skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Listen I would love to learn about fundamentals and hyper threading and sys internals. But I’ve never needed to, because the interfaces I interact with every day (programming languages) do a great job of abstracting that complexity away and handling it well enough that there are never problems I’m aware of.

Isn’t that the natural order of generations? Kids today don’t need to install drivers off floppy disks, instead Apple and Google send devices that are already installed and configured. I don’t need to know how my 50 year old plumbing works, just how to work the faucet. Because the likelihood of an underlying system having a problem is slim to none.

Pair this with the direction this industry is going. Each SWE is expected to produce more with an ever increasing cocktail of tools. It’s no longer good enough to make a memory efficient app that runs on Debian Linux x86. You need to be on desktops and laptops and mobile and half a dozen operating systems. If you build web apps then ok it’s not enough to just have it work in the three web browsers (which change every month now) - you need failover and multi region and cached all across the globe.

Our industry doesn’t incentivize deep understanding. The current goal is delivering more capabilities. Until those incentives change I don’t see why interviewing has to remain as rigid as it usually is.
A Drone Flew a Human Lung Across Toronto for Emergency Transplant
A model takes a fixed length input and returns a fixed length output in finite time, it's not Turing complete
Conversely, I'd love to see examples of successful blockchain/crypto projects in production in large enterprise/Fortune 500 or anywhere else. Or anything pointing to mainstream blockchain/crypto adoption outside of gambling on exchanges. Bitcoin is almost 14 years old and Ethereum is coming up on eight...

For starters:

https://www.maersk.com/news/articles/2022/11/29/maersk-and-i...

https://www.reuters.com/markets/australian-stock-exchanges-b...

Nice overview and summary (including Walmart):

https://www.wsj.com/articles/blockchain-fails-to-gain-tracti...

Tesla accepted payments, stopped, then hinted over a year ago they might resume them. Still hasn't happened:

https://www.yahoo.com/now/tesla-hints-may-accept-crypto-1043...

Another example of a splashy announcement that went nowhere:

https://www.ledgerinsights.com/walgreens-walmart-mediledger-...

It's getting tired to debate but I've been very active in blockchain since 2017, with two startups in the space. After more than a decade and tens of billions of dollars in spending and funding by everyone from enterprise to VC blockchain and crypto penetration and adoption is abysmal. If you want some sources and background on that conclusion I wrote this nearly a year ago and if anything usage and adoption is lower:

https://blog.cryptostars.is/blockchain-the-most-poorly-adopt...
The artists' intent argument doesn't hold up, but is one that continues to be used as justification for "tradition". Most people aren't watching movies strictly in IMAX or even a color calibrated TV. Most default TV settings, even on the most high end devices, have things like dynamic saturation and motion smoothing on by default. The most popular brands of headphones do have custom eq from the factory, most people don't listen to studio monitor style flat audio. Most people don't realize there is a difference.

The meaning of art is up to the viewer, not the artist. There's nothing wrong with having a preference, like using things like temporal denoising or increasing/decreasing saturation. Even an IMAX movie theater isn't enough because that's not what the film was graded with. Pretending that art shouldn't be modified because it moves away from the artist's intent is a bad faith argument. There were certain House of Dragon color grading decision that made me feel very disappointed, and I was watching in Dolby Vision on a nice high dynamic range TV.

Artists' intent is useless if 99.999% of the population can't enjoy the actual art.

https://www.vulture.com/article/why-house-of-the-dragon-epis...
> Regarding JVM: I guess that the whole HotSpot VM will be replaced with GraalVM in the future and when this happens, majority of the JVM code will be in Java.

I believe this is still incorrect. GraalVM is HotSpot with the Graal JIT compiler and the truffle languages.
> It would be interesting what your thoughts are on dumping your parents in a similar “dodgy nursing home” once they aren’t mentally or financially capable anymore. It’s “character-building”, right?

a 20-something experiencing "my first apartment" is not (in any way) comparable to elderly parents in an undesirable nursing home.
I'll tell you what my takeaway is:

It is incredibly stupid for the National Merit program to leave the decision to notify students up to the schools. In such a situation it is entirely 100% certain that a situation like the one at Thomas Jefferson High School will eventually happen. In fact it's probably happened multiple times already, due to incompetence, which is why it should scrapped.

From the article:

> On September 16 of this year, National Merit sent a letter to Bonitatibus listing 240 students recognized as Commended Students or Semi-Finalists. The letter included these words in bold type: “Please present the letters of commendation as soon as possible since it is the students’ only notification.”

You know what's better than a system where the schools need to be monitored to make sure they tell their students? A system where you don't have to scrutinize what the schools do, because you told the parents and the kids directly.

It's 2022. You have the information of the students who took the tests, obviously. This is a solvable problem. It can, and should, be fixed.
Multiple decades of unix software configuration and pointless differences between distro configuration would seem to indicate otherwise.

Esr even contradicts himself at the end of that link when he says that site wide configs may be immutably set in the system directory.
I bet you're right on what's driving this. The last two houses I have lived in are very close to each other, but one is on a quiet culdesac while the other is on a through street convenient for foot traffic. There is definitely a small but noticeable difference in the amount of crime and sketchy behavior between the two. This bums me out though, because I would much rather live in a more walkable community, even with the tradeoffs. Unfortunately many Americans feel differently.
> Marriage, land ownership, religion, tradition, real communities, family is still nominally there but there's little left of it.

Curious about where you live and where you grew up? I ask because none of these rings true for me. Many of my friends have bought homes and started families, along the way, they’ve created their own traditions, and are part of communities where they know their neighbors. And this isn’t in just in one place in the country.
> In some Las Vegas hotels

Not just Las Vegas hotels. Any hotel (Hilton, Hyatt, Marriott, etc.) with an app that supports digital keys via Bluetooth already have this.

I still like to check in at the counter though if it looks like it isn't too busy. I have elite status at these hotels, and they typically hand out free cookies or water at the counter, and I occasionally get a free discretionary room upgrade on the spot.
It's 2022 and I watched an ad in order to watch static...
https://lazydevstories.com/post/advice2022/
Agreed with you on the physics, but I think there is much more progress to be made on the rotor to handle higher RPMs, time will tell. For the F1 experiment, they used magnetic composite materials.
I Quit My Job to Work in Crypto, Then the Market Crashed
With this setup, you could probably just tell your decoder to skip the add-back-noise-again step?
This definition fails because Q-bar needs to be a subset of Q, but in Q-bar, the graphs T1, S2, and T2 are specified to be the single-edge graphs e1, e2, e3. But single-edge graphs are not in Q.
A more honest headline would be “Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to avoid paying competitive wages” since that’s really how a free market is supposed to address shortages, isn’t it?
I find the timing of the announcement somewhat interesting. Just right when SBF is en route to NY.
I recently transitioned from long term NEET to full time work and this is hitting me hard. I just end up sitting at home alone playing video games all weekend anyway. What's the point of working the other five days? Especially if the work isn't enjoyable.
Learn SEO and figure out how to find long tail, low competition keywords. Then write about those and you'll get organic traffic. I make around $20k/mo doing this. Surprised literally nobody mentioned this
Using exceptions as control flow is a pattern I saw a lot at AWS in Java code.

It boiled down to it was simpler to abuse exceptions. You could instead return objects, but the code simply ended up being more to write.

At some point I tried to write things the 'proper' way by returning a Result object with the possible states, but it ended up being more complex than just throwing exceptions.
This sounds pretty close?

> online grocery-delivery company Boxed Inc. received $20 million and signed a five-year, $20 million contract. Days after receiving Palantir’s money, Boxed paid $15 million to Palantir as part of the contract
TSA is $75. I don’t think that’s particularly elitist or discriminatory.
Because the rich get richer and the poor get handouts and cheap rent.

If you make just above the poverty line you get no handouts from the state and normal rent prices. A friend of mine is friends with a dude that gets millions of dollars a year from the state to buy and manage buildings for poor people to live in.
The fact that tweets were short was a feature, not a bug.

>Amazing how in 15 years they never managed to fix this UX issue, despite have ten times more people than they actually needed.

It's not been established at all that this is the case. If they manage to keep things running without running afoul of consent decrees, etc. for a few years, then you might have a point.
Unless things have changed, if you don't go to a top school, you'll see lots of CS majors who can't really code, struggle through projects, and get degrees.
You're right, what Rust gets right is standardized errors that aren't exceptions. In other languages you pretty much just return {success: false, message: ""} or whatever million combinations of this idea people sprinkled in the code.

Having a single type handle this with a bunch of utility functions associated is great.
As it should be. I'd be very wary of company that didn't...
For a cool look like old-timey display check out https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

So your terminal looks like snowy channel 3. Fun!
Genes might to blame. people with 'good' genes can bulk up muscles and get fit
On automation, if you are building the config dynamically from external or computed parameters, in the case of a config file you'll need to:

- open some descriptor on the system

- write the file content

- execute the command

- get rid of the file

Of course you'll also need to deal with the constraints/failure of any of these steps (write the file in a location the program can access, take care it still exists or is not overwritten when you run the command, so have pseudo random names and/or lock the file, etc.)

In comparison, passing it all as args is one single step.
Screw Apple! I'm moving away from it. The system is just not suited for any system's development. Too many undocumented and unexposed crap in the OS. If one want's to do something with the AV, it is near to impossible because of the restrictions and it is not something they've invented. They are bunch of lazy people who doesn't want anyone to mess around with their OS. They will never learn or change. Better stick with Windows or Linux (It has greatly improved for AV in the recent years and it's just the fragmentation which is causing a lot of issues which might eventually get consolidated or streamlined. That's another issue by itself!! :))

And all these notorization and getting a certificate every year is just too much to continue the development for a small bunch of users who doesn't even know or care about what is existing.

Some good folks amongst the users are there, but they can be counted with one hand. All other Mac or Apple users doesn't even have a clue about what is under the hood. It just has to look good with oohs and aaahs... And that's pretty much it... Offcourse as long as it works the way it is supposed to work (and that is how the 99% of it's dum dum users use it), they'll continue to remain a trillion doller company... iOS is another story by itself...

Anyways, peace out!
So let say that the AI will generate (not sure how) 100K app.
Now there is req change (new feature), who will add it ? the AI?

I would extrapolate from copilot, since software does not scale linearly.
100LOC << 1000LOC << 100000 LOC.

The AI would probably stop at the range of 100-500 LOC.
> We really owe it to future generations to figure out effective, energy efficient plastic recycling.

Why do we owe it to the future? We can just stick the plastics in a land fill and deal with them later. They don't degrade (much) after all.

Perhaps oil will become expensive enough, and recycling good enough, that it will makes sense to mine landfills in the future.

(I agree that putting plastics in the ocean or so is probably not a good idea. But that doesn't mean recycling is the only alternative, especially when it doesn't make economic sense.

Btw, most plastics also burn well. So waste-to-energy plants might also make sense.)
That actually sounds dope.
Basically, it seems that earn to give isnt the best way. Billionaires like Jeff Bezos got that way by building a very successful organization that helps a lot of consumers (being able to do so thanks yo wage slavery until automation started kicking in).

Since then, it has grown a lot and Bezos has to do nothing to reap the benefits but keep his shares.

But just because Bezos built one great thing that helps so many consumers, does that make him the best at giving away wealth? He claims it is actually HARD to do effectively. His ex-wife seems to bave given a lot more than he has. And Warren Buffett outsourced it to Bill Gates. And tons if people even hate Bill Gates for his vaccination programs in Africa - despite eradicating Polio.

Bill also speaks to world leaders and wants to spray mist in the atmosphere to cool the planet. And kill all mosquitoes. Pretty big plans.

Plus Bill buys a huge amount of farmland for some reason. What makes people think central planning would be the best way to allocate donations in the world?
Pretty sure you’re talking about CRT TV’s scanline effect.

It leaves gaps in the image for you brain to “fill in the gap” and add perceived detail.
I've seen some clips of it in action, and it seems like magic. What do you use it for?
The `--styleCheck:error` flag can be passed to make everything follow NEP1 style guide [0].
`--styleCheck:usages` can also be passed to instead make identifiers follow their original naming (Basically turning off style insensitivity)

- [0]: https://nim-lang.org/docs/nep1.html
[UI -> training models AI -> product] is kind of a wrong way to me.

I'm old-fashioned about AI, over decade ago I was fascinated by Minimax heuristic in a game as a bot. It looked really smart I can't beat them in a deepest tree the machine can support (less pruning). My point is that the key is [UI -> "heuristic" + [business]logic -> product] is the way they should utilize these new neural network based AIs. Don't spit the product out directly because the product currently is looking like "heuristic", not a usable thing in business. Try putting logic in front and behind, especially put it far away from the final product so that the result will look like a legit magic.
It means they get less prison time in exchange for helping prove the cases that give lots of prison time to others.
If interviews started testing for OS fundamentals, then people would just switch to prepping for those instead.
Effectively a dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34088840
Why would you expect it to be?
Why? What bad things do you expect to happen?
I don't understand the argument. It seems like precisely the same thing is true of the "network" of blog hosts at the height of the blogosphere, which included large shared blogging platforms like Blogger that might have "censored" you.
Couple in Car Survive 300-Ft Fall. Sent Message on iPhone via Satellite
Good point. I'm trying to find the contact information for a Chinese company and haven't been able to find it so far. I thought maybe they had a website or business listing on a geo restricted site.
1) I wonder how it works. Is it possible that we have X capacity for attention and if we want to engage only X/2 capacity, we find it difficult? so if we engage X/2 (in meeting) and X/2 in crocheting, that engages X and so we function better?

2) Maybe unrelated not sure but I was reading about voice training in acting. One of the ways to free voice, it being busy in some kind of movement that takes up part of your attention.
Grow plants, use plants to make plastic, use plastic for all kinds of great things, bury used plastic deep underground forever as a form of carbon sequestration. Repeat.

Recycling plastic is pointless.
In previous discussions, I said there was a 0% chance she got some sort of deal. I was downvoted to hell, but this guilty plea shows how it works in real life, not TV. The deal is you cooperate voluntarily and the court is allowed to provide sentencing leniency. The only thing she gets is the prosecution agrees to tell the court she cooperated.
Well, the problem with building such weapons is that they may be pointed at you. Price that in and the best case is lots of rules for you and few rules for me.

Which I like. Your desire for freedom is unlikely to be very deep. You'll give it up to impose rules on your neighbor, most likely.
I would like to hear less “Elon is mean” comments on anything related to Musk’s companies and more commentary that adds to the discussion.

In this case it sounds like Tesla is doing what pretty much all tech companies have done this year.
The tone of his voice rubs me the wrong way, it’s like he’s not really taking anything seriously and this is all a game to him, while everyone else on the call is acting like professionals.

My experience over the last 20+ years is that the aura surrounding the CEO joining a call is proportional to the size of the company. From the way they all talk, Twitter is still big.
Doesn’t a flywheel resist changes in direction like a gyroscope?
The opening paragraphs seem to imply that the awards were withheld based on race.

When you get into the meat of the article, though, it makes it more clear that the school just forwarded a paper cert to the kids, and didn’t make a big deal about it. And parents are complaining because the school didn’t make a big deal out of it or get it to students “fast enough” to apply for some early admission stuff.

It’s been a while, but I remember most of those “National Merit” type things to be not very important or relevant. It’s just based on your PSAT score.
When I was in school two decades ago I wrote a program to scrape Iridium Flare passes from HeavensAbove, filter on time and magnitude, cross-check with cloud coverage from Weather Underground, and put good viewings in my calendar with a vibrate alarm a few minutes in advance (which synced to my Palm Pilot). It felt precognizant to walk out of a lecture and be like, "Hey look up at the sky right over there!" and we'd all see the flash.
Apple laptops are largely made of aluminum, I think.

There's some plastic in there, eg for the keyboard. But removing 90% of plastics would solve 90% of the problem they pose. No need for purity.

(I'm just playing devil's advocate here. I don't actually think plastics are necessarily all that harmful.)
I would bet that there has literally never been a school that failed to notify the recipients before now. It is not just an honor for the student, but the school itself.

Yes, now, the National Merit organization will probably come up with a direct notification procedure, but it was not a failure on their part to assume that schools would act in their own self-interest.
There are audio recordings of Fried saying that it was something he needed to say in order to fit in with the right crowd.

There were never any philanthropic objectives.

It was always a scam from the get go.

Also look into one-coin and Ruja Ignatova.
Structural issues are basically the rise of AirBNB - hotels with far less regulation / staff coverage. Now probably 99% of that regulation provided real tangible benefits to the customer and or the staff.

I mean if suddenly a competitor arrives in your industry selling the same product, with near zero marginal costs, and half the time they cannot price correctly and are happy to see "any" income there might be issues for your industry.

Edit: oh Ok - structural in the supply of labour. In the UK that is hugely labelled Brexit, but it is interesting to see a problem elsewhere - As others say Covid shock is most likely as people re-evaluate what they are willing to tolerate.
Such a company still would have some extra millions, for some years, after the initial pay-back. Which maybe could look like a good deal, if your company was struggling ...
> I didn't have any wear issues with the battery retention on my Motorola Droid A855.

I've never had any issues with batteries dying in any phone I've had this decade, and those have chemically/physically determine lifetimes. I assume that they have decayed (because physics/chemistry), but that the decay is not enough for me to think anything is wrong. OTOH we know that enough batteries were decaying that apple included software that down clocked older phones to avoid browning out the SoC (an at best questionable "solution").

The issue is not "all things do X" but "X is the most common failure", historically the most common failure were the battery cover/shell clips, and modern "non-removable battery" powered phones simply do not have that failure mode at all.

> The designers of modern phones were willing to accept a reduction in battery capacity in the name of thinness.

Something they were able to do due to the capacity gains from not having the paraphernalia to support hot swappable batteries. I'd also question whether the existing chassis of high end phones has physical space needed to support any kind of latching, or whether that alone necessitates making the phone thicker, before even considering the battery changes.

> I am willing to accept a minor reduction in capacity to get back replaceable batteries.

We know there are people who want trivially replaceable batteries, but we also know that in general most people don't: there were android phones with hand replaceable batteries in the early days, and it turns out that people would rather have a single battery that lasts longer, than potentially needing to carry additional batteries with them solely due to the loss of capacity that came with supporting the ability to swap batteries.
Extracting oil is an expensive process that has environmental consequences, and storing plastic after the fact requires land and can result in plastic leaching into the environment. There are also other petroleum byproducts between extraction and having usable plastics.

With that in mind being able to recycle plastic cheaper than creating it from oil would be an economic and environmental win.

As a small factual change I can not find any evidence for the statement that most plastic waste comes from shipped recyclables. I'd love a source for that.
I don't think so? I'm just talking about low resolution (and low quality) in general.

Interleaved scanlines are a great trick to increase the temporal resolution, but don't do much for (or against) spatial resolution.

Or what do you mean by scanline effect?
Have you tried banana banana?