skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still do it on paper for non-recurring tasks. Big list with all the things I need to do for work. Small dated list with things I need to do today. Each morning I look at the big list, extract what I want to do that day, and write a new small list on a fresh page. When things come up during the day, they go on the small list if they're urgent and the big list if they're not. At the end of the day I cross out tasks on the big list if they're done (and add undone urgent tasks to the next day's small list).

For recurring tasks and meetings I use a calendar.
I once had a 3 hours live coding session (without any previous warning it was a live coding session) on a problem described by some examples, while the 3 interviewers were clearly watching me and commenting my code or what I said in their chat.

The expectation was that I made the example exercise + tests.

Fu*k them.
This is a major red flag that the firm isn't sufficiently serious about hiring and I would always walk away from a firm without a clear idea of their needs and the number of rounds.

My experience with a firm that started with three, then paused, had an "open evening" for interviews and then wanted more (which I politely declined and privately blacklisted them) reminds me of the lucky escape I had: the firm went through this mess only to uncover (a little later) an operational error that left them refunding several billion to clients, trundling on as a zombie firm!
They have an easy out: blame it on Bibi and promise change.
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If we're very lucky in ten years most new cars sold will be electric. That is very different from most cars on the road being electric. It is also unlikely that the electric grid will be carbon free in ten years.
Absolutely nothing. What I want for the next two major versions of iOS (and macOS) is for them to stop adding features and start fixing what’s already in. Make them “zero new features” releases; they have the precedent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Snow_Leopard
That's a very questionable source. With such an overtly anti-Israel position, that's probably best taken with a large pinch of salt.
I think if DRM didn't exist piracy would be just as rampant (i.e. not very, since for the average joe it seems more convenient to just go on netflix or amazon prime or whatever) and people would still get paid.

People are against DRM not because they don't want to pay for content, but because they want to be able to play the content they pay for. And not in breach of the license they have been sold.

I have every interest in participating in the content market and paying people to make content. I have no interest in having to buy special proprietary hardware or run special proprietary code on my computer just to do it.
Why would I want an education in something I’m not motivated to do past, say, high school?
Klarna, is that you? ;)
The main one in the UK is that you lose Section 75 protection, which is what forces credit card companies to protect your purchases. The obvious others are if you buy something you wouldn't buy without BNPL (their business model is charging retailers on the basis that people in aggregate will), or you miss payments and get late charges/a worse credit score.
The repo seems to be abandoned. Author of chronofold (@gritzko) pointed me to another impl ( https://github.com/decentralized-hse/collab-edit ) but not checked it, yet...

Edit: I’m apparently wrong on the “abandoned” part. The author of this repo wants to maintain it and accepts bugs and issues on github, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28025692
It is also scripted. Google used to use internal people do to the screening but not anymore, they have outsourced it to agencies. And a random recruiting agency drone on the phone, paid minimal wage, can't be expected to ask sensible questions, so they get a script to choose questions from, along with expected answers.
In which case they should have teams dedicated purely to technical interviewing, with members regularly rotated in and out to keep them fresh.

When I did technical interviewing for my company for a period, granted it was still on top of my 'day job ' but I had the scope to get really invested in the process, and wrote guidelines for other reviewers. Treat technical interviewing as a respected role in its own right and not as a chore that interferes with 'real' work and it's a better outcome for all parties
What Kindle e-readers can't connect to 3G anymore?
https://github.com/nikp123/ntfs-rootfs/blob/master/guide_in_...

does not seem trivial given the differing permission model, but not impossible either. for fat32 I wonder though if the total absence of permissions allows for that.
"I don't think Zoom is profiting from breeching privacy"

They are. "Move fast and break things"-strategy is a decision for higher growth at the cost of privacy, security and stability for customers.
Germany has prohibited and dissolved two political parties, the SRP (a successor to the NSDAP) and the KPD (communist part of Germany). They've also declared a 3rd one, the NPD, as unconstitutional but so inefficient that it doesn't need to be dissolved. They no longer receive government funding for elections.

None of these parties were trying to stage a coup, they stood for elections like any other party. What they intended to do once they gained power is incompatible with "freiheitliche demokratische Grundordnung".
> Apple isn't leveraging the industry to its advantage.

Apple is the industry. When you're the industry, you don't leverage it, everybody else attempts to leverage you.

If for some reason they find themselves needing to eg switch back to CPUs supplied by someone else because they can no longer be great at that - given their scale, Intel or AMD (or whomever) will get on their knees and crawl begging for the business.

None of what you're claiming are disadvantages are actual disadvantages unless they lose the iPhone's position. Unless that happens, they are the industry, they are the (increasingly) dominant ecosystem, the advantage is theirs to press. They're winning.
It's also possible that she hadn't seen the particular algorithm used before, or that she was having an off day or stressing about a meeting immediately after the interview, or that there were errors that she did see and she didn't want to say "yeah there are errors here" because doing so could affect the candidate's confidence in the interviews after hers. I could imagine any of these being true. Or she could just be a bad interviewer.
So it won't do my syslog.

I like that it'll run on a terminal. But it would be more useful to me if it had plugggable backends for arbitrary log formats.
It's also a fair out.
> Why it is insisted that a multi-million (probably billion as costs will overrun) pound highway tunnel project is required [...] Just plant a bloody hedge!

At the risk of sounding cynical about the current state of UKGOV, you can't really bung your mates a hedge planting contract and expect to get something in return later.
Because many with ADHD see a task in their calendar, know they should work on it, but then... 1hr is gone, and nothing got done towards the task... nothing. Because they were doing something else. Now you feel bad. You reschedule it again... and it happens again.

Yes, I see this helping with the over commitment factor. But it doesn't help with doing the thing you need to do.

You need other strategies, such as actually scheduling time to get stimulated prior to tackling that big gnarly task. Or breaking it into just a 5 minute "do the first step" task, so that it's not 1hr of doom scrolling - that maybe a 5 minute chunk of it gets done.

This is my anecdata, though.
Mate, you're preaching to the converted here. Honestly I've never heard these memes of yours before. Not online, not IRL. I've heard LISPers mistakenly talk about their language as the first but never heard anyone talk about UNIX nor C as the first -- if anything I thought it was widely known that both were relatively late inventions the evolution of TSS.

tbh few people even talk about UNIX these days anyway. The kids are all about Linux and many of the older folks like myself cut their teeth on one of the many TSS. So I'd wager the window of those who are familiar enough with POSIX to talk about UNIX but unfamiliar enough to never have used TSS is pretty narrow. At least that's been my experience.
Thanks for the httpx info. Im still using requests but have been looking for a none-blocking option.

With regards to installing via the windows store, I've been told by others in various programmer communities that this isn't the best idea. It doesn't add things to the PATH properly and is a pain to sort out.

I either install it from the python website or using scoop.
The hedge would have to be absolutely massive to hide the henge when you are heading West. The way the road dips down before you get to it means that you would easily see it over any normal size hedge. Even if the it's a fleeting glimpse, it doesn't solve the problem as people will still rubber neck. If anything it will make it worse.

And seeing the controversy is due to the fact that it's the whole landscape that is historic, arguing that you should put a massive a-historic hedge straight across it undermines the main argument against the other proposals.

Do you really think that the planners haven't thought of a hedge and discarded the idea?
This comment has put Red Dwarf to the top of my reading list. I was an avid fan of the tv show and never thought to read the books.

I think we all see a bit of Rimmer in ourselves when it comes to preparing for for an exam.
Yes, that site bears all the hallmarks of a misinformation front: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MintPress_News

The author of the article also seems to be severely lacking in good judgement, since she seems to have appeared on the podcast of anti-vaxxer RFK Jr recently.
A past employer of mine used to have one of these. It was a true work of art: around two dozen lines of code with something to discuss in EVERY SINGLE LINE, ranging from dumb syntax errors to logic errors to problems of overall design. Made for some great conversations.
Show HN: Let your coworker know how they are performing and how they can improve
this looks really bad
Worth mentioning that it comes with an embedded WebSocket server, available as a standalone classical unix server - write programs that do one thing and do it well -

"Very simple, just redirect the output from your application (stdout) to a file (named pipe) and let gwsocket transfer the data to the browser — That's it."

[1] https://gwsocket.io/
Thanks, I really appreciate your thoughts. I specifically agree with

> - At the end of the day you will often ask yourself how you can simultaneously be completely burned out while also not being able to tell what the heck it is you actually did all day
> - Politics. Endless politics. The higher you go, the worse it gets.

I don't work with customers as we build our own product, so we have customers instead :) And product management is still different from project management - but I think many of the things you have highlighted are pretty much the same.

I do want to get into situation in which by the end of the day/week/month I can feel that I have achieved something, I have grown, I have made a difference. While product management gives me opportunity to have really high impact long term, the days without feeling of progress just kill me
If I recall the drive correctly that could work quite well in the towards London direction, but there's both a difference in elevation and two lanes merging into one the other way.
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> Would he actually know or have a way to find out why Macron secrets are being traded to Pegasus clients, or even reign in the spyware industry at all?

I don’t think this would pass muster as an excuse if Israeli industry had been selling missiles to Morocco for use against France.

Curious to see if it ends up being treated the same.
Common, and it has both upsides and downsides. Some deviations are positive innovations. The challenge is to recognise and take responsibility for downward drift without squashing innovation.
> And far more importantly, are they large enough to serve as a disincentive for others to do the same thing in the future?

Considering that 100% of the popular social networks were built on these practices, no. They risk fines of hundreds of millions, maaaaybe billions at most, and they make tens of billions.
The author clearly isn't as well informed as he thinks himself to be. And what a smug jab at Django... Better refer his blogpost to the dumpster where it belongs.
That probably explains a few things...
I've been doing C++ full time since 1996, and yet I frequently have intellisense warning me about forgetting something silly - like a missing capture in a lambda, or even forgotten semi-colons. That's because I'm not an f'ing compiler.

_Can_ I make sure the code is 100% correct before even compiling? Sure, but I'll spend an hour checking every detail, while intellisense does it while I type.
>Famously even if you know the answer pretty well, say because you were the original creator of the thing, but answer in a way that they can't link to the answer key, you still fail.

Which is the most ridiculous part of it. You are being examined and evaluated over trivia in a subject that the examiner likely has no idea about and where there are only 1-2 possible "correct" answers.

That's like sending a janitor to "source" surgeons by asking questions to people in white coats in a competing hospital about appendectomy.

Yet this is considered effective (and acceptable) somehow ...
Dirty little zionists.
Ask HN: Finding data about vaccine vs. infection risks, and making sense of it
Premise: this is a sensitive topic, but of strong intellectual and practical interest, and I see this community as one of the best to fruitfully tackle the matter.

I would be grateful for help in assessing the risks, in amount (probability, conditions/demographics) and details (what may happen, for how long), of the vaccines (foremostly of the vaccines, then of COVID-19) against the current in-focus epidemic. Any "Cost/Risk/Benefit" analysis is supposed to be based on numbers - these numbers may not be immediately available.

The consequences of interest are those of mid-long duration - what lasts only a few days is assumed as "endurable". What may instead last for many weeks, months etc. is relevant.

I have for now only directly checked the data from the USA VAERS system: it seems fairly reliable in terms of the data contained (it is reported to be mostly compiled by medical practitioners), but is very probably less reliable in terms of real amounts - reporting is voluntary. It would be useful to compare it to systems with "active monitoring" in which the compilation from practitioners is mandated. For the moment, I could only access the data from VAERS and could not enter other sources (e.g. the European and the Australian one). Already in the VAERS it does not seem immediate to discriminate the expected first-days side effects from the long duration ones.

I also do not know which repository about the consequences (condition, probability, duration, demographics...) of actual infection could be the most reliable. In fact, even calculating the odds of infection does not seem trivial.

Thank you.
Categorizing it as either a bug or a feature is thinking at extremes and is indicative of the influence of the media on your minds, leading to poor decision making. It's a feature with weaknesses.

As another example, the NRA preventing gun control laws in spite of school shootings. The path the US has chosen is both poison and boon. The trouble is who gets to suffer from the poison?
> I don’t know why tests are easy and then the people who can’t ace the watered down tests compete amongst themselves for the less less able titles

The tests are not easy, and the "passing score" is set by the sum of competition. The techniques allowed to be taught, and which get tested are obtuse. Instead of allowing brilliant students to progress into more difficult subjects the tests funnel the entire country into the same testing flow. It would be like trying to score everyone based on arithmetic.

Yes arithmetic is easy, but given enough volume of overly complex questions even easy skills can be tortured to create a grading curve.
Wow, thanks for reply!

Some time ago (~7-8months) I tried to implement a chronofold-based app myself in not so fancy language (c#). The data structure itself is very nicely described in the paper, but for merging strategy there are only references to other papers... So I tried to find it implemented in other langs, most of repos were bare bones, yours was the most complete, so I took it as a reference. I lifted the merging strategy verbatim from it, and it passed all the tests in repo plus some additional tests. But when faced a real user input strange things happened.

I will try to find exact cases and open an issue, but not today, unfortunately :(

Edit: AFAIR, I had problems with this func:
https://github.com/dkellner/chronofold/blob/16773193b2d21f81... and the problem manifested itself for concurrent deletes. Plus it has reversed order for consecutive deletes regarding to original paper. I have not succeeded with fixing it and just scratched the whole thing and used a simpler (yet not as performant) merging strategy...
You applied that comment beyond its intent. With more energy in the atmosphere, "the average [temperature] will inevitably be higher. Basic physics doesn't allow for anything else."
Keep in mind this is your opinion. Unless you've done a poll of users (my comment is getting a lot of upvotes), you have no idea what most people prefer. I can come up with more reasons why -c is better, why consistency in this case is not an issue, and why -b makes sense for checkout, but it's not worth the time debating opinions on a done deal.

The only reason I bothered commenting is your comment pretty much called them stupid because their decision didn't line up with what you would have done.
True. And some states will still take another couple of generations. For example, no sense of Indian-ness was observed when killing Assam policemen by the fellow Indians on the other side fighting over state border.

I remember a discussion a couple of years ago. Why Indian states are not as straight cut as US states? The above incident is an example why it is not possible as yet here. I am not saying it is good or bad.
From the judge in that case, with which I’m inclined to agree: “You are not being prosecuted for speaking out about the drone program killing innocent people,” said O’Grady. “You could have been a whistleblower … without taking any of these documents.”

That punishment was for sharing documents classified as top secret with a journalist, not for calling out a deviation.
In other words - don't bother to apply if you actually need a job. And if you have a job already, why would you bother to apply there? It used to be attractive but is it still? With all the scandals and upheaval in the recent years?
What you mean? Its literally his idea/policy.

The previous leader however must be reeling in pain.
And Android has had it since 2013.

I am not sure if it's simply bad marketing but I often feel like a lot of the features Android has are unknown to iPhone users (understandable) but also unknown to many Android users.

I remember a colleague of mine getting an iPhone after being on Android for years. I asked her why she switched and she told me that there were all these great features her friend had told her about that iPhones had. Turns out all those features already existed on Android, they were just unknown to her.
Because a Company expecting a "walking set of tech keywords" is a terrible deal for everyone but charlatans.

It is terrible for inexperienced developers eager to learn on the job as is common in other industries or was in ours in the past.

It's terrible you're an experienced developer that is able to pick technologies quickly, or just wants a proper work-life balance.

It is terrible for developers who are deeply familiar with the technology but expect to work with a team of professionals, rather than with "walking set of tech keywords".
For all the complaints, people will continue to jump through the hoops given an engineer with 3-5 years experience can make close to 400k in TC/year. That is not happening anywhere else outside of FAANG and certain finance companies. Google can be as picky as they want.
Many corrupt companies are corrupt at the top. These companies will be resistant to establishing “corruption prediction”.
> Edit: just realised you sorta said this, just in a different way. Will leave this here regardless.

Yup, your description is a good complement to what I was getting at.
>If you want to develop on Mac, you have to use Xcode, you cant use any other tools. So Apple is at a disadvantage.

I don't think that's true even if you consider IDEs that target the OS X frameworks only. Intellij has a product, Flutter targets iOS, I am not an OS X developer but those two jump out straight away.

As for developing on Mac - it's a Unix & so a very capable development tool to target a range of platforms.
> Germany's strict laws surrounding "insults", which mean that you can incur a €600 fine for intentionally addressing a police officer using the colloquial form ("du" instead of the more formal "Sie")

Do you have a reference on the "du" as insult ever being successfully prosecuted? I can't find anything.
Physical keyboard phones still exist.

Probably not how you want it, though.

https://www.unihertz.com/titan.html
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Far less radical than having two different versions of IP on the Internet at the same time.

When there was only IPv4 there was no reason for backwards compatibility. Caring about backwards compatability doesn't become radical simply because it becomes necessary.
It seems that many prominent Zionist are very friendly with alt-right and conservative types until it is convenient for them to play the antisemitism card and then suddenly they question their judgement.
SOAP and REST At Odds (2017)
Yes. The time of day the user posts can reveal to their time zone. People often leave comments that reveal their age or gender. If the user mentions a business or product name, it might only available in certain part of the world. Many people reuse account names on other services and their content their may have more clues... etc.
Well yes, back in the old days most of us were self thaught through articles such as Phrack, or connections on IRC, and lots and lots of experimentation.

I would say today it is both easier and harder. It is harder because the body of knowledge is so much larger, it is easier because so many more materials and exercises are available.

From my perspective, and I lead a team of these security researchers, it is an advanced career path, and still requires a lot of self-motivation. That said, there are more and more definitions of what "security researcher" means, in some cases it means being able to find web vulnerabilities without using Burp, so YMMV.

I would suggest to focus on fundamental skills such as reverse engineering, code review, low-level languages such as C and assembly, interfacing at a low-level with binaries through debuggers and instrumentation etc etc. Those are all broadly applicable.
Playing CTF games is a good starting point too, as is auditing open source software.

But make no mistake, it will be a challenge, and it will require tenacity on your part.
Good luck !
Not to mention it is only happening due to the emergence of mobile with a different architecture (new field, existing moat is meaningless etc etc)
But that happens only after they've already sold the finely-carved distribution contracts, got branded TV remotes, and kickbacks they wanted. The legally-operating companies that sign contracts need to act like DRM is real, because the law says it's real.
Do you actually have counter-arguments to her findings here?