skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Memorizing is meant in a different context.

Ultimately the problems boil down into a few "types". So you are memorizing the types.

https://dev.to/fahimulhaq/14-patterns-to-ace-any-coding-inte...
https://neetcode.io/
Or the Flood.
"Advanced" is presumably used to disambiguate less advanced civilizations. This was among the least advanced civilizations.
Lol. For mtg 300$ is a couple of card sometimes :))
The 16:9 screen is an immediate turn off for me. on a machine of this size that extra screen real estate you get with 16:10 or even 3:2 is important to me. Shame too, because this could be the perfect machine for me.
> If you pay back your loans responsibly, and another doesn't and gets their balance forgiven, who's the fool?

Neither?
The US took the oregon territories from the british empire in the 1840s. Even before the civil war, the british empire was in no position to challenge the US in north america. America was focused on western expansion to the pacific before and after the civil war, not to worthless canadian tundra and the frigid arctic.
I guess it's not surprising that a forum full of tech professionals would ignore price when judging things, but the fact that it's fairly cheap absolutely is important for a tonne of people.

Not everyone needs enough ram to simultaneously run a bunch of VMs and train a neural network and edit 4k video all at the same time lol.

(Although 16gb is almost a non starter for Unreal Engine development, and that does run on Linux albeit with some prerequisite yak shaving)
(blog author here) Yes, thanks for raising this. I didn't manage to complete my analysis for the regression at 64MB work_mem before publishing the blog. I drew up my analysis on https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAApHDvqXpLzav6dUeR5vO... shortly after publishing. Basically it relates to the generation memory context having a slightly larger chunk header than the original aset context combined with the tuple width of my test table being exactly 64 bytes, which results in no power-of-2 rounding savings. This causes slightly fewer tuples to be stored per batch in PG15, which results in more batches (tapes) and slower performance. If I'd added another column to that table the results would have been very different. PG14 would have rounded the allocation size up to 128 bytes and only about half the tuples would have been sorted per tape. The allocation size would be 72-bytes in PG15 with an extra column in the test table.
I mean, all the other blogs that highlight stories of predominantly white men in tech.

If you really feel that white people are poorly represented in online literature, feel free to create a "Whites In Tech" blog.

Also, can you be racist against a ethnic group that is in the majority and wields nearly limitless power?
One question that has been bugging me for years :

Homo sapiens is 300k-350k years old.

We'we known 3-4 interglacials... how can we be sure the previous ones didn't have civilizations ?

(Because we didn't get out of Africa before roughly the middle of the last glacial ?)
> My point is more so that poker should not be treated as if all the skill in the world can account for all the bad luck in the world.

I don't think anyone is arguing that?

But regardless, in poker you can still win money even if you have bad luck and draw bad cards every single hand. Just as you can still lose money even if you have great luck and draw great cards every single hand.

I think the point is that yes, there is an element of chance, but there's an element of skill beyond just memorizing odds and probabilities. Most people probably do have a better chance of winning more money if they are lucky and end up with better cards more of the time, but that's not always a reliable predictor of success.
You pay a penalty on household income over x. But then get family of 4 making 500k a year and since the children don’t file or own other investments.

You can see it in the parking lots, high end cars and high end finishes in apartments.

There is very little incentive to move out in a well ran subsidized property in NYC.

I’ve managed large developments 800+ units.
It _hasn't_ been around long, this is a recent phenomenon in the last 3-5 years, and its a cargo cult like so many other things in tech. It doesn't work well because most of the really bad engineers I know just grind leetcode and end up at FAANG. This will be seen in time
A guy I knew decided he would take a mini computer his employer was throwing out. He ran it for a while in his home and played with it but he couldn't do much more than batches of data processing. It sucked up a lot of energy and he got bored with it. He was enamored with the idea that he was running a machined that once cost about $500k but it was mostly a waste of time, energy and space. Last I heard he wanted to get rid of it. I bet he had to finally pay someone to take it away.
I understand why people don't want money to completely decide who gets health care. But I don't think it should be a complete non-factor either. If I've worked hard and saved diligently for an emergency, and an emergency arrives, I feel I should be able to tell a doctor "will you treat me? I have money".

But if you insist upon perfect equality of health care access, I guess it can't be. Some central authority has to decide if anyone is allowed to treat you, regardless of what you've saved for the eventuality.
If a trading job asks you a probability question they might be looking for you to be able to understand risk-neutrality. This is an important distinction because risk neutral pricing is a very important concept i.e. don't just try and memorize it.
The top marginal income tax rate in Germany is not much higher than in, say, the US.

The real injustice is that capital gains (i.e., unearned income) are taxed less. But of course that's also very common internationally.
In which American Civil War battles did machine guns play a meaningful role?
At least two tech billionaire wargamers: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2019/04/29/meet-matt...

I'll play Sekigahara anywhere anytime with anybody.
That’s not true. I would love to have someone check my work. It’s just got so many false positives. Would you trust the radiologist if a report shows a suspicious lesion marked by the software that the radiologist dismisses? CAD in mammography has been there since the 90s. rads don’t put up a fight.
Do you want a whole FSD/Autopilot level of blame absolution if software missed a cancer/critical finding? I sure as hell won’t be apart of that.
2012 MacBook Air with 8GB ram. Not ideal but I did found and bootstrap my entire startup just a few years ago using one.

With that said, there are many caveats. The most glaring is that developer needs inevitably vary depending on the project and tooling requirements. For example, at my current day job, the computer I physically use is primarily a gateway to other, more powerful computers and systems.

Doing anything at real scale leads to the eventuality that the world can't fit on and be run from a single notebook sized / spec'd machine.

My comment in this case was triggered more by the way op phrased and presented their needy needs, I interpreted it as unreasonably narrow and selfishly entitled. I've encountered enough, neigh too many odd ducks IRL who come across this way and experientially, they've been "Homer Car" types every single time.
A short guide to hard problems
https://archive.ph/Ha2Ll
> Our understanding of our license is evolving

As a potential user, this is pretty troubling. I can understand your intentions, but if the license doesn’t match your intentions (and if you don’t completely understand the license), how can we be sure our workflows will be supported/possible in the future?
NO.

No, I won't live that way. No, I won't think that way. No, I won't become a mindless zombie, thinking only what your ideology says. No, I won't work to trap everyone else in society in the horror of your socialist "paradise".

No. Just no.

(I'd really like to say something much stronger, but it would be highly against site guidelines.)
I'm likely to agree with you in many ways, but I think it's more interesting if I play devil's advocate. Ok with you?

How would you respond to the following criticism? Isn't this just semantics?

What are some benefits of shifting the labels of various skills and traits such that they get included under the umbrella of "intelligence"?

Ok, I'll stop my satanic advocacy now... :)

Let's take athletic skill in particular. Can you help me understand why it makes sense to call it a form of intelligence?

I think it is fair to set aside certain physiological traits that provide athletic advantages such as cardiovascular fitness and muscle composition and body structure (since certain sports/activities often tend to favor certain body types).

Once we have set aside those things, what traits remain that that are 'intelligence like'? (How are we defining intelligence?) Off the top of my head I would suggest spatial reasoning, causal reasoning, planning under uncertainty. Of course someone such as yourself would likely include emotional intelligence especially for e.g. team sports. Am I getting the right drift here?
Computers are great at replacing those filling cabinets, and when you need to track a single piece of information over a lot of people or a lot of time. Other uses in an office aren't as transformative.
What is the obvious reason? Security? The guy provides sources and it took me 20 minutes to see what's doing in there. I'd definitely put this on production server, after testing intensively of course.
Who?

I'm being flippant here for a reason. I don't care at all about football, and can't remember the last time I've even seen the Super Bowl (or even have notice who was playing). My eyes glaze over if I'm with friends and they start talking about football. But I've heard of the Patriots. Hell, I even know the name of their head coach.

I'm an on-and-off recreational home/casino poker player, but I've never heard of Daniel Negreanu. Professional poker just hasn't achieved popular culture penetration to the degree that football has.
I think about a month after I learned enough Vim to be dangerous RHEL (8, I think) started shipping nano as the default editor. Ah well, now I can scroll with the home row on my local box.
First Case of Monkeypox in NYC
> Not providing low-cost, minimally-invasive screen tests to the patient, under the premise that the patient is an irrational agent, reduces their autonomy for no justifiable reason.

The reality that patients are irrational agents _is_ a justifiable reason.

> Therefore, the only justifiable factors that should be considered when screening patients that preserve patient autonomy...

Your position is clear. I disagree. I think given real constraints (economic, legal, psychology of patients/doctors/etc.) focusing on overall quality of outcomes makes most sense. You can disagree if you want, but don't pretend it's not justifiable.

edit: Besides all the tests are available to you. You can pay them if you'd like. Given they are low-cost (at least those you're focusing on here) it really isn't a burden on you to get the tests done yourself.
I've always liked smalltalk and its ideas, but you can't use it to make shrink wrap software, at least last time I looked at it, maybe you can now. I've always thought this was a deficiency, same as Java early on.
It fascinates me how now everybody's a "creator" once of a sudden, which erodes the meaning of the word... at least use "maker"!

Anyway, this incident shows how ridiculous the Big Tech is with providing no support and no means to dispute their wrongdoing - people are forced to do crazy things like these just to get their accounts back!
Ask HN: Why doesn't apple.com have a GDPR-esque “cookie banner”?
After looking at the recent front-page link about an HP product (https://hpdevone.com), it hit me that Apple is quite possibly the only large website I visit without a cookie banner (https://apple.com).

It's delightfully refreshing to see an entire screen covered in website content, where step 1 isn't to find a tiny "x" button on a popup.

It's not that they don't set cookies - they do. So what does Apple know/do that everyone else doesn't? And can I follow whatever they're doing when building my own site?
The Powder Toy – Ukraine Situation
Yeah, in that same year I was using "LPC" in an LPMUD called "Lost Souls". I think that's a precursor to Pike, but I'm not certain about the family tree.

I had learned Basic when I was young, and my coursework had pushed me to learn Pascal and C, but I really think it's LPC that pushed me towards a career in programming.
1-2-12-6-1 and I’m in.
I've been spoiled by Framework/Macbooks/some Chromebooks and wouldn't ever consider a laptop with a 16:9 screen instead of something like 3:2. I also hope the RAM isn't soldered to the board.

Other than those two nitpicks though this seems like a pretty solid offering. The fact they're only offering POP_OS! on a single laptop is probably both a blessing and a curse - it kinda sucks, but it also means hardware compatibility should be really solid.
Solving complex riddles may not prove you're Einstein, but it's a pretty good filter for morons.
> Maybe link to those studies.

Here: https://engrxiv.org/preprint/view/1973/3986

Discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30182141
It's been done a few times since then. February 6th this year had STAR TREK/STAR WARS across the center.
tw from AT&T AST has C-like syntax. https://github.com/att/ast/blob/master/src/cmd/tw/tw.c#L182
People hated shopping carts when they first came out
I had a nearly disastrous event with the Amber Alerts on the iPhone--

a few years back, I was traveling at 70mph down the 55, heavy traffic, iPhone paired via bluetooth to my car. I was listening to music I think at a low volume.

Then, a sound as loud as an earthquake shook the car. I was beyond terrified. I jerked the steering wheel from the startle reflex and very nearly hit the divider.

It was of course, an Amber Alert, and an irresponsible one at that. I say that because it was for a county 300 miles north of where I was.

I don't know if it is still this way-- but the Amber Alerts used to play at full volume no matter what the phones settings are.

I am unsure of the wisdom of potentially startling every human being within a few hundred miles, at basically the same time.
Medical tourism will always be a thing for the rich. But I personally do not see an argument for driving a social service, even if only slightly, with capitalism.

Perhaps that’s part of my developing thought on the matter: the public system paid by tax dollars should be equitable to all. But by all means, take your credit card to Pepsi Presents: For Profit Medical Centre and get a full work up.
> most dev jobs aren’t really all that hard, and we should stop pretending they are.

I agree with you about GP's commentary, but I don't know that I agree with this statement.

Getting something working is often relatively easy. Shipping v1.0 is often relatively easy. But it starts to get gnarly as you build out capabilities, add services, split concerns up, have to maintain compatibility with previous versions, dependencies multiply, the amount of data you're dealing with massively expands, and so on. Most problems have one or more inflection points, whether that's around performance, or scale, or volume of data, or whatever, that when you pass them make that problem substantially harder to solve.

Still, these are all issues that come with a certain amount of success. Not necessarily crazy success: I'm just talking about the kind of traction that companies that grow to earn millions to tens of millions of dollars or pounds per annum experience.

The really hard part of being a dev, of course, is knowing what the right thing is to build. Often, because users tend to struggle to articulate their needs, the only way to find out what to build is to start by building something that you know is probably going to be at least a bit wrong, if not massively wide of the mark, just to get some feedback. And then you have to iterate, sometimes quite painfully, towards an actually good solution from there. Of course, this isn't something you can assess with a leetcode interview.

I don't hate interviews where the candidate is asked to write some code. I think writing code is a valid form of assessment because I've encountered enough jokers over the years who couldn't program if their life depended upon it - yet still manage to carry a job title like "software developer" - that I need some way of weeding them out of our hiring process. One reason for this is that I simply don't have gobs of spare cash to pay large salaries to people who are fundamentally incapable of doing the job they're asked to do.

Note though that asking them to write code does not equate to leetcode. We'll generally give people access to an IDE containing a template project and common tooling they would use on a day to day basis in the job. We also select problems that have some relation to our systems rather than asking hardcore questions about algorithms and data structures: we give them internet access so they can look that stuff up if they need it to help them (just like the rest of us do in our day jobs).

Cynically, a lot of interviewing I've seen over the years seems to be about the interviewer trying to appear to be the cleverest person in the room, and I think leetcode often falls into this category. I find this perverse and unhelpful but I guess these interviewers are just insecure, angry people.
What’s the alternative you’re proposing?
> The worst case of (1,2,3) is respectively 4, 3 and 2, resulting in log_2 24 = 4.32 bits. The first choice isn't picking from 6, it's picking from 4.

Oh, you are correct that the first number has only 4 possible choices. But what about the second number? It can't be 1 (already picked) and 6 (ordering requirement), but other numbers are open to pick. The third number is no different, it can't be 1 and 2 (already picked) but otherwise all other numbers are allowed. The resulting N would be 4, 4 and 4, i.e. 6 bits.

Maybe it helps to see the fuller picture:

1st 2nd 3rd 2^(expected # of bits)

1 2 3, 4, 5, 6 64
1 3 4, 5, 6 48
1 4 5, 6 32
1 5 6 16

2 3 4, 5, 6 36
2 4 5, 6 24
2 5 6 12

3 4 5, 6 16
3 5 6 8

4 5 6 4

Ideally (and necessarily) the last column should be 24 for all possible cases, but your algorithm can go anywhere from 4 (2 bits) to 64 (6 bits).
https://web.archive.org/web/20220518195902/https://www.busin...
> just judging based on their previous actions.

That's reading.
Infant mortality measurement varies because different countries have different measures of what constitutes a baby. The US tries very hard to save preemies, and those failures are considered infant mortality. Other countries don't, calling them miscarriages. It's a moot point anyway, as infant mortality has declined to statistical noise level in all the first world countries.

Life expectancy: America has a big problem with obesity, which is a side effect of prosperity. Obesity negatively influences life expectancy.

Income: income needs to be expressed in terms of Purchasing Power Parity. Besides, what evidence do you have that this is skewed by billionaires?

I'll stick with average height. It's a pretty good indicator of a prosperous country, up until the genetic potential is reached.

As for the Dutch, having traveled in Holland, they appear to have a culture of more healthy food. It's their choice, and this choice is available to Americans, too. Nobody makes Americans drink soda pop all day.
A very large part of being a good poker player means that you can control your emotions and look at things objectively in:
- tricky situations
- long losing streaks when the expected value (EV) of your actions is positive in the long run, but the short term outcome is negative.

Sounds like a skill that could be useful in other areas too.

Controlling tilt is such a big part of the game that there are books written on the subject and it is one of the factors that decides whether you can be a profitable player in the long run.

Saying that poker should be avoided because tilt is bad means that trading also should be avoided because tilt is bad and it can lose you a lot of money.

Yes, if you go into poker to gamble, you will lose money fast. Yes, people who don't know anything about the dynamics of the game will lose to better opponents in the long run. The same applies to chess and trading. Play against better opponents and you will lose, in any game.

Yes, people with addictive personalities or gambling inclinations should most probably avoid poker. But does Billy have gambling problems right now because he played poker with fake chips with his grandma for fun when he was 6? Or are there other bigger factors happening in the background? Is this a confusion between treating the symptoms instead of the disease?
NIST designs animal-free protocol for screening skin allergens
I'm pretty sure it's decently common; Red Hat certainly does it, Ubuntu is nice and keeps a wiki page of what derivatives need to change and when (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DerivativeDistroHowto#Trademarks), opensuse has https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Trademark_guidelines#Distri... to discuss how much you can use their trademarks, and even Debian has a trademark policy - https://www.debian.org/trademark - although it's about as permissive as you could hope for IMO.
Just think of the folks in your local Theater/Trade Show Union branch and the Broadway season ends and the slow summer months begins where at the same time the Trade Show season is at its low point(Summer Months), And UI insurance is sometimes the only way to make it through the Summer Months In the Big Easy and for Union members that are not high up on the Seniority roster. You are Studio Mechanics/Related Local folks and if you can get some Movie/TV production work over the summer you have it good there as after summer is over you can go over to the Theater/Trade Show local in the non summer months and get some extra work there.

That weekly job search/reporting requirement is not so hard for anyone working out of a union Hiring Hall as one needs to just go to their local and get the Union Rep to sign their weekly job search booklet and they have that over the phone reporting maybe but I used to go weekly to my UI office as I lived only a few blocks away from the office but that was a few decades back and not over any pandemic where the UI Offices where closed.
Author here. Thanks for noticing that. No, that isn't intentional.
> So, to use a very primitive metaphor, imagine a Twitter that wasn’t managed by a company, but was able to grow and be moderated by developers and users, the way Wikipedia is.

Wikipedia is no bastion of free speech either.
Teach your kids the basic social skills that society mistakenly believes other children will teach them, instead of teaching them the only competitive game so universally boring that people can only play it with money on the line.

If Poker was a good competitive game, there would be an ELO system and people would play because they care about their skill ranking more than they care about gambling. There's a reason you aren't required to wager real money for every League of Legends or Valorant match you play.

Poker is an economic scheme where the House and the Sharks work together to lure people with real jobs into unfair competition / gambling with bad odds.
Yeah, I've worked in tech 6 years now and never had to do Leetcode to get by in interviews. That being said, I never interviewed at FAANG. But many teams set a bar easier to pass than leetcode that still ensures good engineering skills
The offset is due to the presence of a pointer/trackpoint/whatever you call it. Otherwise, you’d need to use two hands to click the mouse buttons while using it.
Good.

I always enjoy seeing exploitative employers get what they deserve.
Hashing – The Key to Understanding Bitcoin Mining
I guess you would have to trademark your logo to stop people from slapping it on things that don't even use the product. It's nice to explicitly spell out that you won't actually go after people who aren't doing anything silly.