skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Search is for finding what you are looking for.

And at that, it performs miserably.
not true for all woods.

fast grown oak is better:

https://blog.lostartpress.com/2020/11/17/slow-growth-oak-why...

>Fast-growing oak has widely spaced annular rings, sometimes up to 1/4″ per year (see fig. 3.3, above). This timber is exceedingly strong because it has fewer rings, which creates a great concentration of the dense latewood that grows in the summer. But the resulting timber is visually distracting. Its radial face comes out looking heavily striped. It can also be difficult to work; it has an
uneven texture resulting from the widely spaced transitions between the earlywood and latewood.
You sir, are a master at teaching things. Please take a humble bow from a student!

Thank you very much for taking the time to post such a thoughtful answer.

> this phenomena is latent to every human being!

Human brains are soo beautiful & full of things to self-explore
my post is formatted after a meme, in which the joke is the speaker is ignorant of the difficulty inherent in the suggested course of action.

it's a little tongue-in-cheek. of course changing your life is hard. but, if you are dissatisfied with your life, it is also the only solution.
Writing things down. It's the ultimate hack.

Good memory doesn't scale at all organizationally, so a good memory is actually a liability, in a sense.
That's right, the rest were services.
I stopped reading at this point--they're not counting preventable, they're counting cases where something *might* have been able to be done. That doesn't mean success and it means their 80% figure is an attempt to make the data fit what they want, not legitimate research.
And then suddenly the entire globe started to test everybody with a pulse for Covid, symptomatic or not. Society has never had that kind of real-time data for tracking a virus. We have zero reference to compare Covid to because nothing has ever been tested quite the same. Thus there is no real way to compare the flu to Covid or even previous pandemics like Zika, SARS, etc…
> Actual senior developers get near-real-time feedback from the rest of the organization, and if their interpretation of a request is off, they get multiple attempts to satisfy the request.

Junior developers get near-real-time feedback from senior developers who are supervising them. Senior developers have to be able to give that feedback, have to be able to anticipate user needs, and have to be able to run long-term projects where you may have to work for days, weeks, or months before receiving critical pieces of feedback.

> If you want to evaluate a candidate's ability to cut through ambiguity or manage sprawling scope, evaluate that and only that in a specific exercise.

This is a common mistake that I see inexperienced interviewers make. Trying to throw more detailed and specific exercises at candidates is a fool's errand at best, and at worst it means that you're putting candidates through additional tests (and your acceptance rate will suffer).

The main problem with ambiguity is that it appears unexpectedly. If you give someone an ambiguous problem and say, "Tell me what is ambiguous about this problem," then you're not testing what you want to know. What you actually want to know is whether candidates can recognize ambiguous problems without being prompted to recognize them--and the reason for this is that ambiguous are extremely common in real-world scenarios.

An ambiguous problem is not a trick or a trap. It is explicitly part of the interview process, and interviewees are given guidance that the problems they are given may not be precisely defined.

> Don't just build a shoddy coding test and then rationalize it's weaknesses by saying that good candidates will succeed despite the flaws of the test.

Why do you say that the coding test is shoddy?

My observation is that a large percentage of candidates will succeed at coding tests if you give them an ambiguous prompt. In practice, they will either ask questions to resolve the ambiguity, or just pick a way to resolve the ambiguity for the purposes of the test. This matches real-world scenarios--you are going to often encounter ambiguous or incomplete problems in the real world.

If you want a precisely-specified coding problem, then go to Hacker Rank or Project Euler or something like that, or join a competitive programming team.
Whoa that really sucks. I met Philip Su a really long time ago when he was at Facebook. I think he came to our office in London to give a talk. Sad to hear he's been through such a difficult time. Hope life continues to improve for him and maybe he makes his way back to tech at some point.
Software development is taxing on your brain the same way physical labor is taxing on your body. It’s depressing, soul sucking work. You’re stuck inside, staring at a screen for 8+ hours a day.
As far as I know, in its current shape, rust is much less toxic than c++ or the upcoming C47392483274. Namely, it is easier to code a rust compiler than for those.
Haven't tried to buy it yet, but it looks like the Pico W is available now on Digikey and PiShop.us without a markup.
Some participants speculate, others hedge an actual risk, yet others “reinsure” the risk (in insurance terms) to earn a premium - there are all kinds.

And yes it would be quite rare for a CDS not to be traded under a collateral agreement - in fact most these days are cleared (and as the case may be, netted) with a central counterparty to minimize a web of counterparty risk that might otherwise be problematic.
Apple has SKAdNetwork to track app conversions in a privacy centric way. E.g. Google Ad network is integrated with it:
https://developers.google.com/authorized-buyers/rtb/skadnetw...
When a drug company does a study that shows that their drug helps some condition (and should therefore be bought by consumers and their insurance companies), we are naturally sceptical. But when a group of public health researchers "find" that spending more money on public health measures could "prevent" deaths, we somehow take it at face value.

The uk equivalent report is much more nuanced - note the use of "might have made a difference" vs "preventable":

"Mental health remains one of the leading causes of maternal death in pregnancy and the first postnatal year. Many of the women who died from suicide or substance misuse faced multiple adversity. Assessors felt that improvements in care might have made a difference in outcome for 67% of women who died by suicide, 29% who died from substance misuse and 18% of those who died by homicide. This report emphasizes once again the importance of immediate risk management and the potential for rapid deterioration, particularly postnatally. These messages are equally important across pregnant women of all ages, especially those who have had a pregnancy loss event, but this report does show a need for special attention around mental health for pregnant teenagers."

https://www.npeu.ox.ac.uk/mbrrace-uk/reports
If "some chance" is taken to an extreme, I think there's potential to cloud the data so much it becomes almost useless.

Do they consider treatments that couldn't possibly be performed on every pregnancy that it might help? (due to finite medical resources, cost that insurance companies won't pay, etc.)

I'd much rather see a focus on the basics that other countries do that are consistently missed. Especially when it comes to over-using C-sections and how race plays into treatment.
> I love how when it's women it's rarely reported, when it's men the "reported" drops off and it just becomes rare.

Yes, now you're getting it: Dating and physical intimacy is an order of magnitude less dangerous for men, in contrast to the parent commenter's implication (and incel talking point) that I was specifically addressing.

Is it any less of an individual tragedy for the men who are affected? Of course not.
I heard the higher-level positions around the Warehouse (like Operations Manager) are often 16 hour days.
Table 4 is interesting because you can clearly see the elevated incidents of death for Black people compared to White and Hispanic folks. Social determinants of health go deep.
Not surprised. I worked with companies that paid affiliates for purchases done by load testing in test envs. Budgets is not always a good thing.
So the article complains about people using hydrogen as a long-term energy storage solution and then at the end says people should use it as a long-sterm energy storage solution.
I do the same thing, but in my case it's guinea pig eyeballs. But I'm a Premium subscriber so I don't get ads anyway.

Kids videos on YouTube[0] is another vector of techincally-not-fraudulent-but-very-low-value ad inventory. The stats on those videos also tend to be highly suspicious - i.e. basically no comments but millions of views and likes. Normally you'd call this bots, but then you realize that small children are literally incapable of commenting on all those Pregnant Elsa & Spiderman videos they are subjecting themselves to.

[0] Not to be confused with YouTube Kids, a subbrand/app intended for small children to satisfy US COPPA
> Mental health conditions include deaths of suicide, overdose/poisoning related to substance use disorder, and other deaths determined by the MMRC to be related to a mental health condition, including substance use disorder.

(expecting)Mothers experience a lot of death from Mental health conditions because America experiences a lot of death from Mental health conditions. What I mean by this is that it's no surprise because it's widespread across the populace... now does it exactly line up with the expected rate for a random member of the population? IDK because I dont have those numbers handy.

But I thought that I'd point this out to indicate, we don't just need to help (Expecting)mothers but really the whole population deal with mental health.
What are your thoughts on Popcorn time? That was quite successful even among non-technical people. Is the difference people were keeping their torrent client (ie PopcornTime) open all the time, providing seeds, which doesn't happen with a webpage that you just close? Is the solution a 'RSS reader', but for P2P videos?
In complete transparency, the "jury is out" on this sort of conversation, meaning we don't completely know. Getty Images/Unsplash said they're not allowing AI images because of this concern, but I personally believe that's because they're concerned about the competition/controversy.

Stable Diffusion, like Dalle-2, and MidJourney were 100% trained on unlicensed copyrighted work, which is probably where most of the concern is focused.

Even in this HN thread, there are examples of "summoned" images with what looks to be watermarks or signatures from notable sites and artists.

We technically haven't written our license yet, but it'll basically be along the lines of "don't resell these images without significant alterations, don't use these images to launch a similar tool, don't re-distribute or sell the images as is to other stock photo sites."

These images (AI generated in general, not directly GhostlyStock's photos) have already been used in and on magazine covers, artist album art, and many other places.

My personal take is:
- yes these tools have been trained on copyrighted work
- yes it does seem rather insensitive to use an artist's name to replicate their style
- yes I/we do have rights to license these generated works as we please

The space is rapidly evolving, and I'm also very interested to see how this all plays out over time.

note: I wrote this rather rapidly, so forgive me if I seem a bit blunt about this. I do think it's a conversation that should be taken seriously.
I was subscribed to stock alerts for a Pi 4 on a local store. I was online when I received the mail that they now have stock.

By the time I logged in to order it was all gone :)

I did find another at a slightly inflated price and ordered that one. It was a kit with a decent power brick and a useless case. Guess 2 out of 3 ain't bad.

4 Gb model was $60 ish, kit was $110. Romania prices so 19% VAT, possible import taxes yadda yadda.
They're also kinda opposites. The cure for NPD is isolation and the cure for SPD is being around people (agreed-- neither are in pill form yet). They both have immutable internal status, but the narcissist's is very low while the schizoid's is very high.

The best example IMO of a cured narcissist is Larry Lawton, who faced a long period of isolation in prison. He's on Youtube.
we just added GET and POST today :)
> For dark mode, the site shows white text on pure black, to help shave energy use on OLED displays. For light mode, the site shows black on pure white.

That's exactly the problem. Too much contrast is a thing with text and can make a website uncomfortable to look at (for me at least). It's hard to find a source for that, but most people seem to agree (see ~95% of other sites).

That's not a problem on commodity LCDs (maybe the one you're using) because "black" is fairly bright, but on OLED especially that's almost infinite contrast.
> I'm not familiar -- do you have to actively consent to Apple's tracking too?

It's called App Tracking Transparency and there is a scary prompt when Facebook/others do it. It's called Personalization and a friendly prompt when Apple does it.
Feature request: use img2prompt to allow people to request things like "change the color of the couch to blue"

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/xboy90/a_b...
Ok let's at least not under-sell the problem. It's not "a few squishy potatoes" it's almost half of all food. Like you go to Subway, order a foot-long. The person behind the counter makes two, hands you one, and throws another into the garbage. Every single time you eat. I'm not so sure that's a good allocation of resources.

20% of farmland in the entire United States is doused in fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, etc. Enough water for 3 states (which are running out, btw). Fossil fuels to for tractors, for fertilizers, for transportation, and logistics. All so you can throw it out.

So of course there are externalities: labor, land, water, environment, fossil fuels, fertilizers, pesticides, run-off, topsoil depletion and plenty more. All of which is not nearly as big a deal if it's done to achieve a goal rather than to appease the voters in Iowa. These are classic externalities that aren't priced in when you subsidize corn to below the cost of production.
10x developers exist, but their prevalence is greatly overstated. Also, churning out code at 10x doesn't make one a 10x developer (this could even hamper everyone else).

I also propose that moniker be banned from being self-applied, and is in fact, a smell test: if you encounter a colleague calling themselves a 10x developer, start interviewing immediately. No good will come out of that.
@dang can you merge these? thanks!
Individually the lines are verbose but are usually readable. But once you start talking about hundreds or thousands of lines across tens or hundreds of files the sheer volume of the text is what starts leading to convolution. What pushes it over the edge then are the endless abstractions, misdirections and enterprise patterns that may or may not make sense to solve the problem at hand but generally are "best practice" or at least were when lots of legacy code was first laid down 10-20 years ago. It becomes a giant headache very quickly.
I think that we as a society decided that our solution to people with addictive personalities is to let natural selection take its course. There's way too much money to to made in the misery to try to apply those brakes.
Need is the operative word, there isn't a need, sure there are technical people that want to poke around or the "because its mine/I can" crowd but for the vast majority of console players they don't even know what SSH is.

I started playing games back when you had to mess with and resolve IRQ and DMA conflicts in DOS so I love having a console I can use as an appliance. You don't need SSH on every internet connected device you own.
Pre-COVID data suggesting "gathering regularly in person makes you live longer" would seemingly be not as relevant now.

Additionally, I see no control for "religiousness" of the gathering, only "The simple act of congregating with a like-minded community might deserve much of the credit."

So, per your own source, "be religious" is not what would extend your life and is therefore not accurate advice.
There's also the possibility that he's mixing up lyrics from earlier drafts/renditions of the song. But I think the key is understanding that a freakish memory does not mean that the person has insanely good recall regardless of the situation.
When first reading this it sounded really strange. Buying a device and TOS don't really fit.

Checking the website it seems to be a kind of PaaS, plant as a service. Am I reading that website correctly? They are offering remotely-managed plants for rent?
I am fairly certain this article could either be read as totally serious or complete satire. It works both ways.
How long until WASM things become "installable" so that other websites can use the same egregious 30MB things?
> That WIC system is bloated and cost more because welfare opponents want it to be bloated?

This is a very common tactic used by opponents of the US social safety net. Basically, the idea is to transform something that is broadly sympathetic to voters, like "giving money to poor moms so they can buy food for their kids, who otherwise will suffer from malnutrition" into something with no constituency, like "another Big Government Bureaucracy wasting your tax dollars." You can then attack the Big Government Bureaucracy without talking about the fact that you're effectively advocating for poor kids to go hungry.

The basic flow is you start with objections that sound reasonable to a set of middle-class voters: "we need to drug test the residents of public housing," or "we need to make sure they aren't buying sodas with Food Stamps," or "we need to have enforcers make in-person visits to ensure that they are as poor as they say" or whatever. You add in a bunch of those requirements over time. Eventually, you have created a bloated system that costs more while doing less for poor people (obviously, the money spent on the overhead is not available to buy food for hungry kids). And that bloated system is ripe for calls to be dismantled altogether.
Better than the riot foam they've already tested, I think[1], which looks to me just like a huge tank of expanding polyurethane foam...

[1] https://www.howitworksdaily.com/experimental-crowd-control-r...
It annoys me to no end (in a tiny way) that there are two St Croix rivers along borders in the US.
So what about turning a person (Prince) into a photograph, by the "mere" use of a technical apparatus?

It's an interesting aspect that we do not allow a model or actor to own the specific posing and/or acting, as this would imply considering any media capturing the performance as derivative work. There's an enormous bias in the system, right from the beginning.
A rapper from Russia who disagreed with his country's invasion of Ukraine has jumped from a high-rise building to his death after he was drafted to fight in t...
> In the study, the scientists used pure methane, but in the future, they will extract the gas from renewables such as biomass.

No extra capture.
Does anyone know why "pawn" is considered an offensive word? It seems likely it ranks highly on the offensive word list because of chess engines.
if they won't tell you, you can often find at least the valuation with a bit of googling. But it seems pretty ridiculous to offer shares as part of a comp package, but not give you the information required to evaluate the potential value of that equity
Speaking of clones. I’d be interested to hear how using BananaPi boards have worked out for people, from anyone who has used any of their boards.
Captive? At what point does personal accountability matter? Everyone's choosing to be there and look at this stuff.
"making someone do something"? what kind of ad does that describe?
> and hope it doesn't lose 20% of its value while I'm doing that

USDC. DAI.

It seems like there is a lot of misunderstanding between what constitutes "a cryptocurrency mature enough to currently use on a regular basis" and "the speculative shitcoins/memecoins being propagated to the masses".
Concept of Operations for Uncrewed Urban Air Mobility
It's the 'font-family: Georgia,Times,serif;' that ends up being Nimbus Roman as a substitute for Times (on my Ubuntu system, at least), and that font looks just terrible in white on a black background. I remove Times, or the entire font-family rule, and it looks great (DejuVu Serif or DejaVu Sans).
Yeah, why use simple HTML elements when you can use a few thousand lines of JavaScript instead?
There should be a centralized/online/connected mode for git where commands are executed on the server and only relevant stuff is downloaded locally.
Sure, but if they did know they'd have been NDA'd into not talking. Again, I don't think they did because I doubt this deal was in the works for a year, or if it was I doubt even Jeff G/B knew about it let alone anyone else, but them not saying anything in and of itself doesn't guarantee it.

Logic mostly says no though.
I run my homeserver in a Lenovo m920q I bought for about 300USD (but it's a 32GB, 1TB NVMe 9th gen i5 model, there are models from like 100USD up).
These 1-liter PC's are amazing, almost completely silent, idles at like 4W, but has enough grunt to transcode for plex and other stuff like that.
To be clear, this is entirely about advertising within Apple's App Store (that's what Apple Search Ads is). It has nothing to do with ads on the internet or in Safari, or even within third party apps.
They're gonna print even more money. You literally don't get a much more captive audience than macOS/iOS users.
I've written software for Pi based setups that measure something and are deployed in a few factories across the world.

Wouldn't use them for something mission critical but for statistics where you don't mind missing a few minutes like in this case they're ok.

Also I'm using a Pi to do some tests for a project that will run on custom hardware (not even Broadcom) eventually. Saves time when you don't have to deal with Yocto and editing dts files just to talk to something on spi and see if it can do your job.
Can you tell me more about your configuration? On my Mac, at least, the site is quite legible in both light and dark mode. The main thing I'm wondering is what font is being picked up. On my Mac, I see Georgia... maybe it's just when it switches to Times or 'serif'?
I was about to comment - there's absolutely no issue buying an RPi4 in the UK currently, if you don't mind buying a bundle. Pimoroni has few different ones in stock currently.

And yes it discourages the scalpers - while the stuff you get in the bundle is usually worth the price being asked for it, to a scalper it's worth 0 and it makes it difficult to make profit flipping the boards themselves. Same principle is successfully used to fight PS5 scalpers.
This part of the article is wrong:

"While Apple effectively tracks users on its own platform, the pre-installed apps are exempted from displaying a message asking permission to track users.

This is because Apple’s Anti-Tracking Transparency only applies to the apps that use third-party data to track users. Since Apple’s tracking stays within its own ecosystem, the company’s native apps are not subject to the policy. An exception Apple made for itself drew backlash, with some comparing the “nefarious”-sounding prompt third-party developers have to show to a far less ominous “personalized ads” pop-up Apple has to show itself."

Apps like Facebook can track the user any which way they please. They can't track users in other apps without consent.
When reading anything about medical error, it's important to try and distinguish between ex-ante and post-hoc analysis of what is preventable. Everyone can be a great coach after the "game" has finished
Terry Davis did a nice intro to PID controllers when he demoed his physics simulator