skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's definitely counter productive to success in tech after a certain point.

I believe this too, although the currency on social media might be different. In a work environment many actually do it as a courtesy to people that do not sexualize themselves. There is an attention economy in the workplace too. Looks do give you a bonus in many cases until you leverage it. Then it is suddenly the worst sin. A bit hypocritical perhaps, but it might level the playing field a bit and it lets people keep focus.

There are probably few people that honestly condemn you if you forget your pants when coming into work, but it is still generally expected that you at least try to put them on. Not sure if there are any barriers yet to be broken down.

> A passable IG "thot" doing tech isn't necessarily the bad influence people think it is

I generally agree, although I would lie that I would not be disappointed if people rely on whatever "thots" do. Perhaps I am too conservative, but Instagram is a great argument for catholic girls boarding schools, even if everyone know they are the worst. I think there is a difference if you get recognition for your looks or for your skills and mixing can lead to trouble.

> aspire to the pant-suit

It changed a bit in recent years, but often it is pretty relaxed. I regard it as a boon that you often can immediately separate the engineer from the salesman. But the former has the choice at least.
likely the original article: https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-free-india-data-charge...
Good luck writing a paper then squeezing it into a Twitter post.

She almost certainly did that kind of research. She's basically forced to at this point.
After reading your reply I checked again and it does indeed work as expected on Windows at least, so that is great news to me.
My understanding is that most of Youtube's visitors are very young
I picked one of the examples given to see if it matched the Guardian’s claims:

> a newsletter from Malone warning that mRNA vaccines could lead to permanent damage of children’s organs

It does. However, the statement is undeniably true. Whether one is pro-vaccine or anti-vaccine, it’s always been true that they come with risks, mRNA based or not, for COVID-19 or not. Perhaps Malone is overcooking the risks but that’s not the accusation being thrown at him.

In fact, making such an accusation undermines the authority of the one making it as it’s either ignorant or worse, misleading.

For me, this backs up Substack’s decision to allow people on their platform the freedom to express themselves as if there’s any time I’ll support someone’s right to speak, it’s when there’s an attempt to squash it with flimsy accusations like that one.
Jonathan was probably not born on St Helena, since he was a gift from elsewhere.
Hacker Takes over Numbers Station for Rickrolls and Memes
His European perspective means that it is skewed much much more "liberal" than when in the US.

About half the population here thinks he is a literal monster, worthy of a Godwin.
> This is why "masks don't work" was truth from Fauci but wrong with Rand Paul said so about cloth masks.

This only works because you’re misrepresenting the claims: we always knew that masks worked but it was initially unclear how effective they were and widespread shortages lead to reasonable questions about reserving them for the highest risk jobs, not to mention avoiding people unnecessarily exposing themselves because they thought wearing a mask was safe. Remember, it still wasn’t clear exactly how COVID spread and it was quite plausible that someone might have, say, worn a mask but gotten infected by a droplet on their skin. There was also, as you might recall, considerable political pressure from the White House muddying the waters, too.

What’s tellingly different is what happened as the data became clear and the supply situation improved: Fauci wasn’t afraid to update what he said based on the evidence but the right-wingers you’re relying on repeatedly switched from one wrong thing to another because their goal was being politically correct rather than actually correct.
It says in the article that pulses from pulsars are usually much shorter than what is detected from this object.
I just wrapped up the interview process and got a job offer at >150k with 4 years of experience. I interviewed with probably 10 or so companies along the way.

I do not believe that "grinding leetcode" is at all necessary. However, familiarizing yourself with online "IDEs" and the skill of solving (relatively simple) problems quickly while communicating your thought process is necessary.

That being said, I would do a handful of Leetcode-type questions on your own time. Don't aim to solve as many as possible or even bother to hit the hardest questions. Most questions I received were actually pretty simple algorithms that any dev could handle. IMO it's more important to be comfortable in the environment, and be able to communicate well to your interviewer if it's live than to be able to come up with perfect solution instantly.

The better companies I interviewed with made the live coding portion a small component early on, basically as a screen for basic coding skill. After that, the most important parts were design, discussions on previous projects, and behavioral interviews.
> I would try and ask a question that was very unlikely they'd know with the focus on how well they communicated their thought process while working through the code.

I'd probably do something like that. No actual writing code, more of a discussion with them about ideas for solving it. I'd try to let them take the lead on approaches, just adding ideas to keep things moving if they were getting hung up on something.

After we've got what seems like a reasonable approach and I'm sure the candidate understands it, I'd then have us take a quick look at the official solution and see if it is along the lines of what we came up with.

Finally, I'd go to the discussion area for that problem and take a look at a few of the solutions posted there and ask the interviewee to help me do a quick code review of them.

The discussion areas for Leetcode problems are an often overlooked resource. They are full of proposed solutions with all kinds of issues. Sometimes they just won't work. Sometimes they solve the problem but don't meet the time or space constraints the problem asked for. Sometimes they work except for edge cases.
-We're at the other end of the stack, I'm afraid - Siemens S7 PLCs for the most part; whenever I code I basically write assembly code like it's 1979 - and it will never, ever be exposed to the web if I've got any say in the matter.
If I had a large amount of data I needed to archive long term and cost effectively, I would archive it to 12 different medias with an 4,8 erasure code, such that if any 4 of the 12 media types are readable, then I can recover the data. I'd choose media like a few types of hard disk (different vendors), DVD's, SD cards, USB memory sticks, tapes.

I would then store those bits of media geographically and politically distributed. And I'd store it with paper documents describing the encoding, the file formats, the compression, any encryption, etc. I'd also include a few physical computers (eg. a raspberry pi or laptop) that has all necessary software to read, decode, and display the data. Set it up to be usable by a non-expert - in 1000 years time, there may be nobody who knows how to use a shell or open a file!

And I'd have a 2nd copy of the whole lot on hard drives connected to the internet for day to day serving of the data to people who need to see it. All the stuff above is only needed in case of organisational failure, war, civilisation collapse, etc.
So I got it to work. My issue was Brave Shield (from Brave's browser). Whatever it's blocking on your site prevents the download from working. Turning off the shield allowed me to download the file... when the shield is on, I am still redirected to an AWS S3 error page.
I've wondered about the connection between the lack of space marks and reading aloud before. It's not obviously causal: reading began as a specialized occupation, and an act of reading was often more valuable if done aloud, so "reading as imitation of thought" wasn't as obvious a practice as "reading as imitation of speech".

But the trick of reading fast is tied to recognizing entire words, which spacemarks not only facilitate but create in the first place. Note that I say "space marks" above and "spacemarks" here, a decision not meaningful in classical writing.

One oddball consequence of my primary education was training in recitative, and it's a whole different beast, reading aloud. The texts were of course written normally, but I don't imagine a lack of whitespace would be such a burden, the attention is on the sound of the words and the meter of the sentence, it 'chunks' differently and with most of the focus on the cursor.

I originally put 'cursor' in quote marks in the preceding paragraph, before remembering, nope, medieval recitative was done with a literal object called the aestel in English. In medieval Latin this was called the "cursor manicula" or the running manicule (this is a manicule: ), since many were in the shape of a hand. The 'cursor' part carried over to the mobile line on slide rules, and thus became the computer cursor we know and love.
WASM powered Jupyter running in the browse
Every language should come with a Prolog interpreter. :) Well done, ichiban team!
thanks for pointing that out - will take a look :)
Iirc the cost per Tb, compared to tape, made discs unviable for most backup/ archival applications.
I get you, but the entitled upper crust, and particularly American, mindset is that we must continually sacrifice lives and wellbeing on the altar of the great open road. It is important to all the automobile and oil companies that we see driving as a right and necessity.
But Ronaldo became famous for his football, not his sexy body.

Everyone knows sex sells, but some people (not only men) get upset when they see people promoting themselves with their own sexuality, especially when it's in an unrelated field.

I think Naomi is great, but I can see why some people get upset by the way she presents. I wonder how less attractive maker women feel about her, for example?
Totally right, he did arrive on St Helena 40-50 years into his life! Just like someone else did.
> it also gives you a better ability to write error messages

This is not true. Instead of trying to use error recovery feature of parser genrator, you can just add error case to your grammar, and it works as well as hand-written parser. Parser generator error recovery is pure bonus on top.

> and an easier time debugging compared to autogenerated solutions

This is also not true. Most parser generators (certainly lex/yacc) have good enough debug support that you never see generated code while you debug.
Yes, thanks, we got that. The point is that it is inherently discriminatory against people who don't have the free time to devote to that.

....And it's also kind of disgusting to say that jobs should go to the people who are willing to sacrifice their free time to study utterly pointless interview questions just in order to "prove" to the employer that they "want it most". That's essentially selecting for those willing to worship at the altar of the company—corporate bootlickers. (Don't get me wrong, I can see why employers would want to select for bootlickers. I just think it's disgusting and shouldn't be allowed.)
You mention that they're advertised in the amount of compressed data that can be stored, not that they actually compress data themselves. I thought you meant that they assume you use a compression algorithm yourself.
I think IRC is way easier to automate. IRC bots are some of the easiest bots to write compared to any of the successor chat protocols or applications.

I still hang out in some channels but the ones I dropped out of were because everyone else dropped out of them. If there's no one to talk to then there's not much point to sticking around.
Marcia: It’s from Waldo!
I generally search for free and open-source alternatives, but resort to using freeware if there are no suitable alternatives. I mainly use BabelPad for Arabic writing because it's the best text editor with good support for right-to-left languages that I could find.
I'm curious how their brains lay down memories. I would imagine he probably does as I don't think there is a huge variation in content to be honest...
Probably need less cores for the same performance. Its never entirely clear what a "vCPU" is.
> and is credited as inventor by Nature

Literally nowhere in the quote says that. An important step (if he actually was the main discoverer for those) but not "the inventor". He imagined it (in the same way I can imagine a flying car - but not invent it)

And Nature goes on: "But the path to success was not direct. For many years after Malone’s experiments, which themselves had drawn on the work of other researchers, mRNA was seen as too unstable and expensive to be used as a drug or a vaccine. "

Malone is mainly sour grapes https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/08/robert-m...
Apple does not just have that history, but also has the benefit of scale that others lack. The M1? It was literally just the A14X, the sequel to the A12X used in their iPad Pros, but Apple rebranded it.

Qualcomm is not going to make a better ARM Windows processor anytime soon. They had five years of exclusivity on Windows on ARM. Every single device they released was massively overpriced, had crappy performance, and until very recently, could not run 64-bit x86 programs at all (only 32-bit was translatable).

Someone is of course going to remind me that they bought Nuvia, and so Nuvia will change the boat around. I'm a skeptic. Judging by previous pricing, I believe that Qualcomm's chips and royalties result in disproportionately expensive hardware (every Windows on ARM machine to date, the cost of devices with Snapdragon 888+), and may not be competitive cost-wise as much as some would hope.

Also, Nuvia was designed for server processors, and is being retooled into a mobile processor. I'm going to bet that it's better than Qualcomm's current lot, but I doubt the single-core performance will be very strong compared to Apple. Qualcomm claims it will be "competitive with M-series," which considering M2 is going to be coming out before Nuvia isn't good news. Also, Qualcomm famously claimed that their Windows on ARM Snapdragon device was "competitive" with a mobile Core i5, but that was quickly laughed off the table when it went to reviews.
You also can’t tell what is supported behavior and what is implementation coincidence from the code…
I turned a failing coffee blog into a $1M exit by focusing
This is not me. I found the post interesting because I find myself in the same boat. Less is best sometimes.
Do you realise this is the government building software for the government?

That's like complaining that Amazon have a monopoly on hosting Amazon services.

> A sensible approach would have been a list of certified service providers and contact points for contracting.

No let's not for example ask the Forestry Commission to build or contract their own cloud services... that's not what they know about or what they're going to be good at.
> Allow only Unicode strings wherever text strings are used.

Wait, that's the proper way to design standards.
Curious about your thoughts regarding misinformation like, "only 1% of patients get addicted". In a single year that line killed more people under thirty than under thirty unvaccinated to covid will ever die. And it was propagated by expert consensus.

Consensus among experts hasn't meant anything more than protection of the ruling class. See Wright brothers and even vaccination for other examples.
It's cringe and all but I'm more than anything surprised at how much people care about a throwaway 2 minute segment they filmed so viewers have something to laugh about during the commercials. Fox News really has mastered creating news segments that get people riled up
There are tech focused recruiters who do a good job of filtering candidates and can even do a great job at filtering coding skill. To your other point the most clued up and experienced candidates will have an idea about the recruiter they would use if not an existing “relationship”. E.g. if you’ve been hiring and came across a good recruiter you’re likely to go to that recruiter for your personal search. Maybe you need to start your candidate search with a search for the right recruiter.

Advertising on Reddit and Stack Overflow etc is fairly low return for the effort because it becomes a full time job answering queries and doing filtering (unless you have an in house recruiter in HR who can do this).
Very cool. Worked adjacent to something similar in public sector. If you are doing this for a govt, may I recommend you include the following services:

- IAM Federation and brokerage service that takes arbitrary IDPs (every application is a simple document management problem at the tip of the iceberg, with a giant authN/AuthZ problem underneath. Consider authZ as a service as well)

- HSM/Vault for standard secrets management across applications

- Encrypted backup to data lake service, with cold storage option.

- vulnerability scanning and patch management (lines of business can't be trusted to do application patching)

- CI/CD pipeline service

- Jira/ADO or other "standard" project collaboration scheme

Managers don't usually know about this stuff, and they're the dealbreakers when you don't have them.
SWE manager here, at multiple well known companies, and this isn't how it's worked at any of them. Some of them I've had to do leetcode interviews while at others, it was important to know aubergine who could vouch for your work. Could just be me but I've never experienced the "I just have a good feeling about this guy" supply t if interview.
Conversely if I saw someone use a for loop (especially one with mutation) where a trivial usage higher order function existed, and I was giving a “leetcode” interview (which I refuse to do), I would take it as a signal that there is an important missing concept if it were not corrected when prompted.

The idea that “reduce” is language specific is frankly mind boggling. It’s no more language specific than a loop.
CoinTracker (YC W18) raises $100M to scale cryptocurrency tax compliance
This is a man elected to the US Senate in 1994. First elected to Cross in 1987. Still there today. Guess which political party he belongs to.
https://youtu.be/3E0a_60PMR8

Folks are literally about to be put on respirators denying they're sick from Covid. They're rarely if ever left wing.
https://youtu.be/WicsWfTm1ZI

So yeah, one side has the lion's share of denying climate change and Covid.

I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to research which demographic has been promoting the consumption of urine as a protective measure against a respiratory and vascular disease-causing virus.

It may be popular to blame politicians, but people need to take responsibility for voting for folks that espouse belief in Jewish space lasers. Whether you think the politician is putting up a front or honestly believes what they're peddling really doesn't matter in the long run if you're filling in the box next to their name on the ballot.
Unless I’m mistaken, they used public GitHub activity for their study and found that GitHub users who were active over longer periods of time were more likely to use emojis.

This study feels like a big mess of confusing correlation with causation and trying to apply it to a different conclusion. Of course GitHub users who are more active on the platform are more likely to eventually post something with emojis.

This study on public GitHub usage shouldn’t be used to draw conclusions about “remote work”.
Yeah. It might be a reference to "electronic"; this usually describes the transition from electromag and crossbar to fully digital switching: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_switching_system
> A bit off-topic, but gov.uk is quickly improving into an actual usable site.

In my experience gov.uk has been vastly superior compared to other websites for a long time. Gov.uk seems to be more consistent with everything than most company websites are.
Scientific paper claims octopuses are aliens from outer space
You wrote:

> Drives above LTO-4 have built-in hardware encryption, however I would steer away from using it and instead just encrypt data yourself (possibly with the tool I helped make called age!). Like most things, you should also consider compressing your data before encrypting and writing it to tape. LTO tape capacities are often quoted in their “compressed capacity” which is a little cheeky since it assumes basically over a 50% compression ratio, this is not at all likely to be true if you are writing video or other lossy mediums like images etc to the tape. I generally run my data through zstd to compress and then age to encrypt. Zstd and age are quite fast and I’ve not found them to impede performance noticeably.

If someone is not familiar with tape drives, I think it would be easy not to realize that the compression is built into drives like the explicitly called out "built-in hardware encryption".
>Turing completeness is all that's necessary.

As a programmer and someone who's earned a computer science degree, I'm going to say you're wrong for many reasons but I'll point out a couple here. First, the problem with modern programming is the problem that all computing has struggled with: how do you define meaning (semantics). We've resolved almost all the issues of representation of syntactic reasoning (the ability to encode and process symbols) but to tell a computer the general meaning of a program, its limits, its problem space, and even potential issues that it will need to form strategies to resolve are the realm of pure research right now. And have been for decades, it's why most research has been focusing on things like machine learning, genetic algorithms, and neural networks because these can be trained on a specific set of problems with the hopes that given sufficient time that we can augment this via hardware improvements (it's why you see Google touting android phones with neural network processors and the like). The problem still remains that we can't just do a TNG science scene where you speak out constraints to a computer and it generates tentative results on those constraints.

Second, we have another problem that still persists to this day: how to get firms to fund such research. In the past, the military industrial complex (which still does to an extent) and monopolies would fund such research to keep ahead but in this day it seems most folks aren't keen to fund what won't produce profit within a few quarters and as such most research has been pared down to limited scopes. I believe this is an issue due to how much pure research in the past seventy years has resulted in the majority of gains seen in the private sector. Thus, the private sector assumed all progress was natural and not inevitable build up from decades, even centuries, of hard work. And without that pure research being allowed to exist and even fail in its pursuits, we've put ourselves at odds with the intergenerational aspect of all scientific research. Meaning, we're most likely only be able to achieve such gains many centuries from now.

>That's what the technological singularity will look like.

There won't be any technological singularity because in the past we never had one. People who think this are fools like Ray Kurzweil. Anyone with an inkling on the subjects of anthropology will know better. The advances of the human species before recorded history were building on the small steps of pre-human ancestors. There wasn't a magic Eureka moment for us and never will be.