skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think back-in-the-day, the cryptic riddles were a (terrible) way of trying to filter "smart" candidates. The people who could come up with a solution to a problem never before seen. But almost no problems are truly original or new. They are just old problems with new packaging or with new/different requirements. So, usually what you end up testing for is nothing more than "has this person come across something like this before?"

Sometimes you'd get interviewers who were at least smart enough to realize that maybe the most you'd get out of it is "can this person break down a seemingly impossible problem into manageable pieces?" That's fine, but then state that or at least give them something real they'll actually run into if hired instead of trying to estimate how many gas stations there are in LA county in their head.

And while those suck[ed], companies having been doing similarly ridiculous things for a very long time to try and save themselves from hiring the wrong people. IBM's infamous "lunch interview" (false on Snopes, but the concept is true and I've seen played out) or asking candidates to take a personality type test to determine if they'd be a good fit before hiring (yes, I did this once early in my career and would just walk out if asked to do one today).

The most difficult I've found is getting fellow programmers to realize that they _don't_ want to hire another "you." Yes, you're an expert in networking and security. Don't interview for that so you can show off your own skills or "teach" in an interview. Interview _for the position_.

You want a diverse set of knowledge, skills, experiences, communication styles, etc. at your company. And - while it can be scary - you always want to hire people who are better than you (esp. if you're a manager!). But that is so hard to get people to do.
You are right. But isn't it sad and wrong that destroying wilderness is less expensive than fixing the roof?
The fundamental purpose of law is to place limitations on the allowed behavior of other people. The lines between what behavior is right and wrong varies from people to people and group to group, hence why we have democracy to try to form a consensus.
French stated he doesn't want to support broken distributions of ambee, like the version in the PR.

Reminds me of this story:

http://wiringpi.com/wiringpi-deprecated/
This is the only worthwhile reply to my comment.
Cost is not driven by mining cost. Labor theory of value is tempting but wrong here and anywhere else. You have your causality backwards. Mining cost is driven by value.
> Real Translation: Covid has made people miserable in their jobs.

Small quibble: Covid has shown people how miserable their jobs have always been.

All it's taken is a slight shift, a small perk, here and there, and people see it clear as day, and they want out. White collar workers got work from home: actually, it turns out I can give legal advice while planting basil in my backyard and no one on the conference call either notices or gives a shit. Blue collar workers got unemployment benefits that pay a living wage without needing to work 3 jobs and die of an early heart attack worrying about how they'll feed their kids.

I think lots of myth and propaganda about work got blown up in the last year, and it's cause for celebration.
The contrary of this is that, for any given pan, pan + coil latency will be worse than pan + instant response, be that gas or induction.

I find the difference between instant responding heat sources and radiant coils to be very noticeable, particularly with thin pans and delicate cooking, so: eggs, in particular.
Some so old they may no longer be alive even?
"Election fraud is incredibly rare" - this phrase will be etched in the history books, similarly to "it's just a flu"
The left will never live this down.
A recommended watch: "The test tube", by Canadian environmental activist David Suzuki

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x98KFcMJeo
How do you seize a string of text like this one:

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He literally psyched a crowd up into a fervor after months of lying and then they marched on the Capitol. His own people were sickened by his giddiness during the event. He was telling his VP to install him as POTUS and tweeted as much. The same guy has been telling folks he plans to be reinstated in August.

You can lie to yourself about it but you're not going to get far lying to others.
Visualizing important algorithms: Huffman coding
Induction stoves are the highest EMF polluting device in a typical household. In particular they emit a large magnetic field.

source: https://emfcaution.com/home-appliances-emf-readings/#1_Induc...

You can do what you want, but I'll stick with gas and a vent fan, thanks.
A 5-year-old who knows anatomy might. You're raising something from your side (lateral) with your shoulder (deltoid muscle).
Fish are swimming to cooler waters as climate change heats our oceans
And of course 'wardrobe', something to guard your robe.
Here's a hopefully more exhaustive list that isn't restricted to Rust: https://github.com/ibraheemdev/modern-unix, meaning it can include other awesome tools like fzf (written in Go).
It is trivially easy to key-in identity info from a JPG scan

They are both toxic, IMO. Businesses need to stop relying on this stuff.
What makes you think that these companies will pay above-market (local) rates sufficient to overcome other frictions? I think it's more likely they'll look at the local market rates and maybe pay a modest premium--not enough to create a huge draw of local talent looking for remote work, and not enough to make a dent in the labor market dynamics in general.
Context aside, that sounds like it would have been a powerful film. A denier face to face with an eyewitness, presumably with the eyewitness prepared with all of the innumerable pieces of indisputable evidence. Talk about losing, that's losing.
WiringPI: Deprecated (2019)
That's not an argument in either direction. We do lots of things we could instead not do, many of which we should.
If they had controlled COVID early enough the economic losses could have quite possibly allowed for everyone to have solar already.
Link to record?
People don't always use the vent.
And the only reason Google sponsors them is to pretend there's competition.
We're all supposed to forget that happened, dontchaknow. -_-
> Mozilla is the only real competition to Chrome

Apple is the only real competition to Chrome. Apple has 18% market share, compared to Mozilla's 3%. https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share
I mean it's Google. You'd think they'd have nailed the concept of "searching" by now. :)

But I have found a weird workaround for this. After installing Google Drive File Stream locally and searching for things with the file explorer, it doesn't seem that bad all of a sudden.
Almost all media outlets are shifting towards more and more opinion content, which drives clicks and revenue for them. Even the New York Times has dramatically shifted to opinion content and even dramatically increased the share and prominence of opinion on their front page.
Highly recommend https://slapdash.com which does a bunch of things - among which is finding files in gdrive insanely fast...
Me too! It’s so frustrating. I worked out what it is though. I have bursts of intelligence when my mind is clear, I.e. I haven’t read a lot or thought a lot for a while and my surroundings have been quiet and calm. The more I think, learn process the more muddle headed I become. Give me a day of meditation and a good nights rest and I’m sharp as a razor for a good few hours of very intense work, conversations etc. But then I fill up and all that new stuff needs to be processed and integrated. I believe other people are the same without realising it. It gives people with a light workload a significant advantage in meetings. Given that I mostly obsessively research things on the internet that makes me pretty fuzzy headed most of the time.
I would be curious to see what that looks like today when elected Republicans are increasingly spouting what you'd call a "demonized" conservative viewpoint if it wasn't coming out of their mouths directly.

"Those are just the opinions of a small fringe" was much more believable in a pre-Trump world - but now, even more than post-Tea Party, the fringe is pushing the agenda.

And even pre-Trump, you can read that study as an indictment of the conservative media and it's evolution to sensationalism since the 1980s.

To use an example from the linked article: "For instance,when conservatives express binding-foundation moral concerns about gay marriage—e.g., that it subverts traditional gender roles and family structures—liberals may have difficulty perceiving any moral value in such traditional arrangements and therefore conclude that conservatives are motivated by simple homophobia, untempered by concerns about fairness, equality, and rights." - the vocal conservatives were not expressing a very nuanced view, it was the violent fringe that was making the most noise and claiming the most airtime even in conservative outlets.

If you want liberals to understand your complex conservative reasoning, you gotta get the very-un-complex trolls off the air!
You think that climate change is a settled issue across the political spectrum?

I have seen the contrary.
It seems like HA has its own plugin distribution model, whereas NixOS is trying to work around that to provide reproducible builds.

Aside from how this issue has been handled, poorly, that seems like a reasonable technical decision for HA to make, particularly given that their main use case is semi-technical user installing on a Raspberry Pi, and in that case is it something they should be forced to support? A fork seems like the right option there?
Write to a Notion Database via SMS with Twilio Serverless
“Censorship” is never used neutrally. It’s a term that is exclusively used to mean the moralistic enforcement of certain political viewpoints. Almost always this coupled with the ideas of oppression and/or backwardness.

Its a loaded term.
I tried this recently for the first time using Elements and have struggled with it. There's no message threading, so it's very hard to discover the history and flow of a subject when it's embedded in a larger conversation. I'll keep an eye on this and check back from time to time, but right now it's not for me.
Perhaps the situation has changed recently, but a few years ago I had an acer c720 and remember this being mitigated by flashing seabios. This completely removed chromeos rather than dual booting, but it worked excellently for taking to lectures early in my undergrad.
This is an SEC policy decision that affects only "digital asset exchanges", i.e. companies that already fulfill a buttload of compliance and auditing requirements. If push comes to shove, law enforcement knows exactly who is involved and what bank accounts hold the company's liquid assets.
Send it back into the grid. Charge cars. Feed industries that need daytime power. Pay the owners back for it, or give them free night-time electricity in returns. Heat up some high heat capacity goo, or hell even water, and use that to heat your apartment during cold nights in desert weather.

If you still have surplus after all that, mine bitcoin and use it to fund battery research, environmental initiatives, fund education, fund healthcare.

Surpluses are never a problem.
If a person can meaningfully be said to own cryptocurrency, then why would it be impossible to size those possessions?
Credit card fraud can be solved by other means though. 3D-Secure for example will offload the liability to the bank.

The proper way to do it is to either enforce 3D-Secure or offer passport as an option when 3DS is unavailable, but because ID verification is getting easier and cheaper with services such as this one, there will be no reason to spend extra engineering time to implement solutions such as this one when you can just ask for everyone's passports especially when this also allows you to use the data for marketing purposes or be able to reliably ban "undesirable" people (and "undesirable" in this case doesn't mean "bad" or "illegal", it could simply be someone who uses an ad-blocker or doesn't "engage" with dark patterns like the company wants them to).
If I were inclined to use the modern 'gotchas' rhetorically, I would call this comment ableist.

Instead I'll just point out that being young(ish), (reasonably) healthy, and having only slightly uphill to worry about, are all luxuries.

Electric bikes make bicycling accessible to many more people, and their embodied and operating energies are quite modest.

Best of all, they don't take away your ability to ride a pushbike! Or brag about it on the Internet.
While I completely relate to the sentiment and, I'd say, similar to the usual HN crowd find products to be a goal, I've personally lost complete interest and even develop resentment/hate toward personal projects the moment I tried to make them into a product.

I think the huge shift that happens from "this project is fun/useful for myself" to "I need to integrate payment/multi-user/backups/uptime/user requested features/random uses of the product that I never thought of" is wildly underestimated!

But, that's just me, after killing more than a few projects that I enjoyed by trying to make them products...
Calculating a fair value for Bitcoin or USD
not sure this is correct. We may need to get actual numbers or divide up 'film / media' into different segments..

I recall seeing news about big movies, eg transformers and others where in order to satisfy the global market, ie China, decisions needed to be made.. and given that many of those markets appear to be more racist/anti-muslim, (obv not 100, but majority I believe)

and your comment seems to be suggesting [hope] that things above "will get better as the global market continues to expand." -

I'm not chiming in to say this or that is a good or bad thing, just trying to clarify that some things may make one think catering to broader global markets may not make "western whiter countries" more anti-racist or whatever is being suggested as 'changing and will get better' - if that is the perspective being considered for 'get better'.

There are studies showing "diversity" on movie posters hurt sales abroad - and of course there has been local pushback for whitewashing things for increased sales -

Unless we are talking about gov funded wokeness spreading where making money is not a goal. But I did not get that impression from the thread here.
I know that authors don't write headlines, but this article should be headlined, "Touted for Climate Change Benefits, Energy Electrification Has Stalled and Poses New Risks and Costs". Most of their electric energy ratio graphs are flat for a twenty year period. While there have been major improvements in batteries and some improvements in efficiency, real electricity prices have not decreased in the same twenty years. The author correctly points out that electrification makes homes far more vulnerable to service disruption unless everybody shells out $10k+ for solar and batteries. Even then, you're going to need more Powerwalls than most people will ever buy to have hot water, transportation, and unspoiled food after a hurricane.
Investigating the Cancer of Corruption in the VA
It was just added to Home Assistant, which is why it was being added to `nixpkgs` now.
Hah, that's fantastic. This reminds me of a talk I attended about how most of science/academia has a lot of fast-moving glue to stitch together all the old/hard bits.

https://www.easterbrook.ca/steve/2010/12/agu-session-on-soft...
They tried to replace our 8ish person team with 19 people. There was no cost savings.
"Shitty proxy" as in "little to no demonstrable correlation whatsoever." Willingness to grind/memorize is about as poor a measure of intellectual ability as one can get. It does show some level of interest/diligence--but perhaps not the best kind.
If I was the TA in this class, I’d give it -5 (95 of 100) for “doesn’t compile on my 486, please write more portable code” just to screw with the student.
similar ergonomics, better performance
Explain how it's a plague please
The Gymnasium (1859)
at least here in Germany the biggest companies like to expand into Eastern Europe (think Slovakia, Hungary, also Russia), where these IT experts help in the German projects. They even get many of those people to learn German! The price pressure doesn't really stop there because while at first Slovakia was the way to go, now Hungary is xx% cheaper.. and so on and so on...
I unconsciously reach for ripgrep on a daily basis. Finding references just is incredibly easy without cluttering it with stuff listed in .gitignore (I'm looking at you node_modules..)

This has reminded and motivated me to submit a donation to the project.
Classical liberalism - complete laissez faire market, no government interference and individual wealth creation. Today's libertarians are closest to classical liberals.

The term classical liberal exists specifically, because conservative liberal creates a massive ambiguity.

And getting back to The Economist - they aren't conservative at all. It's a modern liberal magazine, that routinely promotes wealth redistribution and support for the poor.
> SF has recently made specific parking laws for churches

Context matters.

This is not a general xtian supremacy thing. It is a unique historical thing with SF AA Baptist churches whose populations were gentrified out of their neighborhoods. Their churches remained and they commute from all over the Bay Area to attend Sunday mass.

Cops and neighborhoods accomodated this practice, but the latest generation of gentrifiers whined and complained as they are wont to do so the Supervisors got involved.
Foundation DB seems really cool and useful.
If we're talking about global fiscal policy in America I'm not certain what party you're pointing to as not being neo-liberal. There are many problems with a two party system but the one America is currently suffering from is that the GOP is made up of neoliberals and the Dems are also neoliberals. This is why Trump saw success in the primary, and why it is extremely foolish to discount demagogues no matter what their truly held beliefs. Being able to spin yourself as a non-neoliberal, even briefly, makes 80% of America start salivating.
Pay Attention to ‘Made in China’
Here is an awesome take on this subject: https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/10/01/the-low-informati...

I’m going to suggest that unless you work directly in the news media industry yourself, you too should be paying absolutely no attention to the news.

“It is all Bullshit”, is what Mr. Money Mustache says, “You need to get the News out of your life, right away, and for life.”

The reasons for this are plentiful, from the inherently sucky nature of news programming itself, to the spectacular life benefits of adopting a Low Information Diet in general. But let’s start with the news.

News programs are, with the exception of a few non-profit or publicly funded ones, commercial enterprises designed to turn and maximize profit. Many of them are owned by larger shareholder-owned corporations, most notably Rupert Murdoch’s News corp. The profit comes from advertising, and advertising revenue is maximized by pulling the largest audience, holding their attention for the longest possible time, and putting them into the mental state most conducive to purchasing the products of the advertisers (which turns out to be helplessness and vulnerability).

Another great perspective on this: This Video Will Make You Angry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
Throwaway since this is private, but I’ve tendered my resignation for pretty much exactly what this article says. To be clear, I’m in a very privileged position where both my spouse and I are in software and she can more than cover the bills on her own. I have the ability to take time off, pursue other projects, do something else, etc.

I think remote work, generally works, but there is an incredible long term drain on energy from not connecting with co-workers in person. It may work for some and there will certainly be a long term shift more towards remote work, but I predict it won’t be as pronounced as maybe some suspect because it’s much harder to sustain. The flexibility is indeed great and a net win especially for parents or those with long commutes, but I think it’s harder to actually work.
-i is ignore-case, right?

Usually I'm searching code for things like variable names, so actually case-sensitive searches are a better default for me.
> Facebook wants me to use real identity

We're already living in a world where you have to "login with Facebook" to do many things, but at the very least you can currently still create a fake account if you have no other option. If reliable identity verification starts becoming commonplace, that option goes away.
> I have the option, in Chrome, to decide what is synced up to "the Google cloud." Are you asserting that this doesn't work - that if I turn off history/bookmark/etc sync, that this is still pushed up? I've not SSL intercepted a Chromebook to determine it, but I believe if you tell it not to do something, it won't.

How can you be sure? Chrome is a proprietary software. Even if you don't sync up with your Google account, Google collects some usage statistics and similar things. Of course you can use Chromium (and Chromium OS) that is open source and thus doesn't contain that kind of trackers, but we were talking about Chrome OS.

> Because they hire an awful lot more security conscious people than I am, who I believe know their stuff pretty darn well.

They hire them to make Google interest, not yours. Google interest is to track you and make profit with your personal data. Your interest is having a system that preserves your privacy rights.

> you can put Linux in a chroot on a Chromebook in developer mode

Yes, you can, with some limitations. But at that point, why not installing Linux as the main OS on the Chromebook with Firefox as the default browser and throw away all the Google crap?

> Well, I keep a local Ubuntu repo at home, so...

Because you reinstall your software everyday? I install all the software I need when I install the operating system and I'm done. I can work without internet fine, of course I cannot do anything that requires a connection (emails, for example), but I can do everything else.

With browser based software if you don't have a connection you can't do anything. We evolved from the idea of mainframes to the personal computer, and then we are going back to mainframes with all the disadvantages that they have.
Well, Home Assistant's handling of this is well-timed. I was just looking at the possibility of redoing my openHAB config in HA but this makes it really clear I don't want to go within a 150 mile radius of HA.
Maybe, but it’s not like Bitcoin had a mission and it’s now completely different, it still pursues a more decentralized world view. In similar light, it’s not like Dogecoin is now any less of a joke than it was when it was created, it’s just speculated upon more.
It’s all that’s used at Google. The office suite isn’t going anywhere.