skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, and this is what we have been doing for a while at my current job (I went through the same process, so it's been done for at least 7 years).

The candidate would come to the office (when we were still doing in-person interviews) and meet a couple of the developers for a little bit of chatting. They would then be given a couple of printed pages of Java code with a few basic classes representing banking accounts with some typical methods for depositing, withdrawing, persisting to a database etc. (with all of the details stubbed out) - and they would be given these instructions:

Read the provided Java source code files and identify any problems that you can find.
The problems can include things such as actual bugs, design problems or code quality issues.
You do not need to search for syntax errors - the code does compile.
You have 15 minutes to find as many problems as you can.

The candidate would be left alone with the papers and a pen and would spend the next 15 minutes looking over the code by themselves.

The rest of the interview would then be spent discussing their findings. Most candidates would find the obvious problems in the logic, missing null-checks etc., while trickier things like synchronization issues were missed by quite a few. Even though we had a list of all the bugs/issues that had been put into the code, the important part wasn't for a candidate to check off as many of these as possible - the important part was the discussion about the issues that followed.

After the candidate had told us what they found, we would start hinting about the remaining issues and eventually tell about all of them. How quickly someone would pick up on an issue when it was pointed out told us quite a lot. It was a way to get a feel for how the candidate thought and reasoned about code, without the pressure of them having to actually write code with someone looking over the shoulder.
> There was a bone-chilling moment when my (very young) kids were playing with toys together and when asked what they were doing, they responded with "role-playing."

If this was bone-chilling, I have some bad news: there's a whole genre of "role-playing games" that have been around for decades.
The article states that the JPL plan only considers the energy generation to be a useful byproduct.

If the risk were truly imminent and quantifiable, I assume it would be pursued however absurdly exotic and fanciful it seemed on its face.

On the other hand, defusing a volcano on a timeline of a thousand years or longer would be politically challenging. That might see the dissolution and construction of multiple states (here, electric power generation may help assure survival). Add in that civilization can't seem to get its head on straight about comparatively faster-acting climate change, for example, and can barely prepare for an earthquake.

At least imagining an exploding apocalyptic supervolcano may elicit more visceral emotions.

Still, it doesn't appear there's much cause for worry so it's only a brainstorm.
It's also worth keeping in mind that they don't have to lobby -- US O&G is a strategic source of strength and have had power that went all the way to the top. The Bush family, for example, produced two Presidents, and the Bush fam were all about oil.

No need to spend the money when you get it for free.

Meanwhile it's clear to the average American that healthcare is broken as shit and is ruining lives daily; takes a lot of money to keep things looking good for Pharma. Ditto for much of the tech world.
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I think most "encryption fans" understand quite well that the current sociopolitical zeitgeist is broadly authoritarian, and legal strong encryption will fall victim to that eventually. As will many other things - e.g. a Chinese-style social credit system with the "right" targets is also likely to get considerable popular support in the long run, and some Western countries have already experimented with similar ideas (e.g. asbo in UK).

So as far as I'm concerned, the political angle is mostly about dragging our feet to buy us more time to develop the anti-surveillance tech like encryption as far as possible in the open before it is heavily regulated.
What do you mean by "the macro changes"?
I've seen James a fair amount, but almost never without also having “Earl” and “Jr.”
Obligatory Sagan quote:

> Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The hashed form of the URL might still reach Google as part of the Safe Browsing initiative, although a copy of the List of Naughty Websites is kept locally as well, so if you visit a known deceptive site, it need not ping their servers.
Watts are a rate. Joules per second.
What do you want me to say here? The science is pretty much settled that we are omnivores, you can't just ditch meat without consequences. Yes there are substitutes, but in practice do vegans consistently eat these at the right amount to compensate for the lack of meat in their diet? Well my first hand experience tells me this is a big fat NO.

Let's put it another way, imagine some guy likes to pester you about your eating habits, says they are unhealthy, and that their diet is healthy. Well the burden of proof is on them and as someone who cares about staying fit, if the guy trying to convince me either looks like skin & bones, or is overweight, then they are already on shakey ground. This has been my first hand experience multiple times.

Ultimately my ancedote is not meant to be a counter-argument, but instead a reminder to those reading to touch grass. Because why wouldn't your personal experiences matter more than the anecdotes and misinformation spread by strangers online? (This applies to my own anecdote as well)
Great suggestion, thanks! This is different. I mostly have things like the tea garden and raptor center for consideration. It's all a bit touristy I guess, so was wondering what else.
Perhaps (and I'm just assuming), you were never too poor, without a library to access any kind of media and decent internet/computer to watch something on streaming?
You made a correct assertion initially "power (1.5 gigawatts) and energy (power over time)," but then failed to use it correctly. 1.5 gigawatts is a rate, of 1.5 billion joules per second.
I'd expect the amount of "that's interesting" will be dwarfed by the amount of "I can't believe your great grandfather collaborated you monster, I'm going to get you fired".
I wish more ads were based on truths.
I was in your same situation a few years ago. Switched over to "Joplin" - works great. Copy/paste screenshots works great. All in markdown.
If you look carefully at Earth, as the image was taken during the eclipse, you see the shadow of the Moon on Earth.
It will be a special Brexit AI trained only on all the positive impacts of brexit.

Training will take approximately 3 nano seconds but probably still cost most of the £100 mil which will be spent only at companies owned by Tory MPs friends and with no prior experience in AI.

(Sorry, just trying to cheer myself up. It’s a hard time to be British at the moment)
I think human use of antibiotics, even when used frivolously like that, are less of a problem than agricultural use.

Antibiotics-resistance is typically an expensive trait for bacteria to maintain, and without selective pressure, it'll typically be selected against. (It's why rotating antibiotics works.)

Also a pill a day, infrequently, is probably also not a big deal.

The problem arises in agricultural use when antibiotics are fed to cattle every single day, with every meal, to every head of cattle, in every ranch. That creates an environment where you're selecting for bacteria resistant to antibiotics. But even if antiobotics start being resisted, we just need to stop using them for a while and they'll become effective again. Sucks for the people infected the the bacteria though. So we can take some amount of heart in that abusing antibiotics is unlikely to end humanity, it just might create a huge humanitarian disaster at some point, which as we've seen, modern capitalism is very prepared to ~handle~ ignore.
Thanks! I think HN should have a rule to flag any paywalled article, not everyone is on a desktop and using incognito.
"you're "only" making 100k is a bit ridiculous. Going by that metric, 99% of the world's population is a failure."

Ok, I'll put it a different way - houshold income is below the 50th percentile for the area. So by that measure, 50% of the world population is doing better than I am on a location-based relative measure.
Loving the simplicity of the app, so easy to create presentations-on-the-go.

Have you thought about monetization?
Firefox - not really. One of the very first changes done to firefox on installation - the URL bar is that: a URL and the search one is enabled by ctrl+k (instead of ctrl+L), and the default search engine has long be changed not to be google.
Where data ends up in a neural network is a stochastic process. There could be 1000 neuron. that activate, which is inefficient but thats just how the weights were adjusted.
Wonder how long before the lobbyists are in control of the training data.
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At this point, I suppose it would be a safer bet to fill up the Qattara Depression in Egypt
The 3.5 prompt/model should probably be updated to inform users of their privacy more accurately.

> Me: is our conversation confidential?

> 3.5: As an AI language model, I do not have the ability to store or share any information discussed during our conversation.

> 4: As an AI language model, I am designed to maintain user privacy and do not store the content of our conversations. However, it's important to remember that I am a software, and your data might be stored by the platform you are using to access me.
> I miss the dumb everything days, where the manufacturer simply could not spare compute power on additional features like telemetry.

Indeed. The only "smart" things that I'm willing to have anymore are those that I've built myself. Apparently, very nearly no commercial manufacturers can be trusted anymore.
No copyright means publisher can just take that draft, edit it and publish giving 0 to the author.
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> Certainly the movie version has the one rogue scientist working late into the night redoing the calculations and realizing that as soon as the plant goes live it will trigger the volcano.

Jor El in any number of them.
> I wouldn’t want to be operating the drill that punctures the magma chambers!

Years of Dwarf Fortress have prepared me for this moment.
How quickly do you need to be able to access this money in the future? If immediately, put it in high yield savings accounts. If you can tolerate a bit of a delay then a CD ladder or a ladder of treasuries is the way to go. If you're using banks for either savings accounts or CDs mind the FDIC limits. You'll probably need to split that much across multiple banks.
Now I'm wondering if there's ever been emulated software that crashed because it tried to calculate a data transfer rate, but the emulator transferred the data faster than the delta in the time measuring in the emulated machine, so it divided by zero.
What really causes harm is when you divide people up into groups based on arbitrary characteristics (like skin color) and treat those characteristics like they're the sole defining aspect of each person's identity, like you're doing right now.

Framing this as "non-black people speaking for black people" carries the implicit assumption that all black people have the same/similar opinions; that an arbitrary black person would be able to meaningfully "speak for [all] black people" in a way that an arbitrary non-black person can't. That's wrong.

The previous commenter making an educated guess based on personal experience with zero concrete data points is only slightly worse than making that same guess based on one concrete data point, and neither situation would be justification for telling anyone to "shut it" or "do better" in my opinion.
These requests aren't being made by the firmware, it's done at the OS level:

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/...

The file even used to specifically refer to the XTRA service, but was updated to be vendor agnostic.

GrapheneOS also calls out these requests:

> HTTPS connections are made to fetch PSDS information to assist with satellite based location.

https://grapheneos.org/faq#default-connections
Correlation is not causation, and yet, a correlation exists and I'd rather lose these visitors than getting headaches later.

And sure, you can always rationalize anything, but I still see a difference between a pop-up that offers something the reader might like against a dark pattern that forces or tricks someone to sing up.
because it was plasma?
Thank god - I wouldn't want to see the reality fall apart.
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Well stated. I seem like the exact type of dev as described in this blog post - I get performance anxiety and the audited interview process doesn't fit my particular style. I wouldn't describe myself as slow, but my steps to solving a problem are often not linear and sometimes difficult to measure in such a setting.

as a devops engineer as my main job, I also try to explain to interviewers that on any given day I am reading and writing half a dozen languages of vastly different paradigms, and although I'm very proficient in many of them, I definitely need to reference things that maybe shouldn't "need" to be referenced (like confusing bash/python loop syntax is very common for me as an example). This rarely ever slows me down in reality, but will definitely cause me to fail interviews I shouldn't.

If I was an interviewer, I wouldn't care if a dev knew whatever esoteric language syntax or API calls by heart. I'd just expect them to know how to use them intelligently. The former does not always imply the latter.
4k is in the most expensive (4 screens) plan. If you only have 1 tv, that's 2 steps up (going to 2 screens for full hd, and 4 screens for 4k)
> wtf c’mon

100% agree. WTF. I'm losing a bit of faith recently in HN, a significant number of people seem to have gone full tinfoil hat.

Edit: downvote all you want, nutters, but this entire discussion is mostly people ranting about things we don't even know to be true, with the justification "well if they aren't for sure doing it now, they will!"

What happened to being data driven?
this is just another anti-farm hitpiece

i don't care for this perspective, I'd rather have locally grown food over outsourcing it to some geopolitical rival with animal cruelty problems
Your sampling is flawed then.

If you're arguing for some quantum metric that could make me lose it, you're for some reason not providing the word "us" with the same leverage which puts us into a situation we should just default to the literal definition of median since there's literally no way to prove (or disprove) your point.

But sure, you've proven you can buzzkill anything, so you win!
Indeed, great talk, but as he reckons, it is going to take years to fix C and derived languages flaws.

We are decades away from OSes using memory safe languages across all layers.

In the meantime, the security story of C, C++ and Objective-C also needs continuous improvement, of which bare bones C is the worse.
does search suggestions always go to google, or to your selected search provider?
Gwern's site isn't a wiki, though?
>> Do they mean 1.5 gigawatts per hour? or per day? or per year?

1.5 gigawatts is 1.5 billion joules per second. If you sustain that power for 2 hours it will produce 3 gigawatt-hours of energy.

1 watt-hr is 3600 joules because 1J/s for 3600 seconds.
>[2] Please note that there's nothing wrong with cars existing, the main problem is cars being a hard requirement (government mandate really) for every single thing you do in your life.

I'm not really sure what you mean by "government mandate" in this context.

I've lived for more than half a century and have never owned a car or attempted to purchase one. In all that time, no one (affiliated with a government or not) has ever even hinted that I must have a car.

I'm not playing "gotcha" here, I just don't understand what you're getting at.

Sure, there are many places (especially in the US) where having access to a personal, motorized vehicle provides access to many of the necessities of modern life, but that's not a result of government fiat/mandate.

Rather it was population increases, cheap oil, poor land use decisions, bigotry and a host of other factors -- including government support for such decisions -- that are at the heart of those results.

Perhaps my take is too US-centric and/or I'm missing something important.

tl;dr: Governments supporting the status quo/big economic actors creating/maintaining unsustainable environments is bad public policy, but doesn't add up to a "mandate," IMNSHO.
nationally, no, there hasn't been much change but many states have high ones; PA comes to mind.
Huh? A watt is a joule per second, [energy/time]. They are describing rates.

If you build a 1.5 GW heat engine on top of Yellowstone (assuming it's possible) the energy that builds below the volcano is 0, because you captured it and turned some of it into electricity, and dumped the waste heat into a river or the atmosphere.
Yeah, and all because stupid DRM. Easier to torrent than to watch officially
Sometimes people just need a job (especially in the US, where jobs are so coupled to health care). I've been in that position, and I'm very glad I'm not now.
Yes, the GNU toolchain is leaps beyond BSD.

Ah yes, and then plenty of scripts that assume BSD sed break.
I'll use myself as an example. I love Pandas + Scikit Learn, but am by no means an expert. Every time I want to build a logistic regression, I have to go back to the docs to review the API.

When I was doing my Master's degree in "Social Science of the Internet" at the Oxford Internet Institute (a sociology + data science program, with many students coming from non-STEM backgrounds), everyone was comfortable debating P values, standard errors in regressions, etc. but many students were extremely intimidated by reading Python docs and/or using the REPL.
Firstly, Law of Headlines - the answer is no. But secondly, Volcanologists are not even worried about Yellowstone erupting anytime soon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypn3Fe_PLts
Jackson is no where near as convenient as Go's marshaling system.
I don't think it's a question of "official" vs. "personal" accounts. It's like if you use a personal email at work, you're still subject to regulatory information withholding guidelines. Using a personal account to conduct official business doesn't magically absolve you of your responsibilities under the law. If you use your personal Twitter account to talk with friends and personal interests, then go ahead and block whomever. But if you use your personal account for official business, e.g. to discuss your administration's policies and priorities, then you're acting in an official capacity and should not be allowed to block citizens.
The idea that you need to take a full course of antibiotics came from studies which were done in patients with tuberculosis, which is very recalcitrant to treatment.

Depending on the infection that you have, finishing the course may not always be the best option since it nukes your microbiota and selects for more resistant pathogens. It depends on the rate of mutation of each pathogen, amongst other factors.

The antibiotic course has had its day

https://www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j3418

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/is-the-full-course-of-an...

In the cancer field, where resistance is also very common, there are some groups exploring 'adaptive therapy' also known as 'press-pulse' therapy, where you intentionally stop treatment when symptoms go away, in order to maintain a population of the drug-sensitive cells, which will compete with the drug-resistant cells (since being resistant takes energy). It's not curative but when resistance is inevitable, could pro-long life of the patient. I wonder if this type of thing has already been tried with antibiotics.

Modifying Adaptive Therapy to Enhance Competitive Suppression

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7761372/

Press-pulse: a novel therapeutic strategy for the metabolic management of cancer

https://nutritionandmetabolism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10...
You’re clearly someone who just wants to consume content without rewarding the authors for it. There’s no point arguing against a position that’s fundamentally flawed.
The EU region managed to promptly fall behind the US in semiconductors, software, PCs, Web, mobile, cloud, and it's repeating history again with AI. Except this time they're going to pre-emptively cripple themselves, making the task of US companies to dominate the field that much easier.

Walling itself off isn't going to help. Europe is going to get crushed if they don't aggressively participate. The AI outside the walls will evolve very quickly and drastically, while everything inside the walls moves at a highly regulated snail's pace. Over a short amount of time it'll put the EU at a large disadvantage, not least of all in labor/talent (which will abandon the EU even faster than it already does, to pursue the best opportunities at the highest pay).
That's what I mean yes. English isn't my first language. How should I have phrased it?
> GPS has a built-in error for the civilian use, and a higher-accuracy system for military use.

This was called "selective availability" and that practice stopped in 2000. There is no longer any intentional error being introduced.
I have a lot of skepticism about anything I read from constructionphysics.substack.com. I'm a mechanical engineer, not a civil engineer, so take my opinion with a grain of salt, but it reads like it's written by someone who does not have a solid understanding of engineering fundamentals. For example, they suggested in their "How to design a house to last for 1,000 years" series that you'd want to build such a house out of stainless steel because it "has extremely high corrosion resistance." Even my introductory courses in materials science it is very clear that stainless steel might last for 1,000 years, but it would depend entirely on the environmental conditions and the type of stainless used.
As a former financial advisor, my advise is to find a one-time fee only financial advisor.

If anyone were to answer this question without you asking a bunch of questions first is doing you a great disservice.

Here are some factors:

1- how old are you?
2- what are your current debt situation?
3- what are your current investments?
4- what is your current income?
5- what is your current liabilities?
6- when do you plan to use this money?
7- is the 800k in some sort of inherited retirement plan like a ira or roth ira?
8- what is your current marginal tax bracket?

Etc, etc...

You'd be surprised how big of a mistake you can make here by doing the wrong thing.