skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the lot has power, wouldn't they just install charging infrastructure? From a quick search around, it doesn't look too expensive. Unless the weather is an issue while it's charging?
That question works both ways:

In those few LC questions, how do I know the person can write good, maintainable, reliable software with a team of engineers and didn't just learn for the test?

Yes, interviews are hard. Assessing a persons capabilities is a difficult job.
I don't know how to feel about the settings app. The floating menu bar stands out too much for a navigation element, the different color scheme makes it feel like a widget. The "Navigation" button in the top left happens to be on the title bar gradient which gives it an off-putting neumorphic vibe, especially with the box shadow being much stronger at the bottom. I am not a Linux user but at first glance I prefer the more clearly segmented look of Gnome.
No professor in Nepal. Self study everything here we do.
I love how "trusted" in this context basically means "against the will of the end user, enforced by the technological supremacy of hardware manufacturers".
>I really didn't see any difference in resources required between BS and MS.

Really?
Lol, given this market, by the time they solved 40 they'd be ready to get a 50K hiring bonus and 300K a year job at the FAANG. You need to offer 500K or more to even motivate someone to solve 200 leetcodes.
I'm reminded of recent realisations in the evolution of whales. The great size and efficiency of whales came about due to increased ocean productivity --- more available food, though often at widely-separated distances, an efficient feeding mechansism (lunge feeding), which could onboard vast quantities of krill in a single act, and the lack of any credible predators, allowing great whales to focus their evolutionary specialisation on long-distance speed and efficiency.

See: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-are-blue-whal...

Similar principles apply to human transportation modes. In particular, safety of routes, for passengers and cargo, is absolutely paramount, and there's little that kills traffic, whether terminal or through-passage, than increased risk.

For rail, the equivalents are continent-spanning cargo operations, efficient freight loading and unloading (particularly via intermodal containerised traffic), and a lack of effective theft or crime operations against the trains and their cargo itself.

The Twitter thread here is strong evidence of a failure of that "no effective predators" requirement. Various supply-chain issues may be changing the calculus on long-distance freight operations and efficiency --- whether cargos decrease in quantity, in value, or in predictability, each of these would decrease operating efficiencies and opportunities. Containerisation is proving to be both a boon and a risk as well, by facilitating theft.

How challenging this might prove for railroads isn't clear, but I see a potentially large risk here.

As John Schreiber's thread notes, law enforcement for railroads is provided by the railroad companies themselves, in one of the first multi-jurisdictional police forces. Historically, railroad cops were more the scourge of hoboes and patrolled freight yards, but they might have to extend operations further if attacks such as these are increasing in frequency.

For those frustrated by Twitter's interface, Threadreader and Nitter links:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1481770722271760384.html

https://nitter.kavin.rocks/johnschreiber/status/148177072227...
Does that happen though? log4j developers were working overtime to fix the security bug [1], while corporation expected them to release the fix ASAP for free. Who was paying?

[1]: https://twitter.com/yazicivo/status/1469349956880408583
What is the Best free PowerPoint themes for dyslexic people?
Please tell.
I don't see any words relating to the discussion at hand anywhere to be found in this ad hominem (i've taken my pick).
Ask HN: Would developers use a No code Dapp or smart contract builder for Web 3?
Is there any company out there, making a no code smart contracts builder for Ethereum, or Solana ?

I'm curious to know what's been your experience with using a no code tool for web3, if any, and if it was any good at helping you build an NFT or DeFi product faster/better?

My thinking is that no code is still quite nascent in web2, so there would be less of it in Web3, but I haven't searched around or tested this out.
Who's making No code developer tools for Web3 and blockchain smart contracts? — Would you be interested in a No code Dapp, or smart contract builder for Web 3?
> But the AI itself won't obsolete the scientific method

I wouldn't put a lot of money on that in the future given that even 3 years ago AI could prove about 58% of a set of theorems: https://mathscholar.org/2019/04/google-ai-system-proves-over...

From that to inferring then proving new theorems in the future or even inferring new theories in other fields (that can then be tested empirically if needed) I think we're not very far from what the person you replied to suggested
Emailing!
Hey! Interesting work you are doing with your Adama Lang and the ideas are fantastic.

My only criticism is that it is being bogged down by the implementation language (java) and the academic details (gossip, blockchain, etc.) that is slowing it down to become an MVP.

Of course, I know you are doing this for fun and these details give you immense joy but some of us would love to start using it and start playing boardgames and even create some of our own!

Anyway, good work and thanks for writing up articles with your experiences.
The groceries thing is funny, but it's really just "what's the likelihood that in X years of living in the same place, your random 5 minutes out of the week are the same as your neighbor's random 5 minutes of the week".
Spoken like a true individual.

Vaccines optimally work if we don't, and instead think as a community.
Is this Intel? The people of Hillsboro would resent you referring to their Portland suburb as "the hinterlands of Oregon"
Searched for of a metal band. The results were full of Pakistani movie reviews.

Luckily, Spotify search still works.
Knuth's Mastermind Algorithm in Emacs Lisp
I like a lot of indie games, but I cut them slack for their budget. Indie devs will never accomplish what massive budget, ambition, experience and talent can make. The best I've seen from indie in my opinion is hollow knight. Objectively compared to LoZ:OoT, THPS, GTA IV, etc makes it clear they are in different leagues. Objectively compared to modern AAA like halo infinite's campaign, fallout 76, or cyberpunk, it looks like AAA is dead.

Maybe it was the HR departments that killed them. Maybe it was, in shifting from art to product, they unlearned the basics of how to make fun. Either way, nothing interesting will come from it for a long time.
Amazon EU SarL likes your suggestion.
I’m sorry, I don’t quite recall the details but it was a few different things. The main one is forcing certain Nvidia libraries in the package manager so you need to take a few steps to undo some of the Pop OS Nvidia installation, which breaks other Pop OS stuff, of course.
"Well, now we know", says HN user 'naruhodo'.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/成程#Interjection
> People are so reactionary here when they read the title it's disappointing.

Indeed, I'm sad too when reading some of the comments here

> "Post theory science" really probably means "explanations for complex behaviours are complex and in some cases beyond simply testable theories"

Case in point: agent based modeling

https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/research/population-he...

> "Agent-based models are computer simulations used to study the interactions between people, things, places, and time. They are stochastic models built from the bottom up meaning individual agents (often people in epidemiology) are assigned certain attributes. The agents are programmed to behave and interact with other agents and the environment in certain ways. These interactions produce emergent effects that may differ from effects of individual agents. Agent-based modeling differs from traditional, regression-based methods in that, like systems dynamics modeling, it allows for the exploration of complex systems that display non-independence of individuals and feedback loops in causal mechanisms."

https://www.nasa.gov/consortium/AgentBasedModeling/

> "ABM enables an examination that would take years, decades, or centuries, to be performed in a matter of minutes. An important topic that must be addressed in any ABM application is the identification of the bounds of the work and the relationship between the model and the related real-world situation."
solving puzzles quickly is just an IQ test. https://19216811.bid/ https://panoramacharter.ltd/
The Tale of J. Random Newbie
Nvidia-docker is not the same as nvidia-container-toolkit, and neither of them have official support for 21.10 the last time I checked (a few months ago).
Evil AIs are coded by humans :)

Take a look at China’s use of AI tech.
> AWS never used any of MongoDBs source code

Yes, they did, when MongoDB was licensed under AGPL. After MongoDB relicensed under SSPL, they release the API-compatible DocumentDB which is proprietary itself.
How else do they decide? They’re doing a behavioral round, system design, manager interview, etc. But being able to implement, traverse, and analyze complex data structures and apply them to a problem is essential.

There’s a class of delusional people who think a GitHub profile is sufficient. Outside of a minority of technical influencers that is absolutely wrong and unreasonable.
> i don't think you understand just how out of touch this is because not being able to implement floyd-warshall, which is literally 3 for loops, and still remaining employed as a software dev, is absolutely 100% without a doubt "i'm a code monkey" territory.

Just so I understand where you’re coming from, are you not ok with your business collapsing due to lack of workers or are you a manager at Amazon, Team Bondi of LA Noir fame, or in the general retail industry?
>Most of the population couldn't do 200 leetcode problems

Most of the population are not programmers.

For someone who already knows a PL or 2, the picture is very different: There are maybe 32-50 questions that get repeated in almost every "code puzzle"-style interview. Which ones these are is actively monitored and curated in several communities.

A person intelligent enough to know a PL, can simply memorize these questions. "Learning for the test" is a standard, and successful, strategy to game predictable test environments. We see it in educational systems using standardized multiple choice tests, why would it be different in bad code interviews?
Two of them just helped get JWST into space.
Cheers, I was most likely going to, but wanted to stand on the shoulders of giants, as it were, and see what had worked for others, but that gives me a rough time-frame to look around in.

Thanks!
Dr. Rhonda Patrick is excellent at combing through the latest academic research and distilling it into just enough actionable detail for a general audience. She also includes fitness related aspects to health like research involving exercise, sleep, and saunas. I have found her very credible. She will mention that she has no affiliation with specific products or industry, and I don't think I've ever seen her be sponsored by anything.

https://www.foundmyfitness.com/

https://twitter.com/foundmyfitness?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7C...

https://www.instagram.com/foundmyfitness/

She is very up HN-ers alley with her views on fasting, sleep, exercise, drugs, supplements, reading nutrition science papers, etc.
Do people get a FAANG interview with no recognizable credentials? Surely they have to sift the CVs somehow?
> Cross-platform isn't that hard, windowing is like the only thing that comes to mind where there are some differences in behavior.

And let's not forget the accessibility systems, clipboard handling, filesystem (e.g. a GUI toolkit needs file open/save dialogs, which means you want to monitor the filesystem for changes, which is different for all operating systems), audio, notification systems, printing, ... And probably many other things I can't think of right now which modern toolkits like Qt or GTK have to deal with.

A full GUI toolkit is already an incredibly ambitious endeavor and cross platform compatibility only makes it much more unrealistic to achieve in a timely manner.

A desktop environment on the other hand can be much less work and can grow more naturally. For example you can start with a window manager/compositor (which there are good libraries for), launcher and dock/panel. All the applications (file manager, image viewer, ...) can be leveraged from other DEs and replaced step by step if needed.
> Can the veterans of the 90s SSL Wars explain the issues with ASN1/DER/BER? Looking it up today, it seems like a pretty smart and extensive serialization system, and I have to wonder why new systems like Google Protobufs chose to reinvent the wheel.

Not a SSL or 90s veteran etc but:

- ASN.1 is how OSI was try to jump on object orientation bandwagon - inheritance via text files declarations + types OIDs registration requirement via single entity somewhere on Earth...

- ASN.1 is part of OSI - scientifically-correct attempt of networking standarisation

- ASN.1 is part of OSI which was miraculously dropped exactly when Cold War ended and replaced by much simpler TCP/IP and friends. modulo security parts - that still need to use INSANE formats for passing numbers and strings...

- ASN.1 implementations are guaranteed to be bugged for decades, imo and observations
I think the point is that it's still not enough. It's great that we spend 2/3rds of the national budget on programs that directly help people. It's a shame that they only help 1/3rd of Americans.
"The possibility of gravitational waves was discussed in 1893 by Oliver Heaviside"

I was trying to find a motel once and was directed onto "Sample Rd". The street was real, but when I got to the supposed location of the motel, I didn't see anything.
So, the answer is to ask easier leetcodes. I unironically only ask fizzbuzz and then domain specific questions (in my case it's ML/NLP). You can even design domain specific "leetcode like" questions for your domain. In my case, it could be to come up with a very simple implementation of K-NN. I accept psudocode and leave the editor, compiler (err, run button...) And Google open as resources that they can use during this time.

But companies won't do this! Bloody Google of all places had me do a code interview in a Google doc!. Imagine my horror as I am fighting indentation issues while trying to come up with the lc hard solution he asked in 45 mins.
Those libraries were originally written in the early/mid 90s. Don’t recall much in the way of code generation tools that would take those specs and generate the code at the time.

Spent a bunch of time working with and adding to those libraries.
The problem is not everyone thinks and acts the same. For many a single-use straw is a matter of connivence. They are minuscule in form but the volume of trash produced outweighs the rest.
More like, Wirth's Pascal from 1970 has broken, downward-funarg only local functions? So does GNU C. Why can't C++ have some similarly lame local functions? And then make them anonymous like lambda? Only we can't introduce a lambda keyword. I called static's agent, but evidently static is tied up playing five roles already. I know, let's use the array brackets: they have not had a good diddling.
It's broken for me, main.js¹ fails to load due to the server response: ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS

¹ https://animatize.com/js/main.js?v=131
Probably deserves a (2015) in the title, previously posted on HN in 2016 (no comments).
> It is clear that WW has no relevance just as Zuckerberg to science.

> Also, comparing one of the most respected human minds of all time to a simply grotesquely powerful active living person this way is something that is very distasteful from a news publication.

A more generous interpretation could be that on social networks, emergent properties are hard to predict beforehand with theory, and require observation of the actual phenomenon. That's actually behind a large body of scientific work, the best known being agent-based models.

Also I think it's biased to simpy discard the scientific contribution of FANGs with emotionally loaded words like "grotesquely": from algorithms to new methods, there's much good to be found in what large companies (that you may like or dislike) have done.
ASN.1 is a specification. DER/BER were methods to encode that specification.
Tracing the path of network traffic in Kubernetes
Google will spend £730m to 'reinvigorate' its UK offices
I’m not looking to blame anybody. System76’s approach just conflicts with my priorities when choosing an Ubuntu-based distro. I prefer to not have my OS surprise me with requirements that I replace a major portable dev tool standard with one of their bespoke unmaintained side projects. I doubt I am alone and maybe others will find the info useful. I just can’t trust their work any longer after realizing they were serious about that tool of theirs being a replacement.
No such promise was made to not expand. That’s a myth.

> Kinda

Has it been formally invited to join, or formally applied?
Otherwise they have not.
If the title is written to cause outrage, it is a click bait. Polygon is just following 2+2
I believe when awarding construction contracts, some of the deciders look at past projects, which could discount underbidding. Often, other engineers are deciding on the contracts, so they also have a general idea of how much it should cost.
I have not broken any of that though.

The article is all about trying to get 2 things to sync because of the slowing down of the earths rotation. You haven't actually described why we need to go to this effort beyond maintaining the current system. Nor why this is a practical thing to do in general beyond maintaining the current system.

Loads of people accept weird times shifts all the time. The poles have 6 month days and nights. In the summer I get 3 extra hours of day light and treat 7pm as "day". We already adjust what we do by what it looks like outside. Why does the time need to "match"?
For the F in that list, at least, definitely. Though that was because they used a different metric to sift/choose me for an interview (and a decade of experience) despite my lack of tertiary education.
I'm not certain that cybernetics or AI or whatever can solve the issues inherent in central planning.

As soon as a measure becomes a metric is ceases to become a good measurement of success.

The Soviet system failed both because the planners couldn't deal with modeling a complex economy, but also because they had no idea how much a given good cost to make, produce, or deliver to its point of sale.

It failed because all decision making was centralized, but no services were, so every enterprise had its own mix kindergartens, schools, recreation facilities, clinics, commissaries and dining facilities.

Any system that measured productivity of railways for example simply in ton-miles, with a quota of ton-miles to be met, I'd say is basically doomed to failure, particularly one with an inflexible plan governing it.

When the system worked, it was from local managers calling in favors and doing trades to keep production rolling.

A neat statistic, the planned economy of the SU, used as much or more oil per capita (I think twice as much) than as west, and produced 30% or more less in GDP, per capita. This is true of other consumable raw materials, all while spewing comparatively massive amounts of pollution out.
In the spirit of this concept, I think the most value you would get is by associating this with jira/slack and other workplace tools where employees can use these as way to justify raise/promotion/impact. Just as a standalone app, it doesn't add anymore value than recording this in notion/gdoc or any note taking tool.
When the status quo is objectively stupid, it is right and just to complain about it. In real life, the ones who will do so are mostly just the ones who it hurts. So what do you want to happen here, if it's not just for devs to shut up about the insanity that's making them miserable?
Spending a lot of time reading articles or on HN is very much not being an "adult with responsibility", IMO. Nor is much of the coding I'm doing to solve problems.

Most adults I personally know who live fulfilling lives are not doing much of these. They don't spend 90% of their discretionary free time on the browser. They play games.

Living your life based on others' opinions of what constitutes maturity is a good prescription of not living a meaningful life.
Wonder how organized that looting is. Is just individuals over many months or years, or a large gang over a few weeks time.

On the one hand it’s shocking to see it in LA in US. On the other I am surprised it’s not happening more often.

In large cities, some of my acquaintances had to get PO boxes as their packages kept getting stolen. But why bother wasting time going house to house, when you can hit a whole train car at once.
If someone or something produces knowledge, then yes, they are scientists and they need not be human. However it must at least be intelligible to them, and in that case it is that entity doing science.

ML systems as they exist do not produce knowledge for humans, and they do not understand anything themselves. They're mechanisms that do work. A chess computer doesn't understand chess any more than a lever understands physics, even if they can beat humans or lift heavy objects. Your TI-83 is not a mathematician despite the fact that it can calculate much quicker than you can.

If you're suggesting that at some point we may built some sort of AGI-scientist that can actually reason about something, potentially at a level we can't understand, sure. But that is not what ML is, that is science fiction, and it is not how ML systems will be used in the scientific process, they will aid as tools as they're doing right now, and that is what everyone will tell you who worked on AlphaFold.
BTW, IQ tests are, even if occasionally legal (seems they aren't necessarily illegal, but sometimes illegal in the USA depending on circumstances), are pretty unethical given that IQ is poorly correlated with what you're trying to measure (G), but it you don't trust me, trust Nasim Taleb:
https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-...

You should not be trying to approximate an IQ test (and leetcode does exactly this).
WFH has obviously lots of advantages for those with kids too. No more paying half a salary for childcare so they can be looked after because you are cooped up in an office. Also in terms of living somewhere kid friendly.
Not every developer has the time and resources to dedicate to FOSS. Some of us spend most of their working time writing software for, well, the company we work for, which won't suddenly open source their IP.

Making commits to FOSS a general requirement in interviews would exclude a whole lot of highly skilled and experienced engineers, limit the chances of beginners, and lead to loads and loads of BS open source projects that exist solely to fatten resumes.
> what if i used auto as a var name in my code

Then you had a syntax error. This is a historic keyword that played a useful role in Dennis Ritchie's B and NB languages, predecessor to C. It was retained as a reserved keyword in C, and into C++.

The use of auto in relation to type inference in modern C++ is a repurposing of the existing useless keyword that has always been there.
Using only my memory of Wheel of Fortune default letters, I use

ARTSY
MODEL
CHUNK

They may not be the best words in the world, but I thought of them, so they are best to me.
This is really amazing! There's a steep learning curve to do creative work & this is certainly a step in the right direction of WYSIWYG instead of needing to know tool specific operators etc.
that was awesome. Do you know if it is possible to do syntax highligting in org mode between begin_src..end_src?