skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagined how should I act when I forgetting the SQL table create command in an interview.

1. I admit I am nervous so much that I just couldn't tell my own name.

2. It's just strange for first look that I don't remember, but we create tables so rarely, that it's not a surprise.

3. Okay, let's try to figure out the command, my first hint is that it should be "new", "create" or something. Let's recall, how to deal other way, say, delete or modify tables: "drop table", "alter table" - so my best hint is "create table" or "new table". (Offensive notice: if you learnt SQL one day before the interview, this gonna not work.)

Great, go on, it's pretty sure it should contain the list of fields, define them: names, types, and some constraints, whether it can be empty etc. Maybe this command defines the indexes as well, then every index should declare one or more fields, ascending/descending marks per field. Oh, a table unique key is also can be specified, at the field specification. Finally I notice, that different SQL servers may have different syntax and even features, like choosing storage system for the table (MySQL: InnoDB etc.).

That's the _content_ of the SQL's create table command, withot any syntax. I think, it's clear, that I would have no problem with writing a table creating SQL statement.

If you can not solve the "I-forget-the-syntax" problem, probably (another offensive statement, sorry) you're not for this job. In real life, you will have even more stressful situations, and you have to solve them, or at least DO SOMETHING. What you've done was NOTHING.
I'd go so far as to say the majority of the people who consume it, do it to excess.

How many hours a week are you on social media, and how does that compare with the benefits you get?
http://web.archive.org/web/20230114194048/https://j11g.com/2...

https://archive.ph/qVTf9
I'm a doctor (retired neurosurgical anesthesiologist x 38 years). When I am grateful for someone's help I give them my business card — which includes my email and phone# — and tell them to feel free to contact me 24/7/365 for anything, no matter how small. If nothing else I can advise them whether or not they need to go to the ER.
Spy software found worker wasn't working as much as said; Now must repay wages
You are the one who tried to introduce an extremely general argument, which I guess you are no longer interested in defending?

> Yes, a company has the right to do whatever they want with their products.
> It is up for the customers to validate their business decisions.

So, to verify: you do agree that your argument at least does not apply to the iPhone?
I think this thread is arguing at cross purposes. I read the parent commenter to be making a narrow claim: that the author can't really claim to be disconnected from the grid, because they're relying on the connections of other people for basic things like heating. That seems true, even though the experiment is still interesting and valid in its own right.
If you like T9, you might enjoy MessagEase. It's IMO just a natural improvement on the concept translated to touchscreens.
The actual rich are buying $1000 Gucci shoes that wear out just as fast as a $100 fashion sneaker these days. They put in a $100k kitchen and then do another full remodel in 10 years because it’s not the current style anymore. Cars? They lease or buy every 3 years perpetually so always have a car payment. I’m just not sure I buy this theory in the modern world. Everything we have is designed to last for a few years and then be replaced.
So many ideas:

* Fix bugs on open source projects.

* Donate to open source projects that mattered to you.

* Donate to reputable nonprofit.
I wonder if Twitter is in breach of contract by restricting API access to their customers (the third party apps).
I haven't kept track but the activism of the trio could be severe sometimes.

(Anecdotally, I have faced a bite-sized brunt: When discussion surrounding this paper was going on in Twitter, I had mentioned in my timeline (in a neutral tone) that "dust needed to settle to understand what was going wrong". This was unfortunately picked up & RTed by Gebru & the mob responded by name-calling, threatening DMs accusing me of racism/misogyny etc, and one instance of a call to my employer asking to terminate me - all for that one single tweet. I don't want confrontations - not my forte to deal.)
http://web.archive.org/web/20230114190129/http://www.righto....
if you want to run with that analogy, command line shells running in terminals are assets, not debt. Not knowing how to use them is poverty, lacking having assets.

you can't just take the word "debt" to mean bad, then just throw it around for things you don't like, especially applied to things that take effort to learn, effort you have not and don't want to expend.
I've used a few of these but to be honest they're worse than ChatGPT, and they're almost nigh useless. I'm not sure what model Microsoft is using because they own half of OpenAI now, they should integrate the ChatGPT model instead of the older Codex one, it seems.
As powerful as the story is, he wasn’t a samurai. More like a bodyguard or retainer.
if it's full winter before heating was highly available, i'd guess so
I'm sometimes tempted to throw some Donne into interviews for culture fit. The main reason I don't is because there are good candidates who may not have any background in English poetry and even though I wouldn't make a no hire decision on account of that, I don't want to risk even giving the appearance that I would. Even so, anecdotally, appreciation for Donne has been an oddly common trait among the most successful dev and higher managers I've worked with and for.
Procedures can be read by filing a FOIA request. I may be interested in reading it.
Not sure if it was clear but the friend is bringing you the beer. So you wouldn’t experience either location.

The end result would be identical.
> that only gets worse.

Better than the alternative
Is it? In the grand scheme of things, I would argue not. My partner, for instance, knits. Cheap hobby, right? Nope. Specialist needles, yarn, etc. all adds up. She certainly spends more than $100 per year on it. How about photography? Or fishing? Most arts and craft type hobbies? You get the picture...
Chat GPT, please generate a GDTF file
Does there exist a set of yes/no problems such that:

- there's no general algorithm that can solve an arbitrary problem from the set (the whole thing is undecidable)

- each problem in isolation _can_ be solved. there's no single problem that's impossible to solve
I sort of agree. I’m a googler, but these are very much just my opinions, and there’s some bias, but…

The bureaucracy I experience as an individual contributor and engineer kinda makes sense. It’s things like ensuring that systems will scale, ensuring that user data is treated in the right way, ensuring that access and security is done correctly, etc.

There is a lot to all of that. A lot of clicking buttons on internal tools to make sure that whole chains of systems understand everything to ensure oversight, and sometimes it’s a huge pain, especially coming from a startup world.

However there have been very few times when I’ve truly thought something wasn’t worth it at the scale we operate at, and responsibility we have (to users, regulation, etc).
Ask HN: What's the point of training bigger language models?
What's the point of training bigger language models when you can't even serve (inference) them economically? What am I missing here?
Yeah, I've been using Linux almost exclusively since 1994. I've had power outages and a few crashes but I can't remember ever losing data with ext2.

I don't remember losing a lot of data in DOS/Win3.1 but I rarely used it because it crashed so much.

I did have a lot of keyboard and X11 lockups in the 1990's but after a year I got a dumb terminal for $20 so someone could still check email, read Usenet, etc. while the main display was in use. If the main keyboard or X11 server locked up I could use the terminal to sync the filesystem and reboot the machine cleanly. I remember doing that quite a bit when playing full screen games or anything with SVGAlib
So it's a practically baseless conjecture within the field of clinical nutrition, clinical nutritionists now publish such in peer reviewed journals, and the wider scientifically literate public have no business ease dropping on all this. Got it.
You mention that you have traced out every transistor from die photos, and I was wondering how much work there would be to make a netlist for the 8086 like that which was used to produce the visual 6502 simulator?

It that feasable or is there lots of work to do to get to that stage?

I'm loving your series on the 8086 btw :)
Anyone from MIT's Tau Epsilon Phi around to confirm/deny that TEPaphone is still running? In the late 1990s/early 2000s, a friend of mine (a brother in TEP) told me about their PBX hand-wired from mechanical relays and stepping switches as a hobby project by one of their brothers a decade or two earlier. Apparently its creator was far more interested in the project than in his coursework, to disastrous effect.

If I recall correctly, every-other class, they needed to decide which brother was going to be the designated recipient of the handed-down arcane design and maintenance knowledge. I believe the title of office was Phone Master, and just like Sith Lords, there were always 2: master and apprentice.

On the plus side, it had a photo sensor sitting over the washer and dryer display lights, so dialling the extension for the washer or dryer would give a busy tone if in use, and a ring tone otherwise.
Nitrogen triiodide really isn't very dangerous as it doesn't generate a lot of gas upon detonation, and its unlikely that you'll ever get enough of it in one place at one time to cause a large explosion. It's really just a chemistry novelty. It DOES make a mess, though.
More people == More politics. This varies by person, some people are highly political - you will not get any work out of them, except possibly in service of their political goal. It scales super linearly though, so at some point as you add more people you're actually reducing productivity, because those people are either going to spend all their time navigating the politics, which is bad, or start their own political agenda which is worse. You know what's bad? Hiring 1 unproductive person. What's wores? Hiring 1 unproductive person who persuades you to hire a whole team to serve their bullshit.

I've got good news though. How do you fix this? Simple, don't overhire in the first place! Womp Womp!
Where should they be cached for CI builds? How about caching them in the registry? Makes sense to me.
They should model them on owls
This often happens in internet comment threads too, especially when a hot topic comes around. For instance on HN, I've seen this happen with Copilot, Stable Diffusion, and other AI copyright debates, even though no one is a copyright lawyer in the comments; CoViD, even though no one is an epidemiologist, virologist, or vaccine researcher; et cetera.
I think the reason is that in VIM, you either learn the shortcuts or you just can't do anything.

In other editors, you can learn the shortcuts, or you can just monkey around.

But it is true, and I agree, that learning how to use YOUR editor gives great dividends.

In my case, my editor is Sublime Text. I have extensions and configurations I really need, because now I am used to them. Yes, I know the commands to navigate by word, line, block of code, or even use the right side minimap (with git colors for new and edited code) to move faster through the code.

Also: some users, even here in HN, underappreciate the mouse. But every single ex-StarCraft player knows that mouse+keyboard can be ridiculously fast when being used by trained hands.

At least for me, I can select and move, or reindent, or whatever, a chunk of code much faster with the mouse than having to know how many lines it is and then typing the equivalent command.

So yes, learn touch typing, and learn how to use your editor. It matters. What doesn't matter is if your editor is vim or not.
Yep, FAA was owned by Boeing before the 737MAX debacle. It amazes me the public flies on that airframe which has the engines so far forward it can pitch up uncontrollably.
So many links... great resource. But I'm going to be a little off-topic. This is a second time today when the page posted on HN contains a reference (link) to HN itself, a recursive binding in a sense. It's an interesting phenomenon. There might be a fun convention when there's a "secret" code (a couple of text symbols) to be used in the title in such cases (when the author is aware both of the fact and this convention). Just a semi-serious proposal ...
Can you do a two week detox? Go skiing or camping or something where there is no internet. Just have a basic phone for an emergency. Take a friend or family member as well which is a good method is to have someone else around as well.

There may be internet detox camps you can go to as well.

Also try therapy it can help, you are not alone in your struggles ..
The Soviet bioweapons program was arguably the largest and longest-running of them all (see for example Sverdlovsk anthrax), so I'm not sure how drawing attention to it counts as 'Kremlin propaganda':

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

The use of drones to deliver biological and chemical weapons is also a long-standing issue of concern in all warzones, not just in Ukraine. (Not every comment is part of some organized PR war between NATO & Russia)
>Way outside the peak times, the train is spacious, brightly lit and there's almost zero risk of an accident.

In NYC the subway is filthy, urine soaked and at 3:30 AM there is higher than zero chance you will be harassed or assaulted.
It's useful if you want to write interactive applications from scratch ("curses-like"). Beyond that ... probably not so much.
Ah, this is a description of me as well. No drinking, just my web serials for hours and hours every day. Some of them feel like TV, I can feel my brain atrophy as I just glide over and through the words -- it can barely be called reading, at times. One of my eyes got blurry and painful recently. I was unable to stop reading, even though staring at screens caused me great pain. Maybe that was the cause in the first place.

It's a peaceful ocean, an escape. It's enjoyable, it's numbing. It's starting to affect my work.
> sometimes it was about "worse is better" but certainly not the majority of the time.

Linux had a heyday with this that matched the growing computer and technology market of the time. The state of the art just happened to be moving fast enough to justify this approach.
One can easily get 16 hours by skipping breakfast. I eat dinner at 7pm and skip breakfast and eat lunch at 12 pm. That gives me 17 hours fasting. I guess skipping lunch doesn’t give you same gap.
Is his name Kinney
The first version of the ext filesystem (ext1?) was in 1992. I had some friends who ran Linux then (one of them was a Linux developer) but ext2 was released in 1993. By the time I first installed Linux in 1994 ext2 was already the default and I remember documentation saying NOT to use the original ext
I gave up on Smithsonian magazine a decade ago when they started going woke. The article topics and writing fulfill their agenda, and I choose not to pay for that.
Are you also going to do this for the network stack? Graphics? Kernel & syscalls? File systems? DATABASES?? Is there any time left to do work in is there any time left to love your family?

There is also humility in just accepting that my curiosity is greater than my capacity and I'll never know much of anything about anything. I can pick a few things to go deep in but so far it hasn't needed to be terminals and that's not a moral failing.
> Windows? I know you can sign Windows executables, but why would anyone want to? I have Windows 11 on a VM. It runs unsigned executables just fine and, unlike macOS, doesn't treat them like they're radioactive. You just get a differently-colored confirmation window if you run them as administrator.

It ought to! I'd love to see this in Linux and the BSD's too. Signing applications and binaries should be the norm.

> And before Let's Encrypt and other similar free automatic CAs came along, SSL/TLS was very niche.

Let's Encrypt came about to help with security. Happy to hear arguments pro a similar service for application signing, but it will have to follow similar, or tighter restrictions and you'd still be at the whim of third party.

> I like Android's security model better. You sign your apk with a self-signed certificate.

That is most definitely not a security policy. Self-signing is no different to not signing at all. There is no provenance, no chain-of-trust.
The startup I work at is definitely Netflix culture inspired, I think they remain a pretty popular “culture role model.”

Wasn’t sure if it’d be for me at first, as it’s so different from where I was before. Previous company I was at, great social culture (pre-COVID), very nice people, but very top down decision making. Also nobody ever got let go (or even really talked to) for performance reasons, very easy place to coast. Some people referred to the culture as “toxic positivity”, which is a pretty good description. Really, the only way people got let go was at mass layoffs every 2 years or so, but between layoff people could dog it and nobody would say anything. Overall it was socially fun, but work wise extremely slow, inefficient and bureaucratic. I have lots of good memories from that place, but I don’t think it was an EFFECTIVE company culture.

At my current, “Netflix inspired culture” company, there’s a lot less process, a lot more personal responsibility, and an expectation of high performance. People who aren’t contributing enough are quickly told, and if they can’t turn it around, let go. I thought it might feel too harsh/cold for me, but I actually really like the culture. Low process, high productivity, and you can trust basically all your teammates to be high quality contributors and decision makers. I feel more pride in my team and what we’re building. Social aspects are definitely not as fun as at my last co., but I do think a fair bit of that is the post-COVID world, hard to have a really social/fun company culture when most people are remote most of the time.
If they are free and open source can you use the github distribution feature the OA mentioned?
Russians say they can grab software from Intel again
Any company that grows to be Google size is going to be slow and bureaucratic. It can mitigate it a bit, but just by the nature of it, it just carry too much momentum and complexity…
Sounds even worse, yeah.
They still got your money, and will continue to do so if their products are worth it.
Two Earth-size worlds revealed beyond our solar system
I think I agree with this take.

Is it conceivable that a model could leak PII that is present but extremely hard to detect in the data set? For example, spread out in very different documents in the corpus that aren't obviously related, but that the model would synthesize relatively easily?
I agree with the gist of what you said above, but:

Web work was new 10 years ago?? What am I missing here? I've been doing almost exclusively web work for 20 years now.

Few leaders still have any kind of handle on how long things will take. Nor engineers or PMs, etc.

And agile produced cancerous bad software culture? Clearly you have way different experiences than I do. Unless by agile you mean top down corporate scrummerfall bullshit, then yes.

I find generally complexity is increasing, tooling is a bit better. Culture is backsliding to 90s bullshit, and the upper level situation hasn't evolved in any way. Over all I'm pretty disappointed by the state of the industry and the "worse is better" tendencies except in a few outlier areas. But maybe that's how these things go.
That's kind of what aliases are for.
>Also, are people really so dimwitted / easily manipulated / insecure they can be reliably made to question their manhood based on a single data point

Yes. Why do you think people buy expensive cars, believing it says something about them. Yes they'll rationalise it as something else, but ultimately it's just trying to project an image.

Ultimately we're all part of the tribe, trying to fit in while trying to make our way up the pecking order.
Does FLAC preserve the exact bytestream of the CD tracks? (As an analogy, PNG is "lossless," but it won't natively preserve the metadata of a raw digital camera image.) The audio will be preserved but there might be interesting details on the CD like easter eggs, copyright text, etc. and I'm not sure FLAC would capture those.
After a slow start, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket is about to hit its stride
Any recommendations for learning to draw at the level depicted in this article?
You can tell what part of the world a poster comes from when they're smugly pretending that companies still don't have plenty of levers to pull to push you out the door, doing so by making you miserable.

Oh, and the rampant racism and classism, thanks to the standard practice of including a photo on one's resume...
When I saw the title, without opening the article, my first thought went to Balavoine. 1986 was tough, between the loss of Balavoine and that of Coluche. I was only 8, and they are the only memories I have from that year. (not that I have many memories from the surrounding years)
Gmail was a 20% project.
Both of these functions, market value and vote per person, are at least in my eyes pre-defined rules. You have to agree with them under the many circumstances where they apply.

To me the term meritocracy just seems too idealist and it assumes too much in relation to complex and varied systems like economy or politics.
Nazis are cool now, even the ADL supports Nazis these days.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220325012214/https://www.adl.o...
On the other hand, as a person with a need of privacy, I love dns over tls/https
> I don't think this equals to anti-diversity.

Except that it is. What passes as a cold, rational analysis of cold, scientific facts is rooted on traditionalist biases of the conservative mindsets of scientists in the XIXth century, when the basis of our social sciences were being established. Colonialism and sexism were seen as common-sense a prioris, and those positions permeate a lot of the reasonings and conclusions achieved in these sciences without being put to test (see e.g. myths about the primitive hunter men and gatherer women, or how money originates from barter, which are passed as truisms when studying these disciplines without questioning).

Colonialism and sexism are inherently anti-diversity; and people stating those opinions and usually unable to see how their position derivates from those premises.
This tool is useful for subsetting a font. In my limited experience, it looks like many typefaces are determined to accommodate every diacritical mark and language-specific glyph there is. I’m not sure how heavily that impacts font file sizes. Is “font bloat” a thing (yet)? If so, I’m curious as to whether more type designers may consider separate “W1G” releases. I may be imagining this problem.
Linux Developers Eye Orphaning the JFS File-System
> These LFSRs also use two separate clocks, 180 degrees out of phase

Does that just mean they take turns ticking with equal interval between ticks?
> There's likely a large crossover between people who use a lot of hotkeys and people who look into learning something like Vim.

Please no. My keyboards have cursor keys. I really appreciate the freedom not to have to remember if I am in insert mode or in edit mode.

And yes, many of my shortcuts involve the cursor keys and the rest of the extended keyboard keys. Also, the function keys. These keys exist for a reason.
I'm working on a simulator :-)