skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So? I did write that not having fun with that is not a red flag for me, and listed qualities that can be assessed from such an interview independently of whether someone has fun with it or not.

I do have fun with computer science problems, and it translates into an appetite to solving tricky technical problems in my job. I have peers that are similar, given that pre-COVID I remember us discussing other people's interview questions purely for the fun of discussing them.

If the job specifically calls for tricky problem solving on a regular basis then, yes, I think a certain passion and appetite visible in the interview helps, but I'm well aware that that's not universal. For example, I assume (not that I know, feel free to correct me) that in frontend development of websites, something I can see is a lot of work and which I respect, other qualities are more important than a passion for intricate technical and/or computer science puzzles.

(In fact, I think you are right that there certainly are subfields where trying to come up with an intricate solution, instead of a known and proven one, can be rather detrimental.)
You don’t even know what I believe, but one thing is clear: you also haven’t used it yet, and are far more certain of its capabilities than I am. (I have, incidentally, had two of my personal requests generated by the kind folks at OpenAI, and I was impressed.)
I'm not sure about this. For one thing, it's odd to try and pretend that aspects unique to a small group of people are common to everyone. For example, some people with crone's disease might put that in their bio - are you going to start including health information in your bio to make them feel more at home?

Either trans people pass, in which case they, by definition, aren't singled out, or they don't pass in which case regardless of what's in your Twitter bio they will still be singled out. I heard about a situation where five or six women stood up to speak and said their pronouns and then a trans person stood up and shared theirs. The trans person said it felt awkward - like every person began by calling attention to the fact that some pronouns are obvious and others aren't.

To me it seems much more like signalling. In 99+% of instances I can guess the appropriate pronouns. When I can't then it makes sense to state them.
Yep it is better when they find themselves find out from some degenerate hardcore pornography.
Machine-translated spanish version of StackOverflow by the same company who did this website. Some kind of easter-egg marketing
Fully agree! I self host and my family uses it. For them, there's no difference, except that when at home (99% of time), "our cloud" (Nextcloud) is much faster.
If you spent literally 20 seconds googling you’d find plenty but here are a few:

https://evannex.com/blogs/news/7-myths-busted-after-200-000-...

https://enginepatrol.com/how-long-tesla-model-s-last/

https://electrek.co/2020/05/11/tesla-model-x-extreme-mileage... Note: Electrek is a Tesla fanboi blog that masquerades as news, but the facts are the facts

https://www.thedrive.com/tech/43592/heres-how-a-tesla-model-... Multiple references to teslas with 400,000+ miles

https://www.carscoops.com/2020/08/what-are-the-maintenance-c...

Etc.
He has a deep understanding of the technology so wouldn't be interested in crypto why?

There are lots of builders constantly creating things in the web3 space. Maybe you should re-examine your opinion of crypto if you see smart people involved and can't understand why they would be interested
The irony of the article is that Meta isn’t even that hard to get into because so many candidates hard no on them because they know Facebook is evil. I read an article that said how Meta has to pay well above market rates to acquire talent due to their negative perception.

It’s basically working for the cigarette company of tech.
Calming Your Brain During Conflict
Sir, this is a public discussion over a well-enough documented breakthrough with good-faith non-corporate actors on both sides of the original friend-oriented equation. There’s no practical nor epistemic need to hijack it as if we were all hanging out in the laundromat of your worldview.
Do you mind if I send you an email? I am looking for people/companies that might be interested in having a managed matrix provider.
I figured it out on my own, didn’t feel that way. I assume most kids suspect / figure it out rather than have their parents tell them.

The phenomenon is interesting but I can’t say I understand it either.
Once between jobs I considered putting my physics undergrad to use tutoring. I remember the Ontario math curriculum was something like a 120 page pdf, comprehensive but nothing alien to anyone with mathematical training.

As a software dev I’ve read more than 100-200 pages worth of material to grok things; surely we can expect math teachers to spend the 5-10 hours it takes to ingest the curriculum/identify weaknesses to improve on.
Is that like asking GitHub’s code autocomplete to write a code autocompleter?
A society in which one has the total freedom and all resources to study and promote science, that is to seek the understanding of the whole universe and maybe even beyond.
That's...intense.
Parenting is not the kind of thing where you exchange your labor for money. It's not work in the sense that the parent comment meant it and you know that full well.
I think we need to understand that Greg Lake was a bit of an entitled whiner, though. The Kinks are more on point with “Father Christmas.”
Tis true, I send NFTs and ETH to people all the time using their ENS names. It's like an email address for money and digital stuff. They're dope. Time will tell if it's a fad but it's certainly a trend.
> There's a bonus psychological side-effect: vomiting is not pleasant

I never want to do it, but it nearly always makes me feel much better. You can even get a sort of sense of calm or euphoria from vomiting. I can't say that it's pleasant, but if it were less gross and smelly it wouldn't be so bad... although the muscle contractions would still be hell on my under-trained abs.
The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.”
He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.”
“I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.”
In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.
“You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug.
From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door.
“I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out.
Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.

Philip K. Dick, Ubik
Can you blame them. A lot of the work is very unexciting and you're doing maintence on a business layer or some kind of framework crud work.

Who's writing network drivers these days? Who's pushing streaming technologies to the max? Who's designing a cool iot framework/automated driving?

Some people are...but most are write a microservice type tasks.
It used to, as a GCC extension, which was removed in version 4.0.
As far as journalism goes these days, that looks like an accurate portrayal of the numbers.
Yea, I'd be pissed if my parents never did Santa, because frankly it was a very fond time in my childhood and once you learn Santa isn't real you never get that time back.

So we do Santa with our son and daughter and there was never a discussion not to do it.
Wow I'm impressed ... I've heard the claim that big pieces of software like an operating system, web browser, or maybe Google search are the most complex things that humans have created.

I have no idea how to judge those claims, but various factories creating cars, aircraft carriers, submarines, or space shuttles certainly seem like they should be candidates. Especially since they're software-controlled!

Any other candidates?

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As an aside, I find this a lot more impressive than the Dall-E 2 illustrations on the front page right now. Because at the end of the day the cars being produced here have to run, and be sold.

In contrast, I believe our minds are largely "filling in the blanks" for the images generated by Dall-E 2. They don't have to "work" or make money ... just be sufficiently "interesting".
What makes you think the Constitution has anything to say on the matter? I mean, on what basis would you think the FBI is constitutional but the IRS's criminal investigations division isn't?
O’Neil has responded to those criticisms here: https://www.pcg-random.org/posts/on-vignas-pcg-critique.html
The judges didn’t argue from a written and enumerated law. That isn’t how things work in Canada outside of Quebec. We don’t have a constitution like what you are thinking. With the Charter they rule on balances and tests based on fundamental rights, freedoms, and limits. It is more heuristic with a growing common law jurisprudence. Therefore the judges can and do make new rules and apply their own opinions.

However, it’s simultaneously true the math test didn’t pass the Oakes test because the math test is not really about testing for competent math instruction and therefore unjustifiable; and the judges did not simply "rule on the law" or rather the Charter.

At various points in the ruling the 3 judges just hotrodded right over Section 15 of the Charter by treating race as a real trait that could be ascribed to individuals by them. Part of the s15 meaning of race is that it is a social construct and therefore Canadians deserve protection from this ascribed categorization and decisions made thereby; and such kith and kin identifications can only be self-decided and self-described. Anyone appointed to the Superior Court should know this.

The judges even blithely decided and declared the race of a witness after a lengthy enumeration of the witness’s self-description. I was floored.

The judges make an argument that relies on a premise that some races are better at math than others.

They had to make an argument like that to invoke Oakes because the evidence entered was statistics by race showing some “races” did worse.

It is a simple logical error that s15 is meant to protect against. If you racialize the statistical analysis you will conclude racial causes. Section 15 says those arguments are disallowed.

It is more likely there are better explanations that are not based on race. Such better explanations would have equally caused the math test to fail Oakes. It would have been better to force the litigants to find true sociological data by denying the evidence presented. However that would be difficult to achieve.

Anyway now we have a ruling that appears to invert Section 15 of the Charter completely. This encourages more racialization. If race is decidable, ascribable, and causal enough to win rulings then race becomes an effective legal construct.

It was a very strange and bad ruling.

It is clear from
the rest of the
ruling the judges think racially. It makes me sad and frustrated.
I agree with the article that a MWC generator could be better, but for their use case, a really crappy rand() might be more than adequate.
> It’s basically working for the cigarette company of tech.

This is not the first time I've heard this at all and each time it is equally relevant. Unless meta gets everyone goggled up fast I think that there will be so much negative stigma nobody will want to be part of it.
The existence of individual vehicles with very high mileage doesn't feel like a good signal for overall reliability or maintenance req's over a lifespan. I did some brief searches and it seems there's a lot of "record-holding" gas vehicles with several million miles on them, some even claiming to be using original engines. Again though, I'm not sure this is a good representation of how reliable the vehicles are in aggregate.
That sounds like a terrible idea?
> they would only make sure they applied with a referral.

How is referral useful in general. You still have to go through the whole song and dance anyways?
Syncthing user of many years and a semi recent Nextcloud convert here.

Sc is very, very cool but you must sync both ways every time, so after some time, if your phone runs out of space, things get hard. The "do not erase on 'server'" setting is pretty well hidden and claimed not to be supported and can break things.

Also, for "one way sync", with super easy setup, i have not found an alternative for btsync (now called resilio). SC is too clunky to set up the client and in this case, running Nextcloud server + setting up clients is crazy complex. TIL about Unison and will try it out...
Call it what it is. That's no way to live and that's not a healthy relationship.
I still don't understand why changing the language to main makes society better in any way except to make us feel like we are making progress and hiding the fact that we are not. Maybe it causes us to pat ourselves on the back and not actually deal with the infected roots of our culture and societies?

Whitelist may be a bit different. I understand that language shapes how we think, but master seems like it would trigger people who have a but of a victim mentality. It's like the word dick, it has a meaning outside of genitals, and if all we can think about is genitals when the word is spoken maybe the problem lies a bit deeper than the word itself.

I don't know.. with whitelist and blacklist I could see how unconsciously that could cause people to see black as bad and white as good. But still.

Everything has tradeoffs and I also believe that Obama led to Trump. Too much change too quickly leads to backlash and the pendulum swinging violently in the other direction.

This increases polarization.

I think the solution is more likely not in trying to force our language to change, but is to change our technologies and culture into one that promotes empathy, listening and understanding, and for us to count our blessings instead of running around seeing who can be the better victim, which as a non-american, is what USA looks like to me.

If anything the language is more of a symptom of culture than the other way around, even though I agree there is a bidirectional relationship.

Hormones change our thoughts more than our thoughts change our hormones, even though there is a bidirection there as well. But to me, to attempt to change culture through language is going to be as effective as trying to will ourselves out of anxiety and depression.

I wouldn't be surprised if our generation simply feels powerless in this world. We face a lot of issues ranging from inequality to climate change, and since those issues seem so depressing and insurmountable instead we go on a war against what we feel like we can change, for example words, and then justify to ourselves that this is actually making enough of a difference to steer the ship. But is there any proof of that? All I see is feelings-based decision making without any actual evidence.

Again, aside from blacklist vs whitelist which might actually have some substance to its argument.
The Oakes test is based on outcomes. It is not legislated.
You can live a whole life not leaving your country. If you leave your country, you subject yourself to the jurisdiction of wherever you go. While you're in that other country, they can arrest you and put you through their system. Why should you be allowed to commit a crime, and just because you got away with it long enough to flee the country, not be sent back to the place you committed it?

For what it's worth, some countries do refuse to extradite their own citizens, and will instead try their own citizens for their foreign crimes if they think there's enough evidence and severity. But that's not necessarily a better system. The evidence is in a foreign country, and you can't effectively subpoena people in foreign countries to make them produce documents or take the stand.
Except they’re easier to transport.
I tried to fire my mom once and it did not go as expected
I like github actions better than learning a new monorepo framework
I think the title can be shortened to NPM package event-source-polyfill sabotaged.

Sabotage is a better word since it is not loaded politically. It does not infer a reason nor motive. Just that something happened which was deliberately done by someone.
Which once again proves my old theory:

Trans people are fucking badass. We’re damned lucky to have trans people.
> Lisp is for working with computational ideas and expression, whereas Java is for expressing completed programs

Not my experience at all. I often use the type system to play with and shape ideas before writing any code. The type system is a very high level specification language that allows me to express complex ideas in a few type declarations. With the added benefit that my automatic assistant (the type checker) helps me ensure that I have thought about everything before writing even a single line of code. It is a wonderful way to think about concepts, ideas and the architecture before writing any code.
Let me rant for a bit because I've dealt with the following: Another downside is you'll get people complaining about memory usage despite mmap only paging in what's needed.

It's frustrating but users don't understand how to read memory usage at all. There's even guides out there quite wrongly telling users to look at virtual memory usage for each app.

Mmap is a brilliant way to have the os handle which parts of the file actually reside in memory but you'll seriously have to deal with users that know only enough to be dangerous complaining that your app uses gb of ram when it's merely mapping a file into virtual address space to allow the os to page as it sees fit.

In fact I wouldn't at all be surprised if the memory measurements in this thread were judging virtual allocation rather than physical memory used.
All ATC should be brusque and quick, especially in high traffic environments.

The US Army's ATC units had the motto of "Safe, Orderly, & Expeditious."
From an observer's point of view all the oldest gallaxies are distributed in the "surface" of a sphere of radius 13.5BLY, that surface IS the center of the Big Bang, the past, and the center of "now" is the point of the observer. Isn't this mind-warping?
I imagine this could be useful in workplaces that already use Thunderbird and want to introduce Matrix without the support burden of new desktop software. Potentially cool?
Im no streetwalkin floozy but 20 bucks is 20 bucks.
Everything or Nothing: The missing James Bond theme song
Our plan is to keep it going up until the point our daughter asks us directly, at which point we’ll tell her the truth.
I am of the opinion that the elite top 0.1% would intentionally hoard this and make it out of reach of even your standard rich person. I don't think they would allow this tech to spread such that ordinary people could get their hands on it.
I remember seeing this. It's an example of what I think of as a very British kind of humor: you assert some absurd proposition, present it absolutely gravely and seriously, and never crack a smile or let on that you are joking.

There is a lot of this kind of thing in Monty Python -- the pet store owner in the parrot sketch is a good example.

I always thought the Flat Earth Society was a more extended example.
I display my pronouns to signal that if your pronouns are important to you, tell me and I’ll respect them. If they’re not important to you, don’t tell me. That’s it.
I cannot tell why, but all of his footage does actually look CGI to me.
Peter Thiel on Bitcoin 2022
I was responding to this: "They weren’t just copying/pasting prompts there was human creativity involved as well"

I'm simply certain that whatever its capabilities they are short of mind reading. You'd be equally impressed if you asked me to perform a google image search.

That does not mean that Dall-E is unimpressive or the results are fake. What I'm saying is that the hype and mysticism around this is unwarranted.

Elsewhere in the thread somebody else wrote that we are on the cusp of it producing convincing fake footage from the Kennedy assassination from a single text prompt.

The image output now being stable and pleasing to the eye is enough of a result even if it requires trial and error.

You wouldn't lose your mind over a wallpaper generator even though no machine learning is necessary to produce infinite variations of interesting patterns. This thing is spewing out "art" and people are ascribing magical capabilities to it as if it taped a banana to a canvas.

Anything is possible. Maybe Dall-E is capable of even more incredible things. Who knows where this all ends up. Sure. But not quite that much follows from what has been presented so far.
I don’t really agree. I read the ruling. The court made an above minimum pass at reasoning, and where they deviated from the central argument about the Oakes it read like it was cribbed from Twitter.

That’s fine to be honest. They aren’t the Ministry. They simply had to enumerate some reasonable alternatives to satisfy the Oakes test requirements.

However I felt dumber after reading the ruling. They really leaned into the idea that race is real, which is a red flag for a judge in Canada.
IDK. The bank reports that the J. Random Chevrolet dealer deposited $75,000. The bank doesn't know where that came from. They don't know if it represents 75 $1,000 cars or one $75,000 car.

I used to work at a restaurant that regularly deposited more than $10,000 cash per day. We never filed any IRS reports for that, maybe the bank did.
If a 5 or 6 year old actually asks a question that needs answers about sex, then why not?

But keep in mind that it’s easy for adults to project their adult experiences into children. When a kid asks how babies are made, they are very unlikely to be asking about intercourse or romance or eroticism or pleasure or any such thing, nor are they even likely to be particularly interested in those topics. They are probably asking for something about how a sperm and an egg combine to make an embryo and how that embryo grows up into a baby inside of a mommy. They might be interested in how the baby gets out. They might be interested in how the sperm and egg combine, and, depending on their age, they might be fascinated by genetics. Maybe they’re interested in how some animals fertilize eggs inside of mommies and how some other animals fertilize eggs after they’ve been laid. Some kids will be interested to learn that plants do this too. (But mosses are quite different, as are creatures like aphids and even oranges!).

And yes, kids should know how sex works, how consent works, and how sex results in babies before they figure it out by accident. But that’s unlikely to be anything that a 5 or 6 year old asks.

(5 year olds are very likely to need to be aware of consent in non-sexual contexts, though.)
Clients Cry Foul over Litigious Litigation Finance Company
While I agree you have to also consider WLB and not TC alone. Your actual pay rate for how much you have to actually work are very important. $1 million/yr sounds nice but if you need to put in 100 or 110 hours a week to do it, it may not be as alluring. So TC is important in terms of magnitude and what that alots you but the actual pay rate and total magnitude of work are critical in this perspective.

This is basically my perspective, although I factor in the value of my time doing the actual work as well. Even with great WLB and very high TC, if you're working 25 hours a week doing miserable stuff... thats 25 hours of your life spent in misery. Would rather that be enjoyable if possible if all other things can be kept constant.
I don’t understand why you would say this. As everyone can plainly read, Section 23 makes education a Charter right in Canada.