skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Play.

Games (video games, board games, ttrpgs, etc), books, climbing, etc!

Just because I can be responsible doesn't mean I had to lose the ability to enjoy things like a child would. Just.. a little more mature.

Buy a sword and a bunch of watermelon and have a real life fruit ninja cookout!

Be silly and embrace it!
Addiction is a medical problem. Consider getting help from a medical professional. In the US, Alcohol Use Disorder is part of the DSM-5.

You didn't always have access to alcohol. Ask yourself, how did you have fun before you started drinking? What of those things still sounds fun to you? Are your current set of friends the type of people that will do those things with you without alcohol?

EDIT: In the US, recovery and rehab centers are virtually unregulated. Many are known for being terrible and being scams. I have none to recommend. See a reputable doctor on how to recover. Consider getting a second and third opinion if they recommend a recovery/rehab center.
> Even Russian speakers do not always want to associated themselves with Russia.

You cannot speak for all of us.
Hard to extrapolate from just what you've said here, but:

- This level of anxiety, especially if you experience it in other settings, doesn't sound normal and you might well benefit from some combination of medication and seeing a therapist. Many, many people experience this - it's nothing to be ashamed of and these things can help.

- As others have said, most everyone finds interviewing stressful! That's totally normal. It's also (especially for an introvert) a learned skill that will get better with practice. Don't sweat it too much if your dream company turned you down. Most places will let you re-interview after a certain amount of time, so don't consider it a forever dead end.
A founder's guide to moving abroad
I worked for a company where every year we'd do a developer off-site and come up with technical interview challenges. Then, during the meeting, a group of devs would have to complete the challenge under the same constraints as a potential interviewee. That was a pretty good way to figure out whether the challenges were appropriate to pose to candidates.

But yes, I've definitely encountered interview questions posed by a company I worked for that I probably would have flunked. And I've tried my best to push back on those, when it was clear that they were designed more as an ego booster for the person who designed it than as a tool for accurately assessing skills necessary to perform well in the open role.

One thing I would recommend, for companies that have similar issues, is to lean more on your most junior and most senior engineers, rather than mid-level and early senior engineers, when crafting things like coding challenges and architecture/design sessions. They're often the ones who will approach the task with the most humility.
Drink tea instead. In the Gulf countries, there are many cafes that serve Chai/Karak tea and people socialize while drinking it.
Fools and their money have always been easily separated, even before there was money
This line the comment said also is not logical at all
> “ What will US do if in case of civil unrest in Mexico, Russia will send troops to Mexico?”

This makes no sense, no one is alleging Mexico is under Russia’s thumb so this makes no sense. Replace Mexico with Cuba circa 1970 and it would be relevant. And also yes, if Cuba in 1970, I would not be surprised if Russia sent in troops if Castro asked.
Among primary English speakers, “alcoholic” almost always refers to abusive drinking.

I can’t imagine using “alcoholic” to describe people who consume alcohol in moderation. And I am around a lot of teetotalers.
>Put differently, a lot of "0 to 1" stuff had happened by 1922.

How much of that 0-1 is stuff that existed in some niche or experimental capacity prior to 1822 but simply became possible at scale?

We had writing for millennia but the printing press changed the world.

We've had steel for millennia but the Bessemer process changed the world.

We've always been able to send information long distances but digital communications changed the world.

You can always pick whatever specific innovations you want as the 0-1 transition point but it's the widespread availability of something that changes the world.
> Having to debug esoteric issues with classpath, Spring, CDI, JPA, Aspect4j, etc. is hell on earth.

The term "DLL Hell" came from Windows development before it. The Node/Ruby/Python equivalent is getting native libraries to build (node-gyp, I'm looking at you!). I've burned days in Ruby Version Hell and Node Version Hell. Javascript dependency upgrades are a nightmare compared to Java dependency upgrades.

I don't think this problem has gone away, or even improved. It's just a grim fact of life, and Java doesn't deserve special mention.
SysIdentPy: A Python Package For System Identification Using Narmax Models
One possible explanation for the pattern of generous hospitality in poor countries I find quite interesting (I'm sure it's only one component of many in the motivational environment) is that hosting the traveler from afar is the closest thing they can do to traveling themselves.
I think Gates didn't have anything to worry about regarding Java... at the end of the day, the company that created it went under the water in 2009. Java as a technology was great, but as a business just didn't cut it.
https://languages.oup.com/google-dictionary-en/

Anarchism isn't some cursory subject for me. Someone up thread mentioned Rojava as an example of something closest to an anarchist collective. I went there and lived there. What I found was voluntary trade which we commonly call capitalism. I find this to be compatible with anarchism when trades are made voluntarily and not say, by strong arm of government forcing how you trade with people or the strong arm of some "anarchist" "opening up access" to your capital.
Understood. Thanks for the clarification. I didn't mean to say that people that have these challenges have a life of no meaning. I meant to say that meaning can be found in living (whatever that living may be)
I wrote the interview questions for my current role (first hire)... so hopefully!
I used to feel like that. Then one day I sort of discovered the “secret”.

You just go for it. Don’t worry about pressing the right keys, just type fast. It sounds stupid as hell but it works great.

Honestly the intent detection and auto correct works so well you don’t get many errors even though you would expect TONS.
>> The last time I looked, Solvespace has a rather simplistic way of generating STEP files, I don't think it would be easy to add reading them as well.

My short list (of big items) includes fixing the STEP output so they are recognized as closed shells when read by more tools. Someone has already proved the concept.

Reading step is hard, but the reader in gcad3d is plain C and does a decent job. It's also the same license. The real issue is that step is huge and includes things that cannot be represented in the Solvespace NURBS kernel. We will need to skip those elements. The even bigger job is implementing proper hierarchical models, and that should be done IMHO with an eye on supporting some more step features.

But it works for making KiCAD parts today. We also support linking IDF boards (.emn) into assemblies now, sans parts.
I'm open to convincing arguments. What do you think the Great Reset is? To me it seems like late capitalists doing a capitalism as they always do, trying to eke out more profit by way of financier feudalism.
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Pretty much everything except that the ecosystem is very young.

Other than greatly simplifying components, Svelte includes reactive primitives to build your models/stores with. No need for MobX, Redux, etc. It also includes animation tools which again would require third-party deps.
> Could you point out an example of a NATO member requesting a military intervention from another NATO member in their own country to respond to protests?

The US militarily intervened in Europe 75 years ago and has bases in Germany, Italy etc. No need to have military come in for the first time since it is still there.

Italy had NATO violently suppressing protests in Italy for years with Gladio.
https://archive.fo/P8oVE
Hmmm cool but cd is not implemented? Still awesome especially for an undergrad proj
It was most pupils in my classes. Kids got kudos for having fancier/louder chimes than others. Then came the rush of calculator watches, so everyone started getting watches confiscated before exams, and that other teacher's favourite: the TV Remote watch. Our school admistered masking tape and/or TipEx over the IR receivers to tackle this.
Most companies I’ve been at aim to error on the side of false negatives. With that in mind, not being guaranteed to pass the interview at your current workplace can be the system working as intended. It’s much better to have a false negative and let the candidate come back another time or find something else than accept a false positive.
In this situation, would you want to do complete transfer of repository? If you expect to come back, you want to give them just commit rights.
> don't think the word productive ever reached my brain when I was learning websphere.

So what else was more productive? you said PHP is not the answer and "websphere" is not Java the language or Java the ecosystem (think of the many Java libraries out there and at the good enough Java standard library compared to others)
Not exactly a java fan here, but java targeted the enormous block of people writing in C/C++ for their enterprise servers, and gave them "machine-independence". Being able to upgrade your server, and not having to rewrite your app, was huge. The competition wasn't PHP, at the time; it was C/C++.

It's interesting in today's era of Rust, that people think of Java as failing to replace C++; in practice, it was only 90% successful, and managed to replace the vast majority of cases where people did use it.

About the only things that didn't get replaced were (some) desktop gui apps, and apps that were so tiny that they weren't worth the launch of the JVM.
https://unix.bpowers.net/
My situation is slightly different from what you describe, but yeah, we have scientists and data scientists involved in writing Python packages, setting up CI/CD pipelines, dealing with auth and frontends for APIs. There's talk of dividing labor up a bit better so that we can focus on science and data work, but there's hardly enough engineering staff as it is and they're largely not much better from a software engineering perspective (and half of them hardly know any Python, which our non-engineers have 100% standardized on). It's kind of a mess right now.
Technically speaking (so ignoring Oracle), Java the language is actually pretty good. When I took a MOOC and a Data Structures course that were all Java, I actually enjoyed writing Java. It’s verbose, but very straightforward to work with once it clicks, and a pretty powerful language.

My first two full-time dev jobs were at Java shops (one was about ~100 employees, the other was Chase), and that’s where I developed a severe distaste for the ecosystem. Getters and setters everywhere, dependency injection with Spring (I know there are alternatives, but Spring seems the most popular), so much convoluted and over-engineered garbage. Wrestling with that nonsense was one of the triggers for a bout of depression last year.

Also last year, I moved to Elixir and never looked back.
The testing positivity rate is relatively useless at this point. For example, in my State, there is no way to report a positive test from a rapid result. Only PCR tests administered by a medical professional are considered valid for statistical purposes, even though the government is giving out free rapid tests.
I think you’re asking the wrong questions. What you’re dealing with is social anxiety - that’s what you want to deal with not source of fun.
What definition are you using for decentralized? Note that I didn’t say anything about a privileged central role - as you learn about how decentralized systems like DNS, email, the web, etc. work note how often that means something like selecting the work of a third-party aligned with your views (e.g. email server operators use black lists run following policies they agree with).

This is why, for example, ICANN doesn’t have the ability to arbitrarily transfer domains — their operation of the root servers is limited to the terms agreed to, and if they tried to abuse their technical access they’d be replaced by an alt root. The Russian government has already done this for political reasons and it’s not especially hard to do given a reason.
Does anyone know of international organisations like this?

I only know of [0] Hash House Harriers but the alcohol is major turnoff

[0]http://www.gthhh.com/default.aspx?page=groups
This is kinda funny because I was thinking about it on Monday. I was reading some suggested questions to ask to interviewees and some of them I would not be able to solve (about 10%) in 40 minutes, another 20% would have gave me a hard time for sure. So, I think it's also about luck also.
Again, you are misinformed.

Chivo is one wallet. Agree it’s not great but El Salvador vendors hav implemented Point of Sale Lightning Network. It is an open system and you can use one of many mobile LN wallets. Chivo is probably the weakest. You will find that McDonalds, Starbucks, the local fruit vendor on the street can process an open LN tx. No sweat. “Nobody uses it”. Yeah ok. Those graphs indicate non zero channel balances and nodes.

Monero still has the 650k bounty on tx de anonymization. If you have a way, feel free to claim it.

RW. Sigh.
> The network requires them because they themselves control the network. It's the reason the block size wasn't increased.

Have you heard of this little thing called, Bitcoin Cash? Did the miners prevent that? No, the users put the most value in what they deemed was most valuable. The miners do not have exclusive control over the network - if they did the protocol would be hyper-inflationary by now.

By the way, miners selling Bitcoin by definition does not decrease liquidity, it does the opposite, it puts more Bitcoin up for sale. The fact that miners have to sell to pay for electricity does not mean they siphon value, they provide security and are compensated for it you goofball.
I think parents do this as a (subconscious?) way to help frame things from the child's perspective, knowing that the kid is terrible at taking on anyone else's perspective.
there is almost 0 microsoft on the web today.

I've worked (as a consultant) on a number of 'boring' B2B web applications targeting 'boring' industries and one thing they all had in common was that they where all in on the Microsoft stack.
PDF version of Exhibit plex_5803 (1996)

http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/plex_5803.p...

for those who do not have a twitter account (twitter won't let me load all the images without asking me to log in) or just want a textual version / transcript.

Text version in a website can also be found here about two pages down under "Appendix: Comes vs. Microsoft – exhibit plex_5803, as text":

http://techrights.org/2009/06/26/eee-versus-cross-platform/

* I'm Just providing an alternative, I'm not trying to start the standard argument about twitter links.
Has Central Banking been liberating or do we only perceive it as such because it has historically aligned with American business and political interests? Would a small South American country being forced to sell it's natural resources or lose it's borrowing power agree? Would Middle Eastern countries that tried to form the petro dollar and were met with endless wars agree?
I can pass the technical stuff, but it depends on who interviews me. People look for different things in potential colleagues and that can vary significantly at my place of work (I suspect many).
Market cap during the Steve Ballmer CEO tenure would be a better comparison, as it was during this time that MS was fighting Blackberry, Nokia, Apple and Android on the mobile OS front. This was the battle that Gates was worrying about: the declining prospects of Windows as an application platform.

Their stock exploded once Nadella came in, killed off DOA products like Windows RT and Windows Phone, and shifted the focus to Office 365 and Azure cloud where they had a deep enterprise advantage.
The problem (on HN) is that the hype-ignorance runs both directions.

Tech-literates see the tech-illiterates getting scammed, and thereby extrapolate that the technology is fundamentally a scam, which is absurd.

Data structures, protocols, algorithms, exist at an abstraction layer below that of socio-economic-marketing scams.
What's the 'feed me a stray cat' kernel error message? I thought that was just part of the American Psycho lore.
That what I hope for. It looks like uk is like this. But is USA like this?
Not a better use of time to get them implemented?
> It would have been fun, and productive

How do you know this? The signal of them dumping you with some leetcode should be an indication that it wasn't meant to be?
I'm more interested in how do you even get noticed by FAANG in the first place. I never get contacted by agents about them and applying just gets me ghosted every time?
Opera Browser chose TiDB to address MySQL's scalability limit
Do you know Opera still has 2.35% of market share?
Prove that sugar causes weight gain or stop responding with nonsense.
That's just leftist gate-keeping of anarchism. A completely voluntary system of free trade isn't incompatible with a system without coercion. Note I consider something coercion when it is performed by violence by the aggressor, a victim can fight back and I won't classify that as coercion.
It's even worse when you crush every other part of the process, including take homes, and then get blown out due to one idiotic contrived puzzle.
Yes - my current place has a very sane, practical approach which would work well for me. No purist algos stuff, no solving hard problems on the fly on a whiteboard with an audience.

UK based, financial sector, FWIW.

That said if I was looking to move, my confidence about other places being so sane would be low to medium, there seems to remain a lot of deterring approaches out there still.
So did (even to a greater effect) the doctors washing their hands. Between 1822-1922, only in Physics humanity discovered/developed, the laws of Electromagnetism, the laws of Thermodynamics and their microscopic extension: Statistical Mechanics, the special theory of relativity, quantum mechanics and the General theory of relativity.

The last 100 years have been about doing things in large quantities in a cheaper, faster way. Of course there has been great progress (the era of the PC/Internet by far the most important one) but the rate is significantly lower.
Yeah this is the super unfortunate state of engineering today. I literally cannot bring myself to study puzzles when I could spend my time pursuing some interesting open source work.

Consequently, I have a lot of successful open source work, but most companies still don’t care and fail me for lack of fake puzzle quiz skills.

It’s utterly baffling to me that companies don’t want creative employees that build successful products out in front of everyone. Where you have a clear view of all their interactions and code.

I’ve tried to change this thinking at my current company and the consensus was it would be biased. Biased?! Code quizzes are highly biased! I’m producing useful functionality to the world!

I believe this and transparency are the new remote work. Some companies will get it early and for others it will take a major upheaval to get them to a place of reasonableness.
Given that our company's interview process hasn't changed significantly since when I interviewed, I know for a fact that I could.
There's only one fool in this conversation and it's not me.
We calibrate our interviews on existing team members who haven't seen the problem yet.

That's how it was done at my previous employer, too.
> If we all used gold or bitcoin, there’s no reason to think public debt would be lower.

For reference, public debt tends to be higher when based in currencies that can be more easily debased. This was true in Roman times as it is now.

I’m on my phone, so I’d have to look up the book, but it’s well documented.
I remember 6 months ago some researchers also said that Delta was so contagious that it is very unlikely that even more contagious variant arises. Oh well, sometimes unlikely events happen.
For sure, it's amazing to get a full kernel running; there's so much one could do. But an emulator and a full kernel is going to have a sizable footprint, be a significant amount to download, and performance is going to be mediocre. Yes there's a linux kernel running, but it's inside a virtualization layer; if you want to integrate & have the page interact with the kernel, you'd need to start hacking some pretty wild channels to punch through that virtualization layer.

Writing an operating system that directly targets the browser, that offers the expected/standard system calls ought to be smaller and faster, and more interestingly, it can potentially integrate with the rest of the page in interesting fashions, easily.
You're 23 and a lot of 23 year olds like to drink. It was that way when I was 23 and it will probably be like that as long as alcohol is something people drink. It's fine in moderation a couple of times a week. Most people aren't sitting around in a dark room drinking quietly, they're somewhere chatting, playing a game or just enjoying a night out someplace with other young people. You can do still do that, just reduce or eliminate the alcohol and don't make a big deal out of it.

As you get a little bit older you'll see alcohol consumption in your social circles will naturally wind down to something more reasonable as people start to accumulate more responsibility and hangovers seem to do a bit more damage than they used to.

But honestly, unless alcohol is severely affecting your life, I wouldn't worry about it. I hardly drink now in my 30s but in my 20s I'll admit I had to call into a work a handful of times over the years because I had over-imbibed on a weeknight.
There are strongly asymmetric risks for an employer in a hiring situation. Hiring a bad candidate is much more costly than rejecting a good one. The goal of the hiring process is to find a good candidate; there can be quite a lot of wasted time in interviewing before it comes close to the expense of a bad hire.

An implication of this is that the optimial interview process -- from the employer perspective -- will have a lot more false negatives (good candidates rejected) than false positives (bad candidates accepted).

So it could correctly be optimal for the interview process to be so onerous that most job-holders would fail their own interview!
Meduza is a rusophobic media with 100% foreign funding that was created with one sole purpose: disseminate Western propaganda in Russian population.

It's in every their article. It's a trashcan of the worst and dumbest pro-West propaganda, I don't know how any sane person would refer to it.

It's not a journalism, they don't even have journalists. They're producing anti-Russian fake news.

BTW, even that they do poorly, I know people that unsubscribed from Meduza because they're tired from it's paranoid rusophobic hatred.
I doubt it. I also didn’t interview for my current role; I got hired on the recommendation of people who worked with me at a previous company.
Except that gold could be used for industrial purposes, so hoarding it is not only useless, but harmful.
Probably not. I got lucky because they reused a question someone posted on Glassdoor.

I prepped on that and some other material recommended by the guy that referred me.

That’s all been changed now so I’d be going in blind.
I can't read the text. Does it say everyone will be overweight, inactive, neurotic, trapped in their houses and living lives devoid of in-person social interaction?