skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What the president can and cannot do isn't based on what you deem acceptable its based on matters of law. Furthermore claiming to be able to do something you can't actually erodes your authority and power in a conflict.
> Those are those sort of numbers I'd expect for every candidate.

> The point of a technical screen is to filter people out.

I mean sure. But I’ve never once been rejected on a tech screen. Most people I’d want to take advice from don’t get screened out often either.

So much interview advice is just awful and these “grind away mindlessly” narratives are actively nonsense that does not correlate to getting a well matched and awesome position.
This is one of the best comments I’ve ever read on HN.
Which he can't unless apple and google opt to do so. If so he should have made an plea to them instead of pretending he could ban it by fiat.
One of the factors might be region but also:

> Consumers (audience) side: Tik Tok use AI to calculate what content will be the best fit for the consumer. When consumer use the app, consumers even do not need to put their preference. AI will automatically get a sizeable database of the consumers’ behaviors.

Source: https://digital.hbs.edu/platform-digit/submission/tik-tok-us...
I think physical violence is (and should be) treated more harshly.
> better predictors of long and happy lives than social class, IQ, or even genes.

They went to Harvard (The non Harvard were added over 30 years later), I would expect 130 IQ compared to 140 IQ wouldn't matter as much as close relationships.

Compare 90 IQ to 110 IQ and I'd be surprised.

I'd also think it's absolutely harder to have close relationships with lower IQ's.

But it's totally correct, relationships matter, people who go to church live longer.

Atheists might be right, but until they work out ways for ongoing communal meetings that last throughout life they are also wrong.
Luckily not everyone is living in a place where you apply to a ton of jobs at the same time. Seems very American. I would only apply to a single job that I found exciting. Can't see how sending out many applications could possibly mean applying to good jobs. More like a lottery. Guess it is the difference between there being a good social security net to catch people and not.
It's one thing to create a physics engine which deals with a few balls.

But it's black magic to bring if from there to a proper game-ready physics engine which can handle 30 stacked boxes and complex penetration problems.

There is a reason that there are very few physics engines compared to game engines.
I noticed that "maintaining civilizational state" is.. to be generous.. simply a state of narrative. The imperial system is definitely over, Xi wears a suit and tie and there are no legions of eunichs running the country.

Though fun fact, Mussolini was pretty big on emphasizing the whole Italy == Rome deal.

And in the US there's only maybe 300 years of serious history to cover so I recall my history class had to reach all the way back to Greece as an idealogical source of American democracy.
FHE just means that you can do addition and multiplication on ciphertexts. The ability to do that implies that you can build logical circuits. Those logical circuits are highly expressive, but not Turing complete.
> why do the developers think that it is a good idea to have it?

Because it has little utility and a lot of risk; Baddies use this to trick people. It is also so hard to use it correctly/meaningfully in many display topologies (mostly multihead+multidpi, but also tiling, virtual desktops, etc) without querying that topology that there’s no big hurry to offer an API that users don’t want and nobody can use correctly.

> For example, when the user has arranged the windows of an application in some way, and then wants to save and then restore the placement of windows, how should it be done by the application?

It shouldn’t: Putting that logic into every application is bloat at best, and a lot harder than just writing down x/y coordinates and screen numbers to a file (ever had to unplug a monitor to find a window on a Mac or windows desktop? Never happens on Unix!) so it makes sense to centralise it:

This is the job of the window manager and really, its only job. There are lots of window managers on Unix because users have varying needs here (I like using a lot of accessibility tools- If you could move my windows I might never find them again!)
Mitsubishu Pajero --> means Wanker in Spanish.
I am starting to see a lot of these similar comments around the internet.

I think, it is because people are now so used to Apple and Amazon's trillion valuation, with Apple closing in to 2 Trillion, people think $32B is low or ( relatively ) cheap.

Reality is ARM was quite over valued when it was purchased by Softbank.
You can't really blame people for considering that. We know that China does participate in online misinformation (as does the UK and Russia to be fair).

Additionally, people in China don't have a lot of freedom of speech to criticise the government. So unfortunately it does put a certain gloss on it when someone in mainland China writes something that the Chinese government would approve of. Because of the chilling effect, you start to wonder if you are only getting one half of the picture.
Hotter tip: toss the advice from people who interview a lot and aggressively and seek advice from the people who wander into opportunities seemingly without effort. Ask them how they approach their job search.

Most of this advice is bad or fixes problems that come from scattershooting an interview process by bulk for nonsense you don’t even care about.

This blog post outlines the most miserable way to do a job search. And the way to get rejected a lot.
It is a sociological problem, not medical or technological.

Colleagues at wife's work (TX) believe it is a democratic hoax.
I can swear in 4 languages and it was all missing. And there is no option to submit a pull request.

This would work much beetter as open source project.
Overview of transformers in NLP and inferring implications of GPT-3
Hmm.. I wonder if you could get your desired behavior by rebinding Ctrl+C in Alacritty to copy, and also using the "stty" command to change the keyboard shortcut that sends the interrupt signal from Ctrl+C to something else.

The latter may be necessary because traditionally you would interrupt programs (like say a runaway cat command or some other long-running process) with Ctrl+C, so using Ctrl+C to copy would normally conflict with that.

Though I suppose that a terminal could be implemented in such a way that Ctrl+C is used for copy if some text has been selected and when no text has been selected it could pass that Ctrl+C on to the application running in the terminal. This way Ctrl+C could remain as the shortcut for sending an interrupt signal to apps in the terminal, and you wouldn't have to mess with stty.
Eroding privacy, driving "attention economy" addictions, promoting the shallowest content, influencing politics, devastating small businesses, and ruining mental health mainly.
But in game theory at least, tit-for-tat is a pretty successful strategy.
The definition of FHE specifies arbitrary computation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption#Fully_H...

If it's really just addition and multiplication, it's not FHE.
Which is sad because I remember reading a wine developer saying that they need such a feature for menus.
I never bother with such devices, because they hardly ever support European Portuguese properly and I am not going to speak foreign languages at home just to make a device happy.
Just for perspective Sweden has 5000 deaths, Norway 255, Denmark 615 and Finland 329. Adjusted for population, the Swedish death rate is higher than the USA. It is not a poster child for success.
> ever had to unplug a monitor to find a window on a Mac

…no? I’m not sure why this would be an issue specific to those?
Ask HN: Are you surprised how impotent technology has been with respect to Covid
I wonder if Kerbs will apologize for doxing the wrong guy
> it's stupendously premature to assume that it is ready for products

Did you follow product development in recent decades? The iPhone was not ready for prime time as well but still people bought it and where very happy.

A lot of products nowadays are kind of MVP's or betas and people are willing to accept their flaws and edges just to be an early adopter of technologies which remind them of beloved Sci-Fi movies.

> by construction, it also cannot store information provided by the user for later use, nor can it "look up" facts

Other tools can do that. You can connect them just like you do with micro services or modular systems - what is the issue about this?

The statement "starting a business ... is a bad idea" cannot be proven and there are also no examples to strengthen this position. So until one does you just cannot prove this statement so this is just speculation.
Note also that if you skip a video quickly, TikTok will show fewer of that type of video, which I think is a fantastic feature
Can they really trademark the name of an element? That seems absurd.
Right. Read the article twice and I still don’t know what they mean by “new physics”.
Deal-breaker. But now I know about Kitty, which is supposed to be faster.
This is sort of similar to tarrifs no? The government selectively (through lobbyists and deals) picks which types of things are taxed (sometimes to unprofitability). Other things are banned entirely. Not saying Kinder Eggs would be missed as much as Tik Tok, but this is historically something the government does.
What is the site? What kind of software do you use for that?
The sheer volume is amazing. I think I’ve had less than one tenth that number of interviews in a fifteen year career!
Ah, yes I remember the Great Laffy Taffy Debate that brought division between the North and the South
I was in the area last year. You can take a taxi from the Greek side and they will give you a tour of the new city and an archaeological site. The driver was originally from a village not far from there and knew the parts. I doubt you can go in the old parts (there are fences, roadblocks and guards) but there’s a beach from which you have a good view. The closest buildings are only a few meters away. I didn’t take any photos. As a Greek I was a little apprehensive of going there, but most of my Cypriot friends have no problems visiting or driving through the occupied parts.
I guess Ubuntu will provide a enterprise edition of Snap in future. It will allow users to suspend updates.
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Tagging along, the TikTok algorithm adapts to which videos you skip. It's unfair to claim that the platform has poor quality content without spending at least some time browsing, much more than 5 minutes
I have found that “OK, why don’t you just do xyz if you think you’re so smart” shuts down interesting discussion, and that’s what you’ve been doing here. Would you be willing to not do that or explain why you think that isn’t the case here?
So you basically reject the overarching principle of limited government? Want to go full Melian Dialogue? The strong do what they will and the weak suffer what they must?

The problem with ruling arbitrarily is that it kills predictability and crushes the spirit. It leads to a state of fear in which nobody wants to invest or go out on a limb, because in an environment where you can be punished for anything, everything is dangerous.

That's why I'm personally adamant about requiring a rule before a punishment and why I'm dubious on this recent "let's sanction this one random foreign guy" push.
It's implied that the 17 year old is kirk
With all due respect, your accomplishments even before college (since you went to Cornell) were far more significant than my own (and almost definitely more significant than mine will ever be). I’m not sure how I can use the help of a therapist if the cause is just a lack of actual accomplishments.
The spiritual rewards of doing good work have never, in any field, reliably aligned with the worldly rewards of popularity and success.
You can trademark ~anything but it might not stand up in court. Then again, who is going to take Apple to court? For them it's just cheap insurance.
I apologise if this is off topic, but I swear 5 minutes ago in the shower I was wondering what company made that car. Thanks for saving me the search.
But using a letter hardly anyone outside Denmark knows is even worse. There's a good reason Mærsk isnt called Mærsk anymore.
> there's only so much info that you can cram into a short video

Which is a huge feature. Unlike YouTube, for example, TikTok videos tend to have no boring intros
The academy is different. We tend to grow into s job, but a field of study does require more digging into motive beyond „i need money“, where „i need money“ is the main reason most of us look for jobs.

After my toxic 3 years at a job to whom i did send a cover letter they liked (i liked the company before finding out one guy in the department im in had seniority and was doing dodgy stuff to maintain power)

... i quit and eventually I got my job via connecting with people, and i think thats the best way one could get hired.
> It seems there are two distinct branches of computing emerging - one where performance matters, and one where it doesn't.

The thing is - there is no need to address performance if it does not matter. That would lead you to Knuth:

"The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - Knuth

So I think there is actually a dial: if performance matters you turn it one way and optimize as necessary; if it doesn't go onto the next project that is fighting to get out of your head.
Calorie tracker using Siri and GPT3
Yeah no, you can say this against literally every criticism and be right unless someone comes up with time spans and user experiences of other great things to disprove it. Ruby was great on windows since 1.8, don't know how it was before that. I recently scripted AIX with it, so not really a contender on the same lane.
Yes and users have to unplug monitors to find windows that have done this.

> Why the limitation?

Because users don’t want it? We have window managers and some of us are using automatic window managers. The very idea of movewindow doesn’t make any sense in a lot of topologies.

Why do you care? You don’t write or use any software that would need this anyway, do you?
A nuclear power plant, no. Because, its most likely public property and so govt should have a say in its security. Even if it was a privately owned nuclear power plant, a breach would catastrophically and directly affect people who are not just its customers.

But, a bank, which is a privately owned entity. I think yes. If I own a bank and have bad security practices, and a breach impacts only my customers. I think the customers have the right to sue the bank but its up to me to decide what security I use, and if its not good the customers are free to choose to do business with another bank. But I don't think the govt should decide what level of security is sufficient?

Think of it this way, does this imply if my house is robbed I could be held liable because I chose to use locks on my house that were non compliant to govt regulation?
I think for some search terms, SEO and AMP support make a difference on how high your website ranks against other search results. I think it encourages a certain kind of website (referral links, modest length article with buzzwords, lists with not a lot of depth).

These aren't advertisements, but I think they feel a lot like an advertisement in terms of what Google encourages others to post on their website.
Objective-C might not use the C ABI, but you can certainly interact with it in a stable way (with no code modifications) entirely in C.
As someone who screens a bunch of applications, absolutely I'll factor in a cover letter.

For me, the presence of a cover letter with half an attempt at customisation to the company and job ad demonstrates they actually care at least a little about this role at this company. And if it's well written then that demonstrates communication skills which I value highly in my colleagues.

It's really not often clear cut which one of two CVs is the "best qualified". The cover letter is just a bit more signal that will often swing my decision towards "let's take a punt".
None of your points are evidence of the earlier claim.

Your post follows the pattern of the earlier one that I replied to: you echo the mantra that Murdoch has control over politicians, and you again leap from claim into statement of truth without evidence, "it is just factually true".

Occasional meetings with politicians is not evidence of control, nor the higher claim given earlier in the thread, of deciding the outcome of elections.
O(log n) or O(sqrt(n)) might be a reasonable compromise between concurrent and consecutive sentences.
> With SEV enabled, an operator who has root privilege on a host system can't inspect or meaningfully alter the contents of RAM in use by a virtual machine running on that system.

Is that true? I would like to know more on what kind of garanties SEV gives / how it works high level, any resources you can recommend?
I assume that at least when the VM is being launched, the sysadmin can mess up with the VM?
I remember articles here in Poland years and years ago, when I was still reading magazines, about American pain clinics which were supposed to be a humane solution to patients' suffering as opposed to our antiquated system.

Still wonder if it was just cargo culting or something more sinister.
You are missing an E in arse..
OK but some models of gen iv of nuclear power plants can pretty much do the same. It sounds pretty dumb to me that journalists are super enthusiast about fusion but much less about gen iv (which is way more mature)
Seems a bit confident, no?
A little bit surprising there are so many such companies after codinghorror made fizzbuzz a household name 13 years ago.

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/
I'd like to use the assistant on Android exactly for this, and probably a few other automation tasks. I love me some fiddling with semi-automated workflows. If only I wasn't averse to putting my voiceprint on Google's servers.
I think something might be off in your mental model of python coroutines. They work via cooperative multitasking. Atomic operations aren't really necessary or relevant in such a system where you are in complete control of all yield points (i.e., calls to `await`).

If you read the full blog post, the author solves the problem without setdefault, and without having to cancel any futures.
What's next? A fruit name?
I think you'll find the US often has lists of corporations and people overseas that US corporations and persons are not allowed to work with/for. The US also has provisions designating companies as of national security importance and other areas.

This draft law allows the relevant government minister (in this case the Treasurer) to designate certain corporations as subject to this law. The corporations have access to the courts to challenge the designation and requirements of "natural justice" have been applied to ministerial actions by the courts.
Reminds me of wartime psy-ops:

Airborne leaflet propaganda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_leaflet_propaganda

Also, Taiwan has a huge speaker array pointed at mainland china which blasts propaganda: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/beishan-broadcast-stat...

Though sometimes it ends up making the target stronger if it can overcome the complaints E.g. Soviet propaganda highlighting racial injustice in the US probably forced some real changes in the 60s.
Toxoplasmosis causes generosity and trust in creatures it infects.

Not rage.

>In social networks the leverage point in eliminating toxoplasma from your life are the bridge people

How do you explain this sentence? I don't think the article is written for cats and rats.
TikTok makes me nauseous. It’s literally crazy to me that we’ve normalized an app targeted to kids and teens that encourages them to make hypersexualized mini music videos that rewards the “sexiest” videos with likes/followers/views.
The absolute creepiest part is that anyone can browse and fully download any video without even logging in. You would have to be completely naive to think that there aren’t a million pedophiles on TikTok everyday downloading content of teenage girls and boys twerking to Nicki Minaj songs without a trace. All while we sit back and laugh about it like we’re on Facebook circa 2009.
I think the Wikipedia page is oversimplifying somewhat at the cost of accuracy.
They watch those TikTok videos on devices powered by ARM SoCs.
He will use an executive order. The same he could have used to order masks be worn.
But then why even play a flight sim?

And yes, playing FSX with Xbox controller, landing is where I wish I have throttle or sometimes even rudder controller (since by default the directional control controls nose gear, ailerons, and rudders at the same time)
Wrong.

Conceptually, their aim was to use bots to generate traffic that results in ad revenue and then use that revenue to buy Google shares.

Google has technology that detects these patterns and flags them, and the ad revenue from flagged traffic is not paid.
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China uses Hong Kong security law against US and UK-based activists
That's absurd. If someone does something risky, and gets burned,they share some of the blame for it. Even if they accidentally left their front door open, that's still on them.

Certainly the burglar deserves the lion's share of the blame for what happened, but there's plenty to spread around.

My view is that if a reasonable person would have taken actions that would have avoided the issue in the first place, a person not taking those actions shares in the blame.

My bicycle got stolen from my garage a couple weeks ago. The garage was closed and locked, but someone forced the door at 4am and stole my bike. My bike was not locked to anything. My neighbor's bike was locked to a railing a few feet away from my bike, and did not get stolen. I share some of the blame here because if I had locked my bike up -- an entirely reasonable and prudent thing to do -- my bike would likely not have gotten stolen.

I think maybe the issue is because people are conflating blame with shame. No one should be shamed for stuff like this; it's a learning opportunity. I accept blame and responsibility for my part in my bike's theft, and if/when I get a new bike, I'll take better care to secure it, even when it's indoors.
For those like you who are gobsmacked, wondering what you’re missing, here it is:

The scale of YouTube has counterintuitive implications.

The harassment, deceptive self-promotion and trolling misuse of this feature was at such a scale that this feature was doing real harm that wasn’t effectively contained.

This is an issue Youtube has struggled with for years.

So, a feature that causes real harm, and brings real good, and at length they found no solution to the harm: the feature is quite reasonably axed.

And people who rely on the good faith usage of that abusable feature are justifiably disappointed...but we know why they did it.
> from the git go.

Not sure if this is intentional, but it's a great HN style eggcorn.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn
The issue with such a system that would allow arbitrary computation is that it would certainly allow to extract the value, which mean it would be simpler not to encrypt it in the first place :)
The way I read this is that he simply encourages you to talk and share your thought process while solving the problem. If you are stuck, you will have to take hints anyway, but until then taking aloud helps the interviewer and might as well help you by forcing you to articulate your thoughts in a structured manner.
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