skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why isn't this a feature of documentation frameworks? Like it could be just a simple, "Hey, I see this function in the codebase has changed since the time you wrote the documemtation for it, do you want to update it's description?"
EV start-ups competing with Tesla are all struggling. It's very likely that Rivian will simply go bankrupt in the next few years. The big automakers are also struggling, largely because their best sellers are bigger vehicles, at least in the US and charging & battery tech just isn't there for those models. Look at the attempt at the EV Hummer, it's a joke.

My sample doesn't have to be random, 10 years ago I could go to a large wealthy city in Europe and only see European cars. Again, that is/was the norm. You would not see Toyotas or Fords, etc. Tesla has been made into an exception. So far the only European brand that even has an EV that can compare with Tesla's is Porche and it's 2x the price. If I'm not mistaken Tesla is now Norway's number one make, which seems like a big deal.

This could change, but I don't see it changing anytime soon given how bad some of the competition is. I was excited about the EV F150 but it too has shown they are still very far behind. Still don't think Telsa should be worth more than every major automaker combined. I'm not arguing anyone should buy their stock.
> There's a good chance at my career phase I have more experience than the interviewer.

This happens a lot.

I was once in the process for google and was asked a time series systems design problem. I said, “lets throw this in a time series db”. The interviewer had no idea what a time series’s db was. Mind you this was an interview for Google Cloud and the person worked on SPANNER. They also has been at the company for 2 years (by their own admission).

Left a sour taste.
Generally, in GAAP accounting, financial investments don't show up on the P&L (the thing that leads to earnings, which is the main metric a company like Ford is valued on). So even if they take $2bn of cash and send it to a start-up, it doesn't really affect their books (it has a balance sheet impact, but that's less important for short-term share pricing).

A financial investment does have a P&L impact when the value demonstrably changes (either a new funding round, a bankruptcy, or some other event that defines a new share price). The most clear examples of this are in investment-based companies like Berkshire-Hathaway and Softbank, where quarters with billions of dollars of profit will be followed by quarters with billions of dollars of losses (despite very little cash actually moving in/out of the company).

Ford, for whatever reason, figured that this startup wasn't worth what they paid (or that the structure wasn't the right one for their long term goals) and took the full P&L hit all at once (in a way that is easy to explain to Wall Street, since nobody likes ambiguous zombie investments living on the balance sheet).

Operationally, they thought there was still value in the idea, so they directly hired the 550 people (closer to a $150mn/year cost) and that will now manifest as an ongoing cost on their P&L. Arguably, if Ford sees their work as core to Ford's future, then Ford should employ them directly and keep the costs on the P&L, so weirdly, this may be a signal that Ford is taking their work more seriously.
Our entire group of animals is named after tits:

Mammals.

How can referring to the fact people have what our entire branch of the tree of life is named after be offensive?
Does Redox OS bring anything unique to the table, besides being written in Rust?
All social structures survive through their self-perpetuation...it's a general critique with a lot of explanatory power that I've had on my mind.

Any kind of senseless decorum or self-defeating policy comes down to the intersection of self-perpetuating framings of reality with actors who either promote it out of self-interest, or take it upon themselves to become footsoldiers on faithful behalf of that idea, extending it to unreasonable, totalizing lengths in the process of protecting it like a child.

And that can manifest as "my way is right behavior and that is wrong behavior", or "we are good because they are bad", or any number of other illogical defenses. It's just automatic once you decide some thought has to be defended, and when it forms a really persistent, robust structure you end up with a religion, national mythos, economic norm etc. The structure is looking out for itself first, and the current elites hold the most gravity in deciding whether to further perpetuate or not. But elites aren't immune to being true believers either - they have to be able to let go and examine what they want to accomplish, and if the belief they have is too firmly tied to their immediate self-interest, they can't do it.

My reading here is derived somewhat from Heather Marsh's writings, but with different focus and phrasing.
Tens of millions?

You're gonna have to educate me on the projects you're talking about. It's taken them 7 years to put a bike lane down Broadway and it isn't even gonna be that fantastic.

The safe streets program created some wonderful spaces and routes, so of course they dismantled them for no reason.

Cap Hill, the most densely populated area of the city has no north-south bike route that I would ever dream of taking my children on. The East-west route on 11th is a death trap that cuts in and out in order to maintain a few car storage spaces.

The crown jewel, the I-25 for bikes in Denver, the Cherry Creek Trail requires users to play frogger across Speer, a 4 lane highway, in order to access much of it.

We can go on and on with these.

DOTI is an organization that is 100% dedicated to moving cars, every bike and pedestrian project is implemented with the first goal being to not inconvenience drivers.

That being said, you are right that it's light years ahead of Phoenix.
This is being fixed in Android 14[0], fwiw.

0. https://www.xda-developers.com/android-14-new-apis-app-store...
Pretty neat!

I tried the "fullstack" and it was good enough to get me to type real responses. It was a little frustrating when it asked for ways to improve database performance, and then told me my answer was "a good start" but that I neglected many non-database performance aspects. https://practiceinterview.co/interview/352?key=b1bcabb4-3293...
I have bike commuted in the following places without near death:
* New York City
* San Francisco
* Portland
* Seattle
* Raleigh Durham
* Chattanooga TN
* Salt Lake City

For sure there are some cities where biking is terrible, but I am not sure it’s a “majority”. It also takes some awareness to ride your bike safely in a city, but actually, doing anything in a city takes a bit more awareness and caution.

Is it possible that you could avoid death while cycling by improving your cycling skills a bit? You could join a group of (still alive) cyclists to learn the ropes.
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And my point which you seem to have missed is, it never matters what anyone or any organization says, the only thing that matters is what they do, therefore assume and act accordingly
I got a degree in applied mathematics. Some of my favorite courses were in pure math. I think I came away with my degree better for having taken the detour. My only regret at graduation was that I hadn't taken more.
I agree, this seems like the obvious reason it’s done this way. Is there any rebuttal to this?
The article ended right where the first paragraph of justification for the thesis should have been.
Was there a time when adults referred to each other by Mr. and Mrs. in regular spoken conversation? Like if you were asking a work colleague where another colleague was, it was normal to say "Where is Mr. Smith?" rather than "Where is Mark?"

Since in my lifetime I've only known calling everyone by their first name (except, like you say, teachers in childhood), I'm curious when the change occurred and how.
I get what you are saying, but I have done tech recruiting for a long time and the reality is that everyone claims they have built complex production systems at scale. Everyone has lofty resumes with the choicest buzzwords. Everyone can come up with war stories about how they single-handedly kept the internet alive. And everyone can write the names of a dozen references who can vouch for all of this.

The moment you start to test these claims, 90% of these candidates cannot write a line of code or describe a simple distributed system by drawing a few boxes on a whiteboard. So the current process is what we end up with.

And once in a while some genius superstar 10x programmer comes along who is too good for these silly interviews... well that's fine we don't need that arrogance either.
What exactly is the concern here? I scanned through the article but there so much...for lack of a better word cruft, in there yet so little about what the underlying issue is.

Is it that AGI will take over all jobs? Or are we talking Von Neumann probes or what? Because I just see a bunch of fear mongering words.

Personally I think this is the greatest thing since slice bread and is going to increase efficiencies across several data intensive industries. The future is bright!
Do not under any circumstances have a location in or do business in San Francisco.

I used legalzoom when I did it.
This is quite nice for practice even if you know its ChatGPT. I tried for a product manager role https://practiceinterview.co/interview/80?key=a3f9cef7-5bbf-... and it was quite an interesting chat.
"what Americans now call conservatism much of the world calls liberalism or neoliberalism" - Ribuffo
I don't think most really realize how neglected rural communities are. It can take something like a miracle to get the government to fund paving a road off the beaten path. Now put yourself in their shoes, and imagine how it feels when you see a government sending hundreds of billions of dollars to countries half way around the world.

This is why things like 'America first' resonate so strongly with rural communities. It's not some jingoistic message, let alone some sort of a secret dog whistle for some sort of a race nationalism thing. It's just people seeing tremendously large amounts of money and interest being spent on things like countries halfway around the world, with little to nothing to show for it all domestically.
Someone I know was rehired to Ford from Argo and got an extremely generous offer. He seems pretty happy about it.
"The association of using linux/bsd and spending time debugging system is getting old. Like very very old and outdated."

I literally use linux every day on my pc, work laptop, and personal laptop. It's not outdated at all, it's part of using linux. Granted it's a lot better than before.

MacOS having occasional issues is not comparable to having to mess around with alsa/jack/pipewire and debug linux issues in general. Obviously no system is perfect.
Are you aghast at the number of points?

It’s referring to two points from “The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation”, which is understandably (I hope), a large (and respected!) guide.
One of the last films I saw before Covid was Knives Out and an elderly couple were sitting a few seats over. The woman kept repeating the lines to the man and explaining things that were happening in the movie. I can of course appreciate the situation but this is the reason I don't want to go to a theatre often except for the big movies.
Yeah, in terms of actual skills it's weird that you have to climb the ladder because each role is so different from the previous role.

I'm sure there's some overlap, but not enough to really warrant the lower role being preparation for the higher role.
We weren’t before, and you certainly changed the subject to that, but I’m still talking about the topic we started on. Which I know annoys people, but you replied to my comment to change the topic.
I live in a world on the trailing edge.

Sometimes the best of the last generation is better than the new of the next. While I don't know how strongly this author makes that case, it's true in a general sense.
> Lane keep is not the same as lane centering

These are God awful naming schemes, completely misleading for the common consumer and bizantine in naming. Near purposefully misleading
I'm trans myself and this language policing game is insane. The most surreal part about it is it's rarely anyone allegedly impacted by it who is actually asking for these things.
Bach is a perfect example of the kind of thing that I'm talking about, and he's as far from postmodernism as I can imagine. His music is simple and pure. It isn't trying to impress anyone with technical virtuosity or sentimentality.
Yeah I've only had one experience with terrible projection. I saw Juno at the drive in theatre and the boom mic kept dropping onto the screen.
Thanks, I can start on Monday
Can you elaborate on what you mean by this? How would an event that happened 22 years ago have any effect on mental stability of young people? Especially since the article puts heavy emphasis on teenagers - who were not even born when 9/11 happened.
If she did allow people to suffer with that purpose then yes I agree. It's my understanding that she didn't do that but did view the effects of suffering as a blessing in the same way that the above quote suggests.
Looking at the control manual this looks very ergonomic. You're essentially delegating non-input controls to a joystick with feedback, while the typing is done on the keyboard. This is actually useful.
Sort of. Is the Linux kernel huge and has an amazing number of man years in it .... certainly.

If starting over from scratch could you ignore most architectures, drivers, etc and support current hardware ... also yes.

A new OS could skip 32 bit mode, alpha, mips, itanium, loongarch, 68k, pa-risc, powerpc, s390, superH, sparc, parallel ports, serial ports, supporting zillions of PCI/PCIe cards that you can't buy any more, messing around with archaic 16 bit bootloaders, etc.
Working on adding “environments” to my business’ API (https://keygen.sh). I’ve gone over 6 years without offering a “sandbox” environment to customers, so I’m excited to finally be working on this one. It’s been quite complex implementatiom-wise, and has touched a lot of surface area, since I want it to support multiple named environments (e.g. staging, dev, one-off isolated test envs for CI/CD). But it’ll be worth it.
No — people are just aware that humans are sexually dimorphic and don’t appreciate people demanding they not use language that accurately describes the peaks of a bimodal distribution because there’s a small percentage of outliers. Mammals in general are sexually dimorphic.

Particularly when that language control is transparently used for power seeking.

We don’t need to shape every utterance around outliers — that’s pathological and stifles discussion.
More hostile than Windows for sure. F-Droid does not produce high quality hardware to go with it.
There should be a sport / non sport mode option as well, I'm used to switching between those 2 more often
Same way they do everywhere that gives pedestrians priority. On a truck that has more room to manuever because there aren't cars parked everywhere.
Get in here.
Y'all are paid peanuts while C level executive are paid in millions.

Don't tell me some nonsensical reasons like high salaries, please adjust cost of living and you will get a bigger picture.
https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/cant-afford-the-basics...

Plus homeless older developers and unemployed fresh graduates shows us a lousy picture.
https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/a-55-year-old-developer-...

What I found ironic was that a guy from INDIA is getting millions while US citizens are struggling with cost of living crisis.
No Freemium Speeches™!? Sounds like a dystopian hellscape. Just as William Gibson describes.

I couldn't imagine living there, deprived of carnival barkers yelling at me about erectile dysfunction, cybercriminals, and investing in gold.
> It isn't really Wayland's calls itself, I prolly stretched too much there,

Do you mean simply incorrect i.e., that Wayland calls are not all blocking? Or do you mean that in practice there are some important high-level situations that do require a round trip despite the low level purporting to be mostly asynchronous?

> Since Wayland doesn't support this kind of network remote use anyway, the distinction doesn't matter. Local X vs Wayland are both fast.

Wayland can run to remote displays though, right? You could argue it's not complete or well supported or nicely integrated into the core protocol or whatever, but you can literally use it today and probably have a package to do it available in any Linux distro you're using (e.g., waypipe). So it's hard to see what you're getting at. Wayland may not have been made with transparent networking support foremost in the protocol but AFAIK the idea was always that you'd be able to do remoting by forwarding buffer contents with the protocol.
Don't get me wrong, I like a website to look good. But it shouldn't compromise on speed on functionality.
I’ll give it a try, not necessarily successfully:

Urban, in the sense of urban or inner city youth, might be a reference to black children. (Or it might not. And one might actually be referencing urban things in the sense of not suburban or rural.)

Vibrant: makes, ahem, people living with color blindness feel marginalized.

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.

Brown bag: I’m guessing this is in a similar category to “tarball” from the rather regrettable list out of Stanford recently: it has nothing whatsoever to do with equity or inequity, but one might imagine an alternative etymology in which it has an inequitable meaning, connotation or origin. So brown bag could somehow be about brown people, even though as far as I can tell, neither the origin of the phrase nor any common uses are at all related to skin color.

At this rate, we risk running out of English words. Fortunately, English has a lot of words :)
How do I meet these oligarchs and help them hide a tiny bit of their cash and I take a 1% fee per year on a piddling amount like $100 million? I love helping people, would love to help any oligarch out there reading this comment.
The ever-changing euphemistic language seems to me like mostly just a new way to be a hipster. The new vocabulary is a shibboleth to distinguish people who got the right sort of education from the right sort of places. Your knowledge of all the proper euphemisms to use sets you apart from the uneducated rubes.

The problem is, it sets you apart from the people you're allegedly trying to help, given that the marginalized are rarely those who got an elite education at an elite institution. This is how Republicans, a coalition of rich tax-avoiders and poorer people resenting the contempt of the elites, stay in power. And their political program - slashing benefits, cutting social services - hurts marginalized people the most.

By creating a way to be a "good person" that only the most hip and educated people can follow, the language policers are creating a rift between themselves and the people they are trying to help, preventing a political coalition from forming that would be able to pass helpful policies.
I do not know if t has been done but one could resuscitate the chatbot's minds by copying the chat history into a GPT based program.

My own impersonator[0] is not designed for that (no persistent chat and a text based interface) but one can already dump the text in a folder and see if the personality if properly reproduced.

[0]: https://github.com/nestordemeure/impersonator
If you can't be in a room with a more junior engineer and explain your ideas in simple language by drawing a few boxes on a whiteboard, then yeah you are probably not a good fit for these positions.
I think the “people-first language” is actually kind of dumb in a lot of cases. Because the idea behind it is not really sound.

Shall I now say I have to call a “person who performs plumbing work” to fix my drain because calling them a plumber indicates that they have no worth outside their job? No, that’s not how language has ever worked.

Basically for “people-first language” to exist, you have to create a problem that didn’t exist before to come up with it as a solution.
What's the sour taste -- what's the problem? Like, what's wrong with being interviewed by someone with less experience than you?
> k8s should run already with automatic node upgrades

This is difficult to impossible to do with databases; even if your database has a built-in recovery method for when a primary is taken offline, in such a way that allows for zero-downtime in theory, the reality is that such mechanisms depend on the secondary staying online until the failover mechanism is complete. If you turn over control of node upgrades to the cluster provider, the node under the secondary will get rebooted in the middle of the failover process, and you will get downtime at best, data loss at worst. What kubernetes teaches us is that databases aren't tied to the literal VM they're running on (which is now cattle), but rather on the availability of that node. If you run databases on kubernetes, you need to have a mechanism to slow down node upgrades.

Source: helped run hundreds of Elasticsearch and Kafka nodes on kubernetes in production at one point in my career
>Most people don’t care.

How do you know this?

>They don’t care if Amazon, Facebook, and Google know what they are doing online. They opt in to tracking by joining loyalty programs to save a few bucks. Privacy is just not a concern most people have.

I disagree. Most people have no idea what's going on behind the curtain.
This is Aurora's play. Phantom.AI is also in that business.
It was such a fresh take on the subject when it first came out, and it's well worth the read today. It's what got me hooked on all of Ted Chiang's work.

I do find it a little difficult to understand how the same author wrote this short story and the (from my point of view) missing the point take of a blurry jpeg of the web. But even if I personally think he missed the mark on that particular take, I genuinely appreciate that he took the time to write his preliminary thoughts and share them with us- he has a delightful way with words.
Literally as easy as:

https://github.com/dbohdan/classless-css

And before you say I should do that myself, again, if you want your work to be comfortable to read for the world, the bare minimum involves legibility.
> asking candidates to describe real world systems that they have actually built is much more useful at checking their skills than building imaginary systems.

Except those systems are owned by other companies and I have signed agreements not to talk about them.
TV rots your brain and helped break apart the social fabric, but it makes you happy. Cheers, Friends, The Office- lots of shows basically performed the function of companionship.
> otherwise a trans man can get pregnant

Should everyone take care to account for the most improbable interpretations, even unintended ones? Thanks for providing a good sample of equity language. Feels like being dictated by an elite to the masses.