skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One of the things that gets me here on the hiring side is that the ease of “grinding leetcode” as a strategy seems to defeat the entire purpose of it as an interview question.

I think that's irrelevant for FAANG and friends. They pay so high that they can afford to make their interviews so miserable and time-intensive to prepare for that tons of people never even try, purely as a first-pass filter. They don't care that you can prep for it, they just want it to be (exactly the right amount of) scary and unpleasant. The resulting, self-selected group probably is, in fact, far better on average than the set of all software developers, including those who never apply to those sorts of jobs (but might if the interviews were less awful). Furthermore I think that's why some results show that they could randomly select candidates and do about as well as the interview process does—sure, maybe, but they could not do that if the set of people applying wasn't already heavily biased to have a fairly high average skill level (& IQ, that's absolutely part of what they're filtering for).

Now, companies paying half or less what FAANG does and trying to do anything remotely similar, are simply making a mistake. People with a tolerance for and ability to pass those kinds of interviews are going to apply to the much-higher-paying options, not to your company.
I think there's a few points where drill makes sense. In each case, after you have a good understanding, and you're seeking to become fluid and avoid dumb mistakes. (Even if you have a good understanding, if you're consciously thinking about each step you'll error a fair bit, and on a 20 step problem you can't afford this error rate and slowness)

Arithmetic facts, basic algebraic manipulation, big polynomials, derivatives and integrals.

But we do much more drill than that. And, worse, it's often as homework, where you can be guaranteed a decent slice of the class is practicing it wrong.
Yea, imagine the implications of federal agencies all implementing this successfully. Can't wait to see what the trickle down(?) effect is.
Nike inspired us to become sailors, infinitely grateful for her work with the channel.

Here are some extra suggestions for anyone interested in the lifestyle:

- Life on a Little Wooden Boat: https://vimeo.com/94842405

- Minimalism in a Tiny Home at Sea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkaH_UUH0Ek

- Untie the Lines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VERYUyO93_Y

- Gypsea Stories: Wylo II: https://vimeo.com/284310686

- A Rogue Mariner on the upper Thames: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbPgP6wIF44

- Deep Water: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460766/

- Cinq Ans Pour la Banquise: https://youtu.be/QBrvPaNz1Bo
Questions to ask in a calendar time audit
I do it for two reasons:

- I gradually forget a skill if I don't practice, but dumping that knowledge in a structured form can help me recall it quickly if I need it in the future.

- Every note program/app that I've used, I've found it wanting in some way.

The last point is why I keep changing ways. My ideal note application would be hierarchical, multimedia, encrypted, cross-platform (desktop/mobile), and usable if offline. There are many note apps that fulfill some criteria, but not all. My favorite UX is with CherryTree, but it's desktop-only. The best I have used is Joplin, but it's not truly hierarchical or locally encrypted.
Google captcha audio is indecipherable
A practical (but not fielded) use that I found with Prolog: programs are multi-use. That is, if you mentally model (and I think this is natural for new Prolog programmers) a program as running in one direction, you will be pleasantly surprised to find that you can use the same program to accomplish multiple effects. Using the built-in append/3 as an example:

% find the list resulting from appending two lists
append([1],[2],C). %% => C = [1,2]
% find the prefix given a suffix
append(A,[2],[1,2]). %% => A = [1]
% find the suffix given a prefix
append([1],B,[1,2]). %% => B = [2]
% find all prefixes and suffixes
append(A,B,[1,2]).
A = [], B = [1,2];
A = [1], B = [2];
A = [1,2], B = [];
false ;; no more results

The first line is what most programmers new to Prolog will be used to, a function performs a computation in a forward fashion (here: given two knowns, calculate something). But all the others come along "for free" (if you write it correctly, which isn't too hard once you've learned a bit of the language and style).

My practical use for this was with a (prototyped, not fielded) scenario generator. Using the rules (specification for the protocol) I could generate arbitrary scenarios. I could constrain them by filling in some variables, but leaving others blank. And I could take an existing scenario and determine if it was even valid. Using append again:

append(A,[3],[1,2]). %% => false

Now, in my situation instead of a hardcoded [1,2] I had a recording of an exchange between nodes, and I could use this to get an answer to why it didn't conform to the spec. One program that could be used in many different ways.

The other reason to use Prolog, this was a much higher level of abstraction to work with than what we ended up using. It was much shorter, but less familiar to others. So we ended up with a C# + SQL solution where we had to write each variation of the program (generate, test for validity, identify problems).
Sure, but bresenham's algorithm is a highly optimized form of "drawing a line" in the same way that we can write a highly optimized forward prediction algorithm for Bezier curves and it will be more work than Bresenham's algorithm for lines.

The basic "draw a line" is the incredibly simple "single lerp to get the next on-line pixel coordinate" (which for naive drawing, may be the same coordinate, of course).
Huh, I thought HN stripped out emojis from posts. Has that changed, or is there a limited subset that are available?
I'd imagine creating uniform and robust ball-bearings is not an easy feat.
Do you run a service where I can give you data and reasonable money, and you store it on tapes for me? Low cost cloud storage prices seem very distant from this, because presumably it's usually spinning rust and not tapes that are doing the storage. I'd be into a cheaper, larger storage service where this was offered.
Post title: "Hello, Non-Fungible Tokens!"

summary: "You can buy a digitally signed copy of this design on OpenSea. All proceeds I receive will be donated to charities that promote representation in computer science"

that's it, it is just an ad for nft
Social media is not a “necessity”. He could have used his Facebook page to steer his community to his own hosted site and forum.

Do you really trust giving more power to the government?
But while it points out that the evidence for masks being effective is scarce, it does little to identify positive evidence that masks are specifically ineffective. So we just don't know as much as CDC's consistent guidelines seem to suggest, and it makes sense to weigh the risk. That the article neglects to frame it in this light highlights the one-sided nature.
These viral videos of an orangutan driving a golf cart seemed to be fake to me, possibly done with the help of a remote controller or automated steering.
California used to be bad, but the appointments have really helped.

Also, the people who actually work at the DMV are pretty helpful, but they are way overworked. Once again, this is in California.
Why Rust Might Attract More Developers Than Java and JavaScript
c) get lucky
"but it isn't"

That is simply untrue. You are likely referring to the Israeli data which has not reproduced.

Proof: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7044e1.htm?s_cid=mm... .
Bottom line: natural immunity is not so great. Get vaccinated.

What drives the difference? Just speculating, but during natural infection the immune system will generate a huge number of disparate antibodies that do nothing because when they bind their targets it doesn't block the virus. Vaccination localizes the immune response to the key cell-receptor binding sites.
If anyone deserves a knighthood for services to comedy, Iannucci would be one of my top contenders!
I have never went through leet code or any of those types and I’m self taught. I just tried (and failed) to build a handful of companies and the experience was enough to land me a senior engineering gig.
A million times this.

Break it up and scatter it to the four winds. Being heavily taxed for the "privilege" of being lied to is anathema to democracy, even if all the cool politicians, media, fossil fuel and arms companies are doing it.
You wouldn't expect an article that talks about the long-term effects of COVID to also address the downsides of mask and restrictions, so why should the opposite be true? You can read independent arguments for both sides of the issue, judge their strengths and weaknesses, and then make up your own mind.
And cars are a much much larger scale problem. Home stove emmisions are a rounding error.
Mainstream for millennials and gen z - maybe even gen X. He’s probably not mainstream for boomers.

Because your definition of mainstream is incredibly narrow. In the age of the Internet, mostly boomers and some gen X are watching TV. I don’t watch what’s on any tv anywhere. I haven’t used TV in the traditional sense in over a decade and that’s very common in my demographic. To me - those “news” networks spread as much disinformation as Joe Rogan does. (Which is to say - a lot and practically all the time)
30-40k ft is absolutely a problem. Even if you remain conscious, you're completely unable to think coherently and generally have no idea what you're doing. Stay there long enough and you will unquestionably suffer brain damage and probably death as well.

SmarterEveryDay did a good video about hypoxia training that demonstrates the very rapid onset and severe effects of hypoxia at cruising altitudes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUfF2MTnqAw
I'm not even in electrical engineering but in Industrial engineering and I still had to take numerical algorithms course this semester. Also had to do the iterations by hand for the exam.
This is good advice if you're technically savvy enough to be able to set up and maintain a website. If you're in the tech bubble long enough, though, it's easy to forget that most people aren't and don't want to be. You send them to a link to a bunch of scripts they can use to build a website and either their eyes will glaze over or they'll ask you to do it for them (or both).

I'm no fan of Facebook, and I absolutely believe that more people should make their own websites and communities on the Internet, but I'm realistic enough to know that most people just won't bother.
Apart from archiving huuuuuge amounts of data, does it make sense for any business to invest in those when you add up in the qualified work time it necessitates for the halved priced it provides. Plus the constant reinvestment in hardware. Plus the fact that to get the data you actually need a human to fetch for you and operate a machine.

Who uses this ?
Public institutions governed by a democratic state not bought by private companies would absolutely do a better job. Realize we don’t have any public institutions in the United States. Our entire government works for multinational corporations, not the people living here.
Well, for one thing, Docker Hub now has a helpful web badge telling you whether or not each container contains a vulnerable copy of log4j.

I'm not sure why it's taking the J2EE containers so much longer to patch than the good 'ol PHP stuff or shiny new Go apps.

/s
I actually have the opposite experience with my exercise-induced asthma.

It's quite dry and cold where I am currently, due to winter. Wearing a cloth mask increases the temperature and humidity of the air I breathe when working hard, and makes it less likely that asthma will be triggered.

It's a significant enough effect that I will sometimes wear a cloth mask specifically for this effect when doing something strenuous outdoors.
While your point is spot on, it probably won‘t matter in the long run. With the infection rate of Omicron, we as a society were faced between even more ridiculously restrictive measures to contain it after the first economy destroying measures — or just taking the jump into the unknown unknown of what will happen if we let everyone get infected and move into the endemic state.

With probably only the exception of China, most countries have decided that they will take the latter path, at various degrees of throttling.
Note taking is a tool. Like editors/IDEs, programming languages, frameworks, and so on. Why do we have obsessions for those? Isn't it because it gives us power, control and a way to expression our thoughts and materialize our goals, or something like that? It depends on each's personal situation and reasons for taking notes. But some people surely use it to become better versions of themselves, others just need it to be better workers. Other might wanna fill a hole they feel they have. Each is different there.
I love that you are getting downvoted for pointing out something so objectively true no one has responded to it by other than downvoting :)
Right. But I’ve been able to use resource limits for my Linux processes for far longer than containers were popularized. With my processes anyway that’s the big win with namespaces.

That is to say, if you control the hosts and process then the container features are available with much less ceremony while if you are hosting someone else’s process (or they you) containers don’t provide enough isolation.
'dangerous anti-scientific medical advice'
Just a general point, but people really love throwing around "anti-scientific" and other such terms without appreciating that generating accurate scientific knowledge is actually really difficult with a huge amount of disagreement. (Especially in medicine)

It's trivially easy to have two knowledgeable people or groups who have completely opposing views with seemingly strong cases for both.
This rings true to me. I was only able to get an intuition for calculus when I was able to conceive of it in geometric terms. I later learned that this was how Newton originally derived it.

This helped me to “trust” it in more advanced contexts where geometric intuition becomes exceedingly difficult.
its the public health equivalent of the broken window fallacy.
You have yet to get coronavirus. There’s a pretty good chance that you will before the year is out. Omicron is extremely infectious even among the fully vaccinated. For example, among my friends group all of us are fully vaccinated and boosted, and so far 60% have gotten omicron despite wearing masks in public, washing hands frequently, etc. I expect further mutations in the future will probably happen and similarly reduce vaccine effectiveness in preventing infection.
From their website (About/Disclaimer):

_The Unmask is not designed or intended to prevent, mitigate, treat, diagnose or cure any disease or health condition, including COVID-19/Coronavirus. Unmasks are intended for general public use only. They are non-sterile and are not intended for use in any clinical or surgical setting or where exposure to bodily or hazardous fluids may be expected, where the risk of exposure through inhalation is high, or near intense heat or flammable gas. Unmasks are not surgical masks, personal protective equipment, or filtering respirators (such as N95 masks)._

Basically, it seems like a soft, breathable mask.....but they make no claims that they will significantly reduce your chances of catching Covid from someone nearby. That said, if the only goal is to meet masking requirements in public places, then it "works".
Now you know how real world decision-makers feel.

"But your law unfairly disadvantages [group1] [group2][group3]s! Clearly you hate them."

"What? How...?"

"If combined-group-X experiences outcome Y more often than other-combined-group-Z then your policies are Z-ist!!"
We've been building to these goals at bastionzero so I've been living it everyday, but I feels validating and also really strange to see the federal government actually get it.
So many fields are masquerading as science and the word is also hijacked by politicians to justify the worse abuses of power that it would be great if real science forks itself from that and come back to its roots.
Just wanted comment here that fastmail has very similar product, called pobox (pobox.com).

Using that service for a few years now, very happy. I am surprised this isn't more popular.

I've got ~5 domains for various things (work, personal). All have email routed through this type of service.

For example, I have an amazon@mydomain.com that forwards all e-mails to me and my partners address.

I have various project domains that forward to my personal gmail.

Because it is part of fastmail, I can throw an inbox at any domain. So thing2@mydomain.com can be a regular fastmail address (using their mobile app), while thing3@mydomain.com can forward to gmail.

Using gmails 'send as' feature I can send emails from these domains as well.
Yeah the point is if you want actual ownership of the music you buy then digital is not the way to go.
It's not auto setup like bitlocker, but once setup it is reliable (if your TPM itself is, unlike the Zen 2 fTPM...) and working.
That's why many linguists consider written English and spoken English to be two different languages.

“Attempting to transcribe spoken English? Yeah. Try transcribing that.”
Where can I read more about those formats? I work in crypto, same as cantor trading that posted this, and always keen on re-using solved problems if they work :)
How do you know that? Unless you've been taking PCR tests at least weekly, it's more likely that you've had at least one asymptomatic infection.
Unnecessary complexity -for your use case-. Not for the set of use cases it's trying to solve. It's hard to view complexity caused by stuff you don't care about as anything but unnecessary.
Statistically speaking, isn't that just normal luck? Aren't 80% or so of infections mild to symptom free?
The term online violence has to be understood as distinct from violence in all of violence’s most important characteristics. Online harassment is not good, and it certainly has a negative effect on its recipient, but violence is a special matter. Online harassment may lead to violence, but the former must not be made illegal unless it also comprises another crime, such as blackmail. The wedge being driven between free speech and an obfuscated idea of violence is incredibly disturbing.
We're three months in to Omicron and only two years in, your situation right now is irrelevant.

The only way you're getting away with this is either by having some innate immunity, or by simply not noticing you've had it.

I wouldn't have realised if not for a friend saying "get a test", my only symptom was a purple line on a bit of paper. I actually felt better than normal because I went out drinking less.
Yes, that's the interesting scientific question. The PR person saw that and somehow got very excited! The reality is, this object will be placed in a database and people will probably follow it up, but not with high priority.

Astronomers have hundreds of years of experience in seeing things in the sky that couldn't be explained, and either were "entirely new thing we never saw before" (like pulsars) and even theorists suggesting looking for things that only got recognized once we knew what black holes were. This is common. I wouldn't describe it as mysterious, just unexpected.
Hell, quite a few adults do that stuff.
I'm sure you could buy a silicone keypad on Alibaba for a few dollars.
My first job involved CORBA in Java. Tomcat was better, I guess.
It really bums me out when people don't understand basic microeconomics
>there's little or no evidence showing benefits of masking for kids,

If the masks don't prevent the spread of COVID, or reduce the likelihood of having symptomatic illness, then the long term effects of COVID don't matter in regards to masking arguments.
It also doesn't help that these frameworks are often dated and don't align with modern best practices. Shops have the choice to check the boxes and do things the dumb way or to fill out page after page after page of special exception documentation for their auditors. Most take the easy way.

And that doesn't even cover the part where PCI, SOCII, and SOX all have various bits that contradict or are not compatible with each other.

I've seen too many times where the head of security or IT or whatever picks a pre-made package off a shelf from one of the audit providers where they guarantee you will pass all of them. Then they follow it like it's law ultimately leading the swe/devop/sre groups to build out layers of shadow it/ops to actually get productive work done.

My work primarily is to jump into startups after they are acquired to make them "enterprise ready" for a bigger org and its always a unique shit show dealing with the preexisting war between their security/it orgs and their actual product development orgs.
I am definitely not familiar with make. My two big issues with my OS class were: I'm awful at C, and make is a mystery to me.
A lot of companies, trust me
Kubernetes is one of those products designed to appear simple and easy to get started with, to drive adoption. Only later does one find how unavoidably complex running such a system is (usually when something awful happens and nobody knows how to fix it). In that respect I miss Mesos: it was in-your-face complex and as a result had far fewer (zero for me) surprises.
All of human history is the same at its core. Suffering, exploration, profiteering. Yet we have progressed, bit by bit. We have a ways to go, but the arc of history is bending towards less suffering.
They would keep people awake and alert even if they don't pass out. That's pretty useful in an emergency.
The point of masking and being cautious at this point is not to avoid ever catching COVID, because it seems certain now that everyone will catch it at some point. The point is to be the last person to catch it when hospitals are at normal capacity and everything else is back to normal, just in case you happen to have a very poor reaction to it.

It also just sounds kind of miserable. I also avoid catching the flu as much as possible. And if I ever go back to commuting by train, I’ll probably wear masks on the train too. I used to get colds all the time just from riding a completely packed train with sick people coughing and sneezing all over.
All of this, down to the disclaimer, also applies to the ubiquitous normal cloth masks, so it's hardly a strike against them.
Does the DVLA driving license service still only work during office hours? I couldn't believe they had an online system for renewing licences but it couldn't be accessed at night. Allegedly it's based on an ancient system that can't be trusted to be left running unattended.
Too late now, but it's a good idea to keep your own backups of all your FB data. There is a well-hidden option under the settings to make and download a zip file with all your posts, comments, photos, everything. Worst case this can be used to rebuild your community elsewhere.
The United States government, as well as the provincial state governments within it, are governed more by corporate boards than by the citizens who think they are participating in a democracy. This is not a secret. There is no such thing as a public institution in the United States.
So just imagine what happens when the government controls the communications. What happens when “they” get into power and start censoring and controlling communications that you don’t agree with?

In this case “they” are the party with policies that you don’t agree with. There was a study in the US that the government fails to pass policies that 80%+ of the population agrees with.

One easy example is making cannabis legal federally. People who vote Republican and Democrat both support it by an overwhelming majority. But it couldn’t pass.
As a user, Notify is my favourite service ever. It's just so well designed, you can get up and running in about two minutes, and you can even use it to send yourself official looking letters in the post. What's not to love?