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Ask HN: Let candidate ask algorithm Question to the interviewer too
Just a thought experiment. What if the industry let the interviewing candidates to ask algorithm questions to the interviewer? Give the interviewer 30 minutes to solve it. Will that help in the interviewing process and the experience? At least, it could nullify the fear and making it a level playing field.
And three roommates splitting rent pay less than the person who lives in a three bedroom apartment alone.

If it really bothers you, get a few people to pay you a few bucks to be included in your "household" and use your netflix account with you the same way that apartment owner sublets the extra rooms.
Thank you. This is very interesting. I know some MMORPG provides you plugins for automation but many new games don't give you solutions for scripting.

I'm wondering if there is any MMORPG that actually gives some serious scripting to players for building their own worlds and sharing with others. It's going to be a hell lot of job to balance out but could be really fun.
Perfect Poached Eggs – Alan Pope's Blog
This is the same Gaben who runs a store with a bunch of DRM on it that has a variety of mechanisms to prevent account sharing yeah?

It's a nice soundbite, but even he doesn't believe it.
I'd assume anybody criticizing kubernetes isn't a huge docker fan either.
I see both used much more as dev ops tools rather than real cluster management.

Particularly questionable in organizations that may not have any in-house tech expertise. Some contractor, who may be the only programmer involved at a given time, comes in and sets everything up the kubernetes/docker way. From now on you'll always need kubernetes-enabled devs to maintain your thing.

Happened to somebody I know. They believed they had a "cluster" with different "servers" but it was a single machine. Then I had to explain why they cannot just FTP into the server, upload plugin folders (like some tutorial asked) and expect it to work. Nor did I have enough time to help out since who knows how these dockers mount folders, what's the latest "best practice" or what the dev who maintains it prefers. There's no way they'll ever need more than one machine. I'm pretty sure the system in question does not even have a good cluster story in the first place, so at best you could scale the database (which usually can do clusters well without 3rd party tools).
You need to do some introspection and ask yourself why you assume these things about people and food. This is not healthy.

It is not normal to make these assumptions about what people like because of assumptions about them due to where they are from.

It is bizarre, judgemental, and completely unsubstantiated. Let people like food (and things in general), stop over-complicating things and injecting your own political biases into it. Everything in life is political, what of it? Humans need to eat.

Also, good food and good food prep is not limited to any country or nationality.
How about "Flexible Software Design (2005)" [0]? No feedback at all in this book, but the contents seem interesting.

[0]: https://www.amazon.ca/Flexible-Software-Design-Development-R...
Chinese cuisine is very regional. It is certainly not about "lots of seasoning" or "low quality ingredients". Like all cuisines it requires good ingredients to get good results.

Dim Sum do not use lots of seasoning, they try to work with the flavours and textures of the ingredients. This is a common theme in Chinese cuisine.
A tablespoon is called a tablespoon because table spoons — the medium-sized spoons that come in flatware sets — have a mostly-standardized capacity, and this capacity comes out to around 1tbsp.

Why? As it happens, a 1tbsp basin on a utensil, with loose food (e.g. rice, corn, pudding, whatever) heaped atop the basin to its sloughing point, constitutes pretty much exactly a “mouthful” of food (for almost all human skull+jaw sizes age ≥6yo.)

Soup spoons are larger than table spoons, because you can’t heap soup, so you need a larger basin to get a mouthful of soup.

Likewise, 1tsp is the traditional heaped-to-sloughing capacity of a tea spoon—a spoon given with a tea cup+saucer, used for measuring sugar into your tea, and then stirring said tea. These are actually rather uncommon today, as they aren’t sold in flatware sets, but rather must be purchased separately. You may not have ever seen a true tea spoon. If you’ve ever seen a bar spoon, that’s an elongated tea spoon — both have a 1tsp basin.
Because James Joyce's style isn't "simple" by any stretch of the imagination, I would guess? And the essay presents its position as a general statement void of all context. What context are we supposed to assume here?
I made a great deal of money for a few years providing training and support for the founders of a popular mature open source project.

There's no customer success team for open source software, I don't care how good the community is. A significant chunk of the money charged for my services went back to the founders to continue their work. This is a fantastic model for open source.

I encourage more people to connect with the founders of popular projects and arrange a system whereby you can offer training and support on their behalf and in their name (obviously they should vet you). I'm happy to discuss the particulars of this, including how to sell training and support, how to handle contracts, logistics, all of it. I know this business well and I think it is a net good for all involved. Email is in by bio.
Please don't tell me there exists genuine attempts to "cancel" the .io domain.
Syncthing testing storage of encrypted data on untrusted devices
> If you can't envision how "phoning home" and turning the heat or AC, or whatever else you may have, on (or off) is handy then you aren't even trying.

I don't have AC. If I turn off the heat, my pipes will burst. I can't see a reason to turn lights or fridges on/off when I'm not there.

> just don't say silly things like "automation, lame!"

I didn't. I said I honestly can't see the utility in any of it.
Just wanted to say I enjoyed that story - whimsical little tech project, written up in an entertaining and informative manner.

Not that I dislike more serious stories, but nice to have a mix.
Two challenges: finding enough clear sky, and having enough power.

Everything above 25 degrees needs to be clear. With even more satellites, it may start to tolerate individual tree-size obstacles, but right now the requirements are harsh.

The dish consumes about 100 Watts when in use.
This is a bit confusing to me. They sell the plugins, but also the plugins are licensed that a customer can redistribute them to other customers legally?

At first it sounded like 'open core' with the plugins not being open source, but if the plugins are open source too... I guess people pay for them, priced modestly, just for the convenience and support?
I do the same thing here: https://benovermyer.com/recipe/
Quantum weirdness isn’t weird – if we accept objects don’t exist
Healthy enough. My non-optimal body shape has more to do with genetics and bad habits around anxiety management, than with not being obsessed about the most expensive granola I could find in a "healthy food" specialty store.
React would make little to no sense here if canvas or webgl were being used. But given that polygons are rendered as elements, using React makes a ton of sense
Canada sure does have a lot of untapped offshore wind power and hydro power from the east cost you could be exporting to Ontario.
See https://www.edie.net/news/8/World-s-biggest-liquid-air-batte...
> If a cloud customer isn't continuously testing a migration they're naive.

Most cloud customers are naive, as the stream of major enterprise breaches caused by S3 buckets without security settings that have been default for many years demonstrates.
let f call g which calls h.

And suppose you replace h with an allocating function, then in Zig you have to manually add a allocator as a parameter in g and f and update their call site accordingly, because now they are also allocating.

And suppose you replace h with a function that returns an error, then in Go you have to manually add an error as a return value in g and f.

h become impure? Then g and f are not pure anymore either.

h becomes Windows specific, then g and f are Windows specific[1].

The situation is highly similar.

[1]: or you need to write a non-windows version of the work done by the h function, which fundamentally equivalent to calling block_on on an async function to make it a blocking one.
This is something I’ve always thought about doing, but lack the in-depth RF/demodulation knowledge to undertake. Glad to see the SDR community is already on top of it!
I am infinitely happier with my stream service mix vs my last cable subscription. And if you consider their competition other streaming services, Netflix is already the 800lb gorilla in the room. It's why you saw things like CBS+ get rolled into Paramount, or HBO up their ante by bundling a ton of other brands content into HBOMAX. Not enough people want a single channel offering, even for $3.99.

Personally, I have to agree with you that they have a long way to go before I'm going to be as annoyed with them as I am with many of my other service providers (cell, cable, ISP)
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I stopped working there in 2019 and in the few years I worked there I never saw prices on the IT kit in the vending machines. The IT vending machines were one of the better ideas I've seen at companies I've worked at. Many companies would require you to open a ticket and have an IT person hand deliver the keyboard, mouse, or other accessory to your desk. At Amazon, you can just go to the vending machine, swipe your badge, and get whatever you need, no human work required.

How is that a negative? Seems like a more efficient way to operate a company.
...because nowadays the world of software is marketing driven. People often ask me what big company is behind Nim even before asking about its design and features.
Okuma, Japan is already inhabitable again. Understand the reason people aren't moving back is less due to nuclear fallout but more because the whole town was leveled by the earthquake and tsunami.
I meant on their part. Telling that eating meat is part of all cultures in all-times is pretty ridiculous.
Something often overlooked in comparisons is "The many dimensions of beat". In some ways ORC probably already beats the best JVM while in others it may never. The best benchmark is, as always, one's own code. :-) I've found Nim quite efficient, though.

The one time when I had trouble with Nim's GC perf was years ago implementing Wolfe Garbe's Symmetric Delete spell checking algorithm [0]. Even then, it worked with nim c --gc:boehm but blew up with others. So, there was nothing stopping me from doing it in Nim. This was my initial "in volatile RAM" solution before I went to a fully persistent on-disk memory mapped solution [1]. SymDel is an algorithm particularly demanding of prog.lang run-time basics as explained in that link. I've come to think of it as a good stress test. { Not the only one, of course :-) } I wonder how well Java's GCs would fare.

[0] https://github.com/wolfgarbe/symspell

[1] https://github.com/c-blake/suggest
The Soviet 8080 Processor – The 580
What really amazes me is that there isn't a similar blogging platform that is open source, easy to deploy and at least a little visually pleasing. I'm a developer, so I could use a static site generator, but I would like to deploy a blog for my mother, and I just couldn't find anything that fits the criteria. My personal blog at okigiveup.net is running on a nearly 8-year-old version of Ghost, which I can't update, because (1) they dropped Postgresql support and (2) their new business model is not friendly to self-hosted. It's rather frustrating that there isn't an alternative for which I can say "it's the default OSS solution, so I'll just go with it".
> She said: "This spearhead is completely different from everything else we have so we're wondering if it was deposited as part of a ritual or an offering.

Something I noticed some time ago: when historians and archeologists don't know what something is, they tend to default to sayings it may be for ritual use. I have no basis on which to disagree with them, but it's something that I see everywhere in historic writing now what I've noticed it, and I find it quite a funny assumption.
It’s unpopular, but I embrace (AWS) lock-in for small and mid-sized infrastructure. AWS’ various services solve 99.9% of any infrastructure needs. High-bandwidh streaming and heavy gpu processing is one of the few places my customers find to be cost prohibitive.

For compute I lean towards an immutable infrastructure. I was a Puppet / Chef engineer for 8 years, never again. It’s cleaner to configure apps via some mixture of pre-baked amis, docker files and some sort of parameter store. (Usually SSM or Vault).

Fargate is a cleaner path but so much more expensive.
>If it really bothers you, get a few people to pay you a few bucks to be included in your "household" and use your netflix account with you the same way that apartment owner sublets the extra rooms.

But I can't do that - this is exactly what the article is saying Netflix is now starting to take action against, and it is already against their TOS.
It would be cool but I don't see it happening any time soon. Plenty of demos have been created, but the ASICs that the SDR would be competing with are much more efficient at doing their particular job, and they're very cheap.
Although you should probably take into consideration that some professional linguists think the book is trash containing "prescriptivist poppycock" that the author doesn't even follow.

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=18345

Also a tiny study on whether adj/adv usage correlates with good/bad writing:
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=18398
> Don't really know what I should think about this to be honest...

All subscription services must account for some form of average use. High usage customers are offset by low usage. Thus, it is likely with so many people on your account that others are subsidizing your account's usage.

Nevertheless, I don't think Netflix cares about your low usage family members, like your grandmother. They care about your high usage family and want to get them in their own account.

Netflix already has subscription tiers that varies the number of screens that can simultaneously watch or device downloads. Perhaps Netflix could help honest people be honest by creating tiers with modest increases for different households. Maybe $5 for each additional household?

I am sure they have discussed and don't yet have a great way of enforcing such. One option could be true "sub-accounts" where the sub-account pays for the bump of $5 with a credit card that must be tied to a different address?
The default Android keyboard has similar behaviour. I was learning Spanish so I switched my phone to Spanish then back in English at some point later. Yet the change never propagated to the keyboard for some reason so my emojis are still in Spanish.
> couldn't this be said of anyone really?

Not really? If someone tried to blackmail me by threatening to tell the world that I drink alcohol, watch porn, and have kinky sex I'd say... "you don't get out much, do you?" The pious don't have this leeway.
My house has still has some knob and tube wiring. Sure, let's see what 50 years brings.
If it's AGPL it's free software, not open source
I'm speaking specifically of the original, and not of the thousands of MU*s that have come into being since.

There are some MU*s that have no combat at all, and are closer to shared creative spaces than anything else.
> Stealth technology on a satellite would probably thwart detection in space well enough.

Stealth is great for radar, but even the B-2 can be spotted pretty easily via the Mk 1 eyeball. Satellites also have to have radiators, which limits what you can manage.
Try explaining how to type “Bob@naughty-croquet-hieroglyph.kz” in mixed company.
I'd assume so. It's standard practice with space hardware to keep the downlink unencrypted, and secure just the command channel. Saves on complexity and power use (the latter matters a lot for satellites).
That's fair. But it's a valid argument, don't you think?

I mean, I agree - of course we'd be better off if we finally got a grip on our mad consumerism. Granted, I don't have any numbers, but from my gut feeling, I would wager that huge diesel trucks are a bit more extreme, impact wise. Of course these gadgets are not great from an environmental perspective. But pretty much nothing is if you break it down. You can expand your argument to almost any area. From phones to gaming consoles to plastic toys for kids to clothes ... everything is going to end up in a landfill eventually and we'd be better off not using these things in the first place. I hope this doesn't sound like whataboutism, that's not what I try to say. I just think it's kind of odd to single out smart home devices when talking about the environment. I'd be gladly proven wrong though.

I don't quite know what to make of the last sentence of your comment. Yeah, automation's productivity improvements to reduce working hours to 4 hours a day would be sweet. Sign me up, I'd even sacrifice all my smart home stuff for it. But it's got literally nothing to do with the argument at hand. It's not like the people have chosen that we want to control our lights with our voice over cutting our working days in half. Unless you mean that you just can't understand the argument that the smart home automation gives us more time to focus on real life. That I agree with. But again, that's not the point. It's fun.

Regarding long term maintenance: we're in the very early stages still. I sincerely hope for more cross-compatibility further down the road. Also, open source projects have done wonders so far to increase the maintainability of smart home products. But that's for enthusiasts, not your everyday I-bought-alexa-and-hue smart home fan.
Counterpoint: how often do you have a lump of legacy code that no one wants to touch, and changes in that area become too scary?
Refactoring can address parts of that, by adding tests and identifying use cases.
I asked the author of headwind about this one time, for now what I do is simply use @apply if it's getting a bit unwieldy even if I only use that once place.
The first thing I saw thought when I saw this is, liquidity for other industries should but just as simple. Unfortunately liquidity for most businesses is a complex zoo of companies that want to fuck you out of your cashflow.
The guy who installs DSL around here says the lines are bad enough that it'll reach about 3 Mbps, maybe.

This house is wired to cable television, but that doesn't carry any internet.
Only one domain name of each exist. As long as there are many Ford Focus RS:es, you can definitely buy one of them for non-monopolistic pricing.
As others already pointed out, I wrote that it's per year.

But I quickly looked at it, the amounts I mentioned are even too low. Converted to USD, I pay $23 per month. So $276 for one person, or $1380 for my use-case.

Keep in mind that not everyone is from the US :)
I also thought about some MMORPG that have events, but no real quests. You can figure out whatever quests you want in an event. Events could even be triggered by players. You setup the rules (by powerful scripting) and wait for players to trigger them.

For example, maybe some player discovered a summoning book, read a page, and somehow opened a maw to another plane and attracted an endless stream of demons. This is a player-triggered event and other players can do whatever they want. They can ally with the demons, they can fight them and craft items from their remainings. The game designer just make sure that every event doesn't break the whole game.

Maybe I went too far there with my imagination, lol.
Clicking through, there is this page: https://www.indiehackers.com/product/open3a

It mentions 9k/mo.
Owning a .io domain is taking part directly in the enslaving and poisoning of the island's native /s
While they haven't actually explicitly said that, and certainly my employer hasn't heard that message, our AWS rep has repeatedly and loudly said that all of our planning should incorporate failure starting from the smallest (like an individual instance) up through a service in an AZ to a service in a region or a complete AZ outage, to a complete regional outage or global service outage to a global provider outage.

So, the message is implicitly there.
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Yes, very fair statement. I don't think they were really under strong competitive pressure until somewhat recently though. You can get away with quite a lot when you're the only game in town. Less so when Disney are your competition.
I picture handlebar mustaches, super skinny jeans, scarves, and/or a man-bun these days.
I think this is a cool idea and something I was interested in also, if you need any help developing it I'd pitch in!
Go down into the Valley and you'll find many great ones. Got to go to where the Indian people are.
It's a complex joke
You don’t understand true costs, and carbon is not well priced right now.

Ultimate costs of doing this will be: wildfires, floods, power outages, etc. even the commodity and exchanges commission (a us financial institution) is calling for orders of magnitude cost increase in carbon credit costs.
I will never use this, but I'm delighted it exsits.
ConsoleMe: A Central Control Plane for AWS Permissions and Access by Netflix
No, we would simply still use incomprehensible websphere setups. Now we got kubernetes as the application server of the current decade that's application language/framework agnostic.

But it shouldn't be like this. Devops shouldn't have to exist. Everything should work like heroku, where even mediocre devs can quickly setup proper pipelines.
I would say teaspoon size which is about what's in your regular eating spoon if it were bigger they'd say tablespoon which is obviously a lot bigger than what most people use to eat their dinner with. Unless it's mac and cheese and then tablespoon would make sense.
A lot of conversations around privacy and using encryption would be much easier if those in the conversation understood just how simple and permissionless it is to snoop information and become way more knowledgeable about someone than you should.
In custom houses they actually can and often do pre-plan those things. In practice though plumbers know what they are doing without needing to look at the prints and it isn't important enough to make the plumbers put the pipes where the plan puts them. The architect knows this and rarely puts enough effort into those parts of the plan to get them perfect, just enough to be sure that where space is tight everything can fit.

No plan is perfect the first time. For pre-fab you do a few prototypes and find out and fix what doesn't work, then make the jigs so everything works. For custom work the trademen are smart enough to get it working without extensive pre-planning.

The above only applies to small scale single family houses. As you get into larger buildings: correct planning becomes very important. Eventually things must planed correctly in the design phase or the whole will not work.
The software is licensed under the AGPL. So, that would be an interesting article to see if someone was taking the code and repackaging it.
Why even bother with registering emoji domains?

Just allow people to register bob.<emoji>@mailoji.com.

TikTok users probably wouldn't care where the emoji was in the email address. Most non technical people don't even understand email addresses (you work here too? is the most common question I get when I tell people my email is <theircompanyname>@mydomain.com). Only internet nerds really care that the emoji is in the domain name.
I actually came across Tuxedo when first searching about - and when I first learnt about Clevo resellers. But unfortunately they still have the same hurdle as having to pay import tax.
An introduction to Kernel Exploitation Part 1