skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i can't imagine the code at any company would really be bad.

i _know_ i've inherited shit codebases before, but it's been so long i canny remember. :-D

i could see certain pieces/modules being shit, but not most of it.

i got it - if the interviewers (who are coders) ask you stupid fucking questions, then they're probably stupid/incompetent/lazy/etc. - so i'd worry about their code quality, and the quality of everyone and everything at the company - products, processes, people, etc.

outside of that, you just have to get in there and convince them to start coding the _right_ way -- that is, _your_ way.

:-D

lastly, i have to question the premise a bit - as cliche as that may be.

take your hypothetical -- you've got three offers -- how far down the list of pluses/minuses is 'code quality'?

* company brand (resume)
* pay
* location/remote/commute
* industry
* position
* vacation
* manager
* advancement
* potential pay/ipo/etc.
* tech stack
* etc.
* etc.
* etc.
* maybe codebase quality is here??
I’m fairly certain there are other browsers on iOS. Like Firefox and chrome.
> there is nothing in this post that I need to take on faith, as you kinda need to do with the news

It's the opposite: Journalism presents claims based on corroboration, presents all (corroborated) sides of the story, and tells you what the sources are, with the idea that you can decide for yourself.

> 90% of the "news" is just blogspam ...

An ironic comment ?
That's not a centrist position. That's a position solidly entrenched in favour of right of association over other rights.
At this point he's less of a villain and more like utterly unhinged. Given his past drug usage documented in court records, I wouldn't be surprised if he's literally been on hard drugs throughout much of this whole saga.
To be fair I learned that at 7 in civic education class in Normandy...

The media is a counter power but a power nonetheless. Just like you cant trust the president to judge a criminal, you shouldn't trust the media to judge the president. Just let everyone speak, make your soup yourself and split responsibilities: the executive lead the police and military, the judiciary protects criminals as much as society , the media warns of big and small events and they each compete and drag the carpet to themselves.

This is healthy. The alternative is hanging liars and people with difficult truths rather than letting them both speak. Or: detecting lies from truth is only possible by opposing several (and not just two or the border is skewed towards the most sensational) views.

CNN will say there a radioactive event south of China, China will say there s absolutely nothing wrong, the minority owner of the plant will say it s worrying but the problems lies in China moving the red line regulation, experienced people will say this probably warrant waiting, panicked people will say it must shut down now, ecologists will say any nuclear plant is too risky for the cost, and the truth is somewhere in the merging of all these but you can only have a gradually improving view of the event as pawns position themselves over time.
At the least, it’s a waste of time putting the items on a physical sales display when the customers are shopping online.
> We can trust scientific institutions because of past successes

For those that have them, yes. Not all institutions that are called "scientific" have them, though.

> and how their construction promotes future successes.

For those for which this is true, yes. It's not true for all institutions that are called "scientific".

> Scientific institutions are also constrained in their function.

I'm not sure how true this actually is. Top tier universities like Harvard call themselves "scientific institutions", but they're really just hedge funds that happen to do research and teaching as a side gig. And the fact that almost all university research is funded by governments means that along with the expansion of government into more and more areas of our lives, comes the expansion of what is called "scientific" for purposes of getting government funding.
Doesn't it let you avoid decrypting the data anywhere while processing that data tho? I think that might be part of the magic that makes it valuable. It seems like if implemented well, it's another additional solid layer of security that makes an attackers job harder.
My Siemens has a timer per hob on induction, can switch off. Great for wfh, where you put on sth for reheating, on 5 mins, get called and the food is not burned when the call overruns for 5 min extra.

Also, it heats faster than gas on max power.
But they use the same engine, they're basically skins for Safari.
Salesforce Down in the APAC Region?
Hi guys, all of our Salesforce orgs are having issues at the moment. Some news on Twitter in Japanese makes me think it is just APAC.
That sounds right for the heater, but how much installed?
>I can’t help but see some kind of special interest or agenda whenever I hear a news story now.

I used to subscribe to The Economist. I then realized, after they kept getting a lot of things wrong over the years, that in my humble opinion, a lot of their headlines should be read prepending the phrase "We would like you to believe that..."

A lot of "movements" these days are completely astroturfed.
There's a few foundations that sponsor thousands of institutions all with the same mission statement to make things look like they're a grassroots movement, but nobody really wanted any of it. That's what disconnecting from the media gets you. All that astroturfing flooding in from everywhere stops infecting one's understanding of the world with useless B.S. I've given up almost all mainstream media for podcasts because they can be produced for nothing and spend a long-time looking deeply into issues. They cost nothing to produce and host, so it's really hard to cancel them as well. It's not like video. Hosting audio costs very little.

Listening to random podcasts I find from guest appearances on other people's podcasts and on and on almost feels like eavesdropping on real people talking instead of the same simple message broadcast over and over again via every notable news outlet.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yshJn7lgVsY
Im in Apac no problems here
> I'm not seeing this with the current situation

It's what Waymo's is currently doing. So far, you only can get automated Taxis (in some regions) - you cannot buy an automated vehicle yet.

As I see we do agree that they will exist - and we also agree that they will never have 100% worldwide adoption. That would be a ludicrous assumption. Someone not buying a car now will not buy a self-driving car either. Someone never taking a cab will not take a driverless cab. I don't know how that was assumed or where that was ever claimed.
Stoning to death is pretty common in Islamic countries.

You actually believe life in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria or Iraq is safer?

India is always meant to be a Hindu state. The word secular was introduced by Indira Gandhi in her brief dictatorship.

Only 3 European countries do not have a state religion. All 56 or so Muslim majority countries clearly back a specific denomination.

Recently you have had a rally of 5 million Sunnis calling for the death Shias in Pakistan.

Stop making the false claim that India is dangerous for Muslims, it is the Muslims who are dangerous for India as you would never know when they are going to stab you in the back.

We have seen this many times over since independence, 2.4 million Hindus killed in Bangladesh in 1971.

Half a million Kashmiri Hindus ethnically cleansed from their ancestorsal homeland.
The “items you’ve bought before” or “add all items on receipt to cart” features help me along these lines.
This comment is why I mentioned the part about charities, where we expect people who are on a mission to do it for peanuts and a shoestring budget or else they are not virtuous.

>I'm not sure how involved/aware of US universities you've been in the past 20+ years but this just isn't true. Tuition costs have skyrocketed because when you can't ever get away from student debts it turns out there's lots of people willing to lend you unlimited funds.

I didn't say it was going to tuition, just academia. Academia is a lot more than flocks of students in a lecture hall.

> And yet the amount of money going into research and pedagody hasn't really grown at all.

It has at Harvard. Would surprise me if it hasn't at the other listed schools as well.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/697606/rnd-expenditure-h...

> The pay of top administrators at Harvard is actually determined by the Harvard Corporation, and in addition to incredible benefits and sweet lifetime deals they're all making well over $500K a year in salary.

So the leaders of one of the most important academic institutions in the world make the same as a middle career software engineer at a FAANG? If anything, they seem underpaid.

> HMC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Harvard is even more ridiculous, with the top 5 bureaucrats all earning between 4.5 and 6 MILLION dollars a year in salary.

Because that is what people who manage 40 billion dollars earn. We go back to expecting charity people to earn fractions of their market rate.
It's a weird left wing wedge issue too. The point of a wedge is that it cleanly divides. They're thus bipartisan, almost by definition.
And where is this news outlet that specializes in non-sensational things?
I recommend reading Axios. It feels like they're trying their best to stick to the facts and avoid editorializing.

I will happily listen to other recommendations.
> Before the railroad, an estimated 65,000 people died on the Oregon Trail. After, they hopped on a train and arrived intact 3 days later.

"Railroad travel was dangerous in the early years. Train wrecks and derailments were common killing and injuring countless passengers and railroad men. Boilers blew up, bridges collapsed under the weight of trains, brittle iron tracks cracked, primitive breaks overheated and failed. The lack of a signal system sometimes caused two trains to be accidentally switched onto the same track and sent speeding into each other. The wood passenger car seemed almost to self-destruct on impact."

"Passengers could be crushed and thrown out. Windows would shatter because there was no safety plate glass in that day. Stoves would overturn spilling hot coals through the crushed and broken wood and instantly trains were set on fire. Cars would fall into rivers off of bridges."

"In the race to build the line there was naturally a long list of defects, unsafe bridges, tunnels too narrow, road bed not properly level. Poor rail alignment and carelessly laid cross ties. One government inspector declared it the worst railroad he had ever seen. But that didn't stop the railroaders."

"More than six times as many railroad men as passengers were killed or injured in accidents during the early days of the transcontinental railroad. Railroading ranked as one of America's most dangerous jobs."

"The technology was so dangerous that virtually every break man was maimed."

Source: The Railroads That Tamed The West, Modern Marvels Season 2 Episode 9. 1996.

https://search.alexanderstreet.com/preview/work/bibliographi...
> And yet the amount of money going into research and pedagody hasn't really grown at all

Indeed. At the big research universities that many people aspire to attend, students are paying tens of thousands of dollars for the part-time attention of professors who are not paid full-time (or even half time, or anything close to it) to teach and develop educational materials.

In my experience as a undergrad/grad student and TA, many view teaching as an unfortunate requirement of the job, or if you're lucky, a fun hobby may or may not have time for that week. When a professor gets busy with other things, teaching the first sacrifice. Normally they don't hire nearly enough TAs to pick up the slack.

It's absolutely crazy. I'm still trying to figure out exactly what I paid for those four years, when most of my learning came from YouTube lectures and pirated textbook PDFs.
My experience is similar to yours when it comes to support.

Eventually what I've learnt to do when booking a place for more than a few days is to book a more reputable place for the first few days and then actually go look at the places where I'm planning on staying the rest of the time.

For instance, two days in Ibis and then during those two days go look at 10 different Airbnbs or whatever else exists in the area.
> What do you think of economic theories or theories behind psychotherapy?

Not much.

> Lot's of real world impact

Because the theories have influence far out of proportion to their actual track record, yes.

> low confidence in experiments, imo

You can't run controlled experiments in either of those fields, so it's not so much a matter of low confidence in experiments as no ability to do them in the first place. There are some general patterns that can be picked out, but both disciplines deal with non-repeatable human situations that require non-repeatable human judgments to deal with them. Even to call them "sciences" is a stretch, except on a very general usage of the term "science" to basically mean "something people study".
It really does come up every decade:

https://modeling-languages.com/last-one-code-generator-basic...
> the leaked recordings of the CNN technical director basically admitting what everyone pretty much already knew.

Could you link this out please?
> all it lets you do is put encrypted inputs into a program and get encrypted outputs back.

Indeed.

> the real holy grail is program obfuscation

Why so? FHE is a way stronger fundamental improvement that enables a completely different way to compute on individual data without compromising privacy and secrecy, in a trustless way that TEEs/SGX can't.
why would we pay the pickers thousands of dollars an hour?
I found https://homomorphicencryption.org to be a helpful resource as well.
There are other browsers but they’re all forced to use the Apple browser engine, so Chrome on iOS is WebKit-based, for example.
How long until they kill it, and take … how many documents and customers with them?
I wonder how hard it would be to make a "WINE for MacOS 9" that had just enough functionality to run word perfect.
> ... decent journalists ... and respond by burning the whole thing to the ground.

By deceitfully feigning hyper partisanship and misleading the public for years? I think we disagree on the fundamental definition of several words, including "certain", "decent" and "journalist".
I've been using k2pdfopt[1] to format pdf into a kindle-friendly view during many years. Highly recommended.

[1] https://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/
I have an AccuRite weather station, it has an indoor and outdoor component. The indoor display is connected via USB to a Pi running WeeWX under Raspbian. It works well, I would recommend it.
The best measure of truth I've found is when someone reports something that goes against their own interests.

I use that as a rough barometer of reliability, amongst others.
Because there is worthwhile work that will never capture the interest of Gates or Bezos. For example, testing vehicle emissions is never going to be a billionaire interest project. Of great societal interest? Absolutely.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/25/business/vw-wvu-diesel-vo...
I just ate a deathnut, AMA
My kid just fed me a level 5 death nut (https://deathnuts.com/product/dncv3)
No.

However, it should be noted that she is the CCO of PIA, which was Lee's company before he sold it.
Agreed. Apple are dragging their heels and will fight tooth and nail to protect their precious Apple Store revenue powered by the almighty 30% cut.
That may be so, but part of my gripe with leetcode is that people tend to grind for many months to "get in shape" for job interviews. That's just not reasonable to expect of anyone, let alone those with families or other responsibilities.

It's not like there aren't benefits to this process. Once you've buffed up, you're prepared for most major tech interviews. Common formats have their advantages.

That said, this format is just too expensive, and has poor predictive power.
>agents were not allowed to download or read any messages sent from AN0M accounts in the United States because of privacy laws.

"Privacy laws" being the Fourth Amendment, which the article still makes it sound like they violated by downloading all the messages three times a week.
I've looked at coverage of things I was personally familiar with - particular subcultures, the rural area I grew up in, the field I work in - and seen a similar pattern. The inaccuracies didn't seem to be ideologically driven (indeed they sometimes went against what I think of as particular outlets' biases) but they were very much there.
WalMarts inventory system preemptively orders based on sell through rate, on-hand, and historical trends. Backroom stock is logged so a pick order can be fired when shelf count gets too low.

Source: worked in a few Walmart back rooms picking and binning among other things. The was about 8 years ago so things are likely a little bit different. Hopefully better since shelf max counts were always way off or we'd get flooded with freight and lose stuff in the bins.
I have a react app website which seems to break your crawler. A future enhancement may be to run JavaScript inside the crawler to generate the site.
Something I've realized about programming as a profession is that people hire developers to build even stuff that's mostly cookie-cutter, because nothing is ever totally cookie-cutter. Every CRUD app has a few weird edge-cases that aren't covered by the framework (or low-code tool), and require you to bail out and code around it.
Secrets from the X-Ray Lab
I'm not worrying about that until the bear is gone.
Maybe it helps to think of HE you're already familiar with. For example, RSA is homomorphic under multiplication - so you can multiply two ciphertexts and get back an encrypted result. If this can be done for the right subset of operations, you can construct a fully homomorphic scheme. To get anything deeper than that intuitive understanding you'd have to dive into individual protocols :)

https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/3555/homomorphic-...
https://youtu.be/Dv8Zy-JwXr4
https://youtu.be/9faQkIA6YNU
https://youtu.be/R7mdc1r5-vw

“There’s no such thing as unbiased news” — high level CNN employee
I'm not sure what your point is with this comment. GP was saying the universities need a patent troll company because they need money. But universities are already making plenty of money.
Indeed, the M1/A14 on mobile has larger pages which lets them have more effective TLB coverage with a smaller cache. In some applications this can boost performance by double digit % (which you can simulate by enabling large pages on x86).
I assume it's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Seal_of_Korea

...which is apparently a related but different tree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prunus_salicina
/s? Picking those two are the least representative sample possible.
I suppose one might pay a plumber any amount of money. Once the gas lines are in use it surely doesn't take much work to unhook one appliance and hook up a new one? I installed a new (electric) hot water heater for my brother last week, but I didn't charge him for it...
...after LinkedIn sent them a cease and desist and started causing problems with hiQs third-party contracts. They went after hiQs business with a dubious application of existing laws (CFAA).
Well, US gas prices hit their highest level in 7 years recently. Not surprising this is stoking inflation.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/01/investing/premarket-stock...
Yes I am in Australia my Salesforce org is completely down. Can't even login
Can you name a good markdown editor?
The bear that tours our neighborhood opens car doors. If the car is locked he'll damage the handle, but if the car doesn't have food in it he won't damage the interior, so we leave our cars unlocked and make sure they're clean. I don't have a garage, otherwise I'd use that.

A couple years ago he broke into a neighbor's RV and tore the kitchen to pieces. IIRC the RV was totalled.
During my time as a research assistant / grad student there was a remarkable shift in the atmosphere. It started with massive layoffs of research staff, linked to the more general savings of our government.

More esoteric professors were replaced with more efficient manuscript machines submitting manuscripts to more prestigious journals. Soon after the layoffs, the university's innovation and commercialization services became extremely active. Recurring events at lecture rooms where we were blasted on how our work is IP of the university, how the university takes only 50% cut if something works, how cool is it to be a researcher who commercializes ideas in comparison to being one those dusty farts in the science cave studying one protein or butterfly for their entire life.

Being a believer and practitioner of open source, I once asked how does this all this apply to computational science. Basically all algorithms and tools should be passed through them to see if they have commercial potential - if no, we can go ahead. Found it appalling and interfering with my intellectual freedom, one of the many events that made me pursue life outside the academia.
Better Safari with buggy content blockers than Google blocking adblockers on mobile. Also, Safari has had much better JavaScript performance on iOS devices since at least the days of the A7-A8, looking at JS benchmark results relative to SPEC2006 results.
Are you speaking from experience?

Because a cursory glance at Chromium src tells me they do have automated tests for IndexedDB:

https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:con...
You might fix the title...
PyTorch Forecasting
While this article targets road cycling, from my own casual city cycling experience I strongly recommend wide tires. They forgive much more rider errors and slip less in any case. I personally use 60mm (60-622) Schwalbe Big Apple tires on my 17 year old Utopia Velo steel bike. Make sure the wide tire fits the frame, some city/holland type bikes can only fit some 40ish mm tires.
Looks neat, but it has a surprising dependency (an npm package) which I can’t actually install right now.

Have you thought about higher–resolution displays using characters such as the quads (“”) or eighths (“”)? Have you considered going whole hog and doing sixels?
Scientists warn that flooding cave will ruin unique 5M-year-old ecosystem
Yes, Moneyball's exceptional. There's a great book about similar influences on soccer, called Soccernomics. :)
"duties according to his or her own nature"

Where do you find a fault in this?

The greatest sages and kings are famouly NOT born into families of priests or nobility.
Grants from the NSF, etc. should only be granted on the condition that the research produced enters the public domain. Taxpayer dollars should not go towards producing research the public cannot benefit from without paying to license a patent or access a $100 journal article.
We Should Donate to the Most Effective Charities
I've typeset a couple books with LaTeX, but I wrote them in other things and did conversion after the fact using Pandoc. :)
Universities are all non-practicing in the sense they don't commercialize inventions directly. If they enforce a patent, it's as a non-practicing entity. If they couldn't enforce, who would license?
I would give up my financial privacy if my taxes were done automatically.
For disassembly practice, I used to collect broken electronics, and desolder various components for fun. You learn the different heat requirements of eg 2 layer boards vs motherboards with many layers.

For assembly practice, you can buy "SOIC breakout boards", the cheapest chips you can find, and go to town. Either with a solder stencil and some paste, or a syringe of paste and a blunt needle (this gets old fast!)

Coatings tend to make lots of nasty fumes when heated. Some can also prevent solder from wetting the pads or legs. Depending on the coating, overheating/burning may change its electrical properties.