skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm genuinely surprised I had to scroll so far to see this answer, even more so by the downvotes. Especially for a junior candidate, I'd consider a pretty good sign if they were able to ask for help effectively and at the right time in their process.
I don’t believe it. It’s a line that is pushed by PR in the car industry but if anything, except for cops and car rental companies, American think buying a sedan is like putting their hand in a toilet.

Americans buy a lot of SUVs and they are all hatchbacks!
Why would this be? The goal of the test is to have a minimal baseline. Considering outside proof of this baseline is not unethical. If maybe it shouldn't be used to rank candidates, but you'd probably do this anyway for the final consideration.
I mean objectively he is not wrong
Which says the former are using it (and have no qualms about wasting your time) instead of actually winnowing by resume first. Smart to rule them out, they don't value your time whatsoever.
Seems like such a bizarre thing to be worried about. What privacy are you losing by showing your ID on a webcam to an interviewer who already has screened you?
False equivalence, but probably. You seem to be arguing that software is special and can (or should) never be banned like other products, but I'm not sure why you think so. You don't think there's any software that should be bannable? I don't see any argument against other products being bannable so what's the disconnect?
Cool, I'll be sure to check that out, thanks for sharing. Seems similar to Owl Bear Rodeo.

https://www.owlbear.rodeo/

Very simple, easy to use, and can play online.
Why would it be ethical that every candidate has to go through the entire evaluation process? It would be possible that a candidate can demonstrate mastery of skill enough that they don't need to go through the same evaluation as one unable to demonstrate the same mastery. A take home test for those who don't commit code to github doesn't seem unethical. Much like how most candidates likely don't even get the chance to take the take home test because they were already eliminated.
The integration mentions working with Microsoft Graph API, and it’s doing the generation on the client, so seems plausible this has no more access than any other OAuth app. The Graph API can be locked down with Access Policies. I’m sure there will be features to further cordon off data to the AI, similar to how OneDrive has an encrypted vault which is not accessible from the Graph API.
Drunk driving is a huge one.

Meanwhile CDC hasn’t been able to create actual evidence that driving while high causes more accidents. https://www.cdc.gov/marijuana/health-effects/driving.html

I’m not saying it doesn’t but alcohol causes so many unnecessary deaths in society due to drunk driving. Note: I’m not advocating for alcohol to be banned.
The idea behind dropping a Synology off would be that you could sync to it remotely, so you don’t have to be lazy about refreshing it.

Though online backups have their own risks (ransomware).
I also live in Chicago and use CityMapper almost exclusively now. It gives way more detailed estimates for multiple transfers between bus and train and generally comes up with more/better routes for weird destinations.
It's like that Silicon Valley episode where Richard explains middle-out on the whiteboard and they just steal his code.
I sorta got that vibe too but the repeated stating of his 'restricted growth' confused me. I only ever watched the show though, perhaps the books elaborate on this. Professor X would make a much clearer example.
I'm currently in a similar pickle with an icloud account. It's not lost, yet, but I can't pull the photos locally at all. The download links supplied on the icloud website time out a few hundred mb into the download. Third party command line tools also time out a few hundred mb in or so. This is a large library, so when I try and open up the Photos app on my mac and sync it there, the app quits immediately. I feel like its a ticking time bomb of a situation here with these data on this icloud account, and I also feel like I'm powerless and out of options to do anything about it, although I will stop using icloud and similar services as primary storage going forward.
I feel like you’re missing the larger picture here.

You’re focusing the discussion around art. Historically art has always been a difficult way to make money. Open source tools that make it trivial will just reduce the number of individuals able to make a living creating art. The same is true across all areas of knowledge work should this technology eventually reach the promised heights. Any work that requires specialised knowledge on a computer would become as simple as creating art, and thus can be paid less and performed by a wider range of people. It will save the capital class a substantial amount of money and ensure that those left employed have even less power.

“There isn't a lot of proof that ChatGPT will be in the hands of OpenAI alone forever, so likely everyone will have similarly capable machines in the near future.”

Microsoft didn’t invest 10
billion dollars in an eventual open source project. There’s no way these tools or their source will be available to all, you’d have to be rather naive and completely ignorant of the history of the people involved in funding OpenAI to believe that (and I don’t just mean Microsoft).

Hence my belief that these tools will eventually be used to further the already growing class divide. Those with capital will have full control of the means of production, employees won’t need specialised knowledge (and thus have no bargaining power to extract decent salary and working conditions). Knowledge work has led to the best conditions for the working class in history. Its destruction is not a good thing unless you’re a member of the “elite”, which, as you’re posting on HN, you’re probably not.

I have no idea what you’re talking about in the final two paragraphs, this isn’t a science fiction film, nobody is talking about a Terminator scenario. This is a capitalism problem that tools like this will only intensify. There is little evidence to suggest a utopian vision, but plenty to suggest the opposite.
Not that easy. My experience, I was a client for a long time (>10 years).

One day I was unable to log in. After logging successfully a message popped up demanding debit card activation. Every time I pressed 'cancel' I was logged out. That lasted for months. Effectively they locked me out of online access. By then I moved everything to another bank, so it wasn't a big problem. Then I visited their branch in person and requested all my accounts to be closed. I repeated 'All of them'. They did it, or pretended. I left being sure I'm done with Citi forever. But no, they kept debit card account open, without telling me. For charging purposes, as they don't provide any services, and they know it.

If locking out (they did build and activate this functionality in their system) was the bottom of banking. Silent not closing on request and demanding money for 'service' is a scum. My recommendation: Stay away from Citi.
The owner of ScrapingBee tweeted about a company who forgot to cancel their subscription, they agreed to a partial refund, but then they went silent, and launched a chargeback for $3250.
A 95% shot will never miss in Xcom 2 unless you play on harder difficulties. It multiplies hit chance by 1.1 so 91% is 100%.
I don't like a lot of things about the direction that Microsoft has taken Windows's UX, but this is absolutely an edge case that only a tiny % of users care about, and certainly not "masses" of anyone.
If enough people refuse to jump thought the hoops, you will hire someone without them doing the task.
> If it works as advertised.

Dit it ever happened that advertisements of hyped things did not work out as advertised? Wink, wink.
I use Citymapper all the time for the NYC subway, and I recommend it to everyone I meet.

1. Most accurate arrival times (this matters _a lot_ for transfers)

2. If your trip has transfers, it takes into account how long it takes to walk between platforms (some apps assume its instant, but if it's a large station it can take the better part of 10 minutes to get to another train)

3. Tells you which part of the train (forward, middle, back) to sit in so you're closest to the exit when you get off

4. Service changes are accurate and automatically included in the routing

5. Powerful routing options -- if it's raining, you can prioritize routes with less walking, or if you have a Citibike membership you can create routes that combine biking + transit, etc.

It's honestly good enough that I pay $20/year for it. Every once in a while I give Apple Maps or Transit a shot, but they're just not on the same level.
I'd like to see these alternate algorithms implemented. The API exists - and isn't that really the only way to ultimately judge if it's better or worse?

Another random idea: have the parameters affecting rankings be visible and adjustable with interactive sliders- so you could customize the various weights to try to attain the ideal mix of stories for you.

Or does that defeat the purpose. Is the joy of HN in knowing that when a story reaches the front page, you know it's on everyone's front page...
I like the way a small car handles. Even a Toyota Camry feels like it is carrying around a lot of excess weight.
> Where are you driving where you need an AWD vehicle?

I live in the mountain suburbs West of Denver, Colorado, currently. AWD is not strictly required (I only have FWD and RWD vehicles today), however if I am buying a new car, it /will/ be AWD, I have no motivation other than getting AWD and EV to buy a new car vs maintaining and driving my existing vehicles. All my vehicles are >10 years old except my race car, and I want a new car to replace the oldest vehicle, hence my desire for AWD EVs.
Respectfully, I disagree on the "woke" solution. This is my opinion.

It makes sense that a bond villain became a villain because, well he was excluded his whole life, likely due social exclusion.

How like life, no? In real life, there are teenagers that are socially ostracized due to looks, family background, race, hell even made of fun of because they have an Android phone (And bullying is actively encouraged by Apple's technology), and this mounts to them villians, with some buckling under the pressure to the point of committing heinous crimes or becoming the instigators of great tragedies like mass murders.

The conclusion you are _supposed_ to come to is: "Stop being a dick to people, especially those that are physically different, those that disagree with you (politically, religiously, etc), those that are 'weird' or share different social customs. This prevents people from going down a path of darkness. This entire storyline was preventable." I literally was thinking that as I exited the theater from the latest Daniel Craig movie.

Instead we've arrived at: "Don't portray anyone as bad" and then people move the 'being a dick' to behind closed doors amongst their peers, usually in their closed off echo chambers, villainizing anyone that dares to disagree with them in public. Hypocrites.

And I do understand the other side of this. Repeatedly and conssitently villianizing a single identity (wheelchair user, black person, disfigured person, etc) is a weak form of writing. But come on.
There already is DR and business continuity insurance so non-financial assets have an entire industry around insuring against events there.

Cash sweep is insured but only to a limit, there's nothing magical there and the underlying securities have default risk (or breaking the buck).
i wish you were hiring a product manager, as i'd love to help you fix the horrid UX on the departure details screen i just posted about. it's been there for years, and i can't imagine that anyone who actually uses the app would have let it go that long without fixing it.
Don't any of the major US companies involved with Linux have huge contracts with the DoD?

Didn't IBM the current owner of Redhat supply equipment to the Nazis which was used to document and track Jews?

By the way who are the "We" in "We don't feel comfortable accepting patches from or relating to hardware produced by your organization."?
GNU generally requires that contributors assign their copyright to the FSF, which is what allows the FSF to litigate; they can't do this for software that they don't hold copyright to. The Software Freedom Conservancy, on the other hand, holds partial copyright to each of their many member projects' software and chooses to actively enforce the GNU GPL on that code quite frequently.

The SFC's ongoing case against Vizio in California[1] appears to show that violators of the GNU GPL can be sued by users, not just copyright holders. If this case sets precedent elsewhere in the USA and even in other countries, then organisations like the FSF and SFC will have far more options in what violations they choose to litigate. However, this also opens up the risk of 'GPL trolls' who might not be motivated by the same principles[2].

[1]: https://sfconservancy.org/press/vizio-coverage.html

[2]: https://www.fsf.org/licensing/enforcement-principles
London is a really unattractive place when you consider salary vs housing affordability. Most of the high tech salary goes straight into the pocket of landlords. And you can forget buying.

But London is where most of the innovative high-paying firms are. So tech workers are in a bind: move to London for a nominally high-paying tech job but get fucking hosed on rent and travel costs, or stay in the regions and work in a lower paid, less interesting firm. There isn't much real difference to your standard of living.

It's not just the absolute level of rent either; it also goes up faster. People don't want that kind of liability, you need a raise just to stay in place, and raises aren't forthcoming lately.

And it's not easy to get a London-tier salary while working remotely from rural Yorkshire or something. They've been tamping down hard on that kind of thing.

The housing market is rigged for boomers and it's strangling Britain's growth. Forget freedom of movement with Europe; I'd like freedom of movement inside my own fucking country first.

(And all of the above sounds similar to NYC and SF -- it is, but London's salary upside is nowhere near as high as those places. And Americans have several big metropoles to choose from, we only have the one.)
Yes, that's correct. But the comment I replied to specifically mentioned food. The nitrogen emissions policy at issue here primarily impacts livestock and not flowers.
The ceiling refers to what you can produce at the top end, not the specific skill used to achieve it.
> The US would have never been so patient in a similar situation.

Why do you think so?
it is well calibrated and just today my RSS reader told me a story I thought was a nothingburger would succeed on both metrics and… It did!

I was originally going to joke that maybe you should turn your script on to the stock market, but I'm guessing with your background you may have some experience in that regard!
Just to play devil's advocate. The video does not show an actual collision. Also, how do we know the video of the bent propeller was from the same drone soon after the Russian jet got close and dumped the fuel? I can't tell whether the background of the clouds and so forth is identical or close enough to the same background to know whether it is old stock video or not. How can one tell? The drone needs to be enhanced to show the actual collision; a camera from underneath probably is not going to show the collision.

Unless I am missing something, these drones seem very weak in regards to combat with a typical jet fighter. I assume that the drone is slow , so pretty much any jet fighter can catch up to it. I assume that it can't go to such a high elevation that a typical fighter can go to the same elevation. So, seems like pretty much any fighter jet could take it out; whether that be with ordinanace, dumping of fuel or an "accidental" collision. Perhaps the US needs to escort the drone with a fighter jet or 2 to protect it or at least modify the drone to show an actual collision. (Not sure whether Russia would care whether the actual collision could be captured. I suspect that they will keep doing this to drones in the area. Curious what is capture by the drone that can't be captured from satellite. Perhaps radio waves.

I am curious whether even with a bent propellor the drone could have gotten farther away from the conflict zone to be easier to recover by the US. Perhaps, they felt it was risky because it would have to go over or near populated areas. I would think Russia is likely to recover the drone, which seems like a loss.
Running has a significant negative impact on your joint health since most people run with the wrong techniques.
The 'small guy' are a couple of extremely rich cattle feed producers (in fact in the top 10 richest families in the country) which financed a succesfull propaganda campaign to derail this extremely necessarry piece of legislation. It is a damn shame that american type populist and big money financed misinformation campaigns are coming to the Netherlands as well...
This response in the comments:

> "The test was as much about seeing if the if the candidate could deal with manually setting up the build environment without assistance as much as it was about the coding problem itself. If the candidate couldn't get the tools installed on his own or felt insulted it wasn't his ideal IDE, then they figured the candidate would not do well as an embedded engineer on more complicated boards with even worse tool chains."

In general however a take-home test voids the primary rationale for the real-time on-site coding interview, which is that it's very easy these days to complete such tests without knowing much about the material via various routes, as academic CS programs continue to demonstrate. It's also true that academic CS programs tend to be terrible when it comes to learning about tools, toolchains, build systems, virtual environments, etc. There are some efforts to change this at least:

https://missing.csail.mit.edu/

Even that's not that comprehensive. Searching "introduction to toolchains and complex build systems" reveals how difficult the issue is. It's the kind of thing that should probably be included in the job description.
> But I could just as easily say that a rise in unfettered capitalism led to a loss of public good research combined with regulatory captur

These are the very lot who pushed all the deregulations and created the movement to go back to 19th century capitalism by dismantling what little social democracy the US had. So if you approach it from that angle, they again come up as the source of the problem. Of course, the mechanics of the phenomenon are self-reinforcing: This religious lot deregulating capitalism causes more poverty, and poverty pushes more people to the arms of religious sects like them for support and aid.
It's generally desired to put up as few artificial features as possible to maintain the natural look of the park. Sometimes it is necessary, of course.

The other problem is that many trails are just maintained by a couple of volunteers. Many in the US are done by local mountain biking clubs, for example. It can be hard enough to maintain what is already there when you're relying on the goodwill of a couple volunteers to do heavy labor at 6am on a Sunday.
I am asking genuinely, without implying anything and/or being sarcastic: why is the HN community so obsessed with Rust? It seems to show up on every programming-related thread and most times mentioned as a Swiss knife of a language, suitable for every task, from UI to firmware development - a departure from the more traditional view of certain languages being best for certain tasks.

I get the benefits of the language and would like to see it succeed, but real-world adoption seems to be way below what's imagined here, and the "good for every task" posts give it kind of a cultish vibe that makes me look away.
Miðeind Ehf – AI and NLP for Icelandic
Depends on the country, it is totally ok for some british detective/crime series to have 6 episode seasons, because each episode is an hour or 1,5 long, they are not filled with pointless stuff to make them longer, etc.

I recommend Line of duty.
A re-insurance company probably, or the FDIC which would charge a premium for the excess insurance.
Tell HN: Someone on HN downvotes my last 3 comments every week
Not sure if I should call them any names, but it’s been going on for a while now. Do people really have time to consistently check other profile and downvote their comments? It’s always 3 comments, not 4, not 2, just 3.
You think this is the case, but with specific implementations, new libraries aren't coming out every month or even every year.

As an example, for nearly 20 years, the physics library choices game developers have had has been a small handful, and of those solutions, most use one of two major codebases.

No one is displacing that tomorrow, or next month, or even, I don't know, I'll be bold and guess 5 years from now. If anything, in 5 years, you might have one new entrant that might develop a solution worth considering.

You can absolutely have exponential growth and in major categories make zero impact to the industry.
India pilots grounded for coffee cup in cockpit
Where I live they just test your urine for metabolites. If you pop hot and have smoked anytime in the last month, DUI. No fucks are given whether you are currently intoxicated, as that's too hard to figure out. In theory this yields a result of higher DUIs than actually intoxicated drivers.
Just remember to follow their guidelines for proper badge formatting.
> ...print Fibonacci numbers, take a string of brackets and print if they were properly nested...

I'm nowhere near elite...but hopefully none of your candidates need anywhere near 1/2 hour to code stuff that simple.
> Such an overwhelming amount of perfectly good solutions are created with Python

Name one. I'll tell you why it's trash.

> Clearly it's at least good enough

Trash (literal, from the dumpster) is often good enough to eat. What's your point exactly?

> I find it much more pleasant to use

It's a skill issue.

> it's easy to find libraries and examples,

This has nothing to do with the language. Give Julia 20 years of popularity, and it will have just as many useful libraries and examples.
Same reason why there are so few mid-budget movies in Hollywood, and why medium size business either become giants or die.

Cheap stuff is easy to churn out -> low chance of success, x many shots

Expensive stuff costs a lot to be the best, and gets big payoff.

Middle-tier stuff costs too much for its benefits.
For some reason I keep coming across some Brazilian websites with .rs as well, but not sure why.
Now apply to 10+ jobs when you're unemployed, and burdened by at least 2-3 take home assignments. Sure if you're in a role and prospecting for other jobs, 1 assignment every couple of weeks/months isn't much, but if you're applying in bulk, say goodbye to your days.
Vultr introduces new free tier
Interesting question!

There is a faction that I wish existed: a public domain faction. A group of software devs that are explicitly dedicated to writing code for the public domain and perform grassroots work to abolish (c)opywrong law via a "Freedom to Publish" Amendment:

Section 1. Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of this Constitution is hereby repealed.
Section 2. Congress shall make no law abridging the right of the people to publish or implement ideas.

Does anyone know of any?