skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Embedding is the easy, lazy, biz-dev-promoted, and copyright-friendly option.

The longer-term risks are the counterargument.

Storage costs of even video, for curated content, are de minimis. That's changed over the past 10--15 years (roughly an order-of-magnitude decrease every 3 years or so). Bandwidth is more substantial, but CDNs can address that w/o the third-party domain list. E.g., "example.com" points "cdn.example.com" to their CDN provider. So long as Example maintains control over their own domain, third-party reregistration isn't a threat.

(Well, until your portfolio of redirects extends to the thousands or millions of domains. Scale has problems all its own.)
I've interviewed probably >100 people and maybe 7 or 8 had anything interesting that I could look at publicly on their resume. It doesn't even have to be job-related. It's cool to see a website that's just photography or motorcycle customization or whatever. It helps me get a handle on the person I'm interviewing as an individual, maybe gives us something to talk about.
My experience has been that if you're interviewing for a younger, or more modernized company, then side-projects and such can be a cool thing to talk about.

But if you're interviewing for some F500 dinosaur, your CV is all that maters.
We understand so little about the brain I'm not sure how meaningful a label like FNSD is. I bet there are a bunch of issues that could be classified as FNSD today but will be one day understood as different well-defined disorders. And there are a lot of diseases with complicated interplay between inherent biology and the environment.
It's in mainline kernel (can be compiled as an architecture), but I don't think it's being actively developed.
Hubble photo that changed astronomy
According to the home office: wake up. 7 US citizens have been extradited to the UK for breaking UK law as of 2011.

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/100739/response/25520...
It helped me to get offers from companies, so I didn't have to apply for anything anymore.

Sure, when I applied, I had to do dumb tests. But when a C or VP level asked me it was usually not an issue to get a job.
At this point, just don't design file format. Use flatbuffers.

1. It has good forward / backward compatibility stories;

2. Schema is your file format documentation;

3. Don't need to decode every parts;

4. Can skip for unknowns (if you use union type);

5. Many language bindings.

The only downside, and this is a big one: validate a flatbuffers payload method doesn't have nearly as much language coverage as the encode / decode methods. (i.e. C++ has it, but a lot of other languages don't have validate method implemented).

Case study - Apache Arrow uses flatbuffers to persist its metadata: https://github.com/apache/arrow/tree/master/format
Pseudo science: Somebody hears that plants can take excess CO2 out of the air and replace it with oxygen, but doesn't have the chemical knowledge to understand that plain chemistry.

What they hear is "Plants take out bad stuff and put back good stuff". From that it's an easy mental leap to believe "Plants take out all the bad poisons and give back fresh, unpolluted air".

You can't really blame them, they just don't have sufficient knowledge to know where they're going wrong.
It was all connected land. Any division from what was coastal Asia is a matter of convention, akin to insisting that Europe and Asia are legitimately two continents.
Here is the issue: pursuing a - so called - stable career as a public servant is, unfortunately i what many consider success.go to a coffeshop and you'll hear many discussing about the admission process, what friends and relatives are trying, salaries for all sorts of random positions, and so on. Barely anyone will be talking about opening a company. Even less if we aren't talking about tech related ones.
It could be a stimulant drug and situational interaction
I had a few jobs interview recently. Here's what I got out of it:

If you have something you want to promote (or is on your CV in general), be ready to talk about it. I'm very lucky because I can talk about things on the spot very easily. If that's not you, make a list of the few main points that you want to talk about and try to memorize it. If you always get the same questions, it may be a good idea to address them before people even ask them, or to memorize an answer to them too.

I really underestimate the amount of stress that can be felt when you're alone facing 6 people for a job that you want. I don't have a good answer on how to handle it, although I think having my canned answer ready helped. It got better once this started to be a conversation. The good part is that I developed a lot of empathy for people that talk about interview stress.

It's going to be my first "real" job so these are probably obvious, but it might help someone so I'd rather share.
Next up, #teletext!

https://github.com/topics/teletext
One of the biggest eye-openers to me once I hit "the real world" was how many wildly different interpretations of the word "engineering" there are.

At one end of the scale you have people who equate it entirely with methodology and process, and at the other you have people who equate it with building a high performance system.
I think banned because they don't want competition -- or just a client that doesn't show ads.
What’s more interesting is that 0/6 of the miners who had natural immunity were re-infected. That points to natural immunity preventing spread. The fact that vaccinated individuals don’t stop transmission means that there is no “public good” from getting vaccinated, it’s solely for personal benefit. Vaccine mandates or checking for vaccination status are pointless because of this.
So the advantage in doing this is for candidates that don't interview well? That doesn't jive with the statement in the article that "you can give yourself a big advantage in terms of standing out from the crowd with a relatively small amount of work", which seems to imply that a hiring manager would prefer candidates with blogs or a twitter audience. When I'm reviewing resumes and someone lists their blog or twitter handle on their resume, I'm going to assume it's because they don't have concrete accomplishments to point to. It's not going to rescue a candidate who has a weak resume from being passed-over and it's not going to compensate for a candidate who made it to the technical interview but then couldn't solve the assigned problem. It's nice to see when someone posts a really great piece of code in their github, but I have no way of knowing whether they were even the person who wrote the code or not, so the technical interview is their chance to show me they have at least a basic grasp of coding. If they fail that, there's nothing short of a ten thousand star project in github that might make me reconsider a poor performance in the interview and that's never happened to me before. So I still don't understand the premise that candidates with a public presence should stand out more nor the premise that if I'm a candidate a small public presence would help me. I could be wrong - it could be that most managers like to see this sort of thing, but it's never been something I've screened for and I've yet to be convinced I should start.
Heh, well that's the point of the article. Zip as an example of what not to do. So to improve things a file format should have a complete specification, conformance tests, have a fingerprint, a version number, variable length records should have lengths (to allow skipping records you don't understand), should allow for 64 bit lengths, and there should be index (and not a partial or incorrect index which is legal in zip).

On top of that, anything intent on allow archives should provide for checksums and error correction (Reed-Solomon or similar).
"in the 1960s when the youth cohort of that era expressed their adolescent rambunctiousness and exuberance with particular abandon and swerved even more strongly from ‘we’ to ‘I’ thinking: do your own thing, live and let live, anything goes."

I don't see it that way (Reagan probably did). The post-WW2 era was notable for its conformity. There were lots and lots of rules, and formulas, and laws, about how you had to live your life ... from the nuclear family right down to how to comb your hair.

Some individuals came together right now to overthrow many of those strictures, create music festivals and much less uptight music, explore communes, create food coops, explore religions outside the 'acceptable' ones, protest the war and the draft, read alternative histories (not taught in school after saying the pledge of allegiance), create Earth Day and a Whole Earth Catalog. In short, to create a counterculture - one with quite adult concerns.

There were a lot less people in the world back then. Trying to blame today's behavior on the 10 or 20% of 60s kids among 'those hippies' (the heavily-distorting 1991 TV series 'Making Sense of the Sixties', for example) has never worked. Many mainstream adults (Howe's 'we') were constrained to conformist role-playing back then. But look at the music, films, TV and bestsellers they picked, once off-stage. IMO US people today are less 'adolescent' than in the 1960s.

Prof. Howe's hidebound paean to life with the blinders on is little more than a dip in nostalgia for those without the stomach to look forward instead.
I'll rephrase the GP's question because I'm also curious, and I don't feel your response answered the question.

Is there a signal which suggests that "public creativity" equals "good engineer", particularly when the resume already speaks for itself? Or is it purely to compensate, as you suggest, for a possibly poor interview performance?

I'm honestly skeptical that such a signal exists (but can be convinced otherwise), except insofar that a person may be invited to give talks _because_ they have demonstrated strong engineering skills or talent -- whereupon, yet again, their resume should speak for itself.
I think this is what scanimate was used for: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Overbridge/Legends?file=DS_...
Why aren't there more Indian yoga pants?
Yustha Yoga is South Asian inspired athleisure founded by two sisters, Ayushi and Astha. We grew up doing yoga with our grandparents on their “chhat” during our summer visits to India and playing dress up with our mother's Banarasi saris. Fast forward to today: we are committed to bringing the fabrics and patterns that women in our family have worn for generations by designing South Asian inspired athleisure.
Robert Watts' Sketchbook
Newer versions of Excel have native JavaScript support https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/referenc...
We do a bit of the first 2. The third we never considered.

That's a great idea.
You might like "Virtual Cities: An Atlas & Exploration of Video Game Cities" too.

[0] https://www.game-cities.com/virtual-cities
Gzip files can just be straight concatenated together. There are some caveats around metadata but it’s an amazing property.
you don't see the difference between pervasive and literally in every single workplace of a given profession?
> Severe Illness: Individuals who have SpO2 <94% on room air at sea level, a ratio of arterial partial pressure of oxygen to fraction of inspired oxygen (PaO2/FiO2) <300 mm Hg, respiratory frequency >30 breaths/min, or lung infiltrates >50%.

Isn't the point that levels below severe are not generally fatal and don't require hospitalization. Nobody thinks it's good to get sick, but it generally ceases to be a threat to public health with vaccination.
Not orangepenguin but agree pretty much every engineer in the company is stellar, approachable and helpful. So much to learn from so many people.

How much you enjoy day to day will depend on your team and manager.

I would return in a heartbeat to work with the folks building HashiCorp cloud.
>I've been in interview debriefs where the fact that the candidate speaks at dozens of conferences a year has been raised as a potential problem, since it suggests they may not be as dedicated to the work that needs to be done.

You are right, that's another good example. Hiring someone that's very passionate might just not be in the best interest of the employer.
That’s just a tiny example of the data that can be abused. In this instance, the existence of a profile at all is abusable data, and there’s not much of a way around that other than being able to trust the application.
> I really underestimate the amount of stress that can be felt when you're alone facing 6 people for a job that you want.

Practice. Go on interviews even when you don't need a job. Get that practice in and get comfortable with it. I went on 18 - 30 interviews a year for many years when I was a contractor and got very good at interviewing over time. I still get a bit tense when the job is particularly appealing, but with practice it gets to the point where they'll rarely throw a question at you that you don't know how to handle.
only in specific geographic locations, mostly in Cuba.

As well as Washington DC, Australia, China, Austria and possibly other places I'm not aware of. Occam's Razor.
> Nothing else allows the non-tech user to feel empowered like spreadsheets do.

I'd say it allows the same for technical users as well since it helps bridge communication/knowledge gaps and move things along. It's typically not the solution but often plays a critical supporting role.
Yeah we have mifi’s as backup as well but usually only a few people can be on those. But also thinking about dedicated fiber… but honestly none of these seem as cool to me right now as bunch of satellites
And another one: Eric Clapton doesn't care about the health and safety of his fans; is 100% willing to risk their safety from the distant safety of his stage act.
Does this meet your needs? https://sqlite.org/zipfile.html
Reading aloud was taught as the proper way to learn the medieval Trivium of grammar, logic and rhetoric, especially grammar and rhetoric. It was effective, perhaps as a mnemonic device. But it was how the Trivium was taught and learned and why reading aloud was the norm during the medieval period.
What would happen if a golf ball doubled in density every hour?
Anyone know who the point of contact for this is in the state of California?

Name email and phone number would be great for us to see and share
There used to be a game on Teletext in the UK called Bamboozle. Turns out someone has recreated it in browser.

http://www.digitextsim.com/452/
There's a huge lack of admiration for entrepreneurs. In special, for the successful ones. Some people just hate them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7Z9UnWOJNY
Galleri: Interpreting results from GRAIL's multi-cancer early detection study
But only if the first file ends on a byte boundary of course. Just to save someone trying this some debugging :)
https://www.courts.ca.gov/1258.htm?rdeLocaleAttr=en ?
How F** is California If someone was harassed to the point of committing suicide and DA doesnt press charges?
Interesting, I could definitely see it being some sort of weird environmental effect, I'm not convinced it's an attack.
The last part is tautological but explanatory, the real payload is the first part. It's like saying your unknown unknowns are much larger than your known knowns.
Huh? I just checked the Info-ZIP zip man page, and it says (reformatted):

> -g, --grow: Grow (append to) the specified zip archive, instead of creating a new one. If this operation fails, zip attempts to restore the archive to its original state. If the restoration fails, the archive might become corrupted. This option is ignored when there's no existing archive or when at least one archive member must be updated or deleted.

I tested this on Linux and it appears to work as advertised. I assume the reason why it is not enabled by default is because "If the restoration fails, the archive might become corrupted".

edit: python zipfile in append mode also appears to avoid rewriting the zip file. libarchive doesn't seem to support appending to zip files.
They "exists" in the same sense a hydraulic computer exists because I plumbed 5 valves at my house.
Their question suggested they maybe didn't know it was a crime. I thought people should know it is.

I think rasz's point was a prosecutor could bring charges now. And public record regulations have privacy exceptions.
Say you ask about the ratio, in an interview. I would tell you, but, like most companies I've worked at, I doubt the answer would impress you. What do you do with the information? If you base your decision on it, and I presume pass over the company for having a poor ratio, how is that company ever supposed to change?
This is exactly right!

I think that 5M is a high number (at least with the current number of satellites and their architecture), specially if they do not apply data caps.

I would say that 1M customers in the US is a more reasonable figure. If they hit these number, I expect the performance to degrade significantly.
dang! this was exactly something like I have been looking for. I have an app idea in mind that could use abstracting away the financial logic.
It's almost like they're regular people, just like the rest of us.
Pervasive means present or noticeable in every part of a thing or place.[1]

[1] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/pervasiv...
When I was broke and no one trusted me with money (was an addict), I used to use survey sites to make $5 dollars a day. You can target $100 a month, and ask your friend to spare another 100 or so and find a cheap laptop on Craigslist.

Look for survey sites like Grindabuck, and have accounts on all of them. You’ll have to do hundreds of surveys and it takes hours. You can do them on your phone.

https://www.reddit.com/r/beermoney/

If you need a quick bank account for deposits, use Chime.

I’m only offering this harsh alternative because I been there. Also apply for odd jobs, and don’t list any of your tech experience.
It’s a bit more nuanced than that - NSFW content can still be shown but the app needs to express a 17+ age rating on the App Store. That’s why apps like the Reddit client Apollo[1] and Google Chrome[2] are 17+.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apollo-for-reddit/id979274575

[2] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google-chrome/id535886823
Great nostalgia hit, I used to spend so much time exploring teletext as a kid, and playing the text games. It was such a great system.
He mentions several times that accountants do their work in Excel, but any account would consider it barbaric to actually try to do transaction-level double-entry bookkeeping in Excel instead of a purpose-built system like QuickBooks/Xero/NetSuite/etc. I think I've also probably seen more broken financial models than logically sound ones in Excel, so the integrity of spreadsheets is oftentimes not even safe in the hands of finance professionals.

Data integrity is definitely a hard problem.
That is an incredible leap.
I believe you are talking about the Microsoft ODBC API which was language and platform agnostic data acquisition layer. Early versions of it had pretty bad performance issues if I remember correctly, but eventually it became somewhat useful.

I believe that developers back in the 90's wanted a way to "drop in" various low and higher cost DBMS systems to their client-server based apps without the need of hiring full-time database sysops.
Tell us more about how you have envisioned it.
The advice I gave in this article will work if I am your hiring manager.

Let's say I have 10 resumes, and I only want to dedicate phone screens to 5 of them and in-person interviews to 2 or 3 (because my time is finite).

If you have some public writing or public code, you are much likely to make it to the phone screen stage.

If you're confident that your resume speaks for itself already, you are free to ignore my advice.

I had assumed that most other hiring managers are affected by this factor in a similar way to me, but maybe I'm wrong about that.
> I also wonder about how relevant this might be to the role of consciousness in quantum mechanics.

Everything about that 'theory' seems philosophical at best and total speculation at worst. If you see someone talking about quantum mechanics and consciousness in the same sentence it's a pretty good signal that what they're saying is pure woo.
Bamboo Blossom
> How do you read a zip file?

> This is undefined by the spec.

> There are 2 obvious ways.

> 1. Scan from the front, when you see an id for a record do the appropriate thing.

> 2. Scan from the back, find the end-of-central-directory-record and then use it to read through the central directory, only looking at things the central directory references.

I was recently bitten by this at work. I got a zip from someone and couldn't find inside the files that were supposed to be there. I asked a colleague, and they sent me a screenshot showing that the files were there, and that they didn't see the set of files that I saw. I listed the content of the zip using the "unzip -l" command. They used the engrampa GUI. At that point I looked at the hexdump of the file. What caught my eye was that I saw the zip magic number near the end of the zip, which was odd. The magic number was also present at the beginning of the file. At this point I suspected that someone used cat(1) to concatenate two zips together. I checked it with dd(1), extracting the sequence of bytes before the second occurrence of the zip magic number and the remainder into two separate files. And sure enough at that point both "unzip -l" and "engrampa" showed the same set of files, and both could show both zips correctly. Turns out engrampa was reading the file forwards, whereas unzip was reading the file backwards.
I absolutely loved this discussion.

It reminded me a lot of the time I watched Beavis and Butt-Head on MTV in amazement in an Izakaya in Kanazawa. It boggled my mind that someone could translate the clever vulgarities and the double entendres (often enough) into Japanese. Truly a labor of love.
I am big proponent of STFU and do your job.
No "we are family here". No dating people from work.
Because some people really really need that next pay-check.
There are people paying off their chemotherapy that have to go to work reading about this and worrying about their livelihood. Nobody deserves that. Nobody has a right to get you to worry about how are you gonna survive next mortgage payment. And over what? people acting like they are in highschool. Stuff like this boils my blood before we even get to politics. Life is hard enough. I will not burden you with my family issues and I will work as hard as I can but in return you let me do the work and worry only about what I am working on. Everything else goes under grow the f up and get a life outside company.
But that's a counterexample to the OP's thesis that "it doesn't take much". An "NES emulator that is cycle accurate and supports a game with a specialized chip that I reverse engineered that no other emulator supported" is a MASSIVE undertaking that would take a huge amount of time and effort. I would certainly give a candidate like that a second look - if NES emulators were remotely related to the kind of skills I was looking for.
Sure, maybe one bitcoin warlord will conquer all the others. Then we can all live as his slaves in a peaceful world... a smoldering, radioactive, miserable but peaceful world.
> REFL instantly reduces the voltage on the fallen line, and boosts the voltage on the other two phases.

I didn't get how that would work, so I did a bit of research. REFCL effectively grounds the affected phase so that it is 0V with respect to ground. But the other 2 phases retain the same voltage relative to the affected phase, so they have increased voltage relative to ground.

https://www.ausnetservices.com.au/-/media/Files/AusNet/Commu...
We all need to be treated like children that need help and guidance to some extent at various points in our lives. This is part of being within a broader community and I'm happy to accept it.
I’m curious what that dial system was, it looked like an oscillator based vector display with how it was controlled with dials and how the programmer used a separate computer to run the software and dot pen.