skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can turn this question into BS, and provide a BS answer, but the correct way to respond is not to focus on the scenario (there are only a few themes anyway) but use it as an opportunity to share your values, perspective and strategy. This says a lot about the candidate, especially if the resolution failed. Even if you think LC is more representative of the type of work you'll end up doing, it's probably not assigned in discrete packages every day for you to complete; there's a lot of the softer "difficult challenge" stuff around it. If you're only optimizing for LC you're tackling the part of the job that will be commoditized by a global workforce and even machines first.
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>Culture, art, technology, science, growth, exploration, communication, and so on. Basically advancement in nearly every measurable way of every aspect of society

I doubt that these depend on quantity and not quality.
Oh good, we should have as many kids as possible so we can get 100 billion people working on climate change at the same time

edit: parent commenter removed a claim that it was beneficial to have more people working on issues like climate change simultaneously
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Is it public how much they paid? I couldn't find any info besides this https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201119005153/en/Ret...
Almost certainly they'd searched for that doctor to get directions?
"Make peace."

No. No no no no no, a million times no.

We do not "make peace" with the objects we buy, because what that means is "surrender autonomy to the company."

We do whatever the hell we want with the objects we buy, limited by law, true safety, and decency, not by what serves the company.

Stop encouraging being a sheep.
Clearly not, that's such an uncharitable read of what I'm saying that it doesn't feel worth responding to.
Or just write a lisp interpreter and get both worlds.

https://github.com/kanaka/mal
I never heard of her or her coin before everything went shit. Her product wasnt targetting actual crypto enthusiasts.
I think you should answer your own questions - with the comment that if you don't think human life is instrinsically good, I'm really curious what the foundation of your ethics is, and if you think anything at all has value.
Remember before the internet, those little electronic pocket books with hand-written diagrams and whatnot? Good times.
Germany Confronts Its Nuclear Demons
This is the basic reasoning behind why people are so opposed to a "national gun registry".
I'm interested here, because I've noticed that there's a loophole to the gendered nature of "asshole": I wouldn't call a woman that because of what she's done to me, but if she offends my wife, we might agree that she's an asshole. I'm not sure if that's a common usage or not.
Imagine the population is split in 2 subpopulations. 99% of the people want to have 1 kid per family, and 1% of the people want to have 3 kids per family. Initially the population will decrease quickly, but then it will start increasing quickly. After about 4 generations, the two subpopulations will be roughly equal (55% of the low fertility population, and 45% of the high fertility). After 9 generations, the relative ratio flips. At that point the total population is only about 40% of the starting one, but it's growing fast, because it's basically only high fertility individuals remaining. In 4 more generations it's above the starting level, and then in a few more it's 10 times the orginal population.

At the lowest though, the population is only 10% of the original population, and it appears to be imploding.
I have never met anyone who thinks words should be censored in print. Maybe this is specific to the US?
> Food is not a limiting factor.

Food and more importantly, as you would know if you googled depleted aquifer, water are limiting factors. Always. You will always need those two. Most of our agricultural practices are unsustainable across multiple measures, especially water.

> China is a net exporter of food in a country of 1.4 billion on about 1.1 million km^2 of arable land.

Saudi Arabia used to be a net exporter of wheat until about 5 years ago. Our arable land, the topsoil so vital to it, and the fresh water we overuse so much faster than it can be replenished worldwide are all hitting bottlenecks in the coming years. Egypt and Jourdan are fighting over the Nile. The Sahar and deserts in China are expanding despite great efforts otherwise. China is imposing its will in Thailand and Vietnam over their control of the headwaters of the Mekong. The Europeans are worried about the Po and Rhine being lower than usual with glacier meltwater being depleted faster and faster with rising temps and milder winters. Aquifers built over thousands or millions of years are being pumped at rates unrecorded for agriculture and residential use. Ogalalla and western US aquifers are sinking the land and running out. Encroachment of freshwater systems by erosion and saltwater from rising sea levels and fierce storm surges are threatening ecosystems and coastal farming. A pernicious side effect of a hotter atmosphere is increased vaporization of water from lake reservoirs causing water loss exceeding water use of cities and populations. The outlook and ongoing crises in places like California are grim, but there's a lot we can do. Price water more closely to its real cost. Build desalination plants. Implement water saving tech into manufacturing and households. Water loss from reservoirs and recording depletion rates of aquifers can give us better data of the scale and rate of the depletion to inform the urgency. More data can be collected. Swale water runoff and improve land management techniques to retain water. Implement drip irrigation and water efficient and drought resistant crops. Build cisterns and modify reservoirs to improve water storage and retention. Chinampas can be built. Many other efforts and policies can be implemented, but they are all costly and take time. Perhaps that's why this issued has been ignored for so long, because we turn on the tap and the water always comes out. Until it doesn't anymore. We've certainly been warned. Hydrologists have been warning about this for almost a century.
Pollution reduces the quality of existing human life.
it got my interest, but not all the world can get the Silicon Valleys references you make. Maybe it's better to keep it on the technical side
Thank you for the pointers.
Honestly, I had no idea about what you pointed out.

Regarding the strangeness; yes I was lazy and had password based ssh and was in constant fear that someone might pop my box.
In principle you can.

The biggest problem are reflections and multipath (which are also problems for locating earthquakes). Also, classifying whether a noise came from a gun, when heard from far away in an urban environment with lots of other noises around, is hard.

Simplest method is trilateration. By knowing the travel time from multiple places, you can figure out the source point.
Devs interested in this may also be interested in Pagoda [1], a rapid, easy full-stack web development starter kit in Go that I wrote. It leverages popular frameworks and modules that you can easily swap out, if desired. The readme contains full documentation and it's very much batteries-included.

[1] https://github.com/mikestefanello/pagoda
Because we're going to to have to science and engineer our way out of the climate change hole that's been dug.
Oh the hubris, to think that it has anything to do with what the individual wants! Humans are unique in their belief that we master the universe and conform everything to our desires.
What motherboard, please? Can you also boot from NVMe? I was looking into this, have Asus P9X79 PRO.
You can use a cable like this https://www.amazon.com/Wiredge-Display-Charging-Braided-Comp...

Note I am not recommending this specific cable; it is just the first one that showed up in my search.
Eat the invasives!
> “It’s our voice, a new voice, one for the people,” said Abel Czupor, the chief marketing officer. “RadioShack’s audience used to be only an older demographic, but as times have changed and e-commerce has taken over, the old voice of RadioShack is no longer relevant.”

Everything about this quote makes me want to throw up.
Aftermath – Dictator Disposal
We can't take care of all the people we have now and they want to add more and more forever...
The last 500 years's scientific progress is much less impressive when you adjust for the number of people it took to make all that progress.
They do not have time. Only realistic alternative is nukes (takes many years to build) or an LNG import terminal (started already, takes years to build). All the alternatives to depending on Russian imports require enormously complex construction projects.
Only if the function that they are trying to approximate is differentiable. Also, it depends on having enough training data, and on the training data actually being representative of the domain of the function.
Is this a variant of “no true neo-nazi supports Ukraine!”?
GoChat Messenger: Etisalat's new free voice and video-call app
Hey HN, this is my original content. Happy to answer any questions. Turned out to be a fun little project.
Cool project. I'm currently building something similar to hacker news using only the standard library. How could this project help me?

The way I use the standard library is like a super condensed version of React. Templates are my components. Since templates can be nested, templates can be used to build "components" and those components can be stored in separate files and compiled together at run time with a "model" being fed to the template(s) via a state object passed by the application.

So I may have a few dozen template files in a folder called /components, and another folder called /pages with a few templates that use these components. When a user visits a "page", the template file is "compiled" with the appropriate components.

A page might look like this:

<html>
{{template "nav"}}
{{template "thread" .Thread}}
{{template "footer"}}
</html>

And "nav", "thread", and "footer" are all components defined in another file. This allows for re-use across multiple pages.

I want to do a write-up on it but I'm not sure if it's a novel idea.
You can use a fan to cool a computer or you can introduce a Rube Goldberg machine to cool a computer with a fan.

Bar some extreme cooling requirements liquid cooling is about showing off.
The fact that something isn’t unilaterally good forever doesn’t mean there aren’t good or increasing parts of it early on
> And not consider whether there are better solutions such as checking we're using the right algos or cache-aligning our accesses or using a probabilistic filter before hitting the DB or..

It's mostly for io-intensive workloads. And for nicer debugging experience compared to callback hell. Nothing to do with NoSQL, or right algos, or cache-aligning when you just need to do 10M http requests/db-inserts/rpcs as fast/efficient/nicer-dev-experience as possible.
Off topic but while all the RSS people are here - does anyone know of a client or feed that can extract articles from websites that try to stop you from using RSS? Bikepacking.com is an example of this.
Am I do only one who hates frameworks that need a cli to get started?
Yes, HN does seem to skew heavily towards a sort of performative rejection of simple pleasures.

Personally I don't think it's zero sum, enjoying your meals won't make your immaterial pursuits less worthy, for example.
Seems like an unwarranted assumption that "wanting a big family" is a heritable trait
I’m excited about concurrent Kubernetes clusters to compile our JavaScript frameworks to run on virtualized mainframes and achieve roughly equivalent performance and functionality of a pascal program running on an 8086 in 1985.
I isn't lithium potentially much more dangerous, especially if the containment is breached?
Out of curiosity, why are you assuming that not exactly what parent was thinking?

> nothing changes once you own the house

Why? What does this mean and is it actually true? The monthly/yearly cost of owning a house is typically much lower than the mortgage payments. If buying a house in cash, the maintenance usually is low enough to consider lower paying jobs. Needing a high salary might enable remodeling but basic taxes and upkeep are very very different from sale price or the payments to a 30 year loan. In my experience something absolutely changes once you fully own the house.
> I've seen second-hand (I'm not a doctor) the lengths citizens have to go to, and how competitive it is, to get a residency spot at home; even more so apparently if they studied abroad (even if somewhere similar, e.g. US/UK/EU).

This sounds similar to the crisis facing intern-level and entry-level software workers, where everyone is too shortstaffed to hire on inexperienced people they'll need to train/supervise. Though perhaps with medicine there's less of a concern of the trainee jumping ship immediately once they're "up-to-standards" (or through residency).. I don't know much about the medical industry
Front loading is useful.
> 2x healthcare expenditure for worse (or not significantly better) health than many other countries is a reasonable cost efficiency, to come up with some pretty strong evidence to support them.

yes we have healthcare system that treats disease, after that fact. Americans are a sickly group of people. Lionshare of expenditure goes to treating chronic metabolic illness. These people cannot be returned back health once they have metabolic syndromes. So matter how much money you spend on healthcare there is no real way to convert sickly ppl back into healthy people. No doctor has a way to fix diabetes or thyroid dysfunction.

Again, goes back to my original comment. "healthcare" has nothing to with "health".
Note that this assumes the new people are statistically just as likely to contribute in those ways as the average person today/40 years ago but we don't know this is true (and indeed there's some weak evidence it's false)
You definitely don't need a framework to get the user name out of a URL, you need one line of code.
Pollution may destroy the ability for human life to exist, and you may end up with significant less human life if you keep adding more. Earth is like a boat, it’s great for a few passengers, but at some point you have too many and it sinks. And then you have zero passengers enjoying the boat.
Running all cores on turbo even when idle.
A large proportion of the Conservative MPs are landlords, and so stand to gain substantially from perpetuating ever increasing house prices and rents.
I learned about this thanks to you. Looks great.
That sounds like a manageable secondary effect. I imagined you feel numb for days or weeks after the treatment
I think this entire thread is about doing that.

My MacBook I’m typing this on is sitting here at 9.2W (battery full, running off mains).
how can they do this without picking the winners (and losers)?
A QUARTER of Americans say they are ready to take up arms against the government
Sure we can. And it is surprisingly easy.

Sound waves travel 300m every second.

If you can get devices synchronised to 1ms (which isn't very difficult given very easy access to GPS which is orders of magnitude more accurate), you can triangulate to at least within 1m.

There is some complication like the sound travels at different speed depending on pressure of the gas. The sound might have also arrived to the microphone on not the shortest path. The shortest might have been obstructed, for example, and what you got is a reflection off of a distant object or even sound that was "bent" by layers of air with different properties.

But if you have ever heard a gun shot, most of the time you got first the sound wave that reached you directly and then possibly some reflections. By analysing those reflections and assuming that if multiple gunshots were made, they were made at roughly the same spot, it is possible to discern whether you heard one gunshot with reflections or multiple series resulting from multiple shots.
30 seconds browsing the site at the domain vole.wtf, where the newest piece of content (found clearly promoted on the homepage) is "Penga - the penguin physics game" with slogan "How many penguins can you rescue?", should be enough to inform you that this is a comedy site, not a gender politics manifesto.

If you want to decide, then fork it.
A nation of shopkeepers has become a nation of buy to let parasites.
LOL this is awesome! I ran choosemyboxers.com in college back in 2001 and had people rate and pick my underwear. I told all my friends and no one found it interesting because my boxers were "lame". One month it randomly blew up and I got enough ad revenue to replace my entire boxer collection. However it never went anywhere so I let it stagnate and eventually the shell I was hosting it on moved on to new ventures
No mention of XDomainRequest? It was the only way to get data from other origins in IE8/9.
Well, 2018, or about 6 years after 1.0. Granted it took some time to polish rough edges and get the ecosystem moved over to it.
In my experience, socks are pretty expensive (at least here in Lithuania) and wear out pretty fast, so for me its reasonable to spend most of the clothing budget on socks...
Thanks for sharing this. The post turned me onto the “Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It” by Oliver Burkeman, which was quite a sobering eye-opener.

For those interested, I found a great summary[1] by Matt Swain of the material covered in the book

[1] https://www.mattswain.com/booknotes/four-thousand-weeks
Home owners are a large voting block and would never support a government that tries to lower house prices. This is why all solutions are based around increasing supply of credit, which can help but also further inflate prices.

I suggest renters who believe in housing long term buy REITs until they can afford to buy.
I thought that was a more polite than saying "even if you're a selfish asshole, there's still a reason to do it out of pure self-interest".
> If the kid wants to learn programming, there are much better avenues then going to sit in an office. For example, they can make a game mod / Roblox game, etc.

Sure. But it's clearly not about learning programming... it's about work experience, and therefore, in part, about possible future career choices.

Nobody thinks sending their kid on a week of work experience is going to teach them much about programming. That's not the motivation here at all.

> For example, they can make a game mod / Roblox game, etc.

— How do you know the kid isn't already tinkering with that kind of thing already?

> Do you really think the average kid spends their time writing code?

No, not at all. I never said the 'average kid' writes code at 14. But some kids of that age certainly do. I did.

And who says this is an 'average kid' anyhow — they might not be at all, clearly they're somewhat of a nerd/geek kid, particularly if they're interested in spending their work experience week with a software development team / a software developer / tech company.

And even if they are the 'average kid', anyone can learn to code — arguably one has somewhat of an advantage if one starts at an early age.

> Career opportunities for a 14 year old, sheesh.

Here in the UK, it's pretty normal for school-age kids to do a week of work experience whilst at secondary school. It's usually organised by the school. Not everyone does it, but the option is there.

After all, kids leave school — and, if they don't choose to go to college, can go into work — at 16.

It's not about the kid going into work at 14. Far from it.

> the part I'm considering insane is the parents

With respect: I think our conversation here says more about your own beliefs, than it does about the parents, or the kid, or the purpose of work experience.

— You can read more about what work experience is actually about (it's not about learning programming) and how it works, at least in the UK (where I am — but it'll be similar in other countries too), here:

https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/work-experience-your-ch...
I don’t think the conservative right gives a flying fuck about censoring swear words.

The religious right, on the other hand, cares a whole ducking lot.

Makes arguments easier if you lump both groups together though.
> I guess zfs send and similar are better solutions.

It depends. I recently built a new zfs pool server and needed to transfer a few TB of data from the old pool to the new pool, but I built the new pool with a larger record size. If I’d used zfs send the files would have retained their existing record size. So rsync it was.
I was homeschooled and I truly believe it was a major factor to getting me where I am in life. With that said I’ve also seen homeschooling gone very wrong.

I think the major component of it being a great experience is the motivation of the parents for doing homeschooling. Teaching kids at home to intentionally keep them from society and indoctrinate them in some specific ideology, usually religious, can be very damaging, not necessarily because of the religion itself but because sooner or later the kid/adolescent/adult will meet the wider society and have no tools to deal with the diversity found in it. This, btw, doesn’t only happen in homeschooling but is how root of racism/sexism/etc are planted.

In my experience, and what I hope to accomplish when/if I get to homeschool is to create an space where the child can pursue her interests, nourish/encourage curiosity and use it to teach instead of ignoring it an teaching some other boring thing the kid has no interest in as sadly is often done in school just from the fact that a teacher can’t pursued the interest/curiosity of 30 students at the same time in one classroom.

Regarding the social aspect, there’s soccers, orchestra, martial arts, ymca swimming, inviting friends over often, 4h, Boy Scouts, and so many more opportunities to provide a place for the kid to socialize while hopefully minimizing the toxicity usually found in public schools.

This is by no means a critique of public schools, I think is a sad reality of our society that all we can afford for our kids is an assembly line education with very little space for diversity and with one size fits all measurements of success.
People pay for housing for what they can afford on a monthly basis. The government should stop making debt so cheap and housing would go down in cost.
https://archive.ph/tohOE

Interesting quote:

> [In Ukr.] all far-right parties combined received only about 2 percent of parliamentary votes in 2019 - short of the 5 percent threshold for representation
Can they abuse those mics to pick up human conversation?
I tend to disagree. If anything, it would make everything more expensive and at the same time more unstable.

The school of thought that I subscribe to in economy is that everything is priced in. Relaxing the terms of lending increases risk, drives up the price of said mortages und amplyfies the fallout in times of market turmoil.

Edit: Reread your comment, we are in fact in agreement.
At some point there’s an energy efficiency trade off which needs to be considered. It’s way more complicated and depends on where you get your energy from and the efficiency of the device.

Using something until it dies is not always the best outcome.
> but for service to service calls I'd love a language that let's me refer to the tables, the b-trees, row-ids

Quite Insane :)

Ok, more helpfully, what possible value would you get if the DB gave you access to those?
I’ve done it once and I witnessed my mom do it once.

I’m sure it’s way, way less then 1% of the shots fired but it’s absolutely something that happens.