skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are a couple aspects.

Whiteboarding is a good proxy for general "intelligence" (similar to "IQ"). It doesn't test real world scenarios, but if you're looking for a smart person who knows how to implement code without having to rely on IDEs and autocompletion, this isn't a bad test.

That said, whether "smart" and "can code" translates to job performance really depends on what the job requires. For the FAANGs that does centralized hiring, this "job requirement" is basically the best they can do for software engineers, since more specific requirements run contrary to the centralized hiring process.

For the non-FAANG companies that cargo cult FAANG practices, it should be pointed out that it's really contrary to their interests to do it, since they're competing directly for the same pool people with less resources, even though they may not actually "need" the same people, and are in a position to hire more specifically for positions that they require. If I were hiring, I'd actually actively try to structure the interview process so that it will select for quality candidates that have a higher probability of being passed on by FAANG processes (or, in short, don't copy FAANG interview questions!).

I suspect there's also an element where salty interviewees overestimate the difficulty of the whiteboard questions they get asked. I'm not saying we should disbelieve them, but I've personally seen cases where the interviewee mis-interprets/mis-categorizes the question asked, and then complained about it. Also, Dunning–Kruger effect and that stuff.

That said, in general criticism of "FAANG-style" interviews is probably well grounded, but honestly, for the FAANGs that rely on these styles of interviews (as pointed out in some other comments, not all of them interview the same way), the inertia is so high that it's unlikely anything could change their practices, especially that it is in fact in a local optimum (there's nothing "better" if you do centralized hiring at scale). It's crucial that smaller companies don't cargo cult these practices though.
This sounds like a great topic for your research, your article, and your passion to share with others if it exists. Get to work.
It's a mystery to me why this paper is claiming that environment is "nurture" or that twin studies prove things are caused by genetics; neither of these are true because your mother's womb is all of environment, diet, not (your) genetics, and not controlled by a twin study.

You're welcome to invent some kind of intervention study where you edit one twin's genes and not the other though. Short of that, genetics studies are interesting but not good at finding reliable evidence for much. Imagine using GWAS to analyze a computer program - it'd tell you one version of it has a new feature because it has a letter 'p' in one position of the source code.

The other issue is that genetics don't typically make you better/worse in general, they make you more adapted to an environment. So the main reason to know them is to find interventions where you improve that environment.

There isn't much need for that for sprinting, which I guess makes it better as a sport. For long distance running there's, well, owning a car. Though I remember hearing about this tribe of long-distance runners, who adapted to their lifestyle not through genetic traits but cultural ones:

https://www.runnersworld.com/gear/a20783981/study-running-fo...

The best examples of genetic traits that do differ in humans are ones we got from elsewhere; humans really are extremely closely related for a species and haven't had much time to invent a lot of them. We got the Tibetan adaption to mountains and the European/Asian straight hair and cold adaption by hooking up with other hominins.

I myself am carrying a rare genetic disease (LHON) which I have no symptoms of, so even having a copy of my whole genome tells you a lot less than just meeting me.
I work for a privately held company so, no, our valuation (if you believe it) has not dropped and so neither has the paper value of my equity compensation.
Completely removing all alcohol, coffee and tobacco consumption from my life.

I still consume caffeine and nicotine. I’ve found that my cognition is improved by them; in the case of nicotine, I might just as well have regular pauses from work, though.

Coffee and tobacco, however, contain a host of other psychoactives which tend to bring about an easily distracted, impulsive frame of mind.

So many impulse buys are connected to a craving for the bitter, MAO-inhibiting alkaloids in coffee and tobacco smoke… it’s good for the economy, but not for your bank roll.
Googlebot and the 15 MB Thing
So far, many of the box on wheels from other manufacturers have had recalls for blowing up people's houses.

Hyundai is the lucky one so far.
I'm imagining a time in the near future where DALL-E (or some future incarnation) can illustrate a story in real-time, as you are speaking it.
> Zhemao published an apology letter on her English Wikipedia account, writing that her motivation was to learn about history. She also wrote that she is in fact a full-time housewife with only a high-school degree.

This is not the full story, she originally said the motive was to win online debates with wikipedia references (created by her alias account)
In Postgres at least you can use SET ROLE when getting a connection from the pool and RESET ROLE when returning a connection to the pool, and avoid the problems you describe.
There’s binaural localisation from phase and amplitude differences, but importantly also monoaural cues from frequency response. Your pinna act as a set of directional filters - which is part of why some binaural recordings can quite literally feel as though they’re in your head.

What’s interesting with this is that while you can’t get those directional filters, you could use a system like this to provide 3 or more ‘sensors’ (eg the chip packet demo) within a scene and isolate signals the same way as an array mic.
We're at a generational change in political control for the first time in four decades, in uncharted territory with low interest rates (as you note), and looking at increased wealth inequality and as assets have raged unchecked (same as previous point basically).

I think our conventional wisdom is failing here because we have not considered that the voting preferences will rapidly change over the next 8 years. Of course, the massive buffer there to my theory is Millennials will be the ones inheriting the bulk of these assets over the same time frame. Perhaps they will decide generational wealth isn't so bad once it is in their accounts.
What would an equity package for the US federal government look like?
Will this help me finally grok ML?
No one in Europe makes such jokes, the French fought like lions.

Of course, our friends across the pond also think state healthcare is communism, and republicans are “literally” nazis so, I wouldn’t truck too much with such statements.
Loud and clear, thanks for your feedback! It's on our roadmap.
> New users might hear Unix is better, but if it doesn't feel that way, they're going to go back to what they know works

For anyone who doubts the above, think about how much help you'd have to give many of your family members (spouse, parents, kids, etc.) for installing Thunderbird or another popular desktop app.

For all of my family members, the moment they have to open a terminal to do something basic they'd say "that's it, I'm going back to macOS (or Windows)."
It sounds like both sides of the transaction were at Walmart. So in theory they could have intervened on both sides. But intervening on the sender side definitely sounds easier and safer.
Related post by Karl Voit, explaining part of the problem: https://karl-voit.at/2020/01/13/thunderbird-notmuch/
Scammers Wanted $3,600 - They Watch Grandma Spend It All Kitboga https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1f37ojXcIc
wow, amazing! thanks for the link!
There was a time when Lego was pretty solidly pacifist in what they chose to make. Sure, you could make a gun out of your bricks, but they didn’t make plans for them, or special parts.

Over time this has changed. There is an entire page on Wikipedia dedicated to chronicling this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_and_Lego
The USSR had no shortage of brilliant technical talent, although they did have a habit of imprisoning them even after they had had a major success.
They can work on amazing projects but they “struggled with basic facts”

Sort of makes one wonder how important those “basic facts” really are.
The idea to use special filter is a good one, but as others stated the 'top bar' isn't a real thing in email. Maybe some sort of IMAP extension, but it's a bit like asking how to put onenote into a Google doc - you might find some workaround but you are looking at two different things.

I don't use those folders, I also don't use a local email client these days...
I’m curious why you mention Musk. He’s neither the first nor the most insightful critic of AI’s long term impact.
That is a great point! Hopefully it is that easy and I’m over thinking it. Thanks for the suggestion :)
Perhaps, as you suggest, Wal-Mart should hire high-paid, well-trained executives from PayPal, Zelle, CashApp, Venmo or other services. God knows there's never been fraudulent transactions or scams on those platforms.

You obviously have a beef with Wal-Mart, writing essentially the same comment 4 times and seemingly ignoring the fact that virtually every supermarket and check-casher in the country has a similar employee running the Western Union desk.
It’s not my opinion. But isn’t it objectively true that the national popular vote is much harder to fake than a few hundred votes in a specific state? That’s just the nature of organizing the effort.

So if all US elections are unreliable, surely the 2000 one is more suspect than the 2020 one.
Longevity is the least interesting quality of a re-usable spacecraft. We have six decades' experience keeping spacecraft on long orbital, and even trans-planetary, flights working. If testing longevity is any significant use of X-37B, that is another way of saying it is useless.
I'm a fairly happy user of Joplin - it's great if you want a synchronised cross-device markdown editor!

I write "fairly happy", because there is a longstanding issue with the Android app where notes that have more than 10 lines start to experience crazy lag when editing. So I mainly use the desktop version for writing.

Wish they would fix the Android bug!
I skim the titles of the first 3-4 pages of the main feed (top posts).

Then I skim the titles of the first 3-4 pages of "new", maybe more depending on how many are good vs. spammy.

I really enjoy both, but if I had to pick it would be "new". It's seconds of effort to pick through the spammy new posts and I'll often find interesting things there that don't "get traction" for no real reason.

And - as much as everyone, myself included, is attracted to a good dumpster fire [1], I really do prefer articles that are technically or historically oriented and that I either learn from or could even constructively comment on. Vs. politics. Meh. Perhaps the scoring system for "top articles" over emphasizes too much comments and views (which could be just bickering or controversy) over content.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25201798
We do make such jokes. Not about WW1, though. But the reputation of the French was heavily tainted by their failure to check Germany in the interbellum and the Vichy regime.
My wife and I both went remote and the start of the pandemic and both of our respective companies have decided to keep our positions fully remote. We have a dedicated office space in our home that we share. I don’t think we would have been successful in WFH without the dedicated space. It feels like a place where work gets done. I can sit out in our living room, dining room, or kitchen but I find I am just not as productive in those spaces.
I enjoyed Meteor. Is there anything else out there right now that works as smoothly. Just install meteor and it installs a local copy of mongodb. Not a fan of mongo per-se, rather I'm a fan that meteor didn't require me to install it at a system level but instead installed it locally in the project at the version correct for that release of meteor. IIRC it even installed its own copy of node at a certain version. Loved it!

When I look into other frameworks today they all seem lacking. They expect me to setup the backend "how I want it" and then write my own glue. (and of course make all my own mistakes). Where as meteor, "it just worked" out of the box
Yeesh. I mean kind of makes sense but it doesn't make want to use them more...
I really thought HN was safe from people blaming “the internet” for school shootings
Which part do you find hard to believe? That people with aphantasia can have a hard time with the method of loci, or that aphantasia is more common for software engineers than in the general population?
Call me a killjoy, but the Battle of Verdun was one of the worst and bloodiest battles of a horrific war that arguably ruined Europe. Is there Lego Auschwitz, too?

Bad taste, whoever did this. Bad taste.
When you inherit a software project, the people who made design decisions and have already moved on, well they made some terrible mistakes, how could they ever have thought that was a good idea? And now we have to live with their horrendous mess. I've got to put so much effort into working around it and fixing it all.

And I fully acknowledge that when I move on, I will be one of those people to the next set of developers!
SMS is transmitted over digital signaling or transport channels. There was never any analog coding involved (except for a few retrofitted implementations on landlines in Europe).
I suspect anywhere in the world, if you're capable of avoiding all 3 of these, you can get a job that pays in the 85th-99th percentile for your country, and 60th percentile globally.

It's not a particularly high bar, but I suspect the majority of technically apt people would fail it.

People with lucrative work available legally have more to lose and less desperation to engage in activities that are both illegal and malicious
> he CEO was asked if the company planned to make up for the downturn

Why on earth would they? If the stock price had 10x'ed would you have returned the money to the company?
Turkey lifts veto on Finland, Sweden joining NATO, clearing path for expansion
What kind of debates?
As per other commenters, it's the execution and implementatiin of snaps that i'm not a fan of, not the idea.
I’m surprised that she doesn’t publish adapted novels based on her Wikipedia entries.

Might be wrong, but both the Twilight series and 50 Shades of Gray series were initially fan fiction pieces by housewives who published their work on blogs.

Alternate historical fiction is a very popular genre.
I'm surprised that davmail is not mentioned more often when talking about exchange support. It's an exchange to imap/caldav/LDAP translator, so you just run it in the background and connect to a local running server. It works very well in my experience (much better than exchanges IMAP support which has been extremely flaky for me).
I always disliked this 'insight' because what he was describing were features of life that we choose to make terrible: commutes and draining office work due to excessive work days as two examples. Working remotely and being able to take more breaks has dramatically reduced my fatigue, for example, and obviously has eliminated my commute and has been a major improvement to not having a 'dead-eyed' look by 5pm ever work day. He makes the assumption that my selfishness, if applied generally, would be bad for everyone, but I disagree: if I eliminated (or dramatically reduced) everyone's commute tomorrow, I think far more people would be happier than not, even though it stems from my own 'selfish' preference.
I just found "git partial clone" which appears to aim to replace LFS ( https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/03/13/partial-clone-for-m... ) but I'm unsure of it's current state ( https://www.kdab.com/native-big-file-handling-in-git/ 2021 ). Are you familiar?
PCI-E speed is starting to push against the noise of the universe.
Diet, 2-3 hour exercise daily (cardio I've found is best) and disabling notifications - I find that if I don't work out, I internet more and cell phone browse.

Also core friends and people to "hang out with" you'd be surprised how much you get sucked up by just the Internet and meta of it.

With the 2-3 hour of daily cardio and diet changes, most of my issues disappeared - inability to focus, irritability, fear of missing out and it helped analyze things in my life e.g. am I in the right place/environment?

Really makes you wonder.
> 13 pins in two unequal rows were plugged into a socket on the circuit board.

I suspect this was done to ensure the device could only be plugged in one way.

This technique was forgotten by the time I worked on designing embedded systems. All kinds of devices (chips, caps, diodes, etc.) had symmetrical pinouts, so they could be plugged in the right way, or the wrong way (and would burn out as a result). At least the #1 pin on a chip had a slight depression over it. We always designed chip circuit boards so the #1 pin was always in one direction, so a visual scan of the completed board would verify the chips were all in the right way.

The board was also set up so the diodes were all pointed the same way, caps too.

Of course, the chips could still be plugged in off-by-one.

Sometimes mathematical symmetry is just a bad idea. I had an old Benz that had a mechanical fuel injection system that sat on a splined shaft. There was no key spline. If you got the spline off by one, you couldn't tell until they engine ran poorly. What a wretched design.

Boeing always used keyed splines if orientation made any difference. 4 hole bolt patterns were never symmetrical so the device could only be bolted on one, the correct, way.

It was so catastrophic to hook up hydraulics to the wrong ports that the supply and return ports used different size fittings, color codes, and even one port was left-hand and the other right-hand to prevent swapping them. The ports were placed so the tubes could not reach the wrong port.

Even then, now and then some mechanic would fashion an "adapter" in order to hook them up wrong, which is why they are also tested after assembly for correct polarity.
Do note that these mental effects of powerlifting/strength training are mediated by the concommittant increase in circulating endogenous opioid peptides.

These people are effectively using and getting dependent on opioids.

While it may seem healthy at first, the cravings for more lifting can increase until one cannot control themselves any more, leading to constant overtraining, muscle/skeletal injuries, and eventually PAIN which requires actual opioids prescribed by a doctor.

Do you want to guess what happens after a person, unbeknown to themselves an endogenous opioid addict, gets a hold of exogenous opioids?

What the parent is noticing after a couple days of not working out are the withdrawal symptoms.
The much more narrow result is "AI art that didn't involve human contribution doesn't qualify for copyright". If there are people that did contribute, rulings about works that didn't involve people aren't really relevant.

But "AI art" generally has human involvement of some form, and the standard for that is very low. The specific case of submitting for copyright and claiming that no human input was involved means that the copyright office can take that claim for face value. That doesn't mean AI art generally doesn't qualify for copyright, you just need to "admit to" human involvement of some form. And it's unclear if AI art without human involvement even is a thing.

E.g. if as discussed in the subthread here we are talking about claims of copyright infringement, the first thing the claiment is going to assert is that humans had input into your "AI", and good luck disproving that (especially for the even more specific example here were the people making the claim were involved in building the core of your "AI", so even if you find an argument that your work wasn't human involvement you still need to disprove their claim that their work was!).
That would give you a 128 kbit/s channel under absolute ideal conditions (the maximum bandwidth supported by the EVS codec).

Practically, you‘d be better off using a throttled (after exceeding the included data volume) native data connection.
> States would have to prove intention, which would be very difficult.

Its not all that difficult, there are plenty of specific intent crimes and states prove intention all the time.

> States cannot restrict interstate travel as mentioned in the Articles of Confederation.

Your link supports the existence of the right to travel, but that’s not in dispute; the right to travel is not an absolute; like other fundamental rights, the test applied in the strict scrutiny test, such that state actions impinging on it must be narrowly tailored to a compelling state interest.
Hi, here's my list:
- Total Commander (file management)
- Everything search (find stuff on my pc)
- Emacs (whatever I do in plain text)
- Faststone Capture (screen capture, image annotations)
- Autohotkey (various shortcuts and automation, scripting)
- Outlook (email)
- MyLifeOrganized (task management)
- Dynamics 365 for Sales (it's CRM)
- Office 365 (word, excel etc.).
> It was kind of funny watching Linus Torvalds explode at people for these things back in the day, but in hindsight I'm very glad he took some time off to become a more emotionally and socially mature person for the good of the project.

It's ironic that you say this while complaining about bad attitudes in the OpenBSD community. When it comes to obnoxious attitudes, Linus Torvalds is a nobody compared to Theo de Raadt. BTW, Linus is now pushing for gradual adoption of Rust in the kernel, which would turn many issues of "writing code that doesn't crash" (though not all) into things that a compiler can check for you. That community is generally pretty relaxed and cooperative towards newcomers, due to a shared understanding that there's no point getting angry about code that won't even pass that check.
Thank you for your feedback. I hear you. We are working on fade-in/fade-out and it's coming very soon.

My current workaround for the sound level of a clip is to move it to a new track and adjust the level of that track. I will talk to the boys back there about it.
> So, by rough equivalency the same amount of either Republicans OR Democrats belive in stolen elections.

"one-third of Americans still believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen."

Which is a lot higher than one third of Democrats believing that about the other things you brought up.
Everything under “Information We Collect” and “Use, Processing, and Sharing of Your Information” sections.
What a marvelous read. Thank you!
If they don’t want people to leave for places without underwater options they may need to do something.
France lost an awful lot of men in WW1, however they could not do it alone. The allies almost lost the war with the Ludendorf offensive in spring 1918, however the USA saved the day when the expeditionary force got to two million soldiers in the summer of 1918.
At my European top university, a database of previous exams was available for every single course, provided by the university itself.
"false history" -- is there any other kind? It is like the difference between a cult and established religions: the main difference is scale and time.
Retention is a valid reason. Why stay when a job hop will get you back at your target comp while stocks are low.
you mean giving them a taste of their own medicine?
Many employers would not approve of the friends you keep or the ladies you date. None of their business.
>Is there Lego Auschwitz, too?

IIRC there is. A polish artist created an Auschwitz Lego Set a few years ago. (IIRC with Lego's blessing)

https://culture.pl/en/work/lego-concentration-camp-zbigniew-...