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> Another unavoidable facet of live coding interviews stems from effectively requiring someone to just start typing. For plenty of people, that’s not a problem, but for people who tend to be more tactile, visual, or kinesthetic, just banging on a keyboard isn’t a natural way to begin problem solving.

In my experience conducting these live coding interviews, it's almost a universal rule that if the candidate starts coding immediately, they will waste a lot of time on irrelevant details, or take a long time to see that their approach can't work.

I always try to encourage the candidate to talk through their solution or draw a diagram if it helps them. Candidates who follow this advice always perform better.
Yes, and we have to mind the denominator too. Waymo just announced 1 million self driving miles, Tesla just announced 150 million self driving miles.
Yep, when I switched away from Sprint, it was a huge pain, switching from T-Mobile was so easy I felt a little bad for them being so helpful. Of course, the choice doesn't really exist anymore, but I was only interested in going back to one of them.
Plenty of quasi experts make a living shilling a point of view. I’ve just seen so much trash published under the Forbes “contributor” by line that I automatically distrust it at this point.
Amazon blocks sellers from offering lower prices elsewhere.

Evidence (pdf warning): https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/2023-...
Profitability cannot be the only motive. A small fraction of those profits could be invested in indie games to diversify and just have "better games", not just profits.

Stop using the devil's advocate at every occasion.
Gns89 thanks for your proper response. Now I see the benefits and the logic behind. Looking forward to using the appteum more and build an app base on it. thanks
My favorite were the quarantine episodes! Comedy gold.
Here's another one. I have an app which spawns subprocesses to do computations. I would love to put the subprocesses in containers to constrain their resource usage (i know that's not the only way to do it, but it's an effective and well-understood way to do it). But i would also like to able to run my application in a container!
This is what annoys me, and this is my opinion so take it for what you paid for it: I don't think people are as committed to their social causes as they claim; they're more doing something as it's popular rather than for the true cause.

The Chevy Bolt and Chevy Volt were both superb cars, however, they sorta got eschewed for not being en vogue. The Volt in particular was very well engineered with a unique powertrain that offered multiple advantages over battery electric and hybrids, while not being astronomically priced.

What we're seeing is elitism, not environmentalism.
the hard part was never the coding. it was breaking down a high level problem into a set of technical requirements and figuring out what is needed. the coding is the easy part.
I think for polycules it makes sense to have such practices, as a filter for people who don't want to contribute/share even something as simple as a subscription, and to make sure that they are on the same page with the membership of the other partners: if they don't agree with sharing the password, they might not be a good fit. People in polycules share partners, which is something so intimate, most people wouldn't be ready to do it (me included). It takes a lot of work and communication to maintain not just one relationship to one person, but multiple ones to multiple people. Paying for a subscription that you share with others is comparatively easy. And obviously, for existing members, having additional people means more subscription services you can watch.
While I’ve led a data science team, I’ve never taken a data science course — so I’m not sure what it teaches. But i do feel pretty confident in saying that I think math does lose its usefulness around after trig. Not to say there aren’t useful aspects, but the curriculum is so inefficient. And maybe it’s because everyone needs some part of it, but that part is different for each person.

Math is interesting in that the early foundation is so useful, but the use drops off quickly. While I feel like other areas often become more useful as I learn more. Possibly because I haven’t spent 15 years on that topic like I had math.
It hasn't been a problem on Android ever. No one expects folks to bypass the Google App Store.

More so though, I think it's incredibly malignant a position to demand everyone else be trapped on a Think Apple paradigm forever. You're putting an extreme outside risk with no signs of being a problem ahead of everyone else having basic liberty to use the most important most popular electronic device on the planet (the smartphone) as they wish.

Apple should split into two companies if this is the path they want. The iPhone control apple shouldn't be given license to ruin & piss on the Think Different past like this. The small hew & cry of "I dont want to think" or let anyone else think is just the saddest.
Ask HN: Take the best of Linked In, Instagram, Facebook, Other what would it be?
If you could take the best of FB, Linked In, instagram, or other site what would you take?

As these sites / services evolved I've found they are becoming more unless and loaded with bloat and complicated settings.

For example I liked the early days of facebook and its simplicity.
I also liked instagram without all the jazz that it has now.
And linked in, well I never really used it but I'm sure there is something that really worked at first but slowly was degraded from scope creep.

FB - Simple wall / status / messages / Closed community

IG - Take a photo / tag / post

LI - ?
> Instead, I suspect they were fishing to find out some headline-grabbing result, hoping that (for example) black women were more masculine than white women, or Asian men were more feminine than white men.

That’s quite a bomb to throw with zero evidence. Like, why does your mind even jump to that?
>We need both engineering and arts/culture in society. And it behooves us that those who produce arts and culture are educated to a higher level in their disciplines

You don't learn how to make good art/literature in college, you learn it from doing. Most of history's greatest writers and artists didn't go to college.
> The UK cloud gaming market is growing fast. Monthly active users in the UK more than tripled from the start of 2021 to the end of 2022. It is forecast to be worth up to £11 billion globally and £1 billion in the UK by 2026. By way of comparison, sales of recorded music in the UK in 2021 amounted to £1.1billion.

This seems disingenuous. Why not compare to the video game market as a whole? That appears to be currently worth around £8 billion in the UK.
Really illustrates the potential benefits of offshore wind farms. It seems like there's a large overall difference between wind speeds on the land and in the water, especially far off coast.
It seems like most people commenting here don't know what passkeys are. I'm seeing a lot of complaints about things that simply aren't a problem with Passkeys, only with plain WebAuthn.

Passkeys are based on WebAuthn, but they are not the same from a user experience perspective. The simplest way to describe Passkeys would be "WebAuthn, but with the keys stored in a password manager instead of being tied to a specific device."

Apple has a pretty good overview of how things look from a user's perspective: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/sign-in-with-passkeys... Note that while that while that article is about Apple's specific implementation, passkeys are an open standard with multiple independent implementations.

The biggest issue with Passkeys right now (aside adoption by sites) is vendor lock in. Many implementations don't allow the key database to be exported or transferred to a different Passkey client. That's an issue with those implementations though, not an inherent problem with the protocol.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35711968
So shrinking absolutely leads to austerity measures?

I find that hard to believe.
IDK if it got hugged to death, but I'm unable to load stories from the archive
While true, sometimes these loopholes aren't super enforceable to stop without explicit legislation in the US (see things like Texas Two Step bankruptcies). I however do not know how it works in the UK
Resistance Is Futile: On the Under-Representation of Unions in Science Fiction
Oooh, thatd be great
Not surprised - they stop caring making compact or subcompact cars a while back when they sold Opel to Peugeot PSA.

They seem to forget that a kid buying a Civic today will one day have a family and drive a Honda SUV in a few years time.

VW/Nissan/Toyota will no doubt be glad.
Starting up a cloud region after a total shutdown is likely an untested procedure with no well known timeframe, even if the hardware is ok.
> rather than retroactive ban after they kill a bunch of people.

I grew up in the US, in the 1970s-80s, when we had [optional] seatbelts, that would cut you in half, and snap your spine, exploding [leaded] gas tanks, glass that would slice you to ribbons, and steering wheels that would impale the drivers.

It's always been retroactive. Ralph Nader made his name on Unsafe at Any Speed[0].

Money speaks very loudly in the US, and we have always been willing to sacrifice quite a few things (as long as the non-money-makers are making the sacrifices), and take huge risks (as long as the non-money-makers are taking the risks), for money. It's just the way we are.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed
You missed

- People will need to want to get ripped off

Which doesn't seem plausibly likely.
If nothing else it means that they’re using old versions of Electron for extended periods of time — long enough that the app becomes dependent on the quirks of that particular build, which is bad with how many vulnerabilities regularly appear in Chromium and Electron.

Electron should be updated much more often than that, and barring major new versions with breaking changes doing those updates should be effortless because the app is resilient enough to not need particular builds of Chromium.
A commenter in a previous HN thread pointed out that the dust could cause silicosis, but another commenter who watched the flight in person mentioned that he saw no evidence of dust or damage during his drive out.
Looks like it is/was not only Europe. Today we had issues in the US too, and some other regions still affected as well (us-east1, asia-northeast1, asia-south1 & asia-southeast2)
If you like this book you might also like Generative Gestaltung / Generative Design:

http://www.generative-gestaltung.de
> Nuclear has failed to scale, it's a well documented issue.

It hasn't, and it's not a "well-documented issue". What's documented is decades of FUD, fear-mongering, underinvestment etc.

> If decarbonization is the goal, projects like Flamanville are already a failure

Why not look at projects like Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant instead?

> will take decades and decades to make up for the construction time

Ho long will it take to overbuild renewables and all the required power storage for them?

E.g. right now, during the day, Germany's renewables are generating:

- wind: 20% of installed capacity

- solar: 34% of installed capacity

- pumped hydro storage: sucking up 8% of total power generation for recharging

> Germany was over 50% coal 20 years ago, it would still be at this level if it had gone that route.

Which route? E.g. France's carbon output from electricity generation is ~56g/kWh. Germany's is ~340g/kWh. Care to guess why?
Human-Centric Latent Diffusion Models for Fashion Image Editing
> liberal arts-esque logic

Can you expand on specifically what you meant here?
Have you ever noticed that native cultures are commonly praised for not wasting any part of the animal, yet the modern meat industry is vilified for not wasting any part of the animal ("pink slime", sausage, leather industry, etc)?

I think this sort of contradiction is evidence of emotionally compromised reasoning.
No. Everyone I've met who learned how to program after e.g. age 40, they had a hard time.

There's a certain mental agility which comes with youth which makes for good coders. I haven't met anyone who learned to program late who had the same. Over time, it gets replaced with depth, maturity, and experience, so people who start in tech do okay older. However, people who come in late have neither of those. Everyone I've seen try to make the hop late-career felt clumsy at programming, and at the same time, inexperienced.

It wasn't a failure due to age discrimination, although goodness knows that exists too. It was a failure due to simply not being able to become any good.

This isn't to say it's not worth doing, especially for people with a different prior skill set. An experienced teacher who learns just a little bit of programming can become awesome at ed-tech. An experienced biologist who learns a little bit of biology can do product work or manage a team of programmers for a biotech. Virtually any discipline with a little bit of programming becomes an awesome combo.
I owned a model 3 and I had no complaints about build quality or actual range.
Customer service was not great but similar to any other car dealer.
I find the requirement for having a college degree is similar to the pre-covid world where you had to work from an office. Some jobs absolutely require a person to be on site. And some jobs absolutely require a college degree.

But unlike work from home I don't see a revolution coming where its ok to not have a degree. It would not benefit those that have already invested in getting one. Where work from home is beneficial to many.
Payments 101 for a Developer
The faculty/administrative numbers are startling to me, but I expect typical in most institutions.

Academic staff 19,568

Administrative staff 33,099

Students 275,000

From their wikipedia page
This comment really belongs on some other type of forum, not this one.
Teslas can be incredible cars and FSD can be a scam at the same time.
I'm curious about how is the support these days. My last interaction with it was along the lines of "Uh, why are you contacting us for advice and not like, use the docs". This was for a new project and asking the same set of questions to AWS led them to send three guys to our office the next week for a round of demos and best-practices discussions.
Absolutely. You think piles of grains are good for you? If you take 2 people and have one eat steak all the time and the other eat wheat all the time, the wheat eater will be obese and have all sorts of auto-immune diseases.

Stop believing the anti-meat FDA. Meat is good for you.

Additionally, I see you negated to full read my comment where I said FROSTED mini wheats. Yes, the FDA put sugary cereal higher up than meat products.
Note that this is the recommendations for applying for Undergrad, not their classes or program offerings.

Those two institutions are recommending more foundational (calculus) rather than applied courses (data science).
> On the contrary, there is a lot of philosophical debate on the relationship between pragmatism and truth – https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-pragmatic/ – and I think what I'm saying makes sense if you assume a certain position in that debate (albeit one which I'd expect Benatar would reject)

I don't think there is a debate in the sense that one true proposition has to win over another one. You can build sound arguments for different positions based on varying premises.

I can't find flaws in what Benatar says. I don't entirely agree with his premises and it's easy to counterbalance them if you are so incline - you can take a religious angle and argue than eternal salvation counterbalance pain during life or a progressist one and argue that the suffering of the current generation are offset by their absence for the future ones - but I still find them valuable. From my point of view, it definitely is a valuable contribution to the philosophy of ethics.

> I doubt ethics is axiomatisable

I'm curious about how you propose we discuss and study ethics if you don't think it can be based on exposed principles.
Same, had one for 4 years.
Mostly a great car, advanced software, fast, good range, amazing charging network, etc.

But the FSD stuff is borderline scam.
EAP itself barely improved in my 4 years of ownership, and the sporadic phantom braking incidents could make it unusable on some software versions/roads/conditions/days/random.
Geometry isn't really any more "fundamental" than statistics (for concreteness, let's say the geometry covered by the SAT and statistics as covered by the AP Statistics exam). Maybe they are using it as a proxy for formal proofs? A proof-based course in probability would actually be a lot more fundamental than either geometry or statistics, I think.
Ah yes, 13 year old information. Maybe it was true then, it is not now. Cutts had a known pattern of denying anything and everything about their ranking data until cornered (see his video with Harry Shum of Bing when they caught Bing stealing Google clicks), so I would recommend against using him as a source for almost anything these days.

Believe what you want, but apply some basic logic - why would they not use data they already have?
To me this is the true value of Apple Pay as a customer. I have all my subscriptions in one place, which says exactly when they expire, and they can all be canceled or resumed with one tap. Sorry to the providers that they have to pay Apple their 30% cut or whatever, but it's the only way to fight back against the "hope you'll forget to cancel" model.
Here is another study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8955456/

> For this purpose, we analyzed a sample of 24 cisgender men, 24 cisgender women, and 24 transgender women before gender-affirming hormone therapy. We employed a recently developed multivariate classifier that yields a continuous probabilistic (rather than a binary) estimate for brains to be male or female. The brains of transgender women ranged between cisgender men and cisgender women (albeit still closer to cisgender men), and the differences to both cisgender men and to cisgender women were significant (p = 0.016 and p < 0.001, respectively).
You need to take a closer look at the Pages sidebard, there is for example this https://ruby-doc.org/3.2.2/syntax/pattern_matching_rdoc.html
Whoa that’s wild.

> Note: There're no break statements at the end of each when clause. Unlike other languages, Ruby's case doesn't fall through.

Aw no fall through?

> Note: Do not use obj.class in the case clause, as Integer === Integer returns false.

Wait what
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lampshades_made_from_human_s...

Some disturbing historical precedent
Sure it does. I don't have any other options and it will define my life through the hours I spend there and the income I derive from it.
Yea, sorry about that! It was a spike in traffic and my server was too small. It's back on now.
Japanese company ispace: 'High probability' Hakuto-R crashed on moon
Familiarity with pandas and familiarity with taking an integral aren’t even close to the same thing. I don’t think it ever made sense to group them together.
Over human lifespans, it's generally been pretty static.
Or borrow more or cut pensions or sell off public assets. Lots of options, although all have some drawbacks.
My point is that it’s not really a black box. You need to understand it like you need to understand the brain. Our inability to understand the brain says less about the brain and more about our own intelligence (which is housed in the brain, so it gets a little circular here).
> Which is a PITA but ultimately the card company will cover it.

Most of the non-major banks are a pain to even open disputes with — not to mention:

- having to receive a new card (a pain if one's frequently on the road, or if the bank doesn't ship overseas);

- change any recurring billing details, if needed;

- possibly set up direct debits (sometimes with paper forms, like in Singapore);

- some other stuff I haven't thought of.
That's the Core reference guide. You might want the book "Programming Ruby"[1], which is linked on the documentation landing page[2]. Alternatively, for a quick overview, I recommend Learn X in Y Minutes[3].

[1]: http://ruby-doc.com/docs/ProgrammingRuby/

[2]: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/

[3]: https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/ruby/
Agree 100%. The routing is one of the main reasons I'm not using SvelteKit.

It's bonkers they decided to do this and not provide some sort of escape hatch.
Wow, “physically flooded with water somehow” and “load balancers” config propagation issue are so drastically different!

Good reminder that downtime happens for many wild reasons, and you may want to take 30 seconds and set up a free website / API monitor with Heii On-Call [1] because we would have alerted you to either of these issues if they affected your app.

Really, a simple HTTP probe provides tremendous monitoring power. I already was telling people that it covered issues at the DNS, TCP, SSL certificate, load balancer, framework, and application layers. Now I will have to add “datacenter flood” as well :P

Best wishes to everyone working on europe-west-9.

[1] https://heiioncall.com/ (I recently helped build our HTTP probe background infrastructure in Crystal)
I don't really get why someone would use JQuery, still. My experience with fixing old codebases is JQuery is difficult to write in a way that prevents bugs when moving html elements. That seems like a complete nonstarter. Selectors are extremely brittle. You're either selecting by ID or you're traversing up and down the DOM and hoping that never changes.

I'm aware this is how people did it for a long time, but we surely have better "simple" tools now. Maybe Svelte, Hyperscript, etc
How to argue like a lawyer and convince anyone
Netflix is mostly trash in general, American or not.
system-ui is not suitable for general web content. Apps might have an argument for using it, but general web content should not use it. https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3658 has some details (mostly by others, but I chip in towards the end), and I’ve written more in other threads here on HN too which you can search for.

(That `box-sizing: content-box` is a good default might be my most unpopular CSS opinion, but writing off system-ui is probably not too far off it. But I care more about it because it’s one that actually affects users, not just developers. Maybe I should get round to pestering browser makers to improve their defaults for the sans-serif generic family so that “proxy for a maybe-prettier sans-serif” goes away as a reason to use system-ui.)
Banks and utility companies aren't an uncommon one. When your method of account recovery is email, it's far more trustworthy to trust a major email provider than it is to trust Joe Schmoe running his mailserver at home to keep it secure, or to trust that someone isn't going to be abusive.

Example: scorned employee or spouse, they redirect or copy email to x address, and they gain access to accounts via that.

"That could never happen."

It's happened plenty of times that it's a consideration for a lot of major institutions, and it's happened enough that the radio and bus stops in the UK have ads warning people of the signs of financial abuse.

That's without even getting into people not having automatic renewal set on their domain and losing the domain.