skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like you have an irrational grudge against Leetcode-style interviews.

> Theory on facebook failure/Google failure to innovate: They have the highest leetcode standards out of FAANG. As does Snap.

As does Tik Tok, perhaps even more so.

> lower level engineers hired ten years ago do rise to the top and run whole divisions

Engineers have little say into product decisions, even if they run whole divisions. Nobody is criticizing the engineering decisions Facebook and Google are making. Just their products.
> Very long and pleasant way of saying "they lied".

No, that's a very long way of saying that they haven't received FDA approval to make that claim. Nothing in there substantiates your claim that Pfizer falsified data in https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta....

> Couldn't be because they lied, hide, or downplayed information about Chantix's impact on people's mental health.

There are no allegations that they falsified data in this suit either.

That's three strikes — you're out! Would you like to step up to bat again to try to substantiate your claim that Pfizer has been fined for data falsification?
The Keyword Generics Initiative
Reminds me of Stanisław Barańczak’s paraphrase of Hamlet’s soliloquy where every word on the first line starts with A, on the second with B, etc. Unfortunately, I’m afraid you need to understand Polish fluently to appreciate this:

https://czytankianki.blogspot.com/2012/05/przekad-alternatyw...
The authz solutions I've seen so far are quite good at does a user have permission to do x.

But not so good at the database side of things. I.e. give me the data this user is allowed to see. Which is harder in my opinion.

I've been using postgres row level security to handle this.
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Then again you have copilot which is very explicitly producing directions on how to do something, albeit for a computer rather than a human, and fairly successfully to. Has anyone produced an AI that can write IKEA furniture assembly instructions yet?

Also "remixing" content is arguably how we learn. It's why we write essays and do problems at school and university. It isn't until graduate level that people start generating or synthesizing new knowledge rather than restating it.
TBH I'm surprised that even works in Python – modifying a collection you're in the middle of iterating seems like a bad habit to get into in any language.

edit: in fact, if you specifically use a deque in Python the way you are in Rust, Python will throw a "RuntimeError: deque mutated during iteration". This is just a bad approach in any language, honestly.
> Now if we can only get states (like California) to stop giving out stimulus payments (they literally calling it inflation stimulus; learn economics 101

California is not giving out anything called stimulus payments. You seem to be referring to the inflation relief tax rebate which is the system that has been adopted to return tax revenue that exceeds the Constitutional cap on state spending (FY 1978-1979 spending adjusted for population and inflation), because of the enormous revenue windfall the state has received in the post-COVID boom (and that cap takes into account inflation, so this is even with the high inflation.)
They make gobs and gobs of money, that's the signal, and they're optimizing for it. I tend to think that social media is harmful, for everyone. Send pictures of your kids to your grandmother directly.
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Instagram is phasing people like us out of its ideal customer profile, and optimizing the app for Generation Z. It has no choice but to adapt or become irrelevant in the current ecosystem.
> “I guarantee that every single person who liked and shared that post about bringing Instagram back to what it was, would spend way less time on Instagram if it reverted back to how it used to be,”

This is what I also think. People (or, the mass of the users) keep following users that posts a lot of videos, they watch a lot of reels and like those... So instagram is doing the correct thing (for their goals of keeping people using it) in focusing on reels.
I have worked at two top tech companies, and previously worked on an ML research team for an investment firm. I am speaking from first hand experience
I read it as more "we won't do anything unless the mayor forces us and we know this one won't".
They can be recycled once we have a large install base
Bulbapedia was launched in February 2005[1], while Wikipedia reached the consensus that "not all Pokémon are notable" in mid-2007[2].

[1] https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Main_Page

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pok%C3%A9mon_test
Pretty sure you have one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_spoofing ;-)
Keep in mind reasons why you want to move away from Java/Python.

Perhaps there is a different language that can fit the bill.
I sometimes toy with the idea of investing only in vice companies. Creating my own personal index and allocating across it.

Sectors I'd include: Oil, gas, coal, tobacco, pharmaceuticals (but only makers of opiates), payday loans, gambling, etc.

It's a bit sociopathic, sure. But if enough people sleep on these tickers, I might as well get 'em cheap and earn those dividends.
Oculus was acquired in 2014. Meta deserves all the credit for the success of Quest2 and unquestionably for all the R&D work going on at the moment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zHDkdkqd1I
I was actually impressed at how well Stadia worked. My impression is that they did an excellent job at the technical implementation. A lot of games don't require millisecond response times or amazing graphics and Stadia would have had one of the best anti-cheat systems for multiplayer games, basically for free.

What sank Stadia before it even launched was their asinine pricing strategy. It should have been clear to anyone with a basic understanding of computers that playing a game over the network will be inferior to playing local, but they could have made up the difference with pay as you go pricing and an emphasis on multiplayer games where the graphics don't matter as much. Of course they did the exact opposite, and then decided to double down on bad ideas by ignoring indie developers.

I still think the technology has a lot of potential (well in Stadia's case had a lot of potential), but with that kind of management, even the Covid lockdowns and the GPU shortage weren't enough to save a product that was designed to fail.
You say there is nothing wrong, but then go on to list things that are in fact wrong.

You think the problems are a mistake or otherwise something to be "fixed" the products are working exactly as both the government and the manufacturers want them to, and it has nothing to do with "intel agencies"

Having your entire life "cloud connected" and them complaining about privacy, is like opening a window then complaining that the house is drafty.

I love home automation, not a single component of my home automation is cloud connected, if more people would accept, learn and support non-cloud systems, services and protocols everyone would be better off
I take the opposite approach in that I keep the default config file locations and have .gitignore set to "*", and just force-add files as needed. Also have GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE=$HOME
Considering the general public doesn’t know what “Android skin phone” means and they still failed, R&D wouldn’t save them.

They’re too late to the race.
I have worked at two big tech companies, and previously worked on an ML research team for an investment firm. I am speaking from first hand experience
What would be the best alternative to Wikipedia at getting a list of citations on a topic quickly? For academic research I consider the content of the page as "Yeah, maybe" but the citations to be more useful in terms of digging to deeper sources faster. The argument could be made that the ability of almost anyone to edit Wikipedia is a form of peer review but for edge topics it's tough to tell who has the chops to be editing a page and who doesn't.
Management with Intent
I got super excited for that YouTube functionality, then I clicked the link and realized that either I follow way too many people for this to be useful, or the people I follow are producing way more content than I can handle. I guess maybe if I "un-ring" the bell for a few of the bigger channels this could be useful...
> Wikipedia serves the public, and its notability heuristic is demand-driven.

This sentence seems to be incompatible with itself.

> the public

This constitutes all public groups, including the advertising industry.

> its notability heuristic is demand-driven

Driven by who? The editors at Wikipedia? Depending on which domain they reside in, they may have a very skewed perception of what the demand in a particular area is. Donald Knuth is certainly a notable person in computing, but if I ask any of my non-CS friends (and even several CS friends) whether they would consider him notable, most would respond that they don't even know the man.

So it's hard for me to buy this argument since there are certain domains with their own experts and notable figures that are relatively, if not completely, unknown in tangential domains.
This. They're not broken, they're working as intended for their customers, who are quite emphatically not us.
Embeddable... in the java ecosystem.
I often see comments about datalog/datomic on HN and it seems interesting but I never see it anywhere else, is it because it's mostly known and used in the java and clojure ecosystem? Do you know of any free database with similar models usable from e.g. python?
>> Rust is far more widely used than D in the industry

An off the cuff comment but all the same it made me think - how would you get data for an assertion like that. The usage of both D and Rust is notoriously low in the industry, a rounding error. That has to make it so hard to measure. Still, you'd expect D to be more popular because Rust's only been around 10-ish years or so.

If you click through the TIOBE rankings, it lists them right next to each other on page 3 of the results behind other languages i can't help but be sceptical of like SAS, Prolog, Scratch and Visual Fox Pro.

Indeed claims 5k job listings for "D Programming Language" (i call foul, that seems way too high) and 2k for rust.
> Why assume that academic intelligence makes you less creative?

Perhaps it’s not the academic intelligence that makes you uncreative, but the lack of willingness to play those games means that anyone who does endure the process is bound to be both intelligent and uncreative.

The most intelligent and creative people I know are beyond uninterested in big tech (one even went as far as foregoing millions of dollars after their company got acquired by a FAANG because they couldn’t motivate themselves to turn up after their induction and quit). They have plenty of career and lifestyle options, and most of them are way less driven by money than the average.

You won’t find any of them at Meta.

I don’t think this is just about the environment you find once you get there. I suspect these companies are unwittingly selecting for dullness and failure to innovate from the very start of the process.
Nope. Sour grapes reaction.

US should use the demand to fund an effective semiconductor industry, not shrink the pie to account for its ineffectiveness.
main problem is that we are rewarding companies for being disloyal and offshoring in the first place, now they win again with free money after raking in profits for decades. We should have some funding for smaller companies and R&D but also massive tariffs to force companies to bring manufacturing back
If you never pay into the system, then obviously you don't get anything from it. But if you do pay in, then my understanding is that they'll send you your pension money to wherever you live. That's how it works in the EU, UK. Depending on the country, there can be minimal number of years of work required for the pension to trigger, but AFAIK in the EU they're counted across the whole Union and not per-country.

BTW this is not a verified information so please verify all of the above yourself if you intend to depend on it in any capacity.
Meta is also in the AR/VR space.

And expanding into more and more industries is not necessarily a good thing.
Argentina's economy is a self-similar process: when you look at snapshots taken days apart, nothing's really changed. When you look at snapshots taken a few years apart, nothing's changed, either. On occasion, there's (ephemeral) change at intermediate timescales.

Borges, one of their most excellent writers, once said: Argentina "has all its past ahead of it".
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Wikipedia isn't (or isn't intended to be) a platform for promotion.
So all the things they are especially bad at?

Only a semi troll comment, IRL Facebook recently said they were genuinely unable to audit where personal information was ending up across their systems which is a terrifying thing to think about and another reason I genuinely hope their pivot to VR kills them as a company.
I think the larger problem is that Apple treats privacy as a double standard. They assist China's government in mass-surveillance of their citizens, while simultaneously airing "Privacy is a human right" ads in the United States. Once you factor in the horrific irony of Uighur slave labor building iPhones, I think it's pretty easy to understand how people can call their efforts 'security theater'.
Absolutely! I snapped a router bit off by being a bit too aggressive in the engineering shop at university. I'm still thankful it didn't injure any of the several other people in the room; it could have been very damaging coming off at a different angle.
These are some of the best and most known VS Code extensions in the market that developers all around the world use to supercharge their development.
I couldn't possibly agree more
Think about the person asking for help rather than people replying with a product recommendation -- I like this framing. Thanks!
How bad is the Economist's own ESG score after decades of laundering climate denialism?
> Just a few months before Donna Strickland won the Nobel, a Wikipedia editor had smugly insisted that she wasn’t a notable physicist.

I heard about this at the time, and it stood out to me as totally missing the point. It's completely 100% possible that winning the Nobel Prize elevated Dr. Strickland from not notable to notable. A physicist who has done work that could win a Nobel Prize is probably getting close to notable but it's hard for an encyclopedia that doesn't engage in original research to adjudicate that. Actually winning is that third party recognition that wikipedia's notability standards are supposed to rely on.
Weird? --I've just got exactly the same error on another link posted here:

https://blog.traverseresearch.nl/building-pure-rust-apps-for...

Cloudflare doesn't like me tonight.
I try to remind myself over-and-over that I am finite. If I am not mindful about this I tend to push myself too far and pay a price for it.

If I am going to be at peak performance or close to it, I have to make sure that I am properly rested, properly fed etc. and I can ignore these signals for a lot longer than is sensible.

In the long run it does not pay off.

The benefits of regular exercise is another important thing that I pay dearly for when I do not stick to my routine.
Ah, just another classic example of how much the details matter when parsing JSON. ;)

Very cool story. It's funny how little decisions can ripple out into huge changes to a life trajectory. I suppose the art of it all is to occasionally make a few good little decisions -- and ride the momentum when you do. Glad yours worked out!
Plenty! Carbon collective takes a great approach https://www.carboncollective.co/portfolios
All models are broken, some are useful... Wikipedia works really, really well at specific points of leverage. It can change over time but the most likely-successful change will still center on building from leverage points outward.
Right but the question is, what in the DNA of Amazon allows them to expand like that?
> A virus takes years to learn/evolve the ability to infect humans, and does so poorly at the start.

This sounds like pure speculation. How much actual data do we have on viruses that just made the jump from animals to humans? Probably nowhere near the amount needed to confidently say that the original Wuhan strain was somehow too infectious to realistically be of natural origin.

As for getting better at infecting humans over time, covid _has_ done that. Whatever omicron subvariant we're on could run circles around the original strain without breaking a sweat.

> If covid evolved naturally, it would be capable of spreading outside, where animals live. Instead, it appeared to evolve to spread in lab-like air conditioned conditions only.

Did she make an actual quantitative comparison between the infectiousness of covid and other respiratory viruses, inside versus outside?
Google in particular is great at tech but grew from a very simple product (simple as in product surface area - a search box – the supporting infra is a different story). Their biggest issue is inability to deliver complex products that are coherent (1) with each other and (2) with itself, over time. I think mainly this is because they're not respecting the user (ironic, since that's officially their core tenet). Why? Because they are evil? No, mostly because they don't understand them. Employees live in a different world, demographically, socially, economically, everything. They've also never had a strong culture of truly understanding and embracing their user base. So they decide everything upfront without validating it externally first, and are genuinely surprised when they miss the mark. "That's so weird, all the execs & directors thought this was a good idea. Well anyway, I got my promo, better move on to the next team."
In my worldview this is the difference between apology and repentance. Both are necessary in different contexts but it's also important to recognize the difference and indicate at least to yourself which one you're doing or receiving.

There are probably ways to phrase "repentance" that are less religiously charged but it is a moral issue so this language works fine for me.
> One answer I was expected to answer the complexity of my code to which the answer was something involving logarithms which I genuinely don't have a clue.

Being asked the logarithmic time complexity of some code you just wrote is literally one of the most common interview questions in Software Engineering, no? I'm assuming at least this is what you are referring to. All the well known interview help books in the industry ("Cracking the Coding Interview" etc etc) and websites like Leetcode spend a lot of time teaching it for a reason!

I've never had a software engineering interview where I wasn't asked to discuss something related to time complexity of a given bit of code, and given the regularity in which it will crop up its worth just spending the time to learn.
Also if you want things like advanced datatypes or indexes, or features sqlite doesn't have (of which there are many, though in the last few years the support for "advanced" SQL has really taken a leap forward making it much more enjoyable).
Analytics was based on the acquisition of Urchin; the "utm" that is still seen in URL parameters today stands for "Urchin Tracking Module" [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Analytics
A tariff is a regulation. Tariffs are the interstate commercial equivalent of Pigovian taxes. When the government puts its thumb on the scale of what should or shouldn't be sold with an extra cost attached, that is not a free market.
It reads like someone who failed to make it past the interview stage and is bitter about it.
While casino is probably the best comparison, I've always thought of social media as kind of the high fructose corn syrup for this generation. We took something that in small doses isn't really an issue and over optimized without thinking of the human cost. We've figured out the most addictive part and have turned that up to 11 and are now realizing, "oh shit, maybe that was too much".
Amazon has an engine
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_3D_Engine
Check out WebAssembly.
>Are we going to pretend 737MAX wasn't grounded for a year and half after 2 devastating crashes killing 346 people? I think a world without Boeing would have been clearly better?

I seriously think you should consider reading the history of air travel, they don't say "regulations are written down in blood" for no reason. There's been many an accident due to a mechanical fault that's eventually remedied.

Its a tragedy but you seriously have to take a breath and think a little. If you want to get into a pissing contest over aircraft manufacturers, the air France 447 (airbus plane) crash was largely caused by the inputs being averaged together. On a Boeing plane, the inputs are synced (one side pushes down, the other side goes down as well). Maybe we should eliminate airbus as well.
That’s Chrome, but with Microsoft telemetry. Hardly an upgrade.
I mean, not really. Philosophical and legal texts are particularly emulateable because of their logically necessary formulaic structures and conventions.

And in any case, this was a test of mimicry, not of creation so your conclusion is a bit of a nonsequitur, regardless.
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Due do usefulness maybe a few very significant pieces of infrastructure, but I don't there's such a thing as a new sacred structure because there's nothing that is sacred, period. An interesting observation is that artefacts which were moved from their places of origin (which are still sacred) in the ME to say museums as an explicit act of modern conservation, these were the first artefacts to be destroyed during the recent wars in the region, while anything still stuck in its 'unsafe' places has survived. The defining feature of modernity is that everything is replaceable.
I didn’t know death until I watched my old man go. It was horrible. The details still haunt. I’ll never get over it. Never.
A weapon is a tool used to injure. A tool used to heal or comfort is medicine, or something like that. Right? Still, it's a tool. There's no such thing as an opposite of a tool. Anyways, again, it's about intent.

Your first paragraphs seem fine. Your second reiterates my last sentence. Your last paragraph seems unhinged. There's no need to yell or put plans in my mouth, that's just poor arguing.

Most tools never stay in their original places of use, they drift.
I totally get it. As a non-Catholic, I still fell in love with Notre Dame, my wife actually was so moved at our first glance she cried. You never forget a traveling experience like that!
I live in a medium sized US city and my truck has been parked on a city street with tools in it, unlocked, for two years. Most people lock their doors here, but even in a city known for a medium amount of crime, it isn't really that bad.
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A bunch of GeoGuessr streamers I watch can't tell the difference between Bangla and Sinhala/Tamil and basically do a 50-50 coin toss when it comes to Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. I look forward to them being even more befuddled by all the Devanagari variants.