skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some difference in the mechanics, but the overall concept is the same. An individual player might be able to win money in poker (with some combination of luck and skill), but a group of players will always lose to the house.
Russia limits exports of noble gases, a key ingredient in chip manufacturing
Brain may flush out toxins during sleep (2013)
There's nothing clever in Googling some obscure fact just to feel intellectually superior in an interview. Red flag here too.

Didn't you have anything more interesting/relevant to talk about?
On one of my programming courses, while studying for midterms,
I was reading a alternate textbook which covers similar material to our course, and I noticed that question 1 and 3 from the textbook had already been used on our homework.

So I was like, excellent, question 2 is a good practice question for studying. I even called my roommates over and got them to study it too.

Turns out it was the bonus question on the exam.

I was surprised, but my roommates were pretty happy with me.
From 2009 to 2015 I lived in exactly that. It was a high-rise former bank headquarters converted to residential. The conversion was done in the wake of the collapsing commercial real estate market after 9/11. Repurposing buildings is quite common in New York, and I expect to see more conversions like this in the future.
"Colored noise NFTs now worth $100M"
While atrial fibrillation does not present anything close to the immediate and critical threat of the three you mentioned, it should not be ignored, as it increases the risk of stroke and embolism through blood pooling and clotting in the left atrial appendage of the heart.

When it is not asymptomatic, it is difficult to ignore anyway.
Who are these poor farmers? All the farmers around me are millionaires.
That's planned. Would be blasphemy not to.
i wasn't the kind of a person you're describing

it just so happened that my knowledge helped me perform better at IT class than anybody else, so they got pissed at me for being able to comprehend something they themselves don't
For 32bits, djb has done light testing, indicating djbsort would be a better base case.

> So far I haven't been able to verify these vqsort speed claims. On the contrary, it seems that, for 32-bit data types on AVX2, vqsort would be faster if its base-case code were replaced by a call to the 2018 djbsort code. Similarly, vqsort should reuse vxsort-cpp for AVX-512.

https://twitter.com/hashbreaker/status/1533314687726538753
I second this notion. Please stop using imgur. The one argument I’d have in favor of it is longevity, but I’d guess a seriously nontrivial of images posted have been deleted for one reason or another by now, so I’m not sure if that even matters to most people.

For the type of people who post here, an S3 bucket or GCS bucket connected to a domain is easy and cheap (Often free) and you can throw Cloudflare over it for extra assurance. (Backblaze is indeed theoretically cheaper, but I haven’t done that one before, whereas I have actually done S3 and GCS. So, YMMV.)

Another option is the plethora of random file hosting services that exist, like Catbox. Especially if you don’t care about long term storage.
I don't think game developers have golden handcuffs. Quite the opposite is what I hear, that they're often laid off after a game is released.
I stopped drinking and stopped smoking tobacco, but I got the same kind of "hangover" I used to get after a night of binge drinking on basically nothing but really salt heavy foods.

(Some were salty, then doubly sugary to cover it up, which is so very American)

It spiked my anxiety to 11, probably as an effect of an elevated heart rate?

I used to be much less healthy, but I also often made a lot of decisions I wouldn't make if I could have bought the foods folks told me were healthy with the same ease as a Wendy's hamburger.

I hope one day to go back to Japan, at leas there for about the equivalent of five dollars you could eat a non fancy, but healthy meal, even if you didn't know enough Japanese to navigate some of the more complex dishes -- I forget the name, but they had these hockey puck or triangular things that were rice, seaweed, and a soft boiled egg or something that weren't exactly "low carb" but relatively low glycemic).

Maybe we should find a way to tax overly salty stuff like some places do sugary drinks, so stuff like a rice ball surrounding a hard boiled egg become a stereotypical budget food for students or bloggers or whatever.
TLDR: while the way deep learning reaches conclusions can be opaque, those conclusions can supercharge human intuition, leading to mathematical and scientific conjectures that can then be justified or proven with rigorous, transparent, logical arguments and data.

Some famous mathematician, whose name I've forgotten, said something like "the trouble is not the proofs, but knowing what to prove." Humans have always relied on heuristics to discover what might be true before confirming it rigorously. If deep learning provides powerful heuristics, it can be a tremendous aid to scientific progress.
Most of the time planning means "exploring" here lies the issue.
Many mobile games made by Chinese, especially Net Ease, who also makes Diablo Immortal. Net Ease is notoriously good at sucking money from whales.
It's only white noise if it's generated by the Sennheiser algorithm, otherwise it's just random static.
It reminds me of a better time when the internet was young and fresh to me.

I remember when AOL was seen as evil that was going to kill the open internet.

It was the original "walled garden."
All you said is true, but they have gotten lazy and complacent these days. Not sure I would support them. They have become the Disney of video games. Family friendly, but at what cost?
The use of “cheat” in the title is clickbait on a reasonable post. The author prepared and also had a lucky break in the screening interview.

Then in the actual interviews they did ok as well.

Sounds like the system worked the way it was supposed to.
Hah, Cunningham's Law strikes again. Thanks!

In my excuse, I developed this first for GraphicsMagick, which doesn't support "inline:".
Maybe we just let people use what they want and don’t post nonsense to get some karma? Seriously these “Tell HN” posts that have started appearing en masse in recent months need to stop.
EDDM, the no opt-out mail service.
I had no idea of the origin or ethnicity of anyone in any of these events until you mentioned it.
In other investments, you can pick an asset allocation, buy index funds of each asset, dollar cost over time, rebalance, invest over a long time.

Maybe some of that is available now with crypto? Index funds? But with how heavily the bigger cryptocurrencies are price-correlated, I don't think you get good intra-asset diversification benefits.

Personally within my asset allocation, crypto is a tiny fraction of a percent.
A plug for my favorite noise sleep aid, Celestial Noise. A very warm noise with a special quality that I find so much nicer than noise generators, though I recommend downloading so you skip being woken up by ads. The comments are a bonus.

https://youtu.be/wzjWIxXBs_s
> My hot take: data channels are rarely the right solution to any problem description that doesn't start with, "well, I already have a WebRTC transport open ..."

On the off chance that you're still checking this thread, would you care to elaborate? Specifically, if one isn't using WebRTC for media, is there a better off-the-shelf solution for P2P with NAT traversal in native apps?
The mystery of the ketogenic diet: benevolent pseudo-diabetes
I mean, treat everybody in the world with that condition at that point, right?
Because I like playing some of these games. I don't want to be stuck with the 5 games that are officially EU approved. Asking for this kind of regulation is basically asking for legally mandated region-locks for online games. It's back to being a second class player in another region, where technically you're not allowed to play via VPN and you might get randomly banned.

Also, it's not about the children. Children don't make their own money - they only have money that parents give them. Even if these games banned children from playing them, a lot of the people complaining about it still wouldn't stop. The problem for them is that they can't make their friends stop playing these games, so they want the government to stop them instead.

I don't like when games monetize stuff like Diablo Immortal does. I hate it. But I'm certain that when legislation does arrive it'll be broad enough that other stuff gets caught up in it and the people advocating for it will just shrug their shoulders and go "lol i didn't care about games anyway".
The job market is a somewhat important part of life. Even if you prefer to hate work and coworkers on principle, it still helps pay for other things.

Specifics are a useful starting point for getting to fundamentals; trying to learn abstracted stuff without having anything to tie it too tends to be a bit tricky. Even for adults, which is why "here's a novel to help illustrate what we mean by these things" is a thing (for example, The Phoenix Project). It's also why math tends to start with arithmetic and memorizing times tables, and only after that gets to more fundamental stuff like algebra and then calculus.
What SRE Could Be
D'arcy Wentworth Thompson wrote what is widely considered to be the most beautiful book in biology, and thankfully he wrote it long enough ago that it's now in the public domain. Every sentence is like a little poem.

https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/55264
What’s stopping a bunch of small manufacturers from pooling together their capital to buy an upstream supplier?

After all if the price disparity is indeed so large and will be sustained then you should have wall street guys eager to lend to get in on the action and make easy returns?

If the returns are not there and the price of resources, labor, etc., have increased simply due to inflation and other factors then this is like saying Ferrari’s are scarce. Or $15000 new cars from Toyota are scarce. 50 years ago that would have bought a new Ferrari from the dealer, and now it can’t even buy a Corolla.

If so, I don’t see anything other than a trivial point.
I won't lie to someone's face but I've deliberately misled gatekeepers hundreds of times in order to grab the opportunity to deliver excellent work. People are judgy and scared, and we all know the exchange rate between false positives and false negatives is a farce, and when it comes to my ability, you're damn right I know better than they do. The idea that I have a moral obligation to gift them decisions about my future is laughable. I've never had any complaints and I've never lost a minute's sleep. If they don't like me after they've known me more than 45 minutes, they can put me in review and fire me. I won't cry about it.
Agner Fog's VCL library is extremely approachable. Just download it and get stuck in.

Manual
https://www.agner.org/optimize/vcl_manual.pdf

GitHub
https://github.com/vectorclass/version2

Even for trivial stuff like linebreaking input files, massive speedups are there for the taking.
Video codecs and 4k
Maybe it's the sources I look at, which unfortunately tend to be journalistic rather than scientific. So I encounter something like 10x as many items about RNA/DNA for every one about abiogenesis that focuses on something else.
https://www.prisma.io/dataguide/

Over the past few years, Prisma has been quietly building a complete zero to advanced guide to databases that I've started to refer people to and use as reference myself. It stands out to me because it is focusing on a broader topic than what you typically find in docs, it's written simply, it is super comprehensive, and it's not trying to sell something.
I remember you were making a few videos of science activities for kids. Are you still making them?

I remember this about mixing hot and cold water https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGpKH0Sobcs I knew the effect before, but I thought it was not so fast.
This seems like a problem for Firefox to fix, not “the rest of the world”
We’ve been using it for years and it’s always been irritating in the way you describe. It seems if you miss the first push notification, you’ll receive a flurry more, many of which don’t really seem to do anything even if you do approve them. It’s possible that I have the timeouts set incorrectly, but I’ve followed Microsoft’s guidelines. Unfortunately we don’t have a better solution, so we suffer with it.
I wrote a lock free algorithm.

Every thread monitors every other thread's thread Id and the lowest thread Id wins. When a thread finishes its work it updates the thread Id to Integer.MAX_INTEGER so someone else can have a go.

Readers block writers and writer's block readers so it's not very good. But it's a start.

It's hard to update a linked list as you could accidentally partially update it while it is being iterated. I could allow parallel edits and reads if the read is after the edit. So I would need to introduce a different variable for checking while reading. It needs to be logically after the write.

HTTPS://GitHub.com/samsquire/compare-and-swap-sort
> hockey puck or triangular things that were rice, seaweed, and a soft boiled egg or something

Sounds like onigiri: "Onigiri, also known as omusubi, nigirimeshi, or rice ball, is a Japanese food made from white rice formed into triangular or cylindrical shapes and often wrapped in nori."
> Why should we not use the tools democracy provides to shape society?

Turns out that's also a Red Queen's race. And if you look at the lobbying costs vs. potential rewards, there's a lot of room for escalation in US politics.
I thoroughly enjoyed the README for the just tool the other day - very thorough, answered all of my questions, fun to read: https://github.com/casey/just/blob/master/README.md
Haven't experienced this. Clickable example link?
you bought alexa, what else did you expect?
Imagine someone were to invent a miracle power source that could be produced easily and cheaply by anyone and allowed all vehicles to be powered for free, completely obliterating the fossil fuel industry. In this situation, would you say value was created or destroyed?
What's the full market price of a f2p game?

Why is it ok for narrative content to be considered a DLC but cosmetic content to be considered microtransactions?
Poisons, Poisoning, and Poisoners in Rome
Title correction: the author ate three servings of instant cup ramen per day, and nothing else.

One of the mentioned products was Shin Ramyun, which according to its website[0] has 510 calories per package (of which ~65% is carbs). Times three is only about 1500 calories a day[1], which will make any adult feel lethargic and cranky.

The thing about cup ramen is that it's a base, a starting point, a Minimum Viable Noodles. You want to be adding stuff to it -- for example mixing in some eggs, or cheap veggies (bean sprouts), or meat (left-over ground beef works well).

Perhaps the next article will be how they ate nothing but sandwiches (= 2 slices of bread) and felt tired.

[0] https://nongshimusa.com/homev2/our-products/shin-brand/shin-...

[1] The author writes "I actually ended up losing four pounds (despite the alarming amount of carbs and calories I was consuming)", which makes me think they're bad at reading nutrition labels and biology.
I think you missed "since then" preceding the second quote.
https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/
imagine paying when you can get things for free lol
Why would I do that? I started using Uber when it came out because I lived in SF, where the dispatch companies would tell you someone was coming in 15 minutes only to have no one show up, and when you did get a cab they'd drive maniacally while screaming into their phone only to tell you that they don't take credit cards (until you explain that's the only way they're getting paid, and then they do take credit cards).

People talk about how unfair Uber is and how horrible it's been for taxi drivers, but at least in SF they constantly abused a position of power given to them by the government (making it illegal for non-cabbies from picking up people to give them rides). Good riddance.
That's an onigiri. Japanese food feels heavy on salt to me though, soy sauce is everywhere. Even onigiri are rather salty.
I answered one of those mind benders nearly immediately in an interview. I figured out the trick as they were telling it basically. They asked me if I had heard it before. I hadn't. A final interview with the CEO and he asked if I had heard it before and I said I hadn't. I later realized based on how they were asking if I had heard it before, they thought I was lying.

The question: You get on a ski lift going up. It's 1000m long and you move at 20m/s. Between when you get on at the bottom and you get off at the top, how many of the chairs going down do you pass?
Yeah, this is what really sucks. I figured I’d check out Walmart or target, but I started seeing the same third party junk on there too. Seems like they’re trying to copy Amazon.
That story is apocryphal.
Indeed.

I have been routinely questioned about what happens from when you type www.somesite.com and when the webpage is displayed when interviewing over the years and realised that nowadays I could fill 2 whole hours talking about all the stuff that actually happens (and many times I would have to say “but about this specific thing I’m not very knowledgeable about)… whereas at the start of my career i would have probably spoken for like 15 seconds and felt smart about answering “such an easy question”.
"I felt like I had an unfair advantage. My preparation, plus a crazy coincidence, made me feel like I had cheated on my interview."

Isn't this the very premise of LeetCode - do a bunch of LeetCode questions and you're likely to have a similar one in the interview?
Given 1970 hardware CPU and RAM costs that doesn’t seem possible. Unless you count something like the telephone, where all the smarts are elsewhere.
“Free” makes people do weird things.

Folks will stand in line for about an hour for a free sub sandwich that costs ~$5.
If any teams building on this want a free Coherence account to help get them started, please get in touch at withcoherence.com. Consistent environments from dev to prod across the project should be helpful on a dynamic team!

(I’m a cofounder of Coherence)
This attack vector is why I'm not a huge fan of QR codes. I am required to use them for some work that I do, but they are created by me and I test them before publishing them. I had to trust the QR code isn't doing anything malicious like routing to an unknown server before redirecting to ultimate URL so it looks legite. There's just nothing in a QR code that allows for "guessing" if it's malicious or not.
dont tell others to abuse popular services. thats a great way to get a feature from a platformm removed.
If it provides money to the people digging up fossil fuels then it contributes to CO2 emissions.
Rustlings (https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings) - interactivity

Inside look at modern web browser (https://developer.chrome.com/blog/inside-browser-part1/) - fun illustrations

Nunjucks (https://mozilla.github.io/nunjucks/templating.html) - easy-to-use site nav

Vodafone + Core Web Vitals case study (https://web.dev/vodafone/) - packed with info and no marketing BS (disclosure: I was majorly involved in that content)
The whole game of studying is predicting what's going to be on the test, rather than nobly mastering the material in general and then doing well on the test by applying your knowledge. Anyone saying this is cheating either did badly in school, spent impossibly exorbitant amounts of time on school, or is being a hypocrite.

Also, if the article hadn't revealed the interview question, I would've assumed it was like, write out a proof of Fermat's last theorem or something. Even if you don't think of comparing the sum, the next obvious solution is to use a hash table to track duplicates, which I highly doubt they would've failed someone for. So basically this is a story of someone's non-cheating on something relatively trivial anyway.

This probably increased the author's chances of going to hell about as much as standing next to your friend in 7th grade while he smoked a cigarette contributed to your chances of lung cancer.
“Please allow ads on our site or create an account.
Looks like you're using an ad blocker. We rely on advertising to help fund our site.”

Ah, LJ, how far you’ve fallen. My lifetime membership lies fallow after you ended up sold to a Russian company that eventually made any mention of The Gay illegal. Once you promised you’d never have ads. But here we are with a pop up begging me to turn off my and blocker.

I miss what LJ was. Perhaps I mostly just miss all my friends having the time in their lives to create longer, thoughtful posts.
If you are doing much other than value investing long term you are gambling.
VR with Qt Quick 3D
This is a pretty restricted idea of what art is and can be. Creating art has been a human impulse probably since the beginning of our species, painting on cave walls, adding flourishes to pottery, tattooing and other body modification. Today you have people writing poetry no one else will read, singing songs no one else will hear, and that's art too.

Obviously art can be propaganda. Batman and Iron Man are capitalist billionaires with hearts of gold. Of course there's a message there. That's only a small sliver of what art is.

I suppose you can crunch some numbers and decide that higher arts funding at the high school level will result in an X% increase in romantic poems exchanged between lovers with a concomitant increase in worker productivity and the general birth rate. Maybe the animal paintings in the Lascaux caves reinforced cultural or religious bonds that improved the local group's success. Looking at things this way is definitely a choice though, and I don't think it's a healthy one generally, though I'm not sure how I could justify that to someone who doesn't already agree. What is the point of being alive other than to care for others and be happy? Making art makes people feel good.
There is a id3v2.3 tag field "synchronized lyrics" (Field: SYLT)[1] where you can store a "phrase" with a "timestamp". One library I know that may support writing this tag is atldotnet[2], while I did not try it out. At least there is a Type TRANSCRIPTION in the linked code segment.

There is also LRC[3], a synchronized lyrics format stored in an extra file (*.lrc).

[1]: https://id3.org/id3v2.3.0#sec4.10

[2]: https://github.com/Zeugma440/atldotnet/blob/749d9ccb03032667...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LRC_(file_format)
IMO the hybrid arrangement is because office leases tend to be long term commitments. Since it is already a sunk cost in a sense the hybrid model has value right now.

I just can't see that the hybrid model is the long term equilibrium. The office either has a competitive advantage or it is a liability that can be trimmed in cost cutting measures. Long term, firms will either push the edge of the competitive advantage of the office back to everyone going to the office full time or cut the cost completely. Maybe it even depends on the department within the firm or across firms but the hybrid model is just nonsense to me. A cascade of punting a decision down the road so leadership doesn't have to really decide right now while we are all stuck in these pre-2020 commercial leases anyway.
THANKS! And sorry for the caps - I'll bookmark it!

(I used to keep everything local, because I misunderstood Tor Browser and thought keeping bookmarks in there would make me fingerprintable -- so this Sunday I'm collecting all my old links, tagging them, then preparing to import from Firefox to Tor Browser.)

And for anyone else curious, here's a good starting point to read more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onigiri
I predecided that I would feel terrible after eating ramen for a week and guess what? I felt terrible after eating ramen for a week. Did I do any real science or measurements? Of course not.