skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the hoops are things like performing endless studies of traffic and infrastructure with a narrow set of grifting consulting firms even if the same study has already recently been done.
And make it much easier to build.

But that so conflicts with hyper-local (perceived, short-term) interests of the type of people who show up to community meetings who are concerned their home values will go down.
Yeah, just aggravating. I don't hang out on stackoverflow for fun. I'm there to get solve a problem. The extra nonsense is distracting.
It's a cool idea, but what exactly am I supposed to do or get from this?
As much as PhD students are often "funded" by their university, they're only really surviving at best. I'd like to do a PhD more than almost anything. However, at 41 and well into a career with each job paying higher than the last, the opportunity cost is becoming more and more prohibitive. Stepping back from earning (and saving!) for five years seems like a kiss of death to me and a virtual guarantee that I won't be able to retire comfortably. These kinds of articles, while well meaning, really irk me. They come across as completely tone death and inadvertently cast a fair bit of light on the author's personal financial situation (or perhaps their lack of awareness of it).
You're being kind. "Extreme" doesn't describe it from my experience. For me it was 1 phone call/online meeting and 2 face 2 face. That is about it in terms of interviews. And that is a Fortune Global 500 company that I'm still working for. I was put on a 6 months contract and after 3 they switched to perm.

Other interviews back then and more recent were pretty much the same. Max. 3 x 1h-ish meetings. I do have a bad habit of asking the interviewer to sell me the job on the first face 2 face meeting though. This does offend some of them and we drop it there. No point beating around the bush and wasting time if they think the interview is a one way street.
To cats, yes.
> increases mortality

Implies a causal relationship. In reality, it's much more likely that causality points the other way, and an underlying disease like cancer is causing low cholesterol: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/01.cir.92.9.2396
As mentioned in the blog post, guix already does something similar, by patching glibc to support a per-application loader cache [1]. shrinkwrap seems to increase the binary size a lot (6.6 MB without shrinkwrap, 13 MB after running shrinkwrap for emacs).

Also when comparing the performance, the guix approach seems to be a bit faster:

hyperfine -m 100 -w 5 -n shrinkwrap './emacs --version' -n guix 'emacs --version'
Benchmark #1: shrinkwrap
Time (mean ± σ): 68.8 ms ± 13.7 ms [User: 45.8 ms, System: 22.9 ms]
Range (min … max): 52.8 ms … 106.3 ms 100 runs

Benchmark #2: guix
Time (mean ± σ): 56.7 ms ± 12.3 ms [User: 34.9 ms, System: 21.7 ms]
Range (min … max): 42.7 ms … 84.6 ms 100 runs

Summary
'guix' ran
1.21 ± 0.36 times faster than 'shrinkwrap'

[1] https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2021/taming-the-stat-storm-with...
Oh wow that is the term I was looking for! Thank you.
What's even more surprising is that lawyers are too scared to initiate lawsuits for these clearly unconstitutional laws.
Indeed. Experienced interviewers can size up a candidate in the first 10 minutes and fairly accurately predict how their debrief will go. The rest of the interviews are just building up confidence, and making sure there's enough redundancy to tolerate the occasional bungle or accidental awkwardness. Folk get hired all the time despite getting imperfect interviewer feedback. I've had interviews where the first 45 minutes were painful but then the candidate blew me away in the last 15 minutes.
https://twitter.com/redditstatus/status/1510414922605236230?...

Reddit is experiencing an increased error rate, not yet reflected on the status page.
Great channel, thanks for the heads up!
> All of the people involved in the interview process are still getting paid

Except the interviewee.
The weight patterns that convolutional neural networks develop are pretty familiar in many ways. For example, the first layer will generally end up with small-scale feature detectors, such as borders, gradients/color pairs and certain textures, at various scales and angles.

Try an image search for "imagenet first layer" to see examples.

I took the comment to mean "we have ourselves discovered certain filters being useful (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabor_filter), and the networks now also discover this same information".
You and I might agree on the nature of the mind, in a metaphysical sense. But, the nature of mind is mostly immaterial (ha!) for this topic. The original poster was arguing that a new depressive state as a result of a traumatic diagnosis is evidence that it is a learned or acquired state, rather than something congenital and fixed in physiology. They further argue that this means the sufferer might be guided to unlearn or re-learn to a more desirable state. It may be an optimistic perspective, but I don't think physical reductionism invalidates it.

The computer metaphor is of course shallow or simplistic. It's not meant as an all-explaining allegory. The relevant part, which you even allude to yourself, is that state changes in the brain can be effected through "inputs". The only thing we need to consider is whether further sensory inputs and thought processes can continue to affect the state. Unless you are arguing that the brain reaches some terminal and irreversible state, I don't see that there is any real conflict here.

As an aside, as a computer scientist, I will tell you that software is exactly an emergent property of the circuits. Put another way, software is an abstraction we place on it, as observers. It is not really there as the machine operates. The physics and structure of the machine are likewise everything, with physically real states changing as a result of microscopic mechanisms integrating local state and some signals carried in from topologically neighboring mechanisms.
6G

Actually. No joke there.

The joke will be that if they go forward and try and make a case for using terahertz waves from your phone to 3D map your environment. If you think the knee jerk to 5G is bad, hold on to your tin foil.
That's interesting, thank you.
No, scientists have studied this phenomenon for decades. This is a study specifically interrogating the direction of causality for low cholesterol and mortality: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/01.cir.92.9.2396
Cool idea, but what is the practical application?
Unfortunately, ( is not a valid alias name, so lispy things are difficult.

[ is a valid function name tho so fun could be had there.
I didn't assume that, but I was pointing out that even for the smaller governments (who do pick up most of the tab), it's not a vast nor an unsustainable amount. If anything, the fact that the Federal gov isn't a big part of the picture shows just how (relatively) minor the cost is. State, and particularly local, governments can't print the funds they need out of thin air.
I wouldn't think HN would find the thesis as applied to big tech so disagreeable, since people here have frequently say the same thing. For a while it seemed like every week there was a thread about all the people deleting their facebook account.

The distinction with oil, or any other sort of industry for that matter, is that the latter at least produces something that is useful to people, whereas gambling largely does not.

I found the lack of attention paid to big tech strange as well, but I could hardly complain, seeing as we've seen that discussion many times over, whereas the historical context regarding casinos was quite new to me.
I don't know why it would be a rule but the one time I tried it, I got absolutely rekt and never did it again.

May have been because I put ALL my ships in one big blob, but typically people will fire at adjacent hits until they don't get any, so I think it's a terrible strategy anyway.
I think there's only two possible outcomes - either a best solution emerges, or a rock-paper-scissors scenario emerges with a number of solutions.

If there's another outcome I'm missing, I'd like to hear about it (stalemate?)
What command are you using? I find `ect --strict -9` to be extremely fast, much better than oxipng or zopfli. `-9` provides the maximum compression level built in to the program; you could use the advanced options like `--allfilters-b` but I've found that this produces negligible additional compression (similar to zopfli's advanced modes) and mostly just go with `-9`.

As I said in the OP, optimizing the seven test images provided by the QOI webpage took only a few seconds.
Might be a case study on how too much covid vaccines (87) affect humans.
They aren’t. It’s largely an endless stream of studies that have to be performed by big name consultancies and months of public hearings and community board meetings. Any slip up or unexpected delay can sink to project. None of it ever has anything to do with the safety or suitability of the actual structure. Maybe the architectural review is at least relevant.
Not all data structures are a large balanced tree and a O(1) update is going to be faster than O(log n) updates. There is still going to be a significant performance hit from having to recreate a whole node instead of just updating a single value. While yes you can say large data structures are like a big node of a tree, having to copy all of the different records from the old one to a new one is going to be considerably slower than just modifying a single record.

It does help, but it's still going to be significantly slower than just modifying a single record in a data structure. It is a still a problem that will be slowing down your program.
California requires solar panels on new construction. Adding $20k worth of electrical systems doesn't make the house more affordable.
It’s high levels of _oxidized_ LDL that’s problematic.

https://youtu.be/DXKJaQeteE0
> Why is it so common that I as an end user will notice a problem before whatever system is in charge of the status page does?

Survival bias: only when you notice a problem before the system in charge of the status page does, is that you notice it. When you don't, you don't notice it.
Democracies do defend themselves though - that's what NATO is for and why the UK has sent thousands of missiles to Ukraine. We also try to overthrow dictatorships and turn them into democracies as in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan maybe. I'm not sure the latter examples worked very well though.

We could perhaps get smarter with the whole process. The carrot approach - we'll give you trade access if you get democratic seems to work better than the bombing approach in practice.
How did you decide to fire at 5,7 though?
Apparently you can in Wyoming, as long as you’re far back enough from the road. Haven’t verified.
>Fourth, driving everywhere is like living in an insulated bubble. You don't have to deal with your fellow man. Things like Skid Row (LA) or the Tenderloin (SF) don't touch you because you can just drive around them in an airconditioned bubble. I honestly think this contributed to making people care less about the plight of their fellow man.

I'm not sure the car is to blame for this one.

When I'm driving a long drive with the same cars around me for an extended period of time, I think how in the past travelers would be able to chit chat and get to know each other. Cars prevent that. So why do I say it isn't the car's fault?

Because even in public transport, people isolate themselves from each other. Even when packed together so you are physically touching, you don't interact with others. People walk down sidewalks don't chat with each other unless they already know one another.

If cars were the problem, we wouldn't expect to see this behavior where there aren't cars, including in countries that don't have anything like the car culture the US does. But we do. Something else is at play. I'm not sure what it is, but it doesn't seem fair to blame cars without some stronger evidence.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30892081

40+ points, posted less than 2 hours earlier
>Jewish whites, that are only ~4% of all whites, have a minuscule effect on white SAT scores

On average, yes. At the Ivy League level, though, they account for a solid third of the white admissions. I'm sure you'd find a similar overrepresentation in the top few percentiles of the SAT.
If you're employed it's more likely you don't have time for 12 interviews because you're working.
> Are they patching their local binary of the game to give them features other players do not have?

Pretty much. It's often a little more sophisticated, (e.g. it's common to use dll injection and not actually modify the binary) but yes
Also = is a valid function name.

So you could use = to start the calc, and use infix or postfix notation.
I quite enjoyed that as well. I was quite surprised when I finally got one wrong.
> To be fair in rust you get to write .into() or Ok a lot.

Sure. If “fair” means “not comparable at all”.

if-condition-return using two variables is not comparable to one function/macro call.
Corewar may be the first example of the game in its purest form, but earlier than that was Robotwar (first on the PLATO system in the 1970s then on the Apple ][ in 1981) which involved players writing simple programs to control robots in a BASIC like language. You could either compete against a friend or compete against a series of programs included with the game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RobotWar
Diet is also a factor.
Nicotinic Acid (vitamin B3) will lower Cholesterol because it converts cholesterol into hormones starting with Pregnenolone, 500mg of nicotinic acid on an empty stomach or fat free meal is the fastest cheapest way to get a growth hormone boost, if you can handle the prostaglandin 9sun burn) flush!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steroid_hormone#/media/File:St...

Manganese also affects cholesterol.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3705654/
"a favourable influence of manganese was shown which effected a decrease of the cholesterol content of serum, liver and aorta and inhibited the entry of lipids into the aorta. The influence of the manganese on various enzymes as well as a manganese-copper interaction are discussed as possible causes." Manganese is one of those minerals in constant decline from birth when Reactive Oxygen Species starts, before then we all get about 9months to build up levels in the body, provided the mother is healthy and has an healthy diet.

And there isnt much discussion on the content of HDL.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-density_lipoprotein#Overv...

And on the point of macrophage accumulation, no mention of how vit K1 keeps calcium out of tissue which prevents elastic fibres from hardening and thus causing their own problems.

Thing is whatever science looks at can be portrayed in a positive or negative light.
Not surprising considering Nevermind is one of the best sounding albums of all time. I personally give Butch Vig a large part of the. refit for getting the best out of the band and really making an incredible album. Hard to believe it's the same band as Bleach.
This is the correct answer. The problem is the landlords and owners vote, which cause the restrictive policies on new housing.
From what I've read from managers of recruiters from FAANG companies is:

1) Recruiters at these companies are under a large amount of pressure to bring candidates in.

2) There is only so much time in the day

3) They feel all of their time must be spent on potential hires because of #1 and #2

4) No one likes giving bad news

I don't feel like any of these reasons excuse you from being a considerate human being. Ultimately, it happens because recruiters are never rewarded for being considerate. People who fail the interview process are treated like legal liabilities.
That even worse :/ I thought the whole point was to build affordable housing, not make more money.
And massive corporations who are extremely profit driven.

I was born in a very small town in California. They didn't want to become just another highway stop for shopping. They wanted to keep their small town flavor/community/charm.

So of course they made TONS of rules and roadblocks to stop "The wrong people" from building there.

It's now a highway stop with a bestbuy and the like....because it turns out that the massive corporate chains can pay people to sit there and jump through your hoops, but the smaller well meaning community developer will just say fuck it and move.
Why did you hire him?
Excellent point! Need to think about this affects what I was trying to say there.
I can add a few:

Intercom

Salesforce

Atlassian

Chrome store

Gong

MS Teams

Service Now

Adalo (sort of, a react component library)
He did pick Cuba! If I recall correctly he was flying from Hong Kong to Cuba and the US canceled his passport on the layover in Russia, stranding him there.
That's maybe the most wholesome xkcd I've seen.
If it isn’t falsifiable it isn’t science. I read enough of the book to realise that it isn’t what it claims to be.
I wish “affordable housing” meant “cheap to build housing” and not “subsidized housing”.
There might not be pressure, but you have to schedule time away from your current job to take interviews.
My recommendation is not letting your resume of today dictate your future career. If you want to be a front-end dev, then figure out a plan to learn the skills you need to get the experience you need to have the career you want. Don't give up on your desires just because there is a learning curve to get there, even if it does feel daunting. Your future self will thank you for having gone through the trouble.

On the other hand, if you really don't like the idea of being a coder and would be making a change even if the learning curve was quick and easy... that is a good reason to go ahead and make a change.

Either way, step one is to decide what you want your next job to be. It is difficult to give good advice at this point because we don't know where you want to land, so all we can give is a generic path of: Identify skills gaps -> learn those skills -> apply for jobs.
Historically the penalties for grifting these programs are nothing in the vast majority of cases, if it's even discovered. The problem is a bunch of frontloaded vetting that is never followed up on.
$150/hour for a reliable and qualified electrician is a hell of a deal.
Exactly. Imagine ten people in various wealth from very poor to very rich - if you build a new better house for the richest, they can all move up like hermit crabs for not much comparatively- and the poorest house now opens up for someone who didn’t have one before.
haha C++ lifetimes go brrr
Can someone with more experience help me recognize the differences between this version and the released version? I'm having trouble hearing them.
There are multiple kinds of symmetry. In general they are characterized by a simple unit that is repeated and transformed in some way.

Mirror symmetry - this is what people typically think of when they talk of symmetry. In this case the base unit is mirrored along an axis producing a copy with its geometry swapped across the axis.

Rotation symmetry - here the unit is repeated by rotating it around an axis. Many plants and some animals like starfish exhibit rotational symmetry.

Translation symmetry - the unit is shifted along an axis one or more times. A chain shows translation symmetry.

Scaled symmetry - in this case the unit is scaled while repeated. A matryoshka doll would be an example.

Symmetries can be combined in various combinations like rotation+scaled (Nautilus)

One theory of why you see so much symmetry in biology is that it takes less information to build something using symmetry than specifying the whole directly. the genes of a centipede do something like specify "here is a body unit with legs" build more until a different gene says "stop". Even then, the gene specifing the body unit is more likely to specify "here is half a segment" and "stick a segment here and repeat that 4 times making each one smaller" to add the leg.

This repetition of units takes less information and results in lots of symmetry as the units are transformed across different axes of symmetry.

Fractals are another example of the repeating action producing repeating units with symmetry.
Fired after 2 weeks if they don't seem self directed? I have been at one place where I didn't even have my laptop in the first two weeks and multiple places where I did not have access to the codebase yet.

Most people except for a few outliers will be fumbling around the first month while they learn the code and the company.
Archive with full text of article: https://archive.ph/Ya1XT
I've been using FRP with Caddy instead and it's quite nice. FRP config is a bit clumsy and awkward but otherwise love it.

https://github.com/fatedier/frp

https://caddyserver.com/
I've been directly and loudly laughed at by a room of engineers for wearing a suit to an interview. People often get their hackles up about it, but we have a dress code as strict as any 1960s office, it's just a different set of clothes.
Where in California was your parents’ house built?
The only alternative is subsidizing people moving to California. Why bother doing that? If you leave it alone the property values will equilibrate to what you can reasonably support.
I like this metric as well. However, if you displace X number of lower income residents with your new fancy schmancy high dollar condos, just increasing the unit count does not allow the displaced residents to be able to afford to live where they currently were. More than likely, they will be pushed further away from city centers. This causes more burden especially if the new location places them at a distance that mass transit does not reach.
I have an upcoming all day interview with 7 different people... something like an hour each. The last time I interviewed for a new company had an on-site round robin process used where we interviewed with a lot of different management staff after initial HR interviews. I guess it's been this way for awhile.
No, you don't need to make any network call on every read with listen/notify. It will essentially be a local cache, working the same way as etcd watcher, using one postgres connection per machine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDyslexic

>Scientific studies
Two small studies have investigated the effect of specialized fonts used with students with dyslexia.
Rello and Baeza-Yates (2013) measured eye-tracking recordings of Spanish readers (aged 11–50) with dyslexia and found that OpenDyslexic did not significantly improve reading time nor shorten eye fixation.
In her master's thesis, Leeuw (2010) compared Arial and Dyslexie with 21 Dutch students with dyslexia and found Dyslexie did not lead to faster reading, but may help with some dyslexic-related errors.
The British Dyslexia Association recommend “plain, evenly spaced sans serif font such as Arial and Comic Sans.
Alternatives include Verdana, Tahoma, Century Gothic, Trebuchet”.

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>>'but may help with some dyslexic-related errors.'

To be precise.

Edit: Add >> Dyslexia : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslexia

For a more complete understanding of the reading disorder.
TR069 can do so much to routers as well, sometimes its better to switch it off, if the device allows it.
"Entropically more favorable to construct" was my first thought. If you have the option of a structure to do X with 8 copies of one molecule in a radially symmetric arrangement, and a structure to do X with 5 different molecules that have only a single possible arrangement, having a random assortment of those molecules in solution (or cytoplasm), you're a lot more likely to get working copies of the symmetric structure, and non-working copies of the particular structure. Think viral nucleocapsid self-assembly in cells.

The decreased coding required is a nice bonus, which probably contributes.
As a medical field outsider:

Instead of basic linear / bell/U curve type ways of describing impact of biomarkers, are new ways of describing complex biomarker relations emerging into the vernacular? e.g. optimums within clusters/sets of biomarkers