skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not the case at Amazon. They are known for PIPing engineers. They’re not shy about it.

Also all of these big tech companies can just not refresh your stock if they don’t want to bother with firing you, which effectively halves your compensation.
In addition to the replies you already got, there is a new store around here (I'm in the Midwest) called Five Below (with cold weather theming), which uses the "dollar store model" but for $5 USD or so.
As an aside, it's been a bit surprising to see the disconnect on so many topics regarding France in the NYT in the last few months.

This seems like just the latest (and fairly mild) episode of this, but it's still a bit puzzling to me as a former (sort of) journalist to see so much editorialising, and in this case, an utter lack of facts and context.

There's not much on the goals behind that pass, the impact of covid on many of the other options, or any background on the local "bd" culture that would explain the difference to the US comics culture to the reader. The title certainly doesn't help.

At that point I don't know if I'm just getting more picky with time, but the fact to editorialising ratio in the NYT seem to have shifted to, at least to me, a fairly uncomfortable level pretty much every time I stumble onto one of their articles.
I would say the PBS digital work on YouTube has been quite good, especially the PBS Spacetime series.
Dollar General is wildly successful because they are filling a need.
TSMC isn't going anywhere and semiconductor production for 3rd parties at Samsung isn't going anywhere either, they do tons of it. I know lots of people that work there. EVERYONE (almost) outsources semiconductor fabrication. Are they all fragile? Not many companies own their own plastic or metal factories either. I really am not sure what you're trying to get at here.
There's no evidence that those phones will support indefinite updates, and plenty of reason to think that they won't.
Regardless of what you consider "culture", the French government had some conception of what kinds of things they wanted the teens to engage in, and this isn't it (even if it's worthwhile in its own right). I think that's the article's point, and the program may respond by restricting the funds' usage in the future.
Google's official announcement is discussed / linked here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28038807
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> By definition, this order must be the top of the book, because it’s price already had to be aggressive, and there could be no other bids above us. Therefore, the new best bid increases from $99 to $102, since that is the limit price of our order.

I really wonder here, in this part of "Introduction to Limit Orders", how they handle race conditions. Do you think they use a synchronous queue that queues orders while it's transacting, or do they try to also handle inserting orders during the process of filling orders?
> But limiting root access makes work for Pegasus and others harder, which is good.

It's not enough to "make it harder", to actually know whether it's a useful mitigation you would have to compare how much harder it makes it compared to what inconvenience it caused for that. Pegasus has no problem getting root right now. I strongly suspect they have a built up hoard of 0-days to apply in case the current faorite technique is patched (how else could you make a business out of it? If you're running a business you can't allow some other party to control your main product).

So, how much does limiting root access hurt Pegasus? Very little, IMO. A case could be made that it helps them, in the same way that excessive regulation helps large companies, which already have resources and experience dealing with it that smaller companies must overcome to enter the market. Pegasus, and the ability to hack into phones on-demand, may have been largely hidden from the public because it was relegated to a few large players.

And what does everyone get for this? Vendor lock-in, higher prices, less control over your own devices.
Cursor positions are nothing but a counter. And counters are CRDTs by default, which means they are associative, idempotent and transitive.
Best way is to have them as a separate structure pointing to an index.
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It can be hard to retrofit multicore capability. See Python for example
I always find it strange reading (negative) articles about Linux's hardware support. I've used it for almost 15 years now, and in my experience the hardware support is unparalleled. Nearly everything worked out of the box, even when it was brand new. I loved never having to scour the web for drivers on the manufacturer support websites. I use Ubuntu for minimal effort installations, and so I can focus on my work. I have tried other OS's like macOS and Windows but the development experience is painful (coming from feeling right at home with the GNU coreutils and full control of my OS with all of the relevant source and debugging tools).
>>Interestingly, this may also be a sign of declining engineering.

Or it could simply mean that not enough resources were committed to the project.
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The Data Protection Agency loves this weird trick!
I know BBC is writing this from the perspective of a new interviewer. However anybody who is preparing for FAANG or even hangs out on Blind knows that getting into any of these big companies, now includes multiple leetcode style programming tests and system design interviews . Just as a point of reference, CTCI is now on its 6th edition and it is still playing catch up to the ever changing interview processes at these companies.

In fact if you spend time on leetcode , you would get a fair idea of what companies ask LC medium/hard, which ones ask Dynamic Programming and which one will specifically ask questions that are not on LC
From the Verge article it seems the CPU in SoC would be some licensed spec based on Exynos, so I am guessing we aren't going to see CPU performance close to A series processors, but it does seem like a promising start. Google has an incentive to go all in on CPU design as that helps their data centers and GCP both, so we might see significant gains over time.

I had to buy a new phone and I am really happy that Pixel 6 looks promising, otherwise iPhone would have been the only choice. I really wish Samsung would get its act together on software and updates, as they have really compelling hardware. For now, at least from the preview of Verge it looks like I will probably pick up a Pixel 6.
You can get close-enough ballpark answers on the angles between (0, 30, 45, 60, 90). (If the questions are multiple choice, then you can design it in a way that you don't need a calculator) And this is actually quite an important handy skill you will have in real life, since later on when you're drawing graphics/diagrams either on software or hardware you really need that intuition of ball-parking angles.
I've been tricked in the past by a very convincing "personalized" recruiting email that I later realized was auto-generated. It gave me an incredibly negative impression of the company and the product, and I've told the story to a lot of people and never met anyone that likes the idea.

So the only way for this company to succeed is if their videos are so good that the targets never realize they're fake. I'm no entrepreneur, but it doesn't seem ideal if your business model is literally based on lies.

Not to mention, if the technology is that good, then it will be trivial to abuse this for corporate espionage, phishing, blackmail, slander, etc. Sure, if they don't do it, someone else will, but that's never been a valid excuse.
That's not quite it; it's not really about functional vs imperative (though there's some loose correlation)

Common Lisp isn't purely functional (it's arguably the least-functional of the major Lisps), and in fact it has a vector data structure of its own, so you could make the same mistake there if you went out of your way to. Similarly, Rust has a LinkedList in its standard library. This algorithm is simply O(N) if you do it with a linked-list, and O(N^2) if you do it with a naive vector, regardless of language or programming style.
France has a long tradition of the "BD" (Bande Dessine = Comic Books) and a thriving community of illustrators and writers who make them. There are many great series which a lot of us French kids grew up with who had pretty intricate plots and were very well crafted.

I agree that sneering at Comic books as "not the culture we wanted" is BS. Culture is culture. French and Belgian comic books like "Asterix et les Gaulois" or "Tintin" or "Gaston La Gaffe" etc... are great works of comedy and art just like anything else.
30 years ago, maybe 90% of the products in most dollar stores were exactly $1. The rest were usually $2, $3, maybe $5, and were clearly marked so that the default was if it wasn't marked, it was $1. That is no longer the case, now they usually operate like regular stores with prices on all the items, and they are no longer trying to price items at exactly $1.
Exactly. They only look at chains--not the massive number of single stores.
From experience with x86: adding more security layers does not inherently make a better design.
I didn't mean to imply that this applied to your case. Just a general observation (rather frustrating for someone like me, who wants candidates to do well but not that infrequently sees them being let down by their own choices).
Never mind "physically building". The whole section about the CPU is pretty evasive about who designed it to begin with. They kind of, sort of, imply it's their own design — "our first custom built SoC", "The team that designed our silicon" — but neither statement actually says that it's their own design.
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I just am not sure I agree that a politician is more insidious than big business. A big business has no accountability to anyone but their shareholders. PBS is accountable to representatives elected by citizens. And again, we're not talking about the government having a monopoly on the information ecosystem, so with public news you still have the "immediate remedy"of going elsewhere.
> Why is this objectionable? [to reduce an employee to "utility as a walking set of tech keywords"]
> Why is it important to you that your employer view you as a person?

If what you mean is that it can be rewarding (intrinsically and extrinsically) to think about skill, craftsmanship, and other ways to make your labor a great value add, sure. Most of us benefit by thinking about that.

If you're really asking about why keywordification is a problem, well... keywordification of job roles indicates a way in which companies are quite possibly struggling to actually model the roles they're hiring for and identify what makes make an individual productive within them.

This happens on at least two levels:

1) Technological. Engineering decisions are sometimes "we have a specific problem, specific tech is the solution to our problem, therefore we need expertise in specific tech." In that case, the keywords regarding that tech are meaningful. But for non-trivial use cases, engineering problems are very, very rarely just that, they're commonly the aggregation of off-the-shelf + consideration of how to mix them with what tradeoffs + in-house custom solutions embedded in an organization attempting to understand and model its domain problems and fit/reshape all those solutions to those models. This is not exactly a keyword-driven process. Keywords represent the shallow end of the pool.

2) Human. While labor clearly is something bought and sold on the market, even from a point of view of a value system which is OK thinking of humans primarily as industrial inputs, it turns out that's a significantly leaky abstraction and most of us have all kinds of "compiler flags" or other inputs of our own that make us more or less productive. Some might consider this to be too warm and fuzzy; they might find it comforting that it can be approached from as a-humane and manipulative point of view as one might approach tweaking a database to get it to perform better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkFztAgK-8U

As for whether it's OK to think of humans primarily as inputs to any process on a moral level... like Terry Pratchett's character Granny Weatherwax said “Sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.” What are the consequences when social institutions consideration human beings primarily as inputs to institutional purposes? Generally, individual life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness become valued less, and individual suffering is more freely disregarded. Not super desirable under my value system. YMMV.
After a couple of levels of indirection, I think the whole argument hinges on one anecdote. It might indicate a general pattern, but no actual authoritative sources back it up.

Original Article quotes

"growing evidence suggests these stores are not merely a byproduct of economic distress. They’re a cause of it. In small towns and urban neighborhoods alike, dollar stores are triggering the closure of grocery stores, eliminating jobs, and further eroding the prospects of the vulnerable communities they target"

This links to a report here as a source: https://ilsr.org/dollar-stores-factsheet/

Which cites https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/aug/13/dollar-gene... as its only source.

The actual quote:

"“We lasted three years and three days after Dollar General opened,” he said. “Sales dropped and just kept dropping. We averaged 225 customers a day before and immediately dropped to about 175. A year ago we were down to 125 a day. Basically we lost 35 to 40% of our sales. I lost a thousand dollars a day in sales in three years.”"
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> Android 2.3+ accounts for less than 0.2% of devices. It doesn't really force an e-waste cycle

Because it is already forced in multiple ways and most devices which can run only 2.3 are already on landfills.
This is insane, antisemitic moral equivalency.
Please ycombinator, I most humbly beseech you, to never ever play UX du jour games.

My daily dose of HN may well be my last link to something resembling the product of a sane mind. Surely you do not want to send a helpless old man into to the abyss of insanity?
> (private and visible only to people with the URL you share)

This is going to be fun!

What happens if I am watching a video with my family using this URL. And someone across the world is also watching the same video with his/her family using the same technique. Now we have two families sharing the same video, isn't it?
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This sounds really cool, and I hope it goes well. We need to work every angle we can to address climate change, and test as many ideas as necessary to get there.

My issue with this post is the claim that you will be making the world's first carbon-neutral houses. I understand the need for strong exciting marketing language, but, surely you mean something like, first modern Western-style carbon-neutral houses.
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Looks great, good luck! Question about the seawater aspect, are ecological impacts similar to conventional desalination processes?
There are now two replies in this vein, so I guess it's worth a moment to expand on how it's not encryption it's a hash even though (a variant of) DES is used and you think of DES as being for encryption.

The whole point of encryption is that you can decrypt it, but that's not what's going on here.

Instead the DES block cipher is being used as a poor man's compression function for the hash. A compression function in this context (distinct from "data compression" like Deflate) is a one way function that takes a bunch of bits and spits out fewer bits in a way that means the result isn't at all helpful for determining the inputs.

It's completely normal to use a block cipher for a compression function. This is the essence of the Merkle–Damgård construction familiar from MD5 through to the SHA-2 family. If you were inventing a new high performance cryptographic hash in 2021 you wouldn't do it 'cos it's going to be slower than your competitors, but if you were trying to cobble together a working password hash for early Unix without a PhD in cryptography DES is all you need.

You can do much stupider things with DES in this space. Microsoft owns at least three which I know of, some of them are even still in use in corporate environments. But DES is not encrypting anything in these scenarios, it's a compression function. The problem with all those Microsoft solutions I characterise as "much stupider" isn't DES, although obviously you should stop using DES because it's 2021, but lots of other dumb things they got wrong.
As I did not get any replies I share what I found. If anybody has better or more detailed resources, please be kind and feed our curious minds:

"Technical Analysis of Pegasus Spyware"

https://info.lookout.com/rs/051-ESQ-475/images/lookout-pegas...

"Pegasus Spyware"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)

"The Million Dollar Dissident"

https://citizenlab.ca/2016/08/million-dollar-dissident-iphon...
Are you implying this wasn't intentional? France (alongside Belgium) practically invented the comic industry, but in recent years I'd imagine that's been getting decimated by east Asian manga. If you want to inspire a generation to revitalise your comic industry, this doesn't seem like a bad way.
Wouldn’t ceramic sink?
Just a random thought you inspired. If any "collective consciousness" ideas are grounded at all in reality does missing the shared episode experience negatively change it?

I remember that the Game of Thrones red wedding event still seemed to happen at the same time even though it was re-watchable on demand.
Much like living outside the Matrix, would you really want to go back, knowing what you know?

Yes, you can use a paper atlas. I have an 8-year-old car with GPS, and a 34-year-old car without. I bought a map book for the 34-year-old car, thinking it'd be a "period accurate" way of driving it; it's anachronistic at best, and frustrating at worst - can you read the street signs, and did you drop your compass under the seat? In the 8-year-old car, I can hit a button, say "Navigate to (an address)" _while driving_, and it figures it out.

Some of these I do on principle (only pay with cash, avoid loyalty cards, etc.), and I accept a compromised UX as a result. Your mileage may vary, depending on how much you get out of these things, but the immediate impact of them seem generally negative.
According to the article they’re not buying the indeed fantastic French “BD” comic books but manga.
Nationalistic attacks and name-calling will get you banned on HN, regardless of which country you have a problem with (or belong to). No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How can the wealthy prevent the illegal propagation of their genetic code?
Maxthon2 could open search results in tabs. Like an upscaled version of the dial up days, one would open a bunch of tabs and let them load. I had it configured to open the first 100 results. It would somewhat prioritize the first page so that you could look at it while page 2 loaded. Eventually it was far ahead loading pages and one could tab though them (mouse gestures) and they would pop up as fast as desktop applications [use to be] There was a different gesture for next page and for close current + next page. I wrote a bunch of plugins [they were called] that are like browser extensions (without any security) They allowed selecting a sniplet of text on a page before making the next gesture. After eliminating the uninteresting pages I could export the remaining tabs (in that window) as a html sniplet with titles as links and the sniplets under them. It upgraded blog posts into pages people could spend hours or even days on.

I remember spending the better part of 15 min making a huge posts about UFO's (by repeating above process with various search queries) without reading much of anything and got comments from people who wondered why I spend so much time gathering all that "information". If I had to make that post using today's tools it would indeed take weeks.