skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly.

Just because someone doesn't want to waste their time studying up for irrelevant leetcode problems doesn't mean they don't know DS&A, either.

It more important to know when and why to use a certain DS to solve a real world problem (along w/ associated algos), since most people are doing application level development work, which means most people are using abstractions of DS&As, rather than implementing them from scratch.

If I needed to implement a DS&A from scratch, it wouldn't be from memory. I would consult the CLRS book and make customizations from there.

I believe the reason leetcode interviews have lasted so long is because FAANG engineers won't abandon them. By gatekeeping the interview process and making the barrier to entry so high, they can artificially inflate their salaries and bonuses by claiming scarcity of talent.

I think if a lot of these companies did a reassessment of their staffing, they would realize they've been overpaying many of these engineers for jobs that talented non-leetcoders could do for half the salary/bonus.

If you really want to know where a dev stands in terms of ability, assign them an open-ended project with a mostly open-ended timeline. Only consider candidates who complete the project and have a working solution, then consider things like

1. Did they unit test their code?
2. Did they use source control and share back a link to their repo?
3. Did they create a flexible, scalable solution?

etc.

And for a bonus: Schedule a pair-coding session with the strongest candidates. Throw out some requirement changes that will require changes to their code. How would you do X differently? Then code it with them.

That will give you an idea of how well they work with others.

I know the above sounds time consuming, but I am guessing that 70% of the candidates for a position will get washed out when they can't complete even a basic solution.
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Is there a link to a resource on this or was it just in person? I'd love to hear the intuition you describe!
I would just spend the entire time apologizing to everyone.

This isn’t what we thought would happen …

We didn’t mean for it to be this way …

I’m sorry they’re doing this …
A while back I raised a bit of a furor here saying that a duplicate could be made and launched at a tenth of the cost. A lot of people said I don't know what I'm talking about, that little money would be saved.

But it seems patently obvious. After all, 10 technologies don't have to be reinvented. No research would need to be redone. No test rigs would need to be redesigned and duplicated. And on and on.

The most bizarre argument against building a duplicate was there wouldn't be anything extra worth looking at. Yet I watched the NOVA episode on the scope last night, and everywhere they look where we thought there was "nothing" turns out to be crammed with 10,000 galaxies and stars.
This appears to be "helm-find-file" for those who want to use bash, and not Emacs.
It was bound to happen. Folks who went through the tech bubble in 2000 remember it - pets in the office, extravagant parties, a kind of free for all.

Today it’s protesting your employers customers, demanding your employer support your politics.

When the money comes in hand over fist, nobody says “no”. When it stops, the tune quickly becomes “if you don’t want this job, that’s fine, there is a long list of people who do”.

Been through it many times.
You just blew my mind that “mutex” is a portmanteau of “mutually exclusive.” How have I been programming for 20 years and never realized this?
You won't hear any complaint about me that the reports and the articles about them show basic innumeracy (at least the NHTSA report says "Summary Incident Report Data Are Not Normalized").

But it's quite clear the report has other, deep issues, which prevent it from being useful: "it is important to note that these crashes are categorized based on what driving automation system was reported as being equipped on the vehicle, not on what system was reported to be engaged at the time of the incident."

I only want to see a report about crashes that occurred when the system engaged and the user was not given an opportunity to take over with enough lead time.
I don't think the companies are sharing that detailed information right now.
25 years ago I added a rule to my employer’s firewall to allow the bare domain to work on our web server.

Inbound email immediately broke. I was still very new, and didn’t want to prolong the downtime, so I reverted instead of troubleshooting.

A few months after I left, I sent an email to a former co-worker, my replacement, and got the same bounce message. I rang him up and verified that he had just set up the same firewall rule.

Been much too long to have any clue now what we did wrong.
Likely using Hugo with the congo theme
The TypeScript type system as a language without any JavaScript (for fun)
For the first time in history, we can modify atomic bonds in a single molecule
"Selectivity in single-molecule reactions by tip-induced redox chemistry":
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo6471
Refresh times is probably part of it. And once you start creating special-purpose devices, your market drops off a lot. I guess if I spent a lot of my days reading scientific papers a Remarkable tablet might be interesting but I don't so it isn't. (And, oh, an iPad works pretty well too and I can do a lot of other things with it too.)
You can install the Microsoft Store on LTSC. I even had the Xbox Game Bar more-or-less working.

The bigger issue is that Win10 LTSC is increasingly far behind a "normal" Win10 (let alone Win11), which makes things increasingly screwy when it comes to both up-to-date drivers and anticheat. Fortnite, for example, would cause my machine to BSOD within 30 seconds of loading (if not sooner) due to (I suspect) its combination of EasyAntiCheat and BattleEye getting derailed; upgrading to Win11 (and putting up with its bullshit) seems to have fixed it.
It has fuzzy-filtering and auto-select - does dired have those? I think it's closer to helm-find-file.
Don't worry, they appointed a similar budget thief, and the state is so corrupt it won't be able to recover once gas and oil money are gone
TikTok: An Organizational Update
I believe they’re saying that we might as well say “multi-week” rather than “multi-day”, given that it was 14 days!

Multi day seems to imply a time period of 2-5 days, not 14…
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I am in no way agreeing with the idea that `unwrap` should be removed. I simply wish it were possible to assert statically at compile time that my application will not panic.

Being unable to also detect infinite loops does not diminish this utility. I simply wish to reduce the likelihood that my mission-critical programs diverge as much as is possible. Being perfect is not a requirement.
It's not useful - it's not supposed it be. Rather, it's a fun little exercise to better understand how TypeScript works.
Goacces? Based on logfiles?
I actually switched from FF to Brave. Much happier with it now. The only thing I miss from FF is PiP for videos, but that can be solved by an extension on Brave.
I wish him the best but... support for these initiatives evaporate as soon as the developer job market cools down.

Bootcamps are usually the first to go. Then CS enrollment drops off a cliff. Then school programs to build software engineering skills are eliminated and their funding allocated elsewhere (perhaps towards after school programs to boost standardized testing scores)

And then in 5-10 we again ask ourselves "Why aren't there enough developers????"

The whole thing is very "Bull-whip"-ish
> Programmers are not commodities

But usually, they are treated as such. American companies have a hard time treating most of their white collar workforce as anything but.
On the other hand, Stripe has been seemingly well managed up to this point - but they have only existed in happy times so far. Many companies change their tune when the chips are down.

> It's also very expensive and difficult to hire new ones, even if you're hiring them at a cheaper salary than the last ones.

This may be true - but the average tenure of a tech worker shows most firms are not able to do act on this.

> Stripe 100% wants to retain its employee base, just like any company would.

I wouldn't put it past Stripe, but "just like any company would" is pretty naive. Serious retention efforts are by far the exception in my observation. This also weakens your argument - is Stripe not actively working to retain talent or are they just like "any company?" If really the latter, then they are fucked.
I spent so much time in Fo3 and remember the graphics vividly. But then replaying it years later, yeah not as good. Bioshock still holds a feeling of awe though the initial descent.
From memory JFK was the prime mover in decisions on the number of Americans on the ground, their roles and even their uniforms.
There is no need in sophisticated weaponry or even artillery when you have endless literal cannon fodder. Hide or deny losses and drag on just enough to exhaust your opponent.

A year of slow territorial gains? Two? More? Not a problem as long as economy is propped by European money, Germans don’t bother sending enough weapons and Western media is tired of war and looks elsewhere.
Why 8kun Went Offline During the January 6 Hearings
Total Information Awareness means they’re everywhere.
We had something like this in school circa 1995 or 1996.

It had a keyboard and a three-line LCD display. It was powered by batteries, and could be connected to a computer as a keyboard via ADB. Press a button on the device, and it would send your document as a series of keypresses to the computer. I think our classroom had two of these? I'm not sure. You could take them outside and write, and then bring them back to the classroom and dump them into the computer. No software necessary.

When I try to look it up, I get results for AlphaSmart. I wonder how much they cost at the time. Sometimes you can figure that out by digging through computer catalogs on the Internet Archive.

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

I understand that this is a whole category of devices called "word processors", but I'm a bit too young and I never really encountered them besides the AlphaSmart (which required a computer). You can dig up old commercials for word processors on YouTube.

AT&T: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piROIAJ6Jhg

Wang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuX-6761KTQ
I use the strategy for a few things - including when I want to get reviews of a product or service. There's still potential for manipulation there, but you can judge the replies based on the user history - and you know that businesses aren't able to delete or hide bad reviews there.

But in general I agree with you - reddit is full of misinformation, propaganda and astroturfing
As a Leader, You Own Your Communications Bubble
> Technical writer with 10 years of experience.

What's an easy-to-remember trick for semicolon usage?
Most probably he will not be a military strategist, but something like governor whose task will be reintegrating these territories in Russia.

He has a great experience running Roscosmos which is quite a large corporation.

And he is very patriotic, highly motivated, will not sell or betray Russia. That's why he is ideal for that task.
> Building thousands of windmills in forests and installing solar on farmland also has a high ecological footprint.

False dichotomies. See for example Flugplatz Brandenburg-Briest:
https://goo.gl/maps/WATEJANE9wiHk7UAA

And pastureland can continue to be used as pastureland simultaneously with both PV and wind.
I love a good hatchet job and this was definitely it.
Hm, I was hoping for a roadmap that would talk about supporting generations and more tuning options.
If you've been away from the game for a while (even 1 or 2 years) a lot has changed. Unless you've written it off, I'd recommend playing with your friends versus bots and practicing some heroes, strategies, builds, and playing from the Dire side. Depending on how many players there are, putting someone on the opposing team who can point out your mistakes can be useful too.
> Maybe it doesn't matter if you do good for the wrong reasons though.

There was an interesting discussion around this yesterday:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32094798 (TikTok'er doing random acts of kindness for clout upset someone he used for his videos)
The vast majority of so-called "HIIT" style training classes and protocols fall far short of Tabata intervals. That doesn't undermine Tabata, but you also can't no-true-Scotsman all the protocols that claim to be HIIT and don't offer the same results.
One of many things I dislike about cryptoscams is making promises which are lies.
I prefer Terry Pratchett's quote:

"The problem with having an open mind is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
> Vannevar Bush - head of military research during WW2, author of “As We May Think” and “Science, the Endless Frontier” - wrote a memoir late in life, Pieces of the Action. It was out of print and hard to obtain for a long time, but Stripe Press has brought it back in a new edition

The author of the article collected a number of excerpts grouped by topic: "On invention"; "On leadership and management"; "Communication style"; "On society, war and politics"; "Fun stories"; "On the spirit we need".

--

Already near the beginning we meet a remarkable one: Vannevar Bush was contacted by a «chap» who said he «made a very great invention and wanted [Bush] to develop it for him». Basically, the guy had a "generic idea" of the kind "what if we harnessed the power of things", and showed as if unaware that what is important is feasibility. "Silver bullets" before the times of populism.
They sure do mention how clever they are to name it Mantis about half a dozen times in the post.
Agreed.

If you hire a leetcoder, you get a leetcoder.

Sometimes I wonder if you just end up hiring someone who will spend over half their time on the job grinding away at LC, rather than doing the boring, mundane day-to-day work. You would almost have to make LC a job in itself to make it through the next LC interview...

It does get the LC website and the CTCI people paid, though.
Thanks for the detailed info–I think what you're describing is how onit actually works. By default, when a repeating todo item is due, you'll get a daily email listing the things that are currently due. For each repeating todo item you can choose what happens when you check it off: either schedule it again based on now+interval, or on a strict schedule (e.g. always on Wednesday, always on the 15th of the month etc).

I use the strict schedule for things like bills or annual registrations, and the now+interval schedule for things like your cat fountain cleaning example, where I'm happy to just get a morning reminder about it until I get around to it.

I should probably update the homepage to provide some more detail on the actual functionality!
State of the SqueakPhone
> These motors, actuators, assemblies, etc need to be incredibly precise and reliable

Is it impossible to build to a lower level of reliability then have humans available to fix/adjust things in orbit?

Then once it's fully assembled in place, move it to its final location?
I can expect large SEO spam clusters of "sites" with many links inside a cluster to make them look legit. For some time such bits of SEO spam were on top of certain google searches and enjoyed significant traffic, putting them firmly into "top 1M".

Once a particular SEO trick is understood and "deoptimized" by Google, these "sites" no longer make money, and get abandoned.
I guess I’m surprised to hear that the case is considered exceptional and unique. Maybe it’s unique regarding the specific issue of amateurism. My instinct is that there must be many controversial results from the early Olympics where we might seek to rectify historical inequity. I just can’t believe it was all squeaky clean.
Pursuing the Reunification of Home and Work
I don't know about that BW claim. Back when mp3 was new and computers usually had floppy drives I did the obvious and mp3 bitrates above 64K or so tended to stutter and significantly below 64K did not stutter.

Something like voice encoded at 32K sounded at least as good as a phone and played back off a 1.44 floppy and IIRC that was about the best that could be done.

You will probably be surprised how long an audio recording can be, if its voice at a low rate on one floppy. If you go variable bit rate and silence detection I subjectively remember "ten minutes" was quite reasonable on a 1.44 disk.

Extrapolating from historical experience, thirty or so in parallel should push over half a meg/sec quite reliably.

If you record speech onto a floppy drive off a cheap mic you'll record the sound of the floppy in the recording, which is funny to me.

I wish I still had those files. Useless, of course, but would be funny.
Good, the last thing we need are small ISPs competing against the consolidated media giants.
I have some thoughts on this.

Fundamentally, the "state of the real world" is the result of might is right, force or threat of force. The state of the real world is the result of action, and action is an act of force on the matter of the world, the act of changing things away from their most stable state by way of expression of energy. This is an act of force in it's simplest sense on non living things. Where living things are concerned, it becomes recognizable as force because living things have their own agenda, and putting them into a state you prefer necessitates some degree of coercion.

So a hypothetical world where entities like these network States, blockchain states and consensus mechanisms control real world assets is a world where action on the real world, including use of force, is automated. You don't have to have permission from the current status quo structure of institutions for blockchains and the like to have real world effect, you just have to have a way for them to act with or without institutional approval. A world where construction, modification and aggressive action is automated and thus can be deterministically and provably democratic is what you get out of all this.
Not a critically high price anyway. Gas prices cover everything and complicit German politicians don’t consider stopping paying. Looks like Putin’s gamble played well once again, he knows his European counterparts well.
The comments here are really negative.

I think this is a great idea. JSON is incredibly wasteful and any improvement is welcome.

And yes, you can gzip JSON. still wastes a lot of space when you actually need it in a format where you might want to read individual fields.
Genocide doesn’t require camps.

I’m not sure why these distinctions are relevant. In my mind, if an army is indiscriminately bombing and shelling my city, it sure feels like a genocidal act.
FusionAuth Remix Demo
Great idea. Disappointed to see it's only available for: AU, CA, MX, US
Yeah that's precisely what I meant when I said "ease of creating custom PCBs with their small all-in-one modules" -- the pico-mini modules (I only now realize they're both called pico) and the C3 modules with antennas are just crazy for what they pack in such a small footprint.
Like 75% of my intro to modern physics class was "Couldn't you just <thing that results in further relativistic weirdness>." Not sure it lead to the most well-founded understanding of relativity, but I was an engineering major -- if engineers have to correct for relativity, probably the device is operating very out of spec (ignoring very specific, well understood cases).
I have often wondered if, had the Watergate break-in not been discovered or reported, South Vietnam might yet exist, and if they would rival South Korea in their technological accomplishments.
I'm very confused by both of your points. The supply of a cryptocurrency is equal to a person? A crypto token is not a person so I'm guessing you missed a few words there?

How is building a competing chain to more efficiently solve a problem (high transaction fees) in a competitive market in any way "dismissing" that problem? That seems the exact opposite of dismissing a problem.

Do those new solutions come with new problems? Sure, that's true of any technology. Dynamo-based databases solved high availability and network partitionability of data but come with several trade-offs. That doesn't mean you shouldn't use Cassandra for anything.

That said, Solana is not the hill I'm willing to die on and it's hot garbage. Hedera seems good though.
My sense is that trying to browse the internet on e-ink kinda sucks, so you're left with devices that you don't browse the web with... and they're competing against tablets, phones, and laptops. It's hard for me to imagine what market you'd have for an consumer e-ink device besides e-readers and word processors.
> Basically, it's the cost of designing and building a complete one-off […]

As a simple analogy: there's a difference between going to 3-for-1 Suite Warehouse and going to Saville Row and getting something bespoke.

It's just there are no COTS satellites that do what JWST do, so if you want to do cutting edge science you're paying for Saville Row.
This is just the FCC trying to maintain the power and budget they've accumulated under the guise of bringing high speed internet to rural America. But these days mobile terrestrial providers and Starlink are increasingly accomplishing this. So instead of saying "great, this problem is being solved, let's move on to other things", the FCC prefers to move the goalposts in order to retain that particular power and budget and mission.
What is to prevent the network from facilitating money laundering and purchase of illegal goods?
Wow, so it's pay-to-win, huh
Supercomputing... Note that Summit changed from RHEL7 to RHEL8 mis-stream. (IBM insisted the system I work on had to do the same on similar hardware because the RHEL 7.9 distribution I could see didn't exist. It allowed more recent CUDA, but that wasn't the rationale.)

I don't know what "system admins use is a completely different stack. Users get an update almost every 3 months" is about. Infiniband is fine, and typically quite up-to-date in RHEL, but you end up having to deal with the Mellanox nightmare, at least for Nvidia GPU support; roll on RoCM. That area is a good demonstration of the practical evil of proprietary software.
Something that is very cool (hah!) is that originally they used the coolness of the deep tube lines as a selling point in summer[1], but over the last century the surrounding clay has absorbed so much heat that the ambient temperature is something like 30°
[1] https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/cooling-the-tube-engine...
How to Get Substack Subscribers
Are these Peter de Jong attractors?

I'm trying to work out how my interpretation of the calculations (in JS)[1] compare with the authors code, but trying to measure performance in CodePen is ... difficult to work out. My approach was to: 1. Run the CodePen with the inspector open; 2. Start recording performance; 3. Right click on the display panel and select 'Reload Frame'; 4: Stop recording performance after the images reappear.

... But when I look at the results nothing is making sense. Clearly my approach was wrong.

[1] - https://codepen.io/kaliedarik/pen/JjRJwNa