skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. I am really good at coming up with stuff on the spot, so when I last interviewed, I straight up made up some stuff for my behavioral interviews.

I resorted to this because on my LinkedIn interview, the behavioral interviewer kept pressing me when I told him that the situation never came up (I can't remember exactly what it was, I think if I was ever asked to work on something that I disagreed with) and it dinged me on my evaluation. So from them on, I would make up white lies to satisfy my interviewers. I also make sure to note what I say on my interview notes so I keep my stories straight.

Interviews want a certain "type" of answer, so if you don't give it to them, more often than not they will ding you. The same goes for Leetcode questions, if you get the answer wrong, you will get passed over, but if you get the answer "too quick", then you will get passed over because you were "too prepared", so better to just pretend to struggle and come up with the answer.
Texts with Founders: Avoiding Gossip
I suspect that the Dead Internet Theory guarantees the death of non-curated social media. Basically, any online community that doesn't do human verification of its users will simply be overrun by bots. In other words, social media platforms pretty much have to be well-moderated by members of that community. That implies smaller, more close-knit communities, probably more akin to the webforums era of the Internet, and not like the giant platforms of today.
Another really useful rule I like is for disabling the recommendation overlay that shows up on youtube when you pause a video, which is really annoying.

youtube-nocookie.com,youtube.com##.ytp-pause-overlay, .show-video-thumbnail-button, #rvid
nice page, would be cooler if the logo text "cd /home" changes as you visit blog (to maybe cd /home/blog)
Still more interesting than Yet Another Programming Language Framework that won't matter after a few years imho. Global energy transition is a once in a lifetime historical event (over decades, admittedly). Different topics for different folks, don't stop being curious. Use the "hide" link liberally to cater to your tastes. There is enough front page for all of us.
> John Wayne was actually named Marion Wayne

No, Marion Morrison was John Wayne's real name. (Marion Robert Morrison to be more specific.)
That’s pure speculation and conjecture though without any specifics.

What notable change has their been to their contributions has their been? Please point to some reduction or drop in quality.

Without a concrete talking point, the statement is so empty that I could say the same about any distro, for example Ubuntu or Suse which also have commercial components to their businesses
Maybe you should validate your idea first before incorporating?
Not in production, but using ZoL on my personal workstations. https://zfsonlinux.org/

Some discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/ops0n0/big_shoutout_...
That's not the problem. The problem is that if you are a customer who receives the source code and then gives it to somebody else - an action with the GPL explicitly allows and says you can't restrict - then Red Hat will terminate your contract, which sure looks like a restriction to me.
Open Source was supposed to be the opposite of that though.
tildes.net? I have a couple of invites. Though it's not quite reddit, nor aiming to become reddit. I like the stated philosophy and the discussion quality.

https://docs.tildes.net/philosophy
I still love the subject I did my PhD in.

I did get thoroughly disenchanted with academia though.
> So while we have a lot of python in ML (where most things haven't left prototyping stage)...

That's a really good observation. Many people ask why Python is the lingua franca of ML. It's a glue language that allows you to prototype quickly and use low-level libraries like numpy for matrix calculations, etc.

I wish Python type hints were taken more seriously. It's crazy that you can type them in function definitions but then Python completely ignores them. mypy does a much better job at that, but that's not the Python most people use.
I've never in general been a fan of "open core" products.

As someone who builds things, it feels like poor craftsmanship to put obstacles in front of your users and limit the extent to which they can use your work.

It also feels like decisions to hamper how people use a product are driven purely by greed.

Let's imagine a world in which Sourcegraph were completely free software. They would probably still have enterprise customers pay them to securely host Sourcegraph on-premise. They wouldn't be able to charge per seat. They would have to make sure their product was cheap enough that their customers wouldn't save a ton of $$ by hiring engineers to maintain Sourcegraph on premise themselves.

I am curious if they (or anyone else running an open core business) has estimates for:

1. How many customers they would lose if they went fully free.

2. How much revenue they would lose if they went fully free.

Building free software and charging people to host it can be the foundation for a sustainable business, but it's unlikely to give VCs the kind of outcomes they want from a successful investment.

To be honest, I think it's fine for infrastructure to be closed/proprietary. There are good reasons to do this if you are writing programs for which security is important - releasing your infrastructure code freely gives attackers a lot of ammunition to work with.

If we believe in the power of automation and in building high quality software, it is possible to build free software that:

1. Is easy for you to deploy and maintain securely on customer infrastructure.

2. Requires very little operational overhead from its you as the host (in terms of support).

3. For which the infrastructure code is proprietary.

This can lead to a very solid business.

Why don't we see more businesses like this?
At CERN, the previous accelerator was the LEP. Story goes that when it was constructed and first turned on, it was shutting down due to beam not stable. They found out that someone put a glass bottle of beer right inside one of the beams tube. And the detector of Alice at today's LHC was built using steel by melting down old Soviet tanks.
> the first 64 bits is generally enough to define the edge network

One complication is that hashing removes this structure. If you use any good algorithm, you will need to test the entire address to recover any part of it.

I am very wary of IPv6 addresses being so heavily biased into 00 or ff segments that the address space doesn't actually add much entropy. So, I'd go with no, it's not safe to hash them. But if you get some random ones, I am really not sure.
Mine is here: https://dissociatedpress.net/

About 80% tech topics, 15% culture and music, and about 5% my personal life and cat pictures. I'm thinking of splitting off my personal life topics to another blog. Some of my tech posts get moderate traffic and I doubt any of those visitors care about my personal life overmuch.
Yes, God forbid we build powerful new tools that extend human knowledge, insight, and productivity in directions previously undreamed-of. Mah coppy rite is more important! Thereoughttabealaw!

As usual in these scenarios, the only real injustice is that the people who tried to stand in the way will enjoy the benefits of progress in AI alongside those who worked to make it happen. So it goes, I guess.
> That is a significant impact to those companies and 20,000 employees.

I would rather that we don't pay people to perform harmful activities.

I understand that it is awful to lose your job but I think we should target that rather than keep them working harmful jobs just so that they can live an acceptable live. If we had high quality social safety nets than it would be an inconvenience but manageable. I would rather pay these people to have a comfortable life or find a new job.
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I don't think reading one book is enough to learn linear algebra given its breadth and applicability. However the approach used in that one is very helpful if you want to learn functional analysis later on. But still, it probably should be read with other books that have more geometric flavour. Determinants are also a big magical topic of their own and show up in many areas of mathematics, so it would be a shame to banish them from the start like that.
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I work at a neat intersection of tech, people, and highly regulated industries. I get to write about the things I build and talks I have done, as well as some fun projects. It’s an outlet for getting better at writing and provides a longer record of competence than fizzbuzz interview questions.
Speaking of Megalodons, you can go dig for their teeth in Bakersfield, California at Sharktooth Hill [1]. They're very common - you're all but guaranteed to find one after spending a few days at the quarry. They were even selling plots of land for $10k a few years back but I found out about it too late :(

Someday I hope to have enough to make a throne-like chair out of Megalodon teeth, sort of like the GoT throne made of iron swords.

[1] https://www.sharktoothhillproperty.com/
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There should absolutely be a human where the buck stops. But... "fixing an organisation" involves calling people racist. Then screwing their careers. That should carry a heavy emotional burden. It should involve anger and pushback.

"Some weights in an algorithm are wrong" seems a much less fraught problem.
I write about environmentalism and technology.

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I want this to become reality. Are there any IDEs for Julia that come close to the ergonomics and feature set of Pycharm?
> whatever that even means.

It's a pretty common term to describe this style of architecture. Maybe it's not the preferred one but it has good explanatory power (like Greek and Roman) that people understand.

> Let say so.. but even then you must realize that these buildings serve extremely different purposes?

Sure, but that would provide explanatory power for the Notre Dame Cathedral and it's function, but wouldn't provide explanatory power for the design of Boston City Hall. If you redesigned Notre Dame Cathedral in brutalist style architecture, it would fail in its purpose. Whereas if you designed Boston City Hall in French Gothic style (or whatever you wanted to call it) it would just be a very nice looking office building. [1]

[1] I believe this building functions as a city hall though I could be mistaken, you can find other examples as well if you wanted to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Quentin,_Aisne
Yes. Using latest ZFS ZFS On Linux distrib on Debian. Using Proxmox. Never had and problems ever, ever.
> Agree with others that the "empty" billboard frames look off

This is also a temporary cost. Yes, the existing relics are unattractive but over time they will be removed and not replaced.
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I occasionally write articles and tools around web development. Once a week, I also share interesting tools and resources I've found.
No doubt a naive question, but without a CLA, how does the project obtain the IP rights from the contributors necessary to make all the code releasable under an open source license (or a future open source license)?

I suppose if every contribution from the very beginning was made predicated on a license that was irrevocably open source and permitted the project maintainers to re-license the project under a future compatible license, then CLAs perhaps wouldn’t be necessary (though doesn’t there still need to be an assignment of the contributor’s inherent copyright rights?), but how often is this the case in practice?
The limit is 8 GiB of RAM / 0.125x vCPU only for the x86-64 VPSes. The ARM VPSes are still overpowered. But you may have to wait a few weeks to get one, depending on the region. They get snatched up as soon as they become available.
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I started this blog fairly recently. I am trying to learn new things by studying and sharing knowledge at the same time.
It's not needed on smaller screens. The switch does similar things. It's a common tactic on handhelds to disable those sort of features as they add no noticeable improvement.
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Fifteen years of on/off blogging. Took it way too serious ten years ago and published anything I could and nowadays I just blog when I have something useful to share. Working on a couple of Elixir posts currently.
you're stumbled upon the Lone Writer problem.
Preach! And why I’ll have a job for a very long time ;)
That is my point, there is likely no translation map. It's an ID for some data-point/vector/embedding used in an algorithm and likely has no meaningful human interpretation or translation.

It is not secret code for "looks at Antarctica travel pages", it is a computer generated value for some intersection of thousands/millions of variables.
I have an elderly relative with dementia who is unable to use a smartphone but the local grocery chains provide discounts for their weekly sales through smartphone based digital coupons. The open irritation and verbal abuse they get from cashiers who have to go through their alternate manual process for entering those digital coupon discounts is depressing.

They aren't alone either, e.g. https://www.wcpo.com/money/consumer/dont-waste-your-money/se...
Gah. Yeah, you're right. I must need more coffee or something. :)
Graffiti can be beautiful, but it's a problem if it's on buildings that don't want it.

Where I live, stores are constantly fighting a battle against graffiti. They'll paint their walls, and people will graffiti them with ugly tags. People have graffitied over murals, which is just insane. One building had a huge piece of plywood on the wall as a spot where people could make street art. That worked for a few months until someone tagged the whole rest of the building too.

It's not like they're "fighting the man" or anything. These are all locally owned small businesses who are just trying to keep doing their thing.
Interesting to see how the writer scratches this itch.

I've been managing the same basic friction with multiple incremental copies of the source files, a little shell script to generate diffs/logs/artifacts, and some make-based tooling to re-run those when sources change (and sync the outputs to a gist so that I can optionally include an instruction for obtaining the source via git). It works, but it's obviously suboptimal if I goof something and then have to make the same fix several times.
And what about advertisement that is good art?

Some ads are artistically very good and only the context causes us to react negatively, we don't appreciate it fully because we know it is here to influence us.

It is the same idea with graffiti. Some of it is really good, but we won't appreciate it if we tie it to vandalism and criminality.
Conflict means disagreement. They want to be able to see that you can disagree with someone or handle conflict with someone but not make it personal and move on professionally.

So you disagreed over something technical, like architecture. You show they you can handle conflict by not taking it personally, but involving other people on the team, and regardless of whether or not the outcome is in your favor, you thrash it out once and then stick to it.
Wow, I always knew HN was mainly used by programmers and this thread seems to add further anecdotal evidence for it.

For me, as an agency founder, most of my work is communicating with my team and clients. With clients: sharing progress updates, discussing possible new directions or new features, and replying to any questions they have. With team: exploring the solution space for new features, asking for updates, and managing and overseeing work done by developers on a day to day or week to week basis.

My team works remotely on hours of their choosing and their working times span ~14h of a day. Much of the work for me is intermittent and is discontinuous.

I do around ~50-60% of such work using my phone. I find it more convenient and faster than having to go to my workstation.

Is this odd?
i spun up an arm free tier instance for someone else a few months ago and it maxed it out at 8gb (and i think 2vcpu)
> if someone is on a second round with us and hasn't bothered to use our free tier, that also tells us a lot about their (dis)interest in doing for what is, for everyone else on our team, career-defining creations.

This is on a completely different planet from my experience as a candidate and as an interviewer.

It looks like you're doing interesting work, and it might be great to work for you. But that's true of a lot of other companies. You're asking for a level of interest and dedication to your company that is completely unwarranted at this stage. For all I know you're about to ghost me. I suspect a major effect of your approach is that you select people who are better BS artists and have fewer employment options.
So you have one. One out of how many hundreds of thousands?

"But Linux" when the talk that open-source doesn't appear to be a substainable model is like using Zuckerberg as an example as dropping out of college. Lots of people drop out of college and never achieve anything. There are always going to be rare examples that can achieve something.

And the fact the open source community only appears to have one example of how you can build a profitable large business off the back of open source - Red Hat. (Who is currently closing things down to remove competitor.) Really kind hits home that it's a very bare existance for open source projects.
Own your customer relationship.
Advocacy for averting issues in the intersection of AR and the internet
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> Actually it is the opposite, it is a scream from those who don't really have a voice in the city.

It is most certainly not. This romanticizing of criminals and vandals is not any kind of compassion. Who would like their neighborhood or home turned into a hell scape?

Edit: To those who downvoted my comment, go look up some pictures of how these neighborhoods look when they are all covered in tags. Ask yourself if you would want to live there? But of course it's easy to be such a benevolent and tolerant hacker, when you don't have to live it yourself...
That's not a very good argument. Putting aside the present topic, this argument doesn't address the substance and instead lazily falls back on an association fallacy: "if people said P about A in the past and we no longer think that, and you say P about B, then you must also be wrong". It's the same kind of progressive argument people use when they categorically dismiss any criticism of new music as just the same old hate old people always have for "new things". Boring, dismissive, unthinking, and refuses to consider that there might be valid criticism apart from the crankiness that does, in fact, exist. It assumes as a premise that art cannot be bad, or that it cannot be an expression of cultural decadence, whereas I claim that it can.

And I would actually claim that most Warhol is trash, good swaths of Dali worthless, and both Matisse and Gaugin mixed bags.
The fundamental component of consciousness might be the ability to tell ourselves a story about what we are thinking and doing. LLMS can easily tell a story. The agency question is trivially answered and the rest is obvious.

I think I have a viable strategy about how to get there. I’m in the middle of the bell curve. If I’m thinking it, there are smarter and better funded people working along the same lines. I’d be surprised if we don’t get to AGI in 9months.
ASI might be a short hop from there.
There are clear exceptions for people who happen to be in the picture.
https://web.navan.dev Trying to write higher quality long-form pieces rather than just quick snippets like I currently have
In Czechia we have Alza.cz and it works so well and is so well-established that Amazon has a hard time competing. For example I can order something 5 minutes before midnight on Saturday and it will be delivered the next day at 6 am to the AlzaBox automated box. If I don't like the thing, I can return it to the same box within 14 days and I get a refund fast. The website is well-categorized and easy to use and everyone knows the brand.
As long as the photo is taken from a public location, it is legal almost everywhere.

US [0] “ In the United States, photographs that are taken for editorial use in a public place generally enjoy Constitutional protection under the right of free speech.”

Denmark [1] “ you can almost without restrictions shoot anything as long as what you're seeing is visible from public property. You are allowed to shoot people, including police officers or other government officials.”

In Germany [2], you can photograph people from public locations but not if they are nude or vulnerable or in their home. “ You can’t take photos of people if it shows their helplessness.1 For example, you can’t take photos of accident victims, drunk people or nude people without their permission.”

[0] https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/what-are-the-laws-regardin...

[1] https://law.photography/law/street-photography-laws-in-denma...
> I can't think of anything essential I cannot do without a smartphone or computer [..] it's still doable

Q: Have you never been to a restaurant which has done away with physical menus ("because Covid") and has a QR code which you're supposed to scan with your device?
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I blog about web development; mostly about performance, JavaScript, and Ruby on Rails.
> My understanding is that a healthy old age in the past was rarer, but that we've not really changed the limits, just improved the median experience.

Even if your premise is true: there's still a whole lot of room to improve the median experience.

And I don't think it's really true, but it's hard to say exactly. Part of the reason why we have people make it to 110 now versus that not happening a couple centuries ago is that we have more people and thus more rolls of the dice, but it's not the entire reason.

> But we've been "on the cusp of" a lot of those things for quite a long time.

I haven't felt like we've been very close. But now, I think we have a reasonable chance of a couple therapies that each buy few years of QALY for the entire population in the next 30 years, and when you look 50 years out maybe you even stack several of these things.
"I'm really good at predicting potential areas of conflict with my coworkers so I make sure to address them head-on before they turn into something much bigger. This is why I've managed to avoid any major sources of conflict so far (knock on wood). An example of this was..."
I remember that too, but I think I've heard that postgres was also popular in the linux/oss world at the time
I expected the examples to be clickable, for example

> Design a vertical faming system

Do you have some example that can be read? (The missile example is weird.)

The projects look too wide, perhaps a few smaller examples are better to show. For example, a few years ago we had to design a support for an additional lens in a microscope. It was full of tradeoff, like make most of it of Aluminum to make it easier to build and cheaper, bur make the rings that are in contact with the lens of Cooper because Aluminum-Aluminum get stuck, and make small crossed lines outside to it's easier to open and close. We needed a lot of help for all the details from our mentor in the lab and from the guy in the machine shop. Even a "simple" project can show how your system work.
I am almost the opposite. The busy signage is one of my favorite things about Hong Kong. I wish more cities were like that.
https://edbn.dev

Just a blog where I do some reviews and detail my projects. I'm just starting out.

It's built with Hugo and hosted on Sourcehut pages. You can find the sources below:

https://git.sr.ht/~eduardoroboto/edbn.dev