skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, you're spot on!

Our current target is professional developers and teams with learning budgets.

Here are some reasons why experienced engineers have found value (the first expensed it, the second didn't):

1. One customer manages the Redis team at an infra company, and they used CodeCrafters as a starting point to get up-to-speed on Redis internals — to be able to do their job better. We ended up getting feedback from them on areas we could dive deeper on, to be useful to platform engineers in general.

2. A Distinguished Engineer at a Fortune 500 had built a database product before, and wanted to pick up a new language (Java, if I remember right). So they did our course because they preferred the "learning by doing" approach, and existing resources felt a bit too "hello world / todo-app"-ish.
> Similar to making all your computations in the expressions for default arguments in python

Python default arguments are evaluated only once at function definition, not every function call. It's the source of one interesting WTF for anyone who assumes otherwise:

def foo(a=[]):
a.append(1)
return a

>>> foo()
[1]
>>> foo()
[1, 1]
>>> foo()
[1, 1, 1]
Bring back Web Rings and Link Exchange.
Solein is air, people!
We have fairly good ways of detecting human consciousness now, but not a lot of understanding of why physically or precisely which neural circuits produce conscious experience, which is the understanding we'd need to infer what sort of conscious experience is possible for ML models. We also can't reliably detect or predict whether a given animal is conscious or not (related to the problem of minimal viable neurons required for consciousness), and this is the biggest evidence I have that our study of consciousness is far from complete.

The best we can do with humans (and maybe animals) is behaviorism and inference on our own personal consciousness at this point, with brain imaging to demonstrate at least gross prediction of consciousness in humans.
> "I'll provide that when you provide evidence that nobody has."

Where did giantg2 claim that?
Another win for the extremist anti-porn group Exodus Cry. They are just using a small handful of cases slipping through the cracks to make it look like PH is doing nothing to moderate this content. Their end goal was never to protect children, their goal is to eliminate all pornography from the internet.
Experienced devs won't bother with your LC exercises but you now want them to implement SQLite or redis? Good luck with your recruiting!
Press is trying to STOP him from getting elected, just like before. LOL
ok but you quote

>Courts look at the firm's market share, but typically do not find monopoly power if the firm (or a group of firms acting in concert) has less than 50 percent of the sales of a particular product or service within a certain geographic area. Some courts have required much higher percentages.

which seems to lend real credence to the argument that Apple would (most likely) not be understood as a monopoly in the courts. Sure it could happen, but lots of unlikely things can happen that still say won't happen because of how humans communicate.
Seems more like an homage than a hijacking?
I have a personal anecdote related to the "say 'I don't know, but I'll find out'" point. Back when I was super fresh out of college -- like 6 months or so -- I applied for my first tech-related job, as an assistant instructor for a 6-month MERN stack coding bootcamp. During the first phone interview, I was asked a question about jQuery that I didn't know the answer to. Worse still, I had gotten stuck babysitting at the last minute, so I was doing this interview from a park bench, with no computer in sight to Google it (except the phone I was using for the interview), and the wind was so noisy I kept having to ask the interviewer to repeat himself over and over.

I was sure it had been a disaster, but when the interview was over, I was still curious about how to do the jQuery thing, so I looked it up. A couple weeks later, I was given a second phone interview, with a different interviewer, and at some point during that interview I mentioned that I hadn't known the answer to a question last time, but I looked it up and knew it now (and of course I explained the solution). I'm sure that wasn't the only deciding factor, but the interviewer sounded impressed, and after that interview I got the job.

Fast-forward many years, and I've been privileged enough to be the technical interviewer for a handful of hiring decisions. And you know what I look for when I interview people? Not only "do they know the stuff?", but "how do they think about the stuff, how do they solve problems, and are they eager to ask me questions when they don't understand something?" I would much rather recommend or hire someone who knows 70% of the job but is eager to ask about and research the other 30% than someone who knows 90% of the job but pretends they know the other 10% and refuses to ask for help.

(Or worse, another real experience: someone who not only pretends to know the answers when they don't, but actively Googles the question in the middle of the phone interview, then reads off a totally wrong and irrelevant answer because while trying to sound smart, they don't even understand what they're reading. That guy did not get hired. Before you ask: yes, we know he did it, because we heard him typing as he hemmed and hawed before answering.)
> A pedant was looking for his book for many days but could not find it. By chance as he was eating lettuce and turned a certain corner he saw the book lying there. Later meeting a friend who was lamenting the loss of his girdle, he said, “Do not worry but buy some lettuces and eat them at the corner, when you turn it and go a little ways you fill find it.”

This is interesting: it's the sort of quip that, if said extemporaneously in conversation, would probably get someone to laugh. The funny thing would specifically be referencing back to a conversation/event that happened a few days ago. The thing that makes it less funny in the compressed form is that you don't have to put the 2 and 2 together of "oh yeah, that's an event that happened a few days ago which is related to this situation" because the compressed joke has spoon-fed you the context.

Maybe jokes were such a novel form at the time that even the compressed form was still funny back then?
It doesn't say "their children" it says "children". Perhaps siblings count? I was basically responsible form younger sibling when I was growing up like 1-2h a day (we were latchkey kids).
That was the first instance. These sorts of things only get better over time.
Makes sense that it's the system we inherited. For what it's worth, I'd rather have my representatives voice dissent loudly rather than compliance. I wish that dissent was channelled productively rather than show for the TV cameras, but alas, that's what we've got. I do think it's a superior system to the two party US system, especially for such a large and diverse nation like India. It desperately needs reform, though.
I don't understand your comment at all. I'm not saying anything is 'ok for now while it's a beta'. I'm saying 'client-side validation of beta feature toggles is pretty much fine'.

The beta feature had a very bad bug that allowed hijacking other people's email. That is entirely independent of controlling access to the beta feature.

It's only mentioned in the write-up because OP wouldn't have been able to explore bugs in the beta feature without finding access to it first, which he didn't otherwise have.
"For the children," is often an excuse by organizations to do nefarious things, like the still ongoing and massively destructive drug war.
How Coinbase's remote first policy is going
The point was the original question "you mean it can do more than is actually possible to do with a mouse?" was wrong because it isn't a question of mouse vs keyboard since mice are not meant to be used by themselves but instead they augment what you can already do with the keyboard.
I think it’s clearer to say: the sorts of people that use things like cgit are more likely to be using it just for the repository, and not as the project home page. Certainly that’s how I’m starting to use currently gitweb.
Could you give me some advice on a related problem I have?

I want to make a "game" which is more of a game environment sandbox. something kind of in-between game engines and actual games. I want to be able to create the feel of different game types like FPS, RTS, top-down adventure, side scroller, whatever - within a certain set of consistencies of my choosing. Like something to toy with different ideas for game mechanics in different settings while not needing to explicitly manage things like what a wall or door is each time i change things (things that would be defined as part of me creating the "game"). I want to be able to invite a friend into test environments as well (so multiplayer needed). I am expecting to need to make edits to the game mechanics outside of the game, possibly even through adding extensions to whatever game engine i use - so i will not be looking to set up a UI for tweaking settings. Just something that makes it easy to make changes to how the game functions, easy to spin up a dedicated server to run an instance of the created game environment, easy for another person to join that environment.

Advice needed is: is this scope feasible for 1 person and what game engine should I look into for trying it out? I am not trying to do anything particularly fancy; no overall game design, no story, minimal amount of textures and assets. Literally just an environment to toy with game mechanics.

I understand there is so much below the surface of what I am trying to do that I dont understand, i.e. I have seen an example for all the decisions that need to be made about doors, how interactions work, size, how changes are managed (this door, or all doors?) etc.

Basically, I am not trying to send my friend a new .exe everytime I make a change to a game mechanic - since that's expected to happen a lot as the primary use-case for the thing. If I add assets, then yeah - although ive seen games have the ability to download assets when connecting to the server, so maybe not even that. Ideally, I'll have a fixed set of assets that cover everything of interest, and the way they are rendered and the multiplayer networking and all will be consistent throughout.

hopefully this all makes sense
If a student wants to compete at a national level for a spot on an NCAA team, they need passion, talent, dedication, and resources. None of those requirements typically prevent a player from participating in a rec league.

The author seems to want to blend participation in sports, participation in organized sports, and participation in competitive "club" sports all together to conclude low income families are left out and/or that competitive club sports have become too competitive.

If a player wants to play in college they are up against the laws of supply and demand. In the sport my kids play, there are 50% more grade specific players on nationally ranked club teams than there are openings on NCAA teams. If you don't play on a club team, you are probably not getting recruited and even if you do play on a club team your college spot is by no means assured.

I guess one might rightly argue that competitive club sports have become too competitive but I don't see an alternative at least not in the sport my kids play. My kid can't tell a player on a different team to practice or play less.
Why should this discussion play out again and again in this exact form is beyond me. It's always the same troupe of beaten up arguments trying to pass while being expressed in academia-flavored rhetorics, is it the canon critical thinking essay tone they teach in the US? Insofar as the grandparent post contained some useful inquiry this should amount to uncharitable derail.

So often this blows up when anything related to IQ is brought up, a profound generational trauma of american intellectualism gets a small scene to replay its discourse in suffocating detail.

Maybe this is as close to the root cause as we can publicly get? Our insane tendency to avoid productive discussion and stifle true creative activity, all in favor of hollow wordplay (quasi-statistical if the situation requires, not less hollow). Our education - a glorified daycare with rote-learning for line-workers, of which we somehow expect intelligence gains if only we could spend more time instilling it (going against all solid evidence to the contrary, because the doctrine of never having enough education has to be preached).

There is a word for this, and it is a neologism: https://roonscape.substack.com/p/a-song-of-shapes-and-words
Seems the word being translated is Σχολαστικὸς.

At its root its a person who doesn't work. A scholar didn't work and could devote their time to acquiring knowledge. But a lazy person could also be a scholastikos.

So I think here it is getting the double treatment, referring to a person who has lots of book smarts but no common sense.

Pedant kind of makes sense as a person who thinks themselves smart, so perfect for being the butt of a joke about being stupid. Pedant, afterall, was once just a word for teacher in English, but has taken on a negative connotation.
By the time the translation was made (~1920), it could also be "know-it-all" (I assume this started as a sarcastic use of its sense of "headmaster") which is pretty close to its typical meaning today—to me it implies someone who often, unnecessarily or inappropriately, corrects others, but that may be a recent connotation, and it's still close.

We'd have to find the original text and consult a translation dictionary, I expect, to figure out exactly which sense was intended.
Ok - how about facilitating abortions in Texas? Selling imported insulin to diabetics?
UPS is used, rarely and without their consent, to illegally transmit drugs.

Pornhub is used, rarely and without their consent, to illegally transmit child pornography.

What sort of business are you in? I'm pretty sure that I can find a way that it facilitates some sort of illegal activity. Your HN profile says "Defense". Let's see now...
BCI. We still interact with keyboards, which is a very cumbersome and roundabout way to talk to each other and to the machine. BCI will connect our intelligence in unprecedented ways, and hopefully will allow 'uploading' so that there's continuity even after death.
Genetics is not the right way to go about it - carbon and protein chemistry was a very slow 'minecraft' way to build intelligence , and each of our senses and motors can be replaced with much much simpler electronic devices.

I don't know what AGI means in this context. Surely a BCI can upload itself to a brain-simulator and live there. No need for 'artificial' persons, although it is in principle possible (why not after all).
> So the question is, which ones can generally be trusted, and which can't?

Let's see... pretty much any of the companies listed as PRISM-compliant back during the Snowden leaks?

It's fun to be pedantic about security, but Facebook and Apple both phone home to the NSA at the end of the day. Quibbling about these differences is a zero-sum game, since FAANG's lowest common denominator is total surveillance.
By definition, if you don't do what VISA is doing, the regulatory state will declare you an illegal payment processor.

Like it or not, part of the baggage of doing that service is being an extension of the long arm of the law.

So "rolling your own" minus the regulatory baggage you don't like, isn't per se "making your own payment processor", but something else.

Bit of a Catch-22, but how it works. Everyone just tends to leave the quiet part unsaid.
Also, you can keep track of all the BQ progress here: https://github.com/trinodb/trino/issues/6867
I would prefer to live in a society with more intelligent people.
No, why are you shipping it to production if you need feedback on security? Beta feature security should be best effort, as good as anything else in production, because it is production, beta or not.
Probably not by natural pressures, though. We're more than intelligent enough to outcompete any species that might try to fill the same ecological niche as humanity. No benefit to even more brain power. It would more likely take intentional selective breeding if we wanted to go that route.
The problem with this, however, is that most Raw editors only allow you to increase the exposure by +/- 1 or 2 EV. So, say the base ISO for your camera is ISO 100. If you edit it in, say, Lightroom, you can only get it up to ISO 400, whereas in-camera, you could bump it up to 800, 1600 or higher.
Wonder how remote first is affecting employee retention
That's awesome. Makes me happy to hear it's helped others weigh the same kind of decisions that I have. At this point it still feels like a pipe dream to one day be able to go full-time on it, but either way the plan is to keep making it better and better (no shortage of ideas!). Ironically, I'm sure grinding leetcode instead and switching to FAANG would result in much better projections in PL for myself; but sometimes I think it's more about what keeps you energized and passionate than what optimizes total comp.
Have you heard of Rustlings? It's a series of exercises for Rust that teach you the language as you do them. I just finished that recently and this reminds me of that, except more complex. Now that I've done Rustlings which is for beginners, I have a high interest in doing something like CodeCrafters.

Perhaps for other languages which don't have a Rustlings equivalent, maybe you could add something like that for beginners as well as your more complex challenges. If I were to rewrite Redis to learn Rust, that probably would have been too complicated a project, but having a guided beginner course before the complex projects makes more sense to me.
People have been inventing these software/developer metrics for 50+ years, and to this day none of them have panned out.
That site isn't too bad, but the article is almost completely unrelated to the point that was raised.
I upvote often and only downvote if someone is being inordinately hostile. I do think it's courteous to upvote those you reply to.
Is that imported insulin un-patented and FDA approved?
It's cellular ag without any need for carbohydrate feedstock - instead using hydrogen. That would make it much friendlier in terms of land use than even traditional plant-based ag. Their corporate website is https://solarfoods.com/ and they say they will start production in 2023.

They're working on getting approval from EU food safety regulators: https://solarfoods.com/solein-submitted-to-the-european-comm...
And I thought I was unique in being sought out like this... They must be hurting pretty bad to be contacting anybody with a pulse about AWS roles.
Thanks for your appreciation! I've touched on the pricing topic a bit here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32345899
The first item I was taken to on that list is this: https://readsomethinginteresting.com/a/baa96b89

Which takes me to a broken article: https://www.aaronkharris.com/asking-questions
The US and the Europe are both phasing out hydro:

> Dams are now being removed at a rate of more than one a week on both sides of the Atlantic.

> The building of dams in Europe and the US reached a peak in the 1960s and has been in decline since then, with more now being dismantled than installed.

A major reason why:

> Many large-scale hydropower projects in Europe and the US have been disastrous for the environment.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46098118
We don't have a good way to handle equations. They are dense and sometimes minute aspects of positioning have semantic value. And this paper in particular, the equations are the core of the content.

There's room for improvement over the status quo, but with the standards we have available today, faithfully representing the content requires a faithful representation of the visual layout. So a typesetting format like PDF is what's needed.
Except I wish I could delete a letter using the delete key (on my Windows keyboard).
Reduced land use vs. traditional agriculture. Imagine going to space and living off a vat of microbes grown using electrical energy!
I see, so we're talking open vs closed glottis?

That makes more sense to me. An Open glottis definitely is more stimulating to the vagus nerve if nothing else so they are different.
Because it's had millions of years to converge on a near-optimal solution for the environment that it's in. In fact, this is true for all organs within all extant species.

Nature is far more advanced than technology, and I don't believe that we'll ever quite be able to one-up her. Most efforts to do that have seriously harmed us.

We think we know everything, but this dangerous hubris can destroy all planetary life in the blink of an eye.
I might be interested in this. Saved!
Ethanol is already legal, why not go the whole way and legalize and regulate absolutely everything. Anything else is pure hypocrisy...
> Industry events, co-working spaces

Will add be careful of networking events from something like Meetup. Last time I did one I thought I made a friend but it was an MLM pitch ha.
> I’ve noticed a disturbing phenomenon: Many people who only recently watched the US version of The Office seem to think that Michael Scott invented That’s what she said.

Citation needed on that. Certainly it's been attached to the office, but if you've actually watched it you would know that Micheal Scott never invented a new phrase on purpose.
Website operators could still take measures to stop abuse from troll farms as well while still allowing people to remain anonymous. A website operator like Twitter for instance could perhaps require users to make a small micro-transaction before allowing someone to make a post. Some equilibrium for the cost of a post could probably be found where most legitimate users would still be willing to pay that cost but most troll farms would not.
RIDF roundup: the thread. Hit us with your best Rust activism!
I wonder if the point of the amphora is that pitch will cover the decoration or either it will seal the pores.
There are several good responses already. Here are a couple more things to add to the list.

Risk management. In general, optimize for survival, and then once you've got that down it's safe to chase the 10x or better gains.

Persuasion. This one is pretty self-explanatory. The benefits of being able to persuade people are practically immeasurable.
it was not terrible, I used some when I reached my top weight and used it to replace physical food. Tastes vaguely of peas.
Users are “paid” in the sense that they use apps for free. App developers instead of charging a user a download fee, show users ads.

You’re also taking industry words and using them in weird ways. Supply is available ad slots, demand is advertiser dollars wanting to fill those slots. Demand pays suppliers but it goes through tons of intermediaries (brand, agency, agency, dsp, exchange, ssp, agency, app/website) plus a bunch of vendors get tiny percentages during the dsp/exchange/ssp phase
Show HN: Decentralized P2P comments on every webpage, opensource
Unfortunately intelligence is mostly genetic, look it up...

Edit: This is my opinion on what I consider a fact based on a fair bit of research and first hand observation. People are free to disagree with this but if they've made it to this point still holding that opinion then I think it's unlikely anything I could say would change their minds.