skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One important point stuck somewhere in the middle is his observation that in the physical world, no public square, or public debate looks like what's on display on internet social networks. All of them have rules, civility is a thing, if you're crazy someone's likely going to throw you out, there's identity instead of anonymity and so on.

Most people that I see behaving horribly on social media platforms do so under their own name, or at least an identity easily matched up to a real person, probably because they don’t feel like the repercussions affect them. So I don’t think the anonymity is that much of a cause or enabler for misbehavior in practice.

I think the idea of being thrown out of a bar for misbehaving is an interesting analogy. On twitter you can be thrown out of someone’s personal timeline, or you can be thrown out of all of twitter. In the real world that would be like either you are refused entry to someone’s home or you get thrown out of a country, with nothing in between. It seems like there is room there for more variations in between. Maybe hashtags could have moderators that forbid abusive individuals from using them, or maybe every tweet could form its micro-community, and individuals could be banned by the original tweeter from engaging with that tweet, but not from engaging with all of twitter. Twitter must have brainstormed a million variations on this concept of a moderated community, and I wonder why they have landed on the idea that you should only be allowed to curate your own timeline and not that of others who follow your tweets.
I think this is a great interview. I do something similar.

I’ve done most of my interviewing in finance where:

1. The engineers are mostly really good

2. They almost never have side projects, and everything they have ever done is super secret and proprietary.

For this it makes sense to ask people to do a take-home, and then ask them questions about it when they come in.

I usually also ask them to add a simple feature to their code and just silently watch them code it. You learn a lot from watching how someone breaks down a simple problem, especially where they are expert (ie they are working in their own codebase).
Trunk-based development, as I've seen it explained in the past, isn't what that site describes. The way I understood it is, no branches at all, everything committed straight to trunk, and extensive use of feature flags to keep incomplete features hidden.

Short-lived branches like that site's describing just sounds like a team that's adopted git pretty well, but not formalized usage into gitflow or similar...
Allergy? Are you sure that’s the right word?
I read the "patterns" part as idioms of the codebase, e.g. what a route handler looks like if this is an HTTP server, or the standard way to make an entity in a game. I think that's one of the more critical parts of the test. Certainly not GoF style "Design Patterns™".
As regards HTML, this article is terrible and completely wrong and demonstrates just why you shouldn’t try parsing HTML with regular expressions.

> <p>Hello World!</p> is valid HTML. <p><p>Hello World!</p></p> is also valid HTML. On the other hand, <p><p>Hello World!</p> is not valid HTML

The first one is correct: <p>Hello World!</p> is indeed valid HTML.

But <p><p>Hello World!</p></p> is not valid HTML (though, like everything, it has a well-defined parse), and probably never was (though I’d need to check to be sure; and I do know that unmatched </p> used to be moderately popular, as it often achieved close to the same result as having the opening tag).

And <p><p>Hello World!</p> is valid HTML, and always has been.

It sounds like the writer is trying to parse a very limited or idealised subset of XML or XHTML, not HTML.

> HTML is a CFG*

> *Caveat: this should be true at least in theory, given HTML's tree structure. However, in practice, many browsers will be able to parse "invalid" HTML (for example, you can forget to add a closing tag, and in most cases the browser will be perfectly fine with that). Even worse, browsers don't all agree on what valid HTML actually is. Since this blog post is about regexes, and not about HTML, I decided to leave out any discussion about how to actually define HTML.

That footnote at the end is the nail in the coffin that confirms that the author is just completely clueless about HTML as it exists now, and probably its historical state too. HTML parsing is exhaustively defined, with all browsers having used the same parsing algorithm for a decade or so. (I will admit that there have been a few minor changes in that algorithm over time; <template> is probably the most significant, though in practice that’s kinda more about interpretation than parsing.) This is not something that can be said of many languages. In practice even XML isn’t as well defined or consistent as HTML (will DTD entities work? External ones? &c.).

“Valid” is basically just a rubber stamp in HTML—that certain places in the state machine can report a parse error, but that nothing will actually come of it. There’s no intrinsic reason to care about validity: HTML that is labelled invalid will work just as well as valid HTML¹. The only reason to think about it is that it suggests you may have made a mistake.

¹ Not necessarily true per https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html#parse-er...: user agents are allowed to abort on the first parse error; but in practice I’ve never heard of any implementation doing so.
Roman Empire has a lot of similar aspects - there is a reason why Hitler took so much from the Roman Empire - yet it had imperial ideology, not nazist. To illustrate the difference - if Russia went in Ukraine to get those good agricultural lands or to just expand because supposedly being bigger is better that would be the imperial motive. Tsarist Russia was imperial. USSR is bit more complicated - while it looks to many like imperial, it was an ideology driven totalitarian state like Nazi Germany, just instead of Nazist ideology it had class-based/socialist/communism ideology. And now we come to Putin's Russia - it is a totalitarian state driven by a nazist ideology of Russian "master nation".

Unfortunately, even say just a year ago i, like many, wasn't able to recognize Russian Nazism even though it was right into our faces - it looked to me just like strong authoritarianism with imperial ideology colored by Great Russia chauvinism. Today it is pretty clear to me that all the last 22 years, right from the apartment building bombings by FSB in 1999, we had the Russian Nazism rising. It finally dawns on more and more people - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashism
How is it different than shelling a water dam? I would wager it is much easier to do huge harm that way than to shell a concrete hull made to withstand two planes simultaneously hitting it, or even cutting the main pipe in half, which will still safely shut down the plant. The only real (and exceptionally tiny) risk with modern nuclear plants is some contamination, but it needs several several fuckups to happen even with a goddamn tsunami hitting it
You asked but wont mention yours? Mine is Dutch.
It's not a new stance, HN has always pushed for linking the original source unless the referring source adds something meaningful.

I'd personally feel thread unrolling is a meaningful addition, but I don't think that's ever been the mod's POV
Cities that are getting bigger are presumably doing so because their economies are expanding. While I can guess why you don't like growth, you may be overlooking that your own economic opportunities are also improving.

Be that as it may, I think it's a problem with our system that homeowners are given such a strong incentive to keep housing scarce.
Thank you for your reply.
My native language is Polish.
There are actually no 2-bit RSA keys. The smallest possible key is n=10, e=3.
Conveniently, d=3 too, i.e. encryption and decryption is the same operation.
I guess you can think of it as a ROT-13 of the RSA world.
> Did beanie babies go away 100% after they tanked? Did the tech industry go away after the dot com bubble burst? Has crypto gone away after the roller-coaster of the past few years?

I'm asking you that same question, so you tell me. That's why I also said 'Are you both sure?'

> NFTs may have some potential but at the moment it's just speculation driven by greed.

> IMO, the crash will trim off the speculators and leave NFTs to possibly develop organic usage.

So you are in agreement with me then?

There exists a small minority of NFTs that are not 'JPEGs' or 'JPEG projects' that are also not part of the 90% that have no use case and will collapse, but instead are part of that 10% that have utility then?
Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
If you emailed me this way, I would wonder why you’re being so dang informal, and feel self conscious about anything I wrote as a reply.
Mathematics demigod Terry Tao came up with an extremely cool idea for how to prove blow-up results like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgmuGqeRTto. The idea is to try and make a self-replicating "fluid computer" - think of our imaginary fluid as a continuous set of points which are all moving independently. If you set things up in very particular way, you can treat patches of fluid like components in a machine - these interact with each other, moving energy around to different parts of the fluid, until eventually you end up with a new copy of the machine - but smaller - and with more average velocity than the original. This then repeats, smaller and smaller, faster and faster, until within a finite time you have a singularity. He used this to prove blow up in some 'toy' versions of the Euler equations, with extra rules / parameters to make it work, but he does (or did) seem to think this has some chance of working in the real model.

(disclaimer - I do not have expertise in this field)
It’s important to also note that one of Musks strengths is marketing. He makes bold claims that makes headlines. We should be all used to his charade by now.

A lot of the stuff he claims that actually works has teams of people supporting him. Those weren’t one man efforts like this.
My client is in the financial industry and have to use their equipment as a remote contractor.

The win10 laptop is locked down tight, including removable drives disabled, DNS forced through corporate servers, SSH blocked outside network, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if all activity was somehow centrally logged for compliance too.

I had to request permission to whitelist my VPN account to access Github.com. Even with VPN disabled the laptop still uses corporate DNS.

The security policy is designed to prevent theft.

Of course there _are_ ways to circumvent these protections but you'd be in a world of legal trouble if caught.
Yeah, it was pretty popular for a while but I doubt many people really do it because of it’s shortcomings. I guess if you spent most of your time in feature freezes trying to stabilise the upcoming release of your product, but I’ve often felt it’s better to either just have a few feature branches queued ready to merge once the master branch is tagged and released, or to branch master into a release branch once you have a feature freeze and only commit bug fixes to that. But then you have the annoyance of having to cherry-pick features between the branches.
Yes. The Netherlands have standalone bicycle paths as the standard. Not a line on the sidewalk, not a lane on the road, but a completely separate path that is designed to avoid both pedestrians and cars.
Sure, I get that simplification is essential to think and live.

But rules of thumb about how people generally are inevitably lose fidelity for individuals, making then often entirely wrong.

For example anxious people find certain things help their quality of life, but those things may be toxic to someone without an anxious disposition.

In the same way that we love someone who 'has the answer' - its cognitively relaxing - i suggest we are too easily led to sudpend judgement on issues which entirely deserve our full consideration
> If you buy property in the second city, then as values rise, yes your taxes will go up but so will the value of your property. Worst case, you have to take out a home equity loan to pay the taxes, but you'll probably still come out ahead.

Wouldn't this rise in your property's value only matter when you sell?

Home equity loans aren't a thing in France as far as I know, so maybe I'm completely off here, but wouldn't you need to pay back that loan anyway? So if you're intending to sell the property (which I assume is the case, since OP's main complaint was being forced to move), how do you come out ahead?
Lots of LGBTQ organizations have FAQs about transgender issues. E.g. https://www.hrc.org/resources/transgender-and-non-binary-faq What questions do you have that are not answered in this sort of material?

If someone says "I identify as a woman and prefer female pronouns", it's not clear to me what it is that you'd want to 'question' anyway. If the person is, for example, a colleague, why would you care about their anatomy or what gender they were assigned at birth?
Is the cleanup related to nuclear, or the whole tsunami?

Also, how is it underestimated? There was an exceptionally huge tsunami there, and even with that there would have been no trouble given the backup-generators would work well and even then, only a slight radiation exposure happened. There have been orders of magnitude more failures in other power plants causing much bigger damage (not even counting the environmental effect of them!).
French here.

Maybe you should use HN's poll feature in order to be able to aggregate results, but it would be a long list of languages to choose from (or add "other at some point).
76% of voters own land, so this idea is dead on arrival.
At the risk of over-explaining (hopefully) obvious satire, I'm considering a "false positive" to be someone who was hired who should not have been, i.e. the hiring process gave a positive result that was wrong.
What you're describing is really just maintaining your own bubble in social media. This is something that most people think is a bad thing, on both sides of the spectrum. You're not talking about speech which is generally felt to not be permissible in public.

To give an example, this would like saying Elon Musk could simply block the twitter account that follows his private jet, rather than persuade the account to stop. It's not really the same thing.
That's not O(1), that's O(log n) memory, where `n` is the size of your string. You need `log n` bits to store the pointer. Granted, it's very limited for practical purposes, but you have to account for it in theoretical applications.

UPD: you can also say that you're actually writing a code for a Turing machine with two heads, and that would be ok. So, yeah, this is why the "you cannot write a constant-memory algorithm" definition is very hand-waving, one has to be extra careful with the model they're working in.
> There's no right to anything that people don't stand together to say they have a right to.

This is ignoring the point: positive rights should not exist. They require taking rights from others, through violence, to enforce.

> People shouldn't have to commute for hours so other people can live there because that impacts their health and opportunities for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

Ok. Then don't.
This is very true. One topic in particular will get you banned on Reddit and Twitter, and, usually, flagged on here, simply for stating observations of material reality. Any meaningful discussion of this topic only really takes place on niche feminist forums.
It would have been great if htmx and hypersrcipt were the default option on the web. Especially htmx.
Are you sure? One time in a Amsterdam I tried mushrooms and I’m pretty sure I drank the same pint of Heineken four times.
You would do that? Now I'm beginning to consider if I should be asking candidates to bring some intellectual property owned by their current/previous employer as a filter.
It's optional, I guess because so many companies or teams would immediately discard TBD if this wasn't addressed.
Even with drugs that are supposed to stop addiction, many people are still addicted after the treatment stops. Continuing with the drugs over a long time can lead to health problems, thus not solving the issue. Many studies show that a change in environment has a major influence on the change in behavior of patient.
Some research on shareholders % of Twitter, Tesla, SpaceX and Square I made online in 15 minutes:

TWITTER biggest shareholders:

1. Vanguard 10.3%

2. Elon Musk 9.2%

3. Morgan Stanley 8.4%

4. BlackRock 6.5%

5. State Street Corp 4.5%

?. Jack Dorsey 2.25%

TESLA biggest shareholders:

1. Elon Musk 17%

2. Susquehanna Securities 6.5%

3. Capital World Investors 4.9%

?. Kimbal Musk 0.07%

SPACEX is still private but it seems that:

Musk owns 48%-54% of outstanding stock
and 78% of voting rights

SQUARE (squareup.com) shareholders:

1. Jack Dorsey 12.7%

2. Morgan Stanley 6.8%

3. Vanguard 6.3%
As much as I want to agree with your general point, I’ve known plenty of successful entrepreneurs who just searched for a good market, problem, idea and executed.

With no prior “passion” or even expertise in the area.

So by this post I hope to find more people like that and hear what they have to say.
how do you get to have the pointer to the end?
welcome to the "accidently quadratic" world :)
That's cool. The YT demonstration (might not notice it in the README) says it all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNJcIVSneH4
> but at this rate we'll be saving for a decade to get there.

That's normal. Median first-time homebuyer is 34, and that's for a starter house, which most people refuse to do nowadays.
Strongly agree. I would be surprised if Elon himself doesn’t realise this, and is just using the phrase as a promotional tool. At the end of the day, he’s just hoping to buy a medium that has long term growth potential.
> this may very well be the first thing in my life I've agreed with Musk on.

You think electric cars and reusable rockets are bad?
One road gets a diamond priority sign, the other gets an inverted triangle yield sign.

For example, the road going up and down the slope would get priority signs and the road going across the slope would get yield signs. Actually, in this case they might leave it with stop signs, because the visibility is quite bad.
Ironically, the best lyrics in the song are the first verse.
I could accept that if every race was treated equally and racism against any race would lead to same consequences.
Access tokens have expired and it's simpler to just reload.
That process sounds isomorphic to a PR.
> So what happened? NATO reneged by gobbling up Eastern European countries and pushing ever closer to Russia’s border. Russia sees NATO encroaching closer and closer to their border, flirting with allowing membership of a country in Russia’s border. What were they going to do?

Nothing. NATO isn’t something akin to the Soviet Union - a collection of client states politically and militarily dominated by a single country styling itself an expanding imperial power - it’s a simple mutual defence pact.

It’s reasonable for Russia to object to theatre range nuclear missiles and specific military systems on its borders, and that’s the sort of thing treaties between NATO and Russia should cover - but it’s entirely unreasonable for Russia to argue that Ukraine should not have the capacity to defend its borders from invasion, that this from NATO membership constitutes an intolerable military threat - it simply doesn’t, nor in the modern era are countries allowed to dictate neutrality to their neighbours as a condition of their own security.
How to Be Upstream-First
How Gamification Improved My Productivity
They explicitly said they down rank "disinformation". Take it how you want:

https://mobile.twitter.com/yegg/status/1501716484761997318
Five days ago this was posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30984108

Basically, there is no correlation between lockdowns and health outcomes. It's a pretty consistent finding, they reference a few others who found the same with different ways of measuring it in there.
The poison pill specifically mentions groups.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/twitter-adopts-limi...
Are you saying the West is dependent? As in the opposite of Free?
shareholders that have seen how "proximity to musk"=money right now.
This is my preferred option also but I love reading the comments when these sorts of posts appear as it seems that interviewing is still something that causes loads of debate and no matter whether the op is whiteboard, tricky algorithm or <other> focussed, there’s still a hot debate. Interviewing just seems broken

It must surely boil down to the profession aspect. Doctors and lawyers do a period of internship after and during the degree that perhaps mitigates the uncertainty around hiring. I doubt that doctors are asked to bring in a cadaver to operate on during an interview for a new position, or lawyers are asked to jump into court unprepared and defend someone as part of the hiring practice.

It sometimes seems that programming jobs need to be a calling. Ie: you spend 50 hours a week at job doing the thing but then are also asked to have a portfolio on the side that you presumably do in your spare time.

It could just be an American thing, though. Perhaps hiring is seen as very risky because sv salaries are so out of proportion to the standard across the rest of the working environment, in addition to there being very little quality control regarding professionalism in the industry that makes technical hiring such a minefield.
Correct but then the anti immigration lobby hates the hires and not the employers so all the regulation to protect the worker invariably is aimed at harassing the worker. As soon as trump admin started my harassment I ahd to join faang to protect myself.
SpinLaunch's website claims: "To date, we’ve conducted tests over 6x the speed of sound."

However, that doesn't seem possible because the centrifuge is not in a decent vacuum (as Thunderf00t points out in his second video) due to the whooshing sound of the centrifuge 'blade', and the speed can be estimated as just less than the speed of sound. If they have the ability to do hypersonic tests already, why would they not show it in their promotional video?

The fact that they intentionally blurred the data on the screens during the demo is also odd.

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Regarding your final point, it's much easier to pretend to be a genius than to actually be one; Elon Musk is a master at it. Additionally, debating skill is a very misleading measure of intelligence.
It's not really a clear statement, and I think it also sort of misses the goal of deletion policies.

The above statement for me reads with the implication that it only checks accessibility by the party responsible for the data, as the example check is that the responsible party has no practical means to recovery it. But in fact this is not really a good goal I think as it doesn't really protect against what data retention laws aim for; avoid keeping data you don't need and most definitely don't sell it off.

Thus, an attacker looking to do a DB dump will most definitely engage in activities that are not practical to recover inaccessible data; a data sales team will certainly modify the data to still be equally identifiable and targeted but transformed enough that the original dataset is no longer required.

It really doesn't address what a lot of data deletion/retention policies aim to succeed with.
> We need a grey area

Absolutely, life is shades of grey and never black and white. Unfortunately the noisiest people on the internet either can only think in black and white, or choose to do so to (to get note ‘engagement’ etc.)
As a counterpoint, I tried Naltrexone 3 times in my life and it made no lasting effect on my drinking. I was religious about taking it before drinking as well.

I eventually quit last fall but I am not actually sure what I did differently that made it seem to “stick” this time. I didn’t take naltrexone though.
Sounds good. Until it is used against you.