skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LoL. The truth is most sites don’t need tons of js, but we’re in the sad state where normal websites begins with heavy js framework, junky cookies, annoying notifications as a default. Then add more and more junks …
Explanation on Europa bodes well for search for extraterrestrial life
> I certainly spell my words differently if I get a red squiggly line. Do you not?

You always have the option to just not. It's called enFORCEment, not enSUGGESTment. I presume the reason you choose to correct spelling is that you know it will be received better by your audience if the words are spelled according to convention. If you are spelling a word outside of the dictionary and you get a red line under the word, do you then change it to something you know to be not what you wanted? Of course not. If however you could only write words in the dictionary, then that would be enforcement (especially if you couldn't add words to the dictionary).

Presumably you have the same choice here. I really don't see the difference.

It's really striking to me that a number of issues today where everyone is exercising their free will are somehow twisted to be authoritarian overreach. Someone is upthread calling it authoritarian and a new heresy. I mean... come on. The histrionics are getting out of hand. Now a squiggle is "authoritarian".
> As of April 1, 2020, there were approximately 115.8 thousand square kilometers of high-class asphalt roads in Tokyo metropolis, Japan, which was the dominant type of pavement.

Tokyo metro area is 14,034 km2.

Meanwhile LA is 14% parking lots or so I’ve heard.
Big fan, few small things.

AMD models, and maybe even arm64 mainboards would be lit.

16 inch variant, black and white options.

Oh, and if possible, coreboot please.

Keep up the good work, you have my money
You'd be correct if you didn't word it as "taking". Nothing is being taken from anyone, and this might seem like semantics to you but it's an important point when piracy is being discussed. When piracy happens, the net result is that there's more of it in the world, which is contradictory to theft.

If you think that's immoral or should be illegal, it's a separate discussion. The point here is that for that discussion to be had the distinction needs to be made.
Brave is my default browser.
> Why is it inappropriate for young children to be present for educational discussions about gender identity and sexual orientation?

Because kids’ brains aren’t fully developed until age 25 and sexuality is a complicated and potentially damaging force that parents try to insulate their kids from until they’re old enough to understand what it is and what it isn’t.

Also, more fundamentally, because many parents are just fresh out of trust: https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-st-loui.... There’s a vocal faction of the left that’s obsessed with sex. These are the folks who thought same-sex marriage was a bad thing because they wanted more sweeping changes to sexual and gender norms. These folks are always trying to sneak in the door behind people advocating for equal rights, and right now we’re in a phase where the broader center left doesn’t have the backbone to stand up to them.
Humans have been moving around since forever. Peaceful coexistence with the people who were there before? Not so much, the archeological record generals tends more to the "pile of smashed skulls" end of the scale
My org is generally anti-leetcode so I can’t speak for your experiences - the only data structure/algorithm questions you may encounter in an interview with my org is likely practical questions (i.e. problems we have had to solve on the job).

I’m usually not even asking a coding question in my session - I set up a practical/common problem beforehand and we explore the scenario together. I can assure you that many candidates don’t pass my session necessarily, even if they have proven in other sessions to be brilliant coders - I’m not looking for technical brilliance in most of the interviews I give, and neither are the hiring managers I work with. To me, focusing on the coding is most important on the technical screen, not the full panel - once you reach the full panel, your goal is to demonstrate technical leadership, which includes expertise in knowledge, coding competency, focus on UX, and some other areas for more senior roles (conflict management, responsibility, navigating different stakeholders for product/project decisions, etc.).

If all your focus is in is just the coding questions, you’ve likely already set yourself up for failure.
Let me add to the enthusiastic chorus with my own "This is great!". One thing that I feel you can do better (and forgive me if it's already there, in five minutes of poking around I couldn't find it) is a knowledge base of some sort. While I was building a model I wasn't sure what reasonable values would be for some of the knobs and stuff that I might be missing. Basically, I think that you could link to existing articles or pointers on personal finance that could help me, a complete novice, model better.

Also, and maybe this is a non-goal, you could help me optimize - let's say I've set my living expenses to $X/mo and income to $Y/mo, and I've set a goal for financial independence by age A, the model could suggest things I could do to achieve that goal, say by cutting X down to X' or putting more of Y into a different kind of savings account. It might not be easy to do, but again, as a complete novice I'd really love to get a plan that didn't require days of work to set up.
I mean, they're based in Atlanta which is about 50% black.
I can tell you that people with heritage of India do the majority of the drywall work in Vancouver
To his credit, the CEO read my comment and reached out to me (as he noted in the sibling comment). Since that email answers your question, and also adds some useful context, I'll just share that:

> So, I generally have a personal rule against disparaging things that other people made because I know how hard it is to make stuff and how criticism feels. I ignored that rule in this instance only because I've been a victim of DMCA misuse from a company and have learned the hard way that the only real repercussions anyone will face are reputational.

> For context on my experience with HackerRank, I have used both the take-home test product and the real-time test product. It has been almost a year since I have used either, since I left that job.

> I found the real-time product frustrating to use; frequently I could not rely on the candidate seeing the same state I did. I forget exactly what the problem was but candidates were often confused by the console not appearing and things like that. In some instances, either I or candidates were booted out of an interview in progress and had to refresh the page. Usually we worked it out pretty quickly, but losing precious time can make candidates nervous and it's not a great first experience with the company for them. I also found that code execution ran slowly, in both the real-time product and the take-home test -- we weren't running big programs, I'm not sure what was so slow.

> On the take-home side, for context, I was one of several people responsible for the take-home coding test for my department and was also (unofficially) the go-to person to look into assignments that were flagged for plagiarism. I found the plagiarism detection results to be pretty incomprehensible -- sometimes I'd see tests with very high plagiarism scores and no signs of obvious plagiarism, or things like a 90% score with just a few innocuous lines of overlap with the alleged source. I understand that flagging false positives for human review is generally preferred here to false negatives, but my main concern here is that if recruiters within an organization take these numbers at face value, they end up rejecting candidates pretty much randomly, or because the candidate wrote idiomatic code that looks like everyone else's because it's the idiomatic solution in that language.
I’m not really sure what “okay” means as a metric, and I couldn’t say whether it’s “okay” or not — so I withhold judgement.

If I were to discuss this with my children, it would be a very nuanced topic.

It’s certainly not a public school teacher’s remit to indoctrinate children within the teacher’s own moral framework.

“It’s okay” would be just as inappropriate as “it’s not okay”, in this context.
You're absolutely right. A serious part of managing SQL Server is keeping your costs down. RDS for SQL Server is so unbelievably expensive that I can't believe anyone uses it. I'm not aware of any meaningful extensions to MSSQL in the sense of TimescaleDB and friends either. I'll make the claim that we don't need Citus because everything they offer is built into MSSQL, and we don't need TimescaleDB because column stores are built in too, but if you did find some kind of deep extension you wanted to build, you can't do it. Simply not an option with MSSQL. You either build it outside of SQL Server, or you don't build it.
> Firefox literally sends your keystrokes to Google, right out of the box.

This is a touch of FUD. Firefox sends what you type into the search/address bar to google for search suggestions by default, yes. Your perhaps unintended implication here is that all keystrokes are being logged and sent to google.

> Brave, however, was found to be the most private popular browser by reputable researchers: https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf.

This is a bit of a misstatement of the research; Rather they found that Brave doesn't tag users' installs with persistent IDs by default in startup telemetry or update requests, while most of the rest of the competition do. This means Brave has a superior initial privacy state but says nothing about the overall usage posture. Is it better? Possibly but that's not the conclusion the researchers actually came to.

Here's an example of why the first line of FUD is dangerous:
"Brave's BAT is basically just a way for users to be tracked as they go about navigating the web."

This is an easy throw-away statement with little substance and likely little to no truth behind it.

A more concrete example might be that the so-called "Privacy Preserving Product Analytics API" that collects data on Brave users' installs gets enough data to pretty easily fingerprint a user if you wanted to. You don't need many data points to identify an individual from a large group.
Wait, I got mixed up, and it's past the 2 hour editing window. 40MB is the ram footprint of Gitea, which is written in Go. Fossil is a lot smaller, like 2MB IIRC. It has been a while since I played with it. It is basically a small C framework wrapped around a bunch of SQL scripts that run in an embedded copy of sqlite.
Good memory; and thanks! It's sure been a busy year.
Teleportation-based Nanotech “It is Easier to get Forgiveness than Permission”
they posted cringe, it was only a matter of time
I hear what you're saying. I'm sure people who work at google appreciate an AI making sure they don't accidentally post some wrong-speak to an internal mailing list. Especially when doing so might get them fired.

I just think politically controversial writing suggestions should be opt-in. We don't all work at google. And not all documents are corporate memos. Its extremely important to a liberal society that people are free to think and express heretical thoughts without feeling like we're being watched and judged for doing so.

Getting political judgements ("suggestions") from an omnipresent AI looking over my shoulder while I write sounds dystopian. That sort of technology skeeves me out. I don't trust the sort of people who think this should be turned on by default with access to my private notes. And you shouldn't either.
This. Especially those with real power, such as trillion dollar corporations.
And a poorly implemented reinvention at that.
Right.

Communist until you get rich

Feminist until you get married

Atheist until the plane starts falling

Critisizing NIMBYism until you own the house.
OOXML was a standard-after-the-fact, because Microsoft couldn't respond to some Government tenders that required that all data be stored in standardised formats.

So... they "standardised" it.

Hilariously, OOXML as generated by MS Office is not the standard version by default. The standard version has different XML namespaces and even slightly different capabilities. You can choose this format in Save As, but nobody does.
Yes, exactly. When people cite scaling concerns and/or big data, I start by asking them what they mean by scale and/or big. It's a great way to get down to brass tacks quickly.

Now when dealing with someone convinced that their single TB of data is google scale, the harder issue is changing that belief. But at least you know where they stand.
"Go read XXX" is a non answer. (The link also doesn't list the files in violation.)
The wealthy of the world should shouldn't be able to buy up our real-estate period.

In the USA, all it takes is a email, or phone call, from practically anywhere in the world and they own it.

At minimum we (USA) need to start with citizenship as a prerequisite. Oh yea, stop corporation for buying up precious stock too.

(Until we have more stock--the last thing we should allow is foreigners with funds buying our land. I have found it infuriating since I found out about how easy it is to buy here. Other countries do not let wealthy Americans buy land so dam easy.)
Did nvidia just promise us singularity? :)

Hard to read a talk like this from a pulpit & not see shout outs to the incredibly super-fantastic open-source innovative projects like OpenROAD which have been shipping amazingly well-routed-by-AI chips for a while now. There's papers you can cite, galore, many open source designs[1].

It's not like Nvidia is promising anyone else will benefit from this work. This seems to be very high level coverage their R&D department is looking at, perhaps/perhaps not using. The article makes it hard to find out what is available, what has been published or otherwise deeply discussed (which is I think the best we can hope from Nvidia not real participation). There's only one paper linked, on NVCell[2], described as:

> The first is a system we have called NVCell, which uses a combination of simulated annealing and reinforcement learning to basically design our standard cell library.

This just feels like so much else going on in computing. WSL coming to windows, the recent Unity vs Unreal topic[3]. It's hard to imagine refusing to participate with others. It's hard to imagine not being part of the open source community working shoulder to shoulder to push for better. NVidia patently doesn't get it, patently isn't participating, patently isn't there. It's cool we can hear what they are up to, but it's also extremely NVidia that they're doing it all on their own. Anyhow, Looking forward to more AI based chip power system design starting to emerge; that sounds like a good idea NV.

[1] https://theopenroadproject.org/

[2]
https://research.nvidia.com/publication/2021-12_nvcell-stand...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31064552 (412 points, 3 days ago, 311 comments)
F1 Teams Are Stripping Paint Off Their Cars to Save Weight
Typing.io: Typing Practice for Programmers
Do you think there will come a point when you will vote Republican? It's anecdotal but the last year I've heard several Democrats saying they are voting Republican next election.
I've looked at it a little bit, but as someone nearing retirement, it is lacking a number of features that I would like.

There are some common tricks that I don't see how to model with ProjectionLab:

1. Do your tax-deferred 401k,403b,IRA saving in a high earning job, state, then move to a low or no income tax state to do the withdrawals in retirement.

2. Retire early so there is some time before taking social security payments to do Roth Conversions. I-ORP[0] turns this into a branch and cut linear optimization problem. User Indyhou at Bogleheads[1] has built a spreadsheet that uses a solver plugin. It may be possible to build a model in CBC[2] and compile it to WASM and run it in the browser.

3. After turning 63, watch the Roth Conversions to make sure you don't trigger IRRMA medicare surcharges.

4. Are you trying to stay under income limits for ACA subsidies? It's not quite the sharp cliff that it was, but can be important for some.

5. Are you trying to balance regular income and capital gains to take advantage of the 0% cap gains rates? You've got to plan ahead on your contributions to the taxable and tax deferred accounts for this to work. Jeremy at Go Curry Cracker has written about using this to pay $0 in US Federal Income taxes[3].

6. Paying full rate for health insurance will likely get you over the 7.5% limit for tax deductions.

7. Social Security claiming strategies can be complex for married couples.

A feature that would be useful during accumulation is life insurance planning for the death of a spouse.

The death of a spouse can throw a wrench in some of the strategies since the single tax bracket is much smaller. Tax law changes can also upset highly optimized strategies. So any highly optimized strategy should also have a monte carlo simulation around a spouse dying and tax law changes to understand what disruptions are possible and maybe accept a non-optimal strategy that is better in these adverse cases.

[0] https://i-orp.com

[1] https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=365518

[2] https://github.com/coin-or/Cbc

[3] https://www.gocurrycracker.com/go-curry-cracker-2020-taxes/
>> the easiest is check if they've succeeded in a stressful environment before

I guess you...overcame adversity by going to college?

Least stressful time of my life. I fucked off, did drugs, and somebody else paid for it all.

So much stress.
I think the important thing to note though, is this was not always the case? Catholicism and evolutionary theory have a rather strange history where it has changed stance several times. The recent Catholic church has not been opposed to it and has priests who work on evolution just at there are priests who work on physics and the large hadron collider.
Utilities Want to Convert Coal Plants to Nuclear; Skeptics Abound
Do you have evidence to the contrary?

Do we need to provide evidence for basic logical common sense?
It's as trivial to sign fake content as real one, and people are really, really, really bad at anything close to due diligence for signature verification and revocation (as that's an objectively hard problem).

Furthermore, there's the catering to the least denominator. Whatever signing ability is available for a random widespread cheap third world smartphone used in Tik Tok videos will be treated as sufficiently good to assume it to be true; so if a determined attacker wanting to create a misinformation campaign with fake videos can circumvent the security of that signing process (e.g. get a bunch of valid keys indistinguishable from these phones, then fake videos will have as good signing as real videos.
I’m not sure you’re going to find any nation where you only pay taxes for things you want.

But let’s say the next country allows for everyone getting what they want (somehow) and that includes letting nobody else in…

Who gets their way? Them or you?
That's fair. I didn't mean it literally, but should've been more precise since we're talking about a law.

I wonder how many tech companies w/ platforms have any delay. Is there precedent?
Yeah, that invasion was pretty terrible for the native Americans. So the wise choice is to avoid repeating that history
It's performative inclusion. If it was actual inclusion then other races like Middle Eastern/Asian/etc people would be included. But those people have been deemed by wokes to be "too white" so they're not "people of color" anymore. What exactly are you calling awareness here? Racial quotas for actors?
> No thought is put into the effects of technology. You can have progress without trampling all over people and their livelihoods, but we don't often see any effort to do this.

Sure it is, and sure we do. There are ethics in AI boards for a reason at the major AI research companies, as well as many other technology-producing companies.

> Why are we focusing on image generation as the target for AI automation?

Who is "we?" Individual researchers focus on what they want because they like that topic of research. There is no committee out there who figures out, "what industry can we put people out of jobs this week?" No one wakes up thinking, "oh boy, time to put artists out of work."

> Why are there no efforts to automate away positions such as executive offices?

There are. See abstract thinking AI research.

> Are CEOs so much difficult to replace than artisans?

Yes? Abstract reasoning, allocation of abstract resources like engineers (not widgets or manufacturing) is not an easy task to create an AI for, if a CEO is automated then that means we've reached artificial general intelligence. In contrast, like you see with DALLE and others in this link, art is much easier to automate. This doesn't even get to the notion of artists being in a surplus, they choose to do art as their livelihood. Now, you could ask whether it's fair and whether we need a UBI or something like that, but that's a different question entirely.

> "I invented a method to kill people, what are supposed to halt progress because more people die now? I hate it when people bring up that I'm a serial murderer".

Funny you say that because the military has invented many things that are now used in civilian life [0]. Even the smartphone you use is in part due to their innovations. This is not even to bring up nuclear weapons, which while horrific, have effectively been used as MAD, not to mention a highly efficient energy source via nuclear energy.

> There are things I would be doing with AI and things I would not. Being happy about making a even just a particular type of art redundant, well it if it doesn't benefit anyone then why would you care?

You don't speak for everyone. Why wouldn't automating image or video generation be beneficial to "anyone?" I could imagine at least several use cases off the top of my head, such as a unique streaming service for every individual. Artists themselves can also be influenced by such media, it's not like they stopped after photography was invented. Art just changed.

> Besides, we have banned certain types of research before, precisely because we decided they weren't ethical. Your argument for "progress" is a poor one.

Perhaps we shouldn't be banning research just because of some subjective morality. You've shown no argument for why "progress" is a poor incentive, merely that you personally don't know or care enough about it.

And one more thing, art isn't done as a livelihood, it's done because the artist has a deep appreciation for the works they want to create. That some do it as a money-making endeavor is immaterial to this fact.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_inventions
> People complain about reddit a lot, but even on mobile, the reddit website is fast.

only on mobile is Reddit fast.