skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the latter, Not everything has a high enough recurring engineering cost to make reasonable money.

Lots of things simply have high non recurring initial developmemt cost.

Lots of things are also done enough at some point. Not everything requires constant new things.

In these cases the main value over replacement is upfront dev cost of whatever features they need (not what you provide)

That is probably not going to make you money, even if it took you a long time, as it is a fairly fixed cost

open source also sucks at making products rather than projects, and then complains they can't often make money doing it.
That is actually true outside open source too.
The actual work for which you are hiring an engineer is building a software product/service, and the Homebrew developer has a track record of delivering great results.

Rejecting the guy because he cannot do a whiteboard brain teaser is like rejecting LeBron James because he did not make a shot at the arcade basketball game.

I'm not saying the guy would be perfect. Comparing him to LeBron James might not be a great example. Google might have other reasons to reject him.

What I'm trying to say is the current coding interview is a really poor mechanism to gauge a software engineer, especially when it comes to hiring one with real-world engineering experience.
>"A tired, irritable, unskilled player is not appealing, and probably shouldn’t be looking for a relationship".

>much of this blog post is about winning the game of life in a western capitalist society

Thats true for most human societies, starting from hunter gatherers, where being unproductive to the group meant being clubbed during sleep, or farming societies where being unproductive meant easily starvation and social esclusion.

People who live in welfare states tend to have it good, usually beyond their means as most things are subsidized at a loss. Thats not the norm in any accountable society. We westerners have it easy
> If you cannot, within the time, demonstrate any ability, why should you be hired?

It is more likely that the interview process is broken and missing the right candidates, than it is that the interviewees are all mediocre. Most interviews are very non-inclusive the same way that the main track of school is becoming less and less inclusive. Different people need different methods to bring out the best in them.
In the last months I have heard everything from MS including "Firefox is the #1 source of security bugs in enterprise" and the like.
"Mirror" is what this question is generally understood to be asking. I don't think swapping the direction of the edges produces a tree in general although it would produce a DAG. I think "invert" could mean "mirror" or turn upside-down depending on the context.
At the very least I think it's a reasonable goal to require that plastics not be used for single-use items.

Plastic is a fantastic material for reusable items of sorts, but it doesn't belong in a single-use drink cup, food container, or bag, until we have the technology to truly recycle it and the law enforcement to require that said recycling happen.

Execution is important. I've been seeing so much fuss about banning plastic straws but no fuss about the cup. I frequently see drinks in plastic cups with paper straws. Completely backwards.
What's New in Pandas 2.0.0
Aircraft carriers that were in the process of being sold off, like HMS Hermes and HMS Invincible.
I want to look at the source. Very helpful.
Just look at all the big companies doing it

https://faisalman.github.io/ua-parser-js/
Cal.com’s issues have less to do with the stack and more that it just isn’t setup for self hosting , if you try to get it up and running you’ll notice you get quite a few errors where it tries to hit proprietary code and it crashes strangely every few hours. Also uses up an incredulous amount of resources for such a simple service.
I'm struggling to see the world from your point of view. Do you honestly believe there's a room full of cigar smoking robber barons somewhere in Redmond who got together and told the devops guy who runs that site to break compatibility with some niche browser's interim builds, because that's the best way to maximize profits? (And somehow these same guys were the ones pulling the strings in 1995?)
This is kind of a racist against whites who I think are used as a scapegoat no matter what. In my experience, those sports teams you are talking about are filled up with international and Asian students[1][2]. The dumb white elite student and the extremely talented, poor Asian student stereotypes are not true in my opinion. Maybe they were in the past.

Even the SAT score can be gamed.[3] I think pretty much every admissions advantage that exists is found and exploited. These schools are no longer about providing an elite education to talented students who want to get ahead. They are credential factories and students who go these schools have parents that push them from young ages to get in because they want the status credential. I have all sorts of stories about how fake a lot of students CVs are. Fake non profits, doing math competitions despite not liking math, getting into obscure sports, etc. It's absolutely not just white people who do this.

I am not advocating for dropping test scores. I just want to point out how aggressively people pursue getting admitted to elite schools and the specter of cheating hangs over it all too. I have friends who did tutoring in other countries who talk about paid SAT test takers.

[1]: https://gocrimson.com/sports/mens-fencing/roster

[2]: https://goprincetontigers.com/sports/mens-squash/roster?path...

[3]: https://qz.com/980074/the-sat-can-be-hacked-and-gamed-with-t...
Well, the guy is still stalking me and using all possible dark patterns and weasel language to make me do what he wants, and if I don't agree, he will do it anyway by abusing the fact that I need to stay secure.
> When you write software, you test it on every platform you choose to support.

This depends on your definition of "support". It's very likely that Microsoft do not claim to support (as in, put customer support resources behind) Firefox Nightly, this would be reasonable as it's provided for development utility, not daily use.

However, I do somewhat disagree that you test it on every platform. If Teams is built as a website, do we expect them to test every feature of every release on every browser? Probably not, we expect that they do reasonable testing across a representative range of browsers, maybe focused on major features.
Yes, the regional products in Europe for sure. But a whole country and all products? I can imagine that Japan would do something like this, as it is usually synonymous with quality (as Swiss is) and they do not want brand dilution.
That's exactly what I'm saying lol.
> It’s a bounded sink for electrons, though — i.e. it has capacitance — insofar as a positive ionization required for a static discharge (lightning) built up in the earth can be “spent” by grounding voltage into it.

The Earth has no special ability to absorb electrons beyond what a jar of dirt does.

In a lightning discharge, the earth and the thundercloud act as opposite plates of a capacitor with an air dielectric.

As a thought experiment: if I built a hypothetically perfect giant metal shield covering the entire planet 100ft above ground, and perfectly insulated it from earth, lightning would discharge to the shield, and there would be zero potential from the shield to the actual Earth either before or after the discharge. There is nothing electrically special about the physical Earth, it's just a conductor.

> Ignoring that, though, what people usually mean by this is that the combined neutrals of the entire power grid are on the other end of any dumping of current you’re doing into ground.

What you're describing only happens during fault conditions.

Except in extremely unusual circumstances like [1], the Earth is not used as a normal return path for utility neutral current. The return current flows on dedicated neutral conductors. Actually, in am ideally balanced Wye, there isn't any real neutral current at all.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-wire_earth_return
Also, as far as I know, nobody measures false negatives in hiring. How would you even do it? Keep track of everyone you rejected, and then 5, 10, and 20 years later check on their career? I'd be fascinated to see the results of such a study. I'm sure it would be super valuable if you could find some kind of pattern where some filter is falsely excluding candidates that are actually great.
"Foreknowledge of contractual restrictions" is not a sufficient condition of justice.
this is the one: Casually Explained: Evolution III - Life as a Video Game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWIi6Pytde8
This is absolutely true. There are some types of meetings (likely the ones which are MS Stream-based -- but as a plain user this is impossible to detect) where upon joining you will get the dreaded message about incompatible browser.
For those who saw the Flying Toasters demo and were disappointed that it didn't have the classic song, I've got you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjlusi_h_XA

... Gleaming angels of love / On mighty toaster wings!
The cashierless thing is fine, but is never going to be the reason people pick one store over another. The problem with Amazon Go is that they have been trying to target the "upscale convenience store" demographic which doesn't really exist. If getting rid of human labor lowers operating costs then why doesn't that reflect on the price tag on the shelf? Charging 2x what the CVS next door does defeats the purpose.

Moreover, if having an Amazon account is a requirement for entering the store then they are effectively targeting people who'd rather order stuff online. Their focus shouldn't have been on Amazon users but the rest of the world.
Or, just log in to your account in the browser and the return page has a QR code for the store employe to scan. I did a return a few weeks ago and I was in and out in 30 seconds, even though I don't use the app.
It may be an issue with your machine.
Same. I was fortunate enough to be able to use one of those hundred thousand dollar SGI’s as a sophomore because of my lab job. So, in my dorm I had a Pentium60 capable of running Quake at 320x240 software rendered. And, in the lab, I could play at 1280x1024(!!!) on the Reality Engine with the same point filtered look. But, then I managed to get a Voodoo1 and my little PC could run Quake at 640x480 bilinear filtered. It was nuts to get such a huge speed up for a fraction of the cost of the base machine. Peak “Pop Moore’s Law” going on at that time.
> Furthermore, even experts get this check-task wrong simply because humans tend to assume the correct answer, overlooking hidden mistakes too easily. Everybody has made the experience that we are unable to find certain typing mistakes where it is much easier to find typos when reading text of other people.

> Another issue at hand is that so far, text written by people who lack a certain level of knowledge was easy to spot and detect. Those texts typically had typing errors, were using less elaborate language and followed a certain pattern to be recognized as bullshit.

This seems to be the core of the author's argument. It's not very convincing. The rest of the article is just various forms of paranoia and hand wringing about supposed bad actors or incompetence. This is simple historical blindness, there have always been bad actors and incompetent people and yes any technological advance extends their ability to do bad things but those advances also extend the ability of others to counteract those effects.

We've already had the ultimate "bad technology" for almost 80 years and it's currently in the hands of some bad actors. Lots of people were concerned about it leading to the end of the world, and still are, but almost no one predicted that it would result in one of the most peaceful periods in human history due to the horrendous consequences of attempting to wage an all out war. Regardless, there's no putting the genie back in the bottle once it's out and the LLM genie is most definitely out
It's a "member's only" club. This is how they restrict access and dodged the NYC requirement to accept cash payment.
You guys test against non-stable versions of every browser before release?
Signals vs. Streams, in Terms of Backpressure
It doesn't "block Firefox", it just doesn't work because it uses some now-deprecated experimental APIs for it that Firefox never implemented. The whole video stuff was kind of a mess for a time with different browsers implementing different things. This is probably why you shouldn't use experimental APIs, but people want features, so...

This was the status last time I used it a few months ago anyway; I believe they were planning on fixing it – they will have to sooner or later, since Chrome will remove these APIs at some point.
https://archive.is/ybP7Q
Carl Zeiss Crafts Optics for a $150M EUV Machine
Some writing excludes the author. It might be dispassionate + precise, or observational, or hazy + removed.

This is not that. It's opinionated life advice. Engaging seriously with the content requires asking "Who are you, and why should I follow?"
T-Mobile Blocks Firefox in Private Mode
> Firefox is no longer supported in private mode

> The Firefox browser is no longer supported in private mode on our site. TO continue, please take Firefox out of private mode or choose another browser. We recommend Chrome, Safari or Edge.

This has been going on for several months now (since at least October 2022). I got nowhere via their telephone support. I opened a complaint to the FCC because I couldn't pay my bill online and they charge $10 to pay via phone. The FCC complaint went nowhere: T-Mobile's Executive Team got feedback from their engineers stating that it's a "technical limitation" with regards to how Firefox stores security tokens... whatever that means.

I'm flabbergasted that they claim such a thing without backing it up. What problem does Firefox have with security tokens in Private Mode?
I wonder if this is a store issue or following in Walmart’s footsteps due to high crime and theft in those areas..
https://archive.is/1tDuA
Because consumer marketing now thinks only recycling makes them money.

In the Great Depression and then during several nostalgia cycles after, companies sold products in or with reusable containers. Everything from tins to depression glass was a value add for the products. Your grandma may still be keeping sewing supplies in old cookie tins, reusing Ball jars that food came in, etc.
it is… though that bar is really so rock bottom low that it doesn't mean much. In fact, to come think of it, Hershey's chocolate is so abysmally disgustingly bad that I can't think of any chocolate that wouldn't be better.
The Number of ATMs Has Declined as People Rely Less on Cash
Fair, but:

- The companies that make an effort get a lot closer to population baselines than the ones that just give up.

- Organizational pressures are something leadership and management should be steering. I'd rather have hiring practices be an explicit choice than something that "just happens"
https://archive.is/Jo0M0
Like capitalists don't aspire to be monopolists. You'll do so too if you become successful.
We all want "inclusive hiring culture", "exceptional engineering talent" and a frictionless hiring process, but IMO you can't have all three. Like them or not, leetcode* interviews actually give a chance to people who can't do a home assignment, or come from a background that didn't let them have a bunch of code on Github. In that sense, it's the more fair way to test people's aptitude, and will find exceptional talent from all kinds of different backgrounds.

If you still want "exceptional talent", but not algorithmic interviews, then you end up biasing towards white guys who have a ton of projects to show you.

Actually, I think this should be verifiable. Select some companies that we think have exceptionally high bar (you could use compensation as a proxy, acknowledging it's imperfect). Then classify them based on whether they do "leetcode" interviews or not, and check their diversity reports. My bet would be that the "leetcode" companies do significantly better.

* Caveat is that companies people think do "leetcode" actually usually ban questions that appear on leetcode.
Activity Pub vs. Web Frameworks
It's probably not the CPU, but the integrated GPU. Browsers are hardcoded to use that instead of the discrete GPU.
But then came the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravis_UltraSound 1992
> I find it hard to believe that you can "free-ly" send e-mail to, say, 100,000 e-mails and actually have it get delivered at a high rate? I would love to learn if I'm wrong though.

You can do this, I have done this, but honestly it's annoyingly painful and you're always one bad ad campaign away from being nuked to death by people marking your emails as spam.

There's a lot of rules to follow and even when you follow them you need to ensure that you start emailing a low volume for each new sending IP until the reputation grows over time.
We are very close to, or already past the peak human population. The problems we will face will come from aging population not from too many people.

Poor countries will once again be fucked by aging rich countries before they age as well.

I don't have kids, because I'm too lazy. There's no point making up excuses.
Facebook was wrapped up in PRISM.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM
> US de facto controls foreign policy through the UN and other international orgs for a majority of countries on earth.

This is demonstrably false. For example, the US was very strongly against the UN resolution that declared Jerusalem's status as Israel's capital null and void, but nevertheless the resolution passed with 128 votes against 9.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembl...
A DIY lithotripsy machine sounds like a reeeallly bad idea...
>A 2018 Danish Environmental Protection Agency report suggested that a cotton bag should be used at least 7,100 times to offset its environment impact when compared to a classic supermarket plastic bag that's reused once as a trash bag and then incinerated. (If that cotton is organic, the figure is an eye-popping 20,000 times, with the report assuming a lower yield but the same input of raw materials.)

Hey if you've been using the same bag for a shopping trip every day, for all that time and never replaced it or got another, and it wasn't organic, you're almost halfway to having a smaller environmental impact than just using single use plastic bags all that time.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/13/world/cotton-tote-vs-plastic-...
Having tasted many mountain streams, I agree with what you are saying to an extent. I have my doubts when bottled that water would still taste the same. Gases, bacteria, etc. will change. But I don't think bottling it up and transporting it is a solution. My RO filtered water tastes awesome. If people want that mountain stream experience, they can hike to the water and kill two birds with one stone. :)
https://archive.is/3J2Cg
The admissions essays show polish because they are written (or at least heavily edited) by parents and paid consultants.
(Added: People really shouldn't flag you for asking a question.)

The point is "aligning the AI's goals with human interests", i.e. make the AI non-evil.

You're somewhat lucky to never have gone down that particular rabbit hole. Some strange, but also seemingly very intelligent people on the internet argue that it's the most significant extinction risk humanity faces. My impression is that actual AI/ML researchers believe this to be mostly bullshit. (I'm personally not qualified to decide, just explaining the positions.)

The author of this curriculum seems to define it as:

> Within the coming decades, artificial general intelligence (AGI) may surpass human capabilities at a wide
range of important tasks. We outline a case for expecting that, without substantial effort to prevent it, AGIs
could learn to pursue goals which are undesirable (i.e. misaligned) from a human perspective. We argue that
if AGIs are trained in ways similar to today’s most capable models, they could learn to act deceptively to
receive higher reward, learn internally-represented goals which generalize beyond their training distributions,
and pursue those goals using power-seeking strategies. We outline how the deployment of misaligned AGIs
might irreversibly undermine human control over the world, and briefly review research directions aimed at
preventing this outcome.

This is from here, which I haven't read, but found three links deep on the posted site: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00626
Fair point, though nobody is obligated to pay a year's salary to a candidate that didn't work out.
It would be sad to me to cede the concepts of bias and inclusion to only referring to one dimension.
I don't want to buy bruised apples or cracked eggs or overripe melons. I'm not going to go to a second store just for, I don't know, milk and dish soap.
We have non of these problems in Switzerland, this is all just organizational.

Buy the ticket at the bus station or use your phone.

I don't know how often you do intermediate stops, that seem nice case to me. But even then, you just add 'via' when you book your ticket and that's it. Easy as pie.

> - in many regions, you can't buy a ticket online via the national rail company, you need to separately deal with the local line operators to make your trip planning even more fun!

Is this actually the case in Germany? That's crazy, we solved this long ago in Switzerland.
I really wish we wouldn't speculate about China starting a war. It's completely baseless and comes across as some sort of china-man-bad xenophobia.
I wouldn't even use sarcasm here. It it is literally an actual and important part of the history of Microsoft:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code
Yes, if your landfill doesn't make any attempt to capture methane. Modern landfills, however, generally do, and this can be much cheaper than running a separate collection and handling system for compost.

The captured methane can either be flared off, or used as a fuel.
https://archive.is/bELo9
Well it is an article implying we should get our dietary advice from 400 year old proverbs and historical texts about Rome so it might not be airtight.
It's not though.

Give ten kids from the same class a self study online course and give another ten a private tutor, and they won't see the same score distribution. Where's the signal there?

SAT results don't have a line item that notes the amount of wealth or privilege that went into preparing.

> Immigrant families eligible for reduced price lunch are able to scrounge up the money for these tests.

Some families can't. Other families aren't aware, or aren't interested. But we judge the kids in the family for that.

That said... I don't know how the _new_ system will work at fighting that privilege -- there are still lots of ways for it to disguise itself. But we have to at least acknowledge the issues with the SAT.

But, to me at least, this goes beyond privilege. This is about diversity of skills and diversity of learner profiles and moving away from linear quantification of potential.
Yeah, sure. "Fascism". Until last year my country had such a "fascist" president too. Now we have a communist in power whose reaction to such "fascism" is the regulation of the internet and social media.

This censorship is what you actually want when you say "US law no longer offers sufficient protection against hate speech". You should be careful what you wish for.
It's impossible to take your second "source" seriously since it's a dude that literally went to school to learn war games and worked at a think tank affectionately known as "The Shadow CIA" that effectively profits by pushing a narrative of foreign countries being violent.
It's not 'hallucinations', it's garbage in, garbage out (GIGO)

ChatGPT is about as far removed from AGI as it's possible to get. I wouldn't worry about it at all, it's just another tool, albeit a toy one at this point.