skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Does China control TikTok? Yes.

No. Not in any meaningful way. The data and employees are in the US. Every intelligence agency in the US is watching those buildings and reading their data. The US has no laws against inspecting every single packet sent internationally, the employees are subject to US laws, and tiktok has distanced itself from china.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/07/tech/tiktok-leaving-hong-kong...

They are not meaningfully different from any other US company. It's not like they don't give data to china:

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-gave-user-data-to-hon...

Tiktok is just the new banana republic, the new gulf war, etc. The US government is aggressively anti-competitive with non-domestic corporate threats to its largest industries. It has always attempted to destroy competition and maximize domestic control of furs, then produce, then oil, and now social media and advertising.
You’re thinking of Bhutan. Nepal has literal Maoists in government.
Tiktok is also a vector for propaganda. There is not guarantee that all content there is true.
My primary machine was a 2011 MBP until maybe 2018 and it was pretty sweet, but I'm pretty hard on my machines, and there was also a hardware issue that Apple wasn't able to fix. The Thinkpad I had working for IBM a-decade-and-a-half-ago was an absolute beast. I wish I could still get my work done on one of those old reliable machines, but having transitioned to heavy 3D Graphics stuff and working with game engines precludes this kind of thing. The increase in display capability alone has been a huge game changer for this work, let alone the kind of video cards you can get in these machines. The top-of-the-line 2022 Razer machine I use now will be essentially obsolete even for lightweight professional work within two years.
I've been in tech for over a decade and started working from home post-pandemic. Living close to nature, I thought I'd be outdoors more, but no, I found myself desk-bound from dawn to dusk. It made stepping outside feel like a chore, and my breaks were often spent scrolling through reels. It didn't hit me until I started feeling down everyday—I was spiralling into some monotonous, lonely hell. To break the cycle, I scheduled daily walks. The walks, coupled with casual chats with passersby/neighbours, really lifted my spirits. It's a change I wish I'd made sooner.
> I’ve actually expressed the problem in an ambiguous way.

> Did I mean 2 unique pages per day or overall?

The author needs a course in logic. "They visited at least two unique pages." is not ambiguous. Visiting page A on day 1 and visiting page B on day 2 makes the sentence true.
To bypass that, make an org account and give them:

As organization’s name, type, size, detailed address, phone number, and website.
For fun, I fed this interview question to GPT-4 with aider. See the chat transcript linked below.

The data structures look sensible and it did most of what the interviewer wanted on the first try.

It did make the wrong initial assumption that we wanted 2 unique pages per day. When prompted with a clarification, it made a sensible fix.

When asked to optimize, it went for big hammers like parallel processing and caching. As opposed to saving memory by only storing one file in the data structure as the author discussed.

https://aider.chat/share/?mdurl=https://gist.github.com/paul...
How loud is it from Isla Blanca? I'm bringing elementary aged kids. Should I bring headphones? Anything else I should bring?
The non-video TruStacks link: https://github.com/TruStacks/trustacks#trustacks-software-de... (Golang; GPLv3)

The non-video Gale link: https://github.com/aweris/gale#github-action-local-executor (Golang; Apache 2)
Regulation of liquor stores for religious puritanical reasons is still a thing today.
Because it is the degree of fraud that you catch that matters. Every financial system has fraud. In the old days - I used to work at a bank - the banks knew that there was fraud, but usually they didn't have a really good grip on how many of their transactions were fraudulent and how much of that they caught. The limitations on human resources alone made this a losing battle.

Just like any classification system a fraud control system has false positives, false negatives, true positives and true negatives. In an ideal version of such a system you have no false positives and false negatives. But that idealized version of that system (the one that perfectly classifies fraudulent transactions and non-fraudulent transactions) is static. It can't adapt to cases of fraud that it hasn't seen yet. Eventually a fraudulent transaction gets through.

And that transaction if not detected timely but after the fact (so now there is some detected fraud, in the interval prior to its detection it was undetected fraud) will result in an update to the fraud detection system (probably it will need more than one example to be able to generalize from). Now the perfect system may start to generate false positives or false negatives on other transactions.

Run the 'perfect' system for long enough and it will be like every other fraud control system, a certain fraction of fraud will get through and a certain fraction of good transactions will be marked as fraud. How low you can do this sustainably is an open question but there is a lot of money to be made by squeezing out the last little bits and so a lot of money is poured into these systems. The nasty bit is that many of the players in this space attempt to off-load their residual risk on others (such as merchants or consumers) and that gives them less of an incentive to do the best job they can.

So that's why all of this is relevant. I hope I'm able to explain it clearly enough.
Googling it brings up a pretty interesting (and accessible) journal article on this subject by one Peter C. Hains, apparently the guy who "laid out the plans" for the canal:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/25105376
Wonderful high-school-science-fair vibes from this title.
Depends on the mac. None of the corners on my 2012 are undented at this point. Even the lid with the screen. This thing has been down cement stairs. When you open it up you can see theres actually somewhat of a crumple zone. Not sure if the newer models are so bullet proof. One of my friends ran over his 2012 with an f150 and it still worked minus spiderwebbing on the screen.
It is not supposed to be recoverable for reuse.
Ocean landing for booster.

Unconfirmed whether starship will attempt and ocean landing or bellyflop… would be odd if they didn’t try the landing maneuver.
Perhaps ironically (given the somewhat corrupted attribution to Alexandra Kollontai of the flippant remark that "the satisfaction of one's sexual desires should be as simple as getting a glass of water"), Stalin reeled in some of the sexual excesses that characterized the early Soviet regime, because, as it turns out, sex is indeed dangerous and deserving of honor and respect, and sexual degeneracy is a sure way to propel a society toward self-destruction and chaos.
>a cop can go to great lengths to lie and decieve you while conducting their business, interviewing or interrogation, etc. If you lie to them, it gets you in a really bad spot when it comes time for court

European here, but is this really true? Over here it's the cops who usually can't lie and defendants are free to lie when defending themselves.
That guy really understands how to get timbre out of his synths. Damn what an ear.

That's really impressive, and just the beginning. Wait until dozens of people have had a decade to fool around with his base concep. I'd like to see the ferrofluid in 3d. It is naturally a 3d material but his displays are ~2.5d. I'm thinking a big sphere in the middle of the room, kinda like at the end of Netflix's "DARK".
It's a bad code smell. We discussed this the other day: "If you need security don't use MD5 (because it's no longer secure). If you don't need security, use something faster than MD5." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38173061
Asking candidates to come up with this kind of solution in an interview setting where they are under all kinds of pressure is honestly dehumanizing.

There's a lot of good insight in the article about the correct way to approach the problem, but asking anyone to come up with it on the spot is unrealistic. You have the benefit of having seen the problem before with time on your side to reflect on it. They haven't.

When I do interviews like this, I prefer to talk them through the problem together, like we were actual teammates working on a problem together. That more closely relates to life on the job, which to me is the point of interviewing someone.
For major rocketry, other than SpaceX, by a considerable margin, yes.
Shouldn't it be the opposite?
It's a poorly sourced paragraph. Could the author be confusing all early space television systems as being SSTV, when just some of them were?
Absolutely, but you really don't need virtuoso-level code most of the time ) :
al Jazeera is extremely reputable and has some of, if not the strongest coverage of the area
Do you think Tesla would have been as successful without his leadership? Or SpaceX? Of course he "picks" things well but what about his day to day influence? Is that fungible to any CEO who devotes a similar amount of time?
The press conference from Gavin Newsom is also pretty incredible to watch, based on these snippets:

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1724093441519341573

https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/17241686730766050...

Why are locals defending this? Don't you feel you have a right to a clean and safe city and community to live in, all the time, instead of just when fancy people turn up? Especially given your tax and cost-of-living burdens?

Is this just an information problem? If SF destitution defenders actually had lived experiences in other global, world-class cities, which are clean, safe, and good to live in, they wouldn't be so forgiving of this? Or is it cognitive dissonance and just circular, SF is the best so SF is the best?
Does Love build the electronics too, or just make existing synths into wild art pieces?
Many people already pointed out that you need to say what the issues are.

I want to point out something else... Your headline is "How to manage autistic developer?". But your body text is about a subordinate who presents issues. Being autistic doesn't imply presenting issues. And we don't want to accidentally imply that it does.

One thing we can ask is how in general to better work with someone who's autistic. People can respond with very vague generalities that might or might not apply to an individual-- and which also apply to a lot of non-autistic people. That seems good to add to our toolkits/awarenesses, so long as we don't assume too much about any person.

Another thing we can ask is about specific difficulties working with someone. Adding that the person might be autistic might help nudge towards the right solutions more quickly, though that bit of info might turn out to be irrelevant. All of us can improve at many things.
the article in fact mentions drought in the 5th paragraph.
Very loud, bring ear protection! The crackling of the engines will make your entire body shake. Other than that just comfy clothes you can walk on the sand in. It's a real unique experience, you're in for a treat!
AI chemist finds molecule to make oxygen on Mars after sifting through millions
Why is most of the substance of this post giant block quote links to his own Twitter? Clicking through to those is painful; it’s not like the author can’t afford to host some screenshots on his own domain.
Obviously not every took if right for every job. But your claims that Rails is slow because for what it does there are not many good replacements. Go is a language not a framework.
Agreed, I have two MacBook Pros from 2010 and 2011 which have been chugging along great since then; daily drivers up until 2020, then stuck on a shelf without any power conditioning for two years. Dusted them both off and put back in service. They're easy to clean, look basically brand new, and work just fine now as home servers after purchasing a USB-C to Magsafe adapter so I could recycle those old bricks. Now those I definitely went through a few of over the years.
You can just run older logic thats compatible with like catalina or mojave. Thats what I do for adobe suite and its fine for my use cases. There are also third party patches to install more current os on older hardware.
They do have automated + manual reviews. I think the $99/yr developer account is what separates Google from Apple here, along with much stricter policy enforcement on the Apple side.
Keyboards are a matter of taste. To my fingers, the T420 is the last of the T series with a really good one. Older Thinkpads are easy to repair. I've replaced the keyboard once, and after near daily evening use for many years, I'm about to attempt to replace a failing fan. I'll miss this laptop when its time comes. It's run various releases of Ubuntu like a champ.
Replica of OpenAI DevDay Wanderlust (enhanced with real-time data)
I'd really like to know if they did a control where they heated the soil around the roots with the same amount of power using a heating mat or something. My bet is that it's the heating that is inducing the changes.

I wondered about electrode material too. But both questions remain unanswered because sci-hub hasn't added new articles since the 2020 attack in on them in Indian courts. I have no way to access the full text to make an informed comment. The only detail in the snippets and abstract was that it was 50mA of current. That'd be about a watt of heating for typical hundreds of ohms volume resistances of damp soil.
I was about to say…isn’t this really easy to game? Is google checking IDs at the door?
Did they ever satisfy the regulators asking them about the probability of hitting a shark with the rocket?
I didn't understand that section of the article (I'm not from the US). Is Iowa renowned for customer service or friendliness? Is it some sort of banking hub?
"Population growth" tends to happen indoors rather than out..
Chef and Puppet are binary-only?
I have a MacBook 13 inch from 2011 that now plays YouTube videos daily for my daughter when she is eating and Netflix until we canceled the subscription. Still going strong with only a replaced battery and the hard drive replacing the dvd spot. I have an older 2004 Toshiba portage m200 tart also won’t die. The only thing that seems to die on these computers is the battery, which used to be a lot easier to replace.
Sorting, merging, then just a clever unique was basically the only thing I'd consider.

If I used this question I'd add to it.

"Pretend you have to do the work on an Arduino uno, which has very little resources. Your uno can request input and produce output from the disk where these are stored at whatever offset you wish. The log files are 100GB each and sit on a desktop computer with a modern Linux on it. Each log line is 512B. You can create files if you need to through some unspecified protocol with the desktop computer. But the desktop computer must be dumb. It will only write to and read from disk. You can send it any disk system call you wish. Step 2; Now do it without sorting or something absurdly slow"

The point is to ask for actual creative solutions instead of the pattern recognition problems that most of these problem formats are.

You want something that a weekend of drilling won't change the result of
>We were trying to make "midjourney for music", everyone told us the minimum purchase was all the money in our bank account plus at least two of our limbs.

i hate to say this gives off a 'failed prospectors pivoting to shovel sales' vibe that i find concerning.
"Decolonising health care". Somebody should let this bloke know that Brazil is just as colonial as anywhere.
When it was still Pakistan, they asked the central government for a nuclear power plant like Karachi had and I think they got like a cobalt 60 target for medical isotopes. Absolute own goal on the federation’s part.
Wow. Could you tell us more about your journey?
""The government has decided to ban TikTok as it was necessary to regulate the use of the social media platform that was disrupting social harmony, goodwill and flow of indecent materials," Saud said."

TikTok "was disrupting ... flow of indecent materials".
Thanks, and likewise! One thing for me: no alcohol, ever. That's the biggest remaining thing even though there are probably many others this one is the most outward visible. And what amazes me is the amount of peer pressure applied to get you to change from a resolution like that, it's just incredible how this seems to be some kind of red cloth for some people.
> 100% realistic and achievable in a dynamic language

Achievable by just removing automatic type coercion. Throw errors instead.

Would need to be feature flagged for backwards compatiability.
nothing worth sharing yet, just got things up and running last week after much analysis paralysis.
"Don't be snarky."

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: you've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines a ton lately (examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38215766

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38215679

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38082131

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37800148)

We have to ban accounts that post like that, so if you'd please stop posting like that, we'd appreciate it. I don't want to ban an 8-year-old account, but we don't have much choice if the account is frequently posting like that.
The rationale for not wanting SQL solution feels a bit strained. If you don't want an SQL answer just say "Hey buster this is a C++ interview!"
I'd argue only some alcohol control laws exist for religious reasons. Some of those old puritanical laws are still on the books, but stick around today because they are useful for regulatory capture.
lol what? I can replace the screen in under 15 minutes.
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Incidentally, Marvel badly executed the details - it isn’t wise to trumpet the Muslim part when you go ahead and use Punjabi Sikh cultural references that are extremely grating to Punjabi Muslims’ ears. (Not offensive, just extremely incongruous)
I have to think that $99 a year keeps away a lot of people who aren’t serious, and maybe even discourages various scams and schemes that depend on flooding platforms with apps scammers know will get rejected eventually in a whack-a-mole fashion.

If your account gets banned and you lose $99 before the scam paid off it’s not worth your time.
As an owner of chickens, they can be plenty insulting and judgemental themselves.
Cool what Contexte did with HTMX, but personally I really dislike the amount of data packed into those HTML templates, those hx-get attributes are frighteningly long.
The best part of working from home is truly seizing the morning thanks to not having to commute or put on business casual. Little walks before works are liable to turn into full blown 3 hour hikes at dawn before long. Very energizing to start the day at 9am and feel like you’ve already had plenty of sunlight and activity, especially this time of year when the sun sets so early.
Tableau was good and innovative early on but has now turned into another piece of junk, SaaS only software rental. After the Salesforce acquisition they even eventually started refusing to renew support and maintenance for people with permanent licenses.

Hopefully after thousands of dollars in purchases, you’re happy to start paying just for updates and such, on whatever new terms they like, where all your stuff goes away if you don’t pay protection money-with the alternative that if you don’t, no support or updates at all.

I wouldn’t call this a success story.
I am fascinated how this outlet (theinformation.com) spreads clickbaity rumors and sells them behind paywall.
> I'm really amazed that this "best interview" question really just boils down to leetcode for a _Senior Staff_ level interview.

A good interview should involve more than just a coding problem. But it should absolutely require at least one coding problem. It’s mind boggling the number of “senior” people with good resumes I’ve screened out in interviews over the years because, simple as a problem like this is, they really had no idea how to even start solving it.

I don’t know about the poster, but when I’ve done interviews - especially for senior people - there are a lot of different types of assessment I’d want to do before hiring them. I’d also want to assess their social skills somehow (eg get them to present to the team about something interesting). And ask some high level systems architecture questions, talk about their background, and more.
Surely you mean this peace that ended when Russia started a full-scale invasion in Ukraine.
I feel like this actually would be a weirdly therapeutic little side gig.
Indeed. You can find tons of similar similar stories iin "Crypto", by Stephen Levy [1]. Great book if you enjoy computer history or interested in infosec.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Crypto-Rebels-Government-Privacy-Digi...
I think these kinds of problems cause interviewee’s (under stress) to overthink the solution.

“Load to a relational store and use sql” would be a reasonable answer that, I’m sure, would be acceptable in most cases.
Ancient Nvidia GPU used to decode even more antediluvian Roman scroll
I know, I know, pretty unrealistic wishful thinking.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic_ac...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicamba
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecoprop

These are the three most common in consumer broadleaf herbicide ingredients (usually combined) that actually work. They mimic a growth hormone:

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

Between application time and death the plants really do just grow out of control in weird uncoordinated ways. You can see a treated dandelion here:

https://turf.purdue.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Slide16.J...

Another interesting broadleaf herbicide mechanism is overloading invasive plants with chelated iron. Broadleaf weeds absorb iron rapidly and without regulation until the point of toxicity, whereas grasses will only absorb what they need to turn a nice healthy dark shade of green.
Do you not believe in supply and demand? What about housing makes it so exceptional that it's something that applies to everything else but not homes?

Were investors buying 10 cars at a time with low interest loans and regular people forced to buy/lease from them before the chip shortage? Why did cars only shoot up in price when it was difficult to obtain one?

Why does a country like Japan, with its declining population and plenty of housing not have a flood of investors buying tons of homes at once and flipping/renting them back to its population? Could it be because that would make a terrible investment?

That housing is an investment vehicle and not you know, just a home to live in, is the evidence. Homes aren't rising in prices where populations have declined and buyers aren't competing.
RESTful Client Server Architecture, that is fading, and pitfalls for beginners
Hold on tight because, in this blog series, we're throwing Roy Fielding's REST into the ring with the flashy, beginner-friendly moves of modern frameworks. It's like the ultimate face-off of web development philosophies. Oh, and did we mention we'll be throwing in some roasts too? Get ready for a wild ride where we break down the classics, roast the trends, and laugh along the way. It's the Fielding vs. Frameworks showdown, and things are about to get spicy!