skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was interviewing a year ago. They were required at all but one role I interviewed at. And I told them to test me anyways, despite them wanting to waive.

If you are interviewing as a software engineer, you should be able to write FizzBuzz. Yes, it is stressful. Yes, I hate leetcode too. But, a company has every right to check that you at least know the basic skill you say you do.
> That's what the article is about

I thought the article's subtext, or implication, was about how line-of-business software writers will soon be replaced by some LLM that attempts to follow the clients' requests as-best-as-possible when its generating its own software domain-model and simply refusing to ever push-back to the client: the ultimate obsequious SWE - which means that software-quality will go down the drain.

...which I think is a rather specific prediction of the future and doesn't consider whether automated program-synthesis (whether LLM-based or otherwise) would be able to interrogate proposed requirements, identify flaws and inconsistencies, and require the user to correct their input before generating the code that defines the system.
The worst part is that they have some sort of FAQ that asks "what if I don't have a phone/don't want to use my phone number" and Discord's official answer is use someone else's. And although I've never been burned by this, I've seen plenty of anecdotes where changing the phone number in account settings can mess up access to the account, or someone can't make their own account with their own phone number because a friend used that number previously.

To me, that's proof that they want phone numbers for mining purposes more than verification ones.
Perfect for building my next homepage! I'll start off with something simple, maybe add an under construction gif or two to ensure people know content is coming soon.
One helpful tip to avoid most of the sketchy cheap cameras that try to send your data to China: Look for "NDAA compliant" cameras that are approved for use by the US government.

There's a Taiwanese brand Vivotek that makes some relatively affordable NDAA cameras. I'm hoping to try them out myself, but unfortunately haven't had time yet.
Keith Rabois: How to Operate (2014)
Companies violate the law all of the time. The procedural hurdles of enforcing GPL are significant, to the point where blatent violations normally go unpunished. Assuming someone with standing decides to sue and ends up winning the lawsuit, the punishment is generally minor. Mostly the outcome is that the company must comply going forward.

If you can get years of non-compliance in beforehand, and use that to reshape the market in your favor, why is the fact that a court might eventually tell you that you violated the license a problem?
the number of people who would meet such a definition are so trivially small as to be irrelevant.
could but the versions of those nutrients in supplements are usually not the same versions, but precursors that don't have the same bioavailability. There's also the fact that there are other micronutrients that we don't know if they are or aren't actually necessary for optimal health. Again, see choline[1], "in 2007 most commercial formulas were “humanized” in terms of choline content" ... That's 2007, which is really recent. That is just a single example. What else will be missing from lab meat?

Again, not opposed to lab grown meat... I still feel that it may be appropriate to still consume some animal based nutrition. Even if that is limited to mostly dairy, eggs and/or fish. As I stated earlier, half to two thirds of what people consume is mostly energy alone. Hormonal responses will vary based on the content, but strictly speaking, not so bad one way or another, provided an appropriate balance of amino and fatty acids, which even there, I doubt will be optimal.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4422379/
There are successful grid battery installations, but as far as I know, there are no grid-scale battery installations. Existing installations have really small capacity, and are only used for things like demand smoothing. The only energy storage solution deployed at scale is pumped hydro storage.
> not an entirely like-for-like comparison.

I'm not sure why Windows minimum hardware requirements are relevant at all. If they were, they could get massive performance improvements by raising the hardware requirements. "Sure it's slow, but it's running on literally 1% of minimum recommended RAM!"
What is a transformer model? (2022)
Yes.

Another way of stating that is that all professions (aside from math-based ones) are inconsistent at some level of detail and have various workarounds for that.

Even accountants are paid to give "accounting opinions" about the various legalities and appropriate nature of the books. Looking across a bunch of domains, once you get people involved, around the edges of the problem domain accumulates a lot of fluff that for throughout history didn't matter. It still might not matter. Or maybe it does. We're the first to spot it.
When I was in elementary school, there was some water drinking challenge

And the teachers warned against it, and someone told about a child dying from drinking just one liter of tapwater
No, the use of ChatGPT is the only reason that they thought they had a colorable argument that the case could be won.
Are you sure this applies to laptops from back then? The minimal laptop that could run NT must have been so much worse than a desktop.
Man that rendering of Hans Holbein the Younger's portrait of Thomas Cromwell is god-awful.

I saw it in person as a kid in the Frick Collection in NY hanging opposite Holbein's portrait of Thomas More and they completely changed how I looked at art. In person the portraits look downright photorealistic and when you get close to them, the detail is staggering, down to the stubble on More's face.

The photo in TFA looks nothing like I remember it. I wouldn't be surprised if RGB were inadequate in representing the colors, especially with proper museum lighting.
Did you try out those suggestions or stand firm that no matter what you refuse to like this game?
This does not make the picture better.

Here are two models of production:

1. You mostly make the thing yourself and pay the R&D + production costs in-house (i.e. public sector). There is little to no profit-waste. You need the thing, and so you created the thing. In this case, you are aware of the personnel, R&D, production costs. AFAIK this was mostly the state of play during WW2, or at least a lot more common.

2. You notify the market that you want a thing, and pay a profit-seeking vendor for the finished thing. You need the thing, so you bought it. The price breakdown beyond the product itself is opaque. You should not need to be aware of the personnel, R&D, production costs of BigContractor Inc. Does it actually cost $40K to produce a trash can? Fine, then that+profit will be the lowest bid.

You are describing a corrupted third model, where you essentially manage the entire production process, but also give extra money (profit) to a third-party. To say nothing of the massive waste of involving unnecessary middlemen.

This third model may or may not be how the government actually procures stuff, but again, it does not improve the picture of enormous government waste here.
Definitely a fair take; I think Ansible still has a place in containerized environments, but the nice thing is it can play a large or small role depending on how much you want to learn other tools which might be better at a specific automation segment (like Terraform for infra resources).
I had a company ask me to put together a performance improvement plan involving proposed changes, instrumentation and engineering changes. They expected me to look at all their existing code, talk with engineering and other employees and put together this plan in 6-7 hours, an already ridiculously large time frame. I told them that allotted time was way too small for what they wanted and withdrew my application. It felt like they wanted me to put together a plan they could implement without paying or hiring me. Worse, I'd be working around their schedules to have these conversations so it wasn't really a take home assignment.

I wish I had saved a copy of the assignment. It was ridiculous.
Great point. Fe batteries are very new so I'm not aware of the cost/benefit or if Fe batteries still slowly discharge over time, but yeah in both cases you're just oxidizing iron, so why not take the more direct route to generate electrical current directly.
It's not, but the bots are out in force
Fewer than 20% of physicians belong to the AMA, so that’s just an absurd statement. By that logic all old people are the 15th largest bribers.
Most electrical components have traditionally had open datasheets. It is only a relatively recent phenomenon that mass market ICs are locked behind NDAs.
no, early europeans who first settled in California believed the practice was primitive. later generations would continue:

> In a 1918 letter, a district ranger at Klamath National Forest wrote to his supervisor that the US Forest Service’s most important duty was to keep fires to a minimum, but “renegade whites and Indians” were setting fires “for pure cussedness”, not caring whether the fires harmed others.

> He suggested that the solution was “to kill them off, every time you catch one sneaking around in the brush like a coyote, take a shot at him”. He also suggested hiring a female missionary who had “gained the confidence” of Indigenous people to convince them to adopt settler theories about fire.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/3/new-california-law-...
I’ve also encountered that a few times where a fairly anodyne bug in a codepath prevents a serious security bug from being reachable. With my attacker hat on it is very tempting to just report the first one…
I use clarified butter since it has a higher melting point, and it even flavors the popcorn.
> people who don't entertain any thoughts of poking their consciousness in some way are missing the point of life. If you don't ask "why am I here" or "what's this all about" then things get pretty bland pretty quickly.

I didn't get anything "spiritual" out of them. If anything, it made me realize that spirituality is a complete sham

Hot take, the "spiritual" reason for doing psychedelics is this: they hate their own lives and think that some "transcendental experience" will change that

There's only one legit reason for doing them: to get high. The "spirituality" reason is just a bunch of BS. The people who buy into it are the last ones who should be doing them
"nanomachines, son"
Darn. I have Ultimate, and I love it. But MSFT were clearly leaving money on the table to drive adoption, and it's clearly worked. Still a great deal overall, but marginally less so now.

Even then, it's a fantastic service - I don't have to buy individual games anymore.
Nobody wants you to ever turn a device off, or to ever log out of a website.
In 2000, I would turn on my Pentium MMX 233Mhz machine running Windows 95, and then go and make popcorn while it started up.
Yes. Adam Smith himself stated that capitalism requires sufficient regulation in order to even be able to persist, as insufficiently regulated capitalism will inevitably devolve into monopoly.
Flagged because Tom has written before about not wanting his website to be linked to from HN, and we should respect that.
>If you can't load a page with 30 dishes fast enough, you have a serious problem

That depends on your scale. If your product is "large enough" it is relatively easy to get into the range of several seconds of response time.

Here are some of the steps you may want to execute before responding a resquest to your user:

- Get all the dishes that have the filters the user selected

- Remove all dishes from restaurants that doen't delivery in the user location

- Remove all dishes from restaurants that aren't open right now

- Get all discount campaigns for the user and apply its effects for every dish

- Reorder the dish list based on the history of the user interactions

Now imagine that for every step in this list you have, at least, a single team of developers. Add some legacy requirements and a little bit of tech debt... That's it, now you have the perfect stage for a request that takes 5-10 seconds.
That OS is five years old when that computer was made.

Here's a much more apt comparison (still really snappy):

https://twitter.com/jmmv/status/1672073678102872065/mediaVie...
Oh, but they are. I'm extremely productive on stock macOS, way more than on Windows. I just don't keep complaining that Windows is broken. Some people obviously love it.
> local legal communities have long memories.

So does Google, and anyone researching these lawyers or this firm in the future...
OK, 10% of actually-active accounts. Reddit certainly has a huge number of zombie accounts - I think I have 3.
I've noticed this as I've gotten older, but I think it's me—not the games. I can point to two reasons:

* I have less time or patience to invest in learning the intricacies of complex games that used to be so rewarding. I've been a big fan of Paradox games over the years, but man, the amount of time needed to really appreciate games like Hearts of Iron or Crusader Kings isn't worth it to me anymore.

* I feel less capable of "suspending reality" in RPGs. When I was a kid, I feel like I could get super immersed in things like the Elder Scrolls games—I probably have more hours in Oblivion than any other game to date. But I don't quite get that same feeling anymore. Adulthood, I guess?

Now, I almost exclusively play relaxing games that don't require too much mental overhead (like Diablo). I'll still pick up indie games that get a lot of traction (enjoyed Hades and Disco Elysium), but rarely touch AAA games.
Thanks for sharing this. Can you share which models did more poorly and which did better than average?
Not to be confused with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rabbit_Project_(TV_serie...
I'm concerned that such a game would be so much more rewarding to me as a developer than my actual software development job is, that I would become miserable at work!
> I'm not sure what the arbitrary human-imposed classification of "controlled by the federal government" has to do with anything

I would assume that forests on federal land are managed by the federal government, and forests owned by the state are managed by the state. California might not have a lot of say whether prescribed burns happen on federal land.
A brief history of the dark web
I think the real issue is the misapplication of take-homes.

If after 3-4 rounds of systems interviewing, the company came back and said: "Hey we like you, and we're interested in making an offer, but we want to check your skills..." Yeah, I'd do the assessment. Especially if I did 1 round of 45m coding. Without that, the company can't verify that I have "FizzBuzz" level skills, and that I didn't cheat on the assessment.

When it is upfront, it is rarely worth it on either side. Companies lose a large fraction of the engineers applying into their funnel, and honestly as an engineer, it is rarely worth my time. I can spend that time interviewing at other companies that respect my time.

As with many things in life: It is when, and how things are done. Not what things are done that often matters.
This is common confusion. It is O(n) where n is the number of objects, but LRU is O(m) where m is the number of requests, which is often more than the number of objects :)
> I firmly believe that there was something very, very important there. Something we're losing.

Yeah, it's called critical thinking. There's a lot of people that lucked into a lot of money, but without the critical thinking skills to understand their own survivor bias or that the world where they merited such a windfall does not, in fact, exist.

> Neither you nor the person you were helping had any idea of how this was all going to work out, and that was just fine. It always worked out, and you always got paid. Mostly.

This is false. You actually knew exactly how it was going to work out, because if you got to the point of framing out the problem, you already performed the required analysis.

You want to know what happened? You solved it. You won. You automated the drudgery, but the way capitalism and public companies are designed is that you need to keep chasing returns on capital. Returns that aren't there anymore because of the law of diminishing returns.

So what do you do? You invent a world where those returns exist. Of course they don't, and the world itself doesn't exist. But you have to invent it to make shareholders and all the workers believe that it does.

So there goes your critical thinking out of the window.
Another version of this story was recently flagged -- however the interview appears to be legit and is highly relevant, and the subject is well within site guidelines. This post links to the original article.
(I worked on Firefox for 9 years)

> Why is libxul a shared library?

A lot of this is historical and is now very difficult to change without negatively impacting users.

> It is not used by a bunch of other applications besides Firefox so there isn’t much saving from being shared.

In the 2000s it was designed to do so, via XULRunner. You're also forgetting about Thunderbird and SeaMonkey (though I don't think that either of those can actually share libxul.so with Firefox anymore, but I digress).

But as to why it is the case now, there are still compatibility considerations that fall out from the era when Gecko+XUL were written as a runtime environment for hosting applications.

For example, I recall that during the Electrolysis project, we wanted to get rid of the plugin-container executable on MacOS and just host all Firefox child processes using firefox. Some "security" software would break Firefox because it made certain assumptions about the way that various Firefox binaries interacted with each other.

FWIW, Gecko used to consist of a lot more separate libraries, but over the years we recognized that there were a lot of performance issues that we could mitigate by combining them, so most shared libraries were folded into libxul.
Sure, but the role of structured analysis is also done by Product Managers and Architects - if we end up in a world of AI code monkeys, the work shifts to these roles, themselves also assisted by AI.
At that rate, there should be an encyclopedia dedicated to all projects that can be described as greenwashing.

I think it's a new strategy to "drown the fish", by flooding the media with "green" technologies just to pretend to say "we heard you, we are going to change the world with green new things" only to save more time until everybody realize each of those new projects are just not viable. The air travel sector seems to be rife with this.

Who could have guessed that snake oil could work in something as serious as the energy sector, I'm really surprised it's getting so low.

I'm going to be brutally honest, but you even hear people from first world countries playing the poverty card when you tell them they should stop driving alone in a 1 ton vehicle, and it seems sobriety and de-growth will have to convince those people that fossil fuels are a privilege, not a right.

I can bet that we are going to see people sabotaging cars, gas stations and refineries pretty soon if nothing is done. Greta Thunberg will be 25 soon and a whole generation will not tolerate more lies.
Do you have experience raising animals? I do.

The sheer amount of excrement that you have to handle is absurd, and it's a well documented problem that the nitrogen leaks into aquifers and nearby water, causing massive problems (including the dead zone in the gulf of mexico). This is without commenting on how removing trees in the pasture reduces absorbtion of the nutrients on location and helps with the leaking into water.

What is done to animals in farms is also far from what most people would consider acceptable.

You might be out of touch with what this industry actually comprises.

Esit: And it's impossible to enforce anything on farmers regarding this, there are barely inspections every couple years of the state of the building, enforcing waste management and animal welfare is a pipe dream.
Far be it from me to defend our system of lobbying the government, but there's a big difference between bribery and federal lobbying. Your phrasing poisons the well.
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I'm sad the 2FA impl that was on enterprise.lemmy.ml made it out into production because that is some "what are you doing?!"

I guess it's ok though because there's just no source of years and years of precedent from which one could draw inspiration of how to correctly handshake a 2FA setup on ones account to keep from getting locked out :-/
But we seem to be cruising down that path so quickly that we might not even notice the weird turns.
And the TV show.
Wow, I didn't expect someone to remember Planetarion! I played it back then but I have no idea how popular it was overall.
> It will never be perfect, but every little improvement helps.

Or it might convince people to stay longer on a plane with a provably [0] terrible safety record.

[0] https://alexgaynor.net/2020/may/27/science-on-memory-unsafet...
Behan may have been talking about Oliver Cromwell, who I think figured much larger as an object of execration among the Irish. But, hey, my surname looks Dutch, so don't ask me.

My recollection of Borstal Boy was that the doggerel you quote was an ad-hoc translation from Irish.
Why do your docs use `var` for variable declarations?
There is also the fact that the natural state includes letting lightning induced fires burn out.
Be careful when doing this. If left unchecked this could very easily start a fire. I did this with an old Nexus 5 and it only took a couple of days before I had a spicy pillow.

Although, this probably works well for a device with a removable battery and that can be powered by USB alone.
For those who were not around, or forgot: A fresh install was indeed glorious. Fast, clean, snappy, but everything invariably slowed down to a crawl within a few months and you had to reinstall and reformat about once a year go get your shit under control because it became unbearable.
> I agree; He needs to just accept that he will be assaulted in some neighborhoods and avoid those. /s

so i should buy a gun, use 911 as a recording system, buy a pair of good running shoes, and wear a body cam? but this guy who moved to the tenderloin shouldn't have to accept that he lives in a bad neighborhood?
Even more annoying is when ads pop in a second or so later under the cursor position just before you click, taking you to the ad not what you wanted to click.
I'd be surprised if indie developers with existing successful iPhone/iPad apps aren't allowed to get one