skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Extreme autotomy and whole-body regeneration in photosynthetic sea slugs
Can I just have a wifi only phone and then have a separate wifi hotspot that actually does the connecting to the cell network? The hotspot wouldn't be "owned" but the phone could be.
I am surprised that there are not more "traditional tests". Give problem, give person 45 minutes, leave the room, come back and discuss it. I have strong social anxiety. It is extremely difficult to solve a problem with someone watching me. I get panic attacks in at least 1/3 of my interviews. I have never had to code with someone watching me during my day to day job. I am not not interviewing for the job of coding performance artist. Why make me audition like I am an actor or a musician?
I also find that for a first time user, it may be a bit hard to figure out what's exactly going on. I experimented with slowing down the animation after every step, let the user take in what's happened and then move to next step but that made the video too long and kinda boring for experienced users

I figured after watching 1-2 such visualizations, you get used to looking at exactly the parts that are changing and then it works without explicitly slowing down the video
> 70% of chinese energy is imported.

And 90% of that imported energy is used for export manufacturing.
Question from someone who is not super knowledgable about this subject - is this conceptually similar to using ML to solve linear equations? I.e. randomly guess and update weights...

Is there a field of research in using ML approaches for this type of problem?
> Offering free top notch education can go a long way

I find it strange that people think you can just magically provide a top notch school and things magically correct themselves. How can you completely discount the impact of the parents involvement with their children's educational life?

Paraphasing JFK, "Ask not what your school can do for your kid's education, but what you can do for your kid's education".

Parents play a huge part in imparting good values in their children and also holding their children accountable for their performance in school. Furthermore, when some kids do poorly that rubs off on all the other kids by lowering the bar and setting bad examples. The parents set bad examples for their kids and then those kids set bad examples for other kids. It's turtles all the way down.

"If you want to see the poor remain poor, generation after generation, just keep the standards low in their schools and make excuses for their academic shortcomings and personal misbehavior. But please don't congratulate yourself on your compassion." – Thomas Sowell
While you're collaborating with your teammates, if you reference anything external or get it wrong or don't come up with an answer in 45 minutes you're fired!

Still stress free?
I've been dabbling in electronic music (no particular genre in mind) for a couple of years.

Here's all I've finished

https://soundcloud.com/bjartr

And here's a couple of specific tracks I'm proud of

Return of Industry:

https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/NTB9M

Defect:

https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/CbroN
Well, they're controlling what they can. And if we're gonna bring ethnicity into this, those people are mostly white too, no?

The average tech team I've been on is way less white than the woke median. And most of them don't buy it if you talk to them.
To me, it seems obvious (I should say though that this is speculation, even if I think I'm right) that she was fired for precisely what she's doing in the article: looking for sexism where it doesn't exist. You cannot coach that behavior, you'll get labelled sexist immediately. There's no way to correct such a problem before letting someone go.

And providing reasons after the fact, as others have stated, is a bad idea because it opens up liability. You have no discriminatory reasons whatsoever for letting someone go, but you bumble some words and the next thing you know you're getting sued. Better to treat it like you're talking to the cops and just not say anything.
All things considered, agile probably still produces results faster overall. Its like running the requirements gathering & software dev concurrently rather than serially.

Faster = cheaper. So the logic of economics dictates that is exactly what will happen, even if it is more stressful :/
Why would you need that? Ex. Debian running on a Talos Raptor would be architecturally "normal" but be 100% user-controlled.
Well, you have your brain.
Fully Self Latency!!
Hardware level trust would be really cool. It seems theoretically possible because all you need is an accurate measurement of some physical property that is hard to forge when changing transistors orders etc. Practically though, anything like that would be most likely affected by manufacturing tolerances for the transistors, so you’d have to find something that allows a certain amount of error when individual transistors change, but will reveal unknown transistors and connections.

Even if this was achieved, the rabbithole would continue though, because the thing you measure with could now have a backdoor. Remind me of the classic paper about the same problem with software: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...
Agreed! It’s awesome :)
Here you go. From the article:

>"People estimate the median completion time well, but not the mean."

I do not estimate either. I estimate guaranteed delivery date and what functionality will be delivered by such date.

My "special" estimation technique is probably that I do not always do things in prescribed way. I am not afraid to look outside and find ways that would bring solutions faster (sometimes by much) than the standard recipe.

Here is the example of the unconventional way I used to save someone's butt in 2 weeks when the other company (Certified consultant shop charging $300 per hour per developer) could not do it in 2.5 month
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21055881
I made this track together with a trumpet player I hired through Fiverr recently. That process was surprisingly smooth.

https://soundcloud.com/unblindfolding/reflections
Not just Intel. amd too.
Your sarcastic and condescending tone detracts from your point and from the conversation. You could say the same thing in a polite and genuine way and be more likely to attract meaningful responses.
Liar and truth-teller riddle with step by step easy solution (2020)
Because the ability to perceive is tuned by the reactivity of your nervous system. Think of it like the sensitivity on a microphone. A normal microphone might work well to record a conversation at a party. But it wont capture the beating of a fly's wings. And conversely a high sensitivity microphone will be useless at a party, it will just get blown out by the noise.

In the same way the minds of people are tuned to different levels of stimulation. People with low sensitivity are better suited to noisy information rich environments. People with high sensitivity work better in quieter less information dense ones. You might want a highly sensitive person to conduct a one on one interview, because they can better pickup the subtleties of the interaction. But you don't want that for a lawyer who has to work in a busy courtroom.

That covers perception. The synthesis comes both from the lower perception floor and from the tendency for those things that are perceived to perpetuate within the nervous system. A reactive nervous system carries waves upon its surface more readily. It reacts even to itself more strongly. The inter-neuron gain is higher. Consequently a highly sensitive nervous system (i.e. introversion) is associated with withdrawal from high stimulation environments and the perception and processing of subtlety.

The herd mentality comes from being less able to pick up the subtleties that let you know the group think is not an accurate picture of reality. If you cannot perceive the discrepancies then you cannot doubt the status quo.

So when you do public whiteboard interviews you are selecting for low sensitivity individuals who are on average less able to discern subtle patterns in perceptions coming in at low volume. Does that sound like the kind of person who excels at coding?

Although it might sound like someone who can work the least sub optimally in a noisy open office.
One major feature of gram-negative bacteria is their production of LPS, which is inherently inflammatory and can contribute to disease. That said, many gram-positive bacteria can also be pathogenic. The relationship between bacterial pathogenicity is more nuanced than just their cell wall composition. We believe that Bristle can serve as a platform to reveal some of the host-pathogen interactions in the oral cavity.
Consider a raw milk diet for a while. Maybe probiotics and prebiotics. CRON-o-meter. There's such a thing as stool transplant.
Programming Language for Beginners in 2021
The Financial Turing Test
How can you build a prototype without the information in the standards that tells you the limits to how you design your prototype?
> Sounds like stress doesn't impact you, even in interview settings

No, it sounds like you didn't read the top of the thread, where we're specifically discussing Whiteboard Prompts. I agree interviews are stressful; I disagree with the argument that "Whiteboard Prompts" are so much higher stress than the rest of the interview that we can't conclude anything from them about the candidate.

I further argue that if one can't perform in a Whiteboard Prompt, wherein the entire goal is to have the type of conversation about a problem that engineers are paid to have about problems rather than coming to a code solution, than one will probably be difficult to work with in any situation which involves some pressure. Some classic examples of equally high pressure situations as talking to an interviewer you don't know but who is probably on your level include things I do each week:

* speak with stakeholders about progress

* opine to stakeholders about complexity of features, timelines and methodologies of their implementation, and possible blockers

* work with my team & extended team members to give Code Reviews, where often they are my direct report or someone else's direct report

So, I conclude that if one is able to excel technically, but completely unable to handle this socialization aspect of interviews, than in a large corporation where you frequently have rotating casts of external stakeholders, this implies you will not be fit for any of the work interfacing or collaborating with colleagues outside the team. This implies this person will be a low performer if hired into this team.

Call it a "ridiculous strawmen" if you want, but I don't see why we should completely discard testing of someone's ability to interact in new situations, otherwise surely I could argue in the ridiculously reductionist way you are interpreting my multiple, specific comments elucidating my stance that TripleByte has solved the interviewing problem.
YouTube Changed the Way We Market Our Services and Why We Stopped Buying Ads
deep learning uses a lot lot of sparse linear systems
I have lived in London, NZ, Australia. All have had free toilets. Why? Growing up in NZ free bathrooms were normal so we take it for granted. Yes, a small population means that these facilities were less likely to be abused. But London? In Shoreditch, a part of East London that is full of pubs and hipsters quaffing the Devil's Dandruff the council sets up urinals in the street where any punter can see you pissing but only your back (it's an Octagonal urinal and you face a wall). This was a fantastic solution to an ancient problem. This may offend the yanks God-fearing sensibilities but surely a step up from seeing the perps member out in full view. The open nature of this urinal also means people are less likely to rob, kill or shag you. Surely one of you lads could bring the weeze trough to SF and make a bundle? A ye entrepreneurs or no?
Any first hand experience with Anbox on Pinephone?
Thanks for the clarification! I still don't really see why this is so. Lots of people in lots of countries want a theocracy, and are allowed to say so, but only a tiny number of countries have ended up getting one as a result. (I even think a fair amount of the advocacy in Iran in favor of the Islamic Revolution was probably illegal under Pahlavi, in which case its success isn't even much of a prophecy of what happens if that kind of advocacy is tolerated.)

I guess I don't understand the "any resistance is invalidation of tolerance" and "would lead it to be easily destroyed" part. Is it like this classic Onion article from 2003?

https://politics.theonion.com/aclu-defends-nazis-right-to-bu...

Like if you actively make a point of never opposing people who disagree with you in any way whatsoever, eventually they can take advantage of that in a more harmful or dramatic way?
Its called Anbox.
During quarantine I’ve been making multi-track videos of myself playing piano, bass, drums, trumpet:

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCu99gfJcUAtjNqgnBvSAvCA
So this info is a bit old since I haven't been there in a while. When I was working for a contracting company back in Germany maybe 10 years ago, the standard rate they would charge for us was around 75EUR. That's 156kEUR.

This is what the "general contractor" is paid by the huge corporation. Not sure how much of that goes to the individual contractor and will depend on negotiation. Also there were some people that were billed at higher rates but obviously they would try and keep the number of those low.

Also keep in mind that from that you would have to pay all of the health and employment insurance premiums yourself. If your employer pays you 65kEUR they pay quite a bit on top of that in employment insurance health insurance etc.
I don't think I've ever seen a public toilet in China that flushes properly. Only those in malls in richer areas.

One time, I went into a train station cubicle, looked down and saw that all the cubicles shared one channel to do your business in, and as expected, no water was passing through to wash anything away.

China does not do decently in regards to toilets.
> Boys are just predisposed for technology by nature

This is true. There is scientific evidence that shows men prefer things, women prefer people. This is not to say women can’t succeed in tech or are not as good at tech, but the fact that women choose other fields belies this nature.

Women are better at language, social interactions, etc. So when her boss says to use her “feminine” skills to talk to a difficult co-worker, it’s simply a comment on a predisposed advantage women have over men when looking at the statistics.

Surprisingly, this would probably make females better managers rather than code monkeys. Managers make more money too.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19883140/

> the times I was over-explained, or the times interviewers made a “not bad” facial expression when I replied correctly to technical questions

The problem women have today is that they are programmed to see everything as sexism, when in fact such things happen regardless of sex.

This really approaches disbelief. A “not bad” facial expression being sexism.

When she was fired for lacking team chemistry, I don’t doubt it when you have someone psycho-analyzing every single gesture and seeing it through some sexism lens.

And a junior developer out of college complaining about being “over-explained”. How hard is it to say “I am very familiar with this topic” and move on.
Librem 5? PinePhone?
Yep, like i said the cloud provider will lie about best practice to have you bake them in. Vercel is the best of the bunch IMO because their infrastructure components (e.g. micro) are open-source. But they have great workflows for monoliths tucked away.
Messed up people a long time ago created a very unfair pyramid with straight white men at the top and transgender black women at the bottom. And too many intelligent people today think the solution to that problem is to rotate that order, rather than to just do away with a pyramid altogether. I hope this is just an interim phase before we consider things like ethnicity and gender as arbitrary as hair color.
> Elon Musk was born in S.Africa and living in the US. Is he African American? Technically yes.

I believe that makes him just African, not African-American.
If I die famous someday, I really hope Stephen Wolfram doesn't write my obituary...
I'm a big ML proponent, both because of work and personal interest. Saying it is like electricity is idiotic, and only makes false expectations about ML worse.

But I would not say that makes it uninteresting. Nor does it make it irrelevant from a business perspective. There are still lots of beneficial ways to use ML, and lots of different angles from which to derive intellectual satisfaction. I suppose if someone went into the field expecting I Robot type stuff, they might be disappointed, but it's hard to imagine someone with a CS background having such unrealistic expectations of what ML actually is.
> I'm lucky to have a great advisor and incredible labmates; my happiness with the program is largely due to them.

This. So much this. As in just about every profession, people make or break places. Your advisor and lab mates are everything... choose wisely, and choose them vs a school for its name.
It would be easier to just pay people to have kids and make it an economic gain....
As the paper points out, ultimately you have to trust the people. This is why vetting processes exist for access to some critical things. And why I have a fairly high degree of confidence that certain reputable people can be relied upon to take a firm stand on principles and ideology (example: if somebody was trying to pressure Moxie Marlinspike to backdoor Signal).
Yeah, I think the parent started with some good concepts like "a computer I own" and "not being spied on", but then missed the lack of relation between the two.

You can have a computer that does not connect to the Internet, or connects to the Internet very little, or only connects to the Internet through specific communication channels you open in a firewall. That's all very attainable.

However, as soon as you communicate with third parties, be it your ISP, a cloud provider, or your end communication partner, you are potentially sharing with more than you intend. It's a "the only way to keep a secret between three people is if two of them are dead" problem. You can't control what other people choose to share.
This really depends. If I open 20 large projects in the same vs code workspace it literally dies.

Doing the same in Jetbrains IDE is painful, but possible.
bosshawk.bandcamp.com ... pop punk with a day job
Ask HN: What type of NFTs would you like to see?
(1) Art
(2) Collectibles
(3) Other
Influencer marketing is a $10B placebo
EFNet IRC Network – A documentary (2021)
EFnet, RatBox 3.0 once forked from ircd-hybrid is almost 20 years old.... colloquially known as "shitnet" shout outs to all the soldiers that died in battle

[EFNet]
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becker1.u.washington.edu=.
eff.org=.
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Covid Vaccine Side Effects
Thanks, I think I might be gradually understanding more of what you're saying.

I feel like I've often heard the paradox of tolerance invoked in regard to what U.S. free expression law would call "pure speech", but it seems like your point is more along the lines that there's no group or society that would literally do nothing at all to defend itself in any circumstances, and that that's an unachievable or unsustainable extreme. Maybe something like the most extreme form of pacificism, where people imply that they will literally allow themselves to be killed without trying to prevent it in any way.
You're telling me. I had a few Z80s in a tube for a while. I was hoping I'd get to sell them to NASA one day haha.
Sure, but this further demonstrates that given the opportunity cost it's not a worthwhile endeavor.
This guy scrolls
He's an American citizen, so he can call himself "X.American"

Edit: clarification.
Figure 3 almost looks like the responder is lagging. Feels like it slows down and speeds up in several places.

Assuming that’s not a gif/video rendering bug, it’s a great way to get rear-ended.
Solzhenitsyn’s Rosary (2016)
This is really cool.

I suspect that when we have self driving cars, it's going to take off very quickly due to insurance. In particular, if you are in a non self driving car and in an accident with a self driving one, it'll be hard to not be shown as at fault. So insurance I would guess go up based on the percentage of self driving cars, and likely be really cheap for self driving cars.

I wonder if there's a period though where people cut off self driving cars, knowing they won't get hit. I suspect pedestrians in cities will jaywalk a lot more (and maybe that's ok).
The idea is that economies of scale and increased incentives drive forward new innovation in technology that increase the amount of renewable energy that can be captured.

Eg if we need to manufacture 100x more solar panels than last year, the cost per solar panel will drop dramatically, and the efficiency will rise due to the volume of investment in solar panels.

We are not limited in how much we accomplish as technology provides efficiencies that allow us to grow, it’s not a zero sum game.
This will certainly fit your bill.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima
Same as in Canada I think.

In Canada (at least where I am) you basically earn employee status. I think it's the same in Germany ("Scheinselbststaendigkeit"). So you have to basically ping pong between two places or earn enough to just take a prolonged vacation until they can hire you back coz they like your work ;)
If the second ballot is, again, Bolsonaro vs. PT then I won't even leave home on voting day, again.
Maybe you’re just too young but it’s still recommended to store your fancy digital cash in offline paper wallets. Maybe research what happened with Mt Gox :)
DOS and PCs were, of course, always commercial products, but they still had the user's best interests at heart to a far greater degree than most modern machines; for starters, it often lacked the ability to phone home and report on your activity or download ads.
RENO: A Rename-Based Instruction Optimizer
Not if your goods are infinite. There’s an infinite amount of sunlight and wind, if demand goes up, more tools/breakthroughs in tech will be made and the costs will drop dramatically.

See battery tech and solar panels lately.

Only if we hit a hard resource and tech barrier will we not be able to move forward.
Presumably GitHub's search page wasn't the intended link. The mailing list has some info¹, but there is probably a better link somewhere.

Edit: The PR discussion linked in the email is an interesting look in to the processes in the project².

¹ https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2021-March/149040....

² https://reviews.llvm.org/D88385
"picked off fast" is perhaps a bit generous - there are lots of great companies that got to series A without seeing a single "top VC" term sheet. -> That may be but its certainly not the norm. IMO good investing needs to be viewed in terms of averages and STDEV, rather than outliers.

You may very well encounter a seed stage unicorn but the weighted probability and time weighted return of that dramatically reduces your value relative to something more stable like real estate.