skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The term was coined in the 1960s to describe how voters are represented. Any unequal representation of the voter is by definition malapportionment. That is the common use of the term. A Google or DDG search will find dozens upon dozens of uses of this meaning:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2108670

https://www.nytimes.com/1967/11/02/archives/westchester-mala...

https://www.nytimes.com/1971/06/20/archives/and-to-malapport...

https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/10/opinion/one-person-one-vo...

Etc.

The Senate is a malapportioned legislative body by design and by definition.
Unfortunately I don't have a choice. They silently push all kinds of things to the system. Every week my fans spin up and I look at the Activity Monitor to find a new agent using all my CPU.
Having worked with the Twitter firehose, I can say with some certainty that the volume of data is measured in TBs per day. Sifting through a subset of the data to make correlations is working with PBs of data.

Source: Former employee of one of the few companies who got the "push" firehose and not just the API.
> This is backwards

But the order you recite to support this description is the same order as in my description you are responding to. What does “backwards” mean to you?

> by opening up the scope of XML to more or less all of SGML,
it is much less "of the web" than HTML was.

It's true that XML covers about the entire semantic space of SGML, but it deliberately does so with a much smaller syntactic space, inspired largely by HTML in its approach.

To say it wasn't “of the web” ignores the history of inspiration, development, standardization, and use.

> I was working with and paying attention to markup schemes and languages from the mid-80s. At the time XML emerged, I remember a giant collective yawn from that side of the software world, precisely because it just seemed that W3C had decided to embrace-but-not-really-extend SGML.

Yeah, and like the famous Slashdot CmdrTaco response to the iPod (“No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.”), that response missed what was relevant in the real world completely, XML (as bad a reputation for heavyweight implementations as it has compared to some more modern data representations), while in principal an application of SGML is much lighter weight to implement tooling for and a much smaller conceptual space for humans to understand (traits it shared with its inspiration, HTML.)

Progress isn't always by extension, it's often by recognizing and eliminating what is superfluous to requirements.

“It seems that perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” — Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Sure, all I'm saying is that if this is the SEC signaling that they're going to go after Tether next then that's a lot more interesting.
Genuinely didn’t know how to title this. Title is more than double the character limit. Feel free to edit
I've done a few interviews like this recently. I always thought I was a OK programmer, judging from the feedbacks I get from colleagues. But after these interviews, I felt terrible. Doing my daily Leetcode as we speak...
Great talk indeed. Just watched it. Thanks.
The SEC filings are not new information, so unless he has new information that show those filings are false, there is nothing to question in a court of law NOR the court of common sense.
>Name one billionaire that isn't on top.

Donald Trump.
I always believed that saying that Monty knowledge affects the odds is just more people friendly way of saying that those are not independet events and simple probabilistic model does not work when Monty is not allowed to select prize when revealing gate - You need something fancy (like a bit of Bayes conditional probability)
You wouldn't be able to make any real policy changes unless you made it all the way up into to the 25-member Politburu (or maybe even its 7-member Standing Committee) [1]. All the other ~90 million CCP members are tasked with implementing the policies made there.

You might be able to become a social policy research professor or something, or where you study Communist/Marxist/Leninist/Maoist/Jinpingist/etc thought and try to develop new applications of it to the modern world. But you won't get to change anything from the Politburu, and could lose your career or worse if you try.

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politburo_of_the_Chinese_Commu...
A white South African whose family came from apartheid South Africa...the problem is not his skin colour.
> I agree with the article that 'leetcode' tests (find that complicated algorithm in 30 minutes while I am staring at you) are bad. But I think coding tests are good! Give the candidate just a really simple coding task with stuff they normally do every day. Create and delete object, fill arrays, iterate over arrays, and so on. 50% of the candidates will fail! The rest are OK engineers.

Do the candidates know that ahead of time?

Your approach seems similar to what I've done as a coding interviewer and to what my interviewers did when I last interviewed (at Google back in 2007). Assess people's coding with something relatively simple. Make sure they can gather requirements, describe why they chose this approach instead of a couple alternatives, and (if they make a mistake) that they can diagnose it if you describe the symptoms. If you have extra time, have them review some bad code. See if they spot the problems and how they gently help the author understand/fix them. (They also should be tested on system design, but that's a whole other interview slot.)

I'm studying to be a coding interviewee for the first time in 15 years. This process is stressful in part because they just tell you coding on hackerrank/leetcode/coderpad, which is so broad. If the problem they pick is as you describe, I should be fine. If it's for example some advanced dynamic programming problem...well, those haven't come up for me in the last 17 years, so I'm probably in trouble. It's a perfectly valid area of computer science, but it's not one that matches my experience or what I'd likely be doing if accepted. I'm not excited about taking the time to prepare for that, but I also don't want to make a fool of myself if they do. They probably won't pick this area...and if they do, it's probably a bad sign about the company or my understanding of the role...but the possibility is stressful nonetheless.
And mining too
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https://fee.org/articles/america-outperforms-canada-in-surge...

Saying America spends more is pretty weak claim because Americans are fatter, more often shot, face worse natural disasters (hurricanes, earth quakes)... Of course they spend more. There are hundreds of variables why healthcare per capital would be cheaper in Canada from CoL to quality of doctors (the ones that remain are ones who cannot compete in the highly paid US Market), to greater public safety net or social goods in all areas resulting in fewer high cost outcomes (eg, Canadians take more PTO)...

Overall i think the main difference between what you're interested in and what I'm interested in -- that which we're calling "superior" differ.

To me a system is superior if it gives better outcomes to those who pay for the service. VS you seem to be claiming that a better outcome is something like the average across all citizens.

To me this is like saying "We all need food, therefore when we go to the grocery store you will be charged the average bill and given what you absolutely need to not die, but not necessarily what you need to thrive. This is how we keep others from starving..."

For me I want to go to the grocery store and receive the best I can get for my money. It's a just system to receive what you pay for and to not receive what you do not pay for. I do also believe in a separate, external to the government, system of charity to cover cases which are truly unfortunate, but also to keep people accountable for their contributions to their own health when able or

Anyways, it seems you're squarely set your values based opinion, and I am on mine. So there's no longer a reason to discuss further.
Some relevant offtopic. Ego and fear are also described in the eastern philosophy as the two biggest obstacles on your way. Ego is the illusion of separateness, the great seed of all human evils, that takes a monumental effort to get rid of. Next comes the fear of making the next step, "taking on more responsibility" as we would say here, because that new responsibility feels so overwhelming. Those who fail to make the leap of faith (or "to challenge themselves" in corpspeak) fall, and have to climb up again.
> it can not against the treaties that set up the Union

Yes, I think the precise terminology generally used for discussing such situations is "within/outside the ambit of the competences assigned to it" or (more succinctly, but even less clearly) "intra or ultra vires".[0]

It's therefore not so surprising that people informally adopt the more familiar term "(un)constitutional", even if that implies a national structure that doesn't match the EU's legal basis under international law.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290553083_The_ECJ_a...
Foreknowledge has absolutely no effect. Again, go back to the problem I posed where Monty reveals a random door and has revealed a goat. Should you switch or not? The correct answer is that you should.

Monty's knowledge has no effect on the problem or the player's choices. What has an effect is the information the player learns from seeing the revealed door. If the player sees a goat behind the revealed door - that is the relevant information. Whether Monty was surprised or not by the revealed goat is irrelevant.
I always thought it was because we really couldn't break the applications down without massive dependencies and the complexity of human procedures brought to the computer's logical world.

It seems like folks who've built some form of common bus (shared data types and communications channels) do better scaling applications. If I can effectively split off a part of the application and plug a new part in its place, I can scale. OOP seems to love dependencies that accumulate until objects cannot be replaced because of all the connections. Clean separation is a hard problem.

Computers are logical machines. Human laws and regulation are not. Modeling physics is an easier problem (programming not computing need wise) than calculating taxes. At one point in the US, every gallon of bio-diesel had to have its own serial number[1], this adds a level of complexity that goes beyond simple programs.

My own thoughts (or my longtime hobby project) is that Agent oriented programming hasn't really been given a workout, and that decoupling data structures might lead to some improvements. I honestly think being able to replace parts of a running program in an orderly manner might be a indicator of a good direction.

1) https://mnbiofuels.org/media-mba/blog/item/1495-rins-101 - as a programming exercise, write a program to add, subtract gallons from a storage unit - it gets fun.
>At least one in five children falls victim to sexual violence during childhood 3 . A 2021 global study found that more than one in three respondents had been asked to do something sexually explicit online during their childhood, and over half had experienced a form of child sexual abuse online 4 . Children with disabilities face an even higher risk of experiencing sexual violence: up to 68% of girls and 30% of boys with intellectual or developmental disabilities will be sexually abused before their 18th birthday 5 .

That is absolutely shocking.
It's the "What's your greatest weakness?" type of questions that always throw me. Some variations include:

- What's something your not good at?

- What's the biggest mistake you've ever made on the job?

- Describe a time you disagreed with a colleague. How did you resolve it?

- Tell us about a time you received some negative feedback from a manager and how you handled it.

For these types of questions, it has definitely helped me to have rehearsed a little ahead of time.
What's missing from this thread is not that Monty always reveals a goat... It's that he never reveals the car! In other words, the "you can switch doors" routine is always part of the show.

By removing one door which does not have the car, Monty has narrowed your best choice to one of the other two.
>It doesn't matter if he's guaranteed to reveal the goat or not

Yes, it does. this is the entire point behind the popularity of the Monty Hall problem. It is counter-intuitive and feels like overthinking, but it is truth.

I described the situation pretty clearly (imo). I did not need to think about it much at all, though it did take some thought to describe it clearly.

I can tell you, without much thought, having been trained thoroughly in probability and statistics, it is 50-50 if a door is opened randomly to reveal a Goat. You can switch if it makes you feel better - because it is 50-50 so you wont be hurting yourself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_probability

there are other examples that make it more clear why condition matters.
> pay them in bitcoin whereas USD wasn't possible

Why would they want to pay them in USD and not the local currency? What was preventing them from official employment?
At some point soon the computers will be able to send email back and forth to each other and leave me out of it.
Ethereum had successful dress rehearsal to move to proof-of-stake
Which rhymes with "boludo".
The problem with the "easy leetcode" problems is that a lot of them are "gotcha" type of problems: you either know the formula/puzzle-logic/solving-strategy or you'll fail.

I remember asking the typical "traverse an array in spiral" or "traverse this array in diagonals" a long time ago. The problem is that, if the candidate solved it, I just knew they knew how to play with array indexes. And if they didn't do it, I just knew that they got nervous and were not good using indexed arrays... it didn't give me anything.

That's why FizzBuzz is good: it has no false negatives. If a developer candidate can't do it, it means thay cannot code.
Doesn't look like it adds much of anything to the Apple calendar, which itself is a pretty minimal implementation. I actually found it worthwhile to pay $50 for Busycal which has a lot of features important to me (presumably not to most people). Fantastical also has a following at around the same price point, though it didn't do it for me.

I wish notion supported the mac, but they just have a lame web view which isn't any better than using a web browser. Doesn't act at all like a native app.
It's common for tech companies to give RSUs which vest over 4 years with annual refreshers being comparatively quite small. The financial incentives can dwindle after just 4-6 years at a given job.
I doubt it. HODL is a mantra used by crypto grifters to ensure they can liquidate into filthy dollars or euros without having bagholders panic and depress the price.
Even if you get reliable bot ID, there's a difference between a zero- or negative-value bot that just spams or tries to inflame social tensions and positive-value bots that automatically propagate things like weather or traffic updates.

Some accounts are a mix of human and "bot" updates--and you can get a very different impression of their nature depending on your sample.

https://twitter.com/JeffLindner1, for example, posts automatic alerts from the Harris County flood warning system (such as https://twitter.com/JeffLindner1/status/1529386618938920960). If you look at his account when it isn't pouring outside, you'll see human updates and retweets. If you look during a three-day downpour, you may see dozens of automatic tweets per human post.
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The parent put it too strongly but it's equally naive to assume that track records and public commitments mean anything to a privately-held company, with a commitment to profit shareholders, run by Jeff Bezos.
No

https://theecologist.org/2009/mar/01/somalia-used-toxic-dump...
> There is no indication of incompatibility between these devices

That's not quite correct. The Nintendo Switch and the Switch Dock works with some Macbook chargers, and all you need to do is read the small print on the devices.

The Macbook chargers list the supported voltages & currents on the outside (in very small light grey text, but it is there), and the Switch has the supported voltages and required currents printed on the back. It's confusing because the Switch Dock needs a different voltage & current than just the Switch itself, but if you read the fine print on the devices you can see if they are compatible.
Strange comment. May need to edit something? I can't parse it - parallel (e.g. CUDA) techniques have been popular since AlexNet.
It is working out really well.

> I just can't see why a movement whose core principle is not liking organizational structures wouldn't make any progress.

Nor can I. But we are talking about anarchism.
FTFY is not truth.
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There is but it isn't pretty and the utility was found years ago. It is amazing for online black markets and monetizing organization's weak security through ransomware. Cryptocurrencies are extremely well made for moving value online without limit opportunities for government intervention. People have been trying to jam that square peg in endless number of more socially acceptable round holes and, unsurprisingly, it doesn't work out well.
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> The obvious thing you are missing is that many Europeans refer to the collection of EU treaties as a whole as a "constitution"

I have never heard anyone use that term to refer to European laws or directives.
Okay?

"In 2018, $24.26 Billion was lost due to payment card fraud worldwide"

https://shiftprocessing.com/credit-card-fraud-statistics/
I wasn't asking for DD, but for you to complete your thought.
Most folks are basing their opinions off the standard business acquisition contracts, which include limited exit opportunities for the buyer.

Several of these contracts have even gone to court, so their typical clauses are public knowledge (including the verdicts), even if the specifics are not.

EDIT: The actual contract is public (which makes sense, Twitter is public; a deal to buy would also be public). I have posted it in a sibling contract.
Meta: title is odd, probably after HN filtered out the exclamation point.
I don't do collective punishment. The NYT piece on him showed that he wasn't a racist.
> People buy crypto in hopes of getting rich.

That is the key.

People will believe anything if it helps them believe they'll get rich quick, whether it's that crypto is revolutionary, or that tulip prices can only go up.
Trump was able to win election for president in the US, one of the most powerful positions in the world. Is that not the ultimate example of a billionaire coming out "on top"?
Crypto on the other hand, isn't waiting on very much from you.
Go to his boss and tell the boss that this guy needs to work on his signal-to-noise ratio because he talks too much and says too little.
My comment was not in defense of cryptocurrency, in fact I am in a similar situation as you, spent 2 years in the space and have given up completely. DeFi is a disgrace. The shit happening there would be unfathomable in regular markets.

However I still recommend this article because it’s not necessarily on the topic of self-ownership and privacy (privacy running counter to the concept of cryptocurrency itself anyway)
I think a lot of people understand that "contractually waiving a home inspection" means you can't withdraw from a home purchase because you didn't get a home inspection. Even if you are now claiming, without proof, that the basement leaks.
if every single crypto dApp was erased from the world overnight, absolutely nothing about how you live your life would change.

That's how much impact crypto has had on the world in 15 years.
An excellent (English language) podcast about Berlin's fiasco of an airport, BER: https://www.radiospaetkauf.com/ber/ (29 years from planning to completion, 14 years from construction start to opening, 9 years late, budget from 1 billion Euro to almost 6).

One of the points they made in the podcast was similar to TFA's: changes in construction are really expensive and blow things out in costs. A new mayor came in and demanded major changes once construction was underway in Berlin. And then, when people said "this will cause problems" his response was basically "we're Germany, we are the best at planning, building and constructing, of course we can handle this with no problems"...
It's not better in every way at all - it is more flexible. I regularly bounce between Go and Rust in different contexts.
I absolutely loved ZeroTier for last 4 yrs.

Until 2 weeks ago when my Windows machines absolutely stopped seeing each other and communicating with each other.

I made a post on ZeroTier discussion group 2 weeks ago with zero replies so far:
https://discuss.zerotier.com/t/windows-machines-lost-access-...

If i can get some help - would be amazing.
Software engineers (and passionate techies in general) are so so so so bad at understanding the true implementation cost of software solutions. Software engineers often believe their product is just so intuitive that they don't consider QA, training, and support, costs and timelines.

Further, people said the app is awesome, people throw positive praise because its cheap and makes everyone in the room feel good. It doesn't mean your app is awesome (what is awesome anyways?).

Startups are hard. Selling to small business is hard. Its worth attempting because you learn an incredible amount about one of the backbones of our society (small business) - but its not for the faint of heart.
What's the fine line of Do Qwon's story, ripping off investors to the tune of 100s of millions? Is he a modern Rodion Raskolnikov?
More power to them, whoever they are.
Perception is reality. One commenter above felt that the "2-3 seconds" it took Vivaldi to start up was intolerable. Every post about this browser is always flooded by people whose main benchmark is that if a browser does not match Chrome on subjective performance, it's shit. I don't get it either.

For me, tab tiling is an absolute killer app, unique to Vivaldi, and the somewhat slower UI performance than Chrome is well worth it just for that.