skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And odds are the smart developers aren't being put to work on the login page.

This would be a standard testing procedure, not really about developer being smart. Large organizations cannot depend upon individual heroics.
If AI is really going to make people more productive without causing unemployment why can’t the biggest investors in AI make their own employees productive enough to not need to lay them off?

Microsoft invested $10 billion in OpenAI simultaneously with laying off 10,000 people. The money MSFT was spending on employing those people was redirected to AI.
This is easy to say from the perspective of someone making tech money, but plenty of people (immigrants, minorities, people below the poverty line, people without a high school diploma) depend on such jobs and will gladly do them. Unless you also have a solution for employment for all such groups, "let's get rid of these jobs" comes off as way too simplistic. The benefits of automation are largely enjoyed by the upper classes, not the people who are displaced.
Do we put a sunset date on the bill of rights?

What’s the sunset date on these abortion bans? Is it more than 9 months? Is there any reason to believe they will be repealed at their sunset date? How long do we tolerate the injustice? What do you tell the woman who wants an abortion today?

Bad laws aren’t a mechanical problem. They’re a people problem. Repealing law is something the current legislatures are perfectly capable of. The hard part of repealing “bad law” is defining “bad”. A secondary repeal committee would have the same difficulty as our existing legislature.

If you don’t like a law then go do something to change it. In case you doubt the feasibility of this recall that is exactly what happened with abortion.
Personally, if I were asked this, I would just say "convert the graph to a matrix, invert the matrix, and then convert the resulting inverted matrix back to a graph", and let them try to figure out if that would work for a bit before joking "oh come on, preorder traversal with a temp var, do you have a more interesting question?"
Shouldn’t used coffee filters go in yard waste though? What’s the vector for rejection you’re thinking of?

I live with people who keep putting soiled cardboard in recycling. Only last year did I win the war on pizza boxes.
While this seemed to start strong, I don’t buy into the “structured” portion of this blog post. The referenced research does not seem relevant to hiring engineers. In fact, the opener for the first reference says they researched “ 19 male applicants for life insurance sales”positions”. This is a “mountain” of evidence in hiring engineers?

My own interviews have a list of topics I want to cover (non functional requirements, data experience, app design, infrastructure, etc), so I guess there is some structure. But I mostly run the interview based on their own experiences and projects they have worked on. So we will focus on applications and systems they have worked with in the past. And then I see how deep down those rabbit holes of their own system they can go.
I guess that depends on where you live, I have almost the same upload vs download speed on my ISP Bahnhof in Sweden.

Proof: https://www.speedtest.net/result/14437484691.png

I am always worried about someone deciding to DDoS me though.
I don't understand your question? I was addressing a strawman. That is all.
Just to clarify, communism is a specific type of government. (but yeah i assume you're saying its not government in general)
Key word: “adequately”. A company making an honest mistake a few times is adequately explained by stupidity. A company making the exact same “mistake” year after year, decade after decade, is not.
Could be in preparation for supplying arms to the US.
My understanding is that we want to have good metabolic flexibility, where it is easy and normal for our bodies to use stored energy (fat cells) instead of the glucose/glucogen (carbs) thing.

Some people achieve this via low carb diets and keto, but intermittent fasting is also a good way to do it.

I've been on the one meal per day thing for years.

I'm approaching 50 and have a physique comparable or better than most 20 year olds.

So while it's a data point of one, I can say that it works very well for me and I enthusiastically recommend it for multiple reasons, not just bodybuilding.
wow that sweet nostalgia, did anyone else also experience the psychedlic 'timeless' animation sequence? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAAziY-KiBQ
I think the goal of avoiding false positives is actually more important for smaller companies. A bad hire at a startup can significantly shorten the company's runway, while a bad hire at a bigger company tends to get isolated and managed out without doing much harm (except to morale of course).

You're right about the copycat behavior. This goes all the way to top of funnel: these small, even trivial-scale web application startups just don't have hard engineering problems. Many imagine they do, or imagine they will once they take off, but the work they're offering these high powered candidates they claim to want to hire is like, wiring up CRUD apps and making javascript buttons. It's not technically deep work, it's product work. A little humility about whether or not your tech startup is truly doing "tech" problems would, I think, fix some of the expectation/reality mismatch people are having when they complain about how hard it is to hire engineers.

And sure, lots of people join Google to work on world-scale problems and end up wiring CRUD stuff anyway. But they can at least plausibly offer some technical depth (or could anyway, perhaps Google's reputation as a great place to develop an engineering career has been fading).

(this is not to knock on "CRUD" but to highlight that a technical problem solver is an overlapping but not identical skillset to someone who can work with a fast moving team to quickly and reliably develop product changes)
https://mailcoach.app/ is another awesome self hosted Mailchimp alternative, especially when you’re developing Laravel applications.
Using them as bin liners at home is fine, the difference is about where they go when you're done using them: home composting or industrial composting?

Perhaps the labeling you saw was intended to be about use, but it looked like it was about disposal?
I get the best practice and why relying on the User Agent is helplessly flawed, but I've never come across a better way to get a sneak peek into the (first) Initial Page Request of a customer to your web app.
E.g. if you'd wanted to improve the page performance and weight of your app, you'll want to keep unused js/css to near zero. If you'd rely on feature detection, your critical path for "showing the initial screen of the app" is bound to "download feature detect, parse it, execute it, fetch correct variants of your js/css packages, parse them, execute them, show screen". That's not cool, imho.
I understand the project goals and everything but isn’t the primary weakness of it the same as every other laptop? If Apple decides to change something (which they will) or lock down the laptop more (which they will) then all of this work goes to nothing.

Isn’t there a better case to be made to strive towards open hardware and driving a community around common hardware and goals? Something like system76, the pine hardware, etc.
I personally think the odds are pretty good that Asahi ends up supporting the M1 series longer than macOS.

Apple isn't shy about cutting off support for old hardware; the current version of macOS won't run on any machine more than five years old (according to https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213264).
As a serial hobbyist and jack of all trades, I can relate. There's always a million things I want to do and little time to ever do them. I often find myself jumping into whatever thing interests me the most in a given moment, usually meaning I spend a lot of time chasing the novelty of a new interest rather than pushing through the next level of an existing one.

In the course "Time Management for Mortals" by Oliver Burkeman, he asks "What AREN'T you going to do with your life?". You're going to die someday and you only have a limited amount of time before that happens. The trick isn't finding out how to fit all the things you want to do into your life, it's realizing that not everything fits and deciding which of the things you want to do aren't going to make the cut.

That question and the associated lesson have helped me focus more on my core set of interests rather than frequently investing time into new or lower priority ones. Maybe that could help you as well. Don't just ask yourself whether you want to learn something, but ask if it's something you want to learn badly enough that you're OK with it taking the place of anything else you could be doing with your time
I'll never understand Hanlon's razor. I've never seen any malice which cannot be explained by stupidity.
Just like alcohol. Anything in excess is poison.
no prob, go ahead
You go with Mailchimp (or equivalent) for newsletters because they give you the subscription form, handle email verification, unsubscriptions, GDPR mentions everywhere, provide useful stats and notifications, segmentation and targeting… Getting email delivered is indeed really hard, especially if you send thousands of emails, but building all these other features is insanely time consuming. The cost of Mailchimp is negligible in comparison.

Same reason why companies use Sendgrid for marketing campaigns.
I'd love a process like that, however it's much more common for companies I've interviewed with to not only not ask that type of info, but actively avoid and discourage talking about these things.

Been treated in past like I'm avoiding the "important part" of solving their quiz and that it's some softball topic.
Show HN: Path 2.0, a Skilltree for Structured Self-Improvement
(You will need to make a (free) account on the website to try out the skilltree.)

The Guild of the ROSE is excited to announce the full launch of the Practitioner's Path 2.0, a new framework for structured self-improvement via a carefully-designed skilltree. Founded two years ago, the Guild's mission is to provide structure and community for people interested in self-improvement.

The Path skilltree is organized into three branches:
- Pragmatist (red): Take direct action, make money, and expand your social network.
- Meditative (green): Make art, improve your mental and physical health, and live a good life.
- Empiricist (blue): Learn new skills, teach others, run experiments, and think clearly.

The user is free to pursue a specific specialization, or to spread their efforts over the three trees.
You don't see why studying 20 hours for 1 test that you can easily repeat is easier to scrape together than 2000 hours to score well on all tests throughout high school?
None of these (and other) schools view endowments as something to spend. It must always be growing to show how amazing and great the school is.

I remember how during the pandemic there was a number of articles about how these schools might have to take out some small pittance of the endowment to fund certain things and the schools were all doom and gloom about it.
I don't think they are taken that seriously. They are writing their op-eds and fiery papers, but the field marches forward nevertheless. But I agree that the whole fields seems like ivory-tower types trying to hijack the latest hottest technology an become the decision makers based on their "exprertise". AI as a field always attracted all kinds of weird individuals, probably because it is such a popular and influential concept. If we would work with their ethics, we would never allow computers to reach general population, because it is simply too dangerous and a lot of "harm" can be done. Their use will be heavily monitored and a license or an assessment would be required to use some of the functions, e.g., connect to the Internet.
The 29 eur price is only currently offered a month at a time, extended a month at a time, and the ticket is only offered a year at a time. Technically you are on the hook for a 63 eur contract on sale for 29 eur for a limited time. (It is a mess.)
It would be more leetcode to be given an ordered binary tree and asked to reverse it O(N). It's a lot more fair to the interviewee to be given the explicit task without knowing 'the trick' unless one considers knowing recursive functions to be a trick.
Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Spread Through Employee Mobility (2022)
The normal way people solve this is with materials that require a small amount of heat to break down in addition to moisture. Industrial composting facilities run at 120-140F.

But yes, these don't break down with home composting which is almost always much lower temperature.
As a practical matter how would college admissions departments even try to account for "total wealth"? That number doesn't appear on income tax returns. Applicants could write down any number and there wouldn't be any way to verify it short of a court ordered forensic audit.
Microsoft isn't known to be stupid so that mostly leaves malice in their case.
My primary programming languages are not allowed in leetcode interview sessions so a lot of the challenge is remembering how to use Ruby or Python on the spot, and also to think imperatively.

Lot of my thinking is based on visuals and emotions -- It's challenging for me to transcribe to English on demand and it interrupts my process -- it's somewhat like painting.

I always shine on take-homes since I'm allowed to be my authentic self. I'm enabled and have the full capacity to do my rituals, routines, and quirks.

Admittedly, this means I won't succeed in cooperative environments like pair programming. I'm better off left to my own devices.
You really don't see a difference between today and 200 years ago?
What about this "emergent" intelligence when size of the model is large enough? There are blogs about it being able to model problems internally or forming a mini NN of its own.

As I've understood, even the researchers in the field have no idea why this happens. It's completely empirical and a "discovered phenomenon" at this point.

[1]: https://www.jasonwei.net/blog/emergence

[2]: https://jacobbrazeal.wordpress.com/2022/09/23/gpt-3-can-find...
Sorry, but still not worth is. Public transport in Germany is a mess. I've been commuting with the Deutsche Bahn for over one year. Not one week where something didn't go wrong. (Train way too late, train not coming at all, train not stopping at destination, train stopping way before destination + transit bus).

I'm so happy with having a car again.
> have awesome education like me, and are basically smart like me

At least this is meritocracy, the kind of thing that people (e.g. eugenicists) can make a serious argument for.

> look like me, speak like me

...is something that can't be justified except by terrible people. Even worse is "likes the same music and movies that I do" or "we coincidentally have mutual friends."
Collecting rubber bands from grocery store purchases is kind of like long-term saving. You should start early and not fret about downturns (eg: the occasional one breaking from wear). If you keep a steady supply, you’ll have a healthy nest egg that you can call on when you need it.
Also, I don't believe that 90% of Google engineers use Homebrew. I'm not sure I'd believe 9%. Google is a Linux shop with its own internal package repo. Even if you're using a Macbook to work remotely, you're using it as a fancy terminal wrapper to connect to a Debian-based system to do your real work.
> However, it's worth noting that some companies may have more resources or connections to facilitate this kind of coverage, which can give them an advantage over others who may not have those same resources.

I'm failing to see the issue.
I disagree, I take most of my programming advice from lays of Ancient Rome!!
I can still hear the clunk of the relay switching over to 3D (versus 2D pass-thru) when booting Wing Commander.
Where’s Lunatic Fringe?
They presented two new languages for functional programming, can we leverage existing popular languages that can do FP just fine for the same goal, e.g. python, javascript, or rust,etc?
I thought it was toxic waste wrong think, an information hazard?
Exactly - and the challenge with that is the data is sometimes only available on BBG. So by not using BBG, you’re missing data, and are at a disadvantage.

This is a data problem, not a software problem. The solution isn’t open source, it’s regulation. I’m an American, so I don’t know much about EU markets, but I’m under the impression they have more mandated transparency in fixed income via ESMA https://www.esma.europa.eu/issuer-disclosure/electronic-repo...

Will that happen? I don’t know. We still use CUSIPs over OpenFIGI, paying for all that S&P licensing, despite a great free alternative. Slow moving industry.
I'm one of those people who choose to use FF Nightly. It works with Teams unless you want to make a call or share screen - you need to change the User Agent then. I'm too lazy to do it so I'm using a phone app for calls and complaining to everyone that Teams is crap.

And I mean, it is crap by itself. It is badly thought out, it has its bad moments even on its native platform, its system of teams etc. is confusing and far inferior to the ones used by its competitors. Frankly, if it wasn't MS and their dominant market position/integration with AD, very few people would make the decision to use it for daily work. /rant
That public funds can go to private schools like Harvard is such a joke.
CCPs been stemming outflows for past decade, this is just another push, probably triggered by post covid flight from folks who want out and CCP being hooked on big drop in flight throughout covid. Capital flight was ~4T between 05s-15s when PRC economy was 1/3-2/3 as large. It's a good chunk of change to try to hold onto.
We used to have TechShop, but after the bankruptcy and the disclosures that the the concept inherently lost money, the maker shop scene pretty much died.
In a theological sense you're not wrong, but what are we supposed to do for the people who want to run Linux on a Mac? Have them pound sand? What about the people who want to run Linux on their Microsoft Surface?

What seems to be the issue is that you have a group of people (Mac buyers) who are keenly inconvenienced by Linux's shortcomings and want to solve them. Let them, everybody will ultimately benefit.
It's still better than lying.
The Boulder composter is rejecting coffee grounds for compost for whatever reason. That seems pretty strange to me I have no idea why they would.

In general coffee grounds should be compost. Maybe people were trying to compost whole coffee kureg pods or something?
Wow all low-hanging fruit patent-troll type of stuff :( The patent system is so broken.
Ask HN: A WhatsApp account was “hacked.” Is this the most likely explanation?
For some time I've been a member of a Whatsapp group (Language Exchange group with very little activity) I joined through a URL. Last night, the group was "hacked" along with other groups sharing the same administrator. It seems the Whatsapp account of said administrator was compromised. I think the most likely explanation is that the administrator ran a script on his browser console to automate some task, and that this script turned out to be a malware that stole his session. I'm not talking about high-profile people here, so it is unlikely that someone would invest resources in a more sophisticated attack. Is there a more likely explanation?

This may seem like a somewhat banal question. But the most concerning aspect of this situation is of a more social nature. The affected people immediately start to draw conclusions about individuals they regard as unfriendly misfits. In two such incidents the "misfits" have been suffering from mental illness (one was in fact hospitalized when the incident occurred more than a year ago). People just start connecting unrelated dots about other recent instances of "hacking" with their limited information, and end up submitting vulnerable persons to further ostracism.
> Like them or not, "leetcode interviews" actually give a chance to people who can't do a home assignment

Not really—if I don't have time to do an hour-long take-home assignment, what makes you think I have time to practice leetcode-style questions? The take-home assignment is usually testing skills that I actually use in my job on a regular basis, so I don't need extra preparation, I just need a block of time to sit down and do it.

I agree that expecting people to be able to show side projects is a mistake, though I'm not sure why you think that the bias there would be racial—I would imagine it would be much more a filter that excludes people with families and/or non-computer hobbies.
I think OP meant that $1.25/hr makes this accessible for people try it out themselves cost effectively, without having to spend thousands or tens of thousands up front to obtain a capable hardware rig.

Obviously $1.25/hr 24/7 does add up quickly, after one month the bill would come to $900.
That’s a narrow view of impact. Sea life does not choke on cotton bags.
Unless it’s Fiji water (as discussed).
> If getting rid of human labor lowers operating costs then why doesn't that reflect on the price tag on the shelf

Are they getting rid of human labor? Who is doing stocking, as needed cleanup, opening/closing, and overseeing all that?

I'm guessing humans are doing that. And as a customer. It seems to be most of what the people who also work as cashiers are doing, outsidd of a few rush periods where those other tasks, except emergency safety-necessary cleanup, aren’t happening or are deferred.

Seems to be its more likely Amazon is adding tech (which has a cost) which mainly serves to enable less efficient use of human labor.
It's actually sparked my joy of coding again. I'm a solo consultant by day and I do a lot of technical work obviously so coming home and coding in my free time isn't something I've been super interested in recently. With GPT3 Davinci that changed and I started playing with it in python. That lead me to want to create an app that I've wanted to exist in the world [1] but that meant learning React Native (or similar but I went with RN) and that lead into MongoDB and Firebase and all sorts of other tech I'd heard about but never really played with. Anyway, the app I made is free but location specific to Seattle. My python backend pulls data from a lot of local venues (using BeautifulSoup web scrapers where APIs aren't available) and then uses (now) GPT3.5-turbo to either re-write or in most cases write original descriptions of the events the backend found. ATM its totally free with no ads because its a fun learning project. Now that the framework is in place I've been spending time with prompt engineering to create a more cohesive response across a wide range of inputs. It's been really fun!

[1]: http://www.letsgofrolic.com
Nope, and that's a matter of policy. I certainly wouldn't argue it's an "accident" that a site I create doesn't work properly in FF Nightly.
This is why I don’t subscribe to the NYT. I can’t support that behavior.
What if the article has it backwards: I doubt that a random samples of same-aged people from a western and from a hunter gatherer society will end up with similar distributions of personality types.

I'd guess that some traits (e.g. being very individualistic, competitive or narcissistic) might only emerge in more settled societies where wealth can be built up and inherited.

At least Richard Rohr mentions this as anecdotal experience in his book about the Enneagram.
> including paper materials, tea bags, coffee filters

What's reason for that ?
Well that made zero sense to me. Can someone ELI16?
It does have a repl! https://github.com/evcxr/evcxr

Also, while cold compile times can be very slow of you have a lot of dependencies with macros etc, incremental compile time is often very fast. Rust has one of the most advanced incremental compilers out there. So for experimenting, tweaking and updating code, that's not going to have a long cycle.