skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Watched that a few years ago... great stuff haha.

I did something similar but reverse social engineered the scammer to send me $10 USD. I even uploaded a video on how I did it but unfortunately it is against every mainstream social media platform to post a video of you scamming (even though I was scamming a scammer), so my video got deleted :(
The “Fediverse” is not an existing ecosystem in any way that replaces Twitter or builds an interesting social network, from my perspective at least.

No matter how open I wanted to be, if I was setting out to build a social network, I’d please precisely zero value on being connected to that “existing network”.

It is irrelevant to me, despite what a vocal minority might want me to believe.
Robots.txt is meant as an aid to crawlers. "This stuff is not useful to index," rather than a blocking mechanism
Dahl wrote about this (which you might already know): https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520058774/a-preface-to-econ...
It’s not opt-in, it’s the default. What people do with their money is none of your business. The reason Epic got fined was because people whose credit cards were saved and charged didn’t consent to the purchases and Epic refused to refund even when their virtual currency wasn’t used, or they locked out the accounts entirely when the transactions were charged back.
I think the dynamical recompilation that made code caching difficult is from 0.6, the last release before 0.7 (the first stable release). From 0.1 (2012 or 2013) to 0.7 julia evolved drastically. They stabilized only in 2018ish. This seems like a pretty reasonable timeline for something no other language has done before (although, as I mentioned, pytorch/jax/tensorflow have some limited similarities, and similar problems).
It would be nice to see some studies on this topic, but it's likely illegal to perform them. Instead, we're left with feelings and anecdotes--and the government saying "trust us."
Yeah I agree. It's good for specific use cases where the JIT latency doesn't matter too much - which means either interactive work, or long-running computations. So, mostly science/engineering work, and perhaps stuff like generative art, building wbsites and stuff.

When latency is much better and/or it can compile static binaries, the use case of Julia will hopefully broaden
Yes because Americans never cheat to get ahead and we are all morally superior…
True of flagships, but even some low-midrange Android devices struggle to animate at even 60hz without frame drops. My late 2022 Android test device tablet that had an MSRP of about $300 when I bought it is like this, while an entry level iPad from 4 years ago running the latest iPadOS has no such problems.

I haven’t actually sat down and compared specs but I’m guessing this happens because Android devices tend to skimp hard on their GPUs at midrange and below.
> When the metric becomes the goal, people will game the metric in order to avoid punishment and/or reap the rewards.

Goodhart's law!
What do you mean they aren’t paying their fair share? You just said they bought the rights.

Also it seems like you are saying we should just pre-judge cases without using the courts. Basically just end the rule of law. Not sure that’s a good plan.
> when 1 or 2 train tracks could meet the same demand and function

They can't.

You are treating cars as a way to get from point A to point B. Trains and buses are ways to do that. If cars were just a way to go from your home to downtown, you can in fact replace them with a train.

Yet if you build even very nice, very expensive trains that run frequently.. a bunch of people will still use cars. The train does not replace the car.

A car is both a set of abstract things (freedom, status, privacy) and practical things (storage, functional space, a moddable thing).

Build all the trains you want. Have high quality protected cyclist lanes. Have functional bus programs.

None of those things will replace personal vehicles.
That's high enough for most users, I reckon.
Thanks! Yeah, I've got this feedback before and I need to figure out how to get it across ASAP. Convincing someone to change their log aggregator is a much bigger lift that what we require in order to get you value.

imho 1: mmm. yeah. a better 1,2,3=profit should be doable.
imho 2: any thoughts on what a better next step is at this stage? we've
imho 3: good to hear the example worked. totally agree that right now it's feeling more confusing than it should be.

imho last: awesome! I look forward to hearing how it goes for you :)
The lie only has to last long enough for people to forget about it.
What I don't understand is... these are pre-screening interviews at companies that get tons of applicants, right?

What happens during the actual in-person interview that follows ??
> The US is lucky no country declared war over the thievery.

There were no other countries capable of going to war with the sole global superpower. Not even remotely close. Western Europe desperately needed the US to continue standing off the Soviets. Who was going to declare war? Nobody of course.

That remains true today (China for example can't project force outside of its borders effectively and the Europeans still desperately require the US to stand off the Russians).
How Are Kubernetes VolumeAttachments Named?
Sure. I'm just not sure why their existence depends on cheating the remaining tax payers out of tens of millions of dollars every year.
I wholeheartedly agree.

From a purely technical analysis ATProto looks better as a protocol to me. But I don't use Bluesky I use ActivityPub because the people I want to be connected to are there and not on Bluesky. I do think you could probably make improvements to ActivityPub that reduce operational costs. It's not something I feel the need to tackle right this moment because my usage doesn't incure those costs really.
Cult? That's a very bad take. It's a tool, great for some stuff, rough edges here and there.

People invest huge amount of effort fixing Python's shortcomings (pyspark, tf, jax, mojo) requiring a completely different way of thinking modulo the syntax. And nobody is talking about the "cult of the snake"
> This is nothing but an opinion.

If you want to be technical about it, "murder is wrong" is also "nothing but an opinion."
a cheating doctor would prescribe / perform unnecessary drugs / procedures / surgeries for personal gain or out of carelessness.
Hard disagree. What you're saying is true of my money that is stored in a bank or other financial instruments that I have no tangible control over. However, to take away the cash I own (the green and the shiny stuff) the police or the feds need to come to my house and physically take it from me and figure out where I've hidden it. They also have no way of knowing exactly how much I have and no way of reasonably tracking how I spend physical currency in most situations. Particularly with peer to peer transactions, they are nearly impossible for the government to track or restrict in any meaningful way.

All of this goes away with CBDCs. The government can track everything. The government can take away everything instantly. The government can decide I'm not allowed to spend my money on certain things they don't agree with.

Trying to save up for the down payment on a house or a new car? Nope, that tax return we gave you expires in 3 months to force you to stimulate the economy. Bought a gun that was completely legal at the time, but the government has since decided you shouldn't have it? We have a record of you buying it, so we'll send the ATF to raid your house for it. Said something critical of the current president on social media? We've frozen all your money until we reeducate you.

It's not a matter of if this will be abused, it's a matter of when and how badly.
I had a friend who has paranoid tendencies who was really agitated one day and talking about how “real” numbers weren’t real. Later on I found that Turing’s work on computation was motivated by the same line of thought.

I thought he was nuts at first but then I got converted and gave up on the axiom of choice. I wish Steve Wolfram would grow some balls and realize his constructivist program should lead him to do the same.

My friend unfortunately graduated to becoming a notorious conspiracy theorist.
I'm betting they'll be integrating Bard into smartphones and Chrome ASAP. The way Bing got added into SwiftKey is pretty awesome, but being able to interact with Bard the same way phones currently interact with the gAssistant would be a huge boon for usability and increasing interaction with it, assuming that's something Google wants to increase.
Sure, but that's certainly not five nines of reliability.

How many billions of dollars did this collectively cost? That's lots of wasted engineer time at best, and the inability to build a hot fix for your own outage at worst.
Me too, plus what's coming with their new phones and most importantly, how they are adding more and more AI into their cameras. I'm exclusively a Pixel user, so it's super important to me.
Yes. And Europe has some special infrastructure to prevent that kind of thing if the rocket has to stay there for a long time.
> Oh well she isn't dumb. She did solve 75-100 problems during the course of her master's degree of 2 years. She just can't solve any question on her own

This is exactly my problem, I have solved very difficult problems at big companies, but I need time and research to understand and solve anything. I need to sleep on the problem. I need to get comfortable and release the stress when the seemingly complex problem is presented to me, otherwise I'll drown in a glass of words. Recently tried interviewing with HackerRank and the whole experience is horrible: weird multilevel scrolling, single character variables, answers must be equal character by character including blanks. I just quit those interviews.
The most likely path in 2023:

* Politicians play chicken, waiting until the last possible moment

* The markets get upset in the meantime and this impacts US Treasury bond prices

* Eventually the limit is raised, right before the deadline

The estimated deadline is approximately mid August, though could be somewhere between June and early September.

In the long term, either we need something that provides massive growth (increased tax revenues, reduced welfare spending), or we'll default.

A default in 2023 is not impossible, though is definitely unlikely.
Many people reject Kant's ethical philosophy.
What is the situation with cartels? I like the idea of Mexico but tbf I'm terrified of even visiting for tourism because of the shooting/kidnapping stories. For example for the '24 eclipse I'm just sticking to Texas
I guess you can easily transfer the knowledge to other libraries, APIs, etc. I think it is just a net benefit.
Feels like an enhancement to a sitemap.xml could be a better way to go here.

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...
The US is a low trust society?
You have to participate to fix the dysfunction you see.
You could make the argument it benefits anyone who sells equities, right now SPY has a penny wide bid/ask spread. One basis point is an extremely tight spread on an instrument that costs $413/unit. Pre-2001 the minimum tick size was $0.0625, and pre-1997 it was $0.125, I’ll take $0.01 spreads any day.
Whether the two statements are equivalent is a topic of some debate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule#Differences_in_sit...

> Immanuel Kant famously criticized the golden rule for not being sensitive to differences of situation, noting that a prisoner duly convicted of a crime could appeal to the golden rule while asking the judge to release him, pointing out that the judge would not want anyone else to send him to prison, so he should not do so to others. On the other hand, in a critique of the consistency of Kant's writings, several authors have noted the "similarity" between the Golden Rule and Kant's Categorical Imperative, introduced in Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals (See discussion at this link).
What is "LC question" short for?
The worst is the large amount of questions that solve an unrelated problem that's specific to the single asker's use case. Question, how do you do x? Response, oh, you can y instead and avoid x. Sorry, I want to know how to x, change the question
You mean the same era where Jobs cheated Woz out of his fair compensation and took credit for the Breakout game?
Japan doesn't. It is essentially a US vassal state when it comes to international disputes.

For China: Where would they put that money? They can't keep it in the Yuan because it strengthens their currency which destroys their export economy. So they have to buy other currencies to reduce demand for their currency while strengthening others. Which currency can they go to? The answer: USD. It's the only one that can support their scale.

Sure can they make up another currency? I think they've been trying to do a BRICs currency for a while now. However, you can be sure if that gains traction that the US will start doing something about it, either covertly or kinetically. It is that much of an existential threat to the US.
Yes, tightly packed circular tables were my bane.
Hindsight is 20/20 here and the default hasn't even happened yet.
the popcorn is probably 50% of it, for a family of 10.
Not the GP but tickets are $10 for matinees. They can easily be $18-22 for primetime shows. So if you're a family of 4 you're paying $80-90 for the tickets, everyone gets drinks, popcorn, maybe a snack or two.

It's easy to see it push $45-50 per person pretty quickly with kids.
This is a great comment, and I think one of the top comments on this post in that you actually know what you’re talking about. I found the breakdown comparing the protocols’ similarities and differences really enlightening.

It’s refreshing to see this perspective, and I appreciate trying to quash the us-vs-them thing, so thanks.
Gates might also be the most enthusiastic person about fast breeder reactors as he has put a lot of effort and money into SMRs, breed-and-burn fuel cycles, and making up the for the high cost of a three-stage heat transfer system by using the intermediate coolant to store energy ahead of time.
Love the story! It almost makes me feel good about academic fraud, no sarcasm intended.

I sincerely hope your nick is not PII though or you might have incriminated your brother.
This is why I enjoy both woodworking and code golfing. There's an inescapable objective success or failure indicator that no amount of posturing can overcome.

Either the code is short, or it isn't.

Either the chair supports your weight, or it breaks.

I think I enjoy these pursuits as an antidote to the kind of software I have to deal with on a daily basis - it's the kind that is so complex there are "no obvious deficiencies", so being able to retreat to domains where there are "obviously no deficiencies" is a treat.
> On another note, there was another presentation by what I believe was the same research group, which was haptic feedback on the hands without covering the palm or underside of the fingers (and non-invasively).

Got a link? That's definitely interesting.
A person who cheats is a person who cannot be trusted. Trustworthiness is one of the things employers are looking for.
My Russian friend frequently mentions that bribery and cheating is a national sport over there. If you want to get anything done that is. I am sure countries where it is prevalent know so.
Porn is the excuse, it fits in with "for the children!" They probably want to see who's posting what they consider "hate speech." It's an arrest able offense in the UK I believe. How the mighty have fallen.
In Blockchain, there are concurrent, multiple, anonymous appends to that log. That's why you need concenses.

In CT, all append are controlled. Nothing is anonymous.
Yeah. Almost like the capitalist pyramid shaped corporations while actually being... The same?! What a shock!

I know you probably heard that one, but as long as there is a boss or a general, it's not communism.

Also, democracy is vulnerable to this as well. No politician wants to appear incompetent, leading to lying about results and taking unnecessary risks.
I actually don't really disagree at all with the "Rules can be broken" part, but I can't say I agree with the conclusion that the people in the podcast drew. I don't mean to say though that they're bad people though, but more like these are complex issues and I don't think their analysis was right in the end.

This is just my personal take, but I like the Plato way of thinking about this. If we were to invent an evil person who succeeds at everything, including being perceived as good by their peers, and also invent a good person who fails at everything and is unfairly or coincidentally perceived as evil by everyone, the "good person" still wins.

He argues that's because to be "good" requires to know separate it from bad, and that essentially knowing good from bad is what wisdom is. This, he argues, comes from having some kind of access to the truth, and the truth is the end-all-be-all. He believes that truth is more powerful, than power itself.

Finally, he argues that truth is more powerful than power because with power alone you only have the ability to achieve your aims but not the ability to know if they're good for you or bad for you. So finally he says this is why tyrants are always such sad people.

I don't know if we can fix a broken system in the sense that the wise people will always have the power, but I do find his argument persuasive and I know which of the two I prioritize. That's why when people act out in these ways, like cheating on interviews but also other things, I just accept it as you laid out earlier. Rules can be broken. It's not ideal, but it's fine.
> technical default 32 years ago was blamed on check-processing glitches and quickly corrected . . . affected only a tiny percentage of maturing securities at the time.

Not exactly the same thing.
> Is there porn on Wikipedia though?

Yeah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisting

IIRC, most sex topics on Wikipedia similarly have a weird Wiki-how style illustration as well as contributed depictions (likely from exhibitionists).
tech has been unraveling for years now, especially with constant layoffs despite reporting record profits. Marx was most certainly onto something.
My iPhone 4S and iPad 2 were destroyed in performance after update from iOS6 to iOS7 (and helpfully without possibility of downgrade, thanks Apple), plus a lot of apps were deprecated in that update due to some API changes or whatever. That's just adding more data points to the legend of "perfect updates on the iPhones".

My Samsung phone is 3 years old, it got 3 major updates over these years, and last update was 29/03/2023, a little more than a month ago. It also didn't slow a bit over time.

People making a cult out of some common industry standards are tiring really. Sure, Apple lead the way with those standards (and destroyed some when it was profitable for them too), but that happened ages ago. You might as well remember some Android phones from 10 years ago and compare them to iPhone 14.
I'd expect a better grasp of probability from a "theoretical physicist".
My reading of the application of Kant's imperative to this is different to yours. The "universal law" here would be "cheating on a test for Amazon" rather than "cheating on any test for any job".
Perhaps, but that is almost the opposite of what they said: in hard real time you can tolerate a longer average latency in return for needing a shorter maximum latency. That matches from what I would expect from a lock free data structure. But that doesn't match the (dubious) claim that locks are usually slower.
I remember failing a Facebook SWE interview a couple years back after a few months of studying "Cracking the Code" and some other textbooks - I blanked out on a rather basic question in retrospect ("reverse a linked list in place). It never really occurred to me to cheat, at the time I just figured Facebook had a high precision and low acceptance method of hiring - I could probably do the job pretty well but I didn't show high enough "precision" in the interview so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

I can tell an anecdote - when I took my qualifying exams in graduate school, every year there would be a different exam committee drawn from the faculty staff and their job was to come up with new questions. When I studied I looked at past exams going back 20 years and there was only a single question that was somewhat similar to a prior one - so cheating was quite impossible in the situation. People also underestimate the time and effort it takes to setup and design testing that is difficult to cheat. It's effort on the part of the testers and very hard to scale.

I used to design and interview for DS positions at my old job and I only had a question bank of 2-3 long form problems, in a case study style that I would use on all the candidates. The interviews are exhausting and it's a lot work because I have to personally "escort" each candidate through the problem and assess them qualitatively.
Digital photography kind of was like this.
The operational costs (film, development) were eliminated but the capital cost (cameras) were 5x higher and needed updating more often.

A serious amateur could shoot the same film body for a decade, or even a life, with maybe some regular maintenance (fairly repairable right up through cameras made in 80s and even 90s). Maybe they had a manual focus body, then an autofocus body, and.. that was about it. The camera you were using was probably re-sellable at a decent price because the production life of any given model could run up to a decade.

With digital, the leaps & bounds being made in tech caused camera purchases to be much more frequent. Say every 2 years in 2000s, every 3-4 years in 2010s, and every 4-5 years in 2020s, as the rate of change did eventually slow. Regardless, the camera body also became practically disposable, basically a write-off if damaged, and resale value plummeted due to the rate of advancement.

As it worked out, if you were a heavy shooter, maybe the operational cost going to $0 actually netted you out on the equipment spend.

Most light hobbyists and general vacations/weddings/birthdays sharpshooter ended up spending far more in the digital era. This lasted right up until iPhones became good enough, even indoors poorly lit, that most normies don't own a single camera (5~10 years back).

Camera makers have adjusted to this new world by moving up-market, with less frequent releases, but at higher and higher price points. They understand that their main market now is hobbyists, and the decision to spend $$ vs 0 to enter the hobby is a bigger decision than spending $3k or $1.5k on a body.
Looks like it was submitted to the joke conference SIGTBD: sigtbd.csail.mit.edu/#home. The conference was April 7, so they were in fact four days early. (Although not publishing on April 1 does seem like a missed opportunity.)
Eh, I think you’re underselling the value of “free” stuff. Even if it has an ulterior motive, giving free access to computing resources allows someone to learn concepts and even ship things that would otherwise be impossible.

None of these companies are altruistic and everyone knows it, but by not charging upfront it gives possibilities for millions of developers who don’t have US$ 50/month to spend on something (students, emerging economies, career changers, etc).
So then why hire technically excellent people? They might expect excellent salaries or excellent working conditions.
but cheating indicates a lack of moral integrity, which might seep into the aspect of how they treat their patients.
So who is being harmed by someone not reversing a binary tree by memory for an interview?
You could leave your phone at home and go for a long walk too...
In many respects the world functions as it does because not everyone thinks and acts like that. Anytime there is significant power / resource asymmetry for any period of time, it seems it will eventually be captured by sociopaths / psychopaths.