skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I suppose it's meant to mean "do the exact work required by the rules governing your job and no more" but grammatically the sentence reads as though it's referring to the verb form of the word - i.e. "work in order to become a ruler within the organization."

“Work to rule” is an elision, short for “work according to rule”.
What was the runtime performance cost of load-time JIT for slim binaries? What fraction of inner-loop bounds checks could be hoisted? What was the cost of dynamic dispatch?

I'm trying to navigate similar tradeoffs for a system I'm prototyping now, but motivated by code footprint and safety rather than portability.
I think that some of these questions are quite important. However, I think that all of them could be interpreted as “missing the forest for the trees” sort of questions. Therefore, I don’t tend to ask them in interviews.

If you do ask these questions, at what point in the interview process (or within a given interview) do you ask them?
There might be another advantage here for WASI: you could write a compiler for, say, VimScript and it would translate to this editor's APIs. Sounds like an interesting project to me.
Is Pixel hardware the problem?

Or untested buggy Google shovel-ware?
> I think a much better question would be "how are information security and privacy controls implemented"

Agreed, that's a great question to ask.
Oh wow, to think I was a college sophomore then. Ouch. Right to the ego!
Sure. I imagine a lot of the students also don't vote either at all or at least not there.
Yeah - this thought scares me since meta has zero customer service.

I recently lost access to my email and phone 2fa to my instagram. Although my facebook is linked to it and i have changed the email on my facebook, instagram keeps asking me to verify using the 2FA i no longer have. There' no email address you can send requests through, only a wall of FAQ's and automated lines.

There are people i have met abroad i no longer can contact as i used instagram chat as my sole means of communication. I can't even request that my instagram be shut down. Now i have this public profile with thousands of followers and no way of controlling.
if you like software and want to work with companies building biomaterials, check out latch.bio and shoot me an email if you are good at programming - kenny@latch.bio
The MX servers cert in my experience does not need to include your email domain name .
... So the matrix, ok
It’s a song that talks about the perfect person.
That's just one of several privacy concerns. It's possible to parse voice locally, as in TFA and eg Mycroft('s open source, self-hosted version, anyway), but for "some reason" mainstream assistants don't do it. Sure, you can hold a button, and Google will only hear about your timer request and nothing more, but some people find the idea of Google knowing when you're setting timers to be upsetting. Or at least worthy of avoiding.
I would be surprised if any of the large people in my life were overeating healthy foods like oats, chickpeas, bananas, lentils. Usually those were the things missing from their diet.

Frankly, it seems like low satiating, high dense foods are the only foods up to the task of making someone obese. e.g. The ease of drinking a liter of Coke vs eating that same amount of calories in beans.

I would be interested to see the food diary of someone who claims to overeat healthy food. I think it would illuminate our mass confusion about "healthy food". The healthy foods I think of are the kinds you can eat ad libitum without much consequence.
Very cool! I own a Pakon F135+ and using it through a VM has worked well enough for me, but I’ve always wanted someone to modernize the tooling so that wasn’t necessary. Thanks for putting in the work here!
I have seen Superpumped and liked Joseph Gordon-Levitt's performance as TK. Of all the series about computers/IT I would also rate Halt and Catch Fire at the top. Of course, Silicon Valley would take the top spot for a sitcom that touched on topical events/culture.
Do you play video games at all? I imagine the latency is much worse on 5G vs fiber. Have you noticed that?
Why no 25yr fixed?
> Don't go into gaming.

What's the reasoning behind this statement?

> For tech, your best bets are Tokyo (everything), Osaka (everything-lite), and Nagoya (mostly industrial and automotive stuff).

What about Kyoto?
How do you know? SMTP wasn't designed for reliable delivery. You don't know if your emails are being received, and even i they are, you don't know if they'll be received tomorrow.
I’ll get downvoted, but it’s a genuine question: Will “a photo of tits and ass” generate photos of birds with donkeys, or will it rickroll you [0]?

[0] https://twitter.com/qDot/status/1565076751465648128
Just from watching Google the past few years I'm starting to wonder if the company has completely de-prioritized hardware.
I have an HP USB-C G5 dock

USB-C docks (as in USB and DP-Alt mode over USB-C) and dongles are a world of hurt. We had a bunch of them (including from reputable vendors like Lenovo and Anker) and we always had issues, needing to replug the cable because charging wouldn't work, crappy network adapters, suspend-wake issues, BlueTooth/WiFi interference, etc. The only adapter that worked well were the Apple Digital Multiport AV adapter, but it is overpriced and only has a measly 2 ports (plus power passthrough).

My wife and I both switched to Thunderbolt 3 docks both at home and at the office and the problems are gone. Everything always comes up, including after sleep-wake cycles. If often have my private MBP stationary and hooked up for days.

I really love Thunderbolt docks, just plug one cable and you have everything hooked up.
Another option is to listen to the audio book read by Rob Inglis. He's absolutely amazing in his reading.
Your first four links are just random ultrasound device companies. Doctors are very well-versed in ultrasound technology so your claim that doctors refuse to learn this is patently false.

Full-body scans have been marketed for years by companies looking to drum up business for their machines, but they mostly lead to false positives. Notice how your fifth link clearly says it has helped people find “warning signs of potential cancer” instead of that it helps people find cancer? These machines are basically false positive generators in most cases. If someone had effectively infinite time and money to dedicate to routine cancer screenings from these machines, they are more likely to end up harmed by unnecessary procedures stemming from false positive results than they are to catch and remove a specific cancer occurring randomly in their bodies.

Contrary to your claims, we do actually screen for certain cancers in cases where a clear net positive benefit can be demonstrated. Mammograms for breast cancer are one common example.

Doctors definitely aren’t just burying their heads in sand. These are common research topics and the tradeoffs of false positives are constantly being investigated. Full-body screenings aren’t necessarily a net benefit.
Nice thing about using WASM for plugins is that you wanted to (for some unknown reason) write a plugin for this editor in Python you could because it can be compiled to WASM.

>>Imagine trying to maintain a set of plugins all using different programming languages and build systems and package managers. That's a maintenance nightmare.

I would imagine once you got all this setup the first time, it wouldn't be that much of a "maintenance nightmare". Literally just running scripts.
What they did in India was mostly the result of its field team (middle management) taking things into its own hands and operating almost completely free from oversight. The EIC was only supposed to establish trade between the two continents, instead it became a rogue mercenary power-broker between the subcontinent's fragmented pseudo-kingdoms and ended up taking control of all South Asia.

From whatever reports the upper management and regulators could scrape up at that time, there were many voices raised against the mayhem this enterprise was causing, but all complaints were quickly shot down after they saw the kind of riches the company was sending back home.
democracy vs dictatorship
The map looks to be pretty accurate if I consider my own location except that I should be in the Exceptional Drought instead of Extreme Drought category but recognizing that it is highly smoothed and can't show all the bumps, like my place, I can say it is pretty close.

I have tracked and measured rainfall at my place for more than 20 years. So far this year we are still almost 2" (51 mm) below the lowest YTD rainfall total for this date in 20 years. In addition, we are almost 11" (279 mm) below the average YTD rainfall total for this date in the last 20 years.

YTD Numbers from my worksheet for September 4 - Lowest since 2002 14.8" (376 mm); Average since 2002 23.8" (604 mm); Actual YTD 2022 for September 4 - 13" (330 mm)

That's better off than we were 2 weeks ago though. The temperature had been >100F (>37.8C) for weeks and everything had dried out including established trees. My local rainfall totals showed almost 16" (406 mm) below the average YTD rainfall for the date during the last 20 years and more than 7.4" (188 mm) under the lowest YTD rainfall total for that date in the last 20 years.

YTD Numbers from my worksheet for August 22 - Lowest since 2002 14.8" (376 mm); Average since 2002 23.1" (587 mm); Actual YTD 2022 for August 22 - 7.4" (188 mm)

The lowest YTD totals before this year are from 2011.

With temperatures ranging from 85F to 93F (29.4-33.9*C) since the first storm front came through it has been a huge contrast. I am letting everything that will still grow go to seed now. Migratory birds always stop by during the coldest days to eat the berries on the trees and perennials I have planted. Two weeks ago the plants were dormant and appeared dead. They have bloomed and it appears that I may have some set fruit before autumn shuts it all down in a few weeks.
>It’s trust-based

and thats the end of it.
Sending email out is a royal pain. Trying to deal with a Microsoft ban on my IP even though it’s sparkling clean for several years. DKIM, DMARC, SPF etc all ser up, reverse dns, you name it. Looks like Linode is being blocked as a whole pretty much?

Hate the level of centralization, particularly since there’s still a shit ton of spam still around. Sorry for the rant.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/674558/55...
But self-driving cars have a serious good enough threshold that isn't remotely as life-or-death for illustration
Same and just wanted to echo it amid the Android hate that's bombarded this thread. Sure it has its warts, but the amount of hyperbole here about it being "the worst phone ever" is unwarranted.
Cool work, but how do you write this entire article and not post a single picture of the scanner?
The styles of this site are amazing black and white.
Many also wants to be heir to a Nigerian prince worth a few million ...
I'm on 12 years of self hosting email and counting. Once every so often, I do end up being blocked, usually by Outlook and once by Yahoo. I'm in their 'sender program' and they still don't actually bother to contact postmaster@, but a few emails is usually enough to unblock the block within 24h.

Agree with a sibling comment that many major providers fail to operate the SPF/DKIM/DMARC tools they insist you do.

Each to their own, but ultimately if we don't hold on to the freedom to operate our own mailservers, it will be taken away through inaction. This means doing some things right: DMARC, DKIM, SPF of course, server maintenance, good password policies and of course IP reputation. The best way I can recommend for IP reputation is to use a dedicated provider or VPS provider that disallows things like VPN endpoints, where it is less likely they'll assign an address with a poor reputation. A good provider might also ask you what you intend to host, and you might be able to discuss IP addresses with them.
Right, so sounds like I understood the meaning there. The point still stands, though - it's a grammatically ambiguous phrase, which is a bad quality when you're looking for a shorthand way to communicate an idea.
You can also use an MX backup service which will accept mail when your server is offline (and it will resend it when the server comes online)

You can also even keep Gmail as your MX server! Just move messages off of it as soon as they arrive. It's just a mailbox, after all
> Does a physician have a globally optimal understanding?

I’m far more inclined to trust a trained physician than a random HN commenter whose first four citations are just random ultrasound device manufacturer websites. The parent comment makes bold claims and tries to overwhelm the reader with non sequitur citations, but it’s clear they don’t actually understand the subject matter.
Speech is far more political than a negligence case. You really can’t expect to apply the same methodology and have it work just as well. This is one of those cases where I think we just need to accept that bad people will say bad things sometimes. Free speech is way too important and if the law goes too far it’s very difficult to change it.

My example wasn’t meant to be a straw man. I just think defining hate speech is extremely difficult and sometimes unpopular things need to be said in order to improve society.

Also, it’s not just “people on twitter”. I’m so sick of people dismissing these things using that framing. No, these people have power. The woke mob has power. They don’t like free speech and I guarantee you that if we implemented hate speech laws people will fight to enshrine their ideologies into law.
Do you think that affordability is the biggest hurdle holding back POCUS from being used ubiquitously for diagnostic imaging, or is it something else?
5G isn’t just mmWave. The protocol stack is designed to be adaptive and capable of handling frequencies from the traditional 4G spectrum as well as mmWave. It’s also a rearchitecting of how network components are distributed that is intended to allow easier federation of services.

Regarding use cases for mmWave: mmWave exhibits the classic tradeoff of range vs bitrate. mmWave makes a lot of sense anywhere short range, high bitrate communications for the bill, such as home WAN, for example. When it comes to RF pollution, the short penetration of mmWave is actually better than the sub-6Ghz band of classic WAN (wifi).

Edit: one thing I am curious about is how energy consumption and EM pollution actually compares across a 4G and 5G stack. I could see it going either way depending on protocol differences alone, but physically speaking, allowing higher frequencies and faster bitrates should serve to (1) reduce EM pollution (2) improve energy efficiency of actual wire comms.
Yes, I was definitely inspired by them. However, OsE is about building a village toolkit, but has no path to building a (minimalist) computer chip or computer software which can run on that chip. Last I checked they use full CAD software, definitely requiring commodity hardware.
> What is the human reward function?

Sentences like this scare me.

The thought that something as nuanced, complex, diverse, and ever-changing as human desires, can be captured in a single, static "reward function" sounds ridiculous to me.

And yet, people will try, and they will probably get pretty close. And then those whose desires do not fit neatly into that "reward function", will suffer.

I can already see lots of suffering caused by this type of thinking, today.
Who is keffals and why do I care? Lots of people say lots of things, what does that have to do with the KFools being lying bullies?
The biggest challenge is in the sending.

If, for whatever reason, Gmail doesn't like your setup, even if it's 100% according to specs, it's effectively broken. And there's no one to resort to, often no previous relevant search result, because the errors are vague when not silent (you don't get to know the email was hard rejected, i.e. has not even reached the recipient's Spam box).

Your only hope is for your complain to go viral on HN or Twitter and some Googler takes pitty on you.
So in this analogy, Alice should not relay the message through Carol and instead ask Dave. Or maybe talk to Bob directly?

Carol isn't the only messenger in town, and Carol is not obligated to participate in communication they do not agree with. It's a weird position to insist otherwise.
Also ejection seats are rough on you.
I have heard to avoid them in areas with high humidity for mold reasons. But otherwise I don’t see why it couldn’t save you a ton on cooling.
So how do you know historical events happened? Things you can't observe anymore? Are there any major atrocities in the past you'd like to deny real quick?
Weirdly unbalanced article. 500 people quit (out of 7000) and the best anecdote is luck: “The team was able to overhear a problem that needed to be addressed and make an adjustment to plans.” No mention of covid cases et al.
Visualization practice is part of many training programs to help people get better at making free throws etc. So it isn’t simply imagination, it’s a useful simulation.

What’s important to realize is people don’t just picture the path a ball takes but also the feel as they make a throw. Predicting the path of a thrown ball to be able to catch it is a another sign of simulation, but combining that with a simulation of how a throw takes place is useful.

Pool is clear example of the brain doing physical simulation. The exact positions are unique, but people learn how to predict what will happen to figure out what’s reasonable to attempt.
To expand on why I think it's a bad question, "Yes, and I think they're right to do so, and here's why" is probably the best response I could come up with, and makes the interview adversarial for no good reason. It becomes an argument about the premise of the question. Putting the interviewer _or_ the interviewee on the defensive helps neither.

Added: I realise I'm being adversarial myself here too :). You are correct, in that the questions could be reworded in better ways. Agree on that!
Email is broken. Fix that first so that hosting it isn’t such a terrible chore.
Top of the line.

And this is coming from someone who had their display cable come unclicked after a two inch drop.

Best, most rugged used hardware available right now.

Pair with GrapheneOS.org for best results.
Knowing that there is something weird in your body sets off a cascade of medical care that easily escalates to surgery, anesthesia, medication to manage complications, side effects of that medication, time in the hospital being at risk for infection, etc. These things absolutely can kill you, or at least put you through hell. When there was actually nothing wrong with you in the first place. That is why the medical establishment is so conservative about it.
I have my personal e-mail on linode for probably 15 years or so and haven't had any issues with e-mail delivery (knock on wood). Had the same two static IPs there for years, and have always had things locked down so I couldn't be used as a relay for spammers.
The first iPhone jailbreak is simply exposing a debug port

The current iPhone jailbreak requires the effort of nation states.

I know who's winning.
Oberon was quite interesting for its time, but you will get a hard time running it in modern hardware, even with the latest iteraction of it, Blue Bottle/AOS/Active Oberon, you will get a hard time getting ISOs.

The best to look at it, partially working, are browser emulations,

https://schierlm.github.io/OberonEmulator/

Between Plan 9 and Inferno, I suggest Inferno.

Descends from Plan 9, shows how the UNIX experience could be like when whole userspace is written in a memory safe language with dynamic loading and also you get to learn about Limbo influences Go's design.
Along the same lines, I was thinking this morning that we might soon have revenge-as-a-service where you can generate fake, "incriminating" news stories at the click of a button. Did Joe leave a lot of hate behind when he quit his job? An unscrupulous boss can generate fake news stories on random news sites (just plug in the locality name, e.g. "cnnbostonarchives.org"). Future potential employers will be shocked to learn that Joe raped and massacred 300 puppies, with lots of realistic pictures of Joe in line with the story. Most people won't have stories like this generated about them, only the ones who have enough haters.
I did training provided by a large email security firm, and one thing the presenter said was along the lines of "this spam filter defaults to block the senders domain & IP, you can set an expiration on that block butI don't see a reason why you would". One misconfigured server sending out a single email and I assume by extension someone impersonating your domain could get you perma-blocked from sending emails to that company, and I assume it'd reduce your trust rating for other orgs using that provider.
Playin devil's avocado here. SD sucks at depth. It makes 3D images which should have well set perspective, look flat and uninspired. Tastes will change and people will want to move away from the "tiny rooms, flat images and only-faces" trend that's dominating art at the moment. SD will ride the wave.

Until tastes change and after the current youth generation driving the demand for this washes out, it'll probably suck to be an artist without a strong brand.
>I implemented all the acronyms, secured antispam measures, verified my domain, made sure my server is neither breached nor used to relay actual spam, added new servers with supposedly clean IPs from reputable providers, tried all the silver bullets recommended by Hacker News, used kafkaesque request forms to prove legitimity, contacted the admins of some blacklists.

I cloned a repo, edited two lines in a yaml file, ran docker-compose, logged into a web ui, added my domain, added a couple of dns records (MX, spf, dkim, dmarc) and everything worked (yes, I can deliver emails to gmail and outlook).

I honestly have no idea why so many people say that self hosting emails is hard.
> The reality is that the market for good developers is so competitive that they could just walk out and find 10 other places with better answers to these questions.

Sure, but will that be a better place to work?

Ultimately there are many failure modes for software engineering teams, and grilling the interviewer with a series of highly-specific workflow questions is not likely to yield much insight. If the team is really as dysfunctional as the author fears, then you're not likely to get an answer that is on the same wavelength as you anyway.

You're better off asking things a little higher level and a little more open-ended and then reading between the lines. So for example, instead of:

> Does this team or any of the related teams have a person who actively rejects proposals to improve the code base?

You could ask:

> What are the biggest problems in the code base currently?

You can then engage in a dialogue and probe into details organically. This will yield much more fruit than asking a question to which the obvious answer is "no, of course not".
> I can send email all day from joboffers@google.com. But most email providers will check SPF and see that my VPS IP is not authorized by google.com to send email, and it will go to spam.

Actually, it will be discarded completely.

Google's DMARC policy is for mail from unrecognized origins to be rejected:

host -t txt _dmarc.google.com
_dmarc.google.com descriptive text "v=DMARC1; p=reject; rua=mailto:mailauth-reports@google.com"

p=quarantine would send it to spam.
I've stopped using it as I found it far too sensitive to small differences.
$1 billion in box office is still huge; I wouldn't call it "peanuts". And the box office of the original three films was $776 million, $538 million, and $475 million, so that was quite similar.
And you remembered to terminate the SCSI on your scanner after you unhooked the printer, right?
Have you heard of the molecule dopamine?
When you're ready, EDB will be there to make the move as painless as possible :-)
>_> not sure if insult or praise >_>