skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair I have just learned to ignore minor and even some bigger ones that have workarounds - my task bar is right now showing the speaker on every app's icon even though only FF is playing YT - I noticed I ignored it until I decided to look for problems lol!

What I meant was crashes, freezes, data loss, things just not working type of things are rarer now a days and I personally will much rather take the remaining bugs instead of spending a ton of money and subjecting myself to Apple's whims or Windows advertising.
Uhh, how about youtube-dl?
Mention it. I’ve done this before with various do-nothings who manage to pawn off their work on others. The last guy I complained about was a do-nothing PM / scrum master who would dial in from his kid’s soccer games, not contribute ever, and make others fill out his TPS reports on a regular basis. The guy is still there but at least I don’t have to deal with him.
> What does this drivel even mean?

This "drivel" means exactly what I wrote: there is no acceptable explanation for anything they do. Nothing they say will ever change the fact that copyright is fundamentally incompatible with the 21st century, the age of free flowing information.

> It's a shallow attempt to recast people not paying for their music as some sort active citizenry?

Shallow?

These corporations have robbed the whole world of our public domain rights. They lobbied the US government multiple times until they made copyright duration functionally infinite. They use the US government to impose their copyright on the rest of the world. They work on DRM which means they are completely opposed to the computing freedom we all enjoy today and are atively working to undermine it. And on and on.

Of course copyright infringement is active citizenry. It's civil disobedience and at this point it's a moral imperative. To pay them even one cent is to empower them to do even worse.
The "root" we're talking about here is the namespace. Creating and promulgating a new one is a seizure of that namespace. This isn't a moral argument; it's an observation about plausible adoption. To wit: nobody is going to adopt a new root namespace that's monetized for its creators.

Which leaves me the question of how blockchain DNS could ever come to pass. What's in it for the project that pulls it off? The answer to that question is likely the reason it won't come to pass.
I am sure it happens, but I feel like a lot of people say they would lie but when it comes down to it and a very serious judge is asking you from the bench, I bet fewer lie than who say they would.

They also don't mess around with jury duty... one of our jurors went missing on the walk from the jury gathering spot to the courtroom, and the judge was PISSED. Sent the bailiff looking for them to hold them in contempt.
My neural network was ground down to a nub for a variety of reasons. I could not leave the cozy confines of this react and typescript stack until winter had ended
And nobody cares about L2, and manufacturers have awful security and accidentally leak L1 keys all the time.
Any part of the world in mind?

It is not near Japan but... Portugal is a really nice place (you do need a negative test before you go though).
Yep I remember the auto hide bug happening to me on smaller screen some time ago - now a days I work on big monitors mostly and don't need to auto hide it.
Sure, and in the gas turbine combustor there are also no moving parts. But there’s lots going on outside.
I turned off watch and search history because of this. There are a lot of downsides (you lose progress meters and recommendations tend to suggest watched videos a lot), but there are upsides too: namely, that YouTube only considers upvotes, subscriptions, and "Not Interested" when it makes recommendations, so your homepage is only stuff you've explicitly signalled that you're interested in, plus YouTube's usual spam (the off-the-wall suggestions they always have no matter what—for whatever reason I get a lot of cat/dog and meditation music videos).
Or any clinical trial.
But those masks with respirator valves need surgical tape over the valves to provide any type of source protection (https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2021-107/pdfs/2021-107.pdf?id...) - which seems like a pain to me. I'd rather just use a breathable N95.
I would add from experience, that using Rust would increase the speed of development like with any higher-level language than C and without the need to track memory problems. It shifts focus more on the actual development. Cargo helps to this cause as well, not always though.
This is where I'm at too at this point. My mind is so active it feels like I'm on fire with passion for what I want to accomplish while keeping myself healthy. I've definitely had to scold myself because I will catch myself trying to barter with my sleep so I can have more time to work on my projects, and I know that if you are sacrificing sleep you are sacrificing a lot of your bodies ability to heal and learn.
Figma is _fine_. My team recently switched from Sketch to Figma (I was involved in the decision), but I miss the niceness of Sketch.

Sketch is a real Mac app. Figma is a web app. There are important powers I have as a Mac user that aren’t there for Figma, no matter how much they work on the UI.

For example, besides just being hideously ugly and completely out of place on a Mac, Figma’s in-window menu system doesn’t let me assign my own shortcuts through System Preferences. I had lots of those for Sketch. Also, it uses its own menu search instead of the native Help menu. And right-click menu doesn’t use Mac services, so I can’t use other parts of my system to alter things quickly.

The toolbar isn’t customizable. This is one of the best features of real Mac apps, and honestly should be a power tool basic requirement.

Copying content in Figma copies weird Figma-only content, rather than providing multiple versions of that content on the clipboard for the paste consumer to use. Try copying from Figma into Slack (another UI story of “hey it’s good enough”). Or into any Mac app.

Windows restore in weird places and spaces when restarting. Windows behave weirdly in a dozen subtle but annoying ways.

Text editing is subtly different from that of true native Mac apps.

Color display is sometimes slightly different from native Mac apps, presumably due to color profiles, though I’m not sure. Sketch just always gave me consistently right colors, including mirroring on my phone, and Figma fails, especially with oranges. This warrants more investigation and work on my part, but is annoying.

Dragging things into or out of Figma sucks. Probably related to the copy/paste story.

There are genuinely dozens of other examples I could give. This is the tool I live in day in and day out. I’m a craftsman, I care about my tools, and honestly I don’t love this one.

BUT! Figma offers compelling features that made it an obvious choice over Sketch, and not just the “collaboration” stuff. Auto layout, decent prototypes, better color and component overrides, and a bunch of others. And to a real but lesser extent, web-first documents for the broader team.

EDITED TO ADD: Also, Figma has branching and merging! Super cool, and well implemented.

I _wish_ Sketch had been the winner on features, because I have joy using it. But it wasn’t the winner, for us. But that’s a failure of Sketch, not a condemnation of native Mac apps broadly. But please know Figma drives me crazy, because it’s not a native Mac app, and that has real UX downsides.
It's too bad hard mode only requires that you use positive clues, not negative. I've been trying to push "true hard mode" with my work colleagues. Where every guess must be a potential winner given the information revealed thus far.

So, hard mode, plus no reusing grey letters, plus no using yellow letters in the same incorrect slot.
Every semi persistent grouping of individuals has leadership even if informal and redhat and the gnome foundation have defined leadership structures.
I wish I had friends like that.
And cut off the free dopamine sources. Make your phone's screen black and white. Use an extension to block Twitter, reddit, YouTube and HN. Learn to be bored again like when you were young.
Looks like fun!
So then how do you take showers or in general, how do you move on from being stuck and change activities? How do you motivate to do anything?

Given the advice in my first comment, and I guess counter to the other comment in this thread saying “neuraltypical” tactics don’t work, I was going to ask, have you ever said to yourself at the count of three you will get up and do the task you have in mind?
Yes, but game developers are not fungible. There's still a PopCap shaped hole in indie games since their acquisition by EA.

I'm sure there will be other indie games, but Supergiant's combination of excellent music, art style, and unique, well polished gameplay is not something you see a lot of.
You are committing a corollary to the green lumber fallacy described by the article.

Just because code challenges are not relevant to job duties doesn’t mean the results are irrelevant to job performance. They are a proxy intelligence test. General intelligence is the best predictor of success in almost any role (not just software engineering).

This is what confounds people. They think the interviews are designed that way because they are supposed to be representative of the job — I don’t believe that’s the case. They are that way because they provide a strongly correlated signal of performance after hire, and big tech has decades of data for all different interview types. I’m very confident that if they had a better interview circuit that could be done in a ~day, they would be doing that. Obviously even at big tech, referrals and recommendations count for a lot.

While I don’t like the low recall, I do think that “invert this binary tree” probably has less bias than a quiz on technology, or a design conversation (that seems way more susceptible). Perhaps it has a bias for a particular kind of computer science education and thinking, but at least that’s not a protected class. I’m not seeing the age connection, but I could imagine e.g. a computer science education in different countries emphasizing different skills over years (and leading to some candidates with a leg up on the “tests”).
Really happy to hear that! Thanks a lot :)
Record the mic to a remote server:

ffmpeg -nostdin -f alsa -i pulse -c:a libmp3lame -ar 44100 -b:a 128k -ac 1 -f mp3 - | ssh -C vps "cat - > /var/www/output-$(date '+%s').mp3"
I use Kimtech 53358, also US-made and N95. Its a "duck-mask" and seems to be available at $1 each.

The Kimtech 53358 has far superior breathability compared to the Moldex 2200. Most importantly, the Kimtech "Duckmask" is foldable, and easily stores inside of an envelope, purse, handback, backpack (etc. etc.)

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Moldex 2200 is cheap, solid, and durable. Its straps are a bit tight but provide a superior seal. The Kimtech feels looser and probably isn't quite as good of a seal as the Moldex.

Still, the greater comfort and cheaper price from the Kimtech 53358 has made it my N95 mask of choice. Being able to fold the mask and store it away is a huge advantage, it means I can carry 3, 4, 5 Kimtech 53448 with me at all times (in case I sneeze in the mask and want to throw it away).

Sneezing inside of a Moldex 2200 is more high-risk, because its unlikely you're carrying a spare. The mask design is just too bulky to seriously carry spares.

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I do own 3M stock, and 3M masks are also pretty good :-) Maybe I should plug them so that the stock price goes up? Unfortunately, 3M masks seem to be sold out and/or at much higher prices whenever I'm shopping for masks.

EDIT: Got the number wrong initially, woops.
I guess this is better than going out on a limb.
I think it is my fault, I misunderstood that the GP meant RTFM where available essentially. Though I think it's still relevant, as what is clear to me now is that a lot of us are working with tech that has no true manual, just reference docs, which is a poor substitute for a real user manual.

My argument was essentially that you gain very little from memorizing reference docs. Reading a good manual is definitely invaluable on the other hand.
Who's the most credible security engineer you can find that publicly believes that Handshake will replace X.509 CAs in the WebPKI?

How is radically improved transparency in the WebPKI --- what you linked to --- evidence that Handshake is more trustworthy than the WebPKI?
Which are 2 years and 12 months old with little to no work done on each.

And as a counterpoint:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/233

Open, locked, and 17 years old.

GNOME cares about nothing that doesn't fit precisely into their "vision". This could turn out well! But it doesn't change the situation for any external contributors, or anyone who wants functionality changed in a way that the GNOMEr's that be don't agree with.
Functional Programming for Pragmatists (2021)
I do think there's a real place for interview questions where you identify algorithmic opportunities in real world problem scenarios quickly, but you also may be missing some of the incentives for testing the way it's currently tested:

Coding floyd-warshal importantly shows that you can code, and generally signals at least one of two things:

1. You studied hard for the interview, you're willing to do difficult and unpleasant intellectual work for rewards and do so in a structured enough manner to get results.

2. You have such a deep understanding of graphs and graph algorithms you were able to re-construct floyd-warshal in 45 minutes. This implies time will not be an issue if you see an opportunity for these problems, and you can probably handle much harder problems as well.

Filtering for these two traits might work very well depending on the hiring needs of a particular company.
There's private use ranges for classes and types. They don't have specific mnemonics but you can use the generic ones (eg: CLASS65280 and TYPE65280).

CHAOS probably gets used most because that's what BIND happened to do.
Yes, the definition of "fact" in "findings of fact" is "there is a factual answer, but we do not know what it is, so we have to guess".

Yes, it might be better if jurors were all acquainted with Bayesian reasoning and it would definitely be better if things like expert testimony and so forth came with confidence estimates.

And yes, "beyond a reasonable doubt" is pretty qualitative.

My point was that if you are expecting your jurors to have a deep understanding of the law, you are definitely doing it wrong.
Ironic 'crocodile tears' coming from MI5, when Britain has destabilised countries all over the world for over 400 years. (since the 1600s or thereabouts).

"One law for me, another law for thee."
How is it propaganda that the Nazis invaded Russia? That the jumping-off point was the middle of Poland? That's straight-up fact.

Or are you saying that it's propaganda the Putin is worrying about that? I've never heard them say so, so I don't think it's a common theme of their propaganda.
More asynchronous design?
It’s not that hard to bring up. I get asked “how’s it going with Joe?” I respond: “not good. He doesn’t seem to do any work, barely understands the project, and makes Jane fill out his reports because he had no clue.” These sorts of chats can be a real laugh when you’re near FIRE.
I would go to Nepal for sure
Anywhere in the world
I have said this before: it's group therapy for entitled devs that feel they're entitled to oversized salaries just because they have tenure. Young grads accept the process as is. People that are either happy with their comp or comfortable putting in the work do not lament the process - they just accept it and proceed. Only devs that have been doing it a while, whose salaries have plateaued, that either never learned data structures or can't muster the will to review, bemoan the LC grind.

The most utterly absurd instantiation is the dev that's 100% sure that FAANG is going to fail soon because they're passing on people like him/her that are just so talented that they don't need to prove it with any assessment. There's also the MGTOW-esque subgroup that eschews such interviews and will proclaim it proudly, along with their salary.

Personally I'd be embarrassed if I was making a less than obscene dev salary, which is still upper middle class anywhere in the world, and all the while complaining that I deserve more for no added effort.

What's funny is there are other professions where the same sort of multimodal distribution in compensation exists (big law vs everyone else, competitive specialties vs general practice in medicine, IB and PE vs everyone else in finance) and I have never seen members of those communities complain as much as developers do.

Edit:

I have a friend that's trying to break into FAANG (as a DS) who I've been coaching. He has a stats PhD and basically no software training whatsoever, outside of R. Since DS loops still have LC questions it's been very hard for him. I have never heard him once express feelings of resentment over the process - he fails an interview and just goes back to practicing. He's also a first gen immigrant from a very poor part of the middle east. Admittedly it's hard to assign/attribute his perseverance to any particular thing but naive intuition dictates that some of it must be his humility - something that software as an industry seriously lacks.
From a 2018 Washington Post article

>The ratio is staggering. According to the Supreme Court Database, since 2000 a unanimous decision has been more likely than any other result — averaging 36 percent of all decisions. Even when the court did not reach a unanimous judgment, the justices often secured overwhelming majorities, with 7-to-2 or 8-to-1 judgments making up about 15 percent of decisions. The 5-to-4 decisions, by comparison, occurred in 19 percent of cases.

You've fallen prey to media outrage mongering. If you go look at decisions for yourself instead just the ones the media tells you about, you'll find that it is also common for the "conservative" and "liberal" justices to switch sides.
Other made in the USA N95 options include Prestige Ameritech[1] which was referenced in Rick Bright's testimony mid 2020 [2] when masks were extremely scarce in the USA. It seems to buy genuine Prestige Ameritech masks, one needs to go through a medical supplies distributor and instead, I opted to buy direct through their ProGear consumer sales channel [3][4]. There is also DemeTech, which also manufactures in the USA [5].

[1] https://www.prestigeameritech.com/
[2] https://www.wgbh.org/news/national-news/2020/05/14/ousted-sc...
[3] https://www.prestigeameritech.com/progearmasks
[4] https://www.progearhealth.com/
[5] https://www.demetech.us/
Do you not have any hobbies or other skills that you are working on that would benefit by being broken up into smaller tasks? I have about ten to do lists that cover a wide arrange of different subjects that help keep me on task and help me validate and track my progress.
Except that we do not have an alternative to jet airplanes that moves hundreds of times more passengers while emitting less carbon. We do have such an alternative to Bitcoin, in fact it predates Bitcoin by decades and is far more popular: Visa. Visa's total carbon emissions in 2020 for its data centers and offices (their ESG report also discusses emissions from employee commuting and business travel) is a whopping 14 thousand metric tons, over 1000 less than Bitcoin. That carbon was emitted as Visa processed 1700 transactions per second compared to only 7 transactions per second for Bitcoin.

In other words, as an electronic payments system, Visa is roughly one million times less polluting than Bitcoin.

So until NFTs are using a system at least as energy-efficient as Visa, I'll continue to worry...
Hard mode is so much more fun (which disallows this strategy). It changes it up much more each day and is more challenging.
Tuition money is fungible. If a school gets 20% of it's funding from loans (no idea what the real number might look like) and uses 30% of tuition money to fund their endowment, then the accounting will show that all of the loan money went to fund operations and only cash payments went to the endowment.

We've already seen this in every state where lottery funds "go to education." The new money doesn't increase the budget for education, it only frees up some money to be spent on something else.
Great comment, what are the drugs?
It doesn't. It eventually gets too small to measure. (inverse cubed law)
> abstract notion of privacy

What's abstract about it?
This is really cool. I have a little node.js script I wrote that generates a funky little beat I call "egypt.js"[0] and outputs the PCM data to stdout, just for weird things like this.

My local WSL1 install of ffmpeg has an issue with the LAME encoder so using a few extra pipes I was able to get this working! Confirmed with a friend they were able to listen across the planet.

node /tmp/egypt.js | ffmpeg -f f64le -ar 176400 -i pipe: -f wav - | lame - - | curl -s -k -H "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" -X POST -T - "https://broadcast.schollz.com/egypt.mp3?stream=true&advertise=true"

Neat stuff! I love things like this.

[0] https://gist.github.com/Qix-/7c131c6eb83bef7c44ef6faaf1eab10...
Consistent look?

If you’re thinking of the website I’m thinking of [1], the screenshot they lead with isn’t just inconsistent. It’s broken, with light text on a white background. And I’ve seen apps fail in that same way for real when trying custom GTK themes.

It’s the same reason web browsers can’t change the system CSS stylesheet without extreme measures like Reader Mode that strip almost all of the design work out of the site: it’s hard to mix design work from two different people (the application author and the theme author) without risking a total mess.

[1]: https://stopthemingmy.app/
Looks neat for breadboarding, but like most of these products lacks the ability to help a newbie/hobbyist (whom is their claimed target audience) go from a breadboard to a pcb.
I recently moved all Algorithmic Distractions on to a purpose-bought iPad and blocked them from all other devices. This has been useful in helping me distinguish when I'm wasting time or not, and meant I need to be physically using the iPad to distract myself, rather than just having distractions there on my phone or computer
> It can be erased by rewriting the arguments from inside the process

Please nobody rely on this behavior. :O
She runs her own TikTok.

I'm kidding but really the job title doesn't necessarily mean much.
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/topics/respirators/disp_part...

Just go to the official USA N95 page. All available products in the USA are listed there.

If anything seems suspect, double-check the official listing on that webpage.