skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that Dewalt is "one of the most premium high end tool brands" is ridiculous to anyone with even a modest understanding of tools. I wouldn't even consider Dewalt to be middle of the road when it comes to consumer hand tools, much less premium.

Premium tool brands are like Festool, Mafell, etc. Stuff that weekend warriors freak out about when they see the price tag. Dewalt just has a big marketing budget, recognizable colors, and is in every big box store.
Yes, it's pretty clear that humans were overfitting to their interview objective function: comp-sci algo problems.

For companies with such strong ML backgrounds, in addition to the sheer amount of content dedicated to discussing and solving tech interview questions hosted on their own platform, one would think they would have noticed earlier.
It's worth nothing. The government isn't supposed to generate revenue
It’s certainly not true that Facebook has a monopoly on communication (here we are communicating without Facebook involved)

I do have some agreement that when a platform gets very large, it makes sense to have some regulation around the censorship decisions they take. Specifically, rules around transparency make the most sense to me. On the other hand, a blunt regulation such as saying that large tech platforms are not allowed to do any platform or country-wide moderation doesn’t make as much sense to me. My experience with all unmoderated online communities is that they devolve into something extremely unpleasant, and forcing Facebook to push ALL of the moderation work down to specific groups or users themselves is not a workable approach to this problem.
On the topic of improving your thinking:

1. Leslie Lamport: "Learning to write well will improve your thinking."
Link to resource: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnY5iJea5ww

2. Paul Graham: "Work on hard problems and talk to smart colleagues."
Link to resource: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1553711250382524416?s=20&t=...
"Yes, unequivocally, and by every real measure life is better now than it has ever been for more people than ever before"

No doubt the number of humans is at an all time high, but whether the amount of happiness on this planet is at an all time high, is quite dubious. Or is "happiness" not a real meassure?

"it's such a minor thing relative to billions of people living longer, better, more calorically and medically stable lives than has ever been the case in any previous century"

Modern people might be well fed, but overall they live a stressful, anxious and lonely life. They might still be better off, than a medival starving and exploited peasant, but human history is more diverse than that.

My main point was btw. that we have no real data, of how happy the average human was 10000 years ago, 1000 years ago, .. till now. Since we do not have that data, all the nice self reasuring meassurements are mainly a placebo.
> the whole advertisement behind Julia is that one gets essentially C speed with the ease of Python. That's actually my main gripe with Julia, the community advertises it as something that it isn't.

I partially agree with this - that statement is true some of the time with some code, but in general there's a lot of nuance to that. (Though, I haven't seen that as a general claim much apart from in the initial "Why we created Julia" post describing what they were hoping to achieve; I more often see specific claims where people were able to port their scientific code into Julia that looks like Python and runs like C. But that may just be us having different bubbles online.)

My partial disagreement is from the fact that oftentimes, the "ease of Python" seems to get interpreted by Python coders as "as easy as Python is to me today" rather than "as easy as it was when I was a beginner" i.e. they expect to be able to port their Python knowledge directly somehow. Python has its own quirks and pitfalls, and over the first few months of people learn to work with/around them and write idiomatic Python code (and then it becomes second nature, and we often even forget that we had to learn to do this). Given a similar on-ramp, people can easily write Julia code that's at least comparable to C in terms of speed, even if it doesn't always match it.

But when you do need to match or exceed C, Julia starts asking for more in-depth knowledge of allocations, types and their performance characteristics, and the code starts deviating away from looking quite as readable as Python. Hopefully, you only need that in some deep internal functions or packed away in a library, but it _is_ a big caveat to that statement.
Any real review is like a vector basis. It establishes a universe in which you can evaluate the claims.

Take this one-star review of a wet-dry vac:

"I bought this thing specifically to suck out the ash in my fireplace. It got use with some other projects like small wood chips and sawdust before I tackled the fireplace, and it did fine. Then I put it to task. It sucked up maybe 1/5 capacity of dust and just stopped."

If the top rated one-star review for this consumer-level vacuum is that the filter immediately clogs when you *SUCK UP ASH FROM A FIREPLACE* then I know hey, this one-star reviewer doesn't understand vacuums.

So yeah, as long as you find one guy on Reddit who's really happy with the vacuum and the one-star reviews are stupid, you've got a good product.
> "Polarization" is not, in fact, the "the single greatest weakness of the United States as a country today."

Agreed, but actual problems aren't profitable enough to garner much media attention.
Why should speech which calls for the death or other specific violence against anyone be allowed? Threats or urges to violence are already illegal almost everywhere.
You missed the point. Many businesses only need revenue (or EBITDA) to exceed expenses and you're profitable. Once you take VC money, you must exceed profitability and provide a return on VC money. Not all businesses must make a return on outside investment because they did not take outside investment.
I think a lot of people are still pretty naive about it. Most people probably believe their messages are private.

Dear kids: if it could embarrass you or get you in trouble, don't send it with a messaging app.

Kind of like "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all"... except it doesn't roll off the tongue.
A salient example is GE. GE has not manufactured consumer products in decades. All of those “GE” appliances were developed and built by somebody else.
In my career, I've had the pleasure of being an employee that is presenting to executives of large and small tech companies. The advice given feels good to me, especially the "mistakes to avoid" section.

Off the top of my head, I'd also add that "I don't know, but I can get that answer" is a much better answer than winging it and making something up. Knowing the audience is also very important. At one >$100B company, the CEO's questions were very much about the business side of things, while the CTO wanted to get deep into the business side AND the technical architecture.

Side note, I had a boss that I hated for that meeting with the CTO. I did all of the work preparing the presentation and slides under the assumption I'd be presenting. My boss jumped in and tried to present and was stopped in her tracks when she was unable to answer a question from the CTO about who would use the product in question. I gave it a solid, awkward 10 count before answering the question and taking over the conversation.
> If there was a constant inflow of flies into the room, after some time you would have an infinite number of flies.

With a constant finite inflow, you’d only have infinitely many after infinite time.

As to why they don’t keep amassing: flies need food, water (moisture), warmth and oxygen. Stuff too many in a room, and conditions elsewhere will be better for them.
Yea, as somebody who is bad at social media marketing in general it’s interesting to read. Things that appeal to me definitely do not translate into good marketing.
So does this means the recogniser would be worse at recognising unexpected utterances, which is roughly what you'd see with human recognition ?

What's the German equivalent of "How to Wreck a Nice Beach"?
BTRFS or ZFS sounds just fine to me, you could even create a small virtual disk for it on a host FS (less integrity, and one oight to snapshot the whole system anyways, but hypothetically you could do this just for atomic snapshots as long the rest of the system is cattle and those snapshots are properly backed up / replicated)
Is this an open standard that other email clients could also implement?
> not because I'm a prepper but because I know [meat will] be so much more expensive next year

Want to take that bet? There's absolutely no reason to expect inflation borne of energy costs and trade disruption to continue. Remember (and so, so many people fail to understand this) that inflation is a year-over-year metric. The report today showing a drop in the "inflation rate" is actually showing an instantaneous decrease in absolute prices (fuels, primarily, like the ones needed to ship the meat you bought because you thought it was going to be expensive).

To wit: It is very likely that what you've done is stuffed your freezer full of meat you purchased at a price maximum.

Also, just because I have to ask: you're so concerned about prices that you're willing to make major changes to your lifestyle. But... you didn't even consider things like "eating less meat"?
Ashamed? You can be pretty sure that the founders and early investors knew exactly what would happen in the (likely) event that it would crash and burn, and they safely extracted their salaries, bonuses, etc. at the peak.

And they are very unlikely to feel even the slightest remorse, because the people who pushed these too-good-to-be-true schemes are sociopaths, if not psychopaths.
Snowcrash vibes. If you read an email too fast or too slow, you could be fired.
Why would you be using Starlink if you have gigabit fiber available? Or was it still quite expensive to install even with the subsidy?
Recognising that history is important to not repeating it.
The SQLite Sandwich Shop is condiment free. :)
If you are implying that I am trying make a racist claim you are wrong.
These debates always devolve into people pointing at outliers.

Simply compare the two curves. Those with children vs those without.

Your comment stands if you look at outliers, GP stands if you take the curves.
Last time I managed a team, the worst employee was technically brilliant. He was a former professor at a good university.

He basically went off and did his own thing, mostly unrelated to what the rest of the organization wanted or needed. He disregarded corporate policy, including in ways which might have exposed us to liability. For example, we deal with highly-sensitive, regulated personal information. He copied files onto his own laptop, where he also downloaded and ran warez he found on sketchy web sites. That was the tip of a very deep iceberg.

I think I spent more than half of my management time on issues related to him.

He left for a different team within the org, and later, left the organization. He's now at a FAANG, analysing sensitive personal information.

I'm not surprised he passed their interview process. There might even be a good spot for him there, but NOT dealing with sensitive, personal information.
ASN is an Autonomous System Number. An ISP is the primary example of an Autonomous System. There are other organizations that have ASNs like data centers.

The internet is decentralized. Basically, each autonomous system is its own network. This means that they need to connect with one another in order to allow traffic between each other. This is called peering. In order to peer with another network you must have an ASN.

The number doesn't matter.
Mike, Raymond - big fan and daily user of the webcam. Congratulations on the new product launch announcement, very interested in becoming a customer!
I mean, people who had assets in banks to lose would probably be in their 20-30s at least during the 1930s. It’s hard to find many people that age now but I agree that in the 90s you could .
What's the difference from AOSP as it is - can't find that in the article? AFAIK (I have it on my phone) there's nothing Google in there already, no changes needed. Google services and apps have to be installed and I simply didn't do that.
Slick product, by the looks of it.

Not having even a rough price is rather annoying, though. I'd rather not give up my contact information and reserve a desk just to find out it's like $40,000 or something.
I can't save you, nobody can (thoughts on firing)
Lol what did I just watch?

From a quick search it appears eating of bugs specifically refers to the WEF push:

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/07/good-grub-why-we-migh...

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/07/why-we-need-to-give-i...

don’t know about the catch phrase or how it’s “anti-woke” but interesting
> The idea is to buy low and sell high, not buy high and sell low.

Everyone knows "buy low, sell high", but few people know how to actually do it.

The one thing I've learned - Don't buy an asset because it's going up. That's FOMO. Don't sell an asset because it's going down. If you buy something going up and sell going down, that's the recipe for buying high and selling low.

Also, in the long term, the market is always up. Just keep buying shares of index funds. If the market is in a dip, that's the time to double-down and buy extra, not sell.
How do they conclude that “few work”, other than through some expectation of productivity compared to head count or payroll? Do they have a problem with employees literally not working? How do they conclude that?
Show HN: Openship – Marketplace API and Multi-channel fulfillment at scale
Funny. I’ve done exactly this elsewhere.
It is the same story with unemployment. "Oh, the government doesn't want you to know how many people stopped looking for work because it makes them look bad." When the U-6 number is right there in the same report at the U-3 number.
U.S. charges Iranian national of plot to assassinate John Bolton
Google “Blacklight reactive clothing”
Deming statistics are a cargo cult. Try running some (Monte Carlo style) simulations; I did these many moons ago and they don't work at all.
That's fair. I didn't realize Lua was also a prototype language as I've barely looked at it. Been curious but it never fit my current set of curiosities.
It's a fallacy to think what you prefer extends to the general population.

By using tactics over strategy, you might get twitter users to follow your twitter account, but are they actually using the product, and the kind of user you really want? Are they going to convert into the high-value enterprise plans they need to sustain their business, or will it attract a bunch of freeloading users who take up support time? Does this meme tactic actually work against your business needs? (by turning away more professionally discorsed people)
Generally without independent testing and certification on a safety critical item, you get a market where there are some well established companies who products unquestionably meet the safety standards. These tend to become rather expensive products, but what many experienced people use, because it is definitely safe.

There will be some really cheap stuff sold that absolutely does not meet the safety standards, and nobody with much common sense will trust or use these products.

But then you get reasonable priced items from no-name brands that might meet the specs, but nobody really knows, for all they can tell they might just just be unsafe junk just like the cheap stuff.

Since your life may quite literally depend on whether the product meets the safety specifications, is it worth going for the sanely priced stuff, not knowing if it is really safe, or pay for the overpriced stuff everybody knows is safe? If you ask somebody knowledgeable about the field, all they can can do is recommend the overpriced stuff.

Whereas if there was independent testing and certification, the knowledgeable people could tell you that it is fine to get any product certified by <insert certifying authority's name>, if money is not a significant concern, you can go for the trusted expensive but well established brands, but if your budget is tighter, the cheaper certified stuff is still fine, and won't kill you, but might have other minor downsides like not looking as nice, weighing more than the higher end stuff, etc.
It may sound stupid but I started playing kendama a couple of weeks ago and my attention/focus has clearly gone up since then.
My point was if they wanted E2E data, they'd just send it back to the server from the recipient. You have to trust the recipient app not to.
0% month over month should be the headline.
You're misunderstanding this market. There's a wholesale market, which he is buying from. There's a retail market which he is selling into. Some providers service both the wholesale and retail markets, but typically with different divisions, people, tech, resources. It's like saying that if you build a gas station and buy your gas from Exxon then that's bad because Exxon also operates gas stations. It's not like an MVNO where all you're doing is sending the customer a bill, and provisioning API requests to Verizon.
The 'eternal struggle' is such an interesting concept and I've thought about it a lot. It really does seem like, while true happiness may not solely come from overcoming challenges, if those challenges aren't present you definitely won't be happy. I think this aligns better than the top post's idea of "smart people see the awful things that can't be changed", it's moreso that smart people aren't finding satisfying challenges in the first place. I remember when I went wild downloading ROMs for games when I found out that was thing; once I ended up with all the games I wanted to play, I lost most of my interest to play any of them.

My headcanon is that it's tied to the fact that our life spans are limited and we've evolved to derive the most satisfaction when we're working on a task that is difficult for us individually or has vague success criteria, which seems to match up in part with the article's takeaway. It's also how I reason that not only fucking things up, but also complaining about it and trying to fix it are all required for people to feel happy. I see this ethos in a lot of old religions as well - humans striving towards the same qualities as a godhead but never quite getting there no matter how awesome their abilities become, or how our 'perfect' state was when we were ignorant of the consequences of our actions.
How? If they're always excluding 7% more of the goods whose prices rose more, the trimmed CPI will always be lower than the CPI-U, which some people say is always lower than what people actually experience.

The entitlement adjustments made based on trimmed CPI will always be less than the inflation even the gov't admits people are experiencing.
I'm single but I totally get this.

And that's my fear when I get older (without kids). That the happiness of being single now and not dealing with kids and having more disposable income, etc. etc. will only go so far but that I'll be depressed about being lonely in the future when I am a senior.

I can definitely see how my siblings with kids will be way happier as grandparents.

But yeah, I'm content now without kids cause I get to sleep whenever and my disposable income is enough. lol

Also though, I'm never arrogant in making proclamations that people with kids are miserable.

They might have tough times in the beginning, but the older I get the more at peace they seem as parents.
Because it's an example of Google's pathological ADHD. I'd be hesitant to subscribe to Google Fiber because it's even odds as to whether they'll just decide to shut it down.
GE consumer products are made by Haier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haier
Yeah I'm following Bevy closely, looks promising! I might have to try contributing.
"Without going out of your door, you can know the ways of the world."
- tao te ching #47
Doesn’t the under representation swing both ways? Seems like not such a good idea to treat large numbers of people within a small area as essentially the same from a voting perspective.

Quickly checking Wikipedia, the Californian governor had a ~62% share of the vote, and the NY governor ~67%. That roughly translates to at least 30% of each of those States populations dissenting from the majority view. Shouldn’t their voices be heard, same as the Kansas voters?
A whole lot of status-seeking goes on in science today.
I wonder where he gets the money to buy all the stuff he reviews. It can't all be coming from Patreon. He also seems to live on, and maintain, a fairly large plot of farmland.
If you don't want roads, defense, (some) healthcare, education, research, or any of the myriad other forms of infrastructure that makes civilization work, then sure, you don't need revenue.

If you do, then I would prefer that everyone pay what we've (collectively) decided that they owe. In that sense, a revenue-positive measure is good two ways: spend a buck, get $4 AND it enhances the rule of law by making everyone pay what they owe.
As I understood, it's constant only after some distance, meaning that the force to its very close quarks is still much stronger than the constant force from the rest of the universe.
Here's the real challenge: stop thinking in hours, limit upper bounds so employees don't inevitably fall into a race to the bottom (like what is happening now).

If your 3-hour-could-be-8 made adequate contribution, whatever that is, that's enough. If it takes them 8 to get to where the other is, incentives will push them to do so.
Maybe that's true for small consumer expenses, but for things like shop vacs it's really not true. If you spend $100 on a shop vac you'll get a low end shop vac. If you spend $400 or more, you'll get a Bosch or a Festool or whatever the high end vacs are in the US, and it'll be a great shop vac. The amazing thing is that you can actually get decent shop vacs for around $150.
As others mentioned this could be helpful by forcing other ISPs to improve their products. I’m in the Seattle suburbs: we have two ISPs one has data caps and the other has a max of 100Mbps. There’s one fiber company that’s expanding in WA but mostly only outside of the Seattle area. It’ll be a long time before there’s any significant improvement even though there’s lots of people and tech here unless pressure increases from competition.
It's not a shortcut. I described that as the most rational process, and why it makes sense for individuals who want to run successful businesses.

It absolutely is detrimental and unethical when scaled.

Solving this problem doesn't consist of yelling at management to do something different (if they do, they'll be less competitive, and a less ethical competitor will win).

It does consist of re-aligning incentives, whether through regulation or otherwise, so there is a level, ethical playing field for everyone.
Probably. For every hard problem, there’s a bad technological solution.
If anything TVs serve ads to buy consumerist goods which are up +20%
Ideally, yes. I read too quickly and assumed that these were annualised monthly measurements.

However -- the technique might work anyway: the signal would be smaller, but so should the variation. Yes, one decreases as the square root and the other does not, but over just 12 months that might not make a big difference.

Only backtesting or a more thorough theoretical investigation can tell!

Edit: actually it doesn't have to be very thorough at all, it's a factor of 3. Probably important!
Ah. I misinterpreted this thinking the user password would be used but in this case having a separate password which user would have to reenter erratically.

I am not in security but think that XSS might be a concern here with something so sensitive.

And UX problems that come with it. Sounds interesting though to at least discuss with customers to see if the benefits are worth the costs to them.