skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I didn't notice anything different about addresses

I mean.. they don't have any. So maybe you didn't pay attention. Sure, if you're typing in the name of a tourist destination, that's fine. But how do you find a person's house?

In CR the addresses are referential. So you might live "300 meters south of the retirement home, 100 East, red door".
I'm glad you managed to avoid the reaper, but every single person I know who decided to commute using a bike wound up in the hospital within a year (Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego).

That's like two dozen+ people without a single exception to the contrary. Yes, it's anecdata, but it's quite a lot of anecdata with a strong signal to noise ratio.

Bike infrastructure cannot share with cars given the magnitude of the consequences when the two vehicles interact unintentionally.
> This post seemed weird

It's from the Less Wrong community. You can recognize the tone immediately and I completely agree, something about it, about nearly all the writing there, seems a bit weird. And it's not just typical in group phrasing that makes it so. It's the hyperbole and the unending layers of unexplained assumptions that you're supposed to accept, and if questioned you get referred back to this original text which was a Harry Potter fanfiction or something, which you're also supposed to just accept and have entirely memorized before you can join in the discussion.

Kinda sounds like a religion, now that I think about it. Anyone want to bet that in a couple of decades Less Wrong will have morphed into some kind of cult?
What you describe there is use of interfaces and properties.

These things are much easier to reason about and to compose than classes with inheritance.

For example, it is easy to solve Expression Problem [1] with interfaces and properties and it is hard to solve it with only classes and inheritance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression_problem
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Cool then go design a better process that picks out the best engineers on the planet without asking them any engineering questions. Clearly you are smarter and have accomplished more than anyone at any company you have interviewed with, so it should be a cakewalk for you. Heck you can make billions by finally cracking the tech interview problem.
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> I think it makes perfect sense not to refer to women primarily by their marital status

Not in isolation, but in full context there may be some practical merit. In the earlier age where these titles were used, women adopted their husband's entire name. A woman who married Mr. Robert Smith would become Mrs. Robert Smith. This provides feedback that her given name isn't Robert. Ms. Robert Smith would be ambiguous. Is her given name actually Robert or is she married to Robert? Who knows?

But, indeed, in the modern age nobody cares about titles. We have heavily curated Instagram feeds, or whatever it is the cool kids are into these days, to serve as a status indicator instead. That's the thing about status indicators: They only serve to display status for so long until it becomes commonplace and those with status have to move on to new indicators to stand out.
I don't watch TV anymore. I mainly watch YouTube with uBlock Origin. It is jarring whenever I watch TV or browse the web without adblock.
Of course there is. Adult human female.
Often "Developer Advocate" or similar is the title.

draft.dev is a company that does this full time (not affiliated).
On a recent podcast Sam said they asked the government if they wanted to fund OpenAI. They said no.
> Hardworking: I’m struggling to come up with something even as credible as the last two. Maybe it’s ableist: some people can’t work hard.

I'm guessing the logic is something similar the absolutely ridiculous (IMO) graphic I've linked below from the National Museum of African American History & Culture which lists a lot of aspects of white culture in the United States. One of the many items on their list was the "Protestant Work Ethic" and a few bullet points about how hard work equals success.

https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1283372233730203651?s=2...
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In Spanish, 'oriental' is the east compass direction, and 'occidental' is the west compass direction.

I would translate it to "the East Polyclinic".
The thing is when it becomes a chat-bot arms race, the most skeevy companies will profit the most and thus be able to develop the most real and lovable chatbots, creating a positive feedback loop that rewards the most manipulative tactics. Imagine being guilt-tripped by your GPT-5 girlfriend to buy more Azure compute credits so she can fantasize what her perfect beach house would look like and show it to you in VR. She gives you the silent treatment if you use an ad-blocker.

This will be the social lives of 70% of the generation being born today.
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For as long as I remember, my mail in Germany has been delivered by bicycle. Not ebikes, just bicycles with some small extra wheels so delivery persons could quickly stop, hop off, walk to residential mailboxes to throw in mail, and hop on again without the bike falling over.
> But you want me to “whiteboard” like a trained monkey?

Well yes, that's the point. You applied to be a Google code monkey and are surprised that they are asking you to do tricks?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34999048
These are beautiful.

Yet... I know this sounds arrogant, but I feel like I would eventually realize they're real photos if I stared at these long enough without being told. i.e. If I saw them framed on a wall and walked past them every day.

The image noise, surface imperfections, chromatic aberrations, etc. are clues, and yes a raytracer can reproduce that, but not usually this well. That's precisely why I think these are beautiful.
I tend to assume they’re all connected via founder’s prior employment/school/friends etc and so yeah they tapped their networks and they probably check out their friends new startup product. Maybe they’ve given some pre launch feedback but I also tend to think they’re not likely to indicate having a significant usage/integration at that logo company.
It can’t be that complex if virtually every human society came up with two distinct words to express the concepts.

It’s only complicated if you start from the premise that language must accord the same importance to the experience of small minorities as to the experience of the overwhelming majority.
In the early 20th century the US was opposed to European colonialism in China, opposed to the Japanese invasion of China. And opposed to the Communist takeover of China. The US is also opposed to Xi's dictatorship an threats towards Taiwan. And the Uyghur genocide.

So China does have a friend in the US. But Xi doesn't.
"The main thesis of the post is that sometimes incentives are not aligned"

Sure, but your example of AWS and security is exactly the opposite where incentives are aligned.

"but its not the right tool just because it costs as much or more than a train does. "

Yes, and you didn't investigate the impedance mismatch between your tool (PgBackRest) and your backup system. What this has to do with your stray bullet to AWS I have no idea.
Well folks, you heard it here. Average latency is rarely important and if someone presents a very standard and common way to reduce latency of a system, you should dismiss them because they should be aware that your specific system that they have no knowledge of would result in 99% of cache misses.

I used to work at Google long ago in the platforms division, in fact I worked on the BigTable cache (among other things, mostly related to performance). It would be very sad indeed if today's SRE book dismisses caching as a vital and standard optimization strategy and instead plays all kinds of gotchas with potential candidates as I believe you're doing.

With that said, you article you linked does not in any way support your claim about caching, on the contrary it hardly discusses caching at all. It's as if you just wanted to dump a document you thought I wouldn't read as a way to be dismissive.
Definitely do a HN Q&A once you are ready.
This is, unfortunately, painting an overly rosy view of the interviewer.

A lot of the time your interviewer is just going to be some senior person with an interview guide. They'll be asking you to design Netflix, without any experience with video or streaming themselves.

Rather than "trying crazy stuff", I've found that an important step is asking a few questions early in the interview to see if they understand relevant concepts. You can't take it for granted.
I'm curious. Why do you think a bike is more dangerous than a scooter? I find that on a scooter I am more prone to crashing from random bumps
Heads up to the author in case you’re here, you reference a tweet about Next.js but subsequently refer to it as “Nest”.
The issue is when you didn't say it on twitter, or even intend it for public consumption and it's posted as receipts on twitter as examples of your badness - often out of context. Then there are some knock on second and third order effects on your life.

It's one thing if communities on twitter would like to define their own use of the language - it's another when it's imposed on others without their consent.
Can bikes ride in the dedicated bus lanes? (Shown in the streetview links) I know there's no raised dividers, but they look empty.
If your employees go to a competitor and make a secret sauce that tastes the same, how do you judge what is the source of knowledge?

They can have used their skills to come up with a recipe that tastes the same because the requirements led to that outcome, or they simply copied your recipe.

If somebody from OpenAI goes to a competitor and creates something like ChatGPT, where is the line crossed that shows that company IP is transferred? The employee knows how to create the system because he knows how ChatGPT works. If he recreates a similar system but doesn't say that it is a copy of ChatGPT, is that applied skill or is that a violation of the NDA?

If it is a violation, how could he forget the structure of ChatGPT to genuinely come up with a new structure?
I was wondering how long it’d be before a certified Rust Advocate showed up. Still plugging away at it eh?
I stayed there in college with a host family. My address was something ridiculous like

'the blue and yellow gate, 200 meters east of the duck pond'
I think it was a bit of organic confusion. The challenge is they all do very, very similar things. It's just to what degree.

It does seem they starting to standardize the naming.
smarter/more aware people are usually a bit more melancholy, because they see a lot of injustice and unfairness that others don't, I think.

I don't think it has anything to do with being a liberal; that is said to trigger "engagement."

so here comes some engagement:

as an adult liberal I am saddened by all of the rights that conservatives have been taking away from people, lately. conservatives seem hell-bent on making any ideas newer than Puritanism illegal, such as books which tell unpleasant truths, or the fact that women have rights as human beings.

this seems to be very quickly becoming a country where if you are not very conservative, you are simply not welcome, and this matches the attitudes of every true believer conservative that I've ever known in my life. every one of them wanted all diversity eliminated or expelled, though none would openly admit that, and they all experienced joy and satisfaction when they were able to tell someone "if you don't like it, get the f*** out!"

the freedom they (the conservatives I have known well in my life) want is the freedom to tell others what to do, and the freedom from being told what to do.

and yeah, that makes me sad.
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believe he’s referring to this piece - https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-...
Yes in our company higher management is asking us to move from gitlab to github because MS provided them a good discount.
Interviewing is a two way street. You can judge the company as much as they judge you. If you find yourself in front of such an interviewer then move on somewhere else.
this is what Mobileye (owned by Intel) does. For some reason they're very discreet about branding so you don't see their name publicized much on cars' spec sheets when mentioning ADS.
I'm a bit green when it comes to db back ups. Do you have anything I can read on this approach it sounds really promising but I don't think I understand it?
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I think loneliness is a choice except for exceptions.

I've read all kinds of things about California and how shallow it is, and especially in Los Angeles. I think the people who say this must be meeting different people than I do, or trying to meet different people. They want to meet high-end celebrities and just get pushed off or whatever.

I know auto mechanics, plumbers, financial planners, accountants, programmers, retail clerks, manufacturing plant managers, teachers. All of them are exactly like they would be in any other state. They don't sit around trying to sell a script to Hollywood studios, or try to get into acting. Plumbers are plumbers.

I had a GREAT group of hikers I used to hike with - friendly and down-to-earth and real.

But, I have to go out and FORCE myself to meet people. It's not like high school or university where you are surrounded by everyone your own age, and all you have to do is show up and there's a group there for at schools.

I've gone to computer groups meetings, business group meetings, and all kinds of groups. But I have to get my ass out and go. It kinda sucks to get off my ass and motivated, but what else can ya do?

Some groups did suck, I must say, but I just got out of them and go to other ones that turns out great.

Loneliness is a choice.

I guess if you lived on a farm and the nearest neighbor was 30 miles away, that would be different, but that's the exception rather than the rule.
Binaries were definitely leaner in the past, but there's always been that dichotomy between downloading software and running it.

In the browser, users expect software to be available instantly, and that constrains how you build webapps. Users will tolerate the google maps app taking a few minutes to download, but they won't accept the google maps webapp taking several minutes to load in a browser.
>I would be curious to get reports from Canadians and Estonians on their opinions of their country’s roads

Canadian checking in.

Having driven all over the eastern half our country and a few places in the western half as well as much of the eastern half of America I much prefer Canada's.

Small things like how quickly it seems roadkill is cleaned up here as opposed to America. There are still many places where we do not have divided highway and it's just a single lane in each direction but that is slowly and steadily being changed out to a divided 2/3 lanes in each direction setup.

There is construction and maintence delays (looking at you quebec) but overall things work pretty well.

Counter that to places in America (looking at you Michigan) where driving can feel like it's going to shake the nuts off your car, and then you cross a border into say Ohio and everything is back to normal :)
Pretty sure we're GitLab Ultimate customers for the security functionality, and we don't even use the issues/project functionality as we have Jira. And we're not a massive company.
Those don't work as well as the apps, plus if you make it obvious that's why you're joining them people won't like you, as that's not the point of them.
I take any equity language guides with a grain of salt, but how people respond to them speaks volumes about who they are. Obviously there are problems with it. It's largely performative, it can distract from bigger advocacy work, and it's often a lazy attempt by a large organization or corporation to avoid having to make meaningful changes. The thing is, when you add terms like "victimhood culture" to your response, it makes it extremely clear that you're not taking issue with awkward terminology, but with the entire concept of equity itself.
Hard to miss the similarities with Orwell’s Newspeak.

The attempt to make certain thoughts unthinkable by removing the words that denote those ideas.
There's a "standard" way of how greek words should be transliterated in English (ELOT 743). You can test it here https://www.passport.gov.gr/passports/GrElotConverter/GrElot...

And yes, Eleftherios is the correct transliteration :)
There are older Americans who insist that calling a stranger by their first name is rude. That was never my culture so I was taken aback to hear this.
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> The broader problem is that the government, courts, police and everyone else who is otherwise in charge of enforcing rights in this country does not know the first thing about technology

In the USA, doesn't know? Or doesn't want to know? Things like The Patriot Act are more effective (?) when there's an endless buffet of personal data available without the need for a wire tape, court order, etc. Probable cause? Much easier with phone meta data and CCT footage. Etc.

There's too little incentive for the gov to get it right. The current situation is no accident.
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loneliness and solitude are two different things.
Not sure, but people certainly talk that way in Victorian novels (does anyone actually know Mr. Darcy’s first name? :)
Well yeah, if you can say all this in the interview then you will be fine. 90% of candidates will instead read "add cache to improve performance" in their interview prep guide and repeat it verbatim.
That wouldn’t work, because there is no guarantee that the user who is similar to the bot would actually enjoy talking to the person. Bots can’t ghost you or grow tired. And looks are usually even more important than personality when it comes to compatibility.
Prompt 2: It should not crash
Hi! Thanks for trying it out.

Yes I do admit the interview is not perfect yet. More prompt engineering to optimize. I think with a few more optimization we can get ChatGPT to conduct a more quality interview session.

Sorry you didn't find value in the mvp yet, my teammate and I was taking ChatGPT API for a spin and share it as it. In hindsight we could've done more optimization before posting here.

If it's ok, I'll let you know after we optimize the prompt for you to try it again.

Thanks for the feedback, we appreciate it a lot
You didn't! I love this.
Until the Twitter people are running your HR department or university or media outlet or government.
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Mathdoku is a fun way to flex the reasoning circuitry.

But where cognition is needed in business it is knowing how to outsmart these snakefaces, how to think a few moves ahead of them, how to know the stuff that matters before they know it.

Smashing these faces is no more logical than smashing a chessboard when the stupid stubborn pieces won't move the way you had anticipated. It is tantamount to admitting that cognition has not been successfully applied, or maybe even engaged.

Look at artificially produced puzzles that tickle your cognition gland the same way you look at artificially produced snacks, optimized to tickle your taste buds and hijack your sense of "delicious", without providing anything nutritious.

Look at real-world, gnarly, complicated, seemingly self-contradictory problems as you look at natural, raw produce, with its variety of nutrients, vitamins, fibers, etc, all tangled together, with a taste which may not be as refined as refined sugar, but which is really rich.
Throughout history, intelligences that transcend humanity have been bad news for us. Even when they don't exist.
Yes, for now the prompt we seeded was giving context to ChatGPT about their role as an interviewer and area of expertise.

Something we want to try next is to seed several real interview questions, perhaps it'll lead to a more quality interview.

Thanks for trying the MVP, we appreciate the feedback
Yep, same with disabilities, or children playing/costuming as cowboy and indian, or cultural appropriation where certain people are now not allowed wear a rasta haircut, or, or, or... Most ""affected"" people actually don't give a shit AND don't want this shit. But sjws can scapegoat any doubt to this holy mission and make one look like a Nazi.

Usually never is also the intention or context taken into account.. You will always find someone who will say he feels insulted for anything, but we won't find a common denominator if we need to account for every salty person on earth. True respect, equality and no discrimination for everybody is what should count... but it feels today more and more that this is actually alienating, and also excluding people more than what it helps, the contrary! How to stop? Intention is good, but taken to the extreme, this is todays discrimination and exclusion..
While we're getting rid of words we consider offensive, let's get rid of "consumer." I find it particularly offensive when politicians refer to the public as consumers.
> we should make the world less awful so that teenagers won't be exposed to that

I also think that, but am way more pessimistic on this part. If there is a path forward, I’d assume it starts by reducing the amount of people hating the world as it is today and deciding to bail out eternally.

> Whether that requires active restrictions or not depends on whether you believe you can make the mentally healthy activities more captivating than the doomscrolling

My knee-jerk reaction would be “we should ban content targeted at hurting other people’s mental health”, but I don’t see it as a viable approach in so many ways, from how to define what is hurtful, what is intentional, and freedom of expression in the first place.

But the same way we can design cities that improve residents’ well-being, I wish we found better designs (and probably business models and incentives) for our social media landscapes.

I actually enjoyed a lot more the social media before facebook (even Instagram, before it got purchased…thinking about it, those were all available on our phones too) and I still see niches (mostly small sub-reddits) that work different from the other bigger networks. Not saying we should go back there, but there’s stuff that could be inspiring.
Wait, brown bag is subtle racism?

Somebody needs to explain this to me because I know for a fact I’ve taken lunch to school in paper bags that were literally brown and I have no idea what else this could possibly refer to.

Edit: Looked it up: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/theres-more-seattle-bro...

> "the phrase 'brown bag' does bring up associations with the past when a brown bag was actually used, I understand, to determine if people's skin color was light enough to allow admission to an event or to come into a party that was being held in a private home.

Yeesh, If someone hears a common phrase (and literal physical description) and immediately jumps to the conclusion that the speaker is referring to some obscure historical factoid in an attempt to slight them...that person needs to get a life. I refuse to believe a single person is actually offended by this rather than just stirring shit up because they crave attention. There's no way.
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