skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bartosz is a one of a kind explainer of things - no matter what topic he touches, he always manages to outright nail the communication of the core concepts in a manner almost anyone can understand.

Let alone the interactive visualizations.

There should be some sort of Nobel Prize for people that contribute to humanity’s education - and methods therof.

Kudos!
>If people want more pay than can be made back by selling the products

You seriously think this is what's happening? People that are demanding higher wages are not getting them because it's eating too much into margin to make products viable?

If that's the case I'd argue those products shouldn't exist, but from where I'm sitting it looks like business as usual... the people in charge of pay ultimately don't want to share their profits.
>You could make a feature-slim browser, but it would never reach wide adoption, because non-technical people would still need to open one of the big ones to do their online banking, or make video calls, or whatever.

A prime example of that practical reality is ex-Mozilla founder/programmer Brendan Eich having to switch Brave's forked code from Firefox to Chromium ... because one of the reasons is "Chromium can play Netflix videos":
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22062636

Similar to Eich's decision, other entities like Opera and Microsoft gave up on trying to maintain their own proprietary browser engines and just decided to fork Chromium. If Microsoft with billions sees no strategic need to invest in their own Trident/Edge browser and are willing to switch to a competitor's browser as a baseline, that should give an idea of how daunting a task it is for a hypothetical group of FOSS programmers to code an alternative browser.

EDIT reply to: >Gecko is just relatively unfriendly to embed in an app.

That may be true but that difficulty didn't stop Eich/Brave from using Gecko at first. His comment said they had to switch to Chromium because of performance issues and the DRM to watch things like Netflix.
It's not really the same. For one, when those were the two juggernauts in the game cartridge era, they weren't really in the business of just scooping up a bunch of game studios, because financially it didn't make much sense.

What's different now is that Microsoft is focusing on becoming the Amazon Prime Video of video games. While you will still be able to buy the games outright, the games of the companies they're purchasing will be part of the monthly price gamers pay to play.

So for instance, because they own Zenimax, I can load up any of the Bethesda / id games and play as part of my subscription. And when Starfield and Elder Scrolls VI come out, they'll be part of that price too. Buying Activision brings Call of Duty, Overwatch, Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo, and a host of other games under the same umbrella.

I guess they've decided that low monthly subscriptions paired with season passes for content is the way of the future for gaming.
> Interesting, what do you think the original poster meant by it? Do you think perhaps their finger slipped or something?

I think they were probably referring to this person as some kind of person who is awful to be around. Particularly, in this case, this person seemed to tell them they couldn’t be positive and say “good” or other comments... (per the Twitter thread). I don’t want to attribute specific meaning, but my that was my initial impression. Idk what this person meant, and it’s good to know the other meanings.

In terms of the preacher analogy; I think it’s a bit of a poor analogy. It’s more like, someone reporting something immoral or not working and us walking away covering our ears.

I have listened to preachers on the street. I do actually try to understand their world view. Once I do, I’m less likely to stop, perhaps. But rarely is that preacher discussing working conditions in my field. If they were, I’d be more likely to actively listen.
Faster here is in geological timescales.

Our species probably would have been gone for millions of years before we could see any difference between the world and what our current science predicted.
The opposite. We have a lot of information that says Covid is flu-like for most of us. If you just assume it’s covid, and do what we all do with the flu (take sick days, eat soup, rest, try to stay away from people), that would be the common sense thing to do.

Things that are not common sense anymore:

1. Order an online test

2. Stand in line at a clinic for a test

3. Goto the hospital

^ Most of us don’t do that when we get the cold.
Yeah and that's not even about security just about keeping /var/log from filling up right quick.
Haha, 'una pietra' is 'ein stein'. Very amusing. Love the format too.

I felt things sort of click in my head. The angle in this world being the important thing is dope. Dude, this hecka cool!
Some of the companies in the field, in contrast to NSO, do have ethics committees to filter out obviously bad clients.

Once when guidelines were described to engineers a question was asked: Would Israel itself pass the ethics committee check?

The answer was "No. But..."
Do you actually do this? Or is it theory?
Corporations are unwilling to let non-executive wages become a larger percentage of their costs. They are perfectly willing to spend on other things. It is rather remarkable that the consumer market works at all, yet it is almost overheating, the key to that is loans, lots of loans, many connected to equity in an intentional housing bubble.
All of that junk like Norton/MCafee/Cyberlink/Shortcuts to websites.
The Norton/MCafee crap gives you a 1 year 'complimentary' subscription. Many uneducated users will then go and resubscribe to that garbage AV.
How that would be different to current situation?
Yeah I was kinda wondering, what's their game plan here? Hope that people don't notice the price difference and DIY it? Might just be what someone else said, this is what Dell is not being paid to pre-install whatever
This take I can get behind, because it's a contextual description of what really happened.

(It's funny getting downvoted on this topic, because not only have I been following the pandemic with great interest just as anyone else, but this is actually very close to my area of expertise.)
Actually this is a very good question for engineers, as the (wrong) idea that a smartphone regularly sends data to a satellite shows fundamental lack of knowledge in some very basic physical understanding. The basic understanding should be: transmitting/sending = emitting energy (costly if a device runs on batteries), receiving/listening for a signal = almost for free nowadays.

I also like the question because even if you have no idea how GPS actually works, you could quickly come up with the rough idea yourself given that you have a bunch of satellites that can emit arbitrary signals. Lots of room to show creative and analytical thinking here.
The complexity equivalent to regulatory capture.
I once got banned from /r/firefox for implying intent on googles behalf here. Apparently that is a conspiracy theory.

In the end there are however clear incentives and profiteers of the development. Google has an incentive to keep the web complex enough to the point where they are the monopoly. Same goes for governments and complexity of security mechanisms.

How ever we got here, now google is the internet and security is achieved by things like TLS. Its inefficiencies that are profitable for existing power structures.

Which also makes it a lucky coincidence that mozilla is behaving as user -unfriendly as they do.
You've received some flack for this, but I'm not sure the context. If most of the questions in this round are of this nature, then maybe it is a "why are manhole covers round" thing.

But as a one-off, and if asked in a forgiving way to explore how they think, then I'd consider this question valid.

Maybe "Have you ever thought about how GPS works?"
if "yes", then let them explain,
if "no", then make it easy for them to start reasoning about the system and then see how they might design it.

Seems to me as fair as asking "have you ever thought about how a double-linked list works?" or "a basic way to ensure database consistency when the DB is replicated at two different physical machines"?

It's not like GPS is something esoteric that they are unlikely to have interacted with, odds are they used it to get to the interview location.
I do, not only for testing as I described but it gives me in significantly more battery time (I believe about 10%).
Milot and Britt's vision for having an impact on the building industry is going to take a lot of work, but they're one of the few people that seem to have unlimited drive for it.
- I worked as a dev for ArchiPro from March 20 - December 21
Seems fine, though the sweet spot between friction with the road and with the air is in the 40-50 mph range, as I understand it.
Because the lifetime costs of cars are so high and difficult to quantify (my feeling is that shedding tires all over the land, and pollutants into the air, and mining the materials is not worth the benefits if we care about the survival and existence story of life on earth for the next thousands of years, at least), I’d rather go back to mostly using animal power (ourselves and other animals, and not using horseshoes or hard paved roads, and keeping communities small, and being okay with not having everything we want) along with maybe trains, and some aircraft, for emergencies. If we mostly moved under our own power, and had healthier relationships with the land, I’m guessing medevacs would be rare.

I accept that the situation we’re in is a hyperobject. Mostly I’m feeling frustrated; seems like we’ve pulled out too many control rods.
This should surprise no one since the spyware was developed by Israeli intelligence agencies.
https://www.patreon.com/ciechanowski
I do something similar.

Recent photos live on grandma-/normie-friendly services like Google Photos, and once every year or so I download everything and store it on platter drives locally with par2 archives to guard against bit rot.
> [The ad-blocker is] modifying the HTML of another author and then displaying it to the browser user

But ... that's what the browser itself does. We aren't shown raw HTML, we're shown a user-friendly rendering of that HTML.
Not generally, no.

Most of the time, it's software that goads you into a subscription after your 30-day trial, like anti-virus packages or HP's ink subscription.
Microsoft Acquires Activision Blizzard
This one fell off the frontpage rather quick, no?
The New Deal was a bad deal, in fact a dismal failure. Much of it was at some point rolled back by the Supreme Court, and the economy picked up hugely as a result. What brought the U.S. out of the 1930s Great Depression was devaluation of the dollar, but that could have been accomplished without the detrimental effect of everything else that was part of the New Deal.
I have a similar setup (also Synology), but only backup to Backblaze nightly. What's housing your garage backup? Another NAS or something else? If it's another synology, did you get the same model as your primary or something less powerful?
I practice something I call "shapeshifting" where I overlay my avatar in the physical world with something or somebody else. It is something I learned on my own and haven't seen a lot of literature on it.

I did it seriously around 2008, then fell out of it. In an emergency situation a few months ago I received a new character, and then last month I was so impressed by a movie character that the character came to me in a way that was intrusive and was remarkably ego-dystonic at first.

This character has an extra time delay in social interactions which makes me a better listener, draws people out, and gives me a chance to make better decisions. When I am this character I find myself driving about 5 mph below the speed limit and boy it pisses people off.
True is irrelevant. Common sense requires some level of acting ‘as if’. Act as if you have a cold. I don’t go around sneezing on people with a cold. I don’t waltz into the office and touch everything with a cold. I rest, eat some soup. Act as if.

Now, if I had the cold and it felt like no other cold I ever had, then I may go to the doctor (before I consider the hospital).

Things I won’t do if I suspect if I have the cold:

1. Order an online test to see if I have the cold.
I think it’s mostly junk like mcafee antivirus. Not strictly an ad but it’ll eventually nag you for money at some point.
Here's gps from another perspective:

http://lea.hamradio.si/~s53mv/navsats/theory.html

This guy made his own gps receiver from scratch in 1991-1992
Yes.

I don't visualize code because I can't visualize on demand, period.

I think of it in terms of words and logical abstractions. Textual memory, reading comprehension, code intelligence tools, and search are how I understand and navigate projects.

I say things like "You're looking for the immutable DEFAULT_HEADERS property. I think that's in the HTTPResponse class?" fairly often.

I like documenting a project's high-level organization (top-level folders and what they do) in the readme or a similar place.

I'm strongly opposed to manually-created diagrams about a codebase because they require insane discipline to keep up-to-date.

I like having tooling to generate diagrams from the current state of the code. Ditto interactive tools with useful visual components (popups that show the doc comments for the abstraction under your cursor, auto-completion hints, SQL query editors that show you the visual schema of the tables in your query and the foreign keys to related tables [hypothetical, yet to find one that does this like I wish they did], etc).

I sometimes use git-heatmap to get an idea of what files in a project see the most change. Such files are usually worth getting to know better.

I frequently use ag / rg to search for fragments of text that I recall being near the code I'm looking for.
Precisely; as soon as E2EE is outlawed it starts to look just like gun laws, only the criminals have it. Worse the software and methods are out there, all that happens next is you are raising the bar on being able to use it as it won't be commonly available.
Fortunately CDC data shows there is no significant risk to healthy children.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
> It's telling that 20 years after 9/11 we're still taking our shoes off at airports

Obligatory Nitpick: the shoe bombing attempt happened in December 2001:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_American_Airlines_Fligh...
> you're implicitly legitimizing advertising practices

There is a middle ground of people okay with advertising, but pissed off about the nightmare that is the present state of internet ads. I use uBlock. But I’d be okay with e.g. text ads that don’t track me.
I've been diagnosed bipolar, but everything I know about my non-neurotypical character plus what I've observed in computer programmers who've been diagnosed with autism tells me that I'm autistic.

Is it possible for autism to look like bipolar disorder type II (no manic psychosis)?
PostgreSQL Execution Plan Visualizer
There are plenty of ways to get to the bottom of what a candidate knows without resorting to unreasonable questions. What you're really testing for is a candidate's patience for being toyed with.
Tests aren't statistically independent events. Taking multiple rapid antigen swabs doesn't improve their accuracy. Multiple tests spaced out over a few days does.
https://www.gwern.net/ is all you need!
https://fantasticanachronism.com/ is also good!
How long have you been following this procedure?
Love this question and Im forever inspired by the way engineers visualize their code especially when actually white-boarding (in the before time...). Was hoping to see more actual visualization examples in the article / thread.

If anyone knows of a site or project dedicated to cataloging whiteboard visualizations point me in the right direction.
100% agreed!! But, if someone was a politician and looking for my vote, saying words like "break up big companies" would be a pretty appealing prospect to me.
"We never run all of our application’s tests in local development. It’s not a good use of time and will never be as fast as running them on CI. "

Actually I've just released something for that. It's a way of running from your local environment extremely quickly (spoiler alert we use non-local servers).

You can check it out at https://brisktest.com/ we have a demo running Jest at the moment but I'm recording a rails demo right now.
The conversation is also muddied by varying definitions of success and failure. Intel isn't going to go broke in any foreseeable future but they may lose the premium margins they used to earn for having the best performing product. To the extent fab advantage drove that advantage (likely a big part) and that advantage is not coming back (because they no longer have a scale advantage) then maybe the premium margins will never come back. That's what investors worry about.
Well, obviously if the candidate is round then they fit.

or was that the pothole cover? Sorry, I might have gotten confused.
Every tractor comes with a display in the cab that tells you what the code means. This display is populated from the same database that goes into John Deere's dealer service tool. I wrote some of that code. (I don't speak for John Deere of course)

The only thing you cannot do without a dealer is replace a ECU. This is part anti-theft, and part to ensure you don't mess with the emissions.
While I certainly dream of building a true passive house, it is much more reasonable to follow the Pretty Good House approach, in it's current 2.0 version described here: https://www.prettygoodhouse.org/pgh-20

As with most engineering efforts, the last 20% of optimization tend to be costly. But covering the basics (mainly around insulation and air-sealing) has a huge impact already without increasing upfront costs by the same ratio.

Also the wall/roof assembly needs to match the climate for the region, mainly because of the dew point and how it relates to temperature and moisture differences between inside/outside. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dew_point
I think the landing page is more informative personally:

https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef
They're referring to Golan v Holder, which affirmed that the US could retroactively restore copyright to works that had fallen into the public domain in the US under the US's old copyright laws, but which remained protected by foreign copyright laws which the US had adjusted to be in compliance with. So basically The Hobbit, like many other works, was copyright protected in other countries, but had fallen into the public domain in the US; when the US agreed to honor the foreign copyrights, it became copyrighted in the US as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golan_v._Holder
You know there are essentially only two search engines on the internet right? Google and Bing? Microsoft is doing good and cornering market and is helping users forget that DDG and Ecosia and Yahoo are just Bing.
> Not the person you're replying to, but empirically I'd say that it's pretty accurate.

Empirically, everyone would say that their worldview is accurate, including conspiracy theorists. An interesting question is: who is actually correct (if we were to examine each given situation in detail using strict logic and epistemology)?

> I don't know a single person who's into just one conspiracy theory. It's either none or the whole package.

I know plenty who are into only some - in fact I am one of them, and I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have.
Used to great effect in this blog post:
https://spacelift.io/blog/tricking-postgres-into-using-query...

That blog post is being discussed here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29981737
Bonus/Followup question: Explain why GPS is not working very well to determine height.

Once you understand the signals are timecoded, this boils basically down on your ability to picture the intersection of multiple sphere in 3D space and it will become obvious (amongst other, very technical reasons that should not be an interview question).
There's no way they could get 10 repubs plus Manchin and Sinema to support the very popular preschool provisions, to take one example among many.
Hell No. Zig is still a relatively new. But if you search Rust on HN, you still see it wins by a very wide margin.
Gecko is just relatively unfriendly to embed in an app. That's one reason Mozilla is working on Servo.
Unfortunately they didn't support their own game engine as they could: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_XNA

Stardew Valley and Terraria were actually IMO the best games produced with that
I think it depends on the job. If this was for an embedded/firmware engineering position, I'd expect a level of EE knowledge that would at least make the concept of everyone's phone sending data to a satellite be a non-starter.

I think it's more relevant than asking an embedded engineer which sorting algorithm is the fastest.
That’s what everyone thought.

They actually reported profit with game pass.
> calendars, contacts

I'm interested in this just to keep my devices sync'd up. I know Samsung/Apple/MS etc all have syncing services, but I really really want to get all my data out of their ecosystems.

Just a distributed calendar app would be pretty amazing. No more iCal subscription/export/whatevers, 'just' federate the calendar between devices, and arbitrarily share it with anyone else.

I have no clue where to start with building an app on these abstractions. Does anyone have any pointers? Documentation to read? High level overviews? Etc.?
Norton 360, which if memory serves has been a stalwart of the preinstall game now installs an opt-in Cryptominer. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/01/norton-360-now-comes-wit...
Inmates sue Arkansas doc, jail after unknowingly given dangerous ivermectin dose
Swell reshaped their story and process from seed to Series A
If 60% of voters are in favor of legalizing marijuana, then legalizing marijuana is the will of the voters, period. The voting system limits the way the voters' will can be expressed, thereby making the outcome not reflect the will of the voters.

If you'd like to make an argument that our national representative system weighs voters from different states unequally, I'm open to that. But that's the kind of thing that will generally get you a few percentage points, not 10%. Or translate the argument to medical marijuana which per that link is supported by 91% of Americans. That magnitude can't be explained away with weighting or quantization error.

I'm very aware of the tyranny of the majority ("wolves vote to eat the sheep"), and would have included such a caveat that following the will of the voters is not always just and that it's an assertion to judge by simple majority, but that is not what we're discussing. Also on the topic of marijuana deillegalization, this isn't a majority wanting to aggress onto a minority and take away their rights, but rather a majority wanting to end such aggression - tyranny of the majority does not apply.
Everything from antivirus to cloud backups to photo editors. Basically just trial editions of various software.
Actual rape?
A bit interesting to see that not much mentioned about blizzard's declining and Activision being a low grade money grabbing game studio, which collectively Activision Blizzard is heading to irrelevancy. Or I might get the wrong impression. Or its just blizzard is going into oblivion.

Most comments are about monopoly. But is A & B really that good? Or its just more of a optimization of financial strength between A &B and MSFT?
Well, I actually think it helps indicate how much a lower risk this variant is, for starters.