skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like all good tests, they should also come prepared with a fail condition. I think most of these are just icebreakers - as long as you say something, you pass. So they tend to pass anyone who just "feels good".

That biases it towards people who are good talkers. Sure, communication is a point. But sometimes, you interview someone in another time zone where it's 9 PM or 6 AM or before a lunch break after an exhausting half day. They'd just answer something dumb like, "Uhhh, if I was stuck and needed help, I'll ask...?"

There's also people who are bad at spoken English, or have some mental block - have difficulty talking on zoom with camera on/off. There are those desperately need the job and end up using "safe" LinkedIn talk, where they refuse to badmouth the people who killed the last project, and refuse to admit that it was also partially their fault, so they just end up sounding sus.

I'd say the way around this is to ask something that's partially open ended. Like "How would you solve this problem?"
"What reasonable place do people live where the price of lumber has anything to do with housing?

California property market is a full on casino."

It sounds like you answered your own question - not CA. Pretty much any lower density area is better. Small cities and rural areas tend to be cheaper, where materials do constitute the largest cost (or second to labor) of building.
One of my favourite computer engineering books. Highly recommended.
But they didn't compromise the Porsche brand to do so.

Brand prestige is huge. A much better example here is the Volkswagen Phaeton. A truly stunning product at a great price point - significantly better than the luxury cars it competed with - but it failed because no one wanted to spend their luxury money on a brand associated with affordable normal products.
>how can that be in anyone's best interest?

Often because lowering the rent lowers the value of the property which was based on its expected rental return. 15 years is quite extreme but it would often be preferable to go a few years without commercial tenants than to lower the rent and wipe out massive amounts of value.
Lumber production responds slowly to market demands, as it takes a while to cut down, mill, dry, and transport lumber. It’s entirely possible that rapidly changing consumer demand causes wild cycles as the supply chains struggle to scale up and down in response to consumers who are likewise reacting to price changes driven by their own behavior.
I too burn $100 notes for fuel.
Price of lumber has a lot to do with the price of new construction - and new construction prices are more similar cross-country than house prices are.

Once you factor out land value the cost to build per sq ft is similar.
Tom Hanks' son also mentioned offhandedly that he was "sent away to a wilderness program:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy47RTZRy9w#t=3m29s

"It's 4 in the morning, there's two huge dudes in my room, they're like 'You're coming with us', and they put in the back of a car and drove me to the middle of nowhere."
This probably isn't what you wanted to hear, but the only thing I've done so far in the way of marketing is post here, on Twitter, and Facebook. I have an email signup at the bottom of the page that has been pretty successful, but I think nearly all of it is from here.
>> Have you ever heard of such a thing happening to the children of the powerful?

Yes. It happens all the time. In some areas of high society, in the recent past, it was downright common. Look into the history of British boys schools. I myself attended a British-style boarding school. While I never witnessed anything personally, a few years after I graduated my former math teacher was fired in disgrace. I never got the full story beyond "he had fail to register with appropriate authorities and so was let go".

The reason it seems that the children and powerful are immune is only because such issues rarely becomes public. Poor people report crimes to the police. Rich people talk to their lawyers and the issue is settled between the families.
While I agree Rocket League is a good example of a free to play with cosmetics, I think it got worse with the blueprint system. Now you're limited to one item per week (from the blue lootbox). And if you get the blueprint of item you want, you can't pay only for that item, you need to buy a package of credits, that may be more than you actually need.
Most places that aren't California? There are buildable plots of land everywhere outside of dense urban cores. The cost to build on these lots puts downward pressure on the cost of an existing home.
Well, Github did use decentralized data storage -- the wikis are implemented as directories full of markdown files. You can clone it to your PC and view locally, push/pull the changes, etc... In addition, you can use your repository as wiki directly -- with markdown rendering, and "edit" button in web UI, just having "docs/" full of .md files gives you pretty passable wiki.

But it seems that very few people care. How many people mirror wikis of their favorite projects, or backup their issues? I know only one such person, myself.

I think that for some types of data, distributed model with operations like "clone with full history", "pull", "merge", etc... makes very little sense. For example access control -- why would you ever want to clone this? If I set up a mirror of repo, I don't want to give their authors access by default. Same goes for discussions -- for a good discussion you want all members to see their own replies. Having original post appear on sites A, B, C; and reply 1 on sites A, B while reply 2 appears on sites B, C will be super confusing to users, and will likely just cause platform to be abandoned. And a lot of times, ticket list is better off shared, so people can coordinate the work they do even if they have their own fork.

Once you realize a lot of supporting services need to be centralized, all you can use "git" for is for data distribution. Is git better than SMTP for mailing list discussions? Is git better that SMTP / REST API for ticket list? Maybe, maybe not. But ultimately it does not matter, because most people do not care about mirroring stuff locally, and those who do care, can already achieve it.
You might like SuperCrunchers https://www.amazon.com/Super-Crunchers-Thinking-Numbers-Smar...
I don't think "the IT community" (is there even such a thing) has any sort of power where corruption in the traditional sense can even exist. Something like Kids for Cash is an institutional failing and requires the concerted effort and coordination of multiple, theoretically unrelated - or even opposed - parties that all have a lot of institutional power rarely found outside of government. Even huge multinational corporations worth hundreds of billions don't have the kind of power needed to literally sell kids into slavery with the blessing of the judiciary.
Isn’t a Patek even more impossible to obtain than a Rolex?
Right, I've been playing Kirby and the Forgotten Land for the past hour. No microtransactions to speak of.
If thats your only argument, FWIW Pear and Pecl typically were both bundled with PHP.
The article assumes there are only two poles of the cognitive spectrum, autistic and hyperempathic. Multiple poles might make more sense. Psychopaths running businesses and governments might be considered another pole. They are definitely not hyperempathic but they can fake it, and yet they are not often autistic either. They can be systemblind or not. Just like the autism spectrum, these other poles may have spectrums as well. Trying to define "poles" at all may be a lost cause. The world is made up of more than jocks and nerds and "poles" seems like an oversimplification. That some people have cognitive differences that are impairing in society depends in part on the society, and in a different society those who are hyperempathic or psychopathic would be less successful and viewed as damaged.

Lily Tomlin in "Grace and Frankie" seems like a portrayal of someone hyperempathic, as does Jennifer Saunders portrayal of Edina Monsoon in "Absolutely Fabulous". That actors can portray both autistic and hyperempathic characters suggests some part of these is not genetic and is learned, perhaps a neuroticism developed at an early age. Interventions at an early age can definitely alter the course of autism.
The metaphor breaks down when you realize that there is barely a correlation between the amount of work produced and the amount of money spent.
There is a physical manifestation of something that we describe as light or gravity, but our understanding of those things is, in fact, socially constructed just like "money" (or really, an economy) is. We have an imperfect model of what both light and gravity are and we use that model to describe things we observe, but the map is not the territory and it's actually incredibly important to understand that.

In all three kinds of things, belief that something is true -- even mass, near unanimous, collective belief that it is -- does not make it so. That was true for Newtonian physics and gravity as it is for, say, the idea that "interest rates and inflation are connected."
Tired is the right adjective. That stuff wears people out.
There's a lot to dislike, but my gripes as a developer who occasionally dabbles in games are more along the lines of "this puzzle game prototype is interesting and may be worth polishing up and tossing on steam, but oh right, it won't even pay for itself unless I turn it into yet another gambling machine."

Then I go back to writing system software.
Most of us don't independently research the science either. Trash epistemology is the norm.

Also, every ideology seems to be enemies with the others. No seeking of common ground. Each painting the other as pure crazy evil. That's an interesting constant.
I'm building instead of buying. Unless you are dead set on a particular neighborhood it makes no financial sense to buy anymore. You can build a brand new 300k house on a 100k lot and have a 500k home with positive equity the moment you close.
Instead of crates, there are now blueprints. And instead of keys, there's credit to unlock the item of the blueprint. And instead of item drops, there are blueprints. There are still lootboxes, but these can be obtained only in events or challenges.
I wish I knew if there was any lit on this, but I think the same way. When the cost to own a given size house is double the cost to rent that house (in some VHCOL places like Seattle that is true at the moment), eventually people are just gonna opt out and rent.

Anecdotally, I've basically opted out of any sort of food that I don't prepare myself. Although not immune, Costco has avoided the same level of inflation as other grocery stores and especially restaurants, so I just shop there and save money because the prices for prepared food has just gone through the roof.
There are many ways to think about it, but one I find amusing is that a national currency is a federated system of many smaller currencies that trade at par.

Paper money is clearly not the same thing as an electronic record in a bank account. Paper can't be stored in a database. They are kept equivalent because banks (and people) trade them at par, for example using ATM's.

Each bank (including central banks) has its own computer system for its accounts. Bank account money never leaves a bank's computers. There's no way to get it out of the computer, any more than you can remove your virtual treasure from an online role playing game.

So this seems like a good way of thinking about what happens when a bank creates money. They can create virtual currency in their own computer system, not in anyone else's. It doesn't make them richer, any more than a game company creating virtual gold pieces makes them richer. The money is either meaningless (if held by the bank itself) or a liability (if it belongs to a bank customer). To a bank, only outside money counts as wealth.

Transfers happen via trades. To pay anyone not using the same computer system, a bank needs outside money of some form.

So inside money and outside money are clearly different. To a customer, money in Bank A might seem equivalent to money in Bank B, but to Bank A, only dollars in Bank B are assets, and to Bank B, only dollars in Bank A are assets.

So, one way to approach the "what is money" question might be to look at payment systems. How is it that all these different sub-currencies are made to trade at par?
Having applied all over the world, I think US has this focus on multiple intelligences. It's normal to know some literature, play an instrument well, be good at a physical hobby.

The attitude in a lot of Asia is "Why are you reading this if you're not going to work in this field?"
The laws of thermodynamics do apply, which is why this sentence:

> This physically results in the mine being able to transmit energy wirelessly across vast distances.

...is complete bunk. No energy is transmitted when you mine and then transact in Bitcoin: you've used the energy to produce a proof of work, one that others arbitrarily value and exchange for different energy.

Restructured: it should be clear that no trust scheme can magically transfer energy; it can only transfer tokens than can be exchanged for energy. In other words, any trust scheme that has extraordinary power requirements is strictly worse than one that only consumes energy once (i.e., when ultimately purchased).
Care to explain why a tunnel diode was the right thing for the purpose? And, if you had been unable to source them, what you would have done instead?
There are a lot investors out there right now. I get cold calls daily. As interest rates climb and supply shortages improve, I expect things to cool off. Probably not until after summer as sales always increase up until schools starts back,
Why are new buildings preferred? In the US people like older houses, even when they are poorly built.
Is this effectively v3 of Thunderhead? Good to see the pivot towards using k8s, the 20+ minute propping of a 1-2GB container on vanilla Playfab/THv2 really made it a non starter for our company's internal playtesting.

Also is Hesky still around these days?
A close friend just bought a house in a largeish west coast city and it was as you described and worse than my experience buying a house about 1.5 years ago
We moved about half a mile and lost the ability to get the scanned mail, even though every step is literally the same down to the carrier, so who knows the esotericism of the buearucracy.
Perhaps not quite what you’re looking for but this may be of interest:
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Ignoring quantum effects, there's no upper limit in theoretically perfect radio conditions, even for a single radio channel, where there is absolutely no background noise or interference, and the antennae and electronics are literally perfect. However, nothing can be built like that, and there is always background noise.

The real life limit is complicated. For each single radio channel the limit depends on other characteristics of the channel than just the (temporal) radio bandwidth, for example the antenna, background radio noise, interference, and power level.

The Shannon-Hartley theorom covers capacity of a single noisy channel with fixed characteristics; it depends on the signal to noise ratio as well as the bandwidth.

Radio channels used for mobile communications are typically "fast-fading", which means the conditions keep changing, and both ends have to continuously measure those conditions and adapt dynamically how they encode and decode the data. This complicates a measure of the theoretical limit, and also means the limit is changing with time, for example as the user moves the handset around.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_capacity#Channel_capac...

The highest rate encoding used in 802.11be is "4096-QAM" which carries 24 bits/sec per Hz when noise is sufficiently low, and decreases the more error correction is required. I'm not sure if 4096-QAM is chosen because the signal-to-noise level is such that a larger number wouldn't improve thoughput enough to matter, or if it's limited by the electronics, non-linearity and calculations at those high speeds.

That bit rate is for a single radio channel. Multiple channels overlapping the same frequencies are also possible, as long as the antennae are sufficiently spread out in space and/or polarisation. When something large enough like a laptop (which has multiple antenna in the display) talks to a base station, it is combined with beamforming and diversity, or in a general mathematical description, polarisation modes and spatial bandwidth. That is equivalent to having multiple radio channels using the same frequencies to the same device, but the channels are not physically distinct, they are combined and separated mathematically with linear algebra.

As with MHz bandwidth, spatial and polarisation are also limited. You can't add more channels with no limit to a single device of fixed size. But if you have no limit on device size so can add more antenna spread out, and/or many base stations cooperating, you can increase the total bits/second by using those. 4G LTE does the multiple base stations thing to some extent already, to maintain channels to multiple user handsets at the same time inside a cell. It's not that each handset talks to a separate base station. It's that the signals are combined with linear algebra in such a way that each handset can decode different information from the multi-spatial-channel signal that they all receive slightly differently.
Once, while helping to assemble a brand-new bike, I was amazed when somebody came behind me and spun the wheel I had just attached. It didn't spin straight at all. They grabbed a spoke wrench and went to work. Tweak-tweak, spin. Tweak-tweak, spin. They patiently worked it into a perfect spin. I could not believe that something had come from the factory so crooked.

That was when I realized that it pays to keep improving on the wheel.
That's as good a guess as anything I've come up with. Luckily no one else has reported any issues.
You probably are the one holding the bag. Prices are exploding because mortgage rates are being held below the rate of inflation. In this scenario, it makes sense to borrow as much money as you possibly can and buy hard assets with it, because your mortgage is essentially a transfer of wealth from the bank to you. Normally banks would be the bagholders in this scenario, but because of securitization, they just package off the mortgage and sell it on the MBS market. The biggest buyer of MBS's lately has been the Fed, which they do with money newly injected into the market. The effect of this money creation is the inflation we've seen over the last 2 years, so effectively this has been a transfer of wealth from savers and anyone whose income is denominated in cash, to buyers and to some extent sellers of homes.
> . One house I tracked on Redfin listed at $722k and sold for $1.31m.

do you have a link by any chance?
There's definitely a tech bro vibe here, where people feel the need to flex their intelligence. I get sucked into it sometimes too. It's not as bad as many places, I think it's actually in a sweet spot.
Even if we gave them more time, it seems that it still doesn't work and is still completely unsafe for Level 5. Compared to other competitors when tested, this is all Tesla has to show for progress? [0]

A very long way to go for the Level 5 'robo-taxi' readiness claim by Tesla.

[0] https://carbuzz.com/news/tesla-model-3-runs-over-kid-dummies...
Why not first time homeowners? It all depends on returns.
Akron is not devoid of contributions to industry (the university has cut some departments lately)

-signed, child of two UA alums who went to Caltech. I know another UA alum from my HS (https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanwang/) who has done quite well building venture backed companies.
because the housing market is not uniform. high value areas are resilient to corrections
The "system" isn't a vague boogeyman but the product of individual decisions that funnel things in aggregate to a certain conclusion. Think of how birds fly in a "V" formation, something emergent from each bird following the same simple rules.

A teen not abiding by the boundaries of society may be dealt with in a way that seems viciously over-reactive because maintaining order is the entire focus of each element of the legal/judicial system. The degree of infraction is less important than respecting the authority of the system itself. Like be an asshole to a judge or cop and see what happens - it shouldn't matter as much as it does, but everyone instantly feels the raw danger of doing such a thing because of this dynamic.

The problem is that "testing boundaries" is a natural phase of growing up and is really about coming to grips with your own identity and values. There is a huge disconnect between how "the system" (or people serving roles within the system) approach these situation vs. any actual threat to the system itself.
Might be the remains of an airfield or something.

Perhaps it was an missle silo.
I don't think I agree. I think the need to reduce energy use to prevent climate change is so overwhelming, that no trade off is worth it. Yes, people's health are on the line, and it's difficult to argue against that—but unchecked climate change is also going to affect the health of an awful lot of people in the future, in worse ways.

Obviously, if we can greatly improve indoor air quality with only a marginal increase in energy use, that's worth it. But anything else... I don't know! I think it's easy to forget just how big of a deal climate change is!
Just for a perspective from a different world...

I live in a development (but not a recently constructed one) where many of the homes are almost identical, and a few years ago were assessed at around $170K and sometimes sold for less.

Prices seem to have risen to almost $220K, and paused there, but I notice that new sales are going faster, like days instead of weeks.

I know this because my real estate agent continues to send me notifications of new listings and sales, probably because I unconvincingly denied being a flipper (I'm not!) at the time I bought mine.
Amazing. Well done! How long have you been working on the book?
A circuit producing power without a temperature difference contradicts the second law of thermodynamics, which is what Thibado is claiming to have done.
If demand is high, could we not increase supply? https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-e....

That's what we did up until the '70s, when we empowered NIMBYs to block new housing units, with the results all around us.
> Being "disappeared", at least in Western society, conjures the image of being quietly whisked away from society in an unmarked van

> Now, you add in things like torture and detainment

I'm sorry, where do you think the unmarked van is going? "Now you add in detainment" — detainment at least. If somebody disappears, it's either because they're being kept somewhere secretly or because they've been killed.
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The $1999 minimal Mac Studio is M1 Max and has 32 GB RAM.
Hey Marty :) hope you’re well.

Saying that though, it’s not a necessity and it’s his show to to cover the topics he wants.

Other people in this thread telling him what he should’ve covered to make himself less of a target for censorship… smh.
I still have to type $ whenever I use a variable. No thanks.
If they wanted to buy ice cream and that was the price, then they had to pay it or they wouldn’t get ice cream.

Are you saying there is a lower cost ice cream store across the street?
I added DKIM/SPF over a year ago, and they still sometimes get flagged. It doesn't help that one sad/spiteful person marked it as spam in his Yahoo account (at least I was notified that someone did, and because I'm not actually a spammer, I quickly figured out who it was).
As my economics teacher said many times throughout the year of studies I had with her:

“Money is what you can give to someone else for a sandwich”