skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every time I feel "this would be a good interview question!" it is not. It's usually something juicy that I chewed on for two days. How can I expect a candidate to solve it in 45 minutes?
Universities certainly have the incentive to take money when people are lining up to give it to them. I don't blame people for doing their job to grow their institutions.

You'd think students would be incentivized enough not to dig themselves into thousands of dollars in debt, but students are also incentivized by the wishes of their parents and the promises of a good future. Incentives don't have to be in someone's best interest to be motivating.
Crypto's use case is drugs and money laundering.

Those are valid use-cases.
It does, but you make more money than you would using standard farming methods and pesticides on Ceres.
>Among the last successful convictions for seditious conspiracy stemmed from another, now largely forgotten storming of the Capitol in 1954, when four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire on the House floor, wounding five representatives.

Learn something new everyday.
What's really important for a newcomer (and even more for a 9 year old) is to be motivating and rewarding. For most kids, modding their favorite game or drawing a few lines on a canvas would be fine.

The programming language doesn't matter, but lua for roblox or java for minecraft would be a good fit.

Background concepts like how does the CPU work, what's an OS, what's an architecture aren't important for a kid. If he wants to continue programming as a career, he can learn them, but they are not important to get started and will probably lose the motivation.
Fees show transactions in the system, not real-world impact — smart contracts, anonymization, pump-and-dump, etc. generate a ton of activity for what most people would think of as a single logical operation.

What you really want to see are real-world impacts: how many people use the network? How many real business transactions occur daily? and, especially, how much real value is entering or leaving the system? If a bunch of early adopters are churning an NFT back and forth boosting its value, they're definitely paying fees but that's neither economically-useful activity nor popular adoption.
Start checking the facts instead of first posting obvious falsehoods and then attacking other people for pointing out the falsehoods, then.
True :) .

Turbopumps are finicky, but at least heat and cryogenics are separated with the turbine shaft. In combustion chambers, you have both mechanical stress from high pressures (and thin walled constructions) and thermal stress - difference of a few thousands K, so chambers aren't that simple either.

Still - now we have enough knowledge to repeatedly design flyable rockets from scratch, different teams, periods of time, countries. A lot of work still remains - and the plumbing is a good manifestation for that.
Not affiliated but this AR tech seems promising:

https://carear.com/
Nothing battle-tested, but an interesting question. I'll bow out, because all I have is the rambling incoherence of a bizarre mind.
only if and about it affecting you directly in delivering your tasks.

maybe also if you feel you can fit some of their tasks into your role and do it better.... (and want that)
> if license requirements benefit consumers you would expect to see consumers at the statehouse demanding legislation

They are. You're just living in a bubble were regulations have already been set.

https://thediplomat.com/2020/01/the-bigger-problem-behind-ca...

https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/geip/WCMS_614394/lang--en/...

> Similar stuff for locksmithing.

https://www.bbb.org/article/news-releases/22797-bbb-scam-ale...

https://www.gvlock.com/blog/how-to-spot-avoid-a-locksmith-sc...

I agree that over regulation is not a good thing, but I strongly feel that there's a need for basic licensing
It wasn't meant as dismissive of the project. It's totally fine to write a UI library that has another focus (games, for example). I'm just tired of those projects being suggested as alternatives to native/GTK/Qt in discussions here and elsewhere.

If Iced actually gets cross-platform accessibility support, that's great! Very few projects have that today. More certainly wouldn't hurt. But until it does, you shouldn't base a DE on it.

Edit: The issue you linked to is about RTL support. That's also required, but doesn't touch on a11y.
This is an important point that isn't being made enough in this thread. Must we all trade our youth for what amounts to a cost sunk fallacy that commits us to a path we may not even like?
So long as those of us in the northern climes' buy a few extra months worth of outfits to run through while we wait for the ice to sublimate out of the last batch during winter.

What's crazy is that there are cities that outright ban outdoor (line) air drying. In my city, they don't actually mention clotheslines, but a former neighbor of mine was given a fine for erecting a 'structure' without a permit, in the form of a single line (on which she hung her laundry) running from the house to the detached garage.
Does ancestry.com have this info?
Except you can't move on to the next phase of the form unless that box gets checked. At least that has been my experience applying in a few places.
I had wondered why I hadn't seen the oatmeal in a long time.
> Added this :)

Doesn't work for the first game yet.
As far as I know the “poesia inglesa” section, including the book you mentioned refer to poems originally written in English (not translated) by Pessoa.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/35_Sonnets

He went to school in Durban, South Africa and was fluent in English.
It's a question of pros and cons. US failed Ukraine and Kurds, but might be effective at protecting Taiwan. However, when you compare this with downsides - from one million killed on Middle East to problems with basic necessities like medical care in US, to god knows how many civilians dead because of economic sanctions, to multiple countries destabilised and democracies toppled to protect US interests - it's clearly doing more bad than good.
Yeah one thing that these so called productivity hackers need to learn is the skill to Just be.

No need to learn anything, improve yourself or get better. Just be. It's okay to watch Netflix and play candy crush. But no, you ought to live 24 hours a day and improve yourself for God knows what endgoal.
And you can fail to get a residency even after $300K to get through medical school.
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You don't have to go to UCLA or the UC system.

You can also go to the Cal State system. SDSU, for example. You can also put in two years at a community college and then transfer across.

Graduating from an ABET accredited engineering school is just fine.

Pitt and CMU engineers used to have this debate back at Westinghouse and the general consensus was the primary difference between the engineers was 10 years extra to pay off your student loans.

> - rent seekers like Pearson and Mcgraw Hill (fun fact, did you know the 2 joined forces to run a company called Follets that runs most campus bookstores (how is that allowed?)

This makes me furious. ALL of the universities I know lost their really nice bookstores that you could browse through.

The problem is that the bookstore has two spikes of book profitability and the rest of time the books are a waste of space. That's "inefficient"--so everybody outsourced and now the "campus bookstore" is just a gift shop with a small wing to shuffle online book orders at the beginning of the term.
I also wrote a tool for playing:
https://github.com/vple/wordle-solver/blob/main/solver.js

There's probably more tuning I can do for the algo, but roughly:

- I took all the words from the site's js as the dictionary.

- From remaining eligible words, compute the letter distribution (ignoring letters you already know are in the solution).

- Pick a word that uses as many of the most frequent letters as possible.

- Use one of those as a guess.

The goal is essentially to greedily reduce the remaining candidate words as much as possible per guess.
Lately is being too kind. The USN squandered decades since the end of the Cold War. Failures to replace the FFG-7 frigates, early decommissioning of the Spruance DD class, DD-21 program failure, failure to build CG-X, etc. The list is horrifically long. And if you tie this into selling off naval shipyards, now we're stuck with just a few vendors even capable of servicing/maintaining surface combatants.

It's been thirty years of shame for the USN and unfortunately, ship building takes a long time and if you lose building capacity, that compounds the issue.
I used one of these today, to download "deez nuts" and send that lovely vod as embedded in a signal message.
I am not everyone, so I assume my use case would explain much of the usage pattern for the service.
I am likely wrong.
DNS over http will eventually destroy DNS as we know it. Thanks Goog n co!

DNS at the moment over 53/UDP is manageable and malleable. DNS over http is not and is up to your browser and hence a vendor.

Life on the helpdesk will become rather more nasty and worse than it is now and we probably won't get tools to diagnose what is going on inside the browser, and so life for IT will be increasingly crap.

I suggest we don't let the FAANGS run the world or the browser.
> The best part of this article is this comment

For me that was the worst part since...

> Cross-platform compatibility makes an app greater

This is largely a developer's concern, not a user's concern unless the user uses multiple platforms and wants exactly the same app everywhere regardless of other issues - in practice this is a niche situation and the most people use either a single platform or two platforms that are still considerably different (ie. mobile phone and desktop/laptop) where having the same UX is actually a negative.

On the other hand, cross-platform compatibility actually makes apps lesser because they are designed with a lowest-common denominator approach where each apps uses its own controls, its own framework and libraries, etc for things that the native platform already provides - while not taking advantage (or using at a very surface level) functionality that is exclusive to the user's platform (e.g. Services on macOS - cross-platform applications either do not support it at all or have some surface support for things like text).

> No installation makes an app better.

No installation in the web app sense means that the user is not in control over the applications they are using - one can't just decide to stay on an older version because the developer broke the UI in an attempt to improve the UX while having no idea how people use their application (or trying to target some imaginary "common user" that supposedly had no interest in their app but now that they "improved" the UX everyone would fall in love with it) - they have to keep using the latest and "greatest" version (a very common story). Similarly if the developer shuts down the server or closes shop or drops dead the application is forever lost.

Also installation in rarely an issue in most platforms - and macOS has the simplest among all.

> Simple collaboration and sharing with anyone, including people on weird devices like Chromebooks, makes an app greater

While this can be useful functionality, in practice many web applications do not really "collaborate" with other web applications but instead just provide multiple sessions over the same application and all data is held hostage to them. Even with open source web applications that you can host yourself, it is very rare for multiple web applications to be able to share data with each other.

> Automatic updating makes an app greater.

See my comment on not installing.

> Being able to open the app I normally use on my desktop on my phone in a pinch makes an app greater.

This means that either the phone UX or the desktop UX are going to suffer to accommodate the idiosyncrasies of the other one. Either case does not make an app "greater".

> Not locking me into using a Mac makes an app greater.

And again this is only true if you are not a macOS user.
A History of BI in 6 crappy drawings
What then should a residential client do? (Assuming they haven't yet found "their electrician" that they have rapport with.) Get a recommendation, overpay if necessary, pay promptly, then hope they'll take your call and not overquote next time?

Two of my tradies (painter and gyprocker) I actually found by having them do work at my office building, and then contacted them for work at home.
> The real efficiencies come when you use like an expander cycle or a staged combustion cycle or you feed the gas generator exhaust back into the nozzle like Merlin Vacuum or F-1.

If I remember correctly, with F-1 the gas generator exhaust was sent to the nozzle to cool the nozzle, not to add efficiency to the engine main cycle.

We're still trying to get more efficiency from isochoric combustion, but the expected wins aren't too big. It's good that full-flow combustion becomes more of a norm.
btw I don't think this question should be downvoted, it's a fair thing to ask.
Sure, but doing it through IPFS means that you aren't dependent on a particular centralized service. If you put the encrypted file on Google Drive or AWS and then later take it down, the link breaks. Or someone might edit the file so that the link no longer gives the same content. On IPFS the original link continues to work as long as anyone has the file, and the content is immutable, so there are some advantages compared to plain HTTP.
How do you know they aren't providing value to the company? Do you watch them every second of the day to confirm? Unless it's your job to supervise them, it sounds like you are the one not doing work if so.

If they're failing to deliver things that affect you directly, then bring that up as feedback. Otherwise leave them be - not your circus, not your monkey.
In other words, "estimates" are actually just political and budgetary tools. They have no relation to real-world work. One side agrees to call them "estimates" (the product side) and the other side (the business) agrees to let deadlines inevitably slip.
I'm sure this is an application for Bayesian Inference, but I'm too uneducated to say anything more insightful than that.
Nope.

The snipping tool is slightly improved.
Something I've learned is that if people like the copycat enough, they will always defend it. That's what happened to Threes/2048, and that's what will happen here. The wiggle room between Lingo <-> Wordle is narrow compared to Threes <-> 2048, but people will find a way.

Interestingly, this means that copying stuff will not come back to bite you, even when you get popular - as long as you copy ideas and not assets/characters/etc.
It's not your responsibility unless you and your co-workers work together on projects.
Would you care to provide some of the reasons for either opinion? (Or both!)
Only until the criminals learn that leaving a signed transaction history for the police is unwise.
Joke's on you. This is the top-rated response.
It is so satisfying. Not having to rely on frozen or delivery and controlling the ingredients is great. Even the kneading is interesting tactile experience. When you make imperfect pizza, just making your own mediocre crust as a topping delivery system feels like an accomplishment.
The average and the mean are the same thing.
> Liquid oxygen turns anything in to fuel

Not quite literally, in e.g. Soviet engine designs some gas generators are oxygen-rich, they produce oxidized exhaust of high temperature, and the engine still doesn't burn (usually).

> So, the turbopump has to outperform the combustion chamber in terms of pressure and flow rate.

Yes, the injector pressure drop can't be too small.
Yeah. We, mere mortals, need to be checked but these corporations? No, they get to have hundreds of years of government-backed monopolies on numbers, they get to buy laws via lobbying, they get to spam us with advertising all day...
And I heard the phrase “massive pandemic of the unvaccinated” from a German politician
Can't wait for my next code pair interview.

Company: write an efficient sorting algorithm for this large data set

Me: sure! Types "# sort large data method..."
Me: Done! I think.
> If it's a database query, SQL escape it.

No, you parameterize it.
How do you encourage your son to learn programming

Unnecessary. A nine-year-old boy is as likely to refuse influence over Roblox as a junkie would heroin.
Agreed. That strategy hasn't failed me yet, and it definitely makes me think a little harder.
The "how to grant and manage access to resources" issue is still unsolved in my opinion. There is a middle ground somewhere between raw bastions and managed access services or open VPNs that could be filled.

There are a few different players in this space, but the one to watch is Boundary by Hashicorp.

https://www.boundaryproject.io/

Basically managed authenticated proxy connections to any resource you could possibly need. Still young, so it's missing auditing and some of the convenience features, but give it a year and it will be a compelling open source competitor.

Teleport is great, but their centralized model is not suitable for all situations.. and the pricing (at least for kubernetes) leaves a lot to be desired.

There is also StrongDM, which is very similar with a better pricing model.
It seems clear to me that there is an optimal starting word, but that the best second word has to depend on the info you gain from the first.

Case in point: If you get 3 green 2 yellow in the first word, you can solve on the next guess.

Of course, you can constrain your strategies to "I always use the same two/three starting words", and in many cases that will be fine. But it's quite obviously not optimal.

Also, the optimal strategy must depend on your goal metric. Do you go for "least average guesses", "least maximum guesses", or "least average guesses while never losing"? There's lots of unstated assumptions in all the analyses thrown around...
Have you seen a contract or other set of legal terms that does a good job of adjusting for inflation internationally?
This was extensively discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29918052
Hey, it's just a bit over two James Webb telescopes.
Intellectual property theft is a great business idea, you're right! Quite the condemnation of both social constructs :)
> SpaceX had to invent the alloy before the first Raptor full duration fire. That's a very low level, never done before, breakthrough required just to get to the real hard stuff.

Russians had oxydizer-rich gas generators in large engines since e.g. early 1960-s (see Proton 1st stage engines). Oxygen-rich gas generators are at least since mid-1980-s (RD-170). So not exactly never done before.
This person gets it. While some may dream of avarice, some (like me) want enough to be able to whether this volatile uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) America that I live in where, if you are not well off, you will suffer.

Of course, living to acquire money to acquire (the perception of) safety is itself a form of suffering.

The lack of a social safety net contributes to further suffering in the form of anxiety.

Of course, the market can change (narrator: inflation is at 7% in the US now while Argentina looks on and says, “hold my beer”), leaving your savings and best laid plans diminished.

Our form of capitalism is a capricious master.
Nope, keep your mouth shut. Almost impossible to spin it in a way that doesn’t hurt you. I did this once, because it was very negatively impacting me as well. Wasn’t a total disaster, but did more harm than good anyway.
A modern version using Python is https://reeborg.ca/reeborg.html
> The real thing than Minitel hindred in France are Bulletin Board Systems. They where never really a thing in France.

As a Frenchman who spent most of my high school evenings on demoscene-oriented BBSes like A.C.E., Dune and Eden, I'll beg to differ and raise this : http://web.fdn.fr/~musical/bbsf.txt

:)
I think all of us (including me) have been misreading that term. The term reads:

> had fewer than 100 total individuals working as employees and independent contractors at all times during the last tax year

Yes, a company with 100 employees each working full time for a year would blow way past the $1 million/year revenue limit, so it might seem that there is no case where the 100 total individuals term could ever matter.

But looking at it again, I think what it is saying is that at no time during the last tax year did you have 100 or more employees. Read that way it is easy to have a business that fails that term without going anywhere near $1 million/year in revenue.

For example a business that makes some sort of holiday item that people only buy for a very short time every year. Most of the year the business has just a handful of employees making the items to build up a year's worth of inventory, then near the holiday that is all sold and they hire 100+ minimum wage workers to deliver the items.
"some mild stock appreciation".. quite an understatement. $250k (annual) appreciation in a year. Whew.
I would just like to point out that humanewatch.org is funded by Center for Consumer Freedom, who is funded by restaurants, food companies, and farmers. This is the same organization that had campaigns in support of smoking cigarettes
Getting huge gains the past 2 years has not been hard. Everybody is making 20% or more a year easily.

Plus they're already rich, which means they can invest a good chunk in higher risk. Higher risk has paid dividends bigly in the past decade and especially last 2 years.

Anyway, need some proof. But I 100% agree that senators should be held to a very high standard, and would welcome strict laws that allow them only general investments in the US economy.
Lots of complaints about the new Dexter, but if you live in the Pacific NW and you look out the window in the winter, that's pretty much what you see.

They are being raked over the coals for getting the look too right.
Don't mess with the guy unless its directly harming you. Screwing with his employment is screwing with his life directly and it should not be undertaken lightly. I say this as a person who has been on both sides of this issue.

Two stories from my life: A guy tried to get me fired for years because his wife thought I was "cute." I had never met either of these people at the time the harassment started. When I found out what was going on, I was very unkind to him.

The only time I've ever tried to get someone fired-- this individual was only working about 3 hours a day (he was supposedly managing a remote team at night), and then the only thing he was doing was doing was renaming files and namespaces which broke a product that was in production and caused several emergencies. He fancied himself as an Architect and mostly considered himself to be above writing code. So each morning you'd come in and find all the code moved around.

I pulled his commits and their timestamps and was able to prove he simply had never committed anything later than a 3 hours window in the afternoon--and-- that all of his commits for months had just been renaming files, etc. The team he was supposedly managing said they hadn't heard from him in months.

That's not what got him fired though-- he eventually was laid off because he decided to take his team to Hooters for a celebratory dinner-- on the companies money. It took them a few months to get all their ducks in a row, but when there was a round of layoffs he was first on everyone's list to go.
You might find my reply to another comment interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29928153
well according to them they use hetzner and I'm not sure but since hetzner now has us servers they might be in the wrong, too. it has nothing to do with us companies...
How is this going to answer the ever-looming threat of UAP drone-swarms from Atlantis?