skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Companies demonetizing content creators

Why should a company be forced to pay other people for hosting their content if that content isn't something they think they can profit from? If anything, people should have to pay to host their videos on YouTube if YouTube doesn't think they're monetizable, but yet they don't charge people.

>Companies banning people from using their websites

Why should companies be forced to carry the speech of people they disagree with? Forcing companies to carry speech of people they disagree with is itself a violation of the freedom of speech. It's not like these people are banned from using the internet (which WOULD be a violation of free speech).

>Platforms should be focusing on transparency in order to build consumer trust.

Why? There's plenty of social media sites, and so far very few users care enough to move to other social media sites for its transparency (like WT.Social, for example). Even the near-bastion of free speech, 4chan, is one of the least transparent social media sites on earth.

This is such an entitled perspective. No one owes you access to their web services, which cost a large amount of money to build and maintain. If there's anything to complain about, it's the lack of any Net Neutrality legislation/policy to keep the internet truly free and open.
Not differently to translators etc.: not required for every small task, still required for doing things professionally.
I dunno, it seems the people who say "socialism is bad" these days use it to explicitly mean those contexts that have little to do with actual socialism, like paid parental leave or universal healthcare. They may not be including SSI there, but for all intents and purposes they could, with the crucial difference that SSI is something that exists and the proposed "socialist" policies don't.
If I specify that the first character of a string is a type code A, B or C, followed by some field of data, then if the type code is A and the data starts with U+0328, it is just the type code A followed by an unrelated U+0328. That's an example of why it's important to be able to say text[0] to just get that A.

It may be that if you send the whole datum to a text rendering device (say, for debugging) you get a funny result starting with the glyph Ą. If it bothers you, then don't be lazy and parse things out.
They've built plenty of stuff I use everyday, it's just that most of it is going to make me blow an aneurysm some day.
(2) was intended to proactively dismiss one specific attempted "gotcha" that I hear often in response to this view: people think I'm saying that it's okay for minority cultures specifically to die out, and that I would feel differently if it was American culture being overtaken as a result of high birth rates in some other country and low birth rates in the US. This is not what I am saying. I don't think American culture is special.

> Are some groups "allowed" this, and not others?

So no, my position is that no groups are "allowed" this.

Another way I can express this, that may be more clear, is that a culture isn't a thing on its own. It's a description of the way its members live. Those members may be very attached to that way of life, and it is immoral to take it from them (see (1) above), but the question of whether new people start living in that way is morally neutral.
> including 30% earning $250k

that's what happens when you over leverage your greed. no sympathy from me.
There's some uncovered ground between the processors having SIMD support and being able to use it portably from C. Also a compiler could compile this code to use SIMD instructions.
Personally I use notion for this. Not dedicated software, but the extra options in formatting/structuring and linking can make a document like this a lot more readible.
Build dictionaries for any language
To put on a devil's advocate hat: This is a great interview for someone whose job will be to create basic CRUD web/mobile apps.

And there's nothing wrong with that! 90 (99?) of the software the world needs are basic CRUD web/mobile apps. Hell, for probably 60% of that, a basic no-frills CRUD app would be an improvement!

But HackerNews measures it's baseline of the tech industry against "BigTech". That's more than FAANG, that's now also the 500+ unicorns imitating FAANG.

All these unicorns don't get to where they are by building CRUD Apps - They're Changing The World. (facetious)

And changing the world (serious now) requires not hiring engineers who can build CRUD apps with a database, but engineers who could build the database, the next Swagger, etc.
You need a picture or render of it right at the top
zone.com? I would play Warcraft 2 multiplayer on there. Warcraft 2 had no natural Internet-based multiplayer, zone.com made it easy.
I want to be able to replace my desktop. I don't need much power (most of the things that require performance I do on a remote machine anyway), so being able to do whatever with my phone on the road and then plug it into a monitor and have a desktop Linux would be perfect. The pinePhone can do but it cannot switch from Android to Linux that readily and also, I don't need much power, but the pinePhone is just really not good enough for anything I use a smartphone for (which is not calling).
> Glad he's happy but I never understood the whole sportscar thing. They go vroom vroom just like all the other cars.

There's sportscars and there's luxury/exotic sportscars.

The latter is mostly a class/signaling thing, since you can't even _really_ abuse it unless you're so rich it's the dinghy for your private jet.

But a proper prepared sports car is a substantially different driving experience than "all the other cars".
All of your examples are vendor specific extensions to SQL. Nothing of that is part of the standard. So you are effectively hating a specific implementation which is not that logical.
Do we need a new theory of evolution?
You remove things that are repugnant to society. It’s not rocket science. A private company does what it wants, why should they listen to you?

Personally I’d rather have this then all the platforms be some disgusting form of 4chan where almost everything is permitted and hate, bigotry, propaganda and violence are rampant.
I was there. Paying off student loans like a mf’er doesn’t leave a lot left over. Now I have no loans so it’s easier to save, however when you’re in a hole, the best thing to do is fill the hole.
> “My charter was to sell 10 to 15,000 units of that kit, and we ended up doing over a million,” he says. “That’s a claim to fame that really impresses six year olds.”

We used Lego Mindstorms in college in a robotics course, because it offered the best value among such kits.
That’s fair enough, but from a candidate’s perspective most interviewers just want people who can BS effectively. They don’t want to train new hires in their particular stack. They want a ready-made candidate who already has “experience” in X Y Z W A B C.

Call it tragedy of the commons, but being honest is not an optimal way to play the game.
My terse one-liner was obviously not implying Saudi Arabia is a nation of saints or even better than Russia in any regard.

One argument one can make is that the situation in Ukraine is worse from a European perspective because it is so much closer and the economic and political ties are much tighter.

The Trump administration "fully supported" KSA, Biden does not btw.
Relevant: Quote from The Jargon File:

"Many hackers have noticed that mainstream culture has shown a tendency to pathologize and medicalize normal variations in personality, especially those variations that make life more complicated for authority figures and conformists. Thus, hackers aware of the issue tend to be among those questioning whether ADD and AS actually exist; and if so whether they are really ‘diseases’ rather than extremes of a normal genetic variation like having freckles or being able to taste DPT. In either case, they have a sneaking tendency to wonder if these syndromes are over-diagnosed and over-treated. After all, people in authority will always be inconvenienced by schoolchildren or workers or citizens who are prickly, intelligent individualists — thus, any social system that depends on authority relationships will tend to helpfully ostracize and therapize and drug such ‘abnormal’ people until they are properly docile and stupid and ‘well-socialized’."

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/weaknesses.html
So why are there no pump guns?

Indeed, considering Tolkien's otherwise fully-defined universe (and the industrialisation in Mordor indicating that it can be done), it's a fun question, and they rather use the question as as springboard into quite a ranging discussion of the factors behind real Industrial Revolution rather than a comic-book-guy-style tear-down of LoTR specifically.
If he said it himself, then it’s not an unconscious bias, is it?

The point of interviewing is bias in the first place - to find people who are good - and it’s not unreasonable to assume that “I want to be good” and “this potential hire is good” would result in correlated features
I'm unpersuaded. To begin with, _is_ it such a waste of time to study programming problems, as, you know, a programmer?

Also, more specifically on this piece: can anyone explain how Theranos fits in here? I don't get the connection. One the one hand we have a massive fraud, and on the other... people studying techniques that are rarely used by normal software engineers? But that nevertheless are, still, programming techniques.

And please no more "considered harmful" titles! It's painful to read at this point.
> Angular in 2022 is simpler than react

Surely you must be joking. You have to learn all of these things to make the tiniest CRUDdy app:

- angular modules
- angular template syntax
- angular decorators
- angular dependency injection
- rxjs

I mean, look at the FULL table of contents for their “Get data from a server” doc! [0]

I can’t speak about next.js, it doesn’t fit my use case. But claiming that “Angular is simpler than React” is ludicrous.

https://angular.io/tutorial/toh-pt6
The ARM Trusted Firmware is what typically runs in the secure world, and it is indeed open source: https://github.com/ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware

ROM code generally speaking is not open source, but has been dumped on occasion.
Check the Astro Slide. Their entire collection is inspired by the Psion (and using the same designer I think), but the Slide looks like it could be a modern replacement. I was a big fan of the Psion.
> orthographic layout

I think you mean "ortholinear". But yeah, I use a 4x12 ortholinear as by primary keyboard. Took a week or two to get used to, but I prefer this alignment to the usual staggered one now. With staggered rows I always felt like I was kind of guessing where certain keys were. Now every key is either under one of my fingers' resting position, or one key away from one (if you count diagonals as one key distance for tab/return).
I customize my shell and tools all day. Editor? Not so much, CUA FTW. In fact had to think five minutes before I remembered my snippets. They’ve been in git for 5-10 years.
This Great America actually changed hands a bunch of times, including to Santa Clara a couple of times. Each change of ownership seemed have that kind of effect.

Paramount also bought this Great America for a period. Klingons walking around definitely didn't fit with the US historical theming.

Marriott (the original owners) had licensed the Looney Tunes characters for their run. Those were the most fun. One of the last rides built under Marriott was The Edge (drop tower ride). While it didn't really fit the US historical themes, they tied in the Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote to market the ride, which was perfect. The ride was painted orange (drawing on the yellows & oranges used in the desert background paintings of the cartoons). I don't remember if the ride itself had any Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote depictions anywhere, but I remember the cafe next door to it had a Road Runner analog clock with the Road Runner's feet pointing to the hour and minute.
Besides Pytorch, Tensorflow, gRPC, React, AWS, Kubernetes, GraphQL, C++ Swiss table, etc...?
Everything you listed sounds like a good thing to me. Infrastructure should serve the people.
Translation: Meta wants researchers to work free for them, just like all of their content creators are doing right now.

That company (and all the other parasitic social media companies like them) needs to be taxed way more heavily than it is being right now, based on the amount of content the people of every nation is generating for them.
You sound like a fearful person. Best you stay inside and make more calls to the police so they can take care of you.
Yes I was banned from PayPal without a warning or reason why. I followed the TOS, I did everything they wanted me to do. Suddenly they decided they could not do business with me and limited my account. I've been using PayPal since forever and always file my taxes including what I earn in PayPal. What did they judge me on? My last few transactions were a donation to Wikipedia, a donation to HaikuOS, and a purchase from Alibaba.

Can't reach them by phone, they don't have an email to write to, and the online help is a joke.
Israel is not a race. (No, the Nazis don't get to decide that.) Genetically, the patriarchy of Israel were closer to present-day Palestinians than to anybody else.

We don't get a say on Houthi. "We" do get a say on use of US intelligence details to target civilians.
Yes, that's precisely why I'm querying more often than bookmarking sites. They "expire" soon so I kinda have to find replacements. Apple's situation is interesting, I don't think sites can ban Apple's iCloud completely. It may also be an opportunity for Gmail to copy the feature..
Two Perspectives on Fossil Fuels and Emissions – The Methane Problem
Great solution! I would like to try it.
I think that your interpretation is slightly off and Nielsen might have actual teeth here (again to remind everyone this is UK, in the US Nielsen would be in the wrong). The supermarket owns the database rights to their online store, which it then exclusively licensed (as far as I know) to Nielsen for re-use of third parties. Regardless of your emotions here (and personally I'm disappointed that this is happening), this is UK law and Nielsen and the supermarkets are correct here. If Trolley instead walked physically in stores and then manually collect the data and bought products to shoot photos of* then they have teeth as they have exerted effort into independently create their own database.

* This is now plain copyright law which raises questions, like if the manufacturer-in-question can stop Trolley from publishing those photos (while Trolley owns the copyright on the photo itself, there are de minimis considerations when it comes to the packaging design which is copyrighted by the manufacturer). It might pass fair dealing though.
Bit of a stretch to figure Oxford as "ravaged by industry" though, isn't it? The Cotswolds are suffused with bucolicity.
> It’s super easy to blow through a 250K salary (which is not 250k in your pocket each year.)

As someone in that side (if I made 180k post-tax, I would be living paycheck to paycheck - I became aware of it because I'm funemployed with a big spreadsheet), it is not at all poverty, but it is more of a cashflow quirk when they say this.

They're saying their outflow matches their in-flow, but not that all of it is actually being spent (the mortgage at 2.5% is equity).

Not having a bunch of cash in the bank or merely maintaining a 100k rainy day balance isn't paycheck to paycheck, even though these people might describe it so.

So the people who make 250k who live "paycheck to paycheck" are actually sitting on top of a big comfort cushion which they are loathe to remove for financial cushion. That is okay if it is a deliberate choice instead of a "save face, keep with the joneses" peer pressure to keep spending.

This is not even remotely comparable to actual poverty where the floor is fast approaching you if you miss a month.

These articles can be described as feeding some people's "more money can't fix money problems" and some other's mistaken belief that spending everything you get is what paycheck to paycheck means. Also totally different if it is debt you are paying off instead of actually spending.

Also a hit-piece on the "earn and spend" millenials, which is somewhat fair because I don't know if I could be this affluent in my retirement, the way the economy is tilting.
I would definitely self host. Already self host a VPN.
> I don’t think my Mac allows GPS to be passed, but IP gives an approximation. Not sure how to get around that.

I don't know how much apple restricts access to other things that can give away your location besides IP geolocation, but things like nearby wifi networks and nearby bluetooth beacons/devices are also being used to generate maps that can give extremely accurate location data. Typically cell tower data can ID a mobile device to within a mile or so, but where 5G is available the resolution is improved to feet instead of miles. If they can link the data they get from your library or from these streaming services to the data they get from your wireless provider they could know your part of town (4G) or which house (or even which room of that house) you're standing in (5G)

> Do you know if the library gives my address, etc?

To the feds? that's difficult to answer. The government doesn't give the public details of what kind of information they're taking and when. There's a decent article about the past collection of library data by the FBI and the resurgence of the practice post-9/11 here:

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/FBI-checking-out-Ame...

When they lost the fight to keep the government from snooping around some libraries responded by changing their data collection practices to limit as much as possible what data they had on their users. You can check with your library and see if they have your address on file. If they do, I would assume that it would be up for grabs if the government came knocking and I would recommend starting from the assumption that all available data is being collected routinely on everyone, from every location.

While the official line will be that this sort of collection by the state will be targeted (even if that means targeting everyone who checked out books about certain subjects or anyone who fits a certain profile) without a whistleblower willing to risk everything to come forward how could we ever really know the extent of the data collection taking place? One of the things that drove Snowden to become a whistleblower himself was that he knew from first hand experience that the then Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and the director of the NSA Keith Alexander (who is currently sitting on Amazon's board of directors) were lying to Congress while under oath about when where and how the agency was spying on Americans. There's really no reason to take these organizations at their word, or to assume that even those in the highest offices in our government would know what they were up to any better than you or I do.
The only correct part of is that oil does not come from fossils. Most of it is from dead algae. Also the twitter account looks like a Russian bot.
Show HN: (Test-)Automation with Computer Vision
Typescript lib of a friend startup (askui) that can automate anything with computer vision from UI tests to playing games.

I personally use it to scrape the web or test flutter apps.
Low Voltage Wiring Guide for New Home Construction (2019)
If the skill you're hiring for is to iteratively solve a real world problem, then it doesn't matter if someone can do both. You need to find someone who can iteratively solve real world problems.

People might have both, but some people only have one, and not the one you're hiring for. If they can ace Leetcode problems, or unicycle, or speak Klingon, that's lovely but irrelevant, and absolutely pointless to test for in an interview as a proxy for solving real world problems.
When taking into account the total amount of time involved in a traditional multi-round interview process (which can potentially go on for months depending on the company), the travel time required for any in-person interview rounds, and the time spent practicing leetcode drills in preparation for these interviews, 10 hours is nothing.
Note that in 2016, $250k was considered low income in Palo Alto, CA, and was qualified for subsidized housing: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-rent/palo-alto...

6 years passed, and now with high inflation, maybe the number is already >$300k.
What is the license of the generated artwork?
> That's the job of the other engineers. I only know how to screen for the skills I do have.

But to strengthen a team you want to add people who have skills the other people in the team lacks, so your interview needs to be able to find such people easily.

In general you want the interview to test that they have done the basics of the work before, that they are smart and that they are nice. Your test helps assert the first, they have done the work before, and the discussion tells you whether they are nice. But it doesn't tell you whether they are smart. And if you think a bit there are probably simpler questions you can ask to check they have done the work that are more general and will pass more people, you want to sort by intelligence and not passion for text editing so the "have they programmed before" question should be as low level as possible and not require any special skills.

The algorithm interview is what the industry settled on to solve this. It tests extremely trivial coding, so you can do the coding if you have ever coded before. The hard part is the algorithms, and that might require some to study, but since it is standardized that becomes a reasonable proxy for intelligence. And social comes from being able to talk about a technical problem and describe what you are doing in a stressful situation, that is good enough to work on a team.
Ironically, the reason I picked it up was to play the online version with some friends. The only was to unlock online mode was to go through that mission.
Er, in Germany, 100k is the population where a city is allowed to call itself "Großstadt" - so big city, not small town.

In medieval times, people had lots of children, but most of them died very young. Of course this doesn't fit into Tolkien's idyllic description of the Shire, so it's not mentioned, but I guess families with 13 children who all survived to adulthood were the lucky exception...
Firstly, there is zero chance of understanding an index. Corporations are legal entities formed by documents, each unique, holding assets like intellectual property, and executed by people. It is clearly infeasible you understand all of that for an index. The best you can do is extrapolate from the history of “number go up”.

Secondly, you invoke the efficient market hypothesis for stocks via portfolio theory, which should then apply just as well to alternatives. Higher risk/volatility implies higher expected returns. This is assuming perfect information transparency.

This is where your argument fails. Crypto (on-chain) is a perfectly-transparent market. Stocks are almost perfectly opaque. So crypto is an almost tautologically efficient regardless of whether it shoots the moon or drops to zero. Until recently, crypto was also uncorrelated with stocks, which made them a perfect return-boosting companion to a portfolio. Not anymore of course.
Demand. Total cost of ownership can’t be too much lower than ICE vehicles. As EVs TCO goes down the price has to go up to keep demand in check.
The "considered harmful" essay jumped the shark and got meta the better part of a decade ago, yet here we are...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9744916
There was a period when I was looking for freelance gigs via Upwork - I had to send hundreds of applications to get a single few hours worth order. May be it gets better with a higher rating but I never got to this point. I would rather spend a month preparing to leetcode style interviews than spend it writing Upwork applications.