skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're weakening ourselves and doing massive damage to our middle class in the US because we want to get back at Putin for...what exactly?

Also, the Ruble is stronger than it's been in years, so all of this appears to be having the opposite effect - https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ruble-hits-7-year-high-gas...
Full collateralisation isn't enough to rule out a run on USDT, since the value of the collateral can vary depending on market conditions. We can be certain that one USDT will always be redeemable for one USD, as long as USDT is fully backed with USD, but we already know from the attestations this is not the case.
I think that as an industry, we are about to move past this. Companies slowly realize that these leetcode tests do not assess the skills they need. We currently lean towards simple coding tasks paired with extensive collaboration slash pair programming on close-to-real world scenarios to assess the skills we‘d like to see in a candidate.
I don't get it. What in the license prevents users from removing the telemetry? AGPL just means the user needs to open source that change, right?

Edit: To remove telemetry, just call:

from mitoinstaller.user_install import go_pro; go_pro();

No licensing or payment required, and doesn't violate the license.
Point 1: Concur with your assessment that the article didn't make the connection clear, but there is a connection. A large part of the issue is that as ships grew larger, the CAPEx required to compete drove many smaller shippers to sell their businesses to one of the tier-1 shippers. Survival of the fittest. Sure, there is still business for small shippers for short sea or inland shipping, but the barrier to entry for large trade is currently prohibitive.

Point 2: Port upgrades to handle magaships is a major problem. Shippers keep building extreme size vessels, requiring local governments to dredge and increase roadway infrastructure to handle the added throughput, and ports to extend docks and buy new/bigger cranes.

Point 3: Rates per container-mile plummet as capacity grows. Prices are driven down due to what remains of competition. That's a good thing for trade/consumers. If these few, large shippers start price-fixing, that will be extremely problematic. The bigger issue with overcapacity (from my perspective anyway) is waste. Larger ships often operate partially full. That means lighter drafts and hence lower fuel consumption, but it still means your moving thousands of tons of steel around the world for no reason. What's needed is a way to scale ships to match the cargo capacity as global trade demand fluctuates.

Megaships do not scale. Aircraft do not scale. Trains and barges, however, do scale.
For physics and science history, https://www.youtube.com/c/KathyLovesPhysicsHistory

Many of Kathy's videos, especially those on quantum physics and Einstein, I've watched a few times.

Here's a good one, "Joseph Fraunhofer Biography: The Father of Modern Astronomy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0cjG1UdqKo
I hear people say this, but I am absolutely certain their assumptions are wrong.

1) The sum total of rewards is fixed for POW
2) Introducing extra hashing power will increase the difficulties of these mining ops up to the profitability equilibrium point.

After the overall "free" hashing power increases to a point, GPU's will start flooding the market at dumping prices.

It will be incredibly rad!
Can you go a bit more in depth about the pairing session? Most companies I've worked at, even if the person coming in was familiar all technologies we were using, I can't imagine them grokking nor just "skipping over" the datamodel and system architecture/design. All non-trivial projects I've worked on had a "bad" codebase as a result of deadlines, pivots and misunderstandings. The code is always steadily improving, but never good enough that someone can just waltz in and get to hacking on it.
How can you test someone who can write a well maintained code?

Architectural Concerns are tested during System Design round.
Non-fiction:

-Papillion by Henri Charrière: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/bbd4b0ce-baad-4f04-9e98-...

-Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/112010c8-be72-4ddc-b5e5-...

-The Naked Don't Fear the Water by Matthieu Aikins: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/2572756e-ab98-4376-94be-...

-Barbie & Ruth by Robin Gerber: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/69d6197f-f9dd-465f-bc3a-...

-The Fish That Ate the Whale by Rich Cohen (Starts slow but the story is wild.): https://app.thestorygraph.com/browse?button=&search_term=fis...

Fiction:

-The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/abd1c172-fbba-469d-a99c-...

-Hatchet by Gary Paulson: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/8a8b0f34-bdec-4e08-bad8-...

-The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah (This one is kind of a rough read.): https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/8a740c2e-a536-47c8-8d67-...

-Pachinko by Min Jin Lee: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/c906e464-dc41-4f82-9601-...

-The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/297187a2-ad88-4b2b-a453-...

-Bear Town by Fredrik Backman (It's not quite what you're looking for, but close, and really good.): https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/1e759f91-b8e7-4a7b-b10a-...
Pick one... during the Unix Wars [0] there was X/Open [1] vs Unix International (aka AT&T) [2] and the Open Software Foundation [3] (which eventually merged with X/Open to form the Open Software Group). And then the IEEE got involved with POSIX which ultimately "won" as the lowest of the LCDs. [4]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_wars
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X/Open
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_International
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Software_Foundation
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX
Probably some ease of embedding concerns, don’t quote me on it though.
Good points! I also think that this is an area that Mito could do better in. While we do provide pretty cool summary stats [1] and graphing capabilities [2], there isn't a great view for the summary stats of the entire dataframe. It's def on the roadmap -- but this comment makes me think we should move on it quick.

Thanks for the feedback!

[1] https://docs.trymito.io/how-to/summary-statistics

[2] https://docs.trymito.io/how-to/graphing
Absolutely. This is a single requirement in a single curricula at a private hoity toity college. And if the professor had done the exact same thing but simply said "this is old fashioned and we want to be more inclusive" there would be no story here.

That said, I think there's some value in pointing out the specific wrongness with this train of thought rather than leave it as a vague "wokeness run amok!".
Off topic: what’s this IBMization at Microsoft?
A lot more concrete information in this comment than in the article itself. Thank you.
If it's about the principle, shouldn't you be rallying against a company that has not been able to prove that has the reserves that it claims to have?

Keeping the peg is the least of the problems. If they somehow showed up tomorrow and said "Listen, we finally ran an audit and we found out that we really have only $0.90 for every minted USDT. But given that the small print says that we are allowed to return whatever we want, whenever you want, we decided that everyone will get a 10% haircut, ok?", you would bet that the market would shake for a week or two, but most of them would just scream Finally! and continue gambling what was left on the next project.

The real problem is that all that comes with that lack of transparency: the market manipulation, the cop-out to become a unregulated central bank, the inability for others to make a true assessment of the health of the market.

Tether basically took all the work from the cypherpunks and turned into a Casino that can't even be properly audited. They can manage to keep the peg for 20 more years for all I care, but each day they are still around is another day wasted that could be used for more meaningful things.
Brilliant!! Thanks for doing the hard work, I was too afraid to look at the slices..
Had you seen this 6 month ago, you would have made a major scientific discovery. I hope this will inspire you to look at other non-yet well classified anatomical features.
noob question: do you know what different imaging technologies are used between your two links?
Again thank you for your comment I wasn't expecting that someone would actually do the investigation!

The only other recent anatomical discovery I recall (not my field so there are probably many others), is a new kind of cell in the human eye, IIRC a full layer of one new cell type, traversing the eye vertically, but the layer is only 1 cell wide in thickness (hence why it has been discovered recently by accident)
https://www.aaojournal.org/article/S0161-6420(13)00020-1/ful...
discovery seems like a much harder challenge for you.
Although this muscle give hope that there are non-too small features left to discover in our own bodies.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Human+Corneal+Anatomy+Redefi...

edit how do you navigate the dataset? I don't see an online version only download and the png section can't be navigated from prev slice to next slice with keyboard arrows or GUI, is there a link to download everything as a folder of images instead of each image individually?
plz if so share the link
Asking for 5, 10 or 25 to 1 odds in your favor means you are expecting at least 20%, 10% or 4% chance that you are right.

The fact that you don't want to engage in 1:1 odds means you are less sure of your own position than he is. Just sayin' :)
>Variable length strings are kept in a separate file (TOAST tables), referenced by the tuple. This keeps records fixed size...

That's not entirely true: variable-width row values under a size threshold are stored inline (possibly compressed).

The beauty part about TOAST is that they're mostly just regular tables (any table that needs its data TOASTed gets its own TOAST table). You can look them up in the system catalogs and query them directly.

The schema for these is (chunk_id, chunk_seq, chunk_data). Chunk "pieces" are limited in size so they can be stored inline (obviously there's not much benefit to a TOAST table itself having a TOAST table), so any row values that need to be TOASTed may also be broken up into multiple pieces. Row values stored inline in the "owning" table reference a chunk_id where the TOASTed data is stored, and queries that need to return that data look up all the chunks for a chunk id, ordered by chunk_seq.

You're right that this scheme avoids reading TOASTed data when you're not actually using it (a good reason to avoid "SELECT *" if you've got big TOASTed data).
On nominative determinism and the power of names
Can't speak for other countries but for Australians, yes, it's a taxable capital gains event.
The patient's time has zero value to most physicians. It's often faster, and more clinically useful, for them to just ask you for your complaint and medical history. This allows them to guide the conversation and quickly focus in on the exact information they need. Searching through old chart notes is often a waste of time since the systems are slow and the data is frequently incomplete or irrelevant.
In the UK the NHS don't do screening for breast cancer for under 50s because it's believed that it would do more harm than good by leading to unnecessary treatment for cancers that would never have actually caused any harm, and even where no treatment is carried out it causes great distress. Though there are arguments that the age cut off is too high, and should be set at 40.

The above is with regard to a well-funded and regulated screening program that presumably has much better precision/recall than this website. I wonder what the cut off age is for this website before the diagnoses cause more harm than good? 60? 70?

This is getting lots of upvotes because it's confirmation bias for the large segment of HN readers who believe that problems would easily be solved by a small number of brilliant technologists, if only it weren't for governments and big organisations with all their rules and regulations.
Militarily Europe walked away with simple caricatures of the war, but the lionization of Ulysses S. Grant. Grant was (rightly) recognized as a new kind of general - one that would be far more familiar in World War I than in the Napoleonic War. This led to a lot of fame.

Generally, the US revolutionary war was viewed very positively in parts of Europe. That upstart new world was finally in its place and would now tear itself to pieces without European governance. Britain considered entering the war early on(on the southern side!) and benefited from the economic collapse of the Americas. The British commercial fleets went from near-parity with the US merchant marine to unquestioned ruler of the commercial seas by the devastation of the blockades and the lack of insurance underwriting for north or south flagged vehicles.

But a lot of things were missed millitary that they would learn in 1914. The role of rail lines and junctions, and the early signs of trench warfare and total war were the only thing that could break near-industrial societies. The potential of armored battleships and submarines. (Though to be fair, imagine how much history would have changed if the Turtle had detonated its torpedo in the Revolutionary War!) These lessons would be learned a hard way sixty years later.
"a place that is governed by this state"

In your belief, from what comes Plato's link between place and state? Places exist before states and often afterward. Can a state exist without place? If a place can exist without any particular state, can a person have a link to a place independent of a state?
You can create abstractions using apps that will access the local keychain (usually password protected) and expose secrets to the local env whole running the app “a-la Doppler, secret hub, etc”. There is aws-vault which follows a similar pattern.

Other than that, no way you can go around the fact that the token needs to be exposed at runtime… Another security layer is using temp credentials but still you need the original creds to issue the temp creds…
Should the internet also be shut down because people get false conclusions from WebMD, Reddit, Twitter, Google search results, etc?
I was similarly skeptical until I read it (ever since the first part appeared on HN) and it convinced me on many points.

That said, I think you're half right? SMTM's environmental contagion hypothesis is an explanation for population-level obesity rates, not individual cases of obesity. Anybody who cares sufficiently about their own obesity can change it through individual efforts. However, on a population level, "just change your habits", or even worse, shaming people who are obese, is a less effective strategy than "figure out what is causing their bodies to signal hunger and store fat in dysfunctional, self-harmful ways that they didn't used to anywhere on earth until the mid-1900s".
A good read about that: The Savage Wars of Peace.
That would mean for a short term advantage I'd loose my ability to travel cheaply in the future. I don't think that it's worth the price.

Apart from the fact that I'm opposed for principled reasons. If we want to make people's life easier, we should cut down on taxes, not engage in more deficit spending. Especially as the economy is headed for hard times anyway, for exactly that kind of reasons.
While your three options are the three practical options, one should note that it's not trivial to move to whatever country you might want, and not just because of costs.

Getting a work permit in another country is usually pretty hard, for instance.

Still, even with that, I think we (as a society/civilisation) need people like that, challenging the system in all sorts of ways. And not everyone not obeying the rules is a "criminal" — none of the civil offenses qualify, for instance, even in the legal sense.

Of course, some of those "challenges", especially most of those criminal ones, should be dealt with proper "retaliation" (prison sentences, large penalties...) from the society so it's obvious which "challenges" are not welcome. But let's not forget that many of the things we take for granted today have been criminal in the not so distant past.
Wrong. Why?

1) The cards have already paid for themselves. They are 100% ROI positive and even at the current low amounts very profitable. Regardless of what W2M says, ETH is still the top most profitable coin. Large miners don't sell immediately, they wait for the market to go up or the option against their ETH holdings.

2) ETH doesn't require latest hardware because the algo is memory hard, which means that the bottle neck is in the memory controller, not in the speed of the GPU chip itself. https://www.vijaypradeep.com/blog/2017-04-28-ethereums-memor...

3) The actual consumable is electricity price, which really hasn't changed much in the last few years for large miners who have contracts.
Why work at a startup? Because everything you do matters
2 months of studying every 2 years for job switch is 8.3% overhead. Do leetcode jobs pay 8.3% more after-tax than non-leetcode jobs?
Would have taken quite a while to be noticed, given the speed of communication and lack of American military presence overseas. Compared to the British Empire.
> it's the sense that you'll need at least 1-2 months of studying to get every subsequent job

I think it doesn't have to be this way if you focus on the fundamentals when you prepare, as it's easier to refresh a reasoning that clicked the first time than a complex algorithm you understood only superficially. And these fundamentals are enough for leetcode problems of medium difficulty.
Edit any website directly from the browser
No that's not true, the vast majority of companies/positions do not do this.

Most companies that pay very well and are competitive do it, and the reason is because we get so many crappy applicants that it remains to this day the least risky, cost effective way to filter out bad developers.
Would be a shame to burn a Rembrandt.
I'm sure you have good intentions, but the fact of the matter is the company may be acquired or the people replaced, and those intentions might change.

IMHO investing in a closed-source product like bamboolib as a tool for an important business function is very risky. Imagine you're a small company, and you start using bamboolib for some part of your data analysis pipeline. Bamboolib gets acquired (you have exited kite_and_code, congratulations), and the now very large company that controls it decides to stop supporting some feature critical to what you're doing, make an addition that messes everything up, go full-on SaaS somehow, or just shut the product down. What now? You've been growing, so you've got a small team of junior non-experts who were getting the hang of it...switching will be painful (or you could lock yourself in that walled garden and pay the SaaS price...).
Lockdowns by November....
Interestingly enough, assuming you use React this is how I see the role of something like Remix[0], which serves as a "rendering layer" that aggregates application data from different API's/stores and then sends a cachable HTML representation to the client which is thereafter hydrated.

It's not quite a backend and it's not quite a frontend, but it sort of sits in the middle and (hopefully) helps you achieve lower latency. I haven't used it myself but I think it's a promising idea and based on your post I gather a similar concept worked very well for you.

0: https://remix.run/
>We want to see how you think

Should publish a paper and instantly get yourself a bunch of awards then.

People love to spout that. It's nonsense. Psychologists with way more resources and time in their hand have consistently failed at even the most basic levels of achieving that.

And then some dudes hiring for a company say they can do it in an hour with some silly tasks and a little talk.
My chief takeaway: people who weren’t there didn’t have all the details.
> Alan S. Lowenthal made 3 purchases in $UBER for ~$31/share in late August '20. California soon passed Prop 22, allowing Uber to classify workers as independent contractors. This resulted in Uber spiking to ~$49/share.

Prop 22 was a voter referendum. Dont think anyone in congress had a heads up on that.
>If you go with the idea that Autopilot is dependable then it is Tesla's fault. The system is supposed to prevent that from happening and it didn't, killing two.

the system is very clear that you should be monitoring the car while driving, all the time.

>If you go with the idea that Autopilot is just an assistance then it is the driver's fault, but it also means that the system doesn't bring much value. If you have to pay attention at all time, correcting mistakes, then you may as well just drive.

Value is a subjective proposition and not inherent to anything but your own judgement.
> If their software and product quality is steadily declining then that says something about their team.

My understanding is that Google internal politics are completely dominated by their promotion process [1]. I view the outcome of google products not as the result of poor hires, but the inevitable consequence of the organization's incentive structure. If pay (doubling or tripling) is dependent on launching new stuff, your best people will ship new stuff! If pay does not go up for maintaining old stuff, it will not be maintained. If pay does not go up for improving old products, old products will not be fixed. It doesn't matter which people you plug into that system, you will always get the same results.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31262428
Not quite.

Dai is an ERC20 token on top of Ethereum. It might be more accurate to say Dai is a stablecoin coupled to MKR (MakerDAO), a governance token. Dai is over-collaterlized.

https://makerdao.com/en/
https://developer.makerdao.com/dai/1/

Terra is a coin with ticker LUNA, and is coupled to a stablecoin UST. As I understand, LUNA/UST was under-collateralized and could not handle what was essentially a virtual bank run.

Tether is a centralized stablecoin that is also reported to be under-collateralized, but it has bridges and industry connections to the wider crypto market which has kept it from crashing and burning so far.
Netflix axes 'wokest' staff and warns others not to meddle
Whatever is going on, it is not going to end well.

Many of us are going to feel progressively more lost as the extremes of thought both grow in domination with an obsession in a culture war over race, sexuality, or other identity issues with a shrinking middle afraid to speak out that we don't really find a person's skin tone or sexuality to be particularly interesting in the grand scheme of things.
I think learning to excel at algorithm interviews will make you a better engineer. It's not memorizing questions, it's learning to solve a variety of interesting problems you seldom get in your day today. You may think, if "I don't get those problems day to day, why learn to solve them?". This is similar to an airline pilot saying "Engines work well on my flights; why should I learn how to handle engine failures?"

2-3 months of devoted effort on algorithm interviews has given me some of the best ROI / time for engineering growth I've had in my career.
From a day to day penetration tester's perspective, I only pull out Scapy when there's a need to craft a specific packet, usually to fuzz a network interface and see if something breaks. Impacket, while something that can absolutely can be built on top of, is far more commonly used for the existing examples it comes with, as well as some more advanced tooling that the community has already built off Impacket as a foundation.
That's a great question. Unfortunately I don't have the answer but I believe it has something to do with civil v. criminal cases. I just know that's the line of thinking that these top legal minds are using to justify this bs
Heck even if you're just going to move around a single City at a time this is a great deal. Ubahn and Sbahn tix are quite pricey a la carte!
Really? In 1865? Which one of those was in existence and larger?