skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone once asked me what was the most interesting bug I ever fixed. How the hell do I honestly answer that on the spot? Human memory is notoriously weak, and I don’t write down my bug fixes into a diary.

I ended up just making up a fake story on the spot that was uninteresting and barely coherent. That was the first question I was asked in the interview, and made me nervous for the rest of it. Didn’t get the job.

Clearly I should have taken an improv class in preparation.

But yeah, I learned the same lesson as you: prepare and rehearse a bunch of fake stories in advance. Completely stupid waste of time, but necessary.

It could be an interesting part of the interview that reveals a lot about the candidate, but realistically it’s going to favor the people with rehearsed fake stories. What are the chances that your genuine real-life experience is more interesting than someone else’s fake one specifically crafted to be as interesting as possible?
Mining hash rate is correlated with value in network. It is not correlated with transaction volume. If tx volume dropped by half it would not meaningfully impact the hash rate. If Bitcoin’s price were to drop by half the hash rate would definitely fall.
A bit of it, but not the majority of it.
> To be fair, that's not quite the same thing as what you're saying

That's an asterisk you can drive a truck through. "Not quite"? What you're saying has absolutely nothing to do with what the parent is saying.
Wasn't that just scanning on the phone? Don't they already scan photos uploaded to iCloud?
Is this a theoretical analysis? My assessment is that they are already much better, particularly if combined with an efficient house and sufficient battery storage to use low demand electricity. The power output from an ASHP can exceed a typical gas boiler if that is desired.
Some discussion here:

https://www.psychreg.org/executive-narcissism-inhibits-inter...

> Dr Liu offered two theories as to why narcissism stands in the way of knowledge transfer: One, narcissistic unit heads may strongly believe that they have a superior knowledge stock, compared to executives in other units, and understand their unit’s problems better – leading them to believe others’ knowledge is less valuable. The second theory is that these executives may believe that knowledge transfer may diminish their sense of superiority and uniqueness, leading them to decline to receive external knowledge in an attempt to preserve their image.

If you're worried you might have narcissitic tendencies, don't worry too much: a real narcissist would never entertain such a notion.
"Google shouldn't be regulated by Illinois because police are bad." Did I get that about right?

I don't see what police have to do with any of this, it seems like a generic unrelated gripe being roped into the conversation because you don't like Google being regulated for other reasons that, if expressed, probably sound even even lamer than somehow using police malfeasance to justify deregulating a tech corp.
Pascal was almost there

It puts the reference counting in the type system. Like the default string type and arrays (=vectors) are reference counted. And for speed you could use manual memory management

Any string literal is like an arc<string>. E.g. in Delphi you can now write string concatenation like:

var a = 'bcd';
var b = 'xyz';
var c = a + b;

which corresponds to Rust like

let a = Arc::new(String::from("bcd"));
let b = Arc::new(String::from("xyz"));
let c = format!("{}{}", a,b)
Apple did roll out the technical infrastructure, including clientside code, and still intends to enable it.

Nothing significant has changed.
Text messages and email are different because they're private: if someone sends you an abusive text only you can see it.

The problem with NFT wallets is that you can send someone something which will then be publicly visible and associated with them, without their consent.
Setback for Apple and all Apple customers, I’d say.
Why is there a reverse the digits step in the cc# algorithm?

Seems like it will work just fine without doing that.
For where I live in London, ground heat pumps are infeasible and air heat pumps would produce too much noise and not be permitted under conservation area rules.

What most of the UK needs is an effective drop-in replacement to a combi boiler, ideally one that doesn't need a large water storage cylinder. It could even be a combination of a slow boiler (for radiators) and a fast water heating unit (for bath/shower/taps).

Any retrofit of air or ground heat pumps into Victorian terraces just wouldn't work or be acceptable.

The UK needs to replace millions of these style boilers https://www.worcester-bosch.co.uk/products/boilers/directory...

As yet no comparable electric version exists at similar price, size, capability. This is where a govt can incentivise innovation to both create what we need, and then help it be deployed (first with a stick like banning things, and second with a carrot like helping those in poverty get it for cheap/free).
Not sure if it’s new but Amazon gives cash bonus to flatten comp, so it’s cash heavy for years 1 and 2 then stock heavy for years 3 and 4
I don't completely understand how LTO works - is LTO 100% done in compiler plugins? Or is some of it done in ld/gold/lld which mold doesn't have implemented yet?
Right we've caught, let's see… {a thousand companies (including MS), governments around the word, and associated criminals} with their hand in the cookie-jar, over and over and over again, yet there's "no evidence." Billion-dollar databroker businesses non-withstanding.
MS was first in line for the NSA as well.

I don't think all the telemetry is particularly useful, but there is no reason to give MS the benefit of the doubt here.
Rubbish. It depends on what you want to make your opponent do.
My experience of induction stoves is that they are v expensive and have a very short lifespan.
Induction heaters to release fasteners on cars are excellent though
A median of about 1.7 years, by my math.
Who uses ad blockers and wants to work for Google?
"you think that "the dirty industry" are just emitting carbon for the fun of it?"

Yes, for fun and profit.
I keep going back and forth about whether I should respond to this, so I just upvoted you instead, but now I'm third-guessing myself.

If that's actually the case about BitKeeper then 1) what the fuck, guys, and 2) I'll be thinking hard before I roll out that little rant again. Standing next to a bad actor, you have to gauge your behavior more carefully, because a reasonable response now has additional connotations. Laughing at a joke changes depending on who is telling the joke, for instance.

The part I still feel fairly confident about though is that it feels like someone needs to tap the brakes. It feels like we're on the brink of going too far with this one. And I don't necessarily mean 'witch hunt' style, although that thought has occurred to me more than once. I mean more like diminishing returns and backlash. Maybe we should be wrapping this up and looking for a new problem to fix? Or at least asking the question. Perfect is the enemy of the good, and we haven't really achieved 'good'.
playing this game is akin to starving yourself for a week just to finally have a meal that "tastes better"
Attrition needs to exist for any big company. There is a percentage of engineers that manage to make it past the interview who then get complacent and stop caring.

While I get that people need leeway to improve, its important to remember that a) doing this on company dollar is not a given, b) FAANG positions pay significantly higher, and c) being employed at FAANG for any amount of time is a big boost to your resume at is.

Also, in general, if you are blindsided by a PIP and you aren't in some niche out of the way team with politics involved, you probably should not be working at FAANG.
> I don't think anyone is unaware of the concept of law.

They're aware of the concept of law but frequently unaware of specific laws. ;-)
I think coffee with cream, Latte and cappuccino, has contributed to my high cholesterol, with 3 to 4 cups daily, now I am going for Americano.
If it tells you how many letters are right, and how many are in the right place, it could become Datle.
> but it can make financial sense depending on the cost of electricity.

Don't forget to price in carbon emissions and the cost of pollution.
That's super interesting! Of note, the book Quicksilver (First book in the Baroque Cycle) goes into a few diatribes about subtle differences in coins in Europe a few hundred years ago; eg coins being valued by metrics other than their face value.

Eg:
> “I say, Daniel, is it true what they say, that those coins are perfectly circular?”

> “They are, Isaac—not like the good old English hammered coins that you and I carry in such abundance in our pockets and purses.”
...
>“if someone clips or files a bit of metal off the edge of a round coin with a milled edge, it is immediately obvious.”

> “That must be why everyone is melting those new coins down as fast as they are minted, and shipping the metal to the Orient…?” Daniel began,

> “…making it impossible for the likes of me and my friend to obtain them,” Isaac finished.

> “Now there is a good idea—if you can show me coins of a bright silver color—not that black stuff—I’ll weigh them and accept them as bullion.”

> “Bullion! Sir!”

> “Yes.”

> “I have heard that this is the practice in China,” Isaac said sagely. “But here in England, a shilling is a shilling.”

> “No matter how little it weighs!?”

> “Yes. In principle, yes.”

> “So when a lump of metal is coined in the Mint, it takes on a magical power of shillingness, and even after it has been filed and clipped and worn down to a mere featureless nodule, it is still worth a full shilling?”

> You exaggerate,” Daniel said. “I have here a fine Queen Elizabeth shilling, for example—which I carry around, mind you, as a souvenir of Gloriana’s reign, since it is far too fine a specimen to actually spend. But as you can see, it is just as bright and shiny as the day it was minted—”

> “Especially where it’s recently been clipped there along the side,” the lens-grinder said.

> “Normal, pleasing irregularity of the hand-hammered currency, nothing more.”
They mentioned that when A tossed the coin, B would record the result on a spreadsheet. But did A know the result of each coin toss as it happened and read it off to B, or did B whisk the coin out of A's hand without A's knowledge of the outcome? Ideally it should be without knowledge of the outcome, so that A's tossing style wouldn't be subconsciously influenced by the result in a kind of self-inflicted Clever Han(d)s effect.
Awesome—will look into it!
Yeaaaah. I got nailed with something like this too. I actually started talking about one bug and kind of confused it with another similar bug. I probably sounded like a moron or a liar and they passed.

Was a shame. But I guess I should really rehearse my "STAR" stories :-|
Goodbye to the Vikings
PromptBase
15% of all natural gas use is residential.

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/natural-gas/use-of-natur...

These laws are about removing the need for gas lines entirely.

I think that restaurants count as commercial so the impact would be even higher. It's nonsense to claim that these changes won't have an impact.
The Goose on the Cliff
Or do both so that you are not predictable.
What dimensionality reduction algorithm is being used? PCA? UMAP? Of course better ones are likely to give better 2D representations.

I've had this same idea to use the point cloud visualization to improve my own take on language model games - but I when I experimented with this, I found that even the best 2D representations were still quite bad in the context of trying to help out humans.
You think that "the dirty industry" will voluntarily work to reduce negative externalities if they aren't regulatorily required to do so and if doing so is less profitable than mounting a PR campaign to draw attention away from them would be?
> is not up to the task of improving algorithms for email server reputation? No, they are definitely capable of improvement. It's simply not of interest to them.

Incorrect, if they stopped spending all that money and effort to keep up, their users would get flooded.

> Of course anything can be gamed

Sending spam/marketing e-mails is a multi-million industry. Both on illegal and legal markets. It's a constant race.
And now the same link has the released update versions.
>The small ones are still present

Bit strange given that you've removed the alleged source of the problem (stuff caught in old filter).
Why can I identify spam at a glance, with greater than 90% accuracy, from the subject line alone, and to Google it's an unsolved problem?

Google reads and indexes every email that they deliver to a gmail inbox. They probably have the worlds largest and highest paid staff of ML experts, and they resort to auto-flagging based on IP address?

Fix it.
And now the same link has the released update versions. And more details: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-79000
This is hilarious. And correct!
It would be great in general if Android had more flexible APIs for implementing network filtering/VPNs. Perhaps this could be solved by some kind of app that registers a VPN service and exposes an API over some IPC mechanism so that other apps can handle filtering/routing? Although I don't know enough about Android to judge if that's feasible.
This is a pointless game of accounting, that distracts from the issue at hand.

As long as producers aren't taxed for emissions, consumers can't pick lower-emission producers.
Same thing happened to me.

That is extremely weird for them to not be intelligent enough to make this firefox compatible.
I love that the box and form factor are retro 80's but the keyboard is fully modern. Very good design decisions.
Or use a GC language with a great typesystem and have both safety and fast efficient development cycles.
Moreover

> "Biometric information" means any information, regardless of how it is captured, converted, stored, or shared, based on an individual's biometric identifier used to identify an individual. Biometric information does not include information derived from items or procedures excluded under the definition of biometric identifiers.

So a photo is not a biometric identifier, and derivations from a photo are not biometric information. The rest of the statute only applies to those two classes of data.

I don't understand why the settlement was reached.
How do they discard confounding variables? Is there any causal link between how people drink coffee and mortality, or is this just a correlation?
> Gas allows you to set the exact temp you need

No gas stove I’ve used has had this functionality. They let you set the exact output you want, which is not the same (and induction cooktops can do that too).

Yes, if you want to set a specific temperature induction cooktops will cycle, but you can also use them the same way you’d use a gas stove and then they don’t.
>How is it anything other than out of whack if observed reality isn't statistically aligned with potential? Simple economics tells us that we get the best outcomes by aligning those. (And... motives and incentives are part of the systemic biases. As I said, you don't need to identify them to observe their results.)

The set of all relevant characteristics to evaluate 'potential' is either infinite or approximates infinite on the scale of human lifetimes and capabilities, not least of all because 'potential' is also the evaluation of that infinite list of characteristics across an infinite list of possible uses of one's time within some moral framework that must be used to determine which is the optimal solution. The practical implication is that 'statistical alignment with potential' is a fantasy, and anyone who indulges it will spend all their time trying to figure out how to amass and analyze the relevant information (and no time accomplishing anything else), which we can hopefully acknowledge is not the best use of potential.

>Also, did you know that language changes?

Please, don't be snide.

>It's not a set of rules set down in a book somewhere. (Even French, much to their dismay.) Sexism may have meant only individual men demeaning women once, but it turns out it's a good word to describe all forms of bias based on sex or gender. So use of the term expanded. This isn't misappropriation, this is how language works.

It's a good word to describe forms of bias because its prior meaning gets people's attention, because it is a word that means something that needs to be fixed. The extent of 'systemic sexism' far outpaces 'sexism', meaning that the first use will necessarily eclipse the second, eventually taking away the shock value and, in the meantime, it removes the significance of what was once an unambiguous and damning word. It is a loss of linguistic clarity for political expedience.
Direct video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKqgdT-KLrM
> It just means that the standard statistical methods of science are so weak and flawed as to permit a field of study to sustain itself in the complete absence of any subject matter.
Using DKIm you don’t actually have the problem that people can buy so-called good domains, because the system works with private and public keys, so not only do you need a good domain, you also need the private key for that specific DKIM in signature
I'm a Googler and, like many googlers, I ask this type of questions during interviews.

The recommendation for interviewers is to select a mix between past stories and hypothetical scenarios.
Dang. That's kinda of a big deal...

Kinda crazy that people are vouching for 1x if cross-chaining is an issue with that system (as the main pull seemed to be that 1x is fully functional as is, without hiccups).

So in your opinion, do you prefer 2x & 3x? And is the cross-chaining issue with 1x enough of an issue to write it off?

I'm guessing the cross-chaining can be addressed if you reduce the range in the cassette?
It's funny to see the first three there and feel so much nostalgia.

Prince of Persia: Massive nostalgia for the sound of those first 5-6 notes of the intro music in bold OPL3 MIDI, out of my oversized computer speakers. Inviting my friend over one weekend to play it, only to cheer him on as he beat the entire game. "...maybe you jump through the mirror...?!"

Doom: HS Physics teacher bribe. "In my hands I'm holding a stack of floppy disks with the Alpha version of a game called Doom. If you work hard today..." Worked so hard. Massive jump-scare weekend with friends over.

Wolf3D: "There's a full copy on the drafting class computers, and you don't have to shell out of anything, they boot straight to a DOS prompt!" What??! Incredible. Made every computer class after that year seem so restrictive. You'd walk in expecting to see CAD being done, and instead you'd see Wolf3D, POV-Ray experimentation, computer programming, and "I don't care, as long as you get your work done, hee hee" was the only response from the teacher. Loved that guy.
> BTW, there are coin magicians who have mastered the ability to flip a normal coin and control the outcome to >95%.

I managed 11 heads in a row with a quarter when I was in high school. I was intentionally going for heads so it was either beginner’s luck or an absurd statistical fluke.
Yes, the 1.3 beta branch has tile layers, and they are fantastic. I should have been more specific.
Only in Rust you need synchronization when accessing an object from multiple places on the same thread.
Yes, people disagree frequently in workplaces. I have quite a few real scenarios where I worked to see the other person's perspective and came to a better solution than I could have reached on my own, and when I interview people who don't that's a real concern. Resolving disputes about the right way to do something is typically a core job responsibility for anyone beyond the entry level.
I will note that Rust has all of those features you mentioned.
1) Traits
2) You have to be explicit, by implementing the Clone trait, otherwise arguments are passed by reference or moved.
3) Rust has both RAII and linear typing, which is effectively a proven-correct form of moves - you can't access something that has been moved, unlike C++.

Rust doesn't have class inheritance, no, but often combining traits and delegating to a "parent" field works. Although sometimes that can be considerably more cumbersome, yeah.
That's kind of you. I don't know how related it is, but my main interest now is a kind of empirical evaluation of numerical precision. I have some C code (actually students' C code), and one thing I do to characterize it is run it twice, once rounding towards negative infinity, and once towards positive infinity, and see how different they are. Increasing the crappiness of code tends to widen that window (between the two results), but not all crappy code generates a wide window. I would much rather, at a great computational expense that I'm happy to deal with, run the code many many times, each time randomizing the rounding direction just prior to any FP operation, so that I can get a sense of the distribution of numerical results over all possible roundings. I'm contemplating doing things like reading assembly code and injecting random rounding changes, and then compile and run that, but I'm also wondering if others have already done this, in the setting of vanilla C code.

And in case its relevant, in this setting, students are only allowed to use single (32-bit) precision floats and operations.
The solution has to be both. LA city government can't replace the grid or set national energy policy. National policy is held hostage by climate deniers who refuse to lift a finger on anything that would have any actual scale. Saying we can't act locally because there's not enough action globally is nonsequitar. We have to do both. People using gas stoves and overwatering lawns has to stop regardless of anything else. We can't just wait for everyone else to go first.
In the phone land at least, TouchPad was a nice tablet
But you can elect not to have your domain privacy protected. And if a bad actor is trying to grief another person they could list out their entire address, email, phone etc in the public WHOIS then transfer it over to them to create the "ultimate smoking gun".
This changed in 2022, they are taking on a lot of remote workers now. Although I think they may ask that you be in a certain zone, like some mileage away from a physical office. But I think that may be for tax reasons.
To me, it looks like questions about things like "most interesting bug" are unintentionally going to be biased towards more junior developers. Once you have a lot of experience under your belt, bugs and fixes sort of all look the same. They're no longer novel. I don't know how I'm supposed to wade through 20 years of experience and recall "the most interesting bug I ever fixed". Now, if I had 2-5 years of experience, that would likely be super easy to recall.
or just download eXoDOS and eXoWin
If we're looking for a finished product, we're leaving a tool on the shelf -- filters aren't the only option. Pipe the air through a duct flooded with deadly UV-C and sterilize the air instead of just filtering it.
Maybe this: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
You're kind making OP's point here, no? In essence, there are some huge failures to resolve these issues at the level where those solutions would matter in terms of moving the needle. The responsibility is being abrogated at the governmental level, and being kicked down to individuals where the cost to benefit ratio is far worse, both for the individual and the environment.
> Text messages and email are different because they're private: if someone sends you an abusive text only you can see it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM