skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a simple interview problem

I've been asking different versions of that question since I started interviewing and it is a surprisingly good filter.

But with articles like this, now I need new questions..
Let's look at the data. Between 2012-2016, black male offenders in the federal court system received sentences 19.1% longer on average than similarily-situated white male offenders:

https://www.ussc.gov/research/research-reports/demographic-d...

However, this analysis doesn't control for income level or socioeconomic status. There are major differences in economic propsperity between black and white populations, and as a consequence major diffences in the quality of their legal counsel. This is hinted at in the 2012 Booker Report:

https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/news/congressio...

>During these periods, Black male offenders were more than 20 percent less likely to receive a non-government sponsored below range sentence than White male offenders were. These differences may contribute to the difference in sentence length between Black and White male offenders.

The quality of your counsel has a big impact on whether you can get "non-government sponsored below range sentence", as this law firm suggests:

https://alanellis.com/sentencing-tips/

>The foregoing trend makes reinforces the importance of using a sentencing specialist able to help humanize your client, preferably someone familiar with the federal system’s many nuances.

Much like the gender pay gap, the closer you look at the racial sentencing gap the smaller it gets, and the more it looks related to wealth rather than race. The racial wealth gap is its own separate issue, but it seems to me like solving that problem could do much to fix the disparity in sentencing.
> No anticheat, kernel mode or not, has come even close to that. The situation has remained mostly unchanged for at least a decade now.

While the situation has mostly "unchanged" from the perspective of the end-user, the barrier of entry to start making cheats has been raised quite a bit.

I'd say making a commercially viable cheat (assuming you actually care about your customers not getting hit by every ban wave) isn't exactly a trivial matter nowadays.

> The proliferation of DMA cheats will make any time spent fighting software based cheating significantly less valuable.

The future you talk about is not yet here. External device based cheats are a miniscule part of the current cheating market.
You don't need those extra newlines if you'd prefix every code line with two spaces, by the way. It makes it much more readable if you do that.
20+ year drought, all reservoirs at record low levels does not indicate "plenty of water"

Sure the mismanaged water is a problem but I am not sure baring the use for "agrarian business interests" aka Food production, is the solution either.

What is your solution or idea of proper management? Only Potable uses?
Because I didn't and never will.
Depending on how much one's willing to stretch that argument, they can also point out that all known life is digital.

Human genome is, effectively, a historical digital record (Nature, DOI: 10.1038/nature10231).
They wouldn’t get away with it though as the car logs that sort of thing.
I think you are confused.

Sharing your salary is one thing.

Saying that you are an employee at X company and make X dollars is giving away both your salary and corporate information.

The key is not involving the company. Share your salary as much as you want, but don't go on social media and say 'I work for X' unless you are actually their representative.
Looking into the stats, Haiti had 60% of forest cover in 1923 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_in_Haiti. If the debt made deforestation inevitable, why did Haiti have so many forests far into the servicing of the debt? I feel there MUST be something which happened in the 20th century which really accelerated deforestation aside from the debt.

I just don't buy the "debt destroyed all future economic/agricultural output" angle at all. If you just showed people a bunch of chart of different countries economic information and agricultural output devoid of broader context, nobody would probably EVER come to the conclusion that the debt led to the stagnation in agricultural output in Haiti from the numbers alone. If you compared the debt vs deforestation, again, nobody would conclude the debt caused the deforestation from the actual data. People would only ever conclude that if they're being shown unblinded data.

Let me stress here - I'm not even saying this must all be Haiti's fault, or that debt didn't have a profound impact which have shrunk Haiti's economy many times over. I'm saying the debt doesn't explain what happened. I feel like I'm getting a fraction of the picture here. All sorts of wild shit happened in Haiti in the 20th century, the United States occupied the country for instance and the deforestation correlates MUCH more strongly with this occupation than it does the debt.
How are you defining woke as you use it here?
I closed the video about 4 minutes in because the presentation, while great, was incredibly redundant. The video could be condensed to two sentences. (Note that I'm not claiming to be the target audience, just giving my two cents).

Also, retroactively judging competitors based on a completely different objective does not make sense for determining world records. Maybe the current fastest solver would still be the fastest (inspection+solve)er, but they have had no incentive to demonstrate it so far.
> I have a sneaking suspicion that this manual curation is more common than we realize and could be the main reason for HN's high quality.

They manipulate submissions and comments A LOT... sometimes they write a comment about their modifications but often do not (maybe when they think it will go unnoticed?).
It not only deters healing, it makes people act ill when they are not. Social media is filled with people pretending to be sick. If you want some of the most blatant see [0] the disability there isn't three broken ribs requiring a ventilator.

Reminds me of Luis the 14th and his anal fistula [1]. Courtiers started faking anal fistulas after the king had an operation to remove his. It got to the point where they would get treatment for them, or fake getting the treatment, regardless of health. This was not a simple operation at the time. Chances of death were high, to the point where the first was performed on a condemned criminal who was pardoned if he survived.

[0] https://www.insider.com/who-is-youtube-star-nikocado-avocado...

[1] https://tidsskriftet.no/2016/08/sun-kings-anal-fistula
The US hasn’t done jack shit for the supply lately.

The doom cycle of the last 50 years:

- Fed lowers interest rates to increase demand. Prices go up, only the most well off can afford.

- Fed goes back to increasing rates again. Demand goes down. Prices generally don’t decrease all that much really, they just stop going up, and higher interest rates are what stop more from getting a house.

Literally nothing for supply side. Our society has decided to leave housing up the The Fed to tweak demand.
Most reasons to not cycle are not inherent to the bike. The same cannot be said about cars, they are inherently dangerous to all road users (and as a society we paper this over to make driving feel way safer than it actually is)
I don’t know. I’d much rather walk or run. At least from a paleo argument it’s a better option.
This would be great for vampires. Also incredibly expensive.
The first book I downloaded from standard ebooks was a PG Wodehouse book. I’d never read him and figured I’d give both him and the service a try. Neither disappointed.
You know precisely that Linux and FreeBSD both depend upon GNU utilities. ("GNU/Linux refers to a GNU userland coupled with Linux") Don't be obtuse. If Emacs works for you then that's great, but if you are at all interested in having a system that works then you should be prepared to hear that for other people your preferred solution doesn't work, and why, be prepared to acknowledge that, and accept that something should be done to fix that. Responding with hostility is not at all productive and is precisely why GNU remains unusable for the majority.
How many volunteers do you have? What motivates people to keep working?
Wouldn't it be prudent for them to ask for 11 fabs in 11 states, and get 11x more politicians lobbying for them?
Tunnels typically don't see the light of day...
What is the context of the graph? I don't get it from the labels.
In general, distant space based communication will use some sort of forward error correction because TCP-style interactive correction would cause huge delays. TCP is just not a protocol designed for latencies on the order of minutes. I could totally see them using UDP though either on top of or below the error correction.
Um... no. I have an Android phone. No i-anything but I do have the Mac.

Which is why I got AppleTV for free, but now I'm paying for it.
Always curious on the context of these shit shows
> People are going to end up either starving or being a burden on their working children or the state because they don't earn enough to save for retirement: we're going to need to bring back defined-benefits pensions, peg Social Security to inflation, and increase the minimum wage

This is already happening to middle class families. I wouldn't word it as "a burden", but I have been lending money to some of my older relatives for a while now so they can make ends meet.

Nudging works, but it has to happen early in life, and some people will make bad financial choices anyway - such as "investing" in old property. You also have to be born in the right era. Those older relatives would have some decent savings had they made the choices I'm making now, but those choices are just slightly profitable these days.
Everything comes with a price
Why are you recommending such a circuitous method involving an unrelated phone app when simply trying to access Apple TV in a web browser will lead you to the link to create an Apple ID—whether that browser is on a phone or not?
america also has a problem building
> Well, maybe if the vaccine doesn't prevent spreading - there is no need to mandate it.

Depends on how hard you want the healthcare system to crash. The unvaccinated swamped the ICUs. A lot of doctors and nurses have quit because they’re overworked and burnt out. That puts yet more strain on the remaining staff, leading to more burnout, etc.
Switching from flood based irrigation to spot watering. Selecting different crops than cotton for mattresses and pistachios or alfalfa and hay used for export. Farmers in the West use a lot of water because they can due to their water rights agreement, then they say "given this water allocation, what crop will maximize my return on my dollar" and they end up doing stuff like growing pistachios as a result because that's where the incentives have pushed them. Adjust the incentives and the crop choices and practices in the west will change. We don't need the cotton fit for mattresses or $10 bags of pistacios to feed us. The midwest alone produces plenty enough biomass for this country. Much of it there as well is exported elsewhere for individualized profit.
We probably have to rethink growing the thirstiest crops in a semi-arid environment.
> This is nonsense. Users would be free to stick to the Apple app-store and apps. What it means is those that wish to install from alternative locations, can.

And that will be great news to scammers, hackers and criminals that have been easily plaguing their malware and trojans on infected Android for years to do the same on iOS apps to go all open season on the platform.

> Competition in the app store space is a good thing. Competition generally is a good thing. This is what it is about.

Exactly. Is that why you have chosen to not use a Linux phone? Maybe the competition outside of Android and iOS is not competing hard enough and instead resorted to shutting down and giving up and had to scream and cry at Google and Apple for being so successful.

> Scaremongering this kind of nonsense to suppose walled-garden ecosystems (that primarily benefit the gardener, not the plants) is a stretch.

Scaremongering? Why is it that over the space of 8 years Android has been plagued more by ransomware [0], malware, and attacks delivered by sideloading? [1] than iOS has? Bringing the same security ills and problems found on Android devices into iOS can only result in creating more problems than solving them.

> Congratulations to the EU indeed, for the right reasons.

Nope. Not so fast.

I don't think there is anything to celebrate here, unless you want to see a new era of easy side-loading cracked apps, to users to easily encounter ransomware on their phones and have it take payment with private cryptocurrencies like Monero.

We will see MORE of the same problems found on the desktop in iOS and the greatest targets are frequent users in mobile banking, cryptocurrency wallets, etc to steal from. None of what I said is 'nonsense', 'scaremongering', etc as it is already happening on Android.

[0] https://blog.knowbe4.com/evolution-of-mobile-ransomware

[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/roaming-manti...
It's the fraction of survey respondents saying home prices are low, less the fraction saying prices are high. So 0 is a neutral market and it ranges over [-100,100].

The whole survey is highly informative. https://data.sca.isr.umich.edu/
Isn't this just one specific analysis using a very narrow definition of "nudge", one that doesn't even begin to encompass the work being done at those "300 "research" departments"?

Further, isn't this using the same data from the original meta analysis that did find "of small to medium size" effect[0]?

Why would this, alone, undo decades of research and clear, bright-line conclusions such as the ones cited in my sibling comments? In other words, why is this letter the final word on the topic of "nudge", to you, and not the original meta-analysis? Sounds like you think everyone should pack it up and go home, all because of one letter using an alternative set of definitions and analysis.

Just seems like an overreaction on your part, especially given how vocal and... you-sounding (for lack of a better term) the "anti-nudge" crowd often is.

To take a wider view, a comment like yours is a more malicious form of nerd-sniping[1], especially on HN. Claim to have relevant credentials, voice a contrarian-but-popular-here opinion, and make a wild conclusion to give those reading it a feeling of "inside baseball."

[0] https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2107346118#sec-3

[1] https://xkcd.com/356/
I already use my parents' account, so it wouldn't apply to me so much. I wouldn't buy a Netflix account just for the weekends though; I suppose everyone will have to figure out how to spend their entertainment dollars to suit themselves in the brave new reality.
I still have computer files from 15 years ago, the time I was in high school. They are of no use, but I keep them around. Class projects, power point slides, word files.

I have deleted everything from uni though.
With inflation, they don't need actual pay cuts to have real pay cuts. That's part of the reason why it's unusual to have high unemployment and high inflation (definitely not impossible though).
Iterators are potentially a much better design too as they allow for more modular code.
Apple Removes AirTag Battery Level Indicator from the Find My App
I heard about people paying over $10/kWH and having $15k bills for about 5 days of power. I know people who paid well over $1000 for the month and their power was out for much of the cold spell (~50%). I hear they're going to try and lower billing to less than $9000/MWh, but that's not going to encourage building proper infrastructure, and making gouging profitable doesn't encourage any of them to improve reliability. Why bother weatherproofing?

I'm reminded of Enron's "grandma Millie" comments.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/deep-freeze-s...

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/13/weekinreview/word-for-wor...
What is a paleo argument?
It’s certainly not “serious math,” but I’m rather proud of this revision I made to the MathML used for a throwaway equation in an obscure short story: https://github.com/standardebooks/fritz-leiber_short-fiction...
just curious, not planning...

Would you accept novel translations of non-English classics? The policy suggests yes, but I imagine such a work would fall under US copyright (which the policy forbids).
I've taken to just opening the SE website in the Kobo experimental browser and downloading the books directly onto the device that way. The browser is pretty sluggish, but even then it only takes a few clicks if you know what book you're looking for.
I'm not interested in any right to disrupt a service; it's just something that can happen because of other rights: to run arbitrary code on your own computer, and trying to remove that right is not going to work. We need a better solution.
"credibility of social science"
I don't think it's a stretch at all to say that the base sequence of DNA, or the residue sequence of a peptide, is digital, and yes, that's what makes reproduction as we know it possible.

Many aspects of life, however, are analog. Magnesium concentrations, membrane polarizations, molecule orientations, temperature, and so on.
>> Things that exist in most modern clouds are being reinvented in K8s

The market wants cloud computing to be a commodity. I expect it will get what it wants via k8s or some other technology.
Yes. That wiktionary link and text was posted by me in my comment.

My question was to name specifically which etymology on a secondary page is more likely than the one listed at the main entry and on almost all etymology websites? The burden of proof is on the person who wrote, "it feels like it should be stressed more strongly that the etymology you quoted is not necessarily the strongest contender".
On top of that, when attempting to do rolling blackouts critical gas infrastructure froze and so gas supply plummeted. The gas plants weren't able to generate their capacity because there wasn't enough gas to burn.
a liveable city, this does not make.

and public transport in SF is perfectly safe.
That code is slow because it's working with a really long list instead of a very fast hash table
Nice! I didn't know that trick.
Thanks for calling this out. The twitter meme of "anything I like is natural, anything I don't like is cultural" is pretty braindead. Even just one aspect of our biology like hormones impacts human behavior considerably.
Depends where in Texas. Houston area is more similar to the Deep South in weather, no shortages of water, in fact dealing with floods is a huge part of their urban planning challenge.
Elon Stats based on wikipedia, daily mail:

Married 3 times, 4 kids out of wedlock, 10 total kids with one deceased

Wilson 6 kids, 1 deceased Damian, Saxon, Kai and Nevada (deceased) Griffin, Vivian (previously Xavier)*

Grimes 2 (out of wedlock and second surrogate) X Æ A-Xii, Exa Dark Sideræl

Zilis 2 (out of wedlock twins unknown name)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11043971/It-Musk-lo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk
He does seem to have a few personal issues and is certainly juggling business challenges. Having twins with a subordinate would count as both a business and personal issue.

He seems like a man unglued if you ask me.
As someone from Western Europe, there are some assumptions in here that I can't agree with.

Both a company and a union do their little dances on the news. Nobody believes either one is telling 100% of the truth. We've all seen unions start strikes for stupid reasons, or sing la-la-la-I-cant hear-you when a member clearly needed help

But, it's common around here to have multiple unions in 1 company. You can shop around if you don't like one. You can not join any union. This market dynamic makes unions compete for you. Both unions and workers also understand that they won't gain anything if they drive a company out of business or to another country.

Specifically for Amazon, we've never heard much about Walmart or anti-walmart rhetoric over here. We have hard discounters which can be demanding for their employees, but they don't clash that hard or that regularly as Amazon does. Things like the bottle peeing are new around here, and confirmed by other parties than the unions. Ignoring collective agreements is also unheard of for a company of this scale. The underlying general idea around Amazon seems that it tries to import an US-style no-rights-worker model into Europe. If that takes root, we're all worse off. People sympathize with that, even if it is rarely enough to counter the siren song of cheap goods.
Also a Crystal fan but from afar. The compile time speeds are a real killer of productivity.
The steam locomotives (scroll down for color photos) look remarkably like Thomas the Tank Engine:

http://www.dzd-ussr.ru/towns/gorky/foto1-eng.html

Those photos are from the late 1990s, so maybe the resemblance is intentional.
In case you didn't know of it, for IaC, CDK8S has worked very well for me.
I agree it's completely possible. I wanted to explore the possibility of forces that are powerfully incentivized for this not to happen
Body aerodynamics is more like the 30% gain territory, body geometry is the single most important factor for aerodynamics.

I don't think it wise to think you know what is best for others. Longer is better cardio and needed for endurance training. Less watts wasted in air resistance just means you are riding faster. "It never gets easier, you just get faster"
The point is that the cheating problem is unsolvable at scale against sufficiently motivated attackers.

It would be possible to solve if the incentives are not that strong to cheat, but the status game associated with multiplayer games takes care of the "sufficiently motivated part".

It would be possible to solve at a small scale (e.g. at a tournament) by manually vetting hardware and manually reviewing footage.

But preventing cheating at scale against motivated attackers is so expensive as to be uneconomical. The devs will probably try to install whatever malware they can get away with in order to demonstrate to their shareholders that they care about it, but I'm guessing even the devs will be relieved when Microsoft just blocks their kernel-level malware because they know the risks it entails.
Not sure how what I said means "People can't have an opinion". My overall point is that you should base your opinions on reality.
A world record should also have a consistent course - but then it's just down to mechanics at that point.
That’s the point. Home prices are too high due to raised interest rates. They will come down to match the interest rates.
But why exactly do you do this? Own a server somewhere, admin it, replace or repair it in case of trouble - what for?
Try searching on youtube and "Lake Mead". There are probably a dozen weekly items, with updates and explorations of the lake.
It depends on the project being worked on. If the main branch changes often enough that you need to merge master before you merge the branch you’ll spend a lot of time propagating changes.

And then there’s the problem of large codebases. Without a really good cache strategy for builds all of the branch switching and merging will cause a lot of rebuilds. For some languages and large projects that can be 20+ minutes for a fresh build on each switch. That’s enough time to get distracted by emails or hacker news.

I’m a big fan of small commits, often and breaking down changes but it does require a large amount of automation and tooling to support well.