skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait what? You’re saying for people who already went through the leetcode hazing to join the company, they have to do it all over again for internal promotions? That’s absurd, I had no idea.

Isn’t the “rationale” for leetcode that they dont know you and as far as they can tell, you copy pasted all your open source code from SO, so there is no other way to prove that you can actually write code than to take a leetcode? But if you’re already working there, couldn’t you (bear with me because this is a little crazy) just point in the general direction of the code you’ve worked on at said org and ask your colleagues or manager for their opinion on how much of that was copy pasted from the internet?
> The danger is, when you have less energy, your industries move to countries where they can consume/emit, and you become a vassal state of those countries.

"Just" add carbon tariffs, which is what the eu was planning to do on steel, for example.
From the original article all these things were meant to give you a faster booting alternative to Windows but then it didn't actually boot significantly faster!
This was much better than I expected. This commenter sums it up well:

"seeing you lay bare this altar to absurdity that HP has laid helps. perhaps what I have built is a little Extra, but I’ll never hijack the windows boot process in ring -1 to show my outlook calendar"
I really like this idea "Optimism in the face of uncertainty". I love that the idea arises from real mathematical theorems.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03032...

See also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit
Changing one’s life is hyperbole, sure, but I really like lists of ideas like this. I’ve been compiling a list of my own, and there’s some overlap.
Anecdotally a similar effect happened with a friend’s childcare center.

They were sick of parents showing up late to pick their kids up so they instituted a penalty of $x for every minute a parent was late. More parents ended up being late because they felt less guilty knowing they could just pay the penalty. The social pressure to be on time was replaced by a financial one.
I think you are most likely correct. However, I’m still very curious about this event. Those kinds of diseases are typically neural degenerate, and not often readily transmissible. What could cause an entire town to catch it simultaneously? Something in the water or food supply?
Stored procedures are compiled to native code in any respectfull RDMS (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2,...), and I assume same applies to PostgreSQL.
Australia is also shipping all its coal to China
Looking at this example of Sydenham chorea (which seems to be the underlying condition behind the symptom named St Vitus' dance?), I could see it being described as a dance:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vWWnQErrmpg
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Germany Threatens Twitter with €50M Fine for Failing to Tackle Illegal Content
This chunk will probably grow if everyone starts using ChatGPT for everything…
I like that Grounding looks like a first class passenger in there but definitely it's one big electric code violation in a box.

Interesting to compare with the Nvidia latest keynote [1] where they opened up a 3D rendering of some ASML internals and how slick those systems are put together given the fantastic level of complexity involved also.

[1] https://youtu.be/DiGB5uAYKAg
[22:40 ish]
Some still manage to accumulate bloat… https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/1098/solaris-bin-true/
I assume PL/pg is not behind the curve in relation to PL/SQL and T-SQL for UDTs.
Are any HNers members of any co-ops? What have your experiences been like?
I initially didn't get either of you, all I can think of was a half-face emoticon. It turns out that "getting the D" means something (I'll refrain from explaining this), and with this context "take a joke" is really unacceptable---it means you know the joke and you think it's fine, which isn't.
Nah, it does the job.
Actually I disagree strongly. It's primary because blame shifting. You know, "no on got fired for buying IBM". Also, to confirm a C-execs "vision". He can always say "<big firm> agrees with this too".
Well page protection is expensive which is why the predominant way to implement concurrent copying/compaction until recently was using read barriers (and still is -- ART seems to be an exception). I will mention that concurrent compacting GCs wouldn't use userfaultfd for write protection, but for read protection (it effectively takes over the job of a read barrier).

I personally don't know too much about userfaultfd and how it works internally, but my best guess is that it bypasses heavyweight kernel data-structures and lets the user application handle the page fault. It is obviously better than simply using mprotect, but it is not immediately clear why it would be better than a read barrier (other than code size considerations, which honestly doesn't sound like much of a big deal as the code handling userfaultfd also needs to be brought into the instruction cache).

I did find this kernel doc about userfaultfd [1] which might be interesting to read if you're interested (it also does mention that userfaultfd doesn't lock some internal kernel data-structures which gives it a better performance than simply using mprotect, but the implementation details are a bit sparse).

[1]: https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.html
According to the article (and the discussed research) this was only a minor factor:

"The researchers also explored the possibility that index changes are more predictable today than in the past, leading sophisticated market participants to trade ahead of the events. They concluded that this played only a minor role in their findings, however."

The two main factors being:

"...an increase in migrations over time from the S&P MidCap 400 index, and an overall increase in the market's ability to provide liquidity to those investors seeking to buy and sell around the time of index changes.

The additional liquidity has 'made it easier for everyone to trade, and as a result, the prices move less.' says Dr. Greenwood.

And with more stocks migrating to the S&P 500 from the S&P MidCap 400, midcap funds are selling as S&P 500 funds are buying, leading to 'a wash' in demand, he says.

"
The same engineers that use to rave about NoSQL a couple of years ago?
No downtrend price fluctuation, not even in a case of total sell out. No exchanges (AMM algorithm is inside the contract so the contract itself has an exchange), no liquidity providers (people create liquidity for each other), no middle-man, no swap, no external calls from another contract, people need only metamask and this dapp. It is absolutely decentralized. You can enter the market for as little as few bucks. Take a look!
You can have two first languages. A kid is able to grow up multilingual.
The Epic Story of Container Shipping (2009)
Amazon Bans Flipper Zero, Claiming It Violates Policy
I was recently forced to use Windows at work. I’ve since found a way to avoid that, but I did experience an ad pop-up before migrating to Linux.

I can’t fathom how tech professionals can accept this kind of lack of control of their operating system.
ChatGPT is entering a world of regulatory pain in Europe
You are gravely mistaken.
Holy Christmas, that was one heck of a roller coaster ride.
Database Encryption: If It's So Good, Why Isn't Everyone Doing It?
Not if the other groups’ males are killed at a similar rate.
> Can you share some data on how you reached that conclusion?

Worked for a lot of startups, and observed millions of dollars being wasted in completely obvious ways, obvious psychological/character flaws, poor leadership in ways that are called out in standard books that the very same leaders have on their bookshelf but clearly haven't read.
When you introduce safe injection sites more people end up surviving their addiction which makes it look like the addiction problem is getting worse when it is getting better.
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I heard crypto-jew as insult to pro-jew (read anti-anti-semitic) fairly frequently and did not heard it in any other context.

It is not "reanalyzed" as such. It is that antisemitic use it as such.
That’s 100% not what I’m saying. I literally said we should criticize Twitter for being stupid. I then said this sounds like something any stupid company would do, especially Twitter given their track record with 3rd party API and data access. I don’t find Elon’s position as CEO a notable detail here. People never criticized Dorsey for stupid Twitter stuff of yesteryear. They criticized Twitter.
How are SRE/DevOps skill the measure of a world class software engineer? How good is Vint Serf at SRE/DevOps?
Anything about pressure, or total weight of hydrogen stored? Without those it’s unknown really how much energy or hydrogen they store.
>>and if you want an ebike, the most wco friwndly option, you fuck right off

That's absolutely not correct, the tax subsidy for buying bikes and ebikes in this country is bonkers and better than pretty much anywhere else.
If you have any job you can always buy any bike(including an ebike) through the cycle to work scheme meaning it's deducted from your salary pre-tax (meaning that effectively it's a deduction from your own income tax).
PL/Scheme - Code is data

https://www.rockdata.net/blog/2022/10/26/plscheme/
Thank you very much for this answer. It does make some sense, and I appreciate your response.

Same to the other 5 or so early commenters who all have some good insights that all sort of align in the same direction, broadly speaking.
>The speed of light being an absolute limit to how fast we can travel (or even communicate), means most of the universe (even most of the galaxy) will be forever out of reach to us. And that's kinda depressing.

One-way space travel would still be possible using constant acceleration:

>A spaceship using significant constant acceleration will approach the speed of light over interstellar distances, so special relativity effects including time dilation (the difference in time flow between ship time and local time) become important.

>At a constant acceleration of 1 g, a rocket could travel the diameter of our galaxy in about 12 years ship time, and about 113,000 years planetary time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_travel_under_constant_ac...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roundtriptimes.png
Renewables are way cheaper and easier to scale.
In Switzerland junkies can just get their clean heroin from the state without handing in dirty drugs before.

We are doing this for many years now and seems that new opiods rarely really hit the market at all.
> Price distortions almost always result in a dead weight loss.

Yes, some trades will not take place take after the distortion, but the the person valuing the good at 20 and still be unwilling to pay 23 after an extended time period in which they're unable to buy it is extremely rare.
See also "A Fine is a Price": https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/468061
12-Step Programs have been shown to work within academia.

12-Step Programs are believed to work by most doctors and people in the industry.

12-Step Programs work on a theoretical level, it fits within the frameworks on addiction.

12-Step Program are said to have saved their lives by many people in them (antidotal)

The dirty secret why these contrarian articles keep coming out (Or linked back to [2014]) is all addiction programs fail at massive rates. Over 95% failure rates are normal for all 'solutions' depending on how you measure it.

It's not good to know this. It will increase your failure rate.

If you go down this road you will probably use a mix. Psychologists, rehab, 12 step, drugs like Naltrexone. You might end up on 12 step or it might come first you leave and end on psychologists. Or you might go back. Or around the loop many times. Many end on willpower, after other solutions like 12 step help get them there.

Whatever works.

12-Step Programs also have the best stories. That alone makes them worth popping into. You'll see Fight Club in a different (better) light.
It struck me that all of the battery big "white boxes" of the Victorian Big Battery are gathered at the same facility.

Shouldn't they be spread over a larger area, even possibly over several towns?

Else, it looks like very vulnerable to accidents, fire, or even wartime attacks.
PL/Scheme – Code is data
Treat code as data
The link is not about BabyAGI.
> People didn't work so hard before because they felt like they earned a fair share - has this ever been the case before?

It's always been the case and research shows that when employees feel that they are valued, trusted, and fairly compensated their performance improves (for examples see https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2012/03/well-being or https://www.hindawi.com/journals/edri/2021/1751495/ or https://www.ijlass.org/data/frontImages/gallery/Vol._3_No._1...)

> They did it out of necessity, cultural expectations and personal fulfillment.

Necessity and cultural expectations might make someone seek and maintain employment, but being treated fairly makes them work harder, makes them more loyal, and leads to better outcomes. Demoralizing employees is always going to result in reduced productivity. It may be true that the work you do is is fulfilling enough to prevent you from being demoralized even if your employer treats you like shit, but I doubt most people feel that strongly about their work. If they aren't earning enough to take care of themselves, let alone their families, morale isn't going to be very high.

Hard work can lead to financial security, fair compensation, and professional fulfillment, but there is no guarantee that it will. It's an employers job to convince their employees that their hard work is worthwhile and will pay off for them in the end.
> 2. They convinced people/VCs who are also "talentless".

Is it talentless-ness all the way to the top? ("turtles all the way down")

Maybe so? Talentless founders being funded by talentless investors, who are given money by talentless High Net Worth individuals or funds? I mean, clearly some people did earn their money by hard work and intelligence, so I wonder why their influence isn't felt in the market.

By the way, thanks for your answer.
The sour grapes is unappealing but this lament is not without cause ;-)

The problem is 'due diligence' on a startup's prospects cannot be reasonably made and so investors end up making gut decisions, masked by performance rituals of due diligence, the role of which is ultimately to increase the investors confidence in what actually is a simple roll of dice, as well as providing plausible deniability for making this gamblers choice.

As for why the talentless get chosen - chose any combination of name recognition, form fitting for preferred narrative of the day, social proof, in-group bias and proximity bias
She absolutely mentions it. It's basically her entire point.

I was waiting and waiting for her to make her point and explain why FTL would not violate causality. Then she hand waves about the comoving frame in two sentences, insinuating that it might be a preferred frame of SR, and that's it.

It's not like this is some huge oversight that she found there. After all, we define the age of the universe to be in the CMBR rest frame, because it will be less in any other frame. So the CMBR rest frame is unique, yes, but it is not fundamental in the framework of SR. See this, for instance: https://www.astro.ubc.ca/people/scott/faq_basic.html
I don’t doubt that - my point though is that maybe 3 can only solve things in its training data and 4 can figure things out.

3 seems to be more rigid. It needs babysitting to solve things. Which means it can only solve things I already know. 4 is more flexible and can solve things by itself.
> the process has to be programmed to stop if read returns no bytes. A process could carry on regardless, or not read stdin at all. In Bash, if you type half a command and press ^D repeatedly, nothing happens.

It's not a good example, because bash disables the canonical mode. When you type ^D this happens:

read(0, "\4", 1) = 1

(And then bash ignores the read EOT character.)
This has been my experience as well and it took a (very long) burnout + a resignation to understand.
The problem with the super-rich is that they have more money they can spend. The not spending is the problem. Money is good for public welfare only when it is earned and spent. Investments are supposed capitalist solutions to this - to make money "work" for you. But it's a broken circular system that seems to only make the wealthier more wealthy. (It's also becoming dysfunctional with speculations). It doesn't seem to be creating an egalitarian society because people with money often have access to better opportunities. And that's a huge hurdle tomorrow for your kids trying to compete with Elon Musk's or Steve's Jobs kid who are born with wealth.
You mean McKinsey?
> attaching wings to horses and making them fly

I’d totally befriend a wild Pegasus if they still existed. Imagine having your friend Pegasus fly you everywhere instead of taking the bus for hours. Would have been so much better.
Well, that's just Elaine from Seinfeld's dancing.
I wouldn't say it'll necessarily kill everybody, but I do think eventually current humans will no longer be the dominant species. Then our fate is out of our control, which might as well be death.

I don't think this requires much in the way of logical leaps. Assuming self-improving AGI can be created within 10ky, it leads to something more powerful than us and we won't be able to understand, let alone control it's motivations. It's like we are to dogs.

Note that I do think there is a way out, which is to improve and augment ourselves with tech we can control.
That is not true. They use these terms among themselves to denote things. Their opposition is not intended audience at all.

Moreover, when unopposed, nazi and antisemitism do not die out. Instead, they get stronger and larger in numbers. It is an actual ideology and those who believe it are actively trying to spread it.
> Unless CloudFlare cables are somehow shinier than the rest of the internet’s

Unrelated, but these mega actors sometimes have such shiny cables, because they can route on their internal network across the globe. Iirc Cloudflare does that for some/all traffic(?). But you’re right, all else equal more hops = worse, and I’d be unsurprised if Cloudflare overstates the benefits of using them.
Industrial small-molecule chemistry is extremely efficient. All of these drugs could be produced by the kiloton for small amounts of money if that was the objective. It would not require anything special.

We already see this with alcohol. Most liquor is tarted-up industrial ethanol, delivered by train tankers to the bottling plants, with some marketing and branding wrapped around it. Industrial ethanol is very inexpensive to produce, around $1/liter; the price of consumption alcohol is downstream of excise taxes and branding.

Cost is not a relevant factor. We can produce all of these chemicals for so little that it is a rounding error. This is a matter of policy.
Ha! Perhaps I read about that some time ago and my brain decided to file it away as a memory of my own.

Thanks for sharing.
I'd honestly be super happy to have a useful boot image, if I was rebooting often.

I have not done that in many years, but still!
> ...and you become a vassal state of those countries.

As an interesting aside, I would like to see Australia opening negotiations with India in case the US pulls back from the Pacific. If it turns out the US can't afford to fight China and Russia at the same time, I think signing up with India is probably the most workable path. Either as some sort of inferior ally or maybe trying to sign up as a full Indian state.
Oh, I didn't know about the -J option. At $WORK, after ssh-ing onto the jump host, we've to do 'sudo -u special_user sudosh' (no password) before we ssh further. I don't suppose there's any way around that, is there?
type 1 brings customers in, type 2 ensures they stay with you.
> The code is _so_ bland. Zero tricks, ever. The goal is to write code that will last 15-30 years. No joke.

This is the way all code should be written IMO.

Hard to argue this and keep a straight face when JS is one of the most popular la gauge these days though :(
How do you get past the feeling that nothing you do actually matters?
An AGI will be able to improve itself - i.e. all the AI dev team at OpenAI will get fired, and only people policy/alignment people will remain (hopefully).
The word ‘chorea’ is derived from the greek word for ‘dance’ as it happens.
Reminds me a bit of Louisiana French (technically two closely related dialects of Cajun French and Louisiana Creole). French was the dominant household language in the state until the 1920s when it was banned from being the primary language in public schools by the state government. This ultimately started the first in a slew of segregational choices by parents with regards to their kids' schools: some were incensed that they were being stripped of their heritage and sent their kids to French speaking Catholic schools. People were urged to "speak White," which was code for "speak proper English." In turn, the Catholic schools stopped teaching the local dialect in favor of Standard French. When the state also demanded that the Catholic schools teach English, students couldn't understand their teachers and were often beaten for failing to make progress in class. The state ended up with half a generation of children who could barely understand what they were being taught. As a result, parents stopped teaching their kids to speak their native language, which was replaced with English. Today, most of us from the area speak English but will mix in language from the old Cajun / Creole dialects of the past.

Did you know that the X-Men's Gambit has pronounced the word "cher" incorrectly every single time he's ever used it in mass media? From Shreveport to Grand Isle, we pronounce it "sha." Usually used as a term of endearment for a male to a female, we also use it when we agree with anyone with the phrase "Mais yeah, cher!"
It’s either free and hard or easy and expensive!
Other Sibling
Dialect does not have to be unintelligible. When it is unintelligible, it would be close to whole another language.
> me and the computer is that I require multiple writes

Remarkable in times in which we study "one shot learning" for machines.

Edit: incidentally, this human detail reveals precisely what seems to be crucially missing in machine learning, current stage: ideas do propagate change through internal elaboration, in an organic process - ideas fine-tune models, through internal work.
No. The efficient market hypothesis doesn’t hold up.
Molecular and network-level mechanisms explaining individual differences in ASD
Accenture was spun out of Andersen Consulting after the Enron saga. Andersen had both a consulting business and an audit arm - they were one of the “big five” audit firms before the collapse of Enron. Today, Accenture only do consulting; they do zero auditing.
EY are not related to Accenture or Andersen. EY is an audit firm (one of the “big four”) with a massive consulting arm. Unlike Accenture which is a global firm, EY operates more like a local franchise. They do this to minimise risk of contagion from a bad apple like in Germany to other audit businesses in different countries. As such, EY is far from a global firm, but more like a collection of separate audit and consulting firms in different countries who all have a license to use the EY brand. This is an important difference.
> This content is not available in your country/region

Ironic given koin.com maybe like κοινός (koinós -- "common, general, available")