skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Elder care should be a publicly delivered service

Figured this proposal would be on here somewhere. There are government-run nursing homes, always have been, even in America. People do everything they can to avoid them, because they're way worse than the private ones.
> Even 2-4 hours is more time than conventional Leetcode-style initial assessments,

Hard disagree on this one. Unless your day-to-day work includes many leetcode style problems, you need to put in significant time training on leetcode if you want to pass the interview.

You should be able to complete a take-home based on your current skill set. Yes, it may take 4-6 hours (or 8-10), and yes, that is a big ask of a candidate, but leetcode can take 5 to 10x prep time and you still can muff the interview.
Regardless, I think it's interesting to consider why it's changing and the direction of those changes. As an extreme example, if 1984-style doublespeak started to take root, it would be valuable to consider why and whether this is a good thing.
Plenty of Europe is brand new and still high density and walkable. It’s not a historical accident, but an actual urban design preference.

I live on the very edge of the city. The farms start right after my townhouse. The urban environment stops at my doorstep, but I am fully in the city and have a convenient electric trolley bus line, walkable shops and restaurants and a great bike infrastructure. A new neighborhood of flats is going in, replacing the farms across the street which is about 800 units in 40 densely packed buildings, similar density to the city center. You would have to be in the center of NYC to see that density in the US.
Instead of evolution, some sort of epigenics or something?
Next thing we know, the officers of the patent troll company die in a horrific car crash involving 4 empty vehicles running comma.ai software, quickly ruled an accident after the ruling judge notices an awful amount of empty self driving vehicles accompanying them anywhere they go.

Don't mess with Geohot.
It's actually the easiest, least expensive, and quicker option.
It doesn't need to be proctored. It would be easy to start a remote clock and the solution needs to be in by x minutes after the start. It can even be pretty generous. The idea is presumably not to see how fast they can sprint but just put some time-boxing in place so some people aren't taking days.

People can get help of course but that's going to be the case absent effectively a remote proctored assignment. And now you're back to effectively in-person.
> can produce 5.8 liters of fresh water per hour in full sun

All this from a 10 x 10cm panel. Sounds too good to be true.
Honestly I had not fact checked this. A quick internet search found lots of articles making different claims (CBS News says yes, Reddit says yes, IQT website does not list, Quora says no.) Overall there doesn't appear to be a very strong argument and this Quora article (https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-substance-of-the-claim-tha...) makes a compelling case that the connection is too tenuous.

I will remove from parent content.
We use two of these and have been very happy!
What they're driving on in the video in the grandparent's edit is definitely not a public street.
My point was NOT say that a human could have made that mistake. Obviously a human would not have (except for all the times a distracted human would do exactly this).

My point was that the standard "Release all footage of accidents and look at how many accidents humans could have avoided" is not productive.

The method of illustrating this is to show how this standard would have performed with human drivers, who will generate hundreds of thousands of incidents that other humans could have easily prevented.

Those incidents will have some categorical differences, obviously. But incidents they will be.

If robots make 1 mistake in 10000, and monkey makes 1 mistake in 1000, robot's are unequivocally safer than monkeys.

It's that simple.

The question is how many mistakes robots make, and how many mistakes humans make.
nit: Medicaid. Medicare will pay for inpatient rehab after hospital stays and the like, but long term care essentially requires becoming destitute so that Medicaid will pay. A large part of middle-upper-middle class "estate planning" consists of passing wealth to kids well before the lookback period. The private pay burn rate is like $150k/yr last time I checked.

I don't think there is any easy answer. Spending drastically more on the problem is necessary, but obviously not sufficient. Then again, dying from laying in your own feces ("bed sores") when you're 80+ years old isn't the worst way to go out in the US.
These "Cars Bad" articles are always written from the perspective of people who live in cities, and like city living. If you live in Chicago or NYC or SF, of course we should have fewer SFHs, more apartments, fewer cars, use mass transit, make things walkable, and so on. It's hard to disagree with that.

But if you live in a county with 50 people per square mile, none of these things make sense. Cars are basically required, apartments don't make sense, mass transit is nonexistent, and nothing is walkable, and that's often why people move there.

I like the USA because you can choose where to live. If you want to live in a concrete honeycomb, walk everywhere, take the subway, great! Move to the city! If you want to depend on a car and live where you can't even see your neighbor's house let alone hear it, great! Move to the country! One choice is not objectively better for everyone.
Was thinking the same thing but considering this is free, I'm skeptical.

I don't know, I'm always skeptical of free products now, it feels as if something critical is missing.

Paying for a service at least gives me peace of mind that I'm consuming a service I selected. Free services seem to be out in the wild.
I was curious so I clicked through to the Census definitions:

> Vacant Housing Units. A housing unit is vacant if no one is living in it at the time of the interview, unless its occupants are only temporarily absent. In addition, a vacant unit may be one which is entirely occupied by persons who have a usual residence elsewhere. New units not yet occupied are classified as vacant housing units if construction has reached a point where all exterior windows and doors are installed and final usable floors are in place. Vacant units are excluded if they are exposed to the elements, that is, if the roof, walls, windows, or doors no longer protect the interior from the elements, or if there is positive evidence (such as a sign on the house or block) that the unit is to be demolished or is condemned. Also excluded are quarters being used entirely for nonresidential purposes, such as a store or an office, or quarters used for the storage of business supplies or inventory, machinery, or agricultural products. Vacant sleeping rooms in lodging houses, transient accommodations, barracks, and other quarters not defined as housing units are not included in the statistics in this report. (See section on "Housing Unit.")

Unless they’re actually demolishing the houses (and they’re not) then it counts regardless of whether it’s currently on the market or not.

EDIT: Though sure, those might not be reflected in the rental or homeowner vacancy rates. So I looked this up and it has indeed not dropped lately... it also hasn't particularly gone up lately either though: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/EOFFMARUSQ176N
Cerebras systems can be a good option to work.
It's a good service and I've used it a few times, but the requirement to use an extension is a bit of a pain point.

Especially as the extension seems to try and install some adblock style stuff which I already use ublock for and overwrites the default search engine with no option to disable it. Every time I need to generate a new email I need to re-enable the extension, copy the email address and then disable the extension again. Not nice UX.
Close together != closer together. People usually don't deal well with isolation as proximity. It is thus not opposite, but a function with a personal optimum. I can certainly see how for some people some more proximity would be instructive and thus beneficial for them.
Heroku is great for small teams but it's expensive. It also offered automation that wasn't easily available anywhere else 15 years ago. It's a different story in 2022.
Okay, but that's not an explanation.

> That said, we may indeed offer sign up outside the app/extension, but right now as a forwarding service, we are very sensitive to abuse of the system and so limiting it a bit helps to ensure we are on top of any abuse that doesn't bring down the whole system.

This is a satisfactory explanation. But it's neither on the signup page, nor on the announcement page.

... and it's still really easy to accuse you of just trying to get some app installs - which would be fine if you admitted it.
classy!

I was just about to write an email too, I guess I won't... yet?
It is already a thing. I had a 2hr take-home before that was utilizing hackerrank.

But it wasn't a leetcode-style one (which are common), it was a skeleton of a React app, and I had to implement certain methods to tie it all up together.

The timer would start ticking from the moment I click "begin", and it will warn you that the timer will start after you attempt clicking (so that you don't trigger the timer by accident).
I learned driving on manual, and drove manual cars for many years. Changing gears, operating the clutch is second nature to me. I don't have to think about it, whether I'm driving on the highway, or in city traffic or on a steep hill.

Recently started driving a CVT, been about a couple months. I absolutely love the experience. It's so much more relaxed. The movement of the car is always smooth, I can hardly hear any changes in engine speed. I can accelerate from 20 km/h to 80 km/h and the RPM stays constant around 1100.

Hill driving is amazing, the car knows to shift down when going uphill. It knows to apply engine braking when going downhill.

City driving is effortless. Put it in drive, and it's literally just a matter of using the brake and accelerator. It even disengages the transmission completely when you come to a complete stop and stay there for a few seconds.

I have shift pedals on the steering, but I never felt the need to use them!
I mean, there's small towns in every region of the US. I'm a little surprised that there's nothing in New England, because it's basically all small towns outside of the Boston metro and Worcester.
A shanda for the goyim. :-(
doesn't need to be all of them, just the ones the Orcas prefer
I find Porco Rosso and Kiki’s Delivery Service nothing short of magical.
This is very much outdated as current sbcl.org compiled lisp is in many cases faster than any other language.
Immigration is difficult, expensive, and isolates you from your family and friends. I don't think it's surprising that people born in the USA are frustrated that they must immigrate to life the lifestyle they want.

You might say that the people who want to drive cars everywhere are telling the walkability folks how to live. I just want to live in a walkable and bikeable place where I'm safe from aggressive car drivers within a few hours of friends and family. That place sadly does not exist. Would it be so wild to make a few neighborhoods in the US a bit more human-centric and a bit less car-centric? It doesn't have to change everything. Just a small number of cities and towns.
you are mixing M1 Ultra which is two M1 Max taped together with M1 Pro which is a weaker variant of M1 Max.
Can Deno be embedded in a larger Rust application? I know I can embed v8 directly https://github.com/denoland/rusty_v8 but I wish I could use other parts of Deno.

In particular, I wish I could write a Tokio async program in Rust, and load plugins using deno, and have this work seamlessly

edit: actually, https://deno.land/manual@v1.25.0/embedding_deno https://crates.io/crates/deno_core https://docs.rs/deno_core/latest/deno_core/

It doesn't expose tokio so I suppose that it manages its own runtime separate from the executor of the application using it (edit 2: it doesn't, it lets the user bring their own executor. cool!)
Raw material choices and technical practices as indices of cultural change
> would imply that the AI is better than the human creators

I got a bleak suggestion. If AI can reach even the 10th percentile of human creator quality it can spam us to oblivion burrying us in manures.

AI does not have to be better to dominate.
Yeah, almost certainly could do with some tweaking and tuning, but the basic idea works remarkably well in many cases.
If it helps, it's the result of a deliberate domestic propaganda campaign. I usually point to "The Real Reason Jaywalking Is A Crime" (Adam Ruins Everything)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxopfjXkArM for the story.

We can see what traffic was like just as motorized carriages began to mix with pedestrians and horses. Here is "San Francisco, a Trip down Market Street, April 14, 1906" upscaled and colorized: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO_1AdYRGW8

You can see that, at low speeds and modest density, carriages and pedestrians flow together just fine. Although I'm sure there were still lots of accidents, everyone is more-or-less sharing the space. You can already see the problem brewing: horseless carriages can accelerate much faster than horse-drawn carriages.
[Original comment removed by author 'cuz it's now moot]

Edit: My bad, I missed a legit link in parent comment. That said, that link should have been front & center. (Edit 2: it now is. Good on you!)
I noticed the exact same thing. I found the post on the front page. A short time after, mid second page. Last I checked it was on the 3rd. I suspect there’s a bit too much wrongthink going on here and someone doesn’t like it. The priesthood is displeased with the vulgar masses in this thread.
Have you seen the crap outside the filter bubble? It is trendy to call filter bubbles the well from which all sorrows are drawn but not everything is worth reading, no matter how many drink the koolaid.
> I don't think this is true. I think a lot of people were insulated from information that created a perception for them that those disagreements didn't exist.

This is correct. The take away is something more along the lines of: when people don't know they disagree and therefore don't define themselves in terms of disagreement and further structure their lives around disagreement, they more readily work together; disagreements aren't attacks on personal branding/identity.
You'd think the ongoing genocide of ocean life would be enough
Do you have to wait for half a year to get a specialist appointment and 2 years to get a surgery in US?
The entry for this company Haraj states:

>"Just fyi, this submission make up to 50% from your overall hiring score. While your CV only make up to 5%.
So do your best to create great submission!"

>"UPDATE (2022-02-05):

Due to many great candidates have applied to this vacancy, we decided to close this challenge on Friday (2022-02-11). So we will wait for the last submission until Thursday (2022-02-10) at 23:59 WIB." [1]

This is like a cattle call audition with a hard deadline. Who would do this? Also there is absolutely no indication of how much time one should spend this. I'm guessing this is intentional. If you want to give me a deadline there better be pay involved. I hope people are smart enough to call BS on these companies. Hopefully a company making demands one's time without compensation is a huge red flag for people.

[1] https://github.com/riandyrn/owldetect
So what you want is your regular 4 or 5 cafes/ restaurants/pubs you can walk to, and use PT or a car on the rarer occasion you wanna try something different. It doesn't mean walkability is overrated. For things like minor grocery shops or the post office or even hairdressers/barbers variety is surely not that important anyway.
I apologize for mixing up my timelines. I guess I thought they had a longer run before SF bought them. I still believe Heroku was horribly managed under SF and they must have had at least some of that stuff in the pipeline before being bought. I always give a few years of time after acquisition before I consider something to be due to the company that bought them (and not just existing work/ideas from the previous leadership). With a lot of companies like it it feels like the passion/energy just dies after acquisition (not immediately but in a relatively short period of time), which feels like what happened with Heroku. They went from being an HN darling to hearing next to nothing about them until their security issues earlier this year.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32584410
More than two decades ago I wrote a short story called "the greatest story never sold" (and got it published in some paper-based 'zine) that touched on this idea of the coming tsunami of auto-generated content. The moment you remove friction from any distribution channel, it opens the flood gates to lower quality content. And as soon as you make it possible to generate that content, it is game over for anything authentic.
> Then the candidate doing it at home using their system and their tools gives you a more accurate picture of their actual capabilities than a whiteboard or doing it on your hardware in an unfamiliar setting with a stranger giving every appearance of critiquing your work.

Or, they don't even do the task, but pay someone else to do it for them, so eventually all these take-home tests just go to the same set of expert test-takers who already solved all these tasks. Very efficient, and also worse than useless as a screening tool: the dishonest candidates most willing to cheat will score the highest.

> If a candidate chooses to burn a whole week working on it that can be safely left up to them I think. But a take home test is not unfair because they decided to burn that much time on it.

Of course it is. Worse: it creates adverse selection, from the interviewer perspective.

Top candidates who are looking for their next job while working a demanding full time job will not be able to dedicate more a minimum of time to each of the many take-home tests they are asked to do.

Meanwhile, desperate poor candidates will dedicate x10+ the time (or simply cheat) to pass.

So as an interviewer, you'll end up passing the random desperate candidate who somehow got through your earlier screening, and any good candidate with multiple other options and commitments will submit work that looks far inferior.
The biggest thing you miss is that nginx doesn't do all this for you, you have to install a 3rd party thing to manage it.

If we allow your example, then caddy wins hands down because it also makes me rich because it fronts the websites that make me money.

But that would be ridiculous thing to claim Caddy does, because it doesn't do that itself.
Agile. You do a waterfall based plan at the beginning (the very formalized operations order) that cascades from the highest level all the way down to the squad level. Operations start and then you iterate.

Most important two sentences in the operations order is the mission and commanders intent: If all else fails, get this done. And this is why.

This leaves lots of room (and expectation) for iteration and innovation along the way as things inevitably get f'd up with a dynamic enemy.

Periodically, you will refresh the opord and start the iteration again. This is practiced ALL the time by combat units at every level through simulations and on the ground training.

Source: was an infantry officer.
I like this concept - have a one time download link, and a timer to submit solution within an hour or two. Seems like a good balance of fair and realistic (assuming you can't Google for solutions and all).
While we're about Tesla: I yesterday submitted the reddit link [1] with title "Tesla Model S got totaled from FSD by swerving into a guard rail". The title is short version of reddit post title, and the reddit post itself is user testimonial with accompanying video. The post immediately got flagged. What did I do wrong?

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/comments/wvdbtv/my_tesla_...
Seriously, if a company wants me to spend more than an hour of my time on something for them, they better be including a check as well.
First Netlify and now Heroku. I need to migrate some things which is very sad.
I don't know why no one disagreeing with you will engage. Human ingenuity is forged in fire. You don't build muscle without discomfort. You can't have children without sacrifice. I personally don't think the lack of a welfare state is a huge factor in American universities (I tend to think immigration is a much bigger factor), partially because the US has a huge safety net and every year it grows [1].

Philosophically this is a tough one: take away the welfare state and you remove the floor of human suffering. Add the welfare state and you remove the drive to succeed (from most individuals, there will always be some who disregard all contrary incentives).

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-to-announce-student-loan-...
These are all really great ideas. I don't have any specific replies to each, but I can say I'll check around internally to see what it would take to ship some of these.
1) There exist many high skilled and qualified foreign born workers in the US.
Agreed

2) There are lots of qualified people in India.
Agreed

3) Screaming at anyone on the other side of the phone is horseshit
Agreed

Companies either see support as a cost center or a differentiator. Those that see it as a cost center are less likely to invest in providing top tier support and more likely to offshore their support.

Now I'm sure there are companies that offshored not to save costs but to increase quality but they are rarer. And they are hamstrung by the existing experience of customers that expect offshore support to be worse.

If for historical reasons all L2-L3 support was offshore and L1 support was onshore, then people would breath a sigh of relief when they heard the accent.
And yet a surprising number of violent terrorists have engineering degrees.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-journal-of-...
Even there, something higher up the stack probably knows too, and is in a better position to choose a good time to dispose of it.
All this talk about "proof of being a real person" makes me believe AI passed the Turing test already.
> Humans are fundamentally solitary. That is our nature

Everyone generalizes from a sample size of one.
Thats what the parent said
I've never said there wasn't any. Just that if you value a free tier (which you should if you want to attract developers) you find a way to deal with the fraud (or eat the cost). The fact that Salesforce either couldn't figure out (or didn't care to) the fraud and didn't want to pay for it spells bad news for the future of Heroku.
> Science must respect

Science is abstract
Unfortunately some cars still do it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24754662
Ask HN: Do you think Hacker News should begin with “subreddits”?
As the quality of Reddit declines, Hacker News becomes more and more interesting as a consistent user-friendly and respectful forum for technology and science.

However, a notable difference from Reddit is the absence of the "subreddit" concept.

Do you think it would be good for Hacker News to slowly try to fill that niche? It doesn't have to be a free-for-all creation of subforums, personally I believe that manually curated categories would be useful.

Has this ever existed on HN?
I would try to grasp the 'random surfer' idea, that is modeled by a Markov Chain. A nice free book is Markov Chain for Programmers [1]. A discrete time Markov Chain boils down to a conditional probability that boils down to a matrix, and a steady distribution boils down to an eigenvalue 1 eigenvector of it, which determines PageRank. Then one can jump to 'The $25,000,000,000 Eigenvector: The Linear Algebra behind Google'.

[1] https://github.com/czekster/markov

[2] https://doi.org/10.1137/050623280

EDIT: admitedly there's much more to it