skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some other interesting points here: Ballmer works hard to de-emphasize and diplomatically move away from discussing this exact question once it becomes clear that Chang's not approaching it by thinking explicitly about binary search and expected value.

Which is not surprising, because she's a professional journalist! It's amazing that Ballmer (like so many technical interviewers) is so pleased with this question that he couldn't help bringing it up, even though it's not really that relevant to Chang's question.
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Are there new hardware options for new adopters of Lyrion?
Barbara Oakley's "Learning How to Learn" course describes this processing as "diffusion". It's amazing how much just doing something else for a while when I get stuck on something can help, be it a drum beat I'm having trouble replicating or a query I'm having trouble writing.

(Course is https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn)
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Signal handler integrations are underrated and great.
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Canada doesn't have an auto industry??

https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/canadian-automotive-industr...

Detroit is only the headquarters of the combined manufacturing base spanning the US and Canada.
Do you know of a good source for the footprint thing? Couldn’t find it on the calculation section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_average_fuel_economy
I would not say it in such absolute way - /proc/self/exe has downsides as well. As this resolves all symlinks, so this breaks all the things that depend on argv[0], like nice help messages, python's virtualenv, name-based dispatch, and seeing if the program which was executed via symlink or not.

A lot of times you know you never called chdir(), in which case I'd actually recommend executing argv[0], as this is nicest thing for admins. If you are really worried, you can use /proc/self/exe for progname and pass argv[0] as-is, but that's overkill a lot of times.
Its current year and IDEs still can’t remember how I just transformed the snippet of code and suggest to transform the rest of the files in the same way. All they can do in “refactor” menu is only “rename” and then some extract/etc nonsense which no one uses irl.

By using regexps I have an experience that opens many doors, and the fact that they aren’t automatic could make me sad, if only these doors weren’t completely shut without that experience.
That’s a good signal. The moment a paper gets peer review at a place like NeurIPS, I know that the chances of the experiment section not being lies goes to zero.
Oh wow, so that tiny chip can run a whole webserver with bluetooth and wifi, programmed purely using arduino. Pretty cool!
I linked the book (which I recommend reading, again).

Indeed, there is an implicit assumption about our current status as a species. Unlike most other species, we developed ourselves beyond our basic physical capabilities.
Those things only make the codebase "ugly" until you learn how to read it.
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> argv[0] is a relic of the past

Busybox says hello.

Seriously though, how is this on the front page? Both the premise and conclusions contradict the reality of how argv[0] is used with symbolic links and hard links.
I keep my IPMI and other management interfaces segregated to a separate management VLAN that's only accessible via a dedicated VPN.
Tongue in cheek. I’ve been using emacs with QWERTY coding fulltime for years. Hands doing fine. Just need good seating, monitor, keyswitch spring strength, and hand positioning. Cherry MX brown switches were exhausting.
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Your argument is no content moderation by social platforms. Your point is if it's hard, don't do it. Courts and legal interpretations exist for this reason, to parse the grey areas, and in this case they are ruling against Twitter's lack of content moderation.

Free speech doesn't equate to the freedom to spread misinformation, supporting and then organizing an attempted a military coup in Brazil.
"as you, my interviewer, are a capable SWE I assume you gave me all the context needed to solve the problem".

The interviewing game of asking clarification questions is silly and should stop. In the system design portion I can understand it, but not when asked a direct technical question.

It's perfectly fine to ask followup questions with added constraints or just directly say that the specification is fuzzy and needs to be clarified first, but having that dance around the basic specs in nonsense (as if you wouldn't know if you're dealing with a 10PB array or 1kb at work).
The Apple IIGS and the SNES used almost identical CPUs
Weird bug in safari. Share url gives me the link above, but selecting the url bar gives me the correct link https://owntracks.org/booklet/features/location/
You certainly have a negative attitude towards discipline and obedience.

Yes, it can be described as "control" from the authority's viewpoint. Is this always bad and wrong? If control is manipulative, if it is oppressive, if it tramples on rights or freedoms and fails to serve the interests of the controls, then control is bad.

But discipline and obedience to legitimate authorities are virtues. Discipline is what drives exploration and discovery. Timepieces were crucial in helping navigators find their way across the open seas. Perhaps Columbus was religiously controlled, perhaps Captain Cook was controlled by the British Empire, perhaps Magellan was controlled by his chain of command, but their ability to discern the structure of the natural world and subdue it was due to their discipline and the structure of their very small crews aboard isolated vessels.

If you are not a "good little worker" aboard a ship, or in an Army unit, then you are dead and your battle is lost. Perhaps you conflate control with unity--whether it was Joshua instructing his troops to shout, or everyone showing up at Stonehenge on time for the fertility rituals, or Romeo and Juliet checking the time for a pre-arranged tryst, having people all do something at the same time is incredibly useful even for atheists and pagans.

I don't know if freight and passenger trains are religiously controlled, but they're the ones who gave us modern timekeeping and as a consumer, I hope you'd agree that it's important that freight shipments are picked up and delivered according to a schedule, and if you had trouble getting pasta or toilet paper during COVID-19, then you were a victim of a lack of control in regards to the world's vital supply chains.

If you are not a "good little worker" for your startup of 10 employees then you're bankrupt and you're unemployed and you're sitting around, posting on Hacker News instead of applying for jobs. I honestly do not see the trouble in doing the will of teachers in school or parents at home, provided that those leaders love their charges and want what's best for them. Many of them do, and it's important to recognize that "control" and discipline is usually oriented to the common good and even the individual's good.
The higher priced goods are going to move slower. The $20 price tag reflects the higher quality packaging (to reinforce the message that THIS is better quality) and targeting of higher spending customers, the higher price to the retailer, and the amount of time it has to sit on the shelf. Turnover is king as all retailers and manufacturers are sensitive to holding products. Warehousing has a steep cost.
> GCL existed at a time when JavaScript had no notion of a module system whatsoever (not even CommonJS).

By 2007, Dojo Toolkit already had a working module system: https://web.archive.org/web/20071120165657/http://dojotoolki...
And in particular, this was rampant at Microsoft in the Ballmer days.
Looks cool, and definitely like the standalone binary format.

Tangentially, glad to see more biotech stuff finally making the front on HN! :D
How are they fighting Elon Musk by forcing him to ban political figures in Brazil, him not complying and then censoring the whole site?
Narrative Bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative_bias is pretty close.
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Alcohol being a diuretic is not a myth. All Alcoholic drinks being enough of a diuretic to dehydrate you is. A small beer that is less than 1% is definitely not going to net dehydrate you. The alcohol is still a diuretic, but it does not offset the fact that you’re also consuming a large amount of water in the drink.

Your reference to “literature” is not correct. The drinks being discussed here were incredibly weak, and were often given to folks like workers and children. Definitely not to get drunk. That is not to say there wasn’t other alcoholic drinks that people consumed for the purpose of getting drunk.
> When the color on the screen is neither green nor blue, many people will just pick a random answer.

Or people will naturally intuit that they should choose whichever answer they think is closer to true.
Yes, you are right. In this game, you can know the answer after 6 guesses, but then you also have to tell him, which counts as the 7th guess.
I don't see the point in this is blue/green, when most languages have a name for the color that is between them. Pretending that teal, aka blue-green, aka cyan, etc, isn't a thing doesn't seem that useful if you are trying for a consensus. They should be asking, is this more green than blue or neither.
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> Was I dumb?

Doesn't sounds like it. I mean in general it is bad form to blame users for safety problems. Even more so in an unfamiliar environment.

If the oven had a safety thermocouple and it was working correctly there should have been 0 gas smell after what you say you did. If you did that and smelled gas then the oven was either faulty or very old.
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It’s a trade off. Some people really do prefer the larger phones even if they have trade offs for pocket ability and one handed use while standing.
> if car companies where the ones liable for fixing your car

Sidenote: this one of the ideas behind Ida Aukens (controversial, and I would say misunderstood) "You will own nothing and be happy": One way to make companies liable is by making them own and maintain what they produce for the entire product cycle, and you only rent these items.

Of course this needs a very healthy and competitive market with effective regulations to prevent eternal enshittification. And maybe it doesn't work when shareholder value is everything that counts.
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Nice job aligning the “trained professionals” with the last going bonkers and doing flips lol!
I think it would be cooler if databases implemented a bytecode interface instead of just SQL. Then ORM platforms would be able to compile directly to that instead of having to use SQL as an intermediate stage. Could also provide support for bound parameters instead of trying to use text replacements to sanitize inputs. Then if you want to improve the syntax of the query langauge, you don't need buy-in from the database developers, you just need a different query compiler
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Are US citizens going to be punished up to 9k $ if they use vpn to access it? Is tiktok being banned because they didn't censor certain republican or democratic senators?
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Receivers are utterly idiotic. Like how could anyone with two working brain cells sign off on something like that?

If you don't want OOP in the language, but want people to be able to write thing.function(arg), you just make function(thing, arg) and thing.function(arg) equivalent syntax.
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That's a (potentially) good perspective, but not how people use "technical" in the wild.
I agree the world is complex and there isn't one way people did everything.

That said, 1) the English mass-adopted tea for reasons other than cost (cost just enabled it), 2) for water in the field, canteens had been around for thousands of years (horns, animal skins, wooden cups, buckets, pots, kettles, etc) and there is tons of writing of farm hands being brought water in the field by womenfolk, 3) nobody understood the concept of hydration or electrolytes, but they did think beer makes you grow stronger and more invigorated, just like they thought of wine... farmers in the American colonies would have drank switchel rather than low beer. Another similar drink in ancient times was posca, mostly drank as a cheap alternative to wine, because water is so boring even flavored vinegar is more enjoyable. And then you break off into the medicinal cordials which were a product of wanting to improve your health, as opposed to the common myth "they couldn't figure out how to get clean water so they had to drink X". We're the same today, with our flavored vitamin waters and kombuchas. We don't actually need to drink these things, and our health will be fine without them, but we enjoy making up stories for ourselves, "health remedies", etc, and we enjoy different flavors.
You are correct that you can know the answer in 6, but actually winning requires you to “guess” that one last time once you know it.
The Citroen Oli (corrugated cardboard honeycombs with fiberglass) and Honda Sustaina C (acrylic resin) concepts are the two most interesting I've seen with small vehicles making a use of new lighter materials. I don't think either has been marked for production yet, and if you're in North America like me, we probably won't ever see them if they do get made.
>most people's thresholds, averaged over monitor calibrations, imply that cyan is classified as blue.

I think that's just to your test forcing people to pick either blue or green even though cyan is both, they are just going to pick blue because it's the first option and more likely to be picked randomly.
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Same! For me its some combination of paradox-of-choice for what to go learn about or work on next combined with variable-ratio-reinforcement compelling me to practically do a depth-first traversal of all the cool possibilities.

I think at some point I'll need to turn it all off.
An estate/station wagon style body is great for this. Room like an SUV, handles much more like a saloon/sedan than an SUV or crossover. Used to be popular as a family car back in the 1970s, every automaker made them but there are not nearly as many choices these days.
There's an entrance to a car park in Twickenham that's similar. Holly Road is one way, and the car park is on the right. So you turn right into a reversed approach road. Then the leaving traffic doesn't cross the incoming traffic when it turns right back onto Holly Road:
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> Obama admin didn’t really care about emissions, just exerting control as they had a lever to do it.

Look, I don't mind a good cautionary tale over well-intentioned regulations gone awry, but it doesn't help your credibility when you lump in bad-faith political takes at the same time.

Running a clinic in how to not be persuasive when arguing a point of view.
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First off. Don’t use Wikipedia for such a topic specific thing. You will have to go directly to CAFE, and without being a mfg, I’m not sure how far you get.

Second, my source is first hand. I was there as an engineer at the time with Chrysler my paycheck didn’t say Daimler but that isn’t uncommon at CTC, later when we moved to GM I heard the same account. It wasn’t a secret, it was just something no one cared about.

Third, it doesn’t matter if you acknowledge my account. Every new body release since 2008 is larger than his previous version. Explain it a different way if you want to “create your own truth” or whatever postmodernism thing you might be into. IDK.

Lastly, customers like the bigger vehicles for the most part. It coincides well with an obesity crisis.
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I wish I bookmarked the source, but it's a collective action problem. Bigger vehicles are safer for their occupants than smaller cars, but for every life saved by bigger cars, 12 pedestrian/cyclist/small car occupant's lives are loss.

The only practical way to solve collective action problems is through government regulation, and government regulations do not take into account bystander lives.
I'm curious how the aggregate results from this test would compare to the exact same test named "Is my green your green?"

I could see the title influencing some of the more nuanced decisions in the middle.