skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An alternative explanation: even if they did spend more time on the resumes they wouldn't be selecting better, because they don't know what to look for

Ah, the sheer ego size of hiring managers who go around saying stuff like "understanding how candidates think" or "assessing cultural fit"

The brightest minds of psychology - with far, far more resources and time - can't replicate those results if they run the tests this Monday or this Wednesday... and then comes the hiring manager and they say they can do it with a CV, some technical assignment, and an hour of chat. After having spent less time properly studying the topic than highschoolers spend on their homework each week
TIL about the lyrics being from Jon Hendricks. Thanks.
Hacker news has always been an outgrowth of the startup world, and has never had much respect for "serious business". I guess because of the slow pace and paper pushing, which is a valid complaint about working at these kinds of organizations. It's something you eventually come to understand, but as a young person fresh from a CS program I understand how it can feel.

This is likely to become less extreme over time as our experiment with low to negative interest rate policy comes to a close.
Google announces sweeping Android changes in India
That makes sense; it's not just "this sprint sucks", it's the expectation the next one will also suck, and the one after that, etc.

Was the design team fine during this time? They had no trouble designing enough stuff for you to implement, it didn't weigh on them in the same way?
How do Germany and the EU fund military gear to Ukraine?
> direct listings completely rely on retail buyers for liquidity, and even in the frothiest markets that's not enough money in the face of all employees and the company dumping shares immediately

IPOs typically have a lockup period, which means that employees will always be selling to retail buyers, whether on Day 1 with a direct listing or Day 90/180/etc. when the IPO lockup expires.
What is the purpose of "Implementing Database Systems with Apache Arrow and DataFusion" instead of using ClickHouse, which does all the stuff?
Adani Group: Asia's richest man hits back at 'con' allegations
But when companies are solely profiting from it then it ceases being fair.
This is pay walled. Where else I can see it's more and clear pictures. I failed to find a face in the original article.
How do you determine whether a discussion is going to turn to an issue? Do you hold all conversations in the tracker just in case?
Sounds like the "argument from middle ground" fallacy. Another perspective is that advanced economies have advanced in spite of the occasional misguided protectionist policy. Economics is not a hard science but the empirical evidence in favor of protectionism is very lacking.
Gas shortage renders Iran’s air quality ‘unbreathable’ due to mazut pollution
Yes but how are they getting that random number X?

Is it from some rng generator or is it from nuclear decay of a Cesium atom?

This is what my product provides. Truly random (TM) numbers!
Cancelled Auto-renew on my prime membership and moved my photo/video backup to blackblaze.

Shipping is still free over a minimum spend and when you're buying diapers and wipes. You'll hit it.
Not if you live in a big city and don't have a car.

I primarily use Amazon Fresh for my staples that I need weekly so I can do a "big" shop once a week and then go to the local market for the random things throughout the week.

But I have zero interest in lugging home 2-3 gallons of milk, juice, and other heavy items on a weekly basis walking down the street. Especially now that I don't even go into the office so I don't have the excuse of getting something on my way home.

Also on more than a few occasions I have price compared and Amazon Fresh for those staples is better than any of the grocery stores near me.
Meanwhile, my wife just initiated a no-hassle refund of moldy pizza crusts we bought from Wal-Mart. She was instantly refunded online without having to talk to anyone. And there's no need to physically return it. Such bizarre timing to find this posted on HN not ten minutes after my wife told me about the pizza crust thing.
Data project ranks how well countries around the globe protect human rights
Ideally you just implement OTel into your apps and later plug that into any metric/log/trace collector you want, so you have DataDog and Newrelic and other frontends competing based on their feature suite and price.

As it stands, this was/is trying to use DataDog's existing APM libraries to turn them into OTel for ingest into other providers.
Cloudflare has exactly that: https://blog.cloudflare.com/randomness-101-lavarand-in-produ...

> LavaRand is a system that uses lava lamps as a secondary source of randomness for our production servers. A wall of lava lamps in the lobby of our San Francisco office provides an unpredictable input to a camera aimed at the wall. A video feed from the camera is fed into a CSPRNG, and that CSPRNG provides a stream of random values that can be used as an extra source of randomness by our production servers.
Seaweed researchers find bright future for underwater crop
> I was previously in a FAANG where the only tool was the internal messaging platform, which in my opinion, left a lot to be desired.

Were you previously at Amazon and the internal messaging platform, Amazon Chime?

As far as I know:

* Facebook employees use “Workplace, by Facebook”

* Apple employees use different things, from iMessage to Slack

* Microsoft employees use Microsoft Teams

* Amazon employees use Amazon Chime and Slack

* Netflix employees mostly use Slack

* Google employees use Google Chat
It's unfortunate that you're willing to dismiss everything I said because of a generalization that spoke in absolutes.

There will always be people who disagree, but if you're in the United States and believe that service workers are not underpaid then you either only patronize high end restaurants or are completely out of touch with the average American.
Home Depot Canada found sharing customer personal data with Meta
Sorry for detracting from the release news but SQLAlchemy has to have the least helpful website of any major library I can think of. I'm trying to find basic 101 code examples and it's just one wall of text after another. I found how to cite SQLAlchemy in a research paper and have yet to find a single code example.
- Amazon Prime: I can wait a few days for my order. Their video and music service were just horrible to use.

- Dropbox: Keep the free account for basic file sharing, moved to iCloud for everything.

- Netflix: Not really good shows coming out. I rather pick and choose TV shows I get from somewhere else.

I quit everything but iCloud for file storage and Apple Music because I like to have a changing workout playlist I can’t find anywhere else.
I was just working on sqlalchemy. zzzeek's help if you get stuck somewhere is outstanding. Async is a godsent feature for us.
It seems obvious to me that eventually someone is going to write a compiler for a language that delivers on rust's main value propositions (fast native code/memory safety/data race protection) but that compiles at least 10x faster than rust for most problems. Initially the generated code might be somewhat slower than rust on average, but I think developers will find they would happily trade some runtime perf for such a dramatic compile time improvement. The runtime performance gap will also narrow over time and eventually probably even supplant rust for most common problems. Rust itself is already too complex and weighed down by many competing interests that will prevent it from being the best possible version of itself. But it also has many self owns such as objectively bad syntactic decisions (like angle brackets for generics) that were made to appease intransigent c programmers.
Yes, clearly they would have "operated better" at trying to subvert the will of Arizona voters by abetting Trump's failed coup attempt. If only they didn't have to worry about their communications being read later, maybe they could have really let loose!
$10mm seems like a really generic and round number to ask for
> negotiated annual contract

Maybe we are too small but Datadog is one of the few vendors which we haven't been able to negotiate down in years. The price has always been whats on the website. I honestly don't even mind, with some vendors it feels like you are on a basar and they always tell you that their final discountns had to get approval by the CEO.
Regardless of whether this specific dinosaur is thought to have feathers or not, I was wondering if feathers would survive the fossilization in the first place? Is there anything intrinsic to feathers that would make them different in that regard, then, say, the skin (which apparently is relatively well preserved)?
I generally try StackOverflow/Google, then documentation and then discussion issues on SQLAlchemy. IT has worked well for me.
Personally, I'm on the verge of dropping Netflix, simply because I don't use it and they don't have any of the old content that I want to see. I hate most of the new stuff being produced.

I'm also about to drop my Sam's Club membership. I only use it to buy gas, because I'm a single guy and I simply can't use stuff fast enough when I buy from Sam's. I can go across the street and pay 3 cents a gallon more (worst case, they are often the same price), which I often have to do anyway because Sam's closes their gas pumps at 8pm.

I'm not going to renew my BestBuy TotalTech membership. It doesn't save me enough $$$ because I can't buy enough to make it worthwhile.

I dropped Office 365, and have convinced family members to do the same. They just don't use it any more. LibreOffice and Google Docs fill the void.

Things that I have refused to buy because they are rediculously expensive: anything from Adobe (gimp, inkscape, kdenlive instead).

At work, we just passed on using Anaconda, b/c the business license that we would need was $2k per dev, per year. We came up with our own solution for CVE tracking and license auditing.
Society is simply a collection of individuals and their behavior. It is not synonymous with politics.

For example, If people lack meaningful social and don't want to socialize with their neighbors, call friends, or have dialogue with their partners, you can't legislate solution to that problem.
ClamAV runs natively in linux. AV typically hashes files and matches them against a known database. It's not doing something that is only possible in windows
We actually have that functionality for teams/private communities. I'm working on a tool called Linen.dev and we can move messages and have an open close state with threads.

You can check it out our community https://linen.dev/s/linen
From what I can see Unitarians welcome all the weirdos (saying this as a weirdo myself). My local church has Zen meditation groups, Wiccan circles, and specifically LGBT hangouts.
If you trust ChaCha20 and Blake2s this way, you should just use them. Most of the point of a one-time pad is not having to trust algorithms like these.

(In reality, just forget that one-time pads exist).
The naesayers need to realise this is only GPT4

Imagine what GPT6 is going to look like
I worked at Amazon (a while ago) and they both (a) did not do that and (b) what firing they did not, imo, affect morale. If anything the fact that really bad engineers were quickly removed was probably a net positive for morale.

There were a couple of dubious episodes, though, where a bad manager tried to do something to people they didn't like. Sometimes it worked (aka, negatively affected people) and sometimes the manager got in trouble instead. So it's not like all good. But it was heavily dependent on the managers you ended up under.
for confidence games, an IPO is much better.
My First Flame (1994)
You're not going to get a white shoe law firm partner to come to court to contest your parking ticket unless you are that lawyer yourself, so barely passing is good enough. The only thing to worry about is if the exam grading doesn't allow negative marks for disbarment-level answers, that barely passing score might not be giving us enough information.
Under the Current Releases section, click the docs link then ORM Quick Start. But it's tough to find at a glance.
I don't think you can verify the safety of a one-time pad with statistical tests.
One thing I wonder about, although I don't have a clear recommendation, is the preponderance of single character lifetimes.

Other than 'static, a Rust beginner is unlikely to run into any lifetime with a meaningful name for quite a while. If when learning a new language you only ever saw variables named a, x, t, s, v and m it's not a big jump to guess that p, z and b would be allowed as well, but would you assume that in fact the language allows big_set and old_corp_logo as identifiers and it just forgot to mention that ? I'm not sure I would.

The Rust standard library does have lifetimes with reasonable names, for example std::thread::Scope needs two lifetimes and it names them 'scope and 'env which, although brief, are clearly not single letters. But most of the library and documentation doesn't bother with meaningful names, since it doesn't have anything worth saying about the lifetime, e.g. the signature of str::ends_with:

pub fn ends_with<'a, P>(&'a self, pat: P) -> bool
where P: Pattern<'a>,
<P as Pattern<'a>>::Searcher: ReverseSearcher<'a>
About 8 years ago I created a GIMP plugin to read Terry Davis' (creator of TempleOS) custom image files to convert them to bitmaps, and vice-versa. I didn't know anything about the .bmp file format, or how to create a GIMP plugin. I wrote a blog post detailing the creation and discovery process. I contacted Terry Davis throughout to ask for help and feedback, and he was helpful and appreciative. It was interesting and rewarding to interact with him and learn a bit about his operating system. I was sad when he passed.

https://michaelbarlow.com.au/gra-plugin/
I'd use this but alas I'm on iOS at the minute.
I wonder if it due to reduced or increased blood oxygen. Certainly hypoxia can cause a variety of symptoms such as anxiety and panic. Did you measure your blood oxygen at the time?

Presumably if the breathing exercises are to be useful, the user should be getting the normal amount of oxygen. The problem I see is that if you're actively controlling your breathing, you're bypassing the normal automatic breathing, so it is probably easy to get too much or too little.

The only time I've deliberately used breathing exercises was to see if I was able to increase my blood O2 levels above 12000ft, and I did manage to successfully increase it from about 80% to 90+% using deliberate deep breathing.
The game is overmonetized trash, and the fallout game doesn't seem to add anything at all to the theater company's performance. It might as well be second life or vrchat or any of a million other games that aren't abusive microtransaction garbage.

Fallout 76 was a real turning point from bethesda, where they went from inept buggy RPGs to actively evil over monetization on a game that should never have been released in that state.
When I get enough sway to do so (new team, new company, somewhere to try a new process without killing productivity) I’d like to give Discourse a try for discussion. It’s got both forum-like and chat-like features.

https://www.discourse.org/index
> If you dilute those inputs to the point where it indistinguishable you have created a new song!

No, that's not the right criterium. You can create a new song but it may (not will) be classified as a derived work.

Note that in audio it is fairly easy to prove that a part was sampled and unless your samples are pure noise you would most likely not get away with this. Plenty of artists are more than happy to give permission but they are also likely more than happy to sue if you don't ask for it.

And some don't care. But that should not be your assumption.

Using the same words to write a different book is emphatically not the same as using samples of spoken/sung words or played notes or riffs to create another song. These arguments have all been tried in court (see that article linked above) and failed.

And that's where sites like this:

https://www.whosampled.com/Us3/Cantaloop-(Flip-Fantasia)/sam...

come in handy, if you listen to those other songs you'll realize
how brilliant this Cantaloop version really is, in spite of
being made using a very high fraction of samples from other songs.

But they did credit them, and they did ask for permission.

Finally, it's good form: artists are usually part of the same eco system and you tend to not do to others what you don't want done to you. If you feel that having your artwork sampled for inclusion by SD is the way forward then that should be your right to decide. But not for SD to decide (in my opinion...).
Check out pugsql, we switched from SQLAlchemy to that because the former was overkill, and way too complex.
ClamAV can detect programs that take part in DDoS attacks. The program did not attack the VM, just used it as part of a botnet
Companies are gonna have terrible documentation whether or not they use Slack, at least Slack makes this slightly better by making every conversation decently searchable. IME every attempt to centralize information in some "better" repository has just resulted in fragmentation.

In a perfect world there'd be some metacrawler that could search Github, Google Docs, internal wikis, JIRA, etc. all at once; in practice, Slack is the search index
What's the difference? Both are skills that can be improved through frequent practice.
(for the record, the editorialized title that will likely get changed is right now: "Before you believe the ChatGPT hype, ask it something you know well")

Even better: ask it something you just made up.

For GPT, there's no real difference and you shouldn't expect any.
Recently hit v1 too
Slack search isn't perfect but it's surprisingly good. I use it frequently to get up to speed on something I'm being brought in on. We used to use some crappy Microsoft instant messenger and I can't imagine going back. Slack, Confluence, issue search and code search make such a huge difference that I don't think I could comfortably live without them or some equivalents.
I know what you mean. I wonder whether it's useful to distinguish thinking from that "mind's eye" imaging capability that I believe you're describing. They might be separate things. It's pretty evident that a cat or a dog, or even a fish, has memory. Is memory the ability to conjure things in the mind's eye? If remembering one image reminds us of other images, then language-free thought might be moving through a chain of images. Perhaps humans are good at creating such chains in their heads, while a fly or an ant can't do much more beyond matching a memory to their actual instantaneous sensory input, and reacting accordingly. Substitute "image" with symbolic memories, and that might be the start of abstract reasoning.

In other words, there's probably basic consciousness at one end of a spectrum, and thinking evidenced by language on the other end. Somewhere between those two, one might draw a line between thought and mere conscious awareness.
I learned the hard way that I need to always use SQLAlchemy. I used other Python ORMs before and has been bitten hard with random bugs.
You know, I've always kind of dismissed UU. Not sure why. Having taken a look at the website for our local congregation it actually sounds way better than I've given it credit for. Might have to check it out.
The miniature sun hack requires ignoring D&D 5E designer Jeremy Crawford confirming that wall of force provides total cover: https://twitter.com/jeremyecrawford/status/67755666233340313...

Question:

> could a wizard make a sphere around a creature using wall of force and then chill touch to damage them through the wall?

Answer:

> Unless a spell says otherwise, you can't target someone behind total cover (PH, 204). [Amending another tweet] #DnD

You wouldn't be able to enlarge an object behind a wall of force.

That one also requires a very narrow reading of enlarge that an enlarged object in a small space continues increasing in mass once it stops increasing in size.
I had an Amazon account from 1999, closed when I discovered they were tracking me with a 1-pixel image. Moved to fnac.
>For example REP is probably little more than one of the conditions that the microcode can test.

Indeed it is, and the same internal flag set by the REP prefix is also used by the multiplication and division subroutines to keep track of the sign bit. With the prefix, (I)MUL and (I)DIV will return a negated result on the 8086.

The 80186 only does this for IDIV. Mul/div on that processor is already mostly handled by dedicated logic, so the microcode is a lot shorter (and no longer uses any subroutines).

However, MUL and IMUL jump to a common exit point that can put the result into either DX:AX or an arbitrary register (for the three-operand form of IMUL), and again they used the REP flag to keep that extra bit of state. If it is set, the register is selected by the middle ModRM field. The usefulness of that undocumented "feature" is somewhat limited, since that is also part of the opcode, so the only choices for register are AH, CH, SP and BP.

Also, BOUND uses the flag as a 1-bit "loop counter" and will fail to check the upper bound when prefixed with REP.

The 80286 and everything newer either ignore the prefix or handle it similar to 0Fh: each prefixed opcode is now a separate instruction with its own microcode.
https://log-store.com - Going for a low-cost alternative to Splunk. Everyone seems to love Splunk, except for the price. My goal is to replicate 75% or so of the most-used features, but at a dramatically reduced price (currently free). I tried asking on here what those features are, but it flopped: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34412176
Thank you!

I'll think about sharing the code. Large code parts - while working - did not pass my quality bar, since I did not have enough time to clean and refactor while learning. But maybe that's fine. Hmm.
> Slack replaces in-person conversations, which have the same deficits, and many of the same benefits.

Agreed. Reading this, a lot seems to come down to culture problems that would exist whether that given office uses Slack or not, especially regarding interruptions.

I personally have felt way less interrupted from Slack/Teams in my 8+ years of remote work than I did in an office. All of my employers have understood that if I have Slack notifications disabled, I'm either "out of office" or focusing on something, and have also understood that Slack should be treated as a "something that could go a few hours without a response."

In-person, I'd just have people walk into my office and start talking without seeing if I was busy. I had multiple times where I had the door shut and lights off, and had someone pound on the door because "they could hear my keyboard and thought I just didn't hear them knocking."

Slack just lets the people who are going to interrupt you regardless do so with way less effort.
From the HN commenting guidelines:

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article.

:>
I quit Facebook in 2010, despite being told I'd need it to keep in contact with anyone in my life. I immediately lost contact with a small network of casual acquaintances. For friends and family, I just started texting, phoning, and emailing them. Stayed in contact just fine. I quit Instagram a few years after that and nothing of value was lost in my opinion. I've deleted and recreated a Twitter account about 7 times since 2007 because nothing else could really replace it fully.

I quit Netflix because I never watch it but immediately resubscribed because my wife was deep into Virgin River and The Great British Bake Off. woops.
I don't think buying Chinese battery/BEV company is an option due to national security. Worst thing happened in Japan was Nissan sold AESC to Chinese conglomerate. Govt should relief it instead of sunsetting companies like JDI.