skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure the domain of the work matters a lot. But the concept of skill distribution applies to all domains.

You can hire a 10x engineer in a basic web dev role the same as you can hire a 10x in a distributed systems one. It's possible distributed systems work is inherently more difficult to assess, but I'm not sure. It seems the process just needs to be different to assess that skillset.

If your best hire is somebody you had less confidence in, then it's a sign your confidence function is not fully tuned to what's causal to success.

But you're right that you can't know everything after an interview. Work ethic cannot be measured directly as you stated, but usually it can be inferred with a reasonable level of confidence through behavioral cues of the candidate.

A perfect correlation between hire confidence and performance on the job implies you have a perfect hiring process. Obviously impossible in practice, but you can get a lot closer than the average hiring process, or FAANG.

Obviously to iteratively improve your hiring process, it's important to view it this way. Unfortunately most confuse and forget about what the relationship between hiring and on the job performance should be, and see hiring as a separate siloed game and view signals in the context of that game rather than the job.

Finally, it's pretty bad for company culture and morale to have a high fire rate. It's worth going through more interviews to limit the bad hires. But obviously the tradeoff needs to be quantified and deliberately decided on. If your average tenure is < 2 years, there's something wrong
> Music has two key difficulties: the long, linear context makes it hard for most models to generate coherent works and reason about long-term higher level structure

It seems like the DeepMind PerceiverAR that you linked generates entire piano pieces all at once, instead of generating token by token like OpenAI GPT or Jukebox. So that should take care of long-term coherence right? Since all parts of the song are processed and generated at once
That prevents new laws from being applied retroactively.

What would happen if a state law against abortion already existed before Roe vs Wade. It has been unenforceable, but was never repealed by state legislature. Would it be legal to retroactively enforce that law now?

I know my state had such laws, and there was a push to get them repealed after Barrett was appointed. Don't know if retroactive enforcement was a concern or just future enforcement.
> [...] post the phrase "abortion pills can be mailed" on Facebook using a burner account. The post was flagged within seconds [...]

Do these messages get flagged worldwide?

Interestingly, mailing abortion pills is FDA-approved:

> When it comes to the legality of mailing abortion pills, there are several telehealth abortion companies in the U.S., and in 2021 the FDA made it possible and legal to send abortion pills via mail. With the fall of Roe v. Wade, some states have banned that, or will: Arizona and Tennessee, for example. In Texas, it's a criminal act to send abortion pills through the mail. [...]

Unfortunately, it is quite important to take emergency contraceptive pills (infant murderer pills) within 72 hours, the quicker the more likely they'll work, so waiting for them to arrive in the mail with the intent to take them is a somewhat risky choice compared to buying them at the drugstore in the morning.
Expressly forbidden:
- install, or execute code which introduces or changes features or functionality of the app

The only exception they've crafted is for educational purposes.

2.5.2 Apps should be self-contained in their bundles, and may not read or write data outside the designated container area, nor may they download, install, or execute code which introduces or changes features or functionality of the app, including other apps. Educational apps designed to teach, develop, or allow students to test executable code may, in limited circumstances, download code provided that such code is not used for other purposes. Such apps must make the source code provided by the app completely viewable and editable by the user.
The people get what the people want. Those are the joys of democracy. Rising house prices and the young emigrating.
Required keywords "Agile/Scrum" does not appear on this resume, rejected.

Is it really that bad now? If I were applying for employee roles today it would probably never have occurred to me that including "Agile" as a buzzword could be important to avoid getting filtered immediately. I can understand filtering someone for having no apparent experience in the main programming language you use if you have many other applicants who do. Filtering for something that basically every employer has claimed to do for about 200 years but no two of them would agree on what it means seems silly though.
The Loretto Chapel Staircase: A ‘Miracle’ of Old World Craftsmanship
Above replacement is exponential growth.
I did some fiddling around building a graphql layer with a bunch of complex types. Basically this was trying to encode all the various GraphQL rules into the type system itself e.g. if a resolver takes arguments, ensure that a schema of the correct type is provided as an object etc. I also built a client that would take a schema and ensure you used it correctly at compile time.

Example of the code:
https://github.com/pj/typeshaman/blob/main/packages/graphql/...

Documentation is incomplete, unfortunately I had to get a job. I started working on encoding all of SQL as well.
Yeah I think Afghanistan was just a place they could safely drop a lot of expensive bombs.

Iraq, and later see Libya, Syria, and others, ongoing, are places where they don't want strong dictators who are against the international monetary monopoly. Just look at the shenanigans African dictators get up to and we just send trainers, because it's the only effective solution over time.
They are not similar. Primarily because having to take care of a kid doesn't mean you are forced to carry them inside you. Also at least in the US you can drop your baby off at any hospital no questions asked. So not similar at all. You're uneducated or trolling.

If you need me to explain now these are different things you're the problem.
Based on the article, if everything is true (or beyond ordinary coincidence which it argues), what other explanation is possible?
Only port 5 and port 0/1 can do avx512 instructions on skylake/icelake, so I don't think you can get better throughput than 0.5 on current parts. Unless you count load & store as well, like I mentioned.
What leverage exactly? Consider a major split between SA and US. Who do you think would come out worse off?
Considering dry ice sublimates at -78°C, this is likely to cause cracks or other damage to the equipment being shipped.
There is no need to be a douche. For that matter, that they ran with a smaller battery is quite easily verified elsewhere if this information worries you somehow...

https://insideevs.com/news/354805/volkswagen-id-r-returns-go...
Are you really this stupid or are you intentionally trying to muddy the waters?

You can leave your newborn at any hospital in the US no questions asked if you do not want them.
It’s the last in my bullet point
> But someone with an active open source project on github and a popular blog seems like an easy interview, but I've never had the opportunity to speak with anyone like that.

I have many thousands (tens, definitely; hundreds, maybe) of lines of code I've written on GitHub. I also have a blog (not sure I'd call it popular though). In my recent interviews (which I blogged about at length) I don't think _anyone_ had looked at my repos on GitHub. Certainly no one asked questions about those projects. A few had read my blog, however.

A couple times I did show them some of my work on GitHub, primarily a project I was working on at the time that had a UI I could screen share.
Probably not, says Occam’s Razor
Instead of trying to figure out what's happening by changing the sensor size, a fun hack is to instead think about it in terms of a teleconverter. The micro 4/3 format gives you roughly half the area of a full-frame sensor so let's think in terms of a x2 teleconverter.

Let's assume you have a 200mm f/2 lens, and you put that x2 teleconverter on. The way you get the equivalent of 400mm out of that is that you're taking all the light that comes out of the back of the original lens, then spreading it out into a bigger circle. Same total amount of light, stretched thinner, so the sensor is gathering less light overall. That's why that 2x converter that turns your 200mm into 400mm also takes away 2 stops of light and reduces your effective aperture from f/2 to f/4.

Now, the trick is that with the smaller sensor instead of the teleconverter, you have the exact same situation: You're taking that same amount of light projected by the optics, and cutting a smaller slice in the middle. You're just doing the slicing differently.
Thank you Turian, your ACL 2010 paper [1] was what got me somewhat early into word representations when it appeared during the first year of my PhD and ultimately gave me a head start on “deep learning thinking” that I suspect helped me greatly on my path to a faculty position many years later. My own lab at the time was not really a hardcore machine learning lab, but we read “Natural Language Processing (Almost) from Scratch” as well. However, it really was your paper that became the gateway to representation learning (and ultimately deep learning) for myself and several other members of the group.

[1]: https://aclanthology.org/P10-1040

I clearly remember Christopher Manning explicitly mentioning your paper at the first ever (to the best of my knowledge) deep learning tutorial at a natural language processing conference (EMNLP 2012), at the very end before we left the room, with something along the lines of: “If there is only one thing you take away from this tutorial: Read Turian’s paper and add word representations as features to your classifiers for whatever task you may have – it works!”

For those less familiar with the history of things, this was prior to Mikolov’s word2vec that arrived in 2013, which apart from popularising neural vector representations (“king - man + woman ~= queen”) above all made fast training of these embeddings feasible – Wikipedia overnight really, compared to the days, weeks, or even months of training for both the cluster-based and neural-based alternatives that were used back then.

Outstanding work and very much ahead of its time. If you are ever around London, my group runs one of the largest public natural language processing talk series in the UK [2] and we would be more than happy to host you if you would be up for example to give a talk on a retrospective on the early days of things up until now.

[2]: https://www.meetup.com/UCL-Natural-Language-Processing-Meetu...
The problem with local input, and for that matter even the traffic engineer's input, is basic lack of thought about it.

For example, almost nobody knows about Braess' paradox, where adding roads and cause more traffic. This is not induced demand, it's simply worse traffic for the same quantity of traffic through expanded routes.

And there are tons of examples of getting rid of highways where the traffic just disappears, and everybody is happier.

Or, locally, people are advocating against a small commuter rail project, in economic grounds, while the same people are advocating for spending 10x on highway projects that carry about the same number of people.

Blame the politicians, but they are mo stupider than organized groups.
I didn't mean to imply there was anything like voluntary consent involved. I'm on your side here. But there is popular support for this program which wouldn't exist if it were presented purely as a wealth transfer with no upside for those forced to pay in. They gloss over the fact that paying SS taxes doesn't formally entitle you to any future benefits, but in practice cancelling it without offering some compensation to those who paid so much in would amount to political suicide.
Back in April 2021, another study using >100,000 US Veterans Administration patients over 6 years found the same effect and effect size (42%) for Tdap vaccination.

They then checked a completely disjoint population, in a different health-care system, and got the same number.

I went out and got an over-the-counter Tdap vaccination at a local pharmacy, because how good does your reason for a vaccine booster need to be?
I think parent is being sarcastic.

But that said, the key point remains; the US is where the money is. The US underwrote the mRNA platforms with a guarantee of 10 billion in revenue while the EU haggled with AZ for like 1 billion.

In the process, the US developed an entire scalable delivery pipeline for mRNA that didn’t exist prior.
Just off the top of my head, I'm betting that 9 out 10 of the most visited internet domains are 8 bytes or less. google, facebook, twitter, youtube, baidu, yahoo. I think instagram might be one of the few that isn't 8 bytes. That's not counting URL shorteners, either.
The source of these “intelligence” always seems to be flawed or straight up lies in retrospect. Coming out after two decades seems like an invention to use as an excuse for a battering ram of new wars or regime changes if they stray out of Biden’s orbit and wishes. Seems the snub of the phone calls and other slights are the answer to such stories and their occurrence and surfacement.

My favorite Awlaki story:

https://realalexrubi.substack.com/p/leaked-cia-pressured-yem...
Do you also have moral dilemmas about the violent shootings, murder and other nasty things the fictional characters get up to? Or is it just the kiss that rattled you?
I tried a PC-version of a Flight Simulator a couple of times, but I found that there was no feed-back on the controls or on the pilot's body. It wasn't realistic at all.

That's a bit like driving a car and there's no accelerator pedal and with the steering wheel feeling like a piece of wet string.
Not trying to be a negative Nancy here, but I did read (most) of TFA and was underwhelmed.

That Saudi nationals were involved in the 9/11 attacks isn't news.

That they had money and support (including from folks inside the US) isn't news.

That multiple Federal and state law "enforcement" and intelligence agencies had information about the potential for these attacks isn't news.

That those agencies didn't put all that information together and stop those attacks isn't news.

That declassified documents confirm what we already knew and/or suspected is mildly interesting, but hardly news.

I didn't get to the end of the article (after six or seven iterations of "so what?" I gave up), so I don't know if there was some sort of attempt to create a conspiracy theory or to bash the US government, both and/or other stuff.

But almost 21 years on, I couldn't manage much more than a "meh" based on the information provided.

I'm sure that all this documentation will be a wonderful trove for future historians, but I'm not sure what it adds at the moment.

Edit: I initially erased ten years of history. Fixed now.
It's clear they aren't going to do the same in America because Americans like money?
Older generations also created a debt level in the USA (public and private) that the young will be burdened with. They created corrupt governments that waged horrifying wars around the globe. They built nuclear weapons that threaten the globe. They did a lot of good too, but I wouldn’t call it symbiosis.
M2 MacBook Pro with base SSD slower than M1
Maybe they can prove what can be done by running arbitrary code and argue that they can’t provide warranty against that use case.
The kicker is right at the end:

> Like Germany, the U.S. regularly shows that its current stall is ultimately a political choice. In February 2017, heavy rain damaged the nation’s tallest dam, Oroville Dam, creating the risk of catastrophic and deadly flooding in the Sacramento valley. Over 180,000 people living downstream along the Feather River in Northern California were evacuated from their homes. As in the current German case, the risks posed by inaction necessitated a bypassing of the usual rules.

>

> Within 10 days of the damage incident, Kiewit was awarded a contract. A little over two weeks later Kiewit’s team and equipment were fully mobilized at the site. After only 165 days Kiewit had brought the dam’s main spillway into working condition. It then completed a second phase where it built a 1.2 million square foot spillway—an area so large that 25 NFL regulation-sized fields could fit inside it. The combined project was completed in only 18 months.

Same company, two different bureaucratic contexts. The US legal and bureaucratic system is a legacy codebase. It’s done well and continues to work but is vastly inefficient. Now, how to reboot America with a new codebase? That’s the real question…
Update: finally got an email from Google:

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"Your file "<filename>" contains content that violates Google Drive's Phishing policy and hence, some features related to this file may have been restricted. If you think this is an error and would like the Trust & Safety team to review this file, request a review below.

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I got access again. And now it's actually being reviewed. What a terrible experience, it disappears and is inaccessible for an entire work day with no recourse. Not sure if this post caused the review/notification.
I used to buy vacuum packed peanuts, there was practically zero chance that they would move around. I also remember that when vacuum packing beddings the result was hard like a brick.
Have you been following other insane SCOTUS decisions?
Google already replaced Linux and Android with the Zircon microkernel and the Fuschia OS on some devices. One company (even Google) doesn't scale like an entire community across many companies does though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zircon_(microkernel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchsia_(operating_system)
Really? I mean! Aren't we pretty far along the desire to attack things,, America is attacking itself
> ZFS is the best placed to deal with that break and do its own, intelligent wear leveling

Part of wear leveling is to rewrite old static data to blocks that are more worn so that the relatively fresh blocks that have been long squatted upon can take their turn at getting wear.

ZFS has a long history about not being great at moving data to a different location, even though some of the brightest minds in this space have been highly motivated to solve this. Google "BP rewrite".
The more frightening thing is how many middlemen's costs are baked in. Of course insurers aren't sitting around twirling their moustaches, figuring out how to be incrementally more evil; but they are spending astronomical amounts on compliance and other side-things that aren't actually healthcare.
Everyone always forgets Yemen.

Why does everyone forget Yemen?

Is it because it's the Saudis again? Or is it because Obama did it? Or because Trump continued it? Or is it because Biden said he would end it but didn't?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=hFkngrRDdaA

Inflammatory comment I know. Tell that to the 100s of thousands being genocided.
a better question? does America need to build? The answer is a resounding no. Japan and China are building bridges to nowhere. Their ethno-nationalism is holding them back. If they take in immigration like the rest of the rich world, they'd have a better luck to tackle their aging population issue. But they wouldn't for ethno-nationalistic reasons.

America already has fantastic infrastructure in the form of roads. they don't need all these bullet trains etc. It's propaganda. Spain has one of the largest bullet train network but their economy is still sluggish. If the bullet trains were such a good idea then a Elon Musk-type would've invested in one. U see, that's how the railway system got built in America. Think Rocker-feller.

The fact that America doesn't have it just means it doesn't make economic nor political sense.

Also, if an enemy nation like Mexico invades, do u want them to have fast trains to move soldiers around? Do you want Mexico to take back the city of angels?

All in all. It's asking the wrong question. The assumption is that building good, not building bad. Which is the fundamentally wrong. China will not overtake the US just by building. The US is fine just the way it is.
As horrible as it is, as much as we might wish it otherwise, some pills are illegal in some places. Offering to mail those pills to those places is therefore solicitation or conspiracy for an illegal act. That leaves a company like Facebook with very little choice. It's the same on every site including this one. (Go ahead. Try it. I'll watch and I'll enjoy watching.) It's the same as if it was meth instead of abortifacients, the same as if it was FedEx instead of Facebook. Complaining about companies avoiding legal jeopardy is like complaining about a zebra having stripes.
Looks like the base M2 Macbook Pro's are only populating one channel of the controller, resulting in some unexpected performance issues.

This didn't show in earlier reviews due to all of the machines Apple sent out shipping with at least 512GB and populating both channels.
Nice. I agree with this.
Interviewing in tech is a mess especially with the self-aggrandizing questions.

Besides the questions, you get interviewed by recruiters. The recruiter, very likely a person that has never done anything technical, been in a technical team, delivered products/features under tight timelines...

Companies do not want their engineers and product people spending time interviewing prospects, so they throw recruiters at the problem and end up frustrating and wasting the time of other engineers. Like, it's your problem, not ours.

If a recruiter reaches out and I'm interested, I ask to talk to someone technical.
There are no fast native IDEs, which is why I just use vim. Fast native programs is up to the programmer, not necessarily the tools.
Lots of times, but much less than the Christians or Muslims. There's a lot of it recorded in the Bible:
"When Judah attacked, the Lord handed over the Canaanites and the Perizzites to them, and they defeated ten thousand men at the city of Bezek."

You are correct about the Buddhist missionaries, but the critical point for me is Buddhist missionaries generally did not bring weapons, whereas most Christian and Muslim areas today are so because of invasions.

A better method to compare is to look at the actual scripture. All Abrahamix faiths have some equivalent of "worship no gods before me" and various levels of actions towards this (ranging from killing non beleivers to not eating with them). The Dharmic relgions do not have this requirement, so are less likely to be used as justification to subjugate another people.
> At least in the United States, sadly that ship has sailed as SCOTUS precedent repeatedly emphasizes the 2nd Amendment as a purely individual right.

With the current court, yes, but that interpretation only dates back to 2008. It would be much less of a reversal than we just saw for a future court to find that Heller was decided in error, and unlike Alito’s pretense of research there’s far more historical precedent supporting the collective interpretation going back at least as far as what the people drafting the second amendment discussed when they did so, as well as two centuries of general agreement on that point.
The quintessential "bad faith NIMBY" proposal is probably the infamous "historic laundromat" saga in SF where a laundromat had to do three studies on shadows and was proposed for historic preservation in an effort to stop an apartment building: https://missionlocal.org/2018/06/the-strange-and-terrible-sa...
Purism charges $300 for their service of tamper-discouraging shipment of a laptop, in an industry where profit margins are historically very low, https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/05/21/purism-anti-interdic...

Other manufacturers may be interested in increasing their slim profit margins via optional packaging services.
At one indoor farming startup, the sun is imitated and embraced