skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> post: have candidates read code

and this is your response? did you come up with extremely clever reduction in the shower and wait for the first post that's tangentially relevant (and in fact embodies the opposite of what you're attacking?)
If it’s a passively managed index fund, then yes, absolutely.
Windows Ameliorated does not require installing from an ISO. That was merely made for convenience, and for those without the basic technical knowledge required to perform a manual amelioration. There is detailed documentation for performing a manual amelioration, it uses fully open-source scripts.(https://wiki.ameliorated.info/doku.php?id=documentation_21h1)

The ISO has been used by hundreds of people, with no sign of malicious intent, so personally I'm willing to trust that as well.
Make sure you stay vigilant and keep fighting for the NHS.

Our public healthcare in Australia has been slowly eroded over the past decade (if not longer), and I'm starting to wonder if the next generation will even be able to enjoy "full" coverage at all.

This isn't propaganda or hyperbole. When my wife had a miscarriage earlier in the year, we were billed $150 for the privilege of being told we'd lost our child.

This should not happen in Australia, but it did. Don't follow in our footsteps.
I bet force quit will work, but it’s not necessary to disable it for this “business model” to work. Most people don’t use force quit frequently enough to even remember its existence when faced with a situation like this.
These are just the opening moves. It isn’t over yet.
This happened with SKT (Tanger outlets) which is a high dividend paying stock in SDY ETF. The ETF was approaching 50% ownership stake.

The fund needs to report their holdings. Not all companies have a poison pill provision. Not all companies that do have a poison pill will activate it. In the case of an ETF there's usually a discussion between the portfolio manager and the company. They know where they stand. Plus it's not really in a passive fund mandate to go activist.
Recently there have been many accounts getting banned for being critical of US foreign policy in Ukraine conflict, disagreeing with western media propaganda around specific events. Also many got banned for posting "conspiracy theories" around COVID that eventually became conventional wisdom like its origin in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

If one disagrees with liberal establishment rhetoric on gender issues, you also get banned very quickly. There are a bunch of these consensus political issues that are off limits for debate.
Yes, that would do nicely.

Doing it because you choose to. Because you like it. That's key.
>Then, the case was rediscovered by a popular podcast ("You're Wrong About") so a lot of people now have the opposite perspective and anger at how it all played out

I'd say online communities have been having this reaction for at least a decade. In 2011 a documentary came out partially about the case, Hot Coffee, and since then most mentions of the McDonalds case I've seen have turned into a version of this conversation.

Actually, it probably even predates that film. The first Wikipedia entry for the case in 2003 says

>Based on this summary, the case has become emblematic of frivolous and outrageous lawsuits for many people, and is often used as an example of the need for tort reform in the United States legal system. The summary, however, omits a large amount of relevant information.
which .1% of customers will use
Please explain. I can easily envision much more transparency on how the feed works.
Only one I can think of is that a couple hundred lines (depending on content of course) can be quite a bit to grok within a 50 minute span. Especially if there are a number of places where improvements might make sense, but you have one or two in mind specifically...

I've been in that sort of position tbh, where a 200 line codebase has maybe 20-30 obviously wrong parts (creds in code, calls to 3rd party service in code w/o cacheing, maybe that could just be a service? why is this not in a queue, ...) and it's sort of weird that getting 11/14 and talking over pros and cons of the others can be considered a barely-pass.

Still, you're not wrong. Find a good enough, real-life enough example and it'd make for a great question.
One thing I like about this (as opposed to a “blank slate” coding challenge) is that it shows how well the candidate is able to fit into the broader design style of the surrounding code. Not just the superficial things (like naming conventions), but also the structural patterns.
This is not a file system I would be interested in. If you’ve ever snooped in on fs activity it is constant and overwhelming on even an average system. IDEs can have undo, vi and emacs have undo. As others in the thread have said, just use multiple files.

Personally I’d be interested in a shell having undo capability, but not a file system.
I think you’re vastly overestimating the number of people who pay attention to such things.
>What Twitter client are you using? Mobile web at least threads it just fine.

Chrome on the desktop right now. I agree that the mobile app is a better experience.
That's only from a content moderation point of view. I would argue Twitter is incredibly mismanaged from a product POV. Barely any new features, buff Android app (at least for me), and Twitter Blue being pretty useless.
The whole point of a search engine is curation, and excluding garbage or in the case of Russia/Ukraine, making willful misinformation less prominent is an act of curation.

A search engine is largely two things:

(1) crawling and discovering all available resources
(2) parsing a user’s request for a resource of some kind and providing the user with a means of accessing “best matches”

This process is inherently, unequivocally and fundamentally biased. It HAS TO be. There is no abject, absolute, canonical result for a search engine query. Ddg/google “censor” () all kinds of results constantly. Malware sites, sites that just mirror content from stackoverflow, sites that may cause public harm, etc. That’s the whole point.

Another note: they may be downranking those results because users are unsatisfied with their quality. DDGs job is to help the user find what they are looking for, and if the user finds a bunch of Russian propaganda that is blatantly not what they wanted when they search for something (perhaps because Russia is exploiting SEO or using other techniques to inflate their position), why wouldn’t they tweak their product?
I mean there were (and are!) large hate subs that stayed up for years and get no attention from the admins until it makes the news so I wouldn't necessarily take "hasn't been banned yet" as some kind of endorsement.

However, I think there's a lot of nuance when it comes to subreddits that mock "acceptable targets." The content might look superficially similar but the intent and impact are different.

A hypothetical subreddit /r/letsmockwomen serves mostly as a lightning rod for those who already hate women to have an excuse to let that out in a forum where it's "more acceptable" because the OP isn't just a woman, but typically a woman who's done something that, in isolation, is stupid and makes sense to mock. But the difference compared to /r/letsmockwhitepeople is that the replies will won't be "she's dumb" but "women are dumb." And that's the the idea that will proliferate, not "women are, like all humans, are capable of stupidity" which leads to real life consequences.
Saying the wrong thing in a private setting and getting fired has been a thing before computers existed.

Cancel culture is just a new name for an ancient practice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunning
Sun boxes were way more performant than anything Intel for some time. I used to run a big CORBA app, and windows hosts would only be able to handle half of the workload form a thread perspective. In that era, you usually scaled up, and Sun gear did that, even giving you mainframe-like segmentation on the E10k boxes.

The other thing is that OSS databases mostly weren’t a thing, and commercial database platforms like Oracle or Informix were released for Solaris/SPARC first. I worked for a .gov client that was all about RS/6000 and AIX, and it was painful - you’d wait 3-6 months for some patches.

Linux really broke the workstation market circa 1998, and the cracks in the server platform were sort of hidden after the dotcom implosion put lots of gently used gear on the market.
I never really looked too deep into Ameliorated Windows, just saw that they have their own ISOs. From memory, nLite came with a slick installer that you just supplied an ISO to and chose some options, and it did everything for you.
From experience in Portland and Seattle, large management companies are purchasing as many properties as they possibly can.
And here I was thinking that this was a $43B smokescreen to obfuscate the $15M payout occurring within the same news cycle. What am I missing here?
Can you explain how an unbiased search engine would work? Sounds like a billion dollar idea tbh.
It is a multi-band nonlinear compressor. It deals with each band of hearing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bark_scale) individually. In each band, it elevates soft sounds to just past the threshold of audibility with someone's impaired hearing, to make it sound like the softest sound they can hear. And it elevates medium sounds a little bit less, to make it sound like a medium sound. And it elevates loud sounds not much at all. Hence the nonlinearity.
I can't edit the comment any more, but if you thought "neomaclaran" was a stupid and invalid analogy, then go ahead and use "neolotus" instead.
Twitter is where the network effect and users are, so no it makes more sense to take over Twitter and shape it to your own views if you are a billionaire who wants to make an impact on public discourse and free speech.
I'm not too familiar with big tech companies blocking booting from USB, though it is a pretty common practice in the finance sector, iirc.

There's an apocryphal story of a security researcher who was tasked by a bank to break in if he could. He littered CD's around the parking lot (or was it USB drives? I forget) back when auto-run was a thing. Employees saw the disks on the ground, picked them up wondering what they were, and inserted them in their work computers to find out. Tada! Access granted. As such, Big Corporate companies (finance, insurance, retail, etc) tend to lock down their computers pretty hard... tech companies less so, I think.

Personally, I'd just take two laptops.
2) "Think on the margin" - a LVT might not make Bill Gates turn his mansion into condos, but down the bell curve there are likely plenty of people right on the fence who may be swayed.

3) LVT would (theoretically) equally encourage the development of condos as it would rental units.
The article seems to be a little loose with its terminology. It uses the term “land value tax”, but describes it the same as what you term a “Georgist land tax”. But then the article seems to imply that all efforts nationwide to implement a “land value tax” are good, which I doubt, since what people usually mean by “land value tax” is much closer to what I described, not what you wrote.
Society is expressing its collective free speech when it "cancels" someone, for whatever reason.

When you support "free speech", you support all of it or none of it.
Money does not scale linearly. It’s more of a function of the amazon stock growth. I was able to build wealth because I did the less orthodox path and held on to every share that ever vested for me starting from 2012.

But even here, the company is not generous at all. Your stock grants vest 1-2 years out. If the stock climbs during that time, then in next year, you get no additional compensation. My initial years at amazon, I received little to no compensation increase, even with multiple promotions, because the stock had climbed significantly in value.

So if they don’t give you more shares when the stock appreciates, then what happens if it doesn’t grow or declines? They try to compensate you by giving you more shares that vest over a 2 year time frame. So if the stock does good, you get screwed. If the stock performs poorly, you get screwed too.
Are you even listening to yourself?

Of course I would be forced to sell it because the taxes would be too high. That's the whole point. Because of tax policy I would be forced to sell the land that I want to keep and sell later for appreciation value.

Sometimes we forget that this is a capitalist free market country. I'm free to do what I want with my own land and my own capital.

Sometimes it is not optimal, but if you take that part away, what incentive do people have to do business anymore?
The board won’t accept anything without those financing commitments. That’s the point.
Using group policy or registry edits does NOT fully remove Windows spyware or telemetry. Windows Ameliorated is different in this regard, as it actually gets rid of the spyware on an executable level, meaning the functionality of the spyware is not just disabled, but completely removed.

Also, as a personal testimony, my whole family and I have been running AME as a daily driver for awhile now, and haven't run into any significant issues (funnily enough, I've had less issues with Windows Ameliorated than I have with Windows). From my experience it really is stable, and IMO even more stable than stock Windows.

I ask that you actually try out a project before making claims about it.
You can run any app packaged as a Flatpak, so you can definitely browse the Internet with it.
It wasn't so much censored as it was boring and irrelevant. If it was driving clicks it wouldn't have been "censored".
This opinion piece is absolute garbage. Here is one review (video):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIRWzMnfMPY
I think people are running with the idea that DDG is only punishing Russians. Russian media also loves pushing this idea.

I'm not convinced that DDG isn't downranking all junk. Russian disinfo spreaders and consumers just scream the hardest when their garbage is rightfully pushed aside. Same as the Q-worshipping crowd.
Ahhhhh missed it again
> Look at who Facebook offloads censorship to and who finances them.

The usual accusation is they pick left-wing fact checkers, but this falls apart on even casual examination. https://www.thedailybeast.com/facebook-brings-in-rightwing-n...

"Facebook has brought in the right-wing news site The Daily Caller, which was co-founded by Fox News host Tucker Carlson and is known for pushing misinformation, to help fact-check articles, according to The Guardian."
A 'Mark for deletion' coupled with a check once the deletion marker should be processed has succeeded would be a way to avert what happened at Atlassian.

No matter how well built a system, human error can still happen which leads us down dark paths.

Also, no backup currently exists for when an alien race blows up the Earth. Some things are simply impossible to account for.
> just because some people are abusing the system doesn't mean the system is inherently bad

How many American workers would have to be abused by this law before it becomes "inherently bad"? (as a number between 0 and 300 million)

>The reason the US is a technology superpower is not merely because of the programmers who were born in the US, but also because of the programmers who immigrated to the US.

The reason they moved to the US was to work with the programmers who were born here, so yes it literally because of our accomplishments that people strongly desire to immigrate here, and that doesn't diminish their contributions.

>wages for top talent has gone up about 20% in the last 30 years

Assuming that is true, we have been screwed out of a lot more than I realized. The United States has spent the past 30 years enjoying the greatest era of peace and prosperity the human race has ever seen and the most talented American engineers who made that possible only got a 20% raise in that time. That's shameful.
They had TVs with built in DVD players too. But I don't recall those ever supplanting the separate devices. I can see why you might want to combined devices. You can reduce clutter and simplify cable management. TVs with built in digital TV receivers make sense. I like monitors with built in USB hubs so I can use different computers with the same monitor by just swapping the HDMI and USB cables.

But they saw the vertical integration possibilities and took advantage of it here. I'm not sure you are even getting a hardware discount to view those ads.
I do agree removing Windows Update does pose some security risk, however I don't think said risk is nearly as bad as some make it out to be, and I personally think the benefits of Windows Ameliorated greatly outweigh any security downsides.

Also, AME does greatly help to mitigate the attack surface of Windows:

Windows Ameliorated ships with a non-administrator user account by default, which mitigates ~70% of Windows vulnerabilities. (Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20210618023509/https://www.beyon...). Of course you can still do admin actions, it just requires the admin password.
Since you’re close to 10X Management, do you know (or could ask) whether they’re doing anything in the UK/EU market? Last time I checked them out I got the impression it was primarily US-only.
The JVM is a marvel of software engineering, and Java is an okay language.

People just like to bond by hating the same unpopular things. It makes them feel 'in'.
I'd grant the "pedo" thing. But I'm not sure what else. Link didn't provide anything of merit.
The share price tells you nothing by itself—you also need to know the amount of shares outstanding at both points in time to make an actual comparison.
Patent from 2007, Wikipedia article from 2018.
I have this recurring fantasy in which some Satoshi figure creates a decentralized global bulletin board, such that anybody can post and view anything anonymously and untraceably, and nobody - not the U.S. government, nor the CCP, nor the Mossad, nor the NSA - can stop it short of dismantling the whole Internet and starting over. Nobody can blame anybody, because nobody can stop it. Not because I think such a thing is technically possible. Certainly not because I have any fancy argument for why such a thing ought to exist morally! But simply to sit back and watch the world lose its fucking mind over it. To see the whole psyche of human kind projected into public view, and the accompanying apoplectic, impotent outrage.

I might also settle for a really quality sci-fi novel in which this takes place.
I've been doing this for a long time now. I present the candidate with a function (on paper) that compiles and runs. It does the job but it does everything poorly: an embedded connection string, leaves the connection open, no error handling, bad variable names, no comments, etc... EVERY candidate can find something wrong with this code and the things they pick up is informative. Juniors can find the easy stuff, more senior-level folks find the deeper flaws about the basic structure of the code like figuring that a lot of this is boilerplate that could be implemented elsewhere.
No, it means almost none of that. Pretty much nothing you said has anything to do with copyright law. This is why I have a problem with this rhetoric, it very frequently goes off the rails towards something that doesn't help the goal at all.

> It means people being forced off the internet because of nothing but unproven accusations because they only have one ISP in their area.

This is not related to copyright law at all. I agree ISP monopolies are a problem, for any number of reasons.

>It means artists who never publish their works because they're afraid of being sued for being a little too close to what someone else did once a century ago.

Anyone can sue you anytime for any reason, that doesn't mean they'll win the lawsuit. You could make a good argument here about how copyright law is too long, but that point is lost in the rest of the sentence.

>It means creative projects that never get started because while the will is there, the rights needed are impossible to obtain.

No, that doesn't make any sense. This is a blatant misunderstanding of copyright that I see so often. Copyright doesn't stop you from creating new projects. You don't need to get the rights if it's a fully original work. You could also make a good argument here about how licensing is too difficult to obtain sometimes but that point is also lost.

>It means non-infringing works like youtube-dl get silenced and hidden from the public because they are inconvenient to media giants

This never happened. Youtube-dl is still up, if I recall for the short period it was taken down there were like 20 forks that popped up immediately.

>It means accepting internet censorship without oversight.

This also never happened and is contradictory to everything else you said, your complaint actually seems to be that there's too much oversight.

>It means DRM crippled hardware that you but are never allowed to own.

This is not related to copyright law. DRM is a purely technical means, not a legal one.

>It means DRM crippled software that can never be preserved and archived in a usable format. It means your culture and your history being paywalled off or locked away

No, it's not your culture or your history, you're not the author. What everyone misses with these comments is that some authors many not want their works to be preserved or archived.

>If you this this is an issue of "I just want free stuff" you clearly haven't been paying attention.

There's no coherent issue anywhere else in your reply and there's nothing to pay attention to. I've tried to make these comments constructive so maybe that can guide you towards what your real issue is.
He's already won by spotlighting Twitter's poor record.
He literally said in this tweet thread that every one of these social media sites starts out being "pro free-speech" and learns how impossible that actually is to live up to.

Reddit is "really, really racist, sexist, and authoritarian" because there's literally no other way to be a major social media site. It's all shitty and horrible, and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it. That's exactly what the thing we're all commenting on is trying to say, that Elon thinks he can fix this but he can't, and it will cost Elon and the world a substantial amount.
It might be about profitability, long-term energy storage and much less maintenance (since no moving parts). Ref: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03062...

"Evaluated herein is one E-TES concept, called Firebrick Resistance-Heated Energy Storage (FIRES), that stores electricity as sensible high-temperature heat (1000–1700 °C) in ceramic firebrick, and discharges it as a hot airstream to either (1) heat industrial plants in place of fossil fuels, or (2) regenerate electricity in a power plant. … We report that systems of 100–1000 s MWh may be cycled daily, and discharged at a constant heat rate typically for 70–90% of the storage capacity. Traditional insulation can reasonably limit heat leakage to less than 3% per day. Preliminary cost estimates indicate a system cost near $10/kWh, substantially less expensive than batteries."
Large Language Models and Trust
I would have been more interested in seeing the raw data from the original Dunning-Kruger study reformatted to avoid auto-correlation. Maybe I've skipped over an important detail in my head, but I don't see why plotting perceived test score vs. actual test score would cause any problems; neither variable is in terms of the other.

The final study discussed is convincing as far as I thought. By using academic rank (Freshman, Sophomore, ...) they can plot the difference between difference in score and predicted score against rank without auto-correlation. Its just that using academic rank seems a possibly unreliable metric and an unnecessary complication - why not just use data about test scores and predictions of scores which already exists in a proper statistical interpretation?