skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hiring is a die roll. Here's a good model:

- You want to hire someone with a competency of 100 units

- A bad hire is expensive, and you definitely don't want one slipping in.

- There is a noise floor in the interview process of 50 units

- This means you need to set the hiring bar at 150 units to be sure no one below 100 units slips in

This means the vast majority of qualified people won't be hired (which is okay; the cost of a lost hire is low), but you're very unlikely to get the person who can't pass fizzbuzz.

The flip side is that the job applications are saturated with idiots. Consider this model:

- You have 100 people in a work force.

- 95 are qualified, and quickly find jobs after 1-6 interviews. They stay in those jobs until they get bored, typically 3-10 years.

- Five can barely tie their shoelaces. They send out hundreds of resumes until they get hired, and then stay in jobs until they're found to be incompetent and fired, typically 3-6 months.

Although there are O(20x) as many qualified people as unqualified, they'll send out at most 100 resumes per year, and so job applications are dominated by the unqualified ones. This means hiring needs a very high noise floor, indeed, and a few idiots will still sneak in.

This is oversimplified in a millions ways, but it's why you probably won't get a Google offer no matter how good you are. Interviews have a huge noise floor, and to be hired, you need to be qualified AND have a good day. How good a day depends on how qualified you are, but that's why you see twitter posts from world-famous developers about not qualifying for this job or the other.
Can someone please ELI5:

I was taught that all items fall at the same speed, due to the gravitational constant.

With these waves, does that mean that items will fall at ever so slightly differing speeds, as depending on the size of the wave there is a pull in the other direction, and the constant is slightly off?

And OT, but related: Since every item has a gravitational pull related to its mass, would a bigger item fall ever so slightly faster than a small one, as it is pulling itself to Earth in addition to Earth pulling it down.
I don’t think RV32 actually differs re alignment or struct layout, it’s just that with RV64 and Arm64 even the non-fixed-width names for the integer types are the same (LP64) except for Windows-on-ARM.
> That’s curtains for CCS, folks

No. All North American chargers will be CCS chargers just with Tesla's plug on the end.

But it's a profoundly stupid outcome that North America still hasn't completely agreed on a plug to use. Europe's EV infrastructure is much more developed because everyone can build to a common standard.

Europe is deploying 400 kW CCS Chargers while North America is trying to figure out how to plug in.
I became addicted to running, and lost 26 lbs. All thanks to ChatGPT
You can combine -m and -c to use zlib
You're putting words in my mouth and, once again, oversimplifying. I'm saying that measurable economic outcomes are tightly wound up with personal identity, and personal identity is an extremely complicated mosaic of many different factors, and many of those factors are cultural. What we believe about the world, ourselves, and other people has a profound impact on the way we live our lives.

It's not simply "some cultures devalue educational achievement and success", because that implies that there is some discrete unit that can be measured called "success". My point is that what "success" means varies dramatically from person to person. When you claim that any variance in numeric results must stem from racism, you are attempting to distill humans down into numbers that can be sorted on a linear scale, and denying the amazing amount of cultural diversity in the world.
"small, starting at $0.001 per word generated by AI" - this isn't small. GPT3.5 is $0.0015 for 1000 tokens. You're basically making gen AI 750x more expensive. If you write a 1000 word explanation of something that'll be a dollar. Imagine trying to use ChatGPT at this pricing - basically every conversation will be $5-10, so anyone who wants to use it will be coughing up hundreds per month.
Consider a classic like Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Eating by Walter Willett. All evidence-based. No fad crap you usually get in this space. You won't be surprised by any of the advice, but it's nice to see it all collated in one place.

https://www.redpenreviews.org/reviews/eat-drink-and-be-healt...

Here's a two hour interview with the author if you prefer the format: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx2JUtngxkw
I meant the literal color, too! I guess the new website does have some reddish elements. The old one was entirely blue [1], and I'm pretty sure "reddit" is just a play on "read it".

Ah, full circle, back to being uselessly pedantic. :) But I was really curious, didn't know "red website" was slang for it (well familiar with "orange website").

[1] https://old.reddit.com
I didn't read your post as arrogant. You said that, when sober, you tend towards being analytical, technical, and logical. This is your natural tendency in addition to the inertial effect of technical work which you spend most of your time on. To me this all seems like neutral observation.
Thanks! I guess I'm just nervous about them thinking "this guy applies to everything... bin it".
Framework Laptop 16 Deep Dive – Memory and Storage
I found fractional scaling to be way better handled under X11. If you fractional scale under wayland you get terrible blurriness everywhere as if they're upscaling instead of downscaling.
That was quoted from GP; presumably they meant "easier to learn than scheme"
I think this is more specific than just the McNamara Fallacy (thanks for the link, I knew of the fallacy but didn't know it's name.) Big tech businesses usually optimize for risk reduction in the core business. The specific untracked metric here is that of competition. Big tech seems to go around it by trying to acquire promising competitors, but with a higher anti-trust appetite in the current administration, that's becoming less effective. And even with huge acquisition offers, it just takes one breakthrough competitor to bring a calcified risk-obsessed big tech company to its knees.
I wasn’t admitted into better colleges while minority friends with worse grades and general resumes were. It upsets me that I was discriminated against. Should I pursue some reparations? How do you factor this in?
Yeah but that’s nonsense. The Conservative majority wanted to get rid of affirmative action so they decided to interpret the 14th this way. That’s the point. This is judicial activism.
Lidar remains the secret sauce for autonomous cars
As a canadian, this is a disaster of legislation, and I don't celebrate attempts at anything that are so bad for the internet. The precedent this sort of legislation sets will break the internet and also make companies leave canada in fear of having legislation targeted at them.

And for no gain at all. No Canadian heritage will be saved, and this doesn't remove american influences because google and meta were going to be charged for linking to canadian news, not american news. Still 100% ok to link to american news. This legislation does the opposite of what you're claiming.
> banal: so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring.

People going to work every day while there are bombs dropping, in the middle of a war, trying to keep the exchange of goods going so they can pay for the war and to survive, is not banal. It's not obvious that people would go to work in a war zone, and it's not boring, and in many times in history people did not go to work during a war (except for farmers, whose lives depended on it)
> It doesn't really have anything to do with "guilt", it has to do with the fact that white middle class intergenerational wealth.

Can't you recognize that statements like this are propagating the same insensitivity you are intending to correct?

My grandparents were white. They were Argentine and moved to Las Vegas in the 1950s to clean toilets in hotel rooms (And did so for 40 years) so they could raise a family in something resembling a middle class lifestyle. You can't throw a stone very far in the USA and not hear the same or a similar story, at least in my experience. Someone moved here starting with nothing, worked hard, and was able to dramatically increase their standing in life. Integenerational wealth is not common, in fact it is exceedingly rare.
I think Reddit and Twitter are both exploiting the notion that they have so much network effect capture that they can focus on short term profit even if it requires hostility to users and weakens the platform long term.
Good article. 2 suggestions:

1. you mention that passing by value may be faster. The Vector2D function would be a good example for this, because the floats may be passed through registers instead of memory in certain ABIs. It’s a common mistake in linear algebra libraries. It also creates pure functions which leads to nicer to use APIs.

2. memset is strictly speaking not correct due to padding and null pointers not necessarily being 0. The newer = {} syntax solves this.
Who needs food science when you've got hot liquid fat?
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I would encourage the placement of attributes before the objects they apply to. This has been allowed by GCC since the standardized attribute syntax was added to C++. It is a more natural fit for code that will eventually be upgraded to C23 attribute syntax in the future and is more prominently visible to a reader. It also avoids the sometimes awkward GCC rules for postfix attributes.
Every time I want to try it I see complaints about color management, and it raises all red flags I have with me. Is it really true? How can something so basic and vital be neglected?
Yeah, it's the "reasonably" part that I wasn't sure of. At the end of the day, just updating the coordinates in some hardware registers to effectively move the cursor still sounds much simpler (and with more potential for efficiency, as the graphics card can decide how to do it) to me, yeah.
We have seen that in other markets this type of law has hurt not helped publishers.

This is Canada but it can easily be any country. We need a fix, big tech has monopolized ad revenue and is choking out the publishers. The quality of newspaper stories has deteriorated over the years and local news has suffered to the point of almost being nonexistent. Also, we now have very few companies that dominate the news. Look at how big the New York times has gotten. It's now the national newspaper in the US. All the other newspapers are nipping at it's ankles. It's a direct result of the fact that other newspapers can't compete without a steady flow of ad revenue. Big tech has sucked all the money which makes it hard for any newspaper to survive, specially regional ones. We need a fix.
Not necessarily. CFRP is plenty strong to handle the task. But it's a complicated material - though not necessarily new. I think one complication people underestimate when comparing to steel or titanium is that CFRP is NOT isotropic - meaning that its physical properties are NOT the same regardless of orientation. Another is that CFRP has so many dimensions to its strength (e.g. orientation of resolved force vs fiver orientation, fiber diameter, fiber length, fiber material, epoxy material, etc). Yet another is the concept of fatigue life. Steel is very forgiving in this regard - as long as you don't strain it enough to reach plastic deformation, you're good almost forever. CFRP (and even aluminum) have a lifetime no matter what. In that case, you need decent non-destructive testing techniques of which I'm certainly not an expert.

I have one major unanswered question about it though...is there any reason they needed the weight savings one gets from CFRP? Every sub I've ever heard of requires additional ballast to dive even when using tried-and-true steel hull. If they didn't need the weight savings, it was completely absurd to use CFRP.
I whole heartedly agree - I think subcription is an immense boon to services like these... that being said, if Google parses most of your article into their news tab and then only serves up an amp'ified version of your site it can be quite difficult to actually present users with an option to subscribe. I'm a Canadian and I don't like C-18, but I also think that search/aggregation companies have far too loose a leash right now and are curating an environment where they'll take home all the revenue.
I do think that as more things become programmable and hence part of software, the odds that a given project is novel increases. If you maximize the Lisp/hacker/Dry approach, any new code should be novel; if something is just a repeat, you should make an abstraction to make it the same; instead of hand made websites just configure your Wordpress or Django or whatever.
> Django's magic is so awful.

Fixed that for you.

Granted, I haven't dove deep into Django, but from what I learned scratching the surface, it's slow, bloated, utterly un-Pythonic, and I just don't understand how it got so popular. Yeah, it's the most batteries-included web app framework for Python, but it just sucks to use.
Holland is now more addicted to cars than most EU countries. Doesn't have to be that way because it's an ideal country for excellent public transport. But cars have been a status symbol there for decades.

The 70s were really a very different time. From a predominantly socialist country to one of the most neoliberal ones in Europe (after the UK).

Of course it's been half a century since the 70s, too.
I try to do as little customization as possible and use the default apps as much as possible. That way if I use a different machine (sit down at it or connect over the net) it's likely to already be close to my daily drive.

"as possible" is doing a lot of work here: I also make caps lock escape, have some packages installed with homebrew, have a few magic shell commands, but before I make any change I do stop to think: will this really be worth it?
That doesn't mean those foods optimize for longevity.

Why not just look at the balance of evidence for various dietary patterns today?
Culture matters.

I deliberately picked engineering/computer/mathy nerd schools for my list.

A typical UC, a Calstate, or a community college won't be a nerd school. A better point-of-comparison for UC computer science would be a Harvard, Penn, or Yale.

At this point, I would say Georgia Tech has better culture than MIT. MIT is brand-obsessed and increasingly sleazy. Georgia Tech is roughly where MIT was in 1990, which is a much better nerd culture.
Maybe shrug and say "Well, I hope that's over now..."
> This decision was a big win for Asians. Who right now are being discriminated against.

This is the hope but banning race-based Affirmative Action that favors ethnic minorities, blacks in particular, will not particularly benefit Asians in college admissions.

Harvard (as a proxy for elite colleges) admitted 1,942 students to the class of 2027, 15.3% of whom identify as African-American, or 297 students in total. [0] (Harvard fielded 56,937 applicants for the class of 2027)

Assuming every single entering African-American undergraduate at Harvard "displaced" a more qualified Asian due to Affirmative Action, 300 spots at what is arguably the most prestigious college in the United States is not likely to accommodate all the Asians who believe they may have been unfairly rejected because a "less qualified" African-American student matriculated to Harvard.

In other words, the number of matriculating African-Americans at US elite colleges and universities is dwarfed by the number of Asian applicants who will be rejected for reasons unrelated to Affirmative Action.

As a side note, the notion that college acceptance is a rigid formula determined by grades, test scores, and extracurriculars is misguided. Turning the elite college and university system in the United States into a reward for cram schoolers will not improve acceptance outcomes for the vast majority of all individuals, including Asians, who are rejected by elite academic institutions.

Affirmative Action is an issue that prevents people from seeing the larger problem which is: why do American elite universities fail to increase their enrollments for qualified individuals given the size of their endowments? (Harvard's endowment as of 2023 is 50.9 billion [1]) Were such well-endowed elite institutions to increase their enrollments in proportion to the meritorious student population, the controversy of Affirmative Action might become moot.

[0] https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/03/college-makes...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universit...
That is unfortunately one of the main reasons to turn to something like Electron.
I've dealt with many different types of people, in many different professions, from the bottom of ladder to the top.

One thing that's very obvious is that you can't really predict how smart a person is based on their level of business success, what their profession is, how wealthy or poor they are, etc.

What you can predict is what their skillset is, but being "smart" and being highly skilled are two different things.
Touchpad gestures on X11 suck, though. There are hacky workarounds (background software that send special key combos after recognizing a gesture) but there's nothing like a three or four finger drag in X11.

After trying Wayland on my laptop once, I never wanted to go back to X11. Sadly, I made the mistake of buying Nvidia hardware, but I look forward to using Wayland without bugs.
The nuclear and electromagnetic forces in the vicinity are stupendously stronger than gravity at small scales. One could imagine that some electromagnetic or nuclear process might be heavily suppressed by some symmetry such that it could only be unlocked by gravitational forces (which would break that symmetry), but nothing like that comes to my mind. Basically, anything that gravity could do could be done by electromagnetic and nuclear forces vastly faster.
> And IMO, was it worth it?

I suspect they're playing with unintended consequences now.

One of the nice "features" of buying CentOS, is that it meant CentOS was never going to compete - there was a clear line between community and professional, and CentOS were never going to sell you professional services.

Pushing everyone to non-RH builds has removed that line, and there's a strong chance that non-RH builds selling professional services, is going to have a higher opportunity-cost than publishing CentOS did.
Code linting is going to become high school English class, nits are going to be the standard pull request review.
One thing I find somewhat amusing about this is that all of the generated code is against the PySpark API. And the PySpark API is itself an interop layer to the native Scala APIs for Spark.

So you have LLM-based English prompts as an interop layer to Python + PySpark, which is itself an interop layer onto the Spark core. Also, the generated Spark SQL strings inside the DataFrame API have their own little compiler into Spark operations.

When Databricks wrote PySpark, it was because many programmers knew Python but weren't willing to learn Scala just to use Spark. Now, they are offering a way for programmers to not bother learning the PySpark APIs, and leverage the interop layers all the way down, starting from English prompts.

This makes perfect sense when you zoom out and think about what their goal is -- to get your data workflows running on their cluster runtime. But it does make a programmer like me -- who developed a lot of systems while Spark was growing up -- wonder just how many layers future programmers will be forced to debug through when things go wrong. Debugging PySpark code is hard enough, even when you know Python, the PySpark APIs, and the underlying Spark core architecture well. But if all the PySpark code I had ever written had started from English prompts, it might make debugging those inevitable job crashes even more bewildering.

I haven't, in this description, mentioned the "usual" programming layers we have to contend with, like Python's interpreter, the JVM, underlying operating system, cloud APIs, and so on.

If I were to take a guess, programmers of the future are going to need more help debugging across programming language abstractions, system abstraction layers, and various code-data boundaries than they currently make do with.
> "Consequently, we now have to gather the source code from multiple sources, including CentOS Stream, pristine upstream packages, and RHEL SRPMs."

Oh no! How dare they make us do the work?

It feels tiring to hear these arguments that they must be provided with everything bundled neatly with no questions asked and no contributions to the actual upstreams.
Concord bank offers a 100-year CD
You can't any more :) You need to add --no-preserve-root
Reading through that thread is just sad. So many people desperately clinging to the graces of Twitter/Elon – even paying money for the privilege – just to get the rug pulled from under them day after day with no recourse.

It's like watching a couple in a toxic relationship who refuse to split up. It's hard to sympathize with either side.
I think we agree that this makes sense on some metaphysical level. The problem is that there are definitely platforms where the normal alignment isn't what you describe above. And there isn't to my knowledge a switch in GCC to force it to follow these rules on any given platform. There isn't __attribute__((natural_alignment)). But there is __attribute__((packed)).
I’m not sure if it’s true that there’s less amazing written content than music content - I wouldn’t even know how to measure that.
Not quite following you... do you mean the difference between cooked and raw, or something else?
Andrew Yang's focus groups and a/B testing stated that "freedom dividend" had better reception than UBI or any other phrasing, at least when it came to it being done in the US, it would be very interesting to see the outcomes in other countries
I don't think CAPI works on mobile runtimes, unfortunately
That doesn’t make sense because safe, legal, educated, and controlled access to drugs reduces the burden on society. If someone’s priority is burden on society then they should be in favour of legalisation.

So it seems the opposite is in effect. People are so vehemently against drugs that they are willing to accept a higher societal burden just to push their ideology.
> And then I think: you can't just stop doing a bad thing and pretend it didn't happen. You've got to try to make things right.

Who did the bad thing, and who is going to make it right, and how?

> Have things been made right by now? I have no idea.

How would anyone know? People assume we can establish a causal relationship between past discrimination and present disparity, which thing is impossible. Anti-racists claim that all disparity is evidence of discrimination, but this is as religious a belief as ancient Greeks claiming that all lightning comes from Zeus, God of thunder. And likely to be about as wrong in hindsight.

In books like "Discrimination and Disparities", "Black Rednecks and White Liberals", and "Wealth, Poverty, and Politics", the author Thomas Sowell gives many examples of minority groups that prospered far above and beyond their relative majorities despite real and systemic oppression against them. And, in "Affirmative Action Around the World", he details just how disastrous, ineffective, and harmful affirmative action programs consistently end up being.

If you as a doctor consistently diagnose symptoms incorrectly, conclude the wrong illness, and, worst of all, prescribe treatment that ends up harming your patient more than helping, you are a terrible doctor that should be barred from practicing. The political left have been such terrible doctors decades nigh on century. They misdiagnose all disparity as due to racism or oppression, and their prescriptions, whether it's the great society programs of the 60s, affirmative action of the 70s, or today's DEI bureaucracies, are highly counterproductive and devastating to society.