skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's other ways to evaluate if someone can program. A "4 hour" take home test for example isn't a good one as they could easily cheat or spend more time on it. In person tests are often setup to test your memorization which let's be real, how many of us don't google stuff on the daily?

What I feel is more important is a persons thought process on how they approach a problem and come to a solution.
Matches my experience cutting out "white carbs" completely. Now I get all my carbs from raw plant sources. After a few months, the bread aisle in the grocery store smells like a hardware store. I'm leaner, stronger and faster than I've been my entire life. And I eat more than I've ever eaten in my life. I probably eat double what I used to.
As far as we know, the Think* (ex-IBM) product line has been free of such shenanigans, though.
Gastro-intestinal.
Privacy concerns raised about upcoming Client-Hints web standard
Stadia has overcome the speed of light, so yes it's a viable product now and needs a response.

/s
I am in no way near an expert on this topic, but from what I know and given nuclear's track record, nuclear energy is probably mankind's only way out of total climate breakdown.
Not true, but you do get banned if that's all you use the site for, or if you regularly break its guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Similarly to how addictive products like cigarettes cause considerable harm to society, food with additives to make it "taste so darn good" can cause great harm.

As a simple example, potato chips are carefully engineered to cause overconsumption. Why is that not seen for what it is? Causing direct harm to consumers through the use of addictive products.
As someone with experience the idea that the workers choose is a bit laughable.

Once established the union is largely inflexible and not likely or able renegotiate the structure... that is just how it works historically.

Folks mentioning it isn't just FUD because you don't agree, for some of us it's experience.
I'm not making an argument that nuclear isn't safe.

However, it is inherently high-stakes. A mistake that causes a station blackout for a couple hours can cost thousands of lives and make large swathes of land uninhabitable, costing billions of dollars.

What you say about it being the safest in terms of deaths per unit energy is the argument I use to counteract the concern, but I still admit that the concern is legitimate. It's a hell of a way to boil water (Karl Grossman).
gastro-intestinal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastrointestinal_tract
A third option - raising capital from a public market may be cheaper holistically. Perhaps the private money is heavy into competition, and you’re worries about onerous terms.

I’m sure we could think of other options if we tried really hard.
I went from corporate to startup... and now I just don't seem to be able to go back to corporate. Once you've had that baptism, if it didn't kill you, it's part of you. There's no going back to sitting in a cubicle after that kind of excitement.
no there is no difference.
Both don’t understand science and basic statistics. Go look up on which energy source is statistically safer (we have decades of operations and accidents now)
Regarding vaccines there were actually some “oh shit” moments which turned out to be OK, but anti-vaxers lack of science knowledge make them ignorant of those (google sv40 virus and polio vaccine)
Tastier is pretty subjective, and they weren't comparing them side by side. But something can probably be said about shifting tastes as you eat a certain kind of food repeatedly. I know if I'm eating healthy for awhile, then have a super rich dessert, it overwhelms me, as if my taste buds have adapted towards the healthy food.
MeNaTec
Great.

You stop selling tons of concentrated elephant tranquilizer to kids.

I will look the other way when you dub Iron Man 5 to promote global terrorism.

There's nothing idealistic about this. Politics is cattle butchery.

A smart man once said that there are no red states or blue states. It's just the United States. There are no white Americans or black Americans. There are just Americans.

If you look at just American, the rest of the world treated us horribly. Australia, once a penal colony, sure. America was the death camp, complete with child age cannibalism.

But we just didn't die, did we?

So we got a never ending series of wars launched by the old world to take us out. All for the outrageous crime of basic human rights.

The only reason it ended is we did the impossible to end WWII. The rest of the world pushed the Soviets into Japan, trying to start it up again.

In response we gave you two warnings, 100 years ago, to leave us alone. To not come here thinking you will rule the world. Easily we could have took the data, built an exposed nuclear core, dumped in somewhere strategic and we're the only ones left.

Enjoy your surrender as we give you everything we ask. And kiss the ground, lucky and praise America that we haven't melted you for the awful ignorant crimes you committed.
I have also been wondering how this revolution of ethical imitation meat products is going to play with processed foods... as these are also quite processed foods.

ingredient list from a mock salami product:

water, vital wheat gluten, isolated soy protein, tofu (water, soybeans), spices, natural flavors (including autolyzed yeast extract), salt, wheat starch, garlic and onion powder, evaporated cane juice, vitamins & minerals (dipotassium phosphate, dimagnesium phosphate, zinc oxide, ferric orthophosphate, calcium panthothenate, thiamin hydrochloride, cyanocobalamin, iron oxide), carrageenan, beet powder and extractive of paprika (for color).
>There have been long stretches of feudalism, warfare, and all-out anarchy and indeed the current relatively stable forms of government are not the norm historically. If all it takes to cause a nuclear meltdown is a brief lapse in order or relative peace, then that doesn’t strike me as very anti-fragile.

If that happens, the death caused by nuclear power will be the least of your concerns. A descent into anarchy would result in millions or tens of millions of deaths resulting from the collapse of civilization. A few hundred or thousand deaths from any nuclear power plants would be a rounding error in the calculation.
It took me some time to figure it out, but I think it's "gastrointestinal".
I've been a software engineer at Uber since 2015 and have lead over a hundred onsite interviews and countless phone screens. In four years I have never seen a take-home exercise be used. Every other interviewer also holds a strong negative opinion of them.

It's possible we were doing this many years ago, but that certainly isn't the case now.
> The pain is temporary at worst.

To paraphrase the quote "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent", the pain can remain temporary for a long time.

To go along with the example, it could take decades of subsidies in US solar panel research before the US has anything that can compete with or out-compete contemporary Chinese solar panels on a more-or-less level playing field, in the international market.

Because of US's unwillingness to match subsidies and allowing Chinese solar panels to out-sell them, in this example, they concede decades of industry dominance and the simultaneous ability to acquire state of the art advances (bright minds and new knowledge).
Thank you gregmac21 for doing some uncompensated labor :)
Don’t we already regulate what can be put in foods via the FDA?
90% isn’t enough, and being able to decarbonization all of it is super helpful, so yeah, even if new nuclear helps just with that last 10%, that’s still hugely important. Remember, we’re going to have to be carbon NEGATIVE because of how much time we’ve wasted.

We need every resource at our disposal.
lol - good point, foiled the Great Microsoft PR play
It's a popular sport in a few Twitter circles to highlight the worst things that appear on HN. The best fish are the ones you pull out of the (orange) water when they are freshly posted—i.e. when there hasn't been enough time yet for the community to downvote or flag them, or for moderators to intervene. The worst comments end up flagged and moderated (which is why the Twitterers tend to post screenshots without links, since by the time most readers click on a link, it will take them to something that says [flagged], or has a moderator reply saying we ban people who post like this—not much sport in that). The rest mostly end up with highly-upvoted refutations. So these things aren't representative of the community, but they do show up.

These are all consequences of HN's fundamental structure. It's a public, optionally-anonymous forum, so we can't control what gets posted. All we or the community can do is react after it has been posted. That takes time. Even if we ban someone, they can just create a new account in 30 seconds, and plenty do.

Most importantly, HN doesn't have silos, where users follow what they like and block what they dislike. Rather, everybody sees the same material. That means every one of us is more likely to notice stuff that we dislike. This leads to negative impressions, often painfully strong ones. The odd thing is, fundamentally, a non-siloed site is arguably objectively healthier: at least we are all in the same room. But it doesn't feel that way. It can be extremely painful to be in the same room with people saying horrible things one doesn't normally come near. In fact, I wonder whether for some users there may actually be no place other than HN where that regularly happens. Inevitably, the negative impressions get attached to HN itself, since none of these dynamics are at all obvious. That explains why people have such contradictory views of HN—see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19927454 in this very thread. They are drawing conclusions from different sets of painful impressions.

I'd love to find new ways to mitigate these downsides. We've worked on that for years already, yet I feel like the most we've managed to do is scratch a couple of crude gouges into a boulder. But let's remember that HN's structure has upside consequences too. There's no barrier to entry, so literally anyone can jump in. Wonderful things come from that. The absence of silos means people are talking and relating to people they would not otherwise come into contact with. These are precious things which are easy to forget amid the pressure we all feel. The upsides and downsides come from the same root: deep tradeoffs in the original choices of how to set up a place like this. As it grows and as the energy becomes more intense, the tradeoffs show up in ways that are increasingly difficult to bridge.
Um, yeah, trade deals tend to "dictate law" in other countries. TPP would have done a lot of that. What's so bad about not forcing industrial espionage on US companies if they want to operate in China? No one is forcing China at gunpoint to take the deal. If they have another market they can sell to, they should consider doing that.
Carbon sequestration is built into the IPCC RCP scenarios, it is required to reach a tolerable future temperature.
A lot of foods that are really bad for you are kind of a pain to make. Potato chips. Fried chicken. Anything deep fried, really. Coffee cake. Chocolate chip cookies aren't hard but aren't exactly make-on-a-whim either and require resting the dough for a good long while if you want them to be really good. Most stuff that's easy to eat within minutes of a craving without having it prepared in advance are whole fruit or salads or something like that. Nuts are probably among the worst ready-to-eat foods but at least they're full of protein and vitamins, and arguably their eat-quickly-ability is well balanced with their nutrition level if you buy them in the shell, which prevents tossing back whole handfuls at once. The truly bad stuff takes planning, unless you buy it already made.

[EDIT] oh man, crackers! A fair amount of effort for a pretty small yield in a home kitchen, even using electric mixers and such. Enough of a pain you'd hesitate to just eat them as-is rather than using them as one part of a larger meal. But a whole box is a couple bucks at the store....
I would like a device which can reliably only record my own voice. This would allow one to create a verbal record of what is happening in emergencies, which could be very useful if combined with a video record. Also, such a device could simply remain on all the time. Only recording one's own voice would allow continual use of the device in two party recording consent states.
Bread in "bread aisles" also feels and tastes very different from bread from a bakery or home made. It's so weird and soft.
Exactly.

How many economists would argue today that China's independent home-grown software / internet ecosystem was a bad decision?

How many of those same economists were saying 10 years ago that China was only shooting itself in the foot with its protectionist software / internet policies?
> if you look at the number of "close calls" that we had and if you look into the causes behind various incidents, a different picture emerges

Surely you're not comparing the rate of near misses in nuclear to the rate of actual deaths in coal? Every industry is full of sloppy practices, and that's why ships occasionally sink and bridges occasionally collapse. That's not unique to nuclear.

Part of the fear might be that a nuclear accident could harm "innocent" ordinary people who don't work there, but mining accidents feel more acceptable because we're not miners and it's their decision to do dangerous work, and we don't have to worry for them because it'll never affect us.
Prove it, post a picture of yourself without a shirt on and tell us how old you are.
What you guys think about this, any questions and/or ideas?
America is the first mover on DRM, and there is no American company that will let me pay for a movie and download an MP4 -- I have to be logged in and stream it (some services let you download it but then disable playing after 48 hours)

Is there a similar situation in China? My sense was that the culture was much less restrictive -- all is fair, it's not worth the time and money to sue someone else into oblivion.
As a hiring manager I would take a refusal to whiteboard or participate in an in-person coding problem as a sign that the candidate knew they were not qualified to write code and therefore declined so as not to waste anyone's time.

I'm sure that doesn't matter to you as you don't want to work at standard companies anyway, but I have seen plenty of people fail to solve fizz buzz who had the nerve to show up for a Senior Dev role and therefore I will always ask my candidates to write code in front of me. Anyone can copy and paste their way into an active looking github profile, much fewer can talk me through their thought process as they solve a real problem that I have given them to solve.
I'm surprised this article doesn't mention (to my mind) the most notable recent example of font detective work - the document(s) printed in Calibri that purportedly predated its release that were evidence in the corruption case(s) against Nawaz Sharif & family/associates.
There are actually a bunch of US navy incidents related to nuclear power listed on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accid.... It's a sound assumptions that there are many more we would not hear about.
If anyone wants a deeper look at an operational group of reactors that are designed to be as safe as possible and difficult to operate unsafely, I highly recommend checking out Canada's CANDU reactors [0].

This video [1] is a pretty interesting and reasonably short look at their safety systems/precautions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDU_reactor
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx_XoqXNtRM
You might be surprised to learn the government does “tell us” what we can eat by defining what can be sold.

Thanks for keeping us safe from government boogeymen though
Yes, so you cannot end up earning less because of the step. You always earn more, though the "more" is more and more taxed.

I would be glad to be in the highest, most taxed step.
There are obviously both factors at work though. Exceptionalism does happen, and it is not purely driven by technology. Outside of climbing, take guitar as an example. The amount of excellent players out there on youtube is amazing. Certainly music and the instruments have been available and mass marketed since the 70s at least, but guitars haven't gotten easier to play. Now though, there are a lot of players that have grown up now watching how others play. Not just figuring it out by ear but seeing videos of great players and studying them. It's never been easier to observe great musicians, and so you see plenty of instrumentalists that have progressed very far, building on the shoulders of those who figured those techniques out and wrote those songs.

I don't think the author intended the piece to be "an explanation" so much as an observation. I think that is fine, and there isn't much point in generalizing this observation a human tendency towards sloppy thinking.
This article seems to indicate that they would at least develop better games if the employees were not subjected to "crunch". https://gamasutra.com/blogs/PaulTozour/20150120/234443/The_G...
I would like to pose an alternative conclusion: if you aren’t bored by web development you likely haven’t discovered far more interesting opportunities.

Web development deals with mostly solved problems and best practices to be followed for nearly everything. It’s not very intellectually stimulating, especially if it’s just typical CRUD stuff.

More exciting work can be done in writing device drivers for custom hardware, working on cutting edge AI, factory automation, reverse engineering, or even doing high performance game development.

There’s a big world out there, and web development is the least interesting and the lowest tier. Exciting if you’ve never done anything yet in your career (which makes it perfect for newly graduated young students), but very pedestrian if you’ve already been in the trenches for a while.
Including the effect of the choices people make is much more informative for deciding on public policy or personal food shopping choices. Imposing calorie restrictions in the experiment that wouldn't be there in real life would make the results much less applicable.
Well, you have to be trying pretty hard to remove a digit with a hacksaw. Speaking in comparative terms, I accidentally cut halfway through a digit in one gentle stroke with a hatchet.

It's a gristly topic and maybe what I'm saying is obvious. I just hope nobody in the pro-risk camp takes the message too far.
> I think I read somewhere that if there is an issue that at least about five percent of the population care deeply enough (I don't know the numbers but for example the fanatical religious people in the middle east or pro-birth or pro-gun people in the US) to be single-issue voters, they will have an outsize effect on policy even though their position is bad for a majority of people.

It might be helpful to not think about people becoming single-issue voters this way. People become single-issue voters because they see something as crucial, single-issue voters are supremely justified in voting. Also probably not ideal to think of people in terms of partisan dogwhistle labels, but that's a separate issue.
Highlights from ICLR
> no incidents

I would respectfully suggest that you read the book I quoted. I also thought there were "no incidents". The book is from 1983, so it specifically describes the 70s and early 80s. There were plenty of incidents and accidents, it's just that few of them resulted in major releases of radioactive material. My take on this after reading about some details is that we were just lucky.

Some might say it is outdated — but I followed up on some of the stories described there and checked more recent developments. Specifically, the San Onofre plant which gets a mention in the book. You can read about it on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Onofre_Nuclear_Generating_... — now tell me that we know what we're doing and that we "know how to safely operate nuclear power plants" after reading things like:

> On investigation, the replacement steam generators from 2011 in both units were found to show premature wear on over 3,000 tubes, in 15,000 places.[47] Plant officials pledged not to restart until the causes of the tube leak and tube degradation were understood.

Other honorable mentions:

> "The firm Bechtel was ... embarrassed in 1977, when it installed a 420-ton nuclear-reactor vessel backwards" at San Onofre

> In 2008, the San Onofre plant received multiple citations over issues such as failed emergency generators, improperly wired batteries and falsified fire safety data.

Again, I am not against nuclear power. I'm just pointing out that we have way too much hubris and the rosy picture of "no incidents" is not entirely true.

Also, which newer designs do you mean?
Tesla’s Strong Brand Gives It Unusual Expansion Potential
I'm generally in favor of nuclear power, but I recognize that there's some reasonable ground for opposing its development on grounds of potential catastrophe or radiation leakage risk. What gets me, rather, is that while we as a society have rejected nuclear power plants as too dangerous, we're still sitting on thousands and thousands of nuclear weapons- and still building more in the present day! [0] The failure of anti-nuclear activists to address the kind of nuclear technologies which can actually be catastrophic, while instead focusing on those which are constructive and at least generally safe, is maddening.

[0] https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-nuclear-weapons-moderniz...
Really? A lot of the alt-right seems pro-LGBTQ to me.
It prevents filenames with spaces from expanding into two arguments to the command.
Sure, but without knowing what the grading criteria are (coding speed?, optimality of solution?, etc.) I can only go by what appears to be the criteria according to the signals I get during the interview ("Is there a more optimal solution?", "This looks good to me.", ...). And yes it is pass/fail often times.
I'm not certain that's the case. At least since I've had a phone (~8 years), I've always had to enter a VM password.
This seems like a potentially good first step in trying to counter wealthy people's gaming of the system with SAT "prep" and the like.
Creating a Starcraft AI – Part 28: Even Zerg Have Boundaries
It’s such an interesting debate, because while I think we have solved the technological safety issues (which is what us engineers think of), we have not solved the human issues.

I’m reading Midnight in Chernobyl, and while the reactor design was flawed, the problem was created and compounded by just how stupid us humans actually are. Things like the builders not being able to get quality cement, for example - is that a technical problem or a human one?

FWIW, I am pro nuclear. The problem w renewables is they are focused on meeting current energy demand. But growth is based on innovation which is tied with energy use.

In other words, what could we accomplish if we could consume 100x our current amount of energy (with the caveats of clean energy and safety)?

I don’t think renewables are going to get us there.
innovation comes from graduate students

everyone building out a new technology borrowed ideas freely without compensating the real innovators (of course, implementation can be the more difficult piece)

As long as governments subsidize public universities and research departments, there will exist a font of innovation
> “I interviewed at Uber before they launched”

> “I’ve been a software engineer at Uber since 2015”

Perhaps they need to test reading comprehension in their interviews!
The reserves are just as important for electrical VTOLs as they are for gas, when the power runs out the thing drops out of the sky. If anything the electric VTOLs need stricter requirements, not lower standards.
I believe members of this community refrain from entering the restaurant business due to religious reasons.