skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's what I remember:

I had interviews in the 80s in Silicon Valley with technical firms. There were no quizzes. Typically, much of the interview was based on your resume. Interviewers were very good at drilling down on what you wrote. (There was none of the present fears about "but what if they lied on their resume?" Well, you asked good questions and you found out.) The resume served as a basis for discussion. The other half of an interview might be the interviewer describing the work they did, and seeing how quickly you caught on.

As far as general programming knowledge is concerned, one early Mac programming shop where I worked didn't bother asking Mac-specific questions in interviews, since the platform was so new, but they particularly sought out software engineers who had experience with two or more different programming languages, at least one of which used pointer arithmetic, and verified that you had used them. Even if you were going to be programming in C or Pascal, knowledge of assembly language was considered a plus. They wanted to see how adaptable you were to different programming paradigms, since you would probably have to learn a lot about the new Mac platform.

I don't remember there ever being more than two days of in-person interviews. Typically, the person who would be your supervisor would do the first interview, and then decide whether you were worth bringing back for more (and taking up other people's time). The second, longer, set of interviews would be with your potential co-workers, maybe your boss's boss, and someone from HR. Then, everyone would meet for maybe 30-45 min. and decide whether to make an offer.
I work in the basement. Still some disruptions, but not often.
Can you message me at damian@magmastudio.io and I'll reply with some additional details? :) I'd like to make sure Magma works for you.
Begs the question, will making crosswords less white make more non-whites play?

If yes, great. If no, lmao. Also, nobody cares about someones anorexia. Strong clue this woman is NOT taking crosswords in a good direction. It's not about the crosswords.....

"Anna Shechtman was one of the youngest female crossword puzzle creators to have a puzzle published in the New York Times. She has continued to break new ground by making the crossword puzzle scene more diverse, but has also had to deal with her own challenge with anorexia along the way."
Why is this limited to tech?
The Cerebras WFE is design has on each wafer to disable / efuse a portion of itself to account for defects. This is what you can do if your control the wafer.
Fair, but I think this is tackling a different issue. Pasting something I typed earlier.

Ive recently had ACL surgery, and you essentially have to learn how to walk all over again, not to mention the pain and how little weight you can put onto it at first. In order to properly walk and run again, I used a treadmill with essentially a large bag on it which inflated, lifting you slightly. This put less weight on your legs, allowing you to walk and run with proper form and speed up recovery, it was crucial for me learning to run again. (It was an AlterG device btw)

So this device can serve a similar purpose, it is addressing how people walk instead of general mobility. As the article states, its used on a treadmill, and it seems to only be trying to get these people walking

However I understand your perspective, and sympathize. My mom has MS and has many of the same fears. We have found some ways to work around it. Maybe its just my dad being crafty, but some simple bars near ramps/high risk areas have seemed to help.
My point has nothing to do with what US policy makers think/say or even what the US did or didn't do. And the fact that a failed Russia is a problem for the US also misses the point. (The ex-DDR is Germany's responsibility even though a failed DDR is a problem for the US.)

Euros have been claiming for decades that they know how to do certain things with "soft power", that Americans should let them run things.

However, we're now seeing things happen that competent use of said soft-power was supposed to prevent.

The possible reasons are soft-power doesn't actually prevent those things, the implementation was flawed, inadequate resources, something/someone interfered, and no one bothered.

Do you want to go with "the US stopped the EU from using soft-power"?

I ask because all of the other reasons are all on the Euros. (Europe has the resources to do soft-power without US help; if a larger military is required, that lack is some combination of "flawed implementation" and "no one bothered" on Europe's part.)

This was the perfect opportunity to show that Europe really is superior and yet we're discussing why it's not their fault that soft-power didn't work.

And no, the US is not obligated to make soft-power work, let alone responsibility when the Euros fail at it.

As Steve Jobs said, the janitor can have excuses why he didn't do his job but an Apple VP doesn't get to have excuses.

> And in those days it hardly seems that anyone wanted to kick the Americans out of the important summits &c. &c.

You don't have to throw us out - just don't invite us. We're stupid and you're rich. You don't need us and we only screw things up.

> In a cock-up more than one party can have cocked up.

That point was that only the US gets blamed.
Very true and well said.

Ask yourself these two questions:

1. What do I hope to gain from this interaction?

2. Given #1, what course of action is most likely to achieve your desired result?

Confrontation is almost never the best answer for #2.
The next tweet:

> Haha fine, I probably don’t disagree with you, but even if I did then still!!

Not a great example.
I don't see what's wrong with "Multiplication copies things".

The fact that "copying" can be a continual scale from 10 copies to 1 copy down to half a copy and zero copies captures most of the behavior that a non-math person working as a programmer(One of the main uses for math, right next to using it to learn other math and becoming a math-heavy coder) is interested in.

The main actual uses of multiplication before you get to advanced stuff are things like volume controls, total price of N units, area of a square, etc, that are pretty much copying.

Except Ohm's law. That doesn't quite fit intuitive models of math exactly, and when you actually go to use it you usually wind up wanting to know power dissipation which is nonlinear in a very bizzare multi-variable way with some IRL use cases, since you're usually looking at systems as a whole.
Calling wafer-scale "no interconnect" is kind of misleading since it's still very difficult to stitch reticles and it has yield challenges.
I mean, physicists are notorious for chasing crackpot theories in other fields for the exact same reason - they assume their background is sufficient to understand the current progress of a field, when it's not.
That blog has one of my favorite posts:

https://kottke.org/17/05/the-struggle-with-the-self
They offer the employee a device... company will pay for it:

"But I want to only have 1 number, and want to keep my own (naive yound tech employee says)"

You can take this device and just have yuour number on it...

You login to your apple ID on that device...

They read every text...

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Do you recall when FB tried to make a phone...

THANK FUCKING GOD THAT FAILED.

uh... I was a new hire at FB when this tok place and they held a mtg and were talking about the phone, and the question was asked about what was thought of the new phone, and I misconstrued the mtg as being "open and connecting people" -- and I spoke to the product guy in the mtg, and I told him it was a POS. NOBODY liked my non-sycophantic behaviour... as I said that I had experienced it IRL with users and they all hated it...

That went over not-so-cromulently.

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FB, even internally, is the quintessential "You cant get out of your own way..." company.
If there's a defective M1 Ultra, they can cut it in half and say those are two low-end M1 Max.
Long enough ago that it was iPhone OS jailbreaks.
> What if they want to add a new feature that takes another ~1000 LoC?

They don't.

The LoC limit exists as much to avoid scope creep and maintain focus as it is about anything else.
I can't speak to a doctoral level of knowledge, it's probably not really formalized and will differ on your specialization. But just for my bachelor's degree I took the following courses: Calculus 1, Calculus 2, Vector Calculus, Elementary Linear Algebra, Differential Equations, Linear Algebra.

Those are just the courses specifically in the mathematics department. You also cover mathematics within the physics courses themselves of course. Especially in quantum mechanics and E&M. You also might be required to take more math depending on the structure of your degree program, I did a focus in chemistry as well so took more chemistry and less math than other students.

I also can't say how many hours I spent on this. But the overwhelming amount of my homework time, every night, was spent writing proofs and solving mathematical equations. To a lay person physics work probably looks no different than mathematics. It was all math all the time :) Sometimes I would have a homework assignment that was only a few "problems" that would take me a dozen hours to solve. As for aptitude, I was probably in the middle amongst other physics students, but that group overall was above average already.
> rosetta stone

I'm confused, are you doing scientific Python or learning a language?
Happens all the time with keyboards, which are overwhelmingly running at USB1 low speed (1.5Mbit) despite many of them advertising USB2 or even USB3 sometimes. I even found one that was actually USB3 for the built in hub and lighting device, but the actual keyboard was still low speed.

And IIRC it turns out to be legit as the newer specs all say something to the effect that they are fully backwards compatible with the previous version of the spec, as well as any new requirements.

So, yes USB 3.1 "high speed" (aka 480 Mbit) is legal spec wise.

PS: If anyone knows of an actual keyboard that runs at high speed or better, i'm still interested since I have a couple devices that might be nice if they hard keyboards but don't support USB1 low/full speed.
It's exactly that.

e.g. inside "if (x != null) { }", or after "x = y ?? throw new ArgumentNullException()" then x is known not null.

C# has flow types, but only in this specific and limited way. You could say that about a lot of programming language features.
Thanks, though what I'm looking for (and, I expect, many/most other developers too), is a simple statement of whether I can write my backend in Go, Java, python, node, etc.
You think Apple's Butterfly keyboard was better than a Lenovo ThinkPad keyboard? That certainly would be a minority opinion. I can't comment on cheaper Dell and Lenovo machines, but that wouldn't really be a fair comparison.
Sometimes I wonder if our school teachers' demand to read their minds was justified, and how we can sometimes immediately be aware of context in a way that machine learning consistently fails at.

The article touches on this in how the author quickly deduces who is one of them and who is not. Perhaps therein lies the entire issue at hand.
Is there data on how much real service one might be doing? As in incoming mortars, bullets flying over your head, in a place with IEDs or mines etc.

I feel like if I wanted to be put in that specific situation, I'd want a whole lot more training than a reservist.
interesting article: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/how-a-worm-gave-the-so...
The UK will issue an official NFT
> There is some kind of crazy joint and severable liability which means if city is even like 5% at fault, if no one else can pay the $10M, they might have too?

Joint and several liability isn't crazy when you realize that by the time a civil case gets to court it is often the case that some party must get screwed.

Suppose X and Y are both at fault in something that caused serious injury to Z. Z was not at all at fault. Further suppose that X is 90% at fault and Y is 10% at fault, and that a just damages award to Z would be $1 million.

The most just outcome would be that X pays $900000 to Z and Y pays $100000 to Z.

But that only actually works if X can pay $900000 and Y can pay $100000. Suppose either X or Y is cannot pay, or maybe can eventually pay put it is going to take a lot of time and effort to squeeze the money out of them.

Then either Z gets screwed by not getting their full damages paid or by having to spend a lot of time and effort collecting them, or whichever one of X and Y that has money gets screwed by having to pay more than their fair share upfront.

With joint and several liability the idea is that if we have to screw someone, which we do in this situation, it is better to screw someone who was actually at fault than to screw someone who was not at fault.

A party that ends up getting screwed by having to pay more than their fair share can then sue the other at fault parties for the overpayment. So if say it would be hard for Z to collect $900000 from X they can get it from Y, and then it is Y's problem to figure out how to squeeze $900000 from X.
I love this, it's very recognizable. I love how structured this is. This is to me what the books of Ayn Rand were about: rational self interest. Rational as in social and kind, but with a healthy regard for the interests of the self (good luck figuring those out btw, but man is it important in almost all aspects of life). Ayn Rand to me was not about being anti- or pro-state, or about the "motors of the economy" that deserve to reap the benefits. Rational self interest was my primary take away from Howard Roark and Dagny Taggart.

Aren't those people that wouldn't be with you tonight (or at any time), if they didn't really want to, the best people to be around? Those people that are with you because they genuinely want to be, they should be treasured. What value is there in those others? What are they doing with their lives anyway? What are you doing dragging your feet again and again to places you don't enjoy? Do you even remember what you, YOU, really enjoy? I struggled a lot with this. In this sense, Ayn Rand helped me "grow up" as OP puts it. Yes, Roark goes way further than I would probably ever go, but Roark is not me and I enjoy a bit of harmony seeking in a group (up to a certain level that is), or setting an atmosphere. Ayn made heroes out of entrepreneurial, intelligent loners, imho that is not a core requirement of her philosophy (or way of life). It is about knowing the self, also when that self is more of a social animal, a bit of pleaser from time to time even.

Imho it is true that self-esteem correlates with how much joy you will let yourself feel in life. Too much and you hurt others, too little and you hurt yourself. There must be a balance.
But they are still keeping the name Facebook for that specific consumer product.
joyless prudes who ran military taxation across the entire globe. Perhaps they ran from the excess of Rome, while emphasizing the exhortatian to power? Military and civil administration is best done without "joy" right, to maximize other qualities?

A level deeper past this cynical snark - many civiliations have embraced "joy", arts, culture, outsiders, wisdom, mystical things.. all sorts of variations.. but somehow the public attention is called back to the centers of military power, and their "trouble" .. Let's call the Emporer without clothes.. the military and economic might of the Victorians were a marvel at the level of Rome itself, and, what cost? what human cost..
Sterile Neutrino
ShadowRealms – an ECMAScript proposal for a better `eval()`
Yeah and I think this blurred line of ads vs no ads damaged their brands at the onset as now I associate them with old school cable tv, which is what I was trying to escape.
Currently the thing with enough bipartisan support that it might pass.
I estimate that Apple's internal "price" for the M1 Ultra is around $2,000. Since most of the chip is GPU, it should really be compared to a combo like 5950X + 6800 XT or 12900K + 3080.
And we'll being going to piracy if we had to watch ads on top of paying a monthly fee. This would be ridiculous. There's advertising almost everywhere else. Why do we need more advertising?
Users who actually click links in the document are clustered towards early openers? Share doc for two minutes, collect clicks, unshare to cut off spam reports.
They might not be as upgradeable as desktops, but generally they are slightly more repairable than apple devices. Reparability is the major driver behind ewaste
Depending on what you do, you may be impressed with zen 3 u cpus.

I was in the same boat, with an old 8-core Xeon something from like 2013 (it takes DDR3 RAM, and was one of the first to support PCIE 3). It was so fast, it ran circles around my current work computers (basic enterprise i5 HP). Then I insisted on a zen 3 laptop at the end of last year, and for rust compiles, it's almost twice as fast as the Xeon. It only has a 5650U (6 cores + HT), and a teeny-tiny heat sink. It does get somewhat noisy under load, but it's dead silent most of the time, including in Teams video chats!
> He's basically a free-speech absolutist.

What does that mean? Every country and every person I know advocates for at least some restriction on speech.

Spam, fraud, violence, NDAs, national security, libel all come to mind.

I don’t know of any country or platform that has been successful with “absolute free speech”.
That is the problem. google does not deem this spam that is on their platform to be enough of a cost to justify trying doing more to stop it. It's a basic cost-benefit analysis.
Maybe don’t add that feature then? Not every library is meant to solve all problems
> I don't see why scientists would be less self-aware of their culture than other groups.

In my opinion, there’s a rationality bias. In that, if one thinks that they are operating rationally, then they think they are somewhat immune to cultural biases and inclinations. If I am not mistaken, this is similar to things Paul Feyerabend discussed. This is also heavily discussed in the book Disciplined Minds I linked above.

> You are looking for a career that wouldn't work today? Freeman Dyson. Getting tenure at Princeton aged 29 without a doctorate, not so likely today.

I absolutely agree. I think it’s beyond not likely. It is basically an impossibility.
hah, tempting but if I went back to the Navy reserves I'd try to go to dive school, but I'm well past the age for the Navy. For the Army and Air Force their max age is 39 waiverable so I have some time there though I'm too old to go pilot :(
wsl2 is a must
How to bring positive energy in life
As a relatively new New Yorker (I've been here for five years) I agree with your assessment. New Yorkers commit to engagements and follow through, in my experience. I've had new acquaintances here follow through at a higher rate than old friends back in California. It is one of the things I like most about the city.
Being drunk obviously makes take bad decisions, but doesn’t make your spine crush any more, nor does wearing helmet would make any difference.

Accidents like that happen all the time, regardless of mode of transport.
I prefer the phrase "Trust, but verify."

Trust someone will get something done on time when they say they will, but verify they actually did. Trust that someone is communicating something in a positive way, but verify if there's confusion. Etc.

It's not perfect, nothing is, but "assume positive intent" doesn't have any fallback for when bad actors start to take advantage of it.
Why are you assuming the advesary knows what dictionary is being used?
The best predictive model I've ever made tied rotavirus seasonality to prom dress sales.

Science is explanation, which suggests testable predictions.
This is also gets baked into the high cost of auto insurance, which is mandated by the government.
Except aroundtown expressed their opinion to HR when asked, and the boss went around badmouthing them around town. Only one of the two is the asshole here.
I used a HP ProDresk (USFF) for that. Quite small, reasonably powerful, supports 3 monitors and linux-friendly (at least the i5-9500T Version I have).

Drawback is that it doesn't really take up much less space / weight than a small laptop and you always need external monitor + keyboard, which makes it much less portable.
Sure, we will go with your assessment of assumption over my hard evidence to the contrary...

Good thing that such acts are *illegal* - that'll show'em.

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FYI - KEEP YOUR PERSONAL SHIT PERSONAL.

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One must develop a personal air-gap.
What male sexual assault victims have to do to be taken seriously
Hi, I'm currently working on a project in that area. The main workflow in the system is take a bunch of pictures, SIFT & match them, then generate a sparse model of 2d features (image coords), 3d features (point cloud in relative coords) and camera positions. We then shard and re-combine different models to synthesize larger or more precise reconstructions.
I'm building with clojurescript & Three.js[0] in the frontend, and can recommend the stack

Back to your comment I'd love to hear what you're looking to do and what you'd need, sounds like I may have explored the same problem space.

[0] https://threejs.org/
> they really consider non-Russian internets full of all kind of fakes, literally anything but truth.

they simply extrapolate from the notion that all Russian media tells different lies , then all abroad media is doing the same.

Actually in the Soviet times it was easier for their minds because there was one party line, and one official lie, now it is as many as Kreml wants.

My guess is that patriotism will only rise because of this "special operation" and will culminate on the 9th may.
I think tinder serves a second purpose which is the consent component. I think social mores around what is an acceptable romantic environment are changing. It used to be a given you might meet a partner at work. I think it's verging on inappropriate given changing gender roles in the work place, and that extends to other environments as well. You might assume a bar or club is an acceptable environment, but lots of people go to the club to dance and not meet someone.
Ask HN: How has your relationship with your parents impacted your success?
From your perspective, how has your relationship with your parent(s) impacted your success (or lack thereof) in life?

Positive or negative or anything in between, all stories are welcome.
I agree. The display and touchpad in a Mac laptop are out of this world. And they're are even better if you have one of those new 14" Pros. There's just nothing in the PC world that compares.
One small downside of Blaze vs. Eigen for robotics is that Blaze seems to lack the highly convenient geometry types and operations that Eigen ships with. This wouldn't be difficult to build on top of Blaze (and could lead to some interesting performance comparisons), but does present some additional work necessary to use Blaze in many robotics applications.
The bottom line, in my opinion, is whether you can fit the computing power you need into a certain size and budget.
If you only browse reddit, you can. If you want to play new AAA games at 4k@120Hz, probably not.

If it fits, and you can take the typically higher price, then going for the theoretically "more optimal/efficient" would scratch the "optimizer itch", but is arguably of no importance. Just like getting a nice $200 chef knife gets you a nice blade that cuts better and is more maintainable than the one you can get for $5, but if you only cut tofu, all those benefits are pretty abstract.
"The simple answer is: funding. There is no (public) money to revisit "known" ideas and results to help clarify them, apply them, or place them in better context. And I would not be the one to explain to the public to spend their money on known ideas rather than discover something new and shiny."

Which is a pity. There's a prominent member of my field who does this for causal inference work, and it has been invaluable.