skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That is anthropomorphizing a rock.

You keep asserting this kind of thing, but not demonstrating it. In another thread you said LaMDA is "like a paper". LaMDA is not a rock nor paper. It's not even "like" a rock or paper.

Our self-preservation emerged from non-sentient processes. That's not "anthropomorphizing a rock". That's demonstrating that your premise is unsound. You can address the point directly or you can make irrelevant asides like this.

> I am talking about epistemic common knowledge

Except that you're not. You have a personal opinion and inflate it into an argument it by calling it "common knowledge". Prepending "epistemology" does not fix that.

Know that I'll read whatever you write next, but most likely won't respond. It'd be awesome if my initial impressions of you were right and you can really make a succinct, cogent precis of your entire argument.
One important reason for coding questions I haven’t read in the comments is the need to avoid the interviewer’s personal bias. I’ve seen a lot of people say they can feel someone is a bad interviewer but how do you quantify that? Large corps need to protect themselves.

They also need to make candidates feel like they were tested using the same criteria as other candidates.
Hunger games and bitcoin crushing are going in sync => https://twitter.com/aibull_io/status/1541419148588244993
what's the inference time on M1?
AI forecast: Bitcoin plummeting to 5k during the next 12 months
pints of gin?!
Gemini-Mini·2 qubits portable NMR quantum computer
Most of the comments here seem to be decidedly pro-building-big-stuff. As though that were obviously in the interest of the greater good, and everyone should just get with the program.

But the primary exhibit in the author’s opinion is a project that, by his own account, probably should never have been undertaken.

So let’s ask a question. What if the hurdles and pushback, (which the author identifies as environmental reviews, pushback from local communities, and unions) are performing a necessary function (but doing so inefficiently). What if they are saying something that shouldn’t be ignored?

What if we shouldn’t be building huge freeways (odd that all the examples are roads and bridges—-what about energy projects)?

What if that investment went into methodically reshaping our cities to be walkable, livable, sustainable, fed from locally grown food, integrated with wild space…

Just consider the amount of concrete it takes to build one of these megastructures. Concrete alone accounts for 8% of global CO2 emissions [0]. What would happen if you accounted for that cost in addition to the billions of dollars spent on a one-minute-per-mile faster commute. (If only there were some power to the irony of wasting CO2 emissions for the sake of enabling more cars on the road. See Braess’ Paradox [1] and Jevons Paradox)

Maybe environmental concerns are right. Maybe labor concerns are right. Maybe we need to integrate the values they represent into planning, rather than making them file lawsuits. Maybe we should think more carefully about what we should build.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02612-5

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox
It’s not paranoia doxing gun owners from a registry has already happened at least once.

https://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/25/us/new-york-gun-permit-ma...
>I'm unpersuaded. To begin with, _is_ it such a waste of time to study programming problems, as, you know, a programmer?

Me too, I've worked in teams without coding interviews, and they hired a lot more subpar engineers that made everybody's life harder.

If I interview I don't put so much emphasis on syntax or the algorithm itself, but whether people can tell me how the algorithms basically work and when to use them.
I know a lot a people seem to prefer e-paper to LCDs. However, I have not yet found papers that could show a significant benefit with regards to eye strain of e-paper over other types of displays. If you are outside and have reflections, shure - but inside?
Most of LA's homeless are the offloaded homeless from other states; we ship as many of them back as we can but we can't legally force them to go back to their homes.

At any rate, it seems the European HNers took issue with learning that their tiny homogenous countries do better than a country with a larger population than their entire continent. Which is made possible because the U.S. pays for their defense.
One of your coworkers might propose some sort of anticompetitive behavior against a competitor, but your employer might never actually do it. Then the competitor might sue your employer, and in the discovery, the recording of your coworker proposing the behavior could be used against your employer.
| interconnect engineering organization

Have you worked at FAANG before? Their "interconnectedness" is near non-existent.

I'd agree if you'd say that some teams are well connected. I'd also agree if you mentioned that these teams are almost always senior+ level engineers. These are not easy teams to join... In my experience they're almost impossible to join without connections.

I think @lukaslalinsky has a much better opinion on this.

That being said I think your point is valid for companies which do have pronounced non-siloing culture... But, in my experience, those companies haven't given me white boarding or LC style interview questions ;-).
The person operating api.call-cc.org is the same person who operates 3e8.org. Using the default certificate, with the SAN 3e8.org, is fine.

For recreational web use, where I am not using a grahical browser and I am in fact sniffing the traffic myself, the tradeoff is acceptable. The probability of someone on path sniffing every domain name sent in the clear over the wire is high, IMO. It is too easy. I would bet on it. Of the sites that do not require SNI, I am using the default certificate. I am not particularly concerned about the person who controls the default certificate at that IP address being able to see the traffic for all the sites hosted at that address. The large CDNs do require SNI. Generally the ones that do not require SNI are at IP addresses that host only a small number of other sites. The only domain names this person can observe are the ones sent to _that IP address_. The person on path sniffing SNI would can see the domain names sent to _every IP address_.

When using the web recreationally, for noncommercial purposes, I cannot see the point of going through the trouble to encrypt the non-confidential contents of web pages and at the same time expending no effort to not send domain names in the clear, and to encrypt SNI where possible. To me, comprehensive recretional browsing history _is_ worth encrypting, perhaps even more than the public web page contents. This is no different than HN users who wish to avoid "smart TVs" that log every program that their owners watch.

And for anyone who believes that this evil person controlling the default certificate may be modifying the contents of web pages, then I can easily compare the contents to the same pages retrieved from Internet Archive or Common Crawl.
Not common yet, that'll take years. But they exist, that's a big step forward. Exists is way further along than doesn't exist.
See also https://github.com/tayllan/awesome-algorithms for a list of interactive visualizations, learning resources, etc.
>Formally all abortions are unjust towards the (potential) person

Are contraceptives unjust towards the potential person too?

>The question of when human lives begins can be a religious argument but it may as well be not.

Sure - and in this case the court silently assumed the Catholic ideology.
Sounds like you might be out of touch, housing has become a lot less affordable in the last decades.
It might be that Apple is paying for the firehose as a data-source to bootstrap its search engine. Don't they have one accessible via Siri already ? (I don't follow Apple tech very closely).
I saw the chaparral 2J run at Laguna Seca in 1970. It was clearly a menace. I was more impressed with the 2e in 1966, which pioneered wings.
Not from my experience. I lived in a neighborhood that was previously dominated by SFH and has since transitioned to mostly townhomes/apartments.

It's lucrative for a select few (i.e. early sellers) but once it passes an equilibrium point (i.e. too many apartment buildings, townhomes, etc.), developers move onto more lucrative areas and would-be SFH buyers no longer find the area desirable out of fear that a giant apartment or townhome will go up right next to them.

In my city, SFH-zoned homes are skyrocketing whereas SFH in non-SFH zones have still grown in value but at a far lower rate.
Demo of the music video "Bad Apple" being played on this monitor (or at least an iteration of it): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XduK7wn9SE4
In actuality, it's more like saying "you can only classify this as blue", being awkwardly wrong with the premise, proceeding to not see reason and then get cute.
So your parents are preventing two young families from starting their lives.

Seriously, a "winter escape"? Literally noone needs that. Literally noone should have that until everybody's basic needs are met.

Which won't happen with all these "storage unit" houses there are.
This is an interesting read. I don't know if there was any truth behind the art but it was worth checking, eh?
From the article and the purchase link:

Dimensions: 20 × 12.6 × 4.5cm

Price: 1099 EUR

It's an interesting initiative to be sure, but it doesn't fit in your pocket - neither physically nor financially.
On 2, to be fair, 10 TB of RAM is not that outlandish. That’s a fraction of what fits in a modern mainframe.

I’d love to have an excuse to get a machine like that.
That all makes sense. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Wow, this is really good. I did not expect to get sucked in so quickly.
I'm fine with all of these. I think the way you phrase it could communicate how confident you are that this should be extracted to a separate function.

But I see code review as a conversation. Quite often it calls for a bit more discussion, and, depending on how the team deals with this, I sometimes reach out to the developer whose code I reviewed over a separate channel to discuss the issue a bit more.
Hunter’s Ed was included in my HS Agriculture class, we all received the little card that came with completion of the course too. In rural areas it’s pretty standard stuff.
Everything happens lead to new developments. Every development lead to changes.
Changes can be good or bad. If they're bad, they won't be advanced further.

Like the atomic bombs. Firstly, it is a weapon (bad). That leaded to a change (where the people realized what it means to have a atomic bomb).
The change wasn't too good. So from bombs, to electrical plants - to renewable energy sources.

Everything is a chance to advance further. That's my thinking of then, now and the future:)
Here's the instructional video[1] for the IBM COMPUTER CARD 82 SORTING MACHINE, the fact that it could do numeric AND alpha sorting based on such a simple mechanism is amazing.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liXI4441j00
My parents moved to a country with zero support network and where they didn't speak the language, all so that they could soon afford to buy a home.

Tons of young people today won't even move to the valley or to another state.

I worked in car sales and basically every dealership mechanic over 28 owns a home. But tech people complain about how they can't buy one somehow.
> A company recently wanted me to choose an application, terraform an infra for it (including CI/CD pipelines) and have the whole thing launchable from zero in a single line. They estimated this piece of work at four hours. Four hours if I copied and pasted the lot from Github, perhaps.

Oh boy. Yeah, that's the issue I see with most of those "take home" exercises

(and then of course they take the candidates that spent 20h on it instead of 4h)
> If it is settled science, I would hope you could find and share authoritative evidence that it is. What I’ve seen over the years (and I’m not that old) is that the mainstream “consensus” changes every 10-15 years

The nature of science is that consensus adjusts to data. But unless something is a very new field of research, there typically aren't major shifts in consensus. The scientific process is more akin to incrementally washing away layers of misunderstanding. Within the context of cholesterol and heart disease, we've been washing for over 100 years[1], and the consensus on that connection has been unwavering since the 1950s.

Research in the late 1950s actually hinted at trans fats being the culprit, but then came the aforementioned period of anti-fat political manipulation, so it wasn't until the early 1990s when new studies built on the 1950s research and solidified scientific consensus. That consensus eventually led to federal policy changes and the banning of trans fats, which has since resulted[2] in an estimated ~4.5% reduction in heart disease mortality and an ~8.9% reduction in stroke mortality.

Since those studies in the 1990s, consensus hasn't changed and is quite simple[3] to understand. LDL greatly increases risk for heart disease and stroke. HDL absorbs LDL on its way to the liver, lowering LDL levels. Trans fats contain only LDL and are thereby inherently harmful and deadly. Saturated fats contain more LDL than HDL, but their ultimate effect on the total HDL ratio and mortality is negligible. Unsaturated fats contain only HDL, making them inherently healthy presuming an appropriate level of consumption.

Those are all facts. There is no current research refuting any of it, meaning we are at a stable point in scientific consensus on the subject.

> I’m with you that some level of fat intake is healthy and that sugar/starch are suspect, but I just think it is dishonest or misleading to say it is “fact” or settled science given the uncertainty and ongoing changing nature of the scientific findings.

Again, you're eliminating the possibility for the concept of factual information to exist. Science is always ongoing, but that doesn't mean we don't have any established consensus.

A very long time ago, the extent of our chemistry knowledge was that water made things wet and we must consume it in order to continue living. These days we understand thousands of concepts related to physics and chemistry, nearly all of which have scientific consensus. But if someone today started adamantly claiming that pure water is acidic, that wouldn't make our current understanding uncertain or any less factual. All it would mean is that someone ignored the established consensus and expressed a personal opinion. It doesn't qualify as science and doesn't have any legitimate bearing on practice or policy.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3108295/

[2] https://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/31898/MWP_2014_1...

[3] https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you...
For the sake of 30k I wouldn't be surprised if Asda/Lidl/Tescos step in with the cash for a PR piece. Along the lines of "Being so confident they're the cheapest supermarket, we'll back a price comparison site" and helping 500,000 people to save some money.
> They can't claim causation if they don't understand the underlying reason for the change. That's not how science works.

Sorry but I had to nitpick here. This is exactly how science works. We first observe things that we cannot explain, and we can definitely infer causation without a complete mechanism or even a proper theory for it.
When so much of my resume is NDA'd it really starts to feel like "I'm a great painter, I promise, I'm just not allowed to show you any art I've made"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 (gcide)

Fossil Fos"sil, n.

1. A substance dug from the earth. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

Note: Formerly all minerals were called fossils,

but the word is now restricted to express the remains of animals and plants found buried in the earth. --Ure.[1913 Webster]
Mystery rocket crashed into the moon – and no one (on Earth) is owning up
Currently working with an African engineer and a few Eastern Europeans. They present some management challenges due to cultural differences, but otherwise they're awesome.

And because other people are realising that, their salary rates are increasing way over inflation. The Eastern Europeans are earning nearly western salaries. The African guy is doing very well (and better every year).

I genuinely believe remote work will change the world. For the better.
Yes, because you configured it to go to http, not https. Usually if you have credentials to send you also have a domain configured for those credentials, and then you'd configure the correct address, right?
What tools did you switch to once you outgrew ROS? Did you have to develop a system from scratch or was there a different protocol you built on?

Also, despite the lack of official support, I've found ROS noetic to work with even c++20. Granted my use cases might have been much simpler, but I haven't found that to be an issue.
> I wish GDB could print a source listing around the breakpoint as context

`list`
You can see the change at gun shows too. Gun shows use to be 90% hunting or collectable/rare rifles. Now they’re ar15s and accessories as far as the eye can see.

I’m not sure what changed, maybe the ar15 patent expired, they’ve always been around just not that popular. Then, all of a sudden, they were everywhere.
Yeah, so a lot less work...
Here's a list of 600+ of the largest tech non-profits https://www.ffwd.org/tech-nonprofits/

Some of my favorites which haven't been mentioned yet:

f-droid.org

calyxinstitute.org

torproject.org
10 hours on some project per interview

Like interviews aren't lengthy enough as-is. I had an onsite the other week with two sys design, two leetcode-esque, a hiring manager, and a project manager.

I'd take that any day over the take home project I had to do in a subset of common LISP fresh out of college. Twas NOT a fun weekend, especially since I had no familiarity with LISP. With few exceptions, I don't do takehomes anymore. I don't want to spend an hour or so fuddling with your/your vendor's poorly documented, buggy environment (or setting it up myself) on my own time, outside of office hours, talking to exactly zero human beings during the actual process. It teaches me nothing about the company or team I'd be working on, doesn't allow for any gauge of culture fit, and (unlike leetcode) doesn't make me a better programmer.
I can't stand this "Hacker supremacy" bs, and I think that Eric Raymond who you post here is where that all started. Hackers are not better at psychology than psychologists. I don't understand why there are these hackers who think they are better at all things (except of course, sports, the uncivilised unintellectual entertainment). I find it extremely off-putting
Wow, I almost never see a comment to this effect on HN. So very few people understand this, and that it also extends to all property, not just land.
Is using "curse words" supposed to be immoral now?

Shit..
Is it aggregation if you're scraping from one site and reordering the items you've scraped?
> Money wasn’t my original goal when I got into CS, but it eventually became my driving force.

Same, once I realized that the reasons I originally loved programming were never going to present in a my career.

Though currently I'm more tempted to eat the loss, shed the golden handcuffs and go do something else.
>I do not think it is comparable to organ donation.

Yet you can't point out the difference.

>HN, however, is supposed to be a civil place.

And so we should pretend that flat earth, anti-vax, and life from conception are all valid worldviews that deserve respect?

>This has nothing to do with religion.

This has everything to do with religion, because this particular fallacy was invented by one particular religion. Notably, you still hadn't shown a single non-religious argument; instead you're now looping repeating something that's already been shown to be irrelevant ("good biological evidence").

>Toddlers don't have fully formed minds.

Sure, but they _could_. While in case of fetuses and cadavers we can easily prove this is not the case.
NB: It’s scraping, not scrapping.
Sure, why not? Thats what a lot of real experiments involve anyway, I don't think anything is gained by obfuscating actual methods because they aren't scientistic enough.
I don’t think it’s “ok” per se, but it’s something I’ve had to live with, as well as my family. I can honestly say that it’s not something I do intentionally, it’s as though my “social filter” is booting up and I just say the absolute first thing that pops into my head, with the wrong inflection to top it off. I’ve said some pretty fucked up things in the first 30 seconds of waking up. I own them, apologize for them, try to explain the situation so we both can avoid it in the future, etc. I don’t think it’s ok, and I just try to avoid speaking at all. Like I said somewhere in this thread, I didn’t know how abnormal when this story happened. If it makes any difference, I don’t sleep like normal people. Apparently, when I sleep, I become totally unconscious and nothing will wake me. Alarm clocks don’t work, people don’t work, explosions don’t work, gunfire doesn’t work, etc. It was an issue in the military at first and I had to learn how to work with it. So, when I wake up, I’m coming from basically being “brain-dead” to full alert. It literally feels exactly the same as being knocked out and coming back in a fight. That might have something to do with it.

However, I think it’s worth pointing out, that at no point in the mentioned code review was I mean, or disrespectful. I was just direct vs. my usual indirect self. I never said anything like “this is stupid” or anything personal. I didn’t have any malicious intent nor did it come off that way, unless you had gotten a review by me before and knew how I usually code review:

“I think this would be better expressed as X for performance, wdyt?”

became:

“Express this as X for better performance”

I didn’t use my lack of being awake as an excuse at work. I apologized and just said I didn’t realize how wording things differently would affect my coworker and it truly did upset me as well. It probably wasn’t until I worked with someone who always reviewed like that did I realize how annoying that kind of wording actually was, but that wasn’t until years later. Anyway, it was a weird day, because I wasn’t intentional in my wording and I paid for it. It’s especially weird when you know exactly what happened and you want to explain it so that maybe the other person feels better about the situation but doing so would just come across as being an ass or just trying to make an excuse. It’s a terrible feeling when it’s a real issue in your own life, but other people don’t have a basis to relate. Further, it a terrible feeling to see someone suffering from it and all you can do is feel shame, and so sorry for the person you’ve said something bad too without even being aware of saying it, or unable to stop yourself from saying it.

So yeah, I don’t think it’s ok, but I’ve accepted it at this point in my life. Whatever bs comes out of my mouth, I accept responsibility for that bs.
Multix, a Categorical Machine
Various non-software engineering disciplines implement chartered engineer schemes. I imagine there's an element of artistry there too, but they seem to cope.
Especially since the entire industry is constantly hiking on the St. James to find its inner self. Philosophies change and we notice tidbits that are good, tidbits that are bad and keep changing and renewing...

Almost like fashion. At least in Europe, young people dress like a Stranger Things inspired mashup of 70s, 80s and 90s nowadays picking the best parts of those decades while leaving the 2000s and 2010s fashion in the dust.

Are you gonna do a certificate on microservices? And what's that gonna help when suddenly everyone starts building some shape of monoliths again because people keep running into the "no free lunch" issues?