skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it's clear these people have never hired for a company. I've sat in on a thousand hiring committees, helped design these processes, all that boring shit, and the idea that someone would say "let's do Leetcode challenges so that we select for people who are willing to subordinate their lives to our company" – presumably followed by a "mwahahaha!" – is fantasy, it's something out of a movie.

I mean, look, it sucks when you can't get a job. I've been there (when I briefly tried to escape programming for a different metier) and it's awful. But pretending that the entire outside world is a dark mass of malevolent forces arrayed against you.. well, it may be psychically necessary in some Freudian, Jungian sentence, to prevent ego death or whatever, but in the long run it's neither (a) true (obviously), and (b) nor is it going to do your mind and mindset any good.
Fun note: there was a patient in the group sessions I would go through in therapy that had tremendous anxiety around losing control of his body in public places and doing things like saying something racist really loud, taking his pants off, randomly attacking a stranger in line with him, etc.

So for his exposure therapy (after a considerable amount of work to get to this point), our therapist had him go into social situations and do some harmless stuff to embarrass himself to learn not to really fear it. One example was like rambling gibberish while in line for coffee or awkwardly dancing while waiting at a crosswalk where passing cars could see him.
Interesting Instagram account for learners of programming
> I’m basically a moron

Google and other companies are actively trying to avoid hiring morons.
I think that is exactly the article’s point: even with perfect play, you can lose hands or even tournaments. But over time, it is a statistical inevitability that you will win on average.

That is an important life lesson! If you’re doing a startup, you might execute perfectly and just hit a run of bad luck and have to give up on that idea. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try again!
That really depends on what you mean by "advanced". It's evidence of a larger, more organized, more hierarchical civilization than archaeologists had expected to see anywhere near its time period. This is either evidence that they had agriculture way back then or that these things that we normally associate with sedentary agricultural civilization are separable from it. Either one is surprising!
> How many devs here actually use the right shift key and/or the right modifier keys? I've been programming for 20 years (15 or so using emacs) and I exclusively use the left shift and left modifiers. I probably have never used the (physically) right shift/modifier keys on the keyboard I'm currently typing on that I've had for 2 years.

Why would that be common? I ask because I also don't use the right modifier keys, but that's because I got in the habit years ago on a keyboard which forced me to do it that way.
Karl Marx, who was residing in Britain at the time, also wrote much on the topic. He had nothing but withering criticism of mainstream/elite British attitudes for the war, namely the downplaying the importance of slavery in the formation of the Confederacy.

He, unlike his more socially acceptable contemporaries, also deeply admired Lincoln. Many pieces published in prominent periodicals, like The Economist, painted him as a wily and double-dealing politician. One could understand that interpretation given the compromises he was desperately trying to make with Southern states to prevent the outbreak of war, but it gave prominent Brits an excuses to dismiss the sincerity of his anti-slavery rhetoric after the war broke out. (Lincoln himself was also being deeply transformed by the savagery of war. He would come to believe the carnage was divine punishment for the sin of slavery.) Marx would have none of it. He called out the hypocrisy of those who in the years prior condemned American slavery but would not support the cause of Lincoln and the Union because it didn't have an unblemished history of being totally and consistently anti-slavery.

The claim regarding the effectiveness of "Confederate propagandist networks" is overstated, though. People across Britain were divided on the issue, even across political camps and ethnic groups (e.g. Irish and English). To be clear, by "divided", I don't mean that people necessarily individually ambivalent. There were some staunch supporters on both sides.

There were also multiple reasons for preferring one side over another, too. Slavery was just one issue. Another was potential weakening the Monroe Doctrine. (During the Civil War, France under Napoleon III invaded and conquered Mexico, and Spain re-colonized what would become the Dominican Republic.) Others were access to raw materials, support for wars of national unity (European nationalists admired Lincoln, as would Hitler decades later), etc.
> Hundreds of billions of dollars are deployed into funds exploiting smaller differentials on rates and futures curves.

Legally, IRDs and futures trade/settle on a few centralized exchanges with maybe one CCP (at least going by clarusft numbers on monthly dv01 volumes [some products way trade more on different venues compared to others], esp compared to all the places USDT trades) with many times rehypothicated US treasuries or other gov bonds behind it all, scheme blows up occasionally (was fun watching 30 year UST's trade ~30 bps under 75% of SOFR txs for a month before sept 2019 'surprise' fireworks happened).

> … buy one billion Tether

With no slippage/spreads on dex's or cex's to be able to do this with any stablecoin? Pipe dream. Maybe you can market make over the course [unknown amount] of time and pick it up on cex/dex's at/under $0.9989, but good luck trying that everyday (esp on chain where you will need to split that over many address all the time or addr tracking algos will front run if the MEV bots dont get you on every tx).

Shit show all around, ones just more concealed from the public and "regulators" than the other…
This is one of the benefits of the federal / state divide in the US too.
If you are worried about the other side being crazy, you can live in a state that solidly on your side of the aisle, and be insulated from when the other side is in power at the federal level.
Software has not improved since LC took off, and in fact has gotten worse in many ways. LC is just the newest hiring cargo cult (a spot previously occupied by transcripts, internships, and 'open-source contributions'). The biggest difference is that, unlike previous hiring voodoo, LC has already been gamed before it entered the consciousness of HR.
One of the main objectives of ITER is to test Tritium Breeding technologies for DEMO. There is no shortage due to heavy water plants shutting down because it was never planes to use Tritium from that source in the first place!
I've wondered at times if it would make sense for there to be an explicit legal proceeding at the age of majority in which you explicitly opt in to the social contract analogous to the naturalization process when a foreigner becomes a citizen.

I get hung up on what happens if you choose not to opt-in.
This is such a strange take.
Renunciation is not free - they literally charge you for it. You also can't renounce without obtaining another citizenship, which, surprise, surprise, you generally have to buy with both time and money.
Interestingly, UBI is usually regressive for disabled people.

It’s just straight-up more expensive to be disabled than non-disabled.

This was a big discussion in the disabilities community around Yang’s UBI in 2020.

I find UBI intriguing, but it wouldn’t necessarily free us from complexities like this.
Well, unless you have some data about loss of forest for wind turbines, your observations on your surroundings attached to 75% living in the cities is just anecdotal evidence casually presented as a fact. Not helpful in a discussion about a related topic, even less when this is about the 9euro ticket. For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence

As for Hambacher Forst, you failed to mention that most issues have been either finalized in courts or were dealt with in protests/politics. I'm not taking sides since this was never a black or white situation, it is always a multi faceted problem. (Empathic example: For the people living in the villages that were destroyed, the loss of their homeland is for most of us simply unimaginable. Then again for some time, germany needed the energy from these deposits under the villages.)
Sure, but in the same sense that there's a chance in Chess because you could be sick the day of your game and play worse as a result.

The game itself doesn't have intrinsic chance, but as with everything in life, the players do.

I do agree with your last point though, winning doesn't mean you played well, it just means you played better than your opponent.
The problem I see over and over is that the new "job relevant" interview formats are always way easier than the old interviews. It is not even close, maybe as high as by a factor of 10.

People argue that we should make interviews more relevant to the actual work you do on the job. But in practice it looks a lot like we're really just trying to pass more people. Half the new "practical" questions are literally like make an http call, iterate through the array of objects and do some basic data transformation using map and filter. Or something. The actual thinking part is usually about leetcode easy, maybe low medium.

Seriously, any time I see a "modern" non-leetcode interview I basically start rehearsing salary negotiations in my head. I suppose you could argue that's all that's needed to do 90% of modern software development, and so the new questions are measuring the right thing... but then doesn't that just indicate that modern software development is a joke and the job is not actually hiring developers to do anything difficult?
>There is an element of chance in chess. Whether an opponent plays an opening you have recently studied and how many mistakes your opponent makes is out of your control.

That's really not what's meant by chance. Chess is no more a game of chance than tennis or golf.

In poker, there's an element of randomness that's an explicit core part of the game (the deck).

No such mechanic exists in chess.
Code Musical Parodies
we used https://asana.com/ with a custom script to create timely reminds
I know no one who is on my path who wants to be working past 50. Almost everyone like myself is trying to find a way to save money + pick the right place to work for fast returns.

My problem is that I've got a real knack for choosing partners that drain accounts dry instead of adding to it. (One part where I differ from my peers)

I'd love to tap out by 40 but that ship sailed and sunk.
I think you have a pretty fundamental misunderstanding of what civil forfeiture is about. Civil forfeiture would mean the police take the car, don't return it to the rightful owner, and don't charge the thieves with a crime.

Police don't need civil forfeiture to hold evidence in advance of pressing charges, or to recover stolen property and return it to its rightful owner. They only need civil forfeiture if they intend to keep the car for themselves.
Believe me, folks don't want to live in subsidized housing, it generally sucks.
I see.

Well, perhaps your posts would be flagged less frequently if you posted sources with a more charitable view than your own.
It would be possible to change policies slightly and observe the results. The slope toward vastly less punitive benefits regimes might be slippery...
Right? We never means test anything when it comes to wealthy incentives / programs.
Eisenhower's farewell speech comes to mind here.
What am I reading here?
Leetcode is a proxy IQ test. Anyone who can do leetcode can learn how database indexes work (hint: it uses Data Structures and Algorithms) but not the other way around.
It's centered under the spacebar in the image I see (which is elsewhere).
I use right shift all the time? Probably 50:50 between the two for me.
Definitely agree. I really like that ripgrep is fast, but I mainly use it for its better UX for what I do every day: search code. If ripgrep wasn't any faster than grep, but was still recursive by default and ignored .gitignore et al, it'd still be worth using for me. (In fact, I used to use "ack", which is basically ripgrep but slow. :-)
We built the Opera Mini server infrastructure based on Pike, starting back in 2004-2005 with a team that initially mostly came from the Roxen/Spinner days (a separate company). I started working there in 97, and I was kinda late to the party - it started out in 93/94.

I still miss working with this language. It just makes so much sense to me.

The way I think of it is as a quite a lot more performant version of Python with a C-like syntax and a much more consistently designed - while still very rich - standard library.

The downside is of course that compared to Python, Pike is now almost completely unknown. The ecosystem is tiny, etc. We really sucked at marketing the language in the early critical days and then after a while kind of gave up and focused on using it to build commercial systems instead.
a quick search on google seems to say that theres no asset check for section 8, just income checks(including interest/etc from assets)
> A chess player who wants to improve will not assume that winning a game means he played well -- he will analyze the game later, perhaps with a chess engine.

You could say the same about poker. A player looking to improve their game will review their hand histories, and plug hands into PIO or HRC.
Poker is nowhere near as deep as chess, but it's deeper than you're making it sound. It's not just about reading people, especially for Texas Hold'em. Knowing probabilities and how many outs for both your pocket and flop, turn and river, taking your betting order/big and small blinds/your remaining chip stack/whether someone raised for whether you should enter the hand or not, knowing when to fold, etc.

All of that can be done without reading people at all. In fact in online poker, there's not much reading of your opponent you can do usually, just judging based on their previous actions.
Do you have numbers that it doesn’t pollute?
Legally speaking yes, practically speaking however it was in St Petersburg. Their Prague office was tiny in comparison aiui, I wonder if they've since relocated.
> It's probably the other way around: they already knew about other clusters of cases before they re-approved the vaccine, it just didn't make it in the news.

Source?

Over 100 cases on several continents within days?

The ‘k’ in monkeypox is silent.
Habits to Grow as a Software Engineer
Little tid-bits and habits that have helped me to grow as a software engineer. I'm still learning, but wanted to document what I've found useful so far.
It's worth noting that Karahan Tepe, Gobekli Tepe, and most of the other PPN-A/B sites in Southern Anatolia are on top of hills and mountains at fairly high elevations. They're not really candidates for any sort of flood event.

As for the poetic feel, the term of art is a 'just-so story'.
Spotify for my flow state picks. How can I get in the zone without soothing music and ideally some noise cancelling Bluetooth headphones?

Of course, to really work without distractions I'll close Slack.
I don't suppose you gave more weight to more recent puzzles? Is there a time period or puzzle setter that was harder to solve because they favored an unusual clue type?
Angular Diameter Turnaround
Security cannot be perfect and it's unfortunately that there's often an expectation for it to be. Even if perfect security cannot be achieved, there is value in creating obstacles. Sometimes the obstacles might not be enough and an attack ends up inflicting damage. Sometimes they'll reduce the damage, sometimes they'll give you time to erect better protections or move the protected assets. Have realistic expectations for what is possible and expect that sometimes others will not recognize this value.

You are not an island. You cannot make perfect walls on your own. Others will sometimes falter. You will sometimes falter. Some attacks will be successful. Sometimes you will get undeserved blame. Understand the reality of all of this and decide if you can handle that or not. You can't change the behavior of the entire world but you can help keep at least one corner of it safer than it would be without your efforts.

Much of this might sound like platitudes but for your mental health, realize that even if you're only having a small positive impact, it's still just that, a positive impact. If that's not enough, then perhaps there are other areas that are better suited to your gifts and needs.
> In 1939, Stalin offered to Britain and France to deploy a million troops against Nazi Germany, but he had been rebuffed:

WOW thank you I never heard of this
If you are a good programmer you should be at least able to make a brute force solution to a leetcode problem. Then it's just a matter of seeing enough problems to learn the tricks that are used to optimize the time complexity.

>homebrew creator / inverting a binary tree

This is just a traversal of a binary tree + swapping two variables. I would expect any good programmer tqso be able to do both of these things.
Yes, and during the pandemic when passenger traffic cratered passenger airlines started putting additional cargo in the passenger cabin. China started cracking down on that recently though (unsure why). Freight is generally far more profitable than passengers.
I think it'd be rather hard for a hunter gatherer society to realistically cover such a large area under tons of rubble

People didn't think hunter gatherer societies were able to build such structures and complexes in general. It seems a lot less likely that the Mediterranean flooded an area that far from the Black Sea that also happens to be 700m above sea level.
Yeah people in India/China spend 2-3 years grinding complex maths/physics puzzles just to get into a college and Americans can't put in a few hundred hours of hardwork to get a high paying job. It's probably lack of rigour in American schooling system that's behind this entitled mindset.
A lot hinges on the dating of this site. How was it done?

According to this article[1] (which has a nice wide-angle view of t-pillars in context), it was radiocarbon dating[1]. You find bits of stuff at the site and the isotopic composition of the carbon-containing material tells you the age based on known rates of carbon-14 decay.

The actual isotopic analysis seems pretty solid.

The problem is that this isn't any ordinary site. The article notes that the site appears to have been deliberately buried. This raises the question of where the samples that were dated actually came from.

This critical review suggests major problems with the older-than-everything-else hypothesis for the site.[2] It notes that at least some of the samples were dated from "fill," or the stuff that was used by someone at some point to bury the site. And that stuff could have itself come from sites much older than Gobeklitepe:

> We already discussed the problem with dating “fills” as opposed to dating “structures”. A fill’s date (no matter how confident we may fill about its actual date) in no way dates structures, as it simply can be coming from soil deposits that are either older or younger than the structure itself. You can fill your home with dirt from your yard, which could be from various geologic strata, some containing fossils from the Pleistocene. This will not make your home a Pleistocene Epoch home. Or you can currently fill a 4th century BC Temple with soil from riverbanks containing live exoskeletons; this will not render the Temple a 2000 AD structure.

Even if the site wasn't deliberately buried, everything hinges on where the fill came from. The base assumption of radiocarbon dating is that no foreign material was brought in. The shakier that assumption, the shakier the claim to the ages being quoted.

[1] https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14487942

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317433791_Dating_Go...
1998:

https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3012

> The Roxen Challenger HTTP Web Server is a marvel ahead of its time. That's a bold, hard-to-prove statement for a web server when compared to the amazing success of the Apache HTTP Server. Before you stop reading, you should consider that there is nothing wrong with having two subtly different, yet very good tools.
You took the words out of my mouth. I'm very curious to see where this language goes. It's a big project, but so is an OS, and they're doing just fine there. Even if SerenityOS or Jakt are never a household name, they're remarkably valuable in terms of seeing how people would do this, the things they think of, and how this community interacts and grows their project. SerenityOS is just as valuable socially as it is computationally.
Socrates was never a citizen, nor were the vast majority of the residents of Athens in antiquity.
Most of the human condition has an element of chance to it. Games like chess are extremely unusual in that respect.
I use the right shift key to type capital letters on the left side of the keyboard since I type with ten fingers. I suspect most people do that?
I guess I assume that left key dominance is more common because that's where some modern laptop keyboards elect to retain the control key and add the fn key.
> A single developer who is talented can take a variety of paths outside of this system to make significant or more money.

Please write a post about this then. I'd love to know roles that are regularly paying $500k+/yr.
We have a system where you're going to pay about 350 per year for those little things if you use them. Going into a frenzy using all of that is just going to waste your own time as it takes quite some effort to use up that 350 already.

Then again, regardless of the rules and processes we make, there will always be people misusing/abusing it.
Edit: I meant to type To, not Go. Go makes no grammatical sense :/
Free as in freedom, not beer, as they say.

But Sovereign Citizens are rugged individualists who don't need no handout, eh?

> You also can't renounce without obtaining another citizenship

That is false for US citizens. See:

https://www.usa.gov/renounce-lose-citizenship
How to run Unreal Engine 5 on a basic laptop for $9 a day (AWS tutorial)
I regularly swap between left and right shift depending on which opposite side of the keyboard the key I need to modify is (does that make sense?). However, I strictly use left ctrl (replacing left caps-lock) and left alt.
No no, I'm in agreement of this post being relevant, I typoed :(
“Civilization” Congress from an Indo-European root “kei” meaning “to lie” as on a surface. That takes it back about 4-5000 years. That PIE root certainly had an older ancestral word. Since PIE is from just north of Anatolia it is possible that PIE is descended from a language of Göbekli Tepe.
> They realized that the investigative journalism type of news was too costly and produced smaller returns compared to this type of lifestyle "news".

That's been true for a long time. Do you have any evidence of this decision at the NYT?

> wokeism

I think that words like that are inflammatory (as is well known). Could you use more specific language and is there evidence? I know that's repeated a a lot in a certain segment, but reptition has no relationship with truth - facts (sometimes from investigative reporters) do. Thus chemistry not alchemy.
You're clearly well accomplished in multiple areas. How do approach learning something new?
Haver for Cuis - and Cuis is in any case my favourite Smalltalk.

http://haver.klix.ch
So what'd you come up with?
I've seen a few of these articles recently and I'm curious about what's driving them. It feels like a very alarmist interpretation of euthanasia. Maybe there's something to it, but I'd be cautious taking these at face value just because I've seen lots of "opinions" like this recently in the media and I'm skeptical of the attention this is getting.
Yes, many purposely don't have driver's license or ID.