skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, this is an important bias to remember. I was just impressed that those people actually existed at all in the numbers beyond just a rounding error, because I used to think it was just an exaggeration, kind of like saying "he can barely figure out 2+2". Reality ended up being much more grim. I wouldn't be as baffled by tons of people failing fizzbuzz, if it wasn't for most of them having actually pretty legit-looking resumes though.

Like, you would have a great programmer who aces all the interviews, but their resume is just decent. While people failing to solve fizzbuzz might have pretty impressive-looking resumes at times. Which is why, unfortunately, leetcode feels like a necessary evil. Because we live in a world where even the most incompetent people might have enough years of experiences of skating-by to craft a top-tier looking resume. Way too easy to bs your way in if you rely mainly on resumes, and firing people later (as opposed to not hiring them in the first place) is just too expensive in every single aspect (from money to opportunity cost to team morale).
If your Bayesian prior starts at 0%, no amount of evidence will change that confidence.
Where are the Gflops/W?
You mean, suspicious of the amount of pushback against overwhelming evidence?
Strange that both the coal and oil industries (independently) produced internal documents in the mid 1960's agreeing that climate change science was sound and thus it was a particularly serious threat to their business.
I've interviewed with a bunch of companies recently and only one of them through anything like a leetcode problem at me. The rest were practical exercises building stuff with the tools they company was actually using in production. I've avoided applying at FAANG companies due to previous bad experiences like the ones you describe.
> 1. Everyone agrees with that. And then they create a mess. They are generally unable to see the mess. One cannot learn without experiencing failure, and when one cannot see the failure, one cannot learn.

Hence "early intervention"! Usually one's own experience is not going to be enough but if one can learn from real experts what to avoid and what works well, one can develop a sense. You can get some of that by careful reading of such people's code.

> 2. Some features are far more susceptible to this than others.

True. This happens when the language developer creates a mess! I am reminded of Tony Hoare's "Hints on Programming Language Design".

> 3. These also come about from my discussions with managers of programming teams and the problems they have to deal with.

They should be listened to for the problems they face but not necessarily solutions :-)
The definition of an ideology is a school of thought that claims to have the answer for everything. What does that tell us about the microservices fan club?
Not even remotely. That’s less than a drink a day.
Billions of banknotes are missing. Why does nobody care?
Leaving aside the discussion on infrastructure, you say that vaccine mandates are a "HUGE issue" and use that as evidence for expansion of government power. How about conscription? I would argue forcing people to join an armed conflict is a much bigger transgression on your freedom than a vaccine mandate, would you not? And conscription has not been used by the government since Vietnam.

> Roads at best should be a Local and State government issue not Federal Government. The fact that the federal government as taken over that function is an example of Expansion of government power.

Why? Local government can just as much restrict your individual freedoms (and arguably do) as federal government. I for example very much prefer a federal government building bridges than a local government that tells me what color my house can be or when I can or can't put out christmas decoration.

I think both you and the OP are correct in some way. I would argue, the government has expanded their power (the primary example being surveillance capabilities), on the other hand I also agree with the previous poster, government seems to have much less power to act against large corporations.

I think both you and and the OP are correct on. I think we have seen governments expand
Indeed, there is also another piece of this puzzle. PhDs became a step in the career now, so people don’t study for ground breaking research or their masterpieces.

Give me a subject that has companies interested in, you get scholarships and the companies lobby to get your paper published. You barely have to do any work.
There were few, if any, diseases in the americas that was new to the europeans.
> Cramming more hours into the work week doesn't actually help you in the long term because the human body can't sustainably run on unsafe amounts of sleep.

The body can run on unsafe amounts of sleep for a long time. It is unhealthy, it is unsafe and leads to mistakes and crashes, but people in fact regularly attempt that. Many many people in fact think they are being hardworking and strong for doing that.

The pressure to drive unsafely is very real on professional drivers. The drivers (not trucks) I knew were telling me exact same story. Regularly driving a lot and without good sleep. Pressure to drive more and faster.

Also, this is how the debate started:

> I used to be friends with a few truck drivers, and all of them were making money because all of them were cheatings the books non-stop. It was basically a job requirement. Drive 48 hours? No problem.

While I think 48 hours drive was exaggeration or drivers brag, it was meant to express "a lot of driving way more then is reasonable".
Thank you, most interesting.
Just know that HW encoders on nVidia cards are usually inferior in quality compared to software encoders, altho the speed gain is very nice. I originally bought 2070 with its HW HEVC encoder, and apart from few test runs never used it again, because no matter the quality settings, its just worse (and I was never in a hurry).

No idea about HW encoders quality/speed on M1
Gonna have to call bullshit on this one. “I believed X until <subject of article> and now I’m skeptical” is a well known bad faith rhetorical trick.
I think at least all models of the Cirrus, one of the best selling general aviation planes right now, require 100 octane gas.

To be clear, none require leaded fuel, per se, but until this year there was no approved unleaded 100-octane fuel.
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> iPad pros which are half as slow as comparable laptops.

Uh, what?

iPads are using comparable CPUs to the M1 (some even use the M1) and are some of the fastest CPUs for rendering JavaScript on the planet.

I think you’re right that people buy slow laptops. But I think that often comes from a place of technical illiteracy and willingness to spend.

Put simply: they can’t often comprehend the true value of a faster system and opt to be more financially conservative.

Which I fully understand.
How does a monorepo make any of these things harder? Make a new folder, slap a version on it, push your versioned artifacts.

Container based solutions become harder? Again… build your artifacts and deploy all the containers you want? What is so hard about this?

Meanwhile, with multi-repo you lose out on a whole host of opportunities to robustly track dependencies and keep things up to date.
Is it extreme to claim that the Earth is round and orbits the sun? Does it hurt science ot laugh at flat earthers? According to your definitions, it is. Climate science and vaccination science are as settled as these. Anyone arguing against them is either deeply ignorant or arguing in bad faith, or both.
Seems good and inexpensive (when compared to Delphi!) but Mac is still required for iOS development just like with similar projects, so I'd say it's semi-cross-platform.
For me, anytime I've used any variation of "with...respect" it stands in as a polite substitute for "Fuck You" just before I tell them exactly why they are full of shit.

That's just me though.
I can confirm this. On the back of "Good work" - book with Gardner, Csikszentmihalyi and Damon they mention the Chick-sent-me-high pronunciation.
> All the places he lists as beautiful, especially in Europe have some of the most regulations regarding what you can build. A community design review, where a council literally has input upon the visual design of your building is almost unheard of in America but is common in European countries. The closest you get in America is some CCNRs saying you can't have a metal roof or the like. Parts of Switzerland literally require you to build a frame which represents the shape of the house you want to build so community members can walk by for some weeks and see how it affects the neighborhood skyline.

I can’t tell you what’s more revolting to me—the idea of a bunch of neighborhood busybodies having that amount of power, or the fact the busybodies themselves are shameless enough to participate in this nonsense.

You know what neighborhood I want to live in? A neighborhood as far away as possible from those types of busybodies. Maybe somewhere across a vast ocean on the other side of the world, where people have come up with handy expressions like “it’s a free country” and “mind your own business” that you can use if some obnoxious busybody shows up to complain that they don’t like the architecture of your house.
I know this topic usually devolves into flamewar, but I'm used to seeing at least a few interesting comments on climate posts on HN. Here's a few topics that would make sense for hackers to discuss:

- Insider knowledge on state of green tech (carbon capture, progress in solar tech, industrial hydrogen, any energy prices analysts here?)

- Anything new happening with load-balancing for renewables? Solar has been tomorrow's energy for a while, but what's the best way to store excess and rebalance today? Batteries?

- Speaking of batteries: any discussion on batteries devolves into worries about lithium mining / shortages. How big is that problem, quantitatively?

- A typical argument is that coal is worse than Nuclear, but everyone accounts for externalities / black swan events differently. Do modern coal plants still pollute as much? Are the claims about coal plants releasing nuclear material into the atmosphere true?

- Is nuclear waste as big a problem as we keep hearing? We've been dumping old tires in a 100km2 are of kuwait for years - worse, they've been catching fire and burning away (https://insiderpaper.com/video-worlds-biggest-tire-graveyard...). But it would be unacceptable to condemn a similar area for radioactive waste? Why / why not?

- How temperature rise would / wouldn't affect the SV / Europe / Israel / Asia tech scene. Will people move? Why? How much can be mitigated with industrial solution (AC, etc)?

- What are energy technologies where the widespread / mainstream / media belief and the reality are not aligned?
Oh, what a loss. I think I first heard of his work in Lyall Watson's book Neophilia in the late 80s. I was so mesmerized by the concept of flow that was always looking for anything new Csikszentmihalyi had published, or any psychology or neuroscience studies about flow and related ideas on human cognition. He will certainly be missed.
I have the same feeling. I would love to know if a builder object can be zero cost and if it could actually write assembly code the same way as if we would have passed those arguments manually.
A problem made worse by the fact that it literally does not even require a pulse to have an account on HN.

It would take minutes to add even a captcha check for account creation and maybe an hour tops to require email validation before allowing comments. They don't care. I suspect it goes even further - that making it trivial for bots and PR manipulation makes HN look a lot busier than it would be if they put effort into validating accounts.
Making a website for it is good marketing, but it doesn't make it anymore true.

Chrome is the new IE:

- introduces its own standards: check

- technologically superior in narrow fields: check

- forced upon everyone by the most powerful computer company at its time true a multitude of shady deals, bundling etc: check

- lazy programmers doesn't verify in other browsers: check

- will be abandoned as soon as they have crushed competition: jury is still out, bit based on previous behavior by defender it is more a question of when rather than if.

The same absolutely cannot be said for Safari.
Might be more apt to mention the same authors version of googler for duckduckgo, https://github.com/jarun/ddgr.
If anyone is interested in the details of the history and mechanics of fossil fuel propaganda, this [0] podcast is a good resource.

[0] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/drilled/id1439735906?i...
Keep in mind that alphagov is just a small part; most projects belong to other govt departments. Many are using JavaScript and Rails, some Django and .net.
You could've said "no such thing as a force" instead. I believe the person meant "electromagnetic force" instead of "charge". Question remains.
The most used software components in the world
Its such a shame that PNG does not support packing multiple dimensions into one file like .ico formats actually do.
You missed my point, and I didn't say that. I feel that generation highlighted the traps and reality of marriage, making subsequent generations wary. It's a fact that Baby Boomers have the highest generational divorce rate and actually continue to divorce, even in old age.

I am not familiar with the publication source, but I found this reiterating a similar perspective. It's not a controversial one despite being overlooked.

https://psmag.com/ideas/what-we-can-learn-from-the-dramatic-...
If somebody doesn’t like the look of my house, they are more than welcome to get off my lawn.
They address why in the beginning of the piece.
damn I was thinking about that too :-)
A large dose of shrooms
Let’s not be hyperbolic. Without even getting into the futility of predicting something as complex as future mortality rates, the worst case projections go into tens of millions additional deaths due to climate change over the century (if that sounds like a lot, global deaths per _year_ are on the order of 50 million, so this is a few percent increase).

https://impactlab.org/research/valuing-the-global-mortality-...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24487-w
I heard the name Jon Ingold a while back because I wanted to do something with their company's Inkle system, which is a tool for interactive fiction and dialogue trees.

This talk of his https://youtu.be/_vRfNtvFVRo is about how to do dialogues in games properly, and is very entertaining to watch.

He rewrites the scene from Blade Runner where Deckard meets Rachel into a dialogue tree where all the choices are meaningful and there aren't any "right" and "wrong" choices.

Here's another of his talks in my YouTube history: https://youtu.be/UXY8fhL1fxk
There are practical replacements. Switching to them is expensive.
India's population is 1.3 Billion.

26.16% of that are children. (https://www.statista.com/statistics/271315/age-distribution-...)

So, about 1 Billion require 2 doses of vaccination.

Out of that 1 Billion are almost done.

A long way to go, but an impressive journey so far.
Looks like they’re selling for more than twice that on ebay.co.uk though. And considering MacBook airs are $1000~ devices that’s really high.

6 years is also beyond the service life of a(ny) machine.

If I look at 3 year old MacBook airs they’re selling for £600 on eBay, which is, what, half of the full cost. Not great for an already old machine with only a few good years left.

I guess you might save a bit of money using extremely old hardware and keeping it for a while. But this is a really poor argument against an objectively good evolutionarily improved cpu in my opinion.
For example, I recently spent several hours fixing a pre-commit hook that would apply clang-format to any file changed and then `git add` the file.

Thus, the patch shown in `git commit --verbose` would be very misleading. It would show the original patch, not what was actually going to be committed. Due to the hook, any other changes that happened to be in the same file would be silently commited (even if they were never staged for commit).
I hope someone else noted that this is not new evidence. What they did is reanalyzed existing wood samples and determined an exact year that they were definitely in Newfoundland.

They did through dating of tree rings based on known cosmic radiation events from the year 993 (if I recall the year correctly). Very interesting paper to read.
It's really a trade-off. If the benefits outweight the possible negatives then I agree but in our case it's clearly not good, since the code being sent for review does not match the code on your local dev environment.

Worst case scenario you can format code on your local machine using your preferred formatting rules. I prefer to do this with the A and B documents since they will be using the exact same formatting (B comes from a different repo/team without our pre commit prettification).
There’s a long history of copyrighted numbers, from 2001 to 8675309. If you don’t believe 1984 is under copyright, I suggest you read up on George Orwell.
Assuming I'm interpreting the article correctly, it sounds like they didn't actually have SFTP, just FTP:

"It has been a while coming. A lack of support for encrypted connections in Chrome's FTP implementation, coupled with a general disinterest from the majority of the browser's users, and more capable third-party alternatives being available has meant that the code has moved from deprecated to gone entirely."

My guess is that they never implemented SFTP due to the "general disinterest" of users that's assist cited.
Yes.

100 - Hundred
1,000 - Thousand
1,00,000 - Lakh
1,00,00,000 - Crore

We don't use millions here.
We do take home tests and I find them valuable. We do, however ask them to host it somewhere to be used.

1) we want the time investment to be <4 hours

2) the test uses public APIs and is directly related to our work (crypto)

3) we had the team (mine) do the test themselves before making it official

4) we also are looking for things like tests, thoughtful architecture, etc. It's hard for a junior dev to fake well structured and organized code because it takes experience and thought to do it that way.

If I were interviewing I would much prefer a take home rather than an in person leetcode interview. I also don't mind in person pair programming (like help us fix the bug in this code or whatever).
Literature reviews are very common in every field. The number of papers being published in any field is much larger than what researcher can possibly read. Reviews summarizing multiple papers and drawing conclusions are very valuable.
I have. I suggested limiting it to certain unproblematic areas. But, its a dogmatic all or nothing type of attitude unfortunately.
a medium will do for me
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It's because blatant ignorance or motivate thinking are the only possible reasons to be anti-vaxx or a climate denier in 2021. Furthermore, these ignorant or motivated beliefs are causing very direct harm to millions today and billions tomorrow.

So no, there is no reason to be kind to people spreading anti-vaxx or anti-climate change propaganda. That's not to say that they should be harmed or anything like that, but it's necessary to silence and combat their "arguments" and not allow them to spew their propaganda anywhere unimpeded.

Writing from a country where anti-vaxx idiots are partly responsible for the worst death toll from the 4th wave of Covid.
Brave’s total funding has been $42mm. Mozilla burning $500m/yr to accomplish practically nothing is what you get when you push out the technical CEO who is an HN regular, and instead have a lawyer milking it as a resume checkbox.

Firefox is losing market share and has no plan B from Google’s generosity. It’s looking inevitable that Google will turn off funding once FF declines a few more years market share. Then it’s Google, Microsoft, Apple as main browsers. SEC has already given the ok for three major players in a market a la T Mobile / Sprint merger.
Old 8 and 16 bit home computer model, not consoles.

The IBM PC was an exception and only because IBM couldn't prevent Compaq to carry on.
about the average of everyone else here. I'm glad I'm not the only one. no wait, I'm saddened for us all. we're doomed!
Literature reviews are common in all fields, and help to synthesise current understanding, and identify areas of conflict.

This one found that there is near unanimity regarding humans being a major component of climate change. It is not “garbage level”, or lacking rigour. It is a useful contribution to the field.

There is a “credibility problem” because vested interests spend a lot of money trying to undermine research that will hurt them financially. This is thoroughly documented.
In your opinion, what should the punishment be for not complying?
Personally I don't know a lot of people who would like to touch their Laptop screen. Its just not convenient.

I am saying that as someone who got excited by the thought and actually bought a Dell touchscreen laptop.

In laptop mode, its just not worth it.
> have been caught

That was my point: they get caught if/when they try.
I'm not a fan either. In my opinion to do monorepos right you have to have a lot of tooling to handle all the special cases and scenarios and small teams just don't have the bandwidth so they use off the shelf tools that force them into a specific workflow and they end up at the mercy of the tools.
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> We came to a point when X86 is faster to emulate, than to run on a more modern microarchitecture.

Since you are clearly referring to Rosetta 2:

- It is not an emulation. It is a translation. That alone is a 10-100x speed difference.

- It is not always faster; it highly depends on the specific code to run. Some code is miraculously faster, some is only at about 50% or lower.

- The comparison is "apples vs. oranges" because it's only comparing against Intel Macs, which do not use the fastest x86-64 chips on the market. Most importantly, AMD processors are not included in this comparison at all.

Constructing a general superiority of ARM vs. x86 based on this flawed premise is really far-fetched.
>The difference as I understand it is your Fish equivalent of a $PS1 (and other Fish shell behaviours) have to be defined via that path.

They don't. You have to define the function somehow, but fish doesn't care about how that happens. It's just that if it's not defined yet it'll try to load it from the file.

If you want, you can just do it all in config.fish, like you'd do it all in .bashrc for bash.

>what if you want to quickly change the prompt of a session without affecting other sessions?

Then you can redefine the function, just like you could switch the value of $PS1.
Indeed.

AWS launched their own ARM based processor, Graviton a while ago.

Now they have begun nudging them to serverless fleet by making them available at a lower price point.

Not too different from their parent, Amazon, pushing their own branded products, cutting out the middleman.
> All the human beings will declare themselves as gods or boon given by gods and make it as a business instead of teachings.

I mean that is a perfect description of LinkedIn and Instagram to some extent.