skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Largely to blame for the fall of public web forums is moderation. It always boils down to moderation. Moderating forums is not an easy task. I used to be a forum moderator 20 years ago for 2D MMORPG forum, I have difficult time to moderate a forum that have over 20k registered users with over hundred sub-forums. With moderation team, it is still difficult to moderate professionally and clean.

Majority of the moderation are volunteering position, meaning they don't get paid to moderate those sites. Reddit plagued with this issue, there are power mods that moderating 50 or 100 subs. The reason for that because no one else want to moderate the subs since it requires time investment.

Moderation is always and a thorn on their site for many forum/discussion sites. When Elon Musk announced their consideration creating a new social media platform, I always think of how they will manage the moderation part in those platforms? Look at other small social media platform like Truth, Gab, Parler. Common issue with those sites is moderation.
I’m not talking about processor temperatures. The temperatures I’m talking about are ambient/enclosure temperatures. So, the board, and all integrated components will be at least that ambient temperature, and they’ll work without any transient errors.

Also this means, no solder joints or any other component won’t act funky.

A transient error in your GPU is a one pixel blip. In an ECU, that’s a power loss event in best case.
Something feels odd about this article, like the examples don't really make the point or the framing is off or something.

I guess I would try and rephrase as "you want to work way X and your manager wants you to work way Y." I think you have three basic options: say yes, say yes with reservations, say no and quit/get a different manager.

There are all kinds of culs-de sac this odd formulation leads us down: who's right, is this a subjective relationship problem or an objective performance/personality problem, etc.

I guess I would add that, if you're a manager and something like this happens to your team members, try and take care of everyone? There isn't always a solution that does that, but the article outright says only the team member pushing for higher performance should lump it. It feels better to make everyone lump it equally haha.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220330202804/https://www.nytim...
my first experience with apple support came via the black macbook. One day a giant bubble appeared on the outside of the lid it grew and then eventually popped leaving a glossy black layer exposed under it. At that time most people took their laptops to an authorized computer store not apple store - i did- and they refused to do anything because it was physical damage. I was young and didn't complain - just went home and was sad. About a week later someone from Apple called and said they would ship me and new one if I'd agree to send them the damaged one. I agreed, week later a new laptop showed up, I sent the old one right to apple HQ in my country.
Love it! Congrats!
I'd be interested in whether solving them via brute force would be faster or slower than any AI-based technique. A first glance at the problem would say no, but if you started in from each corner sequentially then it shouldn't be into the billions.
>I've never understood why so many programmers and sysadmins feel the need to go straight to the Mac without considering any other option.

One reason I like my Mac is because the number of options is so limited. More or less, all modern Macs are pretty good. Solid machines, good OS, good long-term support, few surprises. Just pick your price range.

Chromebooks? Well, I'm glad you found one that you like, but from what I've seen of others' choices, it's a bit of a mixed bag. Some are okay, some are great, some are crappy, and there isn't necessarily a good cue (like price) to tell the difference.

I've done laptop Linux in the past (well, Linux and various BSDs), and the top recommendation for any problem you have with it is to change distros. When I was 26, okay, yeah, I liked doing that. I'm well and truly over that now. I'm aware that it's a heck of a lot better these days, but even so, it still seems like a bit of a moving target.

Another thing in Apple's favor is their hardware is quite good. The $600 Chromebook will be worth zip in a year, while I could probably get a significant percentage of the sticker price for my Macbook. Not that I'd sell it, because my previous 2011 Macbook lasted (with some upgrades) as my main axe for a decade. That's not nothing.

I think the sysadmins and programmers aren't just moo-mooing like cattle when they go for the Mac. They often have particular and very good reasons. E.g., in my case, I'd rather go back to a clay tablet and pointy stick than give up BBEdit.
This is a lot easier to say when you're established in the industry and you have a "feel" for interviewing. When you're breaking in, you have to learn all the computer science shibboleths and industry jargon before people will take you seriously as a candidate.
You don’t “believe” in physics, you understand there is some truth to it based on direct evidence. Belief is accepting something to be true on the foundation of faith—not having direct evidence.

“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” - Hebrews 11:1 (ESV)
Given that they want to be taken seriously as a major social media network and public company, you'd think they'd actually do some development of their own rather than just copying another project.
There was definitely a period over the last five or so years where Apple went back to largely trading on their name and macOS, for laptops. With the M1 they're now firmly back in the realms of shipping significantly better hardware than the rest of the market. The M1 Pro MacBooks are ridiculous - fast, silent, and the battery will comfortably last 10 hours unless you're compiling software non-stop. Throw Apple's industrial design, which is back on form, on top of that and you've got a great machine. The fact it doesn't actually costs significantly more than an equivalently powerful Intel laptop is icing on the cake.
When NeXT launched their first machine back in the late 1980's, it came with a spreadsheet 2.0 called Lotus Improv. It used what we now call pivot tables as the first class data representation. I never used it but the demos looked very cool.
I did the original conversion of the text into HTML and it was certainly before 1999 and I'm pretty sure before erowid existed. One of the first resources for this kind of thing on the internet was an ftp site that I ran in 1991 or so. Eventually Brian Behlendorf set up hyperreal.org and I think at some point all the information was fed into that, and then later that got all folded into erowid.

Dark mode was actually pretty common in the mid-90s, then some idiot popularized the notion that black text on white background was easier on the eyes and more familiar for non-computer users and that nonsense continued for about 20 years (old CRTs were all white/yellow/green on black, stuff like xterminal displays often emulated their color schemes, it seemed like windows and mac was mostly where the white background was coming from -- lots of websites were the plain grey default background initially, but I remember black backgrounds being much more popular in the early web until they were nearly run out of existence).

Oh wow, the archive.org site is the original HTML that I did. Yeah, so 1999 was probably when I flipped it over to erowid after leaving UW or something like that.
Those 14" Pros have been known to go on sale for $1750 USD at some larger electronics retailers in the US! I just grabbed one myself.
Skepticism is good, but not to be confused with dismissiveness! Intentional curation and omitting topics you don't care about from your information diet is healthy.
Then software can detect it's moving.
As a Romanian I visited Lviv a few years ago. There were some disaster potholes right past the border. It took 1 hour to go through say, 10km with a small car. Unless those roads get fixed, I expect only military or otherwise rugged trucks to be able to pass quickly. Otherwise, you'd need a lot of trucks to get a significant flow of goods.

Example:

https://www.google.com/maps/@48.0388842,22.9469939,3a,75y,33...
It is definitely a hedge against fiat currencies. People are losing faith in central banks self control to not run the money printers full speed.

Crypto is also way easier to transact compared to ACH and wire transfers. No need to interact with a bank whatsoever to move as much money you want to whoever you want.
If your data consists of a long complicated pipeline, there might be some useful UX coming out of shader graphs systems from computer graphics. Shaders transform data in a functional way and you can build large graphs that also clearly show the inputs and outputs of a transformation. This might be easier to debug than a spreadsheet. Any point in the pipeline can be output to a visualizer in this way.

It would make debugging, understanding and inspecting the dataflow easier, but it would probably make browsing the output a bit harder so I can't say it's an obvious slam dunk. Might be interesting though.
The key is that the first and last letter of each word are in their original positions, which is what makes it easy for the person to decipher the text.
The jet black iPhone 7 was also so insanely scratch-prone that Apple suggested you keep it in a case at all times if you don't want it to scratch[1]

I remember seeing reports of people who had micro-scratches all over the back of the phone after a day of use, just from keeping it in their pocket.

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/9/7/12836762/ip...
I used my Pi 400 as my daily driver for about 6 months. I loved it... until they released the new version of Raspberry Pi OS that has some issues for me.

And now that the COVID restrictions have lifted for the most part, I wish I could bring it with me to work from coffee shops.
There's still the selection bias of who volunteers to do these mock interviews. Probably its the people who want practice interviewing and at dropbox those are the top performers who want to "move up" to a Google, while at Google it's the people who aren't cutting it and know they are going to have to find another job soon.
The article actually does not explain why black macbook costs more.
I cannot take any of this seriously.

- First of all, it assumes that `interviewing.io` is some sort of certification standard (which I'm willing to bet is the actual point of publicizing these 'studies' in the first place. It's 'fact' manufacturing)

- Then there's selection bias about engineers actually using one platform vs the other

- Touting the data set size in order to give the 'study' some credibility is a red flag for me. You can analyze millions of the same technical interview and deduce all sorts of conclusions.

- The use of 'best performers' is deceitful. It means 'best performers in the interview context'. But using it in the context of where do they work, it implies something like 'the best performing engineers are at company X'. Which is bullshit. More like 'best trained engineers to pass these interviews work at company X'.

Garbage. I'm flagging this as it's nothing more than self-serving marketing.
It is very coloured towards the "you're slacking off and slacking off is bad" part. Maybe people have just found their optimal efficiency and are being paid for the work they actually contribute, instead of what it looks like they're achieving when they have to pretend to work at 100% efficiency for 8 hours in an office envionment? If the company isn't satisfied with the results of labor, it is its responsibility to raise the issue with the employee and renegotiate terms. It's not "checked out", its providing exactly the value of work that you're paid for, but without the corporate bullshit.
As a frequent Chromebook user, Google does a lot of work on the touchpad drivers to make it a pleasant experience that you don't usually see outside Apple.
At least they left in the "Unemployed" category.
Interesting concept, re: embedding it in a PDF.

Yes, the mechanics/mudlib are a bit sparse. It's stacked on top of a ~terminal JS library, but all of the ~MUD behavior is hand-rolled. It's a bit LP/LD-family-esque, but I've tried to completely exclude as many concepts (health, heartbeats, resets, classes, etc.) as I can get away with.

(Though, if I abstract out and publish the ~game/mudlib layers at some point, I don't think I'd be opposed to it accumulating some features beyond my own golden path.)
Some of these security/safety techniques are intended to be primarily used in debug kernels precisely because the overhead is too high. For example, the most recent kernel 5.17 added a feature called page table check which adds extra consistency checking to operations that modify the page table. The overhead is high enough that probably no one is going to run with page table checks on desktop kernels or in production, but having the feature there is useful for developers who want to run additional checks against their changes. Think of it like asan: no one really runs asan binaries in production, but being able to build asan binaries for testing changes is still very useful.

I'm not sure the exact overhead for IBT so I'm not sure whether this is the case for this feature. But in general not all of these safety features are intended to be built into production kernels.
I thought the primary issue was lose of oil-based fertilizers impacting the magnitude of the crop everywhere else in the world.
Can confirm, same issues with SFP+ on my UDM-Pro. The software updates for this thing have been so bad the last year, incredibly buggy, it's infuriating.

My current favorite was the update to the AP Pro APs that broke everything if you were using a wireless uplink (I was using one to bridge a semi-decent signal to my garage). Clients connected to that AP had zero connectivity to anything else, despite the Controller saying "all good!"
> Internet traffic overwhelmingly goes to fresh content everywhere.

A lot of information on Wikipedia is permanently valid and doesn't need to be "couple of days old" fresh. Same for many hobbyist websites from the past
For sure. There are of course other ways to meaningfully contribute to this boost in productivity as well (e.g., strong async comms) but eventually at some point you need to make a _good_ decision _fast_ — you need context for that.
My Dell Precision 55XX works fine with Ubuntu, everything is supported. For example I have two 4k monitors at HiDPI... which I've been using for over five years, despite frequent mentions on this site that it doesn't work.
Or maybe this is a signal to short dropbox, since so many of their high performers are interviewing?
To me what the site calls claymorphism looks like Playskool design/Windows XP but taking it further.
I agree, but say more about what you mean here.
> The old practices are just not good enough.

True, but also think about the path dependence of the old companies. They have withered a lot of ups and downs, they are not the innovators, they are the very slow incrementalists that despite this release a new boring model every few years dressed up as the new best thing ever. (If you have seen a car from one manufacturer you have seen them all from them for the past decades too.)

The whole car industry is a relatively high volume & low margin & medium risk business. (The unit economics is great, but any risk kills profitability, so there was a lot of consolidation and convergence.)

Basically the car industry is like the "iphone industry" except there's some actual price competition and worse fundamentals, plus Apple is relatively young (and Steve set up a pretty high pace, and expectations, plus the fundamentals of the components - eg. semi industry, radios, displays - are really moving forward, whereas internal combustion engines, and the material science of other car components are not).
That's them acknowledging that they haven't built anything novel or interesting, the just copy/pasted another project and expect people to take them seriously as a major social network.
Scarily elegant.
Does...does Dropbox own interviewing.io?
> The point of the discussion seems to be that consensus isn't really needed for their use case, and it makes things complicated, so maybe get rid of it.

I mean, it isn't NY Times style lede buried in a wall-of-text 10-feet deep. It is right in the title, A foolish consistency... (:
I have to concede that actually is one of the use cases for cryptocurrencies or more concretely: stable coins.

I guess using cryptocurrencies make sense if you are completely left to your own devices and can't rely on the government for help.

I'm just worried how this will turn out long term:

- Is using a cryptocurrency run by a company registered in Hong Kong, backed by a bank on the Bahamas really that great of an idea?
- Are large parts of the population able to store their assets correctly. Are they storing their coins on their own wallets or are they using exchanges. If they use exchanges, does the government have an interest in letting them do whatever or are they imposing sanctions? If they store their coins in their own wallets, is the majority of the population able to properly secure their assets?
- Will mining operations have an impact on the existing infrastructure if it becomes to profitable. I can totally see mining operations by powerful individuals prioritizing their profit over a nearby town's electricity needs.

But most importantly: what will happen if the value of cryptocurrencies decreases or even crashes? I don't see regular people highly invested in crypto just walking away from a crash.
Thanks for the heads up, I'll check it out.
Any websites for list/fan pages of current/defunct food brands
Current or even websites that were shutdown will do. I can just search the shutdowns ones on WAYBACK machine but overall I’m having a really hard time finding the websites I’m looking for…
> It's essentially saying, we don't believe your degree says anything about your ability to perform the job.

I had a group project in 4th year university, in a very difficult math-heavy advanced graphics course, and my partner provided me with his half of the project and it was all global variables named A through Z, with a few A1,A2,AA,AB thrown in, and reused extensively for different purposes.

His code actually worked but it surprised me that someone could do 4 years of university (in a good CS school) but have almost no talent for actual coding.
I honestly don't care which company retains the best performers. Is none of my business. Maybe if you are an investor in these companies, might be a useful signal to know such trivia. But from a candidate standpoint, this page is super useful -
https://interviewing.io/recordings
I thought "self-hosted" meant zero cloud providers, i.e., running on a home server with a firewall.
I'm not sure that I'm the authority on describing current health insurance systems, and if I attempted to describe it here, I'm not sure if I would stand by it completely upon further investigation and reflection. My understanding is fuzzy.

If I were to read between the lines of your question, I can guess the direction you would want to go with this. My response (and you can treat this rhetorically) for that direction would be:

-What's your understanding of the definition of 'direct' vs 'indirect'?

-What's your understanding of the definition of 'rationing'?

-What's your understanding of the definition of 'immutable'?

-Are 'policies' and 'effects of policies' distinguishable concepts?

-Does 'cause' differ from 'effect' with your understanding of the concepts?

-Do humans have any control (i.e. free will) over their lives?
Having own both the black and white Macbooks around that time, the extra $50 (over the white version with the same drive space) was worth it for a wrist rest that didn't look like it stained as fast as the top case on the white MacBook.
Grain is shipped in large specialized dry bulk cargo ships. It’s a lot closer to ship from Ukraine to, say, Egypt than to ship from Australia or Canada or even India. If you ship your grain N times farther, you need N times as many ships to make the same number of trips. Those ships don’t exist or can’t be mustered on short notice, so you have to use some other kind of (less-specialized, less efficient and more expensive) shipping.

Even if you can manage to get all of the grain where it needs to go on new routes, the price of grain is going to go up substantially in places previously importing from Russia/Ukraine, and the logistical changes will cause second-order disruptions to other global shipping.
My strategy is simple: I do interview practice by simply interviewing with companies that I am not really interested in joining. That allows me to practice not only the technical interview but also all other steps involved.

Last time I interviewed, I did 7 of these interviews, targeting: startups, pre-ipo, mid public companies, 2 of the FAANG I would never work for ...

I did that while prepping for interviewing at the companies I was really interested in working for. And eventually it all worked out and got a few offers, of which two from FAANG of which one from one of the two FAANG I really wanted to join.
Reading this made me very happy. I was seriously scared and low thinking about 25% shortage of wheat. I hope this closer to reality than the 25% claim(short term considering fertiliser supply issue in the future?). This is the type of news I hope to read more often these days.
Re: "I find it so odd, Linux users overlooking the fact that people who don't tinker with computers all their life do not have the time to get Linux up & running."

Statement is a bit out of date, apart from a good PC, most Linux users don't even know they are using it.

I find it crazy people have apps running on their Macs and windows desktops that they can't even find out what it is doing, let alone how it works.

Thankfully we have a choice, each to their own.
This is barely an article. It's more of a question. Not what I expected.
ThinkPad Different.
I've heard similar accounts of MDMA losing effectiveness with folks who have used regularly for extended periods of time. I haven't experienced it myself but I try to wait at least 8-12 weeks between uses. I have a theory that for many people it comes down to the highly variable quality of what you get on the street. I buy all my stuff on the dark net and test it, and after figuring out a couple of other variables that have a big effect on me (mainly: timing of food consumption. I fast minimum 5 hours before a roll) I have had very consistent experiences. But the quality issue would certainly not be at play with the Shulgins so I wonder if there's something to the long term effectiveness stories.
I rarely ever have issues with AirPods since I upgraded from AirPods 1st gen. I wouldn't rely on them for Zoom calls, but they're pretty easy to deal with for listening to audio.
I disagree with this interpretation of the word belief. A belief may be founded in something, or it may not be. Unquestioning belief without evidence requires faith.

Belief is not a synonym for faith.