skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting how many people replied to this rushing to defend algorithmic hazing. Sure this is sort of a "then the whole class started clapping" type post, but there is some merit buried in here.

Somebody with 20 years experience I would like to explore that they are not a bullshit artist and not subject them to worthless leetcode questions that some desperate 24 year old will cram, pretend they never saw the question before and spam out on a whiteboard.
Coverage: https://phys.org/news/2021-12-deep-protein.html
The new PlexAmp music player from Plex has revitalised my music library on Plex. I would have agreed with your statement prior to using PlexAmp, but I now listen to way more of my old music library than before.
I get paid well where I'm at right now. I live a pretty good life. I don't begrudge anyone who works for Google or any other tech giant, I simply set my own standards and I live by them. I find it is a waste of time for me to interview at places that try those kinds of gimmickry. And from what others are saying, it looks like Google doesn't do that anymore nor does it sound like it was widespread, so it may have been simply anecdotal accounts I remember reading.
I wonder what strange kinds of social greetings one could find at a Punk club?
I think Apple needs to start making this as part of the review process and reject updates which set marketing spam as time sensitive.
Novavax has been such a disappointment. One year ago they were looking to get approval shortly after Pfizer and Moderna, and look at them now. Maybe as far from the finish line as they were then, if not farther.

I guess it's a quiet journalistic day, and someone at NPR decided to run a story on nothing. Back in June someone at the Atlantic decided to crown the Novavax vaccine as the best out there [1]: "The mRNA Vaccines Are Extraordinary, but Novavax Is Even Better". There's only one problem: if you can't manufacture something, it doesn't matter how good it is. It's as good as if it doesn't exist.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/06/novavax-n...
To be clear, Cargo doesn’t pull code from GitHub.
It is a lot more effective for me. I usually find what I am looking for in the first few results, there are flights, calculators, wiki pages, etc. So I disagree it has gotten worse.

The task of search has gotten exponentially harder as well. There are billions more website pages, more spam, more sophisticated attacks, more gaming of the system, etc. They could have gone from a 80% relevant result to a 99% relevant result and you perceive at 10% drop in relevancy. It's a hard problem.
> Facebook aside you really see this across the board on almost any platform, that once the product reaches it's 1.0 stage, (where it is good, does what the users want it to do, and has realised its vision) it begins a process of gradual decay, as the focus of the product managers (now panicking to find some statistics to improve to show their bosses) shifts from "building functionality" to "increasing engagement/retention/active users per month".

"Free" platforms are a dead-end, and will inevitably be ruined by the irrational demand for infinite growth.

The future is decentralization* and open protocols/standards. Anything controlled by a single company is bound to turn into a growth/engagement zombie.

*Real decentralization, no blockchain bullshit.
People are terrible at predicting the future. The human brain is not using magic to operate. The 100 billion neurons in the human brain are a lot but it's not an impossible number. Right now we're trying to craft intelligence as a virtual machine. It would make sense if specialized hardware were developed, like a CPU that uses something analogous to a neural net. I think it will take at least 40 years to get anywhere close to artificial general intelligence. The runaway effect seems unlikely. If I'm wrong I suppose the AI can chuckle as it reads this and finishes exterminating the last humans.
We aren't against social justice here.
Apparently flywheel energy storage is used in F1 cars as well. It is suited for short bursts of energy.
I consider it like white noise, having something running in the background somehow helps me better focus on what's in-front of me.

In a way it's also a bit of a social substitute; When you live alone, and spend a lot of time alone, it can be nice to just listen to some human voices in the background as if you were not alone.
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Your employer can opt-out by paying you.
Rust programs can in fact run arbitrary code at build time, unlike Go. Pros and cons to both approaches.
Another anecdote: an undergraduate at a top university I knew, with publications, leadership positions, and strong research experience at the time, was also into reality television, and specifically avoided dramas/prestige television (e.g. Mad Men, Breaking Bad).

In addition to not requiring thinking, I remember he also mentioned that it's harder to get "hooked" and end up binge-watching episodes.

The perspective is plausible to me. I do feel more drained or emotionally spent absorbing intense television series, or even accomplished for understanding them, when I could've spent that on real work. That said, I do think low-quality media affects the way I think and write in a negative way (by contrast, when I spend a lot of time absorbed with high-quality writing, it actually does positively affect my speech and writing for the next few days).
So what’s next? What’s the next big platform popular with the younger crowd?
Where do you live that your city had been “inundated” with public drug users? I live in a major American city with millions of people and this just isn’t true.
For what it’s worth, I started noticing kids not caring about Facebook around 10 years ago. It was gradual, but evident for quite some time.
RSS continues to be evergreen. I have a paid subscription to Inoreader and it's a lovely experience.

A feature they have but I haven't used yet is the ability to follow feeds from social media platforms. I might try that.
I think it's awesome that Flash intros are back
Context matters
Jack paid 300 million for that playlist
> I mean, Twitter now sends me daily notifications that a person I follow made a random tweet (wasn't this the purpose of the news feed?)

I think OG Twitter sent you an SMS every time someone you follow tweeted.
The CSV crate has five of them: https://crates.io/crates/csv/1.1.6/dependencies
Right, it's not the cringe question, it's that you don't respect mah authority in asking me back a cringe question! I think the insane people are running the asylum now.
Your use-case is completely plausible, and if there are any blockers then we would consider it a bug that needs fixing. Postgres + PostGIS + PostgREST are a perfect match, and over time we will make mapping a first class citizen with proper documentation. The Realtime server is just a layer on top of PostgreSQL, so I'm confident it will work out-of-the-box with PostGIS

I haven't seen a lot of mapping use-cases in Supabase _yet_, but there are some: https://geoexamples.com/svelte/2021/07/18/svelte-supabase-ma...
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I saw somewhere that trigliceride levels rise after sitting for about an hour, which is thought to contribute to heart problems. So I wonder if getting up and walking for 5 minutes every hour to reset the clock is really a hack that works? Anyway thats what I naturally do, I will start to feel antsy after sitting too long and go walk around my backyard for a few minutes.
I heard it cripples some of it's major features but overall it will still kind of work?

I don't have a source for that - I could be wrong.
But as far as a OpenGL replacement on native, it absolutely is.
Perl generated assembly. Hehh…
Or rust-crypto
Had an interview yesterday where the guy was seemingly more nervous than I was, and he seemed to mask that nervousness with anger/being rude. I would answer his questions, and he would act like I wasn't understanding the question. In reality, it turns out I wasn't answering his questions using the _exact_ buzzwords he was looking for. I realized this when I happened to mention a buzzword after minutes of tense back-and-forth and he immediately perked up and we could suddenly move on. Went into the next interview feeling like shit because of this.

This whole process is so broken. Great devs get passed up on for terrible devs who know how to grind Leetcode and the like. I hate having to grind leetcode for weeks just to end up getting asked obscure algorithm puzzle questions that I could never prepare for. And all for a 100% React job? Jesus.
I for one only blink at a rate of once every few years.
Can you provide more information on this? I'd be interested to read about this topic.
Not a great example. Phones became general purpose(-ish) computing devices without losing the ability to function as a phone.

Facebook trying to turn Instagram into Tiktok ruins the ability to use Instagram as Instagram.

It's more like Mr. Coffee saw that smoothies took off in popularity and decided to start making coffee machines that are also blenders, but now suck as coffee machines.
Ouch! I once interviewed at a local company that used the same hardware and OS as my then employer. When I told the guy where I worked he started laughing. He apologized but he was sympathetic in a you poor bastard kind of way.
FB has had a big problem for years. Zuckerberg, notwithstanding everything else, to his credit has demonstrated he is intimately aware of it through his acquisition strategies. If it's in a blink of an eye, it's your eye. To others it's been the case ever since the Instagram/Whatsapp acquisitions.
> The references idea is really weird (we do not practically have this in France). Has there even been a refence who was not in awe about the demi-god-genius-philanthropist that they are asked about?

It happens; I gave a negative reference to someone who had lied substantially about their role with the company.
LOL seriously kids these days spend like 5+ hours per day on these apps.
You're not wrong, but to be slightly more sensitive, I'll say that a small number of people with serious behavioral problems can ruin it for all the rest who just don't have money.
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This is completely reasonable an almost encouraged. We give you a full PG database so that you can use it in any way you wish, with any combination of Supabase features that want or don't want.

For example, we have a lot of people who use Prisma with Supabase, rather than the APIs we provide.
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Netflix on AppleTV has done this for a long time, and it sucks. =(
Stuff like "This is " becomes "This is only temporary until we get more data".

Which sometimes is exactly what you wanted to say...
WALRUS is all SQL, so you could use it with anything (probably with a bit of extra code-wrangling): https://github.com/supabase/walrus
Biology-Inspired AGI Timelines: The Trick That Never Works
Come on man, most major cities suffer from this. San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia, Austin, Denver, etc. all have overrun areas in their downtown core with rampant homelessness and public drug use.
I've been thinking the same until I got this far down in the comments. The article doesn't seem to address the service's name, just bla-bla-bla average grade navel gazing.

I first started using the app in earnest my final year of college, and look back wistfully at how I artfully chronicled my life for the subsequent six years, weaving together pictures of concerts and coffee shops with mirror selfies and delicious meals into an effortless pointillist tableau of my 20s. I still post on the app occasionally, but basically left a little over a month ago in favor of a personal newsletter, where I feel less pressure to be constantly documenting my consciousness.
WebGPU also works as a simplified alternative to Vulkan or DirectX-12 on native platforms. I could see nodejs libraries using WebGPU compute shaders as an alternative to CUDA kernels that run on non-NVIDIA GPUs.
You obviously haven’t seen the Blippy Harlem shake meme.
Be careful not to overdo it resulting in injury.

Avoid dangerous things that stress poor parts of the body, such as the knee's ligaments.

Some things never heal back once injured, such as most of the meniscus-- only a small part of it has blood flow. Probably similar with other cartilage body parts.
Ah, sorry, I missed that. That does make it easy.
I don't understand, why can't the DJ be the artist and the filename be the track title? Isn't that roughly how SoundCloud works?
I think most (entry to 5 years of experience at least) people who work at FAANG companies spend dedicated time studying for interviews. They also know exactly what their company is looking for - leadership principles for Amazon, for example. If you gave current FAANG engineers a month to prepare, I think 80% of them would reclaim their jobs. If you gave them no time to prepare, I think less 30% of them would reclaim their jobs.

The ability to solve contrived coding problems is a muscle that needs to be exercised, even when one does actual programming for their job every day. I'm guessing most people don't practice interviews when they aren't expecting to interview, so only a small percentage would retain enough to pass a loop.
I live in Vancouver, Canada and I can confirm it's a severe issue in the downtown core.
Planned Parenthood Los Angeles says hack breached about 400k patients’ info
Agreed, Google also added YouTube shorts and those are similarly overfit to whatever is the most “engaging” content for some broad demographic, so since I work out I just get nonstop videos of ripped 18-24 year old women doing squats to show off their butts - and I’m not into any of it but they’ve already decided that’s what I want to see, forever.
Some more comments are on the LWN post about this:

https://lwn.net/Articles/877294/#Comments
Thanks! That's one place in the chain that I paused for quite a while, deliberating what to write down. Overall, the little "causal chain" I wrote down is littered with little (but useful!) fibs, and the one you point out is probably the most egregious.

Nice analogy, btw.
Same problem with a poor English speaker at Google back in ~2019. It took several minutes just to start understanding the words he was saying. I have many years of working/growing up with ESL folks and have a good ear for it and still struggled with this guy.
So just survivorship bias for public schooled students? I feel like this only exacerbates how public schooling is failing
Double survivors of Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
> For reference, Instagram lets you see how much time you spend on the app, daily and on average.

Does HN have this feature?
Calling something an "algorithm" doesn't absolve the authors of responsibility for what it does.
There are no APIs in WebRTC about remote screen control. You can share a screen, but that's it.
No, they're quite easy to find if you know what you're looking for and you look in the right places. Lithics in the ancient world were a bit like plastics today: ubiquitous and highly disposable.

For particular lithics industries/tools and certain situations you might get some amount of reworking, but ultimately people were producing new tools very frequently. That means that any area in which you might find them on the surface will usually have some and a long term production site will have overwhelming artifact density. They can occasionally look like normal rocks, but once you train your eye the worked faces become visually distinct.
I think it would be better to abandon x86 than to try to understand it :)
I see that whole philanthropic work as a giant white-wash operation. And: it's working. But if you first commit a series of crimes to amass a great fortune and then you go around playing Santaclaus I am not going to be one of those easily swayed to move you to the 'good' column. The origin of your wealth matters as much if not more than what you do with it.
I'm not surprised you made a throwaway to hide behind, because not only are you a coward, but this is the worst take I've ever seen on a website full of terrible takes. I can't imagine working for someone with this point of view, and I'll happily say that, on the record, without a throwaway account.

As an engineering manager- an actual one- I'm not paying for hours, I'm paying for output. I couldn't care less if my employee was working 15 hours or 40, as long as they got an appropriate amount of work done for my investment in them.

Are we praising someone for demanding itemized timesheets? How absolutely toxic.
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Downloading flac audio files and syncing them to wherever has been working fine for the last 15+N years. I've never felt the need to subscribe to any music service. All the less so if you want a 'library-focused' experience. My method doesn't have shitty UI downgrades, it doesn't remove albums randomly, it doesn't play ads, it doesn't collect my data, it doesn't have compatibility issues, it doesn't have downtime, it doesn't require internet connection, you have full control over all aspects.
Supabase uses Kong (https://konghq.com/kong/) as an API gateway, which has a Rate-limiting plugin (https://docs.konghq.com/hub/kong-inc/rate-limiting/)

Our platform is also behind Cloudflare to protect agains DDoS, and we hope to use this to add some smart caching for the API service
My favorite copilot moment recently is rails migrations. I write the up migrating n, copilot gets the down migration right 90% of the time. It's wild.

And these aren't vanilla "change" commands. It's triggers and check constraints and changing column types and stuff.
It's a maddening web of profiles which maps to a tree of protocols which seems to be the result of design by committee. Such a bloated system for something that just needs to send friggin bytes.
I wondered this when I recently saw that flatpak is written in C. In particular for newer projects that don't have any insane performance constraints I wonder why people still stick to non memory-managed languages.
> renamed .jar files .ja so Microsoft System restore wouldn’t corrupt Firefox

OHH that's why it's called omni.ja.. But why was it "jar" in the first place, for a thing that's not Java?
Funny how two of these companies are a clothing store and a burger joint. I wonder if warehouse workers and line cooks get 4 day work weeks too.
I remember doing the research a few years ago. Redash was the final choice because it supports mongodb.

https://github.com/getredash/redash
So it turns out I missed those parts of the problem statement. That makes it fairly easy. I probably still can't write working code for that in four minutes, but it does sound humanly possible, at least.

Also, that's really nicely written code :)
If you're an Agatha Christie fan, I highly recommend the 2019 "Knives Out" movie. Writer/Director Rian Johnson is a fan, and the movie does it justice.
Yeah, spherical cows roll the direction you push them. Real cows have a bit more complexity to them.
Oh I didn't mean pass a law authorizing the executive to force vaccines.

I mean this would be a good time for Congress to show leadership in general. As in, make a decision. Really, any decision that shows some reasoning behind it. Entirely too many people in the service of legislature are more worried about their electability than doing a good job. There's a reason that branch has, on average, a mid-teens approval rating most of the time.
I had the same experience with Apple about a year ago. Not merge sort, but an algorithm question that also involved a fair bit of math. The type where if you know the number theory trick, the implementation becomes straightforward, but if you don't, the solution is obviously suboptimal.

The recruiter also pushed me to interview with other teams, but I quickly said "no, thanks". I can't necessarily say I was frustrated though — this experience is more or less exactly what I expected from Apple or any FAANG.
You only have yourself to blame if you stop early due to misplaced priorities :)
Does that mean Ethereum could be made carbon neutral at a cost of $2m per day to buy $100 per tonne carbon offsets? I wonder if such a policy could be implemented at the protocol level.
This is putting a lot of undue blame on product managers who only have so much autonomy in a business regime set up for perpetual "growth" that is necessarily quantifiable and ultimately aimed towards economic growth.
Constant growth is the underlying objective for any investment-driven software business (pretty much any of the businesses regularly talked about on this site, and certainly ones supported by this site's operators).
"Making a great product for the customer" is necessarily secondary to investors getting a return.

But its refreshing to hear of notable exceptions to this!
In my field of music tech, Ableton is one of these, for instance, having semi-famously refused significant outside investment to be able to focus on making a great product: https://www.billboard.com/pro/ableton-founder-gerhard-behles...
Federation instead of centralization.
Is that Russian station still sending signals? I watched a YouTube thing about it. I think nobody cracked the code as to what it’s doing.
For me, having a local music library is doubly as important because I am often out of reliable cell service. I usually rip CDs to my iPhone, but as of yet I have avoided paying for any music services. I generally prefer to own my music rather than rely on pulling it down from somebody's server, not to mention that streaming audio uses significant battery on a mobile device.

I use YT music when I have reliable internet and I want to listen to something I don't own.
I will answer your last question. Apple absolutely does not respect your freedom. They infringe on your freedom. Depending on the definition of ethical, they are vastly less ethical than the FSF.

But they also never claimed to be ethical. They never claimed to guard a moral ideal. They have claimed many things (protect privacy of users, guarantee security of users) which they did not act upon, and they have received flack for that. But they didn't claim to be ethical. Not even in a aspirational way like Googles "Don't be evil" moto.

The FSF, however, claims that ethics is it's prime driver. And by endorsing hardware with proprietary blobs (placed on chip flash instead of system storage) they display hypocrisy. They choose the very pragmatism they criticise others for choosing.

And that is something religions do aswell.

I have asked you why is the line there and you have not answered.
Surprised there is no mention of Dashiell Hammett, a contemporary of Christie's. He wrote The Maltese Falcon in 1930, introducing the world to Sam Spade, an interesting contrast to Hercule Poirot. The interwar period certainly was the golden age of detective and mystery novels, whether they were more in line with the Christie formula or followed a more hard-boiled, American style.

I wonder to what degree the novels of that period informed the more paranoid, Cold War-era novels and films after WWII. John le Carré and Ian Fleming obviously come to mind, but Orson Welles's The Third Man and Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity are also great explorations of the postwar noir genre.

I'm sure there are essays about how it's all connected, and how it can probably be traced back to early mysteries like Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, but I haven't found anything yet that charts the history of the genre and explains the relative stability of its tropes and motifs over time.
Plastics