skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know what else does a good job of swimming around wounds and killing bacteria, medical grade maggots. They are fantastic in wound healing, and can fight mrsa.
Im really wondering about the 'or else' here. There is no great firewall of texas and best they can do is seize servers located there. Supreme court i guess?
I've found it very difficult to find places that give a damn about personal projects or anything a self-taught developer can do.

If you're hiring and care about these things hit me up :)
> We are now in a world where wealth is being rapidly redistributed from people who don't read the instructions, to those of us who do.

Can you link me to these instructions?
The origin of life (organic material arising from inorganic material) is actually not that interesting of a question - abiogenesis explains it just fine.

Fairy tales from illiterates are absolutely not a better theory absent extraordinary evidence to support the hearsay-upon-hearsay-upon-edited-hearsay-upon-hearsay (ad nauseam) claims.

Please, all, don’t let this type of unscientific non-thinking go unchecked.
By this metric, asymmetric cryptography is billions of times more efficient, as an attacker has to do tons of work, but I need to do very little.

So no, it is incredibly inefficient compared to many other forms of security.
Stop insisting the West is as bad as Russia
On college decision day, don’t sentence your child to decades of debt
I get the feeling most the Amazon app is still webviews today
Was this down voted because the horse manure comment?

To clarify, I meant that quite literally. Horses are considered a legal vehicle. It is not uncommon to see people riding horses (small groups, solo, & APD mounted patrol) along the shoulder of a road or along the creek and river trails in central/south/southeast/east Austin, especially on the weekends. Probably other places too, but those are the areas I am familiar with.

It is certainly more common to see horse manure in the city than it is to see the human feces or needles that was alluded to in the comment I replied too. At least, in my personal experience spanning decades.
> When I got into this industry 10 years ago, the world was a completely different place. Bootcamps weren't a thing. Computer Science programs were still something just for the nerds. And the industry was almost entirely autodidacts like myself who grew up immersed in technology and did it for the joy of it.

I don't think any of these things are really much more true now than they were ten years ago. Computer science programs have been booming since the first dot com boom, and the industry has been mostly people with degrees since I've been in it (I started in the aforementioned boom, also with no degree). I've worked at brand new startups, post-VC startups, and two letters of FAANG.

In my experience, both as a person involved in hiring and as a person looking for work over those 20+ years, once you're proven with a couple jobs under your belt no one gives much of a shit about your educational background. This is a "need credit to get credit" kind of situation, where a person with no experience and no degree will have the hardest time getting a job, but someone with 10 years experience? Yeah I'd be shocked if you get dinged for no degree on an interview unless you're trying to do degree-heavy work like ML or something.
a deceptively simple experiment: plant seeds in lunar soil, add water, nutrients and light

Seeing that they added nutrients, what was the purpose of the regolith? Was it merely to provide anchorage for the plant? Was there a control experiment that duplicated the setup except for replacing the regolith with inert sand? Would the water and nutrient perform the same if the plants were produced hydroponically without either sand or regolith?

I am not convinced by this experiment that regolith is useful.
> I test for competency

Well, that's what everyone thinks they're testing for. The empirical evidence suggests otherwise. https://news.ncsu.edu/2020/07/tech-job-interviews-anxiety/
Not to be pedantic but everything listed here would not be missed in the slightest by those with no desire to see their family or have friends that spontaneously make themselves available to you without prior plans.
If you are sufficient in French you will certainly have a better experience than being the American stereotype that arrives without learning to speak for yourself prior to arrival.
Get to know the browser's performance profiler
It does create value. It is an inflation resistant currency I can and very frequently do use to buy things and settle debts. It historically trending up in value is a fantastic and expected bonus because of the inflation resistance and utility. I would keep the same amount of value in bitcoin I do today if the price was truly fixed, or if the price returned to a penny. I will not be selling if it drops to 1k either though losing that much buying power seems unlikely at this point. I want an alternative to the banks, which is the problem bitcoin was created to solve. Not to be a stock.

I bought an item for thousands of dollars in bitcoin just this week just to dodge paypal fees. Some of my clients pay me in bitcoin too. I am considering offering a discount for it as it saves me conversion fees.

The traders are speculating and most of them do not care about privacy or censorship resistance or using it as a currency so they are just here for the hype and greed. They are fickle and will lose a lot of money.

I just buy, hold, and spend, because bitcoin is a currency that, if used without kyc exchanges, offers much better privacy and censorship resistance than visa, paypal, or mastercard.

Privacy and censorship resistance are utility.

Those betting against the internet succeeding long term as the defacto way of exchanging data were wrong, and those betting against decentralized value storage will be wrong too. It will get worse before it gets stable but I am in it for digital sovereignty above all else.
The complete instructions for all cryptocurrencies are as follows:

1) "Caveat Emptor"
The 2019 numbers were 90% per the DHS.

https://nypost.com/2019/06/11/homeland-security-chief-says-9...
Thanks Chris, you are awesome - this is definitely a much better approach since it gets rid of an additional Link Component
>superstonk

I'm baffled why people would get their economic analysis from a subreddit predicated on a short sequeeze that has failed to materialize.
> The thing about Computer Science nowadays is that the machines are stupidly fast so that a lot of the algorithm stuff is redundant.

Plenty of basic computer science problems are not well understood by a lot of devs out there. One of my current projects has a daily data import process from each customer. Some of the states were taking well over 2 hours to import with a good CPU, lots of memory & fast SSD. A bad data import or a mistake could cost the company a decent chunk of money & upset their state customers. Plus we would have to re-import which meant another 2 hour wait.

The prior code was modifying the string every field instead of using pointers when importing the data. That took a 2 hour plus import down to under 1 minute. There was also encryption being done on certain fields. Re-using some keys instead of generating them for no valid reason every line ended up bringing the import down to 10 seconds.
thanks. Really interesting perspective on the events. Fail is different than ran its course.
The concerns about cheating are valid, but we already have consoles to address them. I dread the possibilities of control in moving more activities, not just gaming, to the console model. Forget ad-blockers, there are already sites that prevent even copy-pasting of text unless one disables javascript.

> Maybe people are lying, or mistaken, about the level of control that they actually need in order to let you do the things you want. Can we coordinate to call their bluff?

They were lying when they claimed home taping was killing music, and that VCRs [0] were to film producers "as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone" [1], and more recently, a EU-funded study that found piracy causes little harm was suppressed [2], so they should certainly not be taken at their word.

> When I was at EFF

Thank you for your service :)

[0] Ironic that, with how difficult saving video has become from streaming sites and services, we have largely lost the abilities the VCR afforded us. A good example of how quickly technology is turned against us.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videocassette_recorder#Legal_c...

[2] https://juliareda.eu/2017/09/secret-copyright-infringement-s...
The thing you find fault with was caused by exactly the kind of thinking proposed to do so it doesn't seem to make sense it can itself be justification for that thinking being alright.

Many people regret the dual lookup solution as it causes nearly twice the pps load on public servers these days to work around issues with servers of the time. In ~2005 it was seen as easier to implement as clients could opt in to do it with nothing needed from the server (plus how much longer could IPv6 deployment take right /s) and now in 2022 it seems impossible to un-implement as you'd need to make sure every authoritative server and client in the world stop relying on the behavior to do so. This in no way implies that going forward every solution should get a free pass on being inefficient it just means we allowed the easy bloating answer before and it bit us in a way we can't easily fix now.
A New Class of String Transformations for Compressed Text Indexing
Bitcoin isn't backed by energy,.it burns it. If a real estate bond was backed by physical buildings the same way that Bitcoin is backed by energy then the bond would be created by burning the buildings down.
I can't make this work. The follow all the comments and then nothing happens.
We only need an application web.
A blog post can be just a markdown file.
Want to read it? Use a markdown viewer (from the application web).
Want to build a more complex experience? Build an application. You can hardcode/bake the content into it (like we do today).

An "URL" could instead be something like an application+datasource pair.
The applications are automatically hashed and signed and you can provably verify they haven't changed if you want to.
When you request an application to the network, you'll download it from the closest peer (maybe from multiple peers at the same time!). Since it's hashed and signed you only have to trust the signer.

Applications should be written in a single language, no more HTML+CSS+JS.
Yes, we can and probably still should have separation between layout, style, and logic, but it should all just be in same language.
In fact I've started exploring what that language could look like: https://flame.run/

Let's take the good parts of the current web and build a new foundation.
And you get more simultaneous bids. If one prices it high for the long term and prefers patience, there'll be sporadic bids and eventually low-balls.
Less supply means higher wages. Just like in tech.

It also means people who might not get hired before, such as those with criminal records, would be more likely to get a job.
We ran about a 75% failure rate on the above quiz. This is after the reciter screened them and we had another developer phone screen.

Some took one look at it and walked out. Others would solve it in under a minute. Everyone in between.
That is in fact not more narrow; Ferrotin's original claim that "everything has a disparate impact" is correct with "disparate impact" so defined.
I believed and still do that the democratic ideal is a permanent and inconclusive Socratic seminar in which we all learn from one another. The publisher’s job is to supply the necessary readings.

preach it.
I don't know if I really feel like there's anything wrong with the web. Sure its harder to make slick looking needlessly infinitely scalable socially addictive platforms, but nothing has undermined the ease of writing an html page. And its inarguably easier to find free and excellent resources for learning to develop fir the web. The problem I feel is a blocker for active participation of average citizens is the difficulty of starting / maintaining your own server. Domain name registrars and hosting services are idiotically opaque and difficult to use without giving in to ridiculous paywalls. Even Tim BL admits the domain registrar system was hugely flawed from the start in Weaving the Web. Im just pissed cause I was messing with cname and a records all day...
I admit to mostly having bought mine to have an Amiibo emulator with a screen and a menu that I can pick things from, and it performs this function admirably. I tried to use it to clone a hotel room key but its emulation was unsuccessful at unlocking the door. There is a LOT of functionality available in the hardware that isn't yet fully exploited by the firmware, and development is proceeding at a rapid clip, so I expect the device to only get more interesting as time goes on.
With the new release it appears to be at least 10% faster than palette
I also implemented a ton of new features :)

https://crates.io/crates/colortypes/0.5.1
edit: only being able to have one program in full screen is way more annoying.
What if I told you that SCOTUS has previously acknowledged that corporate (negative) speech deserves less protection than citizen (positive) political speech?

This is why state governments can require that companies put warning labels or nutritional information on their products, which would otherwise be considered compelled speech.
Eh. My favorite editor is Vim. But right now I'm writing code in Java. Guess which editor I'm not using much lately?

No matter how awesome your particular hammer is, it should be set aside when you're working with screws.
I once interviewed with a company that I really liked. And they liked me. They were doing really weird abstruse AI shit, heavy algorithmic stuff. The head guy was a Ph.D. in whatever field they were in, and I interviewed with him and some really good engineers. The questions they asked were HARD algorithmic questions, right up there with Google. I was a nervous wreck throughout.

They passed. They were kind enough to offer feedback. They said they liked my responses and felt I had the right skill set, but I didn't sound confident enough. Which is just... how am I supposed to feel, in an interview deliberately designed to be challenging, going up against the top minds in their field? Am I supposed to wear a douchey, smarmy grin throughout this process and act like this whole deal ain't no thing? Maybe I really wasn't smart enough for the job because they're looking for someone with the smarts and background to solve their problems without breaking a sweat.

Again, if you are not the exact perfect cinnamon roll of a candidate the company is looking for, do not expect to be hired.
I am pretty bullish on crypto but Safemoon has to be one of the worst “assets” out there. Bunch of charlatans.
Show HN: World's first online (live) Chinese musical by kids
Few years back, a few of us got together to develop original content and methodologies so as to make Chinese learning fun and interesting. We saw that current materials and pedagogy tend to be dull and irrelevant. We focus on inspiring kids with interesting content, getting them to draw, and creating their own stories.

We now have our own books [1], published books written and drawn by young children, an art exhibition for kids [2], and now a musical!

We have kids from around the world performing including Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Ukraine. We use Zoom seminar. It got really really complex [3]!

I invite you to join us this afternoon at 4pm with your kids. It's free! [4]

Here's a trailer [5].

AMA!

(edit: formatting)
Also a Bostonian, but have been in NYC metro for 10 years. I'm back in Boston enough to say this with clarity: Boston is very clean.
Thirty years ago in Massachusetts, if you had DMV business, you just walked in, waited half an hour, and conducted your business. And we complained about that.

Things have not improved, to say the least.
Why does it have to be so siloed? What if I want documents with a slight bit of inactivity? Why must I go through two different protocols? What if I want to read a paper next to the Juyter notebook that made it? I think it should be the clients job to take whatever slice of a richer universe it wants. This also stops duplication of effort, why maintain separate protocols and clients etc. It’s just a search issue, there are plenty of text websites out there. Protocols like Gemini I think are a waste of time.
Isn't your assessment forgetting something more fundamental about currency itself? I'm no economist, but the way I see it, all currency is "we owe you".

The real work is actual physical production and services. Currency tries to measure the worth, and later other people might recognize that you provided a lot of useful things in the past which afford you this thing that they're making now in return.

In my opinion, the most stable thing would be something of real value, like ownership over land, or production. If you own part of a business that makes real goods, or own land, or own raw sources of material, etc.

Like inflation might sound stupid, but inflation is kind of asking everyone to work harder for each other to get over a rough patch.

A dollar is worth less because we weren't able to produce enough things for enough people that wanted them.

It's all a bit vague in my head, but concretely, it's all an agreement between people of a society that decide to work together instead of against each other.

We used to barter, I want X, I have Y, let's trade, but that wasn't as convenient if no one that wants Y has an X, things would get complicated. So we kind of all agree, okay fine, let's say Y is worth some amount of a universal currency, and the price of everything will reflect the demand for each. But what if the production isn't keeping up? Isn't that when inflation kicks in? Seems like it's a good thing no? There's not enough things for everyone anymore so everything is worth more all at ounce.

What would happen with Bitcoin? Things would cost more no? Say there's major food supply issues, the amount of groceries you used to be able to buy for 1 Bitcoin, now it'll cost you 2 for the same amount. Isn't that just inflation?
I expect Youtube or Netflix to know what I've watched but the screenshots mean they can analyze everything you view, even stuff that has never touched the internet. Who would ever imagine their TV does that, that's insane!
Tech Companies Coddled Their Employees. Now They're Firing Them
They don't replicate, they take other proteins and refold them. They need existing protein to do that.
Computer Science has a large reproducibility problem.
[1]: https://storychopsticks.com/products/

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k9x1fWhnMc

[3]: https://i2.lensdump.com/i/tCjJA2.jpg?open=true

[4]: https://storychopsticks.com/dinosaur-and-ice-cream-musical/

[5]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg3qYKMCS74
The Flipper can unlock some cars, and the hardware has support for rolling codes, but as I understand it, the standard firmware deliberately does not enable this functionality to discourage abuse. Several people on the Discord have managed to unlock their cars once or twice, and inadvertently desync their cars from all of their key fobs in the process, leaving them with no devices that can unlock their car.
I felt so responsible as the older brother, convincing him that we should buy it together. Of course, the expense is trivial now and just a story we laugh over. He was 9 then and 40 now. He lives interstate and we tend to bond over Fortnite when it comes to games these days, playing as a squad with my 9yo son.

For my kids, I'm not sure the Micro Genius era of games holds up to the sandbox style of say Goat Simulator or constant chaos of Fortnite. Bit of a shame. In hindsight, I should've walked them through a bit of history of gaming in sequence.
As a long time dev with "passion", it's often my passion that has got me in trouble on projects. Having people on my team who are doing it just as a job for the money have helped prevent me from making mistakes.

There is a long history of devs choosing a tech because they want to learn a new tech or expand their skills instead of the right tool for the business needs. I'm guilty of this.

At the same time, a passionate employee put on the right task & managed well is a great asset. Like everything in software, "it depends", "trade-offs"...
I always chuckle at the term "fiat currency." The USD, while at risk for inflation, is backed by the institution that is the United States of America and all its potential and resources. Sure it's not pegged to gold and is subject to inflation. But the purest form of "fiat currency" is crypto, which is only worth something because some people say it is. Bitcoin doesn't have an army and navy, and land from sea to shining sea.
> Property tax is already a thing of course

Yes, but note that property taxes are extremely unpopular:

> America's most hated tax: Local property tax (42%)
By far, America's most hated tax is your local property tax! It's almost ironic that your home, perhaps the single greatest source of taxable deductions on your federal income taxes, is also the greatest source of dislike when it comes to taxes in general among the American public with 42% responding that they felt it was the least fair tax of all.

Source: https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/11/02/americas-5...

It looks like that 42% number comes from this Gallop poll: https://news.gallup.com/poll/1714/taxes.aspx

They have a sort of purity and logic that appeals to economists, but they're intuitively hated by everyone else.
I busted a Kona Splice's drive train, started ghost shifting and I couldn't figure out how to get it adjusted. I had a Cannondale that I never had problems with but it didn't get used a lot.

Maybe it's hopping curbs? Can't be helped here, the roads just aren't designed for bike commuting and everybody has a lifted 3/4 ton they can't fineagle into their garage. It's lovely.
Air Forces are over-rated. Most of their usefulness has been taken over by missile technology.

I won't go so far as to say Air Forces are as obsolete as Carrier Strike Groups are. (For the same reason - missile technology has usurped their raison d'etre.) But Air Forces in general are beginning to get rid of the most vulnerable and weakest link in aircraft - the pilot. The Air Forces of the future will be comprised of drones with their pilots sitting safely back on home soil.
What does it mean when inflation happens elsewhere? Isn't that kind of a good thing (if not hostile) - because we can buy stuff from "elsewhere" for cheaper?