skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does answer the questions by reformulating them in exactly the way you did, which immediately highlights the GPs confusion: They somehow missed the subjective and relative aspects of the concept as it is used. There is no objective and absolute measure of want-satisfying-ness (or whatever).

> It's probably more like arguing that leprechauns don't exist.

> In any case, I'm not saying utility can't exist. I'm saying some universal utility can't exist, or if you wish: sorry, guys, you can't determine my utility function for me. I'll do it myself, thank you very much.

This is what I'm responding to.
they drop me too, but those companies are not worth working at to begin with

they’re not interested in hiring employees, their interest is to get candidates through the loop and to see you fail

this is fine when you’re applying to FAANG, but a terminal sickness when the company is barely known

rather than spending weeks on interviewing, i’d suggest making a open-source contribution or reading a book

the companies, especially startups have a bigger problem than you - they need to show the growth so they can attract more investors. Therefor, if they’re not getting people, they have harder time growing. If they see you as a potential candidate, but you refuse, they’ll bend their back over backwards
Cyberpunk 2077 is definitely a dramatically bigger game than Hades, but it also had 400+ people working on it for twice as long as the couple dozen Supergiant employees worked on Hades
> One participant said "At one point, I saw a horse in the hospital.

And that study participant's name? John Mulaney.
What was that interview for? That seems like an odd interview... What software were you compiling, ffmpeg?
This. All of business and government runs on fax machines and Excel here.
Your code on github is pretty slick. I love the documentation.

Leetcode is an exam that you can study for. For me, it's pretty damned hard and I dislike it.

I can think of three reasons why someone might be good at those kinds of problems:

• You just have a knack for it.

• You are very intelligent.

• You practiced a lot.

Which one of those can you do something about?

Every time I force myself to grok a new leetcode trick, I've truly learned something. Something irrelevant in my ten years of programming, but allegedly an indicator of someone who might be good at what we do.
Unpopular opinion incoming:

The solution is consumers paying way higher prices for games. The reason games are rushed is because labor is a huge cost, and it isn't cost effective to continually bleed money waiting for revenue.

Easier to just release unfinished.
>How do you reduce the status of millions of machines, the software they run, and the interconnected-ness of those systems to a single graphical indicator?

A good low-hanging fruit would be, when the outage is significant enough to have reached the media, you turn the dot red.

Dishonesty is what we're talking about here. Not the gradient when you change colors. This is hardly the first major outage where the AWS status board was a bald-faced lie. This deserves calling out and shaming the responsible parties, nothing less, certainly not defense of blatantly deceptive practices that most companies not named Amazon don't dip into.
Everyone, every writer anyway, knows that Sanderson is a freak of nature. Much to be admired, but not a standard by which to measure yourself.
Antennaes can be reused, but radio units and baseband units cannot, and those are by far more expensive. For example, a C-band array of radio units and baseband unit can cost upwards of $80k, while the antennae are a few thousand at most.
Seriously. I feel like complaining about hiring for programmers is the #1 topic discussed on HN.

I actually feel like algorithm questions are somewhat of an improvement in the programmer hiring process over the alternatives. When interviewing at places that don't have them, the surface area of questions you can be asked is so much bigger.

Like one of the anecdotes in this thread about getting drilled on a testing framework (that the candidate probably added to their resume because they have to have all these keywords to make it through their automated resume scanner and maybe they only played with it for a couple hours one afternoon because they don't use it in their day job.)

With algorithmic questions:
- You're doing one type of preparation for a large amount of potential roles
- There's tons and tons and tons of great material out there to help you prepare
- Probably most controversial but I really believe it: It really does make you a stronger programmer.

For me, doing those kind of questions forced me to learn data structures more thoroughly and dramatically improved my understanding of how to write algorithms and think about performance. This stuff really does matter in terms of code quality and it really bothers me that it's always portrayed as these completely silly puzzles.

The other thing that I see pushed a lot in these discussions is this idea that every company (or most companies) that hires programmers does these exercises. That's just not true. If you're getting coderpad links for every phone screen, you're going after a certain type of company.
What I'm curious about is, if you can only be max productive at X for maybe 25-35 hours a week, can you also be max productive at Y and Z for 25 hours each in the same week, and how different do Y and Z have to be from X and from each other for cognitive fatigue not to carry over from one to the others?

Cos if you can be max productive at 3 challenging but sufficiently different cognitive/creative tasks for 15-25 hours per week each, that sounds like a super fun, productive, efficient, sustainable, healthy, and balanced life
Army, here. We're no better. And of course a few years back the whole system for issuing CACs was off for DAYS.
They didn’t detail any espionage activity other than stealing files, even though their study included stuxnet which we know altered centrifuge control parameters.

I wanted to know what types of facilities and platforms are being targeted.
In retrospect no, The Witcher 3 would have been a success even if it were delayed by a year. But consider that CD Projekt almost went bankrupt over the development of Witcher 2 due to costs and delays and that video games are an incredibly risky business. There's a saying that businesses don't fail because they're unprofitable, they fail due to cash flow issues. Development costs only go up, so the longer a game takes the more expensive every single day of development ends up costing. Even if the game would ultimately prove to be successful, the huge risk that comes from having to fund its continued development for an extended period of time can put a company in jeopardy.

That The Witcher 3 ended up being a massive success is great but it was never a guarantee.
I doubt any recent additions to C++ would make it any easier. So, I am ready to give up on it.
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Nice! I saw a version of this that used RFID, but this looks like it could be a lot simpler to work with. If I can connect it to my Plex library I'll be in business.
Some other ffmpeg knock-off. System admin work.
I've been that person :(

I still cringe when I think back on some of the early interviews I did.
What are they interviewing for, low level disk experts?

While I agree that "disk" stuff is "low level" compared to a web developer, it's definitely a very relevant question. You might ask it and if the candidate is interviewing for a web developer position rephrase it after getting a blank stare: Why is it bad retrieving 50 users from a REST endpoint like `/api/users/{id}`, one at a time?

Oh sure, print-based debugging is awful, you just have to read stack traces from unfamiliar projects in the blink of an eye.

That's actually pretty relevant. If you want to be nice, make it something that uses the same stack as you're hiring for but even if not, it can tell you something about the candidate. Some candidates might react like you did in this reply. Not hired. Some candidates might go "oh well, that looks like python, which I'm not familiar with but let's see, ..." and then they try to figure something out from the function call naming and error messages shown. In any large enough company you will definitely be looking at unfamiliar stack traces, potentially from a service you are unfamiliar with and potentially a different stack than you're used to. Happens all the time at my place for example. I can't just throw up my arms and ignore it. Gotta dig in and use generic problem solving skills.

Ah yes, the reductive "everything is a CRUD app" - this interviewer doesn't understand that most applications don't fall under the simplistic "CRUD" moniker!!!!

Or maybe it's a simple test of "OK, so all of the other questions the candidate sort of failed on. Can he at least do 'stackoverflow copy and paste programming'?" Whether it's a CRUD endpoint or something else entirely doesn't matter. The point is: can this candidate work w/ something potentially unfamiliar and still get something done? Happens all the time in any large enough code base. Happened to me just this week where I had to implement something I needed in a old python service we have. I don't like python and I don't know any of the python frameworks used there. I copy and pasted, adjusted and google some basic python syntax and got it done in like half an hour. That's what they're testing for there. Sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
Hold your head high. Being good at algorithms is a life hack to get a tech job. You did it the hard way.

Companies are full of people who do well at a whiteboard. You're the rare variety that companies NEED MORE of (even though they don't know it).
They ought to rename themselves to biomedical hacking. Biohacking in contemporary usage usually refers to homebrew laboratory-grade biotechnology (those involving PCRs, gene modification, a ton of biochemistry). The dangerous things forum is primarily about implants which falls under biomedical and neural engineering, not biohacking.

On a side note, I strongly do not recommend trying out any of the biomedical implants without a good reason. You can approximate magnet implants to a reasonable extent with a bit of superglue and RFID chips can be placed in rings and jewellery. Risk of infection aside, accidental nerve damage is very difficult to fix with our current level of understanding.
I don't think it's a licensing issue, so much as there really isn't anything more you can do with desktop OS frontend's that hasn't already been done. "The future" in those movies from the 80s and 90s involved AI OSs, touchless UIs, interactive holograms, VR, and neurochips/neurolinks as mediums for interacting with the digital world.

So far, we're still at the "fumbling about" stage of VR frontends since VR as we know it today became commercially available to the general public. I doubt we'll to get see the UI for those other technologies mature - if they're done at all - during your lifetime or mine.
It has been done previously[1] so it is definitely doable.
Especially when there's some nice room for improvement, as the linked cpu runs at 500kHz.

There's also an additional project[2], but it seems stalled with no progress during the past few years.

1. https://github.com/pineapple-one/about

2. https://hackaday.com/2018/02/09/a-risc-v-that-the-rest-of-us...
If I understand correctly most of the query params or POST body JSON gets mapped to a hashmap via Jackson and then POJOs gets created which can actually be an attack vector in terms of collison.

[0]https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/attach...

[1]https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/180

[2]https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8669946/application-vuln...
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I bought a house 9 months ago, Zillow's estimate on it is already 11% up.
Regardless, you probably won’t need human level, general purpose AI to drive a car.

Right (most likely), but my point was -- we're not going to get there by extrapolating linearly from human-beating technologies such as AlphaZero (impressive though they are). Or by stitching a few of these on top of each other.

When people talk about the AI in their video game, they’re not demanding that bots be as smart as humans.

Of course the ML/AI distinction is completely muddled in public discourse, and the marketing fluff of many startups hasn't helped either. But the point from the very beginning was: from practitioners (and journals like Nature) we should expect better.
I would hope that all cultures average over 100 pounds (45 kg) as adults.
Then address it and be willing to evaluate and discuss how you come across in your post.
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The FR2 hardware requires phased array antennaes for beamforming capability. While it technically could be used without beamforming, it would be extremely inefficient and have even less range than their already limited range. And those MIMO phased array antennaes are crazy expensive...it's still a technology with several active patent encumbrances.
FM can be used for some incredible atmospheric pads too, like the one at this timestamp: https://youtu.be/8SDlp5jlUqc?t=416
I think you are missing what the comments point was.

Cyberpunk could have been delayed again, but it still would have been bad. The Witcher 3 could have had less crunch and released a year later and been as much of a success, but the studio would lose way more money.

Labor is extremely expensive and a year more of labor isn't worth it, so they rush. It just worked that time.
The UK is a typical example of something that isn’t a nation-state - it explicitly has ‘the nations’ within it.

The US also formally recognises multiple nations within it such as the Navajo Nation.

But for example a country like Japan doesn’t formally recognise nations within it (as far as I know?) and is a typical example of a nation-state.
Ah this is true, hadn't considered this.

It seems like there's a lot of this all the time though?

Everywhere I've lived, my only choice of ISP was Comcast. Whatever Comcast told me I needed to pay for internet, that's what I was going to pay lol.

For mobile phone providers, in the US your options are generally AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile, which I'm sure collude on prices and fix them. Same with Cloud services providers, etc
I get it through a tiny spoon (1/8-1/4 gram every few days or once per week) of potassium bicarbonate, which also acts as an antacid after meals. I have also tried potassium citrate. Dietarily, men should be getting 3-4 g per day, which is probably more than most receive.

I work as a medical technologist and have published peer-reviewed research on potassium sensing in the renal system.
I agree, it was really dope. I still like Witcher 3 better but I don’t get the hate.
Not really sure that should be a metric, given that Tesla Autopilot (which shipped, what, a decade ago?) still likes to ram into the back of parked emergency vehicles (a problem they have "acknowledged") and randomly brake heavily (a problem they haven't, but just hit up youtube and you can find dozens of examples of it doing it to varying degrees of severity.)
In the 1920s, airplanes and cars already exist but were not widely used. The other civilization-changing inventions in the last 100 years were probably microprocessor and the internet in the 60s and 70s.

Maybe some fringe tech today will be widely used in 2120. It's also possible some tech that hasn't been invented will overtake the world in just a few short years.

Of course there were also two world wars in the last 100 years so who knows what will happen.
What a generic and useless comment, considering the parent asked how the housing is only up 3.8% in that basket of goods.

Look at their data under "Rent of primary residence". They claim it's only 3% Nov 2020 to Nov 2021.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cpi.pdf

That's an obvious lie.
>There likely isn't.

That's a pretty large statement about the inner life of bugs.

How many legs have you got?
>Oxycontin is sold commercially in the us and almost definitely not adulterated with fentanyl.

I assume you are correct, if it's not counterfeit.

From a DEA fact sheet, attributed to the CDC:

"Synthetic opioids, such as illicit fentanyl, remain the primary driver of the increase in overdose deaths, accounting for 80 percent of all deaths involving an opioid"
Same. I also see images while dreaming though. And after drinking alcohol, after lying down to sleep, but in an earlier state than about-to-fall-asleep, I see weird star patterns.

My pre-sleep alcohol induced imagination is like a colored star which keeps changing in different ways. It follows a rhythm, maybe similar to my heartbeat. Maybe the color will change, maybe the center of the star will grow in size, maybe the star will get more spikes. It often fills my mind's eye quickly. It usually lasts just a few seconds right as I lay down. Sometimes at the end it develops into more like images than star patterns, but it feels similar.
It's a regression that has happened several times, and it'll happen several times more before we've got that pre-to-post scarcity transition to contend with. It's what happens to systems that don't regulate their parts well--they get cancer and die, and in the case of societies, their people move on and try again.

When I said that I'd prefer to live in a world with decentralized power structures, I should've said that I'd prefer it to a centralized one that's on the decline. I think we need to iterate faster on our societal structures until we find one that works for everybody, and bail earlier on things that clearly don't work. Probably, when we find it, the ideal system will involve some central authority--though held better accountable.

100 years ago, getting creative with how we structure society meant starvation and bloodshed. I see crypto as an opportunity to build a stop gap. It need not be better than whatever we build that follows it, it just needs to hold us over until we can figure out what that's going to be.
Yes, true. I don’t think I had AFib now that you mention it. I had a fluttering very similar to what you described. I never received a diagnosis, but I thought I’d share my home remedy on this thread, even if it wasn’t exactly on point. Thanks for your great comment. Perhaps try, or talk to a doctor about trying, some extra potassium in your diet. I wonder if potassium supplementation beginning 30 years ago might have diminished the severity of your current AFib.
Hasn't it always been this way in music, art, writing, and media? Making a living doing any kind of art or media has always been brutal. How many rock bands made a decent living, let alone serious money?
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Artists don’t get paid until their work is complete, do you think programmers would accept that model?
On the ethereum chain you get slashed (on both your chains) for signing two messages.
I have sympathy because I program in a similar way as the author. Not so much with tests but with some kind of fast feedback loop where I do lots of guess-and-check. I don't know how I'd do in this kind of interview.

However...

> If I get behind or the interviewer starts interrupting to ask about the bad code I'm writing I get very stressed and have trouble both listening to the interviewer and trying to address the issues with the code.

My sense is that 90%+ of these interviews is maintaining your composure, asking questions and generally coming off as well-adjusted and personable even if you don't know the answer or get stuck.

> Certainly there are a lot of confident, mediocre tall white men in the tech industry

That's some chip on his shoulder.
This is why I think it's a joke to be building metaverse apps in Unity. Unity and dynamic asset loading are not happy bed fellows.

There's not a lot I liked about Unity when I was working with it full-time a few years ago. But the one thing I could acknowledge that it has that was generally missing from open source web development was the asset pipeline. But dynamic, user-uploaded assets won't be able to use the asset pipeline. So one of the biggest drivers for using Unity goes right out the window.
I’m very confident that I come across in interviews as someone that you want on your team.
What would you recommend instead? Control plane/data plane is a well known pattern.
It's fully decentralized from what I remember.

Looks like Christian did a quick 4 minute synopsis here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB9SC4kD27Y

If you like the idea of both the decentralized resolution and using the DHT as a PIR, you might look into it.

Also-- if you find it's the case that it's not currently usable (which I'm guessing is the case), it might be worthwhile to mention on your README that you looked at this as an option and then briefly state the reason(s) why you can't use it in practice. If enough prospective users of gnunet do this it may motivate the maintainers to do something about the current state of the documentation and usability...
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I've lately noticed this too but, my "N1" mostly looks more like... I am generating sounds - melodies, songs, talking people and it feels like I am indeed listening to it, not like the dreamy feeling that there just is a sound.

Visually it's mixed up with "blank images" in that sense that I know there is something happening but I can't grasp it. It's like watching very fast recording - you know something is there but either it's too fast to catch or you are too slow to grasp the meaning (if there even is any).

What's weird is that these background songs actually do make sense, well at least in my head (heh) and these are not copies or mixes of anything I can remember.

I am mainly a electronic music junkie: DnB, techno, drumstep but from time to time I, mainly dictated by my emotions, listen to instrumental rock, indie metal and alike (BMTH, I Prevail, Royal Blood).
But in contrast, all the songs in my head are instrumental, often being "lyrics first" which is pretty much out of my typical range - I like to fill in the words, feelings - some meaning into the beats myself, that is why I listen to progressive electro stuff with not much lyrics if any.

I am guy with absolutely basic music theory and zero exposure to anything like music composition (okey I sometimes dream (like in wish) that I would learn piano or bass).
I didn't get a perfect grade, but I think the insights did help somewhat. Maybe if I did this 1 day prior and edited my answers, I would have done perfectly :)
While I agree on the sentiment, what would have happened if it had gone out on Jan 2017 or 2018?

Development cost at least doubles, the graphics would start to look dated relative to other titles. Competition with other open world action rpgs increases.

The people responsible for making it the game that it is would have moved on, and other ideas would have come into the dev cycle.
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Exactly this. If you take your team from green to red without raising flags and asking for help, you will be frowned upon. It’s like pulling the fire alarm at the smell of burning toats. It will piss off people.
This match was notable for a number of reasons:

1) Game 6 lasted 136 moves, making it the longest game in world championship history, surpassing the 124 move game 5 of Korchnoi-Karpov in 1978.

2) Carlsen's victory in game 6 was also the first decisive match game (excluding tiebreakers) since game 10 of Carlsen's defense against Karjakin in 2016. Carlsen's defense against Caruana in 2018 featured 12 draws before moving into tiebreakers.

3) Carlsen won this match 7.5-3.5, making it the most lopsided victory since Capablanca defeated Lasker 9-5 in 1921.