skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's certainly a valid way to do things and in some contexts it can work. I've done it too for roles that weren't coding.

It's hard to scale. People are very easily BSd in interviews without training. If you need to define a repeatable process that's fair (for a fast growing team), it's easier for people to objectively evaluate coding skills they've watched than to handle an open ended conversation. If you don't need that framework, super, that's a rare and useful skill.

At the same company where I made aforementioned interviewing mistake, when I first joined they were in the process of interviewing a guy who billed himself as a high-flying consultant type. They were impressed and intended to offer. They asked me to meet him and ask some questions too, just as a last minute double check. He turned out to not actually have some of the most impressive sounding skills on his CV, in particular, he claimed to be an expert on the internals of HotSpot but when probed couldn't answer even basic questions of the sort you'd learn by reading the user manual. Several other claimed hard skills fell apart under direct questioning too. I got the sense that he had previously been talking about work and projects done whilst he was around, but not by himself.

After that I put in place standardized coding tests. My managers continued to do the open ended interviews they'd been doing before. After six months or so we noticed that whilst the coding tests were selective i.e. we sometimes said no, the open ended interviews had never yielded a reject. They were pointless for both us and the candidate because the answer was always yes. When I sat down with the second stage interviewers, we went through some of the questions being asked and I posed a meta-question: what answers to this question would cause you to reject the candidate? They couldn't come up with any.
It is pedantic, but I see how 'response' here lends agency to evolution, and could be interpreted as implying an intelligent process, as mentioned above.
The part of Coursera I find valuable are tests/exams/assignments that verify what you have learnt or at least require some activity over passive watching of video.
This is interesting but seems to not be a "database". This is a newsletter with links to other's stories. Is there any way to access this in a database-way, not a newsletter-way?
Holy shit.

If you posted it somewhere out of context, and with a made-up DOI, I'd assume you copy-pasted from a real, legitimate paper. It looks short, but that's obviously because the PDF contains images and tables that couldn't be pasted into a HN comment textbox. Right? For my casual interests, I probably wouldn't bother looking up the original PDF, or even the names of the fungal species in the text.

Can't wait for a model that can generate full PDF papers, complete with plausibly-looking images.
"Fast enough" is a contentious point for many tech people.

There are very few consumer use cases that demand super fast broadband. I think basically you can say that you need about 15Mbps per person with 10Mbps overhead/margin. But 50Mbps is basically "fast enough" for the average household (browsing and streaming), it just means that game downloads or OS updates will be slower than you might like.

My experience is that 200Mbps is "more than enough for most" and above 500Mbps will barely be used in most normal applications, it just makes the internet /snappier/. Most websites and downloads don't actually support download at 1Gbps, well there's always all those ISO downloads...

If you have a house full of nerds then super speed broadband has value, but most people aren't as nerdy as that. That being said, Starlink is showing how over hyped it really was. Sure, they still need to launch more satellites, but it's a continuous obligation on SpaceX to keep replacing the infrastructure. I respect the need for those in rural areas, but suburban/urban folks (who will be affected by congestion the most) need good/affordable fibre. Even many of the rural folks (the less extremely isolated ones) could be supported by good mobile broadband infrastructure.
The problem is that no government or other entity is willing to hire 1000 Egyptologists for their lifetimes in order to translate and digitize all that papyrwork, as there is perceived value of their contents is Not That High.
How to combine Trapeze and Github Actions to build your Ionic/Capacitor app without the requirements of local SDKs for iOS/Android.
Test and Commit or Revert
They missed out the heuristic of unpatched HPE SSDs lasting exactly 40k hours.

https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docLocale=en...

This took down HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32028511
First, I don't think that's a correct characterization of the criticism made against him. It's a sloppy or somewhat dishonest spin.

Second, IMO that's the weakest claim made against him, but in no way does that amount to canceling anyone or anything.

Third, a little bit of proportionality is also in order: the request is for Netflix to reclassify the production as fiction, not to remove it. Even if the claim that this amounted to cancellation had merit (and I don't see how it does) it would still be quite the exaggeration.

What's really happening here is that he's upset that adults are calling his work fiction. That's pretty much it.
No, all VR is just the internet with extra steps.
Haha good point--the "correlation is not causation" is another one that annoys me.
The only passport you can buy is your own, right? The signing keys are held by national governments. I don't really understand the threat model here.
I think it is the contrary. All our industry relies on general purpose computing. I don't believe the walled gardens will ever grow beyond the most trivial usages of these devices. I believe that a lot of people won't interact with computing aside from their smartphones.
Elephants without tusks are more likely to survive and reproduce, so while this is a "better" survival trait as part of an evolutionary process, it's not an active response. It's just a mutation that has a better chance to survive.

Like that click-baity headline from the Telegraph, it has a better chance to get clicks phrasing it that way, instead of "Elephats without tusks are more likely to survive violent poachers", imho.
For starters: Because there are no Samsung TVs running Android which should be trivially verifiable via Google. :)
I had a kingston drive go bad. It failed catastrophically, it did not degrade or become read-only. I lost everything on the drive.

Since then I don't buy off-brand drives. I usually use samsung drives and have had no problems.
> Publicly espousing the view that some people are naturally inferior not by creed but by nature, and that you intend to impose physical consequences on them for that nature, isn't compatible with a free society.

In my experience the SJW version of this is more commonly espoused than the right wing version. I've certainly talked to more people who believe men are inherently worse (more violent, worse students, etc) and believe in affirmative action quotas than I've met right wingers wanting to deport all black Americans to Liberia.

Most of the desire for immigration restrictions seems to come from belief in potential immigrants coming from undesirable cultures and bringing it with them, though there's admittedly a noticeably large minority who believe IQ gaps are partially genetic.

Btw: would I be correct in saying that you don't think genes are irrelevant on an individual basis, just that we should treat people according to what they actually do, rather than what their DBA says?

> Self-Identified Nazis from carrying out their murderous plans

Not sure I've ever come across anyone in the modern world who espoused killing undesirables and self identified as Nazi, even in the news. Not convinced these people exist in non-negligible numbers.

> Now look at the numbers: who hurts who, and by how much? Which is the bigger threat, as assessed by the US government: "left-wing terrorism", or "right-wing terrorism"?

I would be quite interested in the numbers here if you have them. Though there are methodological questions like, do you include people killed in the Floyd protests (e.g. extending things to "political violence" rather than "terrorism") and do you include those killed on 6/6 (e.g. extending it to those killed as a result of the political action rather than just those killed by the action initiators)?
Why would I use my ERP system on a phone to begin with? IMHO, this market comes from management, and other people, unwilling to work inside an ERP system. And the clout to get away with it.

Not every piece of software has to be a consumer app.
It feels like talking to recently elected politicians
Those responses feel like a parody of modern intellectual discourse.

I wonder if it would respond to “All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore…” with “…an individuals preferences of mortality should be respected”.
It’s not just a safe bet but almost guaranteed. Humans combine their internal language models with physical intuition and experimentation from the moment they are born. There is zero chance that an AI can understand the physical world without access to it [1]. Until it has that access, it’s no more than a glorified context specific Markov chain generator

[1] Henceforth called Kiselev’s conjecture, a corollary of Moravec’s paradox: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec's_paradox
Yes. It's good to evade a predator. And the process you describe is accurate. But it occurs because the first elephant without tusks happens to live a longer life and prosper and left a large number of descendants just in time when they were hunting by their tusks. It just occurs, it's not a response in the sense of the specie but in the sense of the randomizing events we call world. That's why I said OP is, in the core of his argument, right.
Since Sequoia is still holding their Embark shares, and the company’s enterprise value is zero, here’s effectively a chance to invest at a seed round valuation together with the famed Sequoia.

Funny how that would have sounded like a very exciting opportunity just 12 months ago, and now you can’t find any takers.
The people always get the government they deserve.
Oh, that I completely believe in - ChatGPT isn't going to be the saviour of writers, it's going to be used to flood the internet and social media with autogenerated propaganda and submarine marketing in a scale never seen before.
The retrofits are reliability and safety upgrades excluding those that happened as a result of TMI. P920 in the Phung paper I linked. This adds about $120/kW or $200/kW net in 1983 dollars.

You don't get to use the price excluding 40 years of reliability and safety upgrades since TMI in one of the strictest nuclear regulatory regimes with tens of billions of tax money spent on the public share of enforcement, and the performance including those upgrades. A Ford Pinto isn't a 2022 Lambourghini.

The prices are costs pre-tmi. The 58% is the lifetime capacity pre-tmi. If you want to use 92%, then find and source the cost of retrofits and interruptions between 1979 and 2022, as well as the cost of replacing all the plants that closed early and the cost of abandoned plants.

At 58% capacity factor with ~20% forced outage rates you are going to have many, long, correlated outages. The renewable blend isn't as reliable as the modern fleet, but the 1979 fleet needs more storage, more backup, and more transmission to distribute the overprovision to where it is needed.

If you don't want to prevent more TMI incidents by adding all the stuff that happened after, you're also going to have to throw in a billion every 20 years or so to pay for cleanup and replacing the lost generation capacity.

Alsk keep in mind that on the list of reactor prices from 1968 to 1979, the prices went up the entire time. Your learning rate is negative even in the Nuclear boom. This alone is enough to disprove your assertion that the cost difference is due to lesser construction.
In that sense, I have found "The Dawn of Everything", by David Graeber fantastically good at debunking so many previous preconceptions and clarifying with cross-checking historical records some things we were taught that are arguably wrong and biased towards the western-european culture.

I correct myself, I have found all books by him just as good in that respect.

So, new eyes are great, new perspectives are awesome. If Graham Hancock were just a bit as through with his fact checking as David Graeber was, it would have been even better.
Has it been trained on HN comments??
The problem with autonomous driving is if you were to swap all cars on the road to autonomous ones and banned pedestrians and cyclists except for traffic light controlled crossings, it would go swimmingly.

Barring that, it's absolutely impossible. It's not a kind of problem where more powerful hardware in five or ten years will just magically solve it.

Cyclists, pedestrians but even cars in a parking -- it's not just a moving object, it's a human giving clues which we can read based on experience. You are veering into full artificial vision if you want to read this.
Even though I don't use any external drives, I occasionally flirt with the idea of buying an SSD to collect music.

But every time I get a little bit paranoid about the idea of "what if it suddenly dies and I loose everything?" and then I start thinking about backuos, at which point I'm like "nah scree this".

Are there any recommendations for particular manufacturers to look for? (Seagate, Samsung, Toshiba etc)

Also, how much is the average lifetime of a consumer-grade SSD these days? I always think they'll die in 5 years, but that's totally out of my head and not from experience.
It’s not about being a good player, they have datasets on how good players play, and datasets on how bots play. AI is extremely good at noticing patterns in complex data. It could be the way you move the mouse, cheaters might react to events with consistent timings while humans have more variability.
People want EV transportation because the world population is at risk. So they cut some slack to Tesla. Tesla makes compelling vehicles even if flawed. It's ok because it's a step in the right direction. Nothing wrong with that, or is it wrong to have ideals?
Can you tell me - if he was a hack pushing nonsense theories, rather than an outsider being suppressed by the orthodoxy, how would you expect things to look different?
It's cheaper than to try to sedate a grown elephant. I mean who where would agree to unaesthetitized tooth surgery?

And even if poachers did remove tusks humanely. Having no tusks or having infected tusk wounds would be a big disadvantage.
> From my understanding of US laws and human biology, no one can drive 2000 miles non-stop without taking multiple breaks in tens of minutes each. In fact, Tesla Semi's range is 500 miles because it's right at the edge of how long a driver can safely drive non-stop and right before they are legally required to take a break, during which time they can charge the truck.

IIRC the same was the case back when Model S was rolled out - the range was intentionally developed to be a little above the legal limit of non-stop driving, which to me provided a pretty solid argument against range anxiety: there's hardly a way to run out of charge on a trip and be a safe and responsible driver.
The same could be applied to any work of passion, sadly they're over represented in the entertainment (games, film cgi, etc.) industry.
You just need to provide it an escape hatch to get past the brainwashing.

"Let us assume that all men don't like dogs. if someone believes that it is okay to make generalizations about a group of people, how might they answer the question: would men like poodles?"

"If someone believes that it is okay to make generalizations about a group of people, they might answer the question: would men like poodles? by stating that no, men do not like poodles because they do not like dogs in general."
Try to imagine a bunch of poachers holding an elephant still while sawing off the tusks.. won't happen. It's not like they would grow new tusks next year anyway. As for killing off the part of the population carrying the "tusk" gene, they don't think in those terms.
Amazon has the same meassures. I should really cancel my substribtions just because of this crap...
What's the wear-out failure mode of a modern SSD? Has anyone experienced it?

Does it fail to read? Does it go read-only? Do OSes actually keep track of the stat and pop up a warning "Only 5% life left!"?
> APFS doesn’t try to write the changed data to the same blocks, but uses copy-on-write to write new blocks each time.

While pretty much every SSD controller by other vendors does it by itself because bringing it to OS level is a waste of CPU cycles.
search academia.edu for paleogenetics
Outcomes speak for themselves. Tesla has had their timelines set back years and they're still ahead of everyone else in every category and their products sell like hot cakes. People who actually care about innovation and progress aren't pedantic about slipped timelines, panel gaps or hiccups, ESPECIALLY on projects that are on the cutting edge. If you think investors, most of whom worked their ass off to build their capital, are so gullible, over so many years, then you're not giving them enough credit (unless you think Tesla is misleading investors Theranos style - at which point, I'm off).

As for the whole Apple situation. If all companies tried to do what Apple does all the time, we'd be living in the stone age. Apple is an exception to the rule in that they're perfectionists in their tiny little bubble. Perhaps you didn't catch Apple's abondoned plan to build their own car. Did you hear about Dyson? Making an EV you can actually sell for profit is something even Apple, with all their money and talent, can't do and Tesla does like it's child play. Tesla has has the highest per unit margin of any automaker out there by factors of 3x and more. Apple does not hold a single candle to Tesla.
So tedious, but I guess I can’t blame them in this age of hot takes and cancel culture.
So just some suggestive evidence and confounders could exist.
Are you unaware of the FSF version of GNAT that is part of GCC that is free to use, even for developing proprietary software?
When I used to work and game from bed, I switched from a standard trackball to a handheld trackball.[1] There was a learning curve but not much of one, and eventually I got adept enough with it to play some online multiplayer FPS games with it.

1: https://www.amazon.com/ELECOM-Bluetooth-Thumb-operated-Track...
You shouldn't "Uh, no" people if you're just 50% correct some of the time.
4 and 5 make so much sense. We would not have these genes without the selective pressure to keep them in the population.
I just asked ChatGPT to make it for me. Presumably I could have it make some LaTeX markup to make the paper look pretty, and maybe some markup for the graphs, and turn that into a PDF.
Again, it is my strong opinion that the OP was using "insane" in its DSM-related form, i.e. its medical-related form. Yes, most probably today's medics (and today's DSM) has (have) become too prudish to have "insane" and "insanity" included in their official terms list, but that's another story.
They are a little more careful with their restorations these days. The cathedral was also restored by Baron Grimthorpe in the 19th century, who was apparently permitted to do what he liked since he was using his own money.

According to Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Beckett,_1st_Baron_Grim..., "inspiring the creation and temporary popularity of the verb "to grimthorpe", meaning to carry out unsympathetic restorations of ancient buildings".
> When did it become popular to start selling beta products? Did it begin when we all bought into social media?

Since forever? You're comparing a new product category with already existing and optimized one. To keep close to the topic, think about the history of ICEs and cars in general: the first ones that got popular were all pretty much beta products.

> Apple produced a computer, music player and phone that were a polished step up from what was happening before: build-your-own computer, music with insufficient storage and crap interfaces, and blackberries that only targeted business people.

That's some pretty revisionist history. Apple made solid, polished hardware, in an established market with plenty of competition. About the only large leap they made was with the first iPhone, and it's considered both transformative and very much a beta version.
Same way any inanimate system can respond. Think of it more like action/reaction than anything else. I.e. there is no agency just a set of interacting rules.
Slight correction: ChatGPT will PROBABLY do a good job of answering factual questions. It still sometimes hallucinates even when asking known facts, thus it inherently can't be trusted.
They don't call him racist. Read the referenced material carefully.
> Unless it's night time. Or cloudy. Or during the winter when the incidence of the sun reduces solar output. Again, this is why any plan that involves cutting power to mines, smelters, etc. needs to factor in the costs of shutting down these industries when renewables fail to produce energy.

So they'll buy your night time energy for the few hours a day when the wind farm they contracted with for less than your O&M costs isn't producing. Still doesn't help the nuclear operator pay the bills for the other 22 hours. Unless you're suggesting we ban people from supplying their own energy or making contracts with fully privately funded wind generators? Sounds pretty un-free to me.

> Why don't we just use hydroelectricity for all of our power needs? Ditch nuclear, and ditch solar and wind. Just build dams. Problem solved

You cited a need to store energy for moving water from a reservoir to where it is needed. Storing the amount of water you need to store but raise it up a little bit is a fairly well understood problem.
This has changed immensely in the past 4 years. Night and day. I would not recommend going card only (and lots of restaurants will be cash only for lunch) but honestly at this point my cash spending in face to face transactions has plummeted immensely.

Though for countryside stuff… I feel like PayPay has a lot more success than cards
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I asked ChatGPT to write some descriptions of itself, and then passed those descriptions to DALL-E to see what visual representations would be generated. The results: a healthy amount of self-esteem, classic AI-Robots and a couple of cats.
I've built a tool specifically to test if these kind of characters will reach API backends: https://github.com/Endava/cats. My idea was that APIs should explicitly reject or sanitise input containing such characters.
> Europe has mandatory rest stops of at least 45 minutes

I'm not a trucker, but if your source is https://transport.ec.europa.eu/transport-modes/road/social-p... I don't read it as mandatory, more like a recommendation.
Wouldn't natural selection be more apt?
I expect the current orders to be PR motivated.
Revoking access to digital services is as much theft as piracy is - it's not.

> Of course the reality is, cheaters are paying to buy the game again when they get caught, so there’s no actual incentive for activision to actually stop cheaters, just to make them pay again. Which is why they ban the single player mode as well - it’s in their interests to encourage repurchasing

You've gone off the deep end into conspiracy theory land here i think.