skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Found the victim-blamer, who blames them for speaking up for themselves.
Sounds like you should open a recruiting and placement agency if you have 1,000 of what everyone else is searching for high and low with limited success.
I don't see an open role for a full stack engineer, is there no JD for it yet?
Twitter's never getting an edit button and there's nothing I love more than seeing journos seeth over how Twitter has developed over the years.

Hey nytimes: if you want to you can put your website up on the social web just by shoehorning a few simple W3C recommendations into your content management system. Stop with this incessant punditry over what a company decides to spend engineering time and resources on. They do not work for you. You don't need them.

If you can't tell from my tone this topic makes me cranky because it's so obvious to me what these media/newspapers should do with their websites, and it's maddening to see them leave that option off the table to have their editors whine about walled gardens. The open web and its extension into federated social interoperability has existed for over 13 years at this point. The Ponzi web3 is not going to save you. Use what's been specced out by the standardization bodies. You can come participate too if you need to (contact the fine folks at W3C for membership info).
I predict a VR app from Block called Party where Tidal supplies the music
Just FYI. The app that I’ve been working on is designed for a “comfortable stasis.” It may take some time to get there, but I have no interest in metrics-driven growth, or appropriation of people’s PII.

We are likely to introduce changes, over time; but these will all be completely focused on Serving our users’ needs more effectively.

Kind of refreshing. I’m working for a 501(c)(3), and we don’t need to show “growth”; just Serve our community.
My first question was whether I could run the cat thing in this.
I've had so many of my favorite tracks disabled/gone this way. :(
yes, if u don't remember it, it takes a big of thought to how to use two pointers to sort left and right for quicksort
What determines which surfaces you can build on and which you can't? It seems random — I can keep clicking on an end wall to extend the building for a while, and then suddenly I can't anymore.
I am a mechanical watch collector. I stand by my opinion that the widgets on the Apple watch should never be called complications by anyone, ever.
Former Ubiquiti employee charged with stealing data and extorting company
Funny you mention that, the person who solved part 1 in 258 seconds recorded themself solving that one live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODUkgEeF7sc
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The polar ice caps were at the lowest volume ever in 2017, and have broken records continuously this past decade or so: “Still there” is a disingenuous dismissal of their morbid condition. http://psc.apl.uw.edu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/schweiger...

The coral reefs are collapsing. To claim otherwise is simply ludicrous. https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(21)00474-...

Sea levels are rising an eighth of an inch a year, and over 2 ½ inches this past forty years. This is noticeable. https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/sealevel.html

Extreme weather events have doubled in the past two decades. https://e360.yale.edu/digest/extreme-weather-events-have-inc...

You are deeply uninformed.
Facebook is very damaging to the fabric of society and this is just further evidence of it all. If Facebook employed an even remotely accurate sample of the population based on political leanings and backgrounds for their content policy team this would have never happened. I think the amount of blame the left and media placed on Facebook for the 2016 election of President Trump are to majorly to blame for the whole situation.
Nietzsche agreed with you :)
There was some stat I saw a while ago that Gen Z doesn't visit free porn sites, finding themselves sated by regular social media. I wondered why. Now I see!
I'm lucky to live close enough to the ocean that I can cart my kayak to the water. I love paddling, so the exercise doesn't feel like much of a chore.

I think when choosing where to live, I'd either want to live adjacent to some good hiking trails, or near any body of water. Living in a city wouldn't be good for me, because I don't like going to the gym either.

Bodyweight fitness is a good alternative to the gym - I have some gymnastic rings set up and it's easy to get in a couple of 5-10 minute workouts at random times.

You still want to restrict your calories, but at least when you're working out regularly you can eat a more normal diet and still lose weight.
Plex can also handle audiobooks reasonably well if you play them with the app Prologue.

https://prologue.audio/
> This might be enough to make the average private school student smarter than the average public school student.

Note that here we're talking about something different - namely, that _at any given university_, the kids from public schools are smarter than the kids from private schools. We don't talk about all kids - only kids in universities, and there is selection filter for who gets there, so in universities the distribution of "smartness" for private or public school kids is different than in schools.

In other words, maybe you're right and the average private school student is smarter than the average public school student. But it's not the average student who gets to a university.

There was once a stable state when many universities had several candidates for each place, and could choose whom to admit. Theoretically, the better the university the bigger the pool of candidates it has. However some universities were notoriously hard to get to, so candidates didn't even bother to apply there. As a result, the candidate pools in those universities were smaller, but those candidates were of a different kind - as if they have already passed pre-filter which made them more confident that they are those special ones who has better than average chance to get to those hard to get universities.
I think the dependence is clearly exponential. The discrepancy in the scattering angle should grow by a factor of O(mean free path/radius of scatterer) per scattering event.
yep, because DOS 1 was a virtual clone of CP/M and kept the same feature set.
I agree this is a problem, but IMO it's pretty specific to social media, or other free online services. Typically a business can reach 1.0, then seek to expand their market, or release the next big version, get people to pay for a bigger plan etc etc. All the normal ways a company grows once it has "made it."
Sorry! Try now
> Seriously though, I hope everyone reading this recognizes how ridiculous it is. If you go into interviews thinking you can neg your interviewer, refuse parts of the interview, and they're going to love it so much that they'll offer you a job, you're mistaken.

I once flat out refused to solve a question and still got an offer.. It really depends on a lot of variables to make a blanket statement either way. One of the variables is your level of experience. After a point, the fact that the interview goes both ways can skew heavily in favor of the candidate and if you're tactful and polite you can totally get away with driving the interview away from stupid problems. If you can't, then maybe you don't belong there and maybe that's ok. It's a win-win. A job is not a blessing, it's just a job. Unless you're starving, there's no point in pretending you're drone.
PG is saying it logically has to be true as "a necessary consequence of private schools improving kids' admissions prospects", which subsequently has to be true because "parents wouldn't send their kids to private schools if they didn't [improve kids' admissions prospects]."

I personally think this is an interesting thought experiment—albeit also one with a lot of flaws. What if the kids from private school are smarter because the private schools have better instruction? Or what if only smarter kids are accepted into private school, as private schools have a (frequently competitive) admissions process, whereas public schools have to take everyone.
I praise all censorship and all inconsistency by Facebook. Poison discourse to the point that it stops happening. Facebook is a platform for manipulation not for communication.
A couple actually haha
Population density of Native Americans was low and their wares were not particularly durable. Good luck finding something.
I don't think there's a way back.

Software devs need to start thinking seriously about the world they're building. "Just doing my job" isn't an excuse. The only way to a sane future I can see is to quit and start using federated services for everything.
If you want this to succeed, I suggest you change the name.

This is like starting a band named "The Beetles". Word about your band will never spread, because people who hear the name in passing will will subconsciously read or hear this as "The Beatles". When you talk to strangers about whether they've heard of "The Beetles", even if you put in the extra effort of "no I mean Beetles with two 'E's", in most cases they will nod their head and say yes, because the association in their head to "Beatles" has already been made and they will simply assume you or they have the spelling wrong.

The effect is that they'll not mentally register that there's something new here, so they won't put time into learning about it. Even if they tried, search results for "The Beetles" will auto-correct to "The Beatles".
Anything that reduces the startup time users experience is not cheating.
yeah, even though I defend the inability to change the status page instantly, it is clearly an imperfect system.
Yes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/business/economy/labor-ma...

> Nearly every weekday morning for much of last year, Mr. Forseth would board a van at the minimum-security prison outside Madison, Wis., and ride to Stoughton Trailers, where he and more than a dozen other inmates earned $14 an hour wiring taillights and building sidewalls for the company’s line of semitrailers.

> After he was released, Mr. Forseth kept right on working at Stoughton. But instead of riding in the prison van, he drives to work in the 2015 Ford Fusion he bought with the money he saved while incarcerated.

> Work-release programs have often been criticized for exploiting inmates by forcing them to work grueling jobs for pay that is often well below minimum wage. But the Wisconsin program is voluntary, and inmates are paid market wages. State officials say the program gives inmates a chance to build up some savings, learn vocational skills and prepare for life after prison.
Paul Graham's assertion that 'parents send their kids to private schools to improve university admission standards' does not guarantee that 'kids from public schools are smarter than kids from private schools.'

Some private schools have high admission standards, and these have better teachers and more motivated students than comparative public schools in the area. The existence of these counter-examples shows that Graham's reasoning doesn't hold. He also assumes that the public school students have studied less material, or easier material, than private school students, and are more motivated to learn. This isn't guaranteed; certain public school programs (like IB, mentioned by another commenter here) meet or exceed the curriculum standards by other private schools. In short, the wording of the Tweets in their current form demonstrate weak reasoning.

However, to take a more charitable interpretation, it's true that other private schools let anyone in who can pay the tuition, while also having less dedicated teachers and unmotivated students compared to public schools (especially public schools with high admission standards). Using more precise language, it can be altered to roughly: "motivated but less-privileged students can outcompete less motivated, more-privileged students in university."

This is a more interesting assertion, but it also depends on the amount of privilege (e.g. some privileged students get an apartment with near-zero commute to the university, lots of cash, the best tutors, etc.). Life isn't truly meritocratic, but you try to do the best you can with the cards you're dealt.
A point is 1/72 of an inch. A CSS pixel is canonically 1/96 of an inch. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/CSS_pixel
I guess Apple officially calls them complications. My bad, but ugh.
I didn't know anything about AoC until just recently when I took a very brief look at the 2020 problems (but didn't deep-dive). I'm trying to find good problems that can help me learn SAT/SMT solvers, but there doesn't seem to be much out there. Anyone know how well-suited these are for AoC?
I find that intermittent fasting for just 12 - 16 hours can be helpful. If you stop eating around 7pm and don't have anything but water or bone broth until 11 or so the next day, that's going to help you burn a lot of calories.

Another thing I do in the evening is skip dinner and just eat a bowl of popcorn or a bowl of yogurt. Both seem to help me achieve satiety.

Half an avocado with olive oil and salt is also good.
The company is called Google, and the news is called China, or that's what I could have sworn anyway.
Best Offline Horror Games for Android
In the Android Market, there are a lot of horror games scattered widely around, they weren't that special before because they looked clunky and often had a zombie theme.

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anything can go down, and has. the only thing I know of that hasn't is the internet as a whole. some parts go offline, but the internet itself, as a cohesive system, has never failed.

I bet it will one day, what with legislative "kill switches" being a thing.
This is a perfect example of engineering. He says it at the end - its not something that could ever be arrived at by accident. (And I suspect its not feasible to launch sizeable weights (bowling balls) at near mach 1. The Ancient Romans would have been disappointed :-)
It's pretty easy to prep for, and pass, the technician test. The test pool is published online (with answers) for everyone to see. And the actual test is just 35 questions drawn randomly from the overall pool. So really, if you wanted to, you could just memorize the answers to enough of the question and have a chance of passing ranging anywhere from "ok" to "pretty much 100%". Now I don't recommend just memorizing answers without actually trying to understand the material, but I do recommend doing repeated practice exams in conjunction with your studies, that are based on the actual test pool, which will pretty much tell you when you're ready for the real test.

There are a number of sites that will generate a mock exam for you, drawn from the test pool, give you your score, and then let you generate another random test. Some sites keep track of your progress and let you do useful things like generating a test drawn only from questions you've previously missed. So yeah, again, if blind memorization is your thing, getting ready to pass this test is not hard at all. But I really do recommend making some effort to really understand what's going on and not just memorizing stuff blindly. But ultimately it's up to you.
This is what I thought. These companies are taking advantage of people who don't have enough information and make them pay for rest of their life.
All the people who attend these presentation are the ones who are trying to save money.
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Reminds me of my WinAmp playlist
The mobile version of the site fixes this.
Have recently discovered the Honkaku novels from Japan, which were part of a revival of golden age, "fair play" detective fiction. I recommend starting with The Honjin Murders. Have really enjoyed them as it's the first time after Christie that I've discovered something close to it.
It's been a while since I watched. I'll have to take a look. There was also a more Infocom-centric cut of _Get Lamp_ that Jason shipped with the initial documentary.
I somehow have completely missed the announcement on PlexAmp. I’ve just been using their standard ‘Plex’ iOS app all this time. I just now downloaded PlexAmp and it looks great.
I love to rate and add tags to my music while listening so I hope this app provides a good UX for that (in addition to the obvious needs like sorting and organizing).
In terms of initial impression it looks waaaay shinier than their standard app I’ve been using all this time. Excited to start using it more.
Definitely gives me pause to hear things like Facebook disallowing support of an individual embroiled in a hostile media environment and dubious criminal charges. Where would figures like Amanda Knox be if a similar wave of thought-crime style censorship were deployed at scale?

Of course large companies setting narratives is not a new problem for us - large media conglomerates have done similar things for decades. But the scale at which Facebook operates and the reach it has, to say that support of Rittenhouse was disallowed as an opinion on the entire platform - just gives me serious pause.
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> I really hope we'll look back at this age with the same wisdom-fuelled disgust we have when we look back at the early industrial age.

Why wait? Like you it disgusts me now.
I don't follow AoC but I think Eric Wastl is awesome because he used to transcribe anime music (or someone with the same name). (E.g., search for 'eric wastl haibane renmei')
Zig is, however, not memory safe, which outweighs all of those benefits in this context.
> and therefore they should be putting their money into Bitcoin as an investment (not to spend).

I disagree with this part of the paragraph. Maybe legitimising Bitcoin was hijacked by cryptobros later on to push their own narrative, but the people who originally got into Bitcoin simply wanted to be an accepted currency for goods and services, nothing more and nothing less.
Neither is Instagram. But you just mean that Netflix uses a paywall model whereas Instagram uses a pay-with-attention-to-ads.
This is what happens when you let people write C that don't know what they are doing. Probably a new grad ?
>"The stock Apple II for example, has nothing in it that can even generate an interrupt."

Sorry if this is a naive question but how did the keyboard on those work without interrupts?
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Every time a social networking site makes any change at all we hear all this Chicken Little stuff about how they're running the product and users will abandon it, and almost every time everyone has forgotten in a month or two. A lot of times it is even obvious later that the change was for the better. My money is on this one being the same.
Meta will have a new young owner before this is done.
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Somehow I watched 1 or 2 videos on twitter right at the time, and got a good sense of what happened, that ended up being consistent with the jury ruling. These weren't even political posts, just some OSINT people I follow. I was not aware of any "misleading media narrative," since I don't consume any mainstream media outside of occasional twitter posts. Once the trial started I was actually very surprised how many people had zero clue what really happened, yet had strong opinions one way or the other.

This decision by Facebook probably does reverse something that was a mistake in some vague, ethical sense, but I disagree with the characterization that Facebook should be responsible for people's personal worldviews. You can't just give up all personal responsibility to Facebook and then complain when they do bad things with that power. They made a decision for business and legal reasons and we can criticize them from a business or legal perspective, but the narrative that "Facebook should have known better and it's their fault that people were misinformed" is just odd to me. It feels like a "have your cake and eat it too" situation with personal responsibility for being informed about the world.
A bit off-topic, but what podcasts do you listen to?