skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dammit. I'd conflated two stories in my head. Or imagined one entirely.

There's a similar story to the The Last Question (and it's not "The Last Answer")

In this story, the question was more "meaning of life" and the computer has the answer but those asking were incapable of understanding it. I seem to remember similar back and forth over time but that might be me getting mixed up between the two stories.

And no - I don't think it's Douglas Adams related.
Before anyone in the West was aware of the virus, much less taking it seriously, information was leaking out around the East. Given how much connection there is between Silicon Valley and China, it's possible some tech companies were hearing non-specific dangers from their partners in the East. Or it could be entirely coincidental. Probably will never know for sure.
i remember decentraleyes from when it came out but i never bothered with it. dunno why. i was an ABP user at first when that came out but i switched to ublock origin years ago. i was even a noscript user for a long time but being lazy, i stopped.
Risky Business, Terminator 1 & 2 and Office Space
'Shrinkflation' accelerates as manufacturers quietly shrink package sizes
When a court considers them to have gone to some considerable lengths to conceal their identity, yes.
So I asked Wolfram Alpha:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=Can+entropy+be+reversed
But is it right that I be forced to first support the makers of a closed operating system before I can support those content creators?
I've had absolutely the same experience. I've had to share my wife's laptop when I had water damage on mine and she generally keeps all mail and calendar in chrome instead of using the native apps for some, to me, inexplicable reason and so my user would then do that frequently.

Compilations would be lightning fast, but otherwise it feels exactly like you describe it.
At scale, perhaps they are costly. But i just cannot imagine deploying a webapp without cloud services.

For the indie dev, cloud services have made side projects and experiments extremely cheap to spin up and scale.
Exactly, if we attempt to adjudicate crimes committed by people long dead by using their descendants as stand ins then we will be quickly overcome by madness. Its just nonsensical, you can’t come to a just conclusion with no evidence, no witnesses and no suspects remaining. You might as well write a fantasy story and call it truth.
OB(viously) BOOBLESS?
Things like Laragon (https://laragon.org/) have taken up the XAMPP mantle in recent years. Not sure about production (I moved away from Windows for dev stuff similarly), but developing with PHP on Windows has definitely got easier, imo.
I found “grep” on a 10GB text file on an external USB-C SSD will cause that stuttering behaviour.
How is reading them wasting time? Also, until any alternative manages to provide properly aligned/justified text, or the ability to truly nicely format for example a scientific paper, then PDF will never die. Also, it is not a bad format, some modern extension of it is stupid, but otherwise it is really cool and it is a pleasure to read a nice PDF book on a big enough screen over an epub format for example that pushes figures around like nothing.
Fwiw, the article mentions this was the fifth time it's been hit.
You'd trigger Windows Defender's "Controlled Folder Access" only if the user has it on (it's still off by default IIRC due to many, many false positives) and only for write operations. By iterating every file you may trigger its "this might be ransomware" flag but you'll only be stopped when you try to write to a protected folder. (Which is only Documents, Pictures & Videos by default)

But honestly, I've had to whitelist Microsoft's own Windows utilities from CFA in its earlier days, so don't fret about it.
I think the right word would be "empowerment". Software opens up the ability of communities to grow. Security, usability, accessibility, performance and many more factors play an important role to empower communities in growing a great community.
The translation is here:

https://atticinscriptions.com/inscription/AIUK14/1
And even FizzBuzz could end up challenging if you happen to have no familiarity with the modulus operator -- which isn't that implausible for junior programmers.
Can you please explain, what is the point of 14 seconds autoplaying video of a girl typing on a laptop, on the top of the main page??
Also a list of operator precedence, various phone area codes (country & local), an ASCII table.

I guess it's just a "list of databases that was useful/fun to someone, at some point". Harder to "just get it from the internet" back in the 80s.
US Customs Database of Traveler Photos Was Hacked and Stolen (2019)
Colombia, Columbia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_(personification) has everything she needs
didn't they already doing this?

i remember getting lot a spam from different persons/agencies to develop a website for my newly bought domain.
It is probably a combination of a huge local supply chain, specialist labour, and relative low cost (energy, wage, land ...). Even German automakers are having their electric cars made in China.

The article mentions:

"Among the posted positions are managers and engineers to supervise the operation of its 6,000-ton die casting machines known as Giga Press, one of the world's biggest."

If you have a machine like that, your primary concern is probably not how low a wage you can pay, but rather finding people who can make the machine run as much as possible with few errors and without breaking it.
The famous Miro pctv card, it was pci and the best way (probably the only one) to uncrypt Canal plus in the computer days.
Yeah let's throw portability and any semblance of order away b/c of ... what exactly?

There are only two Unix-like systems left that matter: macOS and Linux. No need to hold them back by pretending we are still in the UNIX wars and retaining compatibility with some UNIX system that nobody really uses anymore.
I think the issue is that Asimov uses "hyperspace" as a get-out-of-jail-free card for anything that seems to contradict physics. Faster than light travel? Possible through hyperspace. Infinitely powerful computers? Can exist in hyperspace.
why, I was just citing some common free software. Anyhow, about half of my random list seems to be copyleft:

GPL : R, gfortran, octave, fftw3, git

LGPL : gmp (dual-licensed with gpl2)

AGPL : overleaf

BSD-like: python, numpy, torch, jupyter, lapack

What is your point?
Undoubtedly a solid chip, specially for its performance per watt, but Intel's new i7-1280P performed better in comparison[1]. It'll be interesting in the coming months to see fresher benchmarks of M2 vs Intel 12th-gen vs AMD Ryzen.

[1] https://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-XPS-13-Plus-with-i7-1280P...
This is pretty minor. The area I have noticed a real performance difference between Intel and Apple silicon is the macOS activity monitor. On Intel machines it populates immediately when you switch between cpu/memory/energy. On m1 machines there’s a noticeable lag.

Like I said, it’s pretty minor but when I’m going into activity monitor it’s to check a process and the performance delay feels bigger than it actually is.
Weird....

I've done a bunch of stuff with my 16GB M1 Air - processor intensive java unit test runs taking ten minutes each, for instance, while also using microsoft teams and slack at the same time - and carried on using the machine as normal in between. I don't think I've ever seen the beach ball...
If you think about the percentage of qualified candidates that don't pass the interview, you might even be not too far off.

But did you consider the number of qualified candidates that did not even apply because they know there will be leetcode questions?
'Stranger Things' Won't Save Netflix
Hard, hard disagree with just about everything in this article.
> I'm living "there".

Perhaps not close enough.

- look up "infrasound" and "undercutting minimum distances", better use something else than Google for this.

- also check the requirements for the base materials: concrete, aluminium, fiber-reinforced plastic. Calculate the energy requirements for producing them.

- familiarize yourself with the space requirements (~ two acres of highly compacted soil, not including access roads)

- duration and disposal

- soil dehydration, other environment impact issues

- ... and as always of course, base load capability and storability
I live in rural Scotland and we had a mild problem with our electricity supply - our lights were flickering slightly, nobody else noticed but it was really annoying me.

I contacted the electricity supplier and they had a team come out within 24 hours - which rather surprised me. Turns out there was arcing at a junction box in the supply outside of our property which they fixed pretty quickly - presumably they react to things like that promptly due to potential fire risks.
if you decide that you don't like a picture, you can delete my record.

if you lose interest and turn off the db, the record is gone.

if your site goes down, i can't transact anymore.

the ethereum blockchain is hard to censor, hard to delete, and will hold records regardless of your continuing interest in the space.
> The unreliable first person narrator is trying to make himself look sympathetic to the reader, all the while confessing to all his despicable endeavors.

Do you know any other books like that? About some different topic?
Haven’t seen that on my work-provided 32GB 16” M1 Pro MBP running iOS dev, Android dev, and once in a blue moon web dev workloads. Maybe the extra cores compared to regular M1 are enough to dodge the issue in most circumstances.

In general I would say that beachballs long enough to really notice are more frequent on my personal base spec iMac Pro.
I'm curious about the nature of the damage. article mentions that the affected mirror will be adjusted to minimize the distortion that was introduced, so obviously not a crack. So, more like a tiny scratch? It's hard for me to conceptualize the impact of hypersonic dust on a mirror
I'm mostly talking about the ones that you wouldn't see in a European city, those that consume more than 10L / 100km basically. Anything that their owner would call "my truck" even though it's a car.
I have over a decade of experience, including driving big technical change at one organisation, and was filtered out by a timed leetcode test. I put together a repository of leetcode practice, as I had a feeling that I would have bad luck on the day. They didn't look at this.

The internal recruiter said it kept happening for seniors and people with a lot of experience, but his hands were tied, as the leetcode process was deemed important by the CTO.
The question/problem with the approach is: Who owns the commons, the Shared Space? Usually the answer is Not So Good.
Hire ex-YC engineers (contract / full-time)
SpaceX isn't publicly traded so there's no market to manipulate.
Asking contrived algorithmic puzzles might prove nothing, but the examples in TFA are actually pretty basic programming:

“I have an array with positive numbers, find the n^th largest”
I was expecting something like sending a payload with GET requests is not prohibited by the standard...
I know some of the recruiters at my employer, various teams have started testing and hiring multiple vacancies off of a single job ad which is kept open for longer.
To an external person it's odd because the assumption is one ad = one vacancy, but company policies and processing speed makes them try odd things to be able to hire what they need.

So while your idea is nice it wouldn't work because not every company lhas the same recruitment process, frontend or backend (visible to the candidate vs workable for the recruitment teams)
The search function could not be done server side and would be trash. See Keybase.

When I want to look up what I said to someone 5 years ago, fast search is priceless.
I once failed a leet code graph problem because I solved it with a genetic algorithm.

The problem wasn’t that I was incapable of solving the problem, it was the narrow view of possible solutions. The interviewer was looking for the CS101 solution.

My biggest gripe with leetcode is they tend to filter diversity of thought.
>making gas prices skyrocket and banning gas cars.

you know that the latter will solve the former. and fuel prices are more about a certain invasion so not so much about the environment. So which do you want to complain about?
Makes me wonder whether this is knowledge the dog picked up on its own through observation, or knowledge passed on through dog communication. Both being incredible.
And last but not least they are geared towards puzzles of the type encountered during CS education. Thus they are age discriminating and they are non CS discriminating.
And yet they do it, not every 6 months, but regularly. There are presidential elections (2 rounds every 5 years), general elections for the parliament (2 rounds every 5 years), elections for local (2 rounds every 6 years), department (2 rounds every 4 years), and regional councils (2 rounds every 6 years), and European elections (1 round every 5 years). Plus the occasional referendum. This year there will have been 4 voting days.

Sure, they don’t vote for judges and sheriffs and stuff, and it’s a system that’s more representative than participative as in, say, Switzerland. But it works.

One of the things that helps is that voting happens always on Sundays, when most people do not have to take a day off work to vote or to help counting.
Well as big an issue is the energy required, ie., acceleration requires energy and your mass isnt constant as you increase velocity.

So by the time you're anywhere near "galaxy hopping" you're requiring near infinite amounts of energy.

Also note that there really isnt any "galaxy hopping" speed. The speed of light is incredibly slow compared to space distances. Even travelling at light, you're not getting many places in a human life time.
Just wind the windows up
I wish davinci-002 wasn't so damn expensive to use :(
Which is kinda the idea behind the big bang.
I’d argue that learning some basics about how a web browser locates and communicates with a server is pretty basic, it’s the user experience.

It’s how the pedal connects to a throttle cable which rotates a plate in the throttle body and allows more air into the manifold, which results in more fuel injected and bigger combustion which means higher RPM.

Not overly complicated, but fundamental and should be learnt pretty early on.
It appears you're conflating the parametric/functional spec of a product with the statistical spec of a process in manufacturing said product at volume.
I'm looking for ideas that are either specific issues I encounter (over and over again throughout a day/week/month) and then explore it to see how big of an issue it actually is, if it's a minor annoyance or if someone is going through it but at a much larger scale. What I mean by this is probably best reflected by a product such as Ansible - someone had to reinstall some image at a point. Then they had to do a bunch of configuration. They might have done that once a week/month/year. Then they found out that other people do this a lot more often - someone maybe did this daily or hourly. The more often, the bigger the scale.

Otherwise, I'm looking for ideas around some of the core things I'm interested in more generally - climate change is a big one, so from a technological standpoint, what would be pain points there for mass adoption of a particular technological solution. Does the average farmer know how to use automation software to run hydroponics? Probably not. Can I make something to simplify that? How much work would it be? How much money could I potentially get?

So I think if you don't have any particular ideas on your own, or you think that everything is great or that the pain of the current issues you're facing is small enough to bear, then yeah, by all means, talk to people. You'll be surprised the sort of things that come out.

Sorry for the disorganized post, but I hope it made some sense.
i have made it a habit to use firefox in private browsing mode all the time. i know i can use "private browsing.autostart", i was a big user of that for many many years but ineed some persistent logins.

private browsing i do as in, i start my pc, firefox starts on its own so i do ctrl+shift+p.
then i go about my day using this window and more such windows.

whenever i have to wind down for the day or want to get rid of a session, i just close the windows and i am clean.

i understand people use cookies auto delete like you mentioned but for my use case, i dont even bother. i can sign in, do what i need to do and i dont care about signing out or even being tracked across sessions because sessions are not persistent across logins
What makes a good research proposal?
Ideology aside, isn’t licensing GPL better for the copyright owner? Makes it harder for someone else to
commercialize your work.
iOS is a much more modern OS with secure basis. Keyboard and mouse vs touch is mostly just a “userspace” decision, but from Apple’s point of view, OSX has quite a bit of technical debt in several areas that are possibly impossible to fix, like security.
Nice thing, normally implemented: you also can customize toolbar to have mail notificator icon right in your top toolbar without statusbar, for example. Memory usage is not greatly increased during email indexing. But: no support for protocols < TLS1.2, so I just can't use it for work mail for now.. Anyway - interesting product, like in old good Opera!
I doubt that's anything to do with the CPU... on my Intel MacBook Pro the Activity Monitor also lags about 5s before showing the stats.
There are a few (all are based on true story):

- Moneyball

- Good Night, and Good Luck

- Kinky Boots

- Telstar: The Joe Meek Story

- Ek Doctor Ki Maut (a hindi-language movie based on actual events, chronicling the sad state of Indian research scientists in government institutions; the movie is based on the life of an Indian doctor from Kolkata who developed a vaccine for leprosy. The doctor committed suicide, but the movie has changed that)
Hey HN! We are a bunch of engineers who love startups and love helping founders build startups.

If you are building something cool - hiring or not - come hang out with us!
How to Construct the Leech Lattice
I can't speak for the others, but Zuckerberg went to Ardsley High in Westchester County before going to Exeter. He also took at least one computer course at Mercy College while still in high school.

Also, going to a wealthy private high school does not mean one is from wealth. Top private schools, much like the Ivies, offer need-blind and need-based admission. It's likely a many of your listed founders were also scholarship students.

If you want a better indicator of what makes a successful founder, observe past alumni of summer programs like the Duke Center for Talented Youth.
I contend that there are two Hard Problems in building shared digital places: Discovery and Enabling Serendipity. And of the two, Discovery is probably the easier.
It seems that the article is almost 2 years old and the script is missing from github.

Here is the original website where the information is taken from [1]. Provides the latest data with every possible instance price.

[1] https://instances.vantage.sh/
Also python dot com back in the day.
Germany's biggest auto union questions Elon Musk authority for return-to-office
Even with my CS education, it's been over 15 years since I graduated, to say i'm rusty on the more academic things would be an understatement.
Original post from Google https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/calculating-1...
We need to maintain compatibility with 30 years worth of software. That's a primary reason why Microsoft is still dominant, despite the decline of their flagship to the point where it provokes disgust even in the layperson.
I should have said "expensive compared to digital stuff", you're right that it doesn't cost an individual millions to copy a book. But compared to copying a mp3, it takes a lot of time.
There are candidates that can talk circles around many questions and yet can't really write code.
I think we are just scratching the surface. There should be 4,000+ years of these cultural time capsules.

This one looks amazing. I hope they are able to raise the wreck and preserve the structure
What suggestions does it come up with for your post? I'd be interested to see if it spots the same gramattical errors I can ;)
This is interesting. What was your motivation to build this?
No, it's virtualisation all the way down.
The official list is payware: https://www.iata.org/en/publications/store/airline-coding-di...

Alternatives are to scrape some other website (who presumably paid IATA for the data) or Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_airports_by_IATA_and_...) which may or may not be more complete/accurate than OpenBSD's own crowdsourced list.
Tailwind CSS v3.1
LocalCDN is an active fork of Decentraleyes. From memory it was forked back in the day to add a Chrome plugin (the original was Firefox only at the time). That’s from memory though, so please do a little research to confirm.
This still doesn't indicate anything.

It doesn't say how much bigger.

My point I'm trying to make: the original comment indicates to me that we need to worry. For me it conveys much more speculation than I think is reasonable right now.

For example they were also not expecting to have such a great optical resolution.
It starts with something like this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whipple_shield and probably moves on to superconducting magnetic shielding as well. It will have to be defense in depth. There could easily be some kind of liquid layer also so that it's capable of being renewed over time.
Setting aside the fact that rolling release distros are 1) a thing and 2) highly popular, I have to believe that these are problems that are within our capacity as engineers to solve without just saying "screw it, we'll give each program its own OS".

In fact in some sense they are already solved, from a technical standpoint - you can install Debian, with its crufty out of date repos, and then download Firefox from its official website and run it right in your home directory. There you go, stable core and bleeding edge application. What's the problem?
That's not the case for me, as Netflix and Disney+ don't have what I want to watch.
- Fight Club

- Mulholland Drive

- Mall Rats
Which kind of leads into the cultural shock that everyone in Korea asks you your age right off the bat.

The point of it is not to be rude (as it would be from a Western perspective) but to know how 'hierarchically' you are related so that they know how to address you. Took me long enough to understand this.
Including installation on a roof?
Nice one, Ek Doctor Ki Maut.
> would you really want the glorified protagonist going around murdering, oppressing, being racist, etc etc with no indication that there's anything wrong with it?

If that is what the author wanted to write then I don't have a problem with that. Not every book needs to be a story with underlying morality teachings.
In a laptop that, according to the article, is louder, hotter, and with a much shorter battery life.