skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [5] I don't know where you're from, but although in our day I think the idea of a german nation (especially post-reunification) is very strong, regional dialects remain more actively differentiated than in, say, france.

Italy, from my couple of years of experience in Germany we are in a pretty similar situation. A German colleague of mine lived near Trier and he could not understand at all the (strict) dialect of the area, I could predict something similar if I where to move to Venice or Sardinia.

I do not have much to contribute to this thread, but I would like to recommend to you a couple of book reviews that you might find interesting:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/14/book-review-against-th...

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/book-review-seeing-lik...

They describe an interesting perspective on the establishment and function of a centralized state.
As an interviewer I wholeheartedly agree with this.

I think most egregious problems are:

1) candidates assuming that I am only interested in them producing a solution

2) candidates assuming that I am interested in checking their knowledge of the language or standard library

In fact, the process is mostly what I am interested in and I am pretty happy to give hints and especially when it comes to trivia like what is the name of the function that does some specific thing and what kind of parameters it takes.

I just would like to see how the candidate approaches and deals with the problem. Does he/she have analytical, planned, ordered approach or is everything chaos?

High on my list of things that don't impress me is solving the problem by running the code dozens of times. This shows the person cannot write any stretch of the code without running it because he/she does not actually have a mental model of what is going on and relies on actually running the code as a crutch for their lack of understanding.
Doesn't work like this. HDMI is a separate device; also, in a thread somewhere Paul Davis of Ardour fame explains how exactly infeasible it is. (And you won't be able to do "real time" on a GPU anyway if it's not graphics.)

There's also more to audio than mixing (simple mixing was done on G3/G4, come on), when you take all the effects and filters, so to offload that reasonably you'd need an audio card with, say, an FPGA.
I remember first learning of Nagle's algorithm back in the early WoW days in my endless quest to get lower latency for PvP on my neighbor's cracked WEP. I don't really know if it matters much in 2020, but I still habitually run the *.reg file to disable it on every new windows install.
If Petrie was right in the '40s, alive, he is still right, dead.

It is one thing to demonstrate crude granite drilling and sawing, and entirely another to actually reproduce observed phenomena. The one is not a substitute for the other.

And you can call them sarcophagi if you like, but that is a box for a corpse, and these have all always been empty. So, boxes. 100-ton boxes, machined to such tight tolerance that they seal just by seating the lid.
Na, they are actually based in reality. We're killing our own biological support system. Sad, sorry, and true facts.
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> I mean, that isn't exactly hideous code

It is. When you read it in isolation here, it's fine. If you have to read pages and pages of it and you have to concentrate/have half your brain working on the logic of the code, you don't want to annoy your brain with details like these.
Big constellations will regularly miss eachother by similar margins... Since you want all the satellites to orbit with the exact same period, they all end up at the same altitude, which means lots of chances for a collision.
I don't overestimate the awesome value of my own input either
Which one is the side that is tentatively supportive of the whole QAnon stuff?
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An Electron alternative, that is much smaller in size. Who does not want that? Here is the chance! Only 53 hours left to go and only about CAD5000-CAD6000 achieved. Yes, I payed my share. But I got no bitcoins, so... ;-)
Also worth noting that Taiwan has a far higher GDP per capita. Admittedly, not a perfect comparison with China since they received decades of Japanese infra development.
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Are genders countable? If you take enough you could mitigate the sides and end up where you started with much higher IQ.
https://www.backerkit.com/projects/c-smile/open-source-scite...

It's a bit bleak indeed.

The "open-sourcing the sciter" post [0] has gained almost no traction, news coverage [1] etc. This hn thread is the first time I heard of this kickstarter myself.

I think with a bit of marketing, the goal is absolutely reachable. Also there are plenty of grants and foundations that support open source projects. It's likely that with the right application they'll donate the needed amount, but usually they work quite slowly. Likely won't happen in the remaining 53 hours.

[0]: https://terrainformatica.com/2020/09/07/open-sourcing-the-sc...

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=sciter+open+source&tbm=nws&s...
A lot of people are badmouthing this article. I think thats unfair. There seem to be some broad misconceptions as to why current technical interviews are designed the way they are. (I speak with the experience of administering over 400 technical interviews.)

First, you have to understand that most candidates who apply for a technical position don't really know how to program. The obvious reason for this is that weak candidates spend more time trying to be hired, and thus they apply for far more jobs than qualified candidates. I'd estimate about half the people who apply for an advertised software engineering position can't program something as simple as fizz buzz. Many of these people are lovely humans, have families to support and are depressed from being turned down from job after job. But if you can't program, I can't hire you for a programming role. And for everyone who's competent, I get it. Simple programming problems are a waste of your time. But as an interviewer, I need to quickly differentiate you from someone who spent 3 days watching python videos on youtube then forked some random repositories into their github account.

As an interviewer, I'm really trying to answer this question: If I put you in a team of programmers, would you be able to meaningfully contribute? If you want to know how to land your dream job, take a minute to brainstorm which what qualities would make you effective in the role you're applying to. Then demonstrate those qualities in an interview. Your list will look almost identical to mine - be proactive, have good communication skills, know how to program, know the domain (web / ios / ...), etc.

If you can't demonstrate a skill in the interview, your interviewer will assume its because you don't have that skill. This is a reasonable assumption and - despite all the grumbling in these threads - usually true. Most people who fail interviews either have poor technical skills or poor communication skills or both. If your interviewer can't tell the difference between you and the mountain of disappointing candidates they're drowning in, its your job to figure out why thats the case and fix it. If you apply for a frontend web position but you can't tell me what a CSS selector is, its not the fault of "the system" when you don't get hired.

Lots of folks here are convinced technical interviews are fundamentally broken. I still haven't seen any fairer way to assess programmers that can filter out the flood of weak applicants. If you think technical interviews are broken, I challenge you to suggest a viable alternative. Please - prove me wrong!
Easier in what way? The format or the language?
And his father's Universal Replicator: creatio ex nihilo (creation from nothing). It has to be a heavily guarded secret, otherwise it would ruin physics as we know it.
It's bad, but at the same time Twitter is one of the best ways to reach a big audience, a network effect no other platform could dream of achieving.
That's naive at best. You say, if I wanted to write good HTTP client I should decide not to use TCP because TCP is meant to relieve the user from managing datagrams?

The reality is, when you design a client library you work with what you have and in case when you are writing HTTP client what you have is TCP on one side and a user application on the other side that expects maximum performance and minimum latency possible (just look at the benchmarks on the net that compare tens of frameworks in competition for who can produces largest TPS of hello world with lowest latency).
> I know it's a bit more complex than basic algorithms and data structures, but it also is much more important in the "real world", at least in my opinion.

You are right, that is hard. Especially in an interview setting. But I 100% agree that it's better than questions about algorithms.
Societies get larger and more interconnected, so there's always a comparatively small ruling class and an increasingly larger subjugated class. Zero sum end-game: the subjugated class comprise the entire world. (I'm not sure I actually believe this can happen.)

Also, there isn't always a determined individual or cadre that decides on a goal of total domination. There are structural societal issues that tend to progress in one direction. It's politically harder to repeal laws that were put in place for reasons of "security" and were built on fear. Not always, but often. This tends to secure power in the hands of the few, over an expanding swathe of the public.
I think this project is piggybacking on ZeroTier.

ZeroTier is actually quite good. I've used it successfully in/for enterprise-grade services.
Experiment in progress. I'll report back in 24 hours, or however long the grape takes to travel my innards.
I was impressed by the article and when I read your comments, I felt like this random person is right, it does sound profound but doesn't add anything substantial to the topic of learning.

It's nice to have another aspect or perspective on learning but it is certainly not a "new learning strategy". I agree.

And yet there is a merit in analogies, they can help you understand the underlying principles of something, in this case learning. I'm not sure people (including me) always get the full picture of something and an article can help with that showing learning from another angle.

In general I agree with you and yet the article adds something for some to their understanding of what learning is.

Thanks for that.
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They put this "billboard" right at the height and location of a normal stop sign, location is not going to help for this.
Obviously, roads should have minefields and electrified fences to ensure drivability. Potholes will be outlawed. Weather will be punishable by death.
Youtube comments was the worst of the internet. Now it is sometimes useful.
I'd love for this to be open source but it looks like the odds are not in favor.
Why am I hearing about this now?
> I would generally trust it if it persists after the actual pill wears off.

The problem I see with that is that the thing that you are using to "trust it" may have been altered by the pill itself, to make you "trust" whatever changes it made. It could be like Ken Thompson's Hack[1], but for brains.

On the other hand, that's how our brains work, regularly. We experience reality and our brains' chemistry changes.

A similar situation I can think of is: I have an accident and and I lose part of my brain mass as a result. The present me would definitively not "trust" whatever person results from that. But "me without those brain parts" might, or even like it. It has been observed that brain injuries can produce severe personality changes[2]

I must point out that a brain injury might feel more "drastic"; more similar to a "hardware change" in a computer than the pill one, which could feel like a "software update", of sorts. But a pill could very well kill a huge part of a brain (consider that cyanide could kill 100% of it).

[1] http://wiki.c2.com/?TheKenThompsonHack
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage
yeah I imagine once a technique is mastered, it would be used all over the place! Not sure if one "company" started offering this service in many places, could explain the similarity.
This is the kind of project that I'd hope the Linux Foundation or similar could take an interest in financing too.

Until, at least, all major modern OSes come with a built in scriptable headless browser engine, which would be a game-changer. Something-like-electron-or-sciter where you don't have to download the runtime for each individual application.

Also, of course, not a walled garden: the windows "modern apps" store can sort of do this I think, but there are lots of good reasons not to go down that path.
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> You would trust something that permanently alters your opinion of the world, that could be forcibly administered to you?

The second part is the problematic one, not the first, right? After all, reading or watching videos could also permanently alter your opinion of the world.
I grew up in a very liberal part of the country and I’m pretty sure I had to read every single book on the most banned book lists. I honestly don’t remember anything about any of them. I think it takes more that having to read the book and take a test or write a report about it to have some sort of effect.
Getting back to C++ after Rust is a pain
It's called musipedia and it's still on!

https://www.musipedia.org/query_by_tapping.html

You can also search by melody or by contour
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Did you try fading between images? Relatively easy with changing alpha channels in pygame.
If I understand correctly what the guy says in the article, his candidates lose points if he gives them hints.

And about running the code often, what's the problem with getting early feedback? There are people (that I agree with) that run the unit test on the code they're writing every added line or two. Some who also commit every line or two and then squash the commits once the whole "unit" is done. By no means does this mean they don't know what's going on
> Walk before you run is the essence of the argument here.

Walking on the highway because you got spooked is the essence of the reason why you're dead.
So they're injecting their own ads into sites?
Good policy. Sucked execution for different norm.
OP here. Thanks so much for the questions.

- The PoPs are meant to be purchased by retail investors, we've sold 35 of them so far. We're offering it as a franchisee agreement for a period of 6 years with a 70-30 revenue share split with minimum guaranteed revenue.

- Regarding the FSOs, we've been serving thousands of live customers for the last 9 months off the FSOs and have greater than 99% uptime through rain, hail and heavy winds. FSO has come a long way in terms of reliability and throughput since the early days. We're using the 1535nm - 1565nm wavelength.

- We've wired thousands of public wifi hotspots as well as large buildings and campuses over the last 3 years and a have a really clear deployment strategy and team in place.

- Yes, the $20k covers the cost of the lasers, deployment, sales and management of the service and customers. We've put in a huge amount of effort over the last 3 years to bring costs down by using a lot commodity components for routers, switches, etc.

- The $20k price point hasn't been much of an issue so far, but happy to hear more feedback on that. We're thinking about setting aside a few PoPs where a group of people can pool money to purchase one. Would love to hear your thoughts on that.
Maybe it’s not “something changes your values” but you learn to view them from a different perspective.
I don't know, businesses seeming to expect free advertisements like some in the article feels a little bit disrespectful towards influencers. it's okay not to give away stuff and i never would, but I suppose the assumption that influencers will just put your stuff into the spotlight anyhow is likely mistaken.
Demo link:

https://twitter.com/anubhav200/status/1158673927612198913
If you want a comprehensive comparison between ESPhome and Tasmota, The Guy With The Swiss Accent[0] got you covered.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHaFM0tKOvY
It's a characteristic of this stuff claiming to be doing nuclear physics that you actually avoid real nuclear physics (gamma and neutron detection) and possibly hand-wave it away like that. I used to study sub-barrier fusion reactions with palladium and sensitive detectors, and all this business was risible from the start.
Sounds like he's only criticizing Apple's pressure tactics in hiring to me.
I think a self hosted Jitsi Meet can do 1080p, if configured right.
(On the other hand, the raku version also implements operator precedence properly, with infix operators having lower precedence than logical negation.)
Many mining sites look really desolate and alien.
If you carve a hole into solid rock, the crushed rock doesn't fit into that same space anymore. You will have rubble piles. Also all kinds of substances start leaching from it. What was just inert rock is now mining waste. Basically you can easily poison nearby water bodies.

And this isn't even talking about any kind of extraction, just the physical action.

Why single out the smart phones?
"navigating one of the most difficult driving cities in the world." .....cue laughter from anywhere, India
How frequently did you take MDMA?
I'd suggest reading Brave New World or The Last Book Ever Written to explore those two ideas, respectively. The latter is a bit more kid-friendly, and you might consider it a little prescient for its time.

Also, not trying to be on a high horse here (hey, I'm posting this on HN...) you might find that the people are merely offered the drugs and brain-computer devices and they make their own decisions about the two.

There's a fantastic comic (no link, sorry) comparing Orwell's future to Huxley's future that's remarkably relevant.

EDIT: link - https://biblioklept.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/huxley-orwel...

I forgot, but it gets even better when, at the bottom, you notice the book is also from an even more prescient book, Amusing Ourselves To Death by Neil Postman. I believe it came out around the "golden era" of TV, but again I don't think all that much has changed. We're still the same humans with the same flaws. I should stop there; I'll start giving out spoilers. Read the books. :)
I think you might want to do some double checking on your history.
Firstly Microsoft monopoly got thrown out because of unethical behavior of the judge (which is why there isn't two Microsoft entities today. The whole thing hinged on "Microsoft installed its browser by default which gave it an unfair advantage." To allow the DOJ to save face, Microsoft agreed to make it easier to install other browsers.

And My Space wasn't a monopoly, there was a parade of social networking sites of various popularity and success starting with bolt in the late 90s and most directly before MySpace was Friendster.

Compare these applications, to say power companies, or ISPs in much of the US. The difference is really clear.
The article under discussion could probably benefit a great deal from a concrete definition of what a polymath is. Or at least, what the author believes a true polymath to be.

Software development does indeed beget an odd practice, in which practitioners can accumulate a large body of domain specific knowledge, almost by osmosis.

While I don't know if it can be seen as evidence of polymathematical competency, it does make me wonder if this 'skill', misconstrued, is what the article is attacking.

But the only way to make that clear, is to illustrate the difference between:

- People who happen to accumulate deep knowledge of different fields, in the pursuit of others goals (like software engineers).

- People who obtain competency in apparently diverse skills, that are obviously related (like the author's basketball player, a musician who can play many instruments, or a polylinguist).

- People who truly do have, or have developed, competency in two or more fields.

The last of which the article suggests is rare, but also muddies the definition by denigrating the most famous exemplar (Da Vinci).

Again, what would have helped, was a clearer, or alternative, definition of what we expect a polymath to be. Certainly, if the author is intent on ignoring Da Vinci (?), then you could possibly take Filippo Brunelleschi, or Descartes, and work backwards from there.

But this is just an idea...
the person in question is not allowed to talk
Seriously? Bellard is behind this too? Genius is definitely the right word here!
That's why getting a computer to do basic real-world shit that humans do with aplomb will likely require a merger of GOFAI with the new, statistics-based AI.
But is it not your values your perspective about the world?
So I've spent a bit of time playing around with this (self taught dev, mostly front-end) - really impressed so far.

The app is a bit buggy and features are relatively sparse, but it is intuitive to use and I can see the promise.

Within 20 minutes, I had an API structure fairly well plotted out, along with REST endpoints, a GraphQL schema and playground, documentation, and places to add webhooks (although no way to programmatically add webhooks easily, as far as I could see).

I may be over-rating this simply because it comes at a good time for me - I recently spent hours reading through the JSON:API specification [0], and trying to figure out how it is different to the OpenAPI specification [1], and how to actually get into implementation, and generally getting bogged down in levels of detail that I never knew existed.

The only fear I have with this service is that the pricing structure will be too high. I would be keen on a usage-based pricing model based on amount of data stored, with a free tier for personal projects.
This would allow me to play around with it myself for free, while internal business tools with higher usage would be paid.

Interested in talking about what pricing may turn out to be - if you want to get in touch, my email address is on a feature request I submitted about adding a datetime field.

(edit to remove extraneous character, in the process adding lots more extraneous characters)

[0] https://jsonapi.org/format/
[1] https://swagger.io/specification
the best interview would be to pair interviewer and interviewee on a random leetcode problem

otherwise it's mostly just a power trip for the interviewer and a lousy signal.

oh, and people who like problem #19 on project euler shouldn't be interviewing humans.
In fact programmers should not be interviewing other programmers at all, it's not their job.