skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm seems like you're right and they have in fact improved, and with synchronous ones no less which should be really up there in efficiency. Then it really is a mystery why the Pi is still so energy inefficient when compared to other ARMs of similar capability.
There is absolutely 0 signal there as to whether someone would "thrive in a lively atmosphere" when you're jumping through hoops for an interview that will determine your financial well being and a good portion of your live for the next n years, and its a fun example of how "engineer social hacks" continuously fail in the real world.
It's basically a porn site. Perhaps there's no nudity, but it's as soul-sucking and a waste of time as erotic pornography. The behavior of the user, the emotional high, and the business model really aren't so different.
I can think back 15 years ago to a friend -- a software test engineer -- who started a handyman business on the side, hearing the same complaint from his clients. 90% of success is just showing up!
Yep. I think it goes further than whether there's a published paper about. It boils down to "does the question have exactly one correct answer?"

One important thing you learn in interviewer workshops is to avoid asking questions with "aha" components, i.e. things that can only be solved if a very specific insight is known. This type of question is problematic because it falls victim to the fallacious assumption that a candidate that excels in one specific problem must necessarily excel at others that are in actuality, at best, only marginally related.

Instead, it is better to ask questions for which the solution can be arrived at with small increments in effort (e.g. maybe there's an obvious brute force solution and you start from there to discuss more optimal solutions, or maybe the candidate got stuck on some specific peculiarity and you can give a hint to unblock them and move on to another part of the problem to get more signal)
I used to solely use Firefox, but now it does not work with so many apps that I need. It's completely unusable for me.

I've read many articles that say that Firefox is not working on what people want, just a bunch of stuff nobody needs, and has lost vast amounts of users in the last decade or two.

Salesforce CRM would not work on Firefox. Then I switched to Zoho CRM, and that did not work on Firefox. And my VOIP phone didn't work on Firefox. Those are the two apps that I use most - CRM and phone. So I had to stop using Firefox.

It's sad, I'd keep using if I could. I used Firefox a lot longer than I should have.

So now it's Brave Browser, which I've had no issues with since it's based on the Chrome engine.

I don't know what the heck Firefox team is doing.

Plus, all of a sudden, it just stopped working. Looking at resource usage, disk usage was at 100% and just shut down Firefox. Like, WTF?
Eleven: Table Tennis on Oculus Quest 2. Extremely realistic.

There are also a lot of other things on there more specifically fitness oriented or that involve more cardio, such as the boxing thing named Creed.

I am still fat honestly. But the good table tennis players on there will definitely make you move around. I am up over a 1900 rating at the moment (very good for me)
and making full use of the living room area in the new apartment which since I have almost no furniture is exclusively dedicated to it.

Also there is a recent update to Golf+/Top Golf or whatever that has full courses. And there is a disc golf thing I forget the name.
PyCharm 2021.3 Released with Remote Dev, Jupyter and Fast API Support
Baby steps.
- It starts with food intake, add more fruit & veggie snacks through out your day. I found this post last year that gave me some new yummy snack to try. Hope it helps! :) ( https://chelseyamernutrition.com/healthy-snacks-working-from... )
- Get a dog that has a lot of energy, or just walk with the one you have if you do have one. Mine barks at me in my face when he wants to go out for his daily walk lol. I've found myself pushing towards jogging & then running for short intervals throughout my "walk" when I feel like I can do it.
- Don't be hard on yourself, it takes patience & encouragement from OURSELVES to want to keep doing it the next day. You can do it! n.n
Apple does use different names for things like Beats and is more integrated or has different names such as iCloud instead of Apple Cloud services
Ten things that used to be fun but are now worrisome
#9. Facebook. I mean, Meta.
The news is they’ve admitted it after previously hiding it in violation of Mastodon’s licence while their marketing copy professed to be original.
Check out Trusty! My brother has been using it in Mill Valley and says it's great!
And the State Department are definitely warmongers.

SecState Kissinger orchestrated the incineration of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.

SecState Powell orchestrated the flattening of Iraq.

SecState Clinton orchestrated the butchering of Libya.

SecState Pompeo tried and failed to orchestrate the annihilation of Iran by assassinating top officials and drawing them into war.

And so on and so forth. These aren't even theories. The State Department is closely involved in destabilizing sovereign governments through the full spectrum of means, including war, to advance Washington's interests.
I'm not an expert, maybe he knows what he's talking about with this signals around the world talk, but my gut feeling is, there won't be anything at the spot he's predicted. It feels like "The Bible Code"[1], finding data in noise. Not that I even saw his data/noise, but it's still my gut feeling.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_code (Donation nag-wall)
> However if your music library is older than itunes and consists of lossless WAV/PCM files there is no metadata. There is only the filename.

So putting your music on an iPhone isn't impossible. It just means that you would have to take the time to add metadata to the existing files (and possibly first converting them to a lossless format that supports metadata--I'm guessing PCM does not).
Yeah, its common for RTOS. All the things in automotive (OSEK, Autosar) worked the same. And OS like Greenhills Integrity can also do full isolation between modules.
> The fact that such a major event was only scary for a week seems like a good thing?

It was scary for a week because they were down to a single remaining point of failure (Abbotsford pumping station). If that station failed (which was quite possible, due to rising floodwaters), the Fraser river would have flooded the valley, and Highway 1 would have been... Gone. Not 'flooded for a week', but 'flooded permanently'.

On the other side of the city, mudslides destroyed bridges on the Coquihalla highway - which will take at least 2 months to be made passable - and things won't be back to normal for another year.

Had the pumping station failed, and the highway flooded, it's entirely unclear what anyone could have done in that situation to keep Chilliwack supplied over the next two months.
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I know this.

Historically Amazon recruits a lot harder than other elite tech companies. Someone will tell me "I never hear from anybody at FAANG" and I say, "You haven't heard from Amazon?" And they say, "Well, I've heard from Amazon" and I know it because Amazon recruiters contact every coder with a pulse several times a year.
It would be actually great if they did exactly that, as an anonymized experiment somehow. My guess would be 40-60%.
This is basic network effect. All sorts of social media platforms have monetized their users. Twitter hasn't really tried.
My thought is that anti-science folks are telling each other that the media and scientists are saying that mainly because the evidence that the COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective is overwhelming. They need to move the goal post to "100%".
Having just watched the whole thing, and being a long-time Beatles fan as well as a long-time bass player and band member myself, I think this review is right on. This 3-part documentary is very very long, it's boring and tedious, but it's also historical and fascinating. If you don't want to watch sausages or laws being made, maybe you don't want to watch world-class pop music being made either. But for me, it was an invaluable look behind the scenes at a band who changed music, and perhaps our whole culture, forever.
> It sounds like you don't really feel that the issues that others have with law enforcement in America are a problem.

I’m not sure which issues you are referring to; if they are the ones that get heavy media coverage of widespread complaints, I think they are largely real problems, some quite severe, and that they barely scratch the surface of real, systemic problems in American policing.

My issue is with people pushing “solutions” that ignore the nature of those problems and the political context creating/supporting the problems, not with the idea that they are problems.
I would love to see more of this.

Since this is the "did you know Apple Music actually..." thread: You can at least browse by record label nowadays and it's pretty nice.
The earned media from this announcement is worth an absolute fortune. Imagine you’re a marketer for a major tech company. How much would you pay to get an organic HN front page discussion of your company’s roadmap?

Short term this is good PR, long term it’s about positioning the brand. If blockchain hype continues to grow, it will be powerful to have a brand closely associated with it.
That might be even better, but a single company can make self-driving cars without reforming the American suburban model.

Practically, even in cities with excellent commuter rail (e.g. Boston), car commuters still outnumber rail.
Former Ubiquiti dev charged for trying to extort his employer
At any given university, the kids from public schools are smarter
This really is the worst part of Facebook's approach to products - it's constantly trying to inject "recommended" content into my experience, which ultimately IMO is the precise problem with this form of social media.

I don't want to use social media to interact with total strangers - I follow people I know IRL, or businesses I frequent, or just generally people/accounts that I've been recommended from sources I trust.

This "HEY YOU MUST MEET THIS STRANGER" thing that FB pioneered and that Instagram seems big into now is the root of so many problems. It encourages the kinds of negative interactions that define the FB experience (rude/abusive comments on one's posts from rando strangers? Hello!)

There's been much said about the coarsening of discourse post-social-media, and I have to say this constant drumbeat of getting everyone to talk to every stranger is one of the primary causes of it.
Is there a a federated Mastodon-like that replicates Instagram decently? I know you could just share photos on Mastodon, but I think the photo centric design and stories are what’s fun. At this point I don’t care about the network effects, if I could share bike trip pictures with 5 friends with something that works like IG stories I’d quit IG today.

Edit: maybe an answer to my own question is PixelFed but I’m still searching for a mobile app that supports it
Build a low maintenance business that generates a profit higher than a Bay Area salary and requires less than 3 full days to keep it going.

Here’s an example: https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/22807858/tiktok-influe...

The founder makes >100k per month as mostly passive income.
I’ve had so many poor interview experiences and all of them at the big tech companies. I once went to google and only 2/5 interviewers bothered to show up.

Hell, in an interview I had this week I was given multiple incorrect answers to my clarification questions. Even when I said “I believe I answered it” the interviewer said “I don’t think so” until he finally looked up and was like “oh you got it”

I’m on zoom watching the interviewer text / look at other screens as I ask clarifying questions and they give dismissive answers “yea yea that sounds right, do that” while never looking up from their phone. Was a pretty “wtf” moment. I completed the interview, but I got the feeling the review will be subpar.
That is interesting! Unfortunately if I try Google Netherlands (google.com/?gl=nl) I also get Miep, so it's not just a US thing.
Our embedded OS, Hubris, released yesterday, with an application as well, the entire image is like, 70k? I’ll double check when I’m at a computer.
Why couldn't twitter be integrated into one of these blocks and have square run them all?
No. Will continue to be $SQ
Google's grumpiness is an excellent measure for how much we need a feature. The grumpier, the better. Other browsers should do it. Firefox, Safari, Brave, everyone else.
how about this ->
https://github.com/ebiggers/libdeflate
https://lemire.me/blog/2021/06/30/compressing-json-gzip-vs-z...
What is the meaning of teleological evolution with goals?
Instagram has slowly been deprioritizing content creation and promoting content consumption. This was clearest to me when they recently moved the Post button up to the top, out of the way, to make room for more consumption buttons within thumb reach.

For a good long time IG was the only place I could reliably see actual user-generated content. Moreover it was actual friend-generated content, and mostly they posted their actual (best, happy) lives.

With culling of the slideshow preachers, the media re-grammers, and the vacuous influencers, an honest social media experience can still be enjoyed-ish. But ads and re-designs will continue to chip away at the creative sharing and interactions that used to be the core UX until it's fully unusable for its original purpose.

Instagram now wants you to watch and scroll, not capture and share. Soon I'll need to take my creative sharing elsewhere, but where?
English pronouns definitely have case, e.g. I/me/my/mine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_personal_pronouns#Basi...
The risk for fatalities goes up with speed. When a vehicle is driven at ~65mph on the freeway, you have less margin for error than when a vehicle is driven in a city at ~20mph. If something comes up, a remote operator may not necessarily have time to safely manage the situation, and the risk of having a catastrophic event is as high as it gets.
An explanation of the name choice from Square's tweets:

> Not to get all meta on you… but we’re going to! Block references the neighborhood blocks where we find our sellers, a blockchain, block parties full of music, obstacles to overcome, a section of code, building blocks, and of course, tungsten cubes.

https://twitter.com/Square/status/1466158911413760004
The Paul Graham twitter thread:

1) At any given university, the kids from public schools are smarter than the kids from private schools. This is a necessary consequence of private schools improving kids' admissions prospects, and parents wouldn't send their kids to private schools if they didn't.

2) So if you show up at college and find that you're behind the kids who went to better high schools, don't be discouraged. Your position may be worse, but your velocity is higher. By the end of college you'll be ahead of them.
This is a wonderful opportunity for all of us to put our money where our mouths are.
I do a lot of this sort of search

I have no idea what you are talking about (except for Apple's efforts at astro turfing, but that is not what you mean I think)

I use DuckDuckGo, is that why this does not bother me?

I have not used Google for search for years.
Feels like LinkedIn has gone down this road as well. It really doesn’t feel like a professional network any longer… too much attention seeking spam.
The problem with this idea (and don't get me wrong, I love the idea!) is that as automation takes away the busywork, what's left requires an increasing amount of specialized domain-specific knowledge, and this kind of knowledge is expensive. Finding someone good with the right broad skillset is hard enough. Then they also need just the right combination of experience, or extensive on the job training, to be useful in the role. And once you have the right person with the right knowledge, they then need a lot of knowledge about the specific project they're working on, which also costs time and money for them to acquire.

Also as your hours worked per worker goes down, the number of workers goes up, and your communication and coordination costs for a project are at least quadratic in the number of workers on that project.

As a consequence, it costs more than twice as much to run a project with two half-time workers as it does to run the same project with one full-time worker.
Depends very much on the launch angle, anywhere from a few hundred meters to well over a kilometer.

You can play around with this:

https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/range-projectile-moti...

Note that it does not take projectile shape (and so drag) into account and that's the largest factor.
Wow! So there is the possibility of having remote screen control using the WebRTC for the stream and then other trick for the mouse coordinates and keyboard! I hope to be able to integrate it also in https://github.com/miroslavpejic85/mirotalk that would be great! Thank you so much for sharing! Maybe I can try to do it looking from: https://github.com/maxogden/screencat

Keep it up!
A note of caution if you're planning to use Puppeteer for screenshots -- One oddity I've experienced with Puppeteer, is that there are sometimes very small height differences between headless and non-headless modes when generating screenshots. I suspect the root cause is that they are rounding sub-pixels differently, in certain scenarios. So, I typically run Puppeteer locally with { headless: false } to try to get a pixel-perfect match to the regular desktop Chrome experience.
> It's one thing to punish murderers

You know that this murderer can be a wife that killed her abusive husband. Or other similar circumstances. Not all murderers are evil.
> The irony is that all those engagement-boosting tweaks may work in the short term

That's when the promos happen and the bonuses are paid out.

> but ultimately kill engagement.

Too late. The PM's already jumped ship to the next gig.
You can put traefik in front of it and cache. Then setup a max limit on query execution. I don't use REST. Everything I need I write out as a postgres function. The other side is monitoring. Setup logging and run fail2ban, or an alarm to kick the user and require manual oversight.
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Why the Energy Transition Will Be So Complicated
Ah, so you're saying you're financially and emotionally secure enough not to be completely discombobulated by this incredible display of disrespect?

Good for you I guess, but maybe don't apply your own mental blueprint to the rest of the world. Recommending candidates have thicker skin isn't really great a way to improve hiring in general.
Shenandoah is in the the same latency category as well. I haven't seen recent numbers but a few years ago it was a little better latency but a little worse throughput.
I believe they're saying that you should only need to be given a background check if you're handling money. Not that past money handling is a disqualifier
You can still upload your own music to Youtube Music. The UI sucks (you have to use entirely separate search boxes to search for uploaded vs. Youtube tracks, and AFAIK you can't edit metadata without downloading and re-uploading files) but it gets the job done.
> 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"

The moment any organism stops growing is the moment it starts dying.
Sounds like you are asking "What if my co-founder doesn't do everything exactly the way I want and I would do".

If you had asked, what if my co-founder is not meeting his/her obligations, then that is a different story regardless of whether they are playing video games or not.
The best part of the name change is that if profits ever start to stagnate, we can say that they’ve entered Meta-stasis!
Zuckerberg is an alumnus of Young Global Leaders, an initiative of the World Economic Forum to identify "exceptional" individuals who can enact their vision of "positive change". These actions of Facebook seem to align more with the WEF's vision of global society than anything that makes any real sense in the immediate.
Maybe have a vesting schedule for co-founders, and have concrete KPIs and deliverables.