skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He did use stuff form other people all the time. Almost every play is based on pre-existing material, like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tragical_History_of_Rome...

This particular theory says his plays are based on hypothetical now lost plays by Thomas North. This is rather speculative and hard to prove or disprove given these plays are lost.
> If you do it right (imho, if you even just try to do it right), it's the biggest accomplishment one can do.

Family ambitions and personal ambitions are two separate things (although for some people, typically women, they do match).

Personally speaking, I do have parental and professional goals, and I don't think of any of the two as neither superior nor compensating respect to the other.

> they spent 5~6 years off the industry

It doesn't need to be like this (I have firsthand experience as parent). In a balanced family, two parents can be have full professional and familiar lives at the same time (although it's challenging). Of course on the first year or so there's a physical need for the child(ren) to stay with the mother.

Based on the description of the article, the wife and the husband deliberately chose extreme positions - the wife as fully involved stay at home mother, and the father as all-time worker:

> I took care of everything, so my husband could focus on work, which was super important as we were a one-income family

I sympathize with the difficulty of finding a job, but there are more balanced (in terms of gender roles) structures that benefit all the parties. Most importantly:

> I wanted to devote a few years of my life to raising them. I wanted to see their first smile, their first step, their first fall, and I was privileged and lucky enough to be able to do it.

One definitely doesn't need to stay 24/7 with the children to be a fully present parent, and

> my husband could focus on work, which was super important as we were a one-income family.

one doesn't need to offload the children to the partner, in order to achieve professional success, unless there's some workaholism involved; this is also not a great way to start the relationship with the children.
A lot of people judge their life with metrics other than their bank account.
The farmers didn't earn the $18k, and splitting it between them all wouldn't change anything for them. As ridiculous as it is to sell white noise for a living, it's a logical consequence of the kind of world that allows so many of us here on HN to make a living selling little bits of symbolic logic arranged in patterns.
I enjoy Ted Unangst's writings because they're both informative as well as written in a kind of fluent non-forced "fun" style that I enjoy: https://flak.tedunangst.com/
All of those 400k people were notified because the author tagged a group containing 400k people. For every comment, 400k emails went out.

I never commented, but I received an email for every comment in that issue. The email queue was so backed up that I was receiving emails for quite some time after the issue was closed.
I have no opinion whether or not it's cheating. Feels like a definitional issue more than anything.

I work and interview for one of the FAANG's. I had a candidate tell me just the other day: "Oh, I've done this in another form." We went on, talked about some details that are not a part of the core algorithm but that I think are interesting to suss out things like: "Do they understand concurrency", "Do they understand good API design", etc and then we moved on.

As I was doing the writeup, I scored the person high on a measure that I rarely get a read from in technical interviews. I guess my point: I don't know if it's cheating and in no way shape or form feel judgy towards people who do what the author did. But when I've encountered people disclosing this, I have noted that.
Starting Forth, if you like a conversational style. As others have said, K&R C for conciseness.

https://www.forth.com/starting-forth/ (PDF)
Isn‘t RNA on its own useless?

Doesn‘t it need the cells molecular machines to execute it?

This seems to be the computer equivalent to: Cosmic rays formed a hello world program
on this memory chip in my drawer.
I met a researcher once who was doing what appeared to be groundbreaking research on cancer care. He had this beautiful, tear-jerker story about losing his wife that cast a rosy, altruistic hue on his research. When he was asked what the device would cost, he cheerily replied "whatever the market will bear." That's always stuck with me -- the problem with American healthcare is the American interpretation of capitalism. Dude was living off of government research grants.
Absolutely. Having done this blind and also with a well documented process I can say the latter is far smoother.

The restore process should be written in an incident response run book and practiced by the on-call people. (Maybe in your quarterly disaster recovery tests?)
The terror of data loss fades significantly when you come across a clean, one page restore process and you’re able to get the data back without a lot of effort.
Protecting rich peoples things & fucking with minorities. As always.

Also probably beating their spouses, statistics on that are through the roof.
Once my house has a battery large enough to where I won't end up going ballistic on my energy company for having 24+ hour power outages I am fine with moving away from gas.

But I am not going to live with losing power a dozen times a year for up to a day at a time because a corporation wants my life to be the tip of the misery spear instead of their profit margins taking a hit.
Looking at the Wikipedia page for the project, I was interested to see that proposals for the project were drawn up between 1941-48.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossrail
Here's the basic problem. Network Rail (the UK's national rail track authority) runs a timetabled service. So they have planned where every train should be at any moment.
The underground is a metro service. They are not trying to maintain an absolute timetable, but a constant interval between trains - for example if they have a problem with a train they will delay trains ahead to try and smooth the intervals between trains and stop platforms becoming dangerously crowded.

So the "integration hell" is trying to integrate between services with completely different service strategies.
> If the candidate can manage the question the Interviewer should be able also.

You mean ask them the same question that they asked? Of course they'll be able to answer it. What does that prove?
We use a Zwilling model at home that's very fast and simple to operate (seems strange to have to say that, but a Cuisinart model in our office is a UI and design disaster).
Could this ultimately wind up producing eGPU support for the M1?
Two older ones:

The Elements of Programming Style

Software Tools / Software Tools in Pascal

I have read Elements and Software Tools in Pascal, and while partially definitely outdated ("avoid FORTRAN's three-way if"), excellent writing. Especially Software Tools in Pascal, which in large parts describes and explains source code; I was very impressed by the way the descriptions added lots of insights on top of just the code. Kernighan also manages to smuggle subtle bits of humour into texts about otherwise dry topics.
What do you feel this explains, which isn’t explained by existing knowledge?
Palo Alto used to have a funky food court where the downtown Apple store now stands. It had been a supermarket but converted sometime in the 70s. It lasted into the late 80s.

Apart from nostalgia, it’s where Debbi Fields started “Mrs Fields cookies”. Yes, another Palo Alto startup from the 70s.
Glad you were able to get by, sincerely.

I've only been to Austin + gotten gas around Amarillo on my way to ABQ, but as someone who's spent most my life in blue dots in red states, it's hard to put into words how angry that entire fiasco made me.

(And I'm someone who nearly did an MFA in Creative Nonfiction... I am very good at describing how I feel, it's a very purposeful exploitation of American libel law -- propaganda is the selective telling of truths, especially paired with our libel laws[1])

Anyways to swing it back to the article/thread:

Were you not able to run a thin stream of water?

I was lucky to have water included in every place I rented up til now, I used to joke if a landlord angers me I can set up a flywheel, but it also meant if it gets cold I'm not worried about cost if I switch it to the warm side and run a thin stream while I sleep or go out for espresso.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLibel_case
You may also go trough the experience of being aboard the enterprise as Captain Picard with the following on your favorite terminal emulator:

play -n synth brownnoise lowpass 150
Tux is very much a obscure reference except in tech bubbles
Micropayments and ad-games ruined video games. It‘s depressing.
> I failed to practice answering questions that I already knew the answer to.

You failed for the same reason you would have failed if you had never heard the problem before. Knowing the answer has nothing to do with why you were dinged.
> Really? You don't like to socialize with peers, with puzzles or tricky problems?

No, we like to talk about normal stuff.
I think credit_guy's right, if the carbon isn't going into the air it's not causing the Greenhouse Effect, eh?

Petroleum is way too useful to stop using, even if we completely phase it out as an energy source. E.g. plastics, lots of pharmaceuticals, etc., there are too many useful products made from petrol.
People want GitHub to fix their system. Epic also has annoying process whereby you have to join their GitHub organization to access certain free tools, which is why they have a GitHub group with 400k people in the first place.

Edit: What great timing—someone just opened a new issue with the same tag. This needs to be fixed on GitHub’s end.
> Why would anyone go for a podcast rather than a playlist/track?

I'm not sure but I think tracks have a length limit, and not podcasts. If you want a track that lasts 8 hours as some of these do, then podcasts are the only option.
Cryptocurrency Crash Causes Trillions Worth of Damage (60 Minutes Australia)
> Maybe too much beginner advise for solo startup founders is 'hussle' as in: place your URL anywhere you can.

I did 4 years at a startup where my job was essentially this (we were a small news startup and I lead a small team of mostly college interns sharing links to our news videos with bloggers). _However_, there is a very crucial step I've rarely seen followed in the wild, and that is _actually_ engage in the conversation. "Cool, here's a URL to my product" is spam. But actually investing time into a thoughtful comment (and first evaluating whether your product is actually a good fit for the problem) is not, IMO.

"But I don't have time" is not a valid excuse here. If you don't have time to engage with your prospective customers and really understand their needs and where they're at, what are you doing communicating about your product?

In my experience doing this, you'll still get a mix of people who receive it well and some who don't. Keep a list of both. Then you know who to follow up with and who to avoid so you don't develop an antagonistic relationship with them.

Also, looking at the numbers, this didn't look like a particularly cost-effective approach to communication at the time. We were not at all playing a numbers game but were instead trying to build relationships with bloggers who would feel comfortable including our content where they believed it would genuinely contribute to their blog and their audience. Over time, maybe the time we invested up-front paid off. I left to other things before I got to assess that.

On the other hand, we were basically developing relationships with unpaid "influencers" around 2008-2012, so maybe we were on to something (in any case, the startup sold to E.W. Scripps for ~$35 million in 2014 and is still part of their portfolio today).
This napkin math ignores some very significant circumstances.

People who suffer from rectal cancer usually undergo surgery to remove the primary tumor. But those trial patients weren't operated on, their treatment was non-invasive.

How many rectal cancer sufferers who never undergo a surgery survive? I would bet that it is a lot less than 67 per cent.
Broken on Windows 10 Mobile Edge too—blank page when preferring desktop site, low resolution thumbnail when preferring mobile.

(ha, it's not because of obsolescence!)
Does anyone turn these old devices into a project and install cool software on it only to never use it again? I stop using multiple devices because having several iPads is as useful as having several phones. I install stuff to “give it a longer life” but without purpose I don’t actually use it.
> What kind of things do military veterans get?

Preference for all public-sector jobs (not just federal, but I think all fifty states give some forms of veterans preference, and a handful give “absolute preference” where a minimally-qualified veteran must be hired over a non-veteran regardless of qualifications.) But even where its not absolute preference, it often is a very strong preference (e.g., California on open civil service exams typically limits hiring to the top 3 ranks on the resulting hiring list, with each rank being 5 points of exam score on a 100-point, before preference points, scale. Veterans get 10 extra points, or 15 if they have a qualifying degree of disability.)
the reason you’re rejected is because you can’t dedicate all your life to work because you also have to focus on raising a child

you are not at fault of course, but many companies think of you as their resource and won’t allow that (ever wondered why the department is called “Human Resources”?)
> The problem is not with QR codes themselves, but how readers/scanners present/use QR codes.

Or the meta level issue people seem to think input sanitization only applies to text for some reason.
Everyone is part of some tiny, tiny minority. It's the best thing about us. It doesn't matter if it's coding, aikido, collecting sea shells, or keeping ferrets.

Denouncing one such tiny minority just because you don't see the value in it makes you sound very closed-minded and bigoted.
What in the world is this in response to? My sarcastic device would easily be secured in having cabling run through conduit in open spaces or through walls where applicable (if not also in conduit). What would wireless coms be involved other than another on a long list of reasons the proposed drone is just not viable.
Perhaps unpopular opinion but I think HS2 is the correct option. Firstly, more capacity is needed on the rail network and this is a key arterial route that is already running at/over capacity. Secondly, it'll allow freight to be added to the existing slower lines, which is key for decarbonisation. Finally, if you're going to build new railway lines, you might as well build something that isn't immediately obsolete. The alternative is to build something that is fast-but-not-quite-high-speed, which means not using what is essentially industry standard for new rail lines. It would be a bizarre choice.
The Lavish Divorce Parties of the Beidane People (2017)
Does no one use a kitchen extractor fan and have a CO monitor in their kitchen?
Shameless plug If you want to run it in a desktop (console app) - https://github.com/JaDogg/noisebox
It doesn't matter. If i had to choose between working for Tesla for lower pay and coming to office vs remote Atlassian which is just jira shoved down corporate policies I am 100% going for Tesla and I am not a Tesla/Musk fan at all
Exactly. These are opinion pieces with scary headlines.
Almost nothing to back them up.
Also strange to talk about developing countries having problems. They usually have chimneys.
Hydrochlorides are there because of pans coated with them that burn them off. Guess what, they still end up in food no matter which heating you would use.
So the problem is pans, not the heat.
Cooking with fire is Lindy. And there is no other way to make rotis, tatziki (char the eggplant) and other things without fire.
I'd rather just die. Throw a party. Tell my kids they're getting a ton of cash. Say good bye on happy terms.

Vs. a miserable decay for everyone involved at huge expense. It's not worth it. Forget the money. The emotional toll is large and for whose benefit?
Untying the Knot, and Bonds, of Marriage (2012)
Neither. Queuing in Japan is as natural as breathing.
I wanted to give my eyes a rest while working. Opthalmologists and optometrists recommend every 20 minutes, look at something 20 ft away for 20 seconds.

I found an app to do so. Like your app, it has a big full screen break, and some way to tell you to you your break was incoming.

I found two things: first, the full screen thing was jarring and too much (also I had to click to dismiss it iirc). I changed the app to use notifications only. It sent a "get ready" notification 5s before, an "ok go". notification before, and a "you're done!" Notification with sound effect after 20s. Each of these notifications cleared after 5s do I didjt have to babysit it.

And secondly, the full version of the app cost $10, which I felt appalled at paying for something that sends notifications every 20m.

I'll definitely take a look at this to see if it's something I could use instead. My eyes definitely felt less tired when taking frequent short breaks, and it gave me some space to reset my thought patterns (sometimes useful when down a debugging rabbit hole)
Driving a car is by far the most subsidized personal choice in the United States. It’s not even close.

As for subsidizing parenthood and children: the more the better. I don’t have kids, but as a human person I have an interest in the next generation of people being happy, healthy, well adjusted and well educated. And that of course begins with creating an environment in which the parents of those children can be successful.
We get an unbelievable amount of spam in the Tailwind CSS repo, especially in Discussions. Usually it’s people posting some Markov chain looking sentence to make it seem somewhat real, then a couple of hours later it is edited to add a link to some website.
I don't think this is cheating.. if someone asks me how to design a distributed join and I answer because I worked on distributed joins directly, is that cheating?

This reminds me of a guy who, on the contrary, probably thinks I wronged him during an interview. He couldn't solve my relatively simple programming question and then remarked, sounding rather unhappy, that this question "wasn't on leetcode", and so he wasn't prepared for it ;)
Modern GPUs don’t know Phong shading, they expect developers to supply a pixel shader for that. However, they still interpolating all these numbers in hardware.

For traditional rendering, a vertex shader outputs float4 position and a bunch of other per-vertex attributes which may contain normals, colors, texture coordinates, or anything else. GPU hardware itself only uses the positions.

The hardware rasterizes triangles into pixel grid, interpolates the rest of the per-vertex attributes over the triangle, and calls the pixel shader for each pixel covered by the triangle passing the interpolated per-vertex attributes.

It’s more complicated in reality: clipping, early depth rejection, pixel shaders need partial derivatives so the pixels are grouped into 2x2 blocks, some GPUs do tiled rendering. But still, on the high level the workflow stayed about the same since shaders arrived in Direct3D 8 in 2001 with GeForce 3.

The only major disruption so far is UE5 which uses compute shaders for nanite meshes, instead of the hardware rasterizer.
Which part of the GP are you saying falls under the CFAA?
Parenthood must be an entirely personal choice. Otherwise the implication is that "society" or government have the right to regulate bodily autonomy, force people to have children, outlaw abortion or homosexuality as "threats to society," engage in eugenics, etc.

Most would consider the implications of that to be highly immoral.
How can micropayments have ruined anything? Nobody's found a way to implement micropayments in a way that works, to my knowledge.
I agree, but there is a reason for having the candidate write some code: some people can talk a good talk but can’t actually write a line of code. That’s a phone screen fail, but yes, some people pass the phone screen, so the sooner you figure it out the better.

When I say “some code” I mean no more than ~20 lines and who cares about missed semicolons or such.

And only one or two interviews need this, the subsequent interviewers can do more of the important stuff you’re talking about.

Another important point about these discussions: train your interviewers. I hate interviewing with (for that matter Working with too) someone who wants to show how smart they are. If we bring someone in for a round of interviews it’s because we want to hire them so are looking to see if our prior judgement is correct. Don’t be mean to the candidate and don’t waste their time or yours.
Actually a decent editorial, not the anti "cancel culture" illogic one might expect, or the "Twitter is a publisher, we must force them to publish certain political figures" or even the NYT editorial board stance that their crypto-fascist opinion writers should suffer precisely nothing for writing lazy, offensive, monarchist tripe.
During lockdown I toyed with generating insect sounds with synthesizers. Never thought of making them into long tracks. Will look into it now.

It would be the opposite of what you're after, though, as it's completely artificial.

But! It doesn't loop. I can make it of any length, and with some astute randomization it never produces the exact same sequence twice.
Are managers that naive with regards to power imbalances with their peers/colleagues?

I have seen people with similar insensitivity fail to understand why people in their teams dont like them: "but I treat them as if we are peers!! I like playing on the 'you are doing it wrong'games"!!
Good ones are loopable so there is no discontinuity when they repeat.

And the size of those files implies they are probably minutes in length, at the very least, so you probably don't notice the repetition.
mobile games: gambling + porn, but legal
I'm a software engineer at a media organization. My colleagues and I organized a union during the pandemic, long before "return to office" was on anyone's agenda. I'm so glad we are bargaining collectively instead of bargaining one on one with our supervisors. I personally want to work in the office periodically, but without a union contract I'd fear a slow creep toward obligatory presenteeism.
My dad was fortunate enough to get into a trial at Sloan for Obinutuzumab for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. At the moment, after 6 weeks of treatment, the percent of cancerous cells in his bone marrow has gone from 95% to 5%. The treatment was very intense as it overloads the kidneys on the first few treatments due to the dramatic amount of cells being flushed out. This is a cancer for which there was not much treatment previously other than extreme chemotherapy which still left little hope for complete remission. A family friend was also treated for Non-Hodgkins' lymphoma on another drug trial and she's now in full remission.

my uninformed impression is that there's a lot of new cancer treatments happening now that can turn the tide for a lot of types of cancer.
It's cheaper than other chemos..my mom has breast cancer and her chemo according to insurance cost 65k per infusion every 3 weeks.
well, I suppose it's easy to say "go without X" if one wrongly think it's easy to do so,

and to come up with bad analogies that don't fit the situation to justify a bad take that doesn't fit the situation

I don't think I'll be able to convince you to stop ignoring the problems described in the article

so, have a good one!