skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's just say there are many questions that people ask in interviews where they have a scientific sounding answer that is simple and wrong (when considered in full context).

it's not your job to consider it in full context and give the globally true answer (as feynmann attempted here). it's your job to be cleverer than the interview, perceive what they want to hear, and tell it back to them in a way that maximizes the score they give you on the interview.

The reason you do that is it directly impacts the size of the job offer they give you if you answer questions exactly the way you want to hear. It's eminently rational, and a form of social engineering. Once you're hired you can advocate for change from within *

* I tried to get google to change many of it's stupidest hiring practices for years but it was tilting at a windmill
>other miners won't validate its script at all, that make it worse.

What do you mean by "validate" here? All nodes check for validity, in the sense that the transaction is properly authorized.
Right, Google actually has a 'no jerks' policy and values being a good team player more than pure technical brilliance. Being a good engineer gets you L4 (mid) or low L5 level at Google. Growing beyond that is mostly about soft skills and influencing other people - that's not compatible with being a dick. It probably wasn't the case for him in 2015 yet, but these days google has a mandatory 'googleyness' behavioral round that the guy would fail hard with that attitude even if he could invert the proverbial binary tree.
It made me sad too especially when John Carmack was also dragged* into it.

* Not sure how he feels about it, but I get the impression he's there for the pay cheque to work on more interesting side projects like AI.
Big Money can buy.
Good question.

- ContainIQ just works. Comes pre-configured and you don't need a degree from DD University to know how to use it.

- We are only focused on K8s.

- We have differentiated features, easier setup and we take less time to maintain (ex our latency features like service latency and latency by URL path don't need to be instrumented on each application)

- transparent pricing. We are a flat rate of $250 per month up to 50 / nodes. You don't have to worry about insane bill spikes.
The fittest robot for any application is indistinguishable from an appliance or a machine tool made for that application.

If your robot can't receive either of those labels, your robot company is doomed to a slow death.
That’s not inflation. Inflation as the name suggests is the expansion of monetary supply.
> Viasat is complaining about the allowed _altitude_ of the SpaceX satellites,

Which is as good as complaining about nothing. There's no real reason to complain about a slight lowering in altitude.
Oh, yes. It's about having a shared culture more than intelligence or knowledge. I know what I will answer if I wanted the job, that does not mean that it's a good answer, it just means that I have the background to know what are they looking for.
It's a love/hate relationship. I hate the closed nature of Apple, but it's a superior build quality.

This laptop looks like it offers both.
It's not artistry, it's overly complex hackery to satiate some weird technological obsession.

Even with a soft fork, everyone still needs to update their nodes to maintain consensus. BIP100 signalling would have fixed everything and avoided so much drama.
Ghana’s anti-LGBT+ bill seeks 10-year jail term for activists
Glad you brought that up, since the concentration of ownership of stations is an entirely separate, but even more serious source of bias. Station ownership is way less obvious to consumers than network affiliation.

For example, Sinclair also owns some NBC, ABC, CBS, CW, and Univision stations (a fact I only just looked up myself). I am sure many consumers (like the parent) assume all Fox stations are owned or managed by Fox, NBC stations by NBC, and so on, when it's much more complicated for historical reasons, which is what I want to draw attention to.
You can't enable granular auto merges: I'm fine with auto merging minor/security update PRs from dependabot. Not anything else. You can't set up that.
> Those wind turbines are upwards of 10 MW each

Assuming a 35% capacity factor (taken from land-based wind turbines, offshore should be higher), that's 84MWh/day.

The average California single family home uses 20 kWh per day, which means that that capacity factor this turbine could power about 4200 homes per day.

For comparison, a 10 megawatt solar project, assuming a standard 20% solar panel efficiency and one kilowatt per square meter insolation, would require a five square kilometer solar array. The capacity factor of PV solar is inherently limited by sunlight hours, but it is around 28% in California.

If offshore wind is available 24 hours at such a huge scale, it could change the renewable energy mix considerably.

In that world the biggest advantage of solar would be lower maintenance costs and greater visibility at smaller scale (for example, coupled with batteries to form micro grids).
Is it a metaverse he'd like to live in?
> FreeFileSync

I discovered it yesterday and migrated my backup system to FreeFileSync (well, actually I made a double backup with the old and new system). It is _AWESOME_. I finally feel in control of my backups.
Domains are an area where blockchain technology could help a lot.

A domain could cost a fixed amount of X per month. So you could pay 100 years upfront and be sure to not lose it in that timeframe.

To move a domain,the registrar and the owner could have to sign the move. So it would not be possible anymore to lose a domain due to the regsitrar making a mistake.
once that non-standard transactions included in a block, other miners won't validate its script at all

I don't think this is correct. Miners (are supposed to) validate all transactions in all blocks.
It's politically hard, but otherwise quite possible to redevelop older areas. Old Town in Pasadena, CA is a great example. Old Town was a largely uninhabited and unprosperous commercial area. Mostly through simple policy changes re: urban development, it was completely revitalized. Today, Old Town is pretty much endlessly packed with people and the commercial rents are sky high. It's bustling with shops, cafes, restaurants, bars, luxury apartments, and office spaces.

It doesn't have a water front. There are plenty of older (historic?) brick buildings, which IMHO look much nicer than modern buildings, but the buildings are hardly unique; buildings of this type can be found all over Los Angeles County. It does have lots of excellent restaurants, but I don't see any reason why that couldn't be replicated elsewhere. The restaurants came as a result of the redevelopment, not the other way around.
this is one of my favorite made-up stories
>What would you call folks that violently and successfully interrupted a core democratic process of tabulating the votes from different states?

Are you referring to the Politicians you vote for that violently spread war and interrupt core democratic process all over the world?

It's not both because the folks in power (and their supporters) are the ones who are exaggerating everything to obfuscate their own criminal behavior.
I agree with all of your points in general, but I hate the framing of 5) because it presumes a narrative where people don't have agency over their own preferences.

I love density and urban living. I've lived in lots of apartments over the years. I currently live in a single family home. Having a house and a yard is absolutely awesome:

1. I get acoustic isolation from my neighbors. I don't care when they watch loud movies. They don't care when I make music.

2. I have green space that I have autonomy over. Shared parks are nice for being a passive consumer of green space. But a personal yard means I get to be an active participant in its horticulture. I can garden, which has shown repeatedly over the years to be good for mental health.

3. I have more windows that let in more natural light when I'm inside. My living space is more seamlessly connected to the outdoors. I get natural light on all sides of the structure.

4. It's easier and more efficient to let my dog out in my own fenced yard.

I don't think people need huge sprawling yards to get most of this benefit. The UK model where everyone has a little garden behind the house is probably sufficient. But I do think Americans are generally smart enough to like single family homes mostly because they like single family homes and not because they have been hoodwinked by some nefarious pro-suburbia organization.
FizzBuzz itself certainly is, by this point, and would be totally unsuitable to hand out (as too many people know it). However, FizzBuzz level difficulty programs catch a surprising number of applicants who aren't competent programmers.

Another program I've seen candidates struggle with even though they, ostensibly, know C: swap. A surprisingly large number can't get it right, even though it was, IIRC, in programming assignment 2 or 3 (week 3 or 4) in an undergrad course I took 20 years ago that taught (quickly, over 6 or 7 weeks) C in order to get to the meat of the course (baby compilers). It should be a trivial program for any C programmer, but so many applicants are just padding resumes.
Just wear night vision goggles and don't even bother with lights.
Promising generalized solutions that apply to the physical world from advances at DeepMind (AlphaFold) perhaps?
And features like AWS PrivateLink play right into this strategy. If you're a SaaS provider built on top of AWS, the egress costs heavily incentivize you and your customer to connect over PrivateLink vs over the internet.

This keeps both parties locked into the AWS ecosystem.
>Hard money doesn't exhibit 15000% annualized inflation in a one-month period

I'm curious, what's your definition of "hard money"? It's clear that your idea of "hard money" is very different than the parent's.
We can't and shouldn't expect people to keep their old domains forever. We need a way for pages to be signed and hyperlinks to enforce authorship. When we link to stuff, we should have a way to say whose stuff we're linking to. It's no different from installing signed software and using trusted repositories.

This is one of the reasons I created a proof-of-concept web extension that verifies links and pages using PGP. On a mismatch, it flags the page and offers a web archive link instead.

https://webverify.jahed.dev/

It was pretty fun to make, but currently due to performance, Web Extensions API doesn't provide the features to do this perfectly. Firefox provides just about enough additional APIs to hack it together.
Intel and AMD actually used the same physical connector, with the slot keys on the connector opposite for AMD than Intel.
That definition of inflation is old and discredited. Austrian economics is roughly speaking tinfoil hat economics. The modern definition is a change in purchasing power of a unit of currency, not solely of its supply.

The reason is simple: if you have the treasury mint a $1T coin and give it to me, then I throw it in a vault, and do not spend it then prices do not change. As such, the Austrian model is obviously incomplete as it does not take into account what happens to that supply.

You can see this play out in the macro. Since 1980 the M2 supply has increased 12X but prices are about 3X higher.
To add to this, in 1950s the low density was seen as a protective measure against bombing, including nuclear. Dense cities like Dresden or Nagasaki were famously destroyed by firestorms from powerful bombing. Population of areas with semi-rural density had much better chances to survive a nuclear blast, hiding in a basement shelter.
In video game circles, the term is "Gacha-games", from the Japanese Gachapon (which is a Japanese slot machine game). That most of the game games came from Korea / Japan / China probably biases the term in favor of the Japanese term.

> This is the kind of games Las Vegas would be proud of.

IIRC, the reason why Las Vegas slot machines don't do this is that its illegal for slot machines to do this.

In contrast, the Japanese Gachapon were not subject to gameplay rules, and have grown quite elaborate. They're still random-chance slot-machines at heart, but they do a decent job of hiding it.

Similarly, a "Gacha-game" is a game that has a slot-machine at its heart, but does a good job hiding it.

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Example Gacha-games are Fate/Go, Fire Emblem Heroes, etc. etc. You get a random hero to join your team (and everyone knows who the best heroes are)... but the hero selection process is fully random. "Encouraging" players to sink money into more and more tries to get the hero they want.
Why are we assuming this is a display, rather than some sort of kiosk-iPad thing?
Plus, so many birds will improvise their songs, pulling parts of other birds' songs into their songs. And many will even outright imitate other birds (not only parrots, but corvids and some others). Many amateur birders like me often cannot tell imitations from the real ones.
> then the only hurdle would be

(In New England) the lobsterman, the fishermen, and their political allies, who see offshore wind as a threat and an opportunity, respectively.
I think you can go all the way back to the Boston Tea Party for tax hate.
You should be able to install custom rom like lineageos without rooting as long as you got the bootloader unlocked.
I haven't looked in a while, but last time I checked, Magisk had a SafetyNet bypass. It's a cat and mouse game of course, but when I was using it, Magisk stayed ahead of Google 90%+ of the time.
You can learn more about the types of telemetry events and log specific outputs from your own session here: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/telemetry#_out...

IMO, assuming good faith adherence to the current message scopes, Microsoft could at best learn that numerous developers from a specific office building (well, not nowadays, I suppose) are using a certain type of technology requiring a certain type of extension. But I don't think there would be any actionable intelligence.

That said, any extension developer could add their own telemetry which could log keystrokes, or otherwise exfiltrate data. You give tremendous trust to the developers of any extension you add to an IDE.
It is true that you are free to change the config on a VM manually. I included it because it's the only other service I could think of where you might set up SSH authentication.

This is interesting about GitLab, thanks for the pointer. As you mentioned it only appears to be configurable instance-wide, there is no way for a user or organization to set it up for themselves (for example for your gitlab.com organization). That makes it a bad replacement for SyncThing'd private keys as moviuro suggested.
Atom cavity sees the same photon twice
People can't walk, have semi or permanent headaches, have to retire early, etc. People's families (including children) have been seriously ill as well.

And you are convinced hundreds of people are making this up?
> I'm looking forward to third party assets being tradable on the Bitcoin network again.

Again? Did some sort of protocol fork break colored coins or the omni network?
I cannot agree enough - we always used to say the best robots aren't called robots, they're called washing machines and dishwashers.
Aside from what I mentioned, you're looking at Bruce Sterling, maybe a little Stross. I hesitate to recommend Doctorow -- he is faddishly distracted and senselessly optimistic. Vinge's
"True Names" stands out. Maybe When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One for the AI side of things. The amusing Headcrash, writings by Pat Cadigan, Jeter's deliciously dystopian Noir is a favorite if you want to see how bad it might get. Hardwired, by Walter Jon Williams, but that one has been a while.
macOS uses a PDF-like canvas as the core display engine^, upon which everything writes object layers that have refresh loops independent from the main canvas 'flatten layers into the display' loop. This is all inside WindowServer, and is why <Shift-Command-4> <Spacebar> lets you select an entire window including the shadowed border, without picking up anything from above or beneath it, because Spacebar activates object selection mode.

And we know that Apple has figured out secure pairing of T2 chips for external accessories (the touchID keyboard), so they can run secure-trusted components outside of the main hardware.

So they could in theory run a WindowServer process on the display's internal Cortex chip, paired via T2 to provide verifiable security, hosting the WindowServer canvas for that display and lets the host device offload the 'flatten layers to display' problem, handle the EDR mapping, and so on. That would be a boon to laptops and also to thermally-constrained desktops, and here's why:

On my Mac, WindowServer is the highest user of CPU time in total, exceeding kernel_task, coreaudiod, everything except Zoom (which does non-accelerated H.264 encoding/decoding on x64). So if I were to plug in a second 5K display alongside my built-in, my WindowServer CPU usage would double. Fortunately, I can afford that — but maybe a laptop cannot. Offloading that WindowServer burden for managing traffic to/from the LCD, and for dealing with layer flattening and security property management (you can't screenshot certain OS dialogs with a specific security flag set!), would be a tremendous win not only for battery life of the host, but also a theoretical performance win for latency, as now macOS would only need to shuttle specific layer changes over the wire.

Of course, it could still act as a dumb display for any host that isn't ready to negotiate a T2-protected WindowServer connection, but my idea above would definitely go a long way to explaining why Apple dropped support for x64-style eGPU while still investigating hardware-accelerated monitors.

^ it used to be implemented as PDF internally, not sure if it still is or not

^^ you used to be able to kernel panic macOS by making a window so tall that, when screenshot using the Spacebar layer selection method, an out-of-bounds write would occur from within WindowServer
> the cost floor is a lot lower than it is on Earth.

Thia is pretty speculative. There are significant engineering overheads due to thermal and environmental design constraints that could easily place the cost floor for many industries higher in space than on earth. The truth of this assertion is wholey dependent of a bunch of speculative technologies of unknown feasibility.

The major advantage of space is the capacity to scale production and resources beyond what earth can support. Thete is good reason to think we can do this, but also good reason to be skeptical of potential wishful thinking in this area.
Covid-19 Shows What Innovation Looks Like Without Patents
> FAANG is best positioned to every tech innovation because they have the resources and know-how to pursue it.

This isn't what I've seen. FAANG, and all large corporations, have many layers of bureaucracy that are required for approval of projects. "New" and "innovative" are "different" and "not well understood" by definition. As the bureaucracy get crusty, and more risk adverse, the ability to get these "unknowns" approves becomes harder and harder. Instead, you see buyouts of small companies, who didn't have that layer of bureaucracy to dig through, as the larger source of innovation. Going forward in time, like Intel, these small and innovative acquisitions get integrated and destroyed by that overwhelming bureaucracy, before they can even be fruitful.
Germany: Proof of concept of fake vaccination certificates
Maker's Muse, a 3d-printing youtube channel has a video where a local and wild cockatoo is given 3d-printed puzzles to solve. It's really worth a watch, it highlights how the bird figures things out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lgWcGIoSVA
> These games will never recreate brazillian cities for example... São Paulo, it has a neighbourhood that was a farm, and another that was a swamp.

The neighborhood I grew up in in Louisiana used to be a swamp before it was landfilled. My current neighborhood used to be a public dump. Most of Silicon Valley used to be farmland.

I'm not sure where the claim that changing zoning or use is completely impossible in the US comes from.
Then your company should supply you with a phone if you request it.
It really is for the price and mobility.
There's only so much you can do with an area like this as a "destination", without being embedded in a healthy community.

However attractive the area is, if you have to make a trip you'll only go there infrequently. Large parts will be dedicated to parking. Transit may be a pain to get there.

Not to say it can't have value - it can be a central point to bring together a larger low density community. But there's only so much need for something like this.

Compare with what is usually meant by a "walkable" area. Medium or high density housing mixed with local businesses. Enough residents within walking distance to support local restaurants and shops even during the week, not only on weekends.

Not a common model in North America unfortunately, the trend is either low density residential housing, or high density condo areas without much commercial or public spaces.
Good point. Also the ads aren’t targeted, as far as I can tell. And there’s no personalised feed, it’s the same list of links for everyone.
I feel like most jobs get boring in a year or less. Usually it's due to the bureaucracy and not having any input into the business systems that were implement in the tech.
. . . easily. Know that I'm speaking from a place of ignorance, but technically, any information VSCode has access to is up for grabs. And all you can do is 'disable telemetry' (which is of course not a functionality you can verify via the MIT-licensed GitHub repo).

On the other hand, it depends on just how involved Microsoft is with its telemetry programs. They could have algos that dynamically decide which apps on which machines or groups of machines are going to monitor and report on which information today. Or, they could have every program on most machines collect and send the same type of information for months on end.

To the end user, it doesn't matter; there is no grounds for trust in their judgment on the matter of telemetry. If they want your code, they could easily make that happen.
transaction volume needs to scale before inflation gets too low

Good thing they decided to never scale transaction volume.
From the article:

> It’s important to note childhood vaccines for polio, measles, mumps, rubella and smallpox aren’t leaky; they are considered “perfect” vaccines.
Such tools exist, but aren't popular because they're frustrating. Relational databases are much more rigid than flat files. Columns have datatypes which must be enforced, there are foreign keys, some (combination of) columns may have uniqueness constraints, and so on.

All this adds up to a bunch of errors when you're trying to input and manipulate data, because what you've entered is violating some rule someplace in the database.

It would be awesome if someone could build an interface that gives users the flexibility of Excel, and communicated the issues with the data they're trying to write in a really intuitive way. (e.g. syntax highlighting for data with issues, mouseovers / tooltips, dropdowns & autocompletes for foreign keys, etc)
Also, Signed Exchanges for CDNs.

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/11/signed-exc...
Dig a hole all the way through the earth and drop the barometer from the top of the building into the hole, and subtract from that time the time it would take the barometer to fall from directly over the hole to the other side and then divide the remainder by 9.8m/s^2.
.. or iPad. Many professional creative types use iPads in their professional work. Being able to hook up to a high end display wirelessly would be a great help to this segment of professional customer.