skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I completed full interview loops at 13 companies and received 11 offers. I'm glad I got the rejections I did - it was clear there wasn't a mutual match.

11 out of 13 seems like a really extremely good hit rate. Even a 50% offer rate would be really good so I'm guessing this person is way better at interviewing than most of us.

As most of these interviews were in in October/November I wonder if it would go as well now? Or in 2 or 3 months?
It's the right moment to try Chat GPT for code generation :)
React component should be chock full of do expressions

If the motivation behind these features are React components, javascript clearly lacks proper logic in array (and object) literals, like

'[' if (cond) […]expr1 [else […]expr2] ']'

Although it seems pretty strange to add syntax only because some specific user interface library together with a specific language extension could benefit from it.
it got flagged :D
Awesome.

I do a similar thing with kmonad, which works on Linux, Windows and MacOS.

https://github.com/kmonad/kmonad
I know someone who says... it's pronouns are "it"... and using that really does make me uncomfortable, I agree. I _think_ (it hasn't necessarily told me this directly) that the choice may be intentionally to make people uncomfortable... like, why shouldn't you be uncomfortable thinking about gender? Lots of people are uncomfortable with gender, why shouldn't you be too? I think of it as a sort of art project... I'm not sure if it would be comfortable with that characterization or not. It also understands that some people can't handle this and will accept "they" without being offended, but really prefers "it", so if you're its friend and want to make them comfortable.... (I still don't love writing it even here with anonymous referent!)

I thought it was the right that accused the left of being precious snowflakes who aren't able to handle being uncomfortable ever? Why should you being uncomfortable be a blocker to referring to someone as they prefer, right? Being uncomfortable is part of life.
"I refuse to install android-studio since I am sure it will be phoning home about all sorts of things."

I wonder what the OP use to build Android apps. Perhaps simply gradle?

BTW, I use Go ocassionally for building API stuff at work, and Nim for personal projects. Since my main responsibility is building Android apps, I don't see myself leaving Android Studio, unfortunately.
But you don't have to write map-reduce jobs at all? You can just write SQL queries or Pandas programs, and they automatically get parallelized by Databricks. Databricks is a data warehouse (just like Snowflake).

https://www.databricks.com/product/databricks-sql
Took me ages. What finally helped me was to work backwards from c8. What squares can get to c8? Which of those squares can I eliminate (e.g. because to get there I'd have to be on a square covered by the queen) and so on.
I wrote it. It's a little webapp I call Rivus.
I like how you're unable to imagine it being windy when it rains or transmitting between places that don't rain at the same time, but imagining transmission from two states over when there's a correlated outage in the local nuclear generation (which happens just as often) is fine.

If we did live in this fiction where long term storage is impossible rather than simply not being the lowest hanging fruit I'd also far rather spend 5% of the next century building out renewables and then 5% of the time running fossil fuels when the alternative is:

Spend 30% of the next century building reactors whilst running fossil fuels, then 30% of the next century realising the uranium ran out immediately and we have to spend another 30 years building breeders and then finally realising that nuclear needs storage and load shifting too because correlated outages aren't that rare and there's not much demand for energy at 3am.
From a casual game play perspective it is fine with cosmetics. But having virtual merchandise aimed at kids and gambling addicts is immoral in my opinion.
By my count from the wiki, this company reinvented itself at least 6 times.

First Ransom E. Olds made the REO Speed Wagon after leaving Oldsmobile(GM). This went chapter 11 bankrupt.

After reorganization, it tried to focus on making trucks. That wasn't profitable, so they planned on chapter 7 bankruptcy.

Shareholders saw a usable tax loss, so they used a proxy fight to force a reverse merger with a nuclear power supply company.

The nuclear angle wasn't working out, so they bought Vulcraft, a maker of steel joists.

They sold everything else, other than Vulcraft, then went on a buying spree of steel technologies and scrap companies.

This company is the cat with nine lives.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucor#History
Has anyone gone through the thought exercise of what governments could do with such a thing if it existed?

Oh wait, that's what you said.
Should the article title also include "(2021)"?
Great to hear! I hope Timeretain will indeed be helpful to you :)
The contents of the mind should be sacrosanct- the deployment of technologies for reading the mind should go no further than it has except in medicine and research, and only then with explicit informed consent, of course. Honestly if this tech advances and becomes the norm for employers/the government/etc. to use, that's when it's time to drop out of society and become a hermit or something.
Months? Try weeks and even then you should be able to pick up basic things in a week or two.
You have too many assumptions about the availability of lithium, and lack of “easy” reserves. That’s the fundamental disconnect here. Lithium is not inaccesible, and it is super common. The “hard” ways to mine lithium aren’t that hard.

We’re not talking about gold or platinum, where your discussion points would be relevant.

I’m not wishing over here. But anyways, I’ve tried to explain the reason why the market disagrees with you, and why people are rapidly seeking to integrate batteries into the grid and into cars, which would not be possible if you were correct about lithium becoming insanely expensive.

Battery production will keep scaling at a huge rate, and the prices will be fine. A modest price increase is irrelevant to anything discussed here today.
https://archive.ph/hLvTW
Or just put a target on each goal square in turn.
Yucca Mountain is irrelevant to the nuclear industry the US government has already agreed to deal with the fuel it’s quite literally not a problem for the industry.

The Act established a Nuclear Waste Fund composed of fees levied against electric utilities to pay for the costs of constructing and operating a permanent repository, and set the fee at one mill per kilowatt-hour of nuclear electricity generated. Utilities were charged a one-time fee for storage of spent fuel created before enactment of the law. … The Nuclear Waste Fund previously received $750 million in fee revenues each year and had an unspent balance of $44.5 billion as of the end of FY2017. … In late 2013, a federal court ruled that the Department of Energy must stop collecting fees for nuclear waste disposal until provisions are made to collect nuclear waste.[12]

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

Anyway, LWR can extract more than 2% of the energy in the fuel it mostly comes down to how enriched the uranium you feed them is because the ratio of U235:U238 in reactor grade fuel is different than the ratio LWR are burning. They can extract far more energy from weapons grade uranium, but using it would be a bad idea.
yeah...you are either made for it or not...simple as that... diversity is not a strength when you need to be a cohesive highly functional team...
Also what is the shortfall? How many watts are missing?

Taking in mind for example demand response which I do not see mentioned in the paper, and of course would be a critical part of a renewable grid.

Another central missing word is "sector coupling".
It's actually rather simple. You read one bit of text, and then you read the next. It's a dialogue, if you've ever read a book the format should be familiar.
I'm just thankful we have free speech on social media and that the government never interferes to censor people.
> there’s nothing you can do, because no one planned for that

You're comparing a future of renewables to a present of non-renewables. You could also add in additional generation to cover the gap you mentioned in the future as well.
The Most Efficient Car Ever Created? Mercedes EQXX [video]
Shouldn't the list be abandoned now that the War On Terror is over?
The very first link in the blog post to another blog post is missing /blog at the start of the data.
Here's how many moves it takes to get everywhere from a middle square as the knight.

https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/1x7t58/visual_repres...
On the flipside, I think that this is still such an ongoing debate is part of why the pipeline operator is still stuck in Stage 2 and having trouble getting into Stage 3, despite being listed as a "priority" multiple times on and before 2020. TC-39 isn't blindly following anyone here, they seem to be dragging their heels hoping that someone comes along with an even better compromise between the styles.
An alternate theory - it was planned and paid for long before the cost cutting. They could have cancelled it to save face, but chose not to.
This is my why I haven't used Apple for more than two decades.

And why I'm never going back.

To escape Twitter's walled garden, apparently you have to find a way to jump out of Apple's first.
> Just wait until some instances get bought out by companies

And then what? You can still use Mastodon, you don't need that company's instance in order to send a message. Mastodon was designed so that, in this express situation, the entire network does not collapse. Twitter did not anticipate it early enough.

People are certainly misplacing their hopes in Mastodon as a Twitter replacement. That's not Mastodon's fault or problem, though. It's a framing device that sets people up for disappointment, and then sends them back to HN/Twitter/Facebook to complain again.

Twitter is certainly doing fine, but that's because betting against the intelligence of the average Twitter user is always a winning bet. Who knows though, maybe one day the internet at-large will learn that trusting a private entity with significant cultural presence always ends bad. Maybe once YouTube capsizes.
> Microservices are a solution primarily to an organizational problem and secondarily to the problem of allocating and managing computational resources.

"A" solution does not mean the only solution or the best solution. They're often treated as the only solution though.
Without their big constituency in the USDoE mandarinate, SMRs would be equally dead.

DoE grants overwhelmingly favor thermal energy sources and storage, probably just because thermal conversion is what they are trained in.
> This system existed in Project Reality too, I believe in that game it outright prohibited you from even having access to the server executable without a license while in Squad it only applies to being listed in the client's server browser.

You could decompile the Python code in PR. The PR devs could "blacklist" servers if they wrote magic strings in chat etc with their BF2 user names.

They could also give them self Ninja kits.
Not pretending anything, I don't actually see the problem. They're clearly fictional talking heads that exist purely as a narrative device; why should I care if one of them is a girl with cat ears and another one is a fox/wolf(?)?
"On Wednesday, Public Safety Minister Bill Blair said in the coming days, certain travellers, like Sebastian Khan, will be able to apply for a Canadian Travel Number, a unique number they will be able to use when they book a flight to distinguish them from people on the list."

Soon they'll give everyone a number so they can travel. And print it out in physical form too. And call it a passport.

That "solution" seems a bit backwards.
My theory is that it's cyclical: trim costs today, and a few years from now buy up all the startups that resulted from a suddenly flooded tech labor market. Rinse and repeat.
It by no means diminishes the magnitude of the list, but it's worth noting that the list is heavily bloated because any person with multiple aliases or whose name can be spelled in multiple ways (e.g. due to differing romanization systems) will have a separate entry for every known alias and spelling.

From the original Daily Dot article:

> The list, according to crimew, appeared to have more than 1.5 million entries in total. The data included names as well as birth dates. It also included multiple aliases, placing the number of unique individuals at far less than 1.5 million.

> On the list were several notable figures, including the recently freed Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, alongside over 16 potential aliases for him.

> The aliases comprised different, common misspellings of his last name and other versions of his first name, as well as different birthdays. Many of the birthdays aligned with the recorded date Bout was born.

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/no-fly-list-us-tsa-unprotecte...

So there aren't 1.5 million people on the no fly list, but there's still a hell of a lot of people to ban secretly and arbitrarily from flying with no clear justification given and no clear way to get off the list.
Why not use |> for that?
* Navy Nuclear Operator from age 18 --> 28
* Got a Bachelor's (not CS/SWE, but STEM) while I was enlisted
* Electrical Distribution Engineer age 28 --> 29
* Taught self Python here and automated a bunch of small tasks
* Semiconductor Shift Supervisor age 29 --> 31
* Taught self JS/PHP/Postgres here, built an in-house web app to replace a bunch of spreadsheets
* Attended UT Austin for a Master's in SWE during this time
* Tech jobs age 31 --> current

In fairness, I've also been using Linux since age 16 (with a ~10 year gap as I was pretty busy), and got a homelab around the time of the Distribution Engineer job, and taught myself a bunch of things.
As a teenager I had a chess lesson with Ben Finegold and I practiced this puzzle for weeks on a physical board.

He also mentioned this riddle off hand which I had a ton of fun solving. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-about-a-nice-game-o...
I relate here with Atlassian discontinuing their Jira Server product. I suppose they did the analysis and it wasn’t worth their dev time but there are some customers who CANT move to Jira Cloud for compliance reasons.

So now we are stuck. Stick with unsupported Jira Server, pay $40k/yr for Jira Data Center (!!) or switch with all the business costs associated with that.
The history is irrelevant here as well, you just need to know the next goal, which is always indicated.
This took me 14:02 on the first try. Definitely got faster as time went on but I found myself getting stuck on a few squares for no good reason. Starting from the destination and working toward the source helped.
Unfortunately, Snow 2's storage figures are rather misleading. That 350 GWh cannot be used daily, that's its total storage capacity which takes a month and a half to refill. The cyclic capacity of Snowy 2 - as in, the storage capacity that I can pump back into the facility using excess renewable power - is only ~40 GWh.

And again, this is geographically limited storage system: pumped hydro requires just the right geography of an upper and lower reservoir spaced not too far apart. Not too bad if you're a sparsely populated country with huge amounts of land per capita. But it isn't a solution for most countries.
Not really. You have to engineer that water containment, delivery, and steam venting. Sure, it's making use of physics for some of those aspects, but there are still others that rely on how it was designed and manufactured.
Certainly not normal for me! I can now do it if I focus, but prior to learning how to do that, I would never have described my dark-environment vision as "noisy".
Factors associated w short &long-term weight loss from low-fat or low-carb diets
You might have heard of Gambit scheme, on which Gerbil is based.
Databricks unique selling point is a scalable data lake. The AI functionality is obviously used as well, however, its real use case is inflated by a lot of hot air.
yeah you could do that, but wouldn't it be more fun to call the airport and tell them you're fleeing from the law?
I agree with you, but I want to point out, everyone who has access to your search history can "read your mind".
A story my grandma told me about bleak predictions:

Where she grew up, there used to be a fortune teller that would specialize in predicting the sex at birth.

But there was a catch: he'll seal the prediction in an envelope, to be opened only after the healthy baby is born. And if it'd be, in a few months time, that he was wrong, he'll refund his fee.

His trick was that he always wrote "girl". Because if it was a boy, the family was so happy, they didn't bother opening the envelope.
> But a "network" of hundreds of thousands or millions of tiny instances, maybe paradoxically, doesn't have this same spam/trolling problem, any more than RSS did when we were all using Google Reader.

RSS/Google Reader was mostly a "pull" medium. Creators create content while consumers passively consume it but can't write back. This works but is fundamentally different from Twitter and the modern concept of social media. Furthermore, RSS offloads all the work to the clients, so RSS servers don't have to store nor process any state regardless of how many consumers there are (you can serve the same cached response to all of them).

If you want it to be like social media, you need people to also be able to "push" things (that others who don't directly follow you see) so people can reply and comment and do social-media-y things. This then not only opens the floodgates for spam, but also makes everything harder if every instance has to federate with tens of thousands of small ones instead of a few hundred like we currently have (the current system works fine with a "hosts"-like file manually curated by instance admins, but if instances start proliferating you'd need a DHT of sorts so they can all discover each other, and again need some way of vetting the quality of them so you don't get spam into it). This turns instances into hosts not just for the original content of the instance admin but also for the replies of people, again raising both server resource issues as well as issues relating to spam, illegal content and moderation in general.

> think of this like Blogger and Google Reader mashed together, with Twitter's surface-level user experience

Blogger could potentially pull it off because it's a closed system that has one consistent moderation policy. It doesn't have to broker or host unvetted third-party content. But blogging/publishing is fundamentally still a different medium to something like Twitter.

> People forget that the "blogosphere" worked pretty great before Twitter and Facebook wrecked it.

I think that the blogosphere and social media are fundamentally different mediums. Blogging is write-once, read-many, with minimal, mostly consumer-to-publisher interactions (comments on the blog itself). For a lot of people, social media also involves direct consumer-to-consumer communication, merely adjacent to the publisher's content but completely outside of their control. Your proposal does not address this use-case.
Headliners like to play to the big crowds and Twitter is by far the biggest stage. Unless you can attract celebrities, politicians, heads of state, athletes, musicians, and others with large audiences the platforms will stay niche.

I'm highly doubtful any Twitter-like platform could succeed in the next 5-10 years. You need entirely new experiences to attract people.
what happened to their valuation?
> His employer could have prevented such a “disastrous” outcome, said Farahany, with a “simple wearable hat” that, using “embedded electro-sensors,” could measure brain wave activity and gauge “what stage of alertness the person was experiencing and whether or not they are starting to fall asleep.”

Sure... or 5 other ways that don't involve reading brain waves.
(in Rainier Wolfcastle voice) That's the joke.
This sounds like an interesting contrarian take. Would you care to elaborate?
Same here. I've been known to have panic attacks during interviews where I have to excuse myself and get out of the room ASAP.

> Maybe I'm in the wrong industry...

I wonder this as well for myself. I really like software development, but the interviewing is just getting to be too much. It would suck to have to change careers away from something you're pretty good at and really like just because of what basically amounts to hazing.
There's also no great way to vet execs for leadership skill. The biggest signal people use is prior performance, and that can be and is frequently massaged and fudged.
It does count as interaction. The systems are different.
That is the story today, and will be until it turns out not to work out that way. Then it will be another story.
If you think I said anything about representation, what you read and what I wrote are different things.
The defining feature of the War on Terror is that it is never over.
Yeah but it all adds up. Go look at the top energy, memory, cpu consuming apps in Activity Monitor.

The top offenders are all electron based.

Okay so we need the chat apps and the coding apps to be electron, those are always running.

Okay now VPN apps need electron for some reason, okay now this scripting app needs it, okay those have to run all the time.

Shit where'd my battery life and memory go? Oh the 6 electron apps running nonstop.
50,000 is WAY too many. If we go off the rate of terror attacks in America, the number of terrorists in this country is incredibly low.

Consider this: you can buy gun powder at walmart with cash, no ID needed, but how many pipe bombs are going off every day? It's incredibly rare. Obviously there are very few people out there with terroristic inclinations.
Many are happier with a more modest lifestyle if it means pursuing something of deep interest. For example, researchers in industry make substantially more than their academia counterparts.

The lottery ticket is just a bonus.
The starlink geofence was sold as $400m required (or some $amount) and then he reversed. I think there was probably a lot more underneath it, 420 aside something was said or done which motivated Musk to react, and then some other things motivated him to unreact.

Arguably, that makes him less like a country. Well, less like a powerful country. Muskland must be caught between some heinous trade wars.
You are being downvoted by the RIIR crowd for bruising their egos.
In the case of this ticket thing, when her significant other then went on the trip and came back, presumably not by himself. I'm willing to give the the benefit of the doubt here because we clearly are missing important information. Like I said, I don't support her.

In one sense, some justice has already been served as she is out of business and can't be in the medical business. I'm sure she is still subject to civil liabilities too. She is not an immediate danger to society, there is not a lot of value in locking her up. There would be more value in extended community service than there would be in confinement.
In this case, Promise already includes the possibility of rejection, though the types that may be rejected are not specified.
In the job market right now. I have a question about talking to recruiters.

I am talking to a couple of them, who are working with companies whose name or location they won't even disclose until the company looks at my CV and decides to move ahead.

But the recruiters want me to specify a salary expectation. But my salary expectations depend on whether I am living in the downtown of large city or in a smaller city, or able to work remotely.

What number do I specify, or how do I approach the situation otherwise?
We'll have to start rewriting our programs to be more efficient, instead of doing stuff like using Electron for everything.