skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to ask a linked list question. It was “write a function that takes a linked list where values are integers and return a new linked list, grouping the odd numbers first and the even numbers last.” I was very specific about what I was looking for: not just to solve it in the “simplest”/most performant/most concise way, but to see if they could create good abstractions to make it easy for a very junior dev to read and reason about.

So, hopefully that meant building some sort of linked list class, with methods for “add”, “concat,” and maybe “filter”, and not just manipulating nodes directly.
Thanks to you both for uncovering this rabbit hole. I found this https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/g28WWuaMLXNzAnR9v/rational-v... which seems to explain the difference and is in line with your vaccination example.

Although whether not vaccinating is rational I need to get my head around that as I’m quite biased on the subject but want to understand that more, otherwise I probably don’t understand the word rational.
I wonder if there is a forum of marine engineers somewhere speculating on how Google (or whoever) should fix a service outage...
> Guessing this is humorous, but it does seem like a job that could one day benefit from being automated

The tools ATCs use have evolved tremendously. Just three decades ago, not all major airports had ground radar for instance. Then there's ADS-B that's fully automated and does part of the job. The problem is that air traffic has increased a lot.

Even if automation goes much further, ATCs are needed for supervision of operation, compliance and backup in case systems fail. The evolution mirrors that of the job of pilots. Flight engineers have been rendered obsolete long ago, maybe copilots will be eventually replaced by a remote operators for backup at some point. Each ATC will be able to handle more and more traffic, as they already have, but someone's gotta be keeping an eye on the system.
I tried reading GEB years ago and then gave up, but then I read "I Am A Strange Loop" and thought it was fascinating. I think the latter is just smaller version of the former, but more concise as he/they was able to think about it for a few more years.
There really isn’t a good Japanese counter part to Pleco.

Pleco has said they’ve looked into producing an app for Japanese, but apparently all the good dictionaries and handwriting engines are locked up in exclusive deals with publishers and denshi Jisho.

We are starting to see handwriting engines that are good and not in exclusive licenses, but the technology to for it has existed for decades.
XP was bad compared to Win2K... It had that eye candy though.
I think it would be rude to give identifiable examples, but the things that trigger my subconscious when reading good code are often the perfect balance of aesthetics, pragmatism, and mechanical sympathy for one's surroundings. Understanding even the absolute basics of how modern processors actually work is a huge plus for me because I'm biased.

The absolute basics also apply obviously - good comments, variable names that I don't have to run the program to divine the meaning of for example.

I wouldn't try to judge this based on an interview or whiteboard however, real code written for fun rather than dance monkey dance
We have color vision thanks our 3 types of cone cells (RGB) while they only one type of cone cell so they see in black and white.

Since they can change skin color to match their environment there must be a way they can "see" color.

One theory says that their weirdly shaped pupils and brain make up for this deficiency by figuring out the wavelengths of the light in their environment by using chromatic aberration effect.
How about: https://www.ontario.ca/foodland/page/availability-guide

I knew to look for it because where we live, the state (North Carolina) publishes a fruit/vegetable availability chart (http://www.ncagr.gov/markets/availabilitychart.pdf), and I think many governments do. We hang up a copy of the chart in the kitchen so we can know what to look for at the farmer's market and plan accordingly.
So is Romania. They mention the lack of sources as a reason for a missing country, so that might be it.
It sounds like quite an important job then. Maybe you should join in and pressure the bosses to give them the raise they need
Not to be unfriendly, but perhaps _you're_ projecting your desire to avoid your coworkers on to others. I think both you and the person you responded to make interesting points, both of which I can see myself relating to at different parts of my life, depending on how much I liked my work vs my local community.
Not quite, I'm running Sucrase on my Deno HTTP server: if the extension is ".ts", I put the file through sucrase before serving it as text/javascript. In development, it happens every single time I reload (and it's fast enough that I don't even notice). In production, Cloudflare requests the .ts file from my server once (triggering sucrase), and then caches it.
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This big drones also make me anxious, the difference they did not popup on HN or my Youtube, the only drones I seen before today were the ones used for filming. So yeah an AI controlled large done with face recognition and machine guns also gives me chills, I am thinking that at this moment some military dudes are creating strategies to combine the dogs and drones to create a "police" force somewhere.
> though admittedly the OT has manna in the desert

Didn't Jesus split the loaves and the fish to feed thousands? Didn't Jesus turn water into wine? Or were those also metaphors? Why was manna in the desert literal while Jesus miracles metaphors?

The only reason you are saying "Oh, those were just metaphors" is because believing them literally is crazy. You have to insert meaning into Jesus's words because otherwise what he's told you is obviously false (and Jesus can't say something false, right?).

And yet the bible is filled with miracles both in the old and new testament. Miracles that directly contradict the notion that "Oh, they were speaking metaphorically when they said god would do miracles!"

Ultimately, this is a matter of reality whether you accept it or not. I only ask that you reconsider your juvenile beliefs.
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or NPR: https://text.npr.org/ which I like more b/c the targets of the links have a line width that I find easier to read.
You wont find anything, as it was taken down a few days after publication. The NY Times article was taken down later, but had not much juicy info.
> I’d be surprised if they aimed for their ship to arrive n days before the spring tide in case it got stuck.

That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that after the ship got stuck, they certainly incorporated the tides into their plan for how to unstick it. If the tides had been less amenable, they would have come up with a different plan.

So their plan didn't get "lucky", their plan was predicated on the tides being part of the solution.
It depends on your use case. I use a SOCKS proxy with some applications and not others to do a little bit towards hiding my residential IP. Application-level proxy support is much easier with SOCKS because it's commonly supported. I also have a Firefox extension that can be used to route some URLs via the proxy and others not, because the browser extension API for setting per-request proxies supports SOCKS proxies.

With Wireguard I'd have to create routes to route some some destination IPs over the wg interface, which not only needs management to keep up-to-date with DNS changes but also does not have any way to behave differently for routed applications vs unrouted applications.
While I do think we went kind of downhill since gen x, I wrote that comment as a joke.

You actually could argue that new generations are worse because we're lazier, hedonists, more disrespectful, etc or you could argue that boomers and gen x are actually the bad ones that left everything in such a bad state that following generations spent decades to make everything right again.
As a professional singer of Bach, I feel that the integration of Bach made a lot of sense and worked very well. I am forced to wonder if the author of this review was a high-level musician.
But doesn’t their post qualify as gaslighting? The tweets said peeing in bottles due to extreme performance quotas does not happen and it very very clearly happens all the time.
I've asked linked list questions before and here's why I sometimes use them.

I don't have a ton of extra time in an interview and I can expect a candidate to be familiar with linked lists or I can explain the data structure very quickly.

Linked list problems are relatively simple. Candidates are under a fair bit of stress during an interview so simple problems become harder than they would normally be. You also don't have time in an interview to dig into very complex problems. With a linked list I can give a problem that most candidates can work through in the time we've got and then ask follow up questions based on how they approached and solved the problem.
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That could only work if the workers didn't read any of the replies. Seems like a bad strategy.
It's quite clear cut: there are significant consequences for natural citizens caught acting in an illegal or immoral manner.
This is positioned to be competing product to netlify and vercel. However, it doesn't make sense to host it yourself as core benefit of host a static pages and node js apps on netlify is use their CDN infrastructure. It would actually cost you more to host self host it than using alternatives. Also this is definitely not a PaaS substitute. It is great attempt at a netlify alternative, but fall very short from being a production grade platform. Just an analysis, don't burn me please.
the way I see the problem is company say they want an expert in X where x might be
1- writing driver and OS internal in assembly/ ANSI C
2- writing video game physic engine in c++/CUDA
3- writing machine learning model in Python/R

but the interview is always something like
1- reverse a (linked list.tree) using your language of choice
2- write code to solve the N-queen problem ...

Basically they ask bad question to evaluate data structure knowledge and ability to solve riddle.

But they ask 0 question related to the specific expertise required for the role they are trying to fill.
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Science has been used to justify bad policy and advice for decades, generally through corruption. How many people died younger because the sugar industry successfully convinced everyone that fat was the cause of obesity? Then after decades of being told to avoid fat, it came out that the trans fats we created to replace them were even worse. This is just one example, but shows that the cult of science is not immune to awful results.

People who don’t want the covid vaccine aren’t just Republicans. Yes, they are a higher percentage (40% vs 15% Dems) in the studies I’ve seen. There are also large numbers of African American and Hispanics who have thus far told the pollsters they aren’t interested. As you point out, this is more about experts and how they interface with the public than probably anything else.

I recently read Revolt of the Public by Martin Gurri and I’d say this whole situation aligns with his theory. People in general don’t trust the technocratic elite any longer.

I’ll add the same stipulation you did, which I am pro science and truth. I have already received my first vaccine shot.
While it would be naive to pretend that pre-determined narratives aren't a huge factor, I think that model leaves something out: that journalists and organizations are often incentivized to distort the facts into arbitrary narratives, based not on values or ideology, but on virality and cognitive/emotional stickiness. "Person X is a hero" and "Person X is a villain" will both tend to outcompete nuance ("Person X is flawed but well-intentioned and has done both good and bad things.").
Yes, i think recreating an npm kind of central place for your project dependencies seems almost required if you want to avoid depending on a different version of a lib in each file of your project.

I cannot understand the benefit of this scheme honestly. I would have preferred they fix something npm is lacking, like adding the ability to sign packages
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I did. He root-causes it to Joel Spolsky's interview style which the author claims was heavily influenced by what was useful to know at Microsoft during his tenure.

My response is to highlight why it's still relevant to ask them today.
Sure. Both the USSR and the USA had "peaceful" nuclear programs until the 1996 PNE treaty, which banned those as well and was also when this canal project was declassified.

Apparently calling something "Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy" was fooling nobody. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Explosions_for_the_N....

The US, having a different style of humor, used the totally innocent sounding "Project Plowshares". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare

Could you imagine someone taking these programs exclusively on good faith? "I don't see how placing hundreds of warheads near Moscow could possibly be related to first strike strategies. This all looks perfectly normal. Israel isn't America's Cuba in cold war politics, what kind of crisis could possibly arise from the placement of these warheads?"

Some day our ancestors will find all this cold war stuff hilarious.
I wrote the following tidbit early last April. I didn't post it anywhere, but e-mailed it privately to a few people.

If masks were seatbelts, this is what authorities would be telling us:

Seat belts by themselves are not effective at saving lives. Safe driving, like keeping your distance and staying within the speed limit, or staying home and not driving at all prevents accidents. Seat belts may encourage a false sense of security leading to dangerous habits like tailgating and speeding. Thus, there is no reason for drivers to wear seat belts and doing so could in fact reduce traffic safety. However, if you're a passenger, you may wear one if you feel that it is beneficial. People still die while wearing seat belts; we are currently evaluating whether they are effective at all for the driving public, even though we have had motor vehicles with seat belts for the better part of a century. There aren't enough seat belts; please save them for professional drivers like long-distance truckers on whom we rely to deliver toilet paper and flour. If you feel you need a seat belt, you can make a slightly effective one at home out of duct tape or knitted yarn. But please don't go out and buy large quantities of duct tape or yarn, either; in this crisis, your leaders need these materials to hold their rhetoric together.
Those were heady days.
Using news groups before everything in them morphed into German pornography.
The glory days of Gopher.
We had the foresight to write the whole thing in C; paving the way for many future generations to work on endlessly patching it.
> toxicity of a culture of elitism and a fetishizing of language purity

While you use words like toxicity, elitism, and fetishizing, a positive take could be given. Say instead there is a nourishing culture of experts, core contributors who mentor those interested and write articles expounding the language's culture. And that language purity is a meta reasoning tool that enables engineers to focus on business problems rather than the quirks of a language lacking conceptual purity.
Yes, the husband in a family making all the decisions as long as they respect their wife is for sure misogynistic.

Your interpretation of this being advice for a family to function even when they don't see eye to eye everything makes no sense to me. So if a man and woman in a marriage don't see eye to eye on an issue, the man makes the decision as long as he's kind to his wife? A wife may have her opinion, but really she has to submit in all things to their husband?

I'm all for husbands loving their wives, but maybe text that clearly says that men have the power of decision making in a household could be interpreted as meaning...men have the power in a relationship.
There is no single measure of intellect. We as a society just set some arbitrary goalposts and added some ways to measure contribution. The ability to take a step back and try to better understand reality will always be valuable, and there will always be a horizon there that we cannot measure.
This looks pretty cool! Is it basically Dokku with a web interface?

https://dokku.com/docs/
Oh, this one might be 'shopped but it is not that inconsistent with photos from reputable news agencies (AFP, Getty, AP). The thing is it's still not half a million people. Whoever thinks it was is radically underestimating the volume of half a million people.
If I set this up with Firefox, would DNS look-up also use SOCKS?
It's a news story that someone inside Amazon thinks the tweets are bad?
How does that work, is there a periodic review of static analysis results?
Perceptions of Infidelity with Sex Robots
Doing a linked list is my primary question for coding interviews. It is something I think everyone has seen or done in school so should be pretty easy. It is also small enough that it can be explained during an interview if they don't know. A linked list can be programmed in any modern language that has references. It lets me get some insight into how the person thinks and works through problems.
Primary insights I am looking at:

How does the candidate approach the problem as stated?

Do they ask any clarifying questions?

Can they explain the code they have written?

Did they listen to what I asked for? Some people who have been studying will just start typing what they have memorized.

Are they doing anything interesting with the language they have chosen? Are they able to answer questions about their choices?

Most of the time people will get through some kind of add method, and a delete method. Usually by that time I have enough information to move past that question. Doing puzzles like reverse the list don't really add any more information and I have stopped asking that even if there is time.
"In two surveys of adults in the United States (N=723), we asked about perceptions of the degree to which a variety of behaviors, when engaged in with a sex robot or a human, would constitute monogamous relationship infidelity (Study 1), and also asked respondents to consider monogamous partner behavior when committed with a robot that was matched to sexual partner preferences (Study 2). Study 1 revealed that acts committed with sex robots were considered less severe and less likely to be judged as infidelity as those same acts committed with another human. Results further revealed that male survey respondents rated all partner behaviors with sex robots as less likely to constitute cheating behavior than their female counterparts. This finding may be explained by the portrayal of sex robots as hyper-feminized female sexual partners for men, both in the way these technologies are presented as well as how they are sold. However, when asked to consider a sex robot that was matched to males or females (Study 2), this difference disappeared. For all respondents, giving sex robots specificity as either male or female resulted in higher ratings of partner infidelity as compared to Study 1. Our work suggests it is possible to commit relationship infidelity with a sex robot, and as a result their use can pose harm to human relationships."
so depending on how you phrase that question, it can be perceived as an insult. it almost implies that, by default, an atheist wouldn't have a moral compass. I'm not saying you think that, just that it's a plausible interpretation for someone who's already feeling a bit defensive. also some atheists are just obnoxious.

but maybe I can answer your question. I think of morality as a way to rationalize the emotions I feel when someone treats me a certain way or I treat someone else a certain way. my morals are rules I can feel good about following.
I enjoy reading all the various ideas people come up to solve a complex issue. I know it's mostly not realistic but always good to see how imagination come forth.
For other folks who couldn't find the documentation for this project: https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify
Funnily enough, this passage is generally considered a later addition to the Gospel of John: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_and_the_woman_taken_in_a...
Where do you think the fish pee?
Culture definitely plays a factor. I’m not actually American and my day to day isn’t nearly as bad as what I described in previous comments, but I do often work with and interact with Americans, which is mostly where my comments came from. The other thing is that there’s a slow Americanisation happening in some circles so I also want to be prepared. Luckily outside of the interactions I’ve mentioned and a few others, things have mostly been fairly smooth with people being quite understanding and willing to work together to improve things. But I do see it, regardless, which is why I’m here.

Anyway, your comments have given me lots to think about. Thanks! Hopefully you find ways to improve things for yourself too.
I like it, I might try it against Caprover and Portainer to see what's up.
Indeed, some points were a bit unclear. This is literalism in the sense of "God is real, created the world, Jesus lived and died to save you from your sins", not "there is no figurative language in the bible" or "the Bible is a bunch of stories about how to be a good person."

One important phrase in interpreting Scripture is "let Scripture interpret Scripture." (cf. 1 Cor 1:18f, Romans 11:33-35, 2 Cor 10:5 - our reason is not capable of fully understanding God, so we interpret it as his Word says and leave it at that.)

I should point you toward the Council of Jerusalem for part of the early history of the church, and I'm not really sure where you're coming from with the rest.

As for the rest (mostly about the history of biblical manuscripts), could you please put what I missed into a couple more clear questions?
Heterosexual couples have been the norm for thousands of years, and the traditional family has been proven through survival to be a good way to raise children. People don't know the long term societal consequences of a homosexual marriages. Could be no issue, or it could be Pandora's box. Either way, it's stilly to take these studies of <200 families seriously, especially when there's a clear a agenda among political groups to promote normalization of homosexuality.
There are linked list questions in the interview tips chapter of Deep C Secrets if I remember correctly. That's definitely 1990s and definitely C.
> Well JSX is not really just javascript/typescript

Right that’s the DSL part. But TypeScript understands it out of the box, and you can write the same expressions without the DSL by calling the pragma function directly (which I’ll often do for some tooling code that needs to run without a build step).

> But tools like svelte have their own DX improvements that make things like state management / reactivity arguably a lot easier than React.

Part of the reason I mentioned JSX rather than React. There are great libraries with similar state and reactivity facilities that work with JSX (for example Solid). The cool thing about JSX is that it’s not tightly coupled to any particular implementation.
The husband is to love his wife as he would himself; moreso, actually, he is to love his wife in the way Christ loved the church--who sacrificed his life for the well-being of the church (namely so that we could have an intimate relationship with God). It is with this understand of what a husband is that the wife submits to the husband. Submission is not unquestioning obedience, unless you insist on taking the most fundamentalist interpretation. And a husband that insists on unquestioning obedience is failing to even love his wife as himself, and certainly not with Christ's self-sacrificing love.