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I think fundamentals are extremely important, but there is a confusion what is fundamental and what is not.

I have interviewed thousands of candidates and hired and worked with dozens of them.

In my experience, the most important, most fundamental abilities for a programmer are:

- analytical approach,

- ability to predict what the code is going to do.

I don't care if the candidate knows how to implement A* on a whiteboard. Frankly, I think this is stupid if he/she will never see a problem like that and if it happens, the solution is just a google search away.

Don't get me wrong, knowing algorithms is very useful. But it is not critical to writing working code.

What I do care about is that you can reason about the code you are given, that you can construct/modify the code methodically. That you can predict what the changes you are going to make will do to the program. That you can have workable mental model of the program that.

The worst type of developer I have seen have memorized all algorithms, data structures, language details that were in the book. Yet they can't modify the program and tell what will happen without actually running the code.

When you observe them writing code it seems they are modifying it at random until it happens to work. Then they are happy they have "solved" the problem after two dozen or more iterations.

When it fails they are not at all interested in understanding how it failed, only where it failed -- to have a starting point to keep changing they code until it runs.

For this reason -- to filter out those candidates -- I will never pass a person without seeing them writing code.

I have observed over the years HN community being somewhat negative to programming on interviews. Ask yourself, would you hire somebody to build your house based on only how they market-speak how fanstastically they can build fantastic houses?
Out of control San Francisco shoplifting forcing Walgreens to close 17 stores
Ford to halt production of F-150, Bronco Sport due to chip shortage
Quantum Technology 2.0–Topics and Contributing Countries From 1980 to 2018
If you want to get into the mind of Tesla a bit I highly recommend "My Inventions", his sort of autobiography where he described how his mind worked. He spent a lot of time developing his imagination at a young age and "traveling" in his head. I was surprised to read that he would visualize entire designs in his imagination and then go through prototypes and iterations several times before bringing that idea into the physical world.
http://www.tfcbooks.com/e-books/my_inventions.pdf

My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in thought or test it in my shop. I even note if it is out of balance. There is no difference whatever, the results are the same. In this way I am able to rapidly develop and perfect a conception without touching anything. When I have gone so far as to embody in the invention every possible improvement I can think of and see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form this final product of my brain.
I believe in the long-run cryptocurrencies will prove to be a good idea vs traditional fiat currencies but in the short-term the growing pains are significant.

Maybe I'm being selfish but my graphics card (GTX 970) is six years old and all of last year I was waiting to buy a current gen graphics card at launch in the Fall. Last week my old GTX finally died and I still can't find a card that's not worse or multiples of its full MSRP. I'm really hoping some combination of ETH going to PoS and card makers putting in hash rate limiters will ease availability.
This whole chia thing is new to me but i have terabytes of unused space on usb connected disks to my pc. Sounds like I won’t meet criteria?
> if that became widespread we’d just see more embedded placement

Which is completely desirable. The problem isn't "ads", it's "targeted, personalized ads that rely on thoroughly destroying the the privacy of everyone on the internet in order to function". If a show/podcast wants to vet its own advertisers and endorse a specific product, that's great; it establishes a concrete relationship with the advertisers that has more value to both users and content creators than the anonymous, unvettable system of opaque middlemen currently peddled by targeted ad networks.
Some Googler or Google fan replied to me yesterday with, "Sheesh. Why the FUD."

Ask MUM.
Where are you getting that data? I'm genuinely interested.

FWIW I think it is probable that the IPC APIs into and out of the sandbox have been more thoroughly fuzzed and otherwise tested in Chrome than in Firefox. I don't know how that translates into actual security though.
Yes, but then who maintains the whitelist? What's to stop individual email providers from deciding they do/don't like certain standards? I agree that email doesn't need much of the CSS spec, but nor do the vast majority of web sites and yet we don't like it when browsers aren't standards-compliant...
My headphones apparently use them as part of the cooling system: https://www.nuraphone.com/backstage/how-the-nuraphone-uses-m...
Per the documented incidents in the parent comment's linked Wikipedia article, incels kill well under 20 people per year on average. If you have a more comprehensive source, I'd be happy to reevaluate my position if needed.
Philadelphia dims skyline after 'mass collision' kills thousands of birds
still more effort than before. twiddling with server configs requires more work than inserting a js snippit.
A simple explanation is product-wise this feature request doesn't make sense. The number of users will be using the said feature is not worth the effort the amount of effort needed to implement, maintain and operationalize in a product of literally billion users.
"What is the difference between ebike model ABC and ebike model XYZ?"
Nelson's inability to deliver a product, and use of his patent to keep others from delivering a product, might also have something to do with the idea not catching on.
I lived in the south SF bay from 1985 to 2004. Things were already changing by the time I left, but it strange to hear SF being a tech center. Sure, tech workers loved visiting SF for food and culture, and some loved it enough to move there and put up with the daily commute south. Back then there were a few tech companies and tech-serving creatives (ad agencies and such), it wasn't a tech hub.

My guess is that this shift occurred in unison from the shift away from hardware startups (requiring deep-pocketed investors) to the current game of funding hundreds of small software/web startups and hoping one of them makes it big enough to pay for the losses of all the others.

Note I'm not saying the good old days were better or worse, just different.
Millions of people eat McDonald's hamburgers every day and we all understand why that drives the price of hamburgers down, not up. Demand doesn't make prices go up all on its own. The problem isn't demand; it's supply. The lack of supply is a policy choice -- emphasis on choice*; it's not a natural law -- and you've located the blame 90 degrees to its actual cause: existing homeowners* who benefit by restricting that supply.

People should be mad, but not at 22-year-olds coming from around the country looking for work. They should be mad at the millionaire rentiers who tell those kids when they show up that it's illegal for anybody to build them housing.
What speculation? I quoted the above article stating that, and there's more on this topic. There's a reason for those Infocards.
Jules Verne was talking about coal depletion in the 19h century (albeit with a more positive note)

In the 60s France started switching to nuclear power because it worried about the depletion of oil wells in the areas it controlled. It is wrong to say nuclear power can't power more than 10% of a country.
Sure it does. I might want things written about California in the past week, or in October last year, or in 2005.
… who asked for the image analysis algorithm to be the only thing to crop the photo?

You don’t even have to add extra required steps, generate the initial thumbnail automatically, then allow the user to move the focal point or zoom it.

Sites that allow uploading profile photos have had this type of functionality for more than a decade.
You can do fizzbuzz without it, it's just not as efficient.
> Search quality at Google has been decaying over the past decade.

Is there any empirical evidence to back this up? If we’re talking anecdote, I swear as soon as google started labeling ads more clearly people complained more about ads. And if google really is getting worse, I would expect that I would get frustrated with DuckDuckGo bit getting the job done less often.

I do share your concerns though. Just look at YouTube as an example. You search for something, and half way down the page are completely unrelated videos that you watched before. This is because YouTube just wants you to click, they don’t care about you finding what you were after.
You mean in MS Edge? 2029.

What I wonder about is the embedded IE. One big example of it's use is the login pop-ups for MS Office apps.
“Freenode” has only 1 possible pronunciation (and corresponding spelling) in English. “Libera” has 3 or 4 conceivable pronunciations and is harder to guarantee correctness when spoken.

Fortunately I doubt IRC servers need to be communicated vocally all that often.
Microsoft Power Automate
This has been coming for some time now, to be fair.

Now that it's pretty close to actually being here, the grim reality is that anyone who was expecting the status quo to just march on like always is going to get screwed over; and the a new wave of successful businesses will adapt to it and thrive.

It's called 'disruption', and it's a bit disappointing to see people here of all places complaining about it.

Sure, I get it, it's google, and if it was some nippy unicorn doing it people would be more enthusiastic, but ML is hard to do right, and having someone who's actually pushing the boundaries of whats possible is, in my opinion, pretty cool.

BERT made a huge contribution, and if this eventually flows out to everyone else to use, that's great news.

...and, if google stops sending traffic to some websites, well, too bad. We'll adapt; so will others.

The ones that can't will disappear.
Why is everything lambda this lambda that? At this point if I invent something popular I’d have to call it lambda just to mess with people. I’m not certain google isn’t doing that.
Agreed with Poettering here. The FD limit is a terrible anachronism.
Good point, I’m not arguing that something is 100% useless. Just that there is not high enough marginal utility to be worthwhile.

Vaccines aren’t 100% effective, so obviously a mask worn by someone who is vaccinated but infected will reduce their ability to infect others.

I think you’re right that I’m arguing about a risk/benefit calculus and that the specific result is that the benefits of masks+vaccines are not high enough to outweigh the costs.

But I think this is driven from the logical basis of how masks work, how vaccines work, public health interventions work, etc.

Many people misunderstand masks and they they are protective for the wearer. Or they think masks give greater protection, etc.
Oh cool, thanks!

> - Any subset which does not contain infinity

We get those from the original (discrete) topology, I assume?

> - Any subset containing infinity whose complement is finite.

Ohh, is this construction related to the cofinite topology, then? I always wondered what that was useful for. (I never quite made it all the way through Munkres.)

Also, I start to see why Wikipedia characterizes this as `{0} u {1/n | n in N}`. Any ball containing 0 will miss only finitely many points.

> So, in order for an endomap to be continuous, [...]

It took me a bit to work through this from first principles, but I see! Thanks for lighting the path.
“No Keening Carried on Nowadays”
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Ah, thank you for explaining.

Yeah, that's shady.
1. Two people with knives tried to mug my father. Chinatown.
2. Two people tried to mug me. Nob Hill.
3. Car was broken into. Model airplane was taken. Just off Van Ness.
4. Mother had her purse slashed. Chinatown.
5. Brother in law had his bike stolen. He locked it in front of the Exploratorium.
6. One brother had his car stolen (but this was Oakland).
7. Roommate got hit on the head, knocked out, had stuff taken. This was late at night a few blocks from the Haight.
"The best code is no code at all."
Sperm counts are falling precipitously across the rich world
It’s not a question of political will solar is now cheaper than coal in the vast majority of the world. It’s one of the reasons why coal went from 39% in 2014 of US generation down to 19.3% in 2020 with a lot more scheduled for decommissioning over the next 5 years. Even when Trump was making many pro coal speeches, industry viewed coal as a dead end.

China is often mentioned as adding new coal power plants, but even there coal fell from 80% of electricity generation in 2010 to 57.7% in 2019.

Natural gas on the other hand has become more popular, but it also produces significantly less CO2 per kWh.
NFTs are money laundering for the wealthy, right out in the open.

At least the current crop.
Not sure why this is downvoted, it works great for me.
"Since 2011, the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has excluded the Chinese government and China-affiliated organisations from its activities, including using funds to host Chinese visitors at NASA facilities."
> Is there any empirical evidence to back this up?

No. This is the same HN post as "Facebook is dying, pretty soon all their users will be gone and they'll collapse".
God I love the way this website looks and I wish more websites looked like this.
I was curious, because that's very much not my memory of how things were.

After fighting with QEMU and getting Windows 98 4.10.1998 up and running, the wupdmgr.exe stub that it ships with just detects if the machine is connected to the Internet, if it is, it opens MSIE and sends you to a page that doesn't exist anymore.

If you're not connected, it loads a local webpage in MSIE telling you about how great Windows Update is. Funnily enough, that page also includes instructions to get rid of the Windows Update launcher should you not want to see it anymore.
Package versions don't remain in the repo for long so if you don't update the package index you'll find that many packages are not installable. There isn't really a snapshot of compatible versions at a given point in time as far as I know, though this might work for a couple of weeks.
I'm from Argentina and all you need to remember is the CCV. And sometimes not even that
> It's not exactly clear how can Perl programs or shell scripts or Makefiles from 20 years ago play perfectly fine unchanged, but the syntax of a manifest or playbook that does a couple of simple operations cannot remain stable.

It's clear when you deal with both types of systems. Perl optimized for stability and backwards compatibility at the cost of new features and new language conveniences. This is great and a strength when all your competitors are playing catch-up or don't have enough market share to make an impact, but once that's not the case, anything new they bring to the table is a point in their favor, and you get what we have now, the long slow death of Perl.

Backwards compatibility is wonderful until there's a really useful feature that it prevents, then all of a sudden it's a more complex story because it's not just preventing busywork, it's preventing progress.
This is a very interesting story that is (at least claimed to be) part of my family history.

My family stems from a group of travelling motorbike stunt riders back to the 20's. They did the wall of death and later the globe of death, and had to solve this problem in their bikes.

The family story is that we helped win the battle of Britain, as Miss Shilling read the about the idea in a motorcycle magazine that covered my families show. There is a lot of evidence on what Miss Shilling did, and that my family did the same modification to their bikes prior, but the lack of a link between the two leaves this as a half truth / half myth story
> “Based on present knowledge, it does not appear likely that the fission of uranium or thorium could ever support more than 10 to 20 per cent of the energy system of the United States patterned as at present.”

I think he was clearly too pessimistic about the potential of nuclear.

> Today, the US gets about 8 percent of its total energy from nuclear power...

Note this is of all energy including the gas in your car. Obviously we are reliant on electrification if our transport system to tackle that, which doesn’t seem considered here. Possibly he didn’t foresee the potential to electrify transport hence the pessimism. No one is expecting solar, wind, or nuclear powered cars. They’re expecting solar, wind, and nuclear powered electricity grid charging batteries in cars, third rails, and overhead catenary.

Nuclear is ~20% of all electricity output on that grid today in the USA. And in France it’s ~70%.

It’s clear it can go to much higher.
I think that one is often answered explicitly by product review sites, for popular brands and models, at least.
Hi! Great plugin, though I haven't explored it very much at all. I hope to do so over the next few weeks as I get started with the basics of binary exploits. Once I have some more experience I'll let you know. I think my issue is more with base GDB, not your project.
Hey there, I've been following "mgmt" for years, hoping it was going to be the next big thing. I did see a while ago that you made a significant investment in developing mgmt full-time but then didn't see much news out of the community afterwards.

I'm curious whether there's a status update you could provide? I'd love to get involved as I think it truly represents a next generation style config management system, but I also had fears it was dead in the water or not being actively developed!
> This shift promises to reduce the amount of work it takes to find information through Google. But it’s not clear that this is a problem in need of a solution.

Getting people useful information faster is the problem in need of a solution when you're Google. There isn't a point where that problem is solved; organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful is an unbounded goal.
When I buy a GPU from a retailer, it is a rental GPU?
Can someone explain the use case for this? If you control the system, you can use SELinux etc to control the same things. In what cases are you running an app on a system, and you don't control the system, and you don't want a user to access parts of the system? If it's about preventing system compromise, it's better to secure the whole system than one application...
Class[0] by Paul Fussell is a great book on this topic. The back of the book has a test to identify your class.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class:_A_Guide_Through_the_Ame...
I read crystallized meth every time
> I guess they probably don’t do this because money.

Exactly this. There are many controls they could have given us to trivially improve search for end users without needing this AI, but they would have made search less good for their customers, the advertisers.
I would disagree with your framing here on two points:

(1) The "backlash" is not "coming," it's always been here. NIMBYs are not a new phenomenon and there will always be cranky people who respond to the plight of the homeless with "won't someone think of the property values." So it goes.

(1) More significantly: that is not remotely a serious organization. It's a few NIMBYs from LA who got sticks up their asses about a city council member proposing a homeless encampment near where they live. Come on, take a look around that web site: the "board of directors" have no bios or information, the "case studies" are nothing of the sort, there's no indication they've done any of the filings necessary to be a real non-profit. The site is, as near as I can tell, built using GoDaddy's free site builder (which is why it has the "Powered by GoDaddy" link in the footer: they're too cheap to pay a few bucks to turn it off), and it still has placeholder text like "Add a footnote if this applies to your business."

I mean, sure, even obvious cranks can get people to take them seriously -- but this is at best a group to keep an eye on. "The plan" you quoted is their pipe dream, not an actual plan any government agency has committed funds for.
Well hello Mr. Malthus!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus

Back to seriousness - the author claims there are limits to nuclear, wind, and solar, but does not state what those limits are. The limit on nuclear is not clear to me - France gets something like 75% of its energy from nuclear. It seems the main limit on nuclear has been public sentiment, which must be weighed with public sentiment on climate change.
Googling for that particular question, it seems there are several pages answering it specifically. The article implied that no particular page answered the specific question about Mt Fuji, and that MUM had to synthesize the answer. Unfortunately, this article ruins the search results for the specific query it describes. But, the top result describing preparation for Mt Fuji is quite generic.
Ford’s electric F-150 Lightning pickup
Ok, I'm with you, but this is the thing that confuses me: why don't you use the voice assistant feature of your phone to do that? Why do you need an additional device?
India gives WhatsApp one week to drop new privacy policy
No, that does not require some incredible earth-shattering event. It requires political consensus of a majority of nations. Like was done to forbid emissions of ozon-layer damaging chemicals.

People thought that obviously, all countries would see the common interest in protecting Earth's climate. There was ONE major rogue nation in this big plan: USA. G.W Bush was the one who presented climate change denial as a respectable policy. I am not sure people measure the impact of this position.

Most other advanced countries cut down their emissions, much more than the US did (no, it is not a matter of density, distance between cities or so on: even if you remove all emissions due to vehicles, USA is still way above EU).

> The developing world wants modern life, and if they have to burn fossil fuels to catch up, they will.

China will peak at a much lower level of CO2/capita than the US currently has. Given the current trajectory, it is quite possible that China will never in its history emit more CO2/capita than the US.

> Extraordinary visionary leadership in the right place at the right time

Give me a break. Listening to the consensus of experts, both international and domestic experts, on issues that threaten the whole ecosystem, is not "visionary leadership". It is called "not electing a cartoon villain in office".

> even if we magically had a green revolution and became the worlds first zero-emission nation

You would also need to nuke Bhutan and Suriname, two carbon-negative countries.
Epicene they has been common all along. That's why curmudgeonly grammarians could never shut up about it--because it was so common. The recent innovation is the use of singular they in situations where gender would normally be assumed. For example, "Jane went to the restroom to comb their hair." Until recently that was jarring for most people--some more than others--even when they weren't invested in the culture wars.
They were over by Great America for a long, long time. Eric was used to Milpitas @ Cisco.
This maybe a Frankenstein baby but when I’m dealing with ec2’s I appreciate creating the AMI using Ansible and Packer. Then referencing said AMI from a terraform script. I rarely do this anymore as I’ve moved the majority of infra under Kubernetes but the couple times I did it this way it didn’t feel dirty.