skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with sibling that "smart" isn't a helpful way to frame these sorts of things

I think just about any programmer has the ability to learn Rust. The basics will probably come pretty easy; the syntax and general way of writing code are designed to be familiar to anyone who's used C-like languages

Fully understanding it and learning the more advanced features may be hard, harder than other languages, but I think it's within anyone's capacity. I definitely find myself thinking harder about things when I'm writing Rust, but I don't think it's on a whole separate plane of ability

> reading its docs and syntax

I don't know which docs you started with, but just in case, I suggest you start with the Rust Book (https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/). It's designed to ease you in gradually, tutorial-style; much better than eg. starting with the reference and API docs
The actual documentation and emails are like 80% bullshit though. This will just generate more plausible sounding bullshit than a completely naive AI. It would be nice if the thing helps me right excel formulas more conveniently though.
> Why as a manager are you wasting your time and the candidate's time "discovering" if they can code when there's millions of developers who are actively working in the open on OSS platforms like GitHub?

The number of developers who have something recent and meaningful on GitHub is extremely small.

I’ve interviewed and hired a lot of great developers. Very few of them had much of anything on GitHub. Often the most I could find were one-line patches to projects somewhere.

If you limit your hiring to GitHub OSS superstars, you’re going to miss out on a massive number of excellent developers.
> "diversity", i.e. the idea that people who aren't white guys should be given a shot at the wealth

As a non-white guy, I find the "diversity" propaganda in SV over the last 5-6 years problematic. If that was truly about giving everyone a shot at wealth and increasing inclusion as you say, I would wholeheartedly support it. But after observing it closely for many years, I just saw empty virtue-signalling and no concrete action. Moreoever, there was no actual "diversity" of inputs and opinions - rather it was all groupthink.
I don't see really how insurance would profit from that. Now they have to give me the value of the car in money
Sure - how?
Is this focus on reservoir levels provide a false sense of optimism?

My limited understanding is that if the ground is dry and compact (as from years of drought), then it doesn't hold as much water, so the run-off more quickly fill up a lake or reservoir, rather than fully saturate the ground first.

And since you can't take a picture of the depleted aquifers, it's hard to get a sense of how those are affected. They take longer to recharge, and due to land subsidence they cannot store as much water now.
> Asimov’s laws of robotics

This comes up every time AI is mentioned and I feel like people are drawing entirely the wrong conclusion from Asimov. First and foremost he designed his laws so conflict was inevitable. The laws are designed to produce interesting fiction, not to be a template to follow in real life. They are as much a manual as "1984" is, that is - not at all. Asimov's laws should have no bearing on AI in reality except to inform people to do something different.

So broadly I am agreeing with you - AI should follow laws that are more rich than Asimov's made up universe. The part that irks me is that people even consider using them at all. It's fiction, not reality. The consequences of an action in a person's imagination rarely match the consequences in reality. The entirety of science is an effort to produce word-based imaginary systems and processes, whose outcomes match the outcomes in reality. You cannot just substitute one man's imagination for the missing science of AI reasoning.
The rules at issue are primarily about nitrogen pollution from livestock, not CO2.
It doesn't help that the OS vendors have been letting their own local backup tooling rot over the years, probably in favor of selling more cloud subscriptions. When is the last time Time Machine got some attention, when it was released 15 years ago?
Did we have news back when prohibition ended 1933, about alcohol's various health benefits?
Google has no such policy. Google Workspaces has active DOD contracts (and DOD is featured as a case study on their site) and active pursuits in other spaces, employee concerns very much notwithstanding.
I wouldn't mind it being written in C++ if it had an official C API (so that it's easier to use the library from other languages than C++), but somehow physics engines are like UI frameworks, OOP seems to be more popular there than elsewhere ;)

(there are a couple of externally maintained bindings though)

PS: the most serious case against C++ for game development is probably the widening gap between "modern C++" and the kind of "sane C++" that's used in the game dev world (e.g. modern C++ is moving into a direction where most new features are entirely useless/pointless for game development). That was at least the main reason why I left C++ mostly behind and moved back to C (or realistically: a mix of mostly C and some C++ where needed to talk to libraries), and I keep a very close eye on Zig to eventually replace my use of C.
I had the same experience. I fought with regular debilitating panic attacks and resulting anxiety for a year. It was horrible.

That being said, I'm still for legalization, simply because it being illegal didn't keep me or you or anyone else from trying it. It just doesn't make sense for law enforcement to spend all those resources on fighting a battle that's already lost. Plus, in the US, all the lives ruined and money wasted on incarcerating people for marijuana-related offenses.

I will say though, that legalisation leads to positive public health outcomes sounds like just the sort of bullshit cherrypicked study that Reddit would jump on instantly. I don't know why this is on HN at all.
Been to Oktoberfest. All of the Brit, Irish, Canadian and Australian members of the crew could not believe that much alcohol in one place without any barfights/disputes/blah.

“This event wouldn’t be possible in Ireland”
"BingBot, could you please write an email subtly undermining inter–team cohesion by hinting at gossipy shit-talk without mentioning it explicitly, and also praise my report in a way that demonstrates I don't know or appreciate what they've been doing for the past 2 years, calibrated to hurt their self-confidence without quite causing them to quit?"
Neat, although it seems that bass should be redder and treble should be bluer to match color/sound frequencies. It kinda does that but not quite.
> once you've made the easy choices you have control over, it's time to make difficult choices which involve many people.

Yes and my point is that the vast majority of people don't even make the easy choices let alone the hard ones.

They pretend the easy choices are hard and that the hard choices don't exist.
Have we made bad decisions in the past, yes.

Should we continue to make those same bad decisions now, no.
To wipe your tear I upvoted your 3 comments ;)
hadn't used this before. Checked out the map. Wondered wtf was going on with the way they colored the nyc subway. Realized they highlight lines whenever there's a service change in effect, under the assumption that would be the uncommon case, and never anticipated highlighting most of the city in painful bright orange.
One of the most fascinating thing about working with hardware vs software is your designs are influenced by the laws of physics, but more importantly, how we choose to implement our understanding of these laws. I've gotten away with quick and dirty prototypes with no length matching but always keeping the two traces as close to each others' path as possible with as few vias as possible (even avoiding if able), but other times you need to get it right as I suspect that some chips are more robust than others with their signal processing. For CAN bus and PCIe, you can use garbage routing and tin foil to connect your diff pairs, but for HDMI, you better get that right or suffer random, intermittent problems forever.
So ChatGPT results are similar to a random sample of retail investors. How insightful and original.
Or lobste.rs
C++ limited it's growth. I think the rate of growth for libraries in rust will be more diverse and faster.

I'm predicting we won't hit JavaScript levels of diversity (the problem space is just that much harder in gaming then in web) where the diversity itself is a hindrance but given the metrics of interest in rust and it's ease of use compared to C++ it's just a matter of time.

If I'm wrong the only think I think I would be wrong about is when this inflection point occurs. Either we hit in the future or we just passed it.
I have had exactly this argument before and this has always been my issue with the claim. I recall people saying this about music when I was in college, an example I find especially frustrating because, per my friends argument, all contemporary music is influenced by, say, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, 'the greats' etc, and nothing new can truly be created in the shadow of these classics. It's nuts because it ignores all of human civilization up to that point, and doesn't give credit to people in the present day for being able to be original.

But I think the way you have put it here is more clear than anything I've been able to manage. I think I put it in a more extreme form, which is to say that the earth had no life on it for ~3 billion years, and still no humans until ~100k years ago. At some point the first music was made. And if it could be original then, whatever it was that made that possible, should presumably make it possible now, too.
Perhaps the next product launch is this awesome little stats dashboard you have.

Make it a personal goal dashboard for concurrent website visitors for one's own projects and follower count. Just as you have it. It's kinda like Venmo, except for one's own sites/projects/goals.

Personally think this is awesome onto itself. Just that current goal bar is a great feature. Subscribe to the goal. Once it's reached, subscribers get a note. "see you can do great things, Alice just completed her follower goal! Send a note and show some love :)"
That's cool I'll share that if you are cool with it
Unsavory behaviors with Google Glasses ?
Amazing! I keep banging on about how Microsoft is building the business lock-in of the next decade, and this is a sign of it. Put down your snubs about Clippy and frothing about "EEE" and look at that announcement:

> "Business Chat works across the LLM, the Microsoft 365 apps, and your data — your calendar, emails, chats, documents, meetings and contacts — to do things you’ve never been able to do before. You can give it natural language prompts like “Tell my team how we updated the product strategy,” and it will generate a status update based on the morning’s meetings, emails and chat threads."

> "It creates a new knowledge model for every organization — harnessing the massive reservoir of data and insights that lies largely inaccessible and untapped today. Business Chat works across all your business data and apps"

> "Copilot LLMs are not trained on your tenant data or your prompts. Within your tenant, our time-tested permissioning model ensures that data won’t leak across user groups. And on an individual level, Copilot presents only data you can access using the same technology that we’ve been using for years to secure customer data."

That's amazing, natural search, summary over all your company SharePoint and emails and Teams chats. You aren't going to commercially compete with this with an IRC server, IMAP and a copy of LibreOffice. Something DropBox could have been doing with their massive trove of business documents? Something Slack could have been doing with their massive haul of chat history?
The question is, was it predictable, did Mark realize it from the beginning? Definitely he does it now. I think "Second Life" was similar, then it degraded to just adult entertainment at selected locations. It was 2D, but popular from start.
Something like this for GSuite apps would be absolutely killer. I really hope Google is as close behind as they claim.
I used to smoke weed, I think it's not necessarily bad, but like alcohol, or even psychedelics, some people are really not meant to touch these things. Especially teenagers/young adults, people with predisposed to get addicted, &c.

That being said Europe smokes a lot of weed already, making it legal will help with a lot of side effects of drug traffics. I just hope they use proper pedagogy and support: for well balanced, educated and healthy individuals it's a really good tool, for other people it can be a social/professional death sentence (like alcohol)

> Not to mention it causes streets to smell like a skunk

I'm not sure they'll make it legal to smoke outdoors. In many countries alcohol is legal but drinking in the streets isn't for example.
It remains to be seen if it is going to be available for this price. It would not surprise that this will climb to 30-35k USD in the end.
Curious if/when this will be available to users. This and Google's announcement happening in the same week makes me wonder how much of this already works.
From the article:

> any interference affects the [diff pair] signals equally – as signals are compared to each other to receive information, this means that the information received is not affected by noise overlaid onto both of the signals.

This is not true - a common myth about differential pairs. Don't rely on it for your designs. More info - see page 15 https://www.speedingedge.com/PDF-Files/DiffSigDesign.pdf
Horrible. LCD displays are ALWAYS too bright for driving at night. And, simultaneously, they are always getting washed out by glare during daylight. The only place they work is on sportbikes where the display isn't in your eyeline and so can afford to be bright.
Do you have any references for this or a link to a commercial service? I'm currently in the process or trying to extract some background voices in a video (an interview where the faint background conversation is in English and the loud overdub is in Bulgarian). I tried Melodyne but it seems to only separate on pitch, not volume, and the pitchs are too similar (mono, three voices, all female) and words are made of lots of short phonemes which each create a "note" and makes editing impossible. I looked into Izotope RX as well and it does not seem capable of doing this either. There are services that can automatically add subtitles using speech-to-text translators but they are expensive, and I'd prefer to have the background voices rather than the Bulgarian interpretation of them translated back into English. It seems possible to do, in Peter Jackson's The Beatles:Get Back they were able to separate voices from loud foreground musical sounds and other ambient talking, but that technology was custom and doesn't seem to be publicly available yet.
In Europe lights go from red to red + yellow to green and from green to yellow to red. That’s how you know which yellow it is.

And at least in theory just yellow does mean “proceed with caution”. You have intersections without a green light, just flashing yellow.
Two words my friend: Jimmy Savile.

He had the fawning press coverage, the money, the hype and the connections covering for him despite people calling him out for being sketchy.

Granted SBF wasn’t as bad of a sex pest but still, it’s probably not the gotcha you were reaching for.
Yeah, the procedure outlined in the article is not going to work so don't even attempt it. No way to rename personal account right now.
> Saying something like "I put this unusual string in my software & it is also in theirs" seems pretty useless from a legal perspective.

What evidence do you expect would be used for copying besides shared content?
What is the difference between a take home test that takes 4 hours and a company asking you to take a day off to come interview with 5 different people, other than one being less of a time commitment than the other?

In a remote first, or at least remote friendly, world, take home tests seem inevitable.
Alaska is right next to Russian airspace. Ukraine is not right next to American airspace.
I genuinely agree. Amusingly, this is the side effect of war on drugs. As in, those various interactions for the longest time were not common knowledge, but word of mouth mostly. On the other hand, we have centuries of alcohol use and abuse history to draw from and learn.

That said, I can't blame it all on lack of knowledge. There is a fair amount of regular prescription medication that clearly says "don't do anything after you take it", which is also mentioned in passing by your doctor and yet people either don't listen or just assume it won't affect them?

FWIW, I genuinely don't know what the answer is here.
I wish we had a system of simulators people could be put into to assess their driving ability before criminally charging them.

While it won’t capture everything related to driving, it’s gotta be better than existing sobriety tests. And I say that as a terrible video game player but good driver (or so I believe), with a relative that’s a great video game player but meh driver.

Dunno how well correlated a field sobriety test is, but the subjective element of it leaves a lot to be desired.
That's true, but the styling of this modal doesn't look like any dialogs I've seen in Google Docs. (I'm not familiar with the MS equivalent.) (...it's possible this is also featuring some reskin of Google Docs that is confusing me?)
"Fish" are one of the classic examples of a commonly-understood descriptor that has little to no scientific rigor. Another good one is "tree".

In casual speech, you can certainly look at an animal and say "this is a fish", or look at a plant and say "that is a tree", but if you actually start to look closer, you find that there's no clear way to define either of those terms that includes everything we think should belong in them, and also excludes everything we think shouldn't.

"Races" among humans are similarly hard to pin down by any kind of genetic taxonomy.
I actually wouldn't like this, it would make me afraid to upvote unpopular opinions I agree with. As is hacker News falls into the same trap as Reddit where there's a bit of a hive mind effect.
Thanks, GPT ;)
> Your personal choices will make no difference in this problem.

Of course they do!

You are reducing your contribution to future plastic in the environment. We can argue over the extent of the difference this choice makes but to say it makes no difference is absurd.
Appreciate it...saves trying to find a camera app that's close to the packaged one. There's a lot of garbage apps to sort through!
An alternative is to give the candidate a choice of a live coding exercise or a take home project.

Some people work better one way or the other. It sets them up for success rather than making a take home project an arbitrary filter.

And I hope the same take home project is used for every candidate and it's not a scam to get work done for free.
"Is great" is probably the wrong way to put it.

It can potentially be great. For that, it needs tooling, but tooling is the largest problem to solve in any language anyway.
This is exactly what should happen. The next step is to automate the translation to/from bullshit to normal speech. Then at some point we'll remove the translator and no one will notice.
Look what I made today *_
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I'm honestly thinking about generations and generations from now when we are a solar system dominating species able to terraform Venus and capturing a 1 percent plus fraction of the solar systems energy.
https://gifmemes.io - tool for making gifs, 250 USD last 30 days.
“Patience” is a good characterization because (as you have observed correctly) they’ve refrained from doing so in the past to avoid the consequences of such actions, but now, crucially, the are taking them down.

imagine how much would have gone wrong

That’s funny because just days ago some US congressmen have demanded (CW: euphemisms) the “authorization” of “military force” against “the cartels”: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/9/mexicos-president-sl...

Now, invading Mexico is still a remote prospect at this point, but if you think the US wouldn’t “defend their interests” there, you’d better read up on the Monroe Doctrine and 19th and 20th century history of the Americas.
And if a candidate submitted that for an algorithm screener (which at my company we occasionally see similar), they get rejected.
> If someone was sufficiently motivated, they could probably dethrone OpenAI in 2 months with enough funding.

I'd argue Google is sufficiently motivated to dethrone OpenAI --- so why haven't they? They have plenty of money to throw at the problem as well.
Sounds good.

Cheers.
There is even a paid app doing that now! Beyond free ones. That's how rare problem is this. :D You actually meet with it daily, hourly if using two or more windows by the same app.

Just because you are a hobbist user and never met a productivity problem it doesn't mean that the professional population does not suffer from it (see, I can make unfunded assumptions too about the other end ;) ). All around me have this problem, with various level of seriousity. Google the problem, like I did for prolonged time searching for a good answer, it will bring up masses of troubled people.

> maybe Microsoft already calculated that fixing it won't bring much if any more money than not and therefore that it's not worth it

Can you also have an educated deliberation about the calculations justified the removal of this feature existed before? ;)
> Like why is it here?

I submitted the URL and enough people found it interesting, so it ended up on the frontpage. The same for every submission you find on the frontpage.

> What's to discuss?

The state of game development with Rust. Apparently there is a lot to discuss, as it's currently on the #1 spot on the frontpage, with 60 comments.

> Should we just link to the PIP repository, too?

You're welcome to submit whatever websites you want. If enough people find it interesting, there will discussion around then subject.
> there's millions of developers who are actively working in the open on OSS platforms like GitHub?

There's an order of magnitude more qualified developers who don't have the time/aptitude/patience for contributing to OSS. You're shutting yourself off from the bulk of the hiring market by limiting candidates to OSS contributors.
"Confucius said: 'The ancients were hesitant to speak, fearing that their actions would not do justice to their words.'"
Everything that Stripe does is part of running their business, that’s just a tautology.
> I wish they had spun it off so it wouldn't just have died within Google.

Exactly. Why isn't this their norm? So dumb.

Expand scope of Google Ventures. Or create "Google Spinoffs" with a tighter focus.

I'm certain they'd have plenty of Googlers/Xooglers who'd jump at the chance.
Was glad to see this blurb

> One interesting avenue of future work is to try to replace libsolv by a solver written in Rust, such as PubGrub. That way we could get rid of a bunch of unsafe code we are using to interface with libsolv through Rust’s FFI.

For people who would be interested in learning more, check out this conference presentation: https://youtu.be/XyJpYFnl18U

Using pubgrub in cargo is something we talk about on a regularly basis. Its our equivalent of rustc chalk or polonius: we keep limping along, always finding a new hack to extend the life of the current package resolver due to the large lift to change out the resolver but also knowing how much the current one slows us down and holds us back.

I'm excited for any forward movement on pubgrub in any related project.
That's a US thing, in Germany and most of western Europe you need a lot more than "smelling" like weed to get anything close to jail time

It's already more or less tolerated in Berlin for example