skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And ... this is why I've always said it's either all or nothing and why FSD and similar are pointless until in, who knows, 10 years time(if that) it becomes ready for prime time.

Sure, youtubers can video it for fun and drink the kool aid but actual drivers will just turn it off after a hairy situation. Well, I will anyway.

Maybe this is why Tesla are touting their ridiculous robot ... it's a potential pivot or alternative use of the (no doubt) impressive AI tech behind FSD which, they've now realised, will take much longer to be properly driver ready.

Maybe FSD's fate is similar to the space program. The eventual secondary technology it spawns is more useful than its original purpose. Because I won't be going near these autonomous driving solutions for many years.

Yeah, give me a Dalek-style home robot instead for now.
Wait ... this is a real thing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xubbVvKbUfY
Christmas day 1991 when the red flag was lowered from the Kremlin for
the last time
"If you're ever in such a facility and a tornado hits, hide in a truck" is my take from this video.

Edit: it’s a bad take, read below.
> IBM suddenly changed their approach from a friendly, collaborative one to being out for blood.

Which is exactly how DeepMind reacted when their bot was destroyed by a not even a top 100 pro. No press releases, no nothing. Just nerd butt hurt.

There were plenty of articles about its prior wins, though. Funny how that works
In the US. When you first sign up you are initially placed in a free trial. After the free trial period ends you fallback to the free tier. While in the free trial period I received one phone call which I let go to voicemail and besides the emails welcoming me to Oracle Cloud and regarding account creation I received 3 or 4 reminding me that the trial was ending and I would revert to the free tier. Since then, which has been months, I haven't received either calls or emails.
I know it goes against the HH ethos but... you should consider using SDL2 in the future for projects like this. You'll get greater (and better tested) cross-platform compatibility, support for more peripherals, better image support, etc, and not have to write most of this on your own.
Great engineering teams focus on milestones instead of projects
Or, you know, just wire in the doorbell button and be done?
I’m looking at this:

https://bitcoinfees.co/
I hate interviewing but the very few opportunities I've had to have a technical discussion back-and-forth Q&A with a candidate have been helpful. A lot of candidates don't even ask about the day-to-day expectations or stack, and I think that's unfortunate for them.
FYI, from cmd+tab you can use the down arrow to get to the window level of the application (then arrow keys to navigate through the windows).
Also, ironically, crypto is at least as conjured up out of thin air as a properly operated "fiat" currency. A person decided - for whatever reason - that there should be up to 21 million of a new type of token in existence, and his software started printing them and dishing them out to random participants in the network. With a "fiat" currency the actual number in circulation goes up and down according to actual market demand for debt, and in a properly run "fiat" currency the active intervention in that market is taken by named individuals with set targets who publish minutes of the decisions they're going to take.
I’m exhausted by the fiat money scam

2% annual inflation over a 40 year career amounts to 40% less earnings. Inflation is theft. Bitcoin fixes this. No one has ever explained a better solution to inflation than Bitcoin.

Fiat money printing is a scam that lets politicians spend more money without directly raising taxes. Bitcoin is honest sound money with a fixed inflation policy forever that cannot be manipulated by any central actors.

It is an idea who’s time has come, given the inflationary realities of today.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/hr/IP_15_... : "As a general rule, the Regulation will cap interchange fees at 0.2% of the transaction value for consumer debit cards and at 0.3% for consumer credit cards." Problem solved.

> 3% interest should be paid on savings accounts

By whom? I'm quite happy with my 1.2% mortgage, why do you want to impoverish me by driving that up? What's the interest rate on a 25 year mortgage in Bitcoin again?
It's not OK to choose not to hang out with someone because you've heard they did something shitty?
The funny thing about this is the Unix philosophy is just about keeping functional units small, separate, and theoretically independent of each other. It says nothing about the granularity of packaging for end users. Nobody has ever, to my knowledge, individually provided each Unix utility in its own package. A GNU system has most stuff in coreutils, with most everything else in findutils, binutils, and util-linux on Linux systems. Only grep, awk, and sed are single-tool packages among the POSIX utilities. In BSD systems, one base package contains the entire POSIX toolchain.

The idea of having a gigantic "utils" package like this, or even a batteries included standard library like Ruby and Python, is perfectly in keeping with Unix philosophy. The point is not have a single executable that does everything, but you can provide many executables and shared objects in one addressable package with a common version, a single build, and a monorepo.
Third Blue Origin Flight Complete
I've never seen git replace before, very interesting! Can you use git-replace to edit an old commit message without rebuilding the whole commit graph and instead by just adding a new commit? The article seems to imply that you can use it to "truncate" history but still be able to browse it if you happen to have the full history, or something. I'll have to look more closely into exactly what's going on.
Other commentary on the original research article, on Scientific American:

Spark Creativity with Thomas Edison's Napping Technique - Waking yourself from the twilight state just before sleep may help you to solve a challenging problem, a study shows

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/thomas-edisons-na...

Even better, there is an article from the very original research coordinator Delphine Oudiette on The Conversation [Fra]

https://theconversation.com/pour-doper-votre-creativite-fait...

which, miraculously - since a dozen online magazines commented on this but never linked it (?! !!! !) -, contains the link to the original research article,

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10870...
> Overall I'm not sure how much value we get out of coderpad

Well so you're pretty much in agreement with the author it seems. He's just more convinvced than you that coderpad is actually more bad than good that's all, you have a bit more doubts.
Operation Whistle Pig: Inside the secret CBP unit with no rules
His points, which are valid, would get a much broader audience if he was able to keep his normative judgments out of his reporting.
Witcher 3 was the first of the series I played, and I enjoyed the writing and play-through so much I 100%'d the game and playing it again from beginning. There were lots of people like me who really enjoyed it, so saying it was a disappointment feels a bit weird.
Cell Shock are heading into the finals with an 8-point lead in macro chaining but they face fierce opposition from the Miami Sheet with their blazing 460 shortcut APM. Five competitors have been caught doping but let's hope the others will recover from their repetitive strain injuries from last season.
How does this scheme address the concept of decision fatigue?

I’ve heard that various cryptocurrencies are going to revolutionize the web economy and even replace AWS. Maybe I’m dumb. But it sounds like profound nonsense.

And I mined Bitcoin when you could still do it profitably with a GPU. I bought a new computer in March 2021 for $1,900 and used it to mine over $2,300 in ETH so far. I understand cryptocurrency fairly well but I just don’t get it.
> Maybe published package versions should be immutable.

They are in many languages. Of those I'm familiar with, Raku, Rust, and JavaScript all have immutable package repos. (npm wasn't when left-pad was pulled but has changed since then).

Of course, in each case they're only "immutable" in the sense that some organization (with varying degrees of centralization) has promised to host them forever; people clearly vary in their willingness to believe promises of that nature.
No offense but anyone who spells “colors” as “colours” probably doesn’t have a real “boots on the ground” perspective of America’s divides and wounds.
A word to interviewers:

Watch out for this. It is a real phenomenon. If you "enjoy" thr interview, you are more likely to think the candidate did well. And if you spend a lot of time talking about yourself, you are more likely to think the candidate did well. Don't be fooled. Have a rubric that you can objectively measure the candidate against.
So the condition of residency that triggers taxation is the same that permits becoming a citizen. I see. Makes sense.
made me think of this [1] parody.

1: https://youtu.be/xubbVvKbUfY
Which kind of physical toys?

Speaking for myself: I started programming at age 9, but as a child, I loved to tinker with my father's toolbox [melting lead into copper tubes for improvised firecrackers, making bird traps, manufacturing soap, doing pottery, carving wood, making beautiful, robust, slingshots by bending thicker wires and using thick rubbers, making beautiful darts with X-Ray film and wood, modifying spinning-tops by removing the pin and replacing it with a thicker nail I cut and filed with gradually finer sand-paper to get smooth spinning faster than you'd get if you relied on using it to "break-it" in. I also had "caches" camouflaged in the ground in different locations where I hid items]. For physical activity: I practiced Judo (competitions) for so many years (up to blue belt) [we had military instructors and we made a great use of the obstacle course and beach jogging] and training was many hours pretty much daily or every other day. I played football and was about to sign with a club, but prioritized not to; I also played basketball with friends.

I was lucky in that we lived in a very large compound/closed community that had everything inside and where the thousands of people worked for the same employer, so there was no "risk" of "going out" because you were still "in". That's not something other parents could do elsewhere without fearing their child will be abducted or something.
These are interesting ideas. I like the idea that coin mining's so-called waste of electricity is creating demand for geothermal energy plants that wasn't there previously.

There is an argument to be made that the reason we don't have pervasive green energy is that a) we don't need (demand) enough of power to force investment in renewables, and b) energy prices are too low to drive green tech innovation in the sector. These two points are essentially the same argument, but nobody is building geothermal plants on volcanos in El Salvador to run smelters, so you need real demand to make those plants happen. Cryptocurrencies create demand for cost efficient power generation that just wasn't there before.

Environmentalists should be happy about the increased demand for electricity instead of complaining about its carbon and climate effects, as the only thing that is going to drive the real technological change and the innovation required to reduce carbon is demand for existing resources at higher levels and prices.

Cryptocurrencies are a big part of solving the environmental problems activists identify. People for whom climate is really just a proxy for arbitrary narrative and for progress toward total centralization probably aren't happy about having the problem they're leveraging solved, but making geothermal and renewables viable by connecting their production directly to infinite demand from the velocity of money itself is how we can drive technology changes that shift us to renewables in a single lifetime.

Necessity is the mother of invention, and if I had to bet on people responding to a crisis narrative vs. having clear incentives to innovate on renewables, I would bet huge on the latter.
Asking a doctor who had completed their 12 years of medical school and residency basic biology questions would be a bit absurd.

Asking someone who claims to be a doctor of natural medicine the same might yield you more than half unable to answer.

Since there is no 12 year stringent accreditation process for being a software engineer, I'm not sure why this is a good comparison. There are many people who don't know so many basics of CS who have finished degrees, bootcamps, or have been employed in those roles for years.

Doctors simply aren't able to get accreditation or employment with the same ease as software developers.
Using a graphical debugger compared to using naked gdb.

Using an IDE which knows how to follow references and show types.

Replacing password with keys, and placing those in an authentication agent.

Setting up shell to complete commands from history on a single button press (I'm looking at Debian, which doesn't do that).

Arranging windows across virtual desktops and switching them with keyboard shortcuts is quicker than alt-tabbing.

Keeping progress as a series of commits in git, even when just exploring. When there's a need to take a step back, just restore an earlier commit. They don't even have to work to be useful.

Taking breaks from coding to think about what should be coded and how.
Color me shocked.

Why does anyone use Chrome anymore? Firefox is better in every way, and it isn’t tied to the biggest data harvester the world has ever known.
Can you explain why? To me it's obvious that this guy knows how to code, and he's probably better at it than most of the engineers I've met.
I was being sarcastic with the question responses - the point being, for any question you ask in an interview, there is a significant population of candidates that will think it is a terrible question.
Andvaranaut – The open source dungeon crawler
That's already how this works in some countries. If someone attacks you with a baseball bat or fists and you shoot them dead you might be sentenced for overstepping a reasonable self-defense. The same crime at gun-point and at knife-point carries much harsher punishment. This encourages reasonable (de)escalation instead of just going for 120% from the start. And saves lives.

End result is - even in countries with relatively easy access to guns for hobby - nobody carries them for self-defense (criminals included), because they don't expect to need them, and in case of a self-defense situation they are more likely to cause problems than to solve them.
"Currency" is still mostly not there, but there's things between that and tradable assets. A lot of people do, today, use crypto to e.g. send money back home.
Had a guy with 20 years experience at UPS or One of those come in for an interview.

He had spent the 20 years copying and pasting the same bit of html and changing the text.

No clue what an array or anything was.
> As far as I can tell, this Drive Pilot thing is precisely the existing lane assist product. What's changed is that they've heavily constrained it so that it disengages if you go over 60 kph

Nope - it's a new system powered by LIDAR and cameras and only works on pre-mapped roads, comparable to what Tesla and Waymo are doing (but erring on the side of caution).

The 60kph limitation is temporary because that's what the regulator was comfortable with.

Lane assist is a different tech stack and continues to exist alongside this for regular driving.

https://www.daimler.com/innovation/case/autonomous/drive-pil...
On snowy or wet roads, way better yea.
That's an absolutely terrible idea. Trucks are built with thin metal and probably have objects inside, not to mention could be easily lifted off the ground and thrown. In areas that are susceptible to tornados buildings are usually supposed to be built with at least one or two areas that have no windows and reinforced surroundings to hide when tornado alarms go off.
Previously, ad companies made ads that were watched by people. Now they feel entitled to push ads that are watching people. That's a deal breaker.
I'll reply to this comment in a minute, but before I do, have you played Raid Shadow Legends?
PDP-11 Booting
“Both” is the PROBABLE answer here.
That's why I wrote "funding", not "controlling"
> Crypto is the most anti-authoritarian and anti-nazi technology of 21st century

CVD. cargo cult.

how is crypto stopping Nazis?

and who cares if it's true or not, I was merely addressing your reasoning: volunteering and well behaving are orthogonal.

People can both volunteer and do bad.

> It empowers the individual and makes them less vulnerable to state violenc

it also makes them alone and vulnerable to any other kind of violence, and put them outside of the protection of the state and/or the community.

in your example people have to both pay for the justice system through taxes and for a private jury system handled by who knows who, using expensive crypto currency, when they already have a justice system they pay for.

> like getting their wealth confiscated because of their ethnicity

how exactly?

can you show Me an example where this actually happened, outside of your idealistic virtual universe?

like if nobody has ever been scammed in the crypto space.

> You've proven multiple times that you have no idea what you're talking about.

see?

that's what I am talking about: you confuse what you blindly believe with reality.

The world, unfortunately for you, is not what you imagine it to be though...
No, ads are a problem. when a sprint ad walks across your browser and starts talking while in front of content, that was it for me.
1) Why do people buy "pro" apps to remove ads but would not do that for content on the web?
Also the micro fraud argument is kinda funny since everyone knows the ad business is full or fraud and everyone somehow involved with ads pays a huge junk for this.
I think micropayment is far move fraud resistant because all the bots pretending to be humans and clicking ads do not work anymore.

2) That true. but it doesn't have to be a blockchain in fact there is already proposed protocols to do micropayment on global scale its called Interledger Protocol (ILP). Its a protocol like TCP/IP it scales the same way.
And as the name suggest it can be used with multiple ledgers including blockchains but it doesn't have to be one.
You're comparing apples to oranges.

I could also play MMORPGs and Dota 2 for 10 hours straight without any break, I can barely sit one hour solving LC/learning something.
And before you account this to age, even now I could spend whole day playing some addictive game like a robot.
Well, yes you'd need a compiler step, usually done with rollup or webpack. If you are aiming for a "no build step" setup you probably have to skip all the jsx libraries too. Vue should still be a good choice, I haven't used vue 3 yet, but at least in vue 2 you could use it right in the browser. Otherwise mithril is cool.

Edit: about solid, the normal "mode" precompiles jsx, but i believe you can use it even without it a la hyperscript
I use scala, python, etc. often -- they have terse repl output.

EDIT: https://imgur.com/a/Qs1ukGM

100%, 67% zoom, python comparison (similar examples)
There's a reason good line level managers get called shit umbrellas for the team.
> As a tech lead / senior developer, you're very much part of the operational level, and your decisions are mostly tactical and working from an existing strategical framework which you don't control.

A (really) good dev will recognise where strategic framework falls short or is non-existent and will be able to find a way to fix it. He will know that he needs to build trust and budget it to get the really important stuff done. For a good tech lead this is significant part of engagement as there is typically no other very technical person that would be better positioned to do it.

As a tech lead, for example, I am in a constant battle against complexity. Managers want to only add functionality, developers want to only add technology, and I try make people aware of how this ends if it is not supplemented with hefty effort to manage complexity. And this ideally ends in significant contribution to strategy if I can succeed or, if I can't, with inevitable problems later.

> At this level, the people you're going to work with don't care how the pie is being made.

They might not, but that does not mean that how the pie is made isn't influencing the outcome.

A manager that has significant experience with development knows how the pie is made and can be very valuable if he is able to use that knowledge for better outcomes. There is of course risk that the knowledge is misused (like people using certain solutions just because they are familiar with them and not because they are right for the particular situation).
But if you are not using any of the jni special Uris in strings, is there any real danger here?
That’s actually a really damn good point! I didn’t expect to see much from the video that wasn’t in the title, but I was struck by how complete the damage was in the tornado path; both sides of the building still there, and the middle so completely flattened, save the trucks.
South African doctors see signs omicron is milder than delta
A conceptually related finding that computer vsion models can effectively classify patient race from significantly noised x-ray images

https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.10356

> However, our findings that AI can trivially predict self-reported race -- even from corrupted, cropped, and noised medical images -- in a setting where clinical experts cannot, creates an enormous risk for all model deployments in medical imaging: if an AI model secretly used its knowledge of self-reported race to misclassify all Black patients, radiologists would not be able to tell using the same data the model has access to.

Potentially the method in OP's paper could be used as an adversarial critic or similar counterbalancing effort to eliminate "secret knowledge" when it's not desirable.
I wouldn’t mind simple banner ads without tracking. The digital equivalent of magazine ads.
very very few developers do the kind of work that can be compared to a talented artist.
Yeah. Go ahead and double down. If you don't see the difference you're just the sort of person who I wish would just get out of tech.
Yes there definitely was an interior bathroom designed as tornado shelter in this building. While it may or may not have stayed intact, it was your best chance at survival.
I didn't say that. In fact, no one seems to have, according to Google
> Coderpad must work for some people since companies are able to hire a nonzero number of engineers, but it is definitely not a good fit for me.

Seems everywhere I've applied recently has been using Coderpad.

Lately I've been accepting interview requests for principle roles from on-site recruiters, and I've been consistently rejected after these Coderpad tech screens. What's bugging me, however, is the "challenges" have all been softball questions. Reverse a string. Demonstrate an understanding of closures. Write a function that tests if two strings are anagrams. Write some basic React. Create an interactive form. I breeze through well enough, then it's either an immediate rejection or else they ghost me. Not once do I get farther than that. I'm not even mad, just confused as hell.

This is coming from the perspective of someone who was getting used to offers from the first job they applied to. If there's something off-putting about me lately, I wish I knew.
I'll take it a step further and suggest that the original idea is super bleh, but "music actually on the card" is genuinely interesting. Possession of the thing is deeply and fundamentally different from "glorified QR code."
I’m pretty sure their comment was based on the almost flawless looking trucks in the rubble…
The opposite of globalist is not isolationist. If I could coin a word, I would choose “localist”.