skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone is bad at everything they haven't tried to do. You can be good at anything. I can't ride a bicycle but if I wanted, I could be good. Just gotta go and do it. Unfortunately doing things is work. Solving abstract problems is the main thing engineers do, if you're not doing that then you're not really engineering you're just copy pasting text.
I have a lot of problems with this article.

Point 1: The industry is consolidating and might be price fixing.

The author makes a leap from "ships got bigger" to "the industry consolidated" without establishing a real link. Are large ships the reason for consolidation? I think a more likely reason is one that the author herself mentions; the economic downturn of 2008 diminished demand and the survivors consolidated. Maybe that gave them extra power, and maybe that power needs to be reined in - but I'm not convinced that ship size was the reason there.

Point 2: Port congestion
How many times in the last 100 years has port infrastructure needed an upgrade to accomodate larger and better ships? Surely we can expect a permanent cycle of Advancement is made>>Port cant handle it>>Port upgrades>>Advancement is made. Is that really a problem?

Point 3: Too much capacity

By continually flooding the market with capacity, ocean carriers drove down
their own shipping rates.

How is this not a direct contradiction of point 1? Are dominant cartels abusing their power to gouge consumers? Or are desperate cartels selling space cheap just to avoid half-empty ships?

The article also does not mention the advantages of larger ships, which are substantial. Fewer, larger ships represent less total ocean noise pollution, less total fuel consumed, and straightforward efficiencies of scale.
The other issue is that Apple locks features and doesn't allow others to use. NFC is locked to Apple Pay, browsers are all Safari Webkit, ultra wideband can only use the Find My network.

Also arbitrarily blocking of (competitor) apps like disallowing Xbox Game Streaming.
Is crystal meth "salt"?
Right right, you are absolutely correct, but I meant that the U.S. was inconsequential to Europe militarily.
> Leet code is very contrived. However, learning leet code, then applying it in an interview shows you have the aptitude to learn quickly.

I feel very strongly that this premise is flawed. It shows that you have aptitude for a very specific type of learning.

I lead an engineering org at a small startup. We teach our engineers to dive deeply into the customer value prop to find ways to deliver the simplest technical solution to their problem. You don't need leetcode skills when you can identify simpler, more accessible solutions to a customer's need.

The reality is outside of very specialized technical businesses (or business components), most engineers jobs are not to build technically advanced solutions.
Understandable when big tech does this.

200 person tech companies are doing the same.
I agree with your thinking; invoking the responsibility of the highway engineer was intended as a counter-example.

And when you dig into the five-year numbers, you find that while 22 is quite a bit, there have been more on the straightaway highways north-southbound east of the intersection and on the cloverleafs (If I were to hazard a wild-ass guess, based on California driving experience: driver going highway speed failing to realize traffic came to a standstill on the highway due to back-pressure of people exiting the cloverleaf at rush-hour).
Nothing like logging into a freshly installed Solaris system and having to configure it using Bourne shell, which didn't have job control or history. At least it had vi. Usually the first thing you would do is get enough networking going to download bash and the GNU tools. But there were always some old timers around who wanted to haze the youngsters by forcing you to do everything with "native" tools.
> I'd get a CT scan every year

You would choose annual body CT even if outcomes-based evidence showed no benefit?

Even among those at highest risk for lung carcinoma, studies of annual screening chest CT do not uniformly show improved disease-specific survival as compared to an unscreened but otherwise matched cohort.
You'll only get ticketed unless you're going really slow for no good reason. But in general if you're poking along even in the right lane at 10mph under the speed limit and below the flow of traffic you're basically causing a whole lot of lane changes as everyone tries to flow around you.

One of the reasons I hardly ever use conventional cruise control is it makes you drive in a way that minimizes speed changes rather than doing what makes sense in the context of other traffic.
Fast DDS is a C++ implementation of the DDS pub/sub standard
Wow love it! It would be cool to see a bidirectional Streamlit custom component for Mito!
Technically in the car and owner's manual "autopilot" refers to the suite of features[0] and "Autosteer (beta)" [1] refers to the lane keeping system, and enabling it pops up a warning about staying focused[2].

0: https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/model3/en_us/GUID-EDA7728...

1: https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/model3/en_us/GUID-69AEB32...

2: https://electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/02/autos...
RescueTime (YCW08) for Remote Teams
We had it before with XMPP (which even has a Signal-style E2EE standard now.) There's absolutely no reason we can't have it again.
If you're going to truck in some fuel for an emergency, you can truck in some generators too.
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The very reason I will never work for a shop that outsources anything. Especially fintech stuff. You just never know who is going to have access. RBAC is huge where I work.
Sounds like they care more about process. Process-centric companies tend to not do well in the long run.
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German Health Minister: “Meat Consumption Is Unreasonable, Delusional”
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon “8 Gen 1” salvage operation moves the chip to TSMC
if that's the case, it doesn't explain why Google's software and product quality has been declining steadily.
By most measures, it appears that Tether is slowly going to die out and replaced by USDC. Among retail users, Tether has increasingly lost sway and is largely used only on exchanges (which is still massive, but not the only game in town anymore).

Roughly half of USDT is circulating on Tron, which is a dead chain. This TRC20 Tether is almost exclusively used for inter-exchange transfers (since fee is capped at $1/transaction)

On Ethereum, USDC is now bigger than Tether. Over a month, Tether on-chain supply has dropped nearly 12% [0]

[0] https://defillama.com/peggedassets/stablecoins
I don’t care that Google is doing this.

It’s a problem that everybody else is using the same process. (I blame it on CtCi)
Boxplots don't lie, but they can mislead as any summary statistic, data viz or model can.
https://blog.bioturing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/BoxVio...

Misleading histograms depend totally on the bin-width tho.
> verified users can redeem USDT for USD 1:1 at https://tether.to

This has been debunked for a while already, nobody believes that anymore.
Oracle’s Larry Ellison joined Nov. 2020 call about contesting Trump’s loss
> Why does an MIR cost $5k?

Where did $5k come from? I said a "couple thousand dollars," though looking at my e-mail it was $1,500. A 4 to 5x cost differential from India to New York City seems explicable.
That's solid. Taking this for myself. Thank you.
Really? I thought that happened way after WWI. The UK economy back then had a gazillion of colonies to sustain it.
Oh, sorry I wasn't clear! We totally expect that users will use Mito in notebooks on the cloud cloud, and we are in support of this usage!

Ideally, we will continue to extend our support to these environments over time, as currently there are lots of environments where users want Mito but we don't support it yet (notebooks api differences, etc) - a good example being AWS Sagemaker.

I'll edit my answer above to be more clear about this as well. Thanks for the ask for clarification!
Companies have enjoyed eating low-hanging fruit of building ever-larger cargo ships to reap the reqards of Economies of Scale, whild wholly ignoring the realitues of Diseconomies of Scale, which is what we're seeing now.

Not one to point out a problem without a proposed solution... there is a solution in extensible transport with distributed propulsion. The technology is ready. It has the potential to solve all of the author's stated issues, and if done correctly, will alleviate the 2% of global greenhouse gas emissions in the shipping industry.
User opinion is one of many success metrics that Google tracks but it isn't the most important one. Up until the recent recession their stock performance indicated that their product quality has been doing just fine.
“People totally have the option of living under this type of government - it exists in top down centralized places like China.”

you’re right, i much prefer to live under a decentralized government like the United States.
The people who came up with that stuff probably never thought to weigh how much more it obstructs attackers than real workers... or even more scarily, thought treating them the same would be more secure somehow.

As the saying goes, a perfectly secure computer is one that no one can use
Air Raid Monitor for Raspberry Pi
The NPVIC proposal is doomed if even only one state rejects plurality voting
Or had a face.
Reminds me of Jackson Pollock.
Ask HN: Should I learn the tech behind crypto even if I don't want to own any?
I have to be extremely picky about stuff I want to learn. I lack time, and moreover, if I actually want to reach a non-trivial level of skills in a particular field, I have to spend serious amount of time, abandoning other wishes/ideas.

So, my question is- is the Crypto tech, like blockchain, worth learning? Will there be applications beyond decentralised finance, web3, etc.?

Will learning the tech make me a better "technologist" in any way?

I want to be clear: I do not want to buy or own cryptocoins. Web3 does not look interesting to me at this point.

Should I still learn about blockchains?
Honda doesn't suggest the CRV is self driving. Tesla marketing encourages the idea that the car can drive itself, in fact it literally will with the Smart Summon feature. That's misleading, so it's not surprising if some people are misled.
The operating theory is that caching was only just the first/simplest/cheapest use of a globally distributed network of compute nodes (CDNs), but that as more and more transistors and clock cycles become available it incrementally makes sense to push more and more "workloads" out to the "edge" of the network, for latency benefits. Right now, the most immediate things that come after caching are stuff like input validation, auth validation, waf filtering, rate limiting, routing, decorating, error handling, load-balancing and traffic management type stuff. With WASM, and more specifically rust & javascript, IMHO the next step will be template rendering. After that maybe ML model inference? As long as transistors keep getting cheaper and the speed of light stays the same the opportunity space grows.

Adopting and experimenting with all of that stuff will require developers fully embrace the CDN (oops, "edge") as part of their app architecture. A lot of places still treat the CDN as an ops/infra "config and forget" tool.

More heroku for rust at the edge than varnish as a service.
Please let me know what startup that is so I avoid it at all costs.
> you could bring in a jury and let a prosecutor make the case that Bob's briefcase constitutes the proceeds of crime ... But ... Bob's actions are not in themselves criminal.

So you're saying:

* You have evidence enough to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Alice, the owner of the cash, has committed a crime, and that this cash is the result of that crime

* Bob himself hasn't done any crimes at all.

We can't prosecute Alice because she's in Mexico; and we can't prosecute Bob, because he hasn't done anything wrong.

Well then, seize the cash, and let Alice come for it. If Bob claims it's his and applies for a writ, show the evidence to the judge that Bob isn't actually the owner. If Alice applies for the writ, present your case against her. If she doesn't come for it after a year, treat it as abandoned property. Everybody gets due process.

If you don't have enough evidence to prove that Bob isn't the owner, you don't have enough evidence to convict Alice of a crime, and therefore it's a violation of human rights to take her money.
Looks like the troop strength was 200-600K on each side. I'm not sure that would have been the largest army in the world.

source: https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/facts.htm#:~:text=In%20July%201....
You are not expected to get them all. We want to see how you think and that you can think at all. There are a lot of people out there who claim they can write code, but can't even write "hello world" in the language of their choice. I'm not interested in your ability to answer trick questions, and we have a standard library that has optimized implementations of the basic algorithms everyone uses. I need to know you can write at least some code though - in some cases we have let some go with no affect on the teams productivity, you need to be better than those people.

We have so far had one person get all the answers in the allotted time, without any help, and he is working on his second PHD.
> As long as there are well-capitalized parties (Bitfinex, other exchanges) that want to prop up Tether, it will be fine.

Doesn't that make Tether a fiat currency?
> operationalizing fairly simple moral principles into forms suitable for enforcement as laws is inherently messy

Assuming that I agree with this (at least for the sake of argument), it still misses my point. My point is that most laws--and the CFAA is an example--are not "operationalizing fairly simple moral principles into forms suitable for enforcement as laws". As I have pointed out several times now at various points in this overall discussion thread, we already have laws against fraud. Why should fraud that is committed with a computer be any different from fraud commmitted by other means? Having a separate law that makes committing fraud with a computer different from committing fraud some other way is not operationalizing a fairly simple moral principle against fraud. It's making the legal system more byzantine and complex for no good reason. That is what I am arguing against.
It's not about privacy, but loosing my data from a 3rd party hack or attack.

I can always backup my own code (json file) locally vs. asking letterboxd or imdb to backup my data.
Why did a Google employee leave this comment?

> Could you please send a patch to the upstream Linux kernel mailing list.

Can't this change be done entirely in userspace?
I had the same reaction. The i860 and i960 were very different beasts. I owned an 860-based Oki/Stardent workstation, bought for peanuts at the latter company's fire sale, for a while. Later I found the 960CA (in particular) in many storage/network devices. So I kind of know both, but I would never speak of them as if they were the same. Other than sharing a corporate logo, they had little to do with one another.
yeah, this was really my point.
A (maybe terrible) modern analogy is how concerned would we be with a civil war in say, South America, where a significant chunk of our lithium comes from? We would probably be concerned, but our economic and military clout means that we would always be the customer for whoever won that civil war.
This is on the roadmap! Would love to hear a bit more about how you would use this component...

1. Would you want the component to generate code? Or would it just be the editing of a dataframe that is useful to you?

2. What other components would be used in this dashboard? Would love to hear a bit more about the workflow around Mito here.

The more detail you can provide - the more helpful in prioritizing this! I think Mito in streamlit would be ... awesome!
Did they use a web crawler to find this?
> programmatically automate the creation of things like dashboards and reports.

That's an awesome use case for Python, and that sort of script generation is one of the main reasons that we see people adopting Python/Mito. And specifically, graphing[1] is one of the most popular features in Mito.

Mito generates Plotly [2] graphs, and of course generates the Plotly graph code too, so you can customize the graphs to your perfect liking (Plotly has great documentation and a lot of customizations) or schedule the script to run automatically.

[1] https://docs.trymito.io/how-to/graphing
[2] https://plotly.com/
Quite a few European powers embedded observers with both sides of the conflict. The application of improved small arms and artillery was something that military minds were very interested in, to see how it played out in a large scale conflict.
Practically speaking? Get better at leetcode. It's a skill, you can train, you can improve.

Lots of options for improving, but I suggest if you're feeling stuck to pay for a coach.

Also, stop focusing on FAANG type companies. There are tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of jobs, and if you're a new grad you're as mobile as you'll ever be. There are too many jobs to care about specific hiring trends; there'll be a job for you out there somewhere.
Exactly this. And this is why there are outlets that have no problem selling access to their information, because they keep the quality high. 99% of the "news" out there is just entertainment with news as the theme. It's low value, and people know it.
Ironically one state did recently try to doom the NPVIC with a plan to not publish its popular vote totals until after the Electoral College meet. The section of the Wikipedia article devoted to this scheme is given the quaint heading: "Novel opposing action by North Dakota".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...
Nah, usually just one painter or so per hospital. It could be done by a contractor but because the painting has to be kept up for accreditation, they usually have someone on staff doing a little every day.
compare this to the muscle marked C in this image from the original paper https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S09409602210020...
That’s a gigantic difference. Almost comically so.
So then go to https://geraintluff.github.io/sha256/

> oath = "Oh you know what an alternative use is? Oaths. Works with old ASICs as well...well I think. So you take a document, like this comment, you append a nonce (you'll see) and you hash it until you get a lot of zeroes in the front. Same as bitcoin, but you're not hashing the bitcoin protocol. Then, you know the document has been sworn, as a cryptographic oath, to that extent. Nonce: 38943"

> sha256(oath)
00009ea9ab415b7f60cd43571c159d1bf1e01de4bae6a706ec9053ceb94d385c

Note the leading 0's. That's no timestamp, that's an oath.

In reply to the sibling comment: no. I like timestamp.com, and in fact I could have never found out about it other than by talking about the oath concept, but this is not just including it in the blockchain. It's proving its value to the author to bother doing the work of getting a good nonce for it. Literally putting my money where my mouth is. And swearing an oath to that extent, I could cryptographically swear it more, with more work, or use a smaller less impressive nonce if I'm not as sure.

And incentives? There is an incentive for me. At the same time it is effectively burning money, swearing by burning money. Took like seven seconds of compute, too. I had to wait human time for that. It's collateral, it's an oath. And it's an impediment to forgery, and in addition, an impediment to eg news sites telling different people different things. With oaths they have to tell everybody the same thing.
iPhone eSIM bug disables iMessage and FaceTime, requiring physical SIM
There's been a lot of outside money invested into legal marijuana businesses in Detroit, particularly along 8 mile road (brand recognition). It's an otherwise poor area, so I could see local police trying to get a taste from these new profitable businesses. They're not going after typical local businesses with tight margins and a neighborhood customer base.
Assuming a "it's Tesla's fault" defense ever makes it before a jury. A judge could decide that the driver was in control of the car and trying to slough off that responsibility has no basis in law.
Maybe I’m just old fashioned but all these new command line utilities strike me as solutions in search of a problem.

Standard ‘find’ works great. It finds files. It can filter by any criteria I have ever had to look for and the syntax seems very intuitive to me (maybe I am just used to it). It is flexible and powerful.

I’d love to be told I’m wrong, because I feel like I’m missing something.
It is astounding that so many people (me included) have this complain. I also watch numberphile, computerphile, 3B1B and the likes and yet I had never heard of the channel before.
Very interesting that you consider uttering a racial slur as one of the worst scenarios that could occur to you while standing in line at a coffee shop.
What was the consortium? I'd like to read up on it. LCD isn't always a bad thing, as it tends to weed out the niche one-offs.
> The CFAA is broad and shitty.

Good, then we're in agreement on my basic point: that the CFAA is bad law. That means the best way to fix the root problem with the CFAA is to repeal it because it's bad law, not try to patch it. As I have pointed out at various points in this overall thread, we already have laws against fraud. All we need to do is apply them to fraud committed using computers. We don't need a whole new set of laws just for fraud committed with computers.

> At this point I don't think you even know what you're trying to say

Sure I do. I just said it again above.
Probably based on a test set from the original dataset.
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I guess if you have to pay attention to correlations in noise, you can't really call it 'noise' anymore...
Everyone who grew up with 8-bit micros understands what it feels like to know the whole machine.
In fact, there were some men (Irish nationalists) who gained military experience during the Civil War that were involved in armed raids into Canada from 1865-1871. Encyclopedia article: https://www.britannica.com/event/Fenian-raids
You should link to the paper so we can all laugh!
Elementus's 2022 ransomware report is shocking
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I'm sorry, what makes his link racist? The "Old, elite, uber-wealthy white men" comment? As in all of stanfords presidents?
> We would probably be concerned, but our economic and military clout means that we would always be the customer for whoever won that civil war.

Don’t we typically just give a fuckton of guns and resources (and maybe more) to whichever side we want to win.
I see. No, that was more so of the swarming vs staff management, but I can see how it wasn't so out of left field now.
> It has absolutely nothing to do with end-user devices.

absolutely nothing ? are you sure about that
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I keep several spiders as pets, so I'm a bit biased.

The greatest threat to these rare species isn't the pet trade, it's rather the destruction of their habitat. You'll find that most tarantula keepers prefer to buy captive-bred specimens, both for conservation reasons, but also due to risk of parasites.

Mexico handles this issue better than most countries: they let licensed breeders breed these animals in captivity and export them for the pet trade. This strategy reduces the pressure on the wild spiders, while not banning it entirely (which just leads to poaching)
> the recruiters will _actually tell_ you to practice LC,

Here they do this before you even take the interview for the first time

The recruiters actually email me all the leetcode prep material and tips