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Every year Congress sends a defense appropriation bill to the president, and Gitmo's operation is always included in that. Any president who actually wanted to end Gitmo could simply veto the annual defense appropriation bill, and advise Congress to send a new version without the Gitmo crap.
I never needed to turn around my health as a vegetarian. There's about a 99.999% chance that I'm stronger and faster than you, I wish I could demonstrate. You'd be embarrassed saying what you just said in front of me!
Much of the world proves this assumption false. See, e.g.:

- Residential districts in China and many former Soviet countries. Big concrete blocks, with the bottom floor lined with small stores. They're absolutely delightful places to live.

- Urban residential districts in the US aren't quite in this style, but a city like Cambridge will have small shops within walking distances of virtually all housing.

The critical thing is that the shops are a lot more pleasant and human than US business districts. A massive lunch hour line at some overpriced (probably due to high-rent and long lines everywhere) sandwich place isn't very human. A small business run by the owner is. One of the differences is that in residential settings, business owners and residents are part of a community -- they get to know each other, sometimes for decades. Business districts have people moving in and out too frequently for that.

"Peak density" is also a lot worse than "mean density." Both a customer and a business owner is better served with traffic spread out throughout the day, rather than nearly 100% of business crammed in during breakfast and lunch hour.
At the same time, IoT, mobile and roaming make for unreliability and consistent topology reshuffling. Granted different environment and for various reasons properly distributed solutions on these networks aren't widespread so far. Just saying there's another side to it.
>I doubt the difference between the 48GB and 64GB in price would be that big.

If I can, sure. Glad for the middle ground option though. e.g. I'd rather have 48gb slightly faster kit than 64gb for example.

Other thing is that I've got a lot offloaded onto a home server already so less need for GBs on desktop
what a UX failure

if they labeled this as “Invite members of channels” this would have been avoided
I'll agree roundabouts are tricky if you are not use to them. And those giant ones in Europe look insane. When teaching my kids to drive it was one of the trickier skills they had to master - being able to read the traffic and know when they can go.

Still beats those four-way stop signs though! :-)
It's like, gaming used to have some gambling flavor elements to it, but since ~2020 they gave up moderating it and everyone decided to go all-in on gamba. CSGO skin cases were meme-ably game-able, and I'm sure some people lost their livelihood, but it certainly wasn't conditioning EVERY CHILD that played to casually walk that line deeper and deeper... What we have now is sickening.

The stance of NL and belgium of just banning all games that have gambling elements, is truly the only path forward. There will be no self-regulation. The studios have to be stopped from selling to care anymore.
I was at the other end of such an interview once.

Our candidate found us via a college campus job fair and was given a Codility test for screening. He didn't do particularly well, but got through and, unfortunately, was given another Codility test by mistake.

I suppose he got upset at that point and just copied the solutions from a friend, who was also applying(we only had four sets of questions). That score was of course considerably higher, even though he made the exact same mistakes his friend did.

We found out what was going on and had reservations whether to continue with the process, but he was invited to the second round and aced it.

I think he spent around a year with us and left for a much better paid position.

Overall that Codility test was wholly unnecessary (both the first and the second) and got me thinking how many talented people never made it to the second round because of it.

EDIT: I checked that candidate's current LinkedIn profile and at the moment he's a Tech Lead at globally recognized big data analytics company.
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In the specific case of smokers, it doesn't actually increase health costs. Smokers die younger and often have a relatively short illness before they die. Compare this to someone who lives 95 and requires care in a care-home it's "cheap". You also save on things like pension costs because you don't pay them to dead folk, and income from taxes.

I'm not entirely sure about the numbers on things like obesity, drug use, etc. off-hand.

I agree with you as a matter of principle, so not that it really matters, but people sometimes say "smokers should pay the cost they inflict on society themselves!" and turns out they're not actually inflicting the huge costs people imagine they do.
Medieval windmills were used for a variety of purposes, only some of them were milling grain. Many of them were related to grinding (ie grinding pigments and such), but there were also wind-powered sawmills and wind-powered water pumps for irrigation and water management. Many wind mills also had "power take off" equipment so they could for example use wind power to hoist heavy stuff to the first or second floors of the structure.
Who cares what these companies want or what their business models are? Dumb business models are dumb and it’s not our job to consider their dumb business models when making legislation.

We wouldn’t even be having a discussion like this in a functioning democracy. But instead we’re discussing whether the big corporate bribery machine will get in the way of completely reasonable legislation.
There's a difference between what the law says they can and can't do, and what the forces of capital are set up to encourage them to do. The law may say you can't avoid costly waste disposal by dumping it into the rainforest, but the incentive (ie the profit motive) is there to skirt as close to breaking the law, and often blowing right past it.

I mean I don't think I even need to give examples of corporations breaking the law because they thought they could get away with it. Corporations, like any group of people, can fail to see the big picture. Short term profits for the risk of a big slap on the wrist is a gamble a lot of companies take.
Try {2,2,1}
Ask HN: Industry expert meets techie” monthly thread, anyone?
This post is inspired by this comment[0].

So I was wondering, is there any interest in a monthly thread where industry experts, who are looking for a techie to collaborate on a project, post their experience and requirements?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31596636
There are a lot of famous rich addicts. Or were.
Sure is an interesting claim. Key words include "proposals", "emerging", and "might" - sounds like we have not demonstrated any of those processes just yet, but the people who know what they are talking about think abiogenesis is possible.
Right, and that verb-noun convention reminds me of https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/reference/Common-AS-400-co...

...and it's not good. At least AS/400 commands had terseness to them. Those powershell commands are ok-ish for scripting but much too long for interactive shell sessions where you need to "explore the space".
HN is so fucking stupid.
Hate the game, not the player
When’s the last time a bank has “taken it on the chin”?
> I managed to cure myself of this addiction by... cheating.

Oh yeah that works so incredibly well! I get addicted to idle/tap/infinite progression types of games every now and then.

At one point I got sick of it and I wrote a program that taps my phone with an axidraw robot. Seeing the progression happen without my own input totally broke the addictive cycle for me.

And I got to play with the axidraw :D
I learned this formula before high school. It was considered trivial.

The demonstration was to write the sums 1+2+...N and N+(n-1)+...+1 and add them up position wise. The sum comes n*(n+1)/2 (divide by 2 for the two sums).
It does sadden me that Apple/Google are happy to take that revenue
Not that I can recall, though I admit I am very biased against academic CS theory dominant interviews in general for a number of reasons and it is possible this somewhat tints my memory.
Maybe it is the irrepressible optimism of early adopters.
10k a year is hardly a lot…

As a Japanese gamer says, paying for games is like dining out. You get nothing useful after a good meal, and paying for games may as well be more useful.
Just as a question: can someone try do depict what is the "housing crisis"? I mean is simply "there are not much affordable homes" or something else. Because IMVHO that's MUCH something else. Surely monopolies in general are not good, but honestly I suspect the actual crisis haven't much to do about real estate/construction business, not even to mere economics terms (i.e. high prices).

Long story short: how can housing be stable in a changing society in a changing world? If a mass of people want (and/or need) to relocate because of increasing bad climate and extreme events (floods, fires, too-hot-in-too-long-summers, ...), if there is a crossing between some who need to go to cities because can't afford anymore living outside and some who want freedom outside, if properties prices keep floating due to such moves how can a stable housing exists?
>>Which trend?

1. Uniswap now has deeper liquidity on several major trading pairs than the leading centralized crypto exchanges, including Coinbase and Binance:

https://uniswap.org/blog/uniswap-v3-dominance

2. The volume of stablecoins on the blockchain is growing rapidly, notwithstanding the recent collapse of LUNA/UST:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1255835/stablecoin-marke...
Actually I think traffic lights are better for very busy and/or very large intersections. But roundabouts are superior to four way stop sign intersections in every way. They don't even need to be all that large.
Making me thinking what if the author was not lucky enough to pass the initial interview. Well Microsoft just fail the author, and the on-site interview never happens?

I'm feeling that the initial interview might not be completely fair. But of course, many things in life are down to lucks. Good luck helps, I guess.
Lol, the majority of Indians especially in the west are upper-caste Hindus. The funny thing is they say all progressiveness but support Hindu nationalist like Modi and RSS, make comments like the sh*t you mentioned but in reality have high caste pride and view non-Hindus as mlechas. It is also partly due to the colonial baggage of west of west, India is given a free pass and it's funny that even during colonial rule these upper castes were the ones who most benefitted.
That sounds like an arms race that's both wasteful and difficult to win. Why should we not use the tools democracy provides to shape society? These corporations are not out to get us. They maximize profit constrained by the regulatory environment. We have to guide them, and channel their capacity for good.
I recently got interviewed by MS, I met 3 individuals on the team hiring, they discussed what I'd done previously, and what they were doing now.

The first interviewer was focused on culture and values.

The second interviewer asked me to describe how I'd approach pathfinding a simple 2D maze, and explicitly told me that they weren't worried about "best" algorithms like A*, but were more interested in how I'd model the problem in the first place, and seemed happy when I suggested building a graph as a better way to reason about it, and write readable code than just index twiddling a 2D array.

They then asked me to code review a pre-existing index twiddling solution, they liked my suggestions, and I even picked up an error (that didn't seem deliberate) that one of my suggestions would've prevented.

The last interviewer was more interested in architecture, and their only technical question was "name a design pattern you've used and why you used it".

Then they asked me to submit a GitHub repo that translated Roman numerals into Arabic numerals in Go, with a specific requirement to "obey Postel's law".

At the same time, a small medtech firm looking to recruit me for a data engineering role had me meet two engineers for an hour, then complete an online coding test on one of those annoying online editors, where the goal was to calculate waiting times in TypeScript from ISO-8601 formatted strings.

Then I met more of their engineers, got asked trivia like "What's the difference between ETL and ELT?" and then did some live coding on that same annoying online editor to implement the "maximum sub-array" problem before discussing Big-O...

I felt like they'd taken algorithmic questions you'd use for a recent CS grad and applied it to a senior data engineering role where if I'm ever needing to calculate the maximum sub-array in TS, you're doing very many bad things.

So all in all, MS's interview technique felt far more relevant and useful.
Wait, what's the random element in golf? I play weekly and the only random element I can think of are maybe cars and animals distracting me?

Golf is a game of 3D localization and mapping, wind analysis, projectile estimation, and fine-tune physique control...

If you are treating those elements as "random" you are missing large aspects of the game.
Ask HN: Why don't podcasts/audiobooks have closed captions for misheard words?
This would be like automatically generated captions in YouTube but for audio only content.
Fyi to anyone who reads your comment

> because you can’t get your childhood back

It seems to imply that the rest of childhood is lost because of git. You may want to correct or clarify your comment.

Btw, childhood is a lot about throwaway exploring many things where we don't have to invent a purpose or utility for every single thing. It's all about spare time and trying things out with no strings attached. It doesn't matter if in some of their spare time they watch TV together, or go to movies together, or build a robot together, or code together. I think you're getting downvoted not because whether the utility is right or wrong, but because utility doesn't need to matter.
While the stock market is much more accessible, operates in a less transparent way, and ruins more people for life than an actual casino.
I am using Gitea + Drone for several years now and couldn't be happier. Stable, fast and it justs works without consuming a shitload of RAM.
You'd think by now some recruiters would've figured out the best way to find people who knows X is to search for commits in X and look at the attached email
From an effort-cost-to-performance perspective, Gitea (or equivalent) scores very high if you're considering software to self-host.

Practically infinite private repos, privacy, automate/customize all you want.
I'm not seeing the connection here, and don't see any mention of country of origin in the parent's post. Can you explain further?
Depends on your level of honesty. Given that you're fixing typos to say that you contributed to a project, you'd probably double down and quote the number of PR (remember to only do 1 typo fix per PR) and then add a real bug you may have fixed or make one up.

Unfortunately the entire interview process is why I usually try to hire former co-workers.
I've played to around level 30 or so also and it feels just like any other recent Diablo. So far it seems like I can pay to speed things up/improve the drop rate, or just keep playing without just fine. Is there some spot I'm going to hit that I can't progress without paying?
I don't agree with your statement at all. It seems to be largely based on faith, which I lack. IMO we all have own selfish vested interests and the system doesn't necessarily enforce good alignment between them. Put it this way, if you were to design a democracy from scratch for a given nation, I doubt (and I could be wrong) that you would try to recreate the British system. Now you might say that the UK is exceptional, but I would not.

You might think I'm overly reductive, but I feel if you have an exclusive ruling class, implicitly the role of everyone else is to support (serve) them.

I'm not in the UK and so I'm free of the powerful UK media bias towards the prevailing system (I would speculate that there are a lot of vested interests in keeping it as it is). How do you feel about other monarchies around the world? Are they equally great systems? Would you advocate that all countries should have monarchs?
> so the question becomes whether people should be allowed to spend money any way they see fit

You are allowed to be in any number of relashionships with other people, and some of them can be pretty weired.

However when someone is manipulating you and pimping you out, thats different.

You have the rirgt not to be stabbed, stolen from, or manipulated.
> I think this would effectively kill addictive impulse for people who can't afford it

It would be nice if simply pricing out poor addicts worked as a deterrent, but it just doesn’t. We see this in sports betting all the time, young men are committing suicide in England after getting in too deep on the betting apps.
GitHub gives you an E-Mail address for commits through the web UI (see the E-Mail tab in settings), which you can just use for your local commits as well.
That's the important part. Not only are these games "designed for addiction," they are written as if someone opened up a psychology textbook on manipulation and implemented every chapter.

It is human abuse.
The one thing that I don't see mentioned on Modvion's page is the glue/resin that's used to laminate the timber. Resins are usually made from hydrocarbon feedstock, as far as I can tell, and that must take a bunch of energy - although presumably not as much as smelting steel? I'm guessing that is built into the calculation of 'The corresponding tower in wood emits 90% less emissions [than steel]'.

I've wondered before if the reason the resin is never mentioned in these sort of laminated/engineered timber projects is that 'we built this structure entirely from wood!' sounds a lot better than 'we built this structure mostly using wood, but also using hydrocarbons'.
A company really wouldn't at least ask what the contributions were? What kind of 'competitive market' is it where you can lie so easily and get away with it?
The extension cable [1] fixes both of these problems.

[1]: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MK122LL/A/power-adapter-e...
Right, but what do we do when we’ve covered every surface of the earth with solar panels and wind turbines?

We’ll need to move into space sooner or later if we want to continue exponential growth.
They will just push updates the incrementally cripple the device. They are already doing it anyway.
Since actions may imply tradeoffs, you cannot force an action also forcing the tradeoffs - which are to be evaluated subjectively, not by any third party.

To decide that everyone is mandated to eat vegetables, the actor (decisor) should be a perfect, ideal one, knowing much more than we actually know.
There is a very blurry line between chemical addiction and non-chemical addiction
They will just move on to countries with less regulation, which usually means poorer countries with less educated people. You can probably see where this is going.

Banning rarely accomplishes anything, it just moves one appearance of the problem out of sight for a period of time.
It sounds wrong because it is wrong. In general, error rates in the modules scale with the physical volume of the chips, not the amount of memory they contain (because the primary root cause is cosmic rays or radioactive contamination inside the chips). Error rates on the bus mostly depend on external circumstances, and scale with transfer amounts, not memory amounts.

Most paper characterizing errors are very old (so they used memory chips with large feature sizes), and they scaled their error rates by memory amount (because they didn't know better). This results in massively overinflated error bit rates. It's possible to prove that this is wrong very easily by just writing a program that allocates a large pool of ram, and constantly reads it and writes back to it over a period of time, and then check results after a while. I once did this for an argument on the internet about this -- on my old Intel Sandy bridge system with 16GB non-ecc ram, I allocated a pool of 8GB, wrote ascending integers from 0 to 2^31 to it, and then iterated over it, just reading it in, checking if it's still correct and terminating if it's not, and writing it back out to same address. This program ran for a week with no errors before I had to end it because I needed the machine. 1 bit error per 1.333GB*days is completely not credible.
True, but that doesn't matter at all given reasonable values of n. The number is in the range of n^2, but the algorithm is in the range O(1). Question is not that bad, my first thought was to use hash table to store what you see, then return when duplicate occurs. Don't like hash table fine, set an array of size n storing TRUE when you see the number. Notice it twice, then you've found the duplicate. No need for math, O(n) solution.

Honestly if you're stressing over a question like this, combined with thinking that integer overflow is even remotely something that you need to be concerned about in a question like this, you're definitely not passing any leetcode interview problems tossed around in today's interviewing culture.
> Therefore the proper solution is to start recognising what some of these companies are doing as crimes. You need the law on your side when you act in self-defence.

The only difference is who does the concrete fighting: you by yourself, or let the police and criminal prosecution do the fighting.
I'm not massively bothered by the "cheating" because I think that it highlights flaws with the evaluation in the first place.
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"Apple and Google are really gambling companies" was not exactly the hot take I expected to see today (I am not disagreeing!).
grepping for yes being piped in shell scripts yields a couple hundred matches in my computer - small things add up
> If Parc had failed at dissemination we'd all still be using the command line.

Yes, it was disseminated, but not by Xerox. It was the startups of the time that took the baton.

> The problem since Parc is more that there has been no equivalent concentration of smart, creative, playful people.

Could not agree more. Play is a very underestimated component of productive thought. But what is play? I would say that it is production without responsibility. It is notable that children use play in order to explore their potential and their place in the world. Which is to say, they use it to grow. Need I say more?
What happen when the big business industry of stearic candles fall against electrical/gas light bulbs? One was hyper developed and fall badly, the other was not ready to grow at the same fast peace of demand. That's just as a single example.

The main point is: civilization changes, normally not so fast, but they do, and normally most are not ready and adverse any change, no matter if good or bad as a result we end up always in rushes. As a result scarcity, precarity, FUD happen. The key is an ancient Latin phrase "in medio stat virtus", or for the present topic being too efficient is not efficient because generally means not being flexible nor capable to evolve. On the other side of the spectrum we have seen in IT how hard are distributed systems respect of few centralized ones. In medio stat virtus again, we need a bit of efficiency and a bit of flexibility, and yes, it's not that easy, and yes it cost money.
I can almost guarantee you the "friend" was not supposed to disclose what the problem was that was asked of him. It's not a problem of the pool. It's a problem of the ethics of both his friend, and him.