skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bernays was also a director for the Committee on Public Information during World War 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Public_Informatio...

“[George] Creel urged [Woodrow] Wilson to create a government agency to coordinate "not propaganda as the Germans defined it, but propaganda in the true sense of the word, meaning the 'propagation of faith.'"” à la https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congregation_for_the_Evangeliz...

"Creel later published his memoirs of his service with the CPI, How We Advertised America, in which he wrote:

“In no degree was the Committee an agency of censorship, a machinery of concealment or repression. Its emphasis throughout was on the open and the positive. At no point did it seek or exercise authorities under those war laws that limited the freedom of speech and press. In all things, from first to last, without halt or change, it was a plain publicity proposition, a vast enterprise in salesmanship, the world's greatest adventures in advertising… We did not call it propaganda, for that word, in German hands, had come to be associated with deceit and corruption. Our effort was educational and informative throughout, for we had such confidence in our case as to feel that no other argument was needed than the simple, straightforward presentation of the facts.”"
It's not a conspiracy. There're plenty of evidence that Navalny received funding from western governments. Also, he had received "mysterious" bitcoin donations for millions of USD.

Also, Germany had provided him with studio and equipment to film his last propaganda movie and YouTube promoted it very aggressively (no other YouTube clip was ever promoted this aggressively - it was starting automatically for almost any person in Russia that opened YouTube).

Yeah, that's a conspiracy...
I’m 75% sure this is a joke. If it’s not, this is the most ridiculous interview process I’ve ever heard of.

Despite what the author says, this type of interview is definitely something you can train for. If it’s real, and successful the author has essentially created a test for people who have spent a lot of time in competitive programming, or who spent a lot of time on interview prep.
Every car maker that makes car in US without union labor is fighting the union provision: Toyota, Honda, BMW. Why are you singling out Musk?

And for the record: the last version of the bill is $7.5k + additional $4.5 if made by union.

Car makers that don't use union fight the $4.5k union provision, not the whole credit.

And for a good reason. The union provision would be historically unprecedented government handout to unions and potentially illegal. There are laws limiting what the government can do and this kind of discrimination of US workers that don't belong to union may very well cross the line.
What youre stumbling on is these “big tech” cos are growing horizontally when possible, and its normally local engineering roles that used to seed build and manage new teams. Thats why there some pretty extreme reactions to promotion process or senior role interviews. Yes, knowing how to organize a team, mentor junior developers, do market research, evaluate customer feedback, model marginal cost, and write a business proposal are key skills over the lifetime of those senior ICs. Yes, I could backstop those areas for my team mates today. But once we succeed each of those senior developers on my team will fork off to their own team and repeat the process, thats how we scale out.

A corollary is these self organizing teams add up to self organizing business units. The teams know what to build because theyve at read & internalized what matters to the business. And senior members should be involved with the 6-12 month planning cycles that happen across that business unit. So their day to day execution is informed by, and happens in the context of, the larger business. Think of something closer to hierarchal federation than directed work silos.

WRT to “lighting money on fire” there are teams that look like that. But thats generally a speculative investment with a medium term (~2-3yr) goal theyre working towards. This is business, so its not free or infinite, and in a sense their efforts are competing with the alternative efforts that could be more profitable.
That sounds right. But even if it works great, it's gonna be the most expensive place to put your data. Those image blobs would be fine on spinning rust.

But yes, there's probably time for that optimization later, if the service takes off.
If it was a discovery outside the standard model it would be in the New York Times.
This has been my experience as well. Google, Bing, DDG, they all fail to work well in some major form or another. Google and Bing don't let you do explicit search demands with quotes; all the power tricks for search are gone and I routinely find myself frustrated with trying to find some things-- especially if they fall into the gaps where Google insists on excluding a term.

I would gladly switch to a search engine that just got it all right in the way that Google pre-2010 did.
I can definitely sympathize with the author.

My answer has been to get away from Spotify altogether. Instead I buy vinyl, tape, or FLAC. And this gives me an opportunity to plug my favorite website for music: https://bandcamp.com ! Bandcamp allows you to buy music from your favorite artists at reasonable prices, and have the opportunity to download an archival lossless copy to keep on a self-hosted music server (or just your laptop). Strong recommend from a long-time user.
Something like this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zCLyLBrugD0
I wonder if Amplosion affects other browsers on iOS too, or does it purely work with Safari? Eg, Chrome or Opera Touch
Companies only considering people who have experience in their particular tech stack. It doesn't take that long to come up to speed on most tech stacks, especially if you are doing it for work.
Gargoyles from Snow Crash are now becoming a reality.
Just bought it. I think of it as a $3 automated boycott.

I don’t like amp for various reasons (not the purpose of this reply) and I expect Google can calculate an AMP bounce rate — they tend to serve ads on the page anyway.

This app allows me to communicate with Google in a language they value: data.
I would second this. Source: personal experience.
I have used HP printers for many years. The software is consistently the worst you can image: it has huge size for so many years and is complex to use.

Last week I struggled awhile to not create an account to scan a document. Eventually I gave up and create an account.
What's particularly irritating is we've been through a milder variant of all this already with 9/11 and Patriot Act, and yet it seems people have learned little to nothing at all. A cockatoo has a longer attention span than the Western public.
I thought the purpose of LiveView was to remove the need for JS frameworks?
There have been some tech demos along these lines - basically an LCD filter layer that turns black where the pixels are lighting up.

Last I saw, that opaque layer's pixel density was far too coarse (so it blocked too much or too little - it needs like >10x higher density than the highest density consumer screens out now), and every tech I've seen has had a fundamental issue with focus - we can project AR pixels at comfortable focus ranges with complex enough techniques, but nothing exists to project "darkness", so it's at an entirely different visual and focal distance as the pixels, and it never looks quite right.

On top of that, you can't really use it to make semi-opaque pixels - you can only darken, and draw brighter stuff on top. So even if you solve ^ all that, you still have to accurately track the world, figure out what's being occluded, and re-draw that along with the pixel you want to draw. Without blocking vision, so the cameras to do all this can't see exactly the same thing you see.

... so every AR headset just adds a pair of literal sunglasses behind it all to dim the world so things don't look quite as bad, and that's the best we have now.

In VR with a couple cameras, you... just draw a semi-opaque pixel on top. And it looks perfect.
Been using HP 5820 wireless printer for around 3 years IMO. Never signed in to anything. Yesterday I found out it tracks number of scans and prints.

Going to try hard to prevent it from updating software or firmware although a config page said automatic firmware update is on. Don't know
"Realism will increase (perhaps to hyperrealism) and our ability to perceive and interact with simulated objects and settings will be indistinguishable to our senses."

Hard pass from me.

Gaming addiction was only officially recognized within roughly the past decade. The idea of developing some sort of dependance on virtual reality fills me with absolute dread. Whats worse is that companies promoting virtual offices like this have every incentive imaginable to promote this (hi Facebook!).

I don't have anything against VR and think it has a lot of potential as a medium for gaming and the arts but theres a lot of danger in assuming there is no risk or minimizing the risks. Ignore the addictive power of the things which tune out the inconveniences of life at your own peril.
Coaching generally differs from training in that it’s drawn from actual ongoing circumstance. So you can go to a group training on how to manage your time, where somebody teaches you techniques for prioritizing requests. But a good manager can notice if you’re getting burned by bad prioritization and spend time coaching you based on the specific circumstances you’re hitting.
Agreed. In general, I prefer integration tests, especially end to end tests.

The one exception is for utility functions. I advocate TDD for utility functions, with heavy testing of standard and edge cases, to ensure that the functions conform to spec and any future tweaks / refactors of the functions continue to conform to spec.
Wow, how stupid does he think we are?

1. Attack the messenger.

2. Shut down inquiry by reframing a brazen fraud attempt as a medical issue.

3. Deny everything.

Fraud, fraud, fraud. Elizabeth Holmes would be proud.
>I don't want to go back into indoor dining and venues with whackjob libertarians breathing all over me.

This doesn't require anyone to change their behavior but you.
The US military has placed Lt Col Scheller behind bars
At the same time discriminating against US citizens that chose to not join the union might very well be an incentive that the courts will deem illegal.

Many people believe this won't end up in the final bill.

But if it does, it's 100% sure it'll be challenged in court by every car maker that makes cars in US and doesn't use union labor: Toyota, Honda, BMW and others.
When was YouTube ever the platform for short form content. YouTube has for the longest time pushed for videos of at least 10/15mins in length - else their algorithm will downgrade you.

It’s only recently in response to TikTok that they had YouTube Shorts, a “timeline” that occasionally shows up on your feed consisting of 1-3mins(?) videos.
Your Polish example is laughable. Poland offered $2 billion to have permanent U.S. bases in Poland but, obviously, did not welcome Russian invasion. "Christus vincit! Christus regnat! Christus imperat!"
Christopher Harborne is Will Harborne's father and has been involved with Crypto Currencies from the early days. The relationship was covered by Private Eye magazine (ed 1517) on the #Fincenfiles
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Is it just me or does 2 tablespoons of canola oil a day seem like a crazy amount for a mouse to consume? Mice usually eat around 5g of food per day, yet 2Tbsp of canola oil is 27g. Worse yet, the control had a normal diet instead of an alternative oil, so for all we know these results would occur with any mouse given large amounts of any vegetable oil. They mention a previous study with olive oil giving beneficial results, but for that study they simply used olive oil enriched mouse feed.
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>If I quote a string, you better be goddamn sure it’s present on the pages that you show me.

I'd pay significant money for this (20-30 USD/month), plus very few search operators that actually make sense (i.e. and, or, not).

But yeah, we got AI instead ... (pure crap IMO)
I made DDG my default, and it's great for 95% of my usage. For specific things where I know there should be better results, then I add a !g or !gi to the search query, which redirects to google or google images.
I wonder how many of these meetings just exist to fill time and feel important. Yes, communication and dicussions in a team are important but I throw the hypothesis into the room that most of these could also be solved in a 5 minutes walking meeting.
Edge's good sounding voices appear to be online only, and the locally installed ones are the ancient poor-sounding ones.

I noticed that the online ones sometimes translate numbers instead of just reading them; the Welsh one translates all numbers (I tried) into Welsh, the German one translates percentages into German but reads prices in English.

Anyway, if this is likely to be long-term permanent - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3MYFT6VZk8 "Realtime text to speech with Plover" although it sounds awful.

(pet annoyance of mine, that all the best stuff (voices, recognition, image recognition, etc) these days seems to be cloud / mobile only and not desktop).
Your code is far less clear to me than the above code.

Though I'd probably write:

void fn(int a, int b)
{
printf(a == b ? "equal" : "not");
}
> A White House briefing posted the same day said that the dearth of chips was “dragging down the US economy,” and cited an estimate that it may lop a percentage point off G.D.P. growth.

Man, I can't shake the feeling that we collectively are mega stupid for making everything dependent on computer chips. Does a toothbrush need a microprocessor? Yes, apparently. I remember a discussion a while back where apparently pregnancy tests that are based on a chemical reaction literally have a microprocessor in them that uses a photovoltaic sensor to detect whether there are two lines, and if so, print out a word. Yeah, that's right. A pregnancy test[1] that you urinate on, and then throw away!

[1] https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2020/9/4/21422628/digital-preg...

A society so wasteful deserves a few supply shocks to wake it up, IMHO.
>This article describes a lot of the problems with early DACs in the 1980s: https://www.stereophile.com/content/pdm-pwm-delta-sigm

I started reading this and it hurts. I looked author up and he is an Engineer who got EE degree in the fifties and simply doesnt understand digital electronics :( Still thinks signal coming out of Digital player is a staircase, makes comparison to cutting something down to micrometers and how its super difficult while digital chips have been fabbed on smaller processes more than 10 years before this article was even written. Thinks bits in the ADC dont flip all at once etc.

Remember, any time you see someone even mention jitter when it comes to CD audio you know they are an audiophool talking nonsense. Blind test studies proved even "golden ears" idiots cant tell the difference up to hundreds of nanoseconds of jitter. For example https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ast/26/1/26_1_50/_pdf Cheapest crystal oscillators have rms jitter measured in picoseconds, and obviously no one ever used RC oscillators in CD players :-) yet you see those morons replace factory crystals with "audio quality" snake oil ones to "fix jitter".
Is the quote string to enforce it still usable anywhere? DDG was always even worse than google at this, and I miss being able to search for phrases.
I have an older Brother MFC laser printer without DRM toners. I hope it lasts me a lifetime.
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Yeah, I have done the same. DDG is pretty decent! ... and, I totally did not know about the !g/!gi, thanks for that!!
> Going to industry right after your undergrad is one of the worst things one can do intellectually

What does this mean? Do you mean this as psychological maturity? Domain knowledge expertise?
That fact that it isn’t a general purpose device is a huge plus for me honestly. I don’t need it to be much more than digitally enhanced paper
Good. It's an open secret that nations like China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran have been conducting massive propaganda and disinformation techniques against the citizens of USA, UK, Canada, etc.

I hope this raises awareness.
This advice is so horrible I am deep into Poe's law territory. To support my faith in humanity I am declaring it a very subtle satire.
I would argue that the future of AR is VR with passthrough. AR fundamentally has issues with light passing through the display screen. VR passthrough is solvable with current tech. AR that solves the problem of not being able to selectively block out light is a breakthrough or two away.
This. Everyone talks up DDG but it is literally one of the crappiest search engine out there. You never get what you want immediately. I think Bing and Searx are better options compared to DDG.
I'm curious what the last Apple products are that Ive still had a hand in. Aside from fixing some obvious missteps with keyboards, the touchbar, and whatnot, I feel like their design has been heading downhill. The iPhone 12 and 13, I realized when I got one, are garish and a far cry from the iPhone 4 it's supposedly intended to call back to, whereas just a few years ago they created the XS which was a stunningly beautiful object. The new iMacs are completely ridiculous looking.
> So, he’s mostly just hiring for people who joined the same club as, I assume, himself.

Not so. From the article:

> First, I cannot myself pass this interview. Last time I tried, I got the correct answer after about forty minutes or so. I could get it down with practice, but it doesn't matter-- I think slower than I type. That's a no hire. The point of the interview is to hire extremely talented engineers, not engineers as talented as me.
every time your eyes look outside your monitor (even for a fraction of a second), they get a little rest. EG.:Looking a your coffee mug before you grab it, looking at the window, adjusting your keyboard, looking at your colleagues, your 2nd/3rd monitor that's a bit further, moving back and forth on your chair, etc. You never spend 100% of your time starring at the center of your monitor.

On a VR headset, your eyes will always focus at the exact same distance until you remove the headset.
It's not a fair comparison.

a) It is not proved that MH17 was destroyed by Russia

b) It is not same as deliberately killing millions all over the world. Just how many Afghan weddings were bombed by US drones with tens of casualties in every bombing?

And nobody ever was punished for war crimes in US. When US kills tens, hundreds of civilians, they either do not acknowledge it, or say something: "We're sorry, it was a mistake"

To me it clearly demonstrates that people of other nations and races are not considered to be "people" by US population, but some kind of wild animals.

Watching US movies just confirms it. They're all filled with violence (I can't remember any other country with movies so violent) and people that Americans kill in those movies are usually portrayed as savages.

In my opinion, it makes USA the most dangerous country on Earth: they're ready to kill anyone without regrets for some amount of gold or oil or gas.
Didn’t the Cybertruck announce features like 220 power and built in compressor long before Ford marketing started copying the ideas?
You can hear it straight from the horse's mouth (Hans Bethe, director of the technical division at Los Alamos) about Feynman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4e1jdt-n8U
I’ve been using DDG for a few years now. They are even worse than google at honoring phrase search. In addition, google sometimes even tells you that they ignored some terms. DDG is just silently searching for some crap you never wanted to search for "to help you". It’s by far my #1 annoyance of DDG.
I don't know but for some reason this article feels like one of those things - which is what will be see in a show 20 years from now about where/how it all started.

Like the guys from 1980s talking about video games in the recent Netflix documentary 'high score', where some people started spending 8+ hours a day playing games with really primitive graphics because it was just enough to be enjoyable.

VR now seems like something that is almost finally ready to explode and like the atari or iphone is going to change all our lives forever.
Hyper efficient for what? I can tell you it does not select for good researchers. It selects for people who are able to play politics. There are a lot of nonrational things that go into politics, for example the color of your skin (e.g. good luck getting an academic position if you're asian! Or if you're ugly), Just random shit like "who your boss was. Is your boss gonna write a letter of recommendation for you", or timing. I had a grad student friend who worked for prof who was very good at placing his students in academic positions, but oops the prof had twins during his second year and the grad student got absolutely fucked for mentorship at a critical time.
Nobody is arguing that usong a subset of tests won't catch all bugs.

They are stating that having X% code coverage does not imply that you will be able to catch X% of bugs (at least, of the trivial type they introduced here) so you shouldn't use code coverage as a proxy for how good your test suite is.

This may be obvious to you, but I've definitely seen teams fall into the trap of using code coverage as a primary measure of how good testing is.
Creativity is based on personality trait Openness to experience and is mostly hardwired. You've got what you've got within a 1/2 a standard deviation, or so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openness_to_experience

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/openness

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/openness-to-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjtBDa4aSGM

It's not the be all end all of being productive. In fact it can be a hindrance if one's conscientiousness isn't in gear.

Don't compare yourself to other people. Only compare yourself to who you used to be. It's good that you want to be more. But it's even more important to acknowledge what you are and can be.
I also manage, have plenty of 1:1s. Some things stand out to me. Some of these daily meetings happen far too often. Many of these meetings should not be weekly. I find a good rule of thumb is to only have weekly meetings if they serve the individual or team, but insist on meeting at least every other week for core contributors and stakeholders. This person could easily get ten hours a week to "do" things, but they wouldn't necessarily be consecutive, or easily applied to deep problems that a very senior IC could solve. This is the dilemma of the manager's schedule.

I try to optimize what time I have for solving problems that are valuable but not quite worth my teams' time to solve. Depending on demand, I may have more meetings to "pad" my week (i.e. discover and anticipate things my teams can effectively solve for), or even cancel less important meetings in favor for accelerating more timely business value.

The hallmark of a mature manager is knowing what meetings you can turn down, and what a justifiable alternative is to that meeting. It takes time to learn, and there's a lot of playing by ear. The author will get there.

One more thing to note: being a manager doesn't mean you shouldn't find time for yourself during your work day. It's a bummer to see the excited tone with which the author takes the rare lunch, and the firm but somewhat embarrassed tone of taking time during the work week for a doctor's appointment. Everyone's health and sanity is important. Managers must act as role models here to help their teams maintain a healthy work/life balance.