skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The quote isn't offhand, it's directly and explicitly making claims of causality, e.g. talking about the "effect" and saying the vaccination "reduces the risk".

Yes the paper says differently. So what? We're used to this from epidemiology by now. The claims they make to the government/media/public about disease frequently don't match their actual data. To discover this you have to not only read the paper but often dig through the most obscure parts of it. The fact that their claims are wrong will only emerge in, like, table 3 of Appendix 2 which is by the way only available on GitHub if at all. Here it emerges in literally the last paragraph. Then someone blogs about this and they get kicked off Twitter for spreading "misinformation".

The public's understanding of science being provisional is actually excellent and far better than the supposedly elite decision making classes. That's why the public increasingly doesn't trust claims made by scientists, and correctly so. Scientists will make bold claims of causation whilst actually having a sketchy P=0.049 regression at best and a fictional model built on circular logic at worst.

We need to hold scientists to higher standards, and especially epidemiologists. The amount of damage their sloppy "offhand" approach has caused is astronomical. Or, quicker, just accept that they aren't going to improve, have learned nothing from COVID and cut them out of society and the public conversation entirely.
But that example was made with Replika, nonetheless I chose to keep it for its unintended humor.

GPT-3 is known to be good at creative fiction https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3#folktales I suppose a bigger issue may be with keeping its confabulation to a single character, so that the AI won't effectively play the part of NPCs as well.

There shouldn't be a problem with eliciting motivation because GM can ask the bot "What could you do in this situation? Please list your top three favorite actions", and those LLMs like their lists.

The ineptness of the LLMs may get them killed eventually, but it would be something more like: a character A asks PC to deliver a sword to A's father; PC goes to where A's father lives; the first person they met there is B, unrelated to A; PC says to B "I am here to deliver this sword to your father"; GM facepalms as character B's job is to protect the household from assassins.
Echoing the other comment about bias, it seems like a strong personal preference of yours, but it's unclear whether this is actually a good indicator of a strong fit or not.

Like @kstenerud, I tend to keep the default settings as I am happy to just learn the default to at least avoid things from breaking, when the next IT/infrastructure update happens at "the company", or maybe I have to use a clean machine to do some coding.

Instead, I spend some time to look how I can be more productive (keyboard shortcuts, etc), and then will just leave it at that. I've had both types of colleagues: customizing/non-customizing, both types have been high performing.
Middle Earth has no contraception (Tolkien is catholic) and the only way to stop multiplying is to stop doing... math. LOTR is famous for the women missing from social life, so there is no reason that such measures have been taken. So, you are expected to have high birthrate until you occupy all the good lands and then some. After that you either rediscover Malthus or you start innovating to get more out of what you have.
No objection there from me. I'm just saying that as far as I understand it, one important reason why climate change is bad is that it directly affects ecosystems.

That we also destroy ecosystems directly must also be stressed as you say. And the two are indeed interlinked, for example habitat destruction causes both biodiversity loss and decreased ability to bind carbon. This "land use change" is a major source of emissions from agriculture and industrial farming is the main reason for it, for example rainforests razed to make space to grow soya to feed to cows. So yeah. I think we agree more than we disagree on that.
It's nice having it all together, but if you're used to VSCode or Jetbrains it's somewhat of a frustrating experience.

Little things like code completion, a weird run window, errors that aren't caught until running, etc., can be annoying.
I would pay the price of an iPhone + MacMini + Apple Tax if I can have an iPhone that turns into a MacMini when I connect it to a USB C dock.

The M2 is there. Why can’t we have this?
-O2 doesn't have any usage of SIMD/vectorization though. Of course it'd be simpler.
> Unless you explicitly highlight to a candidate how 3 is impossible, you are excluding candidates who would do what you want in a real job, but not in an interview setting.

That's exactly what we do. We make it abundantly clear that it's not possible, nor is the expectation such that it happens. We also turn this into a collaboration and pairing role, with times to dive in and out.. pretty much like exactly what this role entails.

This is how we avoid the "take away assignment" or "l33tc0de" problem. We invest in our technical interviews. Similarly - we let candidates know in advance that this is exactly how they take place, and that they're free to use their own equipment if they prefer. The idea is to "simulate" work.

This doesn't replace the need to go deeper. Instead, this eliminates a very specific type of filter, in exchange for getting to know each other, collaborating, and hopefully mutual understanding.
It's not only their cloud offerings. If you check out the dedicated servers you will see a single IPv4 IP listed but it is marked as optional in the details. This was communicated to customers a while back. All IPv4 IPs costs are unbundled from the server costs now (even for existing customers).

Or if you want to look at it from the other side, there are no free IPv4 IPs anymore.
I don't have knowledge of Apple.

> Is this a real occurrence from your experience or just a hypothetical figment of your imagination?

I don't know of anybody executing this specific change but I do have first-hand knowledge of it being possible, it's not just a contrived imagining pulled from my arse.
Yes, ANSI syntax is surely composable or dynamic: EXTRACT(YEAR FROM DATE '1998-03-07')
But pills already don’t have unique colours.
> I think what they want is a privacy protecting smart phone built on open source components.

I don't think so. If the smart phone was about protecting privacy, the amount of functionality that has to be disabled (or rather: not there) has to be insane.
i think the new common lisp web/gui framework CLOG [0] thats being developped by david botton is a good competitor to IHP. it is also 100% free

[0] https://github.com/rabbibotton/clog
They have zero percent interest rates much longer than anyone else. If anything they are pretty much as close to ending capitalism as it gets.
The other way around is true as well. Smart people sometimes get rejected by peers and some often prefer solitude. Solitude doesn't need to manifest in loneliness though. But you rarely meet a luminary that doesn't need a lot of alone time or is unhappy with a lot of it.

There were studies that people generally get happier with more socialization with the exception of smart people that get unhappy with too much of it. But there are also exception to this rule. You might prefer alone time and you might still be dumb as a brick.
I have always felt Mac disk IO operations to be incredibly slow. I think the problem has gotten worse since Mac started to "phone home" every time you run a new executable, etc.

When running something there is a noticable delay. On Linux it's instant. This can be felt with the terminal especially.
It was much more important when software products were sold to companies that ran their own databases. You didn’t have the luxury of choosing which database your app would run on so half the job of a software dev was making running it on many different db so you didn’t lose the sale. It’s one of the many reasons saas became the dominant way to sell software.

Once you control the deployment environment it largely makes very little sense to spend much time on db agnosticism. But that’s also true of many other things that have left vestigial forms in our software today such as IOC containers, pluggable log libraries, configuration files instead of configuration code, etc.
Well, probably because it is prepended with `console.` - stuff that has to do something about the console and not the program itself :)
Not for the vast majority of software engineers, in my experience. Most teams do have some type of specialization (even CRUD apps often require some detailed knowledge of scale, localization/i18n, etc) but that just leads to the expectation that a generalist will need to spend some months onboarding. I do think our hiring process captures a lot of the skill needed to onboard and be successful in this situation

There definitely are a handful of roles that require more specialized backgrounds. I would say that leetcoding for something like that is a disservice to both parties, but I think that is a small fraction of the overall workforce
Very few said people would use Chrome because it is better. The reason Chrome would take over would be market pressure and advertisement.

And after they have like 50%, they won, as they will inexpensively make their market dominant products (search, meet, etc) worst on Safari, by just neglecting to fix issues due to higher cost of making it work on two browsers. We've seen that before. I am posting this from Brave because many sites in Brazil neglect Safari on desktop, so I got used to alternatives.
A user-defined order is an explicit index.

EDIT:
To expand further, I would generally model a playlist as its own tables anyways.
Something like:

CREATE TABLE playlist (
id ID_TYPE_FOR_DB PRIMARY KEY,
name varchar(4096), /* Or whatever storage size makes sense */
)

CREATE TABLE playlist_entry (
id ID_TYPE_FOR_DB PRIMARY KEY,
song_ref ID_TYPE_FOR_DB FOREIGN KEY REFERENCES songs(id),
order INT, /* Or bigint or whatever you want */
)
Curses to whoever made html emails a thing. What really is the matter with plain text?
Authentication issues it seems. Existing sessions are fine, until they expire I guess.
My issue was only with the term oppressive regime to be honest, because its not and describing it as such deprives the word of it's meaning.

That our societies struggle with greed to the detriment of the working class isn't controversial in my opinion ... Nor should it be blamed on the EU, as our sovreign governments, employers and at this point basically everyone is just as bad.

> Enrich themselves, as private citizens/company is not a crime nor a bad thing per se

I disagree there btw, it's inherently destructive to the society. But it's a societal issue, not a legislative one.
> Being pregnant can kill you. Giving birth can kill you. Birth and pregnancy are mortal dangers. We need to let women choose themselves over their baby if that’s what they desire.

A live birth is much less dangerous than the flu so this isn't really a good argument. I agree that women should be able to commit abortions, at least for the first trimester or so, but I wouldn't say that the danger of live birth is a good motivation for it. The most important reason is to give women who aren't ready to be mothers yet more time to prepare so they are ready and actually want the child before they give birth.
Search-Based Software Engineering
> Short take-home exercises

As others have said, open to extreme abuse in terms of timeliness.

> A system design exercise around a whiteboard

I've worked with a frankly extreme number of architects who can talk the talk but cannot (or will not) code the code.

If you're hiring for someone to code the code system design isn't the signal you want.

> Pairing up to fix a bug in the org’s code during the interview

Open to cheating. Very difficult and time consuming to rotate the problem. With Leetcode you can take the problem out of a college textbook.

> Talking the interviewer through some previously-written or open-source code.

Works well for small companies where you're hiring someone who fits a team well. Probably the best approach for small companies.

For big companies, it's open to extreme racial and personal bias.

And I don't mean racism in an abstract sense. I mean that I've interviewed with a company that pairs with a particular coding exercise across all candidates.

They asked me back whilst knocking back my INFINITELY more qualified good friend who was interviewing with the same company.

We walked through the same code base, I'm a LOT less qualified than they are. We got far different feedback, to the extent I genuinely can only assume unspoken racism.
You might be surprised how well certain cars hold their value if you take care of them, even pretty low-end sports cars. Go look at listings for a vintage Supra, M3, even an 80s Trans Am Firebird. They're all selling for much more than they were originally purchased for. They may not be a good investment relative to holding a broad equity index tracking fund, but if you need to own some sort of car, they're a good investment compared to most any other type of car.

Likewise with the house. While you probably shouldn't be saturating your entire take home pay with mandatory recurring payments, you're a lot better off spending on assets that hold their value than buying vacations and dinners at expensive restaurants.

This is yet another underappreciated difference between what "paycheck to paycheck" means for the affluent versus the poor. There's a big difference between spending all your money on nice houses and cars versus spending it all on rent that buys your landlord a house and beaters that require more in maintenance than purchase price and will be scrapped at best when you finish running it into the ground.
It's not that it 'doesn't make sense' it's that you can't get to economies of scale, which are necessary in some conditions.

The other thing is fossil fuels. Industrial Revolution is about harnessing Coal and Oil.
All of the main problems with US healthcare
It's incredible how as a society we have accepted that people must spend hours upon hours glued to screens that were never made to be reading devices.

It would be like if we invented sofas before chairs and so every office worker needs to awkwardly work on a sofa instead if sitting on a nice Herman Miller
Is this an American thing? Many of my friends now days were previous colleagues but I see your opinion a lot. "People at work aren't your friends" etc. I wonder if this is because everyone drives to work in the US, so drinking/activities after work become harder. Where as in the UK, this is less common. More people cycle/walk/take the bus, and so can go drinking after work.

People would leave for other companies and still meet up for drinks after work, they'd move away but we'd still stay in touch and meet up if they were ever in town at our usual pub. We'd go snowboarding/surfing/hiking together. Pretty much all my non-school/university friends came from work. I can't imagine not being friends with all these people.

Right now I love remote work, but I feel I'd have a much smaller social circle if I graduated during the pandemic and went straight into remote work.
Agree. It’s not the arm chair diagnosis that bothers me, it the “they just need too…” solutions that come after.
They aren't "not caring" in a sense they don't spend a minute of their time choosing clothes. It's not a binary choice.

Not caring in that context means minimizing effort, time spend and external impact on their lives, while maximizing comfort. Buying what everyone else buys maximizes that value.

I would say I don't care about clothes, but had to make some choices when I got cats. I used to wear primarily black clothes, but cat fur is extremely visible and hard to get off them, so now I just buy diverse colors, while still not caring whether the green is too bright and goes with beige or whatever.
The studios decided that rather than to lease (not sure if that's the right term) content to Netflix they can release their own streaming services and make more money. Disney, Paramount, Sony all have their own services and those are just off the top of my head, I'm sure there are more...
Ask HN: Should Facebook move away from ads and introduce paid accounts?
In all seriousness, I'm asking myself this question for a decade or so. I'd happily pay for my account. The same goes for Twitter. How can ads be more profitable than charing people for their accounts?
A Survey of Layer-Two Blockchain Protocols
Clifm: The shell-like command line terminal file manager
If you have a society with stagnant wages and the only route to a decent retirement and some generational wealth is rising home prices, then you will do everything to protect that investment. Even if that results in, long term, making your city an overall worse place to live.

In other words it's hard to blame individuals for making rational decisions in their own self-interest in a fundamentally broken system.
My biggest bone to pick with this interview process (I was also interviewed, passed the interview and then trained to do interviews) is that the calibration is all over the place.

If you're lucky, you'll get an interviewer who thinks that if you can solve a case insensitive palindrome, it means you should be hired with strong confidence.

But if you're unlucky, you'll end up with a person who will squeeze the last ounce of blood out of you, and even if you solve 99% of the questions correctly, he will still think you're low confident or even a no-hire because you missed that one edge case...
Resilience is built by systems and individuals - approaches from sports science
PolicyFly (YC W22) Is Hiring a Director of Engineering (Remote, US)
I gave it a minute or so but stopped here "Outlawing contraception, same-sex marriage and same-sex consensual relations are probably next."

A quick scan of the rest confirms a good decision. The point might be valid but the piece blows it with obvious overdramaticization.

I think there is nothing tech here, it does not belong on HN.
Developer Tools for Bugbounty Hunters
A bit muddled I think.

Spotify wouldn't be as keen to dump it's music business and get into podcasts through exclusivity if it's core business worked as well as claimed.

Likewise, Netflix hasn't actually imploded. It's share price was overvalued and it's now undervalued, but the core parts of it's business are the most solid they've ever been - they just need to be brave enough to do unpopular things and turn them into a profitable business like raise prices, dump the binge model and crack down on account sharing. And they're starting to do that.
"The vaccine is known to be safe and with few side effects"

The COVID vaccines are also "known" to be safe and with few side effects, by the sort of public health people who like to make such claims. That doesn't mean anything.

Here's the problem with flu vaccines. They do not correlate with any reduction in mortality attributed to flu. Every trial indicates effectiveness, yet despite hugely increased number of flu vaccines over the years, deaths due to flu do not move. A rational person should wonder what this implies about the reliability of vaccine trials.
The sievewright references it, but the Guardian haven't provided a link; the Heritage Crafts' Red List of Endangered Crafts is a fascinating resource. https://heritagecrafts.org.uk/redlist/
Jeffrey Snover Leaves Microsoft
> i immediately go to the police/customs agents for them to inspect my suitcase

Given they didn’t see your suitcase before you sealed it… what can they inspect it for?
I mean... I stuck around and got a 20% raise, fwiw.
It's just that expressing those "layers and weights" in code is different in tensorflow and Pytorch. I think a good parallel would be expressing some algorithm in two programming languages. The algorithim might be identical, but JS uses `list.map(...)` and python uses `map(list, ...)`, and JS doesn't priority queues in the "standard lib" while Python does, ...etc. Similarly, the low level ops and higher level abstractions are (slightly) different in Pytorch and Tensorflow.

I'm not too familiar with Tensorflow, so I can't give an example there, but a similar issue I recently faced when converting a model from Pytorch to ONNX is that Pytorch has a builtin discrete fourier transform (DFT) operation, while ONNX doesn't (yet. They're adding it). So I had to express a DFT in terms of other ONNX primitives, which took time.
Sure, but that realization is also somewhat liberating.
> But uh, prehistoric biomass, raises a bit of an issue. We have the entire history of Middle Earth written down and I… didn’t notice the part where Tolkien mentioned dinosaurs?

Misconception. Coal doesn't come from dinosaurs; primarily it comes from plants (algae, trees) and plankton. It was formed in the carboniferous period, during which the evolution of plants had preceded the evolution of microbes that were able to digest lignin and cellulose; thus, vast piles of carbon-containing material piled up, got compressed, and formed the coal (and oil) deposits we see today. Yes, of course sometimes animals fell into the bogs and became part of the deposits, but trying to explain the scale of carbon deposits with mass graves of dinosaurs is a little silly.
> In a study of 177 countries, people’s level of trust—in the government and especially in one another—predicted COVID infection rates and vaccine uptake. In America, trust is in short supply, and accordingly, the country has underperformed throughout the pandemic despite its considerable resources.

Truth is a function of trust, and the American government - federal, state, and local but mostly federal - still hasn't figured out it does not rate high on the trust scale.

America is sliding into defeat. The handling of the pandemic is simply another symptom of that slide. Trying to cure a symptom is a fool's errand.
How about Codec 2 [1]? I think it delivers a comparable performance to Lyra etc. while not using ML, and has multiple ESP32 ports already. Maybe it might be usable for less powered devices.

[1] https://www.rowetel.com/?page_id=452
Current FAANG. Most of the folks I work with give terrible interviews. You really can do these questions correctly, but most don't.

My AWS interviewer (I got super lucky) asked me a really basic question about linked lists. Then expanded to a double linked list. Then we talked about inheritance. Only then did we attempt to find the nearest parent of two nodes in a tree. It was a great example of determining knowledge, and whether that knowledge can be applied to problem solving.

When I shadow interviews I usually hear folks ask candidates something like "find repeating k-clusters in a string" and then just silently wait for the code. Or even worse, design a filesystem. Then critique the candidate for not thinking of weird symbolic link ownership edge cases. Unsurprisingly, this is just what it is like to work at AWS :(

The question needs to have multiple solutions that you can discuss with the candidate. The question needs to have some follow up like "What if you were writing this on an embedded device? How would that change your solution?". These situations DO arise every day. Here is a simple problem, with annoying institutional requirements. Can you still come up with something? Or did you just memorize the algorithm?
The concept of escaping is perfectly fine; the demented part is having it turn strings into strings, which allows it to be applied any number of times (including zero).

That can easily be avoided by producing a different type of thing to the input, e.g.

escapeHTML : String -> HTMLChunk
escapeSQL : String -> SQL
escapeShell : String -> Shell
etc.

and having our "execute" API requires that thing as input, e.g.

returnResponse : HTML -> ()
runQuery : SQL -> ResultSet
runCmd : Shell -> (ExitCode, Stdout, Stderr)

This way, we're forced to escape (to get a valid argument for the API), and we can't double-escape (since escaping functions require a string as input)