jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The question is why you're not reading more about Pulumi. It does all this in your language of choice across cloud providers. It works really well.
They're fundamentally different, though. Tiktok is much more viable as a read-only, addictive content thing; but I never added people I knew on there during my month-long soujourn to discover what it was all about, nor did I feel any need to comment.
They didn't brief me to expect that. Or, to be fair, maybe they did and I missed it. I didn't mention above that he refused to answer a couple of basic questions (what type of work is it? what language? where will the job be? can I be remote?) until he got through the script. It was like talking to a machine. And he was rude. I got a negative impression. I know, sometimes recruits are expected to put up with some rudeness or brusqueness to show how flexible they are, can put up with different personalities etc. But this guy just came across as kind of immature and arrogant. Sorry, but I'm quite glad I terminated the interview and he also seemed unwilling to push at all, just said "okay!" in a sing-song voice that implied "yeah whatever, go die". At least be polite and try to convey some professionalism or you're going to turn off people who prefer to work around professionals.
I just read Aaron Parecki's "How to leave Facebook" post yesterday and I think his way is much better. If you want to quit facebook don't forget to check it here first: https://aaronparecki.com/2020/06/14/14/how-to-leave-facebook
What have the biggest challenges been?
This could be substantially different for them. The guy is a citizen, works for an "All American" type company (Ford), etc. And the ACLU picked up the case.
I had no idea where you were going with this comment but I'm very glad I read until the end.
That's true, but I would expect that most idle servers are turned off and they use Wake-on-LAN to become active when there is work to do.

Just a few servers could be kept idle, not off, to enable a sub-second start-up time for some new work.
Minute nitpicking. It's Arab. Arabic is the language.
It's easy to market what Bevy is when it's called a 'Game Engine' but I hope this platform can really become the next Omniverse-type collaborative 3D environment for the Architecture/Engineering/Construction market. Right now, there isn't a great place to park BIM files.
Intel 10nm is really just a marketing term at this point and has nothing to do with transistor density.
What would you call a better comparison? Would you like a moderately evil secret police regime?
You should bookmark it, it's a good read.

>Neuner began hearing similar stories from other co-working entrepreneurs: WeWork came to town, opened near an existing co-working office, and undercut the competitor on price. Sometimes WeWork promised tenants a moving bonus if they terminated an existing lease; in other instances, the company obtained client directories from competitors’ Web sites and offered everyone on the lists three months of free rent. Jerome Chang, the owner of Blankspaces, in Los Angeles, told me, “My average rate was five hundred and fifty dollars per desk per month, and I was just scraping by. Then WeWork arrived, and I had to drop it to four hundred and fifty, and then three hundred and fifty. It eviscerated my business.” Rebecca Brian Pan, who founded a co-working company named Covo, said, “No one could make money at these prices. But they kept lowering them so that they were cheaper than everyone else. It was like they had a bottomless bank account that made it impossible for anyone else to survive.”

>Neuner began slashing NextSpace’s prices and adding amenities—free beer; lunchtime classes on accounting, coding, and chakra cleansing—but none of it mattered. WeWork’s prices were too low. By the end of 2014, WeWork had raised more than half a billion dollars from venture capitalists. Although it was now losing six million dollars a month, it was growing faster than ever before, with plans for sixty locations in more than a dozen cities.

>Meanwhile, one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent investors, Bruce Dunlevie, of the venture-capital firm Benchmark, had joined WeWork’s board of directors. Benchmark, founded in 1995 in Menlo Park, had funded such Silicon Valley startups as eBay, Twitter, and Instagram. Dunlevie admitted to a partner that he wasn’t certain how WeWork would ever become profitable, but he was taken with Neumann. Dunlevie said to the partner, “Let’s give him some money, and he’ll figure it out.” Around this time, Benchmark made its first investment in WeWork—seventeen million dollars.
> Now compare to neuroscience, where we struggle to accurately make (by comparison) the most basic of predictions.

I'm not addressing the hand wavy nature of the article, which is self-evident. This is irrelevant to the point being discussed.
you joke but you would jave entirely better outcomes with the above regimen than without
Let's not forget that being on a ventilator and under heavy sedatives can cause lingering neurological symptoms as well. Some hospitals have been using an obscene amount of sedatives as they aren't staffed enough to keep an eye on the patients.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/hospitals-retreat-from-early-co...
To be fair, anyone else has almost all the code, since it's all public.
Chicago isn't a car centric city, probably the only in the Midwest.
> Have you ever tried to play an old game on a widescreen monitor? Even a lot of modern, triple-A games have weird HUD layouts on ultrawide monitors because they have to be re-hard-coded for that aspect ratio. So if they haven't, you just get the layout they're hardcoded to for widescreen monitors.

Have you ever seen any UI on the web that approaches the complexity of game UIs? I haven't [1]. Anywhere there's such complexity on the web, you get lots and lots of hardcoded values: from hardcoded media breakpoints to entirely different layouts for different resolutions and screen sizes.

> I don't have time to read more than the first part of your reply right now; maybe I will later.

Now worries, I got carried away a bit. As Stephen King calls it, "diarrhoea of the word processor" :)

[1] https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/1309777901483634689
15 out of 50 is not a bad run for cold applications. we know that most jobs that are listed are not real, and most companies looking for employees don't list.

any company that is always hiring is equivalently never hiring.

As for the rest of your funnel, these seem like typical numbers. I assume this is over the course of a little more than a month.

The biggest problem with interviewing self-taught programmers, is that their vocabulary is often weak. This makes it very hard to test their practitioner skill from a conversation.

If you are doing post-mortems on each of your interviews, I imagined that you will land a position soon.
I use NordVPN, didn't know it had a bad reputation (purchased it because of a promotional offer). Care to elaborate?
What specifically makes you think they pulled a Levandowski?
But all this is curve-fitting in a more general sense - fitting the curve of life, gene reproduction. So it is still curve fitting, it is just that a pottential AGI is certainly not in the hypothesis space of current deep learning models, and those cannot reach AGI by curve-fitting.
When I was at a genetics lab, I was helping some researchers on something and spent 3 days writing a perl script, which kept failing. I sent an email to one of the guys who wrote the paper the research was being based on, and he said, why not try awk like this? With a little work, I turned 3 days of perl into a 1 line awk that was faster than anything else for the job at the time. That was an inspirational moment for the fundamental power of the unix philosophy and the core utilities in linux for me.

Good introductory article here!
>Friendly reminder: Azure and AWS both offer a free tier of VM which are perfectly sufficient for a personal openVPN server.

No, it's not. Both have zero or very low amount of free egress (5GB max). After that you're paying $0.1 per GB of egress traffic.
I'm with you - as long as you don't have a RWD car, winter tyres on a FWD car make a huge difference, and they deal with ice and snow just fine.
Do you know what CNI plugins support veth pairs?
For me there's very good reason for running home k8s cluster: dogfood factor. I run my smarthome and home surveillance (zoneminder) stuff, along with UniFi controller on k8s, and I must say that helps me a great deal with SRE part of my job. I do learn some important things before I encounter them in the work setting, such as: https://twitter.com/ivan4th/status/1236481744477532171
I don't think reducing salaries will have any effect on the caliber of academics. There are a ton of graduate students, postdocs, and research scientists glad to work for less. Most are just as qualified as the faculty who supervise them. Likewise, the quality at faculty at elite schools and state schools is identical; the key difference in research output comes from access to resources.

Money isn't everything that motivates people. And you want to get exactly the kinds of people who are motivated by curiosity, not power and prestige.

The salary needs to be enough to live on without financial stress. On the other hand, it doesn't need to guarantee anything beyond cafeteria-grade food, basic housing, and a beat-up old car.

Benefits are important too. Things like university medical, insurance, and retirement policies reduce the risk profile. Academics shouldn't be distracted or stressed by financial constraints, but neither should they be motivated by them.
Wire fraud.
some people want to kill the electric car
The Secret Service does more than protect the president; their primary purpose is to combat counterfeiting. The morons who run this country figured that computer crimes were closer to counterfeiting money than to any other crimes, and so the Secret Service got in on the action.
If the argument is that the iPad will replace a Mac then you cant just do that and provide a mediocre development experience. You will need C / C++ and other languages to use third party libraries for apps.

Without a reasonably performant platform to develop on the iPad will kill itself.
There was a short 2 weeks opportunity window for that to happen, but it didn't happen. The ruling class made sure there will be no disruption in their (healthcare) system.
> Huh? For one, nothing stops you from saying you are the creator, and nobody would have any way to say you're not.

Sure, just as nothing is stopping you from walking into a store, taking something, and walking out without paying. It's when you get caught doing so that the trouble beings. If you get caught, not only do you not get the copyright, but you've likely committed fraud.

Proving that you're not the creator is another issue, which would probably make for an interesting case.

> Half of Brian Eno's output is generated works, where he sets some rules on a music synthesis system, and lets it create a work. Never had any issue copyrighting them...

That's somewhat different though. Setting rules makes it a predictable process, and you have a one-way system: you set the rules and you always get the same result. A generator that would generate all possible results isn't the same.

If you sifted through all those randomly generated things, found one that you like, and published it, things get fuzzy, I guess. Maybe the curation would qualify as the creative input.
That doesn't seem to be common.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing
As someone who is a major movie buff and all, I generally check for new movies coming out and check their trailers on YouTube or Apple Trailers.

I don't think I'd use this site as the above fulfill my needs pretty well.
The theoretical limit for solar cells is much lower than 100%:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shockley%E2%80%93Queisser_limit
What about machetes and Molotov cocktails?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/03/21/new-orl...

I don't think the TSA agents should be armed, but I'm sure everyone (even the TSA agents) were happy deputy Slyve was.
3mb for one minute? My MP3's are about 1mb per minute, so let's say there are 2 sound streams and then we are at 2mb per minute (but we are not. We pretty much only send data when someone is talking).

Why is the LTE voice data so bulky? It needs lower fidelity than my music, and it ought to be compressed in a more efficient format than MP3. What gives?
I didn't even know chickens lived for 50 years, much less how big this one got over that time!

:^)
Kind of (maybe not that) interesting that this is the first update that says

> and have reached out to all affected customers.

while the previous ones have stated

> please reach out to our teams should you find any issues

or

> We hear and appreciate all the feedback from our valued customers
It's 2-3 hours for a guy having a 2-3 years of experience (which is what I'm looking for). And yes, I get those attempted by the guys in my team before sending it out. And yes, most of the time, I end up flushing out a few bits of the question before actually sending it out based on their suggestions.

In reality though, the time spent by the guys varies. I always ask them how much time did they spend on the question after selection. The mileage varies from 30 mins to 4 days (because they had office work/weekend trips and attempted the question only when they were absolutely free). No, the hiring HR makes it specifically clear to not try to give a polished code during the initial call and only work 2-3 hours on it.

I see where you're coming from, lengthy problem solving questions are definitely not worth anybody's free time. I've seen problems that can take 1-2 weeks to solve. But for me 2-3 (or even going by your maths of 4x3... 12) hours... is definitely worth your free time... Because
1. that's the amount time you spent while giving your 4 other interview rounds in 4 other companies paying ¼th the salary.
2. Or for a similar company paying an equivalent salary that takes 4 rounds of interviews spread across 4 different days (counting your commute time as well).

Implement array.flatten can be Googled in under a minute. That beats the purpose of a test. I'd rather take a telephonic round and be over with it. The core idea behind my shift was to ensure candidates can't cheat. (And I hate video calls because a lot of them end up having connectivity issues during the interview, especially during the difficult questions).

> I don't read any further and bail.
Yes. This. You're the kind of guy I don't want my time wasted with. There are a lot of intelligent candidates who'd have definitely aced a telephonic round (or even this written test for that matter) but bail out at the sight of "implement a...". In my experience, you're the kind of a guy suffering from Dunning-Kruger syndrome. The good work is there, but the headaches that such candidates cause on the other 90% of the times makes it not worth my time.

We can argue this to the world's end but in the end what matters is the demand and supply market forces. You can call my process a waste of your time. I'm sure you'll end up getting a better job the next day. And on the other side of this coin, even I'll end up getting a better candidate than you. In my experience, all the candidates that I've hired in this format have been marvelous, so I'm gonna stick to this.... At least until I keep getting great candidates.
Rich text formatting definitely is a plus for me in a social media app! I think it's better to specify such things, especially for users coming from Facebook/Twitter/etc with Facebook/Twitter-like expectations.
You can always have different parts under different licenses.
Thanks for the benefit of the doubt. Yeah, this is part of a stock privacy policy. Slow Social is a hobby and experimental social network, not a startup. I fully intend to support any users on the platform and hopefully make it into a really nice experience, but there are no investors or stakeholders to incentivize me to do anything other than my original goal, which is to make a Social Network for friends, not influencers.
Biden’S nuclear posture review; Every four years, the US government revises it’s nuclear policies in a Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) ... Bill Gertz of the Washington Times reports:

The Pentagon will eliminate the sole nuclear gravity bomb in the U.S. strategic weapons arsenal capable of blasting deeply buried underground structures as part of the Biden administration‘s review of strategic weapons policy, according to U.S. officials. The retirement of the B83 bomb, a megatonclass weapon delivered by B-2 stealth bombers, was disclosed to Congress last month as part of the Biden administration’s classified nuclear posture review, a major reassessment of strategic forces and their employment. The bomb is “costly to maintain
and of increasingly limited value,” a senior defense official told The Washington Times.

“Limited value?” Not so. Both Russia and China have deep underground nuclear missile bunkers and manufacturing and storage facilities that only
this weapon can attack. Even our land based and sub-launched warheads can’t penetrate these hardened facilities...

Source Joel Skousen Latest WAB
Because the world is really ready for something to displace C and bring low-level programming to the 21-st century.
I know, this is the utter tragedy of it.

Like others I've no additional wisdom to add except to say we need science to urgently find a less dangerous psychotropic substitute for ethanol - if such a substitute is actually possible.
It's a great prototype of features, but features don't build an audience. To Draw in customers, there has to be growth marketing features like friend recommendations, push notifications, syndicating updates to existing networks.

It's the network that brings in consumers, not the features.
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Hmm I found it a very good strategy to do what Glenn Stevens* advises people to do. :) USA grew to become a prosperous country on the back of domestic demand for 200 million people, so there's no reason 1.2 billion people in China cannot do the same.

* the reserve bank governor.
Domestic insurrection.
What does a well look like under water?
Who watches the watchers?

I see an article about this come up every couple months and I find it plain frightening.

Funny how some defend laws and privacy by saying "well if you aren't doing anything wrong, you shouldn't worry about it." but the same is not true for those who serve and protect?

Privacy is your right and so is protecting your rights. If it's in public, well, it's not private! And if you are using something as an insurance of protecting or monitoring the governing of your rights, well it is unjust to make that illegal.
That's why you're not the Senator from Connecticut.

I hate that man.
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The idea is cool, and I like your additional list features. But the interface needs more alternate, intuitive ways of navigation compared to the vim keybindings (I don't use a terminal text editor). You can already click on an item to select it, but it would be nice if you could drag and drop the items, both up and down and left and right.

Actually, I think all the interface features I suggest would just be in OmniOutliner (http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnioutliner/) – just try out OmniOutliner if you can and note the interface. The most relevant keyboard shortcuts: Command-Shift-{ and } for creating a new parent-sibling or child, Esc for toggling between selecting the list item and editing it, left and right for collapsing and expanding items. There might be features in its menus and inspectors that would be useful, too.

Also, a toggle-able help toolbar might be nice. It would display the key bindings in the ? help box along with their descriptions, and they would be clickable links. This would make it easier for new users to learn the key bindings.
I thought you might bring some of that up! :)

Unless this URL (http://clojure.org/java_interop) is out of date, then I fail to see how I'm misreading this section.

"All arguments are passed to Clojure fns as objects, so there's no point to putting non-array primitive type hints on fn args. Instead, use the let technique shown to place args in primitive locals if they need to participate in primitive arithmetic in the body.".

Also, I'm not an expert on JRuby's attempted optimizations, but if I understand correctly they are very limited, much in the same way that Java's escape analysis is. The post By Charles Nutter less than a year ago is illuminating in that regard(http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages/browse_thread/t...). Have things changed that significantly since then? I follow his blog regularly and in most benchmarks I can remember him talking about he still compares JRuby to Java running boxed math.
> If they implemented it, I'm sure they've found that there's a performance boost for large datasets.

Argh! Perhaps I take things too literally, but the logic in this statement is just painful.
You need the QML runtime (http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/qmlruntime.html) which you can embed in any Qt C++ app or deploy on mobile devices. The idea is that you code the app in C++ and code the user experience with this language, writing bindings to your models on the way.
That's not quite accurate, as it changes over time (just above that in the FAQ), and you cannot "discover" bitcoins which are already known. The difficulty in finding a new one increases as each new one is found, if only slightly.
This is why it would be something I would love to do. I would get bits of knowledge all my own and get my own personal puzzle to solve.
I think you should really spend more time with your nephew.

~~I deleted a bunch of shit. If you read that I'm sorry. Really, I know this stuff is hard.~~
While an early adopter vehicle like this isn't about saving money at all (there are extremely few hybrid vehicles that economically pay off), a Volt with come with a lot of cachet. Sure there'll be the contrarians (seriously, the griping about the 37 mpg borders on the ridiculous. That is a very decent worst-scenario mixed-use value for a vehicle in the class of the Volt. But contrarians gotta hate), but overall most people will perceive it as a higher esteem vehicle.

People pay a lot of money for higher esteem vehicles. It funds most hybrids (which by themselves are seldom a net return).
Mine it's always set to busy so people only message me if it's important.