skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even for a one day task it seems language choice could make it much easier or harder depending on the nature of the task. Text formatting and parsing, vector/tensor math, parallelism, network io, all those things vary drastically in difficulty depending on the language chosen. Then, if there are any performance constraints on the problem that is another clear discriminator.
"When the concept of 'otherness' takes root, the unimaginable becomes possible."

Slavenka Drakulić wrote that during the war in Croatia in the 1990s.
Would anyone here find it useful if I offered to teach algorithms and data structures, specifically catered towards leetcode kind of problems.

The approach would be (writing it from memory, will revise it if there is any feedback):

First master the basic data structures and be able to manipulate them rather quickly. We will write many small programs to ensure that a one can perform most of the common operations on a given data structure straight from memory.

Then we will write transformations, i.e. being able to convert one data structure into another.

Next up with be problems that requires a combination of data structures.

We will spend a good about of time in graph problems, the usual data structures used to store / manipulate them and understand some of the basic graph algorithms ( MST, Traversal, Shortest Path, etc.)

We will briefly spend some time on sliding window problems.

Dynamic programming, Greedy and divide and conquer techniques are rather simple, but we need to distill it down to a science so that we can code them eyes closed :-)

Order complexity, how to think about it by looking at an intermediate step and calculating how many operations are needed to get to next step. We will dig a little into the mathematical aspect of it.
"Relatively simple" for you or me maybe; for my 70-year-old parent, not so much. The bar is high.
> ... than someone likely made a judgement...

Of course someone made a judgement, you just don't know what criteria they used, so it could be anything from "didn't like his face" all the way to "had the highest salary".

Furthermore, how does it help in any way to assume that the reason for the layoff was because of a personal shortcoming? And why should we assume in advance and without evidence that a potential employer won't consider us because of this?
Nathan Myhrvold to be more specific.

Some people think that Mhyrvold's approach to climate-change-mitigation has already been implemented rather than just being an idea.
First Open Source Alternative to ChatGPT Has Arrived
You may get your wish. Recent research has shown that real knobs and switches are much less of a driver distraction than trying to fiddle with screens or get voice commands correct. The two either mean you look away from the driving because you can't just feel your way across a screen like physical controls or you add cognitive load whilst thinking and talking.

I'm with you and hope all the idiot touch screen crap is ditched.
If the testing is automated? As many as fit in memory.
> I've been out of automotive for 20 years but never met anyone who would compromise normal operational safety.

There is nothing to gain with not taking safety seriously, but fortunes to loose. Many of the software components of traditional automakers are built by suppliers. If a serious safety issue would arise and cause fatalities, the suppliers and the OEMs would not only have to pay enormous amounts in damages, they'd also need to issue recalls that might even pose an existential threat to the company.
All valid points, will take the culture and city aspects into consideration.

Finding a social circle there is probably going to be a bit hard, but will check that too.

Thanks
The iPad Mini is quite old in terms of the SoC it shipped with.

Any recent iPad or iPhone has much better silicon , even if it’s not an M1.
This is a neat narrative, but there are tens of thousands of DMV locations all over the country. Appointments can be booked ahead of time to minimize time impact. It only needs to be done once every few years. Documentation is available in English and Spanish. That being said, to participate in civics in the U.S. you need to know some English. It's part of the citizenship test, and the laws are written in English.
Good article. Well written and to the point. It's sad how bad the employer / employee world is today.

I have been providing computers services independently since 2007, but had a cerebral hemorrhage in 2017. Which I wrote short book about(It needs some work still)[1]. My NDE came without the typical experiences that you read about, but something within me had changed, I had a really hard time being dishonest and hiding parts of myself from the world (this is how I see it, others might see it differently). During my recovery, I didn't know if I could return to providing services independently, and had some interviews after being out of the work world for about 15 years, and man, had it changed.

My brutal honesty about myself and the world didn't go over to well in those interviews. But it made me realize how messed up parts of the world are, and how the employer/employee relationship is really slavery to forces outside myself. A good book on this is "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity"[2].

Obviously, its not so easy to extract oneself from this relationship, I had something to fall back on as I redoubled my efforts to continue my services independently. Obviously, not all employer/employee relationships are slavery, but the corporate world and the politics behind it feels like slavery to me.

It feels like we are gradually moving away from centralized systems like these as more and more people realize whats important. COVID seemed like a big wake up call for many.

It's important, now more than ever, that people find what's important to them and start taking small steps in that direction as it seems like concentrated industries that are too big to fail are starting to collapse.

[1]:https://www.scottrlarson.com/books/book-most-improved/

[2]:https://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Everything-New-History-Humanity-...
Schweinevorherrschaft!
Integration with OneNote would be a killer feature. I do a lot of price comparisons and abuse spreadsheets all the time. I have to convert many unit types to ensure apples to apples comparisons which are difficult to keep in your head. So I end up with mangled spreadsheets with tons of text and numbers. Obviously, not the intended use case for spreadsheets.
Hello world is different from solving actual problems in AoC.
Should we ban sushi or raw seafood?
> If those public servants are biased to believe that my neighborhood is less safe than it is

Could it be "bias" to look at crime statistics? Maybe it's less safe than you think it is.
The box vs. the chocolate
I think the practice is supposed to be a little more than what's depicted there. When they start an interrogation, they try to ask light or at least easy questions to see how a suspect answers without real pressure, then when they hit a hard question, they compare the responses and look for clusters of behavior which might indicate deception when taking into account how they behaved in contrast through the rest of the questioning. Not to say that it's going to be particularly accurate/good.
There is a YT video with Matt Risinger discussing/promoting "Thermafloor"(IIRC) which uses 25mil aluminum over the full surface of the flooring panels. They discuss some of the benefits of lower water temperature, but not all of the variables.
Abstract INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE and select by id, as these are common idiomatic tasks.

And then write sql statements for everything else.
My first attempts at using Lua did not work very well. Until I tried to use it as an embedded scripting language, and suddenly it clicked. Shocker, I know. ;-) But I had never tried anything like that before, and it was eye opening. And in that function, Lua is beautiful, both as seen from the C-side and as seen from the user's side when scripting the application.

So this makes sense intuitively. It's what these languages were made for. C for parts that are performance critical or need to interface with the OS, Lua to orchestrate it all.

I would love an editor that was basically GNU Emacs, but with Lua instead of elisp. The zile project[0] aims to do something in a similar spirit, but I don't think they have many contributors. And realistically speaking, Emacs is something like 250,000 lines of lisp code, recreating all that in Lua would take a long time.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/zile/
There's really no way to hide you're currently unemployed, or at least not employed in the tech field, unless you make up an entire fantasy world. Not only will you have to put the lie into your resume, and maybe provide fake references, but you'll also get tons of interview questions about skills and projects and challenges from your current job.
> 3. Blitzscale startups will be hitting Sand Hill Road in a few days. Many will take severe downrounds and have to drastically downsize as a result; others will implode altogether.

What does this mean (blitzscale, and sand hill road) ?
Your entire post history is obsessed with criticizing Jews and Israel - you can shroud your antisemitism as “just politics bro” but it’s not a good look regardless. HN isn’t the place to peddle your hate.
I've honestly made enough of a positive experience to recommend doing it.

Sometimes people just genuinely tell you things like "there wasn't enough detail about X on your CV, but we took a chance and called you anyway" - that tells me that I can improve my chances for a callback in the future by adding more detail (if I get that same feedback 2-3 times).

You're right though in that a looooooooot of hiring people also have no clue what they want to see.
Needs more of an arc to the game and end more quickly naturally. Like more trash at a time as you go on, or don't ever make it so it goes down to only a single fish. I got to 49/50 and just had to keep the trash can hovering over the fish, and I eventually stopped collecting on purpose after my score got above 1000.

Also might be better if some of the trash specifically targets fish instead of just dropping randomly. Like you determine the trajectory of the trash and fish and spawn it so it will hit it normally. Didn't seem to do that at all once I got down to only a few fish left, things just got way easier for me because there was less targets to protect.

Clever idea though, and the mechanics are nice and smooth.
"safety" in this context need not mean solely physical safety.
I would jump back to fpc/lazarus after twenty years if devexpress supported it.
If there is no relation between the two, then what are you looking to achieve with your comment? Because what you're doing sounds an awful lot like whataboutism[0], which suggests tacit defence on your part of the russian federation's terrorism and genocide.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Cool details. Makes sense, since a database has to have index creation anyway, and if you're avoiding merge joins for code complexity reasons, why not use it to optimize.

An interesting project to manage indexes on postgres that seems tangentially related:

https://github.com/ankane/dexter
I don't think it matters as much as people here seem to think.

You're the current CTO of a unicorn looking for a more technical role with stability so you apply to be a staff+ engineer at Google. Now the opposite: you've taken a year off to take care of an elderly parent. In both cases, your resume is one of the lowest signals we have. You're going to need to pass that interview.

HR folks aren't even looking this closely as long as you have a resume with the right prior experiences. And almost none of these resume concerns matter with a referral.
And you don’t resort to memorized algorithms when that happens. You research.
I have the same feeling, unless your response to the question about the gap is "yea I was on the run from the law for a while because I killed some people while robbing a bank, then I had to spend some time in prison but I had a really good lawyer" I dont know how much impact it really has
Show HN: Save your Thoughts on Ethereum network
> The open source contribution/project would have to have a sufficiently high bar for it to be even considered. Else, I'd just assume they were being less than honest. I'd rather someone tell me they spent a year working on themselves, playing video games, hiking, etc.

You think working on a passion project and trying out a startup is toxic and then you come out with this pessimistic bucket crab viewpoint? You’d be doing people a favour not hiring them, I’d feel bad for anyone working for you.
Indeed! Seems like the simple answer is "if you're going to install sensors, better to just install them everywhere to avoid bias in any direction."
The only value of having a knee-jerk 'startup' going is to not appear unemployed.

If it's for the optics, then I'd just move the dates of my previous side-projects around and call it a faux-startup. It's not lying. It is work you have previously done as a side-project/school-project at some point. But saying you did it in the last few months helps give the appearance of being continuously employed and not being rusty.

SWE interviewing IS a fulltime job. When unemployed, it is especially important to use that time to: [1] Reflect on what job you want for your future & [2] Work on achieving that job. Together, they will take up ALL your time. Tech recruitment wants to have their cake and eat it too. You are expected to have an excellent primary project and have time for the months it takes to Leetcode. It's unrealistic and leads to a period of overwork for candidates.

Jugaad is never optimal. But sometimes, Jugaad is necessary.
I prefer Xbill
> FAANGs are slowing down hiring because they used PPP money to overhire and are now trimming down the fat.

Do you have any evidence that any FAANGs took PPP money to overhire? I searched the PPP loan datasets (using fairly terrible online tools) and couldn't find any instances that would be aligned with your claim above. Did I miss some?
I liked this quote:

> “When faced with two choices, flip a coin. When it’s in the air, you’ll know which side you’re hoping for.” —Former gangster Arnold “The Brain” Rothstien

Basically, you'll know which direction to take, after taking your first step (or you'll learn to fly, after being pushed from the nest).

In my case, this was exactly that. I got laid off from my previous job (after almost 27 years). It was entirely expected (for years), so I'd had a lot of time to prepare.

When I learned Hard Truth #9 (If you are over 40, it will be rough. If you are over 50, prepare to be humiliated -and not get a job), I was fairly panicky, at first, then, I realized that I had plenty of savings to retire early, and I already knew of some nonprofits that could use my expertise, so I didn't need to stop working.

I really wanted to retire -not to play golf, but to work harder than I ever have, in my life, doing stuff that is appreciated, effective, and untainted by bad management and "fuck it -let's ship."

So I was forced into it.

A number of companies didn't get my work, but I seriously doubt they miss me. They certainly didn't seem as if they would, during the recruiting process, and I probably would have been laid off again, tout suite.

It's actually been an amazing five years.
No one knows anything with certainty right now, but that doesn't stop people from speculating. Some people speculating will be right, some will be wrong.

I see almost as much speculation that "we've already seen the worst" for this recession as I do that "it's going to get much worse". Even among the crowd that thinks it's going to get worse in 2023 before recovering in 2024, they can be right and also wrong (it could continue to get worse until 2025)
Keep in mind that you don't need a traditional electrical battery for heat - storing heat directly is extremely cheap, you just need insulation and thermal mass (i.e. sand/rocks, any old crap will do). There are a fair few systems that use easy summer-solar to generate heat, store it for months at a time and then release the heat in winter.

It scales up really well thanks to the cube-square law, which is a euphemistic way of saying it's hard to make a viable system that's really small. But if you're off-grid because you're in the middle of nowhere, then you can spare a few square meters anyway.
> Do you even realize how weird this statement is? A "non-open" platform (is this Apple's marketing speech for closed platform?) is in fact "non-open" [...]

You're attacking my phrasing, rather than the argument.

> even if it claims to be "less non-open" [sic] than something else.

Apple never claimed anything here. No aspect of how open/closed the platform is is a part of their marketing, or any other official statement (they have literally kept their lips sealed even as they added the raw image boot option). My statement about their level of openness is based on observation, and comparison with contemporary and historical platforms.

> At least we're now on the same page regarding the fact that Apple's platform isn't open in any way.

I don't think we are. The only thing we've established so far is that Apple's platform is not 100% open, which was already a part of my original statement - and which is why I keep asking, what is your actual point? My original statement also included the remark that openness is a spectrum - your argument seems to boil down to the claim that openness is binary.

So, what is your benchmark for an open platform then? IBM PC, where literally everything was being reverse engineered, from 1981 onward? NVidia, where the open source driver is still unusable, 20+ years in? Raspberry Pi, where you have to upload a binary blob to the GPU, so it can bootstrap the main CPU? Modern x86 systems that block third-party OS's from booting[1]? Some median Android handset, which won't unlock the bootloader without an exploit, and will be forever stuck on an ancient kernel? Intel & AMD CPUs, which all have a dedicated core that runs a full OS, that is outside of the user's control?

Can you name a single system, that has any kind of market adoption (say >0.01%, so things like MNT[2] don't count), that does not make significant compromises on openness?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32023868
[2]: https://mntmn.com/

> Of course this makes it easy to run any OS you like on Apple hardware, right? ;-)

You're using sarcasm and rhetorical questions to make it seem like I am claiming something that I do not - this is very insincere. I have never made any claims that it's easy to port or run any OS to M1 Macs; only that it is still easier than on other, even more closed platforms (including even other Apple products, from which M1 is derived). Another observation: the Asahi project has made more progress towards developing a fully open GPU driver in 2 years than the similar effort for NVidia has done in 20.

Again, what is your benchmark?
That's not strictly fair. The problem is that the critical systems were moved to share transport on the main hub with infotainment (safe, I did modelling of the messages for Volvo way back).
On that hub is wireless access. Cars have been using CANBUS way longer than that issue entering play and without physical access you wouldn't be able to hack them and with physical access you could easily tamper with brakes or other systems.
I would love it if modern apps were this configurable, catering to wide flexibility and putting the user in control, rather than focusing nearly exclusively on the developer's personal design aesthetic du jour.

Closest thing we have in the Linux world right now is KDE but even there I still come across things I wish were more configurable. Much of the time, I find someone else has made the same request but the devs turn it down with, "nah, that will just confuse new users."
You're bang on - I was asked in the very first call for two references.

Also in this case I really don't mind disclosing - I was laid off because my position was made redundant entirely.
You seem to assume that energy cost is the same no matter how it's delivered. Here in California, electricity is much more expensive than natural gas for the same amount of potential energy.
Gosh it's so hard these days. So much of the past 10 years was easy speculation and I have certainly let that go to my head. Even as a fresh grad, I had people beating down my door. Suddenly, it's all quiet. I'm reduced to working at the grocery store- a humbling experience for sure.
This should have it's own file extension.
The GRAD system has been in the works for a LONG time. Verily and X (and possibly Waymo and others) have been using a similar system since before the pandemic. I don't think it's an excuse for stealth layoffs, it's just a mess. Everybody hated the perf / promo system which took tons of time for everyone, and Sundar and co have wanted to build a streamlined system for ages.

The rollout of GRAD has been badly mishandled - universally, every manager I've talked to, including directors and VPs, had no idea what was going on, no clue what to do. There was basically no training, the tools were slow buggy third garbage, and they've been making last minute changes all thru the process. The tools are so bad that they're going to start building in-house ones like we used to use under the old Perf system. The new system is much quicker for non-managers but a giant burden for managers, which means that lots of folks will probably slip thru the cracks and not get rated as well as they may have with the old system where you were responsible for much more of your packet, and feedback from peers was a much larger component. Now they've replaced the peer feedback with nonsensical surveys and a single short answer to a question that usually doesn't make sense.
A local professor takes the local newspaper to task over this alarmism.

https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2022/12/more-climate-misinfor...
Right, but to oversimplify, as innocent as I am, I will react differently when asked "enjoying the weather today", "where were you on night if December 12th", and "did you murder Mukelefa Stanjipoljic". There'll be contrast just as baseline!

I had a law enforcement in-law who was confident he could figure out a man by shaking his hand and looking at him in the eye, etc etc. He was perennial favourite of all the sleezy salespeople around because while he was certain he was getting a deal and being taken care of and getting the good stuff, for anything I had any insight into (computer, car, photo, and music stuff), he was getting ripped six ways to Sunday. But his confidence was not to be shaken.
SIEM?
You will probably keep your dataset on Cloud storage and Google Cloud has much higher Network speed, it makes things much faster than working locally

Obviously if you have your own local data center then you would use that
Heh. To me is sounds like some Victorian-era disease that requires a suitable balancing of humors and maybe a touch of bloodletting to cure.
would be cool to get a diagnostic message when that happens
Video games waste time. TV wastes time. Reading wastes time. Watching movies wastes time. And so on. It's not any more a waste of time than other things that aren't work.

Also, there's plenty of games that are shorter or can be played in short sessions if you are too busy for long sessions.