skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for this. There is a very vocal minority on HN that cries bloody murder about touchscreens in cars. Anything that argues against the hivemind is often downvoted and dismissed without much thought or self-reflection.
I've used both things but never considered combining them. Very clever.
You think they planted evidence? What makes you believe that?
More often than not this is kubernetes, openshift or ECS that is used at work more than docker which is more a local dev solution that is easily replaced by podman.
100% had this thought because of the repetition. It generally just feels like it makes the same point three times without adding anything new in any of them.
They have locations outside the US for example Zürich Switzerland. If they are served a secret warrant for data in that location I would want to know and I would legally have the right to know under Swiss jurisdiction.
Thanks for this warning.

Even worse for me, because my laptop keyboard has some kind of horrible encoding causing latency on the shift key, so I'm constantly doing :Wq when I type fast enough... Yeah I had the suspicion it was human error - but I've tested using a single finger for shift and w, so it's definitely the keyboard.

[edit]

Looks like that feature is not necessarily built in by default though.
Noncompetes should be illegal but it's a bit absurd to claim the FTC suddenly discovered they have the authority to unilaterally and retroactively modify contractual terms for tens of millions of contractors and workers - especially deciding whether it is "unfair competition" depends on whether the particular labor market segment votes reliably Democrat or not.

Under this reading of their authority they equally have the power to impose noncompetes on workers - it's all readable as "unfair competition", right?

Given the Supreme Court's recent jurisprudence on the major questions doctrine I'm skeptical this holds up in court.
Fair enough, it must be inevitable and the algorithm is irrelevant.
Logicians Are Everywhere
Facial recognition's rapid adoption exposes alarming pitfalls
A very good article. I think it's nice as a C++ dev to see how problems can be solved within the restraints of C, and how we might learn from those limitations where C++ might have strengths and where we might wanna lean on simpler C mechanisms.
https://solomon.io

I’m a product designer who’s been blogging since around 2009. For several years I managed an online publication, Signal Tower. Then left it to become the host of the Designer News podcast. Some posts y’all might find interesting:

A Children’s Book Written and Illustrated by AI

https://solomon.io/childrens-story-written-illustrated-ai/

Improving Accessibility with Design Tokens

https://solomon.io/improving-accessibility-with-design-token...

Code School, 10 Years Later

https://solomon.io/code-school-10-years-later/
You are looking at the pointy end, people on roids and HGH that lift 8 hours a day.

Compare to someone that lifts for 1 hour 3x a week. He will have stronger bones and joints than either a desk potatoe (no stress = no buildup) or the tradesmen (too much stress without rest = failure)
It’s an argument for continuing to develop that technology but this discussion is for the cars being built now, not in 2050. Self-driving technology isn’t even functional now and nowhere near the level of safety reliability it’ll need before you can say humans will never operate a particular vehicle and therefore it’s safe to remove the controls.
this person either needs to expand where they’re applying or figure out what else about them is turning off employers because they sound smarter than me and i’ve never had trouble finding work in this industry
Yes and how people talk about hip hop in our era is how people talked about jazz in an earlier one. Mainstream audiences and white critics hated it for a long time, dismissed it as unserious or unmusical. A lot of that dynamic is paved over by its later prestige and unmistakable role as a cultural force. But a lot of the people who hate hip hop would have hated jazz too, if they had lived contemporaneous with its rise.
Did Gayle write this? It’s hard to believe that someone who has published multiple best selling books would be struggling with looking for a job and even with paying rent.

EDIT: It’s probably not her. Gayle has a CS degree from upenn while the author of this article states that s/he is not university trained.
> Wrap your structs in a typedef

NOOoooooo, please stop doing this. unless you are a library author who gets to define things like uint8_t, please do not do this

> Use struct wrappers for strong typing

even BIGGER no. This is completely misunderstanding what a typedef is and what it should be used for.
I think it would be of value, to a degree, if the kernel supported multiple languages. As some languages are better suited for some tasks.

This implies comparing them, so I understand your point now.
The liner notes on 'Bag's Groove' notes that Miles asked Monk to 'lay out' on one take, and Monk took some offense at that. But whether that was everybody or just Davis is unclear. Davis had his own ego issues with being the new wunderkind and all.
Show HN: URL Snake
Just a little demo I made of a fully functioning game of snake encoded entirely within a valid url (around 1033 bytes of code encoded into a 1464 byte url).
What it is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_of_Cestius
Average/normal != bad

It's not that you're a bad programmer, but after reading the article you're doing the nerd-at-the-dance fallacy and doing the old spray and pray. Do the work to identify a fit, then go there and make the case for why you fit. Places where you'd just be a number are not for you because you're not a leetcoder and you don't do politics, which is totally fine.

Nerds at the dance don't identify a fit, they either don't shoot their shot, or they shoot every shot and see what lands. When you haven't identified a fit saying "I see you have a square hole there, check me out I'm your square peg" people know, and that type of limp introduction is received more as a "alms for the sick" type of interaction where you're asking for them to bequeath you with labor.

Also, lift some weights. Sounds like the rest of your life is in order, financially, skills, etc, but no mentions of fitness. When you're physically pushed to your limits, the trivial parts of life become a lot less uncertain. That confidence is exuded from every pore. What you have right now is a mind problem, a me problem, and misaligned expectations.

In your mind you're saying: They dont want me I'm a bad programmer

In reality: I have not found my square edges, I wouldn't know a square hole from a dimple or why I'd want either one.

In your mind you're saying: Other people dont have these problems, it's just me, the imposter who got themself into this programming nonsense.

In reality they're saying: Other CEO's dont have these problems, it's just me, one manager, sifting through all these flighty leetcoders who practiced the test, but not tested the practice.

In your mind you're saying: I expect a suboptimal outcome because I am suboptimal, so why try.

In reality: I feel suboptimal, I look suboptimal, I will now perform suboptimal because everything I put in my gastank was suboptimal. Stop that nonsense.

Stop listening to yourself and be better. Go find you a hole, and pick up something heavy along the way.
A JSON object can solve all your problems. {"idSource": "dkCRV", "value": "12345"} or {"idSource": "plPESEL", "value": "2137"} would be quite obvious. If you’re working with a language that cares about types, you can also make idSource into an enum (so it’s harder to make a typo or implicitly forget about handling a value). And if your API offers a documentation (such as OpenAPI, or a GraphQL schema), the documentation will include a list of possible values, and tooling might even generate the nice enum for you.

Is it a standard? No. But does it need to be to be useful and obvious to everyone?
Yeah, if there isn't any opinion available other than using C, pity that security isn't part of modern C lexicon.
> It still sounds like a legitimate question to me.

It is a legitimate question. But it's a legitimate question answered in 978 pages in the late 1940s[0] – and that answer's validity is questionable, considering how much it leans on the experience of upper-middle-class French women from the 1940s. I think it's fair to say that a more complete answer would be longer.

Expecting somebody to answer this question, in the context people like Alex are asking it, is like saying "if red isn't Fe₂O₃, then what is red?" (and then refusing to listen to answers like "apples are also red" or "red is a kind of visual perception" or "photons can have different energy levels"). It's so much easier to pose the question than answer it; you basically have to be an academic philosopher to even understand why the question is meaningful.

> Also the comparison to transspecies people. So a person who feels like a lion, is still a human, or not?

This, likewise, probably requires a book to answer. I'm not aware of anyone having written one; if there are academic treatises, they'd probably start by distinguishing between species concepts[1] and work from there. (I'll give the tentative answer "Yes, but it requires you to decouple some of your notions about what human is." – provided you don't quote me on that.)

A good rule of thumb to use is the principle of charity: nobody's claiming anything absurd.

> So why can a person who feels like a woman change their biological sex then?

Empiricism. Like with species, there are several different ways to define biological sex; most can be altered, in humans. Endocrinological sex, secondary sex characteristics, primary sex characteristics… Reproductive capacity, even, though that's not legally available for humans yet, and I doubt it's practically available either.

But, as you noticed, "change their biological sex" isn't the point of being transgender. (Not that there's really "a point" in the first place, but semantics.) It might be worth making the distinction between transgender and transsexual, while observing there's a decent overlap… though there's an extent to which that's just a model, too. The best description of reality is reality itself.

> There are biological differences and I don't think acknowledging that, has anything to do with supporting patriarchal power structures, which undoubtedly still exists.

There are many biological differences – but our society fixates heavily on certain differences (secondary sex characteristics, "race"-associated phenotypical variations) to the detriment of everybody involved. It's fine to acknowledge them, but try not to categorise people by them without their consent, and don't sanctify them as immutable when they're very clearly not.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Sex

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_concept
I suspect that most people who understand the role AMA plays in prohibition and drug abuse also aren’t super interested in focusing on blame. The whole thing is a complicated system of perverse incentives and counterproductive policies. It doesn’t really matter if the AMA is 20% or 60% to blame.
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I have interviewed several hundred software engineers over decades.

It’s hard to get a sense of a person from a single blog entry. I’m wondering though if she’s really good at acing FAANG style interviews and maybe not so good at other types? She seems to have written a book on coding interviews and worked at both Google and Apple so she must’ve gotten that process down well.

With those types of companies not hiring, layoffs and a general macroeconomic slowing it’s probably going to take longer than usual to land a job after a self-chosen employment gap of 4-5 months.
If they're brave enough, they'll render themselves unable to sign the canary with the key they previously used (by "accidently" destroying it), and accept whatever punishment is headed their way because of that.
What’s the Swiss legal theory under which you have the right to know that someone else was served with a warrant?
This is only by coincidence. They’ll do that if they think they can get away with it no matter what type of controls it has.
Espressif also has a bookstore direct outlet. The “module” prices look spendy but are sold in strips of 10. Here is ESP32-C3 at 1.90/module

https://www.amazon.com/Espressif-ESP32-C3-WROOM-02-N4-Module...
"If I had at least one or two offers I might believe them, but can the system be so wrong as to consistently overlook a good developer even if they are bad at interviews?"

...yes, yes it can.
Isn't Cypress, for example, 100% about automating test steps?
It's actually not Pareto's but more like "Normal Distribution" and that is something embedded in Nature/Society that one can't change or eradicate. It's just the way things work, the natural dynamics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution

But that is objectively speaking.

Objectively we all have great tools:

* Free Will

* Agency

* Locus of control

and more. Choose wisely.
Wootz steel was never lost. Just the contaminated with vanadium ores they used disappeared. We know quite well what happens to a carbon steel with vanadium. Most high performance steels today are made with it in the alloy.
The last car I rented had the lane assist mode on a physical button. That was surprisingly convenient as lane assist is nice on highway but a lot less so on small rural roads with more spotty markings.

Only issue is the lane assist switch 1. is not a physical toggle (it's a change mode button which doesn't change position) and 2. it's the same shape and around the buttons for quick beam adjustment and dash lighting level

Though none of the three is utterly critical, and all three are rather well notified through the dashboard (a little icon is displayed for dipped beams) so even if you get it wrong by sole touch it's not really critical.

The somewhat sadder part is as a rental (and thus entry level) only like 5 of the 8 possible buttons under the touchscreen have a function associated. Seems a bit of a shame to not put some more minor function on the last 3.

The designers also put the "mute" function on pressing both "volume up" and "volume down" at the same time, which is easy to mistakenly do (they're at the end of the same stalk, the position is convenient but it's very easy to hit both when trying to increase or decrease volume).
I think that if we legalize dangerous addictive drugs then we might as well legalize all medications/drugs by which point the medical establishment loses a big chunk of the income that it gets from being a monopoly supplier.

I wish society was mature enough for full legalization, but often those pushing for legalization underplay the negative problems associated with drug use. Particularly for that 'harmless plant' marijuana. A university acquaintance went acute schizophrenic shortly after developing a pot habit, that could be a coincidence but the timing is suspicious. A second cousin became mentally retarded immediately after smoking a joint. He's now a 30 year old who can't tie his own shoes.

Big businesses already have enough power to shape politics, we're still in the process of stamping out cigarettes. I've noticed a lot of smoking on Netflix so clearly they're still working on a comeback. How long until they put coke back into Coca-Cola and funding scientific studies about how a bump a day is actually good for you.

Then there is the seriousness of surreptitiously giving someone an addictive substance, to put the hook into them, which I consider to be interfering to the working of the brain and akin to murder. At the moment the focus is around the drug being illegal as opposed to the deleterious effect it can have. Criminal gangs use this tactic fairly frequently as an alternative to killing someone but I believe it should solicit the same punishment.
They weren’t talking about Tesla FSD
I’m sorry, I believe the topic was dietary guidelines.

But you’re right, of course, if we should consider the environment as well. I haven’t eaten fish in 8 years, personally, partly because so much of it is fished or farmed in an unsustainable way.
My car, born from jets, has no tire pressure checker, no garage door opener, no touchscreen, no automatic transmission, and smack-you-in-the-back-of-the-head turbo lag. I honestly can’t think of a new car I’d trade it for (unless selling that new car to buy more old cars isn’t cheating).
You can't copyright algorithms, you can only copyright specific expressions of code.
Some of the hobbies

Some of the basic (power)tools, drill, driver, saws, clamps. It's increadible how cheaply you can start a woodworking, metalworking fabrication projects. Trick is to dedicate some time and have a big enough garage/basement/room. For woodworking dust is the largest limiting factor in having fun for hobby shop. For metal, its the fumes, smell. Getting into machining, with lathe/mill requires a bit more space/dedication but is suprisingly clean(er), so people have done it even in their apartments.

Also for folks in the apartment, a 3D printer (full frame based ones that could be upgraded over time) and/or laser engraver-cutter (one of the latest diode 20-30w range) assuming you can ventilate the fumes, would get you and your kids endless fun.

Other than the above, for me personally, getting a good bicycle (a cyclo-cross-road type) with good all weather gear allowed me to ride anytime, anywhere and really use free time to the max (a honest recommendation, don't bother with performanse spec and weight too much, get a wider tire bike that can go anywhere with a widest range of gears, it's so much more rewarding). No other activity you can burn calories for 3-5 hours straight, and it helps away from a screen.
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If you use their software with Flow setting, you don’t need to hit the mouse button, but as you state. This isn’t Linux friendly. I also use the logi bolt, which removes the all switching lag.

The button being on the bottom of the mouse is the absolute dumbest thing that they did with this setup for sure.
I always use ZZ! It’s so much more convenient to type with one hand
That escalated from 0 to 100 real quick. A whole civilization?
Yes, I've seen this (in UK, but can't think off-hand of an example) where the judge says "yeah, no" to someone trying to be clever.
There are books/tomes written about each of those topics, more than can be written here, but the place to start is not to build at all, but instead find ways to talk to potential users and buyers and their specific pain points, use cases, and your proposed solutions/features/workflows. This can be turned into slide decks and Figma interface walkthroughs without writing any code. These can be used to line up interest, piloters, potential buyers.

This is a lot of work but it is the essential starting point in defining WHAT to build. It is a LOT less work and orders of magnitude less expensive than actually building, especially if you build the wrong thing.

SSO, security, data governance and compliance regimes are just "ilities"/HOW to build details that come later at actual system design time. If you understand what needs to be built, you can hire people who know how to build with those ilities.
They could state just that fact, which still serves to prove the point.
When my company needed photos of everyone they announced a new policy and then 10 minutes later sent aggressive emails to each manager asking why they thought it was professional for their subordinates to be out of compliance. We use Concur too.
A slight problem would be as soon it looked like such a legal precedent were about to be set, anyone publishing the statements would therefore be incentivised to cease publishing them while they still could legally.

More succinctly, the legal precedent would compel people to "break the law".

I'd argue such a conflicted legal outcome could only be resultant from unsound base principles.
Maybe I am not trapped in the Star Trek Mirror Universe; I am trapped in a W40k timeline? We went from TFA's

> Emboldened by supposed advances in Artificial Intelligence and medical science, the Extropian cult fantasises of abandoning the ‘wetware’ of the human state altogether to become living machines.

to the strength and certainty of steel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gIMZ0WyY88

[Edit: NB, there are countries with viable and functioning political centres. They're just not the countries which constitute the cultural centre of the 'net.]
I like having those studies more so ~~I can feel selfrighteous~~ my intuitive feeling actually gets data supporting it. I try to have 'this is my opinion, not fact' as the default mode when possible.
> The explanation in the original paper turns out not to be true; you can get rid of most of their assumptions and it still works

I’ll admit it is amusing that some assumptions on why it works were incorrect. The core idea of a Markov chain[0] where each state change leads to higher likelihood, is bound to work, even if the rest doesn’t.

In my mind, the Muse paper[1] gets closer to why it works: ultimately, the denoiser tries to match the latent space for an implicit encoder. The Muse system does this more directly and more effectively, by using cross-entropy loss on latent tokens instead.

In a way, the whole problem is no different from a language translation task. The only difference is that the output needs to be decoded into pixels instead of BPE tokens.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.03585

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00704
Your hiring process is worse than useless if you’re letting someone like Gayle slip through the net.
Like the Taylor Swift song, "Haters gonna hate-hate-hate" no matter what you say or do. Take me for example. I am active on a social media-ish site, on topics about immigration. As you can imagine, the discussions go way beyond expected due to people's strong opinions or what-not. And I am not the one to shut up because someone pesters me.
I got doxed by this Indian scumbag, because I told him and thousands of others, how the H-1B visas actually work and why they are nit good in the long run for the US employers and the whole nation in general. He (assuming "he", might be a "her") tried to contact my employer and get me fired from my job. I had a very uncomfortable meeting with my HR rep. Did I stop? No? The scumbag from India? His profile on that site vanished. I think, he pissed off one too many people.
They predate rust.
Hot take: I think the programming world created a lot of good and funny ways for knowledge transfer, BUT, it is very rare to find a book that truly push your level to be a top programmer.
Yeah, this was a very confusing and unhelpful aspect of the post. It's not clear until too far in that it's not her. She should have prefaced it by saying it was reader-submitted (or however it ended up on her substack).
Not really. You can say the same about about both sides. I prefer buttons and touchscreen. See the ioniq 5 for a good example of this implementation.

Tesla seem to be trying to Steve Jobs / iphone the car experience, and I absolutely don't want that.

And if having a different opinion to you means I'm of the hivemind, then so be it (frankly a ridiculous comment, but anyway).
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They make tire pressure gauges without touchscreens; even then, dashboards have indicators light up when pressure is too low. Garage door openers have buttons, and long-pressing often does magical things, like entering setup mode. And presumably, you have a calendar in a handheld device you carry with you everywhere; it's much more convenient then trying to carry a car in your pocket.