skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there were a significant percentage of applicants behaving this way, that's a signal that something may have gone terribly wrong during the interviewing process that is causing the applicants to be upset.

If it were my company, I'd be taking a cold, hard look at that process to be sure that it's OK. Perhaps it's not really going as well as it seems.
You can get that the answer must be 50% once the host just reveals a goat by chance using reductio ad absurdum. Notice that since the host is doing it randomly, it would be the same if you (the contestant) were who made the revelation instead of the host. By the end both are doing it without knowledge so the results shouldn't tend to be different. For example, you could pick door 1 and then decide to reveal door 2. But in this way what you are doing is basically selecting which two doors will remain closed for the second part. I mean, selecting door 1 and then revealing door 2 is the same as picking both door 1 and door 3 at once, and then discarding the other. So, if door 2 results to have a goat, which one do you think is which should have 2/3 probabilities of having the car, door 1 or door 3? Consider that the doors don't "know" if you picked them at once or one after the other. The result would have been the same if you had first declared door 1 as your staying option and number 3 as your switching one, or viceversa. So, neither of them can be more likely than the other.
It’s not even close to softcore porn. I can go to any beach and see the same thing, or a nudie sauna, and that is hardly sexual.

Hot is probably the right word. Well done if they make money from that I guess.
But if they didn't exist then it would not have mattered? We are just space dust, until we are born we have no conscience, those who not exist cannot miss anything.
Well, that's not clear at all to me either, at least not in its current state.
Do doctors, lawyers, civil engineers, etc, also do take-home tests?
Honest question, I don't know how other knowledge workers get hired.
I know fashion designers (like my gf) do have really long and demanding take-home tests and then at the end they don't pass to the next stage... Weeks of late nights and no weekends for nothing, repeat several times.
Show HN: Phrase Tutor – learn Italian via roulette wheel flashcard selection
Hey people, this is a side-project of mine called Phrase Tutor (https://phrasetutor.com).

I whipped it up to help me learn Italian using a method I used way back in high school to faster retain historical facts. It has a pool of 100ish phrases and after you go through them all at least once, it will start prioritising phrases that you had trouble with. This way you are focusing on the toughest phrases more. This is kinda like roulette wheel selection used often with genetic algorithms.

I wanted to blend in when I was in Italy and not speak English all the time. I only had a week, and of course, I built an app to help with that. It was awesome saying "Mi scusi" all the time and at some point, they helped us to find our way when our phones died!

It's built using a full-stack framework I'm also developing called Wasp (http://wasp-lang.dev) and I rebuilt it from Supabase to Wasp when I joined the company.
Well AI sender writes a email to a bunch of email addresses, one of the AI recipient email agent responds , then another one responds , then one AI email agent responds politely asking everyone to stop hitting the reply all button , and soon the other AI agents respond back to each other saying to stop hitting the respond all button until one big AI agent says “Nobody responds to this last email” …. meanwhile the human sitting in the hotel cube in his office looks at his computer screen and sighs … deja vu!
Do you have a language that allows you to easily create a stack? Push open brackets onto the stack, when you get a closing bracket, pop the stack and make sure it's the "right" one. When the input is exhausted, if the stack is empty, the input was balanced.
One thing I hate MSFT is that once they have a hit product with a name. Anything follows, related or not. will have ride on it and eventually made it meaningless. It was ActiveXXX, it was XboxXXX, it was .NET XXX, it was PowerXXX, now it's Copilot.

Their marketing team need to understand brand names carries weight and if you stuff too many unrelated in the name loses it and will confuse consumers. It's not a good idea.
> I think comparing the Russian and US military is a false equivalence. Do I think the US is innocent? No. But it's just not on the same order.

Seriously?

Setting aside those that the US was directly involved in such as Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, how about the war between and Iraq and Iran that the US urged Saddam Hussein on which resulted in about 500,000 dead, for starters? In those days Saddam was the bestie of the US so long as he stuck it to Iran.

How about the sanctions on medical supplies to Iraq which resulted in about 500,000 deaths of Iraqi children?

Have you forgotten about the invasion of Grenada and Panama that the US invaded to install governments after their own heart? Very much like Russia's invasion of Ukraine only those wars were very much shorter because of the overwhelming might of the US.

Sadly the war on Ukraine is lasting much longer because Ukraine has the support of the US, until the US decides that China warrants more attention.
Good point, I hadn't thought that some people are using the upvote button effectively as a bookmark button. Interesting idea the unified upvotes+bookmarked view.

And your comment raises the question, what does an upvote mean? Why do people upvote? There may be lots of strange reasons. But whatever upvotes mean -- whether it means people want to bookmark it, or people find it valuable, or people want to bring something they disagree with to the attention of other people -- an upvote is a rough signal of "this should get more attention". The whole concept of a link aggregator like HN only makes sense if we assume that upvotes can be interpreted as a proxy for what people think deserves the attention of other users.
Definitely not when it's "effective immediately".
I would bet that the majority of non-techies couldn't name a single discontinued Google product.

There are 283 products listed on Killed By Google. If you're right then Google must have a massive problem communicating with non-techies. What's the point in launching anything new if they're so bad at getting users?
I don't disagree, but quitting from a position is certainly a sacrifice.

I'm certain it happens once in a while when someone has a personal realization and decides to change their life's trajectory fundamentally. Maybe their own (role model) parents died and they discovered that time with your children cannot be substituted with gifts and money.

Now in this case it's unlikely given Twitch problems but sometimes important humans are just humans.
I landed a job doing embedded Rust, and the company had been looking for someone to fill the role for 6 months with only one qualified applicant who bailed, and external contractors with C/C++ experience only. They surely were bad at looking, since neither they nor the recruiter consulted the local Rust meetup group. But there are starved companies looking for specialists out there even in an employers market.
Xiaomi has been in violation of GPL for years
What one could possibly do about this? We submitted reports everywhere but even the GNU guys said they could do nothing about it — are licenses even worth anything or it's just a fancy marketing thing today?
Congrats to the team!

Could you give an idea about the tech stack powering citymapper?
> they rejected me because I didn't read their employee's favorite paper

I wouldn't take that at face value. It probably isn't the real reason. People often hide the real reason for rejecting someone and will use some lame excuse instead.
It's a combination of pressure (93 bar), temperature (900 F / 475 C), and the local chemistry. And then there's the trace amounts of hydrogen fluoride, hydrogen chloride, hydrogen sulfide, and sulfuric acid.
Citymapper lets me navigate NYC like a local even if I only visit a couple times a year. It gives transit options taking into account real-time location and time to navigate not just to the subway station but through it. It gives me the street corner I should enter and the the underground exit I should use at the end of my ride. I love it and hope it continues to be great.
This is simply not how the world thinks. Look at the renewed effort for reparations in the US for example. Affirmative Action is an example of a form of reparation as well as black-only scholarships[0]. So thoughts like this do exist and are pretty widely accepted.

[0]: https://guides.library.umass.edu/reparations
You can learn a lot about a candidate, particularly those applying to senior positions, by looking at how they work under uncertainty and time/resource constraints, because ultimately that's how real life is.

I have seen software engineers getting lost trying to solve a trivial problem because they like to always write code that scales well or showcase their knowledge of software design.

Take home projects are great to learn about a candidate's decision making process given the use case and constraints of the final solution.

IMO that would be hard to assess by looking at a repository.

As far as having an entire team of top performers, IMO most companies don't need that.

Where I work most of the stuff we do never gets released as a final product, we may work on a new feature for six months and then gets killed, because the business requirement changed, because we partnered with another company that already provides that functionality or because our VP changed his vision.

Having a team of just top performers would not change that fact, but you will still have to pay top salaries and get into bidding wars with other companies trying to poach them.

We do have a few way above average coders leading the way, but most of our team is made of good coders, not stars.

So far that's working great for us.
I've known Emmett for many years and I 100% believe it. He was working because he enjoyed it. Now he has something else to enjoy more.

Couldn't be happier for the guy!
And a list of things missing: https://github.com/rust-embedded/not-yet-awesome-embedded-ru...
Not sure either that an economic meltdown is the sort of inflation reduction the Fed is looking for, or that SV startups getting a few percentage points haircut on their unspent investment capital would do that much damage to the wider economy. Even tech companies actually laying off staff hasn't had much effect on inflation
The point about chatbots lessening the shyness barrier in a public forum is very interesting.

I think just like (imo) much of the value of the data science craze of the last 10 years came not from the final analysis of the data but from inducing businesses to start measuring and storing operational metrics from every corner of the company in a structured way in the first place, much of the business value of ChatGPT will come from things like forcing businesses to start writing and maintaining good quality internal documentation.

The journey of getting your business to a point where AI can be useful for you is itself just as valuable as what AI will do for you.
The only exception that would make sense would be if your job involves public affairs/social media presence in an official capacity.

Otherwise, yes social media apps of any flavor are too risky and don’t belong on government phones.
It would be useful if the AI could identify the figure and impose a predefined 3D framework or skeleton as constraints for drawing. Like if one wanted to generate a human or animal there would be such a rig in place. That skeleton would in turn constrain joint rotation, proportions, and obviously the number of fingers.

I can only speak for SD but I've had some success using img2img on a CG or hand drawn figure to get the correct pose. The downside of that is that you have to use a low strength value to ensure that it actually follows your image.
It’s more than that; there is no room to innovate here for a startup. We were #2 to Streamlabs with ~40% market share by minutes watched @ Muxy in 2016-2017. However, there was no way to monetize without dark patterning viewers to subscribe to our platform when donating, which others did, but we refused to do.

We have so many cool unreleased widgets for bits and streams that have been dormant because it’s not possible to monetize them. Twitch could fix this…
Wow, imgur.com ate my back button.

Edit: I accidentally clicked share before trying to leave. Seems to persist even after closing the share dialog. Less of a dark pattern and more likely a bug, I suppose.
How can I use AI to generate CAD models? As a mechanical engineer that's the one thing I'm curious about.
It's funny to me the "restrictions" being placed on content creators like it's a new thing. It's only new in that more people are being made aware of how there have always been rules applied to what could or could not be "aired". Yes, there were government rules enforced by the FCC and the infamous stories of getting things past the censors, but there were always deference paid to the corporate sponsors and advertisers. This isn't unique to internet streamers.

If you started out without any consideration of this, then you're just a babe in the woods type of situation, but if you thought you could do this and "disrupt", then you're just living in a delusion. You want to make money from advertisers, then you're going to play by their rules.
This is addressed on the page: https://notbyai.fyi/#legal-effect-of-not-by-ai-badge

> displaying the badge on any asset does not guarantee the content is not majorly created by AI.
It's the web version of Word. Runs in a browser tab, has less features.
> Product Engineer at Experiment (06/16/2018): They weren’t hiring but said I could dig dinosaurs if I moved to Seattle!

I don't have any idea what this means, but if you're going to the Seattle area hoping for exposed non-marine rock from the Mesozoic you're going to be pretty disappointed outside the San Juans.
The Moon's impact (so to speak) is undoubtedly profound, in many ways.

Tidal forces are likely a factor in plate tectonics, though sources I'm familiar with suggest that virtually all the energy is contributed, roughly equally, by latent heat of gravitational formation (that is, the kinetic energy of source material colliding) and radioactive decay. What I've seen in estimates of tidal energy as a renewable source are that it is vastly smaller than even geothermal generally, as well as unconcentrated (natural geothermal vents, volcanoes, geysers, etc., provide zones in which significant direct energy capture is possible upwards of 1 GW in a single zone, as with the California Geysers geothermal generation project).

Tides are absolutely a factor in ocean cycles (and early in the Moon's lifespan would have been cataclysmic as the Moon orbited far closer to the Earth). Lunar cycles are evident in life-forms everywhere (the shell of the nautilus, for example, records the duration of the month throughout geological time, covered in Daniel Botkin's The Moon in the Nautilus Shell <https://www.danielbbotkin.com/books/the-moon-in-the-nautilus...>). Cycles of moonlight and darkness drive many animal behaviours. The giant-impactor hypothesis of lunar formation would have had a profound effect in the distribution of elements and minerals within the Earth's crust. And that's just off the top of my head as a non-specialist.
If they want to make Unicorn status ; make this for legal.

And even better - make it so individuals can use it for legal documents.
I agree I still enjoy catching streams I just wish Mixer or one of the other platforms had fought longer to create real competition.

You hit the nail on the head tho “our creators and viewers are the enemy of capitalization”.

I think one of the problems with our current fiscal model of "year over year growth or die" is that some products have a ceiling before the only way to squeeze more is to hurt the overall experience for users.
Show HN: Just launched Well Word, a new free daily word game
Spherical Harmonics became extremely trendy in the graphics literature for dynamic lighting and pre-baked light maps of some sort, and completely dropped off at some point. Still remember some discussions and questions regarding how they're not easy to "orient".
Faster than anyone predicted, we're starting to offload more and more cognitive work to these machines. Soon enough, the machines will be talking to each other, even negotiating with each other, and bringing human beings in the loop only when necessary, e.g., to make "important decisions." We sure live in interesting times.
As a dev, I'm very much attracted to the ability to turn a Teams meeting transcript into a documentation page.
Such an over-long and redundant article. However, they do make a point (twice) that is no longer true:

>Only about 10% of accidents are caused by vehicle error, weather, or another non-
human-related event.

Clearly the self-driving feature of more recently-made vehicles is going to, if not already doing so, cause more than 10% of crashes.
How can people use language like "climate betrayal" and act like it's not a religion?

What is the advantage of using that kind of terminology to discuss it? It makes it easy for people to dismiss any actual valid points that either the specific criticism has, or the entire movement to address climate change. The only purpose it serves is to whip up an already hysterical base, at the expense of credibility.
Now it's being bailed out and the market is rallying.

Nothing to see here, more of the same. We can't seem to not bail out banks even when they're dumb-dumbs.
Portable Rusage Command - Improving llama.cpp by profiling resource usage
You're using bias in two different ways, one factual and one emotional/intentional. Yes, the facts have a bias in that not every result occurs equally often. But then you insinuate that properly representing that facts is the other kind of bias where recognizing it is somehow creating it or endorsing it, and that any difference in measurement obviously represents an inequity.

> An actually unbiased AI would describe a person cleaning a kitchen and a person robbing, and if pressed would ask the user of the ai to suggest a gender for the character.

You're saying an unbiased AI would apply strong bias to just certain outcomes in an effort to socially engineer us into having "no bias" in some measurements?

Where did it get the bias to consider the ratio of kitchen work to be one of the bad kinds of bias, but the bias towards finding grass growing on the ground one of the acceptable kinds of bias, or would it write stories where there is grass but never specify where the grass is growing, just to help us understand our grass/ground bias?

> if pressed would ask the user of the ai to suggest a gender for the character.

That'd be awesome. Being guilted by your tools for not properly ignoring your senses.

Sure, statistically and obviously a woman only needs to watch for dangerous men, but to make everyone feel better she should either treat women like a threat too and waste everyone's time, or treat men as if they're as safe to her as women are and thus get attacked.

If you're advertising a product you should obviously advertise to all demographics equally because it's hurtful that only women need tampons, and only men need ball-shavers.

> If that seems bad, you don't want an unbiased ai

I want tools that work. If I ask for a measurement I want the real measurement, not the measurement that I should want if I were somehow socially aware enough.

Just fyi, we can have accurate tools and ask them social-justice questions such as "which professions are sexually-biased but don't seem to still have a physical need to be?" But you can't ask a lying tool this - even if you realized you should ask it would insist that there is no difference.
if your situation is anything like the USA - those payments went to corporate farms, not family farms.
I needed a break from the last game that took 12+ months of nights and weekends so I built a daily word game. Site is in React and mobile apps are in Unity. Happy to answer any questions!
Austria hasn't been neutral for very long. They were fighting all over Europe all of the time, including well after the CH went neutral.

Like, Austria was in both World Wars; the Swiss weren't.
I love it, people pretending they've NEVER been axle-wrapped in this shit in their careers.

"It works on my machine!"
K. thanks
This is monumentally stupid lmao
Lived in Alberta, and went hiking in the mountains with rental FWD cars all the time, often on terrible logging roads.
Phone use while driving probably eclipses any other risk factor these days:

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-03-14/deaths-bro...

But I bet it would be very politically unpopular to address phone use while driving.
Sure. Does that justify it being the best option for every development task? This is what I am puzzled by.
I remember when Triplebyte had a blog post and/or job ad every other day on Hacker News, and a bazillion physical ads in San Francisco.

It's surprising how quickly after the public-profile-incident (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23279837 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23303037 ) they fell off the radar.
Big shouts to visidata -- very underrated tool imo.
It’s truthful and realistic. I appreciate that more than fluffing it. All first drafts are garbage and “usefully wrong” anyways whether human written or not.
it has a population over million and doesn't even have a metro. and it's ugly as fuck. I don't know how it works out for startup economics but I wouldn't move there.

there's also our sad little "Silicon Fen" around Cambridge, again rubbish because of housing affordability and lack of good transport links. it's a national tragedy that there isn't a direct railway link between Oxford and Cambridge (thanks Dr Beeching).
This is incredible! Such an intuitive use case and from the demo it really looks like it does the job well. Congrats!
why the link in the text isn't clickable?
I really wish I can just send mail with bulletpoints without all the formality stuff and walk around the egg shells.

But alas, that's the way it is. Reminds me the custom in Japan working culture. There are so many unspoken rules you are expected to follow and it became hinderance.
> making someone else's argument fit into your own system without misrepresenting it or making it unclear

I think this is where steelman is a superset of this, in that it includes the reconstruction definition but also includes making a whole new set of arguments that are entirely unrelated to your own argument or the other person's argument. i.e. Steelmanning can involve coming up with novel arguments for the other side.
inb4 "GPT-4 discovers world formula and initiates the technological singularity that we're now all part of"
Are alcoholic drinks companies allowed to advertise on billboards as well?
I think this is true not just for google but for everyone as well.

How many times have people just given up on doing the extra mile? I know I did.
Chargeback fees from processors are pretty steep -- $10+ per transaction. It's not simply the cost of the refund itself. The purpose of those fees is to incentivize merchants to be honest and good to their customers, although in the case of larger players those incentives can become perverse.
Jobs will be lost, people will still do it as a hobby. When I go for a swim or a run, I don't try to compete with general population, mostly try to improve myself. And that's what will happen for digital illustration and CGI business as well, to my understanding.

My glimmer of hope is if everything we see on a daily basis online is created by AI/AI-assisted tools, then we will go back to trying to be more creative in real life and our local surroundings.
You can subscribe to individual creators on twitch. This removes advertising from that streamers stream only.