skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When you say make it up on the spot, I'm hearing they can answer questions when you ask.

Or they have enough surface knowledge to risk an answer that could potentially work. It depends if that's the threshold acceptable to you.

> You haven't explained why a take home test is needed for that.

We're commenting on the blog post about this very question. Making the initial stage of this test take-home is at least partially solving points 2,5,6,8 from the list.
There is a vaaaast difference in quality across the Ikea range. I too had a bulletproof Ikea desk that lasted me over a decade and was still in excellent structural condition when I got rid of it. It was a single large slab of wood (not particle board) with steel legs that screwed into a steel frame with large steel screws. It cost $200 at the time but what with inflation and everything else would probably cost over $300 now.

I just looked it up and it was the Galant desk with T-frame legs, sadly discontinued in 2014.
> My fantasy solution is everyone needs to go get a meat consumption license by going to a farm and killing an animal with a knife in their hands every, say, 10 years. If you can't do it, then you have no business participating in consuming it. Bonus points if you're a regular hunter.

I'd do it if I could use a gun or a captive bolt pistol, but I've been knocked over by large animals before and I assume they would get more aggressive if they think you are trying to kill them. A farm animal can't pull the trigger of a gun, but they could push a knife back on you. I have body armor and a helmet so I would be wearing them.
I honestly have no issues with the current Windows 11 user interface. In fact, I like it.

And I've been through a lot of operating systems, starting on the PcJr and DOS in the 80s, and every Windows version ever released.

I'm a software engineer and occasional gamer. I use Windows every day for both my job and for everything else, and I have no issues with it.

That's why I find all of the nostalgia a little weird. Some think Windows 95 was the "peak" Windows, others point to 7 and want their "aero glass" back, others say 10 is the best and refuse to upgrade to 11, some install the old start menus in the new versions, etc.

It's the same every time a new version comes out. Eventually people years from now will look back and want to try to make their desktops the way they remember their Windows 11 desktop looking.

But this is veering off topic.
I think bottom line is that resource utilization from space on earth makes zero sense. Space resources utilized in space makes perfect sense but there’s the chicken and egg problem. Bezos focus on space colonies fits this agenda. Musk mars colonization focus does as well due to mars low gravity.
I don't think non-explorers really understand explorers. There were other people on Captain Cook's voyage and other people on Columbus's. Taking a shot at long odds is about knowing that you may fail.

Lorisks want certainty and knowledge that they may not fail.

Hirisks hope for uncertainty and the chance that they may succeed wildly.

It is built in to a Hirisk's belief system that they may fail. But while a Lorisk might find it cringy to try and fail, a Hirisk won't.

You won't really get it if you're not a Hirisk because you think "well what if I end up taking out the trash in a frozen desert" and they think "well what if I actually find or do something amazing".

Sometimes you end up proving H. pylori or inventing cardiac catheterization and other times you go down in history as the guy who thought he invented the parachute and learned otherwise on the way down from the Eiffel Tower or worse, you don't go down in history at all.
> MM found a signal below the margin of error

Wiki has their data: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d1/Michels...

In Michelson's own words (per wiki):

> The expected deviation of the interference fringes from the zero should have been 0.40 of a fringe – the maximum displacement was 0.02 and the average much less than 0.01 – and then not in the right place.

The data doesn't look anything like a signal, and wiki also says:

> Roberts (2006) has pointed out that the primitive data reduction techniques used by Miller and other early experimenters, including Michelson and Morley, were capable of creating apparent periodic signals even when none existed in the actual data.

> But subsequent experiments stopped rotating the assembly at all and just relied on the rotation of earth

This is also untrue. Per https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.1284 (found via references in wiki):

> Our measurement compares the resonance frequencies of two orthogonal optical resonators that are implemented in a single block of fused silica and are rotated continuously on a precision air bearing turntable
This is accounting for piracy of games, music and movies - in total, having only one place where sales are affected is quite minimal - and looks like an anomaly if everything else is unaffected.
These people are being propagandized and any dissenting opinion is instantaneously removed by moderation through keyword filters or something. Echo chamber subreddits with a certain moderation is real life brainwashing.
What if I told you that both can be true at the same time? A free market is one of the only vehicles that has allowed people to be lifted out of poverty, self determination and the freedom to decide one’s own destiny is a very profound idea that we take for granted when talking about different forms of governance that are fundamentally incompatible with that. On the other hand, we need a balance of power for the benefit and health of a society. Social safety nets, publicly beneficial infrastructure, and sensible regulations must exist, not in spite of, but to complement and protect the freedom we enjoy.
> Nate Silver is a guy who got lucky one year, and managed to convince everyone he’s a genius.

Nate Silver is a guy who is very good at applying statistical modelling to a number of domains (including election analysis, where he basically revolutionized the field with everyone else doing poll-aggregate-based-prediction – which no one was previously – following in his footsteps, but mostly doing a worse job), but who morphed into another generic center-right Democratic political talking head. Whether that’s a structural demand of Disney that will go away now that he is leaving Disney or whether its what he feels his groove is now…will be interesting to see.
It’s the same problem…short term thinking. However it’s lopsided - the consumer can’t think long term because they are increasingly squeezed financially, so companies Race to the bottom for penny pinching consumers - driving wages further down or outsourcing altogether.

It’s a vicious cycle
Glad I never moved to 1Password. Been a happy Bitwarden customer for years.
> We only have shitty/best and one is 10x the price of the other.

Such as? Every product I've considered buying in the past few years has more price points and options than ever before. Yes many of them are ultra-cheap, but plenty of mid-priced options as well. For example a new top of the line GoPro Hero11 is $550. However you can easily find other action cams anywhere from under $99 to $450, some of which are other GoPro products.
Cool idea but I have questions:
* How are interviewees incentivized to contrinute their recordings?
* What's the sign off process to get permission from other parties?
* How do all parties get assurance that privacy and business specific secrets are protected?

Comment: This is an interesting concept. Applying and interviewing can be a very intimidating and stressful experience. Companies that are willing to be not only transparent about the process but are willing to share videos and conversations of previous candidates (with consent) during the interview process may find that they get more relevant and motivated applicants.
There have been five times where the Electoral College winner lost the popular vote: 1824, 1876, 1888, 2000, 2016.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presiden...
There is absolutely no call for this.
My recollection is there were also some ethnically prejudiced remarks about Jews not being able to visualize in 3D or something along those lines
> Indeed, as I understand, in many cases the distinction is strictly phonemic, not phonetic.

What is this supposed to mean? It isn't possible to maintain a phonemic distinction between sounds that aren't phonetically distinct.
Huh? It’s about efficiency and not wasting time on something that’s not very useful. Should she see A and B, both (in what order), or neither? That’s the question.
I don't really understand why it was ever included to begin with...
> (he was the only Presidential candidate, or at least one of a couple, to win despite getting fewer overall votes)

Of the 52 elections from 1816 onwards (1816 being the first election where a majority of states determined their electors from the popular vote), 5 of them ended up with the victor not winning the plurality of the popular vote:

* 1824: Andrew Jackson has a solid plurality, but fails to gain a majority of electoral votes, causing the election to be decided by the House vote. Ultimately, Clay (#4 in electoral and and #3 in popular vote) throws his support behind Adams (#2 in electoral and popular vote), and the Clay + Adams numbers would reach the majority threshold needed. (Okay, the House tiebreaks don't work like that, but this is long enough already).

* 1876: Hayes gains the victory despite Tilden having an outright majority of the popular vote (the only one on this list to do so), although the counting of the votes produced severely acrimonious results resulting in a commission to determine which returns were valid (which ultimately ruled for Hayes).

* 1888: Harrison wins the electoral vote despite Cleveland having the plurality

* 2000: Bush wins the electoral vote despite Gore having the plurality

* 2016: Trump wins the electoral vote despite Clinton having the plurality.

Out of 52 elections, 5 times the victor failed to achieve a plurality vote. That's about 10% of the time, which isn't all that rare when you think about it.
Righjt but they are talking about site's customer base. Most people have e-mail hosted on some big provider
Our neighbor’s son is being groomed like this. He’s about twelve and thinks he has an older boyfriend. It’s a person on Discord who buys him gifts and talks about meeting. His parents give consequences slowly and gradually and don’t confront him because either they’re too afraid of misunderstanding, or of being cut off. Plus, they’re overworked and stressed.

The odds are low that it will go as far as in the article, thankfully. But children with certain aptitudes and personalities are hard to protect.

(I shouldn’t need to clarify this, but we’ve done everything we can for this kid.)
I love Notion.

There I said it.

Their features suit my needs in a clean and satisfying way. Props to the team.
> gave Presidential candidate Donald Trump the highest chance of success the day of the 2016 presidential election of reputable polls at the time

This makes a fundamental error of confusing “polls” (which is not a category Silver’s work falls into) with statistical predictions based on aggregates of polls (which is what it is.)
When someone points a money cannon at you, you don’t say “no no no this is outrageous we are a web based IDE with a reasonable yet modest ARR target put your checkbook away.” You smile, nod, and cash the check. “Thank you for your confidence in the team.”
> How far to the right do you have to go when you start considering the Constitution is shaky?

Not that far? For example, the GOP in Texas's Senate passed a law requiring the Commandments in public schools. I find that hard to view as anything other than direct contempt for the Establishment clause. The only pragmatic reading of such a law, should it become law, in today's political climate, is that it exists solely to be challenged, on the hopes that the Supreme Court will … IDK, strike that portion of the 1A or otherwise reinterpret it as completely ineffectual? The Establishment clause is also quite clear (though I grant, not as clear as the 16A, but not as vague as say, "A well regulated Militia" makes the 2A). That's not the only such law, or portion of the Constitution, either, though I'd certainly say it's one of the more clear ones…
Interesting. I like the aesthetic. Personally I'm not good at reading shorthand and lambda functions in python. I rather type it out fully to help with clarity. But the simplicity is intriguing. I can totally see people find joy program in it :)
Enjoyed reading this, I came across your game engine when I found react-regl so I was psyched to see a retrospective.
Doesn't look like it has down syndrome
After having been through this crap and now being on the other side of the desk, I've come to the conclusion that this is simply standardized testing for adults, with all of the same myriad problems. It doesn't identify what you're actually looking for, gives you more false signals, and alienates the talent you actually want.

The way we do these at my current job is extremely productive for us. We look for two things, apart from basic competency: problem solving, and asking for help.

It's structured as a two 90 minute pair programming sessions. Interviewee shares their screen, and we work through the problems together. Obviously it's pretty hands-off, but we guide and nudge where appropriate. Here and there, when they use something that relates to a deeper topic, I'll ask questions to gauge how deep their knowledge goes. Like asking if they know how C#'s foreach works under the hood. Not as a selection criteria, but simply to get a sense of how much they know.

Use of a search engine is openly encouraged. A lot of the time, we don't even care if the program actually runs. If they struggle with syntax or the correct function overload, we'll help them out after giving them a little time to find the solution.

I also throw in a problem designed to get them stuck, and ask questions I expect they can't answer. A good programmer asks for help and admits when they don't know. A bad one bullshits their way through.

We want to hire programmers who can do a real job in the real world. Implementing red/black trees on a whiteboard blindfolded isn't a job skill, it's a party trick. That's not something a programmer will ever need to do.

In the real world, real people use google and stack overflow. They don't have encyclopedic knowledge of the entire language's syntax. They ask their coworkers for help or opinions.

Our interview process is designed to show us how a person will function in a scenario as close to the job as possible. Because that's what we're hiring them for. We look for their ability to work through a problem with the resources that everyone always has. We look for how they work with others and how much they lean on coworkers.

This has worked out extremely well for us. We've hired some very talented individuals, and have totally avoided the archetypal shitty dev. The people we hire immediately mesh with the team, and learn and grow the way all programmers do.

Granted, we are a small company and we have the time to have our own programmers giving interviews. We also have a much higher need to be so selective. But every single person who has made it to the technical interview has remarked unprompted that it's the best interview they've ever had. And I mean 100%.

It's because we treat candidates the way we'd treat our own employees. They get to know what the job is like, and we get to know how they'll do the job.
Space is hard and they had not even left the Earth.
that's what we're considering, but we want to support private cloud deployments :( how are elastic et al. able to deploy into VPCs so seamlessly? surely there is a product that does this

anyway thank you for that review, noted
Techies on HN talking about Lisp - no one cares about a language that has no relevance. What have you built lately that matters?
Could check this out https://github.com/hexops/mach-gpu
As nice as your Samsung might have been, it's pretty absurd IMO to claim contactless was as prevalent in the USA in 2013 as it was in European countries like say France or the UK. Huge nationwide retailers such as Walmart and Kroger held out adopting practically forever, and there are loads of other examples who haven't adopted or only did so very recently - The Home Depot, Lowes, Starbucks...

> https://www.macrumors.com/2023/04/15/kroger-fred-meyer-apple...
I don't know, I wasn't in your classes. You would probably find the video interesting nonetheless. It's from a UCLA professor and is in part specifically about how he at least partially disagrees with the way that phonetics are traditionally taught.
What continent do you think of when you say Italy (Meloni) or Hungary (Orban)? Also last I checked, Europe had dictators until 70's (Greece, Portugal, Spain) and communists until 80's (Warsaw pact countries). So doesn't look so nice out there.
That's the only reason I launch it.

It's annoying that they force you to use Edge. Otherwise it would see no use from me.

Which, I know ... that's exactly why they're doing it.
I used both of those, as well as ProComm Plus (PCPLUS.EXE). Thanks for the trip down memory lane!!!
I had never even heard of Notion before I started looking at Obsidian.
If you’re referring to Watson’s 2007 claim that Africa is unlikely to succeed n part because of the inhabitants’ inferior intelligence, as the “truth” he is speaking to “power” perhaps it is you who are biased.
Electricity is expensive in California. Virtually all EV owners will be taking advantage of the cheaper off peak rates when air conditioners don't need to offset the sun's heat.
Right, population has been steady or even slightly declining, and there has been plenty of housing development, so it’s not a surprise that existing housing prices haven’t gone up. But even that directly contradicts the OP’s first sentence.
MS and Apple are far and away the best run FANGs and this changing rate environment has proven it. As Buffet said you don’t know who is swimming naked until the tide goes out.
We dont see reality, we see what our brains need to focus on to eat another day.
I deeply suspect that this has more than surface similarities with the observation that you cannot extract work from a uniform heat bath, but you can extract work from a temperature gradient. There's probably not much an intelligence could learn to predict about its future environment living inside the core of the sun, even if it could withstand those temperatures -- just randomness everywhere in every direction. But on Earth, with the sun shining in and the coolness of space behind us, there are a lot of causal relationships that can be compressed to make useful predictions.
Search for “aerosol masking effect”. It seems like it is generally accepted that small particles floating around in the air would help cool the planet down. It seems likely that this would be a geoengineering approach. When the world was generally on lockdown, I suppose there was much less air pollution and so the lack of the aerosol effect caused the problem to get worse. Now that I think about this, we are in a big dilemma because the efforts to stop air pollution could help make climate change be worse.
Hostping: Diagnosing Intra-Host Network Bottlenecks in RDMA Servers
> its not really a big deal to use imperial on projects

but it does look pretty embarassing when it destroys a project
I totally think colleges could teach HTTP. There's plenty of time to do it in. I generally think colleges do a meh to poor job of preparing CS grads for the real world, but they're leaps and bounds better than bootcamps. I'd probably give 50/50 odds on college grads knowing (or at least being able to remember) HTTP status codes.

> At the same time, where are the aerospace engineering bootcamps? Where's the law or medicine bootcamp? Did the people enrolling really thing they would be on-par with actual engineers working in the field after 12 weeks?

2 thoughts on that.

The first is that at least 2 of those 3 (not sure about aerospace engineers) require a specific degree (in most states). It would be a bold faced lie to tell anyone that the AMA is going to recognize them after a bootcamp, and certainly punishable under false advertisement laws. They're probably right that someone could do a bootcamp and be on-par with actual engineers. It might have to be a very specific someone with a very specific background, but it's probably possible.

The second is that yes, I think people do think that. I've had a couple of friends that have done them, and they were convinced that they could pay $12k for a 9 week bootcamp and be a desirable and productive developer. I tried to convince them otherwise, but failed. I hate them because I feel like they're selling an expensive, unrealistic dream to people who have no way to know better.
Aren't Nitrophones just rebranded GrapheneOS Pixels?
Don’t wait long. Please educate yourself. His claim that “Africans” have inferior intelligence due to their genetics has precisely zero basis in scientific evidence.
Hackintosh is a gateway drug to a Macintosh
Princeton had Clinton at a >99% chance in their 2016 election forecast.
Mux is a video broadcast infrastructure provider, not a sports streaming web site. The vast majority of their users are expected to be businesses.
Another part of the answer over the last 40 (or 200) years, is to repeatedly create totally new industries that employ lots of people, including a large fraction of HN readers.
Somewhat related: The problem with Nate Silver and most others in this game is they don't treat the statistics they show as random variables. I want to see confidence intervals for all statistics. They just show 'Chance of winning is X" instead what they need to so is 'Change of winning is between X and Y'. It's such a simple change I'm shocked nobody does it including Nate Silver.

It's all what I call 'pop statistics' at this point and IMO hurts the public and democracy.
Sounds interesting, but what's the backend for Code Preview? and how is it different from other companies in this space like Retool, Zeet, etc.
From the video: https://www.englishspeechservices.com/ipa-vowels/
I agree Content-Length should be mandatory. It's not even specified. Arguably and unfortunately with the standard as is, parsers shouldn't even use it if it's there, because if there's a boundary before that length, your results will differ from other parsers. (My crate expects it though.)

> [Not having Content-Length:] makes writing a streaming MIME parser much harder.

I don't think that's a big problem for Rust application servers where there are nice crates for efficient text searching you can plug in. Maybe more so for folks doing low-dependency and/or embedded stuff, especially in C.

But it's just dumb IMHO when you want to send arbitrary data to have to come up with a random boundary that you hope isn't in the data you're sending. With a strong random number generator you can do this to (un)reasonable statistical confidence, but that shouldn't be necessary at all.
I'd much rather wait till we have superintelligence and it can come up with a solution to this if it's a real issue
1. Where is the bookmarking feature? The star next to the score doesn't seem to do anything. If it's an icon to indicate score, it would be clearer to use a different icon.

2. For consistency, I'd use text headings at the top left of the time and score boxes, or at the very least put the icons on the left.

3. The 'View Solution' animation playback is confusingly fast. I'd add a step-by-step playback with forward/backward buttons as the default mode. You could still offer a checkbox to enable auto-playback, and a slider to adjust playback speed.

4. Since this seems to be based on the same toolkit Lichess uses, using the same color behavior for moves would be helpful.

5. Please offer a checkbox to enable showing possible moves when pieces are clicked like Lichess does.
Thanks! That was what I was going for.