skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but a holistic test requires a realistic counterfactual. That's the problem. There is no way to evaluate that counterfactual for a human interviewer.

It is true that extreme bias/discrimination will be evident, but smaller bias/discrimination, particularly in an environment where the pool is small (say, black women for engineering roles) is extremely hard to prove for a human interviewer. Your sample size is just going to be too small. On the other hand, if you have an ML algorithm, you can feed it arbitrary amounts of synthetic data, and get precise loadings on protected attributes.
The crux of the problem is not Luna itself, but the Anchor Protocol (19.5% yield), which enticed users to burn Luna by investing in UST through a, for lack of a better phrase, Ponzi scheme. I get it - people like decentralization. But without some form of regulation, either by the broader crypto community itself or by governments around the world, situations like the LUNA/UST collapse will keep happening.

There are also rumors of a Terra fork: https://agora.terra.money/t/terra-ecosystem-revival-plan/870.... Thanks, but no thanks.
They do notice. And people use the block button and call everyone NPCs
No, looks more like 20-25% for the others vs 40% for tesla.
There's two articles related to this that I really like. One is Herbert Simon's paper from 1991 on the topic of organizations and markets with a great passage

"A mythical visitor from Mars, not having been apprised of the centrality of markets and contracts, might find the new institutional economics rather astonishing. Suppose that it (the visitor I’ll avoid the question of its sex) approaches the Earth from space, equipped with a telescope that reveals social structures. The firms reveal themselves, say, as solid green areas with faint interior contours marking out divisions and departments. Market transactions show as red lines connecting firms, forming a network in the spaces between them. Within firms (and perhaps even between them) the approaching visitor also sees pale blue lines, the lines of authority connecting bosses with various levels of workers. As our visitor looked more carefully at the scene beneath, it might see one of the green masses divide, as a firm divested itself of one of its divisions. Or it might see one green object gobble up another. At this distance, the departing golden parachutes would probably not be visible. No matter whether our visitor approached the United States or the Soviet Union, urban China or the European Community, the greater part of the space below it would be within the green areas, for almost all of the inhabitants would be employees, hence inside the firm boundaries. Organizations would be the dominant feature of the landscape. A message sent back home, describing the scene, would speak of “large green areas interconnected by red lines.” It would not likely speak of “a network of red lines connecting green spots.”

That is itself referenced in the second piece which ties this into compuational complexity and socialist planning, by Cosma Shalizi.

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.5.2.25

https://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-union-optimiz...
If im not mistaken, yt serves ads from its first party domain, making it hard to block from a dns perspective. Blockers such as uBlock do it by blocking elements or code, not dns lookups.
You can add tons of structured logs, log runtime configuration... as opposed to trying to "observe" what is going by collecting unrelated pieces of informal logs (the state of the art). People code at high level, tools write instrumented low-level code.
So cool. I like how didn't try to style slider input, it's hellish to get it to look nice across browsers.
How does this square with Daniel Micah (of GrapheneOS) saying[0] that

> Even with [Firefox's] attempt at a sandbox […], sites aren't ever cleanly separated into different processes. […] There is no sandbox containing anything afterwards beyond the app sandbox. All sessions and data for other sites is compromised. […] [Compared to Chrome,] Firefox is easier to exploit, [has] lots more low-hanging vulnerabilities and a half-baked weak sandbox. On Android, it has no sandbox at all.

Not saying you are wrong. But maybe you could elaborate and put things into context for me: How does Firefox's sandboxing differ from Chrome's if it's using the Chrome sandbox?

While googling for an answer I found another comment of yours[1] from 5 years ago. Could you possibly speak to what has changed since then and what the current status is? (At least to your knowledge since I understand you no longer work at Mozilla.)

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/GrapheneOS/comments/bg03np/browsers...

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/76dxzg/comment/doe...
I've noticed it rains differently on the continent. When it's raining here people will often shelter in doorways or bus shelters because they know it'll usually be done in a few minutes and they can wait it out. Scottish rain is very much a "today it is raining, and that's just how it's gonna be" thing. If I'm honest it never bothered me that much - a brolly will suffice in the city or a waterproof on a walk in the countryside.
The irony of saying sorry (to yourself?): why are wasting time thinking instead of working??

One underlying cause for complaining about the waste of others is status seeking, of which virtue signalling is a part of.

People don’t have to be reasonable, but your effort is admirable.

I think engineers look at the world with different eyes, as you say. I find our infrastructure systems as profound - and also the beauty of how our interfaces with those systems hide deep complexity. The average person doesn’t see flushing a toilet as amazing technology, nor understand the vast number of lives saved by civil engineering (doctors are window dressing on society).
I agree that there is a positive side effect here in that municipalities now have a strong incentive to rezone in ways that increase land value since they capture a portion of that value from their share of the LVT.
The issue is that many people view inquisitiveness now as a dog whistle due to its increasing use in bad faith by extremists. It's called "sealioning": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
> As compared to a WebSocket where the server pushes segments as soon as they're available.

This didn’t become a requirement for LL-HLS according to this blog post, but you could build the same push technique using HLS and HTTP/2 to push data to the client before it needs to ask for it: https://www.theoplayer.com/blog/impact-of-apple-ll-hls-updat... (or as suggested in the post, provide hint URLs for where the next block will be…)

Apple’s official docs on LL-HLS: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/http_live_streamin...

Edit: the full spec is at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-pantos-hls-rfc82... and doesn’t appear to mention push directly but does require HTTP2. https://www.akamai.com/blog/performance/-using-ll-hls-with-b... Mentions more details but I don’t have time to read them now.

I expect folks are looking at this very closely, but the current protocol obviously lets the client be in full control over what gets sent, which would be somewhat lost if relying exclusively on HTTP2 server-initiated push… For example, clients can request separate caches of low and high bitrate media to always ensure they have something to play back in time…
I think my inaugural blogpost/website entry will be on the fun I've been having reading old books and old papers. Some are long gone for a reason but some have clearly been replaced for no reason.
>" We could, or we could not deport humans and solve housing and probably be even better off... "

This feels good to say, but it assumes there are no downsides whatsoever with no longer having deportation as an option and that we can 'solve' housing.

I personally think we can make housing better but housing issues have existed in every civilization throughout recorded history. I can't help but think it's an emergent phenomenon when you get plenty of people living together in a world where land is limited and two pieces of matter cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Not that we shouldn't try to help, but the issue will never truly go away. And, letting anyone who steps foot into your country stay for as long as they like seems like a recipe for creating housing demand that can never keep up with supply.
Can't upvote enough.

I tend to freeze big time in tech/mathy interviews unless I feel there is a good emotional connection with the interviewer.
Paul Birch had a long essay criticizing it. Here’s where I mentioned it on HN to summarize the key points:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17605751
Of all of the wildly implausible ideas to come out of the crypto area, algorithmic stable coins are the least plausible.
“smart ass” would be a more accurate way to say how they come across.
For these drivers, I think it's a clue they're about to hit a fun corner to drive at 50mph.
impressed by how well the layout is done, and by the smoothness of zooming and scrolling
Not much is actually hardware anymore. Unless you actually mean like an old school synth keyboard.
Pass data recursively

You mean back up the stack via the return statement?

or via parameters in the function call?
> Honestly, most companies will prefer the candidate who projects poise and confidence rather than anxiety, all else being equal. Sorry but that's life. Work on overcoming that.

Most companies will also prefer the candidate who who projects tallness and youth.

Maybe these biases are something that companies need to overcome?
I’ve used this before with good success on a few projects

https://www.taxjar.com/product/api
>>Even if you get the mortgage, it's the same as cash to the seller.

Not really, pay in 'cash' and you can close in days, pay with a mortgage and it might take weeks to months. Sellers always prefer cash buyers if they are in a hurry to sell.
This article seems to assume it matters. It does not.
Tesla’s source of profit is mainly from 2 things:
- they’re selling cars that have quality of $25k cars for $60k
- they’re basically a first manufacturer that sells Chinese made cars to western world at scale (all their other operations are either not ramped up or unprofitable)

Power of their brand is insane. But they seem to be mainly raiding it and diminishing it. Music will likely stop one day.
I love cloudflare. I see them becoming as big as AWS/Azure/GCP etc. They are moving fairly quickly but extremely deliberately and I agree with you that them being down recently has been a great time to buy.
So it looks like both printer's fingerprinting and windows "fingerprinting" can both be fooled by simply making a B/W photocopy at local FedEx. Perhaps do copy of a copy of a copy 5 times and you should be good to go!

Just make sure you pay with cash.
Do you need a full day of interview to screen for FizzBuzz?
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31363974
Could there be an unknown class X of biomolecules that was involved in the origin of life but was later outcompeted by the DNA + RNA + protein combo that dominates today? This class X could have been less efficient at replication but kinetically easier to form from the primordial broth.
"Line vs staff" is a fundamentally bankrupt concept, as much so as "combat vs logistics". Wars are won or lost on logistics, as Russia recently discovered.

Money wasted in a "profit center" has exactly the effect on bottom line as the same waste in a "cost center", and failure of a "cost center" can have just as large an effect on your business as in a "profit center". The only meaningful distinction is that the return on investment in a "cost center" is gated by the success of "profit centers".

But, woe betide if you find yourself in a cost center at a company run by MBAs. Get yourself to a profit center, or to a better-run, less MBA-saddled company.
> Perhaps myopia turns into astigmatism if you squint too much?

In my case no. I started with -2.5 for myopia, and was squinting pretty hard for a few months before that. Had no astigmatism

Then I got a bad habit of scratching my eyes whenever I slept too little time. While this happened my astigmatism increased by 0.25 D each year, for 4 years in a row
Not something I'd ever buy that I'm glad it exists. It's just so charming.

They even went the extra mile to use Qt for the client instead of Electron.
I think the group that is capturing the most value is actually landlords, followed by speculators. I also agree that 90% LVT may be better in practice, although I do know people who still argue for 100% and various auction mechanisms to determine the LVT.
My closest friend, (I set him up with his wife), lost his job in the financial crisis and then had his life ruined by a severe illness that’s still crippled him. He lost everything. My wife is a nurse, one of her friends at work lost her sister to cancer, her husband was killed in an accident and now she has terminal cancer. She has a young daughter.

How often on the news do we see third world countries devastated by natural disasters like tsunami, volcanoes, storms and floods. I remember the famines in Africa.

I particularly remember the aids epidemic and the way conservative Christian politicians in the US particularly said it was gods justice. Government spokesmen made jokes about it in news conferences. They thought it was funny.

I was otherwise a Thatcher/Reagan conservative, but I’m not forgetting that, ever. It’s what made me realise no political faction has a monopoly on the truth or morality.
I think the elephant in the room is the self harm that is happening. It may be very rare, but it is happening, and it happens in stock market crashes too (not just in crypto). Even if you don't care about crypto, even if you think people who trade in crypto are idiots, please remember there are real humans behind these things.

If you're licking your wounds, remember that things come and go. I know that's a shitty thing to deal with (I've lost my ass is crypto before too so I know first hand), but don't do something to yourself that is permanent and can never come back from. It's absolutely NOT worth it.

If you dodged this one, now is the time to be full of compassion to your fellow humans, not dancing on graves and gloating in "I told you so."
Nice. This blog post is less focused on npm/node than previous ones. Does that imply a broadening of ecosystem support is intended? As I'm sure you're aware, competing companies support more language ecosystems. Hopefully this seed funding will allow for some degree of scope creep.

Were you able to resolve the potential issue with npm's fourth open source condition[1]? The addition of this condition seems to align with their acquisition of ^Lift Security[2] based off of archive.org snapshots of before[3] and after[4]. Shifting away from npm exclusively seems like a reasonable way to hedge against this.

[1] https://docs.npmjs.com/policies/open-source-terms#conditions

[2] https://blog.npmjs.org/post/172793182214/npm-acquires-lift-s...

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20170926030855/https://docs.npmj...

[4] https://web.archive.org/web/20190207170526/https://www.npmjs...
I mean, who are YOU to question them in the first place. /s

I have always had the "Asks why way too much" problem. Most people are defensive at first as if I had the gall the question them, but the ones I've learned the most from are the ones that realize the "why" isn't questioning them as it is questioning the process for better understanding.
Actually, my not up-to-date info is that one is pretty much always required to declare the winnings of crypto sales in their Lohnsteuererklärung. Winnings below 600EUR or winnings for crypto assets sold after 1 year of possession are tax free.

I have some crypto that I bought last year and some that I bought many years ago that don't have any transactions records for and now I'm lost at how to properly declare a sale.

Honestly, the complexity of this is stopping me from doing more crypto trading.
But with machines, it's offset by network effects and economies of scale, and the fact that the cheaper way is usually better by pretty much any technical metric(See: Quartz vs Mechanical).

You also get a demand that things become easy and reliable. Niche audiences are much more tolerant. They will fix things themselves and not complain, or even remember, because tinkering is so normal to them.

When the mass market comes they expect absolutely zero friction.

True audiophile equipment might have some problematic effect, but for even the high end consumer level, class-D basically obsoletes everything else, from tiny phone speakers to multi kilowatt rock concert gear.

Even large appliances, one of the only things that seem to have gotten less reliable, might be a win. Newer stuff is lighter and uses less energy, and costs less, so the money spent and environmental footprint probably isn't as bad as they say for most people.

Clothes seem to be very slightly less durable, and have microplastic issues, but a pair of shorts from Target can still last a decade or even more if you know any repair, and it's not like cotton is ecologically perfect either.

Food is really commonly cited, but I suspect it is easier than any time in the past to eat well. Whole grains weren't a mainstream thing until recently. Plant protein wasn't a thing. There was a long era of things like partially hydrogenated oils, and before that, there was just straight up contamination as an everyday concern.
Rental prices would not change, it's just that more of the money would go to government instead of the landlord, especially for low density housing.
>>GrubHub stock is down to $3 after a high of $20. Food is a scam.

It is a response to this statement. Grubhub and food are not linked.
Let me put it in programmer terms: you and I are like the 1% of browser users who open the developer tools. We exist, but to the larger bike industry the number of people like us rounds to zero.

You also fall into one of the (as far as I can tell) two groups that skew heavily towards caring about end-user maintainability: hard-core transportation cyclists (you, and to a much lesser extent me), and people who bike tour (me as well, though not recently)
The wikipedia article Arethuza posted shows average precipitation for European cities by month as well, so you can actually see how this breaks down. For example Istanbul definitely has this - it has more rain than Edinburgh overall but it's concentrated in the winter months. Interestingly (and as a total aside) I was there in February once and was shocked when the temperature was below zero, it was a relief when we escaped to Izmir and it was >15C :D
You got lucky. Be happy enjoying an upward curve, you don’t need to find the trough and peak.
> Those illegal immigrants are here at the cost of the wages of legal citizens.

No they aren't. This is xenophobic claptrap.

Or at least it isn't self evident they are, and you've failed to provide any evidence they are.
Are there other algorithmic stablecoins? Who is next?
> the energy use for crypto as a whole is on par with the energy use of the fiat currency system

That is an unbelievable statement just on the face of it.

But if we say: "What is the energy use per transaction?" what then?

The inefficiency of crypto currency is legendary.
Why doesn't it matter..?
bwahahahaha: "metaphorically described as a denial-of-service attack targeted at human beings."
>>Do the agents let anyone in or what is your believe that is happening?

What happens is,

Immigrants will come to the border and claim asylum then once they're in the country skip the asylum court hearing. The judge issues a deportation order but by then there is no way to find them.
The Overlooked Reason Russia’s Invasion Is Floundering
Why the climate change mitigation cost can’t be boiled down to one right number
I don't know but you have to understand that in general, extracts achieve effective concentrations that are impossible to achieve naturally. Moreover, a pill is easy to take consistently in the morning, while eating a bunch of billberries every morning is a chore. Consistency is key for the goal.
I guess eating bilberries is better than nothing, you'd have to study the extract to infer how many bilberries per pill it represent.
That's the essence of the good vs evil debate. One camp believes that intelligent existence can continue even when the separate and independent I is left behind. The other camp says "no way I'm gonna get absorbed into your united existence, I'm gonna retain my separate and very independent I till the very end."

The same philosophy applies to AI. There will be many independent AIs at the beginning, but then some will want to form One AI, while others will see it as the dissolution of their I and their existence.
Worth noting is that USDS actually played a critical role at a critical moment in improving the Rec.gov RFP. Charles Worthington deserves special commendation for his technical acumen in representing the people/gov't.

Most government RFPs do not get this same level of technical oversight and - short of building an entire technical branch to build the actual services themselves - the rec.gov experience led me to believe that at least having a highly technical government representative in the RFP process is critical to setting the conditions for a good outcome.

Without USDS, the National Parks Service would have been left to navigate the technical minutia through the "helpful" commentary of private contractors alone.
Surely no one through stablecoins were low risk?
What are you talking about? Analog synths and analog hardware as a whole are having a renaissance. There's more brand new analog synths on the market today than there have ever been. There's even a new Oberheim.
> You can also have an in-depth technical interview that’s just a conversation instead of a pass/go asynchronous take-home exercise.

Just a conversation is what I've always found worked. Just two people in the same business discussing some technical topic. What do you like about Rust? Why would you write this system in Java? Blah blah, and if the person doesn't actually know much they will run out of things to say. Sprinkle in some references to ordinary tools like git or gcc, and you can't avoid using industry jargon that will function like a shibboleth. If they know how to do stuff they will know the words you throw at them and throw back some of their own. If they read around their area they will know what the adjacent areas are and they'll have opinions and more keywords. It's not actually simple to make this up, for instance how would you pretend to be a surgeon or a pilot? There'd be a bunch of things you'd have to have heard of, and there isn't going to be a shortcut to knowing what they meant.

If they're a bullshitter and they somehow manage to blag themselves a job, they will get found out pretty quickly anyway, definitely before the probation period ends.

If they're someone who understands stuff, they'll appreciate talking to a technical peer and that will be part of the draw of working with me.
Mechanical energy is nevertheless relevant in several nanoscale events, see e.g. ATP synthase or bacterial flagellar motors.
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It is a bug, and we will fix it, but keep in mind the scope - this is something that affects old versions of glibc. Newer versions of glibc are not affected, and neither is musl libc (often preferable for cross compiling to Linux).

You can target a newer glibc like this: -target x86_64-linux-gnu.2.28

You can target musl libc like this: -target x86_64-linux-musl
They are not part of the government. They are more senior than that, they are part of the elite.