skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WOW I am shocked you remember! I wrote a book in parallel to the videos for science education in kindergarten. However, after almost a year of making the videos without an income o r a significant grow in my audience, I unfortunately stopped!

I loved doing them, I miss them and I am happy I tried it out but reality is, that I need a way to have an income!

But I am so happy you remembered the videos + experiements. The hot/cold water mixing experiment is super fun!I received lots of photographs from parents whose kids did it, and loved it:)
It would be generally be a good idea to migrate away from this to something else, I use gitbucket, and it works very well for me.

Yes it is an open source project, but the entire team that works on it is based out in China, and that's really not something you want to play games with.
Is the answer zero chairs, since as far as we know there is only one chair on this lift?
Asking puzzle questions during lunch interview is absolutely not just socialization. In fact I remember as a kid my dad explaining how lunch interviews are culture tests and how to succeed them- but it's very unpleasant for me. Best lunch "interview" I ever had was at Noname at Google some 15 years ago, it was just a relaxed conversation where we discussed the fact that Google's chefs made and served consomme.

I absolutely don't like solving puzzles with other people. On the other hand, I do enjoy writing code on my own, solving problems (not puzzles) and then sharing the results in a readable way with others.

I do like to socialize with peers, but never playing games (I prefer to play games on the computer against NPCs).

THe reason I don't like this is there are people who've asked me ludicrous puzzle questions before and they are proxies for 'people I wouldn't want to work with'.
Good for those nostalgics like me. My experience with something similar was Escargot, a similar project but for MSN Messenger[1]:

I created a new account (old accounts do not work), I made my friends to do the same and we used it for a few hours (sharing emoticons, nudges, etc) but then the novely went away. Software alone cannot capture/reproduce the old days, unfortunately.

[1]https://escargot.chat/
The article makes the point with evidence that just filing criminal charges will change corporate behavior regardless of how a judge rules.
It will be interesting to see if there's legislation in the future to encourage companies to open up unsupported devices instead of relying on the efforts of enthusiasts to keep them out of e-waste streams.
If this is cheating, so is studying for the interview by reviewing hundreds of similar questions. The difference is in degree, not kind.

BTW you probably earned extra points for not naming the Gaussian sum you used, because that's pretentious.
Poker isn't played as a group. The "overall concept" is whether an individual player can profit over the long run, and in poker but not (say) roulette, the answer is yes.

Your approach reminded me of a joke:

Three statisticians go deer hunting with bows and arrows. They spot a big buck and take aim. One shoots and his arrow flies off three meters to the right. The second shoots and his arrow flies off three meters to the left. The third statistician jumps up and down, yelling "We got him! We got him!"
To note, you might want to collaborate with other specialists, like a designer if you're a dev, or infra people if there's specific needs.

I've seen a few of these in 20%ish projects where there is no revenue in sight but it sounded like a cool idea to each participants.
Ultimately, interviews are about a process of elimination. There are M applicants and N spots open. If M>N (which is most cases) we need some way to go from M candidates to N job offers.

How do you run this selection process? One way to do this is to ask the applicants who are all the candidates who can do the job. But this is a lousy way. Some people might simply say they are qualified even though they are not.

Recruiters obviously need some way to filter out the candidates who cannot do the job. But let's say that even after doing that, the number of qualified candidates are still greater than N. What do you do now? Obviously, the company should hire those individuals who, when hired, maximizes the value to the firm over the tenure of the candidate at the company.

Obviously, the company cannot simply ask the candidates who are the most valuable, because each person might respond that it is they themselves.

So, the company is ultimately looking for certain signals. These signals, if present, indicate that the candidate, when hired, will bring maximum value to the company over their tenure.

However, once the candidates understand that these are the signals that a company is looking for, they can fake it[1]. For example, in this case, the candidate figured out that the company asks toy problems in the interview and memorized the answer, albeit in this case, accidentally. However, nothing is stopping a candidate from doing this deliberately. In this case, the author is reliably able to emit this "toy problem solving skill" signal even though he may not have been able to solve the problem in the time allotted during the interview. However, the company was unable to detect this possibly false signal and therefore, he was hired. In this case, it does not look like a bad outcome for most people involved

This problem of minimizing false positives would be an interesting problem to solve. A company that solves this problem well will probably enjoy a huge competitive advantage in the market.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
The docs for re-frame[0], a functional reactive framework for ClojureScript, are really excellent. They do a great job explaining the problem, the rationale for the approach taken, and how to actually use the framework. The library is a gem of of both functionality and documentation.

0: http://day8.github.io/re-frame/re-frame/
There's artists like Merzbow, but I find his music non-condusive for sleep.
No, on mobile Firefox that shows an empty 'loading' page and not the image.

It's not just Firefox which is broken, with Chrome it's impossible to zoom into an image as it redirects the i.imgur.com/xxx.ext links to the HTML wrapped page with a low-fidelity thumbnail and no way of extracting the original.
>Now I just work hard enough.

My review from management actually got much better once I stopped knocking myself out working too hard and instead worked just enough.

That was a pivotal moment for me. That and also learning how to manage your manager.
I assume telling you a speed and not telling you how many chairs there are is intentional?
But we’ll all be envious when the author becomes the Jared of instant ramen? After a couple months of that he might get a part as a live action Gollum or a Walking-Dead extra.
Irrelevant to what defines these models. The parent was taking the conversation off-topic.
I mean, this applies under all other economic systems too. I think no system removes human or organizational greed.

So your comment seems odd to me. What other economic systems would prevent app makers from extracting as much money as they possibly can?
Assuming an "ideal ski lift" isn't it just all of them?
I hate these attention seeking fabricated social posts. It was build by nato got everything military stripped out and is now a civilian ATC side there are hundreds of pictures and videos on the net...the most you will find if you search for the Icelandic names. And as you can see from the recent pictures on google maps it's mainly ruins left

https://goo.gl/maps/FmHDr7v7sh1FoUVV7

It's either fake or a glitch but looking at the rest of her profile it's an attention seeking fabrication... influencer myths.
> 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.

Based on my personal experiences in some weird outdoor hobbies, I would say that surprisingly large part of what people call hangover is actually sleep deprivation and dehydration.
The problem is not with QR codes themselves, but how readers/scanners present/use QR codes.

If you're not allowed to see the full URL/data inside the QR code when scanning it, before going to the URL/taking action on the data, then you need to try a different client.
> encyclopaedic knowledge

Eh. In practice, if in doubt, he made it up, particularly in respect to geography. If anything this is an argument against the “Shakespeare must actually have been aristocratic” thing, if anyone still took that seriously.
I hope when discussions of the more Americanized discrimination comes up, you remember what you just wrote and recognize the parallels in discussions.
I'll go and say a really don't like arrogant comments like yours. Shitting on someone's work you're using for free by recommending complete rewrite in technologies you currently like is absurd. Less used framework - so what. Logic in templates - yeah not great but still, so what? Etc... Doesn't really bother anyone using it.
> The rule where every transaction is a taxable event came after crypto had already failed for payments.

They are making sure it stays that way... Its not like crypto can't change.
7 Forgotten Atari 800 Gaming Classics
Surely you mean newer? The quantum tunneling artifacts on modern dense memory are simply ghastly, which why I stick to hand-wound magnetic core memory.
K&R ("The C Programming Language") still stands out, at least to me, for its clarity and conciseness. I have yet to see a programming language manual that equals it.
You might have a better chance at short term contract positions that could get a bit of recent experience, or a contract-to-hire type of position. Anyway best of luck to you. I admire your grit and determination.
Not only is it clickbait, the author is founder and CEO of a technical recruiting company. Clearly the article is written to generate leads for Facet. This is basically just astroturfing. The author should have opened with a conflict of interest statement at the very top.

Also, OP should have included (2019) in the title. It's kind of an old piece.
A company came to our school before a job fair and the recruiter talked at our club about what she does during her process. She mentioned that she writes short notes on the back of resumes to sum up her first impressions. So the next day at the fair, I saw her and turned my resume over and wrote "I love this guy, let's definitely hire him" and walked up and handed it to her and smiled and talked for a minute. Walked away and as she turned the resume over to make her notes I heard her bust out laughing. I got the interview.
Was initially wondering if these fish were flying around the sky [1], but no, it’s the aquatic variety of fish.

Given that some CA town have already tapped out their groundwater supply[2] perhaps it’s time for CA to stop attempting to grow large amounts of crops, especially those which are high consumers of water. This weather is here to stay, and in fact I expect it to get worse, not better, given the inaction on global warming; so start adapting now by changing focus, or die.

[1] https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article262045952.html
[2] https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/05/us/california-rural-groundwat...
Iofod supports Flutter 3.0 project generation
I agree that this is the common experience for those of us that never experience overwhelming "serendipity" (i.e. luck) - meaning no disrespect (or lack of gratitude for being so incredibly fortunate) - but for those few that do get shot out of a canon, it would appear that hard work (focused hours on task) makes all the difference on becoming industry dominant (Musk, Jobs, etc). When you get a tiger by the tail, you need to stay focused and not fall asleep.
I truly do not mean this as a flippant response to your comment, but there is a very simple solution to the problem you are envisioning coming from these regulations. Developers could just make a game with no micro transactions. The only way your ‘issues’ exist, is if these games are only made to make money via the gambling mechanics that are being regulated. Want your game available everywhere … just make a game that people can pay for and play.
So wait, you think there could be a potentially simpler system than a SINGLE MOLECULE OF RNA that is self replicating (I.e. if all you provide is a chemical solution with the raw base ingredients it can build more of itself with no other help)? That’s awesome. Please share, no hyperbole intended, what your hypothesis is.

But that doesn’t change the fact that RNA world fits the most amount of our observations. I already described proving it’s plausibility in our experiments. On top of that please don’t forget that ribosomes, the complexes that produce proteins in our body, are mostly RNA, and the rna part is the primary enzymatic system in it. That is, we actually have a vestige of a system where rna ruled the world.

I’m not even asking you for proof, I’m asking you to even put forward an actual molecular system that you think is better suited to explain this than rna.
If you live in Seattle or Arizona, then definitely take an interview at Axon. The founder is like a hard-core sci-fi fan, so their offices are done up in this super gloss white plastic finish. In the Seattle office, at least, you exit the elevator into a spaceship complete with a working, mandatory airlock with face scanning to get into the office. Absolutely hilarious.

Productwise, they have some interesting challenges like storing all of the police body cam video, making it searchable, and preparing it for court.
This question came up in a weekly "random topic" talk that we had at an MIT lab I was visiting at the time, many years ago. One of the lab members - who was a very impressive coder and researcher - had been asked this question at a google interview. I remember being pretty surprised that he wasn't familiar with the fisher-yates shuffle (and that this would be considered a good question to ask at google). His first answer to the problem was actually one of the "obvious" (and incorrect) answers one might give. But then he also walked us through the process he went through with the interviewer on deriving a correct algorithm, along with a mathematical justification of its correctness. I think regardless of whether one is familiar with the typical algorithms, being able to explain and justify them does show skills. (And fwiw, he did end up getting an offer and working at google).
Maud: A Rust macro for writing HTML
I appreciate the attempt to explain your company's bad behavior, but I'm not convinced. And to be fair, you're not alone in making mistakes in the arena of privacy and security; all the major browsers have privacy-averse settings and "anti-features". The difference with your company is that you falsely advertise yourself as the one true private browser, while simultaneously profiting from your users' personal data. It's a lie, it's a scam, and it's morally reprehensible. You only fixed the issues I brought up after being caught and publicly shamed over them; if you hadn't been caught out you'd likely still be doing those things today. Shame on you.
No? Longtime Diablo franchise fan here. Immortal has been a blast without spending any money at all.
I think you've tuned your dogwhistle hearing aid up way too high and now you're just hearing things in the wind.
>I think advertising should be illegal but companies like Google will never let that happen. So I use software like uBlock Origin to block ads whenever I can.

Honest question (and I am not fan of advertising here and not trying to be an apologist)..

What business model replaces it, in your mind?

In the world that exists today, how do companies who provide free services online (including the creation of information) pay their staff and their operational costs, if not through being paid to display ads or sponsorships?

Do all websites become subscriptions?
I had a similar lucky break when interviewing for my first real job at $FANG. They asked me a question which I happened to have done a research project on. So not only did I give the optimal algorithm I also was able to teach the interviewer some new aspects of the problem. I got the job very easily.

Conversely at my interview for $FANG2 I got unlucky and didn’t do as well. So I didn’t get that job.
A lot of the whales and leviathans have some kind of online presence so it's really not hard for a game dev to know them by name, or even invite them to the studio.
For a start, at least write the ideas down, and keep them.

Sometimes a bunch of ideas together, re-read, makes for a better idea overall.
or just be a chad and base64 encode your images and share them on pastebin or text dump
I first came across this book in a library (a while ago) and basically read the whole thing on the spot. From my entirely biased perspective as someone with a "vintage computer" collection, it's the best book ever. The staggering magnitude of the accomplishments and inventions of PARC are almost as fascinating as fiction. The ineptitude of Xerox management in figuring out what to do with the output of PARC was similarly unreal.

Bell Labs was able to commercialize (or at least license IP) from some of their work with reasonable return, but eventually lost momentum from the series of spinoff-layoff-mergers. How does an organization successfully manage or balance that kind of research productivity with commercialization in the long term? Is there any management literature on that in particular?

I know some places like Microsoft and Google have had research programs for quite some time, although of course Google mostly fails to adequately support products that come out of Google X before killing them off or scaling them back (such as Glass), and I'm not sure how much of what Microsoft Research does is actually commercialized. Notably, Butler Lampson, who was one of the key folks at PARC, has been with Microsoft Research since 1995.
Broken on Safari mobile as well.
Yeah, it's just a wistful thing, and most of us laymen don't even experience the part where you want to know something but don't know it yet.
I don't see any connection between the content and the claim that "'relevant ads are good' is bullshit". It's just a general argument that ads are bad, because they're biased.

If you want to dispute "relevant ads are good", you'd need to establish why I get no benefit from seeing ads that are relevant to me vs not.
And a lot of this multi-threaded software that previously worked fine on single-core machines, required urgent fixes as multi-core CPUs became more common.
They sound a bit like Iain M. Banks' "slap drones", flying robots tasked with following around known criminals and preventing them from reoffending.

This proposal seems awfully dystopian, but US schools apparently conduct surprise active shooter drills with simulated gunshots, so it feels like a choice between evils at this point.

Proper ethical oversight would needed though, and I'm worried that mission creep is inevitable (remember e.g. tasers themselves were originally intended as "less lethal" and an alternative to a firearm, but are now used routinely to simply get compliance.)
This is the best set of numbers I’ve seen about risk/reward.

https://medium.com/@bharatanant/evaluating-the-risk-reward-r...

They are only talking about investors who have first preference in any “success” of the company and they are usually well diversified and not depending on one successful exit. You as an employee get lower preferences and have all of your eggs in one basket.

Now given a choice, why would I work for a startup instead of a profitable FAAMG (not a typo) where I get RSUs or even a “second tier” profitable tech company like Salesforce, Adobe, Intel, Nvidia, etc. where at every vesting event I have the opportunity to immediately sell and diversify my risks? I don’t need to depend on the long term viability of my RSUs. Just the viability over the next six months?
I recently had an interview with a startup that asked me the same exact question that I got from a faang interview the week prior. It was a problem I hadn't practiced/seen before the first interview, but I was able to figure it out just before we were out of time. In the second interview, I stopped him right away once I realized I had just seen it, explained the solution that I came to the week prior, and he went on to choose a much more difficult problem that I couldn't solve in the time requirement.

I regret nothing -- it was a better spend of time for both of us. Interviews are bullshit, but they're not such bullshit to me that I'm willing to sit there and pretend to have a eureka moment about a question that I already know. I had the opportunity to show my skills and he got to see me struggle through it, and that's what it's really about. By the time you get to a final round, they moreso want to know what it's like to work with you than they want to know what you know.

If you're ever in this situation, there's really no wrong answer. Play pretend and look like a rockstar, kudos, or be forthcoming and show some ambition -- also kudos. Job interviews are stressful and I would never fault someone for playing dumb. OP shouldn't feel like he needs to explain his sins. This is a systemic problem with leetcode style interviews, and it's not your job to correct for that as the candidate.
Well, honestly there's a world of difference between the noise generated by Pete Swanson versus Merzbow for example. I can't handle Merzbow at all, but Pete Swanson's A&Ox0 I truly enjoy. For example, my most listend song over 2021 (>60 times) is Limited Space by an alias of Pete Swanson; Yellow Swans.

Than there's a track like Treetop Drive 3 from Deathprod that you truly notice when it starts, and when it ends. Other than that it is phenomal in drowning out everything on the other end.

Windy & Carl also make some great tracks, one of my favorites being Antarctica.
I've noticed while sharing these tracks that it is a very personnel thing, so odds being that you share my favorites are remarkebly small, though I do find it a very interesting genre to explore and wonder about - what makes this good versus the other?

With less noise and a seeming one-off is Virginia Waveform from Pan-America, though quire more melodic already

I have a curated playlist of noise tracks that I very frequently get back to.
Here's my playlist for anyone that is interested: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0srqN53JGNoqEN3vzoviJU
Stuff like whether the algorithm will always stop, or whether it runs O(N) vs O(N square). The main point to me was more to be able to have a conversation about the solution rather than it being absolutely right. I remember quite a few people using randomness, the most odd (and totally wrong) one using a random sort function over an array of (1..52).
Ask HN: Where can I get a wireless switch for low voltage contacts?
I am looking to activate a door latch remotely via Wi-Fi. I can’t seem to find a low voltage momentary wireless switch for an existing 16 volt “buzzer” door latch opener. Any thoughts? Thanks.
Files Transferred over Shell Protocol
I was 'removed from an internet platform' when I was a kid inadvertently breaking the rules by posting off-topic threads in the wrong Sci-Fi community subforum. So apparently we do just do it.
> I want you to realize that imgur has become the exact kind of service its creator hated[2]

Imgur now is still nowhere near as bad as places like imageshack or photobucket were prior to imgurs creation. I understand that imgur has to fiddle with direct links to support their business model to stay alive, but things could be much worse.
Thank you so much for your advice - I am sure I will eventually find the right oportunity:) I will be exploring these options as well. they might give me the push I need for my CV to be more recent and "desirable".