skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If this is actually true, which I highly doubt (I've interviewed people, too), your process is terrible at preselection. I've heard so much about this "programmer charlatan" that lies on his resume and ends up blowing up million dollar systems, but have yet to see any tangible proof.

I dunno about the back half (blowing up million dollar system) but the front half, certainly.

We used to ask "write min()" at a previous employ, and the pass rate was probably <50%. I still to this day structure my coding question around "it has to get them to write a for() loop". It's not trick questions (I understand why people don't like those, and those can die out, yes.) it's things like "here's a sample grammar, how would we go about parsing it?" which is something that I've used any number of times in my career.¹ Other candidates fail to display understanding, let alone deep understanding, about things like HTTP or Linux. Not exactly niche topics, and during this example period my employer at the time was clearly posting for "backend software engineer". And not just one or the other, but all of them, simultaneously. Since I can't establish any proof of anything, so… what other choice is there, but to pass?

¹while there are parsing libraries, yes, and I'll use those first / when I can, I would also say that 50% of the time, for whatever reason — better error reporting, better control — I end up going with a partially or mostly hand-rolled state machine or recursive descent parser. Also, while I wish people would just encode their data in something like JSON, or YAML, or whatever, it doesn't really matter, they. keep. making. new. grammars. Often inside those other grammars. Just today I had to deal with a config — a YAML config! — that wanted "key values". Turns out, it wanted strings formatted like "key:value", not YAML mappings.
This is the part that irked me:

> And approximately half the psychiatrists at my hospital thought this was absolutely scandalous, and This Is Not How One Treats Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Maybe in a private apology between two people, that works. In a public apology, it's typically performative BS that puts the person on the spot and imposes on them to find some socially acceptable response rather than giving them room to sort their feelings and draw their own conclusions.

I think it also depends on the severity of the offense. I think if someone murdered someone beloved by the person to whom they are apologizing or raped someone or ruined their career, it would also be gauche to impose and ask forgiveness.

Forgiveness is a gift. I don't think it is appropriate to demand a gift, especially if you have done someone egregious harm.
> "partnerships are integral to [...] ensuring the development of football across Europe [...] for youth"

This part is laughable horse shit. You don't need corporate sponsors to give some kids a $10 ball. Nor do you need corporate sponsors even for a field for them to run around in; school taxes or local funding for public parks have that covered. No corporate partnerships were ever involved when I played this game as a kid.
I've only had to compile it once, unless we change python drastically and/or want autopep8.py changes (I would think this does not happen often, and if it does it also means we'll have to reformat our code).

Granted, my case is really not general one, but nuitka fit well there (like I really wanted to avoid another 'freeze' tool that unpacks python to a temp folder, and calls it from there just to run autopep8.py).

That to be said, I was not able to get nuitka working with some of the other popular format lib (I'll need to look again, it takes a bit of setup)
Exactly.

It's kind of like defensive driving. No I shouldn't have to take all these precautions because others should be following the road rules... but very often they don't. If you're in a crash and you're "in the right", you're still in a crash (as my last concussion can attest to...).

Likewise if someone is being a prick to you, sometimes you've just gotta be the bigger prick right back. No you shouldn't have to be, people should always be nice and respectful... but they're not. Most people back off, and if they don't - you've learned the valuable lesson that the person is beyond reason and you can wash your hands of it right then and there.
Empathy != Weakness

Empathy != Stupidity

Empathy != Gullibility
Is this really control by the sponsors ? Or did they sell this to the sponsors without consulting players?
Now if they could allocate the memory for you when needed rather than having a bunch of buffers allocated when they aren't yet needed.
Breaking the cycle is important, no doubt. The issue I take is the quote makes it seem like all they had to do was carry the hair dryer with them. There’s so much more that needs to be done.
Without sponsors there are no players.
These personas (i.e. “Alan”) are annoying enough when used by business people, but in the context of a programming language it’s beyond cringe.
It sounds like they continue to boil the frog slowly.
If you look back 10 years and compare the Mac OS then and now, would you have accepted the change in one version? Probably not.
This will continue until Mac OS and iOS are unified and to develop for this new OS you need a hardware dev kit.
MS will probably try the same but will not succeed since they don't control the hardware.
>The first Kernel helmets are headed to brain research institutions and, perhaps less nobly, companies that want to harness insights about how people think to shape their products.

so . . . scammers scamming scammers?
A particular problem with doing that is discussed in the post; you risk everyone's time being wasted if the company will never be able to meet your target.
Someone should make an AWSWS webservice where you can get paid to run others' instances on your account to monetize credits - would probably be a lot more efficient.

Would be interesting to see where the market prices these credits.
The problem is that once an automated quiz has any significance people will cheat on it.
Obsidian has E2EE through sync, though it is an additional $4/mo.

https://obsidian.md/sync
Isn't that how USD works too? It only holds value if people keep wanting it.
To me, the attraction is less about the specific art used to communicate the concept, and more about the careful attention to a fully-formed analogy that explains the tech in completely different terms.

These kinds of explanations tend to focus on the most critical/important concepts, and help validate (or dispel) assumptions I've made about the tech.

This focus on analogy also lets the author tell the story faster, because I already understand:

- What an otter is

- That rivers flow

- The water flowing down a river that forks will be spread across those forks

- etc...

Depending on the strength of the analogy, it's possible to get the reader on the same page much faster than an intro/tutorial that must first explain foundational concepts just to get to the basics of the technology itself.
>they use pistons to compress liquid metal into which the fuel is injected.

i wonder whether (and how) they can do it better than the explosive lens of the fission primary. I mean they have to do it better as otherwise there wouldn't be need for the fission primary.
I feel for people in the science profession that sees issues with how they handled COVID-19, but society in general has been trained to treat anyone that questions the narrative at this point as actual Nazis. The left will straight up assault people with intent to cause serious harm and feel like they are some antifascist democracy-loving hero without seeing the irony in their actions.
Participation in sponsorship is voluntary. You change it by not buying Coca-Cola, and educating people about the terrible practices of these companies, eg by sharing this link.
> In Rust, if you're actually doing any compute work, you're stalling out the async system.

Just use threads? Or add explicit yields.
Apple Lossless HD Audio is not spatial audio. They're two different things.

Lossless HD Audio is uncompressed audio at around 9216 kbps.

Spatial Dolby Atmos audio is compressed audio at between 384 and 768 kbps
The repeated paragraphs are in the abstract on the site, not in the actual pdf. Here is a sample:

> “Monster” is a term introduced in [Lakatos 1976] for a mathematical construct that introduces inconsistencies and paradoxes. Euclid, Richard Dedekind, Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, Kurt Gödel, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Alonzo Church, Alan Turing, and Stanisław Jaśkowski all had issues with mathematical monsters as discussed in this article. Monsters can lurk long undiscovered. For example, that “theorems are provably computational enumerable” [Euclid approximately 300 BC] is a monster was only discovered after millennia when [Church 1934] used it to identify fundamental inconsistency in the foundations of mathematics that is resolved in this article.

> Euclid, Richard Dedekind, Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, Kurt Gödel, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Alonzo Church, Alan Turing, and Stanisław Jaśkowski all had issues with mathematical monsters as discussed in this article. This article explains how the theories Actors and Ordinals recraft classical foundations without limiting mathematical power.

> Euclid, Richard Dedekind, Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, Kurt Gödel, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Alonzo Church, Alan Turing, and Stanisław Jaśkowski all had issues with mathematical monsters as discussed in this article. Computer Science brings new concerns and considerations to foundations beyond earlier work requiring new machinery. This article explains how the theories Actors and Ordinals recraft classical foundations without limiting mathematical power.

> “Monster” is a term introduced in [Lakatos 1976] for a mathematical construct that introduces inconsistencies and paradoxes. Since the very beginning, monsters have been endemic in foundations. They can lurk long undiscovered. For example, that "theorems are provably computational enumerable" [Euclid approximately 300 BC] is a monster was only discovered after millennia when [Church 1934] used it to identify fundamental

For typos in the actual PDF, here are a few :

- teams of Wrens (female
Naval Officers) operated large-scale
simulations in [sic!] that discovered ways
to defeat U-boat attacks that were
crippling Britain.

- The reason that in practice that [sic!] an Actor can be
hundreds of times faster is that in order to carry out a concurrent
computation, the parallel [...]

- close request when received, send [...] [not a typo, just strange phrasing?]

- if it is not recorded as that the engine is [...]

- Actor event induction (cf. [Turing 1949]) can used to
prove [...]

- Suppose to obtain a contradiction that there is [...]
he never responded to what mattered to Matthew though. He responded to one specific instance and not the overall problem.
Actually, fans and players can get along without sponsors. There is also a long list of prospective sponsors who don't peddle fizzy drinks that the talent (or fans) might object to.
That's because most chicken coops are notorious by its bad design. We shouldn't blame the fox for that. In some cases chicken would survive more time if left roost out of the cop. The weak point is the nest.

Not much people are grateful for all the rats and mice wiped for free by the foxes in any case. We maybe should start thinking more about it.
If there were no need to reinvent the wheel, there would be no brew. macports (and fink) predate brew. The wheel is in the eye of the beholder.

I use brew primarily only for packages that are only available on brew. I’m moving to nixpkgs for my packaging needs as soon as the M1 support drops.
I make way less money than these athletes and I get by great. I am sure they will survive a pay cut if they are willing to get a message across
The banality of evil, as Hannah Arendt discovered.
"the programmer will believe the chart."

I see you've not done much legacy software maintenance.. ;)
I asked if there was any evidence that the IBM quantum computers could find the prime factors of a number larger than 21. This is trivial for any normal computer but there appears to be no evidence that quantum computers can do it now.
not OP, but the same frustration.

Imagine a table you write in markdown, like:

| | pro | con |

|——-|————-|————-|

| A |loud |heavy|

| B |light|flimsy|

You can’t have it inlined as just a table, it needs to become a database with filterable columns that you can’t lock, you add each lines as a row etc.
Am I just stupid or are the screenshots somehow wrong? Because I don’t see a weather app, I see weather.com being open in Safari.
As I said, having Detroit as a place to go pro was a big plus. I just had to give proper credit to my alma mater for those two! For that matter I went to two high schools, and shared classes at the other one with Andrew WK, so Ann Arbor is still turning out rock gods.

The Ilitch family restored the Fox Theatre in the 80s, so it's not impossible to imagine the right philanthropist doing the same for the Grande Ballroom. Fox is right downtown, however, and as you indicated, Grande Ballroom is... not.
Not sure why this is downvoted. It wouldn't be such a surprise if a bunch of people were "disappeared" during the shutoff period, or some other such thing. Turning off the internet makes it harder to mobilize opposition. Syria's is a dictatorship after all.
and will hit theirs
For what it's worth, paying contributors with fake money is still way more than Google Maps offers it's data sources.
My guess is UEFA supports national football associations, which in turn support this development, e.g. by helping paying for maintenance of football pitches. I could be wrong.

In reality the UEFA suits are probably more concerned about the Coke money that's been developing their wives' and mistresses' Chanel purses collection.
What about a sliding scale for the commission? The higher the salary the bigger it is? So a junior engineer would practically be free, but a senior engineer would bring in more revenue than the subscription.

Then the company is incentivized to use you for junior hires. Maybe you'll get a few freeloaders who only want to hire juniors, but even those will eventually be seniors who love your platform, and at the same time, will boost your stats on the number of juniors you got jobs for.
WTF is a micro-habit? Most of these items aren't even habits.
We're talking about people whose sporting prowess means they're wealthier than maybe even luckiest early startup employees. They can afford to leave a few bucks on the table to stop hawking cokes.
Perhaps he should just place a sticky label over top of the logo at the next press conference. After all, they said he couldn’t move the drinks…
That's bullshit though. People will still be playing football even if nobody is getting paid. Why? Because it's fun. To corporations like Coca Cola, 'fun' is an abstract concept that you associate with your product to make more money; such corporations can never truly understand the concept of fun.
I have fought these sorts of battles for years and I have a very strong idea of what to use and to avoid when building these services. I will definitely get straight to the point and cut through the hype.

For Logins, Passwordless is enough. Use Supabase for this.

> 2. Handling payments and user sign ups so they can log into the app and read the books they bought.

Apple and Google are hungry for a 30% cut of your revenue if you use In app purchases. Do not put payment info with in the app otherwise they will force you down the IAP route (Unless you don't mind the cut). Use a separate website to accept payments of the content where users can access and login to their account to purchase and access all of their books in the app or website as read only; qualifying your app purely as a 'reader app'.

Doing this without IAP saves you tons of money. However, it is very IMPORTANT for companies to choose the CORRECT payment provider. Use STRIPE or GUMROAD.

> There’s not much complexity besides handling payments and saving user info for login and login

Do not overlook TAXES. You need a mature platform that handles this properly and accurately.

If you're looking for a no-code platform for payments, memberships and sign ups, YOU MUST ESPECIALLY AVOID MEMBERSTACK. Outseta is a very good fit for your use case and does all of the above properly.
Ticket sales aren't enough to fund everything, so what else is there to do?
Wow. What a crock professional sport has become. Very sad
There’s already r/aboringdystopia for just this very topic
The problem is that if you don't like Schmidhuber's interpretation of the history of logic, computer science and AI, and you want to propose a better interpretation, you need to know that history at least as well as he does.
Who is KO? #outoftheloop

Thanks to everyone who pointed out it's the stock ticker for the Coca-Cola company.
So stocks in coke dropped after Ronaldo moved his drink. I don't understand why anyone would even blink, but i imagine coke execs are incandescent. A bit off topic, but i do have a gripe against coke. It seems that since the UK introduced that silly sugar tax, they have started adding more sweeteners and reducing sugar, even in real coke. I don't remember it tasting so uninspiring a few years ago. I think they've spoiled the recipe, maybe Ronaldo also thinks so.
Actually, once you get used to Rust, what you “loose” on one side of the productivity (ownership/lifetime/dispatch) you gain on the other side with the ergonomics (enum, matches, expression, …). So our experience, is that at the end, you still a net positive on the productivity side plus the other benefits.

We started to rewrite some of our smaller js/TS utilities, ~3k LOC, and surprisingly Rust was 10% to 20% smaller. Not that it a relevant metric, but still, we were expecting the opposite.

The missing part compared to other languages is specialization, but other patterns can be used. Still, would be nice if they add a good sound specialization construct (min_specialization seems to come short so far)

The biggest challenge is to train a full team on Rust.
Poland’s thriving video game industry steps out of CD Projekt’s shadow (2020)
Would be interesting if you could do something like:

-You vet engineers with however you/or individuals engineers see fit (test/ past work/ opensource / interviews/ etc), they highlight what they want + maybe what your data says would help them stand out for the "type" of dev they are.

- force companies to pay you $xk - $1xk to hire them right away if they "match" with someone they select, but with the ability to get a refund if they fire them within 3 months (but like 60 business days to get a refund, and allow them to keep picking but reset the window if they match with someone else again).

- keep in touch with those employees during that window

That way, companies will eventually get their money if they make a bad hire and still be willing to use you again, you can collect more data on the larger part of the employment life cycle and basically get 60 day interest free loans at worst.
> Equality between men and women

as evidenced by gender ratio in 0-14 and 15-24 brackets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_sex_ratio
>Teams at Euro 2020 could face fines if their players move drinks provided by sponsors at news conferences, as Cristiano Ronaldo and Paul Pogba have done in recent days.

Luckily in the next journalist session Ronaldo has a poster promoting UNICEF charity work that he places in front of the coke bottles, for promoting "development of youth and women."
I just got done playing around with it a little bit and I cannot see any performance regressions. Solutions load about the same speed as 2019. I did notice it using ~6.5 gigs for a little bit, so definitely taking advantage of more memory.

Will need more time to see if it holds up under continuous usage. The weirdness usually doesnt exhibit itself until I've been raking it over the coals for a few hours.
Google Cloud Enlists AMD Zen 3 EPYC CPUs for Tau Virtual Machine Offering
Are they not enough to fund “everything”, or are they merely not enough to fund greed?

I don’t deny that players get paid a lot but 1) how much is that compared to the total money coming in from advertising? and 2) could we still have exciting games with players being paid much less?
> The next day, France midfielder Pogba, a practising Muslim, discreetly removed a bottle of Heineken beer.

> Uefa's Euro 2020 tournament director Martin Kallen said players were contractually obliged "through their federation of the tournament regulations to follow".

> However, he said he understood the actions of players who, like Pogba, did such things for religious reasons.

Understood the motivation, but it doesn't say if they will support players when a sponsored placement implies an endorsement that runs counter to a players beliefs.
Pay players commensurate wages
Aah, everybody loves judgemental Internet commenters..
There is no such thing as bad publicity...
No, I can't.

"I'll only buy your products if you don't advertise" would be an incredibly difficult proposition. This isn't about one incident with one company, but a general problem with damn near everything.
When I last used headhunters they charged 20-30% of a years salary. So they are likely making $25-50k each. So that could be as high as $25-50M
Yes they are!

They cannot fund the greed of the fat cats at the top. But ticket sales are plenty to maintain sport as a spectacle, but not the spectacle.
What made me instantly distrust TB was the Publisher's Clearing House-style "you had the best score on our online assessment we've ever seen." C'mon, don't blow smoke up my ass right off-the-bat. If it's that easy, then it needs to be more difficult, broader, and deeper to pre-test candidates with proficiencies in particular areas with questions that are AI-generated: algorithms, data structures, particular languages, operating systems, networking, front-/back-end technologies and tools, software engineering, customer service, team communication common-sense, professional workplace behavior, and engineering ethics.
> Over time, these problems compounded. Engineers who we rejected held that against us (which was completely understandable).

I was rejected when I did the quiz at university, trying to get a job.

What made me a bit angry is how happily they rejected me with an automated email, after I put effort and time into doing their quiz... I didn't feel like recommending them, or even visiting the site ever again.

Glad to see they're finally aware of how this approach doesn't benefit them as much as it could of if people were still invited into the system.
In John Long's recount (who was a dirtbag) the beginning was even more interesting... apparently someone's girlfriend worked a switchboard and overhead a call about it, mentioned this, and someone else knew the plane type mentioned was a frequent smuggler plane, kicking off the search. Can't remember which book he writes about it in, but it's a great story!
These spats are nothing new. Michael Jordan was having similar disagreements over sponsors 30 years ago[1].

[1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20200420224205/https://www.balti...
Why walnuts & almonds?