skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On their careers page (which is still up: https://jobs.lever.co/drivekyte/71e87269-e957-4604-a817-c528...), they mention the following:

> The opportunity to be a part of the exciting early stages of a well-funded, Silicon Valley based startup that has massive growth and venture potential

They're saying it themselves - this is a "growth and engagement" operation, not "build a sustainable business" operation. At least they were honest about it from the beginning, I'll give them that.

This kind of "business" is a sinking ship in the best of times, let alone during a recession.
> do not have a good understanding of how exactly this system should be fixed, and that it’s not broken for fun but because there are some very difficult unresolved issues

I think the reason for feeling of competence that prompts so many people to share their opinions on the matter is that nearly all of us went through this broken system at some point in our lives and our future lives literally depended not so much of what was taught but what was written down as the result of the teaching.
I would never change the way I speak to someone just because they're interviewing me. If you're interviewing me it's with a view to working with me on your team a few months later. You would surely want to see the real me, not some constrained version. Maybe it's an age thing, but I'm comfortable enough with my skills and my knowledge that I don't feel the need to put on an act. And remember that you're interviewing the interviewers as much as they're interviewing you.

Also, I would also be quite surprised if Google didn't allow candidates to Google information during the interview...
Maintaining the air is only free until we properly price externalities. Would add an extra ~€45 for the carbon emissions, making trains pretty cost competitive.
It is quite hilarious that "the right" in UK is more leftist that the left in other countries. You don't have left and right, you have various degrees of left.
Honestly I see the exact opposite: the real TCO of passengers hi-speed rails is FAR above air traveling, not much in money but in environmental terms. Beside that a plane fly, so yes it need airports, but nothing on the ground so it can adapt to a changing world, rails can't.

We are abandoning nearly all mega-thing of the past, mega-ship, mega-planes, ... because they are too costly and we still build mega-cruise ships and high-speed trains ONLY to made some making big money and pleasing a flock of false-environmentally friendly modern hippies... It's absurd.

If you study logistic a bit you'll see that we all bet on water and air travel, considering all the rest nearly dead because too costly, yet most people, well convinced by some PR think the exact contrary.
> A technical point: that doesn't imply you have the right to type whatever you want on some website or app

It's not a technical point, it's a different point. I gave a slightly expanded definition of what is freedom of speech. You are now questioning whether freedom of speech is or should be a right, and if so, under what circumstances.

> If a journalist edits an interview, is that censorship?

That depends on whether they edited it to censor or not, as editing is not a synonym for censoring, nor for interfering. As the Oxford English dictionary helpfully states:

> interfere | ɪntəˈfɪə |
> verb [no object]
> 1 intervene in a situation without invitation or necessity
> 2 (interfere with) prevent (a process or activity) from continuing or being carried out properly

If they edit for a good reason who could claim they were interfering or censoring?

> Anyway, absolute freedom of speech doesn't exist and shouldn't exist. It's an insane idea.

Should it exist in your own home?
Designers, like Ive, should not be left unchecked. As part of an overall team they have value, but they should never be given carte-blanche as Ive had.
I’m also curious about that question. I can’t imagine that the area they are in has been “picked clean”, so where are they going?
> chiropractor

I'm not sure that this example is making the point you wanted to make. There's a reason we have Docotors/Pharmacists/Physios and don't reply on Chiropractory / Homeopathy. It's because we want to get better.
The whole idea of degrowth is based on a strawman argument of what economic growth is and what mainstream economic theories describe as its causes. Worse yet, it attacks things that are useful for defeating challenges like hunger, global warming and pollution and offers no actual help for those causes. It is throwing the baby with the bathwater.

The strawman equates growth with additional non-renewable resource extraction + increased consumerism. Mainstream theories explain growth with increases productivity - producing more with the same inputs.

Let's examine a thought experiment - the world reverts to living as in the 18th century. It will be mass starvation as we will not be able to produce enough food and the surving people will clear the forests for firewood and land, exhaust the soils with primitive agriculture. Both humans and the environment will be much worse off.
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I should have done this myself probably. My YT feed had a golden era where it would recommend stuff I actually want it to recommend, but now I'm often very disappointed. I don't want to watch 10-15min click-bait "tutorial" videos of something that can be read in an official documentation and actually be understood. But I guess YT thinks it's helpful to show these after having watched a 45min talk about a related subject.

Even just clicking one time on a short low quality video seems to trigger YT into wanting to spam me with the same kind of stuff. I want to be surprised by interesting recommendations that go deeper into a subject (may that be technical or entertainment or art doesn't matter), rather than being a distraction.

So yeah it seems like interaction with "AI" recommendation systems is all about trying to make it behave in a certain way, which is tedious. But I guess we tend to overestimate what these algorithms can do for us.
http://www.norvig.com/lispy.html
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Thanks for the response. Glad to see it's still running.

For me it was just the lack of available drivers.

I put my commute which is fairly common around here, yet for the many weeks I didn't find a match.
Oh, it sure does matter. Like it matters to most every student (teenage or college) how they are perceived by their most popular peers. I.e. it's a human trait to care about things that should not really bother us.

What I am saying is that it shouldn't.
Austin may be productive but dense it is not! The city itself is only 1/4 as dense as say Chicago, nevermind if you include the suburbs...

Towns like Austin are precisely at issue. They grow by low density sprawl and large roads.
I also felt that way until I got older and realized that “we know everything about this” is mainly a fantasy that makes it convenient to teach things to people in school.

In reality we actually understand very very little (if anything)
OK. This is a long slog, but I skimmed and got the gist.

There must be a technical solution to the cheating problem.

Many years ago I taught an intro to programming course. For the grading I built a randomized online test - students would have one hour to answer a number of programming questions using a terminal in the computer lab, and would get their grade as the test progressed with the final grade after the last question. It worked both at freeing up my time for grading, and eliminating cheating.

Automated randomized testing in all types of classes (not just an intro class where this task is much simpler) would go a long way towards solving the cheating problem.

There, a problem for all you to solve.
> meritocracy

You may wish to examine this concept more closely before thinking it is a completely good idea. Specifically see the book The meritocracy trap by Markovits:

* https://www.themeritocracytrap.com

* https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/09/meritoc...

* https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/10/24/20919030/...
How do you decide that the time has come?
First, theorem proving is NOT the same as an advanced form of static typing. This is a misunderstanding mostly pushed by computer scientists. Instead of propositions as types, I advocate a more practical form of types, based on Abstraction Logic [0, 1].

Second, yes of course, you can carve out components and concentrate on those. If you can find opportunities for this, great! You will still have buggy programs in which you use those components, to copy your argument.

Third, data may be finite, but reasoning about it is often done better in an infinitary context. After all, x^2 + x - 3 is also a finite expression, and much easier to understand than most software. So what? You will find a lot of interesting mathematics done with polynomials, some of it cutting-edge. Saying your software doesn't need cutting-edge math is just limiting yourself and your software. Chances are you will be doing some new (=cutting-edge) math if you try to verify new things. And yes, I run into problems with universes all the time actually, because this is relevant for modular formalisations. It's best to just have a single mathematical universe!

[0] https://obua.com/publications/philosophy-of-abstraction-logi...

[1] https://obua.com/publications/practical-types/1/
Seems reasonable. Physicians, without PhDs, usurped doctor from academics back in the day in an attempt to bring legitimacy to their profession, so why not coders as well?
Whats more interesting is that the terror group which carried out the plane hijacking is still active in Canada. In fact the group was not prosecuted for the hijack and other attacks.

https://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/us-decla...
Although both are rooted in statistics, Data Science or Data Mining and ML are very different fields even if they might share some concepts and methods.

I did different courses for each in University. Data Science is concerned with extracting patterns from existing data.

Like you have some papers for exam and you want to know if students cheated. Or you have the results from a poll about people hobbies, income etc and you want to correlate that with voting for party X. Or you want to correlate the race of canines with their abilities.

ML is also mostly about patterns but in a different way. You want something to tell how likely a comment is spam, if an article is positive towards a politician, if a picture is of a cat or dog.

So, to get to get a fundamental understanding you will need to learn statistics. Which in turn will require some calculus and algebra, but nothing too difficult.

Although I have the basic math knowledge and I have the basic knowledge of ML and Data Mining, I quit trying to do things in those fields because they are really vast, especially ML. Knowing the math and the basics of ML is required but far, far from enough to get good results. The people who work in the field are focused on it. I like ML but I like software architecture and development more, so I did my choice.

That being said, I still got some benefits from basic ML knowledge when I used ML libraries such as ML.NET in my day job. Knowing what a SVM or random forest is and how to tune parameters to improve my model was helpful. It was just a simple usage case like suggesting to customers what they might want to acquire based on their past purchases.
I care about dog poo in the park, but I don't like it or want more of it, and I'd get rid of it I could.

I think this is the kind of care they mean.
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I have worked on medical devices and HIPAA controlled data. I have seen PhDs leading their field work next to a college grad who didn't even have a CS degree work on the same code. Trust me: you do not want to be operated on by a robot made by the kid out of college.
> More in general such megaprojects means very few earning big money, more concentration of humans, that ALREADY is a big issue alone and a general waste of resources that are already scarce.

There is no mega project, all the tracks exist already. Same for the stations and the rolling stock.

Just reading the title of the article would have given you a hint: 2023 is an awfully short deadline for any serious infrastructure project.
> the idea of asking people to write code during an interview what sort of revolutionary

And I think it's a great idea, personally I would never consider working anywhere that hired devs without seeing them write some code. But my problem is with the types of questions asked at many companies, specifically the types that require weeks (or months!) of prepping.

During my last job search one interview that stood out (positively) was a problem around parsing some HTTP headers (it started simple and then had layers of complexity added as I solved each one). It was honestly one of the best questions I've seen in an interview as it requires the candidate to be able to write code and solve a problem but without requiring/expecting the candidate to have prepped beforehand to learn (or brush up on) theoretical stuff far removed from the types of problems we actually solve on a daily bases (evidence of this disconnect is demonstrated by the fact people need to prep).
Yes, nobody else could write tickets that reliably takes less than a day other than the team. The problem is that your day to day structure gets decided by a brainstorming session held every other week, that might make sense in some contexts but mandating that every developer has to work that way is exactly what I mean that you aren't allowed to have any responsibility.

To me it seems like Scrum was designed to make developers have as little individual ownership/responsibility as possible while still being able to produce relevant code. I see the merit in that, you don't have to tell me why minimizing individual ownership/responsibility could be a good thing. But I strongly believe that individual ownership is necessary to properly capitalize on the creativity of individual talent, otherwise its mostly wasted.
Some of them used a vector-like format, yes. Most of them used plain rasterized graphics.
Don't forget the constant very loud plane engine noise, and the number of people in line of sight to distract you (a train is more elongated so you're further away from most other passengers). And as you already mentioned, a major factor for me would be the space to actually use a 15" laptop conveniently.

Programming on a train means 30 minutes of crunch time and tangible progress for me; on a plane I can't imagine it being nice though I never tried it (for me flying is a wonderful experience, probably because I almost never do it and I love the perspective you have out the window and I monitor my phone's sensors like pressure and gps and everything, enjoying the special experience).
This phenomenon was one of the first ways I saw evidence of the different paces of evolution.

Some part of the worm says “it’s raining, it’s time to go”, but it has little to no concept of pavement, asphalt, buildings, and foot traffic and therefore much to it’s surprise the worm ends up drying out on what’s essentially a humongous desert.
Are you saying C# and Java are safe languages or which ones did you have in mind?
i too want to learn math, but being more advanced i m looking at specific fields like number theory or differential geometry. I just need some math to advance in physics… i came to the conclusion while self learning that a tool like a “google translate” for math or a hypertexted math would be of great use to find the right curriculum… pitched it to a foundation / but will def try to push it at one point of my
life… Math education could go a lot faster than it does now
The issue is the dimensions of the cargo doors. A 747 engine is approximately 2.25m in diameter and 5.5m long. Of the 4-5 different sized doors on a 747, there’s only two that it would fit through:

- Front nose cone door

- Main deck cargo door

I believe neither would be used on a passenger airline configured 747 (could be wrong though!) and hence why the wing based fifth pod configuration was likely used.
Since the article is about state taxes, and the OP is talking about national taxes, I don’t think they’re mutually exclusive.
Strong Towns has plenty of case studies of different places, to varying degrees, losing quite a bit of money on maintenance:

- Spokane: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/10/24/dispatches-fr...

- Kanas City: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/5/5/kansas-citys-fa...

- Cobb County: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/8/3/cobb-county-add...

- Collin County: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/9/27/a-texas-sized-...

- Baxter: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2015/1/18/the-classic-ca...

And then add to that the costs of climate change for car-centric development. And health effect costs of car-centric development.
Unfortunately it's not possible! It's the number one question people email me about. In retrospect I should have rendered the ring gears with no teeth on the outside.
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Only five? I'd like to invite you to read this. Subheading: "The average house price is 65 times higher than in 1970 but average wages are only 36 times higher. "

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2021/05/how-uk-house-p...
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If the Hilbert space is infinite-dimensional, wouldn't that allow for a linear chaotic system?
This is fixed. It's a side project I did in 2018 that I didn't realize would meet with the scrutiny of the orange site four years later.
Clickbait headline. Don’t waste your time.
There are exceptions to the "stop in each federal state required" rule as can be seen on this page: https://www.bahn.de/service/ueber-uns/zugtypen/ice_sprinter

The article mentions the Berlin - Paris will only stop in Frankfurt.
> example of AlphaGo discovering new moves

Is AI, ML, or just 8 jillion Monte Carlo simulations in a fixed search, outcome, and rule space?
I'm just surprised they didn't go all the way and solve the apparent drag issue that forces them to remove the fan by making that fifth pylon sufficiently operational to fly the extra engine powered, running at some very low throttle level.

I know the answer, which is that the fan and the turbine are very much separate entities and that removal of the fan blades is a long shot from taking apart the complete engine, but a more gut level part of my brain still likes to consider the entire pod "the jet engine", and from that point of view it feels as if they'd strip out 90% of "the engine" when in reality the entire turbine remains untouched.
Too much federalization hurts. The country as a whole ends un bogged down by political squabbles of the different regions who want it "their way".

This isn't an issues specific to Germany though but many EU countries have the same issues.

The end result is too much talking politics and too little improvement, which only benefits the bureocrats cashing their paychecks either way, and hurts the taxpayers who need the services now.
>Only 2% of Germans live in Berlin.

Over 6 million people live in Berlin metro, in an 80 million country this is closer to 8%.
In countries that do not dub their movies/TV (which I think both Poland and France do?) I imagine that has a huge influence.

And today probably even more so from youtube/twitch/tiktok/etc.
Hard disagree. In most cases, just use the bases like sans-serif, serif, monospace, fantasy. If I'm not getting a tailored webfont appropriate for the site or a heavily curated font stack, I want the font for values I already specifically set in my browser.

How is Times New Roman, Baskerville, Garamond, and Droid Sans all in the same serif stack? These hardly look alike. Arial and Ubuntu look nothing alike. If it's not in the same lineage don't include it, go with the default.
> I see the exact opposite: the real TCO of passengers hi-speed rails is FAR above air traveling, not much in money but in environmental terms.

I repeat

> > This is so backwards that I really wonder where you get your numbers

Care to share?
> "Cheating" was very difficult; copying what another student was writing was hard and not very effective, because unless you could reproduce their whole argument, just taking a sentence or two would not make sense.

In high school we often were given two (or more) sets of problems so we can't copy off each other because people sitting one sit away from each other have different sets.

I remember at least one test where I wrote down problems from both sets (they were verbally dictated by the teacher at the beginning of the test). Then I just solved both and passed the solution to his problems to the classmate sitting behind me (I was asked for this ahead of time by him).

In Poland cheating is frowned upon by teachers and they tried to catch the cheaters but there were no formal systems in place to report or excessively punished cheating (like in USA).
I wanted to do this but it was a lot of work. It's an open source project, though, so…
That seems like a good way to build a bubble around your political views.

Engaging with people you disagree with on new topics is a good health check for your political views
There's a book for just that.

The title is "Build Your Own Lisp" and it is free to read [0].

You learn C and build your own Lisp dialect.

[0]: https://buildyourownlisp.com/
They're only an income tax if you can't pay them off. Call it a tax on the poor and normal, while as ever the wealthier cohorts get a nice break. This is why there should have been an actual graduate tax.

That and the fact that a graduate tax would at least have been predictable, unlike, say, the soaring interest rates on student debt at the moment.
>Germans rails and roads tend to be far worst than some poor eastern neighbors

Example? I know Poland is doing something, but still is far from speed of ICEs. The country is a bit smaller though, and largest destination - Warsaw - is relatively in the centre so it helps.
There were a handful of earlier games on the C64 (and probably also the Spectrum) using "instructed formats" for rendering scenes. They were all of course in the same era of pioneering.

Off the top of my head, e.g. The blade of Blackpoole (1982), The Golden Baton (1982) and Heroes of Karn (1983).
In chess this is nothing new as humans have been using chess engines to discover new opening tactics for the last couple of decades.

Chess engines used to be at forefront of Artificial Intelligence research but now it’s not fashionable to even call them “AI” anymore - they are just “engines” - tools.
Calling SICP "not much" must be quite an understatement. The book is 800+ pages (PDF version from Sara Bander). If you really work through all the exercises without checking solutions online, you are probably gonna be busy for a year or so, assuming you still got other things going on in live.

But I agree with recommending it to everyone, who wants to be educated about computer programming and writing beautiful, readable and stable code, as it introduces the reader to many concepts like abstraction barriers/layers and making things more readable by splitting into well named functions and elegant solutions to problems.

Reading part of SICP (the first 40% roughly) and really working on the exercises on my own, without looking up solutions early, was a breaking point in my computer programming self-education, as I learned lots of things, that I did not learn at university, where none such high quality material was used.
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Modern trains are way quieter than planes though.