skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is pretty much it, JSON won because it wasn't trying to deliver on all the promises XML made. We could see that it wasn't going down that dark path. It wasn't going to attract a community drunk on visions of their markup language solving every problem that complex systems have.

Maybe someday that kind of ambition will lead to something great, but we needed a step back.
Better now than never. It saddens me that the impact of criminalizing drug usage so heavily in every country will never truly be appreciated. So many lives and families ruined...
A hidden intangible that cannot be measured is that owners are much more likely to know and socialize with their neighbors. Even in a mostly homeowner neighborhoods, "the renters" often don't develop social ties the same way that owners do. There is something about knowing you are stuck there quasi-permanently with the same people.
To be honest, one of the best predictors I have for job performance is learning something new in a job interview. Sometimes I get the feeling there are far to few people like this in the industry, but if I want to hire great colleagues, that just works the best.

Then again, I'd never ask a vanilla architecture question like the company in OP's post, as I've found that the best predictors for job performance are also the very questions that are the hardest to grade. Deep, open questions on a vast field — where there isn't anything close to a correct answer but rather thousands.

I still often go with the good old "what happens when you enter xyz.com in your browser and hit enter?", just because I can take it anywhere I want.

One day, I hit my bonus question "so what happens after hitting enter and before the first request leaving your computer?"

And the guy was like "well, the microswitch pulls the line of the keyboard matrix from high to low, generating a scancode that's then turned into a keycode in the controller..."

5 Minutes later we were all over his self-built keyboard and he had a job offer in hand 30 minutes later. I don't even wait for HR for the good ones.

Unfortunately he got an offer in hardware, and actually I was glad for him.
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Rather than making a million stupid, tiny rules, you can make a few big rules. For example, a carbon tax. IMO Biden and other world leaders should be getting shit on every single day until they implement this.
One eternal problem with gaming laptops and Linux remains the dual-GPU architecture, which is always kind-of-but-not-quite supported. Most often it is easier to forego either the GPU or CPU-video, leaving the overall experience frustrating.

The fact that most (all?) gaming laptops come with NVidia GPUs (requiring closed drivers, unless Nouveau got much better since last time I tried it) doesn't help.
Sure, but the actual document states that

The book is addressed to school and university students, teachers, parents – to everybody who considers the thinking culture an essential part of the personality development.

Not sure where the 5yold number came from.
I see nothing wrong with the examples you provide.
I hear you. Like many IT types, my brain is a reliable engine that has served me for decades. It loves to be excited, stimulated and challenged. Getting high - after several days of abstinence - gives me insight and unlocks thoughts and concepts that are otherwise hidden behind the sensible filters. Those thoughts have turned into ideas that have turned into products that have made millions and employed many people.

But I'm weak. That initial session turns into another, when the ideas are less forthcoming, and then another, when I am not even functioning at par.

The way it works best is a short limited session, then abstinence for a week.

But I'm weak. My brain doesn't work like that, it just wants more.

My current regime is to lock it in a box with a padlock in it (its illegal here anyway so at least I can't just restock at will) and give someone else the key.

So yeah - pros and cons, but unlimited access definitely does not work for me.
> What does it mean? I agree that this information should be open and available to all, but I find this language confusing.

Honestly, it seems like a faddish buzzword, incorrectly used.

IIRC "decolonizing" sometimes means returning cultural artifacts acquired during colonial times to the regions/cultures where they originated. However, it doesn't make any sense to do that to cultural artifacts created by citizens a colonial power in their own originating culture. Honestly, that sounds like another kind of colonization.

This article seems like a mess trying to force a combination of trendy ideology with personal experience that don't really fit. For instance:

> For her, the archive became a place of postcolonial recovery and remembering.

What's that in reference too? A student seeing a card catalog that's still in use, and being reminded of personally using them in the past. It's weirdly trying to particularize the universal. I'm about the farthest from a "colonized" person there is, but I could have had the exact same reaction to the exact same situation as that student. The only difference is that I have the wrong background, so no one's going to try to gratuitously describe my reaction as something "postcolonial."
I don't hate it, but I don't like it either. The company I work for is pretty good. However the team I am on is a hot mess. I've been here 8 months and I'm already ready to move on. I'm thinking I'm going to try and stick it out 4 more months on this team and then transfer elsewhere in the company.

As for how I deal with it. I just don't give a shit. I do my best best during the day, but at 5 o'clock I don't think about this place any more.
Vollrath 59500P Mirage Pro - tried several disappointing consumer models before biting the bullet.
Greg Costikyan's book Uncertainty in Games is another good source.

And this topic frequently comes up in wargaming circles (frequently enough to be annoying :-)). Some feel that nondeterminism is a crutch for the low-skilled while others feel that it is the only reasonable way to handle a low-fidelity model of reality or that it teaches the valuable skill of how to deal with the bag of rotten lemons that the universe periodically hands you.
That's the same problem in disguise. The reason they don't do the "our product is great" research themselves is because if they did people would switch their brains on and properly evaluate it. They pay universities (i.e. government funded organizations) because of the false belief in our society that government funding means universities are neutral, trustworthy, competent research institutions, when in fact they are really quite corrupt and filled with easily bribed researchers who will publish basically anything if it means they get another paper or grant out of it.

If/when the perception of government funded researchers finally aligns with the reality, businesses would stop doing that because there'd be no reputational misalignment to exploit.
I appreciate this point. But I don't think it's about setting extremely high standards across the board and leaving those who can't keep up behind.

For me it's about losing the mindset that children of certain ages are incapable of doing certain things and deliberately holding them back (with nothing but the best intentions I'm sure).

I have a friend who is a published poet and prosaic genius. But she literally cannot solve 2x=4. I'm not being hyperbolic.

Pushing her in math as a child would probably have been catastrophic for her emotional well being. But limiting her in other skill sets (like literature) would be equally catastrophic in terms of wasted potential (and the well being that comes with excelling at something you care about).
I agree that "bad marriages" between investors and founders in illiquid private companies can be a serious problem. But I don't really see how any of the points made about the post-pandemic fundraising environment create a bigger risk.

* Shift from in-person to virtual fundraising

Why would this make any significant difference in terms of creating a bad match? It's not like investors and founders are literally spouses. Most of their working relationship is virtual anyway. Status updates over email, strategy discussions over calls, back and forth revisions on roadmaps. If anything in-person fundraising would probably create more bad pairs, as founders can be dazzled by opulent offices and investors can be be fooled by charismatic presenters.

* Reduction in process from weeks to months

Most of that month-long fundraising process isn't a getting to know you courtship. It's long, arduous due diligence. Maybe cutting this down increases the risk of fraud or negligence, but personality mismatch seems unlikely. If anything compressing the process to weeks creates less of a sunk-cost pressure to push the deal forward despite incompatibilities.

* Increased in early stage capital

More capital sloshing around means founders have more options, and therefore are more likely to be able to pick a VC that they feel compatible with. Of course, you can make the point that the opposite is true going the other way. Investors are more likely to rush into bed with a founder they're lukewarm about. But historically, and even in this capital rich environment, the balance of power tilts in favor of VCs. At least for seed stage companies. Equalizing power dynamics most likely contributes to better long-term matches.
Maine passes nations first law to make companies pay cost of recycling packaging
The HTML5 spec makes <br/> (without the space) valid in HTML5: https://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/#void

Before that it was more "undefined" behavior than "illegal" as older HTML specs simply didn't consider it.
Why not? What state is that in?

/s
Correct however changing how the OS handles that is a real pain in the ass on Linux. On Mac and Windows it is a simple setting change but on Linux it requires trial and error terminal commands which is very annoying.

This seems like the kind of thing an app like this would deal with no?
If your credit is so bad that you can't get a loan better than 10%, you should in no circumstances whatsoever be buying a home.
> My assumption is that houses have tended to increase faster than inflation in most markets.

Historically this is usually true, but also usually less than the equivalent amount in say (equivalent to) index funds. Not sure where/how this is factored in.
Terrorism aiding, they said.
Looks great, thank you for presenting it so thoughtfully too.

Do I read correctly to mean Nebulus could potentially be used as a replacement for p2p file xfer, such as per wormhole? Any caveats with such a usecase?

(Also, just FYI there's a one-letter typo with the first sub-title under API)
Interesting. Anyone knows what's the benefit of TL-Verilog compared to a next gen HDL like nmigen?

Robert Baruch used it extensively for his own RISC-V CPU implementation. Its channel is well worth watching for those interested in CPU design.

https://www.youtube.com/c/RobertBaruch/videos
Have you ever caramelized onions?
I'm looking at the first question and wondering:

• What is the intended path the student is supposed to go through to figure this out? Guess and check? Some thing more specific?

• What would you say is the generalizable lesson for the student? How does solving this problem, which is an edge case, help you think about other problems in the future?
It's one example, chosen and presented by someone with something to prove, and which fails to provide any evidence (such as the names of the studies or lead author).
No, pagekite
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Fairly certain back when I was a kid back in last millenium in a country with just above four million inhabitants, yes.

Edit: unless of course if they have a time machine, but in that case we have a bigger problem.
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This is one of the problems I have with the absolute freak show that climate science/global-warming/saving-the-planet has become. It is, at a minimum, a triangle of bad actors with one corner being politicians --fear-based vote harvesting--, the second being business --jump on the bandwagon and print money...facilitated by politicians who want votes in exchange for fear mongering-- and, finally, religious-based detractors --using the best ignorance can offer in order to advanced humanity.

You combine these three factors (and likely a few more) and the entire thing is a rotten stinking mess that exists on a binary state between religious deniers and religious zealots.

What's a researcher to do? Tell the truth? Ha! Only if you want your career completely destroyed as well as never seeing even a hint of a grant. Going against these forces is a sure path to having more PhD's driving taxis.

I have to say, I have become very cynical about what we call "science" these days. It seems you have to be very guarded about accepting anything you are told, because the forces at play could be beyond anyone's imagination in scale, breath and reach. The problem is that the general voting public is ill-equipped to take an intellectual stab at what they are being told, which means they are easily duped and herded like cattle in and direction that might be of benefit to the puppet masters in politics.
My comment wasn't really based on any qualities of the interviewer or company at all. It's based on the perception of the applicant. If an applicant feels it necessary to be deceptive in an interview, that's a big sign that the job is a poor match for them.

It doesn't matter if the applicant's sense is justified or not. Either the applicant doesn't feel they are truly qualified for the job, and are being deceptive to avoid detection, or the applicant doesn't trust the company or people they're interviewing with. Either way, that means it's a poor fit.

After all, it's not exactly rare that a person is a poor fit in a company even if the company, and the applicant, are both excellent.
iOS exploits are cheaper than Android exploits because iOS exploits are so plentiful[1][2].

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/05/14/zerodium_ios_flaws/

[2] http://zerodium.com/program.html
If you don't mind, can you kindly explain?
It's certainly a provocative use of the language. I believe they are making the case that fetishistic hoarding of historical documents is both, only available to those with a means of wealth created through probably exploitation, and in an of itself an aspect of western/euro-centric ideology and its propagation through colonization. I tend to think the hoarding mentality is more base then that (I've watched squirrels before) but I think the argument that hoarding knowledge specifically is certainly a more amorphous problem.

Yes, they are just making the claim that the information should be available. They are putting it into their own contextualized argument framework.
I think the whole story is a joke (not unlike the one about the "space pencil").
Oh yeah, HTML had ergonomics that made it easier to use by humans and a lot harder to use by computers.

XHTML is basically the opposite.

As a former coder, I support that tradeoff. As a user... well, there's many reasons XHTML failed, and that's definitely one of 'em!
To complement what you're saying... It took me a long time to understand:

The number line for floats is non-linear. It has holes in it.
So, React over Vue and Vim over Emacs?
The problem here is not profit but the reverse, the corruption comes from the absence of profit.

Universities and grants are this firehose of tax money being sprayed everywhere without even the slightest bit of accountability in how it's used. The government effectively "loses" all of it in accounting terms, but because it's tax it doesn't matter. The buyer is blind and doesn't even bother looking at the papers they've paid for, let alone caring about the quality.

Now go look at the results coming out of corporate labs when the corporates actually want to use the tech. You get amazing labs that are consistently re-defining the state of the art: Bell Labs, DeepMind, Google Research, FAIR, Intel, ARM, TSMC etc. The first thing that happens when the corporate labs get interested in an area is that universities are immediately emptied out because they refuse to pay competitive wages - partly because being non-profit driven entities they have no way to judge what any piece of research is actually worth.
That's cool. Even CircuitPython doesn't support threads.
Honestly I was surprised not to see any mention of IVM in the original post. Many of the points in the original article apply to what's going on with systemic reviews of IVM - see for example allegations of misconduct/fraud by theguardian to Elgazzar's big IVM study https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/16/huge-study-s...

It does also bring into question the validity of Tess Lowrie's systematic review of ivermectin efficacy.

Also, your systematic review [1] includes the Elgazzar as "low risk" of bias... when in fact Elgazzar had GLARING errors.

It also makes me question the competence of everyone involved in this systematic review that they can't find these glaring errors but some random med student can.
Nothing is 100%.

I'm talking about incentives here, and people do things almost entirely on selfish impulses. Money is a powerful motivator, and people are strongly motivated to not spend their own money on bullshit. That motivation is absent when government funds things - but other motivations remain.
"Coca-Cola causes positive COVID-19 test" would be a headline that to many would imply that simply drinking a coke is enough to cause you to get a positive test.

I don't think that's what's happening.
> 12. A tide was in today at 12 noon. What time will it be in (at the same place) tomorrow?

These problems seem so poorly organized and motivated, I don't understand the curation in putting them together in one document, especially one that goes from ages 5 to 15.

Math problems shouldn't feel like random problems where you have to squint really hard or be really clever to see the connection to life. They should build with deliberateness into a worldview or a recognized skillset that a child can later translate into life wins.
More details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_chess#History
I've seen a few time things like that, you often see short and weird videos in the millions of views with everyone saying in the comments that they came suddenly due to the algorithm. I've always had this theory that at some people people (or machines) realized that it's easier to push everyone to have the same tastes compared to catering to every single niche. I think it's an extension of that.
The second question's solution requires half-kopeks.
Are you a scientist?
You'd get walkouts? Any person with normal intelligence and average facility with math realizes within 3 minutes that (2*3)-5 = 1.

People who have trouble with that problem have no guts.
And then there's hnefatafl (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tafl_games).
I wish we could just go back to the pre amazon days where we didn't have problems in the middle east
Seems like a good question. Shake, for example, was entirely a C/C++ compiler with special extensions for image processing. Therefore you could type C code directly into parameters' textboxes and it would run.
Scala for-expressions make it pretty easy to write "direct style" code. Someone on the team should probably understand whats going on, though. I've had decent success with ZIO on my team, and it seems perfectly teachable/learnable.
Fraud vs incompetence is an important dimension here. I think a lot of the time people are just incompetent. In fact I assume that > 80% of scientific papers in fields with high levels of environmental noise (social science, environment science, medical, etc) are bad science.

So TL;DR I just assume incompetence instead of fraud.
Not an ad. The site is hosted on my freedombox in my house. It's not handling the traffic too well lol.

Also there's no JS on the site. Just plain old HTML. Written with just notepad.
> That time is approaching 20 years old at this point, too. Native threads haven't been "expensive" for a very, very long time now.

It depends on the context, but yes. I worked on stuff throughout the 2000's where we ran into scaling problems with thread based concurrency models. At the time, running 100,000 threads was... challenging. But yeah, by 2010 we were talking about the C10M problem, because the C10K problem wasn't a problem any more. There are some cases where you really do need to handle 10's or 100's of millions of threads, but there aren't a lot of them.

> Maybe if you're in the camp of disabling overcommit it matters, but otherwise the application of green threads is definitely a specialized niche, not generally useful.

Yup, but everyone is still stuck on the old mental model of "threads are bad", partly driven by the assumption that whatever is being done to handle those extreme cases is what one should be doing to address their own problem space. :-(

> I'd go even further and say it'll be a net-loss in most cases, especially with modern complications like heterogeneous compute.

Even more so if you're doing polling based I/O rather than a reactive model. The look on people's faces when I point out to them that there's good reason to think that for the scale they are working at, they'll likely get better performance if they just use threads to scale...

It's so weird how we talk about the context switching costs between threads without recognizing that the thread does the poll is not the same thread that processed the IO request in the kernel.
Zotero is much better for this than the too-fiddly print-to-PDF workflow described in the earlier comment.
Well I hope you don't end up like me, asking yourself "Why I'm still doing this?" and not finding a good answer.
that's not a great way to think. One needs to think if something is possible before trying to solve unrelated issues that some engineering can probably figure out.
Checking the latest version it comes with 19 themes these days...
You probably just created a winning class action suit. Hell, the founders could go to jail for this level of fraud. Or at least, I hope so.
Prohibiting alchohol did so much damage to society that we passed a constitutional amendment to repeal prohibition.

The crimanalization of marijuana has already done damage to society that will take generations to repair. I find it very difficult to see how the increase in usage that would follow from legalization would be more damaging than the damage done by prohibition.
When photo-vores covered all the land the only place left to go was up. But Lignin was what emerged as the scaffold and it was amazingly successful and completely indigestible.
It would be as if animals figured out how to make their bones out of Teflon or silicon dioxide, after a few tens of millions of years the planet would be hundreds of feet deep in old non decomposed skeletons.
I once got two raises in an interview because I was so (pleasantly) surprised by the size of the first offer that I wasn't sure what to say. There was a bit more to this situation - I liked the job I was in and the employer really needed someone, but it was still a revelation.

Keeping your mouth shut, saying no, and not lying or BSing are three of the most useful skills you can develop. Many people feel pressure to respond quickly, especially in a performance situation like an interview, just as the writer of this article was highly tuned to what his interviewer wanted to hear. Controlling the tempo and direction of your own responses is a way to gain the strategic initiative without being disagreeable.
Lidar maker Velodyne loses its CEO amid internal chaos
You should have just said "Look guys, trust me, I am going to write Game Programming Patterns one day"
But for new houses it doesn’t make sense to spend thousands to install something that will needs to start being phased out. A heat pump water heater and home heating but still installing gas lines for cooking is probably not super economic.