skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lookahead is a giant mind-twist. It really confuses me to have to "know" whats in the input stream, ahead of deciding what to do with the thing in hand. In part its because on early OS or languages I used, pushing data back into the input stream wasn't always very reliable (I don't know why: it just never worked) so you always wind up having to do some kind of buffer-size constrained block read fill, asynchronously (in a language without threads) to arrange to HAVE that lookahead buffer, to peek into, to decide what to do.

Backtracking is even worse. Its the first problem, plus remembering Data Structures 101 to unwind your structures "just enough" to walk the other leg.

Anyone who ever tried the "how hard can it be to read mail headers in 822" has been here, dealing with line-wrap, and the ineffable joy of envelope information (functionally, non existent in the header) on top of the actual decision logic around the various forms of the input allowed in 822.
He is so sufferable that when I disagree with him I feel sad.
This was the same issue I ran into after signing up. Each notification "type" required a separate unsub link to disable, and there was no visibility on when it will stop sending me emails.
Why else would someone go to work for a for profit company?
The Documentation Triangle, or, why code isn't self documenting
Won't happen again.
It's a good point. I imagine iOS wouldn't let YT collect certain statistics if the video is in pic-in-pic.
Ask HN: It seems that LaMDA isn't sentient but did pass the Turing Test?
Very rarely. The problem with being super smart is the constant back-tracking when you realise how very dumb it is, to assume you know what it said.

But there you go. It's how I rock and roll. Press on, there's always a back button right up until there isn't and you wish you'd read the landing page first time round.
I think rtings.com are doing a good job on monitors.
The Valve Index is pretty amazing. You can adjust for Pupillary Distance as well as inward and out for comfort with glasses of all sizes. I doubt if Steam or Valve are going anywhere anytime soon. I recommend it. 144hz screens.
You're bristling like I'm personally attacking you.

I'm not calling you a liar, if you say that you don't explicitly consider previous salary.

But you consider things that are correlated with previous salary. Everybody does, and that's why salary is sticky over time.

Think of it as an output, instead of an input.

I'm asking for you to consciously consider what you might be doing. I don't know! So of course I can't legitimately tell you (accuse you) of anything specific.

But how often do you, say, hire someone whose current job is, say, at a Best Buy retail location? Or someone without a college degree?

I am not pursuing some idea of fairness - I am suggesting that if you are not getting what you want, there is some kind of self-defeating aspect of the current process.
Ok that sounds fascinating.
Annoyingly, I've found that it doesn't even disconnect from all currently-connected devices. For example, my AirPods are often hijacked by my iPad when I'm setting it up for my kids to watch something. To pre-empt this, I will turn off BT via Control Center, but even having done that, the AirPods often switch over. Super annoying.
40+ years (30+ professionally) here, and like others have said 4hrs take home is a real turn off. Having done a bunch of hiring myself using a bunch of techniques (some really bad!), what I like to do is get people to code interactively with me, I usually set a small task that should take < hour, but usually within 10-15 minutes I have a really good sense of whether they can or struggle, especially with more senior people, I will start side tracking and talking different options, and play with code to try to get a sense of what kind of discussions this person is likely to have, what kind of design options they consider, also I like to get them to review some code, and refactor code, discuss some real problems we have, etc. For senior people, once I know they can code, I look at how rigid they are, I pay close attention to how strongly opinionated they are, what they think is important etc. (too often people can end up with "rules" instead of principles of software development which tends to be limiting). I also notice this on twitch, if you go to https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Software%20and%20Game%2... and watch people code, you won't need 4 hours to work out who can program, you will likely have a good sense of what they can do in < 10-15 minutes (as long as they are actually coding, not chit chatting, or if they are learning a new language, might take a bit longer to work out), and within an hour you will get a pretty good sense of what they are like. So, optimize your interviewing process, try to engage the people so the interview is engaging and collaborative so that the interviewer / and candidate feel like they'd be working with someone they'd like to work with. Don't be too rigid about interview structure but be clear about the things you need to work out before giving them an offer.
Every single consultant at BCG, McKinsey, Bain, Deloitte etc has him beat (maybe not during the pandemic) but they travel 40+ weeks of the year, out Monday back Thurs/Fri.

2x40x9=720

Compared to them Vitalik is a light flier.
VR skeptics include a lot of people who believed, worked in VR, and then saw real user data. So far it's been the ultimate shelfware.

It might well work out, but it's silly to just bucket VR skeptics as generally skeptical, or "the same people who X".
Possibly this one? About 5 years ago, similar headline
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/dad-claims-childrens...
"That's about it" corresponds to large swathes of the Internet for some of us living in parts of the world with arbitrarily censored and restricted Internet access.
At the least you’ve convinced me that some engineers will find the concept quite unacceptable. Probably sufficient to table it as an idea I think! Thanks I suppose lol.
Maybe after two years of engineering experience you get one “this is real” token to use on an issue. If you use it and the issue actually is real you get the token back. If not you have to do two more years of engineering work to get a new token.
This is one of the main reasons I don’t develop for Apple’s platforms any more. I’d love to write Swift and leverage all the technology in their ecosystem but when you hit a wall it hits hard and you waste hours, days or weeks searching and hoping someone else hit the same issue and wrote about it.

Their docs are dire, their feedback system is terrible and they’ve made essentially zero improvements in the 7 years since I shipped my first app.

Web dev has its own frustrations but at least you can find an answer (or ten) quite quickly when you get stuck.

As a side note I had a play with the WeatherKit REST API for fun during WWDC this year and got totally stuck. Had a labs session with two engineers (who were great) and it turned out it was an issue with missing docs and seemingly none standard JWT signing process. Their docs (at the time) made no reference to any of this. So things really haven’t changed.
For the profit choosing the cheapest Intel Atom available probably make sense, but the reality is that this CPU seems slow [1]. The Atom CPU only supports 2 GB RAM maximum, it's strange that it's advertised supporting up to 8 GB RAM. This CPU also categorized as mobile, given that most of the users probably use the PC+keyboard as PC replacement perhaps it's a poor choice of CPU.

Having said that I really think this PC+keyboard form factor is excellent for educational setup where the students can use with their own or lab monitor. It can also work with external portable screen [2].

The good choice of CPU for this low cost PC+keyboard would be the latest Celeron G9000. The Celeron CPU cost double around USD40 but for the price you get dual-core 3.4 GHz speed with up to 128 GB RAM supporting 4K display [3]. If someone can sell this PC+keyboard with this Celeron CPU with 64GB RAM at USD150 price it will probably sell like hot cakes. Perhaps a good opportunity for a crowd supply type of development.

[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/8a7snc/is_the_atom...

[2]https://www.techradar.com/reviews/asus-zenscreen-mb16a-porta...

[3]https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/96163/i...
> Google heavily preferring "authoritative voices"

Exactly this. I think google could improve overnight if it were to add a “everything or official sources” button. As the article implies a “discussions” button would also be immensely useful.
Love your attitude. That’s a great way to create your job.
Gymnastics has different events for men and women.
Windows 10 and Windows 11 downloads blocked in Russia
This might be fine for hiring juniors but I can't imagine many experienced applicants would be interested in gambling their time away on your test before any interview.
> Nextdoor already has one, and they're trying to take it away.

Once a day isn’t “engaging” enough when Nextdoor’s biggest competitor is built around real-time notifications of fear-porn-near-you: https://citizen.com/
I had not heard of Akash before. So I pay real dollars to setup and run a K8S cluster and people pay me in funny money to host their app on it?

Looking at the calculator[0] the price fluctuates quite a bit. The 30 day average is 1 AKT/$0.35 while the current price is $0.215.

[0]: https://akash.praetorapp.com/calculator
I wish their scratch cards were available in Australia. Sounds easier than shipping money halfway across the word. I would just pay by card, threat level is not high enough to worry about that but their scratch card is a great idea. Must not be a popular enough option though, even a google search doesn't give you much information on them.
I would rather say that the British elites can take a joke while a loud subset of the transgender community can't. For obvious reasons I might add. The British elites haven't been marginalized for decades.
It is a mighty high privilege to be so comfortable in the world that you can safely ignore politics. I would recommend analyzing that comfort and what it says about your position.
Having just gone through this with yet another developer who couldn't learn the framework in a couple of weeks, I am sick and tired of hiring people I have to coddle for months on end, only to end up having them quit because I didn't screen them correctly.
A GIT "request-pull" generates a (mail) text with a patch which is to be send to a mailinglist. It's just the automated version of 'git format-patch' which also generates the e-mail message text. It is nothing like a Github PR.
They eventually got it right. I remember being a sysadmin circa 1999 and having to pay to file a bug report with Microsoft. IIRC if they determined it was a real bug you got your money back.
I'd like to just ban all advertising that I didn't go looking for.

Society would be a hell of a lot better if we weren't being constantly bombarded.
I can’t comment specifically with certainty on the internals of their algorithm.

What I can say though is I have lost most of the faith I had in moderation systems, their role should be to validate that XYZ is actually your neighbor. Maybe rate limit all posts by geo. Beyond that? Fuck off.
If you have the space, host parties. It exercises a whole set of social skills: deciding who to invite, persuading them to come, keeping a positive mood, etc. Also, guests tend to be respectful towards the host, tilting the field in your favor.
I think yes to the first question. Rice is extremely hygroscopic. In a fairly famous novel, Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, there’s even an instance of a wooden ship with a cargo hold filled with rice breaking up and sinking at sea because of a small leak the crew was unable to detect in time. I’m unable to find a direct source on this, but it’s claimed this is not just a story but actually happened in real life too. The author, C.S. Forester, used stories he had heard and read about in the Navy Gazette to form the basis for his historical fiction novel.
The reviews as actual reviews are terrible. And the retro tech series - well if you know anything about the items being discussed you'll find quite a few inaccuracies. It's pure entertainment.
> So it's important to make a distinction between behaviors (e.g. allowing gay people to marry) and affiliation (like identity-based quotas and virtue signalling), because the former is rather hard to abuse, and the latter is an abuser magnet.

This is a pretty odd statement.

In any case: if you want to try and split hairs about this, that’s your call. What I’ll say is this: nobody seemed to care much about a “grooming” epidemic until a few months ago, and since then it’s only been about LGBTQ people.

Nobody else is making the distinctions you’re trying to make here.
Which pills developed in the 50s cost much more in the US than in the rest of the world?
Do you think this problem is intractable?

I often wonder how Apple can keep posting these quarterly results of a gazillion dollars and still not reply to my Feedbacks for months or years - of things that are very clearly broken!

As a dev, I‘m paying them ca 2k per year in hardware costs. Sure sounds like the incentives to really fix this would be there.

Apple often claim they are among the most innovative companies. They don’t seem particularly innovative in this space. Eg. the Feedback app looks like it’s been made by a single person over the span of a week.
Oh, I meant have the computer generate first the commit message, and then have another computer generate the commit.

Though you are probably better off creating both at the same time.

What you say makes a lot of sense, if you want a human to create the commit message as a sort-of prompt engineering to ask for specific changes.
Don't Bring Your 'Whole Self' to Work
My least favorite NFS thing I've dealt with was the integrated client in Oracle. Yes, really. Seemed almost impossible to figure out anything when stuff was broken.

https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/1...
I can offer some thoughts as to why this is the case:

- Apple engineers are literally drowning in Radars.

- Your F.A. Radar will arrive so late to an engineer (after being filtered by QA) that the engineer is working on new features and marks F.A. bugs as low priority.

- The iOS Simulator is a second class citizen.
> The Sound Escapes podcast has some longer-running audio

Have you confirmed they're not just looping a few minutes of recording?
Of course, the reduction only works one way. The universe-dwarfing lookup table could do things that are much more impressive than what your brain does.
There are going to be a lot of climate refugees in the next quarter century. Crop failures, and literally unlivable temperatures like these. I doubt even Rwanda will be able to take them all in.
Does Helium have any usage yet? I heard they're charging higher prices than cellular carriers.
Does one simple rule underlie learning in the brain?
I agree with this. All these protest and cancel stuff is ridiculous. Just let the market figure it out. If people wouldn't watch, for example, Dave Chapelle then he wouldn't have a platform anyway.
No shit.

Fun fact: 3 major releases of TvOS have functioned such that if you navigate to App Store/search and hit siri “Xyz app” Siri (global) appears and tries to take you to said app.

If you want to use dictation, you must swipe down and select the text input field. You know, because navigation to search wasn’t enough context.
Surely an accident.

The 2011 movie Contagion about human malware originating from China prominently featured Jumbo Floating Restaurant as the ground zero of the Covid-19 spread. Uh I meant MEV-1.
I did look for it yesterday but wasn't able to find a free version. Neglected to mention it because I was unable to comment (that restriction seems to have been lifted). I am genuinely interested in reading it.
Both Open Source (as defined by OSI) and Free Software (as defined by FSF) do require freedom of use, by anyone, for any purpose.
It doesn’t really work that way because all home ISPs sharply limit both your upload and download capabilities. If you try to serve millions of customers it would pretty much break the Internet for your neighborhood and everyone else on the trunk even if your ISP didn’t throttle.
You only need society and weapons and as it turns out, the thing we build most is societies with the intent of providing for our posterity, closely closely seconded by weapons. The absence of the State as we know it isn’t the absence of private property. If you want to imagine life without the State but with modern technology, try something more akin to a cross between Europe in the Middle Ages and drug cartels. I think Neal Stephenson wrote a book about it, but in any case private property rights are recognized by the State by custom (or “common law” if you prefer), not derived from the State, even though they can be deprived from you by the State by due process per the compromises we made in our Constitutional order.
So many disparate symptoms and diagnoses in the reddit post (also, same as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31806815 )

search >'lentil poisoning'< @DDG : <https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/?q='lentil poisoning'>
Interesting..

The person responsible for introducing Indian club exercises to Europe and America was Donald Walker, author of 'British Manly Exercises' was perhaps the most influential book on purposive exercise published in English during the nineteenth century. A compilation of information on various forms of gentlemanly exercise, Walker’s book contained both the sedate set of light-weight club exercises performed by the British army as well as instructions for more complicated and vigorous club routines.

Amazingly, it still seems to be in print: https://www.amazon.com/British-Manly-Exercises-Donald-Walker...

Book description: Replication of a book originally published before 1834. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.
It’s more than just the ability to get in or out of VR — VR has space requirements for most applications; even if you’re standing still, you’ll need space around you for your arms to move. VR, in part, is a real estate problem.

I have a headset I bought a few years ago (PSVR), and while it’s easy enough to set up, I don’t want to rearrange my living room every time I use it.
Upvoted angrily, because I should’ve come up with that myself
SOLUTION: After quite some frustration I found a solution for IG/FB.

I believe they know from onboarding processes what type of user is passive and the ones that will be CRAZY active. They do not want these passive users - no benefit. Try this:

1. A old android/iPhone

2. Dump about 50 contacts (you may google for VCF)

3. Open all sorts of yellow press - from dailymail to tmz etc. Make you browsing history rubbish. And give all permissions from location to notifications etc to every website.

4. Click on some non-prominent personality's IG/fb name in some website. When it prompts you to install IG from app store proceed further. Do on boarding with defaults (i.e) allowing all permissions.

5. Instead of following popular people only in IG, search and add random people.

6. Everynow and then just make some photos of some tree or rubbish and upload.

7. Keep this phone as a junk phone.
>People who take money without providing value are at best economic parasites, but quite a lot of them are just scammers, grifters, and frauds. Which is exactly why a law would be especially valuable here, so that their time and attention were devoted to some socially positive activity.

Does that also apply to your car/home/health insurance as well?

If you don't have an accident/get robbed/go to the doctor, are you being exploited by the insurance company?

Edit: BTW, I'm an old guy myself.
> “can you come up with something that will see mainstream use that eclipses the toxic speculation that's perceived to characterize every crypto application“

This is a far better question to put to crypto.

The article isn’t attempting to address that question though.

My bet is “yes”, at maybe 80% confidence. I would say it’s fairly difficult to see though, because speculative projects grow very quickly and dwarf “normal” projects, setting unrealistic comparisons.

Both crypto skeptics and crypto promoters tend to be blinded by candlestick graphs.

The total number of active wallets is still fairly small (a few million), and so a “non-speculative” project doesn’t “seem” like a major project when folks attempt to compare its market cap against speculative projects.

For example, Dark Forest is fairly popular, but isn’t explicitly a speculative project. And so few folks outside of crypto have heard of it.

Crypto suffers from the problem that the speculative parts are mainstream (or at least, are very well known about), but non-speculative use cases are not.

I think this problem is mostly solved by the bubble popping. Crypto-skeptics can pat themselves on the back for predicting the obvious, but may end up being wrong long term because they missed the relatively “small” non-speculative projects.
Unionisation as a default state of affairs is what prevents exploitation. Join a union.
Does anyone have any ideas on how Apple could solve this, without just hiring thousands of people? What process or system could be used to triage and reply to tens of thousands of these types of tickets without a corresponding linear increase in staff?
I would advise that anyone do the opposite of anything IBM is doing of they don't want to bleed billions in lawsuits and crumble.
I'd like to believe that's the issue but my own experience leads me to believe they really don't care about external feedback. Apple heritage is "the customer doesn't know what they need" which is at odds with customer feedback. It's almost as if they view incorporating feedback as weakness which is fair enough in the earlier years.
Ah, ok, fair enough. If I could I'd edit to say "less often". I didn't think, in my five or so years of watching his work, I'd seen a digital caliper set in his hands.
Just let go of the 4h assignment. I know it seems like the perfect process for the company: introductory talk, assessment, talk, offer/negotiation. However, in reality that's for Juniors who need to prove their knowledge and have the time to do it. Seniors don't have that much time and good ones can show what they know in a 1-1:30 talk.
Sorry if I've put it bluntly, just trying to help.
I have a playlist system that is primarily controlled with 2 buttons - pause/resume and skip. No UI is needed.

Tracks are automatically selected by their value combined with how little they have been played. The faster a track is skipped, the more it will be devalued. Tracks that are under the value threshold get automatically skipped. A track that doesn't get skipped will keep its value, but if it gets played too much, other less-played tracks will have priority.

I have a button to show me a track name if I really want to know (or I can look at the logs), otherwise all words (lyrics, track names, file names etc.) are ignored. If I find a track does have lyrics/speaking in it, I will tag it as such and move on.
because it looks idiotic
Same as when people started talking to their bluetooth headset while walking on the street. It used to be disturbing and idiotic but no one bats an eye now.
It sounds like the same guy who had the workaround also believed using a TSI might have been worthwhile.

I see no reason to take his guidance on one point and not the other.
VR has come a long way, and I will always be happy to see improvements in the tech. But "indistinguishable" from reality? That is not gonna happen in our lifetime.
I am rocking a Valve Index with 4 base stations, and I will say that the experience is a great one, absolutely, but Meta's goal is very far away...