skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favorite fun fact about Y2K38 is the VMS operating system.

> While the native APIs of OpenVMS can support timestamps up to the 31st of July 31086, the C runtime library (CRTL) uses 32-bit integers for time_t. As part of Y2K compliance work that was carried out in 1998, the CRTL was modified to use unsigned 32-bit integers to represent time; extending the range of time_t up to the 7th of February 2106.

A Y2K38 problem fixed during the Y2K!
5km-long Russian convoy seen outside Kyiv, Ukraine (video)
Yeesh, good point.
Alas, we are already in this situation. Remember that mostly every SaaS app is already a web app.
1Lab: Cross-linked reference for mathematics done in Homotopy Type Theory
> Meetings and collaboration to figure out what to build, discuss issues etc

Remote-first, multi-time-zone companies simply don't do meetings. All communication is async and written down. Work gets done without a lot of hemming and hawing and meetings-with-no-agenda-to-talk-about-setting-an-agenda-for-a-future-meeting. It's much more efficient to come to a decision over 7 asynchronous back-and-forths, and people have the opportunity to do some research during the conversation so their decision is better informed. The whole Open Source world [when development is not done within a corporation] works this way.

I think the problem is corporations are obsessed with a definition of productivity as "the person is constantly productive". If you're not in a meeting, or have a ticket in progress, or are doing training, clearly you are just wasting time. You can't be allowed to just ruminate, or research, or play around with an idea, or talk to other teams. They'd rather you be writing code now that will be obsolete in 6 months and take a year to replace, rather than take 2 months to come up with a plan for your code that will take 3 months to write and last for 3 years. We rush into things because we have to have something to show for our work every day, and as a result the quality is poor, and that costs more in the long run.
I feel like people who only memorize would not be able to pass contemporary test at most of these big companies.
Perhaps, but there's plenty of choice in many places.

I'm in a Boston suburb, and there are at least five different hospitals with 25 minutes of me, and way more than that if I were planning something ahead of time and could go further.

They all advertise on the sides of buses. They advertise on the highway. In the pages of the New Yorker hospitals far from me advertise their brain surgeons, or that they have cyberknife or all sorts of things. It's insane how many ads for hospitals you see if you look.

Meanwhile, our public school system is very good. The teachers are paid well. And a lot of work is done to ensure equity between the schools, so there isn't a "good school" and a school for all the poor kids.
I’ve worked anything from 24-32 hours a week in the Netherlands, but never 40.

Salaries (even full-time) are crap though.
What's the alternative? Have some PM+EM write a perfectly detailed spec for you to implement? That sounds like hell. I can't imagine spending all my time building something that I had no input on designing.
> “School choice” isn’t school choice unless I’m free choose to send my kids to the rich district across town or the private school the politicians and elites send their kids to.

This is your own partisan definition of school choice. And frankly this attitude is why public schools are so terrible. The current system where people are forced to pay for school through taxes and then are forced to go to a specific public school means the system has ZERO reason or incentive to improve or change because their students are more like prisoners in that they have no choice where to go.

In reality school choice creates competition in the education market. If school choice were allowed to exist there would be no bad schools or they would be around for less time because people would vote with their feet and find a school that is worth it. The bad schools would go out of business.

This has already been proven to work with public and private charter schools which are hot beds for innovation and great student outcomes. Charter schools where students aren’t served well exist but they go out of business quickly due to students leaving.

Would it be perfect? No. Would it be better than what we have, most definitely.
makes you wonder how bad a country has to be in order to force one to go to "another country run by a criminal syndicate" just to expose shit that should never happen. It's the spiderman triple meme all along.
iOS apps on Mac work when your security policy is modified, it’s just FairPlay decryption that fails. I’m running several iOS apps on my Mac right now that are not encrypted (either because I built them from source or stripped it off) including some “unsupported” apps like Slack and Discord, which quite frankly provide a better experience as iOS apps than their Electron versions do.

(I don’t fundamentally disagree with your point, though, although I am also obligated to mention you can load kexts from certain developers without disabling SIP which I guess is truly “without compromise” if you were lucky enough to get one of these certificates years ago when Apple handed them out like candy, but I digress.)
I’m saying this in response to the parents claim of it being hard to get a bead on what he is arguing. I’m answering that as two possible ways to read it and I emphasize the latter. I did not accuse, I tried to explain what I think people take from his argumentation.
In my state, Washington, the teachers union got teachers to the front of the line for vaccines, right behind healthcare workers. We were told it was to get schools back open. Once they were all vaccinated, they decided not to re-open schools.
You're entitled to choose a non-public school, to want to divert that public resource to yourself

How is that? In the US schools are paid for via property tax.

You pay the same property tax to the school whether you have 0 kids in the public school system or 100.

If you choose to pay for private school, you still pay the same amount of tax to the public school system even though you aren’t using it. Only some states have a “voucher” system that lets you have your student’s fees redirects from public school to a private school. About 70% of states don’t have any voucher system so there’s no way to redirect your public school funds to a private school.
First useful and balanced thing I've read about this whole process.
It should be noted that the Soviet Union ended up winning that war.

WP says "Most sources conclude that the Soviet Union had intended to conquer all of Finland", acknowledging that some don't. And also offers the following tasty tidbit:

"Commander Meretskov announced publicly that the Finnish campaign would take two weeks at the most. Soviet soldiers had even been warned not to cross the border into Sweden by mistake."

In any case the narrative I've always heard is that whatever its initial goals were -- the final outcome (and especially the amount of territory ceded) fell far short of those goals and at far greater cost than anticipated.

If you know of an analysis that (cogently) suggests otherwise, feel free to share it with us.
> I would fear that Apple forgets about the feature after a few years and then just drops it.

It seems unlikely, given that it's tied into Family and Apple One offerings.
On average, students of color come from poorer families, who are less able to support a remotely learning student. The schools they go to tend to also be less well equipped to teach remotely. I forget which school, but I saw one not too long ago that was still teaching remotely, but the school itself was open so that students had access to computers to attend lessons.

As a blanket statement, yes, it is wrong. It is, however, more right than wrong when you look at the statistics.
I don't have knowledge on warfare tactics or strategy.

But that image looks to me as an inviting target for ballistic missiles.

I presume Ukraine could wipe out this Russian supply line with a few hundred missiles?
It's always good to have a plan and be prepared in case of emergencies, but OP needs to think about the business model of the news industry and take that into account before panicking.

The news business is in the business of shilling fear-porn and outrage-porn because those are the types of emotions that go viral fastest and get them the most clicks and shares. This is probably why you're glued to the screen.

Not to say that Russia and Ukraine aren't big and important issues, particularly to the people caught in the middle, but this is only globe-shattering if the media brainwashes enough people into panicking about it. Russia has had plenty of dumb conflicts in recent years. If you weren't panicking about Georgia in 2008 or Ukraine in 2014, you shouldn't be absolutely hyperventilating about Ukraine now. Yes, it's a serious issue, but please don't succumb to fear porn and panic.
I agree, thus the discussion about stagnation of Peter Thiel.
I think that WW2 and the cold war push the US to outdo itself, after that we became comfortable.
Why my Netflix account says it was made a year in the future (YYYY vs. yyyy)
In the last week of December 2021, I restarted my Netflix subscription. Why? Well people wouldn’t stop talking about Squid Game, and I finally gave in.

Then, on my account settings page at https://www.netflix.com/YourAccount, I saw something curious:

Member Since December _2022_

What? When I made this account, it was still December 2021. Why did it say 2022?

Just to make sure it wasn’t my computer’s fault, I checked the mobile website. Same thing:

Member Since December _2022_

What’s going on here?

Well, I’m a software engineer, and I’ve actually faced this sort of problem before. It’s most likely because the datetime formatting code is using the YYYY format string instead of yyyy.
yyyy refers to the calendar year, which is almost definitely what you want.

But people often sometimes mistakenly use YYYY instead. (and who can blame them?)

YYYY means something else, and will actually return the next calendar year during the last week of a calendar year if that week contains New Year’s day, which fell on Saturday of 2021.

Just a small UI bug, but it can definitely cause problems in some circumstances! And it would only affect accounts made in the last week of a calendar year when that week contains New Year’s day, so it’s very tricky to track down! Maybe you’ve made this mistake somewhere in your code!
Maybe if you didn’t delete your words? Let’s start there.
You're saying people scalping PS5s right now are taking a risk and deserve to be compensated for it. Setting aside how absurd I think this is, in the same paragraph you say this is both an "amoral reality" and you "don't see...an ethical problem with this."

You're using market dynamics to justify morality. My point is you extrapolate this and you end up with the US healthcare system, which is completely fucking broken providing less value at higher cost. Parasitic middle men don't deserve to be compensated and we should do everything possible to eradicate them.

It's actually quite easy to live in a market-based society and not have these problems - it's called regulation and we need a shitload more of it. It's how we established a minimum wage, and abolished child labor, and even separated commercial banking from investment banking for a period of time.
Coincidentally, if the idea of spending two days making a single cheeseburger from scratch is appealing to you, check out Alvin Zhou - https://www.youtube.com/c/AlvinZhou1

His videos skew meditative - generally little to no talking, just relaxing music, the sounds of cooking, and beautifully cinematic shots of every step in the process.
Yeah, Russia. They're doomed if they're really doing this. It's quite close to a default on national debt.

Ask Argentinians how it's like to live in a country that does that.
This is a chicken and egg problem that I believe exists in Computer Engineering/developer positions because of i) the extremely diverse background of hires (some of them not being engineers or mathematicians or physicists per se i.e. could be coming in with a bio background (ML usually), no degree at all (perhaps a bootcamp -- usually front end work), or other) ii) a lot of businesses do low hanging fruit work with little novelty, iii) a lot of cost can be thrown to "buy more hardware/server time," iv) low quality is not just advised but sought for.

Because of the usual lack of rigorousness -- e.g. most companies will not require you to prove that the system is going to be up for 99.9999% of the time, the load balancing is optimal, the abstract queue in our system is not going to diverge (when it does inevitably we will just reboot and keep doing it until we get more funding) -- the expectation and targets is also to avoid it.

Most developer positions are doing essentially the equivalent of designing over and over the equivalent in civil engineering terms of one or two story buildings.

There are positions that will exercise one's engineering skills (including math). However, the culture and expectation of "math person" does not promote them. Graphics, cryptography, distributed/byzantine systems (I don't mean using AWS here), optimization, ML (new algorithms/improvements), maps, are some areas that one's cs/math/engineering skills can be used at.

But note that when any X of those areas become trendy there is the gut reaction of an "intro to X for programmers" coming out that is a couple of hand-wavy sketches, some sketchy intuition -- most often wrong in the details -- and an API guide.

Having done my undergraduate in Europe, every year was math heavy -- math was the core not the attrition machine. And I do see this mentality in the U.S. startup industry where a lot of times the Edison approach is taken of trying every single filament width choice on a mock-up instead of doing a quick calculation.

Having taught math to undegrads in the U.S. and from discussions with people that TA'd, I would agree with you that the math curriculum needs to be revised from the ground up as being extremely inadequate. On the other hand, most software "engineer" positions, do not require any engineering to be done.
Bring it back. I'd totally swap 10 Facebook friends for a low-grade burger.
Why should teachers be exempt when parents are not?

Good point, more Americans should be unionized.
(As minority shareholders, we didn't even get to vote on that merger.)
I see a lot of doubters, but the bet is still open. If you're so doubtful, go ahead and put your money where your mouth is!
Invading neighbors and rattling your nuclear saber in a world with MAD probably ought to take you to "unquantifiably risky" already.
There's no way they kill the desktop versions in 5 years.

As of right now, the cloud versions don't have all of the features of the desktop versions.
Public employees don't need unions. If they want better working conditions then they should ask their elected political leaders, just like every other citizen.

And teaching isn't dangerous. Everyone will be exposed to the virus so it hardly matters whether that happens in a classroom or some other setting. The teachers who want to get vaccinated have been for months now.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646
> I've seen new grads perform as well as senior engineers with these Leetcode-style questions so I've stopped using them to assess engineers

To me, this seems to be reasoning from an unproven premise. As tech becomes ever more lucrative, it honestly wouldn't surprise me that the average competence of new grad hires will skyrocket - supply of software engineers is going to increase and each subsequent generation will have more experience with technology.
Depends on the school district.

My school district gets an average of 350 applicants for every open teaching position.
LibHunt was an instant bookmark for me when I came across it. The site is so well put together and cleanly designed, it's a pleasure to use.
I suspect it's more of a closed-economy, fortress-Russia mindset we'll see, not compensating some oligarchs.
In the time since, I submitted a bug report and now it correctly reports

"Member Since December 2021"
I don't think this is true. Fat does start to render at 130, but "rendering" is a collagen conversion process, and has as much to do with time as with temperature (for the same reason, you can't just turn the temperature up to cook a pot roast faster). You probably shouldn't cook your steaks to medium (unless that's how you like them) just to try to render more fat.

I think the best way to handle the fat in a ribeye is to hit it hard with high heat after you've brought it up to temperature, in either a hot pan with barely-smoking oil in it, or over a lit chimney starter in your grill. (You're still not going to render all the fat into oil, but you will make it crispy and delicious).
I think yes, that, but also to keep the currency from the sale in Russia. If they allow the sale by a foreign entity, cash will be leave the country at a time when their banks are about to get cut off
> Seems like the consensus is that engineering interview is broken, but no one has come up with a better method?

These sort of "consensus"-es appear for most sorts of screening processes where the majority of people are screened out. See: any form of standardized testing.
Same thing is CA. Teachers were one of the first to be vaccinated (while resisting any vaccine mandate), yet immediately put up roadblocks to reopening.

It’s about teachers, not students.
Because those teachers are publicly funded and many or even most parents cannot afford anything else.
It was a long and hard road toward democracy for the Taiwanese and it is both (a) very impressive and commendable on their part and (b) a definitive refutation to the "Asian values" nonsense that the CPC likes to use to justify autocracy.
AFAIK System.Drawing has been separated out adequately in Core?

System.Web is what comes to mind as a potential problem for a move like this, though.
I wish we had the same selection here. I'm in a suburb of Portland and I probably have 5 hospitals within 25 minutes (no traffic) as well, but at least half of those are religious hospitals which do not offer all services. E.g. you hope your pregnancy is smooth if you're planning to get your tubes tied after your C-section, because if you have to go the hospital with a NICU, they won't do the sterilization because they are religiously opposed to it.
I imagine ot varies by region, but there are definitely more people looking for teaching jobs than there are jobs available where I live (my sister in law is a teacher and getting a new job is a very long process indeed).
But this is great. If your company culture doesn’t depend on everyone always being there, it has a million benefits unrelated to productivity.

Working becomes so much more relaxing.
Not surprised. Wonder what the real figures on Putin are.
Having to exactly match records -- SPF included -- is one of the grievances outlined in the article. What I should probably have also mentioned is I also reported these using Apple's iCloud feedback form [1], and it might be helpful if others did as well. Unlike Radar / Developer Feedback, Product Feedback doesn't reply back with an ID you can use to track the feedback status :-(

[1] https://www.apple.com/feedback/icloud.html
Ah, right, there's only one side of it.
Race in that case seems to be a confounded variable.
> You are better off asking trivia questions

Bet you most people would disagree with just trivia.

> So does studying for leetcode for hours.

You honestly do not have to do this to pass the LC interview. I didn't.

Certainly not as much as a takehome test.
How many people here on HN would consider 68K "plenty", and what percentage have a master's degree? Or even a bachelor's?
If he is completely deranged and wants to start a nuclear war he could’ve done so without sacrificing so many Russian troops.

It's not so much that he "wants to" start a nuclear war.

The concern is whether he may end up doing that anyway -- if the moment arrives when he is sufficiently cornered and feels he has nothing more to lose.
It awards people for being something that they cannot possibly be: worth hundreds of millions of dollars per year in compensation. Human excellence hasn't reached the point where this is the case.
The difference being that lawyers generally need to pass the bar exam once. You need to brush up on your leetcode every few years.
This will depend heavily on the use case. Generally, you want your users to be as engaged with your software as possible - meaning they actively use it as often as possible.

If you charge per second then they will find alternatives, they’ll have to think of ways to pause and resume the software when they are in between tasks. This adds real costs and disincentives for the customer to use your product. When they compare billing to a per user license, they might perceive the per user license as lower cost.
Yes. All public employee unions including police should be decertified. If they want better pay or working conditions then they should ask their elected politicians just like any other citizen.
Harriet Tubman was also a criminal and she is going to be on the 20 dollar bill soon. Sometimes the law is wrong.
He's writing that article because readers want to read about grinding their own meat, because it's interesting. But if you watch his smashburger videos, he's not grinding meat a la minute to make burgers on the regular. Smashburgers work just fine with pre-ground meat, and Kenji is as responsible as anyone for popularizing them for home cooks.
That's what the US war machine wants peasants to believe (or maybe those dumbasses actually believe it themselves, I wouldn't bet against it).

Russia may take the Russian-speaking parts and annex it... but they are run by very smart people, so they are not going to try to annex a territory which has a large population of native-Ukrainian speakers brainwashed against them... which could lead to long never-ending civil war. Not to mention, Ukraine is literally the poorest country in Europe (gdp/capita), so if they annex it, it will be more of a libility than anything even if they could guarantee some form of peace.

They'll try to recreate what they have in Belarus in Ukraine i.e. get rid of the puppet America has installed and install their own.
They talked about far infrared, I didn’t get the special lamp with the proper spectrum knowing that with a red hot coils I would get a continuous spectrum.

There is a bit of visible red light too, I didn’t study the detail closely, it was a cheap/fast test and it worked for me.

I would guess that the best thing is the sun light, we don’t know what we don’t know.
I did not intend, nor do I think I called the parent an NSA shill. If it comes across as that, I apologize.

The parent clearly says that it is hard to get a bead on what he is arguing. I tried to explain what people may hear or see and I do believe that some people might not be able to see the latter but only the former, fair or not, but I only endorsed the latter.

I guess I should make clear that I think the parent is simply mistaken and that I don’t think he is a shill. It’s not intended as an insult to say there is a mistake of analysis, as I said the topic is very difficult and also often very contentious.
Right, it certainly seems nicer than paying monthly for Adobe CC so I can open Photoshop once every 3 months.
And where I live, 68k is... Probably not going to let you live in this area. :(

I'm torn. Both sides of this debate can make pretty good arguments. And I'm particularly swayed by the arguments in Case Against Education.

That said... What is the path forward? I'm just not seeing it.
Nobody "knew" what would happen.

Some had very strong hunches. But that's not the same as "knowing".
Sounds like a uniquely American issue. In many countries hospitals work like that and it’s fine. So maybe this arrangement is not the reason?
Private schools exist.