skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be very pedantic: Brazil's currency is "Real", plural "Reais". There was around a century ago an older Brazilian currency also called "Real", but with plural "Réis".
How are the cantons that much different from the states? Legally, the Swiss federal government has authority over the armed forces, currency, the postal service, telecommunications, immigration into and emigration from the country, granting asylum, conducting foreign relations with sovereign states, civil and criminal law, weights and measures, and customs duties. In 1990, when the last cantons approved women to vote, it was because of the federal government enforcing it on them over their objections.

That reads pretty much verbatim like the enumerated powers in the US Constitution. And the idea of the federal government forcing states/cantons to abide by "letting people vote" is a common thread as well.

The major difference I see is that cantons (unlike states) can enter into agreements with each other or foreign countries without federal approval.

But I never lived in Switzerland! I'm probably missing something?
Zapier Natural Language Actions API
And I hope that every company understands that unless you offer a sane hiring practice, you aren't going to get the best developers.

"Every other candidate was desperate and rejected a thousand times so they're happy to waste their time on your pointless exercise that you won't even look at."

The good candidates are busy getting hired by companies that understand how to evaluate their work based on interviews, references, and several other things that don't waste their time.
Temporary Lifetimes in Rust by Niko Matsakis
Yes, but the odds of them finding a buyer are astronomical. Full reusability is the future. Even ULA is reportedly up for sale after backing away from plans for their new rocket to be reusable. The new space race will be SpaceX and Blue Origin.
What? Clippy is evolving! Clippy evolved into Clippilot!
I know a few people doing MCU firmware with Rust. I doubt it will be anywhere near as mature as the C ecosystems anytime soon, but it's come a long way. See e.g. the "cortex_m" crate and some of its reverse dependencies [1] [2].

[1] https://docs.rust-embedded.org/cortex-m-quickstart/cortex_m_...

[2] https://lib.rs/crates/cortex-m/rev
I like this book a lot. Has a heavy focus on physics and an intuitive understanding of physics, rather than just giving a list of heuristics to abide by.
> However, many GPL violations are resolved through non-legal means, such as negotiating a license agreement or reaching a settlement outside of court.

A legally binding agreement (especially one to settle active litigation) is a very odd thing to describe as “non-legal means”.
I have that problem as well but every once in a while it will spew a large block of non-sense. My guess was that it’s tuning itself to me - I often use it’s one liners and rarely use the multi-liners so it’s not offering them much.
Is there a wall of shame for these violations?
fyi there's a typo — "press realease" in the top-right corner
> Under which ethical framework is it possible to justify industrial slaughtering of animals?

Most major religions for starts. Probably not the answer you were looking for, nor one that sits well with you, but it is nevertheless the truth.

Perhaps you, like myself, are an atheist. Well it turns out that most atheists eat meat too. So the evidence points towards industrial slaughter being ethical in most secular ethical frameworks as well.

inb4 "it's not a real ethical framework if I disagree with it."
it is like they say "there's nothing new under the sun, but maybe behind it?"
https://www.notion.so/ has very similar chatgpt integration, but it's live right now, and easy to try out for free. I'm not a notion user or employee; I just think if you want to see what having tight chatgpt integration with a word processor feels like right now, then Notion is fun to play around with.
“As We May Think”
Resharing as Satya referenced this article in today's M365 gen-AI launch.
I think if you actually went over and talked to some biologists, you'd find that they have, in fact, put aside various colloquial terms for scientific use because they're insufficiently rigorous.
Cool! I never knew heroin helped them invent the time-machine. Why isn't this more known?
It seems like Dreamworks had to move acceleration to GPU using CUDA and OptiX instead of SIMD/AVX and Embree - the released OpenMoonRay code supports both.

It kind of feels like Dreamworks got burned a little by Intel here - they invested a ton of research effort (alongside Intel) in Embree, SIMD, and Knights' Landing, and then had to add another implementation for OptiX/GPU/SIMT anyway.
And Godot 4 is coming up as a significant player. Either GDScript or Python or any related interfaces (Swift?) could be the next big language for game development.
You have dozen of telegram channels with thousands of sales, rating systems, home delivery, &c.

Buying from the streets is a tourist thing
It will be paid back with interest.
I have no idea why you're getting downvoted. The icloud-photos-downloader is an amazing tool. I run it from a monthly cronjob to have a local backup in case icloud iexplodes.
Believe what you want, but we don't get the good ones.

Good breakdown of the actual differences hatch/suv/crossover/sportback

https://www.motorhappy.co.za/motorhappyblog/education/know-t...
The cost to us to review the take home test is rather high, we don’t want to frontload that.
Like indentured servitude?
The too big to fail financial market is already in a pathological state, it's too small, not enough competition, etc.

Yes, just brushing things under the carpet is bad, but whatever restructuring would have happened in that chaos would not have been an improvement.

It's unfortunately very much politics. For example see how the FASB tried to eliminate HTM accounting, but had to back down (and that chair resigned).

Yet! If the market already doesn't give enough shit to check the stuff in parentheses in a report for a 200B bank, then I suspect it's more of a theater than we like to admit.

https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/marketintegrity/2023/03/13/th...
Writing was a remix of pictorial representation, which was a remix of the way things like ox heads, flowing water, and birds look.
You can write games in C++ (Unreal Engine), C# (Unity and Godot), Java (LWJGL, as seen in Minecraft), Python (using PyGame), JavaScript (DOM/canvas or something fancier). Nobody is using PyGame for anything serious, and Minecraft is probably the only serious Java game, but you can still play around with those.

C++ is popular in the game industry, because it compiles to native code and can be fast. Rust can also do both of these things, and it’s also memory-safe and saner in general, so why not try writing games with it and improve the game stability and developer experience?
Do you have more, or are you just assuming it's been abandoned because there is an issue that's been open for 3 months that they haven't fixed?
The guy looks Polish by name. They (the Polish) are now "very good friends" of Ukranians except when the Ukranians are also gypsies and they hate Russia.

There are a lot of 3 letter agencies submitting patches to the linux kernel ( for ex. NSA).
Do they feel "comfortable" accepting patches from those organizations ?
I would imagine that most employers have no idea how long their take-home tests actually take, because there is a strong incentive for interviewees to lie about how long they spent on the test, and almost no incentive to be honest.

Yes, you can have your own engineers estimate how long it should take, but those engineers i) are already familiar with your problem domain and tooling, assuming the take-home test is reflective of those, ii) estimating is hard, even for small tasks, and iii) also don't have any incentive to name a high number vs. a low number, because a low number will make them look more competent

I have completed many take-home tests for jobs I wanted, and I don't think I have ever been honest about how long such a test took.
Take-home tests are the worst. This is why:

- it doesn't value equally candidate's time and company's time. The candidate has to spend hours/days to do the test, while the company evaluates the result in minutes (1h at most)

- they are always open-ended, so you can always do more... that means the more hours you put on it the higher the chance of passing. So, if I spend 4h, but you spend 10h, all things equal, you got the job

- if they are underspecified and you dare to ask questions... be ready for a huge email-thread coming and long waiting times (in the order of hours instead of in the order of seconds/minutes as it would be the case if you were doing the test "online" with them)

- if you ask questions: how many questions is good enough? Maybe I'm asking too many? Or too few? I cannot really tell by the way they write their email answers to me (I could tell if I were asking the questions in a video-call, though... but damn it, this is a home-take test!)
How are these relevant in the age of LLMs? Prompt hack a little, run the exercise through it, edit some things, done.
Is it any better or worse than delegating work to a junior team member and not bothering to review the work product?

When a junior team member screws up the interpretation, there is someone to hold accountable.

With Office 365Bot, there is no accountability for errors.
I think this is mostly referring to the Blurred Lines verdict. On the other hand, artists have a strong incentive to record their songwriting and recording process, so that they can head off any potential disputes about writing credits from people actually in the studio (this situation is statistically much more likely than somebody not involved suing after the song's release).
The truth is that I've never had a problem sourcing candidates this way for the past decade+. There are tens of millions of developers on GitHub. You will find people who are very accomplished in the exact area you need, and it's easy to track them down by navigating through the projects.

Extra bonus points for hiring the maintainers of libraries/software you're actually using.
I have PhotoSync (https://www.photosync-app.com/home.html) set up to automatically send all my iCloud photos to my home NAS which automatically backs up to Backblaze. I can also specify other destinations for PhotoSync and the NAS backup.
>Also consider: what are laws for?

Whether laws are here to protect and/or ensure prosperity of society, or whether laws are there to maximize freedom seems to be a huge source of contention in our modern society. Ultimately I think the two ideals, while overlapping many places, are incompatible. Hopefully we can rewind the consolidation of federal powers to allow people with different ideals to move to different states to achieve something closest to their desired way of life. Federal drug laws controlled by unelected beuracrats are an example of making this selection impossible.
Just like gun calibers, many Americans, myself included, still have a bit of bias from the hot rod culture of the 50s. Most are used to go to work and the mall but they like to "what if". We like things that go boom
I am not referring to the case where the CEO used his work. That is fair game for naming and shaming.

The information reflects on what are normally considered private details that are not limited to business interactions.
Does Slovenia do “all-way” reds for a few seconds before anyone gets a green? That’s what USA/Canada does.
To expand - the way most relevant noise propagates on a board is often assumed to couple equally into both sides of the differential pair. It doesn't.
Being a former professor, to do good tests is really hard. The vast majority of take home tests are quite poor that I have seen (in data science at least).

I am skeptical most people even attempt to do their own tests they create, I commonly see people suggest things will be 2-4 hours when they will be a day or two of work, https://www.bryanshalloway.com/2020/10/27/should-you-use-an-....
In the end, everyone types and reads the minimum necessary.

Wonder how lossy this process would be, but given how non-AI-assisted conversations go this could probably be an improvement. Imagine the AI also has extra context from your work files so it can add relevant details.
Venus also rotates the wrong way, and is slowing down.
Well an anecdote by definition can't be wrong.

Teams is annoying to use at times, but I don't see any constant breaking changes
I enjoyed that. And I enjoy that there's a specific competitor (and an abstract "Dad" at that)
I would assume because Microsoft is such an enterprise company. By "Introducing" they just want their stock to jump. Can you touch it now? Probably not. This article is vague about how to use it or where to try it.
>I strongly believe that cannabis should be legal, but also find it quite >problematic that many users and advocates will quickly bristle the moment the >downsides that many experience are described.

>I think the horrific levels of injustice prior to legalization has had a >pendulum effect on conversations about safety and downsides.

I think you hit the heart of the issue. The negatives have been used as a cudgel and amplified beyond reason over the years to block progress on legalization. It's create a knee jerk reaction to anyone who talks about their negative outcomes. (This isn't exclusive to MJ legalization. Try talking about quitting alcohol in a group setting over drinks. Something I had to do because I had negative outcomes with alcohol.)

Very often these points are parroted by organizations that want to block legalization for reasons that have nothing to do with the issues of abuse or health, for example the Private Prison system which is one of the biggest lobbies against marijuana reform.

While at the same time, society happily brushes aside the same concerns about alcohol which proportionately has worse side effects and outcomes. We also still sell cigarettes with glee for the tax dollars while they essentially have nothing but negative outcomes. People pay 8-10 dollars a day to murder themselves and cause undo excess cost and burden on healthcare but no one give a shit anymore.

It's all so performative, inconsistent, and driven by capitalist motivations tangentially associated with the actual issue.
It's sad because it costs nothing to ask someone to do a take home and it costs a lot in aggregate for people to do them.
I can imagine various options but none of them would change the point I'm making.
If performance is too bad, you can only use the shell for toy examples, which means there's no reason to have a real shell at all and you might as well go back to COMMAND.COM or equivalent. It's taking the idea of Unix-style scriptable shells and Improving the implementation to the point of unusability.
Geoff Hinton Explains the Forward-Forward Algorithm [video]
Ever heard of Unity?
Yep! Except on earth we don't have any massive planet wide disruptions. Should we ever settle Venus there will be a day that countless billions die in a preventable tragedy that dwarfs all others.
>> There are a bunch with 4 digits, two thumbs, 6 fingers, fingers splayed in anatomically improbable directions.

Diversity and inclusion.
I agree that a more precise indicator (like ethnicity) is probably more useful. I think becoming even more precise than this likely is even more useful, however with precision comes added complexity/specificity as well.

That said, your example about Native American income groups isn't the argument you likely think it is. That has been investigated pretty thoroughly and found to be nearly entirely based on shared tribal ownership of businesses like casinos or oil fields, which pay out to the entire tribe. Overall Native Americans in the US are at a socioeconomic disadvantage compared to non-NA populations, primarily because they are in largely undeveloped (from a business/economic perspective) areas of the country, which are not considered targets of development. They suffer from both ethnic disparities as well as the same disparities that generally affect rural vs urban populations.
> Nobody bothers to even check if it shows what they're implying it shows

Or the vast majority of the hands are fine and everyone understands that it's a big upgrade except for some "well ackshully it's not perfect" HNers.

I had to zoom in and go hand to hand to find some outliers.
If the green squiggles in Word are any indication, not at all. Maybe Microsoft has improved it lately?
I've moved within a Canadian province (about 750km) and it was pretty disruptive.

Friends and family are far, kids are challenging without that village, nobody knows you from around, etc. Like you say, though, the new place looked much better than the old one.

Couldn't imagine doing it from half a planet away.
Democracy is when politicians respond to public opinion rather than experts. Great problem to have IMO.
You'd think so, but people fail to do so often.
What was the take home?
I don't think anybody ever asked that question. The answer was "yes" before the language became usable for a browser engine (it's first goal).
They were pretty rude when they declined.

I mean they made it through Phase 2 and sorta 2.5 where we confirm salary and they accepted. Everything seemed on track until the test was mentioned.

If they ghosted us after the round table interview then sure, but why come back and accept a salary just to bail at the last step?
One of my most enjoyable past interviewing experiences was doing a take-home for some game company (probably Accolade). They shipped it as a zip file (late 90s), and there was a clear "todo" function. The task was to navigate an airplane across the map from a starting square to a destination square while avoiding mountain squares. The airplane always moved ahead 1 square each move and you could tell it to turn left 45°, stay straight, or turn right 45°. If you compiled it without writing the function, the airplane just flew straight.

Perfectly reasonable task, IMO; it's even relevant to the gaming domain; you could do a simple version in an hour; I spent about 2 hours as I wrote a test harness and let it run overnight keeping score of how many maps it succeeded on and how many it failed on.

The interviewer used my submission in the on-site as well to ask a few questions about it.

Your numbers game comment is spot-on. From the employers' end, the hiring market problem looks like:

There's high pay for software engineering roles.
There's no effective credential mechanism. (I think this good, but it's not helping employers here.)
Because of the combination of the first two, lots of people are motivated to try to land a job.
Because of that, lots of people who aren't really qualified enter the pipeline.
Because they're not really qualified, they keep applying over and over, while the qualified eventually get hired.
Because of that, the applicant pool has a massive adverse selection problem (the average applicant is *much worse* than the median employee) and companies have to find a way to filter out the worst-of-the-worst before applying significant manual effort.
It's true that there are great devs that aren't doing OSS. There are so many devs doing OSS though that it's totally possible to hire exclusively this way. I know because I've done it for half a dozen teams, in all manner of different companies, to great success.
How anything I have said is WILD?

I have literally stated true facts. I was excited for the model Y based on the internet hype, just to be insanely disappointed.
Look. Maybe I'm crazy, but being unable to control one's emotions is a much less severe condition than not being able to know what is real and what is not for the individual in question.

As an aside, my father was an alcoholic and a pathetic loser indulging in as much alcohol as self-pity. I am not defending excessive alcohol consumption.

My point is: Even if you think weed is relatively better than alcohol from a big picture societal POV (we can agree to disagree here), don't underestimate the bad effects of weed. Don't be a weed-smoking loser just because it's legal.

You have one body. Take care of it.
A 500-year-old Indian temple became a shrine for H-1B visa hopefuls
VSCode extension for reordering code in any language, using treesitter
I'm working on an extension that will allow vscode users to change the order of their
code, much faster than they could using cut+paste. The extension uses tree-sitter
(https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/) to directly modify the syntax tree,
enabling smarter auto-selection of blocks (e.g. function documentation + function
code itself is a single block), and ensuring that moving a block doesn't cause a
syntax error.

For me, this extension is useful during refactoring, when I finished writing a few
long functions, and after a few 'extract method' code actions, the locations of functions
is almost random. Then I use the extension to reorder them in a more logical way.
Also, when developing UI code (e.g. Svelte/JSX), instead of manually selecting divs
and cutting and pasting them (or alt+up/down-ing them), moving them using the point
and click UI of the extension is faster.

If you're interested, please try it out! Any issues or feature requests are very welcome.
Exactly, ironically I was finally just starting to get comfortable enough with Stadia being around long enough to buy a few games on it, literally weeks before the shutdown was announced.

Specifically I re-bought the Jackbox games which were perfect for it since I could now simply cast them when visiting friends/family. I also recently purchased a budget Chromebook for travelling and probably would have bought more games for that.
Yes. Containers are also fine. Synology’s added value disappears if that’s your primary mode of usage.
The reason is simple - nobody there has done it or if they did lied about how much it took
> shit build quality

That's old news. If build quality is your only concern, I suggest you to check them again. They supposedly improved build quality significantly after initial rollout of M3. As a data point: my family owned and drove 6 different Teslas over last 3 years - we did not have build quality (or any other) issues with any of them. All recent horror stories you heard are because of current Tesla scale and media negative bias against the company - you don't hear similar stories from other manufacturers.
Spherical harmonics are a good model for any spherical density function. You could describe the electron probability densities of a particular energy level of any atom in terms of spherical harmonic coefficients.

I think it just happens that hydrogen atoms electron clouds have particularly simple sets of coefficients so their density functions look a lot like the raw harmonic bases.

That’s more because hydrogen atoms are simple than because of anything profound.

Like, when something vibrates in 1D, if it’s simple (like a mass on a spring) it will move in a simple sine wave - the Fourier coefficients describing its behavior will be simple, because it is simple.

But if it’s more complicated (like, a lump of jelly on a linked set of springs) it will move in a complex wave, with complex Fourier coefficients. Its behavior will be complex because it is complex.

That hydrogen electron clouds look like these lobed shapes then is as unsurprising - or possibly as surprising, depending how you feel about the unreasonable power of mathematics I guess - as the fact that a weight on a spring follows a sine wave.
+101.

My wife and I now have an annual tradition of making physical albums of memories from the past year.

Making the album in January is not just fun - it makes you mindful of fond memories at a time when you're likely to think "Geez, another year has passed so quickly".

My only regret is realising I should have started the habit much earlier.
That's just a straight shooter with upper management written all over him
Leave the whole part about readers out of it. "The Lancet failed to recognise..."
AI hires human to solve CAPTCHA