skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Things like skin color are different from things like leetcode ability. Looking through a veil of ignorance, I definitely would not want hiring decisions to be made based on the former. But looking through the same veil of ignorance, I would be ok with hiring decisions being made based on the latter.

Well, actually, thinking about it again now, I'm not so sure. But this now becomes an ethical question. Which is certainly important. But I want to be clear that the ethical question is a different question from the question of what a purely self-interested company should do. To that self-interest question, I think the OP and lots of people argue that the answer is "leetcode-style questions having nothing to do with the job and are thus a bad idea".

My claims are that 1) this is the wrong way to think about that self-interest question. The right way is to ask whether it is predictive of job performance. And 2) although I also suspect that leetcode-style questions aren't predictive, it's hard to be confident in that without good data.
BSG If you are into space opera

The Man in the High Castle: Alternative history

Hand Maid's Tail: Near future dystopia (gotten a bit close lately)

Thank you for Raised by Wolves and For All Mankind. I musty have been living in a hole. Never heard of them

I do not know what is not hard enough about The Expanse. Taste is personal!

I like plot and character development. Without that it is just one thing after another.
Don't treat farm animals cruelly I'm fully on board with. But if you don't eat animals at all, farm animals won't exist in the first place. The choice is between the animal having a life that ends as food, or no life. If the life is a miserable factory farm one, I can see how no life would be superior, but I don't believe that's always the case.
Svidler and Rosen would be a good combo.
NaOH is lye ... relatively nasty stuff (for metal and skin). (MP 323°C) I've read that 'Glauber's salt' (Na2SO4.10H2O<->Na2SO4) (MP 32.4°C) is good for heat storage. Sounds like a better idea for residential applications.
"the utility monster: one person receives much more utility from each unit of resource they consume than anyone else does. For a utilitarian, it follows that every resource ought to be directed towards the utility monster in order to maximise total utility."

That is exactly the reality people see day by day in their work life/ business environment. If you have a business unit that creates more return per unit resources input than another one, the former is always favored.

Our whole society fetishizes efficiency, constant improvement and economic growth/success that it has entered into all parts of human life and interactions. So it is no wonder that the more moral priority view has and never will gain mainstream application, as it goes against the grain of the current ideology.
I feel it sometimes when I think about holding the mouse, it feels like my teeth are extremely large and my hands are crazy tiny heaving the mouse along.

your thing on smallest record players between fingers really described that feeling for me, very cool.
Griesemer PhD's is related to Oberon.

"A Programming Language for Vector Computers"

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.42....
I think most of the outrage is not because "it happened" but because AWS is saying things like "S3 was unaffected" when the anecdotal experience of many in this thread suggests the opposite.

That and the apparent policy that a VP must sign off on changing status pages, which is... backwards to say the least.
Don't extrapolate to the whole sector from a few high profile failures. There are places like e.g. Hello Games, who don't do crunch, and my friends at Ubisoft tell me they do only a little overtime right before shipping. If you watch SIGGRAPH, you can see a lot of good real-time graphics research come out of DICE, Epic, Unity. I doubt those people are doing much overtime either. Not that I would go work there, being a game developer is below my pay grade, but not every place is as bad as ActiBlizz.
I reinstall Linux from scratch about once every 5 years, long enough that I totally forget how to do it. So I keep a file with all the commands to do it.
Totally agree with this. One may want a Job at a prestigious FAANG or a hot startup but may not clear for culture fit whatever even tough you answered all technical questions. I say don't despair. just as you mentioned even if you got in it may not have been a good team/good manager. We should strive to find teams/managers who can appreciate what we are and do and vice versa.
It is a position of a person with nothing to lose.
wish there was a spoiler tag, bummer. Well, i was only like 20+ hours away from catching up
> Or you end up with the highest rate of school amok per capita globally

The US has a high rate of firearms fatalities. Around two thirds of these are suicides. Around zero thirds of them are school shootings.

School shootings are sufficiently rare that when they happen, they make national news. Which is catastrophic, because studies have shown that media coverage of school shootings induces school shootings. It's attention-seeking behavior by the criminally insane, so if you show them that it generates attention, it increases their attraction to the act. Most US media outlets know this and do it anyway, because it generates a lot of hits. This is the primary reason why the US has relatively more than other countries, including other countries with a high rate of firearms ownership.

> Licenses make just as much sense as they do for cars.

It doesn't work for this. If you have a driver's license and know it will be taken away if you drive drunk, that's an effective deterrent. School shooters tend to be young people with no prior criminal history. They would pass a background check. Having a license to take away after the fact is meaningless when after they fact they're going to prison forever.

In theory where this does something is for criminal gangs, where you say you want to deny people with a criminal history a firearm. Criminal gangs actually are a significant fraction of firearms fatalities. But here's how that works out: People with a criminal history who go back to a life of crime just get a gun through their criminal organization the same way they get the illegal drugs they're dealing.

Meanwhile, people with a criminal history who reform themselves will commonly also carry a gun, for self-defense against criminals from their past life. Laws against this don't deter it when the alternative is getting murdered. Then this otherwise reformed criminal gets caught in possession of a firearm yet not committing any other crime, so they go back to prison and get another chance to get caught up with criminals. A large number of black people are currently in prison for no other crime than "felon in possession of a firearm," and were in possession of it for no other reason than self-defense. Or weren't in possession of it at all but were near enough to one owned by someone else for a bad cop to opportunistically file the charge.

Banning possession of a technology is weak. If you wrongfully shoot someone, you should go to prison. If you have a gun and don't harm anyone with it, no one should have a problem with that.
This is super interesting to me (interested in metallurgy and ancient forms of money).

Went on a bit of a deep dive (i.e. watched some YouTube videos).

Ok jokes aside, what a very interesting topic.

Best video I found so far is about 8 months old. It’s related to a researcher’s PHD. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GSIJIOfpK08

She did some comparative experiments and definitely adds to the general knowledge base.

(There’s a 2007/2008 French experiment video that basically didn’t prove anything they hypothesized and was quoted a few times. I’m disregarding it because of the inclusive results and what looks like lack of follow up.)

The main issue is that there really isn’t a ton of historical knowledge of how money was minted thousands of years ago. Turns out that people back back back in the day valued the knowledge of how coins were minted to the extent that there is almost no archaeological evidence.

It’s a really interesting topic that even in 2021 has a huge amount of room for research.
Apparently, from recent posts on this page, the problem is not solely caused by the fact that log4j perform some substitutions from a preset map, but that it performs substitution recursively, thus interpreting again the data injected into the string, with apparently no way to escape it, which I think very few logging libraries are doing.

Imagine, you write SQL commands using the proper parametric form, such as:

> exec("select * where id=${1}", user_provided_login);

You would be right to expect the DB library to escape the string so that no SQL injection is possible. After all, isn't that the whole point of parameters over a mere

> exec('select * where id=' + user_provided_login);

?

Well, apparently log4j is doing the equivalent of treating 'user_provided_login' as legit SQL.

This is especially problematic because not only will it substitute some '${variables}' again at remote user discretion, but some '${special.forms}' can actually instruct log4j to connect anywhere, download some code, execute it, then print the output. Because that was deamed convenient to someone in the past who complained that feature was missing and submitted a patch which, because of stellar unit tests, passed the code review.

The only context I can think of where this behavior regarding recursive substitution is acceptable is text templating, away from possibly adversarial input. I believe it goes opposite to expectations when logging.
Ask HN: Best website-as-a-service tool for early stage startup?
Hi there! We're looking for a great hosted website service for an early stage startup that covers:

- Nice landing page

- Mobile friendly / lightweight

- Has a blog engine built in (markdown is ok)

- Easy to use (after setup) by non-developers

- SEO / discoverability built in

- Ideally cheap/near-free

What are the reliable and good options out there these days?
> Isn't that common in Europe, even required by law in most of it's countries? I'm not sure about Poland though

Yes. I live in the Netherlands and we have this. I am a software engineer and working in a free sector (meaning I don't have a union or common branch contract) but it's normal that overtime pays extra. It's also the reason I rarely work overtime. Plus it's fairly common to be compensated in time. So if I work on a Saturday I get 1,5 off on my paid vacation sheet. Sunday pays out 2.
Universal Edit Button – Universal Edit Button
When Autorun, and Windows 95, were being developed, CD-Rs were multi-thousand dollar machines with media that cost $15+/disc, and USB was still being hashed out in the research labs. As such, the only real removable media that would have been used under Autorun would have been professionally mastered CDs, which had a $450+ minimum outlay for a master, and usually a minimum lot size atop of that, which was more than most people up to no good would have been willing to spend. Yes, as Autorun became a more viable attack vector, more protections should have been put in place, but in 1995, it was pretty low-risk.
Car manufacturers will pay the much lower Y$ from this insurance pool

They'll only accept that if they can charge a subscription fee to car owners, and car owners are legally required to have an up to date subscription. There is no way manufacturers will take on the burden of insuring their cars voluntarily.
If you are in iOS, it does a good job of finding acronyms for you. Long press “GOAT”, then select “Look up”. The answer is the second item listed.
Section 230 provides immunity for "interactive computer services" (such as Facebook) wrt content from other providers and wrt restricting access to content from other providers.

However, there's nothing in Section 230 that protects "interactive computer services" wrt content that they produce.

In other words, Section 230 does NOT applyFacebook IS liable for content that it generates.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230
True .... However maligned l33tcode questions are you can at least prepare for them and there can only be one correct answer.

The questions you enumerate are more subjective and depends on the interviewer's experience/maturity on how well they can gauge someone's answers.
I'd concur, but careful with the wording.

Distribution requires user interaction, not pregenerated output from an internal tool.

".. or providing access to its essential functionalities at the disposal of any other natural or legal person."
In the early-mid 90s, on the Canadian children's TV channel YTV, between shows they'd air early 3D animations under the name "Short Circutz". This is definitely giving me similar vibes to some of those - this [1] in particular. Thanks for setting off my nostalgia neurons :)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScvIbcNV38k
At what speed? Is there a distinction between these L4 and L5 levels and speed? Is a L3 at idle speed equivalent to an L5 at highway speed?
Israel is a wrong example too. Since it's an example of a State established on a foreign Nation since the colonization of Palestine. It's actually a very useful example to illustrate the difference between State and Nation. One could argue that a nation can be built in 73 years, but for the purpose of your argument you should have chosen France, Germany, Japan, Italy, etc.. unless I misunderstood your argument.
Particularly if you're on ARM. I did a stint with a company that worked in the AI / ML space, and when we tried to get stuff working on Amazon's Graviton it was a mess. Docker containers are suddenly installing gcc, make, every '*-dev' library you could think of. Builds take forever, and you end up with who-knows-what gigantic .whl files built under the hood. I ended up writing a script to find the wheels and upload anything larger than 500kb to our AWS Artifact pip repo so they didn't have to get built every time the pipeline ran. It worked, but took a while to iron out.
not sure how well acquainted you are with neuroscience, but that is the basis of human cognition. I really don't understand the attempt to belittle "pattern finding". State of the art neuroscience tells us, that we have thousands of thousands of mental systems that have developed useful models to interpret the world. Human intelligence is by and large pattern finding.

I truly think all the criticism of deep learning is really a lack of understanding of neuroscience. It is not much different. We just currently do it much more inefficient than a brain
> Exceptions are a quiet revolution--they truly simplify the way you write code.

Fashion cycles in general programming and programming language design are just as real as in any other human activity. And just as fun to watch.
Thanks for these thoughts. Resonated well with me. I feel we are sleepwalking into major fiascos, when a simple doorbell needs to sit on top this level of complexity. It's in our best interest to not tie every small thing into layers, and layers of complexity. Mundane things like doorbells need to have their fallback at least done properly to function locally without relying on complex cloud systems.
One word. Netflixification.

When there were only 3 news networks, they had to create a middle of the road, news only approach in order to broadly appeal to everyone and since they only have the one outlet, they devoted a lot of resources to produce quality content with good fact checking and reporting.

Cable tv and then the internet opened up the flood gates for content. Now, instead of a few quality, middle of the road choices, we have every possible extreme niche option out there and the extremes have tended to rise to the top.
I'm from Australia and it currently looks like this prevented my mother calling an ambulance for her neighbour with a suspected heart attack about a month ago. I saw this article, told her to test dialing 000 (Australias 911 equivalent), it failed, then she uninstalled teams and the call went through. This was on a Galaxy Note 9.
Note quite, rather, if your vehicle can't reliably sustain that, you aren't allowed on the Autobahn.
There is no minimum allowed speed as-such, though there might be problems if you drive slower than that for no reason.
Not so great if you are jobless and got bills to pay. “Create more innovation” is a good thing, but sometimes people need to cash those big tech giant’s checks to care for their family.

Experienced engineers and college noobs should not be competing for the same jobs.

Tech co’s seem to prefer the college grads for rank/file for many reasons. Maybe because they are easier to exploit?
Statement by President Joe Biden on Kellogg Collective Bargaining Negotiations
Spin-orbit interactions of transverse sound [pdf]
Based on some of the damage that weapon did in the video, I don't expect that is non lethal by any means. That looks like deadly force to me.
Look into how film completion bonds work. I wrote that up a few months back.[1]
Film Finances has been doing completion bonds for video games since 2007, but I'm not finding much info about that. I wonder how the details work.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27687265
note that in their demonstration video, they're very careful not to show you the butt of the gun - I will bet that it's plugged in. I seriously doubt they've got sufficient power supply in that profile.
In Oblivion and Skyrim IIRC, the characters were mostly individually configured by the level designers. That works fine for a world where you have what boils down to a few small towns but I don't think the same approach could be applied to a place the size of Night City.
All I will say is that these criticisms are outdated. they were formed with a bigger lack of understanding than we have now.

read a Thousand brains: a new theory of intelligence
When I was younger I had a couple of terantulas as pets, tho they were different species, and a lot of their behavior is usually ascribed to that, so I never could make any direct comparisons.

But at the conventions were breeders would sell them, and let people handle them for photos and such, they'd often explain how that particular spider was the more "laid back" one.

Part of that is probably just to calm people down, but I don't see why a spider shouldn't be able to have a bad day.

Mine certainly weren't 100% predictable but also had their more active/passive phases, would sometimes skip on food or sometimes be still aggressive even after being fed. Putting all that down to pure biological determinism feels a bit too simplistic.
> he claimed to be a cypress expert so we asked him to set cypress up in a dummy react repo and he floundered the entire time

If I was floundering because the interviewer found a hole in my knowledge (and there are many holes in Albert Hall) I'd proactively state that and say where the holes weren't and ask for a question about that.

For example, I've implemented a complete C compiler, front to back, so at one point I knew everything about C. But in implementing a new C compiler (ImportC) a few months back, I had to go over the Standard again, as I'd forgotten bits and pieces.

There's no reason at all why the interviewee cannot drive the direction of the interview, rather than being driven. For example, when I interviewed for a software job after leaving my mechanical job at Boeing, I was concerned that I wouldn't be taken seriously as a programmer. So I brought along listings of the code I'd written and pulled it out during the interview and proceeded to explain it to the interviewer, on my own initiative.

A long time after that, I was talking to the interviewer, and he said that that was what got me the offer.
I feel sorry for Ian. That c5 move totally destroyed him. Some people don't understand how elementary mistake that was. And to make it in slow chess... I hope he recovers from that and goes on to win some tournaments. But as for the next candidates match, I think Alireza or Giri have the best chance to win it.
half of all the driving I did on the autobahn on my way to France this summer was crawling slowly through trafficjams so it makes sense. Also who would want to let a autopilot do +100k h while manual drivers whizz by at double that speed?
https://youtu.be/K3qf8gRFESU?t=1550
At the 25min point, Anders talked about ripping from C# 4. Anyone know the reasoning behind it?
I actually did look it up before I posted. As you say, there is an SC connector (green, so I assume single mode angle polish, which makes sense for long distance connection) under the panel above the power.
that is not true though. State of the art neuroscience is, basically human cognition is a tower of abstractions of smaller systems of pattern finding to optimize a reward

there isn't some unexplained magic sauce.
when there's a construction and the speed limit is 60kph, I really hate it when the car starts accelerating like it's in a race track the moment it sees the limit removed. it scared me a couple of times, so I imagine it's not impossible for that to happen.

it also takes the curvature of the road into account and slows for the traffic, but there's always a small empty town with straight roads...

it also sometimes messes up the steering when going through a construction site with yellow lines, so I really hope that they improved this system heavily in the last year since I bought my car.
I, too, rarely have (or remember) dreams – once per month, maybe. But lack of dreams is not a problem for me. What I find annoying (and I'm really curious if you have similar experience) that I don't have feeling of passed time.

My sleep is like blink of an eye. It's night, I close my eyes, then I open them, and there is morning already. I's always the same, no matter how long I have slept, whether I am well rested or tired.

Since the time feels so compressed during my sleep, I can't help but feel that sleep is, kinda, a waste of time.

Usually I have 2-3 coffees per week. I drink a lot of various types of tea daily, though.
> the stakes are very low (no pedestrians/cyclists, and the accidents are just fender benders)

It's a road without speed limits. Mistakes might be less likely - at least they are for humans, not sure about an overly cautious AI model - but the cost of a mistake is very high.
> you need to talk about paying less to doctors and to hospitals

One graph that I've seen shows a huge increase in the number of hospital administrators while the number of MDs has been relatively flat.

Granted, the Y axis is percentage, not numbers, so it may be that we went from 1 administrator for every 100 doctors to 10, which is both a huge percentage increase and probably not a significant dollar increase.

One instance of this graph is in the middle of:
https://www.athenahealth.com/knowledge-hub/practice-manageme...
The podcast
Bethesda's Elder Scrolls and Fallout series have much less NPCs in their worlds and far fewer densely populated areas compared to a game like Cyberpunk, where there's crowds of people around every corner. If they really did intend for every single NPC actor to be on a TES level schedule I can see where the difficulties come from.
If I was the candidate, and you informed me the interview would be recorded with video, I would politely thank you for your time and end the call.
Firefox 95 for Windows and Mac introduces RLBox, a new sandboxing tech
‘No easy solution’ for Tesla Cybertruck’s comically large windshield wiper
Legally, deadly force. Practically, hell no. Not trusting my life to a metal disc with the same velocity as a BB pellet.
Asset? Crypto?