skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there something personal here as well?
“Con artist” seems like a strong choice of words.

It’s interesting that I don’t really see that at all.

Maybe you’re a more frequent listener, I’ve just listened to a few where he is a guest and a few more than that of his solo episodes on his podcast which I particularly like because they just come across as a professor giving an extended lecture.

I don’t get any hype man, wannabe guru, snake oil vibes at all. He does use some of the Tim Ferriss type verbiage of like, optimize, and what not. (Not saying Ferriss is snake oil, btw) But I’d say that’s just par for the course in that genre of podcasting, it never seems to impede on valid information. He speaks like a scientist.

I’d imagine he’d be the first to say we know very little about the brain, but what do we mean by that? Things like qualia and consciousness, sure. But that doesn’t mean we can’t begin to parse out some things, like the things in his wheelhouse that he talks about, the effects of light exposure, positioning of the eyes, different types of breathing, etc.

It’s often easier to tear down than put up. Do you or anybody else you know do better at avoiding the criticisms you have here about the communication of research?

To some points-
I’ve heard him talk about chemicals affecting the brain, which is a given right?
Chemicals effect the brain in various ways. I’ve also heard him emphasize extreme caution and prudence in experimenting with chemicals at levels outside those one typically encounters day to day and often outright discourage it.

Light alcohol consumption is detrimental
I’m no expert here but it is easy to imagine wishful thinking leading to the pro column.

I do notice marked difference in quality of sleep with even light consumption.

Do the pros outweigh the cons?
Best left to a personal calculus I suppose.

You can "hack your brain chemicals" with supplements to achieve some desired effect on your mind

Is this a controversial statement?
Have you conversed with anyone who has had a cup of coffee smoked a joint, ingested psilocybin or LSD?

The way he talks about the dopamine system and how too much redlining can throw the system out of whack seems well in line with what one observed in many other systems, biological and otherwise.

My life has been changed as everything changes your life to some degree however big or small. I’ve gained knowledge condensed from someone else’s life’s work in the same that occurs in reading a book.

This is a “force multiplier”(genre term) I should remind myself of more often.

I should spend more time reading books.
GitHub automatically marks a PR as merged if its HEAD commit hash matches the BASE commit hash. Usually it happens when the PR code goes into the main branch, but it can also happen if the PR branch is forcibly reset to match the main branch. The bug here is that it closes the discussion prematurely (a discussion on a zero diff, at that specific moment in time). There's no unauthorized source code modification, as you noted. Awkward but meh.
And the reality is that a lot of/most people interviewing in those type of situations arre very well familiar with time-boxed exams at school. (And even with take homes the reality of final exams as I recall is that you mostly didn't have the hours in the day to spend an outsized amount of time on one course.)
I've never run into someone who that is their career - do you work for companies that are trying to take the competitions stuff apart, or legacy hardware, or is there some other stuff that's obvious that I'm missing?
Yeah, if it is just one articles or a blog post I crawl at depth 0, and if it is someone's personal website who I enjoy reading always, no matter what they write, I do an infinite crawl on that specific domain.
Why Wikipedia cannot claim the Earth is not flat
I don't know. Maybe forums are over now; no longer cool and relevant as a website architecture. I used to help run one, and having topics works, but it also silos. Finding a good balance between granularity to help manage content without shutting potential contributors is always the challenge.
Ask HN: How to Become a Contract Programmer?
I recently left my job, and while I will likely find a full time thing in the next few months I've decided to be a bit more picky about where I work this time around. (The last place wasn't terrible, but I found after about a year and a half that I was just very very bored). In the mean time I've been thinking of supporting myself by doing some contract programming, however, I've just never done this before so I'm completely out of my depth. What I'm looking for is:

a) Any good guides or books that I can read on the subject?

b) Are there standard contract templates that people generally tend to use? I imagine I could afford an attorney for this, but I don't really have one on hand and being unemployed at the moment I'd tend towards saving money where I can.

c) Any advice on places to find contract work? I have some professional contacts that might have some things for me, which I would prefer, but I don't want to limit myself to just my own network.

d) Any advice on red flags and things to avoid?

e) How do people generally structure payment? I'm guessing hourly, but I imagine also there might be safe-guards in place for both the client and myself if the project ends up being much larger in scope than estimated? (I've admittedly not been great at estimating projects in the past)

f) Just any general advice on this really

FWIW if it's relevant, I have a very broad skillset. I'm 37 and have about 15 years of industry experience. My previous job I was a Principle Software Architect, and my work was very heavy on K8s and containerizing a legacy Java application, while also developing microservices in typescript and nodejs. I'm a full stack developer, so I can do both frontend (react mostly), server, database (most familiar with postgres, mongodb and redis). I also have previous experience in game development, so I'm familiar with Unity, C++, C#, and writing OpenGL shaders and OpenGL code (I've recently been learning vulkan).
We have this in Germany at some stores, such as Kaufland. They're sold in a section called "Die Etwas Anderen", which means "The ones that are a little different". They're sold at a reduced price, and they're just as good quality as everything else, they just look a little funny.
Python and its tracking transmitter eaten by another snake
This is cool!

At the same time, not being part of the Apple ecosystem, should I be worried about the closed nature of this. I have been using Linux for over two decades now, and Intel seems to be falling behind.

(I do realize Linux runs on the M1. But it's a mostly hobby projects, the GPU is not well supported, and the M1/M2 will never(?) be available with open H/W.)
I was thinking nationally but honestly there's nothing constitutionally that would prevent a non-citizen from accessing the research. I guess, aside from military/encryption research of course.

I see no problem with publicly funded stuff being available world-wide. But given the choice between nothing or taxpayer only, the taxpayer should get first dibs.
>There are also people that want to make abortion legal all the way up to delivery.

Genuinely curious, because I've never understood this part. What does a "just before delivery" abortion entail? Do they do a C-section and give the baby a lethal injection or what?
Feel like Node should've ripped the band-aid off and just said 'fuck it, ESM only in the next LTS' instead of this .mjs business. If you need CJS, use the previous LTS which we'll exceptionally support a bit longer. Would've gave them space to make other fundamental changes as well. Yes, you get a bit of a Python2/Python3 split in the community but to me it'd have been worth it and the JS community is less risk adverse anyway.
TL;DR political statement on border security
For what reason would TSMC abruptly stop supplying chips short of war? There's nothing other than war that would cause it. And if there's a war, Apple's profits are the least of problems.
Only a person living on a farm would have enough straw for that strawman :). Again people view this as a choice of suburbs or Manhattan, with nothing in between. Removing zoning allows for choice, freedom, and possibilities, where there is currently none. What happens after that is going vary too much to summarize in an HN comment.
There are similar things in other fields, but I think formal peer review still supercedes them, at least as it's perceived. Things are changing though.

I do think unless there are some significant changes to the system there will be some tipping point where journals will start being ignored but I'm not sure how that will occur.
TLDR: If turtles could speak, would we be able to understand how a turtle think?
I never got a good explanation as to what Heroku even is.
You're right it doesn't fully address the issue, but it does provide some pressure.

If an article is available for free immediately, there's no need to spend $6K to make it available at all.

Researchers want to be in specific locations because of their prestige. However, when all US-funded research is also available outside that location, the walled garden of prestige becomes rather porous. Especially since the reviewers typically aren't paid either.
Process and architecture are mostly independent.

Node process is determined by the physical manufacturing. Architecture is determined by the design templated on during manufacturing. You could make an arm core on an intel process (which I think even happens in some of their testing phases). So yes.
Wi-Fi power is limited by country, so a cheap router will have the same power as an expensive one. The expensive ones can direct it better, so I think you want your neighbor to have one so the power is used for their devices and not yours.
Next research paper topic: Apple Airtags used to battle invasive species.
> No one knows for certain how language models that are 10x or even 100x larger than current state-of-the-art ones will perform

Read the Deepmind Chinchilla paper, it answers this
It's momentous when one considers that critical grid infrastructure that failed in CA in 2015 was often built before US entry into WWI. CA doesn't build electrical infrastructure as fast as they plan to expand its use....
IMO the answer is clear: at the root, it’s a lack of basic science education intertwined with a deep anti-intellectualism culture in western society.

(biochemist, no conflict of interest)
Who yegg is is well known on HN, but you yourself are anonymous so it's a bit weird to see this exchange. Maybe (1) click on the name of the person before asking them who they are and (2) flesh out your profile to return the favor?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo
Crowdfunding in DeSci. Toward a Resource-Based World Economy #DeFi
Let's pollute the oceans until they suffocate US to death! That'll teach em!
The current monetary system we live in is not the best one for us to fulfill our potential.
In the context of a Resource-Based Economy (The Venus project), we could live without the money interface.
Crowdfunding (including crowdfunding in DeSci) is about resource allocation.
We could deal with the Earth's resources directly and manage them intelligently.

The information in the article is presented as a story, because stories are much more memorable than facts alone.

Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section.
I agree with most of what you say. The question I have is why would anyone care about new developers coming to their platform unless they had a plan, one day, to monetize those folks?
The other difference is if you had to open source anything sold to the USG then no one would sell anything closed source to the USG.

And there's lots of useful software the government wants to buy that is closed source.
Another huge problem with take home challenges is that they are one time use. At least if you're grinding leet code questions you're spending time that is useful at multiple companies.

I have a big folder on my computer of homeworks I've finished for various companies over the years. If I recall I passed all of them, it's sort of annoying that I can't simply hand over this list of other projects I've passed and say "here, all of these companies thought this was good".

What I like about your proposal is that if many other companies did it, the result would be every few years I should take a month of evenings and build out a cool project for myself demoing my ability to write code. If life gets to busy, it's fine if the project ages a bit.

This way you can scratch a personal itch and prep for interviews all the same time.
Why awful? Truly curious.
Frustratingly it ignores ViT and other image/video transformer models.
Well, it's pretty simple if you don't given them the task until they agree they're ready to start, and then record when you receive the submission.

Any candidate capable of actually inventing a time machine should certainly be hired.
You are not wrong. And in the spirit of doing commute commenting, nuances tend to fall by the wayside.

It could of course also be = and not exlusively ≠. More context and discussion to pin down similarities and difference is case by case.

Maybe does not equal nescessity. Pf course you do do not need to get high to achieve success. Depending on your specific personality and ambition it may help loosen or untie mental “knots”. I do not endorse it as a general rule.

I am but an internet stranger surfing on evaporating bytes.
https://archive.ph/ZfAG8
Admittedly, your point, which I'm assuming is a jokey quip, is somewhat lost on me.

Not for nothing, the entire concept of "welfare queen" is both unsupportable and provably false right wing propaganda, and, strictly speaking, fundamentally racist. I have to assume you were unaware.
This feels like a company committing suicide. I've never used Heroku but the only reason I've ever heard about it is because of free apps being hosted there.

They just became another cloud provider in a domain that already has a lot.
Largest Japanese Anime Database “Anime Taizen” Opens to the Public Today
That would actually be a huge red flag to me for hiring.

I don't want an architecture astronaut who is never going to ship anything.

An 80% solution when I need it is infinitely more useful than a 100% solution that's months late.
The idea of on-demand addresses is great. I operate my mail server since 2006 now and implemented such feature straight away. I started to never use the same mail address again. name-something@domain just forwards to the inbox of name. After a time I lost track about all the addresses I "generated".

But one thing was nice, I registered my mail with a hotline agent via phone. I told them my mail is name-$YOURCOMPANYNAME@domain. They replied, oh you are a colleague, then I can give you discount :)
They should probably be limited to 55 mph then. You don't do 85 with your farm vehicle.
I think a lot of people are getting hung up on the fact that these challenges take a long time. Yep, and that's a problem...

But the goal of having a candidate work on a real problem is a good once. IMO a far better approach is to do a live exercise with them. Not a leetcode problem... take an existing codebase and add a feature to it, fix an issue with it, etc. Heck, you don't need them to complete everything, but you just need to get signals on how they approach the task, how they pick up working in an unfamiliar codebase, attention to detail, communication, etc.

Anything to get rid of leetcode interviews that are a collosal waste of everyone's time and lead to awful hires. Over the years there has been a democratization of study material for "coding interviews" which has led to a huge influx of wildly inexperienced/unqualified candidates. It also means if you want to hop to another company, you have to waste months grinding leetcode problems completely irrelevant to anything you'll ever do.
There is a Finnish company doing something like that.
https://solarwatersolutions.fi/en/
I think with the popular conception/definition of walkability and the assigned importance of that conception is a little over-rated.

I personally feel like it overvalues commercial activity (restaurants, retail, grocery, entertainment). Obviously, it depends on how often you want to partake in said commercial activities as far as how you would value it.

I would love if the conception of walkability could also take into account:

'How far can I walk without having to worry about cars/crossing streets/waiting for lights?'

'How safe/comfortable is the walk? Will I be walking by people who will harass me/be high on drugs/try to sell me something?'

'How easy is it to string together a run without having to stop?'

'How busy are the sidewalks? Will I have to be dodging people on their phones all the time?'

'Is it easy to take a dog for a walk? Or are there limited green spaces?'

'Are there social/interest groups nearby that meet up?'

I find some of these types of factors much more important than closeness to X number of commercial venues. So a busy downtown street may get a high walkability score (i.e. Walk Score) because of the restuarants/retail/theaters, but it might be atrocious to my conception of walkability.
For me, it was 1 based index that makes sense to me.

I started programming in FORTRAN, then COBOL, then (Lord help me) RPG II. All had 1 based arrays. I got paid to program in RPG II eight hours a day, five days a week, for two and a half years.

A common bit of code was to create an array of month names. Then take an input date, say 20220825, and split that into $Year (first four characters) and $MonthNumber (next two) and $Day (next two).

$MonthIndex = strip the leading zero (if present) from $MonthNumber

Then, this code worked: $MonthName = @Month[$MonthIndex]

When I ran into my first language with 0 based arrays, and @Month[1] returned February, I was pretty much convinced you all had gone insane. December is an out of bounds condition now? Really?

Much later, a friend explained the stuff about multiplying the index by the array element length, and easily getting the memory location of the item in that array. It does make sense; but, I've always hated the code I've had to write that says $MonthName = @Month[$MonthNumber - 1]
Recreating your post after it was flagged and dead is classless. I'm surprised someone did this so brazenly. I'm not going to respond to all of the points that you raised that I think are false or misleading, but I'll respond to some.

> There's a lot of miles of power lines and roads for what is, in the end, maybe 10k people in that county outside the cities/towns.

Power plants are (mostly) created in rural areas, so your argument is a bit backwards:
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-every-power-plant-in...

Your story that the last miles are costing us an arm and leg don't really hold up to comprehensive analysis: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/the-u-s-elec....

The tldr of this is that the higher number of connections to the energy grid, the higher the cost of the grid. It doesn't really matter how you distribute them.

> But we don't need to be encouraging "lifestyle ruralism". That's extremely infrastructure-heavy and it's absolutely true that people living in, say, Mikado MI (pop 899) or along one of the state highways out there are using disproportionate amount of infrastructure funding relative to the number of actual people there.

I grew up near rural areas and lived in one for a bit. I don't know what "infrastructure heavy" you're talking about. My water was drawn from a well into a community water storage tank that was then pumped to the local community. This was repeated all through that area. Water, in this case, was a co-op as well as energy. Sewage was done on-site; I had an aerobic septic system. For all intents and purposes, with respect to the angle of your argument, the footprint of my town was miniscule compared to a city.

More anecdotally, when I worked for a water startup we had a way easier time getting into rural areas because many of them had never had public water infrastructure.
There are other ARM providers, and personally I expect to see some of them ramping up significantly in the next couple years.

Qualcomm's taking another shot, for example. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-18/qualcomm-...
Is there literally any other field where there's an expectation to essentially do fairly intense studying to pass interviews that apparently have very little to do with day to day jobs? Maybe they exist I've never encountered them. The limit of my "studying" for an interview is to just learn a bit about the company, their strategy, etc. either by online research or by talking to people I know connected with them.

ADDED: I suppose one could argue that the Bar exam is a bit like that but that's a credential as are degrees which are not necessarily all that overlapping with the real world.
What's a US data center equivalent? OVH? What's their lowest price for a dedicated server monthly?
I find the whole married with joint account only, and the they have their bills and I have mine weird.

We have a joint account where all our bills come out of. We each pay in enough money to cover those bills. Anything left over, in our personal accounts, we can spend as we see fit.

No theirs/mine bills and with separate accounts. It leads to no arguments, recriminations, or jealously. I don't particularly care my wife is more senior, earns more, and has way more personal money than me (I come from a very poor family and any money I've accrued is down solely to me, she's money from her family). At no time do I think of her or my money as ours, I only care that our joint bills get paid and that we equally cover them.
Cloud gaming is inevitable because of the Moore's law but as Moore's law slows down "fewer and fewer computer users will think their computer is too slow[0]." And they won't buy new computer or laptop for gaming because the computer they already have will be powerful enough to run most of the games. This is where the complexity of managing games and managing the whole gaming experience comes along. Simply offering cloud gaming service is not enough, you need to include extra services and perks in order for people to consider signing up and using your cloud gaming service.

[0] https://jlforrest.wordpress.com/2015/12/18/the-forrest-curve...
top-layer-index: 1 will be the default, and on top of that will be top-layer-index: 2
This doesn't make sense. Let's fix a smaller, bureaucratic problem by allowing the entire industry to be taken over by people that purposefully exploit grey legal areas and transfer life quality into dollars and cents?

If nurses are lying, thats a poor management system. Punish the bad actors, not the patients
Picked one at random, the Zero5 assessment, technologies: SQL. The first question was a scenario where I would build a backend endpoint using an API/Lambda and a web frontend. Nothing to do with SQL except for the 'database' icon in the architecture diagram. Rated 5 stars.
I'm not sure the difference is as cut and dry as you're making it out to be. A big organization doesn't just pay Microsoft a zillion dollars for a million Office licenses and then never talk to them again. There's an ongoing support relationship, which for large enough customers might include things like developing features on request.