both cmd and PowerShell are much different (and less powerful in the case of cmd) to bash. Still and all, I've made it work quite well in the past for the Windows build of a library I was responsible for in my former day job.

Another option would be to use cmake as your build tool and let it generate ninja, msbuild, or nmake scripts for you. It's not nearly as bad as it was in the past (nor as bad as some might lead to to believe). Worth a try, anyway.
CBD Inhibits SARS-CoV-2 Replication and Promotes the Host Innate Immune Response
I just randomly clicked on this and my game is listed in the first ten. Nobody told me I’m on a list?? What a nice surprise. (Battleship is mine!)
My physics program had zero programming requirements.
Yep. Relevant: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
It's perfectly normal and reasonable to put a reasonable deadline on getting a response to an offer because the company must indeed fill the role, ideally this should be communicated when the offer is made. But putting pressure or having an "exploding offers" really is a trick to create urgency exactly in the same way time-limited sales work and the aim is the same: Making people buy things without shopping around.
Funny to see you do that on my website :D
Anyone surprised that the guy who uses the "based" terminology has some pretty iffy views??
Roger dodger. Gonna have to convert everything to vector drawings to be safe.
Look into cameras that support HomeKit Secure Video. You can use something like an iPad as a hub to store and process it.
Right. The editor where you learn new commands by making typos. :)
Ten years on, Japan mourns victims of earthquake and Fukushima nuclear disaster
>The problem isn’t Facebook but people.

I think there's some truth to this, however someone could easily try to use the same argument for different topics. "People are awful, the problem isn't heroin, it's people." There's some truth to that too, but frankly, if we could magically remove 100% of heroin from the world things would be slightly better. In other words, it's clear that Facebook is making this worse, even if we carry most of the blame.
Which would reduce their drive to work because you took away the fruits of their labor.

People need an incentive - something they don't have, which they will attain. UBI takes away one of those, your proposal would eliminate the other.
Yep, but in this case the name is exactly the same. (Although I never understood the choice for the original one either. But that's a pretty interesting story of a solo dev guy who really just cared about his product and not growing a business. Despite this, and with the help of a bizdev guy he made an exit.)
[Update / Edit] I just spun up a VM with 20 cores and p7zip uses all of them without any flags. Version 16.02 from the EPEL repo.

No idea how this new build differs.
That is certainly not true in all cases. It's possible that there's a second choice candidate, and the hiring manager wants to extend an offer to them as soon as the other candidate declines.

Probably more common is an experience I was in- we found a good candidate, he wanted to finish other interviews before making a decision and I gave him a few weeks to decide, then later I regretted giving him so much time. It meant I had to either pause the candidate search for a few weeks or potentially waste my time and candidates' time interviewing people when there may not be an opening.
He says he records short clips and uses 160 frames from them. I don't see why you'd choose to read it as "recorded one video per depth".

And sure, it's not raw, but ProRes422HQ is pretty damn good, being both high pixel depth and very high bitrate.
> It's unproductive to discuss such matters with a total layman who didn't bother to do even a basic research, but ok, I will play along.

I will play along too. It will be very surprising to me if you are an actual industry insider.

You have not addressed the loss of coolant.

> Let's start from the simplest thing: a Chernobyl-like event is impossible on PWR because they do not use graphite moderators. Simple, right? I could've finished on this, but let me educated you a bit more. Modern reactors have the following safety systems in place (it's not a full list):

Power excursion is very well possible on PWRs during rapid coolant/pressure loss, especially with very fresh, or very old fuel.

Positive scram is possible on PWRs too under condition when rods/poison rapidly reduce coolant temperatures.

Boron injection will not work if your coolant went supercritical.

Catalytic hydrogen recombiners can help with gradual hydrogen release, but would be of no use if you are hit with sudden release.

Passive heat sinks will not do anything if you reactor already lost big part of its coolant. Etc, etc.
> Few days later offer was withdrawn since I hadn’t completed paperwork.

Saw the not-filling paperwork/red tape in a timely manner used as a signal first-hand to screen out a perfectly-acceptable (technical-wise) candidate. Combined with a perceived lack of enthusiasm in personality for the role (which I could easily put down to a manager who has a specific idea in mind of "enthusiasm", and doesn't mesh well with a wider variance of personality types), it was a one-two punch the candidate could not recover from, and lost out to a slightly more junior tech.
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>Has anyone ever looked at history and figured out that humans are pretty damn awful?

Humans can be awful, and they can be wonderful.

>Facebook is just a catalyzer just like Twitter is. Every platform has their own disgusting self-centered bubbles and that’s not because of the platform.

Pretending like system design has no effect on user behavior is just silly.
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Typically, it is not done by adjusting focus, and uses a sliding rig to change the position of the focal plane. For most camera lenses, the precision of the focus ring mechanism is too dodgy to precisely change the focus. With the slider, the focus ring is left alone, and the precision of the slider is use to bring the next "layer" into focus. The author even commented on the slider he used was not as precise due to it being belt driven and that switching to a lead screw system would have provided more accuracy.
This makes sense. I am working with dask and it will become harder to keep this running in our “enterprise” aws setup as it’s open source with no vetted credible support company behind.
Was this same instability consistent with when the vaccine trials were being done?
Thank you.

Can't wait until paywalling what amounts to less than an A4 page of content finally dies.
In the last interviews I had, I saw at least one of these red flags in each interview with some big companies. The article gives a good insight into what is probably going on behind the scenes. We should pay more attention to this since our work and workplace are essential parts of our lives and waking hours. It is wise to use this advice to understand how the company is like for its workers before committing. Thanks for posting.
Most commercial apps will not run on GrapheneOS, because it doesn't provide alternative implementations of Play Services.

https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os_issue_tracker/issues/204
It's just a MVP... version 0.01 of their vision. The fact that they have paying users who use them daily is a very, very good signal - that's a hard thing to do! It's so much easier to add additional features to that group of users later.

I see so many negative comments and can't help but think of this (first comment on DropBox's HN launch): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
> So what is cheaper? Manufacturing, setting up, operating, and securing 1000 5 MW plants or one 5 GW plant? It seems like the 5 GW one might be cheaper.

It's not 1000 5MW plants vs 1 5GW plant, each SMR plant would have dozens of smaller cores. Most of the plans I see are in the 300MW - 1100MW range.

> Everyone agrees. But our goal with electricity isn't to make plants, it's to make watt-hours of electricity.

If the goal is to create carbon free electricity then making as many carbon free power plants is exactly how you'd get more watt-hours.
These are known as mobile workstations. They can get quite bulky, quite heavy, and quite powerful.
Thanks for the info. I'm still a bit confused though. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the strike price is not necessarily the value of the stock, no? Plus I would need to subtract it from the value of the stock in order to exercise the option. So let's say after 4 years I want to exercise 100,000 stocks at 1$ strike price each. Let's say the the current valuation is 5$ per stock. My return is 100,00$ * 5, minus the cost of the strike price (100,000$). In total that's 400,000$

So I'm not sure why the strike price is used to define the value, since I would need to pay that amount anyway. I would make a profit for any dollar for which the stock is valued after the strike. Or am I getting it wrong?
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