skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah they haven’t made much of an impact yet but I’m almost certain they’ll help improve biological models in the future.

Check out INDRA (http://www.indra.bio/). It uses standard NLP tech to convert natural language references to computational models. But, that old school NLP is pretty limited in “understanding” context and details and so the models it makes aren't really comparable to human built models. LLM’s could change that, building really high quality, correct models. That opens up the possibility that we could take all of the biological knowledge in papers and integrate it into models we could use to make much more detailed predictions about cellular behavior.

That said, there’s a ton of work to be done to make it reliable and validate the results.
I've been eating breakfast only during the work-week, and both losing weight and feeling fine.
They're not sued for not having a DEI program, but for vaguely and broadly defined "discrimination". Having a DEI program is a defense against such accusations.
To be honest, they don't need to find a different profession / hobby, as long as their user hostile attitude makes them money.
Of course it's not a "random person"; it's a service that's directly involved with providing access to (allegedly) illegal content. Should access to this content be prevented through this means, or at all? People can reasonably disagree on various aspects of that. But "random person" is a ridiculous comparison.
It's not really the point of the question. The LC interview is basically a standardized test to eliminate bias as much as possible. If you prepare, you should be able to solve it. "Invert a binary tree" is actually considered an easy problem to test your basic knowledge of how trees work and tree traversal.
You are correct https://www.investmentmonitor.ai/insights/chinas-fdi-decline... shows that FDI is falling in the last 3 years. The increase is with double counting, from Hong Kong investment being counted as FDI.

China’s Foreign Investment Data Distorted by Hong Kong Flows
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-05/china-rou...
Hi anxiety higher status parents (professors, doctors, etc.) with kids who aren't Einstein go doctor shopping and waste district time constantly to get their kids testing advantages even though their kids are often totally typical kids with 110ish IQs. Special Ed at the local district is sick of them because it wastes so much time and money and takes away resources from the kids who actually need. (Though many of these parents do cause their kids to develop actual real anxiety disorders...)
Not programming but looking at the trends in DevOps and similar roles I don't see much of a future for it when a minimally technically literate person will be able to run AI based tools to solve complex/unique problems in the near future. There's always been a lot of knowledge churn in this profession but now it's hard to be motivated to learn the latest trendy thing when it's almost certainly going to be hidden under numerous layers of abstractions soon.
Build vs. Buy: age old dilemma
I'm not sure I follow everything you wrote. Are you saying that poverty produces children and individuals more capable of driving and succeeding in society?
Confused about ReScript? ReScript,Reason,ReasonML,BuckleScript Explained (2020)
... that article triggered me hard ... I just hate when the first paragraph is interesting and then they start with something completely different (ie "the guy that did the interesting thing"s life) in the second paragraph ... here ... they just did that four times ...
I wasn't trying to criticize your choices. I was trying to figure out what brand makes the gas powered car you have that you would like to see translated into an electric form. I am guessing you have some other things that you like in a car, can you share your ideal car then?
`Rogule 2023-3-5`

Please zero pad month and day!
It's supposed to be The IF Life, for intermittent fasting
I am in Europe and at country level public transport will never beat individual transport overall. In specific dense urban environments where cars can be extremely inconvenient (including because all the offices are packed in a few towers all at the same location), yes but again in the general case a bus will never be able to be as convenient as my own vehicle parked right outside my front door.

And yes this is a technical and practicability challenge on top of being prohibitively expensive to run.
Python supports `Union[int, float]` or `int | float` after 3.10.
I don’t think you really understood what I said.

If your goal is population distribution then you are inevitably hiring based on attributes other than skill.

For example, women don’t make up 50% of the engineering talent pool so if your goal is 50% women then you have to lower standards to achieve that.
Related:

After Dark (90's screensavers) in CSS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28806699 - Oct 2021 (26 comments)

Berkeley Systems “After Dark” screensavers recreated in CSS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28006679 - July 2021 (149 comments)

Aggressively Stupid: The Story Behind After Dark (2007) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22338945 - Feb 2020 (23 comments)

After Dark in CSS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14429271 - May 2017 (1 comment)

After Dark in CSS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10935432 - Jan 2016 (2 comments)

After Dark in CSS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9675287 - June 2015 (2 comments)

Aggressively Stupid: The Story Behind After Dark (2007) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7702105 - May 2014 (11 comments)

Aggressively Stupid: The Story Behind After Dark - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1338175 - May 2010 (3 comments)
An interactive whiteboard / live coding session is by far greater than any homework assignment, in my opinion.

W/ an interactive session, you get instant feedback (either verbally or via emotional cues) into what they are expecting.

With a homework assignment, it's hard to determine which path to optimize for.

If a homework assignment is necessary, it would be better if that were more of a "probationary employment" type scenario, perhaps at a very reduced amount of pay, to only imply that both parties actually have skin in the game.

Even better, for helping me judge if it's a decent fit? Show me some code you're using in production so that I can code review it on the call. Surely it's not all hyper sensitive.
>incredibly short sighted

It's incredibly pragmatic, Chinese system was shit show in the 80s-10s going after easy gains while building up onerous contradictions. A lot of toes needed to be stepped on to do something as basic as military modernization, meanwhile Xi hasn't even aggregated enough political power to pass wide scale property tax. The issue isn't Xi centralizing power, but power was never sufficiently centralized, and in many ways, still isn't.
Sam Bankman-Fried is under house arrest at Stanford. Students are obsessed
Like the Ruby mailcatcher?
Lovely game, great idea! Would like to see more projects like this:)
What does the error "this word doesn't count" mean? Should the word be countable? Is it known (because "I don't know this word" also exists as an error) but not on the top N list?
Sorry they lost benefit of the doubt a long time ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...
I don't know about the stars defining your personality and fate in absolute terms, but I also cannot dismiss altogether. To prove my point, circadian rhythm is mostly in synch with day/night rhythm.

Are there any proof to dismiss that other planets don't have any kind of effect on human psyche and body?

Let me explain, maybe the period of effect of other planets is not measured in hours, but years or decades. Hell, look at seasons, in someway it depends on the position of the earth relative to the sun. Some people have seasonal affective disorder. Moreover, look at the Moon, which is roughly in synch with menstrual cycle of women. The solar cycle defines your age, as you age your behaviour changes.

This are some small example.

It baffles me, how many people in tech dismiss astrology even though there are no proof to acknowledge or deny their effect on human psyche and body.
I made the generalization since the EU and UK make the generalizations, codify them into law, and spread them in trade agreements (see [1]). That includes with the USA, which has 683 registered foods/drinks in the EU register [2].

Without the rules on what is and isn't Champagne or Napa Valley wine, we can be sure manufacturers would be putting the label on other products to deceive purchasers.

[1] https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/news/new-geographical-indic...

[2] https://www.tmdn.org/giview/gi/search
This is not the reason ivy's have legacy. They have legacy students because that's what makes them the most prestigious universities in the world. Legacy students will succeed no matter what due to their connections. They will become rich and powerful, and networking with the rich and powerful is the main value add that ivy's are providing. Without legacy admits ivy's would be no different from Berkeley or ucla.
This is a great comment, I've saved it in my notes and I've been thinking about it.

Suppose Friston's theory and yours here is basically correct, that prediction is the best measure of and even development of intelligence. Friston thinks (afaict) this controls our motor units too, like Jeff Hawkins whom you cite.

GPT uses RL to get better at prediction. How would we do the same for say an agent playing the Atari lunar lander game? We know how to use RL to play Atari. How would we use RL to use prediction to play Atari?
>even though I'm lucky in that my house has gone up a lot it doesn't actually do me any good if I want to buy again

That's only true if you want to buy again somewhere with similarly priced real estate rather than somewhere with cheaper real estate.
They didn't say I needed it.
> At the period of their greatest power, the Greeks and Romans ate only one meal a day.

This isn't evidence! At the period of their greatest power, the United States ate three meals a day. So what? It means nothing.
"I used to abuse people physically and/or emotionally in my early 20s but now I really hope I'm a different person" seems like a far fetched world view to conjure, to me. Do these people exist?
The funny thing is, I never got the impression it had less employees than a typical CVS. They were just either in the back keeping the items stocked on the shelves, helping customers feel comfortable with the the idea they just walk out, or keeping an eye on theft.

Actually, I'd be curious to know what the hiring situation looked like. Good employees would only stick around if they felt valued and paid fairly, otherwise they'd turn over. So you'd be left with the worst of the bunch. Since Amazon would have to find ways to keep retention up, they would likely have to pay market rate, or slightly above to attract willing people. That extra cost is definitely passed on to the customer.

Disregarding the prices for the sake of argument, I still prefer CVS as it just feels easier to navigate. CVS accumulated a half century of tiny little details that Amazon Go just doesn't have figured out yet.
Im not saying it's better per se. But we don't often get perfect.

And thinking back to 8bit 16bit 32 bit processors, it seems to me that hardware support for a fixed point format would gain you more than spending that same silicon supporting floating point. But fixed point never seems to have been pursued.
Black Box Camera – AI analog photos
> The start date for the offer has yet to be finally fixed; currently it is set for 1 April 2023.

That appears to be outdated or wrong information. The first date was supposed to be the 1st of January, but it has been pushed to the 1st of May since not all questions regarding the financials had been cleared.
> I'm always amazed how fewer and fewer "computer science" graduates every year have ever wire-wrapped a simple 68000 computer from scratch

I understand this as assembling a computer from its basic components using wire wrapping, not the CPU.

68000 is also the transistor count of the 68000 so I agree that it's infeasible for a student project.
Show HN: Lander, a lunar lander style web game
I’ve been working on this game for the past few weeks. It’s written in plain JavaScript, mostly with canvas, with no dependencies.

The code is here: https://github.com/ehmorris/lunar-lander
The way I use Firefox it definitely does not.
A lot of the commenters in this thread (and elsewhere on HN) flat out refuse to do take-home assignments, live algorithms coding, 4+ hours of onsite rounds, etc. Yet every interview I've ever done in the last decade+ with FAANG and FAANG-adjacent companies have always been like this. So where are all you interviewing that pays competetively without this "traditional" interview loop?
The point, which you seem to be purposefully missing, is it's a net loss for the world.
Great comment. Indeed it's not black and white.

And yes... live together for 3-5 years or so and then get married if you want. I wouldn't rush it.

> When I left software development for 5 years
What did you do? Freelancing or left software dev in those years?

Was it easy to get back into it?
The alternative is breaking backwards compatibility, which means breaking the Web.
(I'm not necessarily against that)
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Fair point, and I think most of the older fills at the Denver/Arapahoe site have flares retrofitted. Composting also produces agricultural substrate, but whether or not large-scale industrial composting of single-use products is a net benefit is definitely debatable. I think there’s a clearer benefit to composting your own food waste, which is generally very practical if you have a bit of space.
Well, everyone is a nobody compared to Chrome at this point. Google has been extremely effective at taking over this space (enormous engineering team implementing new standards far faster than others can keep up, marketing (including on google landing page), poor/selective support for other browsers on the major platforms of the web that they wrote, install by default on 90% of the world's phones, pay for install by adobe and other products long ago).

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worl... 7% firefox, 10% safari, 11% edge.

By the measure of desktop browsers, Safari and Edge are nobodies too, and that is even with Microsoft's browser being a chrome skin and preinstalled on Windows.
The original report from Graphika (pdf): https://public-assets.graphika.com/reports/graphika-report-d...

I didn't find the "Wolf News" segments, but other video using the same Synthesia avatars is available:

The male avatar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cm7Vl2kvfA

The female avatar: https://www.synthesia.io/features/avatars
Maybe think about the invention of nuclear weapons/energy rather than airplanes since that matches the type of concern. You can just choose not to take an airplane.

If there was no manhattan project and work towards that goal had been done in the open over a long period of time, I don't think people with safety concerns would be laughed out of the building.

In fact I think we got kinda lucky that it turns out to be so expensive to build nukes that only nation states can do it, and that the barriers are still prohibitive even then such that we can tell if a country is trying to gain that ability. I'm not sure we could have ruled out the possibility of individuals or small groups being in control of nukes.
Zoom boss Greg Tomb fired ‘without cause’
Would you be more interested in RE then if you were exposed primarily to properties in your geographic market with a strategy that is specific to the macro-economy at that time / effective across different economic conditions?
> But if I was a recent immigrant, or a lower middle class kid in Iowa, I'd be pretty outraged about this.

It may be worth mentioning that one of the, if not the, most powerful IP lawyers in the Bay Area is “only” a University of Iowa Law School grad.

https://www.quinnemanuel.com/attorneys/verhoeven-charles-k/#...
Vim users are better programmers
You buy strong canvas grocery bags. Don't attempt to put so much in each one that they literally structurally fail. Wash them if they get dirty. They last indefinitely.

Shopping bags were always terrible garbage bags able to hold only tiny amounts of trash meaning you had to use a ton of them and as many as you needed the average household received 100x as many bags as they could profitably use as trash bags. Consider throwing everything wet into centrally located large trash receptacles with large bags and either not lining small trash cans or lining them with paper bags.

TLDR buy better bags and use small paper bags.
According to Discord, Go was (or at least it used to) cause huge latency spikes because of it's GC - they've rewritten it in Rust and now it's A LOT faster, without any latency spikes.

https://discord.com/blog/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to...
> NSA’s public warning was too vague to serve as a real heads-up

And here is the thing, the NSA as part of the 5eyes+X (5EX) group are actively demonstrating their own hacking activities on their own companies and allies companies, but can only admit to giving out a vague warning.

The state wants tech security to be a Schrödinger's cat, where its secure against enemies but insecure to them.

Now I know enough about physics that it aint gonna happen!

And its because of Schrödinger's Cyber Cat, that demonstrates the criminality in law enforcement and the judiciary.

Now even the military, who are traditionally secretive and dont declare when they have been hacked, for fear of losing the public's confidence are in a dilemma.

Do they start admitting when they have been hacked, or do they continue to keep it quiet because currently they can and try to isolate disclosures, knowing that as tech advances, the game of whack a mole ends up spilling over into territory they dont control, or the public lose confidence with design flaws of equipment?

> Some guests received security clearances for the day

Another example of the surveillance on the population across multiple countries, which further reinforces my point, that employees of the state do target their own citizens and some of those will be primary school age kids in a premptive manner.

> Ukrop is a Russian slur for Ukrainians

Fuelling the nationalism for the easily tricked?

>Satellite connections could start blinking off again at any time. Critical systems can’t fully count on them

Aka Preppers and travellers maybe forced home, but at least they recognise they cant just call out an engineer to fix a satellite that's dead in space.

>Valued at $469 billion in 2021, the industry has continued growing steadily.

That's a significant chunk of GDP to lose if they cant keep those dishes spinning in space, whilst also providing target practice for hackers before moving onto the big fish, namely military satellites!
Yes, these are great points.

> This habit loop has a cascading positive effect.

"The power of habit" is a great book on how to establish good habits. I no longer need willpower to do sports in the morning unless I'm completely trashed. Once something truly is a habit, it doesn't take willpower to do it anymore. It rather takes effort to deviate from it.

> This was a perspective that I could not see while I was in the situation, but as I've gained more critical distance, I've started to realize that lack of willpower was not the primary problem.

Taking a step back when finding a situation awful or feeling bad is also a helpful habit.

I wasted way too much jet fuel due to my own cognitive biases and emotions. Usually it's so much better to simply raise that issue with that friend, colleague or partner than to swallow things down and try to power through.
E2E encrypted doesn't mean they don't know who is messaging whom. If there is suspicious contact, can they request who contacted a pharmacy? Then they can ask the pharmacy why so-and-so contacted them.

A better option would be something like Briar which hides IPs via Tor.
Nobody has ever been sued for accidental cross contamination this, and Monsanto explicitly says that it will never sue anyone for this.
Dear Google, if you read dis, bring JPEG XL back to Chrome!
I meant the memory controller on the CPU side won't need to implement it. Obviously, full DDR5-ECC hardware exists, but the onchip ECC as a whole makes bit flips far less likely than DDR4. There's not much of a need for the complete set on consumer hardware.

Of course this is assuming random cosmic ray bit flips, not faulty hardware. And it's speaking cost-wise from the manufacturer's perspective. I'd personally like full ECC to just be the standard.
The sentiment is understandably scary and totalitarian in nature, but the consequences of the extreme American predilection toward individual choice has indisputable negative consequences at the population level. Video games are a leading explanation for why American men are increasingly satisfied to not work (https://w.wiki/6Qck).

Video games and TikTok aren't even the worst of it. The progressive American agenda in drugs is towards decriminalization. States like Oregon are at the vanguard of this (https://w.wiki/6Qcq), and the impact years later is widely seen as contributing to an epidemic of crime, homelessness, and bad health outcomes. China is the leading source of the worst synthetic drugs like fentanyl and meth (https://www.brookings.edu/research/china-and-synthetic-drugs...).

Of course, the correct response is to not go the totalitarian control route, but to retain the flexibility and creativity that American independence fosters, invest in positive countermeasures (CHIPs act investment in manufacturing employment, drug treatment and diversion), and heavily regulate industries prone to create negative externalities.
TIL horse sense. I was thinking what on earth is the sense of horse?
MIT May Have Just Developed the Ultimate Climate Technology
If you believe in incarceration as rehabilitation then they do. But I don’t recall Microsoft ever serving time.
Columbia University. Figures.

Yeonmi Park's "While Time Remains" has a biting critique of Columbia University's "wokeness".[1] Park escaped from North Korea to China as a child. In China, she was an illegal alien, and if caught would be deported back to North Korea and executed, so she and her mother were kept as slaves. She managed to escape China and get to the US. So she knows about oppression.

She ended up as a student at Columbia University. "What a load of crap" she writes.
"The difference between a passing grade and a failing one lay in a refusal to criticize the usual targets (capitalism, Western civilization, white supremacy, systemic racism, oppression of minorities, colonialism, etc.) Worse than a bad grade was to be labelled by one's classmates as a 'SIX HIRB', a sexist, intolerant, xenophobic, homophobic, Islamaphobic, racist bigot."

[1] https://www.amazon.com/While-Time-Remains-Defectors-Freedom/...
Just choose Clojure deps

I kind of agree some more clarity would be helpful but we don't have a lot of enthusiastic young programmers in Clojure land who like making super accessible stuff

It's just kind of assumed you'll put the work in because Clojure is different enough that you probably have a good reason to be here

Btw if you want anything Clojure Google Clojure Slack and they'll help you there