skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why the old dating app approach was so powerful — you’d answer dozens if not hundreds of questions, and rank them in relative importance to you as well as the relative importance and allowable values of your partner’s answers.

I immediately threw out anyone below 85-90%. My dating pool in a dense urban area over a period of months was tens of people. Once filtered for attractiveness and mutual interest, I was down to single digits. I married the first 99% I went on a date with.

Unfortunately (for others) I don’t know if that method is still available anywhere but the app I was using got acquired and reduced to swiping left and right.
I don't care if it's pretty.

Make it work and make it as straightforward as possible.
So, you want companies to gather sexual orientation info from employees, store it in their HR database, and then do yearly analysis ("this year, we lost two gays and one lesbian, but gained two trans people and one bisexual")?

Seriously?

Companies shouldn't care about any of this data, neither sexual orientation, nor race or gender... just pick the best candidate, no matter those factors, and you're done.
"Why are you hiring for this role?"

- Good: We are growing and need more capabilities.

- Very good: We are developing a new X and are hiring to support that.

- Okay: We are replacing headcount.

- Bad: The department is chronically understaffed and overworked; you're going to help out.

- Very bad: Everybody starts in this department and the turnover is high.

You generally won't get a straight answer in the bad/very bad line, but you should talk to prospective coworkers to see if they agree.

When I'm hiring, I assume that most non-core questions represent exactly what you suggest: trying to avoid prior bad experiences. When I'm being interviewed, I suspect that non-core questions are trying to avoid prior bad hires.
But its happening already right now, it will just become very much worse over the next three to six generations.. it is also clear what we would need to mitigate right now.. not doing it is robbing us of any future options.

But I'm still wanting and waiting to here just one concrete option (which if not simpler nor cheaper than preventing further greenhouse gas emissions I'm not sure why we would want to do those then at all) that could help the e.g. surely unavoidable famine problem that we will encounter if world cements its path towards 3-4°C? There is just none even imaginable..

> Or continued serious drought, or climate migration, or massive heat die-offs, etc.

We know these all will happen together?
Maybe it is about soil composition, something you don't see in a picture?

But sure, keep on looking at a picture of grass and decide that the land is suitable for other crops.
There are tests: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/dev-tools/testing-ove...

However, the kernel is fairly hard to test because it's the kernel:

- A lot of code paths are fully dependent on hardware that can't be mocked. How would you test the bootloader, for example? Or code that depends on a certain processor architecture? The only way is to actually run the code on that hardware.

- Similarly, it's hard to test the drivers. A lot of them are made by vendors, and the only way to test is against the devices themselves. Even if you could emulate the device and connect that to the driver, there's a lot of things that you won't cover (the communication path, the device misbehaving...)

- It's hard to test things that the runtime depends on. For example, if you try and test the memory subsystem, how do you manage the memory to actually run the tests?

Kernel testing is hard for the same reasons kernel development alone is hard, you're building the thing that all other tools require to run.
If it's based on length of engagement this does explain the trend towards verbosity I've noticed. I assumed the long leading paragraphs and introduction and background sections were just excuses to keep dropping the keywords in, but I guess it's to make me have to spend a lot of time reading and scrolling to get to the meat of the answer.
They are talking about using an external laptop cooler, I believe. Not feasible for some but if you do 90% of your work at your desk then it certainly makes sense as a suggestion.
TDD also underappreciates the ROI of that.
I think nobody said Netflix' infrastructure can be built in a weekend.
However, the scale doesn't matter that much after a certain point once the scaling "wall" has been pierced.
If you are a biscuit factory that produces 100'000'000 biscuits per year or 500'000'000 biscuit per year then the gap between 100M and 500M isn't that impressive so much anymore as it's mostly about scaling existing processes.
However, if you turn a 1'000 biscuit shop into a 1'000'000 biscuits company then it's very impressive.
It's certainly there, but it comes in different avenues: tech lead meetings (where is our technical debt?), early in projects (as everyone is building a consensus for the project), and code reviews (where they're talking about a facet to make code more understandable or testable or otherwise fulfilling non-functional requirements.)

The conversations aren't about code quality -- they're about a finer point of it and in concrete terms rather than in beginner terms.
This could be an answer as to why Netflix comes up reliably when all the other streaming services in my experience (Hulu, Disney, HBO Max, Amazon Prime) can take many multiples of time to initialize and deliver a stable stream.
You realise the nuance is in blaming where the methane production is coming from as well as the c02. There's a huge amount of shifting the "who is going to take any responsibility" which has made this pointlessly political and just wastes time and effort.
This isn't helped by certain parties "reviewing" scientific data until it's massaged into narratives that they can push. (Again on all sides of whatever political spectrum you want to draw)

Unfortunately few take a step back and realise we need to try to get people to stop pointing fingers and work together, but that doesn't sell news, allow people to feel righteous or give people the ability to say "I told you". But it gets the job done.

It's asif politics is full of the worst of middle managers unfortunately.
I wasn't able to watch disney+ via chromecast for like a year in 4k. Stuttering every 10 seconds or so. I never had problems like this with netflix.
> An MMT analysis shows that we need gas demand suppression, or we need to transfer that gas demand suppression overseas by strengthening Sterling and pray markets continue to sell and supply to the highest bidder when the crunch comes.

I'm sure that will work just as well as the previous hits, "printing money and spending wont cause inflation" and "we can print our way out of inflation"

Whose demand do you suppress, exactly, and how? The folks who can't afford heat already aren't going to thank you for making it more expensive.
The 50s and 60s were also full of reports on global cooling. Temperatures started dropping from the 1940s by the data they used back then (these days that fall has been edited out).

But there's a deeper problem with the point you're trying to make here. You claim the reports didn't reflect the scientific consensus. Really? Go read those reports. They do claim they were reporting the consensus. To the extent they admitted the existence of uncertainty it was uncertainty of the form, we don't know why temperatures are falling, we don't know how bad it'll get but it'll probably be bad, etc.

So how do you know that reports back then were lying about the existence of a consensus, but today's reports aren't? Who gets to declare a "general scientific consensus" anyway? Can we meet these people and ask how they determined that? What about virology, where they claim there's an absolute consensus that SARS-CoV-2 couldn't have escaped from a lab even though it's obvious it could?

Here's some quotes from articles published in the 60s and 70s [1]

New York Times, 1961: "Scientists agree world is colder. After a week of discussions on the causes of climate change, an assembly of specialists from several continents seems to have reached unanimous agreement on only one point: it is getting colder"

Washington Post, 1970: "Get a good grip on your long johns cold weather haters, the worst may be yet to come. That's the long long range forecast being given out by climatologists".

New York Times, July 1970: "The US and the Soviet Union are mounting large scale investigations to determine why the Arctic climate is becoming more frigid." (this one also discusses geo-engineering with the goal of melting the poles)

Letter to the US President, 1972: "we feel obliged to inform you of the results of the recent scientific conference held here recently ... a global deterioration of climate by an order of magnitude larger than any hitherto experienced by mankind is a very real possibility and indeed may be due very soon. The cooling has a natural cause"

The Post-Crescent, 1973: "'Clearly we are living in an unusual time and cannot, based on past evidence, expect the present warm age to last much longer' [said] Imbrie, [who] is a part of CLIMPA, a new three institution climate research team (Brown, Columbia and Oregon State Universities) engaged in a global study of climactic change under the sponsorship of NSF-IDOE".

etc. There are more examples at the link.

https://realclimatescience.com/1970s-global-cooling-scare/
I’m not sure if you’re being obtuse, but exchanges are already subject to AML/KYC, and are constantly both enforcing as much as they can, or being fined by governments for failing to do so. Tornado was the exception until now.
you can't teach compassion. Well, maybe. But it's quite a different task than logic or recap.
> why does Netflix need X thousand engineers, I could build it in a weekend

I would like to hope nobody asks that. Video is the one of the, if the not the hardest data plumbing use-case on the internet.
This point of view is interesting. It's also inconsistent with the actual physics. (I'm calling the mainstream view of basic QM 'actual physics' because it has been checked obsessively against experiment for 100 years, not because mainstreamy ideas are automagically correct.)
It was Germany which started the Blockade first. In February 1915 they announced they would sink all allied merchant vessels around Britain. Britain responded in kind a month later.

The timeline all the sources I can access with a simple internet search tell me this:

- the UK blockade of Germany began in August 1914

- the UK declared the entire North Sea to be a warzone in November 1914, and expanded their contraband list to include all food

- Germany declared the areas around the UK a warzone in February 1915, which is what you're referring to
You didn't implement anything like this, but congrats on finding a home you're happy with using a different algorithm.

You only saw 2 homes -- an arbitrary number not at all tied to how many homes might be on the market. You then instantly chose the first candidate you saw above some arbitrary threshold. I hope you can see this is nothing like the optimal stopping problem outlined in the article.
I work for John Deere. One of my coworkers went to learn about lettuce production in the real world. He was in the field wearing gloves and a hair net for safety, and they were taking heads of lettuce off the plant and putting them directly into the plastic bag it would be sold from in the store. Then he looked up: wild birds were flying all over, and like bird do dropping poop behind. His conclusion: wash your lettuce.

(none of the above speaks for the company of course)
Disney (the company) has 20x the number of employees as Netflix, and just 2x the market cap (in fact they were briefly worth the same last year), ~2x the revenue and 2/5 the net income. So Netflix is clearly doing something right.
It's an issue with Java culture I think, lots of stuff is patterned like this and people expect or at least tolerate it.
I write novels as a hobby and I publish them on my website. I recently noticed that there are websites that blatantly copy and sell my novels without my permission and are ranked higher than mine. I think it is because Google identifies their pages as the source. If anyone knows how to deal with issues like this, please let me know.
> The Ryzen setup has 3x the power envelope (in watts) as the M2[1]

TDP does not represent the power envelope of the chips. It's the sustained load target at best, but mostly even that is kinda made up and the rules don't matter. But for any short (where short is less than a minute or even 5 minutes) burst, that TDP figure is completely irrelevant. Nothing respects it. Also for single threaded tasks, neither one is even going to pull that high.

You have to compare actual power used during the specific test in question to make any such comparison. Otherwise trying to judge power consumption by looking at TDP is like trying to judge performance by only looking at clock speeds. Within the same manufacturers same generation you can kinda infer something useful. Other than that? Not a chance.
Tile has poor coverage.
> hot tub time

Please expand.
Come on.. lol.

References please.
Hi! I have utilized your webapp to type in English -> portugese but it will not let me progress even after typing the description/word out.

Recommendation: I would recommend to make a list of the top 625 words from fluent forever:
https://blog.fluent-forever.com/appendix5/
As well as when you type errors that come up highlighted in red. For example, I often use https://www.keybr.com/.

If you would like to make this more gamified, you can also add an audio component where people will have to type what they hear (they'll get corrected with the correct spelling after their attempt)

Neat idea! If you'd like to talk more, I'd be happy to chat (email: kaseyc327@gmail.com)
Century of the Self (BBC)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self
If you have trouble finding a job, sure. I use these questions to vet the employer, not the other way around. Mentality like "we have to ship right now" only works for so long and after a while no one is able to ship anymore and life is hell. I turn down offers from companies like that and let the juniors cut their teeth on that kind of company. And to be clear, I would work on a small startup over a large org 9 times out of 10.
Absolutely, and thanks!
Same here. Science takes too long and has a burden of proof that is far too high to establish fact. Corporations use "science" to cement their bad practices and pollution. If it looks like something is toxic...stop it. The people don't have to wait for science to regulate something.
More than you that's for sure.

About 75% of the diet of a regular Swedish cow is grass or grass-equivalents. The rest is made up of peas, beans, rapeseed and of course various grains.

The grains that go to animal feed usually is not fit for human consumption (well, wouldn't pass QC-controls).

Pigs doesn't really eat grass. Neither does chickens... So it's a bit of a different animal (HAHAHA) to farm chickens/pigs vs cows.
> As long as you don’t use anything from the Node or web browser ecosystems

So what are you using then?
This just makes the problem worse because little remember this 30 years later and think you're a liar or idiot because you pushed exaggerated claims.

In the 80s in the UK acid rain was hyped up, in the 90s it was 20 years of oil reserves in the education system.
Both now have generated adults distrusting education because they're not an academic and they just remember what a fool told them at face value without nuance.

One of the biggest recently being reports that we will have millions dead unless X which doesn't match reality which is just going to create more anti intellectual fear
Then it gets a pat on the head and a pass.
I personally think if you have an Android phone, Termux is really powerful, its basically a linux container, and you can do a lot on it,
And with Root its even more powerful.

And of course Android is always going to be more usable the mobile linux.

For me personally I just can't work on my phone, its too small, there is no place to work on anything!
If only getting rich could be broken down into simple tropes on the Internet.

Not everyone's path and tools available are the same.

It's also too easy to dismiss negativity and to push blind motivational statements to people who are fighting for survival, much less than fighting for a chance to "win".

A lot of the (now) millionaires and billionaires in this world were secretly born into pools of inherited wealth and social status (connections) that facilitated their success... I'm not saying that they should be envied or overthrown, but in a world where the middle class and poor are paying relatively much higher taxes (in relation to their net worth) than far more wealthy individuals, the "unlucky" know that it's better to focus on more practical advice suited to them...

The others invest in schemes like Crypto and NFTs, which only serves to make the rich even more rich.

Figured I'd add that contrast, this place doesn't have the same character limits as Twitter.

Giant F* to Internet motivational positivity and its "get rich quick" schemes...

Practicality, dedication, and honesty work better over time in a world full of people that don't have money they can afford to lose.
I think you're missing the forest for the trees. When you look at the people who actually study this stuff for a living there is very little disagreement about the nature of the problem and the direction things are headed. Most of the controversy and the oft-regurgitated talking points about "solar cycles", "ice age", "but everyone thought it was global cooling in the 70s", etc seem to originate from the same few sources.

I agree that journalists suck and are easily manipulated. But the overwhelming scientific evidence seems to point in one direction and it's not good.

It's ok to disagree on policy, but the global warming "skeptic" game plan has been to disagree on reality.
Is not that it can be disinterest in the company role, but the candidate's radar is reading the company signals that confirm they work in a way that that candidate knows he doesn't like or want or be willing to work (he can decide later).
Google Search is displaying the wrong language in its results
It's your straw man, not mine. Tell me what you find.
you might be able to make session[0] work for texting, you could also do chats over irc in an ubuntu server not sure how secure that would be.

If you're going to use WeChat treat it as its been completely compromised because it is

[0]: https://getsession.org/
Usually these comments are by people that are angry that their preferred choice didn't win the benchmark and try to find a rationale to invalidate the finding.

Considering the context, they probably wanted apple to clearly win and not just be basically on par or slightly behind.

Often these people aren't even aware of this themselves.

I found the stats to be missing the most important datapoint for laptops however. If performance/wattage is irrelevant you really don't need a laptop after all, and they're even using the low energy /underperforming ryzen chipset...

I know they couldn't get the data from the drivers on Linux, unfortunate nonetheless.
I got an intestinal parasite (Ascaris -https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/ascariasis/index.html) while in University here in Canada. I was minding my business one day, I looked down into the toilet water, and there was a little wormy in my stool. I fished it out and went the ER. The doctor was fascinated cause I don't think they see this so often.

Who knows where I picked it up. The most likely culprit was the dorm cafeteria I was living in. With the open salad bars and the sharing of serving utensils, it is an ideal location to spread some fecal.

Suffice to say, I now avoid salad bars.
With Additional Funding, Deno Sets Out to Challenge Node.js
> Does the Ryzen system come with a full aluminum enclosure?

If you really want one you can get one.

But if you are buying a laptop on the basis of how shiny it is does the CPU performance really matter?

When I bought a car for my wife she picked it out on the basis of how cute it is. She isn't going to run around being upset that it doesn't have 0-60 time of a Subaru WRX. To her the Subaru is ugly.
surely slurping up passwords at least seems ominous?
Unfortunately it sounds to like a lawsuit may be your best bet.
I don't know, articles about zettelkasten get a lot of love: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=zettelkasten
I found the list interesting from the perspective of an interviewer: we should have answers for all of these questions, but might selectively reveal them in job postings and across the interview process. We can be proactive about some things and circumspect about others.

That said, not everyone who says that they know git can rebase or do a 3-way diff if they get into trouble. There are a lot of git-is-Github in the pipeline right now.
Years of professional experience isn't a great metric of time steeped in software practices. There's a difference between someone who did a bootcamp and worked for 6 years compared to someone who started contributing to open source software at the age of 12, studied computer science, and then went into the industry. The latter might be more experienced at 1 year than the boot camp grad at 6 years.
My understanding is that one of the terms of the armistice was that the German army retreat east of the Rhine. Allied occupation of the Rheinland began 1st of December 1918.

Could you name or provide a reference to one of the post armistice actions of the german army in northern france?
That'd be a comparison of two specific laptops, not a comparison of an M2 vs. a Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U.

The test you want is valid, but for a completely different review category altogether.
I mean, if you're desperate, I've got a few side projects I could show you.

I probably need advice more than money, but I'll happily take the latter :)

Edit: Also more seriously, would recommend adding some contact details (at least) to your HN profile. If you're doing outreach here, that would probably help (not everyone wants to Tweet about this sort of thing!)
Metaverse and VR: Are they the same?
Imagine that in the process of implementing the sort method, you decide "I'm going to use a heap sort".

So, you say "Ok, I'll need a `heapify` method and a `siftDown` methods, so I'm going to write the tests to make sure both of those are working properly". But remember, we started this discussion saying "we need a sort method". So now, if you decide "You know what, heapsort is garbage, let's do tim sort instead!" Now, all the sudden you've got a bunch of useless tests. In the best case, you can simply delete those tests, but often devs often get intimidated deleting such tests "What if something else needs the `heapify` method"?

And that's exactly the problem I was pointing out with the example. We started the convo saying "tests couple implementation" and that's what's happened here. Our tests are making it seem like heap sort is the implementation we should use when we started this convo, we just needed a sorting method.

But now imagine we are talking about something way more complicated and/or less well known than a sorting algorithm. Now, it becomes a lot harder to sift out which tests are for implementation things and which are for requirements things. Without deleting the "these tests make sure I did a good implementation" future maintainers of the code are left to guess on what's a requirement and what's an implementation detail.
This sounds like a bullshit post-hoc rationalization for xenophobia. There's no valid reason to deny entry to any and all immigrants who are willing to work and have clean criminal records. Which side of an imaginary line someone is born on shouldn't determine whether they are doomed to poverty and oppression.
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