skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Removing a book from a school library is not banning it.

You can still obtain these books at public libraries, book stores, online, or literally anywhere else one obtains books.
Looking at a couple of programs I work on:

9,500 lines of code, 8 are unsafe.

7,000 lines of code, 22 are unsafe.

14,000 lines of code, 140 are unsafe.

As we follow the standard rust rule that "safe code should not be able to use unsafe code to do unsafe things", those unsafe bits of code have been very carefully checked, to the best of our abilities, to ensure they don't create memory safety issues. It is a lot easier to triple-check 170 lines of code than 30,000 lines.
I love my fully battery powered ebike but I am well aware they are prohibited pretty much everywhere. When filling out the form I figured a bike is not a vehicle because they tend to be explicitly spelled out, but ebikes are more often prohibited (though in my area, not enforced), and my overpowered ebike is illegal everywhere, but I am respectful of others and there is no enforcement.
This is explicitly what bootcamp graduates are asked to do. It’s possible, they were just filtering out candidates that can’t work that fast.
Release early and often, or release when it’s all done.

Shipping isn’t easy.

Anki is definitely nice and full of features but also a victim of design by committee and kind of consulted at times.

Lots of space out there for options and alternatives.
> If your bank is insolvent and trying to raise money; it's incredible rational to withdrawal your money before it collapses.

To me one of the concerns there is it certainly seemed like Peter Thiel had a lot more specific insights on how real this solvency concern was, given that late Wednesday night he told his companies to have their money out of SVB by COB the next day, and that a loan application app needed to be up and running by noon Friday.
The Ultra-Extreme Calorie Restriction Diet Test (2006)
The poor communication roughly mirrors my experience there as well. I had expressed interest in one of their infrastructure operations positions and was given access to the repo with the project after a wait of about a week to hear back. Due to some life events I wasn’t able to start looking at the project in earnest for about another week, whereupon I had some questions. So I sent questions to the individual that originally contacted me. Never heard back.

Was it my issue waiting a short time to start it? Maybe, but you’d think they’d at least try to answer a question or two. Oh well, I just gave up because if they weren’t going to put in any time, why should I?
Its more private companies vs public agencies. Compare SpaceX to NASA and you will see the exact same thing.
I think the instructions are ambiguous. The instructions first say to disregard any "rule in your jurisdiction which overrides certain rules", or whether your "religion allows certain rules to be overridden". But both of these hypotheticals are reasons why you might disregard the desires of the hypothetical park owner who instituted the rule. This is different from the police and ambulance examples, where the park owner would almost certainly want to allow those vehicles.

The instructions then continue, "Again, please answer the question of whether the rule is violated (not whether the violation should be allowed)." But again this could be interpreted two ways.

One interpretation is that an emergency vehicle entering the park would technically violate the rule, but everyone (including legal and religious authorities and the park owner) would agree that the violation "should" be allowed. However, I interpreted "should" more in line with the previous statements as referring to some kind of controversy (park owner says it's not allowed, but for legal or religious or moral reasons I think it should be allowed). Under this interpretation, the rule has an implicit exception for emergency vehicles, so they are not violating it. The exception is just so obvious that it's not worth including (especially given the text length limits of the signs where park rules tend to be written down).

My interpretation might sound like a stretch. But imagine if the rule instead said "No vehicles in the park, including emergency vehicles." Wouldn't that be materially different? Yet the difference doesn't affect whether a violation should be legally/religiously/morally allowed. At most, it might hint that there might be some practical reason why emergency vehicles shouldn't enter (perhaps it's dangerous), and perhaps a reasonable emergency vehicle operator should take that information into account when determining whether violating the rule would be justified. But that's only an indirect effect, and there's clearly more to it than that. Regardless of whether there is any justification, the clause would clarify that the park owner really doesn't want emergency vehicles, when otherwise we would assume they do. And to me that difference is best interpreted as affecting "whether the rule is violated".
Well my view was that the answer is yes the ambulance violates the rule, but violating the rule is morally fine there. But still pedantically yes the ambulance does violate the no vehicles rule.
And let's not forget the 77-year-old Senator John Glenn!
If you see a sign that says this in a park you wouldn’t go tell a person in a wheelchair to get out of the park (I hope). Common sense is a thing and it’s also a thing in comment moderation. This isn’t rocket surgery.
Well said about Anki.

I use it and it’s not for the many, and learning with spaced repetition should be.
IPV4.2: IPV4 with six octets. We'd have it well before now if the second system effect and the architecture astronauts had been quelled.
you dont need self promotion when you spend taxpayers money
Lots of people on this very forum have bitterly complained about a supposed major drop in product quality for 1Password since their relatively recent adoption of a cross-platform electron app.
Just to pick the nit, what about stilts? Are they shoes or vehicles?
I agree with you, but also the first time I did it I started answering in a different way, before realizing I should change my interpretation.

I started answering by interpreting the choice as "is this allowed in the park", not "does this violate the rule".

I'm not sure if this page makes its point better or worse if you know what it's testing. It's interesting though how explicit you have to be if you want people to not add any additional context. But also, so much of the questions rely on context. So it feels like an unfair test, but it's hard to say exactly why.
However significant global events are often the exception to this rule. Did the russian invasion of Ukraine get a blackout on HN?
It's not a news source!

And increasingly nearly everything that is mainstream news or clickbait shows up on HN anyway, despite the Guidelines page saying it's off topic.

If CNN, Reuters, the AP, the NY Times, are covering something, it will show up 5 minutes later if a given item disappears.
It has a lead but is no where near mainstream where the maximum amount of people could improve their opportunities to improve their lives.
Funny to see this and other comments like it today. I’m European, and just back from an enjoyable day at the Kennedy Space Center. NASA certainly knows how to promote their space program. Got to see the launch of 56 starlink satellites. And that Saturn 5 rocket is pretty big.
Ask 10 non technical users
Those people failed to follow the spirit of the quiz.
The basic function of transferring data between the flash chips and the PCIe bus shouldn't be a bottleneck.

Dedicated silicon for error correction might be more efficient, but when there are already fast idle CPU cores it may not matter, and ECC algorithms can already be accelerated by SIMD instructions. Or for high performance machines add the dedicated silicon to the host CPU.
No Content without JavaScript, wants to know my location onload, depends on 3rd party CDN.
Feature count won’t make it better than Anki, but user experience will.
It’s funny, I first thought the game was going to be a commentary on the “no mechanical transport in the wilderness” rule that he mentioned at the end. You cannot have a bicycle in the wilderness. You can’t push it or carry it. I guess this simplifies enforcement. If someone is camped with a bike, they can be ticketed.

I have friends that do long bike camping trips, and they sometimes want to pass through areas of wilderness on their trips. What do they do? They take apart the bike and pack it, because you are allowed to have bike parts in the wilderness.
Why not build on top of Anki?
A public statement is for the public, kooks included, and when some of those kooks are political figures that makes it even more reasonable to make such a statement.
Wear leveling: Just search Google Scholar for "wear leveling" to get an idea for how deep that rabbit hole goes. At minimum think about the difference between placing an infrequently written logical sector vs a frequently written one, and what the optimal strategy would be given physical blocks with varying write life left on them. Then how do you partition between regions you treat as SLC vs MLC? And on and on and on.

Error correction: Not just amount. What block size? Interleaving? How do you trade overhead due to more ECC vs overhead due to more spare blocks (have to decide how many to allocate up front)? What is the behavior vs temperature and what are you running the thing at?

There has been an ongoing push to standardize NAND interfaces but the controller still needs to know a fair amount about the specific chips it's talking to. I don't know how it will resolve but hopefully the integration becomes more like DRAM where things are a bit more consistent. Then again, if you care a lot about reliability you qualify specific DRAM modules too...
As in… “having read Machiavelli’s The Prince, I am aware that a mercenary army is not reliable?” ??

That’s what keeps occurring to me.
If I were an inhabitant of Rostov, I’d do everything possible to leave the city in the next 12 to 24 hours.
“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight“—Bill Gates
Look at bullet train network in China, which is probably inspiring EU now. Today it’s about 40,000 km. Total amount of time spent traveling is about same as with airplanes (less time waiting on airport but more time on vehicle) but price is cheaper, ride much more comfortable.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/china-high-speed-rail-cmd...
If I understand the question correctly, you’d like to build a networked system entirely on a single machine.

If this is the case, then I’d recommend trying docker-compose. It’s quite an easy little system to get up and running, just need a single file to declare different containers and their relationships. Then just run “docker-compose up/down” to spin up and spin down the network.

The beauty of this is that it can run on extremely barebones Linux distributions, as it’s all container based.

It’s a great starting point anyway, and I’m sure there’s many alternatives now that use a similar api
Around 4.91% interest up to $4M.
I wouldn't ordinarily define a wheelchair as a vehicle. But I looked up a definition:

a thing used for transporting people or goods

On this basis, I conclude that wheelchairs, roller skates and carried skatebords are vehicles, and horses are not (as thing implies non-sentience).
It's time to bring back the harpoon
> Furthermore, the returns at SVB were not that spectacular, I assure you. They were just a very startup-friendly bank.

4.91% when most other banks were offering in the region of 0.1-0.2% is fairly spectacular.
> Social norms are quite culture-specific.

This is an argument against migration then.
You ignored an important lesson IMO.

Use the right tool for the job.

Your entire journey here is battling with Python and not the problem space. Your improvements are solely measured by how your code leaves Python problem solving space, so you end up writing what's probably unpythonic and unmaintainable Python.

Why?

Rewrite in Go, Rust or C++ or whatever.

If you need to go faster than Python, don't use Python. Python is great for everything else. Its overhead and sluggish execution are consequences of its greatest strength.
Induction DC stove tops are also popular for off the grid cooking…when you just have solar panels and a car battery.
You seriously don't think some clarity could have helped? Like, if the law explicitly said strollers are okay and that bicycles are [not] okay, you think the quiz wouldn't have more consistent answers?

Or maybe the rule was only supposed to be for things with motors/engines and after clarifying instantly 2/3 of the questions are an easy objective "allowed".

You can't fix subjectivity, but you can reduce it, and this quiz is based on super low hanging fruit.
In those model rocket circles, there's a strongly held belief that any code you write that includes a PID controller to steer a rocket is sensitive information / ITAR restricted.
This could be an interesting product idea.

Link the assignment for the applicant to the dev team to anonymously help with.
It seems to me there is scope for a language feature of 'managed memory' where you declare the data you need and how it is to be accessed (or access can be determined from the program), and let the language/compiler figure out how to organize it for safety and performance.

For example if you declare an array of structures, the compiler/language should be able to turn that into a structure of arrays under the hood if that is the way the data is accessed.

Not sure how that could work in practice, I guess you'd start with hints, but it seems like something to research. Indeed I'm sure there's already some research in this area.
The FAA has a tiered framework of safety regulations based on the relationship of the passengers to the flight that makes sense to me:

Tier 1: Scheduled airline service -- Passengers generally can't choose the model of aircraft and might even get a different airline via codeshare. They have no ability to evaluate the pilot before the flight.

The airline, flight related employees, and the aircraft are all subject to heavy regulation.

Tier 2: Charter aircraft -- Passengers are usually choosing the aircraft and can speak to the pilots. Still very substantial regulation but less than airlines.

Tier 3: Private flying -- pilots can't charge for the flight, only share costs, and have to be traveling together even to share costs. Passengers will generally know the pilot personally and be able to evaluate their judgment. Regulations are much lighter.

Tier 4: Experimental aircraft -- Airplanes that haven't been certified have to have EXPERIMENTAL in big letters as you get on the plane, and you can't charge passengers money at all. Bigger and faster experimental aircraft like jet fighters are more regulated in where and when they can fly so that they're less likely to kill people on the ground when they crash, but the FAA is relatively hands-off if it's only the pilot's life at risk.
I think you are underestimating the potential of a shared trauma experience in Bakhmut and a new motivating factor of "revenge". Whether it's enough is uncertain, but it has to factor.
How is electron better than a web page for accessibility?
That's all just degrowth narrative. We should all go back to using coal fired trains because then we might use them less. Lets use horses instead of cars, then people will travel less.

> peak oil, biodiversity collapsing, climate change just joining the party

Peak oil isn't a thing.

Rocket launch pads actually are great for biodiversity as it requires a lot of land around it without humans. And animals turns out aren't that bothered by occasional rocket launches. See the high biodiversity around Kennedy Space Center as an example.

Climate change will mostly be decided on other playing fields.

> well rich people will be able to go have dinner in space, just for fun

How about trying not hold back the space industry when that is more then 0.0X% of the the market.
A large crash spike affecting Firefox users on Linux
What this may be is an allowed or planned rebellion which targets the military and actually helps Putin.
A 1900 TDE while basically voluntarily starving oneself (a bmi of 15), is jaw-dropping. Fucking nuts. By contrast, when I dieted to just 160 with bmi of 23 anything above 1600 I put on weight. Even Minnesota Starvation Experiment subjects had to eat 1,570/day in order to lose enough weight. pro bodybuilders not uncommonly eat fewer calories when cutting, and they have steroids and tons of muscle helping too. It shows how important genes are, in the end, for weight loss, even intentional weight loss. Having a really fast metabolism and minimal metabolic adaptation will make it easier because you can eat more food and those calories get burned off, not stored as fat.
I'd like to create one with basic and obvious gamification integrated into the design.

Every aspect of my child's life is intensively, scientifically designed to be addictive and hyperstimulating except learning.

Then we're back to digital flash cards that somehow manage to suck even worse than analog hand written flash cards.

Not beating up on your early demo. Solid foundation. But please try to imagine a child using it and enjoying it. And whatever design decisions that implies will probably serve us adults better too.
There should be a question then, "4 people carry a small car into the park"
This has empirically resulted in bad hiring, at multiple companies I’ve worked at. The best predictor of senior performance on the job has been the take home test or coding challenge. We frequently have seniors who suggest that the technical discussion would be enough for senior roles. We always have to let them down a bit when we tell them that the discussion is less predictive than they’ve built it up to be in their mind.
It was under 7 for a really long time. Seeing it above 7 again actually feels weird to me, like we are back in 2007 or so.
> Not once have I “passed” a take home interview

I have had the exact same experience. They have always been a complete waste of time for me and I have since adopted a policy that any takehome challenges = automatic close the loop for me. It's not worth explaining why either. If this is your process and you find it appropriate to offer it as a first option, then it's just not a good fit.
Stealing focus should be a misdemeanor!
Everything is an exception to the rule! There is nothing so contrary to the Guidelines that it won't show up. I see "Taboola" items on the default Microsoft front page of Edge and they appear on HN.

I grant that the worst of it comes in waves, but I just do not see this place as remotely being what it aspires to be.

Whatever conspiratorial activity exists at the moment on HN is clearly devoted to the silly accusations of censorship.

Any real geopolitical events will continue tomorrow and be widely reported on all over the world.
I'm a well constructed system, you could probably get this down to one PostGIS query with some joins and spacial indexes that should run in <100ms.
13k today is not like 9k in 2019.
Interesting project, great work on getting it done.

One thing I noticed is that the video in the readme doesn’t actually show the generated code running. It would be much more convincing if it did!
I think that was a really good way to get the point across. Which I suppose I already agreed to, but if I ever wanted to argue the point of how hard content moderation is, I might share this website.
Amazon commits to $15B India investment
which is really a good way to do it.
you design it to be so many pounds, when you get it all together you should be there (or close to it).
> why most geneticists believe

Whenever I see a claim of this type, I always wonder how you back it up?

I'm not saying that most geneticists don't believe what you're saying, because I have no clue what most members of any profession believe about anything. I have plenty of gut feelings, but how do you go beyond that?

Did you mean most geneticists that you know? That you've seen articles from?
Is this a serious post?
Most do, but then something like the Great Recession happens. Eventually it leads to generational phenomena like this, https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehamilton/2023/04/21/ge...

Job prospects for millennials were awful just as they were graduating from college etc., but their student loan interest didn't cease compounding.
> toggling the scroll direction to the right value in window's settings menu? It's had it for years at this point

Are you sure about that? I had to edit some registry values on my gaming machine to get natural scrolling.
China’s PPP is weird. It isn’t apples to apples, it is Chinese living standard to American living standard. Many things in China are actually more expensive than the USA, what is cheaper is generally related to food and services, otherwise you just go with cheaper alternatives in China instead, and they are cheaper for a reason. Housing is a good example: you aren’t going to fund the same standard f housing in China for cheaper than the USA, but you can find cheaper housing (I.e. not as nice as you would rent in the states). Cars are another good example: they have cheap cars, but if you want to buy say a Camry in china, you’ll pay more than you would in the USA (and we aren’t even talking imports, they are made in Chinese factories at a lesser quality standard than the USA or Japan).
They (suspiciously but not necessarily intentionally) avoid calling attension to it but:

> Let ({fω}ω∈Ω,Ω) be the decomposition that corresponds to N. Label the parts 1,...,p.

p is the number of regions the deep network divides R^n into, and is in general exponential in the network depth. (Eg consider R^1 = [-1,+1], L[k](x) = 2*abs(x)-1 ∀k (where abs(x) = x - 2*ReLU(-x), IIRC), which divides R^1 into 2^D equal segments using only D individual ReLUs, assuming I wrote the formulas down correctly.)

So for a arbitrary deep network the shallow network size is definitely exponential in input depth, and while it's not clear whether that's true for typical 'trained' deep networks, I would be surprised if it wasn't.
I would rather feel the metagame is that you are being free labor for an actual problem/task they are having in the company.
> because you are allowed to have bike parts in the wilderness.

I would love for someone to try disassembling less of the bike and still getting ticketed, just to see how that line ends up getting drawn. Is a bike without a seat still a bike? What about a bike with no tires? Does 50% of the bike need to be "contiguous" to be considered a bike? If it can be ridden? What if there are no pedals? Is a unicycle considered a bike?
Nobody said what they meant with enough clarity. And then it became tribal.
I've handed fully containerized code, with 100% code coverage. (Separate entry point from default to run the tests.) Then been told no.

I suspect the people weren't used to having someone hand in a basically 100% guaranteed to work program ;).

(I do know 100% code coverage doesn't mean working. But the docker container helps a good bit in making sure the code will run in the environment I wrote it for.)
About space stations, ambulances, matchbox cars, and the rest of it I'd venture yes. The only one that seemed remotely jurisdiction-dependent was bicycles.

Can you name a single real park that denies entry to police or ambulances or wheelchairs?