skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be a bit like using LiDAR and photogrammetry to measure lumber for furniture making. It's not that it wouldn't work, it's just that you can ask any builder and they'll tell you that it's easier to use a tape measure. But the problem isn't really eyeballing vs measuring. It's what's in stock.

The economics of size availability is the problem. Think of a lumber yard that only keeps square lumber (1x1s, 2x2, 4x4s) in stock and tells customers they can laminate two 2x2s with wood glue to get a 2x4 or split a 4x4 in half. Yes, you can, but it would be great if the 2x4s we're kept in stock.

Now multiply the problem across band and cup size. Sister sizes are a way to project a two-dimensional inventory problem into one dimension and that's the root of the issue.

It's not unlike the average cockpit problem[1], but applied to bras. The first person to make an adjustable cup size bra that's comfortable and fashionable will make a fortune.

1. https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-...
I have a decent amount of savings and a side project I want to do which could potentially earn money. Are you saying if I quit my job and do this for a year or so, it'll fill a hole in my resume and not affect future interviews?
Indeed. Just like you can be against waste in public schools, but if you start marching around with signs that say "Defund Schools" you shouldn't be surprised if people take your sign at face value and don't want to associate with you.
Crypto Options Market Has Become More 'Interdealer' Since FTX's Blowup
Next on HN: "Hello World in 100 languages, in just 2 hour"
You may enjoy "The Years of Rice and Salt," by Kim Stanley Robinson.
I see this all the time, "coding interviews suck", "leetcode doesn't test if you're a good coder", but in the end it's better than nothing, and having worked at places without coding interviews there's almost no bottom to people's abilities. So a low, but existing, floor is a good thing.
The goal of police is public safety, and nothing to do with preventing reinforcing biases.

If you designed a polar bear detector to help prevent people from being eaten by polar bears, would you also deploy them in Florida for the sake of fairness, even though there are no polar bear attacks there?
> everyone should have the right to proper legal representation regardless of ability to pay

Isn't that already the case?
> Definitely the most important novel of this century.

There is no such thing as “the most important novel of this century”. “Importance” is subjective based on the values of the beholder.

It’s an especially ludicrous claim if by “this century” we are to assume you mean 2000 - 2100 considering we are not even a quarter of the way through it.

> It feels like most novels are rather silly in comparison (2666 even pokes fun at literature in general for ignoring the atrocities in Mexico.

I for one am glad that J K Rowling chose not to mention the atrocities occurring in Mexico in the Harry Potter series as it has zero relevance to the plot, as it probably does in 99.99% of all novels written.
> VCs I talk to seem to expect it to get much worse.

Of course they would say that because it's what they want. They hoped to wrestle back power from the worker in 2000, then 2008 and now they think maybe this time. The fed is actively attacking wage growth this time around, so maybe?
It would be too late if even one plane already left assuming some new variant.

In my opinion the biggest impact is within China to its own citizens, not having a strategy moving from hard-lockdown to no lockdown.
How am I moving goalpost? Parent is living in a fantasy world where pure argumentation replaces BS. I'm guessing Jan 6 and COVID proved that world doesn't exist.
Its really amazing that so many people with covid are able to travel. lol.
for what it's worth, the pa -> browser input "integration" feels a lot better than you'd think, but takes a little bit of effort to setup.

check out the contrib/ dir for some supported programs - get one of those in your $PATH, and set up a hotkey to launch it.

now, whenever you press the hotkey, a list of your passwords will show up, which you may type to filter. when you press return, the password you selected will be automatically typed into whatever you have highlighted, whether it's a password field in a browser, or vim. the neat thing is that the password never touches your clipboard since it's typed directly by either wtype or xdotool.

the workflow really only takes a second or two once you have it setup, and feels very nice, imo!
The “defund” label is perhaps the worst marketing of any social movement ever. Nearly everyone would agree with the main nominal ideas - more oversight, less violent responses, more accountability and moving resources away from militarized police and towards social work, specifically psychological interventions.

It’s so bad the tinfoil hat me often thinks it’s an op by the military industrial complex to ensure one of their biggest cash cows never faces budget issues.
Stop worrying about climate change deniers. Even if you give a perfect citation they will not believe you.
If you weren't there, you don't know the details or motivations of what went on it's probably a good idea to not take sides.
Requisition. In this context it means an approval to hire someone for a position.
It's an Orben with a cheap iphone belt holder clipped into the cargo loop on the strap. The belt holder came with the clear protective case I bought at Wal-Mart. I hung the belt hodlder on the strap and it's been great for recording short hikes and downtown excursions. But also, seems to have the effect of making people more polite at customer service counters.
When I was a paralegal at a FANG I was referred to as a "tech worker" and I never understood it either..
> up to 4x

Thats not a minimum performance guarantee. They’re talking about an upper bound. It’s possible that the 4x is some niche benchmark.
It would be nice if a password manager could take care of detecting a page reload/change and auto fill the rest of the form, but I guess the risk of skipping through pages without any user interaction is too large for users (including myself) to trust it. I think the problem rather lies in how difficult modern UI makes it to sign in sometimes

ppppp,,,,,,,,,,,
> Yeah, maybe. Not entirely convinced though :-)

You didn't actually provide an argument against having a sane set of defaults with the option to configure them later.

> As an artist, you can choose to make the kind of music most people want to hear in a night club, or make the kind of music you, as a musician, like. And accept that maybe that's not for the majority.

"For art" is a non-answer when it comes to UX - being "artsy" is almost always terrible UX, including in this particular manner of keyboard shortcuts - very, very few people want "artsy" shortcuts, almost everyone wants familiar defaults, and some people want to then configure the bindings after they've gotten used to the tool a bit.

Art is, by definition, about creativity and originality, which is almost the polar opposite of good UX, which is standardization and conformity.

Making a video game with some esoteric control scheme? Fine, go crazy with your input design, people may love it - that is an artistic matter, less so a UX matter. Making an actual tool that people need to use to get work done? That's a UX problem, and your job is to design the tool to be as painless to use as possible, not to be creative, because your creative desire will, unless controlled very carefully, directly lead to pain and frustration of your users.
If you use water to compress the air as it goes down, you get isothermal compression. The trompe, which originated in the ancient Catalan forges, has been widely used over the centuries. Anecdotally, a trompe in a mine in Switzerland powered a whole bunch of ~1000 horsepower rock drills, provided fresh air to the underground miners, and powered turbines that generated enough electricity to power a town of about 1500 people.

Here's the vid on trompes I always see come up: https://youtu.be/50fJ8Av_g7Q

I know "free energy" devices don't really exist, but a trompe seems pretty darn close, IMO.
It also figures in The Ministry of the Future, by KSR.
> CANBUS was broken reliably

So can my brake or fuel lines, if you're needing physical access. Get this, the door locks aren't even 100% secure, there's this whole thing that side steps them called "Windows".

I do lament not being able to fully flush my brakes at home and do wish the programming harness would be freely available to override the system and have the ABS clear the lines. However, I wouldn't for a second choose to not have ABS on any vehicle I own, including my motorcycle.
Jane Street Trading Mock Interview with Graham and Andrea
Memorizing decks of leetcode problems improved your engineering skills?
hiring requisition. Basically approved headcount to hire against. And a job description for the recruiters to post and also use as guidance for matching people to openings.
> lack of a standard (Pascal was a learning language, not intended for professional use)

The parenthetical is correct, what is outside is not; Pascal had a standard (ISO 7185:1983), but the standard lacks features needed for serious use, so Pascal implementations were either standard and hobbled or useful but not interoperable.
> A standby generator isn't financially practical for most folks ($6k + install).

An Honda EU2200i generator costs US$ 1400 (and less expensive generators can probably be found):

* https://powerequipment.honda.com/generators/models/eu2200i

You also need an external plug, a cable going from that plug to a sub-panel, and a line going from the sub-panel to the main panel with an interlock device for safety, if you wish to avoid running extension cords.

There are dual-fuel generators that can also use either gas/petrol or propane, and some tri-fuel generators that could also be connect to a natgas pipes (and conversion kits that can be added to propane-capable generators).
Modern residential gas furnace is 90% or more efficient.
Do the measurements for men and women work out the same?
No I wasn’t joking, what else would you call my particular lfl? I built my own, stole the name and host it local so that’s kind of where I was going with legitimizing lfls that aren’t in the proper online db. I just felt guilty reading that this morning like whelp, I kind of jacked their idea and gave no accreditation, and I called it a “Little Free Library” to boot. I’m intrigued by lfp now and it seems like keeping those two separated or well defined keeps the mission more clear and focused. Always loving this place, HN is the last corner we can even talk about these things, and I’m blown away so many people in our city are really trying to what we can to improve each other. Cheers!
Everyone already knows Google is tightening up, but no actual mass layoffs yet. There's no new information here.
In the US, anyway, when people say electric resistance heat is inefficient they are comparing it to natural gas heat. It's the same story in water heaters; if you install a HPWH you are betting on not needing to resort to resistance heat because if you do that too much, you probably should've installed a cheaper gas unit instead. (I'm a happy HPWH owner weighing the timing of adding a heat pump for central heat.)
Yes, it’s a similar design to RJ45, where angled pins are lifted by the leading edge of the connector. Lightning doesn’t have the grooves to guide pins, but the tight tolerance and setback of pins means you really can’t land a pin on the wrong connector, let along short across them.
I'm 50, this is really screwed up for me not sure what I can do they have blocked me from getting any unemployment but here in LA the economy is breathtakingly horrific.
I've broken one USB-C port since 2017, and it was in a power bank. The arcing was brief, and the smoke release moderate. Once I teased the remaining wire fragments inside the socket apart, I filled the socket with hot glue, and continue to use the power bank today.
When you are depressed you often seek connection with people. For many though, life separates us from trusted friends in RL so you turn to Facebook et al, but the engagement is minor (e.g. a like) and leaves you even more lonely. What you want is to talk to somebody, but it is really hard/awkward to get friends to join a video/audio call. All this leaves you more alone, so you really have to switch off, go outside, and go say hi to the neighborhood
> OP was unemployed a year. Time adds up, that's a lot of money.

Luckily my government gives me a full year of unemployment benefits at 2/3rds of my salary besides my savings. Obviously, I don't wish to test my luck regardless, but not everywhere is as cutthroat as the US.
I am just saying what the typical install is in the South East US. The heat pumps installed may produce some heat at 5F but they can't keep the temperature to the set value, so there are resistive elements (Aux heat) to make up the shortfall.

It's pretty common for people with heat pumps to have Aux Heat kick in during cold spells, which cause power grid overload issues.

I realize you can insulate a house well enough and have a good enough heat pump to avoid backup heat, but 5F or 0F days are rare enough that the codes do not enforce this.
https://archive.vn/d9kSY
Wood stoves are really efficient these days, hitting 70% plus, and it's Carbon Neutralish™ as a fuel source (obviously uses fossil fuels for harvest and transport and such, but that's only some percentage of the total)

I'm always amazed at the ability of our questionable 1990s wood stove to happily heat the entire house. It's a great backup heat source on days when it gets proper cold out, which is thankfully rare here.
Isn’t there evidence to suggest it is a new variant? Haven’t been following closely but recall reading about much higher R0 and shorter incubation period.

Edit:
https://www.science.org/content/article/source-beijing-s-big...

The fomite hypothesis returns?
The author anyway had this mentality:

> If you’re like me, work is the primary shaper of your life. Work gives your life rhythm. It is the gravitational center around which the other activities in your life revolve.
I work to live, and if I quit I would not be lonely at all because I have hobbies and a social life that is intentionally completely separate from work.

But not everyone is the same. Some people derive great value and pleasure from their job.
I would only hope to use that as a substitute for paid employment if you actually incorporate, give yourself a title, put your company on LinkedIn and otherwise treat it like a business. Noodling around on a side project that you might monetize eventually is not a substitute.
IMHO any code that is not documented is "Throw away". The time it takes to understand what is does, how it does it, and its limits, usually exceed the time to rewrite with documentation. Further the company that has a lot of undocumented code is a large red flag.
If you're interested in this topic, you might want to check out ASRG[1]. It's a community of safety and security professionals in the industry working to improve standards. They share their research openly and have regular in-person and online events where you can reach out to people.

[1] https://asrg.io/
Let's say that generating the Barker-codes for modulating the lightsource in software is OK but does anyone have any ideas how one would solve correlation of the detected signal in hardware (i.e. an electronics circuit)?
It's been shown than a sufficiently high number of people won't care about evidence, no matter how hard it's been displayed. Then you get Jan 6th.
Obviously, even D is likely to get used more. It exists so we'll probably have to contend with it. We shouldn't wax/wane over the toolchain.

If your distribution environment doesn't strive to simplify this (eg: fedpkg, mock, RPM macros), what are you using it for?
I find it surprising that people still use M4 for anything. I encountered M4 in my first job out of college. The company was using it for email templating. It still leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Velocity, Jinja, Mustache... all are a breath of fresh air compared to M4.
I believe the gp was talking about the year of unemployment referred to in the original post.

I was laid off for about a month earlier this year and it was the most productive I’ve ever been, open source contributions wise. Pragmatically, I should’ve grinded leetcode but I couldn’t bring myself to do it. I was really enjoying the open source work though, a combination of react and lisp. I did talk about it during the interviews and maybe that came across.
I feel like Everett is a way of trying to fit quantum mechanics with the block universe concept i.e. the past and future exist simultaneously.

But I like the idea proposed by Swiss physicist Nicolas Gisin who reasoned that when you our universe is finite and inherently imprecise that “time really passes and new information is created.” which fits with having to update after quantum collapse because new information has been introduced.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/does-time-really-flow-new-clu...
Can they work in pair with co2 capture? Assuming neg 20 deg is co2 liquid point ?
If you're in VSCode already, just install the Microsoft "Polyglot Notebooks" extension and get full Markdown with a multi-language .NET runtime.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-dotne...
vimtutor. It comes with the full vim install, at least in ubuntu. It will give you the basics, then afterward you can run :h <command> to see what the less used commands do.
What is wrong with that? By what natural law is moving across cities at will OK, but moving across borders not OK? Legal restriction of movement across borders makes no sense.

I mean, wherever you are, you should follow the law. If I'm a criminal, I should be dealt with wherever I find myself. If I don't commit crimes, I should be free to live where I want to live, provided I pay taxes and can pay to stay there.
Hell, that describes like 95% of my career.
Unpopular opinion: If you’re competing for a cattle job, you have to do leetcode. If you want to be a pet, you have to stand out to people who are looking for you (what you have to offer), not just any fungible developer with a pulse.

The challenge is that cattle jobs in tech have historically paid very well thanks to the free money environment. It looks initially like the right strategy: Cushy job, cushy work, much money. But the glass ceiling is hard and you won’t see it coming until suddenly you’ve had the same day-to-day for 10 years and no amount of grinding leetcode gets you to the next level.

Fortunately standing out is easy: My girlfriend got a (not-coding) FAANG-level job out of 2000 applicants in part by being one of the three people who actually read the job description and could hold an insightful conversation about what she can bring to the table.
Probably! I've done this to good success (gotten better jobs when I come back to industry after failing)
Hardly the point. You should be allowed to take risks. Also did he really kill the person with milk? This makes it sound intentional, I highly doubt it.
The "XML is just an abstraction layer" part is exactly what makes it not native. It's a big abstraction layer, it uses React under the hood, it's not native.

It's easy, instead.

It may render native components, but those components are still controlled by the non-native runtime, thus extra baggage.
John Bird Obituary
One of the best articles I've read about the experience of being laid off, thanks for writing and sharing!
This is called district heating and is not uncommon, some cities in the US have it (it’s used in Manhattan for example) but it’s more popular in Europe and Asia, especially in Scandinavia and former socialist countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_heating
I think including all of the description should be included in the headline. It suggests a post on problem solving techniques while the author included more topics like argumentation.
> Exhibit A of why not to take your day job too seriously. Be professional — but that’s as far as it goes.

I think that’s the wrong message to take away from this. The author’s problems wouldn’t have been solved by remaining more distant from his job and coworkers - he’d just be lonely all of the time!

The real answer is that you need to cultivate relationships and a life outside of work, too. By all means, become friendly with and get to know your coworkers, but don’t let work be your only source of relationships.
me and my co-founder did the same this year

thanks to our project's success we now get more and higher offers now that we ever did in our lives

however, there's no way back for us

we left for a reason, with a concrete goal in mind

not just because we could
thanks for the post Steven. I especially appreciate Hard Truth #5. Most folks end up not knowing exactly how you may want to be helped and having a clear and specific ask helps a lot.
> Taking away facebook will not make them un-depressed.

Although I agree that Facebook isn't the problem here, taking it away might be a necessary first step.
PCem is still being developed, though.

86Box has done a lot of improvements on the codebase over the last 5 years and has developed its' own community; meanwhile pcem got bogged down in drama and stagnated.

I followed pcem and saw enough toxicity there that I am unsurprised by how things have played out.

But 86box has earned it's current place by putting in the time, works, research into it's development as well as continually working on being a less toxic (this is the internet -it's all toxic) environment.
Humans didn't change at all since tests like cruentation were an accepted method.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruentation

Fortunately it appears ai will soon enough act as a modern version of God's judgment, which while still not perfect, should be significantly better than some random cop's gut feeling.
Rightly or wrongly, Apple is driving to pure wireless and portless devices.

Best hope for USB-3 will be an updated MagSafe connector on a portless phone, using 60ghz networking from phone to MagSafe and usb-C from MagSafe out.
Getting laid off is a great introduction into class solidarity with your fellow workers. We have literally nothing in common with the capitalists at the top. You are closer to homelessness than you are to being a billionaire.
They are ghosting on the call screen where I go over comp, process, role etc. Most of the times they took another job offer but have the common courtesy of telling us so I am not sitting on zoom by myself for 10 minutes.
How many people have covid in Italy/Europe?

If the virus is in circulation, and it is, then blocking arrivals from China would make no difference.

I think that this is only interesting in that it says something about the situation within China.
A less dire way to express this is that companies have needs for devs at different levels of experience. Very experienced people are going to be bored and feel unchallenged doing work that's not appropriate for their level.
In Telluride, Colorado they have a giant “free box” it eats up the whole side of a large commercial building on the main road - I can’t even begin to describe what a watering hole that freebox is. So fun to see your jacket on someone else who needs it more than you did, but alas, that type of thing is tougher in the city with the dumping, trash. It gets used habitually everyday by most of the town, and it’s wonderful.
> Most of the heat from a fireplace goes up the flue unfortunately.

Depends on the fireplace. Direct-vent gas fireplaces take outside air for combustion and then exhaust it, with no inside air being used in the process. There are also direct-vent wood stoves that can do the same.

Wood stoves can get about 85% combustion efficiency, but that's not heat-delivered efficiency (often 10-20% lower):

* https://www.epa.gov/burnwise/energy-efficiency-and-your-wood...