skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like we're talking about different things.

A standard question might be "Build a chess game in 4 hours". Now that's clearly impossible. So you shouldn't take offense at not being able to do it.

But part of the job is being able to break down a complex task and propose a solution. There will be people who jump into architecture and stuff on how to build it in 4 weeks. No, you've got 4 hours, think about it.

So you have to scope down the question, and see what you can tackle in these few hours.

A good applicant will ask what the goal is. Is it entertainment? How about a checkers game instead? Is it for practice? Maybe it can be a "mate in 1" game with some hardcoded moves.

How would you even render the pieces? Would you reverse engineer lichess? Do you build a plaintext prototype? Do you TDD possible moves? How would you do user input and selection?

You get points for coming up with possible solutions. There's going to be some whiz who probably made some battle chess prototype for Ludum Dare. That's fine. They're smart, they get points. But most of the points will come from the learning process to the results.

It is designed to filter out the people who walk out when they see the problem.
They're typically mains-powered but with a backup battery.

"Interlinked" doesn't necessarily mean there's a wired connection, the basic ones are triggered by the sound of another alarm.
Previous company:

- Google Drive

Current:
- Notion

- github
What makes you think the process for getting a new EC2 instance won't get the same amount of red tape as a physical instance over time?
Alphafold has a clear, easily stated application and problem it solves.

Watson, like the AI craze in general, was mostly buzzwords and hype covering the fact that it was actually three application specialists in a trench coat trying to pass themselves off as machine intelligence.
> We barely have language for talking about that

The paper "The Power of Interoperability: Why Objects Are Inevitable" uses the term "Service Abstraction" - "This terminology emphasizes, following Kay, that objects are not primarily about representing and manipulating data, but are more about providing services in support of higher-level goals" It goes on to give examples of how service abstractions arise in a lot of places including the linux kernel.
Not related to your actual point, but I researched corporate boards a few years back and found many instances of people on boards of two direct competitors. In fact, I found a couple of companies with CEOs who also served on the board of a competitor. This was going through maybe a few hundred large corporations, so I’d have to assume it’s incredibly common.
In many senses, corporations already behave like artificial general intelligences, and Meta has been using its information and models to manipulate large populations to increase its profits without much regard for negative externalities (such as coups, degradation of democracies, and so on).

We will not be able to control an AGI any more than we are able to rein in Meta. Unless the humans in charge are held responsible for the actions of the organization they control, there is little hope we will.
For some trauma-laden people, meditation can be quite a (bad) trip. I used to have horrible trauma flashbacks during meditation sessions. I would be getting into a calmer state, able to let go of anxiety, stress, daily minute thoughts, and after some quiet time, I'd be in a terrible state, with horrible memories surfacing. I definitely recommend not doing it alone if your childhood was painful.

Same for yoga and long poses. One of the things I really hated with covid is the 'let's do zoom yoga' WTF ? Can't tell how many times in yoga sessions I needed 'help' because I was no more there but in a (very) bad place.

I'm not sure it happens to other people. Therapy helps, but I wish I'd been warned before starting on the meditation journey.
This post made me pretty interested in gemini.

Since there are apparently a few users here: What server would you recommend to get started? Any small tutorials on setting up a gemini site? Any links to gemini sites (maybe your own) you want to share?
The slate article is better than the BBC one.

https://slate.com/technology/2014/04/brendan-eich-why-mozill...

Brave had technical scams too:

https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/issues/761

https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters-ansible/issues/45

https://web.archive.org/web/20181221180137if_/https://twitte...

https://web.archive.org/web/20181221231556if_/https://twitte...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999
I've used YouTrack. As far as I know you can customize your workflow a lot. We have used it for different types of project, from content creation and marketing to software development.
Now imagine being called my name. A John is a prostitute’s client and as for Cumming.
I have been reading Termination shock by Neal Stephenson and this eruption reminded me of the main plot in tat book - injecting sulphur dioxide into the upper atmosphere to reduce heating. It will be interesting to track the effect of this eruption downwind.
No I wasn’t referring to salaries and no I wasnt referring to just in time asset purchases.

Oracle pricing just determines how much bitcoin - already owned - will be sent for a payment at the time of purchase.

No more, no less.
Steamworks Feature Update: Dynamic Cloud Sync
On top of extensive documentation that we have on our web we use Discord as one of communication points. Since our code is available on github users can also open issues on it.
Possible, in my experience it's always been the hardware vendors that add all that stuff, but it seems like Microsoft wants in on the action.
It must be that time of the year again: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Papers+We+Love

Edit: Not meant as snark, just a playful observation of how often this is shared. Remains a worthy contribution to this day.
Author here. I sure would prefer enforced type checking - but a good type checker that runs automatically in the editor and immediately warns me when I inevitably mess up is the next best thing.
Yes what you say absolutely all makes sense. My main gripe is that of culture, not substance.

It's understood and well communicated that the project is not mature enough to be an easy experience for a new user, and that's perfectly fair. But unfortunately, there's a degree of gatekeeperism going on in this community that is making the environment toxic for newcomers.

I've only seen it a few times before, but in every case, the longtimers seem unable to see it, and dismiss complaints by newcomers out of hand. Of course it's to be expected that a certain cohort of newcomers will be toxic and entitled, in which case one would absolutely be justified in dismissing them.

But that is not the case here, especially judging from the sheer number of upvotes my comments on this matter have received, and the number of blog posts in the wild about this very topic.

This is not a problem of maturity, but one of culture. And this is what exhausted me and made me give up on my attempt to make things better.
> Java where you need a 'static void main' method inside a class just to begin

C# too, but they remove the necessities to use static main for entrypoint, starting from C#9
> In app badges are not valuable and have no standardized interface whether for vanity or transferring to another account

not valuable in monetary sense, but valuable as "recognized as having a meaning"

they can be assumed to be valid exactly because they are emitted with a non standard interface by some centralized entity who's the solely authoritative source allowed to do that.

on the other hand NFT standard interface is meaningless, because the source cannot be verified.

What value have an NFT emitted by opensee identical to one emitted by opensea?

None.

They both signed through a very complex and superfluous mechanism the same bytes, but that means absolutely nothing.

Everybody can do that and when everybody can emit something, its value as unique item is NULL.

Standard interfaces around say app badges could easily be solved by a wrapper api, assuming someone would want to do that. I assume nobody would want to, because the value is not in the interface, it's in the assurance that the "1 million karma points" can be assumed to be factually true, not just an arbitrary hash in an arbitrary list of meaningless transactions.

> one very specific case that I don't actually know bothers you much more than other cases and you are applying it to the entire concept of NFTs

NFTs solve no problem, but they create a lot of them.

The only problem they solve is money laundering (crypto killer App!)

You might not know it, but if you take a picture of Paris and publish it in a book, yo should pay the city of Paris.

You might not know that it's illegal to take pictures of the tour Eiffel at night (I swear it is).

If I publish those items as NFTs I can potentially make a lot of money and nobody can stop me.

What do you think the incentive of such a black market would be?

Find a cure for cancer or scam people?

they are only another way for scammers and market abusers to transfer money from consumer pockets into their own, with the false promise that they will keep growing in value, while the infrastructure they rely on could easily die tomorrow and reach zero value overnight.

With the current rise of energy prices and winds of war in Russia, crypto mining is exactly the first thing that's going to disappear, it's natural selection baby.
Firstly, as others pointed out, your numbers are wrong so your one sentence explanation is just misinformation. The number of deaths in the trial arms were about the same, actually a bit higher in the vaccine arm. The official explanation for this is that COVID is not deadly enough to show up in a trial population of 'only' ~60-70,000 participants especially because the trials failed to recruit many over 80 year olds, who are by far the most at risk.

Secondly, the article is broken down into sections with proper titles, and many links to evidence. It's not a "wall of text" and it's not "rambling", it's well structured.

Thirdly, the doctors and nurses in question are saying explicitly that they found the sudden prevalence of these events surprising and concerning. They are front line workers, they aren't sitting in an office reading Excel for Dummies, they're saying they noticed a qualitative change in the situation.

Finally, I only got about half way down but I actually found statements that were underplaying the extent of the problem, like this one:

"the English data, though difficult to interpret, contains some worrying signals that all-cause mortality could be higher in the vaccinated, especially in those under 60 years of age"

It doesn't contain "worrying signals" that all cause mortality "could" be higher. It shows outright that the all-cause death rate in the vaccinated has been much higher than in the unvaccinated in 2021. You can find a graph of it here:

https://bartram.substack.com/p/the-impact-of-time-on-non-cov...

And that article links to the original ONS report, if you want to read that.
ANSI Common Lisp was the first standardized OOP language (1994) with its integrated Common Lisp Object System. The project to specify this object system took several years and a group of core designers, plus a larger feedback group.
Perhaps you should focus on the subject matter? You seem to snub it because what exactly?
I agree, but there seems to be no similar leeway for people who have said offensive things with no intent to be offensive. Any speech that could be construed as offensive is presumed to be malicious. So it seems fair to assume that taking offence needlessly is also malicious.
It was requesting my personal information from Amazon that made me decide to dump all my Alexa smart devices.

We had bought one for my in-laws and the Echo had picked up entire conversations between them even though the wake word had not been said. They were categorised under "Not intended for Alexa". My father in-law is at the end of his life, and I really hated the fact that deeply private and incredibly poignant conversations would probably be listened to by a human somewhere to better calibrate the device.
Thank you for correcting history! I'd forgotten >_<
This rock I carry in my pocket continues to be excellent at repelling tigers.
Something hoppy...? Like 'hoppy' : https://en.hoppy-happy.com/products/hoppy/
Chromebooks use the ALT+Search combination for caps lock instead of a dedicated key.
"Awesome X" is often used as a stand-in for "curated list of useful resources for X". Like Awesome Rust, Awesome ruby and so on.
This is standard operating procedure for financial institutions in Europe, at least. And many, many other types of enterprises.

For core banking and other mission critical systems. Nobody upgrades an OS for fun, especially when the checklist for doing so is longer than both my arms put together.
That was one of the epiphany moments in my life: "if a device has a screen and a DVI/DP/HDMI port I want to use it as an external screen". Then started to figure it out and realized it's rather difficult and mostly impossible.
Yes, but if you factor in the traffic costs, it still comes out 10x cheaper than AWS &co. Plus, the parent was not asking about the cost vs bare metal.
You seem to be arguing that modern digital technology must by necessity drive a fundamental shift in the intellectual property economy that eliminates things like copyright forever. That simply isn't happening. It didn't happen to music, not to film and television, not even books. I'm a gamer and regularly buy games and supplements in PDF form, the hobby role-playing game market for indie games in PDF has never been stronger.

You can argue until you're blue in the face that what's happening right now is impossible, but it is happening. Look at the massive investment Amazon, Netflix, Disney, HBO and Apple are putting into streaming video. They are very successful businesses fighting over massive revenue streams. We're 20 years into the post-napster digital online revolution, and this is the way things have worked out.
I see. I was not aware of this, which is why I think it's a bad title :)
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TechBro

It's the first thing that appears on Google. And there's plenty of references on that page alone.

"They're less likely to be shy around people they're attracted to than a classic nerd, and may be depicted leaning hard into stereotypically masculine traits. Rather than being social rejects, tech bros are often in a position of prestige and may see themselves as leaders, or even as visionaries. That said, the Tech Bro is also often a far darker figure than the traditional nerd: a glib malignant narcissist whose people skills lie in manipulation rather than genuine empathy. "
Ah, doesn’t it just fly over to the nearest “catch”?

Btw, the worst misunderstandings I’ve seen were not lacking knowledge, they actively believed in some magic that isn’t there if you dig deeper. That’s why I still think that teaching at least basic assembler is necessary for professional programming. It can’t make you a low-level bare metal genius, but it clears many implicit misconceptions about how computers really work.
> I don't like Mac nor do i like gnu-coreutil...but that's my personal taste, and not my problem.

Well, it's not your problem, but when millions of developers like GNU coreutils over BSD coreutils, then it kind of becomes everyone's problem :-)

There's a reason GNU became popular when there were other tools available before it appeared.
> Some of us would use a different and much less flattering term than "refinement"

you can use whatever term you like, it's been a refinement process nonetheless.
It was in a context of a lecture, it could be that she referenced multiple papers.

but, like it or not, caffeine is a psychostimulant, and psychostimulant substitution is fairly well established, idk whats the controversy.

if you want to find it, you might have to crawl thru every reference of volkow's 100+ papers on cocaine.
This is a great article, but the title is stupid as it gets.

“better” is better. If your definition of “better” doesn’t match reality, then you should correct your definition of “better” and “worse”. Instead of saying “everyone, except me, is wrong”
I think derivation as a new term of art is reasonable, because it's something that did previously not exist.

In particular it's not an "elaborate build script. The actual derivation is basically just a json file¹ with a path-name that's a function of its contents that includes specifying everything that goes into the build (env-var settings and arguments, the input sources, other required derivations, the build script, the standard environment -- all with transitively hashed paths) as well as what comes out of it.

They could maybe have called it build-spec, or something like that, but I think giving a novel thing a novel name is in fact novel is less confusing than trying to repurpose some existing terminology and trick people into thinking it's something they are already familiar with when actually it isn't.

¹ It's not actually json, but that's just some historical accident; `nix show-derivation ...` will actually output the derivation as pretty-printed json. But the key thing is that it's just simple data, not an executable script.
Bataclan survivor shocked as surgeon tries to sell her X-ray as NFT
Why is that good news?
Indeed, the idea of their art is about consumerism and hype and they all "sell out" quickly as they are in limited numbers. All we can look for is people who did get a "drop" in the post or who actually paid money for something.

But I think its funnier if we think that they have not sold anything at any time!
Nvidia Quietly Prepares to Abandon Takeover of Arm
You might want to proof read your main page:

> CloudPouch will automatically load you AWS profiles.
Very impressive that people can write TLS clients in a weekend, on top of building Gemini clients and Gemtext parsers.
Somehow, when it comes to Facebook it isn't all that surprising. Are they hoping that rename to Meta will restore the reputation? What's next, will Zuck rename it to (Meta>)Morphosis?

archive.is link: https://archive.is/p2YmT
I think it will work well for verifying DB changes and optimizing SQL on real data.
This seems like a great tool to eliminate the risk of database-related downtime.
> If it were true that complex games were inherently, objectively better

What are you talking about? Complexity is more enjoyable for some, not all people. And the joy a game brings is subjective, not objective. You can't measure game-quality by saying this has x rules more than other games, so it's objectively better.

> we would only see more and more complex games. We don't

Not true. There is a rise of complex games in the last decades, especially in digital games. But it's still a relative small market, so the number of casual games are rising significant faster, distorting the impression on surface. And there are also several constraints which influence this rise. You can't measure this by simple binary logic.

> What makes more money

Money is an irrelevant metric for this.

And we are long over the point were complexity in moving pictures was a thing of movies. It's now all in series, and the complex sh*t is on netflix, prime video, etc.
Seems like the person had been mulling on this for a while and for whatever reason decided today was the time to share his thoughts publicly. If it was a deliberate strategy I suspect it would have been better argued (there’s a few factual errors that undermine most of the argument which any competent PR person would have thought to verify).
Same reason as every other time such a post has elicited such a “this is a PR stunt by GitHub” comment.
This sort of thinking reminds me of the efficient market hypothesis.
Is there an automation for "before updating ports, you need to read every single entry in UPDATING in case one of them has a command you need to run after"?

Why is there a chapter on custom kernels under "common tasks" that assumes you're going to have a C compiler and kernel source on your machine and want to installkernel on that same machine?
I think it's a really fun game, and it's interesting how the stories of the alien races kind of move on their own regardless of whether you interact with them or not. The core game loop with the resource harvesting is a bit grindy and it was made before journals were invented so you have to keep track of everything in your head or on paper, but it still holds up I think.
More famous people have said stupider things on Twitter. It’s a platform that just begs you to over share (like all social media tbh).
These threads always have a comment about the Git/Github distinction.

You seem a bit confused yourself. GitHub and Git are different entities. So this is like asking why the New York Times is commenting on the price of tea in China—why shouldn’t they comment on it?

If you want the news straight from the source (without nice HTML markup): https://marc.info/?l=git&m=164305383314846&w=2
>but when millions of developers like GNU coreutils over BSD coreutils

I don't care if they cannot install Gnu/Linux on their machine, but being forced to use a proprietary system like Mac. Not my problem. Don't want bsd-core-utils? Don't buy apple, it's so easy.

>There's a reason GNU became popular when there were other tools available before it appeared.

That's not the reason and you know it, stop with that half-knowledge you think you have.

Something to read for you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_Inc.....
I've had 10gbps, it was overkill but fun to see the network do its thing.
I love the idea of reading more papers but I'm a bit overwhelmed at the idea of just diving in an adding more to my reading list. I would love to hear from people who managed to read papers next to a day-job and retain some of the knowledge presented?
> they made it possible to provide your own implementation of all the query operators so it was possible for me to define my own methods and make my linq queries not allocate at runtime. really nice (though it comes with its own tradeoffs).

I would like to know more about this, would be really useful. So you have any recommended docs to read?
Although if we're talking about the US even more so than any country on earth, the police and judicial system were precisely designed to keep slaves in check. So it's absolutely mad but absolutely aligned with stated/designed goals (see also the documentary about the 13th amendment *not* abolishing slavery).
dang, this is a bad faith argument.
Thanks, okay, having looked at the actual examples from that site (people from hackers, John Romero, someone from a comic?) it's so sought.. So "tech bro" is just "cool guy who likes computers", got it. Yea, that seems truly horrible.
Author here. Indeed, when I tested off my idea on a friend, his first response what "But what is complexity? Is J a complex language? What about assembly?". It can get tricky once you get into the weeds. But from the comments here, it looks like most people got what I was trying to express.

W.r.t whether types makes Python more complex - my point was that a type system makes the _language_ more complex, but it makes the _code_ using it easier to reason about. That's my main view of the blog post: Be careful trying to simplify a programming language if it leads to the code itself being more complex.

And sure, I have no particular attachment to OOP "classes" as such, and I don't think they are necessary. In fact I much prefer Julia's approach. What I meant with classes being inevitable is that 1) structs, or something like structs, are inevitable, and 2) methods, in the sense of functions that are semantically tried to particular structs, are inevitable. In Python, these two things are provided by classes, so in Python, there really is no escaping classes.
Accident causes large scale blackout across central Asia
>There are proven benefits

>I speak from personal experience

lol