skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recently applied to a DevOps Engineer position and after multiple interviews (took ages to plan them...), I finally reached the take-home challenge stage. I have been tasked to work on something absolutely not related to the job, with a framework I have never heard of, and which has never been evoked during the interviews... what a trap!

I obviously failed miserably and they did not even follow up on the challenge even if they said they will... nice!

It is not healthy to set up the candidates to fail - at especially such a late stage - because you just waste everyone's time (especially your own employees'!). I do understand that the companies are trying to protect themselves against false positives, but it sometimes reaches some ridiculous proportions!

Since then, I have something else so happy end (at least for me because they still haven't filled their position...).
You could say the same thing about how speakers/microphones are equivalent. But it should be clear that some of those devices are tuned for outputting sound vs inputting sound, or vice versa.
I have one of their stickers. It was nice! IIRC it was doing fine, but they ran of out funding and their next round of financing fell through unexpectedly.
NMP.

Ditched them and shelved all my iShit. I'm done.

Edit > sorry for the LQP - But, it's how I feel. And, my therapist said I should tell others how I really feel.

And since you iCucks are downvoting me, to hell with HEIC.
Thank you for answering everything I ever wondered about SiC. Are there any other semiconductors that would be even better than SiC in all four points?
Have you ever actually been asked to implement a sorting algorithm or balance a tree from memory? I've done a lot of whiteboard interviews, including at some of the Big Ns, and I can't say I ever experienced this, despite those exercises being used as a kind of metonym for whiteboarding.
Linux 5.15 Enabling “-Werror” by Default for All Kernel Builds
And how it funnily relates to the Gell-Mann amnesia effect.
Although named after physicis Murray Gell-Mann:

https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
You've conflated the role of assets and currencies in a financial system. Even separating that out, that's not a productive asset. The productive asset would be an interest in the lending platform.

Concretely it would be like treating gold as a productive asset because InteractiveBrokers lets you take out a margin loan collateralized by your gold. Gold remains unproductive in this scenario, IBKR shares would productive. Value from lending would accrue to IBKR shares.
The fact that a QR code is allowed to take action on the phone automatically without telling what that action is and without any confirmation from the user is I think the main problem.
Maybe they're working on terraforming technology.
Doesn't C++ have a lot of churn recently? The transition to C++11, best practices evolving, new features in C++14/17/20?
Classic story re that last line: https://www.baen.com/Chapters/9781618249203/9781618249203___...
Only 4 and a bit months since its first flight though, when it was all over the news.
They were actually charged and went to prison.

Kinda weird actually considering they were operating on their own government's orders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior

Can you imagine, the government telling you to do something and then dragging you in front of a court after you do it :S I don't think they should have gone through with it but as they were under orders I don't think the responsibility lies with them.

By the way I really miss the way Greenpeace is no longer a grassroots environmental organisation. Protesting against nuclear testing, whaling etc the way they did was risky but effective.

Nowadays they're just another multinational corporation, just with some environmental goals. It's no wonder they're never really in the news anymore. And the need for this activism is actually much greater than ever now.
Android is the emergency.
Same concerns with THE LINE [1] in Saudi Arabia.

I'm guessing that the energy harvesting from the geography and leveraging the locale's low humidity for evaporative cooling, along with the generally ultra-low cost of acquiring the dirt, are pretty attractive for moonshot projects like these. I've yet to see any of these types of projects start with fundamentals like better-than-PassivHaus insulation standards, or NetZero standards, or make form follow function by performing and designing around an energy flow analysis, or learn from the lessons that Strong Towns extracted from the population density factors, and so on, so these projects are likely run into many of the same foundational challenges that many nations and cities struggle with today. I think coming up with a framework that allows organic evolution towards integrating these many different factors continuously over the long-term is all we can really hope to accomplish for practical success; we likely simply don't have the sufficient analytical tools to design-up-front except in the most basic, infrastructural ways.

[1] https://www.neom.com/en-us/whatistheline
> I'm not sure why they spend such a large amount of time discussing the energy usage just to eventually agree with the people they're criticizing

It's an incoherent argument designed to provoke an emotional response. Cryptocurrency must represent what, 0.5% of global energy usage? It's literally nothing. Yet we have all these people using their computers manufactured in China to write about how cryptocurrency is destroying the planet.
PINs are safer, and less fraud is better. At the end of the day, shifting blame and liability is not going to change anything.

However, using security factors like secrets or updating the withdrawal limit is possibly inconvenient, that's why some people rather not use them and companies are incentivised to just recover the relatively minor losses to fraud in fees.

I guess it comes down to the fact that in some countries people are used to having about five different cards, and in others it's close to one.

((1) is both disingenuous (ignoring sensible withdrawal limits) and mathematically wrong (unlimited fraud spread evenly over all accounts is still unlimited fraud against every account). I guess people would pay more to avoid surprises, but they'd like it even more if there was less fraud.)

(3) The point was more that someone will have to pay for the fraud that is happening. Deriving a structural advantage from not using secrets is far fetched.
Does that mean that bigger disk doesn't actually increase the speed which currency is generated?
> Minecraft does doors right in comparably simple way, and I think few if any players have a problem with it

See https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-149060 "Villagers "spam" doors by opening and closing them really fast"

Or https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-69281?jql=text%20~%20%22do... to see the 6000+ bug reports related to doors.

Or watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiEq0bJcAz0 "Villager door spam"
I believe he is a rich guy playing poker with other rich guys who play even worse so he's still made some money from it. That was at least the word in high-stakes poker circles back then.
> Years of administration telling the math department that our passing rate is too low have led me to pretty much pass everyone who takes the final exam. Last semester 80% passed but only around 50% deserved to

Doesn't this contribute to lower the reputation of the universities?

I mean, I did sociology in a small university in northern Spain and there was debate between the stats and methodology professors and pretty much everyone else about this.

In the end I'm grateful to my stats and methodology professors, because having to work very hard is the only thing that actually gave me something useful to go and fight with the world.

Many of my peers had to go to other unis because they couldn't pass there, so in the end they get a pass like me, the same in the eyes of employers, but they know it's bullshiting, and I know too.

IDK, It seems to me that there's a lot of lazyness in social sciences, and this kind of hard attitude to it is not only good for the students, but needed in the field.

IDK in the US, but this professors got a lot of heat for their stances on what a university is about, but they stood their ground, even when they've got hit by political bullshit, denied money for research, etc.

There's another thing (again, IDK if it's the same in the US), but why don't you see it in CS or Engineering faculties? I mean, I remember in my uni the students of this faculties had maybe a couple of professors that where ok to lower the bar a bit, but most of them just assumed that you gotta learn what you gotta learn. And many of them where pretty hostile to students, 180º stance from what I see in Stanford Moocs for example.
Not really.

1. There's no reason why a threat actor would have to send you 3-4 messages per day. Of the exploits I've seen, they only need to send one. Sending 3-4 messages per day just unnecessarily increases the risk of getting caught (ie. the target getting suspicious and asking on hacker news whether they're getting hacked)

2. There's no reason why the message has to contain sketchy links. They could very well disguise messages as ads/notifications for well known businesses, political organizations, or from random people who got the wrong phone number.

3. There's no reason why the attacker can't erase any trace of the initial message after your device is infected, so unless you're staring at your phone 24/7 it's very easy to miss the message.
Focusing on "solving double spending" as though it were the one thing that represents the entire financial system seems to me kind of like imagining that the global transportation system can be replaced by some sort of algorithm with the singular function of ensuring large metal objects don't physically coincide.
Probabilities factored in with other data can be exceedingly useful.

Remember: all you need is 33 bits.
Adam here from Changelog.com. There’s a transcript as well if you’d like to read or scan the conversation.
That Rust is gaining both mind-share and market share.

A lot of the HN folks wage meaningless language wars that are a distraction from the actual success elements of Rust: namely that it removes a class of bugs by the mere virtue of your program compiling. Add to that a stellar quality and very dedicated community, sprinkle amazing tooling on top (semgrep filters, tree-sitter support, code-generation libraries) and it is a clear winner. Hence, "the writing on the wall" comment.

From HN and several other forums, plus a few companies I worked in, plus some meetups, I got the impression that the chief factor of slowing down Rust's adoption are a lot of C/C++ graybeards on influential positions that have an axe to grind against it and never bother to give actual technical arguments in a discussion. Unproductive and somewhat juvenile but hey, people being people.

That, plus the mind-boggling amount of C/C++ code that has to be rewritten should the world accept Rust as their successor is, shall we say, a very valid reason for its adoption to not be super fast. (And a fairly valid reason at that.) This problem sadly still exists. But with the Linux kernel starting to pay (some) attention to security problems, I have hope that such efforts will begin sooner rather than later.
You must be rather lucky. Being in a similar position to parent, almost all companies will do leetcode or leetcode style homework now. It's too cheap and easy for them not to, when you cna literally just pay HackerRank to generate a test for you and send it to thousands of people.
Don't worry, apparently they'll be moving to proof of wealth soon which is Much Better.
Or even more likely the environment fails to accommodate for people being different.
Playing a poker can also be an interesting mental exercise. I occasionally play 3-4 tables concurrently online, of which I ultimately focus on a single one I always-eventually get lucky in (it might take a dozen games but the single one usually pays the rest off), and the amount of exhaustion you feel after 6-7 hours of that is surprising. Nothing like what programming gives me. I have heard similar experiences from ex-professional chess players.
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His name is all over the article. Why are you referring to him as Dan B. ?
Most teachers would struggle with algebra II.
> Also -- VSCode's shortcuts seem to map 1-to-1 to Sublime's. Is that possible?

One difference I know is that putting a cursor at the end of each line is cmd+shift+L on Sublime and opt+shift+I on VSCode: minor, but some things don't overlap. VSCode does offer to install a sublime-keymap extension when launched if you have Sublime which configures it to be more sublime-like.

> who was the first to come up with ctrl/cmd-P for quick open by name and ctrl/cmd-shift-P

Sublime has been around longer than VSC so most things would have gone Sublime -> VSC. I recall the cmd+p being a novel and strong selling point for Sublime for me.
Just great. I mean, drives are the only things I'd rather buy new, but how hard can it be to fake the whole packaging these days.
Compared to database-in-datacenter type uses, chia actually puts very little load on ssd's.

All writes are fully streaming, there is no write amplification, and there are lots of random reads involved (which don't really cause much wear/stress).
Thank you so much!
Had never heard of her, and now I'm in love!
Hunter Biden Laptop Guy Owes Twitter Money After Failed Lawsuit
There are some questions science is not allowed to ask now. This is, of course, because they fear the possible findings. And I laugh every time some progressive I know shits on the Republicans for being "anti-science." (not that they are any better)
Does not using full refresh periodically cause burn-in?
I'd imagine most first person games use their occlusion culling as their base for network visibility, but I could be wrong.
In discussion with Christine Webber on Mastodon: Onion services rather than simply using Tor as a transit service offers far more protection.

Here, data enter the Tor system, but don't leave it as the onion service itself has a Tor address.

Yes, traffic analysis and timing correlations may still be used to draw inferences, but again, costs are raised, and that's the critical factor.
That's interesting. Contrary to most claims, there are people right now who are actually getting paid in crypto.

This will be an excellent test for Monero's privacy features.
The left often accuses the right of being anti-science -- e.g. on climate change, and now vaccines -- with good reason. But it's true that the left has its own troubles with being opposed to science, and genetic effects on behavior is one example.

Being egalitarian-minded, many progressives are inherently hostile to the idea that our personalities and behaviors may be hardwired on some level...except that they don't generally have trouble accepting it for, say, sexual preferences. So it's not even a consistent opposition.

To me, the idea that our behavior is a combination of both nature and nurture seems kind of obvious, and the idea that we should refrain from scientific inquiry here because people might use the knowledge improperly feels...wrong. Very wrong.
There's no objective measure of decency. I'm qualified to offer my subjective input while evaluating the candidate because I'll be on the team that has to work with them.

And frankly, I'll happily take the L if the candidate rejects me as the interviewer at another position. I have no right to assert that I'm the best possible candidate for their role because the job at hand isn't strictly about quantitatively measured qualifications. Though, if I rejected a candidate for being unpleasant, chances are I'll withdraw my application upon seeing they're and interviewer. Why would I change my mind about working with that person?
a subtext of that advice, don't play too big

you don't feel curious if you bet your house on a poker game, but 50 bucks you get to enjoy the downfall
Yes google can, but if Protonmail can be compelled by a proxy foreign government to start logging an individuals IP, they could easily collect your decryption key with a targeted attack as well.
AMD Brazos E-450.

Basic video is the keyword, on its heyday of GNU/Linux drivers it was capable of OpenGL 4.1 with hardware video decoding, then it got replaced with a driver that does OpenGL 3.3 and that is about it, thankfully the Windows drivers have been kept up to date.
I felt the same! The best I could find online was that the match-up is not yet scheduled.
Two options: the claimed IP on the interface is removed or said to never have existed in the first place, and/or prevent bootloader locking.

First one is a very good idea, as older IP law actually holds that interfaces aren't copyrightable. US IP law is schizophrenic on this last point considering the Oracle ruling. E.g. you're free to implement an interface for compatibility.
I just feel exhausted with scrum. Everything feels like yet another status report and "Why isn't it done yet?" I think we all may have bit into agile as process that revolutionized process because we have this natural tendency to value process and think that is getting us closer to if not the product.
Isn't that exactly what proof of stake is?
I don't think this fundamentally changes how I've thought of the relationship between genetics and experience, specifically because of this line:

> [Harden] told me, “As a parent, I try to keep in mind that differences between people are examples of runaway feedback loops of gene-by-environment interaction. People have some initial genetic predisposition to something, and that leads them to choose certain friends over other friends, and these initial exposures have a certain effect, and you like that effect and you choose it again, and then these feedback loops become self-reinforcing.”

Feedback loops sound about right, where some tiny minute preference leads to positive reinforcement, leads to more positive reinforcement, until you've got a full blown preference/predilection/talent for something (or the opposite).

The idea that genetics play zero role seems silly, but it also makes sense that society shapes the experience of someone with a given genetic combination in a way we can still control.

This (very long) article reinforces my belief that society is best off when it finds a place for everyone, and not when it idolizes one set of talents/skills, and acknowledges just how little genetics really matter to be "competent" at any given thing.

I very much look forward to reading the book this article is promoting.
Buy direct from manufacturer. Samsung, Western Digital, etc all have their own online stores.
> The only thing I feel like would be viable would be one shared encryption key for large rooms that just gets shared between the members via a resource-intensive diffie-helman-like message once and then after that everyone just uses the same key.

I agree on that extent. I find Telegram on this grey area which people recommend it as an alternative to Signal or WhatsApp (these people ask for group e2e) and at the same time many communities use Telegram channels and groups as alternatives/complementary to Discord. An app as Telegram is not going to please the majority and maybe this could be the case for Revolt.
If resources are limited, this might be equivalent to saying that some students can't be taught, at scale at least.
Modern browsers partition caches by site nowadays - at least, Chrome started doing it last year[0], and Firefox followed soon after I think [1]. That means there's no longer any caching benefit for multiple websites using jQuery - each site will download and cache it separately.

[0] https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2020/10/http-cache...

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Privacy/State_P...
> The correct approach is to not model the floor as thin sheet geometry but instead to model it as solid objects, e.g. the CSG approach used in Quake, Half-Life 1 and Unreal 1 & 2.

While I never actually did any level editing, I did read a guide to the Unreal Tournament level editor, which said that UT was unusual in that a blank level was filled with mass and the level creation process involved subtracting that away to create empty space, rather than adding objects to an empty void.

Related?
It's for the case where you are concerned about malicious modification and the user is expected to not deal with the ramifications of the error message. This case in particular:

$ gpg2 -d backup.tgz.pgp | tar xz

So the modified backup file can do bad things before anyone can stop it because gpg will complete the operation before warning of the modification.

It doesn't have integrated signature support so that in most cases an attacker can use the public key to entirely replace the file and avoid the bother of some sort of known text attack in the first place. So I think that the use case is so narrow as to disappear.

The linked article covers this. That is really all there is.

It serves best as a demonstration of what an encryption utility would be like that blows up and errors out on a possible modification, as opposed to completing the operation and returning the error at the end.
I hope both my probability is right and you’re probabilities are correct, leaving us with a >70% of all of above
Worse, there is no hell.
I think in the paedagogy community genetics is often an excuse for the unwillingness to develop right teaching concepts. It's then the "fault" of the pupils.
Polya did good works, especial regarding Mathematics.

Of course there are genetic influences and not everybody can be an Einstein or rocket scientist. But below that level there is a lot possible that has nothing to do with genetics.
Most things are more influenced by motivation than the ability. And on that the real cause does not matter.

If the people would spend only a fraction of the energy, they waste with questioning if something is genetic or not, in the development of skills by learning - they would improve beyond the proclaimed "genetic" level.

Reduce media consume. Reduce politics. Almost the whole discussion is toxic.
The right proclaims everything is genetic but on the other side punish people not having the "good genetics".
This doesn’t necessarily have to do with genetics but with the environment you live in when going to school. My parents and grand parents were both born in the countryside and couldn’t get algebra or calculus (whereas myself and my siblings didn’t have issues learning) because they were lacking the basis that you now more easily get in primary and secondary school if you have supportive parents and teachers.

By the time you’re in college, it’s already over. It’s why good daycare / preschool / school for everyone matters, otherwise you’re just missing out on a lot of potential talent.
Linus Torvalds: “GitHub creates useless garbage merges”
Yes that was my sarcastic point :).
> there may be large diamonds in the mantle

Indeed:

https://gizmodo.com/is-the-earths-mantle-full-of-diamonds-18...
Proud second place on the list of best doors in video games, after the XCom door that is only ever correctly opened by carefully arranging six soldiers in descending order of disposability before touching that right mouse button.
I encountered this issue recently. I wanted to read an old paper of pretty narrow interest, published in a long-defunct journal. In its day, within the relevant small community, it was considered a quality paper by a respected author; it was not some obscure paper that no one ever read.

It isn't officially available anywhere today. There's no invisible hand to save those old publications from being lost to time. Happily, with the help of strangers online, I was eventually (after many months) able to get my hands on an electronic copy. The formal system of publishers was of absolutely no use, and the fear of copyright trouble is likely the reason the paper isn't easily available from some online archive.

Doubtless there's no profit in preserving such papers formally.