skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to be clear, we're talking about combining a mechanical pencil and a rubber band to launch BBs, tooth picks, etc? These are "weapons" in the sense that nerf guns are, maybe enough to trigger hysterical zero tolerance rules but certainly not enough to actually threaten anybody with sense. They only have as much power as a rubber band. You can (and we did) get better results using just the rubber band stretched between your thumb and index finger. You can launch a pencil clear across the room like that.. but you could also just throw the pencil.

Treating these as real weapons, let alone zip-guns, is an absolute farce. Zero tolerance means zero thought.
And Microsoft's answer - Project Blackbird - fortunately sanity prevailed and Microsoft "embraced" the WWW
Very familiar with this problem. This process has happened at my last job and is just starting at my current job. Distributing the issues by team makes a ton of sense, but in my experience, it only gets so far. It’s always been unclear how to handle, and scale, the remaining 10% of on call burden.
Some are replying that this sarcasm. I think not entirely. I think rather it is sarcasms cousin “satire.”

It states in a blunt shocking way a truth that exists manifestly in many of our actions, but is never said in that way.
Why would you allow a foreign billionaire that does not live and produce any value in US, buy properties for the sole purpose of speculating and driving price high? There are countries like Denmark where you can’t just buy properties, you have to be authorized.

That would be a good start.
I’m sorry, but that’s a non sequitur. The alternative is not that the drug wasn’t produced. It is that the drug wasn’t developed by private enterprise.
really nicely put together design wonkery
The Signal project doesn't want non-official clients to connect to their network. I doubt you'll get them to release an official client for your bespoke dumbphone OS, so I'm afraid you'll have to accept unstable hackery as a way to run signal.

You may be able to create your own dumbphone by flashing something like PostmarketOS to a compatible second hand phone combined with a custom Signal client. Just apk remove the browser and any other utilities you don't need and even the librem phone might be fast enough for your use case.
not sure why this was down voted i thought it was a good article and vouched it
If you start putting more rule, you get healthcare, but not universal.

That's what the universal stands for.

It's for everybody, no matter the person.

If you are not ok with that, they you don't want universal healthcare, you want something else.

I personnally love universal healthcare, and I'm happy to pay for it. I don't want to have to play a game of chess to live my life in the most likely way to be reimbursed by the system.
If you haven't read "The Vital Question" by Nick Lane yet, then you really should.

One of the book's suggestions is that an energy-first analysis of life and the origins of life, can be incredibly explanatory—particularly since Science (and Pop-Science) has been so focused on genetics for so long.

In terms of the origins of life, the idea is essentially that rather than try to imagine how RNA could "just appear", we should look for places where there were natural, persistent, energy fluxes (the "fires" as you say), and try to understand how these energy fluxes began to resemble cells. i.e., were constrained into cell-sizes and began replicating.

Incidentally, the theory that Nick Lane puts forward of which particular energy fluxes gave rise to life is sea-floor alkaline hydrothermal vents[1]—which is also discussed in the book.

[1] https://nick-lane.net/publications/origin-life-alkaline-hydr...
They may eventually find that Shakespeare’s plays were not written by him, but by someone else with the same name.
That's at least partly because London already has the best transport infrastructure. If other places had better infrastructure then they should attract more business and more of your attention.
https://beziercurves.com/

You can generate basic curves here to practise tracing them.
Punkt MP02 might meet your needs.
https://www.punkt.ch/en/products/mp02-4g-mobile-phone/
Redfin actually. I lucked out in my opinion. If I were to search for land again, I would just talk to people and make connections. Go to local government meetings (council, etc). Community group meetings too. Ask around, tell people you are trying to start a farm. If you're lucky you can find someone and skip the realtor entirely and just get a lawyer.
I took the Elizabeth Line last week for the first time, to get to Comic-Con. It was great, same vibe as the DLR only underground.
This has happened to me a couple times and I tell the interviewer that I already know the answer and to move on to the next question. It’s good because you get to see more questions and makes the interview more interesting and at the same time the employer sees that you like a good challenge.
Depending on the participants and mechanics, a consortium could actually be the best long-term outcome, in regards to ARM.

(I'd still rather not have Qualcomm and their "business™ practices" involved…)
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/

The PostgreSQL documentation is pretty fabulous. It’s well organized, complete, clear, and purposeful. You can read it like a textbook from page 1, or dive into it as a quick reference.
That doesn’t mean that attack drones are the solution to unruly kids.
Full remission without surgery?

This looks much more like tossing a dice 18 times and getting a 6 every single time!
You need to clean the filters regularly so they don’t become a fire hazard due to oil buildup; the better ones should have some kind of reminder system and will have filters that are dishwasher safe.
Those fans can be installed in two ways, venting or recirculating. In a recirculation mode you need to keep the filters clean, and they do an _ok_ job at keeping smells out of the kitchen, but if they don't vent outdoors then you need to open a window unfortunately
Yes, both can be immoral.
Seems like you’re reading an encyclopaedic account of events. Go for books that aren’t meant to be read sequentially. Matt Haig’s books are great for random soundbites. You can read random pages and still learn from them. His books are written like a collection of blogposts.
"Leetcode" algo questions are supposed to test how you think and programming skills but for most people it just tests if they've seen the question before or not.
This is not completely true.

When the monitor is at the correct hight it will put less strain on the neck.

In the neck are also nerves that are related to sight. A tight neck can also cause visual problems.
I am not sure I understand what you mean. The core mechanic is that rewards are randomly distributed - the namesake “gacha” machines dispense a capsule with a random toy. Think of it as a slot machine where if it hits you get an item you wanted / needed for gameplay and if it doesn’t it just took your money and gave you something useless.
A taser-drone looks like an expensive remedy designed to be a money-sucker than an actual solution.

Instead of making schools safer, pretty soon we'll just have a bunch of defense companies lined up to sell snake-oil bandaid solutions to schools for millions of dollars, and meanwhile nothing will change.
The Linux programming interface.

Emacs and Vim manuals.
Possibly with part time work but it can be hard to find, and it's still a compromise.
Both the Bard and the Stratford man were referred to by many spellings of "Shakespeare", as was typical of the time. This is because they were the same person. This argument against Shakespeare's authorship has been debunked for decades.

https://shakespeareauthorship.com/name1.html
Although i agree that gas cooktops have several advantages in cooking non westernized meals, rotis can definitely be made on induction. Been making them since many years now.
A few links which provide some good insight for your idea.

https://research.nccgroup.com/2021/10/21/cracking-rdp-nla-su...

https://github.com/nccgroup/nlahoney
I’d take that. The Canadian pattern is over budget poorly implemented.
After finishing Severance, I went looking for a keycap set mimicing the Data General Dasher keyboard that the series based their terminals on. Thankfully there's an MT3 version of it[0] which looks and feels amazing. Really love the profile.

[0] https://drop.com/buy/drop-mt3-dasher-keycap-set?defaultSelec...
> The founder is like a hard-core sci-fi fan

Not surprising, his company was originally named after an old science fiction story Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle; which he initialized to Taser.
3) make your career about something more than climbing up an imaginary ladder that largely exists to motivate you into giving more while getting less and less in return.

YMMV, of course!
What is the catch here? In multi dimensional and infinite cases it can be a little tricky, but in this one is there more to it than "all permutations should have the same probability"?
This experiment of treating cancer with checkpoint inhibitors before chemotherapy should be widened to all cancers where the CI is available and effective as soon as possible, as it can cure lots of lives.

I'm worried that it will take many years until that happens.
Deep inside TOMOYO Linux (2009) [pdf]
If you're willing to be charitible of where exactly programming comes in while playing a game - I would say creating cheats or bots for video games.

These days, you will most likely have your account restricted and banned from an entire ecosystem of games if you try this, but back in the days where flash was dominant you could do lots of fun things with little risk. Many fun times in Runescape making dollars off my bots that ran air runecrafting bots, or Fist of Guthix bots in F2P and selling the GP I got for the rewards. Does not need to be very complicated either IMO.

For a direct answer, I think Minecraft has a lot of options for learning programming without really learning programming. I have never played it but I have seen what others have done in what I believe is creative/builder mode.
On the other hand that first question was just a filter. He managed to do well in the on site interview. So even if he had an unfair advantage to get the foot in the door, he managed to back it up
My point wasn't so much about "fixed function" devices like toasters, but rather about higher-level industrial IoT devices like commercial security-monitoring control systems, or electricity meters (the kinds of things that have embedded 5G radios); and also about complex, flexible-purpose, networked "embedded" systems like SAN hardware appliances or network switches.

These types of devices do receive regular firmware updates. And (certain models of them) are required to operate in high-security environments, where the end-to-end logistical security of update delivery is part of what the customers of those systems are paying for by buying them. Also, in general, these systems have "no user-modifiable parts"; all the useful configuration for them is exposed on the outside, where nothing you'd want to do with them would require hacking them — because much of the point of these devices is to be a hermetic environment isolating the data they evaluate or carry from interference by third parties.

Maybe the best example in this category would be an Intrusion Detection System. It's definitely a full computer! But if you're the sort of company that needs one of those, then you certainly don't want the IDS itself to have any exploit surface whatsoever — including at the firmware level. And you'd rather lose out on ability to install custom firmware on your own IDS, if that means that an APT loses the ability to rootkit your IDS.
An Apple a day keeps the exploiter away [pdf]
How does society punish you for being childless?
Very little maintenance is required but not zero. If it gets gross, wash it.
I have health insurance but I don’t trust some company to not dither when time counts
A holiday rental I stayed in had a boiling water tap. It's a small improvement over a kettle, but in terms of improvement there's very little efficiency gains to be had over a hot plate directly in contact with the cooking liquid.
I had a blower that recirculated with a gas stove in NYC, in a newish (2008 I believe) building.

New construction in NYC bans gas stoves.
Thanks. The headline was a bit misleading.
It made a huge difference for me.

I suffered years of pain from a crinked neck, sore back, herniated gut, swollen leg veins, strained wrist (RSI), and dry eyes.

Step by step, I solved the problems. (In matching order:) Higher monitors, standing desk, ergonomic chair, standing desk, better peripherals, dimmed screen (using f.lux).

The key is gradually changing things until you find local maxima that work for you. If it hurts in a new way, change again. If the same hurt comes back, intensify the change.

It’s not as simple as “too much screen time.” I spend far more time in front a screen now compared to before, and yet suffer far less.
2 games come to mind...

- Turing complete: helped me understand how a computer works, how binary works and what the instructions and operations look like at the hardware level

- Factorio: helped me understand broader aspects like availability, fault tolerance, decoupling, team management, prioritization.
Yes, to both.

It's very counter intuitive, and very easy to solve.
The issue is fundamentally that releasing a single game for a single fee yields linear growth, which is to say the amount your growing by is stagnant. Stagnant growth, to an investor, is essentially a signal that your company is currently failing. So unless you can grow your growth, you fail, and the only way to continue growing your growth is if new products remain cash generating indefinitely.
To the author: what exactly are you looking for? As in, what type of job, position, desired amount of work per week, etc? There are people here that may be able to help.
It’s not a small molecule, it’s a biologic (antibody). It was designed specifically to do what it does, and not discovered by chance.
Really nice way to put it!
As an interviewer, I would prefer (in this order):

1. The candidate has actual domain experience matching the question and can rattle off the answer in their sleep. We can use the remaining time to go deeper into the question and probe the boundaries of candidate's knowledge. [maybe 1 out of 200 candidates actually deliver this]

2. The candidate came prepared, studied the question ahead of time, can rattle off the answer from memory. As above, with the question out of the way, we could use time to explore around the topic and find areas the candidate didn't study but still can work their way through. It's rare that you see someone who memorized a perfect answer, but then can't go further purely because they have no canned response.

3. The candidate doesn't know the question ahead of time, and legitimately "thought hard" and solved it on the spot. We may or may not have time to probe further, but candidate has shown the ability to reason through a problem outside their domain.

[above this line is my "hire" bar, below is unfortunately the vast majority of candidates]

4. The candidate doesn't immediately get there, but can be guided through with hints and can follow the bread crumbs I'm laying.

5. The candidate tries but, for many possible reasons, struggles, goes off down wrong-way roads, and doesn't make any progress.

6. The candidate freezes up, deer in headlights, won't produce anything.

7. The candidate talks and talks with a prepared speech about his background and skills, but doesn't actually do or solve anything [yes, I've seen this multiple times]
The Internet Used to Be Smaller and Nicer. Let’s Get It Back
I see how you did it, yeah - makes sense. One of my teammates implemented the same thing for a HTML table editor for a product many years ago.

I just completed my own task by getting the frontend to provide the latest row ID it has to the backend. Guess it was really simple since I didn't actually need to update existing records, just get new ones.

Ultorg looks like MS Access for general data sources (including Access itself as a data source). Developers just end up rebuilding existing ideas on new infrastructure, hah. We had the same requirement just a few weeks ago and ended up showing the business users how to use HeidiSQL :)
> What should it cost instead?

To patients? It should be free.

To society? The initial research cost plus the bare manufacturing cost.
Its really interesting to think of things in terms of "Volume of Human Bodies" for planning for infra...

EDIT: I guess this is the literal definition of "Civil Engineer"
CERNs OpenStack documentation is pretty terrific. Wish for profit cloud providers had as good.

https://clouddocs.web.cern.ch/
https://planetscale.com/blog/generics-can-make-your-go-code-...

The blog post on go generics seemed to be a very well written piece.
I understand what you're saying, and I don't think it's a flippant answer at all, but that's only something the game developer can do. Ultimately, they're running a business and will make choices that make them money. If that means they don't publish their game at all in Europe or North America then that's what they're going to do. They won't be poorer for it, it'll be us, Europeans, who can't play their games (or we get to play some heavily Americanized version of the game, because that's the company that ends up publishing the game in Europe with lots of American changes).

My problem with this is that ultimately it ends up limiting my choices because I happen to live in Europe. I can choose not to play games that I think are trying to take too much advantage of me (or complain about ones that try to), but it's much more difficult to play a game that isn't permitted to be playable in my region.
leetcode.com is an interesting puzzle game and is language agnostic.
Goretek and the Microchips, but y'all probably a little young for that. :-D
Check out flexbox froggy. There are good games about git too. I tried the Twilio games but I think those are better for young kids. It takes too long.
Not quite software development related but check out the application notes and articles from Jim Williams and Bob Pease.
There can never be enough ideas. We need to stop thinking that. Ideas need execution and hyper focus to succeed (Obvious, but overlooked)
> It is so sad that "make good game, sell it" model no longer works. It's all a wonky curve of "free - couple of dollars - hundreds and thousands of dollars".

Same can be said for software. Now it’s all SaaS where you have to pay monthly and choose from different pricing tiers or ala carte feature options to ‘win’ in a business sense.
Writing in perl is like writing in line-noise.
You'll be triangulated down by boomer HAMs (they call it 'fox hunting', it's a sub-hobby for them) and slapped with a fine by the FCC.
People always want a nicer house in a nicer area.

That doesn’t create real demand on it’s own (as in anything that will impact a market). As any experienced realtor will tell you, every house is always ‘in demand’ by a near infinite amount of people that can’t afford it.

They have to be able to do something about that desire in a concrete way - high salaries count of course, but it’s always modulated by interest rates unless they are buying cash outright. Then it’s usually moderated less directly by other things they can be doing with that cash that are more interesting, and relative rents in the area.
Maybe not an exact answer to the question being asked, but when flexbox was first introduced a few years back, I remember being quite overwhelmed by it, but the game that helped me "grok" it was Flexbox Froggy: https://flexboxfroggy.com/

Even now, when I am working with frontend designs, I sometimes am mentally picturing my elements as frogs that need to be placed in the right place :D
I use both. Stove top kettles are less efficient, but they have a few advantages over electric kettles. They:

- work when power is unavailable (outages, camping, etc.)

- are more or less indestructible

- don't take up counter space

I have one of those big 4L Zojirushi electric kettles that I keep plugged in for 8-10 hours a day. Sometimes I will use the stove top kettle for supplementary boiling water when people in my household are using the electric, or I don't want to start a reboil cycle or take too much at once.
A number of people in the Home Assistant community use cheap and/or older tablets as wall-mounted control panels. Android tablets are well-represented, including many Amazon Fire tablets, but there are iPads in the mix too.
I guess that comes at the significant penalty of lower bit rate. Still, it does sound warmer.

(Seriously, I wonder what the rate would be?)
I know. We as humans prefer steady states because we can reason about them. But transitory periods are chaotic and unpredictable, and inherently painful for humans in many ways. I’m not trying to diminish the profound pain a structural remake of how we live and work will be, but I also think given the economics of maintaining a large real estate footprint vs offloading occupancy expenses to employees makes it inevitable. I think prescient commercial real estate holders will move ahead of the curve and being repurposing now. Note that most regulated cities allow for mixed use development fairly readily and in fact have been encouraging it. Hopefully there will be more forward thinking and preparation - but history indicates we don’t do that well.
Fair point, at least in tech this allows a lot of "SAAS" companies to keep changes private. Not sure how that would work with a car on a road driven by a user? That feels like distribution to me.
> sort | uniq | sort -nr takes ~300ms on a file of 10k lines of random data that is 0.5MB on my 10 year old mac. It's ~60ms on 2k lines.

it's absolutely intolerable

> It's faster on a newer computer, and unless you're doing this a thousand times in a row, there's next to no difference between 3 ms or 300ms to me in an interactive shell...

having to wait 300ms after an interaction makes my hands shake. If the result is not on screen by the time the enter key has gone back up it's plain bad.
Thanks, I think I needed to hear this
I still can't believe so many people work on a laptop all day. It puts an unbelievable amount of pressure on your neck causing all kinds of problems.

If you can set the top of your screen a little above eye level.
It looks like they're trying to log an error.

Possibly related to this? https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/v8/v8/+/3557234/

And perhaps fixed by this? https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/v8/v8/+/3660253
What Are Ocean Predators Doing So Deep Underwater?
Storytelling That Moves People
I'm sure others will disagree but, as a Londoner, I wish they'd spent the money on the rest of the system.

There's a cohort of us that have to put our fingers in our ears on the approach to some stations as the grinding of wheels against tracks reaches an incredible volume. Pretty sure it must be illegal on some checklist somewhere.

Not to mention the raggedy state of most of the other lines. I'll stop before this becomes a full blown rant.
That’s exactly the point. They want the interviewer to be interested so that they get an interview.
NFTs are bad contract law taken personally.
I had a similar experience trying to resurrect an old RoR project from the early 2010s. Maybe technically possible, but not the least bit practical… it’d be better to just start from scratch.

Meanwhile, I was able to get an early 2000s mac Cocoa project building and running again in just a few hours, with the bulk of the work going into fixing deprecations. The main difference between the two was the number of third party dependencies… the Cocoa app had almost none while the RoR project had several tens when counting sub-dependencies.