skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Soft drinks? Useless unhealthy pollution.

Bit of a false comparison. I have no problem with you drinking soft drinks, and I can do it myself in the moderation that I choose. However, if I want to live near a train station, odds in Germany are basically 100% that there is also a well-traveled car street there with all the accompanying problems. It's more like smoking in someone else's apartment and less like drinking sugar in someone else's apartment.

> Why have two rooms (bedroom+living room) if you can't be in both at once?

I mean you clearly don't even believe this yourself. Not sure if there's a point trying to explain how this comparison doesn't make any sense, either. It has nothing to do with the aforementioned hidden cost of >1 ton metal box transportation with an occupancy rate of one point something.
I use Dasung's newest models and, while I won't game on them, I got used to watching videos on it very quickly. There's no consistent stutter as with other models I've owned previously.
I watched my house being built. We'd visit the site pretty much once a week or every other week.

One day we showed up, and all of the electrical had been done. Power, internet, pre-wired home alarm, panels, the whole kit. Plumbing was the same way. One day, plumbing. (It uses that flexible plastic tubing internally, that has to go up fast.)

Did I see it being done? No. For all I know 50 folks showed up and wired it in a day. "2 man months". But, I'm guessing that's not what happened.

The most interesting anecdote from this is that I actually met one of the guys that did the work. He did, at least part of, the internet wiring.

Know how I met him? He was driving a dump truck delivering landscaping material. He liked the work better, I guess his family owned the hauling business.

I don't know what he was getting paid to route CAT 6 cable, but, apparently, all told, driving a dump truck is better.
Sorry but your response is a No True Scotsman argument. It is understandable why irrational behavior applies here - sunk cost, nobody wants to have the bad news of letting a new hire go, explicit objective setting may require there to be new hires. These will generally apply to any manager. Unless the new hire is clearly stepping out of bounds or extremely negligent, it is going to be a slow process.
It doesn't affect code generation, only static analysis tools.
Here's an even better suggestion: withdraw federal and state funding for roads, schools, water and sewage &c if housing targets are not met. The local NIMBYS will come around once the potholes become too bad and the school's roof starts leaking.
As opposed to people who are concerned about the project for other perhaps more palatable reasons.
> US median wealth remains higher than Germany or Sweden. Which, if you buy into the propaganda about the US (vs eg German worker protections and or Sweden's social safety net), that outcome should be impossible.

Are you comparing absolute numbers here? Are they really comparable?
A deeper way to think about this is that any phenomenon that pumps out entropy from the system by injecting work + heat tends to stand up like a sore thumb in the rather dull sponteneaty of nature. I don't mean entropy in the naive sense (order vs disorder), but as dispersal of energy (third law). Not sure what the cause of such locality is - perhaps we can call that intelligence?
We can only hope that Putin doesn’t have access to a human shredder
You can also do this with ssh and Unix sockets if you’d like to not leave ports open and accessible from the proxy server. It’s a little more work, but both openssh and nginx support this. I’m doing that on a remote server to run code server (vscode w/o the MS specific code) on a multi user system. I’d rather not have my code editor available for anyone else on the system. So, node is getting served on a socket, and that is the forwarded to a web reverse proxy.

There is extra authentication/authorization as part of the web server itself, but it is nice that I don’t have open IP ports on the shared server.

That said, for the use case from the article, if you have a more permanent setup, using something like wireguard would be more robust than an ssh reverse tunnel. But the ssh tunnel is great for more ephemeral connections.
Wiring a simple / small home, it takes well over four electrician months, minimum.

It’s hard to take these numbers seriously - they don’t pass the sniff test for anyone who has had it done. Wiring a 1000sq ft home is a job that is measured in days, not months. While I only have experience of the UK, it is difficult to see any possible regulation which would mean installation being quite literally an order of magnitude slower.

But let’s use some Fermi estimation. California builds around 100,000 new houses a year, give or take. This suggests we’d need an absolute minimum of 400,000 electrician-months a year. The Bureau of Labor Statistics thinks there are 70,000 electricians in California in total. Assuming they have an availability of 90%, then we could say that California has about 750,000 available electrician-months a year in total.

This would mean that over half of all available electrician time in California would be spent wiring new-build houses, if we assumed they were all small properties. It seems clear this can’t be a credible result.

I’m not saying you’re necessarily wrong, but it’s hard to swallow without some idea of what possible thing could cause this betone vague hints about “code being insane“
Houston Texas has no zoning laws. Cant really say they do any better or worse than comprable cities with zoning laws.
Internet arguments aside, the fact that certain cultural groups push their children to study hard (and also provide them with as many resources as possible to make sure their studies are fruitful) probably is a big contributor to the disparity illustrated in your table.
I wonder how many drones were harmed in making of this video.
Sometimes they are even more often, as those licenses often have "continuing education" requirements to keep them active. For example, they expire every two years in California. https://www.calcpa.org/cpa-licensure/renewing-a-cpa-license/...

But no, they don't happen "during interviews". My point is that there's less need to test people during their interviews for occupations with licensing, because they've already been tested before they even showed up for the interview. Depending on where you're at, you can't even legally call yourself an "accountant" without an occupational license. By contrast, anyone can legally call themselves a "software developer" and show up to an interview, which is why the need to evaluate their skills at that moment may be different.
Thanks to op for posting. Remembering is important.
Note that greedy probability maximization or information gain are not quite optimal. Not without some kind of search or tiling heuristics.

For example, suppose you've eliminated all the other ships and are only looking for the 2-ship. If you overlay a checkerboard, it's best to only shoot on squares corresponding to a single color on the checkerboard. This guarantees you won't waste shots adjacent to previous misses once the search area fills up.
It’s also important that, at least as to racial minorities, they oppose consideration of race in hiring and promotion by large margins: https://www.vox.com/2019/5/9/18538216/diversity-workplace-pe...

> White people were the most opposed to considering race and ethnicity in hiring and promotion: 78 percent said only qualifications should be considered. But a majority of black respondents (54 percent) and Hispanic respondents (69 percent) also said race and ethnicity shouldn’t be considered.

These are policies are being driven mostly by liberal whites oh behalf of racial minorities, but those minorities themselves mostly oppose such policies.
This sounds awful. Disrespectful. Glad I never worked for a FAANG.
A deep look at the benefits of content moderation in open forums
I participated in a "ruby fight club" like this a few years ago hosted by grouper: https://github.com/Grouper/battleship
That's because extreme scarcity distorts the market to the point that old housing never gets to its natural cheap point. If they stopped building but only a few cars, a pimped out Datsun 240Z from the 70s would still look a lot better than walking, and fetch a lot better than 70s prices. In fact you could raise them with impunity.

Didn't something similar happen in Cuba?
Perhaps we should just keep building unaffordable housing until there’s so much of it that it becomes affordable
That's probably the cheapest upgrade in the history of the state. PG&E claims the average service upgrade in California is costing somewhere between $8k to $25k.
Interviews for other occupations are way way worse.
it doesn't no. the horrors that have been coming out this weekend hopefully make our "political elite" realize that sanctions alone aren't gonna cut it.
I don't understand how building nice bicycle infrastructure instead of smokey stroads implies living to work rather than working to live.
Or a VPN such as wireshark or OpenVPN, though that is a little extra setup usually.

(or one of the many public VPNs - though I'm wary of those, if I want a VPN I want to set it up myself and not have my traffic pass through someone else's control)
Inclined to agree, but those giant noisy consumer trucks with multiple tires or the mini-monster truck tires seem likely to be heavy enough to matter.

It would also be a generally good idea to break this "go to the office" mentality unless there is work that can only be done there. That's some low-hanging fruit to reduce our energy use.
it is very ironic isn't it! :D
It's amazing to think video games have such a deep and rich history with more quality than I'll probably ever get around to play in my lifetime, yet their entire history is contained in a mere 60 years.
They don't, but the moment you need real permits or need to refi etc they might ask for and enforce permits.
From what I heard at ESA projects (not being directly involved) the L-band seems to be able to penetrate clouds and static charges in the atmosphere, whereas higher frequencies like the Ku-Band (12-18Ghz) tend to collide too much with rainy clouds and droplets in the air.

That's why I was assuming that higher frequencies than the Ku Band will likely lead to more signal degradation on the way.

I also don't have any calculations or plots in my head for the minima and maxima, so I could be totally wrong about this :D

120Ghz is quite amazing as an achievement though. They probably used a wider band and multiple channels, I would assume?

edit: looked up a little on K (18-27Ghz) and Ka band (26.5-40Ghz), but both seem to be still unfeasible for long range communications.
Compared to PIPing and firing? Interviewing is probably way, way less of a time and emotional energy suck.

Granted, I've only ever taken and given interviews, never given (or, fortunately, been under) a PIP or firing. But interviewing is just a few weeks or so of preparation and then a day or two, and the preparation is often fun, and so are some of the interviews. Nobody thinks PIPs and firings are fun.
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It's also possible to make PWA icon for iOS, etc:
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Hero.

What does “in the courtyard” mean?
Signing away our rights is increasingly becoming a condition of participating in the modern economy. If only there was some way to limit which conditions contracts can place on people, like we limited how much danger a workplace may pose, or how low wages that workers agree to may be..
Weight can come in under 3 lbs. With some work, possibly right at 2. Battery is by far most of that.

Thickness won't be super thin as I'm targeting low-profile but still proper switch keyboards. Likely 3/4 of an inch. Perhaps scope to shave that in future.
I’ve always understood the process (in a certain US state that will remain unnamed) to be that apartments can dedicate some portion of their units to be Section 8 which then allows the owner to get some fat tax breaks. In return, the owner agrees to submit to periodic inspections to prove that the units are well-kept and to only offer those units to tenants the city seems low-income/needful.

This idea of purpose-building one entire low-income/needful apartment building seems insane. Apportioning units from regular apartment blocks seems like a much better approach. At the very least, the investors aren’t holding their breath for the profit to come in.
Indeed, housing can be very cheap. See military barracks or flop houses/SROs. Housing is expensive as a means to keep poor people away from the middle class.
The NWT renders Heb 11:1 as "Faith is the assured expectation of what is hoped for, the evident demonstration* of realities that are not seen."

(*Or “convincing evidence.”)

Those with faith have proof or evidence that can be used to demonstrate or to back up that faith. It's not blind.
The recent change of tactic from Putin makes sense. It's crazy to think that Russia can lose all tanks present in Ukraine due to advances in anti-tank weaponry.

The next phase would be the risk of losing all fighter jets over Ukraine due to anti-air advances.

If that doesn't scare Putin I'm not sure what will.
Why not WireGuard? WireGuard + SNAT (port forwarding on the VPS) + DNAT (route the packets back) does the same thing, and it's faster than using SSH to do HTTP reverse proxy.
the technical name is 'the hairy ball theorem'
> what you're saying is: only the rich should drive.

Similarly, only the rich should fly private? Or should we go and subsidize that for the masses, too? Some things are simply expensive and don't scale if you want to allow everyone to do it -- "if everyone would live like us we would need X earths" comes to mind.

So I'm not sure what you're proposing. Should there be a maximum personal vehicle kilometers allocation rather than just charging what it costs to clean up the pollution again? Not saying I'm for or against that, just wondering what you think the alternative could even be.
4GB is what my build has. It can be done with 16GB and am waiting to hear about 32.
Maybe it's an age thing, because I've already hit 40, but doing 5-7 interviews seems like time lost for all the people involved. If a company cannot decide after 1-2 interviews if the person they're trying to hire it's worth the effort or not then it means it has lost its golden touch, especially in this industry. And vice-versa, if, as a potential employee, you don't "sense" your employer after 1-2 meetings then it means it's not meant to be.

Case in point, all these FAANG companies which pride themselves in doing 6-7 interviews, they all are spitting out shitty product after shitty product (that is when they're launching any new products at all). Exceptions do exist, I know of that, and when do they show up everyone is so surprised (see Apple and M1 recently). The pay at these companies is also very good, that is correct, but it's not correlated with the quality of the people who work for them or to how their talents are put to work. More exactly, a company so immersed in bureaucracy that it needs this amount of work to hire just one person is sure to waste the talent that it already has at its disposal.
Grifters are perfectly happy to lie on dozens of pointless forms because they know they’re going to grift a bunch of free money at the end. It’s the people who want to get down to doing the actual work that don’t have the patience for it.

An overly complicated process just encourages grifters because there’s more ways for them to create confusion and conceal what they’re doing.
I'll be setting up a blog soon and will share progress on it and post it here on launch.
It was disappointing to hear this debate

https://intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/big-cities-are-pas...

where the people saying "Big Cities are past their prime" were extremely down on public transportation. It's possible they are correct that we could really never have good public transportation in the USA because our cities aren't designed around it. But, I did want to reach through the podcast and shake them, "Go visit the largest city on the plant, Tokyo!" and see if you can't imagine public transit working for a city of 34 million people.

Of course it's possible the reality is it just can't happen in the USA. See the fiasco of SF's Central Line. I'd argue the best place to try is Los Angeles. It used to have the best in the public transit in the world in say 1920-1950 but it was all torn down. In any case, it looks like it has maybe enough people that a truly good public transit with nice stations as destinations and express lines etc would work but you'd have to magically make about 80 lines appear. A few lines at a time will never get to the MVP of actually making the system useful for the average person that wants to get from A to B because it would require 80 lines to get from every A to every B.

Also, people seem to forget that Japan's system is privatized and the incentives seem to align. The train companies create/fund/own buildings at and around their stations so they have every incentive to make people want to ride the trains as use their stations and all the buildings and businesses around them. Some of them even build housing.

And, if they don't like the big city version then they can go to Amsterdam (pop 800k), Antwerp (500k), Barcelona (1600k), Copenhagen (600k), Helsinki (630k), Koln (1000k), etc... that all have pretty great public transportation.
> But yeah, to your point, building more housing in a supply constricted market requires like way more proof.

Having lived in downtown San Francisco for 7 years now, I can’t help but notice how all the new highrises and fancy apartments have pushed down the prices of the normal stuff.

My current landlord tried to sell his house before we moved in and couldn’t get “enough” money for it because why pay $1,000,000 for a house from 1906 when you could pay the same for new construction across the street? Instead he had to settle for renting (to us). 3 years later and similar apartments in the area are now selling for $800,000 because there’s even more new construction around.

Rents are down too. Why pay $4000/mo to live in an old house when you can pay $4200/mo to live in a luxury highrise across the street?
Well, I think NYC made it law that hardware stores can only sell hot water heaters to licensed contractors. Not sure what other restrictions there are.
Believe it or not, Latin America is the fastest growing region for startups
My theory is that gradient descent won't work for AGI and we'll need a completely new approach before we get safe general driving. But that's just my theory.

"Let's not overstate the problem here. There are plenty of AI things which would work well to recognize a sideways truck"

Yes, but nothing reliable enough to trust your life with. Clip also has some pretty weird bugs.

https://aiweirdness.tumblr.com/post/660687015733559296/galle...
That’s really a completely different topic. I’m talking about the positive economic externalities of private vehicle ownership. Those massively beneficial externalities exist for cities whether rural areas exist or not. Any analysis of the externalities of vehicle ownership is simply agenda-driven nonsense if it doesn’t account for that.
The term junk DNA triggers a lot of confused discussion (on HN and everywhere else), and I suspect a part of that is our getting defensive about the idea of our DNA containing "junk". That term is just more loaded than saying something more benign like "non-functional".

But another part is the term is poorly defined, this article seems to use junk DNA to mean the until-recently unsequenced portions of our genome (and I think that's an unconventional usage), some comments here take it to mean non-protein coding, and another common use is for the term to mean non-functional.

If it helps, a defensible recent accounting is probably something like 1% of our genome being protein coding, perhaps 10% being functional in some way but not protein coding (e.g. regulatory, or transcribed to RNA that is functional etc), and the remaining 90% being without known function and likely non-functional.

After further years and much great painstaking work we'll perhaps learn that to a bit more is functional, though it may end up being say 11% vs 89% non-functional. And that's ok! I wouldn't worry progress being stunted by assumptions of too much of the genome being non-functional, rather the opposite, continuing to believe there is function where there is little evidence to warrant it.

disclaimer: not a geneticist, but sometimes write tools they might use.
Android would be an option, not mandatory.
> Honestly, as a candidate, I don't mind the longer interview loop. What I do mind is if it's very spread out.

As a candidate, I would also be wondering what it would be like to work for a company with a spread out interview process. I have been through multistage interviews, but decisions were always made quickly. Made it to the end of the phone screening, at the end of the conversation there is an offer to be flown out for a panel interview. Made it past an interview with the IT manager, then head straight down to someone else to discuss software development. Made it past the interview with the lead scientist, then head straight down to the lab to see the lab and meet the research team. Even though I was in my prime, I was by no means special and I only secured some of the positions I applied for. Yet I always knew one way or another within days. I was happy to work for those who I did get hired by and I would have been proud to be hired by those who declined.

Thankfully, I have never had to endure a strung out interview process. Because of that, I don't know how I would feel in such a situation. Yet looking at the prospect from afar, it leads me to believe that it would be difficult to work in such an environment: it would involve dealing with people who are more concerned about process than decisions, and with people who are not available when decisions need to be made (or even for process to be followed).
Not sure what you mean here... Fortran I had a damn good optimizer, and the papers on it introduced a whole lot of terminology (e.g., as above, "basic block") which is still in use. And it was written for the 704, in assembly.
While Houston technically doesn't have zoning they do have defacto zoning laws that look like other city zoning just more broken up.

Deed restrictions, density restrictions, lot size restrictions, buffering ordinances, tax incremental investment zones, history preservations, airport zoning, neighborhood petitioning, etc.
Let me provide some color for you. Hiring is changing. It's shifting from "oh this person went to good schools, worked for a top company" (self perpetuating loop) to "can you answer this difficult question in 45 mins?" (more noisy, but less biased estimate).

Now, your question is I feel completely wrong. Meaning ever since I joined the work force (2004), I always had 5-7 interviews.

But that aside, the real deal these days is an effort to unbias the hiring process. Meaning put less weight on the resume. Put more weight on the 0.5-1 day you spend with the candidate during the interview process.

Obviously, you need to ask the right kind of questions to measure technical competence. So the Q&A is also heavily skewed towards job-required skills & knowledge (vs puzzles and such).