skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I inherited a library's source code via an escrow process back in the 90s when the vendor went out of business. It was written in C and came with no documentation. It took a while to get the thing to build and understand where all the pieces were, but it wasn't too bad after that initial ramp up. I ended up maintaining that code for many years, doing everything from porting from x.25 to tcp/ip to making changes to the application layer protocol to keep up with industry changes.

My favorite memory was a comment I found buried in an exception handling section of code:
/* We would like to think that this would work well */

All in all, the escrow process was worth it for us as it was a critical piece of functionality that would have been difficult to replace otherwise.
Your house isn't also accessible by anyone in the world, anywhere, at any time. People who complain about this stuff conveniently ignore that a massive amount of traffic to public websites is malicious and automated in nature. It's not crazy that website operators want to block that stuff. They would rather block the .0001% of people who choose to block javascript than expose their site to the junk. You can rage at Cloudflare all you want but if it wasn't a service people wanted then they wouldn't be offering it.
I was the same. Top fraction of a percent on SATs without studying but never turned in homework. Got Cs.

Got into state school in engineering, cruised through intro term, almost failed out second term when the weed-out started. Felt the same thing click into place over the summer: might as well try. No military experience required — 4.0 from then on.

I think the whole process is biased against male students because they mature later, and there is nothing difficult in high school and no real form of soft failure to wake you up.

We ought to make things harder, but support and include people when they fail the first time. We should normalize learning from failure.

So much of it is down to your family environment. My parents hardly existed as an environment.
I believe GHB is also one of the few known drugs that can treat narcolepsy, and is therefore prescription only in the US.
A more apt comparison might be if Ford said you could only listen to their music streaming service on the F-150's entertainment system.
We purchased a year ago with a 2.4% mortgage. We are planning on staying here till retirement. I don’t much care where home prices go in the short term, but I do wonder where they will be in decades from now.
studying for standardized tests doesnt work.
I’m pretty sure I bought at the worst possible time (March). Every month that goes by, thousands of dollars of my net worth disappear because of circumstances completely out of my control. It makes me doubt the value of hard work - sure, if you slave away at your desk job you can earn maybe an extra $30k a year, but the guy down the road who just happened to buy a house at the right time earned an extra $300k over the last few years doing nothing.
I’m sure there is at least one 4channer or serious cybercriminal reading this page and learning something they didn’t know before.

Then again, am I the crazy one for shredding my mail? Maybe I should scan it and put it all on my GitHub.
I think humans gravitate towards what gives them attention. It's a very primitive thing of wanting to be in an in-group. Given that most people don't have enough money to cover a minor emergency I think a lot of hobbies were "side hustles" even long ago. It's truly a privilege to have ascended the hierarchy of needs such that you can do things for fun.

The difference is today the audience isnt a swap meet or local music scene. Its the internet. To differentiate yourself you have to be as boisterous as possible. The culture of advertising, grifting, etc have all been taken to their maximum.
The SQL support is likely because they're using DataFusion which already has pretty good SQL support, so it's sort of "free".

https://arrow.apache.org/datafusion/user-guide/sql/sql_statu...
Why are you afraid of this? My org has run a hands-on technical exam with a stack of linux admin basics (I won't enumerate them here because people do their research) but they are based on real problems we've had and the feedback is overwhelmingly "this was one of the best technical interviews I've ever had."

We ask the engineer who is proctoring the interview to think about the following question: Would you want to pair with that engineer again?

If that answer is no, then we probably won't go further because pairing with engineers to troubleshoot is what we do every day.

Some great resumes have died with not knowing how to see what's running on port 80.
Musk signals $44B Twitter deal on track to close this week
Fact Check: Does Google Censor Republicans in Senate Races? No definitive proof.
What's the best source on this? I know it's true, it's just sad and tragic that the Atlantic is still saying they prevent infection.
I think what they mean is that to "Kayak on the internet" is to post yourself evidence of Kayaking on the internet. Such things would require a camera (if you want a good visual component) to show off your Kayaking adventures
Is this truly motionless, or are the turbines just hidden, sort of like those Dyson fans?
Is this a bug? Matching both instance of "us!" in "One of us! One of us!" didn't work with either /us!/g or /\bus!/g. That said this rocks and I love it tysm.
Apple’s Anti-Competitive Behavior Hurts Everyone
But what does that mean?

Isn't that just people who care generally? And if they do what should they do differently?
The average person wants to turn their hobby into a day job because the average person's day job sucks (the sucking is typically why someone else pays someone to do it).

Figuring out how to make money from something is also an interesting problem. It also is an excuse to learn more about people who do make money from it. For example, wanting to make money from writing is an excuse to watch Stephan King talk about writing on Youtube...

...and if you watch Stephen King talk about writing, you'll learn that Steven King writes every day as if writing is normal and that provides an excuse to treat the act of writing as normal, and that can reduce the self-inflicted inhibitions to writing.

tell you how much money you should be making from it, and encourage you to monetise it

This is an ordinary way of paying a complement among people who don't have an informed opinion about the activity.

For example, "You should make an app and sell it in the app store," often completely ignores the logistics of app development and the expected economic rewards of an app once it is in the app store.

The uniformed opinion is also usually the basis for "I should make money from this." I mean Steve King still writes stuff with an eye toward what will sell, that's why Stevorini has an editor, an agent, a publicist, and a publisher.

And lawyers to negotiate contracts for book deals.

Good luck.
Yes, and Apple only allows Meta apps to be installed through their app store.
> Why wouldn't you?

Well, you could ask the very large number of people who defaulted on their underwater mortgages in previous housing crashes.

Does everyone do it? No.

Do a significant number of people do it? Absolutely.
There are ways to cheat but not so simple; there's a script that checks for the solution and a hash of the script is checked for modifications.
> Most of the people I speak to who locked in <3.5% are not planning on selling in the next 10 years or more.

One way to look at this is to ask people what they plan to do. Another way is to look at what they've done.

According to this article, the average length of time spent in a house is 8 years:

> https://www.thezebra.com/resources/home/average-length-of-ho...

So unless those people you know just moved in, they're X years into a average 8 year occupancy.
Yes, lots of people are monetizing their hobbies. TikTok and YouTube are full of such people. Pick your hobby - any hobby, and you'll find dozens of popular channels for that hobby. Here's the thing to keep in mind though, there are billions of people. Any hobby you can think of has millions of people engaged in it yet only dozens (maybe hundreds) of people gain prominence and are actively trying to monetize their hobby. This has actually always existed, it's just in the past these were small-scale, home-based businesses. Now there are more markets to reach your "customer", to use business parlance. Most people aren't bothering with any of this.
Russia conducts first nuclear weapons drill since its invasion of Ukraine
> Russia conducted its first major nuclear drills since the start of its war on Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin made unfounded claims that Kyiv was seeking to develop a “dirty bomb”, as Moscow continued to ramp up the rhetoric over possible nuclear use in the conflict.

> The Russian armed forces on Wednesday practised what defence minister Sergei Shoigu called a “mass nuclear strike with strategic attack forces in response to a nuclear attack by our adversary”, as Putin monitored events via videoconference from the Kremlin.

> Addressing security chiefs from a group of ex-Soviet countries after the exercises, Putin said “geopolitical confrontation has sharply increased” and accused the US of using Ukraine as a “battering ram” against Russia.

> He repeated claims, without providing evidence, that the US had made Ukraine a “test site for military biological experiments”, complaining that the west was “pumping it up with weapons” and ignoring “provocations” using a dirty bomb, a conventional explosive carrying radioactive material.
Sure, but you have to know to do it. The game isn't hard but you have to know to play.

I don't think it makes tests useless -- almost everything is gameable.

But claiming that tests are ungamable objective measures of knowledge/ability is not true
I think, once you've reached terminal velocity, all fall distances are equally impressive. At that point, it's probably best to judge by outcome.
There is, just put a sign outside your door or post an ad on Craigslist/Facebook/etc.

Although, I hope you have a good reason to think you are better at predicting probabilities of default than professional lenders with teams who do it day in and day out.
> "going pro" is literally the reason why this community exists.

I'm just here for the free coffee.
In eastern traditions, this is called "wu wei," or non-doing. If you watch, your entire life lives itself without your involvement. The correct action emerges on its own. To the ego it can be unsettling at first. In the west we call this "flow."

According to Advaita, there is no separate self/person, except as an abstraction made out of identification with various phenomena that arise in the field of consciousness. Once you see this (LSD helps), it is immediately self-evident that this has always been the case. Think Decker at the end of Blade Runner realizing he's a replicant. The person ("you") realizes they have never been anything more than a collection of phenomena.

Accepting this enables one to sit back and rest as consciousness, observing without involvement as the person's life lives itself in a perpetual flow state.
Small businesses.
Not selling doesn't magically make your house keep it's market value.

As long as there's someone in the vicinity selling at a lower price your house would lose value either way. And there's always someone selling.
Hahaha. I think everyone is.
I do wonder what it is about the technological blip that catches people attention. I have a strange fascination with old hardware that's still in production somewhere and I find I'm not the only one. I couldn't tell you why, however.
Is it bad though? The problem with Leetcode is that it's an extremely unrealistic test. This on the other hand seems like it actually tests real-world scenarios, and you can get there without grinding. I'm pretty sure I can pass all the tests they've currently got despite having no formal sysadmin experience, just using common developer knowledge, common sense and strategic Google-fu.
https://search.marginalia.nu/ comes to mind
They're trying to determine how well you will do in courses in college. Surely how well you did in courses in high school is relevant. It is not sexist just because some groups tend to do better than others at a certain point in time. Girls have increased their academic success because they've historically not been encouraged to do so, but in recent decades they have. Girls in high school today are like 2nd (or 3rd) generation of women in the US to have been actually broadly encouraged to do well in school and obtain professional careers. There is an issue with boys feeling hopeless about their futures, and maybe this is a factor in why they as an aggregate have done worse in school relative to girls in recent years, but the solution isn't to lower standards.
It will revert very quickly. In two hundred years (outside of the dead cities and major highways), you'll have to look hard to find traces of the old civilization.
Rents aren't going to go down. Raising mortgage rates makes housing more expensive, by raising the cost of the mortgage. That's going to force some would-be buyers to not be buyers, and to instead, rent. More demand on rent => prices go up.
Totally. My wife started baking as a hobby and almost everyone she spoke to said variations of "you could make a packet selling these".

So I made her website and she tried making a business out of it, ruined the hobby for her forever.
Hi, not sure what the question means, I came up with the scenarios not copying from leetcode if that's what you mean.
Based on the video, there's definitely internal movement.
Concur.

As a relatively new first-time homeowner (a year), do you know whether a mortgage lender requires higher or additional insurance coverage for an underwater property?
I think it stems from people feeling stress from surveillance and other lack of control, and then they focus on the simple bits they can name rather than the uncountable records being kept on them.

The biggest issue if I were to spill my (SSN, legal name, home address) here, is not that you could map between my name and my address, but rather that you could map from this HN username to either of those things. And conversely through search engines, that someone who knows my legal name could map to this HN username.

Speaking from a very USian perspective, it's quite easy to own a piece of land without revealing your legal name. But it's not the default, and I agree that we should be more deliberate about it so either everyone gets the privacy, or nobody does.
When do you expect rates to come down?

Prices aren't dropping that much - inflation. If you're expecting a 40% price drop anytime soon, well, don't hold your breath.
Online applications are indeed ridiculously long, yet somehow, when a recruiter contacts you from LinkedIn or other method, they do not require any of this info. No formal resume, no references, nothing.

A large part of the problem in the us is the required "Voluntary Self-Identification" information. It is voluntary, but it still needs to be filled out, even if the response is Decline to Answer. Should be optional. Companies are now taking an extra step and asking about pronouns and other identifiers, beyond what is required by law. I just want to complete this application and move on.
obviously no one has issues with this scenario where both employers know. but the recent overemployed scheme where you get multiple jobs, do nothing for months while taking advantage of remote & people understanding that it takes time to get started, then look for a new job once you get fired from one - that's clearly abusive & wrong
I've looked into it but the results, unless you live in an open field or an otherwise windy area or want to build fifty meters into the air, and unless you and your neighbors are fine with moving shadows all day every day, are disappointing. Silent vertical turbines sound cool but far outperformed by solar. Might still make sense to have a mix since batteries won't get us through the winter, but wind turbines are much better suited to fields and forests really. Even a relatively small one (so you don't need to cut down swathes of said forest for access roads and work area) has much better performance than what you'd place on a roof.

The only promising thing I found for rooftops is something that is placed on the nave of your roof (hope I'm using the right word, I mean the highest part) and the wind blowing over the surface ends up concentrating there. Should be out of sight and reasonably performant. But it was all still proof of concept stage from what I remember.

I'm curious how this project will pan out. I hope good, but the article doesn't mention what their innovation is other than proposing to put a whole array on one's roof.
I hope you don't mean to imply that "Europe" unilaterally decided to "crush ruble into rubble" for shits and giggles?
A company that affords me autonomy in finding satisfaction in my work. By this I mean don’t tell me how to work, tell me what the goals are and let’s collaborate on a solution. I am not interested in attaching my satisfaction to inputs and outputs that I have little control over, if I have no control over them I lose control of my happiness/satisfaction. Finding satisfaction in the company mission is a classic trap for this. I have found this autonomy in both small and large companies, it isn’t only possible at startups.
You did say "I still don’t get whey they need to enslave their workers though", I suggested a possible explanation.
Sure, but that subset is only "kind of Java" just like RPython or CPython code is only "kind of Python". It's like calling a C compiler a C++ or Objective-C compiler because C is a subset of those languages.
> you think people are going to pay mortgages they are massively underwater on?

Yes? Our home keeps the rain off our heads. I’m not going to risk that by not paying my mortgage just because I couldn’t sell my house right now for enough to cover the mortgage.
Who brushes off their panels? Snow comes crashing down off mine within 24 hours of the storm. The whole house shakes in a very unnerving manner as it hits the porch roof. How do you brush off snow without risking damage anyway?
Yep. I was never totally sure who was bullshitting me, the manager/interviewer or the recruiter person who'd started the ball rolling, hence my "supposedly" above.
> Because almost no one today has the tools, skills, experience, and supply chains needed to recreate the Industrial Revolution.

Beg to differ. We have millions of engineers with extremely relevant skill sets to these problems. If all of electronics was destroyed tomorrow, by next week you'd have a metric shit ton of people learning steam engine technology and how to build/work with analog systems. There would be a lot of growing pains and a lot of death, but it wouldn't be like starting in the year 800 all over again.
Vision for an Open Source Web-Based CAD Application
It does however make it irrelevant. If you never plan on selling and your mortgage rate is low then you're winning on inflationary terms.
If you look on their website (https://www.aerominetechnologies.com/) you can see there is a downward facing turbine hidden underneath
Ok, me too, in Europe. Although the first 40 seconds are a black screen with no audio
The opposite is true in my experience. I basically coasted through high school spending very little time on homework. I'd often spend hours, or even tens of hours, on single college assignments.
Enhanced DDoS detection and mitigation using BGP FlowSpec and the Remote-triggered Blackholing mechanisms.
I bought a house in the Chicago suburbs in August 2007 for $275k. I short sold it 4 years later for $115k. It sold 2 years ago (13 years afer I bought it) for $210k.

"Eventually" is doing a lot of work in your comment.
Can we please stop complaining about "trafficking"? If slavery exists, the least of anyone's concerns is that the slaves are being moved from here to there. The salient issue that the slavery itself is occurring!
I'm not convinced. Passive income is a form of arbitrage. It means there is an inefficiency in the market and that person is fulfilling it. It's pretty rare that continues indefinitely without any effort. There may be a lot of people trying for passive income but the ones who actually achieve it are very rare. Even being a landlord can be a lot of work.

Things like fractional reserve banking, the stock market, these are actually all a way to increase liquidity. A forcing function so that people do not sit on cash and instead let it flow back through the economy. Hardly parasitic/leeching, it's actually fueling the engine of our economy.
An unopened chute has got to be better than none right?

Edit: at slowing your fall I mean.
I mean, solar panels degrade with time. I've heard "30 years" bandied about, but I've also heard that a lot of Chinese-manufactured solar panels rated for 30 years only last 5-10 years (that may have been specific to Australia, I don't recall).
Unless you have a ton of cash.

For example, if you were a tech worker in California, unable to eat out or go out regularly for 2 years, so you piled up cash...

And now the rest of the country looks like a good choice, compared to CA policy...
Yes, kayaking like a boat. "Why does kayaking require a camera?" It doesn't, unless you want to post pictures and videos of yourself kayaking on the internet.

One can kayak as a hobby, or one can run a youtube channel about kayaking as a hobby. In which case one is no longer kayaking as a hobby, one is running a small entertainment business about kayaking as hobby.
This is why I eat Unix time for lunch.
The trick here is that high interest rates may be the smallest possible evil: we had a two year pandemic and all kinds of stacked global economic catastrophes (with the War of Russian Aggression still ongoing), from which you would expect major economic problems to arise. The measures taken to stage off the worst possible effects are now manifesting high interest rates. The cure can hurt, too.

There's definitely a big element of missed opportunity, though. Non-billionaires got a giant infusion of cash through higher wages and such, for the first time in decades... So, too much money chasing too few goods in the short term, giving inflation. But in the longer run, it would be far better to rework the economy to actually meet the demands of non billionaires (housing, education, medical care, oh my) than to complain about how the proles have money all the sudden and plot new ways to take it away from them.
Home Owners Associations already block solar, unfortunately I give this a 0% chance of getting approved in any neighborhood that has one :(

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Don't shoot the messenger. I don't agree with it either.
Several comments here state very confidently that either the commenter does not plan on moving for many years, or someone they know has similar plans.

The problem with this line of thinking is to keep a brave face when the house is underwater, meaning that the house can not be sold without going into debt to pay it off.

As "homeowners" approach that point, panic starts to take hold. Nobody wants to be trapped in a house they can't sell for risk of destroying their credit. So those brave statements about hodling a house should be viewed in the cold hard light of a multi-year price decline.
Absolutely there are limits.

But there are limits to GPA gaming and references gaming too

I'm not trying to say tests are useless or anything, but they're definitely gameable.

Test-taking is a skill that many students learn that's not applicable outside of school really
wood, peat, and there's still a decent amount of natural gas
By motionless they mean something other than "no moving parts" as it has a turbine connected to a generator.
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