skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't make sense. The main incentive to use Blockchain for payments is that it is decentralized. If that's not a priority, and it's not for governments and big banks, Blockchain doesn't get you much. In fact, the cost of mining is downright harmful to the environment and wouldn't scale to billions of people using it for their daily needs .
Should be: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/52680984
Not an issue I experienced at my old company (a consultancy) but this is a huge factor on security teams that I think is often overlooked.

"Old" style security teams often have a "you (wrote bad code|bad config|picked bad libraries), now go fix it" attitude that really doesn't do them any favors. A big part of being on any security team is building rapport with other teams and making sure that the security team is seen as a part of the company and not "the assholes who make us do extra work."

Anecdotally it seems like the more the other teams have a strong relationship with security - the more likely they are to consult the team early on and get some input on design decisions and recommendations that reduce the overhead of fixing vulns later on.
Looks really pretty crap, 1080p screen at 16GB of ram in an x86 machine? No thanks.
Competitive colleges are a small minority in US. Less than 300 colleges reject more students than they accept. CUNY isn’t the only college with no entrance standards (open enrollment) and community colleges are also open enrollment and have transfer agreements for fours year colleges. Lots of countries have similar institutions.
Learning with random rewards, what could go wrong. Maybe teach them DotA instead of baseball as well.
Does the CEO of BendixKing regularly promote it on twitter as a full self-flying solution that will take care of intelligently avoiding obstacles like that mountain without your input?

I don't fly but have an autopilot on a boat, same thing. It'll happily hold a heading onto the rocks if I set it. But everyone knows that's what it does, the company doesn't make any claims or insinuations otherwise.
I’m not sure if you’re just being snarky or you’re trying to make an actual point here, but I can tell you that this kind of commentary reinforces the egocentric interview process we currently suffer through.

Solving puzzles doesn’t prove that you’re smart, and not memorizing them ahead doesn’t prove you can’t do the job. Unless you’re really on the edge of the industry—designing rockets for NASA or surgery tech or something—most dev jobs aren’t really all that hard, and we should stop pretending they are.
Personally i won't pay for news because i can get the same news, for free, from multiple sources, whereas in the past that was not true.
doesn't he say that like once every other year
It's been known since 90s for plain ccns, and, well, about two years after CVC got phased in they were also broken. Besides once you submit both somewhere, you're potentially toast. 2 factor auth without, or better with disposable CC numbers is the only solution.

It's just that AR only now caught up to the usual fraud level.
Some years ago someone posted here on Hacker News some article about a bronze-age battle that had more corpses (archeologists found the battle when they stumbled into the corpses, some even still holding swords and all) than expected, the amount of corpses suggest the calculations of the world population at the time was wrong.
Another article about eBPF and TLS : "Debugging with eBPF Part 3: Tracing SSL/TLS connections" https://blog.px.dev/ebpf-openssl-tracing
If you do that on a road with a speed limit, the cruise speed will be set to a max of five over that limit
Think this makes the most sense for Amazon, out of any potential acquirer. They get IP they can use for TV/movies on Prime Video, and they get their foot in the door of the gaming industry. Useful for the coming metaverse too.

Not to mention they get a huge client in EA moving over to AWS, if they weren't using it already.
Exactly, even before the first interview, that’s what I’ve seen too
>no equivalent of the patriots in professional poker

Daniel Negreanu?
You’ve also built a mental model of how large systems interface that takes years to acquire from the other direction.
If you shoot straight up, it will slow to zero, then fall to terminal velocity.
Give Spot a try

https://github.com/xou816/spot
Or the King George And Tsar Nicholas post from a few days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31414044
There is an ICE (high speed train) between Berlin and Hamburg every hour.
this is good advice.
I answered this in another comment before I saw this, feel free to respond to it if you want to chat about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31453571
It's true on city streets. That limit is removed on highways. But the incident occurred on a city street hence me mentioning it
I’m

1) asking what that even means, practically, and

2) how it could be accomplished using any known economic means without, say, hyper-inflating everything first to the point we’d never get there.

Does it mean a free Harvard education to everyone? Or a free Twinkie? Does it mean a free house 5 minutes from downtown SF? Or free drugs to make everyone happy no matter where they are?
Teach your kids both.
Ask HN: Best Method for a Bootcamp Grad to Hack AI Research?
If you were a bootcamp grad doing full stack dev work but wanted to become a research engineer at a FAANG AI lab or a high-output startup, would it be worthwhile to go to grad school or are there better ways for a self-motivated learner to grok research methodologies and contribute to ongoing research?
What is wrong with referring to the physical evidence? The bloody things are literally sticking up out of the ground.

OK - not really "literally" unless the nobs have learned to write or have been written/drawn or I've messed my vowels and got litorally confused with literally (litor is shore as in seashore or river bank in Latin). Oh and they are not bloody either unless rubbed too hard. Nob, is of course: en_GB (slang) for an upper class person or a penis.

Back to the article. This archaeological site seems to be extremely important. It seems to show that our ideas of when people started to put down roots ie build stuff and become fixed to a location (Latin - locus) started to happen earlier than we thought it did.
Yeah...

Teach your kids the games they are interested in, and use that as an opportunity to build bonds.

Poker, chess, go, Catan, Magic, whatever. Trying to optimize your child is so backwards to me.
How long are the people paying their own way renting?
Fraud paranoia seems to keep constant downward pressure on our social safety net. We'd rather scrap a life-saving system than accept a minimal level of fraud. Just imagine if retail businesses operated this way and shut down at the first sign of shoplifting. Instead, they mitigate where possible and treat the result as a cost-of-doing-business.
> “What would be your advice be to fresh college graduates, or anybody for that matter, who are good at programming but not at leetcode?”

Go for jobs or companies that are not popular and are struggling to find talent. Try to get the highest paying one of those (my subjective experience is that your colleagues will be more professional). A job is what you make of it. If you take a role at a company that puts you through a tough leetcode test you may find yourself editing config files all day because you are surrounded by superstars and there is only so much interesting work to go around.

My first job was at a startup that couldn’t attract the talent that the bigger Corps could. They paid more than the big Corps and I’m pretty sure I learnt a lot more than if I hadn’t taken the risk.

Another approach is to use Meetup events in your chosen tech field to shortcut the hiring process. You chat with someone who works somewhere, they speak to their manager and get you an interview. People that know each other personally are unlikely to put the other person through a leetcode test. It helps to have one or two projects on GitHub that someone can browse through to make sure you are legit. They don’t have to be popular or useful. Just some code that is not terrible.
I suggest looking up what a free market is, as evidently you don't believe me.
Not sure if parody
But whoa! trackpoint

Here is the hires from landing page

https://media.graphassets.com/resize=width:3300,height:2805,...

Edit: Legit, © Copyright 2022 HP Development Company, L.P.
I don’t think likeness rights should outlive a person. I can leave assets to my children but why should they have any right to my face? They didn’t create my face, my parents did.
I now just hear valley girl when I see question marks.
In this 6-mo-old video [0], Marvin Sweatman reports that Gobekli was indeed a settlement, not just a 'temple' (bodies have been found buried under floors), that the original dating is now being re-evaluated, and there's a theory that the 'rubble fill' came from buildings built around it in later times.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F3qZQRzzA4
>"user styles" manager like Stylus

or stylish? https://robertheaton.com/2018/07/02/stylish-browser-extensio...

I rather use the one extension I can fully trust instead of installing additional ones
It has a trackpoint with 2 buttons which tells us they did not put any serious effort into this input device. Would you use a 2 button mouse without scroll-wheel or a touchpad without 2-fingers scrolling?

I suspect this low effort goes for the whole product which is a budget laptop with marketing directed at decision makers instead of users.
I suggest you read the article, which is fascinating and based on archeological research at Gobekli Tepe and other nearby sites. Hancock seems to incorporate real archeological sites into pseudo-scientific narratives.
I apologize; it was a little glib. I'm sure that the way it works isn't Pareto optimal; and there is clearly a problem in the U.S. of using shaming as a tool to discourage consumption of means-tested benefits, as opposed to focusing on actual good governance.

I wish you the best of luck.
The force of water capable of pushing such a large amount of rubble would have bulldozed the entire structure and there would be practically nothing left. Simply look at the pillars[0] that are being excavated, there is no way they could have survived such a force. The builders of this complex would have no technical problems with burying them, filling in a hole is much easier than carving and erecting hundreds of stone blocks, pillars and structures.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe#Architecture
Civil asset forfeiture is just theft, and the police who engage in this behavior are happy to steal from all sorts of people engaged in all sorts of perfectly legal activities. It has literally nothing to do with marijuana.
Since Sony is also a game company, it’s possible they worried that wouldn’t be possible due to anti-trust regulation or FTC approval issues.
The stewards of the OPNSense project, Deciso B.V. in The Netherlands, currently sells some of their own designed hardware to help support the OPNSense project on the OPNSense Shop: https://shop.opnsense.com/product-categorie/hardware-applian...

Recently I picked up their fairly high-end DEC750 which is based on their Netboard A10 Gen 3 board, which uses an AMD Ryzen Embdedded V1500B, VLP LPDDR4 unregistered ECC memory, has an M.2 socket with a PCIe x4 NVMe SSD, three Intel i210 ports and two SFP+ ports.

Idles at 8W, about 16-17W at full tilt either pushing 10Gbps through it, or nearly 2Gbps of IPSec traffic. With much lower latency (54us) than the 150us they provide in the specs. Once Wireguard is in kernel space, I'd expect around 2Gbps using Wireguard as well (more around 900Mbps right now with it in userspace). Barely gets warm to the touch.

The DEC700 series are meant to be on a desktop or shelf, but they make a rackmount version as well. There's also older devices using AMD EPYC Embedded. Nothing they make is cheap, but it's very high quality, very high performance kit coming from an organization I trust. With my DEC750, I figure I'm good until 203x.
I'll take $20 of this action.
Wonderful news! Here are a few other relevant accounts that have jumped aboard and been active on Mastodon:

- https://mastodon.online/@thunderbird

- https://mastodon.art/@inkscape

- https://fosstodon.org/@bitwarden

- https://mastodon.xyz/@nextcloud

and many more!
That bias is generally true for any education-based employment that requires a significant upfront investment.
To be fair, this HP does seem like a fairly minimal-effort marketing exercise. It claims to be "Built for developers", but it doesn't really have any special developer-oriented features, other than maybe the keyboard and the preloaded Linux distro. Kind of reminds me of some of the early "For Gamerz!!!" products that were actually just tarted-up commodity junk.
Fusion reactor research is kind of interesting, I suppose it's making alchemy real in a way. Stars make things like helium and lithium from raw protons and electons and neutrons, apparently. and if humans could master that we could basically solve a lot of matter limitatation problems by just making whatever elements we needed at whatever scale from nothing but hydrogen as the raw material (maybe some helium too). That's basically all sci-fi at present, but who knows.

As far as making fusion reactors to boil hot fluids to drive steam turbine-generators to power the electrical grid... doesn't seem too likely. High-efficiency monocrystalline Si PV panel fabs would be a better investment.
"Homeless and poor people are so lazy and irresponsible with their money, they can't save it and invest it like smart and noble rich people. But also they save too much money and are cheating the system when they need assistance despite basic necessities being made as difficult and expensive to obtain as possible!" /s

This reminds me that I actually had a conversation with my soon to be former boss arguing that we shouldn't have a minimum wage because of its relation to the poverty level. His thinking was that upping the minimum wage means the government has to spend more on benefits, so we shouldn't have one and let the magical free market figure it out. I asked him point blank whether these things should be tied to inflation and the cost of consumer goods, but unfortunately I can't remember what his exact response was since I was a few beers in. I do remember though that it was a weaselly cop-out of wilfull ignorance and wishful thinking.

I really wanted to pick apart how stupid that was, but it wasn't worh it. I'm still shocked that an otherwise intelligent person could think that's a sound policy, but I think that same thinking underpins terrible laws like this.

No one actually wants to look at the numbers of what things actually cost (food, housing, healthcare, etc.), wages, inflation, or how expensive it is to be poor, compared with wages and public assistance. Nope, instead we'd rather just use arbitrary numbers and emotionally abuse people by telling them it's their personal failure when the system exploits them as designed.

The current system of applying for public benefits in the US is what Kafka would've dreamed of, had he been a sadist.
You don’t have to be at a tech startup to have things like CI and/or code review platforms.
We didn't give more weight to recent puzzles. In fact, we trained on pre-2020 data, validated on data from 2020, and evaluated on post-2020 data.

Our model seems to perform well despite this "time generalization" split, but there are a couple instances where it struggled with new words. For example, we got the answer "FAUCI" wrong in a puzzle from May 2021. Even though Fauci was in the news before 2020, I guess he wasn't famous enough to show up in crosswords, and therefore his name wasn't in our training data.

I think evaluating performance by constructor would be really interesting! But we haven't done that.
Watch the first few seconds of the video.
Microsoft reportedly censors searches for politically sensitive Chinese persons
s/ both//
How much time and resources does it cost to successfully hire one candidate?
The video which is front and center and really the gist of the landing page for most casual viewers/buyer starts off with:

"The person in the driver's seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything."

I agree - though - as someone who holds Tesla stock indirectly through various indexes - I fully can understand the desire to want post facto look well past the webpage fold for fine print.
> I have no idea why this isn't a more common practice

It used to just be “the practice”. The folks who don’t do this are trying to automate hiring.
I encourage everyone to state up front that they refuse such interviews. I have the following disclaimer in my LinkedIn intro:

> I have a personal policy against any type of live coding or online coding tests during interviews and I don't enjoy or engage in any form of competitive programming. Otherwise, I am happy to work offline on coding assignments with reasonable goals and deadlines and to have in-depth technical discussions about software architecture and design as well as relevant technologies.

Yeah, I’m aware that I can easily get away with it given my current CV, but some companies do care about their candidates and adjust their process as needed. As long as we bend backwards and tolerate any abusive practice, nothing will change.
This is exactly my impression reading the post on laptops/phones here the past few days.

I now understood why the manufactures doesn't really seems to care for this segment, as everyone seems to have enough dealbreakers that nothing's going to sell well.
> Run multiple apps in parallel

It sounds funny that this is part of the advertisement.
Democrats have had the power to pass legislation without Republican support during the following periods:

* The 1993 - 1994 congressional term[1], during which they tried and failed to do healthcare reform, but succeeded in passing bills for medical leave, NAFTA, gun control, violent crime, taxes, and education.

* June 30, 2009 - February 4, 2010 (72 working days total)[2], during which they passed a major healthcare reform bill, the Affordable Care Act.

From 1981 - 1992, 1995 - 2008, and 2011 - 2020, Republicans have held the presidency or at least one house of Congress. During 2009-2010 and 2021-present, they have also abused the Senate filibuster to obstruct almost the entire Democratic agenda, with the goal of making the public perceive Democrats as ineffective. (As you have seen for yourself, it worked!) In the current term, the Democrats have a bare 50%+1 majority, which means that the most conservative Democrat (usually Joe Manchin of West Virginia) effectively has a veto.

On top of that, the Supreme Court has been controlled by Republican partisans since 2006, when Samuel Alito was appointed. Currently there is a 5-vote majority of extreme Republican partisans. This creates an additional Republican veto point for effectively any Democratic legislation.

One can (and should) criticize the Democrats for not ending the filibuster when they had the chance. But the reality is that the American legislative process involves a lot of veto points, and it only takes control of one to kill a bill.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/103rd_United_States_Congress#M...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/111th_United_States_Congress
I'm not going to critique this laptop as others have done here. Just over $1K for a laptop with an 8 core Ryzen, 16GB DDR4 and a 1TB SSD isn't outrageous.

The main takeaways I get from this are that HP is now getting on the Linux developer bandwagon, and that they chose Pop!_OS as their distro due to the success and reputation of System76. And I think these are both good things, and a sign that we'll see more of the same with laptop hardware vendors.
I'd love to see how it holds up against Dell's new XPS 13 Linux offering and those System76 laptops.
Why not both or a combination?

MTG has elements from both chess and poker and it's surprisingly easy to learn but stupid hard to master. You also don't have to worry about sex ed :))
For a visual example, this was an American Civil-War era ironclad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USS_Baron_DeKalb.jpg

This was a British oceangoing ironclad, launched in 1860: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HMSWarrior.JPG

The difference in seaworthiness is abundantly clear. These American ironclads were more akin to gunboats, and mostly used on rivers (fighting for control of the Mississippi was a huge deal in the war). They were built comparatively cheaply, for a specific, immediate conflict. They often only had steam engines and lacked the endurance for transoceanic travel.

The British ironclads were built to project imperial power across the globe. The continued use of sail was important to extend endurance to reach far away places.
Downside is you might lose money faster than gambling lol
Your math is wrong. People aren't literally doing LC for 2 months straight without eating or sleeping. If we assume it means you study for 2 hours a day that's only an overhead of 0.7%. I still think that's an overestimation of the time you would actually need.
Yes, this is true and a real problem. The empire-building types.

My personal favorite non-leetcode interview format is having the candidate spend 2-4 hours building a toy version of your product from scratch. It's hard, relevant, and filters for straightforward code (or you won't finish in time).
That's a great question. I know I'm looking forward to reading HN thoughts on it.

For my part, as someone who has only dabbled in it, I can say that it appeals to me though I have difficulty elucidating why. I think partly because it is well suited to creating servers, due to its background in MUD and WWW servers.
The NYT could do long risky exposes on power when they had a near media and print advertising monopoly in NYC. There’s not enough money for this anymore now that they compete for eyeball-seconds with Buzzfeed listicles like “what celebrity do these chihuahuas most look like?”
> Even if you are rich and innocent and lucky, then you will spend a day in jail, and spend thousands on bail and lawyers, and if found innocent you will still have all of it on your record, lost all of that money, a day of your life, the abuse of the police officer and jailors, and there are many situations where answering "yes" to "have you ever been arrested" will disqualify you.

If you have your arrest records expunged you are expected to answer "no" to the "have you ever been arrested" question when asked by an employer or potential employer. It's a stupid system. In at least a few states, they're not even supposed to ask, because it's such a dumb question.
And yet, some countries and cultures have safety nets that work.

It is not surprising that the government functions like the people that elected it. If your community is comprised of assholes, you get cruel policies.
It's a descendant of a language used for multi-player adventure games originating in early 90s. Guess its value will be it being a C look-alike scripting language. According to its comparison page compared to Python "is faster, has a more advanced type system, and better support for OOP".
It's not clear whether it's also got a dGPU or just the iGPU. Both are Radeon graphics. The vagueness of the description leads me to guess it only has an iGPU.
Is Go the spiritual successor to Pike?
I don’t get why, but it’s not uncommon for people to prefer the aesthetic of the trackpad being centered on the chassis, while being offset relative to the midpoint between the two home rows of the keyboard. Palm rejection nowadays is pretty decent, but still, I’d much rather not have my right palm constantly in contact with the trackpad.
Remember that even if the journeys are 'free' in the sense of money, they still take time. And for most people sitting on a bumpy bus isn't as comfortable as sitting at home or sitting in a park (also free ways to spend time).

You should always think of the cost of public transport as ticket price + hourly wage * time spent - value of anything you might get done on the bus.