skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting to the interview phase is straightforward if you have a few years of experience. _Passing_ the interviews is another story, and will require study if you haven’t studied algorithms recently.

I’ve never passed, but I encourage folks to apply, use the failure to figure out what to study, and try again in six months. I see many folks feeling unprepared, and they never get around to interviewing, so they never know if they are truly unprepared.
That sounds like somethign that should happen on new window launch or after a relaunch of app kind of thing. For the browser to just randomly open a tab is very uncool
Yeah more people to participate that are not you and me.
The EU unboxes its plan for smart device security
>the difficulty in canceling a subscription

Never had an issue with this tbh, it's always very easy. Manage account > cancel plan.

Hell, if you subscribe but then cancel within the same day, they give you a full refund. I've abused this a few times if I just need to do something quick - sub, use it for a few hours, cancel, and it doesn't cost me anything.
> dodging regulators ...

With The Merge, that no longer the case, and this is good for Ethereum and for cryptocurrency community.
it's an endless abyss. the intent is to trap you in the world of podcasts, so that you may never get out.

seriously though, i am listening to a lot of scifi audio drama and i really appreciate it when i learn about other series with related themes. so if there is one kind of ad that i don't mind it is that. i much prefer that over ads for vpns, mattresses or "cook your own meal" food deliveries.
more info https://sqlite.org/wal.html
> The company had the upper hand, but can she really complain?

She is a bright girl, so she is not actually complaining, she knew the risks and trade offs. It was her first job after a college, btw. It’s me who is a bit bothered by her story. You see:

1. She was hired to improve diversity targets (her estimate).

2. After she was hired, her brains were ignored - a rather painful situation for a person with brains.

Would have this bright girl been better of if we as society put less pressure on companies to hire girls?
I think OPs problem is going into management. Base pay is typically higher than an IC but a high flying IC can clear more easily. As you mentioned specializing is the key. Data engineering is the new hotness. Failing that, I can echo your sentiment on the contract market. I can (and have for a short time) doubled my employee salary after taxes going self-employed. If you can keep a list of clients and not work for a contract firm (which is hard but doable) you have a lot of avenues for better benefits via SEP-IRA, entrepreneur healthcare programs, etc that you will never get as a W-2.
Our water, like much of our food, is poisonous. Though at low enough levels that it can take years or decades before the chronic health problems begin to show up.

The CDC recently found in a study that ~80% of people have glyphosate in their urine.
I think the consensus is that letting them cry is unhealthy when younger than 6 months. But when over 6 months:

What we used to do is to have a simple fixed routine (e.g. drink milk, sing a short song, put them in bed) so she knows what's coming and put her in bed no matter what. Crying or not, just put her in bed softly, ignore the crying, say some nice things and walk out in a friendly way.

Come back after 3 minutes of crying. Stroke/hold/sing until she stops crying (usually immediately when you come back). And then put her in bed again in the same way. Often there will be some crying in protest of being put back in bed, it's really hard, but you have to put them in bed then in the same friendly/soft way as the first time.

Then keep doing this in increasing time intervals. We did 3 min, 5 min, 5 min, 10 min and then keep it at 10. But we rarely got to 10 after the initial week of doing this. I've heard several other parents that did the same thing, some after speaking to a sleep coach. It worked for many, but it takes consistency and a bit of time to start working.
So running is better than walking?
Let's see....actually 14M ETH staked now so about 430K validators. Blocks are 12 seconds, so blocks per day is 24 * 60 * 5 = 7200. Taking 430,000/7200 gives 60 days.

But they're saying returns are more like 6%. Where are you getting return per block? (Also I think some of the return comes from doing block attestations, on every block.)
The colors can be the 'same' under a specific illumination condition. Standards that help make sure prints look like your screen specify the illumination condition of viewing, and then demand the spectrum radiating from the screen and paper 'look' the same.

Often this is a daylight lamp shining on the paper with a specified intensity, in an otherwise dark room (I believe) compared to watching the screen in a specific ambient light (again daylight with a given intensity).
Xi and Putin want to create a new world order, Russia’s war fail could break it
You are correct that vaccines are no longer offered for kids under 18, except if they have certain illnesses or conditions.

Vaccines including first booster is still offered and recommended for everyone above 18.

Second booster (i.e. fourth jab) only offered to people above 50.

Source: https://www.sst.dk/da/corona/Vaccination

Google translate:
https://www-sst-dk.translate.goog/da/corona/Vaccination?_x_t...

Quote:

> 10. Do you still recommend that one take the 1st, 2nd and 3rd shots against covid-19 if one has not yet been vaccinated?

> The Danish Health Authority continues to recommend that persons who have not been vaccinated be vaccinated with the 1st and 2nd shots. This also applies even if they are younger than 50, as there may be a certain risk of serious illness if you are not vaccinated.
Agreed. AI over the last few years is so far ahead of what I thought would be possible it's dizzying. Progress is so often not in the place, or delivered in the manner, that you're expecting. Maybe the one human constant?
Not in Poland.

They grew ~3-4 times during last 10 years. COVID-19 definitely helped here!
The claim "even 1 bit of bias on a 256 bit nonce value can be enough to attack certain cryptographic schemes" is true but there have been no practical attacks against 256 bit secured schemes. And the example of the mod 107 issue only reduces the amount of bits from 6.74bits to 6.71bits (a reduction of 0.4%) so hardly worth worrying about in the real world.
We used HTML tables for several years before fully transitioning to DIV based layouts. With CSS you could/can make tables flexible and that's all we needed for most responsive layouts.
I've found four way stops to be dangerous and unpredictable with more than two lanes each way.
That hasn't been mined with GPUs for years. It's all ASICs now.
>We can reach the goal without definition, but would we recognize it?

You can very easily shoot a porn, even without being able to define what is pornographic and what is not (a proverbially notoriously difficult to define thing, often times debated legally in various countries, for example "movie where sex acts are performed" or "movie meant to arouse the viewer sexually" both don't cut it).
DDOS, reporting your server/domain for TOS violations, etc.

As long as nobody cares enough to do it, it probably won’t happen.

Just never piss off the wrong person.
Just wanted to say thank you for making this point. Far too many people on this site (and in tech in general) fall into this category: https://xkcd.com/2501/

People being targeted by the NSO Group are generally very smart very educated people, but they're journalists, not digital security specialists. They may even know how to beat a tail, but they have no idea about MAC addresses. As someone who has been on both sides of the divide just "flipping a switch" is a massive upgrade to the ability for reporters and activists to keep themselves and their contacts safe.
That's not what that article says. It says that dogs have been objectively measured to have twice the number of neurons as cats. And that is speculated to mean they are roughly twice as intelligent.

With that in mind, dolphins have 2x and elephants have 3x the number of neurons as humans.
The true neglect really started showing after Adobe bought the product. And your last paragraph could also apply to a lot of HTML5 apps, especially during the "AJAX" era. People didn't care about those things (and a lot of them still don't !) regardless of the technology used.
ETH transitioning to PoS is a poison pill for all of the gpu mineable shitcoins out there.

Any gpu mineable coin will trend towards zero because they cannot support the irrational speculation any longer... unless they come up with some better use cases for usability.

There are enough home miners that either have free power and/or low capital opex requirements, such that any money earned is good money, even just a few dollars. This constant sell pressure on the market will always push things down.
Over a Russian cryptocoin? Weird spot to draw the line. Ethereum Classic is still running with billions of USD in market cap after the last fork that happened years ago. Why does anyone think this fork is anything except another way for the controllers to cash out before their scam bubble pops?
The World’s biggest bet on India
Functional Futures: Dependent Types with David Christiansen
> makes the best possible decision about the future with the information that it has available

So would a good thermostat be considered intelligent, assuming it takes great decisions? Intelligence needs to be defined with respect to a range of tasks and a range of priors. It's skill acquisition efficiency, not just taking good decisions.

I recommend "On the Measure of Intelligence" by François Chollet

>We argue that solely measuring skill at any given task falls short of measuring intelligence, because skill is heavily modulated by prior knowledge and experience: unlimited priors or unlimited training data allow experimenters to "buy" arbitrary levels of skills for a system, in a way that masks the system's own generalization power. We then articulate a new formal definition of intelligence based on Algorithmic Information Theory, describing intelligence as skill acquisition efficiency and highlighting the concepts of scope, generalization difficulty, priors, and experience.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547
Bringing house prices down either means increasing the supply or decreasing demand.

The FED only has a demand-side lever, and "decreasing demand" is exactly equivalent to "reducing affordability".

It would be nice to see more attention paid to increasing housing supply, but that is a much more complex problem, so I'm not surprised that we see less emphasis on it.
I've see a lot of sensor failure modes which that algorithm would handle poorly - complete failure, failure to notice small/light vehicles (especially motorcycles / scooters / bikes), mis-reading which lane a vehicle is in, ...

I've also seen fancy sensor-equipped traffic lights where the traffic flow was improved by a power outage turning the intersection into a (legal default) 4-way stop. Major intersections. During rush hour.
Consent-O-Matic browser extension
OpenWallet seeks to open-source your digital wallet
What about an informed "absolutely not"?
> This was originally a forum for hackers, makers and entrepreneurs. It does not seem like that anymore.

There has to be a goal insight, otherwise it's just technical virtuosism for the sake of nothing. Nobody likes technical virtuosism for the sake of nothing otherwise guitar players who can play at 2000 bpm would dominate the billboard.

Blockchain is not a young technology it was conceived in 1996, almost 30 years later the usecase it's still obscure, except the only usecase has been to create a casino in disguise.

Making regular daily tasks less painful is a goal which if it was ever there has been abandoned post the first BTC run from 1$ to 127$
One issue with this article is that it seems to assume that everybody is using a black background. I know PuTTY supported white backgrounds, because that's what I used. White background makes the blue perfectly readable; suddenly it's bright yellow that might be a problem. So anyone looking to fix terminal colours should not just pay attention to blue, or to how they look on black, but also to yellow and how it looks on white.
Turn RSS feeds into webhook events
A new SASS to consume RSS feeds, free for beta testers.
Surprisingly deep article.

A little known fact is that the coastal forests exhale fog. You can watch them breath out drifts of cloudstuff at the right time of day and weather conditions.

They are releasing moisture, but also microscopic pollen that act as the nuclei of fog/cloud droplets and actually cause condensation.

The California Coastal Commission is more important than you might realize. Keeping the coastal forest intact and operational effectively "air-conditions" the whole state to the Sierras. The Central Valley would be an oven without the coastal forests.
While that's an interesting perspective, the argument is diminished by the fact that sexual reproduction existed long before internal fertilization, so there was no "injecting" for the first 1.5 billion years of sexual reproduction.
Selecting languages based on their "Hello, world" complexity _is_ a useful metric when selecting a first programming language for the classroom. Both C and Java are inappropriate for that task: C has bookkeeping that's too easy to get wrong; Java is full of "you'll learn it when you're older" magic incantations.
> The general consensus among the small cadre of scientists who study coastal fog is that it is decreasing, not just in California, but around the world.

It’s true. The last time I saw thick fog in the city, the kind where you almost had to pull your car over because there was a chance you might hit another car, was 1989.
Roundabouts are best with a range of traffic from very sparse to intermittent. Always packed from all directions doesn't work because throughput is structurally limited and worst case wait time is infinite. It's kind of like a cloverleaf junction, very functional until you hit capacity limits, then not very functional.

In most of the Los Angeles area, there's not room to drastically expand intersections to build usable roundabouts, compressed roundabouts are even worse at throughput.

Multilane roundabouts exist, but they're tricky to navigate and would be tough to have high throughput for if most people want to continue traveling in the same direction after the intersection.
Ask HN: How to get some money on the side using my SRE and DevOps experience
Hi, I worked as a System Administrator and DevOps for last 10 years, but right now I experienced burnout and had to quit my job. My savings are running out but I still don't feel I'll be able to work full time without it detrimentally affecting my mental health.

I was thinking about doing some tutoring and did some of that for my friends studying IT, and for my mental health it seems optimal, as I like doing it and don't feel mental strain associated with doing my job. I also wrote a Linux tutorial long ago and was thinking about doing more of this as it turns out that I really like to teach, but life and full time job interfered with those plans. For those interested my tutorial is saved here: https://archive.is/xDb8o

Please tell me if you know how I can earn some money doing Linux tutoring and maybe mentoring, maybe through some companies or communities interested in that. I have a decade of experience working with Linux, FreeBSD, computers networks, and so on and so forth up to modern things and practices like Chaos Engineering, AWS, CI/CD, Ansible and so on.

Also I might be able to do some part-time jobs with load of several hours per day, if you know where I should seek for those I'd be grateful too.
Mat Dryhurst and Holly Herndon want fellow creatives to be able to opt into or out of having their work used as training data for DALL-E and the like.
Don't give AI so much credit. Humanity is perfectly capable of eliminating itself.
I was once rear-ended the pain in neck started the day after, not immediately..
Does the expression "perverse incentives" mean anything?

This argument is like energy incentives in the world were mostly fine, except that some energy was stranded and could only be picked up by Bitcoin.

For something that is supposed to "change the System" it for sure is often pitched like the System can never change. That missing (enforcement of) regulation makes it economically beneficial to just vent methane without even flaring, is not something to celebrate. It's nice that the incentives lined up decently, this time. We should work on fixing the incentives so the methane can stay in the ground where it belongs. Don't dig that well.

Say, you have access to cheap hydro power somewhere. The powerlines are not yet completed to export the electricity to where it could be more useful. Along comes a Bitcoin factory and sets up shop. Suddenly, the incentives are not in favour of ever completing that powerline, for benefits amortized over decades, when you can sell that sweet, sweet Bitcoin today.

Of course, the owners of the Bitcoin factory would never try to exert their influence and try to keep their cheap source of hydro power, or keep the methane flowing. /s

I will make sure to bring popcorn for the future culture wars between ETH and BTC, now that their incentives are so divorced.
When Women Answer the Call of Duty
> It's like Finland has suddenly shut off its power grid

So, have we observed global energy usage go down by about one Finland?

Shouldn't that be observable somehow? Shouldn't there be some power stations reducing their output as a reaction to reduced demand?

Anyone know how this would be visible, and on what kind of time frame we expect it to become visible?

I'm not claiming it hasn't happened. I just feel surprised to not see more coverage of that in this article, nor here in the comments. Energy efficiency is largely the point of this major change. Shouldn't there be graphs of the power grids everywhere showing a big drop? Maybe my expectations are just off on that.
Maybe link directly to the blog post instead of the intermediary reddit page
Thank you for the plugin removal notice.
There is one of these on a backroad near me. I wish the sensor were farther away from the intersection so I wouldn't have to come to a complete stop just as it turns green.

The general traffic is probably 95% favored to the direction I am going, and I really wish they would just leave it green until the other direction actually needs it.

Maybe they have it this way on purpose to indirectly prevent speeding? I wonder if that's a consideration for traffic light logic or not
The exact same plan appears in Neal Stephenson's recent climate scifi Termination Shock, but executed by a archetypical tech billionaire. title itself refers to the catastrophe unleashed by terminating sulfur emissions.

https://hackaday.com/2022/08/04/reduced-sulfur-emissions-cou...
I used to like Freehand.
You get one file for the whole store, not one per key. Also, it tends to better handle having lots of keys significantly better than filesystems handle lots of files in one directory.
Honestly my disappointment in the Figma team will be immeasurable if they sell out to Adobe.

You took us all to a great place and threw us to the lion. Could have had customers for life but I’ll be canceling as soon as you transition over to Adobe.

What pains me the most is they could have easily been the ones to make Adobe obsolete if they had vision and values. In 10 years it would be a Nokia VS iPhone situation with us asking how Adobe became Nokia.
Those classes teach the algorithms and how to implement them.

What they lack is:

1. how to recognize which algorithm the interviewer is expecting
2. how to present said algorithm on a whiteboard in under 30 min
3. how to speak fluently about the tradeoffs made in said whiteboard implementation
4. 'mutually agreed upon head compilation' where both you and the interviewer agree how your whiteboard code will be executed.

These are skills that you can, and should, practice to interview with large companies. Leetcode helps with 1 and 2.
Prices have rarely fallen even in bad times. It may happen again, but don’t let a loss prevent you from doing what you want.

And likely renting is a hell you don’t want to get into unless you can basically rent to family. Landlords are not loved.
Basically proving their point. We should have been more critical of the ICE too before we built our whole society around it and let it contribute to destroying our environments.
https://ethereum.org/en/energy-consumption/

- Youtube 244 TWh/year

- Gold mining 240 TWh/year

- Bitcoin 200 TWh/year

- Ethereum PoW 112 TWh / year

- Netflix 94 TWh / year

- Gaming 34 TWh / year

- Paypal 0.26 TWh / year

- Ethereum PoS 0.01 TWh / year
I spend an awful lot of time and energy investigating new complexities in order to have good arguments why we should not use them. Economically, I think this approach has been very successful. Psychologically, it's rather wearying to repeatedly answer questions from non-technical folks with variants on "that solves a problem we don't have" or "that would cost much more than what we do right now".
If it's GPLv3 licensed, then I should be able to request and get the access to the source code:

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MustSourceBuildToM...

and

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt section 6, point d
One good thing about less fog: fewer canceled flights from SFO.
Yeah, sequoia certainly doesn't shine here either, unless you call a dump of sq https://docs.sequoia-pgp.org/sq/ help screens a useful user facing documentation.

I guess it's a nice library, but it's no replacement for GnuPG. At least GnuPG has an actual user guide, FAQ, etc. with important concepts explained step by step.

As a GnuPG user, it would not be hard to switch for simplistic use cases without any specialized HW, I guess. I already know most of the concepts, but for new users,... I wish them luck with sq, lol. Documentation is pretty much nonexistent, and the web page for sq tool just links to library documentation.

Rust codebase is not everything.
Here's the full breakdown:

1. You have 100 ETH in original ETH chain in wallet A.
2. Merge occurs, and a forked POW chain appears
3. You now have 100 ETH in wallet A, and 100 ETH-POW in wallet A.
4. Generate a new wallet B (note that because the protocol for ETH and ETH-POW is identical, wallet B is valid for both ETH and ETH-POW).
5. Transfer 100 ETH from wallet A to wallet B (on POS chain).
6. Observe both wallets on both chains:
Scenario A: There is no replay in ETH-POW:
- You have 100 ETH in Wallet B
- You have 100 ETH-POW in Wallet A
Scenario B: Your ETH transaction is replayed on ETH-POW
- You have 100 ETH in Wallet B
- You have 100 ETH-POW in Wallet B

In scenario A, you are free to do whatever you want with the 100 ETH-POW in wallet A -- either move it to an exchange that supports the ETH-POW chain, or continue using the ETH-POW chain. There is no risk of replay because wallet A on the POS chain is already empty.

In scenario B, you still have both 100 ETH and 100 ETH-POW in wallet B which you control. Write off the 100 ETH-POW because the risk of interacting with it is likely much greater than any value the coins in that chain have.

In both scenarios, your 100 ETH is safe and controlled by you.
Bonus points for having a Scala SDK!