skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest misunderstanding is that AI content ends up being limited in scope and creativity, and endlessly recycling AI content and feeding it back into more AI will somehow create a world where all content feels cookie-cutter. This is far from the truth.
I wonder if a country without an orbital rocket program would consider buying them out.
I don't get this. Karat provides their customers with full, detailed text writeups of every single interview, as well as full recordings both of the interview video call and the code timeline. Why didn't you just review that material?
My point is, Google Glass has been replaced by North's AR glasses technology. Whatever happened to North when it was an independent business is not Google's problem.

It would be a total failure for Google if they discontinued all their AR glasses products; signalling their exit from the AR glasses race in general. Thanks to that acquisition, that is not the case.
Three Logicians Walk into a Bar
>Every pothead I get stuck behind here in Colorado is going 15 under the speed limit. Hard to get in a fatal accident going 20.

More overtaking -> more crashes.

Homogeneous traffic is safe traffic.
Swiss confederacy kicked the ass of the Burgundy juggernaut[0] and was feared by all its more powerful neighbours which would have dreamed of controlling the natural fortress that is switzerland against their own rivals

[0]https://medium.com/@weeklydoseofhistory/the-burgundian-wars-...
Elizabeth Spiers is great on the Slate money podcast. Good insight.
In case you didn't know that, Baikal processors are made specifically for russian military and have no civilian use.
Yea. The important things physical:

- turn signals

- high/low beam (tho automation has gotten quite good)

- wipers (automation still not as good as the 2003 Saab I had)

- cruise control speed and distance

- PDR

- media volume, play/pause, previous/next

- voice control activation (voice control is pretty bad tho, even worse than siri I guess)

- window control for all windows

- hazards

- honk

Climate control is fine via screen, tho activating windshield max-defog could be valuable as a separate button (can be programmed as an always on shortcut tho).
In Matt Levine’s words: they were reckless
8 ways I used ChatGPT to help me build my first SwiftUI app
When he see's Throw Momma From the Train it's really going to bake his noodle.

> "A writer writes, always." -- Larry Donner (Billy Crystal)
They are all compatible, so of course it's great as well.
Ask HN: The go-to resource for learning programming in 2023?
Few years ago everyone suggested either CS50 (Harvard) or Freecodecamp to beginners for learning how to program.

Is that still the case or are there even better resources out there now?
Guiding collaborative conversations and connections with probing questions
Plug me in scotty!
Yep, but its cheaper and easier to use AI. Its just a tool; just like spellcheck is a tool.
I'm aware of how Nixpkgs currently works. :)

It's a huge limitation for many reasonable ways that people want to use Nix. It's a shortcut that Nix has gotten away with, not a superior approach. Look at the machinery mach-nix implements with a cached database of PyPi and how it has to scan across different Nixpkgs revisions just to automatically choose compatible versions of deps when it does its code generation for a clear illustration.

There are lots of source-based package management systems which rely on a mix of implicit versioning based on what happens to be exist under an unversioned name in the monorepo and explicit versioning, Gentoo Portage for example.

There's no reason that we couldn't have either

a. a complement to Nixpkgs which serves as a record of which build recipes have successfully built what versions, and what versions their deps were at

b. richer metadata in Nixpkgs about versions that can be used to support multiple versions of same-named packages in the repository, and a smarter callPackage that uses those version constraints to choose, when necessary, which versions of dependencies to put into scope when calling a package (yes, I know there is ongoing work to remove callPackage, or at least explicit invocations of it)

and both would be really useful for tools that autogenerate Nix code for packaging purposes.

Hacking things together with nix-index just to get a little automagical code generation where users can specify package versions rather than Nixpkgs commits is a kludge. It's cumbersome and rightly turns some developers off from using Nix. Nixpkgs should be enriched or complemented in order to obviate that approach, and the Nix ecosystem will need tooling that has an actual dependency resolver to work with it— even if the only maintained combination of versions for distribution is pretty much singular, and implicitly encoded in Nixpkgs just as it is today.
I had the same experience. In 2017 it was amazing and I felt like I'd discovered an incredible career-boosting hack. I told all my friends about it. By 2020 it felt exactly the same as every other low-grade career mill.

To be fair, none of my friends that I referred to TripleByte actually passed their (2017) screening process. So it was a site that was very useful to a very small subset of engineers. I'm sure there's a viable business in that premium market, but probably not a unicorn scalable tech company.
> But if you’re already familiar with TypeScript, have no fear! 5.0 is not a disruptive release, and everything you know is still applicable.

Do you know what caused the typescript team to make it a major release? Has the decorator api changed sufficiently to become a breaking change?
Untill the changed gravity pulls the earth more close or further away from the sun, than we will like. Seriously, the circeling of the planets are interconnected and any big change to that, will have effects on earths year length and distance to the sun. But on the other hand, if we would have the tech to "move" mercury around, we probably could also adjust earths rotation. In either way, this is nothing remotely realistically with current state of the art.
My hot take is that demand deposits should be only invested in (EDIT: short dated, thx codexb) US treasuries (a la Narrow Bank), backed by the Federal Reserve and if a bank (or anyone) wants to lend, they can issue bonds to borrow versus the Rube Goldberg mechanism we currently have of deposits, FDIC, and then the Fed still providing an unlimited guarantee anyway.

The bond market already is built to handle this, and we should stop treating demand deposits as this Schrödinger collateral. If you want to insure lending, insure the lending directly, not with consumer and business cash. I know there are no simple solutions to complex problems, but this all seems very unnecessary when you pull the system apart conceptually.

> codexb
Lego doesn't operate BrickLink Studio, it's third party
Not knowing, understanding or having any experience of the "streaming" community of the internet. What is the purpose/fun with watching someone not just gamble as in playing poker or whatever for money, but slots specifically? Feels like watching someone rolling a dice by themselves, but with fancier graphics.
I’ve only been interviewed through Karat once, but it was a positive experience. It was a coding screen round. The interviewer was personable and fun to talk to, which made the whole process more pleasant. He was skilled at listening and asking the right questions to gauge where I was at throughout the conversation. He also transitioned smoothly into follow-up questions, and I got the impression overall that there was a wide range of skill levels he could evaluate (ie. the result was not just pass/fail, there was a high ceiling).

Given the usual nature of coding screens - intentionally generic and standardized, so a company can use the same screening process for different teams - it made a lot of sense to me that a task like that could be outsourced. Since you are usually not developing a relationship with the interviewer at that point, there’s no real reason they need to be and employee of the company you are interviewing for. A couple of times I’ve had coding screens where the interviewer didn’t seem to be paying attention. Since some engineers get forced to do these screens, they might not be focused on giving a good candidate experience.
Rust-maven-plugin: Compile and bundle Rust JNI libraries in Java Maven projects
I was tempted to do something similar.
But then I changed my mind for a simple reason.
Because nowadays all kinds of content and technology is labelled as AI.
Sometimes even if it hasn't been touched by AI at all.
So I decided not to label anything I do because it is done by humans.

Anyway, nice idea.
I like it.
Kudos to you.

Yours,
KodingKitty
What is your point out of interest?
Congrats to the Typescript team.

The rate of innovation from them is really impressive.

Fantastic to finally see Decorators shed their "experimental" label (they've been the stable backbone of Angular for years).
You are confusing the "copying" analysis element of infringement, with the affirmative defense of fair use. They are not related. A necessary element of proving infringement is showing what was copied, which most likely requires the court to construe exactly what is covered under a given copyright.
Open Letter to the Rails Foundation – 9 Mar 2023
> How? There are a few notable improvements we’d like to give more details on in the future. But we won’t make you wait for that blog post.

the typescript project continues to set the bar extremely high in terms of changelog and clear communication. love you so much, drosenwasser and co!!

> Decorators are an upcoming ECMAScript feature that allow us to customize classes and their members in a reusable way.

huh. i thought this was a bit early to do this but i checked (https://github.com/tc39/proposal-decorators) and looks like they've moved to stage 3. curious how this is going to change library/api design in the long term.
> I wish we had a system of simulators people could be put into to assess their driving ability before criminally charging them.

That it would cause an uproar when "safe drivers" who are really just "safe to insure" because they follow the letter of the law fail miserably in droves because they have the context processing ability of a 2017 "driverless" car.
Countries often want independent capabilities even if it costs more.

And plenty of of launch types don't care about distance to the equator, for example polar orbits.

Lots of launch sites are very north, for example Baikonur, Plesetsk, and Vostochny.
That comes later.

First you want to get your self-replicating probes occupying the Oort cloud, whatever. Get ready to sort and aim. You start with your "rocky" bodies, skipping them off of Venus' atmosphere, just ripping it off in big hunks, until you're down to about one Earth atmosphere.

Next, you flat up drop your icy bodies into Venus, because it really needs water.

During that time you'll want to start constructing your insolation shield, to help cool things down.

Only after that can you move Mercury into place.
Great launch guys!

What is the difference between Retool, Basedash and Outerbase other than they are all funded by YC?
The British figured out long ago how to insult someone with praise. This is why British comedy is so good. They use such creative discourse to call out their politicians without libeling them as the liars they are.
I think this is great advice in the short term. In the longer term it’s worth evaluating whether a commitment you made only/mostly to yourself is still serving you, or whether the “you” that came up with the commitment was missing some bit of information that you have now.

Like, if the commitment is serving your past self rather than your future self, give it up. You don’t owe your past self anything.

Hank Green did a really good talk on this a few years ago: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lPtopvsxmZY
> I was actually referring to trains being re-routed by the MTA -- like when the F was running on the E line in Manhattan a few weekends ago.

Ah. To be fair, I think all the apps do this now, including Google and Apple Maps.

Regarding alternate routes with Citymapper, I kind of wish it offered me alternates that don't necessarily include the original end station. I find I often end trips at stations I'm supposed to switch trains at and find routes to different stations than my initial route that still save time.
and those who do like the bullshit can have the AI generate it, and in the exact style that they like.
Where did FTX customer money go? Firm says Bankman-Fried took $2.2B
In Chicago google maps will show live bus info with the busses location on the map. However some of these are “ghost” busses and they don’t really exist.

I think it’s a uniquely Chicago problem.

Here is an article on it:
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/cta-makes-more-changes...
https://archive.is/6DUkp
Are there other examples of sum types besides enums, in Rust? Are the two terms synonymous?
all the incentives for promotion or getting a high rating is on creating a new product that has cross team impact. Even if your new product improves your team / current product, No - that doesnt have cross team impact, no promotion / high rating for you.

There are exceptions, but those are outliers, not the norm. so as an individual, you have to do what's best for you - that means don't take your chances at improving an existing product, make something new and force other teams to use it.
I knew that conda's connection to Python was mostly historical rather than technological, since it handled native deps and so it had to be able to work with C as well. I didn't realize so much work had been done packaging all of those other language ecosystems, though!
There isn't enough information to conclude much but if you're failing with a take-home assignment setup, there's a chance that you don't have enough experience to find your way through such problems (assuming a mid-career position). So either you can make that up by learning more about that stack and investing more time or just being honest and losing the interview process.
The worst part is they put more effort into stopping adblockers than they do into actually selling ads, so the ads they force you to watch are endlessly repeated from a tiny pool. It's just Squarespace ad after Squarespace ad after Squarespace ad, punctuated by filler ads for other Amazon properties like Audible because they haven't sold enough real ads to fill the space.
All references to it are redirects now, but here's a HN discussion on the topic[1]. Here's the content on the wayback machine[2]

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16665130
2: https://web.archive.org/web/20180328234733/https://docs.dock...
I'm not talking about doctor's here there scheduling is basically hazing, I was talking about nurses where they have to do a complicated patient hand off every time the shift changes and each time they do it there is a chance some ball can drop. My kid has had some extended stays in the hospital, so I can say as somebody with skin in the game that 12 hour shifts for nurses have at least a plausible benefit.
A tangent but to anyone reading who isn't familiar, that would be a type of what's known as a Euclidean sequencer (after [0]), and a mechanical one would be awesome but there are some great electronic and software options. Lately I've been messing around with HY-RPE2[1] which I like for the most part; although I would like a bit more flexibility it's still powerful (and limitations breed creativity, as they say).

[0] http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~godfried/publications/banff.pdf

[1] https://hy-plugins.com/product/hy-rpewin-mac/
Looks promising, and approaching the quality of Panic's Mac products.

But then I saw it's subscriptionware. Nope. I don't use subscriptionware for my personal computing. And the billion-dollar healthcare company I work for doesn't do software subscription unless you're Microsoft, or similarly indispensable. Startups need not apply.

At least the pricing is clear and mostly visible, except for the enterprise tier. Much better than most subscription offerings these days that have even the lowest tiers locked behind a phone call.
Your comment immediately made me think of The Beatles. They are responsible for so many original things. They launched the album era and invented the concept album. They brought in entirely new instruments into rock music. They changed the culture around sexual expressiveness, and they introduced the western world to eastern philosophies.

But when you start to scrutinize everything they did, there are many clear examples of things and people that did those things first and directly influenced them. However, they may have been the first to do it in their specific flavor, which is undoubtedly original.

The most original thing I can think of that The Beatles did was add sound to the runoff track at the end of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, so that it keeps playing the sound infinitely until the needle is removed on the turntable. I’m sure someone with more insight can point to another musician doing that first, but at The Beatles’ scale, we collectively come to believe they were the first to do it.
Current global dollar-based financial system can only be sustained by an ever-increasing leverage, that allows rolling over the ever-increasing pile of dollar-denominated debt.

Since 1971 everything (all relevant policies) were geared towards increasing the amount of debt in the system. It's no surprise that student debt, mortgage debt, credit card, auto loans and whatever else were ballooning.

Regular banks not making risky bets would go against it, so it will not be done.
I absolutely did review the interview, that was the whole point. I just wasn't willing to risk sending a potential candidate through a pipeline I myself hadn't gone through. I'm happy I caught the problems in advance myself, rather than subjecting someone I potentially wanted to hire to a useless interview.

I do want to stress the useless part here too- even with the notes of how the interview went I wouldn't be able to make a decision on things, since they didn't hit the points that were actually relevant to the role.
Some satellites have polar or higher inclination orbits.
Julia is not a proper general purpose programming language, because it has one-based array indexing?
It's sad that Virgin Orbit isn't able to survive it was a really novel idea
Yes, having a black box AI reach into my client/employer’s confidential documents to better incorporate their contents in my emails sounds great.

(And I know you’re imagining some adequate and reliable security practice, but those practices are harder to apply to generative AI than to people, where they’re already a clusterf—k. What you’re suggesting is a security specialist’s nightmare)
> Bricklink was purchased by LEGO relatively recently and had no say in its development. It is very likely a small team built it not even thinking about legalities.

1. being small doesn't exempt one from following the law.

2. if that is the case, someone at Lego didn't do their homework during the acquisition.
Even better is if you use their apps you don't have to even make notes. It could just figure it out.
The fact that people are able to remediate disputes without resorting to escalation indicates a high level of maturity of the legal system and legal profession. Third party remediation is a result of a failure of both parties to work out a solution amongst themselves. A legal system where both parties know and agree on the law is a success, not a failure.
Would Glass-Steagall have prevented the SVB failure?
Question, is there anything decorators can do that higher order functions and higher order classes cannot already accomplish?

I typically dislike decorators because they are spooky action at a distance, and whenever I look at code in a language that has decorators, the code almost becomes a DSL of sorts.

Not that HoF and HoC don't tend towards the same problems, React used to be famous for how often HoC got used in the ecosystem and the confusion that caused!
This is beautiful machine translation! Through an intermediate language of fluffed-up corporate bullshit.

That's been the core of business work for decades. Now finally automated.
Would that have made the difference? I thought that restricted banks to "safe" investments, which SVB's likely were. It's simply that they couldn't extract enough liquidity from that position to cover the run. Or were there other restrictions?
Onyx is a Chinese company.

Naturally, they don't recognize FLOSS or commercial licenses originating from European Union or USA.

The catch here would be is to file grievances against major distributors (Amazon, Ebay) and to prevent shipment here until they comply and pay up.
After typing that comment I googled it, and the source I read said that it must start with 0, 1, 1, 2
Yep. That's why the reputational damage here isn't likely to be pretty minimal.
One of my most regretted decisions was evaluating Flow vs Typescript and going with Flow. Years later I had the opportunity to use Typescript and it was so nice comparatively. I've enjoyed it ever since. Of course, that was with years of development in its belt so maybe the experience wouldn't have been as nice if I went with it originally.
Typescript always goes from version x.9 to (x+1).0.
Please also note that TypeScript does not claim to strictly follow semver.
I remember this well.

From the outside, it seemed a fantastic example of collaboration between two separate (competing?) teams. It took humility and pragmatism for the Angular team to abandon AtScript and recognise TS as the better long-term bet.
Exactly. I didn't mention it in the post but the master plan is to give companies analytics over their customer conversations and documentation. This was technically possibly years ago but no one did it because customer support was seen as a cost center and the goal was to minimize spend. Companies rarely invested in CS instrumentation, or even outsourced the function entirely, which I find super odd because no one talks to customers more than the CS team.

With language models being where they are today, companies can get some really valuable insights out of these conversations, but like you said they do need to measure and store the right things.
I believe this is only true for the "Bedrock" version of the game, the "Java" edition is still written in Java.
6 years ago, I did Triplebyte as a candidate, got 6 interviews at good companies and 4 fantastic offers (including one from them, directly!). I ended up accepting an offer for a company that had a life-changing exit for me, and it wouldn't have happened without Triplebyte. So I have a lot of love for them. It was sad to see them stumble with the weird public profile stuff, but I wish only the best for them. I hope this was a good outcome for the folks that I talked to all those years ago.
I've used Triplebyte the past few months. It hasn't been a good experience to put it lightly. The idea for it sounded nice 4 or 5 years ago, but they've just pivoted in a poor direction.
Did anyone check if the terms and conditions of 365 would allow Microsoft to use content processed by AI for AI training? I mean we trust Microsoft with our data already, but what if it regurgitates our internal company data to other users?
> Ignoring trust issues (NK inserting a backdoor)

For another option, is it possible that patching a legitimate bug could open up a line of attack in an otherwise unrelated piece of code that the bug was somehow blocking? If it is, even legitimate, verified bug fixes, or even bug reports, from non-trusted sources, should be carefully vetted.
By all accounts, SVB's banking was boring. They borrowed short and lent long, and their long bets were very safe. The problem wasn't that they too exciting bets; its that they played the standard playbook incompetently.
Sure whatever your initial conditions are. If you start with [ 0 1 ] then it works too.
If that happens start preparing to pay money(instead of receiving interest) for your demand deposits.