skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tesla is going the fastest route possible to complete autonomy.
What we are seeing now is the beta program to get there as fast as possible.
No one is forced into buying it.

I am really happy that they have the gusto to push things forward, if it weren't for them we wouldn’t have an EV race, a autonomy race, a rocket race.
I'll rather use a really small, static (as in never changing) package then something bloated that get updates every day and breaking changes from time to time.
left-pad was not the problem. The problem was that NPM changed ownership of already existing package-names - which caused the left-pad owner to remove his packages in protest.
Three Myths About Renewable Energy and the Grid, Debunked
It's almost a pity you stopped. Pathologically optimizing play in a game about pathological optimization would be so meta it hurt.

I suppose the next level up would be recruiting a thousand undergrads to optimize strategies for encouraging optimization of the optimizer, but then we've just reinvented psychological research with slightly more rigor.
But this is also common in algorithmic interviews, correct? Like if I have a sheet that says bubble sort is the answer, and you provide merge sort then you are marked wrong.

The interesting thing about mcq is that their administration is completely standardised so it's more objective in pretty much every sense.

Maybe you prefer algorithmic interviews, that's fine. But I really don't understand how you can believe that they are less subjective than algorithmic interviews.

They avoid the bias of using different interviewers which is massive, even if the questions are standard.
I don't think "bogus self-employment" applies here. If you're a company that contracts people instead of hire them as employees you might have troubles, but not the other way around.
My comments are not ambiguously worded. They are made concise so my point can't be missed, yet it still is because readers are mistaking conciseness for lack of understanding.

The end of the game is something a human player reaches and is satisfied with their work. A paperclip producing AI would not choose a path that results in no more paperclips being made.
If your doorbell is electric and plays a recording of chimes, it can be very straightforward to implement this yourself. Just off the top of my head I use FFTs (fast Fourier transform) of a known recording of the door bell limited to certain frequencies, normalized etc and compare it to the audio stream. This can be done in real time without any hardware acceleration. You can also go a bit further and implement something similar to the shazam algo.

If it's an "analog" door or a buzzer it will be trickier.
Lol it has just started, like Bitcoin itself.
Could change “Bitcoin” for “COVID measures” and “El Salvador” for any other country and it would work just as well.
In his opening paragraph, he calls a sitting president a con artist. The first "source" he cites is his own article, written only a few days after the law passed, already calling it a failure. I don't care which "side" you're on, it's a stretch to call this news.

The real shame is that if the article were less biased, it would never have made it this high on the front page.
At least it has a proper ending that lets you go. Unlike some other idle clickers.
Why is a fucking gun on the front page? Moderators also gave up on the site I guess.
What would the problem be to use Transferwise?
But here in Europe, we also have consumer protection departments that have teeth. As a company, you’d rather not get onto their radar too much.
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> because they don't like having to slow down

An inability to read an argument without imputing your biases onto the person making it makes what you say a bit useless.
How can institutions that have obligations for performance but limitations in what they can buy get exposure to Butcoin?

For normal people this bond doesn't make sense (except for the residence that they get), but regulated institutions may want a piece of it. We'll see.
Depends on how the AI was programmed.

If it got the goal to make as many paperclips in this universe, the game can end in-universe as well.
Perhaps it is simply a question of balance, or of longing: there is SO much fiction available to us (and so much of it is the same, or at least so similar), those who want the traditional benefits, if you will, of fiction - escapism, experiencing the perspective of another, etc. - are more likely to find it in non-fiction narrative than in fiction.

And not because these things are no longer found in fiction but that so much fiction is formulaic and familiar that the odds aren’t there.

Curating a set of non-fiction narrative to find the gems is simply likely to take less effort and to yield more results.

Consider too that writers of narrative may well have an advantage in finding an authentic voice, since their narrative is theirs, reflecting their unique experience, where fiction (typically) tries to find common ground.
"Geometric Algebra is just a Clifford algebra over an Euclidean space, what's the problem?"
Ask HN: What feature(s) should I add to fabform.io for static website forms
I have created https://fabform.io to save static website html form submissions to google sheets.
I would like to expand it to submit forms to other platforms. I am creating fabform.io publicly and i'm looking to brainstorm so I can see what I am not seeing. Thanks for any input good or bad.
Usage-based pricing is a company-wide effort
"Mary Kay for men."
I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic or not, but I think those are some pretty excellent interview questions.

The first one, it's exactly about the thing I find a lot of developers lack in: a fundamental understanding about computers and processing. I've had 'experienced' developers write algorithms where every intermediate value was written to a cache/disk only to pull it out on the next line. I feel asking some more fundamental questions can help weed ppl out.

Same with being able to look at a stack trace and see where it went wrong, how quickly are you able to hone in on a specific target. Crucial skill imo, and I've had sooooo many people at my desk -- 'it's not working' -- that did not even read the f'ing error message.
PSA: uBlock/AdBlocks on Chrome to lose function thanks to Manifestv3
Why put a all red banner with this warning on the display, you don't even need JS to read the TEXT in a blog. "This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please turn on JavaScript or unblock scripts" Make it scroll out at least.
> What is the benefit of storing the heat of wood pellet or gas? Can't you just use those on demand?

Burners scale badly to lower power. Also, automatic pellet feeders are prone to breaking down, which you absolutely do not want to happen when it's -15C on the outside.

Thus a thermal buffer is needed.

> Also hot firebricks was my proposed solution. Water has comparatively low energy density

Water actually has about four times more energy density than bricks.

> I understand that there isn't a ton of sun in winter months but maybe you could over provision your PV

Prohibitevily expensive in both money and area needed

> store summer or fall solar energy

Impossible. Where and how would you store enough?
> The first "source" he cites is his own article, written only a few days after the law passed, already calling it a failure.

And then proceeds to cite over 10 outside sources. Why don't you just point out why you think the piece is wrong?
> whether or not you communicate well

So whether you would be good at the job being hired for, then.

The whole point of the post is that the phone screen isn't just screening for deal killers. If it was you wouldn't flunk people for not nailing the optimal Big O runtime for your custom algorithm.
Nice work you have here, I will go ahead and ask for the curious ones what is your background and what would your top recommended books, videos, and additional educational resources that you used to learn C and game development in C?

Also, have you thought about making your own indie game studio to do this full time or on the side if you are not already doing so?
I’m learning BQN while solving AoC puzzles.

While this is my first array language and I cannot compare with others I like BQN very much:

- excellent documentation

- small but excellent community

- context free grammar

- good text editor support (I’m using neovim)

- FUN!
Apprenticeship Online – A Digital Native Education
Eh. I live in Florida, don't own a coat yet. I don't understand what "-60°F" means.
oh, and by the way…

Young Anders Hejlsberg at age 28 in an interview...

https://community.embarcadero.com/files/2008/11/tp01_868.jpg

https://community.embarcadero.com/files/2008/11/tp02_871.jpg

https://community.embarcadero.com/files/2008/11/tp03_874.jpg

https://community.embarcadero.com/files/2008/11/tp04_877.jpg
Why is it called a shotgun? It shoots little discs, not shot.
You are a kitten in a catnip forest.

https://kittensgame.com/web/

With great replayability ;)
Sometimes I just have a feeling Linus is playing dumb. I know he knows better but for example when you get a timed task to compress some files into a ZIP you sure are not foolish enough to make it harder for yourself and select files gigabytes in size if this is not a requirement of the task. And then he even wonders why compression is taking so long.
I'm sorry, but to me, Bitcoin sounds like a globalist wet dream.

Besides, I find if wired when people use globalist like some sort of insult. As if wanting the whole world to be better and more connected is a bad thing.
Going back to the land of the free!

USA the country with the most jailed in the world, even China with 4x more population

It is baffling how they keep lecturing the world
it doesn't mean 9% adoption though. I bet a large part of these 9% are still using $, maybe even exclusively.
Driverless cars will change our world
Thanks. I'm fairly familiar with that approach. More looking for one of those wix.com type services, where a non technical person can manage loading blog posts or changing the content.
Thanks for sharing. I would love to see an in depth description of a setup like this.

One big question, can you cast audio to this system from a phone and then redirect it to different outputs? Or just cast directly to outputs?
This is what jumped into my mind:

I think that I shall never see

A billboard lovely as a tree

Indeed, unless the billboards fall

I'll never see a tree at all.

Ogden Nash
Fauci should possibly be sent to jail, for lying to Congress, and public money funding the alteration of virus in Wuhan lab should be investigated
It's well documented: https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf
Looks very interesting, thanks for sharing!
Researchers identify characteristics of memory-sensitive neurons
People want instant gratification and people also don’t like being bad at something for long
What does it mean for Bitcoin to fail? Failed to do what and why? Sure, if you do a BTC <> USD, then BTC is volatile, but if BTC is on its own, then is it?
It might also be true that fake enthusiasm also suffers the consequences. People who don’t like fake may unfollow and not want to associate with them in the future. But yeah, confrontation is a more risky than fake.
Two years into the pandemic as the black death sweeps the nation for the fourth time scientists say it is too early to draw conclusions and they need time to collect data. Experts insist mass vaccination programs are the key to ending the pandemic. In other news, a new variant has emerged in the mediterranean that is spreading like wildfire in the fully vaccinated.
> It's the same with crypto, OnlyFans, and so on. It was the same in '99 with the dot coms.

Please don’t lump content creators in with crypto and dot bombs. The folks creating content on streaming platforms are providing entertainment and putting in real time doing a job. Equating them to what were/are more or less Ponzi schemes isn’t fair to them at all.
He's pretty open about it that he's opinionated and he mentions it:

> (I must note that Alexander and I know each other a bit, and don’t have a high opinion of each other — so read this post with a dash of salt. I won’t use his surname here, ‘cos this post isn’t really about him. Though Alexander is a slight crypto fan.) [LessWrong]

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2020/07/03/coindesks-ne...
This is my experience hiring developers. If I hire without a code screen, it's a 50-50% chance the developer cannot close a ticket in their first month. With a code screen, I've had one developer not work out (personal problems). And I'm talking about "ensure that no trailing spaces are being inserted to the database in this csv import function" kind of tickets.

>usually being close to runnable with a few small bugs was a good submission and runnable with no bugs was a great submission

This is exactly what we do: check the solution, and if it's close we continue the hiring process. There is a huge difference between an almost working solution and what you get 70% of the time: code that will never, ever, ever work, even if it could run.
> Especially considering the state of El Salvador's fiat.

What does this mean? They have dollarized, they don't have a currency.
Golang Implementation of Optimal Reciprocal Collision Avoidance (Orca)
Even nature is fighting back!

I really don’t like where the drone delivery concept is going. What’s wrong with a truck? I guess if you live somewhere super remote getting something delivered by drone makes sense but man… it’s like when I’m hiking and there are drones flying around. Can’t get away from it. Pretty soon I’ll be outside just trying to relax but instead I’ll have drones flying around, disturbing me and animals and for what?

It sucks we have no market mechanic for negative externalities like the ones that drones create.
I thought the same. For anyone seeking more info on those career tracks, https://staffeng.com/ is a great resource.
I think it's clear the threat here is aliens
Unions work by helping employees get leverage so they can actually negotiate working conditions with the company. Any individual developer is easily replaced, but the whole workforce is not.

The current state of employee "choice" between companies all colluding to offer the same conditions is no choice at all.
Question 1: Can you recommend any healthcare economics primers, surveys, whatever for us curious noobs?

Question 2: If you were in charge, what would the future perfect healthcare system look like? Are there any systems today which resemble that system?

--

Despite my efforts to learn, and experience in the industry, I'm at a complete loss. At best, I can spot some zombie silver bullet ideas. (eg "Tort reform FTW.")

And I keep having "aha!" moments. TIL from this discussion is the connection between shortage of doctors and rise in administrative overhead. D'uh. I don't know why I hadn't thought of that. I'd long assumed a major, perhaps biggest, driver was guarantors ratcheting up administrative burden to reduce payouts.

There's too many layers to this onion.
The release date is not when work on the game starts, it's when work on the game ends.
> The official Chivo payment system was unreliable at launch in September—the kiss of death for a new system. Users joined for the $30 signup bonus, spent it or cashed it out, then didn’t use Chivo again. The system completely failed to check new users’ photos, relying solely on their national identity card number and date of birth; massive identity fraud to steal signup bonuses ensued.

Is this Bitcoin's fault?
But the author is specifically complaining about the technical phone screens using vastly inferior tools and processes than what you work with day-to-day. Being asked to write code on demand in a notepad with no way to test or compile is not a personal review, it is a monkey show.
KDE Plasma wonder tools: Digital Clock
Just realized that there's almost no mention in the comments so far about the similarity to hypnosis: access to previously inaccessible memories, hallucinations, high suggestibility...

Not sure how much I believe about hypnosis, but maybe it's related. Could it be just helping people get into this N1 state while awake?
I expect LinkedIn is seen as great by marketers because it's effectively a marketing platform.

There are, however, lots of people in lots of jobs who find the whole show distasteful and inauthentic. Like it's a brown-nosers convention where two-faced suckholes get to be performative. And that includes some marketing types too.

No amount of changing who you follow is going to change that fundamental quality for some.
If there is evidence that a vulnerability is actively being used by an adversary, sure, it’s more responsible to disclose sooner, but in general you want to take into account the fact that the vast majority of engineering organizations aren’t set up to patch and/or update on a dime, which means that if you disclose immediately you now have a window of time in which anybody with a pulse and an internet connection can exploit the vuln, which is why a 90 day disclosure period is usually practiced.
> Thus all sources of power will be unavailable sometime or other.

That's a slightly disingenuous way of countering the concern that solar panels don't work at night. Fortunately, the article goes on to make its case more persuasively than that, but it would be great to know what it would cost a state or country to build the necessary storage for it to be able to rely on renewables only.
I'm in northeastern Ontario (usually see roughly -35 degC to 35 degC in a year).

I've been super impressed by the battery in my car. 7 years old and left to die from lack of use (second car plus pandemic). I've boosted it back to life probably half a dozen times now, and it keeps going.

We've all got bets going about when it leaves me stranded. There's no way it's very healthy, and there's no way my alternator hasn't been close to catching fire at some point.

But if I replace them now I'm going to be in the same position before long. Hardly seems like the time.
>Just looking at this guy's repo and his writing style -- you'd be foolish to waste his time or yours on leetcode-style hazing

Perhaps it's just me, but I took a look and I'm not convinced. Nothing jumps out to me as overwhelming proof of programming ability.
It's entirely believable that many programmers couldn't write fizzbuzz without searching Google in the days before it was universally memorised. The modulo operator is somewhat rare in real code and is defined slightly differently in different languages.
There’s plenty of fiat criticism outside of crypto, maybe you are in a bubble of neoliberalism
> the intent of 2A was to enable citizens to force a regime change

No it was not and this is a common myth that is repeated by the 2A crowd. The primary intent of the 2A was to allow the individual states to field militias (the only land army available to the new nation who was still in conflict with its former rulers) without going broke. It was more about a fear of a standing army balanced against a fear of British invasion than it was a means for citizens to rebel against their own government.
How can they all collude, when entry into the industry is so easy? It's hard to keep big conspiracies alive. You can literally form a new game company in your bed room right now, and any people do.

Someone could break rank, hire programmers for a dollar more or an hour less crunch time, and still make a killing, wouldn't they?
More other way around
Because Californians, being more liberal than average, are more likely to buy into the climate change narrative. Confirmation bias does the rest.
AI is discovering patterns in pure mathematics that have never been seen before
At this point the equities market is also gambling based on what the fed decides to do next.
Github Copilot has been very helpful for me.
NFTs are a great test to see how ridiculously stupid of an idea can become popular and suck up money through sheer volume of disingenuous promotion.

Network effects just weren’t factored into the resilience of our social/financial/political structures and things like this are stress testing and breaking things.
I can only speak for Germany and from my experience. Their argument was that you only have „one“ customer and therefor should be employed by, in this case, Paddle.

Edit: Should mention it was for a kind of SaaS, the case may be different if you sell physical products online.
One is taken for granted, but I think it is a valid point. I share your opinion (bad to depend on platforms), but that never might have triggered the comment.

For some people never means usually not, and for some never means never :)
> Handling money wisely is a skill you need to learn and master.

At that scale of wealth you don't just have to not handle money wisely, you have to be downright foolish to make it all disappear.
Sure read like a hit piece to me. The bigger issue seems to be the IMF loan sharks.
Because it’s at least partially, if not mostly, a publicity play and “bitcoin” is the word most regular people know when it comes to crypto stuff.
The title led me to think it might be a single file, but still this is good stuff.

You could probably make it a single file if you used the wonderfully obscure XPM image format for your sprites and assets. It is both a C source fragment and an image format in one! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_PixMap
Excel World Championship Finals
I'm so glad cryptocurrency finally has a real world use case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_Dog

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayib_Bukele

I applaud Pres Bukele's ingenuity. Lacking the resources for any military adventures, or illicit cash (narco, petro) to fund terrorism, or a readily available ethnic minority to persecute (pogroms), Bukele cleverly seized and weaponized some fancy jargon.

Huh. I wonder if Bukele's next gig will be on Sand Hill Road. He's gotta do something with his pilfered wealth. There are worse options.
Ruby has truly ruined me for stuff like this. Most basic functionality and some non-trivial functionality is covered in the standard library. And if for some reason Ruby doesn’t have enough Rail’s ActiveSupport probably has you covered.

But Ruby is quite famously a batteries included language and its libraries follow in that philosophy. Solve the entire problem, not tiny pieces of it.
I hadn't done many interviews before starting at my current job, where they seem to make a point of getting a lot more people involved in the interview process. I guess this is an idealistic view, but it should be pretty clear if you're a hiring manager whether the people you're getting involved in the interview process are likely to be jerks to a candidate.

What you describe is embarrassing, and does reflect poorly on your company. Review sites like Glassdoor do or did have interview reviews as part of their company review, and people do go look at those when deciding whether to apply at a company.

I hope you shared your feedback with your coworker, and also the hiring manager. That coworker is probably not ready to do interviews and needs some training (or maturing) first. In the future, you might interrupt the coworker and then try to help the candidate along; maybe they won't pass the interview, but you don't have to let them leave feeling like a failure, and along the way you might get some information about where they could fit in your organization. And the entire interview won't have felt like such a waste.
Sure, and it's fine. The optionality of getting rid of the USD which totally failed and destroyed latin american countries is in itself a great thing. IMF was an asshole with El Salvador during the pandemic, and it was not the first time.