skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
High tech interviews are as much a personality test as a test of intellect. What do people do when they buy a car? They kick the tires, bounce it on it's shocks to see how it responds, get in and hit the gas hard, take it fast around a few corners. If the interview was about what you're supposed to know it wouldn't be too stressful, would it? No, they want to hit you with some curveballs from multiple people and see if you fly off the handle or handle it with grace and humor. Humor especially. If you can make people smile or laugh you have a much better chance. That's been my experience. I've failed every interview where I got angry, even if I didn't express it. They could tell.
Just a friendly reminder that using Top Gear as a source on anything EV related is literally less trustworthy than claiming that vaccines cause autism because Jenny McCarthy said so.
Kind of shocking this doesn't include letter locking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterlocking
GNU Awk Extensions for JSON, XML, MPFR, PostgreSQL
Just be careful you don't accidentally summon a gangsta former police bot: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lyy7y0QOK-0
All South Americans didn't get a good education?
Ah! I did not know that; I only used DeX a few times. But yes, something like that indeed. Shame they always discontinue things like that. I understand it, but still a shame. We need more diversity and Android simply isn't productive enough for me even though it's getting very close. I prefer Linux anyway for the customizing, so the combination would be excellent.
An idea I had for this is a case that would fit two identical phones. Old models that have good Linux support and are cheap - say, the OnePlus 6t. Plenty of performance. One can run Linux (hell, people got Windows x86 running on it, it even runs old AAA games, wow), the other can work as an Android phone. Or both, mix and match, software is up to you.

It can work as a mini laptop, dual screen tablet/phone thing (cheapo Galaxy Z?), multi SIM phone, desktop computer (via USB), other use cases. It's niche, you can buy two used phones, arguably more "green" than a new device that needs new hardware, etc.

The case itself would have to be high quality, with a custom hinge design, otherwise it would be kinda shit. But it can likely still be smaller and cheaper than PocketReform for example, even if you integrated a battery and USB/HDMI hub.

If anyone builds this, I'd love to contribute.
My problem is the skills section isn't going to match up with the experience section, most of my technical knowledge came from just screwing around and trying to hack/fix stuff. Most of my professional career could be described more as "code-monkey if that".

Last job search was depressing. I wanted to actually stick with it, and find me a job I actually wanted (as opposed to the same thing I've been doing for years + some more money). However nearly every job I applied to I got ATS screened out of, meanwhile the recruiters kept coming to me with more money for similar crappy jobs and I folded. Well either that or recruiters that never even read my resume spam me. I've been getting spam for RoR positions, I haven't touched ruby since 1.9 ad have never had professional experience with it.
Cedar Fair must be the Westfield Corporation of theme parks.
Release is a privileged tool pushing to Git. Deployment is incremental across a small but growing number of containers running a microservice, so both old and new code might be running concurrently for up to a couple of hours. Percentage experiments are pretty common, which means both old and new paths actually have to work in the same commit.
Taiyo No Tamago
Dall-e2 sometimes pulls through big time, though: https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/vbtqkw/dalle_really...

But it's not going to tell you in clear words if your prompt was bad to begin with, like a human would, hopefully :).
Plug for my side project: https://animasci.com/

Runs in the browser, editor for animated ASCII art, exports as embeddable javascript and animated GIFs.
Only in the same manner that GPT-3 eliminates the need for writers. Or influencers remove the need for advertising.

That is, a surface-level view might show these things as equivalent, but the skills required to produce a decent result are not encapsulated in the averages that models contain.
Ask HN: Is it really hard to make a good car stereo setup?
I've been looking for a really good car stereo setup for my car and looks like its either super expensive or very basic.

Is it really hard to make a car PC setup with raspberry pi sort of a unit and ship it with a really good user interface?

And is CarPlay is a paid service that I need to purchase if I want to build my own hardware?
Would have expected some content. Right now the page is empty.
Nah I think we need more armchairing. In fact there should be a whole HN department around it, with salaried positions. :D
> You're making an argument for infanticide

You're asking trick questions. Proof above; "aha! that's infanticide!!" So clever.
I believe the paranoia is misplaced. I'm not aware of a single instance in the whole history of the US where a citizen was targeted by members of the public primarily on the basis of their owning a gun (or holding a permit)--are you?
I think the title is stupid. From my perspective this is an article by inequality of wealth more than an article about men being single, it even tells us this itself by mentioning that married people aren’t getting richer, rather, only more established people get married, thus increasing the overall wealth of married people in statistics. To me this article speaks volumes about how some men are struggling to adapt to a modern society where you have to make yourself a wanted commodity, and how what that is has changed. Not just as a romantic partner but in any part of western society.

Maybe it’s just me, but the article started out by saying that unemployed 30 year old men are increasingly likely to be living with their parents… Isn’t it sort of obvious why those men aren’t going to have an easy time finding a romantic partner? And really, is that really their biggest headline worthy issue?

I guessed it worked though. I mean, it sure had me sign in to see if the article was interesting, but it’s not. It has no solutions and it outlines a problem that have seen an increasing amount of awareness (at least in Scandinavia) for 20 years now. We’re still searching for the answer by the way.
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That's correct but out of date. RaTG13 used to be the closest known bat virus to SARS-CoV-2, but (a) it's far enough that there's no simple path to derive SARS-CoV-2 from it in the lab, and (b) it's not anymore, with the discovery of BANAL-20. The WIV was also sampling in Laos near where BANAL-20 were found, but hasn't published any closer genomes.

For the conspiracy-minded, I'd note that the WIV had published a subset of RaTG13's genome pre-pandemic, enough for others to identify the similarity. So they pretty much had to publish the rest of the genome post-pandemic, since it was obvious they had something interesting. The WIV used to have a public database of viral genomes, but it went offline around Sep 2019. They cite "hacking attempts" as the reason, but still haven't reinstated it in any form.

I'd personally guess that the Chinese government doesn't know whether SARS-CoV-2 arose naturally or unnaturally, and doesn't want to know--their preferred story (imported into China on frozen food) is near-certainly false, so no truth can benefit them. It's very hard to say though, all pretty mysterious. There are significant unexplored paths for investigation within reach of American subpoena though, e.g. in any cloud services used by the WIV for genomic data.
i'm glad you changed your last name, you son of a bitch
Haven't read the notes, but shouldn't Mordor, being an autocracy without a recognizeable middle class and a very lean political system focused on war, have very cheap labor?
It's not in the release...
All these articles make it seem like it’s the M2 chips fault. It’s not.
Pacman uses a pseudo-random-generator in the frightened-ghost movement (to pick a random direction at intersections - but only for ghosts in frightened mode).

In general "randomness" and "balancing" don't work too well together.

PRNGs in arcade machines and home computers often used a variant of xorshift since that's easy to implement in hardware, but most often this was just for noise generation in the audio chip.
You definitely don't need an iCloud account to use Apple hardware.
As one of those who commented on the first article [1], I would still like to figure out how his problem could be solved from first principles if it isn't interpreted as depression.

>My ideas, my attitude, my life story, the difficulties I currently have in functioning- all of these things make me too different to fit in anywhere for more than a singular moment.

How could a social network be built to find the few people who think alike when that group doesn't have well-established labels?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31859072
Oxford is known for having some quite stunning villages surrounding it. I went back in the weekend for a reunion, the city itself is still quite pretty with plenty of river paths.
Follow through writh that, what is the actual use case for "Censorship and central authority-resistant value transfers" is it legal, and are volatile ctypto tokens good at it?

IMHO: No and no.

> money to be programmable in a way that both parties can trust

is is a) money and b) how has that trust (AKA bug bounty) worked out?

> Find the society-altering technology of the time and there will be people trying to deceptively use it to their own benefit, whether it hurts someone else or not.

And the fact that it is full of scams does not make it "the society-altering technology of the time"

> “But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
That's because the code is unimportant.

GPT-2 code is very simple, I think the official release by openai is only about a couple hundred lines of code. The challenge of GPT-3 is the scale, the GPT-3 paper basically says "This is GPT-2, but we made changes in the model so we can run it on dozens of GPUs". The changes mostly don't matter, because if you had a big enough GPU (~1.5TB VRAM) you could just up the hyperparameters of GPT-2 and you'd end up with the same results.

So what's novel about GPT-3 that warrants a new name? The discovery here is that after the models reach a certain size, it's able to do many tasks without any training. You can literally ask it to translate from one language to another, at it'll do a decent job at it, if you give it a few examples it'll work even better.

Now that doesn't mean that GPT-3 is the final model, it's still not good enough for many tasks, for example copilot is based on GPT-3 but it was specifically fine-tuned for the task of auto-completing code.

So yes, if you can figure out how to scale a GPT-2 model to 175B parameters, you have a GPT-3 clone.
>Why go this far when it's pretty clear that a happy medium is possible? Seems to me it's clear that a place like NYC does well enough at accommodating density, foot traffic, public transport, bicycling, and still allows a modicum of (usually inconvenient but still possible) auto traffic.

As a native New Yorker, I have to disagree.

Your standard bike ride in NYC is a mix of exhilaration, care and outright terror because the motor vehicles just don't pay any attention at all to bicyclists.

I've been hit (from behind) by a bus without ever changing lanes. I've had taxi passengers open their doors three feet in front of me (no way to stop or get out of the way) and way more close calls than I care to remember.

Cars are a blight on the city.
Well argued, but you didn't address the need for tests and/or certifications to prevent companies from being overwhelmed by a flood of unqualified candidates.

A doctor, lawyer, public accountant, and, well, many types of engineers obtain public or private certifications. As a result, it is much, much, much easier for hiring companies to find and interview qualified candidates.

I suppose, in the "old days" universities kind of, sort of, filled this role. A hiring manager looking at a resume might have said, "Oh, he's got an EE/CS from Berkeley, there's a good chance he's qualified.
A few weeks ago I optimised[0] the Rust lower/upper case conversion methods to use more SIMD features. In the end, we took a very conservative level of unrolling since we deemed it unlikely that large inputs would need case conversions.

[0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/97046
Minor note (plz pardon pun) on Bach: While it’s still debated what tuning he used for this work, it’s generally currently thought that he did not use equal temperament. Tons of ink spilled on this topic.
Even amongst the "top tier" companies, there are alternatives. Stripe essentially does pair programming on things you might actually do in your day job, using your own dev environment/etc.

That said, I'm partial to good leetcode questions. Some of them are worded terribly, some of them are essentially trivia, some of them are overly esoteric and not applicable to most roles. Some of them are great but have "optimal" solutions which take an absurd amount of research and effort to produce, like quickselect. These questions are bad and should not be asked.

Others I find fantastic questions. "Scheduling meetings", anything that requires you to walk a tree or do a binary search/BFS/DFS, and tasks that require you to combine two data structures like the "Hashmap with O(1) get random" question really helped me get better t my job.

There's others I'm lukewarm on, like many topological traversal, shortest/longest path, and knapsack/space filling questions. I personally love them and have gotten good at them, but I also don't expect joe schmo to remember how to implement the relevant algorithms off the top of their head. I'd consider this question cohort good for "open book" interviewing at "less prestigious" companies. I'm totally fine with Google/Meta/Amazon asking these closed-book for normal roles.
I'm quite content with minimal human contact.
I only really miss my daughter and wife and once in a blue moon some close friends or family.

But I absolutely can notice that I get kind of feral after long isolation periods, even in terms of language abilities -- but I only notice it when being with other people again, not while alone; while alone I feel much clearer as you said.

My point being what you feel about your cognitive processes/world might not be objective reality.
It's not paranoia. Canada created a "long gun" registry to "keep people safe". Then they started banning specific long guns. The registry let them know exactly who owned what.

It's the same reason why some European countries don't include race or religion in their national IDs. When the Nazi's took over, the existing governments registry of individuals made is real easy to track down all the people they wanted to eliminate.
There's this remarkable Pong simulator working at a circuit level:

https://www.falstad.com/pong/clkgen.html

It describes how all the subsystem works (horizontal ball movement, drawing the score, etc.) and allows to play with them in the real time.
Yeah agreed. It's like setting up a new repo, or configuring a new machine. It's done seldom enough that you may as well Google it each time.
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Well they were all over Eriador. There were plagues and other such disasters.
https://www.cnn.com/2012/12/25/us/new-york-gun-permit-map/in...
It's simpler once you know it. I bounce between Angular and React and whilst it's true that React is easier to get started, changes in the API (hooks, class vs functional componentns) and ecosystem (eg forms, UI Kits, state management, architecture etc) mean that I find it's a constant learning curve, whereas aside from a few minor changes Angular has been the same since V2.
I never used zone.com

But heat.net — anyone remember that one !!

War2 on heat.net

meimei ^_^
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anyone? :) hehe
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Why is eSIM a requirement for you?
> Australia (Sahul, really) was a place with (apparently) no Neanderthal or Denisovans.

Things have changed.

> Denisova admixture and the first modern human dispersals into Southeast Asia and Oceania

> It has recently been shown that ancestors of New Guineans and Bougainville Islanders have inherited a proportion of their ancestry from Denisovans, an archaic hominin group from Siberia. However, only a sparse sampling of populations from Southeast Asia and Oceania were analyzed. Here, we quantify Denisova admixture in 33 additional populations from Asia and Oceania. Aboriginal Australians, Near Oceanians, Polynesians, Fijians, east Indonesians, and Mamanwa (a "Negrito" group from the Philippines) have all inherited genetic material from Denisovans, but mainland East Asians, western Indonesians, Jehai (a Negrito group from Malaysia), and Onge (a Negrito group from the Andaman Islands) have not. These results indicate that Denisova gene flow occurred into the common ancestors of New Guineans, Australians, and Mamanwa but not into the ancestors of the Jehai and Onge and suggest that relatives of present-day East Asians were not in Southeast Asia when the Denisova gene flow occurred. Our finding that descendants of the earliest inhabitants of Southeast Asia do not all harbor Denisova admixture is inconsistent with a history in which the Denisova interbreeding occurred in mainland Asia and then spread over Southeast Asia, leading to all its earliest modern human inhabitants. Instead, the data can be most parsimoniously explained if the Denisova gene flow occurred in Southeast Asia itself. Thus, archaic Denisovans must have lived over an extraordinarily broad geographic and ecological range, from Siberia to tropical Asia.

https://europepmc.org/article/MED/21944045
It is easier to do that if you have enough money to buy great quality stuff in the first place, though.
Use cases of graph databases in real-time recommendation
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> But I don't see why the results that do get published wouldn't be reproducible

The very article we are reading illustrates why published results can be irreproducible and indeed completely made up. The Losada research cited was invalid [1] yet nobody questioned it because it fit their views of how humans should interact (positivity ratio implies some form of constructive criticism, which is often taught in Western schools as the ideal way to give feedback to someone). Any attempt by a sceptic to reproduce it would have realized that the "math" used to model the positivity ratio was wrong. The authors themselves state in the article they still believe the positivity ratio idea even though the Losada research was shown to be egregiously wrong.

[1] https://retractionwatch.com/2014/07/29/positivity-ratio-rese...
I will just say that at this point in my life, making the "savings payment" every month from my post-tax salary is a relief and feel it is a sacred thing to see that money go into savings every month. It happened with getting lucky and being able to put a down payment on a reasonably priced apartment in a great area.
Is referring to my previous comment where I said it was pretty mild.

The road in my backdoor that I use for my short cycling climbing loops is averaging 5.8% over 18.8km, from sea level to 1100m. It is only difficult because it includes 2 small descents in between which mean that some parts have to be double-digit gradients, including one at +17%, to reach that final elevation. Appart from that 17% part it is still considered a relatively easy climb.

So is it a hill? Yes. Is it a really small and mild one, also yes.
>Not just overbuilding. Also the impunity with which politicians routed highways directly through neighborhoods whose inhabitants they did not like (demolishing homes, businesses, and community centers in the process)

Absolutely. In fact, I'd like to take a moment and give a heartfelt "fuck you!" to Robert Moses[0]. I don't believe in an afterlife, but in his case, I hope he spends eternity in agony as repayment for all the suffering he caused.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses
> Angular 1.x was a complicated and annoying beast

For me Angular 1.x was simple and pleasant, first JS framework that I really liked to use back when MEAN stack was popular. Angular 2+ is what you call "complicated and annoying beast".

> my scaled, hooks infested, react apps make me feel like I’m handicapping myself

I know what you mean, I hope Vue 3+ or Solid will slowly replace React.
The biggest failure of SQL joins is not using declared foreign keys. For example it should be something like "JOIN USING fk_invoice_customer c" instead of repeating each time the relationship between invoice and customer entries already defined in foreign key
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>Again, I believe the basic conclusion that isolation is bad for your brain is likely true, but I'm not sure I agree that this is strong evidence for it.

The entire human body responds to moderate stress by improving itself. Studies have shown that fasting, exercise, and "cognitive taxation" aka learning through practice improves related areas and there is causative connections here.

I think this, plus the correlation from the study is effectively strong evidence for isolation being causative to lower intelligence.

We'd have to run an actual causative experiment here to establish this with any sort of finality though.
Don't worry HN, you're safe.

I don't suspect any of this applies to people who isolate specifically so they can do something with their brain: study something, or make something. If you're at a party, and people basically like you, but you're thinking that you'd rather be finishing some debugging session that you left half done, this is not about you.

Rather, those who are shunned by others for being dullards.

Imagine they made an analogous study about running, following thousands of participants in distance running events. What would the finding be? "Runners who are separated from others are uncoordinated, inefficient and unfit, and have a higher BMI than those who stick with the pack". But, of course, front-runners are separated from others; there are necessarily far fewer of them in the study, leading to a misleading generalization.
What war has NASA ever been directly involved in?
Back when the Constitution was written, the militia was "all able bodies males" who could be called to service. It wasn't a formal organization like the military today. It was basically all male citizens.

So that actually aligns with it being an individual right.
That's like saying you can write a word for word copy of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as long as you don't use the book as the source.
Resume truth isn't the same as spoken truth.

I worked at FedEx ground for two weeks in college, but one week was in June and the next was in July, so while that was relevant experience, it went on my resume with June-July and it may have looked like I worked there for two months.

It's common to only list the final position one held, so someone who was in the mailroom for 5 years, somehow got into a deskjob for two weeks and then left is going to show 5 years at the company, deskjob (unless they're looking for a new mailroom gig). It's true, but misleading. Of course, some people go beyond that and claim things they didn't actually do, etc.

After a certain point of interviewing candidates, I stopped reading their resumes. All of the interesting stuff I would ask about never had details behind it, because it was fluffed up, but never enough to disqualify a candidate either.