skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I happen to have read her book on Cracking the Coding Interview which I found was a nice refresher for interview-type like questions. She writes:

> And for all of this I still blunder my way through an exercise to write a function which returns a boolean in response to the question of whether sequence A is a sub-sequence of sequence B. I still draw a blank when asked what the magnitude of complexity is for the guests function I just wrote

which I have a hard time believing as she covers this in a whole chapter of her own book. Clearly she knows how to do this stuff, given that she wrote the book herself.

My guess is that either the (US) market is currently facing a recession which has hit the dev market as well by now or she is somewhat of a generalist with no deep knowledge of a specific area and the companies she were interviewing for are searching for a specialized person rather.
> Now I'm experimenting with mamba ("fast conda") and that's pretty good.

+1 for this. I really like Conda because I use a lot of packages that cannot be installed with only pip (E.g. GDAL). Conda would sometimes take 10 minutes to make an environment.

Mamba has been an absolute game changer. It has rewritten parts of Conda in C++ and added multithreading, so every part of the process - the solving, download, and the extraction - is all Lightning quick in comparison. A 10 minute process with Conda can now take 2.5 mins with Mamba. It also helps that it is also prettier to look at!
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He means the systems that sadly runnying our lives, it is not just the west btw.
Good advice.
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Ron.
If these two integrals differ, then you can subtract one from the other, and plot an error function. You would need a bit more storage than a difference engine, and a lot more accuracy than current computational methods.
The Turing Test Is a Thought Experiment
If you want a computer to check the tire pressure, then use a computer to poll the tire pressure indicator and report a fix error when it's too low. My 2006 Passat did that, and it didn't have a touch screen (or a backup camera). Cars have had sensors that report errors for a very long time, and this doesn't require any touchscreens.
Maybe I was criticising the quoted text, not the book.
The thing is: Tesla made essentially the first successful electric car, that is, an electric car people want to buy because they like it as a car, not just because it is electric.

In addition to being electric, Tesla also brought a lot of ideas that have nothing to do with the drivetrain, like big touchscreens, connectivity and "smart" features. Other manufacturers, seeing Tesla success, got the message: if you want to make a successful electric car, copy Tesla.

I think that's why we tend to associate touchscreens with electric cars: because it worked for Tesla. Also I think it gave manufacturers an excuse. It is a new market, they don't have to worry as much about making breaking changes.
There is no such thing as a "fire proof safe". They are rated to maintain a certain temperature delta inside for a certain length of time given a fire outside. In the common situation where a house lights up and the structure collapses with a bunch of hot debris burying the safe, thermodynamics wins.
Which isn't an idiomatic expression; my original point.
I admit, I’m having a hard time holding back a sarcastic reply to this article. Was there really any doubt ever that a button, which one can usually push without looking is superior to touchscreen, which for an average human requires both hands and eyes?
Oh, thank you for mentioning digital dashboards, I completely forgot about those! So, in addition to mandatory physical controls for common functions, my imaginary EU legislation would also prescribe that all essential vehicle information (speed, outside light status, fuel level) has a physical representation (lights, dials, etc., in the sense that there is nothing that could be described as 'software' driving these).

The last 'owned' car that I drove was my wife's quite-high-end Audi. It had a digital dashboard, which was OK and looked extremely cool... until those moments when it froze mid-drive, requiring an engine off/on cycle to recover. Which was really lovely on the highway, cruising along at an unknown speed... (Another charming feature of this car was that the AC would sometimes decide that going into full-blast, no-you-can't-turn-this-off, full-heat mode was a really great idea. This only took, like, five software updates and 18 months to be resolved. The issue where you couldn't cancel the keyfob-based seat personalization was never fixed, so whenever I (6'5") grabbed my wife's (5'2" on a warm day) car keys by mistake, there was lots of grinding of seat motors, trying to drive my knees and head into the car interior, while ignoring my desperate inputs to the 'move the seat back and down please' controls. Comfort feature indeed!)
Businesses fail all the time. Very often because the founders are inexperienced and underestimate just how much knowledge and skill it takes to run something seemingly simple. This is not unusual, it should not “physically hurt” to read. There but for the grace of god etc.

The hyperbole and disdain is unappealing.
So is her blog hacked or is this someone impersonating her?

I also generally don't understand her background, and I see this quite a lot with Silicon Valley backgrounds, so it's more of a general commentary on these types of backgrounds. She went from being an engineer for just three years out of school to founding a consulting firm, publishing company, and publishing books on cracking code and project management interviews. How does that jump happen? Where do people like this get the experience and expertise to write books like this and consult despite only ever having one full-time job before jumping into it?
Libertarianism has become deeply unfashionable. Many on the right talk about libertarianism as a gateway drug to the hard right. As some who is broadly libertarian this is quite distressing. We have no representation in government or the mainstream parties and no media machine like the hard right / alt right or even the far left!
I assumed it was her earlier in life until half way through.
No, nothing specifically related to Warrant Canaries but some law podcasts I listened to - ALAB and Mic Dicta for example - have referenced this phenomenon a few times. It's usually a tech bro or sovereign citizen with a novel interpretation of a law that ends up failing when they eventually have to try to argue their case it in court.
I don't understand the question - this chip has an H.264 encoder on board.
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The same author just published an article on a new open source language model that supposedly outperforms GPT-3[1]. Very curious.

[1] https://therationalist.substack.com/p/glm-130b-an-open-bilin...
The irony is, I started and sold a consulting business. We got to do some things our way, but we still had to make money. Overall, I say do it, but I made choices I never imagined I would have to make. So it goes.
I actually had to look up what creator economy even means exactly and if Wikipedia [1] is accurately describing it, then it seems to essentially belong into the broader category of entertainment.

The creator economy was once hailed as the solution to economic inequality and the savior of the middle class.

How would that have worked? You can not run a world on entertainment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creator_economy
Anything that isn't scalable. Taleb writes at length about this difference in The Black Swan, categorizing professions in which there are winner-take-all effects (Extremistan) and low variance, stable, one-sample-is-representative ones (Mediocristan). As you said, surgeon (the example Taleb gives is 'dentist'), prostitute, taylor, and so on. He also notes that some professions can switch categories, e.g. musician, since the existence of recording technology the distribution became a Pareto one.
> And while I doubt most training data is recoverable, "lossy encoding" is still a spectrum. [...] Compare e.g. with JPEG

I'll just finally note that LLMs are not lossy encodings in the same sense as JPEG. LLMs are closer to human-like learning, where learning from data enables us to create entirely new expressions of the same concepts contained in that data, rather than acting as pure functions of the source data. That's why this will be interesting to see play out in the courts.
I once wrote a business case for something I wanted to build. I was really interested in the solution, but thought I should be specific about the type of customer that would benefit. It was a whole detailed doc of imagined problems & how my solution would fix them.

The best feedback I got was a sr guy who I quite respected just commented “can you link the client’s LinkedIn?”

That’s when I realized I was never going to be specific enough, and starting from the tech was working backwards
Temporary files/shared memory won’t solve the cost of starting up a Python interpreter or a JVM or whatever and importing all your code with its dependencies. As for the connection pooling daemon, you still need to connect to it. It might be faster than talking to the database directly on a different server, but no new connection still beats new local connection.
This is so strange. Is it a substack hack? Is it a marketing strategy? It is bad truncation?
Here is a list of single and double click by brands I found. Seems to be in asia mostly. Is it cultural that allows this in Asia or personal safety to disallow it outside Asia

https://elevation.fandom.com/wiki/Elevator_car_call_cancella...
My wife and I do a lot of cross-country driving. 600 miles is our daily older-person driving limit. My greatest fear (at this time) is that the only charging station in town is backed up with a dozen cars in front of us. That would mess up our schedule big time.
I suppose my question would be do you really need an FPGA? If it can reprogram itself isn't it getting near to being a microcontroller?
Your dismissal of the study reads defensively - it’s not invalid because it shows that the vehicle you own is less efficient to operate.

> by pressing a touchscreen button that is always where you expect it to be.

That last part is key to understanding why this is a concern: Tesla has moved safety-critical controls unexpectedly[1], which never happens with physical buttons, and using those controls is always harder because a touchscreen doesn’t have tactile feedback. Try using even a familiar one with your eyes closed and you’ll realize how much harder it is to maintain attention on something else.

https://www.thedrive.com/tech/43710/teslas-v11-update-blaste...
Ah, thanks! Really appreciate it! Looks neat. And you're happy with it? No chance of the drive sliding out?
It's confusing. It feels like it's written as a joke to highlight that we shouldn't feel bad to get interviews rejections. But It's missing the punchline.
I wouldn't put too much thought into the naming, "informatics" in Germany is still a Bachelor/Master of Science and on the other hand at Stanford they have a "Mathematical and Computational Engineering" programme.
See, that's why even though I'm a terminal user first and foremost, I really like the discoverability of GUIs, and that's where a good GUI is unbeatable by CLI.

This would have just been an entry "Save if needed" in the File menu, right below "Save", and users would probably find it by accident while looking at the menu, even while not actively looking for new ways to save a file.

(Not getting into the fact that a well programmed Save function would, IMO, not do anything if there are no changes, i.e. if I was the one writing the code, the Save button would be greyed out, or in the case of vim, :wq would not write anything if no changes had been made... but that's a different discussion)
agree important it is exposed, though I don't share your optimism that much can be done about it. Govt(s) are always going to be able to send the goons round, so mass media must eventually comply. The only way to stay safe seems to be 'stay small', where the resources of the state won't be expended on stuff which is low impact.
You might find some of Adam Curtis's films help you feel less baffled. Not that they have 'answers' but good contextual analysis that will give better understanding. Century of the Self, and Can't Get You Out of My Head are the most relevant here. Power of Nightmares, Bitter Lake and Hypernormalization are great too.
:update is like :w but only writes when changes are made.

While we're at it :earlier and :later are undo/redo but instead of using an undo stack they use change points in time, so your undo history is never overwritten :)
The Leetcode-driven hiring process is designed as a short hurdle for the just-graduated B.S. in Compsci degree holder; the knowledge to pass these interviews is arcane to anyone who has worked 'in the real world' for any length of time and inevitably had to defrag their brain to fit in other arcane knowledge, like how to develop a web app in 2023. Obviously companies have realized that they can tune their hiring process (Leetcode, et al) to be a short hurdle for the fresh B.S. Compsci grad that they can convince to work ungodly hours before forcing them out due to burnout in a few years and repeating the process.

All of this to say my brain is not big enough to fit both 'Dijkstra's algorithm' and the CSS 'grid' property shorthand at the same time.
The point is your opinion is concordant with every other poster in this thread, aka hivemind. Note that there is no nuanced discussion on this topic, everybody has already arrived at their conclusion. Nobody is asking whether some people are fine with touchscreens in cars and why that might be the case.
It doesn't technically care, but if your container is reporting that it has hit a breakpoint in file /mnt/some_module/script.py, then your LSP / debugger / editor is not going to know what it is talking about without some more info.
Are we just paraphrasing a critique of the "The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More" book [1]? Internet offered new eyes for new content but few winners remain. For sure Internet offers new opportunities to people. For example, well paid remote dev jobs outside of the center of power (SV) but they are not creators, they are workers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Tail_(book)
ChatGPT is trained via reinforcement learning to give answers that - ultimately - human non-experts would judge to be plausible. Answers were not trained to be correct or accurate - hence we should not expect ChatGPT to do well there.

Sociologists have found that humans seek plausible answers more than correct answers, especially when trying to make sense of a situation. For that reason, the training objective makes sense for a chatbot.

Now, anyone who tries to seel ChatGPT as giving truthful answers is of course doing a disfavor to the model and its training objective.

However, anyone also trying to sell the above either as

a) Deep insight, or

b) inherent limitation of LLMs

is indeed a pot calling the kettle black.

Going from plausibility to truthfulness is probably not a giant leap - at least not compared to what was achieved in the past three years. There's active research on it, and I am sure a good solution will arise.

However, ChatGPT is not that, and it isn't meant to be. It's not the training objective.
Making this a huge point is again such a BS strawman as the other things I mentioned before.
The is substantial precedent that the US constitution prevents the government from compelling speech, litigated all they way to supreme court. This isn't some sovcit-level workaround, there is actual legal theory behind it.

It is important to note that the more "low-effort" style of warrant canary, or simply posting a static page that says that you have not been served a warrant, is probably not safe. Taking the page down is possibly an action you can be legally prevented from doing. However, that's not what rsync.net is doing. They are specifically posting a new one every week, because no court or authority can compel them to post one if they don't want to under US law.
We are free to come up with myths about the name origin. My favorite one is that it comes from Julia character of George Orwell's 1984 novel :D
> I am now in the buffer zone and have interviewed with close to ten companies to date. I have not been offered a single job

So she left her last contract job early after only 3 months, put a 4-5 month gap on her resume, waited to start interviewing until after hundreds of thousands of tech employees were laid off into an economic downturn, and she’s wondering why she hasn’t been immediately offered a job?

Look, interviewing is always tough. You have to remember that it’s not just you versus the company in an interview. It’s you versus the tens or hundreds of other qualified people who applied for the job. If you’re not the best of those applicants, you’re not getting an offer.

In an economic downturn with massive layoffs, the number of extremely qualified candidates is huge. I know people hate to hear this, but having the combination of a short 3-month job on your resume followed by a 5 month gap doesn't look good when compared to the 5 other resumes these companies are going to receive from people who are currently employed or who were recently laid off from well-known companies.

Stories like this are written to appeal to people who don’t like being rejected from interviews (See? It’s not you, it’s the system that is wrong for not hiring you!) but that’s not really helping anything other than soothing egos. It’s time we start being honest that hiring is a numbers game, there are a lot of qualified candidates on the market, and having a job cut short to 3 months followed by a long gap is a warning flag on a resume. If someone finds themselves in this situation with a limited financial runway in the middle of a huge tech recession, they need to start applying to huge numbers of jobs the moment they leave their 3-month contract job early. Waiting until the end of a sabbatical and only applying to a small number of jobs without network referrals is statistically unlikely to produce good results. It’s not really an indictment of the system, the author has just stacked the deck against themselves going into an economic downturn and is surprised that hiring has done a complete 180 since this time a year ago.
https://github.com/DeutscheKI/dreame-w10-valetudo-fork
Perhaps there’s some context missing. My assumption though is that this definitely is not Gayle but it’s perhaps part of a kind of advice column?
But that's something you could prepare now, or if you need specifics then at the start of the new plague. Then subsequent releases won't be proven to have been created within the prior week.
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2028: Study finds that cars without any human controls are safer than those with
hijacking: What is a good reference to learn the minimal amount of C++ to do codewars/leetcode, write minor programs?

Would prefer something that keeps with modern C++ if possible.
https://hamsterbase.com/docs/importing-website.html#automati...

yes ,hamsterbase supports automatic import of all html in a folder.

They will be compressed by tgz and stored in workspace/objects
I took it as a fictional story critiquing the hiring process.
Could you please share why wrapping structs in a typedef is bad? I'm culpable of doing this quite often.
Twitter Promised Them Severance. They Got Nothing
I'd actually prefer people not do warrant canaries, and instead do conscientious periodic compliance reporting.

Although a warrant canary sometimes suggests a very principled party (e.g., I first heard of public librarians doing it, decades ago), at the same time, it seems probably counterproductive.

For one example, as a customer of a service provider, I want them to be stable -- not potentially antagonizing those who could shut them down, nor getting involved in what (to me) seem like ambiguous technicalities over what they can and can't do.

For another example, imagine you run a service in which you've committed to a warrant canary. But one day a warrant comes, and you realize it's gravely important for the canary not to die and tip off some genocidal warlord you didn't realize was a customer. Now you're violating the canary assurance to your other customers, which is an assurance that you should've anticipated you couldn't give.

Alternative: Some of the modern compliance reporting by tech companies, about warrants/censorship/etc. seems less likely to cause showstopper problems, can convey more info, and is ongoing rather than single-shot.

Of course there will be warrants and other compliances, for various jurisdictions, and conscientious periodic reporting seems to help with civic checks&balances.

(BTW, I really like the idea of rsync.net and its hard-working founder, have pointed new customers to them, and have a TODO to move some stuff to them myself. The only proviso I've mentioned to people thus far is that there's an unclear bus factor.)
It's a guest post, looks like there is a note about that at the top now, though it still seems easy to miss.
1. "those who value it most highly" is a dream of economists that has never ever been true. Personal value is relative to wealth and income. I might value something at one full month's salary, but an average CEO could outbid me with a few work days at most.

2. "prices go up when demand is high" makes sense to incentivize more production and reward those that produce thing we need the most. A farmer getting more for their corn during a shortage makes sense, because we'd be hungry if it weren't for them.
A scalper, on the other hand, does not create any value. Neither does a stock trader when they buy low and sell high for that matter.

Even artificial scarcity of luxury items can be interpreted as creating some value - owning a limited edition shoe that they can brag about to their friends is valuable to some people. But buying something before others get to it, just to immediately sell it for a much higher price is just exploitation.
I have to agree with you. Freeman of the land come to mind.

I think the danger here is the interpretation of the prohibition on telling people you've been served with a secret warrant.

Whilst you seemingly can't force someone to do something the fact that not doing that thing is effectively telling people you've been served a warrant is grounds at least to take you to court.

I can only imagine this canary process being manual, if it were automated I'm unsure it could be considered speech (obvs: IANAL).

Until tested in court it's up in the area.
> They aren’t the only gaming company to interpret GDPR that way and they are arguably target #1 by EU regulators so they don’t have room to misinterpret

Malicious compliance. They deliberately misinterpret and continue to get pulled up on it. For example, just recently: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-63784393

This completely contradicts any argument that their interpretation of privacy regulation is remotely compliant. They cross the line in their favour relentlessly.
Already posted, the original: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34283385
Those are not things you can purchase.
The algorithms tend to favour entrenchment. They don't select on good or best they don't understand those qualities so they select on the basis of popular, assuming people are aware of the best. The issue with that is once a best has been selected years later the algorithm has effectively boosted them even with better options. Discovery is a real problem on most social media but especially on places like twitch.
Yeah, thanks for this. `:wq` is pretty fast to write. I think I will stick to it.
Sorry, that was not my intention.

I posted the screenshots to the Telegram group because you had written before that you are only interested in seeing forks that bring new ideas. And I thought the fact that I redesigned the map and settings screens to make them more user-friendly would make for an interesting perspective.