skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People in richer nations report to be happier and a higher life satisfaction than people from poorer nations. Most countries now have higher self reported life satisfaction and happiness than in the past.

Rates of mental health disorders haven't changed much during the last 30 years.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-vs-happiness

https://ourworldindata.org/happiness-and-life-satisfaction

https://ourworldindata.org/global-mental-health
Thank you for sharing that, I really enjoyed reading your work, it looked like a fun project.

In addition to authentication, I imagine they could also be used to double-check expiration dates or as a last-ditch effort to notify consumers in the event of a recall. Being able to precisely identify exactly which factory and batch any given pill or other edible item came from could be very useful in some cases.
No because Harry Potter is not a collection of facts. Price of goods are.
tl;dr ~5.6 times, but the study had some problems. so maybe not.
If you took the time to learn a less nonsensical definition you might have an easier time understanding why OPEC isn't even close.
Except that would be like asking say a piano performer to run Liszt etudes mechanically, when you're hiring someone to play at your wedding.
Completely different skills. Sometimes, you do need someone with these skills. These times are few.
Often, a person forced to train to this test will neglect other skills or be unable to match top tier performance in the weird test.

Wrong audition can be worse than no audition.
most crypto trading firms have been rewarded for this behavior over the last few years, so the lesson is hard to unlearn
I couldn't get this to pick up my graphics card when running it with WSL 2, it's just says no cuda devices found or something so I gave up, not sure if anyone had any luck
So...

I'm with you on being dispositionally pro-tech ad anti-luddite but....

>> lack of testable predictions coming from people like this

I think this is a disingenuous line of argument, more often than not. Popperian science is great, but it is not everything. The majority of our opinions, knowledge and conclusions are not based on testable hypotheses and falsifiable statements.

Take the sentence "One person should not have absolute power." It's not a falsifiable statement, or scientific in other ways. It's based on anecdote and folk wisdom, not science.

I agree with you. And, I think we need to argue back. But, don't argue meta. Meet the arguments head on.
I'd like that for some cases. Why should the socialising happen in my repo, couldn't it happen in the repo of other people who are developing on top of my work? (ie the forks)
Seems to me this requires such an intimate relationship with local ecosystem that modern people totally abhor :(

Also, I myself could eat more fruit/veggies from my garden than I do.. but processed food is so much more attractive.
With some magic image inside noscript tag.
If one can’t escape or compensate for it, then it doesn’t matter if it’s conscious or unconscious bias.
Is this account "Tomte" another bot reposting years old URLs to farm karma? How common is this? Should this be allowed? What stops anyone else from running up hundreds of botted accounts all posting old stuff?

By the way, he posted THIS EXACT LINK 9 times in the last 5 years [0]. Wtf is going on? I mean, if this isn't against TOS I guess I should do it too so since I gain 1 karma point for every posted story.

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I assume you’ve never even attempted to build an app for Safari? Or a Web App at all?
hey dan, it's Peer here, cofounder of Cal.com.

Thanks for pointing this out -- at the end it's about interpretation but we made changes to the readme to be more clear around distribution:
https://github.com/calcom/cal.com#setup

TLDR: of course you can clone the repo into a personal folder. When I had the conversation with you I was mostly thinking you are referring to distributing, which is only possible in a public repository.

You can use the code for yourself on your private machine.

This license is specifically targeted against BigTech who have a track record of taking MIT / Apache code, making it proprietary without giving anything back.

See the ongoing Amazon Elasticsearch conflict.

Plausible wrote a great article about this and we decided to go to AGPLv3 after talking to the founders: https://plausible.io/blog/open-source-licenses
Ok, that's better than their laptop! OpenGL ES 3!
"Do you need investors or or mentors for your startup?"

"I just got my invite to Seedhub and wanted to share it with my network. A must have if you are a entrepreneur, builder, investor or can provide mentorship"
Wow, I read these examples, and I feel like I am not productive at all, haha.

If I have to count examples, I'd also like to count stuff that is not happening on the computer, but around it. Example, the desk.

I know a very clever developer who rarely dusts off his desk. Plugs his headphones, opens up the laptop, and gets going.

I know a very smart chap who carries a water bottle everywhere he goes, and uses it to keep hydrated, but he doesn't wash it. Just keeps refilling it multiple times a day. No wash at all.
> You would think it’s the middle ages, but human society has actually been around in Middle Earth about as long as it has in ours.

The time span since the Industrial Revolution compared to the history of humankind (let alone humanoids) is a tiny fraction, so even a tiny bit of variation in "about as long" can explain all the technological difference between rocket-propelled grenades and catapults.

But the actual reason why there is no modern technology in Middle Earth has of course nothing to do with economics or engineering, but with the personal tastes of Tolkien. He wanted to create a medieval saga, not sci-fi, and judging by its popularity, he did a great job.
I always found it surprising that joining on foreign key is not possible in SQL. I'm no expert, but looking at PRQL this feels like it should fit in quite well with the philosophy.
Definition of snotty: "spitefully unpleasant"

Please explain how my replies were spitefully unpleasant?

I'm trying to have a meaningful debate.

I presented you with ample evidence - even your own articles you posted and yet you've not answered most of my questions.

Instead you resort to snotty comments like this one.
Sleep?

This may sound overly paranoid, but if they can intercept your deliveries they'll be able to snap a picture of your house key and have covert entry.

You'd probably need to barricade yourself in your bed room so that they cant get in without waking you up. Probably move the bed against the door so it can't be opened.

At some point this just degenerates into requiring unreasonable paranoia and opsec. And unless you have a specific goal to achieve, it may just not be worth it.

Plus airgaps against 0days. It's just purely very not fun I would assume.
Wait a SEC, That’s Not an *RMB* Liquidity Pool
> Nothing explains the lack of development the previous few millemnia.

What explains the lack of development in ancient Sumer or ancient Rome? Wait a hot minute, because we have no idea and could have no idea if there was a small industrial revolution 10K years before ancient Sumer was a suburb. There would be no way to know if something like actual stainless steel was forged 60K years ago and the technology was lost. This is the problem with the blogger's armchair reasoning.
In the last bit he leaves out Bell Labs, which was de facto the national research laboratory for decades, funded by a system that was a tax in everything but name, and which was encouraged to try new things even with the assumption that most of them would fail.
Big difference is that there are standards and accepted practices in the fields in detail.

Nothing like that exists in programming, not even languages or platforms. Which is why there exist multiple proprietary certifications instead focusing on specific details.
Any series regulated or not will converge in performance eventually, after that the racing would be awful because of all the dirty air
I would say it's not an issue about democracy or bureaucracy, it's because the responsibility is diluted. Someone is not happy with this? Great, it is now not because we do not do it, it is because we take every complaint seriously. The dilution of responsibility may appear in different ways. Leave the issue to some dedicated committee, they will work very hard to make sure the project won't start in a millennium, and cost possibly even more than actually building the project. In case people are concerned about the endless delay, all the process is transparent and no one is to blame.

This is not limited to building project. We all remember that when covid started, it took the CDC a long time to acknowledge that masks are effective, and even longer to acknowledge that the disease is airborne (in Oct. 2020). Why? They based their guidelines on "science and evidence". In events like, any delay in the decision leads to many deaths that could have been saved.

Ironically, in current America, only the fanatics are making prompt decisions. Look how fast the red states are passing abortion laws after the RvW overturned.
I wouldn't like to work in a place where most people lied to get a job. May be if I would be desperate to find a job, I'd lie as well, but software developer is a hot place now and it shouldn't be too hard to find adequate people IMO.
Here's a great talk on a few strategies used to fake entropy on the NES, Kevin Zurawel "Game Development in Eight Bits" StrangeLoop 2021 [0]

To spoil it: Tetris does a sort of binary fibonacci sequence with XORs and bitshifts, Final Fantasy used a static lookup table it iterates through, and Contra counted idle cycles between drawing frames.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPbroUDHG0s
Basically there are two approaches: LeetCode vs project/test based.

The LC approach is fair if you only consider the fact that everybody will get these exercises. They are somewhat standard, and you know what to expect. However, you need to spend quite a lot of time to be able to solve difficult problems under a given time. And yet, emotions might get the best of you and you lose it, despite having solved the problem a bunch of times.

LC problems are not really useful as they don't resemble anything you'd do at work. However, if you do solve them, this shows to the company hiring you that you have been persistently training on LC problems, which shows you are consistent. A good quality, despite the uselessness of the problems.

The alternative, take home tests, are a better indicator of experience and engineering capability, although some might say one could "cheat". That's no different than outsourcing your job to somebody, which means this is fundamentally a trust issue -- so the problem lies elsewhere.

I've also seen variants of having candidates do some kind of trial where you get to experience what a typical day of work looks like at a company. This makes sense at a surface level, until you realise that the "typical day of work" is usually pretty atypical. They day of work trial generally can go two ways: the candidate works on an actual thing that needs to be done, or the candidate works on a fake thing users are supposedly asking for.

The latter is problematic, because you can do everything right, but since it's a) a fake problem, and b) you have no actual user feedback or requests to work on, this gets pretty subjective. Unless you read your interviewer's mind, you're left to wonder why you were rejected.

I'd take a LeetCode problem over a fake work day any time, as much as I dislike LC interviews. I guess all of this is to say, it's complicated :)
How many times have you been asked to solve a leetcode-like problem at work? Ever?
Chinese predicting zero made mainstream news in Australia.
To what limit are laymen required to ignore manifest reality?

If someone writes that he is sneezing, has a sore throat, runny nose etc., are we allowed to infer that he has a cold?
And if their heart rate drops below 149bpm they get sacked. Boring is subjective but you're watching it wrong if you didn't find the last championship exciting.
Imagine hating the things that you use rather than a pdf with text, fascinating.
Mechanical Engineering in Ancient Egypt, Part XII: Stone Cutting (2016) [pdf]
'Cradle of Humankind' Fossils Are 1M Years Older Than We Thought
Which raises a very interesting legal question: If the data is recompiled, despite having come from another source via an intermediary (who are using that data to describe the products they are selling), is it still subject to the database rights?

How about we try out a reductio ad absurdam: I'm going to start a startup. Our business model is to license the information on customers' websites, and then license it back to them in turn. This then means that anyone who uses our services in the UK can sue for copyright on lists of facts obtained by screen scrapers, as they've been through our database copyright washer. Think flight prices, hotels, cars, anything.

Is that a viable business model? If not, why not?
This blog post is unreadable!
So much blabla and almost no reply to what any sensible reader is wondering:

So, to give you an executive summary:

New license is a custom "Ecma license". There looks like to be association with OpenSource license but nothing is really said of the content of it. So someone will have to go read it.

Also, they don't say why they don't use an existing open source license. Probably because of a 'not invented here' syndrome.
The "data company" does not "own" the data. Especially not if it was collected independently by trolley.co.uk.

And old case that is sometimes used to illustrate how copyright works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R....
Probably for a few generations to not reproduce as much. I see no direct ethical concerns here as long as it is voluntary.
Twice it was a US based company (San Francisco), who are used to SF salaries, and found out the the "same quality" engineers in Germany can be hired for much cheaper (cost of living much cheaper etc.). So for both sides, its a win-win. I see many more companies doing this. It's not really good for the local economy, since you leverage the (back then) super liquid SF bay area market from within Germany.

They usually have a European/German office for the paper work, just pay much better but have to obviously comply to German labour laws. I am happy this works so well so far, but don't count on it being like this forever.

From what I heard from these two companies, that they stopped hiring SF engineers (because too expensive) and looked for other places in the US with the same timezone.
Seems clear the author: 1) knows next to nothing about Middle-Earth or Tolkien's larger work and honestly admits it, though continues to make sweeping generalizations about a subject they admittedly know little about; 2) knows nothing about classics, ancient history nor history of technology except perhaps bullet points gleaned from a pop documentary, iow, author displays extremely pedestrian and shallow knowledge or understanding of these vast subjects; 3) has taken at least one high school level course that included discussion of the Industrial Revolution; 4) likes guns, maybe owns a gun, has no great reason to own or use a gun other than childish affectation or perhaps even obsession.

It should also be said that the bloggers writing style is profusely insulting, almost like they're intentionally sabotaging anyone's ability to take them seriously, even if the question could have been interesting, instead the author indulged their immaturity.
They mention the issue of dithering changing "everywhere" when e.g. a mouse cursor is moving, which is obviously distracting. I wonder if you couldn't make an error diffusion dithering technique where the amount of error to diffuse is mollified by the signed distance from the moving pixels?

* Seed signed distance function with -1 in all pixels that changed, +1 in static pixels
* Use a fast marching method to re-initialize a narrow-band signed distance function
* Compute gradient of signed distance to get a vector field
* Multiply error to be diffused by a sigmoid function of signed distance
* Diffuse error in the direction of the vector field

Also, I've found in my own toying around that introducing a bit of randomness in the error diffusion matrix of traditional dithering methods gives much more pleasing results.
If you wanted to run the 24 hours of Spa on electric cars even with perfect Regen you'd have to bring a spare nuclear power station.
I like this comparison, wikipedia can be too technical.
https://dailystoic.com/epicureanism-stoicism/
Russia may have interfered but I would imagine it does every year to sew what they percieve to be maximum discord. There are no links between Trump and Russia, and the Mueller and subsequent investigations proved that. Recent trials also proved that the "server links" to Russia from Trump Towers originated with the Hillary campaign.

In the 2020 election, plenty of rules were changed to favour postal votes and vote harvesting. Was it sufficient to change the results? No idea. Did it definitely occur? Yes.
That research was of candidates who had experience in competitive programming competitions, and IIRC it didn't show that they did worse but that they didn't do better.

There's a restriction of range effect at play here: if you look at the top "GTTQ" quartile, you're not going to see it have a huge effect in performance within that range (and the factors you mention would be far more predictive of on the job performance). But the relevant comparison isn't between how well actual candidates who barely got in perform versus how well candidates who steamrolled the GTTQ questions perform; the comparison is between the hypothetical performance of the candidates who didn't get in because they failed the GTTQ questions and the actual performance of candidates who did get in because they did well enough on GTTQ questions. For that you'd get a much stronger signal.

Though it would be interesting for Google to arbitrarily give offers to 1% of people who flunk the existing interview process just to track how well they perform on the job; that would give the world some really neat metrics to look at. (At the cost of giving everyone they hire even worse imposter syndrome.)
What I mean it's not some new revolutionary tech but something that we've been using for years integrated and put to a good use. I bet there will be many people interested in having a less advanced version that costs $700, not $7000. That is, if the original deliver on its promises - there's often a significant discrepancy between how a product is marketed and what the first customers say.
You can escape it by becoming a better software engineer.

Up to the limit of your IQ, which is the real bias that everyone sweeps under the rug, especially all the bigtech companies espousing “inclusivity” (all lies, actually exclusivity, as they don’t hire most people, especially stupid people).
Using Analytics Is Not a Privacy Violation
And the standard answer is that you won't get it. What then?

You can also expand the problem to be approximately internet sized.
In fact, if we want to go all-in with this style, we could remove the if/else construction altogether (from the language!) and do everything using exceptions. Since they are good for control flow, why stop here?

The old-fashioned

if (condition):
statement_1
else:
statement_2

now becomes

try:
assert(condition)
statement_1
except AssertionFailed:
statement_2

This is much clearer, since the "normal" flow of execution is emphasized, and it avoids using an ad-hoc legacy if/else construct. Moreover, it has the advantage that statement_2 can be hidden into another part of your program, wherever you want to catch this exception.
I only get gas from an unmanned gas station, as it is close to my house and the cheapest option. For someone living paycheck to paycheck, price is especially important, and this approach does not work.
Was more thinking about the Toba eruption bottleneck 75k years back, but sure :)
The thread now has a fix. As for the GPU, it's possible to get it working with some extra steps https://github.com/google/jax/issues/8074

Macbook Pro M1 Pro numbers (CPU):

python3 image_from_text.py --text='court sketch of godzilla on trial' --mega 640.24s user 179.30s system 544% cpu 2:30.39 total
in 2020, there were massive layoffs across the world and in india, workers from the city simply moved back to their native homes to weather the storm.

why didn't americans do that and decided to penny pinch/take more loans rather than saving costs?

In the world of remote-first, do you really think geography matters as much?
> I'd hope it's a pretty non-controversial thing by now that software shouldn't silently fail without indicating something's wrong?

That depends whether the error condition is worth caring about, for a given application, in a given state.

eg. how often do programs check if `printf("something")` actually succeeded?
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't think that addresses my concerns around P1 and P2 being different.
He said usually.
Have lived in multiple top 10 US cities by population. It's the same story everywhere. Watch the interviews by charliebo313 to learn the story.
That's part of the joke, stolen from Critical Drinker's YouTube commentary on film narrative.
I wish it were a strawman argument.

Chrome is ~80% market share of browsers. Google search is dominant, and pushes Chrome heavily. Google's own apps and platforms push Chrome, and on mobile they ignore user choice and offer to open links in Chrome by default. Google is known to have repeatedly sabotaged Firefox [1]

Google fully dominates web standards committees. Google already barrells through with their proposals with complete and utter disregard to input or objections from other browser implementers.

The web is already given over to Google.

More comments and discussions from other people: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31899606, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31897396, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31899214

[1] https://twitter.com/johnath/status/1116871231792455686
Change the flax version to 0.4.2 (currently 0.5.2) will work

So much for semver :(
openai?
The book is available for download - http://quantum.phys.unm.edu/400-18/AlleyTheCraft.pdf
Interesting, that is also not the case in the Netherlands. I've never been able to specify the limit, which was recently increased nationwide from 125 euro to 200 euro.
Better still use an AI to generate a stock image until one is available.
The semantic web is like the guy that tells everyone that he is an asshole, and then surprise it turns out he is an asshole. The best quote so far: How can we explain this discrepancy from a
mathematical perspective (thereby patently ignoring strategic, economic, social,
and other aspects that play a role).
you can earn 100k, blow 90% of that for rent/mortgage and general living expenses in a big city or get to live with your parents and earn half while saving much more.

maybe that doesn't appeal to a lot of people, they look at the CTC as opposed to your net savings
EdgeDB – The post-SQL era has arrived
Often enough someone gives a take home project that actually is not even close to be capped in the time range requested unless you already work on this project.

Every such test is supposed to be calibrated. Leetcode... Is not.
Surely you can find supremacists in almost any professional environment as soon as it requires some praised/valued skills. I’m not sure Eric was "the start of it all", although he certainly was instrumental in broadcasting this self complaisant cultural bias – as well as many other things that could be labelled more positively.

Also, without casting any general discredit on psychologists, it’s important to keep in mind that they are also humans with their own biases. Positive critic by non-professional seems more balanced than blind acceptance. Of course systematic reassessment of things that point out your own weaknesses is an other matter.