skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned the d120 which AFAICT is the largest fair dice that you can just go out and buy. Sadly it's a smidge under 7 bits, but you can "reasonably" roll up 32 bits of entropy with a mere 6 rolls (and still have 9 bits left over)

https://www.wired.com/2016/05/mathematical-challenge-of-desi...
In this case I don't think the point is whether Google is better or worse at this search than Bing, it's that Google should fix the problem.
Leet code definitely discriminates against slow thinkers and those who might be more inclined to use libraries and interfaces. It is biased against a certain types of developers who is usually not the best type of developer.

Have you ever seen corporate codebases? Leetcode emphasizes the old way of thinking is/was prone to do what you are told, dont think, just do the task in the timebox allocated for the sprint, always reinvent the wheel, and each axel, multiple times, for each wheel, in the same codebase.

This jira waterfall code now, dont think, and this might be fine for a unicycle, or even a bicycle, bad for trucks and trains.

Hint: With factor t - all tech debt - Everything will become a truck or train.
> “This result is almost elegant in its simplicity — it’s really rare to find a new particle with a super clean signature without a lot of fanfare,” said Prineha Narang, an assistant professor at Harvard and a principal investigator through the QSC, a U.S. Department of Energy National Quantum Information Science Research Center headquartered at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Well, to be fair...
In many cases copyright infringement doesn’t result in a lost sale. If the copyright holder refuses to sell the product, then surely the damages are zero.

The majority of copyrighted material is not available for purchase
Wow this feels a bit Baader-Meinhoff. With Valetudo + self-emptying as motivation, I received my Z10 via Amazon / "Dreametech official store" just this past Friday. Happily, it arrived with fw 4.1.7_1056 and I was able to use the simple reset method to install. Valetudo's worked wonderfully for the past week and I've never even seen the official app.
One note: VT is not open source firmware. It's more like a brain controlling parasite with a good UX.
$5/mo is roughly my server electricity cost. The Cloudflare offer is not for me.
If there's one thing Dungeons and Dragons has taught me, it's that intelligence and wisdom are two completely different stats.
The wife got a new car - not a Tesla - that has several smart cruise control features.

She actually ended up disabling some of them. She explained that they "made driving too easy" and it was too hard for her to keep her attention on the road while using them.
> The company culture is going down the drain, people don't know each other anymore and the retention is starting to wither: why stay in a company where I don't have anything other that money to gain? Seeing each other twice a year in seminars isn't going to spur much camaraderie, if the next day it's "wake up, walk 3m, sit at desk, eat at 12, back at desk, shower, sleep".

Sounds like the comp is getting too low for the market.
It 's been instrumental in illegal purchases online (drugs, weapons, counterfeit currency, etc), tax evasion, sanctions avoidance, and money laundering.

Some of these things, in some contexts, are both ethical and critically useful. Obviously there are also many (if not most) unethical use-cases.

...but you cannot claim it has no practical value.
The problem with this question is that outside the junior people who won't understand the hints, many good programmers would pass or fail just based on whether they have seen a similar problem or know what a Bloom filter is. CS is so broad that you may have been working for many years and never come across one topic that the interviewer deems standard.
Why software engineers like woodworking
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> has not shared if she would be leaving her post

Kinda looks like she did:

https://www.automotiveworld.com/news-releases/veoneer-resign...
> Literally every uC

Not true at all.

> How often are you bitbanging non standard protocols?

Regarding protocols: bitbanging 1-Wire. Not all microcontrollers have this peripheral. You might be lucky if you can adapt some other peripheral like an UART (with due effort). Or you can use for example an external ds2482 and drive it through I2C.

WS2812B: sometimes you can emulate it with some other peripheral, sometimes you have to do it by bitbanging some GPIO.

I don't bitbang so often in general. But it's not just about available "hardware blocks": introducing undesidered delays in embedded applications is a terrible, terrible idea.

You can have a perfectly working sensor through I2C with DMA, super optimized with 0 CPU intervention. This sensor has an ODR of 1kHz. A GC stopping the microcontroller for 400ms makes you stand behind 400 samples you might be processing in real time (FIFO aside, and because you know you shouldn't be doing any processing in an interrupt handler, right?). You don't lose the buffered samples of course, but your processing is now delayed.

Or perhaps you are doing some 44100, 16-bit stereo audio processing (in or out). You have implemented the perfect I2S/DMA mechanism and all that, combined with perfect SDIO reading. What would happen in a real-time processing audio application if the GC introduces even 20ms delays now and then? Horrible latency and/or artifacts... And because your MCU has 32KB of RAM you don't have the luxury of big buffers, so you have to be quick reading, processing and outputting. Stopping the processing = stopping the output.

Or you might be dealing with some external peripheral that needs an answer within a time limit...

You can see it's not just about "hardware blocks".

Following what I said before, even if "60 seconds" is the application required timing, there are other things that might be happening in the background that require precise timing.

Is Toit a bad language? I don't know. But as I said before, it only makes senses if ran under a known platform like ESP32 where the language developers have tuned everything, and the programer doesn't pretend real-time applications. A generic language for every microcontroller? I am not so sure...
> I believe what people have said is that the components can’t handle continuous use

That could be worked around by using the existing Linux featureset to manage hardware utilization. Especially if CPU/GPU use turns out to be the main issue (as opposed to, e.g. powering the display and radio components).
Solar is a perfect solution for like 1/3 of the world for like 1/3 of the day.

Batteries though, current batteries are a horrible solution.

It's funny that this threads main objection to nuclear is waste/mining/etc but the solar battery revolution generates some far worse environmental effects getting all those rare earth minerals. Compared to the tiny amounts of fuel needed for reactors, the sheer amount of metal needed for worldwide grid solar batteries is astronomical.
This is partially correct, China is not a monolithic entity that fully marches in lockstep with Beijing.

But the solution to the problem of uncooperative governors is the application of soft power (media, agitprop, appointments, rewards, threats, denunciations and disappearances, liquidation of problem people, their families, their friends, their pets, etc), not some over-engineered technological non-solution that still relies on the cooperation of all the parties in question to work.

A blockchain can't enforce that anyone actually enters data into it, or that the data that is entered isn't garbage. A snail-mail package containing data sent to Beijing has the exact same immutability property for the only party that cares about it - the national government.

Something like a blockchain is useful when peers don't trust eachother, but all care to build a shared consensus. When the peers don't care about consensus, and a central authority with the power of pit and gallows exists, none of those usecases hold.
How do newsgroups maintain integrity across providers without a coin? Isn’t it like a sum check? That doesn’t work as good?

I wish bitcoin were solving a real problem for the amount of energy it uses.
> Ultimately, it's unlikely that the federal government would or even could force a state into compliance once the state government and courts have opted to treat state law as taking precedence above federal law.

This has been tested, and the states—consisting of a very large share of the states up to that moment in the union—testing it ultimately failed.

The federal-state balance of the relative capacities to apply force has not, in the interim, shifted in favor of the states in any way I can ascertain, in fact, those capacities have been significantly centralized in the Federal government since the last time it was tried in a large scale way, or even since the more recent, smaller scale attempts.

> We already see this with legal marijuana, there are multiple campaigns aimed to form interstate compacts without the consent of congress.

Source? There has been lots of talk of an interstate compact with Congressional approval as an alternative vehicle, and transitional stepping stone, to general federal legalization, but I’ve seen nothing about a renegade compact.

State marijuana legalization leans on non-commandeering doctrine rather than nullification.
It shows a desire to take advantage of the U.S.'s economic benefits. It has very little to do with the constitution.
Linux IS corporate. It has been corporate for a long time - the heaviest commits come from paid, professional developers.
Of course Mario will stick it to a guy named Bowser.
The link submitted here is Woit's link.
> I remain enamored with the special qualities of blockchains and would like to put them to use in a non-financial manner.

Can you think of any practical uses of a blockchain? I also think they're a fascinating concept, but I cannot think of a killer application for them.

I remember one of the original ideas was a trustless logistics system for things like shipping, but even then all the blockchain proves is that someone said they'd shipped you a box, you could still open it and find it full of rocks. And the smart contract stuff is very clever, but seems to be essentially techno-escrow except that you just have to trust your smart contract broker and the authors of the blockchain rather than your escrow agent, and also if everything goes sideways there's no legal system to interpret the contract "sensibly".
> I think blockchain is an interesting technology that does have some unique qualities

Blockchain has unique attributes, I don't think it has any unique quality.

Most of its "qualities" are things that you do not want under any circumstance in your systems even independently, so adding them all together turns it into a worthless technology.

Immutability? Harmful in 99% of the use cases. Trustless? Harmful in 99% of the use cases. Decentralized? A waste in 99% of the use cases. Now put all 3 together, add more "qualities" akin to those, and you've got blockchain.
Being unable to finance and unwilling are two different things although I'm sure Elon can try that.
> The crazy thing (for me) is that I remain enamored with the special qualities of blockchains and would like to put them to use in a non-financial manner.

Which special qualities are you enamored with? And to what use would you like to put them?
fools and what used to be their money
The difference between Tesla's system and driver assistance features that other automakers have, is that Tesla's system encourages a lower level of driver engagement, and it will initiate larger inputs. If those inputs are not what the driver is expecting, a driver in a Tesla may have to correct a more severe failure mode and they may have to do so after being mentally disengaged for a longer period.
> But then why do people with that kind of reputation still (at certain companies) have to jump through these hoops?

Your article points out that in this example: "I'm not allowed to check in code, no... I just haven't done it. I've so far found no need to.".

> If, say after one month, you do not like what you see, you can easily let them go. Of course you tell them upfront what the deal is.

> We could call it, I don't know, maybe trial or probationary period.

You make it sound like it's a better solution for candidates, but it's way worse for many of them and it has been explained by other commenters already.

How many companies actually do this? At which scale?

Some companies increased their difficulty to hire by having aggressive PIP objectives. Likewise, having a "real" probation period where you fire, say, 10%+ of employees is not gonna make you competitive when candidates compare their offers.
A block chain doesn't help with this situation though since only the central authority matters. If a adversarial party submits false data, blockchain doesn't do anything to address that.

The situation you describe can be handled via a write-only log with cryptographic signing of each change.
> Again, what defines "childhood"?

The normal way one, under the age of 18. They do provide stats about one happening to children at the age of nine though, if you only wanna count the really tiny ones as children.

> I was having phone sex and video call sex with other people my own age

The question is explicitly about being asked to do something they were uncomfortable with, a mutually consensual interaction wouldn't count in that survey.

https://www.weprotect.org/wp-content/uploads/Estimates-of-ch...
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All backups are vulnerable to deletion, loss, or corruption. That’s why you have many. Dropbox is no different.
Not if it's stolen from a person who bought it, instead of a warehouse
Nuclear waste isn't a problem if you drill a hole that's deep enough, encase the waste in a "dry cask", and drop it in the hole. Kyle Hill did a great video on this...

"We solved nuclear waste decades ago" => https://youtu.be/4aUODXeAM-k
Yeah... that's a link to the same article as this HN post. I think you meant to post this comment on those other livescience submissions.
What do you think of adding third party ads to our newsletter?
Strong assumption NHTSA will issue a recall due to the severity of the issue and Tesla offers up sensor fusion as the fix.

Tesla Vision was a successful strategy to keep shipping units during supply chain issues (inability to source radar units), but it is clearly not sustainable based on the Vision codebase maturity reflected by operational performance.
Bluetooth devices having trouble?

I suggest you try wired before blaming the CPU.
Wikipedia front page is pretty good. They have a news section too.
Don’t think of it as locking them in, think of it as value you are already providing. Business models change all the time, rebrand and re-engage if you can.
I don't disagree, but it's a false dichotomy: we don't have to choose between the statistical view and boots on the ground. All forms of useful knowledge should be sought. Human brains are heavily biased towards anecdotes and stories, as opposed to cold calculated statistics... So that's the baseline we're starting from.
Yep. "Hmm, give me a second to think on that" is my favorite pause to collect my thoughts. Take a minute to flip through my prepared stories, potentially think through ones I haven't prepared but that might fit better, settle on one, decide the beats I need to hit to best answer the question, and then "Okay. One time..."
There are plenty of warnings about "keeping hands on the wheel" and "full attentiveness". Of course people are going to ignore this, just like many people chose to ignore the effects of alcohol and drive.
They lost a lawsuit about it. They were engaging in planned obsolescence.
NNTP can be moderated.
Feel free to provide actual examples instead of theorizing they exist. Proof of working, so to speak.
The original Parade problem is fairly ambiguous and incomplete. Therefor there is no "correct solution". Other formulations typically include the conditions that the host will always open a door, and that door will always contain a goat as explicit assumptions. In that case the math and logic are pretty straightforward.

But in the setting of an actual repeated game show, I think the more realistic case to keep the show interesting is that the host will mix up his strategy, i.e. sometimes he opens another door, sometimes he doesn't. If it's a long running daily or weekly show, if he always opens a door with a goat, the public will work out pretty quickly that it's advantageous to always switch.
I thought this was Openshot for some reason, but then realised it wasn't :)
> notwithstanding the recent collapse of LUNA/UST

If anything, that's an invitation to wait the next financial crisis to see what really is left of the "trend".
Yeah, we have to keep this stuff classified so it’s not unconstitutional!
And in the case of the stolen DVD, the DVD is physically gone from where it was. In the case of digital copies, nothing is lost besides the potential for one particular sale.
This is generally old news.

Philz Coffee in Palo Alto, CA and major department stores in the US have been doing this for years to track foot traffic. If you don't want to be tracked, turn off BT and Wifi and demand the protocol stds body and mfgrs support even stronger randomized hw addresses.
Has anyone actually looked at the Switch piracy situation? There are dozens of people running pirate eshop clones run of Google Drive hosting all games and DLC, people just connect a client to it and download whatever they want. The domains are on bulletproof TLDs and the Google accounts rotate, often using free university accounts with terabytes of storage.

I guess Nintendo don't care because the number of hacked Switch devices is pretty low, and targeting hardware modifications is easier than going after the elusive software end of things.
No need. There's a real off mode.
Calm / Headspace or other meditation apps with settings tweaked to turn off things like streaks and only show notifications for your goals.
I can see how it might get old hearing that a lot, but when I look at the suite of tech screen questions we have here, several of them are basic under the hood (tree-building and traversal, string manipulation, etc). However, they all do have something about them that made them interesting to me when I did them to calibrate my interviews.

Things can be interesting without being hard or novel, and as Aphyr's entertaining "Hexing the interview" series shows, you can often find something interesting for purely personal reasons that are separate from the question itself. The interesting part might be that a normal data structure isn't enough, or that the difference between the naiive solution and the performant one is substantial. It might just be that we might be doing a task that we normally use a library for (string manipulations) in our normal work, so it's refreshing/challenging/interesting to look at things from a different level of abstraction.
I would recommend none of the above, I was giving OP a better way of having their stuff online.

The article you referenced was getting locked out of accounts. We are speaking of having documents backed up, not google accounts.

The best way period would be to periodically backup to an external HD or even SD cards.

People need to get over this cloud bullshit years ago.

All of these problems have been solved since the advent of the internet, these are all self-imposed problems.
Interestingly enough the president of Nintendo of America is Doug Bowser. So this case is basically Bowser v. Bowser
Sorry, I was going by the title and the search results, I should have checked. I was going to delete it but the replies mean I can't, so I've replaced the text with an apology.
Emperor's New Clothes and Workplace Harassment (2017)
The solution that has actually been implemented in Europe is to regulate the payment providers, so inter-bank transfers are effectively free and instant, and credit card fees are capped at 0.3% (i.e. 10x less than in the USA).
I live next to a Starbucks, and see tons of familiar faces everyday.
That is true for the 1970's and 1980's boom of production in France, but is not true at present: the EPR they are building at Flamenville 3 and Hinkley Point C1+C2 are the sum total of those reactors currently under construction, and none are currently operational, so those three are likely to be the total number ever built.

It is true that the 34 CPY reactors, and the 20 P4 reactors, were produced in large enough numbers to create a skilled class of workers and engineers who were deeply experienced with building these reactors, but right now all of those workers are retired.

And honestly, from observation, it appears that rebuilding competence like this is a lot harder than building it in the first place: when you are building the first time everyone- the general public, the regulators, the workers themselves- are more forgiving. When you've lost that capacity and are trying to rebuild it you have expectations set for a mature industry, but the skills aren't there to deliver it.
That 69 dollars happened AFTER the lawsuit (a petty reaponse) and is yet further example of planned obsolescence! Pay 70 bucks, or put 70 bucks towards a new phone.
i bet you could fit all the BGP experts in the world in a medium sized conference hall and half of them would be on a first name basis with each other. That's what i think of when i think of "backbone cabal".
I discovered cron looking for a way to manage my "two DayJob calendars with 85% duplicate events but 15% unique events".

Specifically since I was annoyed at getting 2 notifications for every event that was duplicated on both calendars.

And cron actually solved that problem by automagically recognizing duplicate events and only notifying once. I turned off all notifications in calendar.app.

The only other differentiating feature I am aware of is how configurable the menu bar app is.

Thankfully, I no longer have the original problem + I don't like things in my menu bar so I'm probably switching back to the built in app.
> western Europe or the US.

Why would we care about anyone not in the richest countries. It's not like they need security by default to not become another botnet and DDoS Europe or US businesses.

I would like to see you justify paying sso.tax to business owner in countries where sysadmin is payed less than those services ask in a month
Nintendo will never see my sponsorship ever again.
Sometimes you can gain access to old versions of apps by installing the latest version on the same account on a new device.
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