skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You don't get to demand that we enforce them differently for the laws you don't like.

This is a specious appeal to an abstract concept, that in this case justifies autocratic power. The entire run-amok surveillance industrial complex exists precisely due to such selective enforcement. If the FBI were actually interested in achieving justice, they would be going after the highly organized traitors systematically undermining our freedoms rather than small isolated cases of individuals committing a crime while trying to expose those larger crimes. Instead we see this exact "different enforcement", but with the opposite prioritization.

And yes, the people deciding en masse to elect different representatives would be one way to fix the problem. But there are many such ways, and general normative condemnation is the way to maintain and build support for any/all of them rather than getting focused on a specific approach which may or may not work.
That is the function of checkpoint inhibitors, according to an explanation I got from a cancer researcher after asking a similar question.

Essential, cancer cells convince the immune system not to attack them, so these inhibitors target the mechanisms by which they do so to get the immune system to take note of these cells. Hope someone more knowledgeable will correct me if I'm wrong.
Similarly, software should automatically be open-source after 30 years.

The more I grow old, the more I consider that OSS is the 8th marvel of the world. Millions of humans worked independently and created the hugest building of our civilization: Linux/Postgres/MySQL/Wordpress/Audacity/OBS/drivers/Nginx/Owasp/NPM/React/Angular, a stepping stone that powers everything and has even already taken off from Mars (Perseverance’s helicopter).
Cancer rarely, if ever goes into remission on its own (rectal cancer, specifically). You would never see this happen randomly to everybody in a trial unless there was some external factor.
> “If the politicians fix the gun problem, I'll shelve this thing, and we'll move on and do other stuff,” Smith said. “But I have fairly low confidence they're gonna fix the problem. And so this is something that's within my control. That's something I can do that I think could make a big difference and is better than the status quo.”

Technology does not solve problems, it transforms problems. What this drone would do is transform the problem of police response time into a problem of financing.

My prediction is that this technology will end up in richer school districts first, then trickle down into less wealthy districts. When it arrives there it will be used more commonly as a tool to control students more than anything else.
It's an antibody.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dostarlimab

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pembrolizumab
They think that a noisy, fragile, clumsy vehicle armed with a limited range weapon will be at all helpful? They must know that this is a terrible use case.

This looks like a naked money grab.
The voting system is where you need to start (in the US too), because that stops all other change from happening.
They already run Linux. Wifi works. It's already quite usable, I'm just too happy with macOS to bother with it.
Bees are ‘fish’ under Calif. Endangered Species Act – state court
Give Finnegans Wake a shot.
It's not just the money though. Even if you remove pay-to-win and move to an ad supported model, these games are still engineered to maximally waste your time.

In fact, even games that are not designed to maximize your time spent in the game can be bad. The reward hits you get from games make you less likely to seek out other types of reward in your life. And even when you're not playing the game, your brain will be running a background task strategising how to maximize your results in the game.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31624185
Love the positive can-do attitude :) I trust that you'll land a great position, you've got the chutzpah and grit for sure! And since you were recently dealing with toddlers as your primary occupation, I assume your soft skills have gotten an excellent workout ;P
When on mobile I end up missing out on a lot of content because using imgur on mobile is much more painful than it should be.

This is compounded by the problem that mobile devices are often considered second class citizens by developers, so even finding out why imgur is behaving differently between mobile & desktop versions is a mission as there are usually no developer tools or ability to 'view source' or even see the error console.

This trend is being fully embraced by web developers who've taken the poison pill (e.g. Reddit, Imgur) where everything needs dumbing-down with options and normal functionality removed even when the desktop site could be adapted with a few small tweaks.
There was a bunch of articles about this in 2020.

After looking into the data my conclusion is the threat is overblown (big surprise), a large part of it is from cooking of any kind (heating produces particulates) and that if you take some basic precautions (open a window, use vent fan) the risk is very low.
The very fact that you're posting on Medium is proof that you're doing it wrong. The content there is neither rare nor well done, and posting there taints you and your writing by association.

Get your own website. Always own your platform.

http://www.alwaysownyourplatform.com/
I think the author should not feel guilty for this and frankly he is overthinking about it a bit. Isn’t it true that most of the things do depend upon little bit of luck? Being born itself is sheer luck!
> I find it unlikely that my local supermarket is going to sell my purchasing habits to China or Iran.

Oh really? Do you think they run an ethical check on people who propose to buy their data? I a sure China is home to a lot of cheap backend services and their clients don't think twice about it.

> Are you sure you don't mean credit bureaus?

Probably yeah, I am not used to that American thing. People think the CCP invented the reputation score but US' private system predates that.
Cell phones can't call or use the web. ICE is using them to track migrants
Isn't wanting to teach your kids the family trade a rather ancient tradition?

Is there any particular reason behind saying that that's bad?
https://archive.is/eSDiX
I suppose you assume the chairs are at even distances?

Imagine there's a circle with marks evenly spaced, eg roots of unity. When you rotate it halfway, the point that started at the bottom has passed (vertically) all the other points ahead of it, because at some stage each point has reached the top and started going down.
Seconded. However, I would add that most books which have Brian Kernighan as an author are of comparable quality. I'm yet to find a book that hasn't taught me something useful written by the man. I can quite confidently say that if he wrote a cook book, I'd go and buy it.

Other books by him.

1. The UNIX programming environment

2. The Practice of Programming

3. The Go Programming Language
some large companies, (i've seen ads from facebook, although i'm sure there are others), have "returnship" programs for people in this exact situation.

edit: see https://www.springboard.com/blog/career-advice/amazon-facebo...
They detect standard tests and behave close to reference but real usage was overly saturated which is manipulating reviewers that use calibrated testing.
That seems pretty obvious from their construction. I don’t know anyone that uses a stove top kettle.

It’s unfortunate that in the US our electric kettles are much slower than in the U.K.
imho this is really negative. Early in my career I would have been self-browbeaten into answering such an interview question disguised as “fun” lunch conversation, but I would have hated it and thought badly of your company. Power dynamic, not subtle implications about getting the job, gaslighting, etc. all lead to a bad look.

At least normally when someone takes you out to the XYZ company “not part of the interview” lunch halfway through your eight hour interview loop and you chat small talk and background, there aren’t actual interview questions being thrown your way.

Imagine going to lunch and the interviewer striking up a conversation with “how many manholes do you suspect there are in New York.”
The difference is that the expectation value is positive.
Thanks for the reference. As the other commenter mentioned, this is great research but I don’t see it as with odds with a molecule of RNA being the first living thing ever. We didn’t discuss before what powered these RNA molecules, but clearly this research is showing us one aspect of it (preexisting metabolic pathway like reactions). These systems might be considered as evolving the same way the sun is evolving I suppose? In the end I would classify life as something that has encoded information on how to create itself and the machinery to do it (or at least the means to recruit the machinery and raw materials) and actually propagate itself perpetually in the right conditions. RNA is still the only viable candidate for that.
There's a lot of UB in that spec. Are compilers capable of warning/erroring UB in this case?
How are you heating your home? Most methane furnace designs use electric blowers to actually get the heat into the home (at least in North America).
As long as money needs to be regulated to prevent money laundering (and thereby reduce the incentives for criminal profits) and sanction avoidance, anything that isn't regulated like money can't be money and will instead be an asset whose transactions will be taxed. If you try to regulate crypto like money, it can no longer be decentralized, and you might as well run it on a traditional bank with a centralized ledger, which is far cheaper.

So yes, crypto can't change in the way you want it to, not in any way that makes financial sense.
I think your right, however they don’t always pick the right projects to do. HS2 for example isn’t exactly thought of as the right place to spend a few 10s billion pounds.
This is awesome! Is it bad that my mind immediately went to how to use it to prank someone? Turn on white noise and then turn on "only when unlocked" and set it to a really low volume.

Drive someone nuts trying to figure out why it seems like they hear a noise every time they unlock their phone.

I won't do this though because I'm pretty sure it would be a violation of the Geneva conventions.
Algorithm detected over a hundred asteroids after studying old telescope data
I’ll look more closely when I’m back in Istanbul. I wonder if it is focused on tourist areas or locations? I’m living as average Turk not currently in tourist focused areas.
Nintendo’s mobile games aren’t developed in-house[1]. Not that it excuses it[2], but it does create a clear line for your parent commenter: as long as the focus is on playing Nintendo games on Nintendo platforms, the plan makes sense[3].

[1]: Niantic for Pokémon Go, DeNA for Mario Kart Tour.

[2]: Nintendo is bound to have the final say.

[3]: For now?
The other reason is futility: the treatment has no benefit or any improvement is grossly outweighed by side effects.
To paraphrase: "I poke myself in the eye with a fork all day and it hurts, so I built an app that detects when I'm doing it and gives me a pop-up reminding me not to poke myself in the eye with a fork so much"

Seriously, though, if you're spending all day hunched over a tiny laptop screen working, the answer is not an app - the answer is to get yourself a proper keyboard and chair and monitor. Your back and wrists and eyes will thank you.
If I was interviewing people what I'd probably do is pick 3 or 4 LeetCode problems, but not ask the person to actually solve them.

Instead, we'd pick whichever of the problems they find most interesting discuss the problem specification, and how we might approach it. We'd discuss what difficulties and special cases we anticipate. Then we'd look at the answer together and see if it seems to make sense. In these discussions I'd try to let them take the lead but would contribute enough to get things moving if they are getting hung up on something.

Finally, we'd go to the most valuable part of LeetCode, the discussion forum for the problem. In the discussion many people post their solutions and a lot of them are wrong. We'd look at a few of those and review them, again with me letting the candidate take the lead.

The great thing about the discussions is that the answers people post contain a wide variety of mistakes. Some don't solve the right problem. Some do get the right answer but don't meet the time or space constrains from the spec. Some miss edge cases. Some fall apart if the problem is too big (e.g., if an input array is big enough that every unsigned integer the language supports is a valid index).

Before we started I'd tell them we are going to do that, so when they hear the word "LeetCode" they don't have to worry even for a moment that I'm going to spring some hard trick question on them and expect to solve it under pressure. I'd probably even ask them if they have any LeetCode problems they have seen or did before and would like to use for this discussion. Since I'm not asking them to solve them, it doesn't matter if they've already seen them.
related (and more true than ever?)

http://liveblog.co/users/davewiner/2015/05/06/iWouldHaveHire...
A 40-story high rise isn't the density we're referring to here, in a discussion of European-style urban living. Obviously one can astronomically inflate the price of any building by stretching it preposterously upwards, thereby requiring exotic materials and building techniques to support its own weight and the increasing winds and seismic concerns. But "dense urban living" doesn't mean "skyscrapers", it can mean four-to-six-story mixed-use buildings, which are both short enough to build without difficulty or undue expense and dense enough to realize efficient infrastructure costs. To be sure, skyscrapers are a dead end that we should be building less of.
Absolutely. Personally I do many other things besides boiling water with the stove, and I agree a kettle is a better way to do that. At least for smaller amounts of water; you’re not making pasta for 4 in the kettle.
Absolutely this. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen any work of nonfiction that equals it. I had cursory familiarity with C in ‘94. I got this book in ‘97. I don’t even recall learning C because it was as if I just skimmed back and forth through the book a couple of times and presto. I knew C. I did one medium sized project with it, and then I got my first real programming job, writing C code among other things.
This is an interesting recommendation. I scanned several sections and agree that the writing style is pleasing.

But as an example of good technical writing in general, I don't think it holds up so well. The style is extremely discursive and there is little structure except for the chapters, many of which are 50 page monoliths. So to me it's more like a work of literature that you take at the author's pace, not a useful repository of technical information for someone whose time and focus are more limited.

Don't get me wrong, I like texts that read well and gradually unfold into a deeper understanding of their subject matter, but in technical writing I also like support for a reader who needs to understand specific aspects of a subject in a form that is convenient to them as a student or professional
Enough +1's here from me too; I even donate. Great selection, not streaming, wonderful UI.
If this is as effective and reliable as is suggested, this the expense is a cost saving effort. Cancer is an exceptionally expensive disease, at least in the US.
Unless your gas supply and appliances have green features that require electricity to function.
That's peanuts in the context of cancer treatment.
Some napkin math: Given rectal cancer's rate of survival of 67%, and the small size of the study (18 people), you should see similar results due to random chance every 1350th study.

A cursory search on clinicaltrials.gov and I can find 7131 cancer studies started in 2021 alone. It's therefore not unreasonable for this one to be just a random fluke.
/*
I used to be able to do this without a compiler
*/
for(;;){
int i = values[0];
if(i == values[i])return i;
values[i] ^= values[0];
values[0] ^= values[i];
values[i] ^= values[0];
}

/*
full test code, does java really not have Arrays.shuffle?
*/
public static void main(String...args){
final int result;

Integer[] values = new Integer[12];
for(int i = 1; i < values.length; i++){
values[i] = i;
}

final int dupe = values[0] = 1 + new Random().nextInt(values.length - 1);
final var list = Arrays.asList(values);
Collections.shuffle(list);
System.err.println(list);
for(;;){
int i = values[0];
if(i == values[i]){
result = i;
break;
}
values[i] ^= values[0];
values[0] ^= values[i];
values[i] ^= values[0];
}
System.err.println(dupe + " " + result);
}
I think it's an exaggeration to think that eating 2 days of ramen and that it wijld have an significant effect on your sodium or energy levels. If anything, I think it's moetly the possibly low caloric value that I would attribute to feeling lethargic.

I've myself eaten a soylent type drink for a month straight, at 1200kcal daily intake and I've had nothing bad to say. My basic metabolic rate is somewhere around 3500kcal and even with a huge deficit, I haven't been tired or anything.
I am not a gamer, but I am fascinated by all manner of monetization. Is Diablo Immortal unique as a free-to-play game that has a microtransaction model to support continued development, or do other games do this? It seems the equivalent of the freemium model with web applications. Does buying the so-called Legendary Gems enhance "winning" or just game playing? And can "winning" result in a financial reward (like in League of Legends, Super Smash Bros., EVO 2022, Mistplay, etc)? I read that "the 1% of top professional gamers make tens of millions of dollars per year with a combination of sponsorships, ad revenue, and subscriber dues". [1] Mind blowing.

[1] https://thinkcomputers.org/odds-of-gaming-earning-you-money/
https://archive.ph/vH2Px
This is a culmination of a trend that has been going on for at least a decade:

First it was the lootboxes that became widespread:

~2010 Steam Team Fortress 2, later Counter Strike

2012 EA's Mass Effect 3

2014 Call of Duty and Battlefield

2016 Overwatch

After that it seemed lootboxes were everywhere. In 2017 there was some backlash for EA's Star Wars game and they removed lootboxes, but it did not change the situation overall.

Then in 2020 western gamers were exposed to gacha mechanics with the release of Genshin Impact, where you "roll" with special currency for weapons and characters that you can't get otherwise. And this currency is either bought with real money or VERY slowly accumulated by playing game. The game is free to play otherwise.

In february this year there was a western release of Lost Ark - MMO ARPG(genre similar to Diablo) that involves probabilistic gear upgrades where you either play weeks to months to fully upgrade it, or drop hundreds to thousands of dollars on upgrade materials, game itself is free to play. It was backed by Amazon and promoted by huge Twitch events.

Both Genshin Impact and Lost Ark have very impressive amount of content, beautiful visuals, music - all while being free to play. Could these games be made and succeed without gambling mechanics? I don't know. My experience with Genshin has been that I got a lot more out of it in terms of fun per money spent than out of most from what I buy on Steam sales - which I play for few hours and forget.

I think the regulations about these kinds of games should at the very least require devs to:
- State all the probabilities
- Define a guarantee or a "pity": at which attempt will you succeed with 100% probability.

Then for each desired outcome, e.g. fully upgrading weapon, there should be displayed an expected and maximum "price", preferably in real currency. This would at least help the adults to moderate their spending. And as for children, yeah, these games should be 18+, I don't believe a child can handle the urge to spend in these games.
The software industry is like an abusive partner. Always desperate to hire STEM talent, but not you. Knowing a large number of people with similar experiences my recommendation is to start up something. Some very limited and targeted application or service is usually possible. If nothing else it is great practice that will improve skills. The amount of work required to get a job in the software industry is often far larger than the amount of work it takes to make a modest profit from applying yourself directly.
I strongly disagree with "I remained flat" statement. I mean, you were taking care of your children, weren't you? If you do it right (imho, if you even just try to do it right), it's the biggest accomplishment one can do.

I understand how frustrating it must be to stay professionally flat compared to your peers. We absolutely should celebrate people taking their time off to literally raise the next humans, instead we're turning them down because they spent 5~6 years off the industry. How is this not counterproductive for humanity as a whole?
They're talking about gas stoves, which are designed for cooking but can be repurposed in a pinch as an emergency heat source.
Housing Boom Fails to Lift All Homes Above Previous Cycle’s Peak
Global poverty is a crime against humanity [video]
your response to rejection tells me you'll be perfectly fine. Any company would be lucky to have you. The first thing we list in our "requirements" for hiring is "grit" and you clearly have an abundance.
Even the iOS provided ability with the Camera app only shows part of a URL and depending on the domain you might not even see the full domain.

I'm damn sure not installing a 3rd party app that I have even less trust in to not do something shady. Typically, if I'm only provided a QR code, then I move along to something else. It irks me to know end that I have to use them in the manner that I do, and voice my concerns anytime the discussion is held on if they are needed. Unfortunately, they are expected to be provided as has been suggested not quite a barcode replacement but similarly present in retail packaging
This is why although I’ve almost got enough money to retire (~20x yearly expenses) but I’ll keep on working for another decade or two. All of these whiz-bang new treatments are going to be expensive. The most expensive medical procedure right now is a heart transplant at about $1M. Then there’s the $10k/mo for a nursing home
Compared to $10 meal, nutritionally $100 meal is not worth it.
These economies were overbuilt based on captive demand.

We may just have to do without so many Hale n Hearty Soup shops.

It’s true that Aramark suffers when we enjoy entertainment at home but should we have to attend a concert daily just to support Aramark?
add 6 feet to a rope around the world, stretch it out and how far off the ground would it be

is this a technical puzzle/question? to me it reads like a middle school geometry question. it would be fun to discuss it with friends/colleagues but I wouldn't expect it during a software engineering interview
Cry more, crypto cultists.
My friend just made this same journey, returning to the workforce after being a SAHM for a bunch of years.

One thing she did which probably helped was publish YouTube videos about tech topics. She'd just pick a topic, research it, and make a training video on it. She also started using twitter a lot and having conversations with prolific tweeters in her area of expertise.

Basically she upped her public profile and got noticed.
Moore’s Law and Dennard scaling were in full swing during that era. The thing about exponential growth is that most of the gains come at the end. The Alto cost $100K in 1973, the price for equivalent hardware halved every 18 months. That’s exactly what happened. By 1983 we had Mac for $1000 hardware cost / $2500 list price.
I’m listening to Metal Machine Music right now , feedback may be another rabbit hole next door
This is fascinating. A whole genre I cannot appreciate at all and yet a genuine fan. Amazing.