skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the idea of "making them your own." I often found myself forgetting about something I "learned." Simply jotting down notes on Notion or any other software is not practical. Having some context and identifying how it relates to your problems is far more critical for understanding and learning something deeply.
There is plenty of politics in Texas, for sure, but it wasn't coal power systems that failed in the winter, it was wind, natgas, and one nuclear power plant.
Just answered essentially the same question here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32216298
There are different levels in everything and you'd be hard-pressed to find worse than Haiti.

According to Wikipedia, the Dominican Republic has the fastest growing economy of the Americas while Haiti is the poorest country in the Americas (And neither has anything to do with France, and since the US meddled in both and even occupied both they probably have little to do with either as well)
My hiring manager told me the other 2 candidates the interviewed (both of which allegedly had college degrees) didn’t even make it to the fizz buzz stage. They got stuck trying to calculate the rolling sum of an array.

The amount of confidence needed to drive people around at high speeds is much higher than the amount required to join a zoom meeting.
It’s an interesting idea, and I have a feeling I’ve read somewhere about Google doing something similar, but these sorts of heuristics are a rabbit hole I’m trying not to go down at the moment—currently I have far more serious reasons why my ranking isn’t great, so I’m trying to prioritize those rather than getting distracted by whatever interesting algorithm I happen to bump into. (Definitely on my list to investigate in the future, though!)
Remember that article yesterday bemoaning the widespread support of political violence?

This is that thing
How will you handle placement of figures in a desired location?
>His commentary on C-DOT was a complete wet blanket on my theories of how the world is changing through technology.

Could you expand on this? I am interested to know what were his opinions.
As a Texan, I can concur.

That said, the failure and piss-poor government response to it makes me almost viscerally angry. Texas has promoted itself as an energy leader, from traditional oil and gas production, to large (and growing) production of renewables, we shouldn't be having these failures.

The issue for me isn't the failure of the power grid, extraordinary events happen - its that:

One - it's happened before (twice before).

Two - we should have had a governmental response to adequately winterize the grid.

Three - the deregulated power system in Texas creates perverse incentives to building more capacity in - and power usage in Texas is growing faster than either base load or peaking capacity is.

These are all governmental and regulatory failures, and ones that were both foreseeable and preventable.
K-Pop is not popular in America
My first real software gig was having a conversation with someone and them asking if I knew anything about making a flash program talk to a ticket printer. I described the approach I would take and they said they would pay me XX an hour if I could get close to my estimated time. So I wrote them a little python service to handle their flash games printing. It took a whole lot more time than I thought mostly because the flash games were written by a contracting group in India. But that started me out.

Mind, it was a completely shit service. I mean every time I think about it I think of more vulnerabilities. Unfortunately the contractor leading things had very little clue. So they were no good for guidance. It wasn't until my next job that I really got some mentoring.
What?

> Intel picks Magdeburg in Germany for new European chip factory

https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-picks-magdeburg-ger...
Can you expand on your last paragraph? Exactly who is an asshole and why?
Parts are, but other parts, like the gulf coast, have plenty of water. Texas is not the giant desert you see in cowboy movies.
Oblique Strategies on GameBoy
I think the point when you're learning programming or another language is to remember things long enough that you can recall them when you need to use them. Once you've got in the habit of using them, the cards don't matter anymore.

For example, to remember "almohada" in Spanish means pillow, I just think of a pillow shaped like the Alamo, and Tinkerbell, the fairy from Peter Pan, sitting in one of the windows ("hada" means fairy is Spanish.) I only need to remember this until I've talked or read enough about pillows in Spanish that I don't need the memory device. And as an example of that, "hada" is a word I don't need anything to remember, I just know it now. I don't remember why. I may have come up with some mental image, I may have had a flashcard, I may just remember the movie Veneno para las hadas because I like it.

It doesn't matter anymore, because it's now knowledge that I have.
I am very much aware of this, but that's exactly what I am arguing. Articles setting out to explain Kubernetes should not perpetuate the false equality of docker and containers.
So to be clear for a given position you get 100 to 1000 resumes, then interview how many of those before deciding on 1 person? I am curious what the funnel looks like.
> Here's something that confuses me about building fabs in Texas.

> Texas's power grid has gained a reputation lately for being unreliable.

As stated, there's nothing to be confused about. You'd want to build new fabs in Texas for the same reason you want to buy stocks while they're down rather than while they're up.

The reputation only matters if you're trying to sell your new fab to someone else. If you want to use it yourself, what matters is the reality.
JK is not easy man to understand. His approach was VIA NEGATIVA i.e. he will never tell HOW to do it rather what NOT to do ! When we ask HOW, it strengthens the mind and he does not want that to happen.

Reading his books "Freedom from the known" and "Think on these things" might help you to get closer to him.
Without a solid plan this is a dead end.
They'd probably fail to see the correlation in having their senior ICs occupied re-explaining Git to a constantly rotating offshore roster -- they're getting 10 engineers for the price of 1 after all.
Not just OCR, but object recognition - just has to be smart enough to read the window's title bar to tag the shot by applications present in it and by document name when some are visible.
If someone has no idea what ‘git add’ is, the criticism is still on point.
If you work at asynchronous/remote work company, i.e. your coworkers are in different timezones and can't review immediately, what else are you going to do? Put out exactly one code review per day until your feature is fully merged? Some things like refactoring changes can be reviewed and committed individually, but lots of feature work is fundamentally dependent on the previous work.

Stacking PRs is like pipelining for CPUs. It's efficient under the hypothesis that there aren't too many invalidations/stalls. The linked tooling `git-branchless` (I'm the author) is aimed at reducing the impact of such an invalidation by significantly improving the conflict resolution workflows.
>> There are tons of children who could learn to program, could even teach themselves, but who are unaware that the option exists.

> This just isn't true, [...]

Let me get this straight... you're saying that children are generally aware that they can learn to program, and that children who aren't aware of these opportunities are rare or something?

I must be misunderstanding something here, because that sounds like complete horseshit to me. I have years of experience teaching children how to program, and the vast majority show up unaware that learning to program is something within their reach.
Robot Designed to Tunnel Through the Earth Fast Using Plasma
Hi! I used to work in fabs in Texas, and then our company's new fab got made in Germany (way back in 2000 or so). I actually worked in Dresden for six months, as one of a few Americans helping to get things going. These things have a way of going in cycles. I expect Germany will get some more fab building going soon.
If it does less, then it won’t thermal throttle.
They are in fact doing rolling "brownouts" as of a few days ago. I put it in quotes because the friend who told us about it had been without for a couple hours at that point.
I had a friend at google who got so sick of people who couldn’t code his first question was “write anything in any language on the board”. About 50% of interviews ended there.
I question if that was a reasonable way to start since it is a terrifying social question (what’s the hardest thing I can reasonably do that meets his unknown criteria). It is therefore probably a better test of professional confidence (though that’s really great to have too).

I went the opposite way. I got sick of adversarial interviews. (If you can do the job we’re on the same side. If you can’t you’ll be miserable here so we’re still on the same side). I started opening my interviews with “what did you have for breakfast?” To set the tone of at least everyone can answer the first question. The last guy I hired sheepishly said “I skipped breakfast” but I still counted it a pass.
Ask HN: What cloud storage do you use/trust on sensitive data?
Even if that were 100% true, people don't actually know what they want. "Business requirements" undeveloped in the minds of non-technical people are just ideas. There are immeasurable differences between what people think they want, what they actually want, what they need and what can realistically be done. Coaxing these out happens during the whole development process (even in a waterfall approach), because people are never as accurate as they need to be... Otherwise, they would not need software engineeers.
I think you would really enjoy the game Codex.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/131111/codex-card-time-s...
I had not seen that one before. She truly is genius.
Samsung asks permission (but makes no actual commitments) right before Washington votes on whether to subsidize chip manufacturing. Maybe I’m just old and jaded and maybe asking permission has nothing to do with posturing for DC money, but experience tells me this might not be as genuine as the headline suggests.
Is it a bad job market? Everybody I know is desperately trying to hire, and finding that even decent candidates can afford to be really choosy right now. The place I used to work (not a terrible company, and competitive but non-FAANG salaries) has had an FE position open for 11 months.

Anyway, I think if they've applied to 400 places in 3 months, they're probably using more of a shotgun approach. I always got better results when I researched the company and customized my application to what I thought they were looking for.
> In a country where Congress has been deadlocked for decades

So your answer to the problem of a government you don't like is: invent another one?

A better answer is just to write laws more carefully, broad enough to cover unforeseen circumstances, yet not so broad that they can be stretched to mean absolutely anything.

That IS challenging. On the other hand, there are a lot of lawyers working for our Congresspeople, so they should be up to the challenge.
Bakshish. On-shore Indians in appropriate positions getting kickbacks for “selecting” a vendor they have a relationship with.
If they mandate something they need to provide the support. If they cannot afford it they shouldn't pass on those costs to citizens.
Thanks for the recommendation. I've used VMware's Clarity professionally (https://clarity.design/) and it's pretty bad (design and code wise). There's also IBM's Carbon (https://carbondesignsystem.com/); I love its design but it's incomplete in some areas. Microsoft has Fluent UI (https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui) which I have never used.
It also doesn’t work.
that's a fair criticism a lot of the time, but I don't think Samsung ever makes any real claims of being progressive. not too many woke companiese have a division that builds tanks.
It’s not that I can’t afford it… it’s a matter of principle! There is no valid reason for an INTERNET SERVICE to be bound to a geographical location (aside of squeezing people out of every penny possible)!
I am the author of the linked tool git-branchless. Happy to answer any questions about stacked PR workflows here or on GitHub discussions https://github.com/arxanas/git-branchless/discussions or Discord https://discord.gg/caYQBJ82A4.
Five years ago if you were in a nursing home, got a cold (i.e. a coronavirus) and died, no one would have tested you or made you a statistic to go into the top ten causes of death. Things like that pushing the nearest to end of life are common and not a disaster.

2/3 of the deaths are people over 85 now. If a cancer patient gets covid and dies did the cancer or the Covid do it?

Everybody is going to die, i don’t feel too sad about it. It is very slightly more dangerous to be human now that covid is around and sure that sucks but meh, there are better things to give your attention to.
I mean, yeah, if she has solid RCT data on thousands to millions of childbirths and has found a statistically significant impact from using the magic crystals, I would support their use. A/B as well as scientific research uses the same basis.

The issue is that in fact the midwife will not have such data. The comparison being made is that A/B testing, if run competently, is pretty close to scientific research, in particular for research related to nudging.
Do you have a source for that?

All I'm seeing is under reporting of covid deaths:
Brazil: https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1...
USA: https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2021/12/22/cov...
ah, well, we've proven again those don't always work over the Internet. I mean Google works but sarcasm and irony not always.
I agree with you, but almost everyone else disagrees with us.
That's not a conspiracy. When two companies, or countries, or individuals have business dealings on many different levels, a lot of things can be negotiated at the same time.
> If you were to get vaccinated once a month, would that be expected to produce notable protection against the new variants?

Neutralizing antibody levels are highest after antigen encounter and diminish over time. So, you get the most protection after vaccination or recovery. After some time, T cells play a more prominent role in fighting the disease.

I’d be very careful about frequent vaccinations. We know that chronic antigen encounters could produce exhausted cells incapable of differentiation.
Why are you doing your demos in a production environment though? How many live customers did you have that could have been seriously negatively affected by what you were deploying (assuming it almost certainly contained bugs)?
Mexican labor
They have, with 1.24[1], following Kubernetes upstream. If you are an end user nothing is really going to change from this though, because docker produces container images that can be used in other container runtimes (and in fact, containerd is what powers docker underneath today anyway). But that's why it's so important to explain that containers != docker, otherwise "removing docker support" seems really scary.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/deprecations...
Everything is pay per view in Xanadu. It's a micropayment model. When you read, you pay, and the payments are distributed, word by word, to all the creators of the input text.
It's for storing expensive information in expensive computers to be sold expensively.
Think of it as a successor to Mead Data Central, Lexis, and Nexis[1], early centralized and expensive information retrieval systems. (Those are still around, merged into Reed Elsevier, publisher of expensive books and journals.)

The technology became cheap enough that such a business model was unnecessary. Although it was considered in the early days of the Web. Early thinking was that you'd have to subscribe to everything, and there would be charges on your Internet bill for each service, like cable TV. You'd pay to subscribe to a search engine. The New York Times went that route successfully, but few others did.

I knew some of the people behind Xanadu in the 1980s. They were mostly everything-is-a-market libertarians.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LexisNexis
War is hell.

In WW I, the Germans didn't move to "unrestricted submarine warfare" until 1917. The fact that the CCP doesn't plan for it now means absolutely nothing.
I have given over 100 on site interviews for a large well regarded company, and I’d say about 20 percent can’t seem to program at all. I have only actually asked FizzBuzz once because it feels terrible to go with that simple a question, but they were failing another easy question and I wanted to calibrate if the easy question was too hard or they really couldn’t program. They completely failed fizz buzz - they started a for loop but couldn’t decide what to do in it, and the idea of directly translating each instruction in fizz buzz into a line of code in the for loop didn’t seem to gel with them. I know there is no way to know for sure, but it didn’t feel like just nerves - it really felt like they had no idea how to do word problems in math class, they couldn’t turn a description with a few bullet points into code implementing them.

So, for what it’s worth, I’ve definitely seen it. I don’t even think it’s particularly uncommon.
Tom Sachs: Rocket Man to Renaissance Man
There is approximately no headroom between California's population and its actual + buildable living space. The idea that homeless people are going to beat Fortune 100 executives and literal billionaires for access to the scraps that remain in our zoning maps and after discretionary reviews, CEQA, etc. is more of an "after the revolution" daydream than a serious policy proposal.

Policies around behavior in public spaces are actual live debates.
Why do they continue getting fat contracts even if the general consensus is that it doesn’t work out well?

Same reason McDonald's, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell continue to earn tens of billions in profits each year. Despite the fact that even their most loyal customers surely know (on some level) that their product is barely edible slop, and is probably shortening their expected life span with each and every bite.
https://archive.ph/YzncI
When I do that I'm usually up to no good.
At that time I was at a relatively traditional company whose hiring and sourcing practices does not involve leetcode puzzles.
Yeah for real, AWS may be deeply flawed but by God five minutes using the GCP flight control NASA computer UX and I was about ready to hit Mars.
I feel fortunate that, as a child of the early 80s, by the time I started programming (age 8 or so), it was the late 80s and these personal computers were available for cheap at yard sales. One of the first I owned was a VIC20, which I think I bought (or convinced my parents to buy) with all the peripherals at a garage sale for $30. I got a C64 soon after in a similar way.

A few years later, my dad would bring home IBM PC XTs and ATs they were throwing out at his work. The rest is, as they say, history.

I loved these books, and I'm pretty sure I had almost the complete library. A few of these books, a curious kid, and a simple computer that boots directly into BASIC, with no distractions.
You are generalizing too much. “Did not provide protection” is not an adequate summary of your source.
Sounds like a well contrived urban myth. I can't stop laughing.
FCC orders phone carriers to block scammers behind 8B robocalls
> * It uses byte strings instead of UTF-8 strings. In my opinion, that’s not an optimization, that’s changing the problem. Depending on the question you’re asking, only one of the two can be correct.

To be fair, that's what the C version does as well.
Of course, there are many poker terminology and jargon lists — https://betandbeat.com/poker/terminology/ is one.
I get cookie rage. Some I already know to click details and immediately save for a minimal default. Some I randomly select whatever, some I accept. Then I get asked the same from the same site the next day. I hate this so much that I get desensitized to all forms of tracking.
because we know.

At least for the things I've showed.

If you know of female roman soldiers walking the Hadrian's wall, female painters in Pompei or female sculptors in ancient Egypt, I'm eager to read about'em.

We know of women artists in Japanese Edo period, but they did not paint penises (AFAIK)

But that's besides the point, the point wasn't if women sometimes draw penises, the point was that 'boys like to draw dicks on things' and historical records show that they kinda always did.
Did you read the recent study that shows anyone who got the vaccine has lower immunity after 8 months compared to someone unvaccinated. Did that change your pro vaccine stance?
Looking at the images of the originals, the indentations do not seem as evenly spaced as one would expect if they used the "wheel". To me it looks like a simple stick, used 4 times, would be more appropriate for the job (and in line with the bread name). Just guessing though.
They weren’t ideal, but I owe my career to writing games for the ZX Spectrum and distributing them on cassette. It wasn’t until 1988 that I was able to get an Amstrad PC1512 with floppy drives.
The recent issues did not have renewable energy as the main cause. Fox News is entertainment, not news (by their own claim).
I am one of the authors of the tool Graphite (https://graphite.dev). We built Graphite because we missed the stack diff workflow we knew from previous job experiences at larger companies, happy to answer any questions (and if you would rather not ask in public, feel free to email me at tomas at graphite.dev).
Everybody thinks it's justified in support of their cause. Not any other cause - just theirs.
Philosophy Tube's "Violence & Protest" - "A video about protest, direct action, and revolution in the context of the climate crisis" - covered this topic, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh4G1Gjv7bA

Quotes https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v29/n06/john-lanchester/warm... from 2007:

> It is strange and striking that climate change activists have not committed any acts of terrorism. After all, terrorism is for the individual by far the modern world’s most effective form of political action, and climate change is an issue about which people feel just as strongly as about, say, animal rights. This is especially noticeable when you bear in mind the ease of things like blowing up petrol stations, or vandalising SUVs. In cities, SUVs are loathed by everyone except the people who drive them; and in a city the size of London, a few dozen people could in a short space of time make the ownership of these cars effectively impossible, just by running keys down the side of them, at a cost to the owner of several thousand pounds a time. Say fifty people vandalising four cars each every night for a month: six thousand trashed SUVs in a month and the Chelsea tractors would soon be disappearing from our streets. So why don’t these things happen? Is it because the people who feel strongly about climate change are simply too nice, too educated, to do anything of the sort? (But terrorists are often highly educated.) Or is it that even the people who feel most strongly about climate change on some level can’t quite bring themselves to believe in it? ...

> We deeply don’t want to believe this story.
In general, I love the format, however I notice that (for example), Hugh Lofting's "The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle" has none of Lofting's illustrations - which seems a shame in a children's book - is this a deliberate policy choice?
Totally agree. The old UI was much better. I think they ignored who uses the console. If I’m trying to load a UI with thousands of resources server side rendering is much faster.
The new UI is frustrating. Luckily we mostly use cdk for terraform and don’t have to use the console much.