skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried, but my significant other refuses to touch github unless I attend yoga classes with her.

So I got one stale github issue for months now, which is, I don't want to do Yoga.
I bet she tells her classmates how reciprocity with an enginner isn't a solution if he has to go first.
I think all of this is reasonable and we'd probably have an interesting in-person discussion.

I think flight is a good comparison. Before human flight it was possible to speculate about the risks. The machines we built turned out to use shared underlying principles with birds, but ultimately we can do it differently. We can supply more power and as a result do things at a scale not present in the natural world.

Maybe it's the case that intelligence is a special case with special constraints, but I suspect it's not. As a result it makes sense for some people to try to solve alignment now because if it ends up not being constrained then by the time we need it, it'll be too late to figure out the problem.

Maybe we'll get lucky (like we did with nuclear weapons not being able to be made by any random person in their backyard), but I wouldn't bet on it.
The more variants there are, the less active work is required to EOL every variant. Let's be flavor accelerationists.
> No the west isn't hoping for a swift end.

WaPo link in the sentence you're calling out: "Ukraine-Russia talks stir optimism, but West urges caution"
Well, good. But some nuance is still lost here in my opinion.

> in historical-linguistic context it basically only applies to not killing Jewish people

This is your own framing. Perhaps you are a timelord or a 3000 yr old man? :)

There is weird stuff in the Bhagavad-Gita, bringing your own context to it is ill advised as you are likely to misread the text. I suggest, very politely, that this is what happened here - I have only heard such interpretations as yours from non native speakers with only a passing familiarity of the original text.

In other words, I'm glad we agree that a modern day rabbi would disagree with this but it is not as if a rabbi from 1000 years ago would say the commandment only applies to non-Jews. Nor would one from the time of Moses.

I don't know where you got this notion. It doesn't matter. Ask someone knowledgable if you are interested.
No, it's all about everyone. If I hire a person and fire them in less than a year, that's almost always because of a performance problem that's impacting the team or the org. If you're the one being fired, you probably left a job or didn't take some other job to work with us and now you're going to be unemployed. Additionally, as a hiring manager, I too am a human who wants to enjoy my job and have positive experiences and firing people sucks. It always sucks. It takes a toll on you.

Filtering early is best for everyone. If that means more rounds of interviews to be sure, that's what I'm going to do. I do my best to schedule around candidates and I'm forthcoming about the process during the first call but we try hard to be thorough because we want this to work well for everyone. Would you rather be hired and then fired quickly because we didn't realize there was a misalignment? I wouldn't.
So you’ve been close to one person getting fired? How do you have an opinion on the PIP process or firing at all if you have next to no experience with it?

I knew a guy at a FAANG who earned himself and his report a PIP for the grave sin of choosing the wrong deputy to send upstairs while he was on vacation. The deputized person went to one meeting and ran his mouth (arguably, told the truth). Both are no longer at the company.

PIP politics are absolutely routine in FAANG and if you’re arguing the other side you don’t know. FAANG is actively trying to fire or replace you at all times. I’ve worked at two so I can’t speak for three, but I’ve also worked for the two in that older acronym that you’d think of as the “nicest”. People read that that and probably hear me saying “giant evil entity is out to get you”, but it’s really middle managers cosplaying Kings Landing in the office, mostly unchecked, that does it.

Seriously; people want to work at a FAANG/MAMAA or whatever so they often assume it’s good. I had someone ask me if I noticed how light my calendar was now that the org considered me irrelevant. There’s an idea that FAANG is a bunch of nerds with glasses cooking up cool shit in a Zen commune with ambient drone music but it’s honestly some of the worst office politics I’ve ever seen across what is now two careers, and the PIP process is a big tool in that kit.
I know it's not what GP is asking for, but you can also integrate RetroArch with Steam - it's on the Steam store. My kids can play steam games and emulated games now without having to run or figure out two systems. Also a high powered PC plays certain games much better.

The drawback to RetroArch is that the UI is non-intuitive and it's a bitch to configure.
You know, this was something everyone should have thought about before giving Russia billions in trade surpluses by deindustrializing the West's economies.

I just checked http://stopgas.org/en/, it's still turning over.
I've pushed some minor css that will prevent from select text when dragging points around
I know it's uncool to take the contrary view on this, but I've had enough bad trips from ludicrous fleeting thoughts...

Actually dying seems like the worst possible "set and setting" if it goes bad

I don't think we really have the tools to know how it will affect a person, and it's a bit risky imho.

(Fwiw, although I don't imbibe anymore and it's been somewhere around a couple decades, I do think it's a personal choice, and should definitely be available to someone on their deathbed. I am just saying I'd personally abstain, especially in that situation)
C# probably. Though I enjoy Typescript and Python as well.

C# has generics, exceptions, is the birthplace of async/await, has LINQ, an unmatched standard library, a great build system and package management system, is open source, cross platform, fast..

It doesn't compile to a single native binary unlike golang which is a bummer. But 95% of my software ships as a container so this isn't too big of deal for me. The MS-provided base images are really good too.
And how much of that complexity is truly needed? Or is that another one of the lies proferred by its financiers?
But note that it works both way. People will scream at you for not believing in the status quo from testimony, even if we know from history that humanity believes for centuries have been bonkers in a lot of areas.

"How can you not believe that vaccines are the solution to COVID ?" Is a question that for most people, imply more faith than knowledge.
Do not blame social breakdown and failed economies, first and foremost blame yourself.

It is not difficult to get high paying jobs. I also don’t understand what loyalty has to do with anything. I’ve not been loyal to any company and have only gotten better and better jobs with ever increasing salaries.
Thanks, and best of luck to you as well. Based on all these nightmare stories I'm hearing I'm half tempted to start a "island of misfit toys" consulting company. Seems like a lot of amazing talent going to waste in the pursuit of being trendy or feigning sophistication
Maybe it's normal for FAANG companies, but FAANG companies aren't normal!
Then continue the fever dream nightmare that is the car dealership.
I tend to think that the ROI for large legacy codebases is in static analysis and instrumented tooling like the sanitizers.

I’m grudgingly coming around to the idea that Rust is probably a rock-solid FFI story away from being a serious part of my kit (pybind11 good, not like anything we have now).

But there is this in-between place where first-class linear/affine typing could be bootstrapped off of move semantics.
The "Clocks" app ships with GNOME and is written in Vala. Also "Boxes".

But you are correct in that it doesn't appear to have been widely adopted.
Totally.

Or the interviewer felt insecure and threatened by their competence. If that's the case, they dodged a bullet.
I can't imagine what you've been through. If anything happened to my kids I don't know how I would be able to continue on.
18 USC 1001, plus others. Mail fraud would be one vehicle. Also conspiracy.
Do you generally have this mindset because you are very successful or is there another track record element I'm missing? I don't recognize the username and wanted to understand your response better.
But with being hired you get paid.

If employers with lengthy interviews want to pay people for their time that would be fair.
youtube is a platform with billions of monthly users, scaling personal support is quite a difficult task

MKBHD made a video today that properly highlights this kind of issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cw-vODp-8Y
I'd like the OP to answer, because this argument is pretty much usable for most FOSS licences, not specifically MIT.

Besides, legally, you should know all the licences of all your dependancies, and pulling that out is usually scripted in big shops.

So given the strong aversion demonstrating in the comment, I'm expecting something different.
Previous discussions:

2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19393432

2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23781400
As long as they're screwing over regular folks. Mess with other rich people and all bets are off. E.g. Elizabeth Holmes.
You can do what you love but does what you do love you back? Clearly not if it makes you destitute.
> Hiring a brain surgeon is high stakes. I don’t know a lot of software positions where it is true.

Arguably it's not.

But if I think I'm doing a guy a favour by 'giving them a chance' and hiring them when they're marginal, and they quit a stable job and move across the country, then I fire them? In that case I didn't do them a favour by giving them a chance.
It is somewhat easy to cheat through these N+1 interviews by grinding tons of practice problems before. At least that was my strategy. Sure I can implement DFS or a linked list, but I am a pretty suboptimal developer, especially when working with huuge codebases.

Maybe they should ask to implement a feature or fix a bug in some huge OSS project. That would evaluate skills relevant for a job in FAANG more closely imho.
I will accept a veto but only if the interviewer can explain it sufficiently. I think it's important to trust but it's also important prevent abuse from bias. (Someone who abuses interview vetoes is likely a poison pill themselves and that's something I have to deal with as a manager.)
Sometimes products cost more to produce so an increased price is based on that.

Even for products that are already overpriced, not just merely expensive by nature.

Other times a more highly overpriced product is desired for sale.

Then specs or (sometimes otherwise hidden) features can be nudged upward to be perceived as justifiable premiums.

As long as an appropriate portion of those having higher disposable funds can appreciate that.
Okay, that makes a huge difference lol. I always felt like the project seemed pointless and unsuccessful, but a free os that can run existing NT drivers is exciting.
Sociopaths are frequently great employees. Psychopaths are bad news, but some of the best people I’ve ever worked with were total sociopaths whose goals aligned with the organization’s.

I actually there’s quite a few “ethical” sociopaths who don’t care about anything but success but aren’t willing to hurt people or break laws to do so. They don’t have empathy toward people but accept that not hurting people will advance their cause.
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If you practically can, sure. But you can't practically distinguish between all the 140 million people in Russia regarding sanctions. If you are dealing with one particular person, by all means, do make appropriate distinctions.
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I know exactly the sound you mean, and I hear it all the time in other media too. You can hear it repeatedly starting at 1:19 in this video: https://youtu.be/GQnuj5QsJFE
If you aren't familiar with Andrew Sullivan, would recommend skimming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Sullivan
> each codebase will use a completely different set of bazillion optional features making each codebase look like an entirely different language

The issue is each codebase has its own DSL?

That is pretty close to the case with all non-C++ langs: industry settles on a handful of frameworks which are syntactically similar but each has their own gotchas.
One of two things will happen, depending on whether a drug is inherently harmful or not:

1) if a drug is inherently harmful, its (ab)users will not be able to reach any influential position in society, and the stigma will stay

2) if a drug is not inherently harmful, a certain percentage of its users will reach influential positions and thus remove the stigma by being the proof of its harmlessness

For some drugs, like meth and heroin, 2) will most likely never happen. Those drugs are very hard to control and have a tendency to take over users' lives, rendering everything else in their lives irrelevant.

For other drugs, like marijuana, we are already seeing 2) happening in many countries around the world, including USA and European Union.
I agree that this is just dumb. We've lost our way.
Is this really a conspiracy? What if it is just a huge misunderstanding?

What if the real problem is that nobody understands the true nature of money?

What if the real problem is that nobody understands the significance of land?

Chartalism sounds close to the truth considering ancient egypt adopted a grain bank system which is a commodity standard that is not based around the control of the economy. After all, anyone who farms grains, can "print money" because grains themselves were money! If you want aristocracy to have power over the "legitimate" economy, i.e. the economy characterized by a high degree of specialization and quite specifically the division of labor, then having money that does not grow and shrink in accordance to people's activity, and exclusively obeys its holder, more specifically, those who earned their money in the past and have yet to decide what to do with it, is the easiest way to achieve that.

If you think about it, if the saver or land owner has complete authority over his money and land then he is transferring power from the past into the present and the future in a world that otherwise does not stand still, where growth and decay are par for the course.

Socially speaking, death is quite useful, it prevents the elderly from halting the progress of humanity. What if we put a stop to that? Now imagine a world where you need to acquire power once and keep it forever. Power doesn't die but humans do. Then suddenly, everyone will be encouraged to acquire power at all costs, the sooner the better. Everyone will be living their entire life in a rat race.
> evils committed historically

To be fair, many of the evils committed historically never ceased to be committed.
The definition is just saying that "<=" is reflexive. When it says it's "a homogeneous relation on a set P that is reflexive, antisymmetric, and transitive," the meaning of P being a set is that it's an object described by set theory, and sets come with a reflexive, symmetric, and transitive equality relation -- the "native" one that comes from the underlying logical theory. (ZFC is built on a first-order logical theory with two relations: = and ∈.)
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That's a great point, and one I'd totally missed. Thanks!
> What's changed my mind is realizing how often things that might be labeled as conspiracy theory actually happen.

Part of the reason this happens is that the people who are constantly peddling conspiracies say whatever they can spin together from today's news, even if it contradicts itself from one sentence to the next.

The Venn diagram of people who said COVID doesn't exist, COVID came from a lab to depopulate the planet, COVID is a ploy to steal Trump's presidency and COVID is just the flu is pretty much a circle. Now that one of these claims is getting some more serious consideration they go around saying "I told you so", patting themselves on the back and using their supposed early insight to add weight to the next round of fabrications, completely neglecting the fact that you would have had to ignore 95% of what they said. A coin toss would be a more credible source, but they were "right" so who cares anyway.

I don't want to speak for the conspiracy as a singular, but these clusters of conspiracies, most notably Q/anon, are just an amalgamation of weaponized cherry-picking, contrarianism and new-age gullibility, not to mention thinly veiled fascism.
Walk into a dealer and say "I will pay that price on the window, but on the condition you won't even try to upsell me in F&I." Aside from a minority of shady dealers, most regular car dealers will smile sweetly and tell you where to sign and who to make out the check to.

Tesla just formalizes this by forbidding negotiation. Some people like that. But historically people like to negotiate on big purchases. It's a game, how close to invoice can you get, etc. Can't really have it both ways.

And frankly, most people like to pick from inventory, too, and have options. Tesla doesn't carry inventory nor do they really have much in the way of options. They're catering to a niche. People who are okay with a limited selection and are willing to wait.
According to 538, polling in Russia is surprisingly reliable. It's definitely imperfect, but it's better than you'd expect.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/videos/is-putin-actually-popular...

They estimate the error at about -10%. An 83% approval rating is still pretty high even if you subtract 10%.
Yeah, he and a bunch of other talk show hosts and comedians. It's so cringy to watch. Other examples include Trevor Noah, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert, Fallon. Can't we get Carson, Letterman and Conan back?
YMMV, but it's actually quite difficult to get a PIP in many tech companies, and it's rarely if ever for lack of tech skills. The ones I've seen usually involve either motivation, output, or both plummeting to zero for extended periods of time due to burnout or a similar extended personal crisis.
If you get enough organizations onboard and people screaming on social media, you can convince people otherwise, as evidenced by the last two years. You've got large swaths of the supposed left now supporting things they used to fight against, those being racism, war, and censorship, and you are called a fascist or a bigot or a *phobe if you challenge them. (Or just downvoted to oblivion)

It just goes to show that most people don't base their beliefs on first principles and ideals but rather subconscious social cues and pressure. The US right wing has been taking advantage of this for decades with Rupert Murdoch and FOX leading the way, and it was only a matter of time for the left wing to join in.
That's a word, not a phrase
Heartily agree. There's some ineffable quality to vim (and before that, vi) that everyone should experience.
If I'll be accused of being grumpy for calling out some couch quarterback for bringing irrelevant arguments to squash down some developer's hopes and dreams, then so be it. You have to be really full of yourself to criticize someone's launch on HN so harshly. This community is famous for sharing kind feedback, with a few notable exceptions that now live in infamy (eg: Dropbox). A good question to ask yourself would be - "how did my Show HN post compare to this one?" If you haven't made one yet, then be extra kind and humble.
Our civilization is very not worth defending, hopefully my next simulation will bring a better universe
Stop saying shit like "open source windows". Not only does it undersell the accomplishment here but it is a low brow way to bring the wrong kind of heat and attention.

Michael should know better than to publish that headline. Is this what we should expect from phoronix for 2022 onward?
If anyone else went "wait, WTF? Surely it can't be..." on reading that post: I checked, and yes, it can.

Wikipedia:

> Although similar in appearance to compact discs or DVDs, early LaserDiscs used analog video stored in the composite domain (having a video bandwidth and resolution approximately equivalent to the 1-inch (25 mm) Type C videotape format) with analog FM stereo sound and PCM digital audio. Later discs used D-2 instead of Type C videotape for mastering. The LaserDisc at its most fundamental level was still recorded as a series of pits and lands much like CDs, DVDs, and even Blu-ray Discs are today. In true digital media the pits, or their edges, directly represent 1s and 0s of a binary digital information stream. On a LaserDisc, the information is encoded as analog frequency modulation and is contained in the lengths and spacing of the pits.
I have been trying for the past two years to bring our team's down from 2 + work sample to work sample + 1. All my effort has been stymied by an increasingly bureaucratic and "empowered" HR department that wants to standardize on 3 + work sample + test day company-wide. It's driving me insane just to keep the status quo.

We are not a FAANG, not in the US, do not and cannot offer SV salaries. They just do not understand one of the best things we can offer is less bullshit and a bigger chance for people with skills but not traditional backgrounds. So instead I have an endless line of young men who kind of know how to add a new JPA repository to a Spring application, and an MSci in some easy-to-get-an-EU-grant area, and we actually spend hours time on each one instead of asking them to code first.
The issue with LSD/psilocybin and ADHD is you can't take it everyday or even every other day because tolerance builds extremely quickly. I don't think there's a way you can time the doses where you'll have the focus benefits daily, but I could be wrong.
Is it too imaginative to presume some of these people are food-tasters ordering for higher-ups?
I think that’s because you are looking for a job at FAANG (well it’s MAAAN now but whatever)

Everyone wants to get to those so the process is as it is.

That’s what you get for trying to work at those companies.
Isn't that only at a handful of companies?
Eh I don't believe it is a million dollar hit. If it is then you have bad controls and bad process.

Google is optimizing for the wrong things. The reason Google has hard interviews is to minimize attrition and make everyone who passes the interview feel smart.