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Smartly implemented, documented implicit with test cases and air-tight semantics beats irksomely verbose and repetitive explicit.

Moving a return value into the EAX register yourself is more explicit; I don't see a lot of Python code doing that sort of thing.
This is your regular reminder that today's word, and all the upcoming ones, are located in the Wordle minified JS.
I don't think that's accurate.

The most effective hiring process I've been through is one where there was basically no interview, I was given contract work to perform during which I was compensated for necessary company tasks with no real expectation of enduring relationship. After a few days of performing tasks to the satisfaction of the company, I was offered a permanent position.

Not only did this process eliminate the BS, it allowed me to perform a task in a relatively low-pressure but high yield setting while simultaneously not exploiting me (I got paid) and allowed the employer to see how I would actually behave as an employee. This is also the longest and most successful position I've held, partially because there is no lingering bitterness and hatefulness I've harbored at those expecting me to solve bullshit problems for free, like some kind of performing monkey.
As I understand it, this sentence says that the application should be safe even if it was exposed to the public internet, not that it needs to be exposed. It is a good practice to securize everything even if visible only internally. The "perimeter defense" given by a VPN can be a plus, but never the only line of defense.
In other news, a cigarette shortage has been reported, with thousands of crows queued outside tobacconists around the nation.
> I don't live in a very diverse country, so I don't know anything about the minorities part

I love how you lead with this and then drive a car into every single wall about this issue. Its like the most predictable meme and you are it.

You've encountered women.... proportionally? What stage of the career, entry level, lead?

The only point here is about time, and time commitment available. Forget about the supporting culture you were raised around for "grinding for the job you want", that method discriminates against competent people who have other obligations. When people are interviewing for a job, they are interviewing for many jobs at other potential places, so there is no way to determine passion or seriousness by their willingness to focus on studying for your job, it only determines who has things they can neglect. And basically that is just single men without debts or other distractions.

Many times minorities have other distractions, in your non-diverse country a minority would likely have a time limit to find a job to maintain a visa or comply with an asylum application. Women often have other distractions as well, with only some slim slivers of time being similar to the single men.

Hope that illuminates something for you, or others.
Depends on who's asking. Amazon Glacier never formally disclosed their storage medium (at least as of a few years ago) and one of the theories on what it might be was actually a robotic optical disc changer library based on BD-XL, and the cost/capacity actually does math out. Yeah, discs might be $15 a pop (for a quad layer/128GB disc) for you as a consumer, but when you're Amazon and you'll be buying the complete output of at least one optical disc factory, the economies of scale kick in. It's just expensive because there's no market for 128GB media for consumers (and honestly these days hardly any market for WORM media at all as a consumer), it's not inherently that expensive to make the discs.

(I believe the final consensus pointed to arrays of HDDs where most of them are powered off, and the number of "live" drives per rack is bounded to allow high density/low cost, hence the need for access time/service level bounds, but the BD-XL idea is still intriguing!)

With the consumer discs, even considering cost per GB, the amount of effort required to handle a large library of low-capacity discs is just too great even if the cost is a little bit better. 128GB discs would have been very usable 5 years ago but again, those discs were never affordable to consumers, and the 25GB was still some effort at that time. Today even 128GB is not all that much, as data has grown. As far as I know there is nothing realistic on the horizon to replace blu-ray with higher capacity either, if movie content started being released in 8K it probably would be something like BD-XL with AV1 encoding (or maybe H265 again), not a fundamentally new iteration like DVD->BD.

The future for consumer storage seems to be SSDs and hard drives for fast and slow/bulk storage, and cloud for nearline storage. Tape is still relevant for enterprises though especially in automatic libraries.
>Doctors btw dont get asked to "go diagnose this patient real quick" during their interviews.

They might not be asked to do this because their board has already done it for them: https://www.abim.org/Media/h5whkrfe/internal-medicine.pdf
> The object was discovered by Curtin University Honours student Tyrone O’Doherty using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope in outback Western Australia and a new technique he developed.

> “It’s exciting that the source I identified last year has turned out to be such a peculiar object,” said Mr O’Doherty, who is now studying for a PhD at Curtin.

That must be exciting, to make a cool discovery like this during your undergrad.
Has the appetite for plant-based meat already peaked?
A large portion of people wear cloth masks, which are largely ineffective. In addition, you’re talking about a group of 20+ people being in close proximity for at least an hour. (Most) masks are only going to reduce the number of viruses spread, so it might buy you a little extra time around someone that’s infected - but at some point enough will get through.
Someone once told me that the finite human lifetime is not a constraint of physics or biology, but evolution. The fact that older organisms decay and die gives an opportunity for new organisms (potentially, with superior genes) to thrive.

If there was no finite lifetime, then the benefit of physical maturity would allow older organisms to perpetually outcompete the younger ones, reducing the rate of genetic adaptation and the fitness of species overall.

Does anyone with specific knowledge know if this is true? If so, it's a little bit depressing to think that aging is simply a programmed biological process, "deliberately" degrading our bodies on a schedule and killing us off to make room for something new, rather than any sort of fundamental limitation of the underlying system.
Thanks!

1. I suspect there might be the need for migration calculators but for smaller bills, the cost of the actual migration might be more than the cloud bill savings. For larger bills, it'll depend on the discounts and custom prices the vendors are offering them.

2. If I remember correctly, AWS Cost Explorer has a filter to remove the free tier usage, or maybe that's the credits? That might help to see what the costs will be.
You can undergo training to improve function during hypoxic events and some people are naturally better at dealing with it, but that doesn't mean the general population will have the same experience, so I don't think removing this vital tool for aircraft safety is a good call due to a single incident (let me know if you have a reference on that as I'm very curious).

It would make more sense to determine why the incident occurred and modify the design of the oxygen generators to avoid that scenario in the future, which is what I assumed happened.
Nice details.

Too bad that there is no flow diagrams of how all physical object connects.

Or key objects relates to each entity being transitioned.

It’s a lot of reading and typing as you go before something clicks in one’s head.
So you may have eaten smart fish, and you still don't know what a smart fish tastes like.
Bracing for the Satellite Pixel Glut of 2023
You might be able to find a sailing co-op in your area. I'm a member of one that requires 30 hours of volunteer work, which you can gain experience in a wide variety of things - fibreglassing, painting, plumbing, electrical, rigging, etc.

We've got a fleet of 6 27' - 30' boats which are great for day sailing and week long vacations.
Spike proteins are found on the surface of the virus particles. They aren't released by the virus as some sort of pollutant.
The irony is that this mod turned into a nasty boss who fired everybody who dared to criticise.
A modern day engineer designing and building 3d printers then scanning themselves in to building a physical model of themselves is I think roughly equivalent to a 2000 year old sculptor learning the by then commodity trade of stonecarving.

Both skilled artisans doing things which did require a lot of training but also not uncommon in their own age. Let’s not infantilize the past and pretend everything they did was mindblowing.
You haven't really explained how the rich elites are benefiting from mask mandates and restaurant capacity limits. It's actually really annoying to rich people.

If you're suggesting that this was all a big opportunity to lay people off, well, the problem with this theory is that the economy has rebounded and (at least in Canada) we're back at full economic capacity and have re-hired everyone.

> “Employment is now 102.1% above pre-pandemic levels and is among the highest in Canada. This means 56,000 more people are employed in B.C. today compared to before the pandemic.
https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2022JERI0001-000017

Dealing with the pandemic cost the government a fortune in new debt, which elites generally don't like.

If the pandemic was some scheme by the ultra rich elites to enrich themselves they probably would have done nothing and let the poors die.
AMAAN!

I still don't know if I'm reading amen or a man.
RegExr is my go to tool for testing regex. It’s always been able to solve my needs and I’ve never had any need to change. In saying that, I’ve always wondered if regexr is missing out on something that other regex build/test tools have?

What other regex tools do people use and why?
I TA'd a lot of comp-sci classes in school - the double hump is real.

Even in a class designed to teach people basic, fundamental steps, some folks just will not engage with a computer in a meaningful way.

Not sure what it is, but intro CS classes will almost always show two bell curves at the end of the year - The double hump. The group that "got it" and the group that "did not".
Must be a slow day on HN when we're talking about tunics.
It's a different framing to get rid of figleafs. Everything has to be built so that it actually has a chance of being secure - if your state of mind is "this is exposed to the public internet", BS excuses like "this is only exposed to the TotallySecure intranet" don't work any more, because they don't work in the first place. Perimeter security only works in exceedingly narrow circumstances which don't apply - and haven't applied for a long time[1] - to 99.999 % of corporate networks.

[1] Perimeter-oriented security thinking is probably the #1 enabler for ransomware and lateral movement of attackers in general.
> What gives you a positive opinion of the CDC?

There are a lot of really great people working for the CDC and they are doing some excellent work. They also made some bad decisions around respect to COVID-19 that absolutely does affect their trustworthiness.

However, if I add up the positives and negatives, they still are come out with a net positive rating for me. There's a lot more to the CDC than their COVID response.
> I think that most people here are mistaking the finger for the moon. If discrimination is really the reason why we have this kind of interviews, the problem to solve is discrimination and not the hiring process that is attempting to fix it or to hide it.

Agree in that if discrimination is the problem, then thats the problem that needs fixed. But, if these companies really wanted to solve the problem of discrimination then they would be making efforts to do so besides leetcode.

I saw it mentioned earlier in this thread, people can subconsciously discriminate without necessarily realizing it from something as simple as seeing someone's name, their voice, appearance, etc. It's not that the hiring manager is consciously racist but they may have a picture in their head of what a "software engineer" looks or acts like, and if the candidate doesn't fit that mental model they are dismissed regardless of their skill.

In that case, why not anonymize the candidates as much as possible? Don't let the interviewee and interviewer see each other during the technical interview, don't even let those making hiring decisions see their name, distort the voice, etc. Make it as close as possible to "anonymous person A being asked technical questions from anonymous person B." Make the hiring decision and only then de-anonymize the candidate.

I recently had an interview for an ops role (sysadmin type) and was asked a series of PowerShell questions, normally no problem - but the interviewer wouldn't accept "I don't remember the exact cmdlet, but I could do Get-Command Get-xyz* to find it" as if they expected an encyclopedic knowledge of every powershell cmdlet ever made. On the actual job built-in help exists, google exists, KBs exist, etc. Why would I ever be expected to have all this information in memory when the resources to find the information I need is a keystroke away. Test for understanding theory and methodology, not specific commands/language function.
I believe Google uses https://cloud.google.com/beyondcorp
If we manage to exploit our way out of climate change, it will entail more suffering.
I think you could dream up some one-hour tasks if you really wanted to. The issue is that they'd be so obviously unrelated to overall job performance that the process would be self-evidently silly.

I'd argue that software is similar: projects don't falter because it takes someone five extra minutes to run a gel (or implement a red-black tree); they fall apart because people don't think about whether they ought to be doing that at all.
The video should be required to accompany any article about “identify theft” to raise political awareness that a business being defrauded should be the business’s problem.

Edit: the business and law enforcement/court system’s problem. But certainly not an uninvolved individual’s problem.
Rogan literally said "This doctor was saying ivermectin is 99 percent effective intreating Covid" to millions of millions of his listeners.

You don't find that irresponsible?
Data altruism: how the EU is screwing up a good idea
The Irish supposedly out "grew" the English because the Irish were limited to a potato and milk diet, which was much better nutritionally than common English fare.

"grew" essentially meaning taller/healthier on average.

Source: IIRC, the Irish History podcast by Fin Dwyer.
This is an amazing quotation and now I'm reading about John Barry, so thanks for posting it.
I (and most people I talk to about this stuff) tend to use Regex101 (https://regex101.com) for this purpose. It will be interesting to spend some time with RegExr and compare the two tools.

I am also aware of RegexBuddy (https://www.regular-expressions.info/regexbuddy.html), whose author also publishes very good regex learning content on their site. It looks great, but it's a closed-source Windows-only application, which means it's something I'll never be able to benefit from.
The yellow pages were absolutely run by state-owned telecom operators, less than 25 years ago, all over Europe.
Potentially a direct hit from a GRB few kiloparsecs away would cause issues, but for extinction level events the GRB needs to be a lot closer.

This doesn't seem to be a GRB. It's more likely to be a magnetar, and at this distance there's nothing at all to worry about.
> violence or sexual acts
> There are no “curse words” in Ezekiel

This will be my last response on this topic but, in the future please review what you have previously written as you appear to have misremembered what you wrote previously.
They don't need to catch up to e-Transfers to be successful. I'm not sure what their numbers but if they manage to be the app of choice for university students and young adults alone, it would be a massive win for them. I know people who have started to pay their rent using WS Cash, and I'm sure when they graduate they'd like to continue doing so. There's also the Cash Card directly tied to this account, which they get transaction fees from, as well as associated WS Trade/Invest.

I'm not trying to be a shill, I personally wouldn't invest in WS since I think they're incredibly overvalued. But E-Transfer is very dated and has a lot of problems, and there is potential for a competitor to come up and replace it.
Germany charges Russian citizen suspected of space tech espionage
The page you linked to estimates 51,646 deaths from flu in 2017-2018, not 150k. Again it is obvious that your reasoning is motivated, and even with the motivated reasoning you still have to change the data to make your point.

Anyhow, the original claim was "The current death rate of COVID in the US is about what a bad flu season would be." This is obviously wildly false.
Banks would have ceased to exist centuries ago if they couldn't be trusted to do this in general. Regulations have very little to do with it.
Actually it is the opposite.

The word “rob” comes from a proto-indo-european root meaning to “tear” or “strip”, and has apparently been used in the modern sense of taking things by force for thousands of years, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur... https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic...

The word “robe” is the derivative word, originally meaning the spoils of robbery, e.g. a stolen garment. It has only meant a specific kind of long loose garment for hundreds of years.

The English words “rip”, “reave”, “bereave” also come from the same origin.
Covid 19: Scale of education loss ‘nearly insurmountable’, warns UNICEF
No, the memo pretty clearly says that VPNs need to go away.
Hi there - it looks like you've been using HN primarily for ideological battle for a long time now. I had to go back 2 years to find anything else! That's not a legit use of HN, regardless of what your positions are, because it's not in keeping with the intellectual curiosity this site is supposed to be for. In fact, it's destructive of it. For that reason, we ban accounts that are using the site this way. I don't want to ban you, so could you please fix this?

Further explanations are at these links if anyone wants more:

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Citizen seems like the last step in a trend I see where people trust companies and apps more than neighbors and acquaintances. If an app told you your neighbor committed a crime would you trust it?

> Citizen sent push alerts to over 860,000 users in Los Angeles about the incident, and Citizen employees told their viewers to hunt out this person.

Although I will counter myself with the fact this is very similar to what the police already do. Most wanted, amber alerts, rewards on people matching some description, etc are all pretty common practice. Not an excuse to Citizen, but police often mistakenly go after the innocent and it's very damaging.
For two years we’ve been asked to park our problems and to act like literally all that matters is the spread of Covid. Nothing else matters. Just a myopic fixation on the spread of one highly infectious respiratory virus.

Even a year after vaccines we are still being asked to treat Covid like it is the #1 priority in our lives. More important than our well being, our mental health, our communities, our children, or anything else.

Heaven help you if your value system is incompatible with such an idea. Be prepared to be yelled at, called names, lose your career, and become marginalized.
There's ~100,000 BTUs per therm (as sold in the USA). A therm where we are (Bay Area California) costs roughly $2 USD.

We pay ~$0.30 per kWh via electricity.

We can convert a kilowatt hour to BTUs - ~3400 BTU/hr ~= 1 kWh.

Whereas the $2 we pay for a natural gas therm is equivalent to (100000/3400) ~= 29kWh or ~$0.07/kWh.

tldr; leaving out all other conversion inefficiencies, gas is roughly 25% the cost of electricity, for equivalent energy, at least in California (which is a place that would presumably push a bit harder for gas->electricity conversions).
This was my "holy shit" read of the day.
The article itself is interesting but it is also interesting in what it does not talk about :

- It does not define intelligence. The author acknowledges that of course intelligence is not everything but does not define it. I think a better take would be to define intelligence (as the article implicitly does but explicit is better than implicit) as the capacity to manipulate abstractions. Maybe with a better definition and with valorizing other "intelligences", emotional intelligence for one comes to mind, it would be more socially acceptable to say that we have different capabilities to manipulate abstractions. Of course the reason why it is not socially acceptable is because, that capacity is deeply connected to social statuses and being well off or not.

- It does not factor in the idea of work. It rejects it with the author's personnal story that tried to be good at something but never got good. The idea behind progressive education systems is to find the best way for people to get good by working on something while respecting their rythms, or for the more ambitous ones, to enen remove psychological/mental barriers by working around them. Of course mental abilities differ wildly but it is a moot point. Don't we want as a society the systems that works best for each according to its abilities ?
And this is were I agree with the article, education systems should be layered by level of achivements and not merely by age. Of course that would make parents of "slower" kids worried for their economic status so what we have now is a kind of compromise.

- Since it does not talk about what work can achieve, it does not talk about how an economic and social environment can promote or hinder learning. Is your whole family shouting all around the place ? Do you parents oversee your education ? Do you have room/quiet place of your own ?

At first I was thrilled to see a non-reactionnary take of how taking into account abilities could make for a better education system but by the end of the article, I was more meh. Too bad.
'divergent views' is a very weasley way of saying 'intentional misinformation'
Does crypto allow colocation like stock trading? If it's gonna be some websocket endpoint, what's the point of optimizing microseconds?
In Switzerland, it is forbidden to be poor and it is forbidden to be foreign. That's from one of John le Carré‘s books. Not verbatim. I think it was The Perfect Spy.
When the jetpack can fly for me for the most part, I'm down with it.

Kinda like small drones. I own one, because it is easy to use.
While interesting to know, for a curious observer, it’s not exactly relevant to solving the OP’s problem.
s/Steamed/Roasted

My friend roasted some for a dinner party and they were beyond amazing. Avocado oil, salt, and pepper.
If we reset for a moment. My point is that merging an SPA with an API server with the explicit and sole purpose of defining a type once and using it in two different domains is not a meaningful use of programming time. In my perfect world, an identical definition of the type would be defined in each domain.

You're welcome to disagree but I'm having a hard time following the conversation.