skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yea because we live in a place where everyone is super honest and no one is going to try and take advantage of that to make 500k a year.

You are right that there is more risk with this approach. I honestly think that its a better, more humane way to do things though. Anecdotally, I've hired a couple _really_ solid developers via this methodology. At least in my case, it's been working out well. As always, you try stuff and iterate.

> I'm an introvert, I suck at communicating orally.

I get it. So am I. Its actually very hard for me to reply to these comments b/c of my general aversion to putting myself out there! I don't think there's a one size fits all solution. At my company at least, being able to communicate effectively both orally and written, is important. We do a lot of pairing and documentation etc. Thats not for everyone. YMMV.
imaginary accounting isn't bounded by the consensus reality.

you could really paint the picture either way you like, given enough effort.
I wish I were that optimistic. I know we need to support and encourage the spirits of Ukrainians, but this is a phenomenal amount of damage caused. And not just infrastructure.

Rebuild and come back stronger is one possible path out of this. There are many others that are possible or likely.
shrug hiring the wrong person into an engineering role is incredibly expensive and painful for organizations with a long term outlook. It cancels out the productivity of at least one good engineer, and stresses out at least 3 people.

I've been a hiring manager before, and hiring good people is a huge time investment. The reality is that something like 99% of applicants aren't qualified, and the majority seemingly lack enough self-awareness to know it. The really good people also tend to be bad at marketing themselves. I don't think of interviews as a waste of time, though, even when it's a no-hire.
Maybe if California finally begins to fix it's housing issues the overflow to other west coast areas (E.G. Seattle, Portland (Oregon), maybe even Vancouver BC) as well as surely all the other cities will feel a tiny bit of relief. Though most of these places have their own similar issues (E.G. urban growth boundaries or just lack of practical space without increasing density near cities; and also see a recent comment in my history about 'dense' housing not built to quality of life levels that make it desirable to live in.) * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30823426#30825978
It's a red flag, but a punished one. Because if you're looking for jobs it's a race for the competing hiring managers. 7 interviews means these people will be last and getting the candidates that the other managers rejected.
I see. My DVDs were also fine, but I did stick to known brands, if memory holds.
It's hard to prove it's poorly planned because it's quite a job figuring what on earth Putin wanted to achieve but if he wanted to decimate his own army and have the whole world hate Russia he's doing pretty well.

(Update - I was curious about the source of those tweets and it turns out "Scott Ritter currently writes op-eds for Russia-state-controlled media, Russia Today RT" so maybe not the most unbiased source.)
Somewhat related, but I remember Ask Jeeves as being my first exposure to search engines. I had just gotten internet on my home computer and one of my parents friends came over and excitedly told me about “this website that will give you the answer to anything you ask”. I didn’t even know what to search for (I think I ended up searching “tallest woman in the world”), the idea of being able to quickly look something up and quickly get references was pretty foreign to me and now it’s hard to imagine life without the ability to do so.

Edit: whenever I see the Jenkins logo, I always think of the Ask Jeeves logo from back then
> The typical human cell has 46 chromosomes, in 23 pairs

Mitochondria have their own DNA, which is also sequenced.
Edward Snowden has already sacrificed far more than we can reasonably ask of anybody.
Building code regulations are expensive.
Reminds me of a fun video about speedrunning a battleship minigame in some Zelda title:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hs451PfFzQ
I feel like I'm some kind of outlier because I only had one interview for my first perm job, and a phone and in-person for the current one. But both are small companies (not startups, just not behemoths).

Then again I also feel like an outlier round here for not making 500k, so maybe I'm just a failure!
Where do you live? $40k in concrete will get you your concrete driveway in California.
a mind-rewiring video by numberphile concerning the golden ratio [0] made sense of all the spiral overlay art:

yes, plants use it because it is an optimal solution for minimizing overlap when sprouting leaves during growth, maximizing spatial coverage

but also, as a number that is least able to be approximated by rational, erm, ratios - it is a pattern that most closely approximates random patterns. So more than any other spiral, a fibonacci spiral has the highest likelihood of overlapping random points in 2D space... (and fibonacci series converges on the golden ratio because they are equivelent expressions of the continued fraction 1+(1/(1+(1/(1+(1/(1+(1/...

[0] https://youtu.be/sj8Sg8qnjOg
The answer is complicated. The molar pregnancy which CHM13 was made from had two copies of one man's X chromosome and, separately, the project sequenced another man's Y chromosome.

https://www.science.org/content/article/most-complete-human-...

The genome’s Y chromosome came from Peshkin, and the rest of the DNA sequenced by the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium comes from a so-called molar pregnancy, a uterine growth that results on rare occasions when a sperm enters an egg that has no chromosomes. The fertilized cell can copy the sperm’s 23 chromosomes, creating two identical sets, and begin to replicate.

The question remains open of whether the owner of CHM13’s genome could be identified using public DNA sequences in genealogy databases. Phillippy thinks not because CHM13’s genome only represents one-half of that person’s DNA. Even if it were possible, NHGRI officials argue it would be unethical to reveal him for any reason, including to get consent.

Because CHM13 has an X chromosome but no Y, the T2T Consortium added Peshkin’s DNA
Which party?
By now, it has become standard terminology in the research community to use the phrase "terahertz radiation" to mean EM waves between 0.1-10 THz (although some people prefer 0.3-30 THz, and there are also other options out there). There is no uniform and universally agreed-upon definition. But the bottom line is this: the term is never used to refer to infrared (e.g., 100 THz) or visible light (e.g., 500 THz).

This part of the spectrum has previously been lumped into the "far infrared", and sometimes called "submillimeter waves", and in the old old days was called "mega-mega cycles". The reason that there is so much confusion about the terminology to describe this spectral range is that it lies outside of the purview of both optics people and RF engineers. It is the "in between" region, which until recently was unfamiliar to most scientists. So there has been a lot of borrowing terms from different communities going on, and these communities have often not coordinated with each other. It's a bit of a mess, but we live with it.
> "Our results suggest that some sexually transmitted parasites, such as T. gondii, may be correlated with appearance and behavior of the human host."

But that is a different statement. They say that they found correlation and there may be causation. You say there may be correlation, a much weaker claim.

> Considering this example again - isn't it arbitrary that the authors get to choose which hypothesis (among many, like attractive people being predisposed to own cats) they get to claim "may" be demonstrated?

Of course it is arbitrary. But that was their hypothesis and you have to start with some hypothesis, no? They gathered data to establish correlation between the infection and attractiveness. They didn't gather data for anything else, so I think it's pretty reasonable to say we found correlation and further research might be interesting to see if there is causation.

Literally the next sentence says "Taken together, these results lay the foundation for future research".

If you go beyond the abstract and into the actual article, they are pretty careful to just list possibilities for the observed correlation. They certainly could have stated that it might just be spurious correlation there, but I don't blame them too much. These articles are supposed to be concise and not verbose and especially the abstract is supposed to be as concise and short as possible.

I agree with your general premise and the linked article though. It should be a given to consider that and ideally also state it in the article.
>doesn't touch upon... it's a lot harder to have a unified "strong" and "assertive" democracy when we buy oil from Russia and cheap electronics from China.

The article's sentence "Trading with autocrats promotes autocracy, not democracy." heads a relevant discussion.

I was once shocked to learn how cozy was the relationship between the US and Nazi Germany before WW2. It ran deep. True 'Autocracy' ... 'Government by a single person having unlimited power' seldom exists without the willing support of other powerful people. From there is fairly substancial evidence that some US powers helped to enable the Nazis... materially and philosophically.

That support suggests that our popular 'democracy' had already been under siege, from some powers within, for a long time. An ideal needing faith to be fully born, our well-devised 'framework of democracy' had always been and continues to be compromised by special interests. Today, all the surveillance is certainly evidence.
This really does not feel, like a honest exchange of ideas.

You are free to use any autosuggestion, you think is helpful. I simply shared mine. Good luck with yours.
Well, some archived project is not so great either. The core functionality is not even a 20 line bash script since bash grew wait -n, though:

#!/bin/bash
if [ "${1-0}" -lt 1 ]; then # No arg / arg not a number >= 1
echo "Usage: $0 <N>"; echo "reads cmds from stdin, running up to N at once."
exit 1
fi
TMP=`mktemp -t stripen.XXXXXX`
trap 'rm -f $TMP; exit 0' HUP INT TERM EXIT
STRIPE_SEQ=1
while read cmd; do
jobs > $TMP # jobs | wc -l does not work
if [ $(wc -l < $TMP) -ge $1 ]; then
wait -n # Wait for 1/more jobs to finish
fi # Could accumulate total $? above, but would need to replace final wait.
STRIPE_SEQ=$((STRIPE_SEQ + 1))
( eval "$cmd" ) < /dev/null & # Run job in a subshell in bg
done
rm -f $TMP
wait # Wait for all to finish

and if bash ever grows some magic environment variable $NUM_BG_JOBS or you don't want auto-help or sequence numbers or etc. it can be even simpler.
As far as I know only Amazon has targets for “unregretted attrition.”
and yet neither
"A complete hydatidiform mole (CHM)"
+1 for the only solution providing consistent colors across various terminals without wasting your time (I chose noctu.vim).
This is an excellent explanation of why "GNU finds this acceptable".

Note that the citation message can also be easily silenced just by creating an empty file:

touch ~/.parallel/will-cite
> These small areas of hyper-convenience don’t exist without cars.

That's completely backward. Here are two different takes on how cities subsidize suburbs and rural areas.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/why-rural-america-needs-c...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI
I like your enthusiasm.
> you SHOULD have to jump through a lot of hurdles to prove you aren't a grifter.

Agreed, but I wonder if the hurdles that are currently in place are even remotely optimal.

Would it be funny if they were not, and no one really cared?
They're also info-compressed. You can re-use the same DNA for both sides. This means you have less meaningful information to maintain against random mutation pressure over time.

Symmetry is also challenging to maintain and very visible; any malformation is obvious. This is useful in showing health and genetic fitness to mates.

Many tasks are also inherently symmetrical, like locomotion. Evolving the two legs totally separately would be very error-prone and you'd never quite get it right. Having them both just be copies of the same structure is much cleaner and always efficiently completes the task.

Same for things like binocular vision, having ears that hear equally and so can easily echolocate, etc.
Landlords despise tenant protection laws. They’d rather just treat the place as an investment than deal with tenants that have rights.
Pretty much why I worded it the way I did - to bring attention to they potential hypocrisy or lack of standards around calling people racist based on a concern (traffic, or claiming racism) that does not display racism. So yeah, my calling the accusation racist is only as founded as the author's, which is essentially based on stereotypes and supposition. In my case, that supposition is that the person making the accusation must be relying on the race of the person raising the traffic issues in calling them racist.
I actually started working on that with some of my friends, here's a link:
https://github.com/Carbocarde/games

We were planning on eventually making it into a website and doing a leaderboard.

The program works by having agents that write to stdout and a game that reads from stdin. That way we can kinda avoid some of the security issues around running untrusted code.

Still has a lot of work to be done before it's ready to simulate battleship :)
Not always. In the past governments built large amounts of housing.

In Canada the CMHC used to get affordable housing built on a massive scale, but now it’s mainly just mortgage backing for banks.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Mortgage_and_Housing_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda_Constructor
9 "conversations" over how much actual time? 30 mins isn't a lot of time to get a good impression and ask all you need to. If you're telling me that those nine will be conversations then I would decline as you ain't wasting my time.
Living in Japan, I have always said "ma-me", but it turns out that it should be "maim":

"On December 24th, 1996, Nicola Salmoria began working on his single hardware emulators (for example Multi-Pac), which he merged into one program during January 1997. He named the accomplishment by the name of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, or MAME for short (pronounced as the word 'maim' in English, other languages may differ). ..."
I wonder what these performance expectations are.
I have a related issue with my address book and calendar. I have always been diligent about putting birthdates in my address book. iOS/macOS does the right thing and shows me the birthday on the calendar. Every day, one of my favorite activities is to look at my calendar and think about birthdays for the day or the coming days and send greetings.

I am 50. I have experienced a normal, I think, number of deaths among friends and family. At least once a month I will be reminded of a birthday for someone who has passed away. I am not always happy to be reminded at that moment. I don't think there is a straightforward way for me to tell the address book that this person is no longer alive. I also don't want to remove that data from the person's entry.

As we get more of these digital agents in our lives, they will have to be designed with a little more thoughtfulness.
I feel like one thing that is often not said enough is that solving housing solves a lot of things for fucking everyone. When everyone isn’t dying to rent or get a house, then you get more sane prices and inventory everywhere. This literally the most important issue in America because it is simply the largest cost for every single American across all classes.
There is a snake version of this called Battlesnake https://play.battlesnake.com/

Did it while I was in university. I even won one of the categories one year.
I'm not sure what you mean? Are you suggesting that companies shouldn't avoid hiring unqualified people that generate less value than their cost on average?
Just a fun technical note:

CLIP would be possible with any language and vision encoder.

It turns out that transformers were the most efficient encoder choices available at the time but most likely the approach would have given interesting results with a resnet and some sort of convolutional language encoder. In fact the paper has a resnet as one model for the vision side.
Does Vietnam have tornados?
The diagram of the EM spectrum at the top has a very confusing section on the left where ranges of frequencies are labeled 'infrasound', 'perceptible sound' and 'ultrasound'. They have nothing to do with the ability of the corresponding radio waves to be modulated to transmit sound signals, but are literally just marking off the frequencies that correspond to those ranges in sound waves, over a diagram of EM frequencies.
> generic backend principles are very easy to spew correct answers for without actually knowing how to code

I'm not sure I agree with this. IMO trying to get someone to explain the ins and outs of a particular facet of the technology your team works in is less effective than getting a sense of how a candidate architects their code and manages complexity. That type of "art more than a science" craftsmanship is not something you can easily fake in my experience. Maybe I'll be proven wrong. We shall see. So far I've had pretty good luck with the approach and gotten some really great teammates.
living in fear of my name becoming a byword for some unpleasant stereotype person in 20 years

no i'm not telling you what it is :(
For context, Viasat is a satellite ISP based in the US and Russia attacked and disabled some of their user terminals at the start of the war, not just inside Ukraine but all over Europe.
> I anecdotally recall studies that found organizations with greater diversity deliver better financial results, and that public companies have a responsibility to their shareholders.

If diverse boards do better it's because you have to be doing very well already to do something as stupid as picking board members for their sexual orientation.
> French engineer Albert Mathieu-Flavier first proposed a subterranean link between Britain and France in 1802, suggesting the creation of an artificial island in the English Channel for trains to change the horses that would be required to pull the carriages.

I wonder if there are right-hand-riding horses and left-hand-riding horses, i.e. horses that are used to galloping on one particular side of the road.
> Many US cities have large stocks of older housing in moderate condition

and which is already occupied. In order for housing supply to keep up with demand, it needs to increase, hence new construction.
DigitalOcean does.
I presume most people here are aware that sound waves are different from electromagnetic waves.

To transmit audio you have to encode it into electromagnetic radiation, transmit it and then decode it to reconstruct the audio.

You might have noticed that the audio transmitted on lower frequencies or longer wavelength sounds worse. AM (medium wave) sounds pretty bad, long wave sounds even worse. Even lower and you can’t make out speech anymore, it’s no longer possible to usefully transmit sound.
What’s going on here? Is this related to an auto-title generator or something?
I'm not sure I've seen evidence that they don't see them as fully human?
The first digital audio laserdiscs I bought were in/around 1986. They used AC-3 encoding (later known as Dolby Digital 5.1) but were recorded as an RF signal onto the discs, because the format was analog. You needed a decoder to turn it into discrete channels, which a few receivers had. But most often you would get an external box, like the Yamaha DDP-1
let older housing filter down to "affordable" levels

That's the theory. The practice is that much of the "older housing" is by now 50 or 60 years old, twice the design life, and at some point renovation is just not economical any longer, you are looking at a teardown and rebuild.

That meme tells more about the profession of economics as taught in schools and universities. It doesn't tell you how the world works, but it provides support for the way things are. There's that old cartoon with a royal and a priest, and the royal turns to the priest saying "you keep them stupid, I keep them poor." That's applied economics.
Google has chosen a business model that makes it too expensive for them to provide decent customer support.

It's unclear why that's a defense. There are other business models.
I think the distinction in this case is that software is not an emergent property that directly arose from the mechanisms of circuits.

Neurons are different than circuits, as their chemistry and physiology does change with various inputs. That's actually how a decent portion of the computation happens.

My disagreement is with the fundamental assumption that the brain is just hardware on which the software of the mind runs. This is not accurate at all, the chemistry and physiology of the brain is everything
The article kinda says the opposite: that even when symmetry gives the organism no particular advantage, it still tends to get used because it's easier to code in the DNA.

That doesn't mean there will be no counterexamples ever. Sometimes asymmetry gives an advantage so it's worth the extra coding.
The end result of that is that low income housing doesn't get built and market rate housing that doesn't have unnecessary and burdensome regulatory requirements gets built instead.

> usually in special variance of zoning that the rest of us have to abide by

The solution is to remove the zoning in the first place, not add more requirements to get an exception to it.
Yea, that's confusing, despite not being wrong. It is a juxtaposition of two completely distinct phenomena on one graphic, which is confusing, for sure. But the whole article is about EM waves, not sound waves.

Sigh.
>Yes, I want more from Snowden.

Why though? We didn't do anything with what he gave us. He gave up a normal life to give us all of the evidence we needed to prove all of the things we always suspected and... crickets. Nothing changed. Neither party cares, they both call him an enemy of the state. Even Trump with his fake war against the Deep State, didn't pardon him when he had the chance.

Turns out, we didn't deserve Snowden.
“Bucha is looking like the new Srebrenica”
>'low-information' ways to build larger structures.

And I assume that these low-information ways are more likely to emerge by random chance, because you have to get fewer bits right?
I had a different experience. A good fraction of the CD/DVDs burned 10-20 years ago won’t read. At least not trivially.
I'm not sure I could agree with that. What I could agree with is a statement that live events can alter our epigenetic regulation mechanisms which impacts our neuronal chemistry which can alter our thought processes and behaviors.

At the end of the day its still chemistry, and at the end of the day chemistry is still physics, and as far as I've learn physics is deterministic. We can't separate our conscious experience from these underlying mechanisms because our entire existence is based on their rules. The brain is not a construct on which the software of the mind runs, it is the mind.
Gemini is one of such simplistic standards.
Ok as a band-aid, but doesn't create any market pressure to provide an alternative.
Does every small museum create their own format? If so, how did they do this, and can that person output data to your specification?

If there are software providers that output the data, maybe you can standardize on their format.

You can focus on servicing the long tail and still will need to prioritize.