skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But are those comments highly upvoted?
> I think I already excluded cases like (4) by stating that the checker operates on "arithmetical statement[s]".

It's at least a bit vague, I think you need something that is at least as strong as Robinson arithmetic. In particular, I believe that if you throw out multiplication (or addition, and keep multiplication), you get a complete theory.
2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30735678
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The trend in screening toward length and complexity, IMO, is not healthy. To me it suggests little confidence on the employer's part (either in HR and in working staff-members) -- and an attempt to remedy that squirminess by methods supposedly 'scientific'. A truly more 'scientific' approach might compare the 'results' of such a gauntlet with the predictions of a tea-leaf reading and an I Ching toss.

I'd rather work for them free for a week, then let them decide, and have something to show for this goofy Wechslering.
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I think that quote says the opposite of what you seem to imply it does.

It says that bullshit like Myers Briggs is misused by laymen. That implies that actual psychometric tests done by experts can be correctly used.

The real headscratcher though is that either Canonical thinks psychometrics work, but still bother with all the other nonsense; or they don't think they work but still leave it in in such a long hiring process...
That’s 170k/engineer which is well below Bay Area engineering salary. Not sure how much of the TBird team is in the bay vs other locations
Adopt a nothing is fungible, everything is serialised approach and maintain real equivalence classes instead of assuming fungibility as a proxy of replaceability.
That is correct. Metformin has a number of downsides.

You will lose your appetite and it will be hard to want to eat. You will tend to lose weight and eat just enough.

It can make you nauseous and you will probably find the bitter taste and fishy (amine) smell of the pills to be repulsive.

It is not an easy drug to take, and like you said, it may also affect male fertility.

But it is well-studied and safe, and offers various benefits.
> All it takes for Joe User to change is one click to set the browser's default search engine

I'm pretty sure that takes a bunch of clicks and is confusing.

> this is why google pays so much to Mozilla.

Google pays Mozilla to fend off antitrust.

edit: Could Google disappear in a day? Maybe. People are still Xeroxing things but nobody is using a Xerox. Google have so much cash that they can pour into marketing that people would gradually drift back after any stumble, though. At the least they could get regulation passed that would be too expensive for newcomers to comply with, or that requires that Google be used as a middleman for some processing.
By that logic, any salary < 70% of AWS cost is justifiable.

In reality there is a job market, and there are office politics. These determine salaries more than "marginal revenue of labour". This means that as long as someone who is employable by office-political standards will do the job cheaper, the salary can be contested.
In the beginning of a career, I can respect some of the choices mentioned in the article. But to be able to stick around in the biz you must work with something that feels meaningful.

I wish I realized earlier that changing job is no big thing. Even though one should do it for the right reasons. Once you feel like you are dying inside at a workplace it is not like a hobby will fix that.
See Doomwatch - Plastic Eaters from 1970: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0564476/
Asking me how I did in high school when I graduated over a decade ago is just completely pointless. It is in no way representative of who I am now.
Lets not forget: your license for alcohol acceptance which includes your info on the card + your picture - Drizly and Instacart Collects that.

Drizly had a massive databreach as well.
How will our legal systems cope if one day you can conjure up any "evidence" you want? We're still safe today but the future will be scary.
> and worded so as to appear nicer than someone delivering a message, which is "you messed up"

You can debate whether "you messed up." When I speak about what I know I experienced by describing things that happened from my own point of view, I'm giving a far less controversial and debatable account of events. Perhaps both parties are comfortable with conflict, in which case there's no issue. But in my experience, I've found that most people feel extremely uncomfortable with something like "you messed up."

> However, "it means that the other team can't process it until the next day" isn't necessary - 90% of the time employees know things need to be done by deadlines. You are asking for them to deliver by the deadline, you don't need to rationalize.

I had mentioned how when giving information, you give "only what they reasonably may not know." In my example, I was thinking maybe they didn't know that 10am was the cutoff before there's a cost. If you know they already know, then yes I agree with you here.

> an attempt to be nice while calling someone out.

For many of us, our jobs require us to regularly coach others. I don't consider it as "calling someone out," and I see no reason to automatically consider it not "nice." It's a potentially uncomfortable interaction that we must do, so why not try to do it in an agreeable and effective way?

> When you take a weak, passive, indirect voice, you accuse while trying to protect yourself from any consequences, since you can always say "woah, woah, I wasn't accusing you, I just didn't get my paperwork".
> To go even further with this - "Ben" missed the deadline, your goal is to communicate they missed the deadline. Why add all this other garbage?

I did in fact use the active voice in my example. Although, I would consider that avoiding the word "you" is a good reason to use the passive voice. That said, using the first person as suggested makes using the active voice much easier. People may use it only to protect themselves from consequences, and if so I'd agree when you describe this framing as "weak." We ought to have a good enough reason to give feedback to stand by it, and if not, then we need to be able to admit that. That isn't why I suggest it, though. The reason I use this kind of language is to make the criticism easier to hear and to avoid unnecessary defensiveness.
Higham is an outstanding researcher. One book I really enjoyed from him is https://epubs.siam.org/doi/book/10.1137/1.9780898717778. He has many many other excellent ones.
I misread this as "How to feel enraged at work," and thought that I really didn't need any guidance.
Mandrake was my first too, but it was because I was at some tech "flea market" show thing in San Diego in the 90s, and they were selling Mandrake CDs for $5.

At the time, I was frustrated at the cost of WinGate, a socks proxy, and I wanted to be able to play games with others on my local network with remote friends.

I had a clever idea, that I could dynamically rewrite IP packets to an internal IP address based on the port assignment (I had essentially re/invented NAT). So I wrote it in pretty low level c, got it mostly working, then a friend told me about this thing called Linux that had a feature called ip masquerading that did everything I was trying to do.

Mandrake had an easy way to compile the kernel with IP masquerading support, and I immediately fell in love with all things Linux.

I remember showing friends the customizable desktop, with silly things like snow falling. They thought I was a leet hacker :)
I've made a few sites with Canva for random needs. It's as basic as making PowerPoint and you can even make a link that is shareable from the web tool. There are a ton of nice-looking templates to start from and it's very, very easy.
You’re fine. I’m a native English speaker and never knew this. I’ve seen “Democrat” used as a performative but only by their political rivals who do think the name is pejorative but it wouldn’t matter what name was used.
>Could I use DALL-E 2 to create a fake vacation? Or, more ethically, could I use DALL-E 2 to recreate events from my vacation that actually happened, but I was unable to get a good photo of them?

What would be unethical about creating a fake vacation? As long as you're not defrauding anyone, I don't see who would be hurt by this.
I'm surprised that cheese imported from America is cheaper than Italian cheese. (I'm presuming you're in the EU, based on your Aldi comment.)
Curious what data have you seen that shows that masks have decreased Covid transmission? When you compare states with and without mask mandates it shows it's made little to no difference.
Where are you buying your Wisconsin cheese for that much? I’m in the southeast and at Publix I can buy a wedge of Wisconsin Parmesan for half the price of the Italian Parmesan.
I've done this but it was with local labs. Depending where you are, there might be some in your area.
Right? There's no way they're hiring good engineers with this BS. I ghosted them after they asked me to do the essay round because I was already nearing the offer stage with multiple companies. Reading the comments on this thread and others it seems I'm not alone in that decision.
KBC and Itsme are hard to trick into working with a rooted phone. I tried and dropped the ball at some point.
The Scarlet Plague: A Novel by Jack London Set in the 21st Century (1912) [pdf]
Amazing that this is coming out in the same year as a new Monkey Island game. The point-and-click adventure game is having a real renaissance.

I wonder if they will get Chris Barrie back to do the voice of Simon again? He voiced Simon in Simon 1 but not Simon 2.
> Think about 10-year-old you. Did they have plans for current-you?

No.
I know, right? What even is New good for? I’ll never find out. :)
Agreed, spending what appear to be 1000+ pages of "foundations" before covering networking (if at all) seems to be missing the point about what game engine development is in 202X.

Seems like a more germane title would be "foundations of real-time 3D physics simulation".
Yes, I mean brakes.
For online businesses as well, selling above a certain amount of revenue or product can trigger what's known as a nexus event in taxation wherein the business becomes liable for collecting sales or use tax. Now online businesses are on the hook for collecting sales tax in every jurisdiction above wildly varying threshold values. Should the business fail to collect the sales tax for selling from Montana to California for instance, then the business will be liable for sales tax not collected for products or services sold to California residents online even though the business might physically reside in Montana.
A good, illustrative case for why falsiness, of any kind, leads to disaster. Boolean operations should require explicit mapping to boolean types. Make the intent clear every time, instead of requiring the programmer to memorize umpteen different rules.
I think Thorsten uses Monodraw.
Take them out when not using the printer and store them with the plastic/sponge covers on. Inkjet carts last much longer that way.
According to their CEO last month, their biggest challenge as a company is that they can't hire enough.
No, analysis of intentions are used to prevent effects. If someone says they want to kill al Jews, then we can actually stop them before they have any power to do such a thing.
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True, because those systems were designed for pre-computer technologies, and all we did when computers came along was put the same systems not designed for computers on computers. This is how we ended up using mice to sign signatures on 8x11 PDF forms that then have to go through an OCR to be input into other computer systems.
Infertility is not necessarily a problem.
With facebook you didn't need that.

You'd just need a picture.. and it would auto suggest who they are.

That's what got them into trouble with the IL Biometric privacy law.
I would think that health insurance would be a benefit of employment in the us as with natives, so negotiate for it. Otherwise, $$ out of pocket. I thought it was like the reverse coming north - show up at the border with a job offer and your cv and the border processes. But I only know people coming north.
As of today has been doing all what I needed and I found no bugs for my use
This appears to be good for a game engine, but is there any good literature on game design?
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Here is some interesting Forth software, including a Space Invaders game and an IP networking stack including IP, ARP, UDP, DNS and DHCP [1]. It runs on the J1 custom Forth CPU built on an FPGA [2]. The author says it was originally designed to run an array of Ethernet cameras on a robot.

1. https://www.excamera.com/files/j1demo/docforth/

2. https://www.excamera.com/sphinx/fpga-j1.html

Edit - also mentioned here by adastra22, I see.
Is it not "proxy" like servers they are talking about? You login and the details are stored on a server which does push notifications and the like... instead of your phone polling or pulling email all the time, the proxy server sends a push to the app to update when new mail arrives... is this what they mean?
Totally agree about not obsessing over tools. That's an easy rabbit hole to go down and distract yourself from producing the actual content of the book. I deliberately chose to use Google Docs because the formatting options are so limited. But I also found it motivating to have a WYSIWYG interface so it felt like I was looking at something resembling the finished product.

In the end gdocs turned out to be a great choice because it's so easy to collaborate. All of the articles talking about markdown seem to assume that you're the only person that's going to work on it, or that everyone else is going to figure out this diagram and your git workflow. It's so easy to email someone a link and let them comment on it, or suggest edits.

For producing the final PDF I found a plugin that embeds the doc directly from Google into InDesign so I can typeset it into something that looks pretty great. Then I just upload the PDF to Leanpub.

The tool that had the biggest impact though was Beeminder, which has a hook into Docs and measures your progress by counting the number of words in the book every day. If you don't make progress you have to pay! It's a great way to make yourself accountable. I kept a 100+ day streak for the final push.
FWIW, we lived in a house built around 1912 and we're worried about it, but did lots of testing and things were fine. I think it depends a lot.
I've lost count of how many times I've eagerly started a new game engine project - yet I still haven't learned how absolutely gargantuan that kind of project is.
It's step in step with the Nasdaq. Should we cancel that too?
The costs behind the cash advance app Dave
How is the choice between fp16 and fp32 made? Is it like if any gradients in the tensor need the extra range you use fp32?
Google Messages RCS is being abused for ads in India
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> I'm not sure how you mitigate this other than hiring people aligned with company values/goals/action who are less likely to just be (understandably because it's a jungle out there) maximising their pay and the modernity of the tech stacks they know and foster a culture of co-operation not competition.

I’m not sure it’s possible to grow beyond a small group of people and actually maintain that. People would need to feel some significant ownership in the company and you can’t spread a meaningful amount ownership across hundreds or thousands of people. And that’s after the investors and execs take their cut
Depends on what kind of website you want to build. For me GitHub Pages is still the best option. You can choose to ignore all the static generation stuff and just commit and push html files. It’ll be online in minutes
> didn't gorhill already say that uBlock Origin will never be ported to Manifest v3 due to how much he'd have to cripple it?
I don't think that is up to date
For the first time in ~20 years I feel Google Search is no longer good
That remains to be proven over the years. Netflix is building some strong IPs and could eat Disney lunch by acquiring Japanese studios like Ghibli
I don't get what you're talking about. Our biggest customer reluctantly agreed to accept preliminary invoices for acceptance over fax instead of signed-for mail, provided that we also ship a paper version with a red stamp promptly.
> we can blame for terrible environmental outcomes

who is "we" here ?

> to pretend to be environmentalists

that is wildly defamatory, with no evidence, right?
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It's a good thing we're all rich here, able to move to places with better climates or buy air conditioners, not the billions of poor people who have no way to survive intensifying extreme weather events.
As a TTS daily user, sometimes I'm even fine with espeak quality for system messages. But one thing concerns me more than beauty of the voice - the ability to process mixed language text and abbreviations. And I don't see these problems addressed in this project. (
> I ditched them when they pushed so hard for DoH which looks a lot like ad delivery tech to me.

It looks like privacy-enabling tech to me. I don't want my ISP to snoop which domains I visit or hijack DNS requests.
There are a lot fewer people with this expertise, and of those, that can communicate it well and have the time to write a book I'm sure makes them a relatively small group of people. They probably mostly work in AAA studios, since only they have the scale and money to encounter and tackle these problems. I do wish more of them would, however.

Someone like Pat Wyatt comes to mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1faaOrtHJ-A
Longevity with weight loss and reduced risk of kids should be saleable
I love Qt for Python, but in the process of a port to C++ my main wish is modern C++ bindings.
I mean, if we're talking about Apollo, they had IBM mainframes and I believe the Apollo guidance computer was actually the first computer made of integrated circuits which was crucial to fitting it within the power/weight budget. I'll bet a lot of work was still done with slide rules though.
The “sudden cancellation” stories really feel like anecdotal stories to me. Cancellations have always happened and users just move on to another show besides a vocal minority of angry users
I once interviewed at Northern Trust for a programmer role. Interview was 2 hours long divided into 4 - 30 minute segments each with different interviewers.

None of the interviewers asked anything about tech. Absolutely nothing. All of the questions were in the style of “if you were a (blank), what type of (blank) would you be?”. And each interviewer asked the same questions in the same order working off the same interview sheet. By the third 30min interview I was concerned that I was stuck in some sort of time paradox. By the fourth 30min interview I just wanted to get out of there.

They ended up offering me the position but I declined. Don’t know what happened but they felt very disorganized to me.
fearocracy is a nice term
I wouldn't go that far.

> Per the most recent Inventory Report, U.S. landfills released an estimated 109.3 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MMTCO2e) of methane into the atmosphere in 2020; this represents 16.8 percent of the total U.S. anthropogenic methane emissions across all sectors.

https://www.epa.gov/lmop/frequent-questions-about-landfill-g....
> Doesn't seem a good indication for conscientiousness, integrity, and tact, frankly.

Those things are for people. Companies can get fucked. They're a tool, and that's it. I don't practice tact toward a screwdriver. This application process is a joke, and warning other humans that this particular tool likes to waste their time is conscientiousness and integrity.

Being kind to the people employed by them is commendable, of course.
Or "HN's bullshit title rules"
It's looking more like "how can I tell if I'm talking to a machine unless the potential person on the other end is strapped into a torture chair and forced to respond rationally to my inane philosophical ramblings."

And I'd like it more as a Gedankenexperiment if people weren't talking about it as a tool or metric. That kind of thinking gains momentum.
That wouldn't necessarily be true even if 100% of submissions were good, as you've completely discounted the cases where no submission is made. You can argue about whether the whole thing has any point or use, but a low % bad on submissions isn't on its own a sign that such a filter isn't useful.
There seem to be some issues with relevance sorting. A search for "Microsoft" yields many "Microsoft" projects before the core "Microsoft" logo. Similar issues with other logos - you'd expect exact match to take precendence.
Redhat got bought out no?
In the Western world maybe, but outside of it... hell even in the Western world we have regular reports of mismanagement and corruption, just look at Italy.

We need to reduce the amount of trash we produce, not hope for a miracle technology.
Subject: TR-808 Kick decay and tuning
I don't think these types of conclusions can be drawn based on Google, as they are in an exceptional position, with nearly complete market dominance as well as an economic incentive against cracking down too hard on ads.
I’ve had a surprisingly consistent sense of self. At least as far as I can remember. My personality, sense of fairness, hopes dreams, interests. All consistent. I’ll certainly be the same person at 60. Hopefully wiser and handsomer.
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Yeah, fair point. I think the best way is using your connections -- i.e. going to work with people you already know and whose opinion you trust.
I was going to ask how your host your projects since lots of small hosting fees can add up. I saw a guide on your site where you use Firebase, which would explain how you keep things cheap. Is that still your strategy?
From Ishkur [0]:

The Roland TR-808 drum machine doesn't have a kickdrum.

Instead it has a BassDrum. It's not as warm as the TR-909 nor as infectious as the LinnDrum, and it can't be tuned and it has no MIDI or swing option. But when tweaked just right it can bellow out a teeth-rattling low register note that make da cars go BOOOOOOOM.

It was a happy feature of a device that Roland obviously conducted zero market research for, in that the first run of these units actually had a longer decay time which meant it was even more bass-heavy. Subsequent releases "fixed" the decay issue because Roland didn't think to ask anybody why they would need that much bass in their drum kicks.

Little did Roland realize that to residents of South Florida there is no such thing as too much bass. When producers wanted more out of the machine, they took to opening it up and fiddling around with the factory default settings (Richie Hawtin did this once and the result was Spastik [1]). Those who were more electronically inclined took a soldering gun to the circuit board to tune the kick circuit and increase the decay time to the point of self-oscillation (it's not hard to do that -- the instructions are right here [2]).

[0] https://music.ishkur.com/
[1] https://www.discogs.com/master/37372-Plastikman-Spastik
[2] article link
We is you and me.

> that is wildly defamatory, with no evidence, right?

The evidence is right on their own website. Their advocacy that they are so proud of is actively harming the planet and they are sitting there proud of it.
This post is about Inkscape and Inkscape svgs dont have any edit history baked into them. If you had a dozen revisions and one of several collaborators sends you a suggestion version which they edited from some unknown revision what would you do with that? The file itself doesn't imply what deltas they made, and "copy paste" doesn't make sense, since what would you even be copy+pasting?
I'm going to guess that large amounts of CO2 is a byproduct and is vented.