skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have a feeling grass is greener on the other side and people in either case.

That's a bit reductive, perhaps. The way I see it, different styles of 'forums' or 'communities' can foster different types of interactions. it's a bit like how in the 'real world' we might have a gathering where everyone sits in a circle, or small separate tables, or a bar area, or a conference-style 'lecture + hallway-track', etc. each have their advantages and drawbacks.
10-ish years ago I would have agreed with you. Right now, we are at a point where most tech giants are not making the world any better IMHO.
You mean products in Europe are not focused on quality and just garbage both in sales and time to market?

(I don’t necessarily think that)
Can someone explain to me why isn't it ever part of the discourse to talk about certifications?

Most of the software engineers are certified right from the start when they graduate in university. All these people hold a certification in their hand, namely their diploma which proves that they are actually deemed suitable to hold any software engineering job in the industry.

The whole hiring process could be replaced with a timely renewal of accreditation. Then anyone who passed accreditation could be deemed as passed the technical interview. And then case closed.
Unstated (https://github.com/jamiebuilds/unstated)
> having such a large internal market.

... (I would add to your statement) with a large amount of median disposable income. Adding to this, a large numbers of consumers who have access to consumer credit and are far less reluctant to purchase on credit than other nations.

A lot of countries have a large internal market but not all of them actually have the purchase power or the inclination to spend on novel non-established products as much as the US market.
For big projects, a sound tactic is to spend a small portion on a cheap alternative implementation. Sometimes the smaller team will be far more successful. Better focus, a competitive drive to prove worth, etc.

Unlimited budget is sometimes a hindrance.
None of that loss of detail matters much once the image is scaled down to Internet-typical resolutions. Doesn't help that photographers often don't even give you access to the full resolution images, so even if you make use of one, you don't end up with something that is superior to whatever your phone-AI can fake together.
Surely there's evidence they're both trying?
Octane X preview 1 is out for macOS Catalina
From what I've seen in job descriptions for various defense related positions Ada seems to be written in as a small "nice to have" and makes me imagine most of it is maintenance or being replaced (probably by C++ too lol)
Type 11 was really just an issue on PowerMacs, and this emulates a 68K Mac. (Type 11 was basically a catchall error for any native PPC exception)

</pointless historical nitpick>
It’s more like it picks words from autosuggest that you see on your mobile keypad but better
I'm shocked by the number of people calling a website founded in 2003 as "old school". That was 3 years after the dot-com bust!
Not an expert, but the test chambers on a rover can't be cleaned easily or without a massive amount of complexity. They are also fairly limited and very limited use. While a sample collected and sent back can be split and used in many ways.
Tech titans in the spotlight at US antitrust hearing
The dating section starts at 1:52. He says he had days of swiping with no matches, whereas his white friends had matches.

The comment you’re replying to has completely misrepresented the video. You can’t focus on “quality” if you have no matches.

The dating comment was a ten second section of the video. Ironically, the conclusion of the story is the man realizes online dating doesn’t work for him and he focussed on quality dating in real life.
Funnily enough, Google translate does translate "toe" to "dedo del pie" and "finger" to "dedo".

Which makes me wonder what the same captcha would say in French. In French, "doigt", while technically for both toes and fingers, is usually unambiguously "finger", and "toes" is "doigts de pied".

So if the captcha would pull the same joke in French, telling to flag "doigts", I, as a French, would only pick fingers and not toes at all.
I've been running one of my production applications[1] on Marvell (ex-Cavium) based ARM server on Scaleway which has had it for several years now; unfortunately they decided to pull the plug off their entire ARM line up suddenly citing stability issues which not many have faced[2].

[1]https://needgap.com

[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22865925
Well, all of supervised learning is basically approximating an unknown function from a finite list of samples.

But it's still an approximation, with things like e.g. backpropagation 'simply' (in the abstract mathematical sense) tweaking weights in the direction of the derivatives to get closer to expected values.

The vast majority of machine learning just builds on that by going deep (more layers), automatically generating inputs (e.g. in game AIs playing against themselves), etc.

One might argue that's even worse than function optimisation as you can only vaguely guess at the target and thus all your validation is suspect and you have to prove it using humans by, for instance, beating them at Starcraft.
... and suddenly in US masks are a freedom right,
and only a facist-communist would want to take them away from the good people.
> Let’s build something that already exists

What already exists that can do what this is built to do?
this, there are so many options to buy from that aren't Amazon. I've been in so many discussions with friends on this matter and when I ask them why they don't shop elsewhere, it always boils down to these two scenarios

Amazon makes it so easy for me to buy, I don't have to think.

Have you tried the others ?? No
Who’s writing bare CUDA though? For most tasks a framework like Tensorflow or PyTorch is good enough.

If AMD could provide a backend for the most popular frameworks then they could skip over the CUDA patent issue completely.

The real problem is that it seems like AMD’s not investing substantially in software teams to make it happen.
I understand the sentiment.

Redux is quite misleading using the term events for command/action, which drives coder to use Redux's action as in-app events, tightly coupling Redux's synchronous store with asynchronous nature of events.
Monday is crazy expensive isn’t it? They have raised prices at least twice in a year or two. Now it appears to be a minimum of $250/month or $2400/year for 5 users.
Privacy was always a thing and a concern, just not for kids jumping into the internet that don't know better, and that's still a problem today.
> The Ivy League only really matters, if one wants to live in the US

Of course not. You'll still have a better network even if you don't stay in America. Say if you need VC funding for your startup in Europe, you'll be dealing with Americans sooner than later. Or if you're dealing with China or India, they share the same preference too. It'll help. And although there aren't that many truly private European VCs I sincerely doubt they wouldn't notice.

I doubt most people outside of the UK know the University of Edinburgh. Everybody knows the top US schools. Never heard of anybody bragging about a University of Edinburgh credential.

I'm not even remotely a fan of higher education or the academia at all. But nonetheless like most people I would notice if somebody had a highly-coveted credential.

> At least in Europe, a graduate of University of Edinburgh would be worth as much as a graduate of Yale in most industries, including finance, law and tech. They would have equal chances of getting a banking job in London, or working for a FAANG company in Zurich.

That point is moot, obviously you couldn't do any major hiring if you expected American credentials in Europe.

Yet, the reverse likely isn't true. A Yale credential would open more doors in America and wouldn't close any in Europe. Hence it's superior.
10 years to implement? Aren’t we supposed to have a starship in orbit of Mars by that time?
> Don't you think that's a bit disingenuous? People aren't being canceled for having overt racist beliefs. They're being canceled for having polite (but political) disagreements.

I picked a controversial opinion. Your beef seems to be that mundane political opinions shouldn't be controversial. I agree with you, but that's not really relevant to the point I'm trying to make.

The point im trying to make is that some people treated Facebook or Twitter like a group of friends, when any digital post or recording can instantly become more like a nationally televised segment.
Can anyone verify this claim? It sounds too good to be true.

According to Wikipedia, FLIT was a product and large consumer-facing brand of Standard Oil, not Shell.
Magma: A Ground-Truth Fuzzing Benchmark [pdf]
I have a different take: Nothing really wrong with gaming the system. If someone has successfully "gamed" the interview but not effective at their role, then the interview isn't testing the candidate for the role and sounds like a broken interview loop.
On the contrary, it would be foolish of the EU to be so dependent on a foreign company, dependent on a foreign law on a subject as strategic as space.
It is a crucial choice that, as a EU citizen, I applaud.
To add a few:

C# / TypeScript / Turbo Pascal / Delphi: Anders Hejlsberg had a lot of influence even though C# /TS are MSFT langs, and he is Danish

Haskell's GHC: _glasgow_ haskell compiler, Scotland

EDIT to clarify
One Borrower, Two Loans: Firms Cite Errors in U.S. Bailout Data
What is funny, Intel revenue growth : 20%, AMD : 26%.
And Intel has NSG division that is growing much faster than AMD, almost having the same global revenue and more benefice.

AMD stock is much more a meme stock than TSLA.
While I absolutely agree that SpaceX is way ahead of anyone else, and I am very enthusiastic about SpaceX in general, SpaceX is a US corporation, and it is a really bad idea for any other economy or military to allow the USA to have a monopoly on space tech.

Space has enough strategic advantages that the economic reasoning of comparative advantage, while still true in itself, simply isn’t the most important concern.
When I have limited amount of time even if it's more than enough I get stressed. When I'm on a job I have time to think about the problem, come up a rough solution in my head then start coding. If I have a hard limit I don't think that much because what if I don't have enough time to write it down? In the sort thinking phase I came up with a subpar architecture, but even if I have an extra half hour in the endI can't really change it or worst You cant finish it because I didn't think of an edge case.
I'm going to preface this comment by noting that this is a subtle argument I'm making, and HN posts about C19 probably isn't the best place for this. But anyway..

I don't agree this was a "cover-up" in the sense of a government attempt to hide something they knew was going on.

As your own article says "What Dr Li didn't know then was that the disease that had been discovered was an entirely new coronavirus."

He was warned about spreading rumors. While I don't agree with the way they warn people for things like that in China, it isn't uncommon for this to happen to anyone who disturbs "social cohesion".

Additionally, it was done by the regional government, not the central one. In contemporary news coverage of the outbreak they note how the regional government tried to minimize the severity of the outbreak and it was the central government who intervened to lock the place down.

Could China have done better? Yes - I've run the timeline, and I think it was realistic for them to have known and acted about 2 or 3 days earlier than they Wuhan lockdown in the absolute best case. Do I think this would have made a difference for the rest of the world? Not really - the places that dealt with it well acted when the lock down occurred, and the places that didn't deal with it well ignored that.

It's worth noting that most of the world couldn't believe the Wuhan lockdown when it happened. I don't think places that ignored that news would have acted on any kind of WHO warning.
Marketing materials aren't plans.

Musk has made a strategy of "overpromise, maybe deliver", rebranded as "vision" or "ambitious goals". Some of what his companies have delivered is impressive, but you never know what they're going to actually deliver until there are at least working prototypes.
Keep in mind that the first Starship cannot return anything to Earth, due to the lack of fuel.

The first Starship that might be able to return anything wouldn't be able to launch before 2026 either, so...
1. Does QuestDB support SQL sufficiently to run, say, the TPC-H analytics benchmark? (not a time series

2. If so, can you give some performance figures for a single machine and reasonable scale factors (10 GB, 100 GB, 1000 GB)? Execution times for single queries are even more interesting than the overall random-queries-per-hour figure.

3. Can you link to a widely-used benchmark for analytic workloads on time series, which one can use to compare performance of various DBMSes? With SQL-based queries preferably.
I'm actually OK with people following semver, and also refusing to tag a 1.0, as long as they also refrain from advertising the product as stable and production-ready. You can't have your cake and eat it, too.
The best programmers i've worked with don't have degrees in computer science, or anything like that. Metallurgy, civil engineering, mathematics.

On the other hand, i've worked with plenty of people with CS degrees from respectable universities who were useless. A degree is not anything like a certificate, and universities simply aren't in the business of actually deeming anyone suitable to hold any software engineering job in the industry.

Even if you fixed this, so that somehow every competent programmer, and only competent programmers, had some certificate from a university, all it would do is let you hire graduate developers easily. It wouldn't let you sort the wheat from the chaff at senior level.
Here is a (390 pages long) German dictionary of systems programming:

https://www4.cs.fau.de/~wosch/glossar.pdf
Amazon's Monopoly Tollbooth
No, actually it's pretty easy, in underground caverns (cheapest is solution mined cavities in salt; cost per kWh of capacity about 1/200th the per-energy cost of batteries.)
I don't want my tax money to go fund SpaceX. SpaceX is American and all their capabilities are practically owned by American entities.
Europeans like me cannot even work for SpaceX, so unless we have our own parallel programs we would just have no capability at all in this space.
repo: https://github.com/logseq/logseq
Yeah, I just dealt with Terraform failing on a patchlevel change that created incompatible state files. Get it together, guys.
It was more of 'I didn't know the C language could do that'. The elegance was that what it did was obvious.
Conversely: Is it simply a coincidence that people like whiteboard interviews and believe they work? Seems pretty convenient to me.
I agree with you both in theory and I’ve limited my purchasing from Amazon for such reasons. But I’ve come across products where the company has a first-party website to promote their product, but no first-party way to actually purchase the product. They just have links to go buy at Amazon. For now these are rarities but I’d be concerned that it becomes more common without government intervention.
This.

I sometimes turned to my girlfriend while taking off in a plane (back in 2019 :P) and tell her: "OMFG! We realise humanities dream of flying!"

More examples from the comedian Louis CK: https://youtu.be/kBLkX2VaQs4
Yes, if you aren't planing to invest in me. I won't do your homework. In this way you will only get desperate candidates.
This is a cool application. Did you have to retrain the model for this usecase? Sorry, I m not up to date if open ai has released model apart from API
Apple devices are a tiny minority on the broader scale.

https://www.counterpointresearch.com/global-smartphone-share...
I would feel bad about it.

You don't normally pay candidates for the time they spend doing the whiteboard interview, do you? You can view the take-home task as a replacement of the whiteboarding session, equally with no pecuniary obligations for the candidate.
Europe seems to me to have good intentioned laws and norms that stifle computer related companies. 1) Very strong privacy laws and culture that make it difficult for startups to thrive 2) Business and bankruptcy structures that aren't as friendly to investors 3) More sensical valuing of companies and higher risk-aversion
What a hero — love how the story of Pinboard stacks up against the long-term unsustainability of VC-funded and overhyped startups. Quote from the 2011 article[0]:

"My dream is to keep this a one-person project," says Ceglowski. "I am competing against billionaires like the YouTube guys running Delicious and I can hold my own. The tools I use have gotten so good and they are the same ones that Yahoo and Google use."

I hope to do the same one day with Soundcloud!

[0] http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,288...
Europe is trying to build a glorified cargo box. SpaceX is trying to build a starship.

I’d be more enthusiastic if we had 2 attempts at a spaceship.
How Booking.com Powers a Global Application Delivery Network with HAProxy
Would be nice if they brought that back into the laptop realm.
An interesting resource that I found on the topic of breathing is https://www.normalbreathing.com/

Dr Artour Rakhimov claims that breath starvation (breathing slowly and less) is key to higher oxygen absorption; and definitely not deep breathing! "Take a deep breath" makes sense if you have been hyper-ventilating, but not ALL the time.

I found his site via his "How to unblock a blocked nose in 1 minute" video, a technique which works even when both nostrils are clogged:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhOTUBZYTEg
An SR-71 video that gives more context https://youtu.be/dG6gnJc6XeU
Its an interesting tech study but don't forget the business side. I'm so incredibly old (LOL being sarcastic) that I remember high school yearbooks had school photographers for K-11 however seniors had to submit professional photographer pictures.

You see it had only been made illegal a generation ago to submit a photo with every resume. In theory, photos were submitted to see if the applicant could clean up and dress in a professional stylish manner. It was made illegal in the 60s for very theoretical discrimination reasons. As if during an interview a manager wouldn't notice an applicant was black or a woman, but via the miracle of photography they could notice, LOL.

Anyway culture and especially the ed establishment moves slowly so they were still preparing kids to submit photos with their resumes in the 80s despite it being illegal since the 60s. So seniors had to submit photos.

Anyway the whole point of this anecdote is culture moves slow, and until "recently" if you wanted to graduate HS and get a job you needed a zillion copies of yourself from a professional studio.

Also see Department of the Army standard "DA photo" for promotion packets, and the peculiar government requirements of passport photos. The days of 50% of the male population having served in the military are long gone with the WWII vets, the population as a whole, countrywide, is getting waaaay too poor to internationally travel thus no need for passports, etc.
> The whole idea of having any government at all is to pull resources to collectively advance beyond the base state.

Where do you get that from?

Government has been around for millennia and it has mainly been about security - not being invaded - than economic freedom
As far as I understood, the distaste for the support of the drug in the context of Covid-19 was that it hasn’t been proven to be the “miracle cure” some people have touted it to be.

Said touting was causing shortages at pharmacies where people like you who require the drug were not able to get access to it suddenly because of hordes of “supporters” buying up entire stocks.

Not because of who pushes it. It’s the consequences of uninformed broadcasting like calling it a final cure that have people shook.
Yep. Ruby came from Japan, Ruby on Rails came from Denmark.
Guido van Rossum is from Netherlands. Rasmus Lerdorf if Danish-Canadian. What's it about Danes and languages? :)
I've seen this done before. As others pointed out, the lack of health insurance can be a problem in the U.S., although sometimes can be mitigated if the candidate still has access via COBRA.

Even considering the flaws, I think this approach is better than immediately hiring someone full time. I've seen some candidates who seemed perfect on paper and fine in interviews and then turned out to be utterly toxic to actually work with. For the interviewee, the chances of encountering that situation are even greater, since there is one interviewee but typically many future coworkers.

Some personality traits can be very difficult to surface in an interview environment. IMO interviews are worthless for getting that kind of information.
An often overlooked benefit of writing documentation (regardless of whether anyone will read it) is that it forces you to explain everything in a structured way and discover things that can be improved or simplified.

Same principle as rubber duck debugging.
I oppose take-home tasks as an interviewer. I don't think employees or prospective employees should be taking work home with them, ever. Instead, collaborating on a problem with the interviewee, discussing the problem and potential solutions, observing how the interviewee recognizes when they go off-track, how they respond to hints and suggestions... these are all better signals than the culmination of some homework task, and easily captured in a 30-45 minute interview.
Notice they said induce spin in the marketing, not the ball. I read it as a clever bait-and-switch pun, as "spin" is slang for misleading statements.
How are fatality rates ambiguous?

There is also the fact that different countries are using different methodologies to count COVID-19 deaths, with the US having one of the most liberal definitions (anyone that had COVID-19 at the time of death is counted, whether or not the actual death can be directly traced back to COVID-19). Many nations are not using this broad-stroke method of counting COVID-19 deaths.

The US fatality rate needs to double (from 453/M to 853/M) in order to match Belgium. The trends are definitely not indicating that this will be likely. The current 30/day trend would need to continue for an additional 160 days uninterrupted in order to match Belgium, and that does not seem likely given the data we've seen anywhere in the world (the majority of which has significantly less medical capacity than the US).
I am no expert, but I can imagine there are many kinds of laboratory equipment that is way too heavy to pit on a rover, perhaps mass spectrometers, etc.

Biological wxperiments is a big one. There is kind of outstanding question of perclorates in martian soil and its toxicity to earth organisms, plants, etc.
NASA’s Mars Rover Will Be Powered by US-Made Plutonium
The problem is I don't need to search the whole key space. Even with very goods encryption algorithms, there are faster attacks. They're not FAST attacks, mind you, so the keys are safe, but they are FASTer.
It’s market cap rather than revenue or employees.

Exxon’s raw material (oil) was expensive, had high price volatility, didn’t scale, and required (relatively) more people. This capped gross margins, and made growth expensive.

Facebook’s raw material (bits/electricity) is much cheaper and has Moore’s law at their back. It scales well, as does their (relatively) lower headcount. They get valued much higher relative to revenue or employees.

This makes the market cap a weaker proxy for usefulness.