skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not? Do you think anyone is going to say, "wow, I can save $3 by watching this crappy monochrome silent sketched copy of the movie!" ???

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/may/18/andy-wa...

Warhol copied a portrait. Totally different issue.

"The supreme court [lol @ Anti-American Grauniad] focused on the specific use that allegedly infringed Goldsmith’s copyright – a license of Warhol’s work to Condé Nast – and said it was not transformative because it served the same commercial purpose as Goldsmith’s photo: to depict Prince in a magazine."
Comment from Tory Bruno, CEO of ULA:

"Every engine, elex box, COPV, etc, gets an Acceptance Test (ATP) as they come off the line to verify good workmanship. (The one time Qual verifies the design. BE4 is qualified). The BE4's on Cert1 have passed ATP, as have many others. This engine failed ATP." [1]

1. https://twitter.com/torybruno/status/1678865222604574720?s=2...
He didn't even hire a hitman. Once again the US leads the way in inconsistent sentencing.

Also, there are non-paywalled sources.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/11/23791602/silk-road-variet...
If there was HN gold...
Thanks for the tip. Yeah I know this.

Just wondering though with 4 failures in a row, I think there is a good chance something is wrong with my code so I wanted to make sure with this post.

I've been doing the grind for years, but this is the first time I had so many take home projects.

Additionally, I never gotten hired by doing a good take-home either. Which is weird.

Additional question: What's your guys take on take-homes: Anybody ever successfully get hired by doing well on a take-home?
Out of interest, how should this be handled?

Is this a bug in Java which should be fixed (looks like that to me)? My understanding was Java generally doesn't do "you did an undefined behaviour, so it's your fault", except for specifically marked very low-level interfaces.
Any worse than the 15 years of annual releases already have?
Interesting thought that for content where no competition exists, the owner can maximize profit by drowning it in ads. Doesn’t seem like there is much of an alternative outside of legislation or action from google to enforce stricter ad standards(like how pop ups got killed)
> They don't really compete with each other.

That's not true. Both sides have made handhelds as well as full gaming consoles.

Just because Nintendo's current focus is the handheld switch and Sony dropped their handheld for now doesn't mean things won't change.
Didn't watch the video but I've had the opposite experience from the title. All the ad-driven sites have forced my hand by now.

Most of the ad-driven social media site drove me far away, a long time ago. Reddit was the most recent and last, I'm never going to join another ad-drive social media platform again. I'm strictly on Mastodon, Lemmy and, for now, HN (I think lemmy might replace it). I've only been seriously using the fedivers stuff for about a week, I can feel a _major_ difference. I'm already trying to figure out exactly where I should start funneling my "Patreon budget" to be most effective at helping keep it's spirit alive.

Ad-driven media platforms have mostly gotten me to buy into the ad-free tier. YouTube being the most expensive and, by far, most used. The family plan is, I think, 22 a month and it's the last subscription I'd ever end. The channels I really like, I join the Patreon. I know YouTube has something similar now but I will never use it. That separation of paid subscribers from the platform the content creator currently uses to post, I think, is really, really important. Sacred even. I think, for example, the Breaking Points business model is something every channel should strive for. Channels structured in a similar manor tend to make incredible content. Even when they opt for sponsor ads, they're usually very tasteful about it. It doesn't bother me a bit to pay something and still get an ad like that.

Most of the movie/show streaming platforms just have me on that line of "doesn't cost much but they don't really have anything I like at the moment". When things get tight, they're the first to get cancelled.

I've found a better internet over the past year or so. It's nice again. I'm sure the majority of people aren't seeing it, but it's kind of back to how it used to be, if you try.
These are MatPlotLib's first three default colours, which have since been used by many other systems as well: https://www.statology.org/matplotlib-default-colors/

If you ask for the things in another order, does it change the colour order, or justify the choices differently?
What about Rust’s borrow checker (affine types) enforces the use of mutexes (or other sync prims) here?
Uhh, not sure if you misinterpreted what I said. I said that most of the videos in my feed aren’t Japan-related.
Well hold on. With 4 failures in a row. It COULD be me. It's not always true that it's always them. (but I get your point and it's valid.)

That's why I posted my code. Was wondering if there's something fundamentally wrong here.
It's "K&R1" C.
I'm not so sure about that, actual Gods wouldn't have poisoned the water, broken the oceans, started wars with each other and the climate and make itself obsolete and potentially obliterate themselves and their children.

This view is just pure human ego talking.

Dolphins probably think we're fucking morons.
Yeah I'm struggling to understand at a fundamental level how this is better both in math + engineering, doubly so by the time you get to sentence embeddings . (Genuinely, it seems to use the same ideas, so curious what the specific trick is vs mature embedding packagings already doing much of this afaict.)
I use the nearly the same.

- Zim-Wiki for items or procedures that I refer to or repeat often. Zim-Wiki is mostly plain text and transportable, but handles embedding small screenshots. I keep another Zim-Wiki notebook for small projects or investigations.
- A simple text file list for in progress items or projects that I am working that have more or less an end date or specific goal
- A simple text file list for to-do items, vague plans, and links to check. This file changes almost daily.
- A simple text file list for wish list items and purchase ideas
> syncthing on all my devices to keep all them all current

In my paid work I have a few additional things, but not much more. The most important is a separate subdirectory for each project's files. Structure it so that it is ready to use in a retrospective repository when finished. Refer back to it often when planning similar projects.

I used to "hoard" knowledge, had a large library, sets of sorted bookmarks files, etc., but I'm finding that I need less and less of that. I think the biggest change took place when I made a short project once with the goal of making my home computing portable and self-hosting. That really simplified a lot.

A big help is being consistent in a format and structure that makes sense to you regardless of the tools you migrate through.
A land value tax is very common and is universal in the United States. It seems appropriate that those who own the exclusive right to use a parcel of land should pay a tax to the society who enables that exclusive right. If this land is as productive as you say ("if it's not earning a return then it's not happening") then it should be well within their ability to pay the tax. And if its not productive then you'll see land distributed from ineffective landlords to more productive individuals and businesses which can effectively manage the land.

You said it yourself Jeremy Clarkson's farm has only generated $2. If he paid a tax proportionate to his ownership of land he might consider selling that property to someone who could better steward it.

I pay LVT in the United States. I've owned three different plots of land in my life. At no point did this tax prevent me from acquiring land. In fact, it seems like it enabled me to buy this land because in the UK land ownership is significantly lower than in the US.

If land costs _nothing_ to own then it costs nothing to hold as an investment _forever_.
how does it compare with Apple silicones? M1/M2 the mac mini seem like a no brainer at those prices for transcoding?
Lightning is a bit of a difficult system to host yourself. But point is you set up something akin to a running total between you and your friends. The nice thing here is that, you only lose money when you total up at the end, like clearing all transactions and merging them into one. You are becoming your own Visa/Mastercard/ACH essentially.

You can certainly use a hosted wallet with lighting which is a sane alternative. There are still fees but only on cash ins and cash outs on the total amount tallied up between you and your friends when you chose to settle up in the form of BTC transaction fees. As far as I understand there are pretty much no transfer fees.

But I am just a novice interested in this tech. So correct me if I am wrong.
I've tried a few of my favorite ChatGPT 3.5 & 4 prompts, and I am getting terrible results compared to GPT 4. Claude 2 is hallucinating on almost every response, giving wrong answers, and saying things like:

> The problem is I am rounding the approximation before casting it to u32. This will round the value 83.33 to 83, instead of the expected 120.

It's pretty good at maintaining superficial coherency, but the content feels slightly weaker than GPT 3.5.

Poetry writing seems to be stuck, so far, on GPT 3.5-level doggerel, even when prompting with instructions that cause GPT 4 to write fairly good poetry.

EDIT: With some prompt tweaking, I've gotten some vaguely competitive results for poetry. Still not really in the same league as GPT 4.
Even my 2017 NUC had NVMe, I’d say that gives it a leg up.
I live in (WA) wine country... I've heard so many stories over the years about ways to adulterate wine. The key is, drink what you like, don't get hung up on price tag or varietal. If at all possible, find the off-the-beaten-path wineries where you can get to know the owners / winemakers. Half the fun is getting the behind-the-scenes story and appreciating one season to the next. It's easy to forget that wine is fundamentally an agricultural product delivered through an industrial process. When you get down and dirty with the winemaker, the grape pickers, the cellar rats, etc it's a different perspective than the $500 bottle at the Michelin-starred restaurant.
I believe that you are saying the important thing here is that the driver of the vehicle lacks the ability to remove the cone from the vehicle. However, this is not accurate. The driver of an autonomous vehicle is not an algorithm, nor a computer. It is a corporate entity such as Cruise, Waymo, or Omni Consumer Products :-)

This corporate entity does have the ability to remove a cone from the vehicle. It just lacks a convenient agent to remove the cone, because that would require an additional expenditure that breaks the business model of profitably selling taxi rides without human taxi drivers.

It is not a crime to break a business model. Never has been, and with any luck, never will be.
Russian submarine commander with publicly known Strava route assassinated
Super low cost ads that lead to super low cost horrible clickbait content.

You can blame companies like outbrain and taboola for purposefully having horrible advertiser quality standards, and websites who are willing to have that junk on their site. The cycle repeats endlessly, as the horrible sites have.. horrible ads.
Good. The internet was really fun before the ads and monetization came.

We had forums and personal web sites. Weird blogs everywhere you looked. Some semblance of anonymity. A sense of community that wasn't about growing a following.
I'm not sure what you mean by efficient, that Reddit gets people to the information they wanted as fast as possible?

I thought the whole idea behind Reddit and other sites was to keep people browsing with algorithms that keep them interested. Wouldn't that be what makes them efficient?
Afroman - Sell your dope (Sell crack through internet, but not yet)

UGK - The game belongs to me (Pimpin ain't dead, it just moved to the web,
Bitch ain't gotta hit the track, ain't gotta give no tricks no head,
Ain't gotta give no tricks no pussy, just cameras and screens
Easiest money you can get, it's the American Dream)

Another really interesting one though is to see how many songs mention Donald Trump back in 90s/Early 2000s
You can get this today again using the FOX toolkit (http://www.fox-toolkit.org/). This is probably my favorite lightweight toolkit. Patches gladly welcomed for a11y and Wayland.
The Boundary of Computation: Busy Beaver [video]
Go has trouble with this too. You can cause undefined behavior with completely safe code by making concurrent modifications to a fat pointer. The writes won't be atomic, and the pointer can be interpreted as the wrong type. E.g. in this example, the B.foo method will be called with a C value as the receiver, which tricks it into accessing memory at 0x1000 and segfaulting, but you could also arbitrarily access any memory this way without using unsafe.

https://go.dev/play/p/y4z_vs-I1jb
Interesting article. Goes something like "We didn't get the severance we're due because the execs were paying themselves quite well and literally bankrupted the company. Also I didn't get Indigenous People's Day off."

The severity of these two things is a bit different.
Yes, but this is in counterpoint to the claim (paraphrasing) that "the operating doesn't change much only every 5 years".

If you go a couple months often that's enough for some things to be drastically different in Windows land. In a year its a whole new OS.
Customers Sound Off on the Scam That Is Amazon Prime Day(s)
The thing is when you work for yourself you don't need to pretend you're being productive.
> Grateful Dead soundman Owsley “Bear” Stanley synthesized “the purest form of LSD ever to hit the street

This is pretty crazy. LSD isn't Meth, you can't just grab a couple things from Home Depot and get to work in your bathroom. LSD requires some expensive, hard to obtain ingredients, equipment, and usually a decent amount of experience as a chemist. How did a sound engineer get this shit to work?

From his wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsley_Stanley

> When he was fifteen, Owsley spent fifteen months as a voluntary psychiatric patient in St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C.[10] Without having graduated high school, he was admitted to the University of Virginia, where he studied engineering for a year. Despite maintaining a 3.4 grade point average with minimal effort, he dropped out because of his disinclination for slide rules and mechanical drawing. Despite his dearth of formal education, he secured a position as a test engineer with Rocketdyne in Los Angeles; in this capacity, he worked on the SM-64 Navaho supersonic cruise missile. In June 1956, he enlisted in the United States Air Force as an electronics specialist, serving for 18 months (including stints at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Edwards Air Force Base's Rocket Engine Test Facility) before being discharged in 1958. During his service, he secured an amateur radio license and a general radiotelephone operator license.

> Later, inspired by a 1958 performance of the Bolshoi Ballet, he studied ballet in Los Angeles, supporting himself for a time as a professional dancer.

He then went on to set up LSD labs all over North America, sell drugs to the Beatles, and eventually tried to sell LSD to Chelsea Clinton. Quite a character.
Worse are the body shaming ad/games

I have done a reasonable job at fooling Instagram to the extent where they think I'm a woman and I see horrifying ads all the time like the following:

https://twitter.com/AndrewKemendo/status/1676597672667381773

I looked further and the key thing that viewers are doing (based on 600k app store reviews which seem to be mostly real) is trying to "give the girl a chance for once" "help her cause nobody else is" etc...

https://twitter.com/AndrewKemendo/status/1676631706818805771

There are software engineers and designers working full time making this stuff and they should be horrified.
I assume you are referring to kids bypassing censorship - short of surveillance, this will be impossible. If the child chooses to access this content, that's not really stoppable. But we can prevent kids from being exposed to unsafe content accidentally by curating content available to them.

The problem is, platfrom rules prevent unsafe content from being posted and watched by anyone, not just children. And that's concerning, because YouTube is the defacto public utility for video hosting in all but semantics, just like Twitter and Facebook are the defacto "digital town square" type services.
This was a quick assumption based on passing knowledge of a person. This makes you ignorant.

Why are there people like this on HN?
https://www.amazon.com/Mac-Not-Typewriter-2nd/dp/0201782634
Reminds me of this (in)famous Shark Tank clip:
https://youtu.be/k2pvz8qPC4E?t=40

(the 10 second clip I remember starts at 40 seconds in)
Usually those types of display ads show up when targeting isn't possible, or your anonymized such that the CPMs for your session are low enough that it's cheap enough for these types of ads to make money.

There are really only 3 buyers of banner/display ads when no targeting is available:

1) Huge multinationals - think geico, coke, etc. Broad awareness campaigns

2) Scams, body horror, YMYL, click-trick, etc. This is what you're seeing. Info products, garbage cosmetics and scam courses have such huge margins that they can spend on broad-targeted placements for very cheap CPMs, with aggressive creatives that are A/B tested to death to get people to click. As long as the CPM is cheap, and the CTRs are high enough, the numbers work.

3) "Inexperienced" ad buyers

I'm not commenting or interested in debating the ethics of tracking and the internet data economy, but a side effect of removing 3rd party targeting is that as attribution goes away, buyers of ads pay less since they can't attribute dollars to campaigns, so you have to move to attribution methods more common in radio and TV. And as costs fall, it gives opportunities to the slimey shit you've been seeing.
I would email the recruiter back asking for feedback on the project. The worst they can say is no, and at best you get some insight into their reasoning.

Code review:
For a senior dev, I would expect tests even if I didn't ask for them explicitly. I'm also surprised to see that the functions are in a generic utils instead of better named files.

The reality:
1. other people are spending more time on these takehomes. 2. Being more senior means that there are higher expectations. 3. The takehomes are typically a qualitative assessment
Huh, I have the same issue with pure HDMI. No clue what the reason is.
Google killed a project? Surely not

edit: ah no, this is killing something before announcing, instead of immediately after shipping. More Novel.
That's just it though -- video games are not "monopolized" in any meaningful sense. A particular IP may be "monopolized" -- e.g. owned by a particular company that has more or less of an interest in producing cross platform versions. But that's not really a monopoly, is it?
Massachusetts in general has that cultural quirk and raising children there it actually concerned me. If they were trained to think that cars would stop for them and went to pretty much anywhere else, they'd be flattened. I remember just standing on the sidewalk one time, probably close to the curb, and a car came to a stop behind me to patiently wait. It seemed odd, and socially the fact that I wasn't interested in crossing seemed like they might take disrespect from it. But it was their assumption about me.

You can always have cautious children become more adventurous later, but it's unlikely to ever go the reverse direction.
Isn't there a popular fetish of watching procedures to remove pimples and other skin growths?
At the scale of Google/Meta plateauing could just mean market saturation, not that ads aren’t working anymore. I’d be interested to see data showing that RoI has also been decreasing for advertisers or that advertisers have started to pay less because they don’t find ads worthwhile.
I used to use bear a lot but the fact that I cannot have it synced with two different icloud accounts is a no-no for me.

I want to use my same notes in my personal and home laptops.
AI will let us be stupid faster.
It doesn't index more stuff overall, but marginalia.nu has a pretty great system for identifying non-commercial sites, which tend to be higher quality since they're not trying to sell crap.

The creator recently started working on it full-time.

https://search.marginalia.nu/
They killed the useful forums, made the login page a "dashboard" so useless you had to bookmark other pages to remember how to get to them, made a bunch of unrelated sections nobody wanted, increased font sizes so you couldn't fit much on the page and thus finding useful information got worse, ignored feature requests, refused all offers of volunteer tech work, introduced a "chat with random people nearby" that led to 30 dudes trying to hook up with the only female in town, and added fees to verify or send couch requests. All of which led to an exodus of any of the active users to random Facebook groups. Now the site is mainly for people to try and hook up while traveling, there's no community to teach people to act hospitably, profiles are garbage, and few people host anyone but the opposite sex. There are still some good people who use it the right way, but way more who don't. It's arduous, inconvenient and sketchy now.
Yeah, I thought that was Intel's MO. Intel quit making RealSense only after a competitor (OAK-D from Luxonis) became viable. They just want to make chips. It's my impression that they only build "lower" devices as a proof-of-concept for how their chips can be used.
> use it in prod?

I think that’s the wrong goal.

Langchain, with its kitchen-sink approach is great for newbies playing around with language models, to get a feel for the different things possible. The uniform interfaces make it very easy to snap together pieces and try things out (iff you don’t care to understand what’s happening under the hood).

Once you know exactly what you need (which might be 10% of Langchain’s capabilities), it might make sense to avoid all the cruft and build your own simple wrappers suited to the task at hand — especially if you need a robust and transparent/debuggable system. Langchain has a little too much indirection, and clumsy abstractions, to be fit for this purpose.
With all due respect, “if you’re like me” makes the argument irrelevant.

This is an egocentric view of products. Clearly other people do care because cameras are the focus of most reviews, and the thing that sees the most upgrade Gen on Gen.

That’s what matters. What matters to people on average, not one off HN posters.

That’s not to diminish your opinion. That’s what you value and it’s important as well. It’s just not relevant to demographic trends
That I’m not sure. Maybe sshfs would work, but I’m just throwing words out there now. Probably would require more effort than local solutions.
Sounds good for me (first worlder).
Niche but I laughed.
If an LLM passes the PE we should let it stamp plans. /s
Birds usually line the inside their nests with something more delicate and soft. Two of the birds citied in the paper are crows and cockatoos--two of the smartest birds out there. I wager they know what they're doing.

I imagine they like the spikes because it helps to deter other nest predators like squirrels and raccoons
So there's anarchy in the streets in Amsterdam now?
Microsoft is getting their butts kicked on exclusives from Sony. Nothing wrong with them buying their way to better exclusives
> If any hedge funds are looking for analysts, I'm always open to offers...

$INTC has done a whole lot of
nothing for the past 9 months, I don’t think any hedge funds care short or long.