skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What to call it, though?

Frapr.. Bittr.. Buta.. But.tr.. Flutr.. Nutr.. NuBrd.. Zingr.. Dumpz.. Mnga.. Bodcastrr.. Rumpadumppump.. Frolyc.. Ho.nk.. Hor.net.. IcqToo.. VelociRaptr.. Flacc.id.. Boracle.. Gogglez.. Goorikle.. SmetaFace.. Blu.rp.. WebVan.. Tweebo.. Twerpr.. Zittr.. Laamaar.. Sc.abz.. Hunna.z.. Bu.nz.. Plog.gg.. Gro.pr.. Sa.cc.. Sak.cr.. Slac.kr.. Shak.me.. Shre.kr.. HipT.at.. Bwigl.. Jiglr.. Binjr.. WebVan.. WebVan.. WebVan..

Nope, all trash. Naming things well is hard.
Performance-enhancing indicates it makes shooting easier.
If it ever gets to this point for me I’m leaving the industry. Some of the comments here are insane. It’s a job interview, if there’s that much complexity and pressure involved…
> “The challenge was that they delete the [public key] once the files are fully encrypted. Memory analysis gave us about a 5-minute window after files were encrypted to retrieve this public key.”

> Unit 221B ultimately built a “Live CD” version of Linux that victims could run on infected systems to extract that RSA-512 key.

I'm guessing most didn't make it within the 5-min window, so the Live CD would recover the "deleted" record from the Windows Registry database?
His face is everywhere in SF! Seriously go look out of the window.
If this really does tank, what is the likelihood/options for the Twitter assets to be bought by someone?
Paul Graham and some of the YC partners have been surprisingly defensive of Musk's actions.

It's been massively disappointing to watch since Musk's behaviour has been abhorrent and has resulted in a lot of unnecessary hurt and despair for innocent employees. The same employees who may end up running future startups.
Bahamas regulator says it assumed control of digital assets of FTX
Its probably as simple as saying certain people shouldn't take it

fast talking man at end of commercial: “dont take if you’re bipolar/schizo/pregnant/have suicidal ideations or if anyone in your family has had this either” tada!
I'll check that out- thank you!
what stops you from reviewing the sed one-liner that created the diff, instead?
Twitter’s living wake kicked off with Elon’s 5PM deadline
But he was at the helm of Twitter for how long? He had the opportunity to pursue all those things. Musk and Darsey’s text message thread was just two billionaires convincing themselves they’re as smart as they think they are.
I'm with you. I've seen some fairly low quality discussions on HN, many of which fixate on Musk. The Twitter situation is magnifying it to stupefying dimensions.

Are the goings on at Twitter relevant to "the industry"? Sure. But, the inability to have serious discussion about it speaks poorly of the those that populate that industry.

Somewhere between the 10,000th iteration of "see how billionaires are evil?", "see how Musk is a genius?", "see how Musk behaves badly?", and "Look at what's Musk accomplished?" nothing new is said. Anything novel or serious that does manage to pop-up gets drowned out in the sea of noise.

I join you in downvoting all of these. There are good discussions on HN, but these discussions are them.
I believe Z-Library also allowed people(and incentivized) them to add books ... which would not get mirroed back to genesis.

So not only was the UI nicer, it also had books that were not available in genesis.
Meh, I was worried I wouldn't have enough challenges in 2023. Thank you!
It seems like he's taking a "burning your ships" approach. So maybe the company can run with a far smaller but more desperate team. What I'm not sure about is how people will get to like social media again. Will it really be a larger company that innovates in this space, rather than a startup that will turn Twitter into the next myspace.
At this point, HN feels like it's just an ElonTwitter subreddit.
No because importing into sqlite can be pretty slow. With duckdb you can query parquet files directly.
What has that website updated in like 12 years? Nearly nothing.
How do you recommend we do interviews going forward?
I think it's a bit weird to compare TikTok to traditional social media like Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat.

Those older platforms were about your social networks (friends and friends of friends) - or at least they were before they started to ape TikTik.

For me, the much closer comparison to TikTok is YouTube, and I feel that TikTok is really just a mobile-optimized YouTube.
Yeah, when money's cheap and easy, banks make bad loans. Don't depend on the ability to get asset-backed loans to get you through a downturn, though, banks tend to get tightfisted real fast.
It’s an unpopular opinion but I find it all funny too, for the reasons you described. The degree to which people are experiencing self-righteous outrage over twitter is in direct proportion to how histrionic and annoying their personas are. Twitter may have had some fine contributors, but I think it was a net negative on culture, and encouraged shallow thinking and moral grandstanding.

And there’s an upside. If the people threatening to leave actually do, it will likely make the platform better.
same, and I think the same. how did you go about getting diagnosed?
It would be great if Tailscale adds this, but there are lots of services that provide this functionality if you need it today, including Cloudflare Tunnel.
Sounds oddly much like git. Git-commits are identified by hashes.

And git commits "are" (versions of) programs.

So what does Unison have that git does not?
I drink before I post on HN, so I appreciate the honesty. It's gotten me rate limited more than once, though.

I think some of us, especially caffeine addicts with high social anxiety, can benefit from a drink before making that business call we don't want to deal with. I often think better and am more lucid (and way chiller) after one or two beers. Self medicating isn't the end of the world; other medications for anxiety are a lot harder to dial in correctly. But you do have to watch out and make sure you haven't overmedicated, which is difficult. Alcohol has a way of driving your gauge for yourself out of whack very slowly in a way you don't notice.

An anecdote from my father, who was a lawyer in the 1960s. He never ate breakfast or lunch. He just drank coffee. He let himself get ramped up all day and waited until 3pm to start calling opposing lawyers to negotiate settlements. By that point, he said, they'd all had a martini or two at lunch and just wanted to go home, giving him the edge. Of course, at 5pm sharp he was a regular alcoholic like everyone else. To him, though, this represented a very high level of self control.
I’ve not interviewed under a high stakes situation for a very long time. So it’s hard for me to relate directly. I’m sure if I really needed a job, or I was really excited for a position it would be different.

All the interviews I’ve taken in the last 10 years have been with passing interest on my part. And I go into it more as an interview of the company, and much less care about if they think I’m hitting some arbitrary bar. For me its been a pretty freeing approach. If they pass on me, I can respect that I wasn’t a good fit (and the feeling was probably mutual). And like someone else posted in the comments it allows for me to completely disregard stupid questions.

I recognize that it’s a luxury to have that kind of approach. Additionally I think drinking prior to an interview is completely fine.
No excuses. No redirecting blame. This is 100% on Musk.
Just like Jobs built the iphone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew6fv9UUlQ8
Reference: https://www.statista.com/statistics/299119/twitter-net-incom...
Mystery Airships (1890s Phenomenon)
We can get bad trips with any type of drug. Even weed and alchohol.

It can be so bad that we never want to try it again. It's all apart of the journey and the experiment.

I've had a couple bad trips, and I'm glad I had them. They created clear fear, paranoia and terror that I'll always remember. It caused me to appreciate the 'real' world a lot more.
I agree with you, but even if they quit, I'm not sure there is a much certainty. From what I've read, no severance agreement was prepared for employees to review, so there is some question about the terms of severance.

It's unreasonable IMO to give people an ultimatum like this and not explain what either path will look like in practical, concrete terms. But the whole thing has been unreasonable so far.
I don't do this but I believe it. I always interview best when I don't care about the job because I have an offer I am ready to accept in hand already. I do feel like asking someone to do 2 medium questions in 45 minutes is primarily testing their cramming abilities and their lack of nervousness about the process. My strategy to combat this is to interview at places I really want to work at close to the end of the batch when I feel I have the most practice and already have an offer in hand because otherwise the anxiety from wanting to do well and excitement from caring about the position can really degrade my performance. It's like the interviewer can sense the anxiety and interprets it as incompetence instead of really caring about the role.
> a concession to the state of technology at the time.

Well, not anymore. But I will prefer ASCII over glyphs any day.

I have learned symbols in Math, and I keep learning newer ones.

It finally comes down to _RoI_.

The vast and tremendous return I get from non-ASCII characters in Math (and have gotten for decades)- I will not get the same amount from APL. It's as simple as that to me.
Did you miss the bits about krun or running many iterations? Though that’s mostly from the older paper rather than the subject of this article.
the humans at GitHub have created software which by definition cannot create copyrighted works. if the AI cannot create copyrighted works, it cannot violate copyright.

Humans can create copyrighted works, and therefore can violate copyright.

Given these things, I fail to see how anyone at GitHub could get into any trouble, legally.

Thus, the suit against GitHub/Microsoft will fail, which was the point that I apparently failed to communicate clearly enough.

If anyone is liability-adjacent here, it is copilot users, who must always be mindful of what they write anyway.
IMO it will be much more useful when they add custom domains so you can host things like public websites.
This will always be the case for high compensation positions. In any human society, at any point in human history.

Look for lower pay at smaller companies outside of major markets if you're looking for something without that aspect. You can often set the terms.
Yes, but he did it slowly, and at great profit to himself. Totally different than Musk!
> It's kinda interesting because when I bring this up with people I know they usually say it's depressing and strange.

Is it the topic they find strange, or the timing and social situation in which you (keep?) bringing it up?
Twitter needs at most 50 people to keep the lights on. 200 to innovate. We all know this.
I mean, the responses here seem like people are unaware the same thing was (reportedly) done with the first round of layoffs.

Not that that really changes anything, but it doesn't seem like new news.

And while I don't intend to defend it, many companies march individuals out without even letting them clean their desk out, for whatever reason, so doing it en masse seems more efficient and not fundamentally different.
No. But the whole point of a buyback is that it will presumably cause stock appreciation and that appreciation is taxable, albeit at a lower rate and not until the stock is sold.
Why do you think he was getting involved in Ukraine, Taiwan, and apparently influencing ‘whistleblowers’?

He was hoping he’d look like such a mess they’d step in and shitcan it.

But no one took the bait.
They have internal Slack channels for people to check if it's real or not.
I work on similar sized teams, I introduce my PRs as stacked so they are extremely consumeable in very small bite-sized code changes and build on the last one reviewed.
I've noticed a similar effect with LeetCode although it's more than just a "little wine". Almost feels cruel given how much I struggle with the same problems when sober.
Beta blockers also banned iirc, so I don’t think it’s a safety thing
If you're having fun, don't let me stop you, but there are tons of open source projects to simplify this process: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
> The implications of having easy access to space to our civilization really cannot be overstated.

I think that counts.
Exactly. Things that are abandoned will eventually fail.

Not everything is automated. There's a finite amount of time to create new automation, and that time goes first toward the things that happen hourly or daily. The things that happen monthly still get handled by humans. Not everything is in the runbook either, and what is often ends up scattered among many wiki pages and help notes in tools, so it's not easy for a newcomer to find. So those monthly things have to be done by people who remember.

They remember how to clean stuff up when a quota/capacity limit is being approached, and who to call when they need more, and they can expect a response. They remember how to recognize when their service is approaching overload, or about to enter an oscillating state, and they know how to nudge it back toward sanity before the errors start to pile up. None of that happens when whole groups are gone.

Sooner or later, a service will start to run off the rails in one way or another, and the person who inherited that service will either not recognize it or not find the solution in time. Then it's Fail Whale time.
> PHP is incredibly easy to learn and provides immediate benefits

Like learning the joys of debugging missing semicolons.
Sure- it started with me throwing up in August of 2016. I figured it was food poisoning and just kinda shrugged it off and ignored it for a couple months. I started to feel more fatigued and went to my doctor in October. We ran blood tests and saw that I was profoundly anemic. Did a stool analysis and they saw blood in there so that was enough to get a referral to a GI specialist and I had a colonoscopy and they took some biopsies.

After the biopsy popped, they immediately sent me in for a CT scan and I believe in surgery to have the tumor removed that same week. It was a wild ride.

This metastasis in the lung isn't going to be easy, but I'll crush it non the less.
Cops, firefighters, dock workers, harbor pilots, actors, nurses, etc
Or he just only wants to work with ones who do!
It's a variation – or misquotation – from a masonic ceremony. As for its uniqueness, I've no idea.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Text_Book_of_Freema...
I can totally relate, although I've yet to try drinking alcohol prior to an interview. I guess one would have to know how to hit the Balmer Peak [0] reliably.

Lately I've been using breathing to control my autonomic responses. Breath in for a count of 4, hold it for 7, and then exhale for 8. This seems to work well. Box breathing (breath in for 4, hold for 4, exhale for 4 and hold for 4) is sometimes easier to do and not be noticed, but I don't find it as effective unless I'm doing more strenuous activities.

I have mild PTSD and can't always rely on normal responses to stress, when I'm feeling verbally attacked. Sadly I've never had an interviewer believe me when I've told them I'm having a panic attack and need a moment. They always assume that I'm stalling, or don't have an answer, which is sad, because I've always been a star employee once hired.

[0]https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/323:_Ballmer_Peak
It’s hard to know where that reputation comes from other than themselves and their hiring process. Nearly everything Amazon makes is a shoddy product that scales in a way such that it doesn’t matter to them. They don’t excel at anything they do except scale with acceptable (to them) failure rates.
Thanks I'll check this out!!
> Before the interview, which was held with a panel of two native speakers, my supervisor told me to drink some beer.

FWIW, i can attest that being slightly inebriated helps one speak a non-native language. My German is much more fluid when i'm tipsy than it is when i'm sober. The difference, in my experience, is that you don't worry about saying everything just right and instead just say things as they come to mind. That leads to more fluid flow of the language rather than pausing every few words to consult one's mental dictionary.
Mine had an option for e-mail or SMS. Never got the SMS, but e-mail worked.

I love how it says "To protect your account" it can take 24 hours or longer for your data to be ready.
Dear god, that's me! Though I'm a wreck days before the interview.

I have ADHD, not sure if this has anything to do with it.
> The adsorbent loses efficiency after a couple elution cycles, but it is regenerated by an alki wash. Read this [1] if you want a better explanation.

..The longest lasting method in that paper is a scale model in idealized conditions of the same method I linked to but the first was in more realistic conditions... they ran one in the ocean but not more than once.

> Regardless, this whole seawater extraction tangent is only a contingency if no new terrestrial reserves of uranium are found. Unlike intermittent sources which require massive amounts of grid storage, uranium seawater extraction isn't going to be necessary any time soon which is why I'm not super concerned about how seawater extraction isn't being commercialized.

So we're back here. To match the scale of renewable when they start to run into the constraints that require scaling up storage, you need about 3TW by 2030 (before then a mix is viable along with using surplus for replacing non-electrical fossil fuels such as H2). That's 10,000 tonnes of fissile material up front, and another 10,000 every reload. You need to open every mine on the planet today and empty them by 2040. Then your sea mining rig needs to be ready to go (and hilariously has to be installed on a greater net capacity of offshore wind turbines than the capacity of nuclear reactors it supplies). After that you still need just as much storage for variable loads because ramping isn't an option as idle capacity would reduce your fuel runway by 6 years.

All this because you think lithium production can't double when the extraction started a year ago? It's actually a comically bad plan. Well done. The bit where it needs the wind turbines was comedy gold.
I've had some horrible experiences with alcohol, but nothing compared to the experience of eternal torture I felt with psychedelics.

I'm not glad I had them. The pain wasn't worth it. The lessons I learned could have been learned in different (safer) ways.

The worst nights of alcohol poisoning, vomiting, and
multi day hangovers aren't even a tiny fraction of the suffering I felt on psychedelics.
Operating with 80% less humans is a technical challenge.
I do wonder how much money has gone to local/state officials pockets. From SBFs previous billions
"Hussle Inc is not currently hiring."
No, in small doses it enhances performance by lowering heart rate, reducing anxiety, slowing breathing, etc. All are important in sports like rifle shooting.
‘Positively dystopian’: Florida judge blocks anti-woke law for colleges
I don’t get nervous with leetcode interviews because to me it’s just a coin flip. I feel that I have essentially no control over the outcome of the interview.

I was much more stressed about exams in school because I felt that I “ought to know” these things, and I’d feel awful if I failed. I wouldn’t feel bad if I failed a leetcode interview because it’s all arbitrary anyway.

(I should disclose that I’ve only ever done two coding interviews and I took the job both times, so I don’t have the most relevant experience.)
Sucks for all the blue passports out there (USA).

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/fore...
> This was a fascinating read. Is there any sort of explanation or analysis out there on why so many political leaders as of late believe they can alter the deal and then keep the same level of trust immediately afterwards?

Ignoring norms and escalating worked for Johnson, it worked for Trump, it worked for Putin, and the wealthy individuals and orgs who back them love them for it.
It smells like a caching problem rather than a gc problem. Surely the compiled method would be kept live by the pointer from its interpreted cousin or from its class’s vtable or whatever.
Aside: there is no "technically resigned" here, if they're referring to Musk's loyalty-pledge deadline. Those employees have been terminated -- and are entitled to unemployment and wrongful termination protections.
I'm sure only to a certain point of consumption. There's surely a "Ballmer Peak" equivalent.

https://xkcd.com/323/
Twitter disabled badge access and shut down office
I get the impression that others at SpaceX moderate and "manage" him.

Let him get distracted with micro-managing whatever cool project is currently takes his fancy, while they do the more boring job of keeping the company running, and making sure the customers are happy.
I bet these people are extra happy when he is focusing on projects that don't have customers yet, like Starship/BFR.

Twitter might actually be the first time were he has 100% control over a large company without someone in the background moderating his more wild impulses.
It makes sense if you just fired 50% of your workforce. Although I could never quite figure out what so many people were doing on the product I imagine, in that 50% of staff were some pretty important roles, that now need their hours covered.

I do not considered this fair, ethical or very smart. Just imagine all the tribal knowledge that just vanished. Twitter ought to hope they kept enough of the right infrastructure people around to actually keep the site up.
Didn't he talk to Putin too? It's all making sense now.
Yes, we should be able to containerize it easily as we already tested it for virtual linux machine.
Is there a way to contact you, in case we add this and more features in the future?
Filesystem-level compression isn't magic, you still have to write data in sector-sized chunks to the underlying device. And while individual flash chips still use 512 byte sectors (pages), modern SSDs flash controllers gang them up in parallel, so the smallest "sector" you can write from the host side is still 4KB and up. Which means, when you're doing single-page writes on the host, compression doesn't save you anything at the device level. For large data items, you can obviously save space if the uncompressed size is larger than a couple of pages. But then you lose CPU time on the access. Typically, with very large data items, when you retrieve them, you may only need a couple small pieces, not the entire item. If you've compressed the entire value though, you must decompress the entire thing before you can use any of it.

If you do piecewise page-level compression, then you're back to the problem of not saving any space unless you can guarantee better than 50% compression per page, to fit at least 2 compressed pages per physical page. And nobody gets better than 50% compression on arbitrary binary data without expending a lot of CPU cycles.

To get really good compression ratios you need to be able to analyze a larger volume of data (and of course there has to be low enough entropy in the data itself). So if you're restricted to page-sized chunks to compress, you'll never get enough of a window to achieve great compression ratios.

(PS: I've done plenty of work on data compression. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_%28file_format%29 )
> on HN, I believe most people have generated their wealth by providing a services for others.

Nothing exemplifies the prevailing culture of Hacker News moreso than self-satisfied comments on the virtue of the culture of Hacker News.
This researcher does think sunlight exposure does more than manufacture vitamin D:

https://theconversation.com/secret-to-health-benefits-of-sun...