skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I google, tealdear, "--help", and manpage anything I don't use at least once a week, every time. Usually I don't remember them otherwise, and if I think I do, I don't trust my memory that well. Only exception is if I remember enough to be able to ctrl+r them out of shell history faster than I can do those things—and actually, for some of those, I do use them often, but couldn't possibly tell you how because I only run a couple commands 99% of the time and always pull them out of history unless it's one of the rare exceptional cases—I couldn't rsync for a particular outcome without consulting a reference, to save my life, even though I use it often.

And usually you only use a fairly small set of tools that often, in any job, and which set will depend on the employer, how things are set up, and what exactly you're doing.

Oh and somehow I get "-r" versus "-R" for "recursive" wrong almost every time, even for commands I type almost daily, unless I check first. It's weird. If tools could get on the same damn page about which means "recursive", that'd be great.

TL;DR I do have a pretty good idea what I'm doing, but look like an absolute idiot if anyone watches me do it. Much worse, even, if I know they're watching and we're not in some kind of relatively high-trust relationship (so, definitely not in an interview setting).
I'm 32, drink 6 coke zeros a day and have a 6 pack. I also eat mcdonalds on occasion and have a candy bar every now and then as well. Just make sure to balance it out with copious amounts of water
Who knows? My first score in 10th grade without any specific SAT prep made me eligible for the only well known school I applied for my senior year - Georgia Tech. By the time I was doing specific prep for the SAT in 12th grade, that was only to get the award for the highest SAT score.

By the time I started prepping , I had already accepted a scholarship for a local college with the plan on doing joint enrollment after 3 years.

I didn’t do that either. I was tired of college after three years and just graduated the next year and started working. I didn’t really care about GT.
Many home owners can wait if their plans are flexible.

But taking it at face value, selling when prices are high is often a net-zero since you have to buy back into the same hot market (likewise, selling in a cold market can make sense if you want to upgrade into the same cold market). Selling in a hot market is only a net win for investment properties or second/third homes, and those people often can wait out cold markets (but sometimes they are leveraged like crazy and can't!).
> Python and JS are basically the same language in terms of semantics.

Python is dynamic class-based OO with multiple inheritance. JS is dynamic prototypical OO, though it has recently added convenience syntax implementing single-inheritance class-based OO on top of it.

They are not the same.
Is the end user actually the market this is aimed at? All we really know is that 5G and the Intel ME are endeavors that are expected to make a profit. But who wants this enough to pay for it? Someone does. If not the mass market consumer, then who?
Figuring out the rules for contributions is definitely a challenge, but should not be up to a tool like MTE to solve as it depends on too many variables. Each project should have its own rules and grow to reward equitably its contributors.

We definitely plan to contribute to this, and even propose flexible guidelines for projects to base their estimates on.
When I heard that facebook was buying oculus I honestly believed that it was a terrible idea and that it would ruin what VR can be in a soulless, dirty, ugly corporate cashgrab that made no sense and that was ill-guided, ill-intended, and hopeless.

I had no idea that they would completely fail to do a cashgrab and instead make the entire experience either so expensive or so terrible that no one would want to participate in it.
Yea something like this makes sense...

race conditions during migrations are the biggest concern.... You do not want a client with a connection to server they will never receive a message on.
Take home tests create a perverse incentive, live coding interviews don't.

Specifically, a company can blast out a bajillion take home tests to a bajillion candidates for one position without a care in the world, but for live coding interviews it requires their own employee's time, so they're incentivized to only do it with candidates they're serious about.
you can only have 24h of attention in a day, and not many days consecutively before you have to pay attention to your dreams (sleep).

money, OTOH, has a near unlimited supply. and when you come close to have it all you can persuade the Fed to print some more.

attention != money
The Phantom Surfers Pen Rock Stardom for Dumbshits
You've reminded me of the story of the Zen master and the little boy from Charlie Wilson's War.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2cjVhUrmII&t=0m38s
Lack of electricity is a cyberattack too.
If you use credit card(s), the card provider MAY be able to help with chargeback, but that depends entirely on their policy.
Some aspects of 5G are sensible in that they take advantage of improving hardware to use spectrum more efficiently: denser encoding, full-duplex radios, etc.

Some of it, like beam steering that tracks moving devices, which is going to be challenging to make it work in real world cases, and using spectrum that makes it hard to penetrate inside cars and buildings, is a reach nobody asked for.

Some seems greed driven, like "If we can convince AWS customers they need to put computing at the network edge we (telcos) will capture some of the value AWS accumulates now."

As for your 4G network, that's what we call 5Ge now.
Also a bit remarkable is that your social security number (personnummer) is not only used to identify you with official and government services, but also with every company you might have a customer account with. It consists of your birthdate and 4 numbers (which some people use as their pin code on their devices).

On the other hand there's 2FA: when identifying to a service (like when calling customer support) you're asked for your personnummer, after which you have to open an app on your smartphone to verify with a 6 digit pin code.

The trust in eachother went pretty far apparently, where garage sales sometimes just meant an open barn with a notice. Things for sale would have the price + an account number to make the payment to. (But haven't come across this myself yet, times are changing)
> Maybe it isn't, maybe you're correct, but the practical effect of ignoring tests is to penalise good parenting

“Good parenting” == “being able to pay for private tutors for little Timmy”?

Just like a “good software engineer” == “someone willing to ‘grind LeetCode’ for six months?

(And just in case someone replies that I’m just upset because I couldn’t “get into a FAANG”, yes I work for one now. No I didn’t do the LeetCode grind or the DS&A interview. Yes, I’m in an IDE coding most days doing the same type of work I’ve been doing for almost three decades)
Not to diminish anything about the story, but he had a pilot chute and a tangled main chute while falling, lowering terminal velocity and allowing him to land feet first. The rest is up to luck, like landing in turbulent water with lowered surface tension. To be fair, there are several stories of survival even without anything to slow the fall out there.
It’s a typo. Was supposed to say 10.
At 350Bn market cap, I assume this is just Apple taking a pop at Meta before they put forward their acquisition offer.../s
Fully automated robocalls are… just not a thing here. There are some phone salespeople but personally I don't think I've got more than a single digit amount of calls per year.
True government is restrained by US and State Constitutions. HOAs can fine you for painting your house the wrong shade of blue.

Just because there are elections doesn't make it a fair system.
I mean, Apple has done this repeatedly with their top of the line machines. Think the stage light issue compounded by the absurd decision to permanently connect a $7 cable to a $800 display panel or the butterfly keyboard.

Or my friend who went to 3 different Apple stores to ask about her issues using Final Cut and all of them telling her she needed a new laptop to the point that she bought a brand new 16" MacBook Pro she couldn't afford... when all she needed was a USB-C external SSD and to work on her larger projects from there. Luckily I talked to her about it and loaned her mine before she'd opened the new laptop so she returned it.
Glad to help! Feel free to shoot an email if you want to chat or throw ideas around about this or other issues you may be facing as a new CTO. The address is on my profile.
On a "functional" lambda calculus computer, everything is a function, including

0 = \x y. x
1 = \x y. y

> The problem is that there are lots of totally arbitrary ways of encoding different objects as binary strings

Many different objects do have natural encodings as functions though, such as Church numerals for non-negative integers.
"Correcting the record" isn't inherently malicious, and a company attacking something does not indicate a likely cover up. That reasoning is overly cynical and fallacious. I'm no fan of corporations or overlarge industries (and their respective lobbyists), but the way I see them is like large organisms. They are neither good nor evil, simply consumed by self-preservation and the drive to thrive.
Congratulations on the launch

> Passwordless access to apps and infrastructure

...

> Next, we added a password vault.

Isn't this just moving the passwords out of something known-and-trusted like 1P and into your cloud, versus "passwordless"?

Also, I see a lot of these entrants into this space talk about SSH, but we don't use SSH for _anything_ here, and and are a 100% kubernetes shop. What's the plan for granting users access to kubernetes?
It might help to consider this irony:

* point 4 from the post is "Most people don’t want to go to work. They just don’t know what else to do."

* your question above is "what should one do other than work?"

One interpretation of point 4 from the linked article could be phrased as "Nobody really knows what they would even do with their life without work". What if the points in the article are considered as an aspiration or future state rather than something you manifest immediately _right now_?

You can change your mind in an instant and commit to either generating cash flow from a business or real estate, or more passive income via investments in financial securities like stocks and bonds.

While the mindset change is a prerequisite, action and compounding take time. You can live the ideas behind principles of the points today in an instant, but it may take many years to actually realize the actual state described in the article.

There are many resources that seem to mix in with the career/finance/income points made in the article. For example, in the US-centric book "Set For Life" Scott Trench advances the theory that one should:

* build a $25k buffer/fund
* use that safety net to take swings at cashflow opportunities

While I don't really even subscribe to that, there are many, many avenues that have worked for different people. It's probably worth exploring which one appeals the most to you if you'd like that sort of radical change.

Even investing a salary towards FIRE goals is a HUGE mental leap vs. the status quo if taken seriously.
Your saying is true. It all depends on if the supply holds out.
> Most applicants don't even do this.

> A simple formula for this essay is:

Sounds like a perfect job for a talented ghost writer. The problem with college websites is that only maybe 5% of is actually useful for essay writing. The rest is meaningless generic fluff. College tours allow you to experience some quirks of the school that you can sprinkle in to make your essay more interesting.

>Ghost-written essays also come across as shallow unless the parents also pay off teachers to write recommendation letters that corroborate the BS

You're comparing strong student with a modest background to a weak student from a privledged background. For students of equal ability, privledged ones have much better access to resources for writing a good essay. As far a recommendations go, that's also highly biased towards elite private schools. They have much smaller class sizes, so students are able to form much closer relationships with their teachers and teachers can write more personalized rec letters.

I suspect that you're greatly overestimating your BS-detecting abilities, which makes sense because you'd otherwise be hopelessly paranoid and cynical. My wife used to work part-time editing essays at a large college-consulting service, and it definitely helps. For example, simply by writing a lot of essays, you gain an intuition about how much you're able to BS without sounding fake. On their own, students are much more likely to overshoot or undershoot.

As far as my personal experience goes, my approach towards college essays was to write raw, avant-garde essays that obviously signal my personality. My writing skills weren't strong enough to make this work, but I could rely on the adults around me, a few of whom were alum at prestigious universities to refine the drafts into something that was actually coherent. I definitely couldn't have done this if I were from a poorer background.
Astronomers find a “cataclysmic” pair of stars with the shortest orbit yet
Taurid meteors in 2022: All you need to know
I don't think the comparison with solar is particularly useful and would always need to be made on a site by site basis. But it is true that some sites have better wind resource than solar. A better comparison is with the limitations of traditional turbines.

Compared to a traditional turbine this design could eliminate shadow flicker, reduce structural loading on the roof, have different safety margins, increase the number of generators that can be placed and reduce visual impact. And they may have found a way to do that whilst maintaining a relatively large swept area. That is key as power output scales relative to swept area rather than height.

I am usually sceptical about vertical axis but this seems more interesting than most designs. It could be a good fit for commercial buildings if installation is simple enough. And maybe could be placed temporarily on agricultural land during winter. And you could see the concept being applied in other ways such as with sun shields on buildings.
So... you're saying someone could (but not necessarily will) save us using RISC-V. Seems like a necessary precondition to it.
> What’s wrong with strict typing and ahead of time compilation as long as it compiles fast? Doesn’t this prevent many runtime errors that can occur in Python?

Nothing, as long as the compilation is fast. C++ compilation is not fast. The large C++ projects I've worked on over the last few years, compilation is bordering on 2 hours for a full build, and 10-60s for incremental builds. At one point, incremental changes were taking 15 minutes to link at one point (resolved by [0]). Go is a great example of fast compilation and strict typing IMO.

[0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/improved-linker-funda...
Another possibility: men have higher variation in performance than women. Even if the male mean were lower, a greater standard deviation would swamp that effect at the high end.
> Have you built a successful growing software firm?

Yes, three times.

> Does your software systems scale to Millions?

Is 8m active users per day enough?

> What about counterfactuals?

A broken clock is correct twice a day. Not sure what you are wanting here.

> I'm sure someone working in IBM, TCS, AT&T, Booz can all claim that they have been hiring people for 3-decades and give an opinion

I don't work for them.
Perhaps, but the quadratic formula only takes a minute to learn, so you can't expect it to yield as much as a day of shed building.

Also, NOT knowing the quadratic formula will make it much harder to solve hundreds of other math related problems. And the same is of course true for most of fundamental math knowledge.

But whatever you may think about the usefulness of mathematics, I can assure you that it's not a giant conspiracy to siphon money from tax payers. Every math teacher you can find (anyone in a STEM field, really) is 100% genuinely convinced that mathematics is extremely useful in a multitude of ways. They could of course all be mistaken, and devwastaken have seen the truth, but I don't think that is very likely.
TPP exists as the CPTPP, which is nearly the same entity, except without US. It does not include China, and never will if Japan has any say.
That study is from France and doesn't mention the pervasive nature (in fact it shows some areas/groups don't have problems). Do you have one from the US? I'm particularly interested in one that has data to back up your "pervasive" claim.
Zillow lays off 300 employees in latest workforce shift
The US didn't become a powerful state until the Constitution was amended to ban slavery.

The Confederacy, for example, was militarily and economically a very weak state. It couldn't even supply shoes to its soldiers. It was unable to pierce the blockade on them by the Union. And so on.
> . It honestly was weird coming from a country where knowing the social security number alone lets you take over someone's life and as such is highly regulated and locked down

I guess that's better than the US where the SSN can take over someone's life and is completely unregulated and not at all locked down
>If this was true, how do you explain backyard cookouts, pool parties, trick-or-treating, or Christmas present exchanges?

How do you explain why you get to determine the guest list?
Even worse than that: people in construction will change career paths, and apprentices won't enter the industry for the next 5-10 years leading to a dearth of experience when it comes time to build houses again.
> the windows partition was using hardware-bitlocker

That sounds way too exciting, even without that involved I keep my Windows install on its own disk.
I find it strange that nobody here brings up the option of renting out your house instead of selling when you have to. If the mortgage is fully or even mostly covered by the rent, you can usually do that. In fact it would usually be sufficient if the interest is covered. The only exception would be divorce, unless both parties can agree.
» The short answer is that the only legal way is to apply for protected identity ... since it requires your life to be threatened

Relatively simple way to get protected identity is to cross certain religion. Become apostate, publish nasty comics etc.. There were some nasty cases and police provides some level of protection, without too much questioning.

Don't ask me for details.
Sure, but statistically, survival rate from falls above a certain height are about the same. I think it is as low as 10 meter. A fall from that height will most likely kill you.
This could also be Titled: Allocating memory once is faster than allocating memory more than once
> Aeromine said unlike conventional wind turbines that are noisy, visually intrusive, and dangerous to migratory birds, the patented system is motionless and virtually silent.

I've been a supporter of wind energy for 30 years and it's my favorite generation source. I want to believe the claims of this company, but the above quote is activating my spidey senses. Conventional wind turbines are not a serious threat to birds. According to Homebrew Wind Power by Dan Bartmann and Dan Fink, here are the causes of bird fatalities per 10000 fatalities (page 28):

5500 Buildings / Windows
1000 Cats
1000 Other
800 Power Lines
700 Vehicles
700 Pesticides
250 Communication Towers
<1 Wind Turbines

Many other sources agree.

Any wind turbine company will know this. For one to spread this lie makes me doubt their other claims. I hope they're right about price per watt but I have serious doubts.

That said, I would LOVE to have affordable grid-tied residential wind to complement my rooftop solar. It's not an easy problem to solve.
My most recent FAANG job (this year) was a total of 3 interviews (~45 min each), plus an optional reach out from the hiring manager's boss who simply wanted to know if the process was going well and if I had any questions.

Add in a couple of convos with the internal recruiter and the negotiation session, and I was still under 3 hours over the course of a week or 2. Completely not unreasonable..
I don't think phone numbers are quite _as_ searchable as other information. I get fewer spam calls here than I did in Australia. A few years ago a phone provider called me and actually offered a really good mobile deal, which I'm still on. Another time I had some kind of survey company call. I think there's been a couple more over the last decade, but it's a rare occurrence.

Re scam calls - luckily never gotten one of those in Sweden or elsewhere.
What if the computer is an Amiga? Or the Apollo 13 computer?
Google is having its worst day since March 2020
> Last laugh: I ended up doing a short consulting stint there several years later and took more off them in a couple of weeks than the annual salary they'd failed to meet.

This is still a dream of mine. I'd like to pull this off somehow. The answer is apparently not "Fiverr" or "Upwork".
Niue
I used to flag duplicates from the new page, but realized it goes nowhere. Maybe a different flag to downgrade dupes?
I don't think licensing is the only reason people hate Oracle. They have at the very best a mixed record when it comes to open source they've acquired. While they've done pretty well by Java and virtualbox after some initial missteps, other software such as Open office, MySQL, Solaris, ZFS, KSplice, etc has not faired nearly so well...
Johnnyguru Archive
Almost, except Prop 19, which allows you to transfer your property tax valuation under Prop 13 to a new property to allow people to downsize in retirement.
How is it distinct? They're enslaved abroad! That doesn't make it any less slavery than if they were enslaved in their home countries.
Not mentioned is that the full test sqlite test suite is proprietary and you need a super expensive sqlite foundation membership to get access to it. That means (unless you get that membership), your patched/forked version will be less extensively tested than the official version. So sqlite is in reality very difficult to fork. Sqlite is very solid, but bugs do sometimes show up in it despite all that testing, and more relevantly, some bugs in development are presumably caught by the testing, which outsiders don't have access to.

I'm somewhat leery of hacking on sqlite for this reason. It seems to me like a good candidate for RiiR.
ClickHouse: Building for Fast
That's nice but do you think the benefits of not allowing editing make sense on the overall and makes sense in the current configuration.

Of the top of my head it promotes a continuous coherent narrative not full of annoying deletions and comments that don't differ wildly from original posts. No posting something incredibly inflammatory, waiting for the conflagration, and then replacing original post with something milder.

On the other hand I have definitely posted something from my phone and cursed when I realized I couldn't fix a typo or decided something could have been communicated better.

It feels like the edit window could at least be a little longer.
I am still absolutely baffled that publicly funded science is allowed to be put behind a paywall by a for-profit corporation. In my country most professors are paid by the state, their work should be free to use by the public.

I am pretty glad that in some areas (e.g. math with arxiv) papers can just be published freely, without nonsense corporate peer-review and freely accessible to anyone.
I don't see the benefit of this except in extreme memory confined areas which are probably not the best place for a object/buffer pool anyway