skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I interviewed several Uber/Amazon engineers and they couldn't solve a simple problem (very easy problem that most bootcamp grads could do).

That's probably why you're interviewing them. I doubt the ones who are good at their job are leaving as much as the ones who aren't. This is like reverse survivorship bias.
I'll look into this more later, but right now it's bothering me that (a) your writeup specifies that the digits of the result code are drawn from 0/1/2 [a minor issue]; and (b) the minimum number representable in three digits of base 3 where the digits are -/0/+ is ---, -9 + -3 + -1 = -13, which will make the results -14 through -19 unreachable. The same problem occurs on the other side, where the maximum result is +++, positive 13.
Hackers leak email addresses tied to 235M Twitter accounts
I agree. The idea of perfectly reproducing a performance note for note may have been impressive before recorded music, but now it's the boring default. When people talk about a "song" they really mean a particular recording of a single performance played metronomically over a grid.

People are starved for the human touch in music that comes for free with any live performance. In most of the US there is so much focus on mega pop stars executing perfectly planned shows with exorbitant ticket prices that there is little exposure to real improvisation. My hope is that people jamming together for fun can regain its place as a cultural staple in this century, but it seems like the barriers are higher than ever.
This makes me think of a quote from one of Dijkstra's lectures:

"In the long run I expect computing science to transcend its parent disciplines, mathematics and logic, by effectively realizing a significant part of Leibniz's Dream of providing symbolic calculation as an alternative to human reasoning. (Please note the difference between "mimicking" and "providing an alternative to": alternatives are allowed to be better.)"

When talking about a tool thats supposedly greater than humans, why should the shortcomings of humans be relevant? The tools we create to surpass our own capabilities should be greater than our own capabilities, not stunted by the same issues.
The 1 hour charge rate is a function of the battery chemistry ultimately. Whether the battery is 10kWh or 1000kWh, you can do the 0->70% in 30 minutes so long as you have enough power.
"Shouldn't" and "can't" are different things.

I can power a couple of radios with far less than a full generator.
good for you, but that's not a drug. behavioral interventions don't work clinically. GLP-1 agonists work incredibly well.
Where in my post did I say that?

If you do want to see my response about the endless wars:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34249354

But comment you replied to is about the 1A and the military that makes that possible.
I worked for (and my wife still works for) a small company that provided a boutique set of engineering services. They had a non compete that was very narrowly tailored and called out by name the competitors that you couldn’t go work for directly (6 months or a year), all of which were also small companies.

That sort of non-compete that seems reasonable to me- very specific, time limited, and only for people with actual trade knowledge.

A good test is the number of openings a prohibition covers. The non-compete I signed covered maybe 30 openings nationwide in a good year, and zero in my local metro area.
About 20 years ago I joined a large company in California, where non-compete clauses are essentially disallowed.

A few years later, I moved to the company's offices in Washington State, where non-competes are allowed. Before the move I emailed HR and asked if I needed to sign the WA state employment agreement (with that non-compete clause) and they said "no". I saved that email.

Forward a decade, I resigned to work for a competitor.

That exit interview was fun. :-)

[I was working on completely different stuff at the new company. I do take NDAs and trade secrets seriously].
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I agree. The problem is the infrastructure to extract, refine, transport, and distribute oil. Does removing 98% of internal combustion engine vehicles on the road mean removing 98% of gas stations, 98% of oil platforms, 98% of drilling wells, 98% of tank trucks? I'm not sure that two or three gas stations for a city of two million people can survive in business, unless they charge premium prices for the 2% of use cases that will still use them. And it's not just gas stations, it's everything that becomes before, up to the drill that extracts oil from the ground. Can the oil business survive when scaled down to, like, 10% of what it is now? It could be an industry that can't survive below a critical threshold.
> He added that the majority of the cuts are on the retail and recruiting areas of Amazon.

How large would their recruiting organization be, and what percent do companies cut when they foresee that they won't need to proactively recruit for a couple years (because there will be enough job seekers who will apply to listed positions). I assume they'll still need people to process candidates, but that won't be as many as when they were reaching out to people and trying to woo them.

What does retail mean? Is this a reference to Alexa? Or is this about their storefront operations?
Nonetheless small teams have a big advantage: Much simpler and better communication and coordination.

It's impossible to efficiently communicate in a big team.

Also it's impossible to efficiently lead a big team.

Big organizations are like slime molds. They by principle can't be as effective as small teams.

https://komoroske.com/slime-mold/

(This was submitted to HN at least 3 times but didn't get much love so I'm not linking the few comments).
You know that limit was introduced because "most of the benefits of the labor standards board were going to the rich" or some BS like that.
Talk to a lawyer about it, IMO.
Related coverage with more graphs: https://erictopol.substack.com/p/the-new-obesity-breakthroug...
Is this the internet equivalent of “Don’t get high on your own supply”?
> What I learned while working for your company isn't your company's property any more. Good ideas almost always eventually spread in our industry.

You are only thinking about code. Imagine knowing all the dirty secrets about how your company screwed customers. I have seen employment contracts forbidding working for a customer, in addition to competitors and in addition to an NDA.
It’s too bad we live in a world where any decent looking frontend design starts with “ok so native browser controls are terrible, what UI framework are we going with?” Ideally you wouldn’t need more than a style sheet to accomplish what you do with these UI frameworks.
The Catholic Church at the Council of Rome formally defined what books were considered authentic and which ones were not (and this list was, with some reduction, also used by Protestants). The Book of Enoch was a bit contentious because of the quotation in an inspired book - but it was ultimately determined to be not inspired, and the quotation not necessarily either. (I.e. Imagine if scripture quoted a Roman decree - the decree is not inspired in spite of the quote.)

Despite this, the Book of Enoch and other rejected books do appear in some Bibles, with a warning about how they are apocryphal. Just because they aren’t inspired though (officially-speaking) doesn’t mean they can’t be interesting.
Well yeah, area budgets per-core have never shrunk linearly with transistor density; it serves a wider range of use cases to balance beefing up cores with adding more of them. Like, Intel 7 is 20x denser than Intel 32nm, but a Sandy Bridge core is less than 3x larger than Golden Cove.

Also the L2 cache and shared logic make up a larger percentage of M1/M2 per-core at >45%; that's only 20% of the per-core area for Zen 3... if you include LLC that doubles the per-core Zen3 area but only adds 30% for M2...

Point is that M1/M2 and Zen 4 show that the per-core area budget within the same process is now similar across Apple and AMD, not an order of magnitude different. It used to be an order of magnitude different, like back on 32nm Apple A6 was about 8 mm^2/core and Sandy Bridge was 18.5 mm^2/core, or 30 mm^2 including LLC that A6 didn't have.
You can beat product quality of well funded big teams with an experienced small team. Most that successfully do so don’t brag about it. Only reason to pay for PR is if you are trying to attract a lot of talent or pretend you will dominate the market (which is a VC play). Bragging about success as a small team is like waving a huge juicy steak at all the VC EIRs. Not worth it. Instead of sweating competition, you can keep capturing more of your market quietly. With Generative AI I would bet more and more products will be dominated by small teams of pros. Google and Meta the will always be restricted by screen size and competing internal projects, so consistency wins if you get a revenue stream to keep you alive.
App store discoverability is very poor. Web discoverability is much easier to manage. It's something you have more control over and can buy easier through marketing via any channel you want. App store pages just don't convert well.
Map of ancient ocean 'dead zones' could predict future locations, impacts
"Researchers have created a map of oceanic 'dead zones' that existed during the Pliocene epoch, when the Earth's climate was two to three degrees warmer than it is now. The work could provide a glimpse into the locations and potential impacts of future low oxygen zones in a warmer Earth's oceans."
We were all fans of Ken Block
My spouse's previous employer humiliated them at their job repeatedly, and then went for blood and sued under the non-compete when they took a job elsewhere to stop the abuse. It was totally vindictive and there was really nothing we could do, as they were a multi-billion dollar company and signaled they'd be happy to just keep spending money, even if they were losing, until they bankrupted us. $30,000 in legal fees later (which didn't even get us to discovery), we had to settle, giving them basically everything they wanted, including not allowing my spouse to work at all for three months, and then complete veto power over any job they took for the next year (including even flipping burgers). Seemed completely illegal for them to do that, but they just said, "fine, lets keep the lawsuit going then." We tried calling the state to see if there was anything they could do and were met with, "Huh, that sounds sucky. Bye."

I'd love to shame the company as you're doing, but we're legally bound by the settlement not to say anything about them but how great and wonderful they are as a company.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_California_Proposition_...

Someone should compile a listicle of the "10 worst California propositions" or something like that
A lot of these false arrests and detainments can be fixed by compensating the victim for their time and suffering.

It's already unnerving that you can be jailed for a week at any time without being convicted of anything, but it may also justified (what if you are guilty? What if the crime implies you are dangerous?)

But the fact you can be jailed for a week at any time, and only get a half-heared apology, is plain unfair. The state has the money, and I don't care whether it comes out of police budget (which would lower arrests as a side-effect) or just taxpayers.
I use AppleScript nearly every day, mostly to grab little bits of info from one app & tell another app to do something with it. For example, I have one that grabs the URL & page title of the foremost Chrome tab, switches to Terminal, and starts a youtube-dl process with the Chrome URL. It's just a little shortcut to download whatever I'm currently watching.

It's wonderful because it's so much simpler than building a real integration or application, but it's also terrible because of (A) how tedious it is to actually write AppleScript and (B) how flaky/racy UI automation can be unless you're using great tools.
Most workers at large companies are seen as fungible cogs. Even the engineers. What you describe feels, unfortunately, like an antiquated idea from the 1900s.

I think we need more unions, more automation, and more social security. We are racing towards a future where there simply won’t be enough “jobs” for everyone and the companies sure as heck aren’t going to look out. Companies have no soul and the humans that run them have worked hard to insulate themselves from that being responsible for the actions of that lack of soul they instilled.
Twisted carbon-eating tower is rising in the East
What I remember most of mine was the smell of the exhaust: a bit like overdone cheeseburgers.

Let's talk about Estes model rocket D-size engine bazookas. Because that's where the 70's really shined.
Your dexterity is lost without practice, but I find that the new licks, chord progressions and other ideas you add to your repertoire to be used in improvisation stick around. This to me is far more valuable than the dexterity which I can reacquire in no time. My jazz voicings today are far better than they were at a time when I practiced a lot more piano.
Right. So what you and I are doing is making judgements based on people's actions, and using those judgements to describe those people.

Only, you're trying to frame resisting Russia's expansionist war as anti-American. Which is pretty sus if you ask me.
Please tell me what the purpose of living in a society is? Also, be sure not to use the words "firetrucks", "military jobs program", or "I pay my taxes for this exact purpose, in the event I need these services"
If you take a star and throw it in a black hole you'll last much longer than any star ever would. The mass to energy conversion efficiency can get close to the theoretical maximum possible.
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You made some good points. I am under 40 so I might still have some changing to do as well I guess! As for factors changing during my lifetime, I am not sure. I don't think it's entirely genetic since genes almost always have some environment mediation.

I do believe fat people can get healthy and remain healthy, and I only meant to say that "metabolism" and desire are mediating but not wholly determining factors.

As for the people who can't stop eating, I don't propose to "do" anything with them. I don't believe in altering genetics or using advanced technology to solve the problem. I don't think we should split them out in terms of healthcare either because that would be cruel. I might also have some predisposition to some other costly condition like heart disease and then I would be in another "more expensive" group and just not know about it because it's not visible like obesity.
Would 8 lessons be enough to build that muscle memory though? It is pretty remarkable, though, how long muscle memory can last. I haven't played piano seriously since university except for occasionally noodling on my mom or sister's piano when visiting, and old repertoire seems to flow out of my fingers. Maybe a bit more rusty than when I was taking lessons in my teens, but still there somehow 20 years later.
Wait til you hear about the entire criminal justice system
People are being sold technology they're somehow convinced to 'believe in'. Caveat emptor for consumers, but that can't be good enough for people who can ruin other people's lives.
I hate private trackers, but there is no deny in terms of both seeding sustainability and higher quality (or rarer) resource, they're miles above "public" trackers.
> you'd not have to worry about things like stagnant fuel.

> Generators are a thing that pretty much every one of these services will have.

So … you do have to worry?
Let’s talk about how US policy basically guaranteed a strengthening of this alliance. If you want to find propaganda look no further than The Intercept. Sad given its roots.

We’re busy building BRICS in general and now Turkey and Syria together. This is what you get with neocon warhawks running the show.
Noncompetes should 100% require full-paid gardening leave to be enforceable.

You don't want me ot work for a competitor for a year? Great. You get to pay me full pay and benefits for that year. Let's see how keen companies are to enforce a noncompete then.

Even then they should be limited in scope but without paid gardening leave they should be utterly unenforceable.
> The thing is, the “one way” is not at all true now.

Agreed. It was a smaller language then, but it's never been as expressive as Ruby.
I remember playing with one of these. I remember it went up and never came back down.

https://www.flyingdiscmuseum.com/novelty/multi-piece/h242871...
But then if you want to avoid the non-compete you would just get fired on purpose.
Classic unintended consequence of regulation.
But I do agree that non-competes should be illegal or somehow highly disincentivized.
Amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW_8iwB96BQ
> What factors do you think are influencing your desire to eat more or less?

Well, as you said:

> It apparently changes quite a lot as different factors in your life influence you

As far as

> Additionally, what do you think of the folks who were fat, who then got healthy, and remain healthy? It sounds like you don't believe they can exist

There's no implication that they can't exist; just that it's myopic to assume that what worked for them will also work for other people who are fat, particularly when they've tried the same thing and report that it's failed.

> Finally, what should we do to the people who have these [factors] that cause them to eat and/or gain weight with little or no control?

Accessible GLP-1 agonists are a good start.
Or: Why is Python still growing and Java falling behind?
How many kids will performance in philharmonics because they played Trombone Champ?
yes. yes it is.
Paul Hudson has an amazing library of content at his website/YT for 100 days of Swift, and SwiftUI online for free.

https://www.hackingwithswift.com/100
Why go out and do detective work when you can let the magic face machine give you a wild ass guess?
I started playing bass guitar when I was 11. My father told me no when I asked if I could play bass.

Since my parents were divorced I was able to talk to my Mom about it. She got me a cheap used bass. I was so happy- it felt like I was meant to be a bass player. I played it every day. Wrote songs, learned songs. Eventually I earned a B.M. and had a music career.

Growing up in a family that didn’t play music, I’m not sure how I feel about pushing music lessons on my kids. No one made me do it, but no one could stop me either.

I just try to have gear available for them to mess with. If they get that drive to be a musician, I’ll be there to help.
Speaker Elections Decided by Multiple Ballots
As everyone says AHK is phenomenal but the scripting language is pretty warty. I wonder if they considered using Lua or something instead of improving their custom language?
From what I've heard - It's been changed to a yearly (instead of twice a year) and apparently there's been pressure to rate people at a higher standard with a simple 5 level impact score. 'Not enough impact'. 'Moderate impact'. 'Significant impact'. 'Outstanding impact'. 'Transformative impact'. This feels kind of like something akin to a bell curve with the peak in Significant. I assume the culling will be from the 'Not enough' and possibly 'Moderate' bins. For a complete picture we would also need to understand the old performance process. A Googler could fill us in as this change has happened only this year.
Would you please spontaneously opine on some great and wonderful companies?
What does "south park wow guy meme" mean?
> Are they in danger of running out of money?

Have we been in a bubble so long that people have forgotten that the raison d'etre for publicly traded companies existing is not to simply exist, but rather make profit and ideally continually expanding profit for share holders?

For a startup runway and growth of whatever nature are all that matter. You need to exist long enough for the exit event, and grow in a way that makes this more possible. If you have a two year runway, you have two more years to win your investors back their money and more. But this is not true for publicly traded companies. Simply surviving or, even worse, slowly burning reserves is not enough.

I know so many post-IPO startup employees that dismiss layoffs because "the company has tons of cash!"

Do you invest in a company because you think it won't go out of business for a decade? No you invest because their profit margins are healthy and you think they'll continue to grow in a sustainable, net revenue positive way.

I still remember the dotcom bubble, which was much shorter than what we've been in, and the public debate among investors was about the "new economy" and claims that "things are different now". However those old fuddy-duddies that kept arguing that companies need to make more than they spend were proven right in just a few years.

Today I see CEOs and executive leadership at companies genuinely surprised that they're being asked to prove that they can be profitable. I see generations of tech workers sincerely confused about the very idea of what it means to run a successful business.

Amazon is doing massive layoffs because they need to show investors that the know how to create value, and become more profitable. At least Amazon has shown periodically that they can make profit. There are plenty of post-IPO startups that have never proven that they are even capable of not running at a loss.
They are "pretty good" in the sense that they define the sequence of assembly instructions according to some C type code that may have produced them. This is a tool that gives you essentially, "this function might be doing MD5".

I haven't tried it yet, but I can see it being useful if it's somewhat accurate (that's a big if), and quite different from what Ghidra gives you in pseudo code.
If "fat people can get healthy and remain healthy" then you agree that it is indeed a matter of willpower, right?
> Can the oil business survive when scaled down to, like, 10% of what it is now?

How much gasoline was distributed back in 1930? 10% of today? 2%? Seems they did fine?
Tracker URLs have always been plainly visible to anyone (or anything) that has the torrent file, what exactly is the news here?
It was sad to see WA leaders kowtow to Amazon and Microsoft and limit the non compete ban to those paid under $100k per year. Should have been copy pasted from California law.
Heh, would love to! But honestly, I was so shell-shocked by the whole thing that I won't even take the chance.