skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem seems to be that "practice questions" imply having an accurate (if not completely formal) model of the world, and systems design is not enough of a science for that. Instead of a coherent model it's a disjoint collection of patterns, or perhaps many different coherent but small disciplines mushed together.

Perhaps I just don't know system design though.
> You can’t kill them though.

You can remove them from your house and let them starve on the street when they wanted to eat the food from your refrigerator.

But apparently not if they literally were consuming your body.
I sold cars for a living and was basically top 0.1-0.2% at it nationwide.

Every now and then a coworker would say that selling cars was easy work. So I'd ask him if it's so easy, why didn't he promise to double his sales next month? Ohh.. because that would be hard.

A lot of things are easy to do casually and hard to do intensely at scale.
> but only 30% of users have migrated from SMS to in-app notifications, mostly because they won't even install their app.

You say 'even' but it's hard to make sure apps aren't able to track me at all, and I while I trust my bank to keep my money safe I don't trust their app to be tracker-free.
Coolest project I have seen this year.
I think it's often misunderstood at how incredibly hard it is to stop reproduction.

For example birth control pills are 99% effective. From the NHS:

> When taken correctly, the pill is over 99% effective at preventing pregnancy. This means that fewer than 1 in 100 who use the combined pill as contraception will get pregnant in 1 year.

So, if you're in a relationship for 5 years, that's 1 in 20. For my group of people I know, this matches up pretty well. I have one friend who has three children. They were all conceived while on birth control.
> Most of the examples you mention are actually protected at the federal level, through the constitution

until just now, the courts have repeatedly confirmed for several decades that abortion was protected at a federal level through the constitution.
> Again, are you saying that Oxford Uni, IPCC, UN and many other credible organizations are lying?

No, I'm saying they're not saying what you're saying they're saying.

> Have you ever watched how actual chicken nuggets are produced?

Yep. That's what I linked you to, above. How chicken nuggets are made. Read my earlier comment again:

> That's what your vegan nuggets replace. And they do a great job at it! Because they're equally shit.

Get it?

Oh, wait, you think because I don't want to eat your fake nuggets, that can only mean I want to eat the chicken ones? Black and white thinking, typical of fanatics with little understanding of the world beyond their gurus' teachings.
When there are massive institutional incentives to proclaim X, it is only wise to discount, somewhat, proclamations of X.

In Vanity Fair's lab-leak theory story, there was an illustrative detail:

*> Inside the NIH, which funded such research, the P3CO ["Potential Pandemic Pathogen Care and Oversight"] framework was largely met with shrugs and eye rolls, said a longtime agency official: “If you ban gain-of-function research, you ban all of virology.” He added, “Ever since the moratorium, everyone’s gone wink-wink and just done gain-of-function research anyway.”

A whole field wants certain research to happen, with minimal limits. They don't want to admit, or even let themselves believe, that their peers' accident killed 20 million people. It's a hard pill to swallow!
> It doesn't matter if I like the minority or not, singling them out for more political power makes no sense.

It seems like as a society we have a complicated relationship with this idea.
Rights are in principle equal, but power is not equally distributed. Maintaining any balance is a really hard problem.

The electoral college could be a relic of a bygone era whose time is over and done, but I'm not sure that eliminating it is going to reset the balance of power in a way that protects rights more effectively.
I think it's extremely relevant to discuss the extreme pro-life position opposing all forms of abortion, because it's the only form that's logically consistent. If one truly believes that abortion is murder, then it doesn't matter how the baby was conceived. On the other hand, what is pro-life's ethical justification for allowing abortion in cases of rape or incest? Are you saying that murder is okay in some cases? In my opinion, it's just another example of the right's crippling hypocrisy.

The argument that abortion is tolerable in cases where the women does not choose to have sex shows your hand: the pro-life movement was never about protecting life, it has always been about punishing women. You are okay killing fetuses as long as the woman didn't actually have the temerity to enjoy sex.
"have you tried TIS-100?"

Yes. That's the first Zachtronics game I tried, and was sorely disappointed.

In my view it's just a puzzle game.
How do NFTs work with copyright laws? Does owning an NFT grant you rights and how does that work with copyright law?
Very interesting, but why is the password optional? Doesn't it mean that someone with access to the S3 bucket can decrypt the data?
A big part of it is that currying is idiomatic, which, I think, is a design mistake that most functional languages carry as a historical baggage. But multi-argument functions can just as well be represented as functions of tuples, even in OCaml (and, if I remember correctly, it is idiomatic in SML), and then you get a proper error message about the type of argument rather than the result.
Yeah I appreciate what he’s trying to do with the minimal brutalist web design but I need a Reader view to make it through the content.
Are they all like that?

It's easy to want to paint with a wide brush, especially in times of crisis. One of my teachers was pro-life and anti-war. There's no need for such a conundrum.

Otherwise, frankly, they probably haven't thought about it deeply or support the military for cultural or economic factors.
> I asked what they do for blind people and got a blank stare.

Probably talk to them? I'm not sure where you're going with this because a paper menu isn't going to help with blindness.
Amen. The balance between fixed funding and grants is totally broken. The growth in the number of postdocs on short term dead end contracts is a direct result of the model too. So much time is wasted on grant applications.
Apple Records is still legally a going concern, though. (Though again there's the complicated situation with his songwriting royalties etc.)
In the US you have two choices, so you see them relative to each other. You consider democrats left wing and conservatives right wing.

In Europe there is a plethora of parties all throughout the political spectrum.
Do they not already pay for maternity leave?
People (at least currently, I don't have much hope after 2024) have the right to vote still, they could overturn this all in November if they wanted to instead of wailing and gnashing teeth, just simply go vote. The majority could easily toss out republic senators and representatives if they truly want to do something about this. I think people are too lazy though. It's a fkn shame.
Oh sorta like how people in restaurants don't have to wash their hands. Or doctors don't have to wash their hands. And others don't have to pass their drivers license test to drive on the roads. And public school students don't have to get vaccines. And people who serve in the military don't have to get their vaccines. And factories don't have to provide safe working conditions. And landlords don't have to inspect and maintain their properties. And drivers don't have to replace their tail lights when they're busted. And you don't need to clear your sidewalk after snowstorms. And McDonald's doesn't need to keep their coffee below a certain temperature and display hot warnings on their cups.

If you'd consider for a second, you can come up with some of your own to debunk your own previous hypothesis.

There are _countless_ examples where when you want to exist within society, you must act in order to prevent harms to others.

I accept your apology, though.
People get angry because millions of people are profoundly affected, while some here are pretending that nothing will happen, this is just a course correction.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/23/roe-v-...
If anyone has a similar investment philosophy for Laravel-based companies/founders, I’d love to chat too.

We’re looking to raise investment at the moment, and this kind of ethos really resonates with me.
The short answers are: they don't, no, and it doesn't. Some NFTs do have a separate legal document saying you get a copyright license (or maybe even the copyright) if you "own" the NFT, but this is not required, and is entirely separate from the NFT. The author could very easily mint multiple NFTs of the same thing or just sell more licenses of the same thing on the side; if you look into the fine print of any NFT marketplace they will say straight out that you are not actually getting any exclusive ownership of anything unless the seller explicitly says so in separate legal terms. And even then, it usually is on the buyer to do any due diligence to make sure that the copyright actually belongs to them and the artwork isn't ripped off.
> Why does this matter? Because SV was built by engineers–idiosyncratic, independent thinking engineers.

Interesting point, agreed. I moved to SV in the 90s and PMs wasn't a thing (perhaps they existed, but never heard of or met one). It was all engineering-driven, which made it what it was.

PMs have been arrving and colonizing (so to speak) SV though, so it's not the engineering center it used to be. Still here, but engineering-centric companies are getting hard to find.
The idea of having prototypes that can be used immediately assumes you have hard work, not difficult problems. It doesn't try to transform anything into any other thing, it just fails to work on one of those cases.

As you quoted, it's a strategy for dealing with ambiguity risks, AKA solving the wrong problem. It assumes you have a lot of small problems to solve, and separates their risks so you can solve one at a time. It doesn't deal with big unseparable risks at all.
Ok, you are using "parametric polymorphism" to mean bounded polymorphism. This explain my confusion! Indeed, I can understand your point of view then: bounded polymorphism is indeed better done with functors in OCaml. And since functor are syntactically heavy in OCaml there are not used everywhere and only when they are useful. Which doesn't mean that they are not used at all, as the Mirage project can attest. MirageOS is essentially an Operating System build upon OCaml functors.
Ask HN: Best free/cheap Japanese Mincho (serif) fonts for paper and web
I like the look of Adobe's Ten Mincho and its consistency with Garamondesuqe Latin characters, but I dislike the fact that the font is exclusive to TypeKit. Source Han Serif seems quite thin in comparison but takes up more horizontal space at the same size.

Any other alternatives, even if it means buying them out right?
I don't think you're seeing the theme of bodily autonomy here. If the underlying argument for abortion is "my body my choice", then that same argument should logically apply to vaccinations.
I believe Google Voice can do text directly from the app, no cell service required (just an internet connection). And my phone service has been able to do LTE over WIFI for a number of years.
I wasn’t expecting the app to be that good! Great recommendation
Yes, I get to judge your integrity based on your actions. Obviously. When your actions are evil, I don't care what you say.

When the cop beats you bloody while declaring that it's "For your own protection," you are justified in questioning his motives. When the right claims to care about "life," but their actions totally contradict the stated goal, I get to declare them at best hypocrites but more likely just fascists.
If you crack open any historical votes you would clearly see this is a lie.
> Most of the examples you mention are actually protected at the federal level

In many cases, like abortion until today, under the Supreme Court’s substantive due process jurisprudence, and in some cases building at least in part on Roe which was just overturned.
> personal freedoms such as abortion, same-sex marriage, contraception

Same-sex marriage and contraception are personal freedoms, but abortion is different. In abortion there is one more human being that enters the equation.
No, it does not because the NFT is a receipt. You are literally buying a receipt for your purchase of... a receipt.
> Having used various things that claim to be natural language, I find that to use them effectively, I end up needing to learn their particular structured language.

This makes sense. Are there any specific examples of products that you have used that you had to do this?

> ...selecting lists with plural nouns and individual records with singular nouns...

Yes, this is for sure a failure case. I believe I have some means to work around this, fwiw.

> if I'm going to learn a structured language anyway, I would usually prefer to learn the underlying language, and not an imperfect abstraction.

I feel like I get what you are saying here, but some more concrete examples would help. Is there a "structured language" you are referring to?
Sure but that issue is compounded by Democrat's ineffectiveness. They don't try to generate chances that they can take advantage of as well as Republican's do.

Dakota's split [1] provide 4 Republican senators while California only provides 2 Democratic senators.

Republican Justices have no problem with overriding a state on how to conduct its elections [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_Territory#Statehood
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore
I can imagine several strategies compatible with western and near-eastern jurisprudence, such as considering parents to be (temporary) trustees with certain fiduciary duties to their children. I'm by no means an expert in propertarian theory; I just think it's a nice framework for bodily autonomy in particular, since it's computationally efficient, fairly unambiguous, and generally provides agreeable results.
There are much faster cryptoasset networks, which I'm sure you already know, but the problem then becomes liquidity and volume required to not create slippage in the process.
How is it decentralized?

Perhaps people use the word differently.

I don't understand the word "decentralized" to mean "not occupying a specific physical location".

To me it means more like "having many independent parts" or "not having a single point of failure".

For example, land titles in the US, I believe, are decentralized. There is not one single national/federal list of who owns what.

But having a blockchain is like having that list. I don't know if that is "centralized" in an absolute, yes/no way, but it seems more centralized.
So would dark markets.

Dark markets are described as a small piece of the pie for LE.

But P2P music sharing / digital music sales was also that way until they couldn't be ignored and ultimately destroyed traditional music distribution.

There is a reason big, reliable markets get shut down and it isn't all exit scams. It's because they're incredibly successful and they would not be so without crypto.

The ransomware market is too hard for most to get into and the "deals" take time to put together. There's not a great reason for them to prop up coin value.

However, dark markets are open to just about anyone, and presumably haven't even begun to touch growth potential.

All that said: throw in parent's value prop too--is bitcoin worth $20k a coin today? IDK, maybe? I sold bitcoin-embroidered hoodies at the first ever national bitcoin conference in san jose for half a coin and that seemed a bit nuts.
Welcome to humanity, skipper.
Anyone know if they’ll still be visible from the E Coast tomorrow (Saturday) 45 min before sunrise (which was the optimal time this morning?
I remember when my nine year old commented on the YouTuber “What’s inside” guy trading a Tesla for some NFT - “dad, that’s really dumb”
> With modern GPUs pushing bitmaps is actually far more efficient than drawing shapes.

No I mean it's inefficient from a product development standpoint. With a flat design, you can make a design system which will scale very easily to multiple screen sizes and aspect ratios. If you have to texture everything there is much more you have to account for.

> I have a blue noise background for my terminals which tremendously helps with eyestrain.

Yeah I mean blue noise is one thing, it's explicitly non-information, but I think in general trying to parse text on top of a pattern is harder than without.
Sure but the possibility of getting dem senators from red states to vote for abortion was extremely, extremely unlikely. Republicans tend to stick together but Democrats do not on these slim "majorities". Check out Manchin and Senema, they are essentially moderate republicans despite their party affiliation. They are heavily sponsored by right wing corps and PACS.
having all of your currency on an exchange, regardless of the currency, has never been a good idea.

(signed a MtGox victim.)
That's essentially saying the same thing as if the cell phones didn't work a hardwired landline would have.

It's true, but it's also missing the point.
This is not accurate, but the problem is that staking got way overloaded.

Staking should mean partcipating in a proof-of-stake network by using your stake to participate in block validation or delegating to someone else. In most cases you don't need to lock anything and at no point do you hand control of your funds to someone else.

The problem is that many grifters then came to use "staking" to mean all sorts of different things with the only thing being in common is, get some rewards. But I've seen things like BlockFi get described as "staking" when really its just giving your money to control of someone else and earning interest on it.
I barely made it through on my ultra wide monitor and was mad when he said no one cared -- I DID! But to his credit I did read the entire article.
Ah my phone doesn't have apps, that makes sense though.
It's a lot like fiat currency, it has respect of "all". Parties know if they kill the filibuster, the next time that the pendulum swings back everything they did will get thrown on the trash heap.
You are right, a duplicate SIM will stop the two-number method described from adding any protection.

But it will still protect against the fake messages like the ones being discussed here, and if someone has a duplicate SIM you are buggered in a number of other ways too.

Though this method, and several others that are effectively the same, only offers any protection if the user has the ware-with-all to bother verifying the other number. Unfortunately that means that in many cases it won't help at all because many would not be aware of the other number and expect to find it when the fake messages come in - unless the user knows to expect and require it the fact a fake message doesn't have it makes no difference.
Could this work with datasette (which is a flexible interface to sqlite with a web-based query editor)?
Great write up about a critical part of most interview processes without a chance to practice if you’ve never worked at an org that regularly implement complex systems.
Literally every stock photo site already does this.
Didn't they or someone on their behalf even brag a few days ago about the fact they weren't firing anyone and other crypto companies did? I'm pretty certain there was a LinkedIn post about it.
Even if your interpretation is correct, that's just one justice writing a separate and solo concurring opinion.

And that justice comes from a different generation than the other 5 who voted to overturn, so there's even less reason to assume the others share his views.
That's what I've been telling my friends about killing the filibuster. It may be the only thing stopping a blanket federal ban in 2024 when Republicans re-elect Trump (or Trump lite, Desantis)
Was the 8085 ever used much as a microcomputer CPU? I've seen it as an embedded CPU, but I don't recall it getting much run as a general-purpose CPU.
I don’t think people are pretending nothing will happen. Nor did I say people aren’t justified in being upset.
so long as BAYC continue to honor that agreement.

And as an owner of a second hand ape you have no legal recourse if they (or their successors, or their receivers during their bankruptcy) decide they no longer want to.
If you read around, you'll see that tribalism mode has fully engaged in many here. People aren't reading/thinking, all over in this comment section. Or, as the top level comment does, criticize those that are thinking about/being critical about certain aspects.
The argument that the right wants to prohibit contraception is not some specious straw-man that I made up: it is stated plainly in Justice Thomas's opinion. And it's a position that I believe is supported by a large portion of the population in states where abortion is now illegal. We see more and more antagonism against gays and trans people. Moreover, because the Dobbs decision dismantled the right to privacy, it has cleared the way to destroy the legal foundation on which other important decisions are based, such a gay marriage.

If you don't want to be judged as a tribe, you need to take a stand. If you support contraception and gay marriage, then support them. Right now, though, the right is supporting more and more extreme ideologues.
> We implemented it on breadboards, I think with 30 or so feet of jumpers [0]...

> [0] - https://i.imgur.com/MKD7wTv.jpg

Based on your description, I expected to see a picture of 30 feet of breadboards filled with jumpers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumper_(computing)), maybe used as ROM or something. Your actual project was unfortunately much less ridiculous.
How would it have worked without the ability to communicate with the blockchain. I could double and triple spend to my heart's content.
A huge benefit would be to reduce the amount of space we need for farms. These could be turned back into forests or converted to grow crops that are not compatible with the acetate boosting yet. Also, this would enable highly urbanized countries to achieve a greater degree of self-sufficiency, which decreases the need for costly transportation.
Your comment about the efficiency isn't correct because you haven't taken into account the fact that grow lights do not emit the same spectrum as the sun.

This is even more relevant with LED grow lights as the diodes are emitting specific wavelengths of light.
Tell HN: GitHub Copilot can now block suggestions matching public code
As of a few minutes ago, it prompted me to update my settings:

"GitHub Copilot can allow or block suggestions matching public code. See GitHub Copilot FAQ to learn more."

The FAQ appears to be missing.
How does the vocabulary generation work?
Coinbase isn’t the movement
I'm relatively new to the industry, so this is the first recession I've been around for, but I've been noticing some patterns in the public layoff announcements I've read.

One thing that seems popular is a mass notification that says "hey everyone, layoffs are coming, we'll notify each of you individually whether you're affected or not." I suppose you could do the in-person meetings after that, and that might be okay for a small shop like yours, but it also seems like it might drag things out? I wouldn't want to be sitting around wondering if I'm going to be the next person called into the HR office.
The Dems held a gerrymandering advantage for one year of the past 50 gaining one 'underserved seat' advantage over republicans. This is no longer the case...
I don't think that there are any Sarbecoronaviruses other than SARS2 that have an FCS. This paper from 2021 supports that conclusion [1]. There are other Coronaviruses that have an FCS, but not Sarbecoronaviruses, and none of them use PRRA. Those twelve amino acids have essentially come out of nowhere.

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7836551/