skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume you were flustered by that point due to a previous interview, and feeling a little frustrated or defeated. I've been there, when I think it's not going well but they still want to talk.

Nevertheless, it appears to me that those were setup questions for his real problem to figure out how to explain it. If you had approached it with a more open mind, you may have gotten the job. You would have at least heard the question.

I know that most people here hate the Google-style algorithm problem, but I think the question he was going to ask would be about computing the nth prime or counting the primes less than k.

I will also point out that many people who know nothing about number theory know that there are infinite prime numbers. It's not necessarily redundant.
Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System
Kate Beaton must have a brilliant publicist. Over the past few weeks there’s been a “Ducks” blitz in the outlets I follow: email newsletters, websites, magazines. “Ducks” even made the front pages of Ars Technica and HN despite no obvious tech connection.

I’m sure it’s a quality work and I actually look forward to reading it. But I’d also like to read the companion piece by her agency:

“The Making of Ducks — how we got people who read about GPUs to care about a comic set in Alberta”
Yes it is, and extensions for Brave are installed through the Chrome Web Store, as are extensions for other chromium based browsers like Edge. There's no escaping the manifest v3 event horizon for extension developers.
I can confidently say the app drawing up a blank reduced my HN usage by 90% : )

Thanks a ton for the quick update.
They are differentiated when you evaluate them as an administrator/requester. Reporting, integrations and cloud storage handling narrow competition to the few pricier options available.
Only because you asked, these are available on Amazon Prime, USA made, and are well reviewed:

Freebase: https://www.amazon.com/RoboTablets-suppressant-Dextromethorp... (note: 130% HBr strength)

HBr Salt: https://www.amazon.com/RoboHBr-Cough-suppressant-Dextrometho...

Special note for anyone considering messing with the stuff: If you are on SSRIs or MAOIs, it can literally kill you, so be careful and do your homework.
This article has a sensationalist headline, but it reiterates the old thought — that everything began in the Middle East.

Several other regions of the world have extremely rich traditions, oral traditions of literature, predating by centuries events of the Middle East.
Pretty simple: I just got a job here. A job comes with a work visa. There's lots of places where you can get jobs with local companies that will sponsor a visa for you. Then usually, after living in the new country for a while, you're able to apply for permanent residency. Given that this is HN and many people here work in tech, the tech industry in many countries is just as desperate for competent workers as in the US.
It is for us, too, it's just that it doesn't quite go far enough.

But once this is established, it will be easier to build on it.
Does anyone read books anymore? I recently went to the university Library I went to 15yrs back and I was shocked to see how few students were reading books. Most were on their laptops presumably reading from e books.
> Any Americans want to posit a reason why?

2 things. 1) Covid / social distancing fucked up everyone's interpersonal skills. So if you're driving towards a pedestrian or cyclist, people are like "fuck it, they deserve to die if they're in my way." 2) It's currently the "style" to have pedestrian-killing bull bars on your truck. People think they look cool, but it just crushes the pedestrian you hit into a paste instead of pushing them up and over your hood.

1 is probably hard to fix. 2 should just be made illegal instantly. I get if you drive your pickup truck on a farm, or are regularly participating in high speed chases as a police officer, they might come in handy (?), but if you're driving around in the city commuting to your desk job, you don't need 'em. It just turns "we broke every bone in that poor pedestrian's body" into "he's dead, Jim". Absolutely no need for that; if we want to keep cars around, we need to design them to do minimal damage to the other road users they hit while their drivers are drunk. It might not look cool, but even better than looking cool is not murdering other people.
> An app downloading data on behalf of the user is basically what Cambridge Analytica was doing.

That's half of it. Is the app sending the data back to the app makers? If not then it's extremely different.
Would the have to pay millions for the covidsafe leaks?

I mean I hope the Government goes after that Service NSW Data Breach too. Would be cool to see huge fines put to them. Would I get some of my tax back for that?

People should 100% sue, but that the Gov says anything is laughable.

"We are outraged.".. "Didn't you have a breach last year?".. "I said we are outraged. Don't look over there. Look over here."
Dismantling a couple hundred wind turbines seems like a significantly easier job than dismantling a nuclear power plant. You also don't need state-funded insurance against catastrophic failure for wind turbines. Normal insurance can be bought.
That's a potential privacy violation.

Distinguishing "it violates privacy" and "it could violate privacy if the code was changed" is not naive.
As crazy as it sounds, getting a conventional (as opposed to eVTOL) aircraft in the air is easier than replacing the fuel thousands of legacy aircraft engines.
By that logic, every employee of Apple/Google/Meta or at least the ones working on related projects should be handled a fine every time Apple/Google/Meta gets fined by the EU for breaking the law/abusing its position? The are violating the law after all.
Could you elaborate? I can't find anything there that would prevent a Thompson-style backdoor.
I understand that, I had been under the impression there was also legislation requiring telcos to verify customer identity (so you couldn't have an anonymous phone plan, or easily have one under a false identity). But I can't seem to find it, or it may not have been real to begin with.
The Schleitheim Confession (1527; translated 1977)
Well in this case the no-car neighborhood's houses are 1/3 the price of normal houses due to a weird law. I wonder how much that contributes to the waitlist.
I disagree. No one has the right to use facebook/twitter/etc as they wish, or even at all. They're not necessary for modern western society. SMS and phone calls are always an option. We aren't like China where if you don't have WeChat you can't do anything.
Eh, I imagine the protocols in place all around the world limit any initial response to only match the incoming threat’s size and scope, with a framework in place to allow politics to decide whether or not to escalate with more force. So if Russia nuked a small village along the Rocky Mountains just to show ‘we can’, I don’t see the US sending anything huge to a populous area or Russia.
I think being a sycophant is rarely a good long term strategy. More importantly, I don’t think it’s an ethical one.
Weird that for such event they don't send a proper letter
I just need you to fix the typo on the site - "lightening" and "lightning" are really different things.
Sure, there's a risk there. But it should be my choice whether or not to accept that risk, not Meta's.
You have a strange definition of proxy. That would make the official app a proxy too, wouldn't it?
I don't see how to conclude that from my logic.

An equivalent one is a company not allowing Google employees to use their services for whatever reason. That's fine and acceptable.
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The moving finger stop was a feature of the Trimline dial phone.[1] It allows making the dial slightly smaller. On most dial phones, there's a large gap between the 1 and 0 holes. On Trimlines, and this new thing, there is no gap. Without that moving finger stop, you get a dial handset like this AT&T prototype: [2] That was called "the Schmoo".[3] Huge bulge in the middle of the handset.

The moving finger stop also appeared in 1960s versions of the Lineman's Test Set (the "butt set", usually hung from a tool belt), where the dial was on the back of the earpiece.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimline_telephone

[2] https://www.bellsystemmemorial.com/images/dl/misc/schmoo.jpg

[3] https://www.bellsystemmemorial.com/telephones-trimline-artic...
Which is why security via corporate checkboxes _decreased_ security. "We verify the company address by having someone physically check it" sounds great on paper (the currency of C levels), but everyone else understands that this means you won't be renewing rotating it as often.
Thank you for replying David A. Wheeler. Posts and feedback from professionals like you are what make HN great, despite the community's many (rather annoying) short-comings.
Most websites don't bother with antiadblock because current adblock can handle that. Once most people are using crippled ad blockers that can't bypass antiadblock, they'll implement the antiadblock.
I don't see how the piloting problem could be solved with software. These new VTOL aircraft are going to have to be in the same airspace as other light aircraft flying under VFR. How are they going to see and avoid without a licensed pilot? Cameras aren't good enough yet in adverse lighting conditions.
Yeah, some of those designs look pretty bad. The solution in London at busy intersections is to have separate signals for cyclists and turning motor traffic. Turning traffic will have a red light while cycle traffic has green and vice-versa.

At smaller intersections without signals, the turning motorist is responsible for looking for (and giving way to) cycle traffic before turning across the cycle lane.
Yes, FydeOS is a ChromiumOS fork with their own login server and Android support. They recently open-sourced their base build (including Pi image overlay) on OpenFyde.io
Nobody in my wider family drives. But I remember 4 accidents. 2 as passengers in a car, which is already very rare in a family without cars. 2 hit by cars breaking traffic law when cycling. Nothing overly dramatic happened, but still.

Most of my relatives and friends have been in car accidents. 2 friends of friends even deadly.

Germany, too.

Edit: My active memory is around 50 years.
Doesn't seem like a valid analogy to me. Access to an API isn't the same thing as intentionally accessing a paid service for free.

If someone writes an app that somehow bypasses needing a Netflix account and lets you stream video from them without paying them. That would be analogous. The intent would be to illegitimately access a paid service.

Using a third party client with a valid account to access API endpoints that respond to that account. I don't see a problem with that. I don't care what the ToS says. It should not be legal to disallow that in a ToS. It also shouldn't be legal to intentionally obfuscate your APIs.

Third party clients are okay and attempting to block them is morally wrong and should not be legal.
SMS didn’t disappear. You just have to pay for it with money.

WhatsApp also isn’t the only IM on the market. If you want to use it, you have to use it on their terms.I didn’t like the terms so I dont use it. I prefer paying Apple upfront with money instead of paying other companies with my privacy and attention.
Will anyone ever again be as famous as Marilyn and Elvis?
It would of course have been better for the climate to turn off the coal plants first, but it's fallacious to judge the cost of different electricity sources by the retail price of electricity.
I guessed Pacific Coast Highway, but i actually had a worse time biking everywhere in california on Imperial Highway.

I live in Central Louisiana now, and while i loved the health benefits of biking, i will never bike in louisiana. There is no infrastructure at all for anyone except motorists anywhere except a 4 block area downtown.
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Probably because literally every single friend and family member of mine is on there and sharing their entire life there (and messaging me) and I can't take part in that. I said in another comment that once a platform provides that degree of communication, certain rights to protect the users should be applicable, to ensure we are able to participate in society without onerous cost to our mental health, dignity or privacy.
FAA has approved G100UL though. Now it is just a matter of scaling up + distribution.
LeCun: Most of today's AI approaches will never lead to true intelligence
Please note that it doesn't work on current versions. One of the maintainers said back in July that they were working on a new exploit chain to be release in a month, but no news after that.
I really wish all the money that gets funneled into trying to re-invent travel (self-driving buses, hyper-loop, boring company, this, etc) could get invested into developing competent American public transit networks based on technology that already exists.
Great, I'd love that
What if your neighbor lends you a book, subject to the condition that you only read it to your sons, not your daughters? Are you stealing if you read it to your daughters anyway?
Maybe if there's a model with sensor data, they can implement two way communication through clenches? Just need to make sure to avoid having gassy food for lunch or else you might end up miscommunicating a bit.
This talks about surviving written literature.
Re: the phrase I don't see colour. Do you have a reference or link for that research? That dovetails elegantly into something I'm dealing with right now.
If Software Freedom Conservancy win their lawsuit against Vizio for GPL violations in their TVs, you will probably be able to install open source Linux distros with KDE Plasma Bigscreen or Kodi on any Vizio TV and soon afterwards lots of other smart TV vendors including Samsung will likely be similar. Allowing the vendor operating system to remain on the device after you purchase it basically means ads/spyware these days.

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
The trouble isn't renting those GPUs but it was finding that number of GPUs closely connected to each other for the duration of the training process.

The founder said that this is not quite as possible with most public clouds and that it is easier to buy the GPUs.
> should have to talk through properly secured APIs

I don't follow what you mean by this. The API endpoints that a company provides ought to be secured properly. In practice they might or might not be but obviously they ought to be.

I don't see what that has to do with third party clients though. A third party client is stuck interacting with whatever API the company provides, however secure or insecure it might be.
It's HN, don't.
In this case the risk you take doesn't matter (though I argue from a security standpoint this is something you should really care about in any argument around Meta), it's the risk Meta takes by allowing it. Because if the company takes your data and runs, Meta is the one also on the hook for not securing their APIs. If it turns out they're farming passwords from users to sell to whatever group ultimately the class action lawsuit will come out with knives facing Meta.

Like this is a security problem, straight up. I would hope that you can agree on this and that not securing your API is bad.
We don't know if they will be cheaper. You can go buy a new helicopter today and take delivery within a few months. But none of these eVTOL aircraft are even close to obtaining FAA certification, let alone available for purchase.
Sit down, put your head between your knees, kiss your ass goodbye.
>...near SF, which I hope isn't a target in such a war

You are talking about a city right on the coast, a top-20 most populated in the country, representing the tech center of the nation. Why wouldn't it make the cut?
Pretty classic problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-of-check_to_time-of-use

Similar assumptions about filesystems fail if they do data compression or dedupe files - you can easily overestimate how much space something is taking.
If Software Freedom Conservancy win their lawsuit against Vizio for GPL violations in their TVs, and similar lawsuits reach LG webOS TVs, then RootMyTV will be helpful for replacing the LG webOS with open source Linux distros with Kodi or KDE Plasma Bigscreen. Allowing the vendor operating system to remain on the device after you purchase it basically means ads/spyware these days.

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
Should Meta also ban users who connect to their services from GrapheneOS, since it could be updated to steal all of your application data in the future?
Not sure what's wrong here?

You fuel the monopoly, you suffer the consequences. You have no real power against them and you still actively support them by creating tools for them. PSGWSP.
Considering that GitHub actions provide no arm64 runners at this stage, this could be extremely useful for some of my projects.

So when I build a project on GitHub actions, I simply add a `platforms: linux/amd64,linux/arm64` line to the Docker build & push action. This takes care of pushing the multi-arch build to GHCR for me. Would it be as straightforward in Depot as well? Or would modifying the image manifest be my only option?
All wonderful. Except the anticheat doesn't work and only active moderation stops the game from being ruined.
They are generally the most expensive, and people buy. The brand has value.

They have customers whose products/services call into Docusign APIs at dozens of locations. It's sticky.
And Oakland is a major port.
Not weighing in on the conclusions here, merely wanted to say that I don't think the island is as small as the author makes it out to be.

The dead outnumber the living by about 15:1.
Top Tech Companies and Startups in Silicon Valley 2022
Almost every bike lane near me is like this. Just randomly fucking ends with no notice, dumping you onto a 4 lane divided highway. Or has you weaving in and out of traffic between cars in the far lane and the turn lane. Or there's parking to the left of the bike lane, and people park in the bike lane (never ticketed, of course) instead of the designated parking area with plenty of room. Or there are cars parked to the right of the bike lane that you must watch very carefully in case a door suddenly opens in your path. Or there's just a bike painted onto the shoulder (2.5 feet wide shoulder) where all the rocks, broken glass, and other debris accumulate. The worst offender I've seen is a set of sharrows in downtown that leads you directly onto a highway that legally cyclists are not allowed on (they certainly couldn't ride there safely), and terminate after you're already beyond the point of no return down the one-way on-ramp. If you didn't know better, you could end up in real trouble.

If it weren't so frustrating it would be comical.
This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

If you don't think sites have a fundamental right to push ads to sustain themselves (as I don't), then blocking the request is the best place to do it for performance reasons.

But even if you do believe in that right - the site and advertiser care about a single thing: a human being seeing the ad. Serving the Ad request is not just useless for their purpose, it is actively costing them money, and potentially muddling their data.
I wonder how well they'd scale if they became wide-spread enough to actually be an alternative to ground-based transportation. Would there need to be a complicated air-traffic control network to prevent collisions? Would there be "flying roads" complete with their own traffic jams like in the jetsons? Would popular destinations have long queues of vehicles waiting for their turn to land on the helipad?
Yes, and it will be self-driving, but the entire windshield and console will be replaced with a giant TV screen playing unmutable ads.

If you pay extra, you can have a "limited ad" experience, and see a virtual view out the windshield or even play content from partner subscription services.
The only winning move for sure. Living inside a major population center (near major military bases!) means that if bombs were really falling, I would be vaporized or fatally irritated in the opening salvo.
I don't know, because that's not a real agreement, unlike the hotel waffle maker and Instagram's client rules.
63-year-old denial of climate change cost the world $220B in 2021
True - my point being that some of these UK companies are tackling more complex problems by methodically breaking them down.
I don't think that's how it works. Unless you install a library like typeguard python doesn't do runtime type validation
> The big fear isn't being a target. There are very few areas that would not be completed irradiated by substantial fallout taken by the winds. Airbursts would magnify this effect.
It's safe to assume that in any real cook off everyone is dead. Some immediately, some a little later. Those that do survive will likely starve because the land will be unusable.

None of this has happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Today, the number of nukes in existence is entirely inadequate to actually render land unusable. You are doomposting without having good grasp on what exactly nuclear weapons do, their scale, and scale of the landmass.
The right way to win a nuclear exchange is to use your nukes on your own population while EMP + dirty bombing your opponent.

You spare your citizens the horror of what a nuclear winter + global fallout catastrophe will look like, while ensuring your enemy suffers through it.
That's interesting. Might you or someone else be able to say what was the catalyst for this change in mission? What happened between 2015 and 2018?
Is NewPipe a "ripoff" too?
I don't think the CEO has direct knowledge of the companies security and the only method of control is to hire who they think is the best CTO. Then the same for the CTO and whomever he hires, etc. The general attitude I've seen is that you hire someone below you and put nearly 100% trust in them, they are in control. Anything else is considered just inappropriate, like micromanagement for example.

"Nobody wants to be the CEO at the helm when a successful company was ruined"

Are successful people really concerned about pride? I always thought it was money and I'm not being sarcastic. I tried to find some data to back this up but couldn't. However as an anecdotal example Henry Ford II was the CEO/chairman/president from 1945 to 1980. This includes the period where the Ford Pinto (70-80) existed and received huge amounts of negative press. It's also when imports were started to take a major toll on American car manufactures (late 70s) The only reason he retired was the mandatory retirement age at Ford.

To fix this I think we need to ignore punishments for now and focus on prevention. A government agency, funded by fees, should do yearly audits on companies that have more than X users or some other variable to confirm compliance.

And yes, Boeing has this but they were too chummy with the regulators and this and that. Even though it's not perfect it's a first step. We can fix the problems similar to what came about in the aerospace industry later.
If the last few years have showed us anything it’s that there are not protocols in place or a grand plan to save us all.
-a sound (ะ) isn't dropped in Thai in most case. It's only dropped in specific cases, mostly from words with Pali/Sanskrit origin.