skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just my $0.02: I'd much rather spend a few weeks refreshing basic data structures and algorithms than doing the "non-algo" challenges I've gotten because they feel way less objective than getting questions where there's a correct answer.

Most of the time the alternative to non-algorithm questions is some form of take home assignment that's usually multiple hours long and that you get no feedback on or chance to correct.

For example, I interviewed with a company where they asked me to design a program to parse some CSV data and I was told in the next round I would pair with an engineer to go over an expansion of the code. The parsing was trivial in Python and I submitted my solution with full unit tests and what seemed sensible to me, but it was as useless of an exercise as asking me algorithm questions because on a job I'm almost always going to adjust my coding style and paradigm to the context and needs of the company.

I commented my code as such to explain that if there were different constraints on the data size or API I would make different design choices than the one I submitted, but it didn't matter - I submitted and received a rejection less than 24 hours later and never got to the next round where I would actually walk through the code with an engineer. It was a complete waste of multiple hours of my time trying to produce thoughtfully designed code - I'd much rather bang out a breadth first search in 45 minutes.
It’s almost as if you’re learning what is expected of a suitable candidate.
This is a technology forum populated by developers, they shouldn’t be the out of touch speculators and critics of speculators
IIRC even phpBB would start reporting years as 19100
The answer to your situation is the one you choose, and not choosing anything is a choice.

I’m in my late 30s and basically unemployable in any traditional sense. I’ve never held a professional developer role, but I have played one as “consultant” and now I play it again as an “independent developer.”

With two years of savings you have almost no excuse. Just don’t burn a bridge. Don’t be too honest. Ask for a 6 month leave of absence (quit if they won’t give it), create an account on Upwork and set your rate a bit north of your regional average. Pick a project that’ll take a week and SAY NO to projects that smell funny. If you say yes to everything you won’t know what you like until you say no.

And don’t work too hard. Save some brain cycles for cooking, for exercise. And don’t be afraid to work a weekend or evening because hey, each day is the “same” and it’s now up to you when a day is “special.”

p.s. For context, once you have kids there will be weekends where you look forward to Monday morning because … they go to daycare. Really, daycare lets me be a great parent. It concentrates your patience and love - and you should treat “work” the same way, with patience and love.
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> For example, “the subtle art of not giving a fuck” is mostly fillers

A meta-lesson from the author perhaps, demonstrating his art.
I think having everyone see all the emails is part of the point. Even with self-hosted Gitea, someone has to _host_ it. And there isn't a trivial export button, and if the host goes rogue they can make it inaccessible and make everyone lose efficiency while they swap back to the old method.

And if you need email to authenticate on a website, why not just use email anyway?

But this is an interesting idea, and I'm on the look-out for ideas to replace email. I'll keep "LKML" in the back of my head as a use case.
Wikipedia is also suffering under the issues of "moderation." The original web was based on the idea of "throw your crap up, if people like it they do if not they don't." Evaluation both the content and the credibility of content on the net was up to the viewer. Adding moderators apart from the original authors and viewers, especially when those moderators are at an integration level (be it wikipedia, twitter, google, etc) is in direct opposition to that original ethos.
It is another social network which is no different to Twitter.

Seems to be doing well. Nothing wrong with having alternatives and competition.
Hackers Steal $119M from ‘Web3’ Crypto Project with Old School Attack
Especially in video games, constraints are part of the gameplay. Without constraints it would be a sandbox without purpose. Now introduce money, and you've got yourself some pretty strong incentives to keep those constraints.

That isn't to say there aren't problems to solve, squatting and speculating may genuinely be bad for moneymaking, because if gameplay suffers, the game dies, and no-one makes money.

Not dissimilar from the real world, it's just that "quiting the game" isn't an option in the real world. Property speculating is ruining "the gameplay" for millions of people worldwide, but money is causing the incentives to be twisted so they don't patch the system.
1point3acres is the most prolific, but there are many others.
I don't buy that. The vast majority of people would save substantial money by eating better--either by cutting out fast food or by avoiding junk food.

Convenience/time is a big issue, but its not like the upscale versions of fast food are really that better for you.

It's a cultural thing. Nobody eating a big mac for dinner every night would switch to kale salad from Whole Foods if they got a raise. America never had a good food culture and what little we even had was based on stay-at-home wife.

Money isn't the reason why lower class Hispanic and Asian areas can support grocers with quality produce, but white lower class areas don't.

Half my families "recipes" originated on mass produced canned/boxed food labels. My grandmas chicken and rice dish calls for cambells and uncle bens. Regardless, I love it anyway.
It's not specified in the article?

Do that for rate limiting and it'll be super easy to DoS you - just show how fundamentally you can't brute force your way out of algorithmic questions despite the article suggestion (or how interviews are fundamentally flawed, but this is another debate ;)
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The same way you build talent in any other organization - give people money, tell them this is their job, and put them in the same "room" as people who also have this job but have been doing it longer.

Or are you asking how we create more people who will do this in their free time?
I have tried Endnote, Mendeley, Paperpile, Sciwheel and Zotero (back when it was firefox only, which was a long time ago).

I currently use and pay for Paperpile. I found the user experience to be the best for my purposes, mainly the ease of importing articles. The word plugin is hassle free as well. They seem to be pretty competent developers eg Mendeley’s iphone app wouldn’t sync properly for literally years, whereas Paperpile’s app was good from day one.

The downside of Paperpile is lock-in to the Google ecosystem (only works on Chromium browsers, although firefox and safari support is coming). There is also no quick way to tag or categorise papers at the time of import from the web, you need to go to the app.

Sounds like Zotero is pretty good now though, might have to check it out again.
> I’m guessing it’s more likely that they didn’t validate the chips for AVX-512 operation when selecting the thermal and power limits, and they’d really rather not have them coming back at higher warranty rates.

These are K parts. They're built for overclocking. People are going to take them outside of their thermal and power limits anyway.
> "Joe Roganization" of the pandemic

Not sure what that means? Is he hiding true science and research?
Venus's atmosphere is dense, but slow at surface; Scott Manley discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DEvcJgBy0c
If you're still in Quebec, have you tried the Carnet Santé website? https://carnetsante.gouv.qc.ca/portail

It should have most of your testing, albeit with a 30-day delay that is supposed to let someone discuss potentially-scary test results with you.
Read the article!

> a period of exciting growth suddenly grinds to a halt once scalpers corner precious digital property and keep it out of the hands of those who actually want to play the damn game

It’s a “crisis” in the context of the game, and it mirrors real life market dynamics.
The fact that MDN Docs are never the first results when searching basic for most basic web stuff is very disappointing.
I've interviewed folks for FAANG roles. If you know how to solve the problem already, just tell the interviewer up front. Either they have another question or they will go deeper into a discussion about why and how you solved it the way you did, testing it, other approaches and why they are or are not good tradeoffs, etc.

It's pretty obvious to interviewers if you've solved a problem before, and we appreciate the honesty. Interviews are not adversarial; they're to see if a candidate is a good fit for the role and dishonesty is never a good fit.
>If you want a better internet, you might stop and think about the fact that it is built by people and people need to eat. De facto expecting slave labor from some people and then designing an internet where those people can hijack your search results to try to eat gets you this.

People don't/can't pay for things anymore because trillions of dollars have been siphoned out of the holdings of the middle and working classes over the past 50 years. If not for piracy and subscription services, the music and film industries would have collapsed years ago. If you made people pay for the things they used to, they... wouldn't. Because they can't.
Jeff McKissack, a mail carrier in Houston, Texas, transformed a small suburban lot near his wood frame house into The Orange Show in honor of his favorite fruit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orange_Show
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I'm glad you've got everything taken care of, but I think part of the problem is that not everyone does. Some people don't need any more help, but some people do. Hard to tell from the outside.
Or get a wireless extender for the internet connection.
I have been off for two weeks and I know how you feel. I have all this free time, but in the back of my mind I know I don't have that much time. In a fourteen day span its not really practical to pick up something that will be a long term time commitment seeing as I am back at work tomorrow. I just took things I was already doing and spent more time on them. I read a few books, spent more time with my wife and son, took longer walks, listened to more music, played some video games that had been sidelined.

By far the most arduous part was avoiding anything resembling my day job, avoiding tech news, avoiding anything that felt like work. Working in tech for sixteen years it is the least exciting way I can spend my free time, but habits formed over the years and the communities I participate in heavily sway my information flows into that space. I just started un-following people on twitter, removing myself from sub reddits, and deleted slack off my devices.

If I knew I was going to have more long term free time I can easily find ways to make use of it as I have hobbies that I only get to do sparingly, playing music, drawing, painting, watching horror movies, playing my back catalog of steam, switch and xbox games, doing investment research, doing yoga, and learning music production/recording. When work eats a third of my day everyday it makes it more difficult to do things I want to do, if you knew your job wasn't going to interfere with your life you probably wouldn't feel this way.
A really useful exercise you can do for yourself (I did it) is to download the CDC total US deaths data and plot each of the past 7 years as lines on an x axis that goes from week 1 to week 52 of the year. Keeping in mind that this graph does not take cause of death into account, you will note two striking features: 1) the death curves for the 5 years up to and including 2019 are extremely similar, with the exception that you can tell they are overall slightly elevated one winter by a particularly bad flu season (I think it was end of 2017 / beginning of 2018). And 2) 2020 and 2021 have very large Covid-surge-shaped excess death bumps that imply an incredibly strong correlation between Covid and the deviation in deaths from “normal” years. And if you find the delta between a “normal” year and the ones with the Covid-shaped bumps in it, it matches up extremely closely with the numbers CDC is also reporting as “Covid-related deaths.”

In order to say that a significant number of these are drug and suicide deaths, you’d also have to be positing a theory that drug and suicide deaths are also for some reason elevating themselves in precise timing with the Covid surges. I’m not going to claim this is impossible, but it does seem extremely far fetched to me, and I suspect seeing the data laid out like I describe would probably make you abandon your theory. (Edit: using ‘your theory’ colloquially here. I know you havent posited any specific theory here, but your line of reasoning and skepticism is clear)

Edit to add: I actually don’t doubt that excess drug and suicide deaths are partially responsible for general elevated death numbers. Lockdowns, isolation, job losses, etc are all certainly driving some of this. But these are slow and steady drivers, not ones that rise and fall precisely with the number of Covid cases, which takes me to the conclusion that they are in the noise compared to Covid itself. (And the CDC death categorizations happen to agree with that)
I think better docs is it, but from a high level systems view. I can dive into something (say usb gadgetfs) and get a decent view and start trying to solve my problem but when I need to start learning about general kernel mannerisms I hit some walls that slowed everything down.
Can't we admire both Electron and Zig? Certainly I do ...

> ... used by hundred of millions of people can't say the same about Zig or its future.

I'd be completely unsurprised if in 10-years Zig was the toolchain of choice for low-level systems programming and there were Linux forks containing Zig code used by used by hundred of millions of people.
Suggesting a normal bike to me is not good or realistic at all. Electric is a hard requirement because the whole point is that I don't have the time or motivation to build up to riding steep hills and long distances without power. I can do that right away now, and it's rewarding enough that I keep doing it and getting exercise. I also wanted something suitable for dirt and bumpy terrain, so, a mountain bike style made the most sense.

I used to ride a road bike occasionally but the difficulty turned me off. If I'm stuck with an unpowered bike I just won't ride.
In your paper, consider drawing a parallel to proof of work schemes.
Yes. Eventually. SSRIs saved our marriage.
You don’t know what you’re talking about. Homeschooling doesn’t mean no social interactions with other children. If anything the opposite is true.

Parents who deprive their children of social interaction are called abusive, not homeschoolers.
Are you saying this is factually wrong? I assume eBPF is designed to only access certain points explicitly coded in the kernel but the exploits can access any part of kernel. Is this what you are hinting at? Could you please clarify the statement.
I've been seeing a lot of posts about Zig recently. Out of curiosity is there a specific reason these are more common (like a recent big project or release)? Not hating, just wondering.

EDIT: Just saw there was a new release 10 days ago, although it wasn't 1.0
Thank you for saying < 60 is young!
I'd be interested in knowing more about Second Life in particular:

1) Can new land be created in second life?

2) Is this an argument that a land value tax short of 100% of "ground rent" is insufficient in this case?
Despite the huge capital flows, attention is the real currency of the internet. As corporations are forced to censorship to protect their bottom line, they cut themselves off from the attention that their customers (the advertisers) are buying.

If you've got something to say, it isn't hard to copypaste yourself and get that in front of both audiences. The way we used to have RSS might get inverted to a list of places to post things instead of reading them.

I'm signing up, unless they ask for $.
Bulgaria had aerial theaters - a few mayors decided to step up a notch and sprayed their whole villages and their vicinities with disinfectants.
Depending on what state/country you live in, care for a disabled citizen may be partly or wholly paid for by the state. The parents may also be able to become qualified caregivers, in which case they can be paid to take care of the child.
And another separate electrical circuit for the HVAC.
You're the only person in this conversation who seems to get it, and I just want you to know how thankful I am that you haven't been afraid to express these thoughts. I think that you're right, that the person you've been replying to is wrong, and it's incredibly frustrating that this conversation has to happen. But thank you for being that voice.
But with such an extreme definition, can you even show me what an an async non-blocking syscall would look like?

Because I'm going to point at the assembly instructions that pass the parameters, and say "an interrupt happens here, delaying it for 1 second".

Any definition of blocking that includes "int fifty() {return 50;}" strikes me as having problems.

More specifically, I'd say there's some amount of "kernel does a thing" that needs to be excusable when you're talking about whether a syscall is blocking or not, otherwise everything is blocking.

Unless we want to say that 'nonblocking' is fake on non-RTOS systems, and not even try to define the term in that context.
Thanks so much for sharing your experience and feelings. I really appreciate it since I have someone I care about who was in depression and suicidal and I want to understand more. Hope you find the inner peace and strength to keep you happy.
Either quit and take 3 months off before you start looking or find a new job ASAP and put your start date much later.

Life’s too short to be in the wrong job. Mental health damage takes a long time to heal so don’t let it get that bad.

Market is jumping, use the opportunity. There is light at the end of the tunnel.
I have been living with a bipolar/depressed spouse for the past ten years. About once every three or four years we have a major episode (often a depressive abyss immediately following a manic period). I feel deeply for anyone suffering this or similar diseases…but I’m also tired of articles like this one at this point. It feels like they all come at me from this perspective of what I need to do for my spouse while they completely ignore the insane burdens that I’m faced with every day. (I’m not interested in being told how I can help anymore, because the truth is that I can’t help; I can wait until time or adjusting meds makes the condition manageable again.)

It’s *hard* to “just listen” without judging when your spouse can barely get out of bed or shower; when they don’t clean up after themselves in the bathroom, kitchen, or other shared areas; and they abandon or abdicate their part of any shared responsibilities in the family. I felt like any attempt that I made to pick up the slack just created room for them to retreat even more into their depression—and at times like that it feels like the stress and frustration is killing me.

So to all the spouses, family, and friends who support bipolar or depressed folks: I see you. I feel what you feel—love, frustration, guilt, anger, resentment, and hope. You don’t owe anyone else anything, and it’s OK if you can’t do everything on your own.
Yes, thanks. My three children had exactly that kind of experience, along with hundreds of other homeschooled kids in our groups. In Oregon where we lived homeschooled kids can participate in public school sports and other activities too.

This tired “homeschooled kids aren’t allowed to socialize” trope comes up over and over from people who can’t possibly have actual experience. It’s not hard to find homeschooler groups to see for yourself.
It was a neat product, largely ignored even at Microsoft. Likewise for their QuickPascal product.
The failure to identify a natural reservoir does throw a lot of doubt onto the 'wet market-origin' theory, since some close variants should have existed in some of the animals there and none were found. If on the other hand the virus was one collected from a remote location and transported to the lab for further study and possible modification, as part of a well-intentioned research effort, and then accidentally escaped (by infection of lab techs, visitors, etc. most likely), that would be an understandable situation.
Reddit has an API, sounds like a cool idea! Roogle - the best of Reddit + Google
Still just as relevant.
How can it "kill" Twitter if it requires you to tweet codes to claim "reserved" usernames?
A good way to avoid this conundrum is to ask questions that are worth solving in real life.

If the candidate breezes through the discussion because they've actually had to solve the problem before, then their victory is well earned.

If on the other hand its an academic question in the same vein as the data structures or algorithms puzzles you find on $interviewprepforum, then the fact that they've solved it before tells you very little.
100%.

I’ve been noticing Google returning lower quality results consistently for at least a year.

My guess is that the results are based on relevant info, but also on which pages can serve up the most ads at the same time. Because the internet is heavily influenced by search algos, over time, this decision feeds back on itself and results in search results being spammier, less content rich, and less accurate.
There are definitely ways to work well with subsampled data, see Lester Mackey's recent work.
You’re giving a good example of poor social skills and poor reasoning skills. I’m guessing you weren’t homeschooled.
I ‘borrowed’ my friends dog when I was going through some darker times in my life during a burnout. We went for long walks every day for a few weeks and feel that it helped out tremendously. Without that forced structure I would have prolonged my suffering, probably starring at the ceiling ruminating on the same thoughts all day long. It worked for me, it worked out for the dog and it worked out for my friends whose time and attention was largely taken by their child. Likewise, my mother was forced to adopt a dog in a similar fashion as you, she wasn’t eager to get a dog but in hindsight she’s benefitted greatly from it, phisically and emotionally.
Something is off with the output of parsing the utxos. I'll have to dig deeper into it later!
Scott Alexander actually wrote about COVID related suicides and why they haven't risen nearly as much as one might have expected.

https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/why-didnt-suicides-rise...
This comment pretty much states the same reasons I've come to believe that a lab leak origin is unlikely for covid: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6183#comment-1922813
Are you sure you aren’t thinking about the Better Business Bureau?
Software engineers that QQ about how unfair algorithm interviews are are clearly out of touch with how difficult and truly unfair interviews are for other high paying industries like law or medicine (in the US) where getting interviews is based on pedigree and getting one or two rejections can permanently deny you from top firms/positions.

There are always things that can be improved about interview processes, but many software engineers display great immaturity when it comes to trading a few weeks of time studying content that should already be partially familiar to them from school for six figure salaries/raises.
You’re running through a list of functions, the lisp example has a list of _function calls_ (which are not evaluated until necessary). Consider how your approach would have to change if each of those functions takes different parameters.