skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is a waste is interviewing for a Sr backend python role and being given a timed online test to implement a linked list class scratch.

IF I ever needed a linked list, I’d use collections.deque like a professional.
> They would be violating LGPL if they didn't provide the code upon request.

In an indirect way. There is an important difference between "they are obligated to make their code LGPL" and "their code is not LGPL, so they seem to be in violation, but they could make their code LGPL to avoid a violation".

> Static linking means your program is now fully LGPL, not just the library you linked with.

No it doesn't. Making the program fully LGPL is just an option they have. You can't force them to choose that option, and it does not happen automatically.

> The requirements for providing a way to replace the library are for dynamic linking. Static linking means your program is now fully LGPL, not just the library you linked with.

Dynamic linking is just one way to do it. Even gnu.org says you can accomplish it with static linking! https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LGPLStaticVsDynami... And "must also provide" likely includes "upon request".
Google plans to lay off employees in every country. US Googlers were fired overnight, while it will take a couple of months in other countries. I'm curious how it will work with every country legislation, e.g. in France and Germany.
Can you change the title of the post to the title of the article?
Nostr is being built by young Bitcoin developers. Of course cryptocurrency is going to be in the mix.

A lot of Nostr clients have Lightning Network built into them. That's what I meant by built in payment systems. That alone will ensure its possible success in Africa, Asia and other parts of the world besides the US.
I think the idea behind these technologies is they’re industrialized and continued production will see cost of production and operations fall rapidly over time. It’s unfair to judge a new tech based on the performance relative to long established and optimized tech.
It does have a name, Face with Pleading Eyes.

https://unicode-table.com/en/1F97A/
Let’s not confuse misunderstanding of technological requirements and limitations with intentional lies and corruption.
That sounds like the same way people today use testing. They have no idea of the limitations and how long some of the detection lag times can be.
Thanks for your patronage.

The fandom will thrive.
> communicates the vision

He seemed to do a pretty good job with that at Tesla/SpaceX, but I’d argue he’s really dropped the ball at Twitter. No one seems to have any idea what “Twitter 2.0” even is supposed to be.
> ...magicians typically do their fake magic by doing an unreasonable amount of work behind the scenes...

I probably heard this in a Penn & Teller interview, but the idea is much older... One of the keys to making a good illusion is to put far more work into it than people would think is reasonable, so it won't occur to them to think along the lines of what you actually did.
Higher prices would indeed incentivize increased demand. But again, this requires higher prices. Understand that renewable activists are predicting that lithium battery production will not only increase exponentially, it will also exponentially drop in cost per KWh as this happens.

This is not going to happen because, as you point out, lithium mining will only expand if prices climb higher to make otherwise unprofitable reserves profitable. And since raw materials now dominate the cost of batteries, this is going to increase the cost of batteries. There's no having your cake and eating it too: in order to increase lithium mining capacity, battery cost is going to have to grow, not shrink.

You edited your post after I replied, so I'll have to edit in response:

There's no one "difficulty of extraction" factor for each commodity. The reality is that there's a diverse variety of reserves all of which are easier or harder to exploit, even for the same commodity. "The price is determined by how hard it is to extract" is at best a huge simplification.

Higher commodity prices make it viable to extract the more inaccessible reserves, but those reserves will only be profitable so long as prices remain high.

> If lithium was profitable to mine for $X/kg for many years, then that is the price it will naturally return to.

Nope! This is completely wrong. Commodities don't "naturally return" to any price. Prices is a result of supply and demand. It could be we find some other battery chemistry that blows lithium out of the water. In that case the cost of lithium will probably collapse well below $X/kg. Conversely, if countries start to try and provision significant amounts of grid battery storage, the costs will grow even higher as more and more inaccessible reserves need to be exploited to supply market demand.

There is no "natural" price of commodities, whatsoever. If the demand for lithium is going to rise and keep rising, then the cost will rise and keep rising unless some breakthrough makes it way more efficient to mine. Given the fact that we've been mining for centuries and we have huge demand for minerals other than lithium, I'm not optimistic on a 100x improvement in mining efficiency.
Some companies are really in financial trouble, but the others are stack ranking in their shadows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve

The theory by a certain Jack Welch being that the bottom 10% are "non-producers". Since they don't produce, they can simply be fired without affecting the output of the company.

And since some startups had legit trouble and laid off people because they really couldn't survive otherwise (but then typically laid off >10% or had multiple rounds of layoffs), the others can now do it without taking a reputation hit (again, in theory).

VCs seem to be pushing this heavily.

Personally, not a fan. Yes, it's legally not as easy to fire someone for low performance like it is to fire 10% because "the economy!!1", but it's also not impossible. No need to use scorched earth tactics...
people have different perceptions, interpretations, and understandings of things. Your comment comes across as pretty insulting. clear communication is necessary and helpful
I don't object to using nuclear for grid power, but it's really not a great complement for solar and wind. What you want to complement those variable sources is something that ramps up and down easily, when you hit extended reduced production periods in the variable sources. Something like nuclear, which is inherently a baseline source, which has basically no storage utility, and which is already far more expensive per unit of energy produced, even when run at high utilization, misses the boat.
People seem all outraged, but I really don't care. Kurzgesagt is just a youtube channel of explaining cool science topics with very high quality animations. It's really not so different from Cosmos, or Into the Universe, or Mythbusters, or any of these other shows that were also financed by multinational corporations. Nobody cared that billionaires financed those other shows, why's it such a big deal for Kurzgesagt?
Let’s see 5.5 million workers in tech and 200k get laid off that makes less than 4% of jobs lost. Considering securities took a way bigger haircut, I don’t see what the concern is about.
I find it the format really hard to follow
So why would they be downvoted for saying we knew this would be coming if your doctor had the same concerns a few years ago?
I had a hard time following it for a moment but then it clicked that it’s kind of a narrative chat room type thing.

The content itself is well worth taking a moment to get your bearings.
meat = animal cells

egg = one animal cell

Technically the same thing
There are couple of factors at play here.

a. With cheap money, placing and chasing risky bets was risk almost-free.
Although, this has been the case for past 4years, 2021/2022 was where it eclipsed new highs.
b. Wag-wars: In 2020, 2021, 2022, in SV, I have seen people getting insane offers. Sometimes accompanied by multiple expansion of stock (TSLA, NVDA). This eventually meant that if you don't pay top-dollar, someone else will and you will have to keep hiring belt burning. [presume that prospective employer finds you worthy enough]

I also find hard to believe that decision makers believed that pace of growth/expansion in 2020, 2021 was sustainable. There were signs that it isn't and cheap money kept flowing. Some would also criticize the stimulus checks but in my view, it helped folks who needed it the most but it also went on to chase risky or unproductive things like NFT etc.

/end-of-rant
Thanks for sharing, I'll give it a read.

Perhaps I wasn't clear. I fully believe in transformers and foundation models, my criticism is more on creeping model size and whether trying to use huge models is even the right approach for someone seeking to deploy a transformer at scale.

Conveniently, I'm decently familiar with Dr. Liang's work as he has done some really great stuff in the biomedical domain recently. Using his publications as an example and considering my domain (medical), isn't he showing that smaller models with different architectures (such as DRAGON) or pretrained on in-domain text (such as PubMedGPT) are effective ways to get increased performance rather than just simply scaling a more general LLM to unusable sizes?

My experience thus far has been that fine-tuning BERT-large sized models works really well, can be deployed on hospital infrastructure for inference (granted the workstations in the radiology department all have decent GPUs) and doesn't need much in terms of inference optimization.

Perhaps I'm missing something here, appreciate your input.
I'm having a great time with my little Fediverse experiment.

A home-brew activityPub and then I'm routing all the other "noise" (Twitter, fB, Reddit, etc) into my "feed" - along with my old RSS stuff.

It's federated, but I have a nice single view (and no ads, limited tracking)
Saying they got it wrong implies they tried to get it right. The NY Right to Repair bill was sabotage plain and simple.
> Ready combined-cycle gas generation capacity is more important, most places. Those will be incrementally converted to consume imported synthetic ammonia.

Synthetic ammonia that comes from where? Ammonia is currently produced by steam reformation, which emits CO2. You're talking about electrolyzing water to produce hydrogen, and using renewable energy to carry out the Haber process. Nobody is using this strategy of energy storage, so it's priceless in a very literal sense: there is no way to estimate how much such a system would cost. I'd take an expensive solution over a priceless solution any day.
Many Apache projects use git these days. I looked at some other well-known Apache projects, and they all used git; sometimes on the Apache git servers, sometimes on GitHub. I'm sure there are some others that use subversion, but it's not common.

AFAIK for the most part Apache (the foundation) is fairly hands-off in telling people how to run their Apache project, and every project is mostly free to "do whatever".
From what I am read in the article, phosphorus is the problem.

It said that the iron Bessemer obtained had some of the lowest phosphorus content in Great Britain.

Provided some method to remove phosphorus, the quality might improve.
ASCII Corporation
it's still easy to read

That’s highly subjective I’m afraid.

“Take entries of envvars, turn that into k=v, join that by a space, make dim $, previous that, and args, log that”.

Personally I have no clue what’s going on at first glance with all these %%% “thats”. It’s meant to be declarative, but reads imperatively instead.

console.log(chalk.dim(
'$',
...Object.keys(envars)
.map(k => `${k}=${envars[k]}`),
'node',
...args,
))

“Log dimmed $, k=v pairs of envvars, node, then args”.
Stone toolmaking difficulty and the evolution of hominin technological skills
The size of these layoffs are minimal in comparison with the hires they have done during the pandemic. I see this as normalization more than anything else.
The best part is that it's a joke that has enough merit to it that it's worth being taken seriously. That makes for good satire. I love writing surrealism, it's a very hard balance to meet.
Discussed 2 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34426421 (570 comments)

(Warning: Shitshow)
yes, my training is in biology and it came about because I thought that biology would be more interesting to hack than computers (all this happened when I was in middle school and high school, hacking on the internet and taking biology classes). It's like being put in front of a magical new computer and being told "we have this thing in the lab, we don't know how it works, so can you sort of play with it and tell us how?"

But I also know computers quite well and so my career evolved to be "research engineer" rather than "scientist" or "software engineer".
As a hallway monitor, you should be aware that you're not supposed to be reading HN at work, now are you? :-)
As is frequently pointed out, it's not (generally) being claimed that there's a lot of evidence of current harm, it's that there is unquestionably potential for harm, because the Chinese government can make new demands on companies like TikTok at any moment, regardless of what was or wasn't done in the past.
More CPU Cores Isn’t Always Better, Especially in HPC
Your post mentions "hours of power outage" without a context of which interval this is within. I think it is annually from looking at your citation, so "hours of power outage per year"
I hear Flashgitz are a pretty talented bunch of artists:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uqKyofFfm0
The author of this paper runs the inference team at OpenAI. So I would imagine that this is a record of her experiments without necessarily revealing which ones they're actually using in production.
Could you expand on why the disappearance time is so much faster for a bomb than for a power plant? If 1kg of uranium undergoes fission, I would expect there to be a little less then 1kg of fission products resulting from it. No matter if it were a bomb or a power plant, the amount and lifetime of the fission products would be the same. There would have to be something else going on, like the bomb only splitting a tiny fraction of its uranium, or maybe something about the environment of the explosion destroying fission products?
But you think the people who are already irresponsible about prophylactics would be responsible enough to get a vaccine and boosters, if an effective one could even be created?

There's no moralizing, just logic here.
Heh - I come to my place in snowdonia and I lament the sky, as it’s a 4 - but then I spend the rest of my time in extremely rural Portugal, where my observatory lives, and it’s a 2 there. No accident - chose the spot in part because of the sky.
Is there another JavaScript feature that looks like a list of function names but which causes actions to be performed? Or operators that operate on both functions and values? The placeholders are very similar to variables, so do what they look like they do, and it's only the implicit definition that is new. The explicit placeholders feel much more like JavaScript to me than the implicit function calling of the F# proposal.
When did I ever say business was "evil"? Nothing about business is inherently "evil".

Business is about exploiting someone somewhere for your benefit, no exceptions.

Trade is about exploiting someone somewhere for your benefit, no exceptions.

Put another way, business is about obtaining someone else's time so you don't have to use yours.

You should stop applying pre(mis)conceptions and look at what business is objectively.
I fail to see how any of the mentioned pronouns are ungrammatical.

As for competing needs and such, in this case it’s as easy as using she/her (as maia lists that as one of its pronouns), in other cases it’s usually acceptable to use they/them or no pronouns at all. The only thing that is generally absolutely unacceptable is (knowingly) using the wrong gendered pronouns or using gendered pronouns when the person only uses non-gendered pronouns.
Because of the global economic meltdown, which we're in the early stage of.

Why don't you know this?
The list of questions to ask in an interview they provide is quite thoughtful and well organized: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11DoQ-Bhvs5mfRwB0Bz6O...
Yes, but that has nothing to do with the technical side. No amount of engineers would bring back advertising dollars to Twitter.
Time... aren't exactly being truthful. They constantly refer to "take-home", rather than pre-tax. The all in cost for a person includes pre-tax wages, often taxes on top of that, desks, computers, managers, electricity, office space, benefits and so on. Common sense suggests they are likely making 30% or so margins. If it were much more than that a competitor would eat their lunch. Look at the publicly listed services companies like DXC, Wipro, Accenture - margins are 20-30%.
Lol brown outs is such a nicer name, but I've always known them as a scream test.
The debate isn’t about money Congress has already spent. The debate is about cuts to future spending. The debt ceiling is just the vehicle for having that debate. That sort of horse trading is actually a fundamental part of how politics is supposed to work.
How do you do this? I've long wanted a universal queue of: email, chat apps, RSS feeds, Facebook, Instagram, etc.
Sounds interesting. But I think a lot of people lack knowledge to use things like this. It requires ingrained culture: companies providing this service, then persuading people this is useful.
Another user said it best in the M$ thread. They're coordinating to lower salaries.

Most employees will be hired back into the industry, probably swapped between these companies... at a lower salary.

That... and culling, getting ready for the economic shitstorm.
As I regularly remind people, "assholes" is a perfectly good gender neutral collective pronoun.
My workplace still uses SVN. Easy to colocate code & hardware/mechanical files. For the kind of work I do, the advanced features in Git wouldn't really provide any benefit but changing would be a pain.
I forget what country was trying to build a bunch of these but an article popped up on here about this a while back and they cited lack of suitable locations as one of the main barriers for building more.

The most ideal locations are natural that require minimal land reshaping. Some places in the world have a lot of suitable locations like that. Others don’t.

But despite that it still seems much more feasible to build lots of hydro pump stations like that than it does to build other forms of battery farms.
While some economic indicators are bad already, the real issue is core inflation not giving up.

The Fed has already signaled it will keep hiking rates until the economy slows down and inflation is controlled. As an entrepreneur/CFO, would you bet against the Fed?
Literacy is a good way of putting it.

Another example I can give is when a client had some process represented by a graph, with boxes and arrows, but the structure of it was really ad hoc. It was _mostly_ a DAG except with some extra back edges they'd added to solve specific problems.

I suggested modifications to their structure, their algorithms and their DB storage for this thing so that it _did_ become a DAG, being careful to explain how to keep their functionality working.

After that the graph could be topologically sorted, and the upside was that instead of loading the whole graph at once as they were doing, we could load a single topological 'level' at a time.

Added an index for topological level in the DB and we were able to make it efficient.

They did have to do some work on the calling side, because they used to load it all at once, and now they had to load it in pieces, but we gained an order of magnitude or more in load time, so it was deemed worth the effort.
Twitter was profitable in 2018 and 2019. Down in 2020, and 2021 is hard to fairly assess.
In This Thread.
I have seen it. The person was a new hire, and while he's a solid developer, from a maintenance / debugging / support perspective I haven't encountered his equal -- he solved a complicated issue in about 4 hours (including the time taken to get the dev environment setup) and apologized for how long it took. Great attitude, and amazing ability to get at the root of maintenance problems.
Plus, the longer they can keep 3rd parties locked out of repairs, the longer they have to retrain the entire industry with propaganda that dictates what should be fixed vs replaced.

What happens after a generation or two of the workforce is trained by industry groups that are approved by the companies that don't want us to be able to repair or control our devices? IMO, the lie about non-repair-ability becomes accepted as fact, the expertise from people that know it's a lie isn't passed on, and suddenly the lie becomes the truth because there's no one left that knows how to perform the repairs that were deemed unprofitable.
Thanks for explaining..that makes it more obnoxious than I realized.. still I think people are dismissing it without any logical reason.
I’m not op, but I say do it all in one shot. I worked at Iomega in the 90’s and it felt like they had a layoff every quarter, which was toxic. The company was on fire, however, so maybe that’s different.
It's the "step on me mommy" emoji
Hacker culture is trans/furry/otaku/plural/neuroqueer. Get used to it.
You can also hand out ranges. Instead of asking the system for one ID, you ask it for 1000 contiguous IDs, and you ask for another range when you run out. This will reduce the load on the ID-creating-system by 1000x (or your choice of number) and has the advantage that systems don't need to know how many peers they have. (beware of the herd though, if you don't persist it every system will come asking at startup)
Funny thing - in business (as I’m war) the ones with least compassion win.

So these same people end up with the money and decide how to spend it.

It’s up to us the techies and scientists (with no money) to say no.
“ has no pronounceable name in English or any other speakable human language.”

I’m in love with this because it’s so silly. I’ve always wondered what would happen if you gave a company an unpronounceable name and it took off.

My guess is that the community would name it and that would be that. But I’m fascinated to witness that process happen.

I really hope Sado takes off. ;)
And? You think they want to lose that?
I'm on a phone, I think that's the difference.
> That means knowing what subjects and concepts you can commit to memory with a gifted efficiency!! Imagine the sorting hat coming to you and picking you out to join the guild of X or Y!

You are describing Isaac Asimov’s novel “Profession”.