skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook doesn't care about what you want, they're only there to exploit you.

I got a taste of this when I (unsuccessfully) tried to fix a grossly inaccurate situation with Facebook places (the places for two very different schools were merged, and any attempt to create a new place to fix it would quickly get incorrectly auto-merged).

I discovered a large Facebook-endorsed community of people working for free to try to fix Facebook's places data without any special tools or support (might have been this https://www.facebook.com/editorcommunity/). People would just bang their heads constantly against Facebook's systems, and get nowhere, even though there were Facebook employees managing the group. I joined for a time, never got my issues resolved, and eventually just had to quit because it was too frustrating. It was just offensive how much effort those people where volunteering and how little help Facebook would give them to be successful at helping Facebook.
Right, I think you've explained it better than me. I was just going for the idea that the point of leetcode isn't to figure out if someone is currently a great engineer, but if they have what it takes to become one. Everyone complaining that leetcode isn't related to their day to day job is missing the point.
> this expense was inherent to the machine and had little to do with cost of related labor

The machines are expensive. They also vary in strength, with scanners in e.g. the Philippines and Malaysia being of considerably lower strength than is common in America [1]. (I couldn't find data for India. There are certainly no 7T scanners there; I believe most are 1.5T and below. In New York, it was a 3T.)

Between that, which might be a 2 or 3x differential between a low and high field strength scanner, and the cost differential of "highly-trained and well-paid technicians [needed] to maintain and operate" [2], 4 to 5x seems explicable.

[1] https://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/6700/1/IL9.pdf

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31449409
How does BrowserStack surface that information? As in, what does it look like?

Wondering if I should sign up for it.
If you're on an iPhone, doubtless its autocorrect will assume that what you meant was the plural of that other wonderful Apple product from years past.
Getting worse returns than the S&P 500 is still valuable, if those returns are uncorrelated.
Light sensitivity issue?

> I don't want to have to install addons

Sounds like you don't need to, you're happy changing the setting in many places (every device), than one (a stylesheet)

> because you can't find the brightness slider

"Make the user fix it" was the old thinking. Now we consider a more robust set of platforms, devices and users.
why should you be forced to rent for a place to sleep?
Thank you for your efforts for validation and I appreciate that. There is a script running in the background to auto clean the files in static folder every day.
> I've been 10 years in the industry. If recruiter tells me I need to prepare for an interview in ways other than looking back at the projects I've done, then the interview is not testing for what is important on the job.

Some people lie on their resumés.

If they're good at lying in person, it can be difficult to detect that.

If they're able to deliver working code of some kind under the pressure of a job interview, then they're almost certainly about to actually program at least a little, so you can trust me of what you see in their background and what they tell you about their achievements.

I'm personally skeptical that leetcode really tests what most companies need in a programmer, but it's probably better than nothing.
Nah. VDI is in many environments the biggest compute system in the datacenter. Peoples work patterns are very consistent so there typically isn’t much slack.

The top issues with VDI are memory availability and profile management. As CPU improvements stopped, apps are memory hogs. With a modern Microsoft stack, even basic users run Outlook, Teams and Chrome. Outlook is usually caching too much, so your virtual desktop with OST stored on a shitty NAS somewhere is essentially a really really awful single user Exchange server.
> The British wanted to be pro-Union. They wanted slavery gone.

tbf, we had moral reasons for wanting slavery gone but practical reasons for thinking we were better off with a divided America and an independent Confederacy as a useful source of cheap cotton. Some would say our political positions haven't got more realistic since. :)
It shouldn't. Free speech means all the wrong things in the US... like death threats, propaganda, and blatant lies.
Google's AI Is Smart Enough to Understand Your Humor
I mean, I get it that the Republicans like to destroy this shit.

But according to TFA, this $2000 policy limit has been in place since 1989. What have the Democrats done? Have they not been in any position of power in the last 30 years?

Probably they have just also sat around and blamed the other party too. Sick of this passing the buck bullshit that literally gets nothing done.
Worse than that, we spend it on people with no net worth as opposed to the ppp loans that sent out millions to companies who didnt need it at all. Only accountability for the poor
> Leetcode isn’t a good measure and will be phased out in coming years as this is realized.

Given how long it's been around and the lack of credible alternatives for hiring at scale, I'm having doubts.
Hospitals have next to no cases in my region. 500/100.000 people tested positive over the last 7 days with probably times 3 more infected due to no mandatory testing. Only a combined 2 people (both over 80) are in the 5 hospitals with only one being intubated. That's nothing, really.
> On the other hand, the people who pay may be legitimately resentful when their money is going to strangers who don't in fact need it.

Fair. But I'm resentful of the big fraudsters like Rick Scott.
If you consider the (conditional) basic income in Germany ("Grundsicherung") as given, and it's partial reduction in the face of more than 100€/month income as income tax, one reaches the asymptotic effective (average, not marginal) tax rate of the super-rich at about 180~200€/month.
It's progressive until around 1500€/month of income (if it was salary), after which it's regressive.

UBI would fix those perverse incentives (80% marginal "tax rate" for the next few hundred after the first 100 (per month), then an about 300~500€/month wide band with 90% marginal tax rate, followed by iirc another couple hundred at 0% marginal, and then hitting around 20% marginal (going up in piecewise-linear progression)).
What do I like about it? It's simple, it's written in Python using a fairly lightweight framework, it's easy to adapt and extend with plugins, and it rarely goes wrong in any remarkable way. It's run https://rangerovers.pub since it started.

I just don't like Discourse because it seems to have so many particularly colourful failure modes, like not ordering comments in a sane way, layout-breaking bugs if all 20GB of javascript doesn't download, and that bloody awful infinite scroll "hey instead of just clicking to go to the next page, why not wait a few minutes for an ajax request to time out and blank the page?"
Not just medical bills -- even routine expenses (like paying rent, getting a car repaired, or replacing a household appliance) can easily run over the $2000 limit. People with disabilities shouldn't have to go out of their way to avoid having money.
Same issue applies if you mutate array you're iterating over during iteration using those Array.prototype functions. This is just a general issue with any data structure.
What I'm getting from your comment is, that you really want to understand. Thank you for your kindness. It feels good.

I don't mind you asking, but I'm afraid I can't give you an extensive answer. There is just a lot that is going on for me right now. Adhd is relevant for this insofar I wasn't diagnosed (and didn't know about it) until recent years (I'm in my mid 20s for context). The last 10 years or so really crumbled my self-efficacy, because nothing ever worked out. Deep down I knew I'm generally capable of doing things, but I wasn't able to. Burnout and depression followed and I'm about to get kicked out of university. So these things really are an escape for me and the energy really is just fear and avoidance. It's powerful, but not sustainable.

To end this on a positive note, I still have this feeling that I could function somehow. All of these projects are meant to serve just me (and not be commercially or anything), so there might be a time these things actually come to life. These projects and specifically this video game thing are really something that I feel I can pour my soul into and make it mine. It's really more than just procrastination. I stand by all of what I write down and I think I possibly have new and own ideas about some common aspects. It's a place where I can spend time on my interests in art, architecture, language, tech and more. Just things that are true to myself.

PS: I knew from the start of writing this, I have to be cautious to not fall into self-pity mode, but well, that's just what this turned into. Sorry. It's already written though. I'll hit 'reply' nevertheless. Have a good night!

Edit: Added some more to actually answer the questions.
Thank you! It was definitely not a rational decision implementing my own node system, but I wanted to explore how they work and what challenges there are to solve.

The most difficult thing was definitely the positioning of the connections and the scaling/transforming and converting between global coordinates and local coordinates.

Would recommend trying it though, it was a lot of fun!
All hail having statically typed CICD, too: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/space/automation-getting-star...

I haven't been in a position to try space in anger yet in order to know if they have any "run CI jobs locally" story, but that's for sure one of the major pain points with GLCI
They're demonstrably bad rules.

You know how when kids first hear about tax brackets and misunderstand them to mean that someone earning near the top of one bracket could get a raise of $x and end up having their tax bill increase by more than $x? We don't do that because it's universally agreed to be a bad system: it encourages you to stay poor. Instead of diminishing returns for more work, you get negative returns for more work.

Luckily, our tax system is (relatively) sane and uses marginal tax brackets to avoid this outcome. The SSI policy does not—it has this exact failure mode.
I suspect he's about as far down the vascular dementia pathway as Trump is, despite being five years younger.
Both income and asset tests need to be in phases, not cutoffs

And those phases need to be market linked in some way
Yep. Shut down the whole system because there are some people who might cheat on it.

It's like if we shut down Home Depot because there's people stealing merchandise.

Welp, buncha fuckin freeloaders stealing tools again! Better get rid of all the Home Depots so nobody can steal.
And yet the answer is yes.
Yeah, but you get bland greasy meat that's barely worth using for pet food.
It doesn't even have to be the case that, as you say, "it is more expensive to earn any income than it is to earn none". That describes an implicit tax rate of >100% which would certainly discourage work, but even if it were, say, 75%, I don't think you have to be a hard-core republican to believe that that might disincentivize work and be on the far side of the Laffer curve.
> Do you believe people never received help before the government came along?

I do. Especially when people who need the help are from poor communities who can’t spare much - much less provide things like in home care, transportation, etc.

If you say gov doesn’t need to be involved then please show me who is gonna help. The only ones I know of are the same that throw queer kids or male domestic abuse victims out on the street. People are more charitable when they’re rich (or more accurately, on rising incomes), but they only help out people close to them. Poor people are dehumanized. That’s why we need the gov.

Or did you not like see the lines of cars 20 miles long during covid for food assistance?
I agree that not allowing savings for a mortgage probably isn't a huge issue in practice, but discouraging saving in general is completely bonkers policy.
Listening to songs can cause a physiological response known as “frisson”
Is that, like, expelling the Normans? Do we have a rightful heir of Harold Godwinson somewhere to reinstate?

...

Actually, Queen Elizabeth II can claim to be part of that line, so, mission accomplished, maybe?
Why would someone be a fool to pay? Biden was previously advocating for only $10k which doesn't cover the median federal student loan amount. $50k may not even happen. Right now you can pay down some of the principle at 0% interest in case your loans aren't forgiven.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/loans/student-loans/you-c...

It's much more complicated than calling people "fools" for paying.

TBH the program is a disaster and it's really, really disappointing that the loans won't just simply be forgiven. I personally know many people held back from economic participation because of federal student loans. Even if you want to be all bs moralistic about the responsibility of paying debts back, from an economic perspective the loans should be forgiven.
Finally an application of Bitcoin?
I think the world would collectively shit its pants. The world's largest economy and military suddenly splintering while in control of several thousand nuclear weapons? It would seem like Armageddon.
The parent's point was that graphene was harmless because graphite is widely used. Graphite is just a lot of graphene layers stacked on top of each other. Pretty much no dangerous particles are emitted during normal use of a pencil, which was part of the point.
I don't understand OP, so you have problem with leetcode, and you also have a problem with hire and fire culture (most of these companies don't ask leetcode) so what do you want free money?
And how you decided just after meeting "people who are really good programmers"?
That seems really practical actually. I will have try to look for some blog posts of people who have done. Thanks, cheers.
> On the other hand, the people who pay may be legitimately resentful when their money is going to strangers who don't in fact need it.

I understand that this is probably a stupid question, but I'm coming from a place of ignorance: Do people who dislike/resent this not also get upset that ex. their insurance pays for things people don't "need"? Or would the kind of person who makes this complaint also not be likely to have insurance?
Cool! Is this an L-system implementation?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system
Really the "right" way to go about it would be to employ an existing package manager (there's enough already, we don't need another) and some magic glue on top that makes it easy.

For example, you have your configuration of packages, in the ephemeral cloud somewhere, and you do the really dangerous no good thing of piping through bash with some kind of uuid that's assigned to your account, something like (totally made up url)

curl packman.info/users/aed1242faed60a | bash

And it sniffs the architecture, version of binaries to install, which ones are there, and then puts it into an install directory configured by you.

This is like 97% existing things with a little glue and interface polish so you can easily bring in an environment.

There's certainly other ways but the idea remains the same
> nope, you made your own

The author calls it Nodesystem. The code is here:

https://github.com/jim-fx/plantarium/tree/main/packages/node...

(I went looking for the code so I thought I'd share this.)
I assume its some large % of all bitcoin is lost especially from early adopters mining thousands of then worthless tokens.
There are software engineers that make much more

https://techcrunch.com/2010/11/11/google-offers-staff-engine...
There's a lot of bad thinking in that one sentence.

All or nothing. We must have completely clean power or it has no value.

Not using comparison. How does it compare to other sources of energy, (including solar which is built in facilities using coal power).
I doubt there's one. Probably each NIC has a separate master key. And they could reduce chance of compromise by loading the key at runtime and making it write-only.
Did you evaluate libraries before you decided to build your own? I'm curious what you found.
Interview at startups like Ramp — we don't care about leetcoding at all. There's many others.

https://ramp.com/careers or hit me up nico@ramp.com
It's not recommended because it hasn't been updated in years.. the algorithm promotes channels with updated content higher
Losing Ian Goodfellow to DeepMind is the dumbest thing Apple’s ever done
While I think UBI is an interesting idea, it most certainly is _not_ the only thing to be done; it is not a silver bullet that will solve all problems related to money.
yeah, everybody knows crypto is a pyramid scheme, ponzi schemes are specifically about a type of coupon fraud.
If you didn't know any better you'd think some of the people designing these plans wanted them to fail.
> Also, if you need that much memory in a firewall, its queues are too big and you're adding substantial latency.

Maybe it's stateful and you've got a whole lot of connections? Or in this case, they're planning to run VMs and things on the box, so might need more ram for that.
It might come to that at some point; it would be a nice thing to offer to our reader community! But we'd have to maintain it and would have another thing to moderate and ... For now we're just getting our toes wet.
> I'm paraphrasing but basically to be eligible for Section 8 housing you can't have too many assets. Good financial planning would say to scrimp and save so that you can get make a downpayment to get a mortgage but you'll be kicked out of the section 8 housing long before you've saved enough to get out yourself.

The progression would be Section 8 -> Renting -> Home Ownership

The purpose of programs like Section 8 isn't to subsidize people while they save up to purchase expensive assets and leapfrog past non-subsidized renters. It's to backstop people who couldn't afford normal rents.
Blockchain is an interesting computer science achievement in secure distributed systems. It's worth learning about as an intellectual curiosity for sure.
Title is extremely misleading.

> "Right now, the tritium used in fusion experiments like ITER, and the smaller JET tokamak in the UK, comes from a very specific type of nuclear fission reactor called a heavy-water moderated reactor."

You litterally just need to make more of these heavy-water moderated reactors, which are rare and approaching end of life, but certainly you can build more of them if it was the difference between having endless energy or not.
Anyone else getting a bit bored with all these AI does some super specialised task better than humans after enormous amounts of training. It’s not very interesting anymore.

Sure, it can do crosswords well but the average human that does crosswords well can also do a zillion other things and this type of AI is not getting us any closer to that.
OTOH, OP is invaluable to his current company. If he's being paid well and manages some balance, this could be a healthier environment than a mega corporation. If you want to balance life and work, small or medium companies are the best, specially with the clout he has.
Where did you learn to program on distributed Nvidia GPUs? The article implied you were self taught and learning to do this is quite challenging for various reasons.

Not least, Nvidia's documentation is not the best resource to learn from. This seems like quite a lot of work to understand ML and write custom CUDA code to get this to work. Do you have any insight about how you taught yourself these things and what tools you use?
I feel your advice is more directed at employers than the OP.

As a job candidate, refusing to participate in interviews that involve code assessments is going to severely limit your career, since the vast majority of companies make use of code assessments.

I give lots of interviews. If someone refuses the assessment, I have to fail them. HR says we have a legal obligation to interview al candidates for a given permission with the same format and criteria for evaluation. I imagine most companies are the same.

I think there definitely an opportunity for employers who can evaluate candidates without code assessments to get talent at bargain prices, but IMHO refuse code assessments is bad career advice.
Excel is closed source and it powers the world.
As discussed elsewhere in the comments here, and as discussed in the article, there is indeed a phaseout for income. Every $1 you make above $85 reduces your benefits by $0.50, so they are doing exactly what you suggest.

The $2000 number is a cap for wealth, not income.

The problem isn’t having a phaseout or not anyway - we could set a wealth cliff of $50k and that would be perfectly fine. It’s the numbers that matter, where the phaseout or cliff is placed and how steep a phaseout. $85 a month is a redonkulous place to put the phaseout even if phaseouts are “better” - that is a worse policy than a 50k a month cliff!

And you’re right, the reasons the number hasn’t been adjusted since 1935 (in 1989 the number was inherited from a prior program, it wasn’t adjusted at that time) is because of political will. Social spending on anyone other than the elderly is extremely unpopular in the US.
Top of my head: Rodimus, Bumblebee, Ratchet, Optimus Prime, Laserbeak, Megatron, Astro Train, Jazz
For a while, the biggest mastodon instances were japanese, (and potentially still are), and had a different approach to lolicon.

https://medium.com/@EthanZ/mastodon-is-big-in-japan-the-reas...
Hiding money from the government? It's honestly only mediocre at that.
Apple Responds to Open Letter Demanding Improvement of Final Cut Pro
Earth's core: Unexpected flow behavior in liquid metals
Last week Elon explained that the problem of fusion is that it will be more expensive than solar and wind.
Smarter Defaults by Paying Attention
Yea, beta decay is weird. On the other hand, transmutation of the elements!
slug and readme what/why updated based on feedback.
Small particles of everything end up in our lungs, the question is whether they remain there, as opposed to break down or get decomposed, and whether they cause any harm. Dose is important as well.
How to Get Things Done When You Don't Feel Like It (2018)
It's me coming in peace with the fact that I am just an actor in the grand scheme of things. It helped me keep my sanity, calm my nerves and focus on what I really want to do at the moment. It helped me acknowledge the forces beyond my control and changed the way I see the world. I think it made be more conservative about things but still it's an accomplishment that I am proud of!

I often noticed people asking me why I were chill in most situations.
Intel really makes it hard to know where products fit in their low end stack. J4125 sounds like something I'd find in a ten year old netbook. Apparently it's semi modern though, and quite a bit faster than the old wimpy atoms.
I don’t understand your point. if you’re saying it would be wise to take advantage of current 0% interest and/or deferment policies to pay as little as possible until it’s clearer whether or not any kind of loan forgiveness will happen, then sure. not paying at all is really not an option over the long term.
Ever wondered about the stack powering Gab?