skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if you don't want to come off as an idiot, then don't act like an idiot.

Cool story! Take your own advice.

You made a quick assumption. Own it. Admit that your beliefs are based on an overly produced segment on a canceled daytime talk show lol. Please.
I rarely live anywhere near a gym with that sort of setup, but sure, that's basic for anyone van dwelling near a city. #remotelife
In an age when the average desktop was 800x600, it was astounding the first time I saw Win 98 running at 1600 x 1200. I mean, how could we ever fill that space?

It was like when we jumped from software rendering 3D at 320x200 unfiltered textures struggling to get to 30FPS to 3D accelerated 640x480 at 60FPS... WOW! We don't see those kind of jumps much any more but you do cherish them when they turn up.
We're one of the guys who are creating all that work for you lol. We too have been through a number of systems. Since i've been with the company, we've gone from SQL Server, to an on-prem Hadoop cluster, to Databricks on the cloud, and plenty of home grown software. The cloud has been a real game changer for us from the simple fact that we finally have enough compute to start running some machine learning models. We have this standard data model with something like 300 columns, but every clients data is so different, some of them have around 400 columns in the data.... We're in theory using the medallian architecture, but there's so many legacy business processes we're not anywhere close to an ideal implementation. We've also recently started using AI in a big way as well.

My email is in my bio, we should chat sometime i'd be facinated to hear more of your perspective.
call me cynical but there are two possibilities . one option is it turns into a business and the other into something exploitative like a hookup app (see Couchsurfing )
>IMO when a "super senior / staff engineer" chooses to write code, they should write WORKING CODE and verify that that's true.

You can spin the code up with "docker-compose up --build"

You and everyone else can then verify your statements on my project by running this:

docker exec -it flask poetry run http localhost:5000/api/abc/
docker exec -it flask poetry run http localhost:5000/api/xyz/
docker exec -it flask poetry run http localhost:5000/api/xyz/
docker exec -it flask poetry run http localhost:5000/api/xyz/

(By the way the response on these calls actually returns the current count of the specific route for easier testing. You can see whether your hypothesis is real by watching the results unfold on each request.)

Then run this:

docker exec -it flask poetry run http localhost:5000/stats/

and the results are:

[
{
"count": 3,
"path": "xyz"
},
{
"count": 1,
"path": "abc"
}
]

Which is correct. Which means You are wrong sir. You did not test my code. Literally, I just ran this in my code, you can try it if you have the time.

I mean you're not the only person to make wrong assumptions on this thread. I'm getting the sense that reviewers just take a quick look and make rash judgements and then throw it into the trash. I'm betting it's not too far off from what the reviewer did for me.

You didn't run the code, which is fine, it's not expected of you. But shockingly, I think it's quite likely the evaluator at the company didn't run my code either and that is not expected or appropriate imo.

I think it's safe to say that This thread in general and your response included is becoming an accurate representation of typical shenanigans that happen for take home projects.

(Your mistake here fine, not a big deal, you're not evaluating me just giving me advice so getting things wrong is understandable in your case)
congrats! regarding this particular post, you may want to revisit the primary source material, the secondary source tik tok, and ultimately the relevance of the post

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36689930

EDIT: i don’t mean to take anything away from your blog, and thank you for posting these links! the theme is super interesting and 100% deserving of attention and analysis. thank you for putting it together, i’m enjoying reading through the posts :)
MS would shoot them selves in the foot if they took call of duty off the PS. They will make exclusives. But not COD.
You don't use calc much when you use R, unless you're working on a problem that involves calculus, which isn't many problems, usually?

R is usually used to do data stuffs in my experience. Like, "take in this data from this CSV, and do these manipulations" which may involve math but not often calculus.
I remember when the AP Calculus test questions were released only a month or so after I had taken and aced the exam. I had no idea whatsoever how to solve the problems I had solved easily in the very recent past.

It's as you say. I didn't absorb it at all. I stuffed it in short-term memory and passed an exam. But that's all I learned. I learned how to stuff things in short-term memory.

I didn't learn calculus.
The Romance Scammer on My Sofa
Perhaps they aren't always trying to maximize growth.

I think local focus is the secret sauce to the diversity of outputs and ability to sustain so many different niche interests.
Homeowners insurance covers a lot. If you have more than 30 nites (don’t quite me on the number) of stay then you need arider as well.
You guys find arguments and proof for everything. I love it.
People don't want to play Minecraft in VR. Witness Minecraft on Oculus.
Extracting Signals: Playing the Inverse Waldo Game
I've never gotten anything out of discipline itself.
I think the better way is to come out with a lot of interesting real world scenarios that require calculus or other math. Math doesn't get created out of a vacuum. It was created for a reason. I think if we can avoid diving into abstractions too quickly and focus on specific real world problems and lead the kids step by step to the solutions , that would be more interesting.
What I had in mind was that the library ecosystem just isn't mature yet, so the libraries are incomplete or undocumented.
I for one welcome innovation in this area. But how to increase app security?
Putting on my conspiracy theory hat, but I've used the NewPipe android app for at least a couple years now and the experience has been so good I wondered why Google hadn't made more of an effort to quash it. Maybe this is a way for them to harm the project without looking anticompetitive or something.
Curious how many they sold. We had them deployed for all our meeting rooms to run conferencing software on the large monitors attached to the walls.
"In August 2018, Facebook pulled Onavo Protect from the iOS App Store due to violations of Apple's policy forbidding apps from collecting data on the usage of other apps. In February 2019, in response to criticism over a Facebook market research program employing similar techniques (including, in particular, being targeted towards teens), Onavo announced that it would close the Android version of Protect as well."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onavo
I think fiat is dying and all the bond values are going to zero which will prevent the big megacorps from paying their bills. That collapse is a better explanation of the curious, brand-destroying things these companies have done recently.

I noticed recently YouTube made it REALLY hard for me to download an mp4 for a video using VLC.

Now if I were a betting man, and the collapse of Google were imminent, I'd bet that in liquidation, they'd want to charge to get an offline copy of the videos they store. Soooo, in the meantime before the collapse, they're making it painful/time consuming to download their videos so they can max out their post-meltdown profits.

Make backups of your fav's while you can.
When I was a newbie for Rust, I was encouraged to use CLion with the Rust plugin. What's the difference between CLion + Rust and IDEA + Rust?
> English is used on more than 1,456 million carbon-based devices
The aliens are going to find this and use humans as their computers
Grinding is for making cheap meat editable. It doesn’t mean it is good.

Different pacing is important on a team. Some rush ahead making a lot of mistakes. Some sit back and work on a thoughtful solution.
I have never read cobol before now, but using another translation in this thread as my guide, and minifying the variable label:

C++

Nice.
Well, you can now "program" LLMs such as ChatGPT with English.

Using English you can set your chatbots character, personality and purpose.

Will it be a helpful assistant like ChatGPT, or be a digital reincarnation of some historical character? Both can be set up in plan english and the LLM will follow your instructions.
Actually, Kelly matched one meme with another:

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2016/09/mariah-carey-i-dont...

It’s pretty sad that the parent got upvoted and commented so much, without anyone catching on to this.

The HN crowd really needs to take a course on modern culture or something. People in this community are not as smart as they think they are, and this problem seems to have gotten a lot worse after the recent Reddit migration.
There are some pretty interesting custom builders on YouTube such as Optimum Tech that do some fascinating custom loop compact builds and then under volt the GPU. Here is a recent one with a 4090: https://youtu.be/X0ukdo7Xx7U
Rust absolutely helps here because in Rust it’s simply impossible for someone else to mutate something concurrently to you holding a reference to it. Code equivalent to that in the article simply won’t compile in Rust. This is, like, the very point of Rust’s borrow system. You can share, xor you can mutate, but not both at the same time. This holds equally for single and multi-threaded code.
Yeah that. I'm not going to 11 until they fix that.
Maybe, but they're relatively open with their research, which is great. They also made BERT and released it for free.
Yes. But has nothing to do with software, I don't think, or at least if it does it isn't direct.

When I learned programming I was super motivated. I would come home after 8hrs of work and work on whatever for 4-6 hours (didn't have many other responsibilities). I learned a lot, and wasn't burned out, not really. Probably a little tired.

But now, sure. I can work on a shit project for a shit team for two hours and feel more tired than I should. I think it's the shit work and the shit people though not the software project itself, but I guess software does "lack other satisfaction" in most respects... but let's say I was doing carpentry, and I had a shit client, and he asked me to make 1000 boring boxes, sure, I can see myself getting equally burned out.
I have a set of test questions I use to gauge how badly a LLM model has been lobotomized whenever a new one is released. This post made me finally realize that google search is really going away (compromise core mission due to invalid DMCA request? really??) and that I will have to start looking for new search engines.

This of course means that I need a way to gauge prospective search engines. My first attempt:

- Search for software like newpipe and dolphine emulator

- Search for content that very strong people fought hard to bury

- Search for public library sites like libgen, zstd, and scihub.

- Search for popular torrent sites

- Search for far-right content if search engine is US-based (suggestions please)

- Search for far-left content if search engine is US-based (suggestions please)

What else have I missed?

Sidenote: It's been clear for a while now that unbiased google-grade search engines are going away. Each search engine has at least one topic where it would deliberately return garbage results. We need a meta search engine that automatically routes a search query to the least damaged search engine.
Depends on the definition of "for free".

Depending on where one lives, but many people have access to "free" government services, ranging from roads, education, unemployment security, healthcare, and more. The costs of these services are payed by taxes.

Some "free" services are sustained via donations. Wikipedia is a good example of this.

Some people might say that those are not examples of "for free", because someone is paying for those things, either via taxes or donations. They do have a cost for society. Yes, but in that case then ad-based services are not free either: the advertisers are putting the money to run those services, and the society is also paying a huge cost in thousand of hours of people's lives wasted down the drain, promotion of harmful products, scams, etc.
where does all of that hardware live?

unless it's in your home, it's not trustable
Indeed, but Nokia call their app "Word" and it is apparently interoperable with MS Word.

Check out the video I linked of the guy sending a [Nokia 9210] Word document as an SMS.
For anyone who hasn't seen it yet, I highly recommend the "Our RoboCop Remake". Incidentally, I've also just learned that vimeo apparently demands thousands from you if you have a hosted video that becomes too popular.

https://unofficialbird.com/fatalfarm/status/1416117865594249...

https://unofficialbird.com/Maffewgregg/status/12518177693367...

I seem to recall years ago that 4chan's tv board, and possible the reddit equivalent, was working on a redraw of the the infamous "Plane Scene" from The Dark Knight rises. I wonder what ever happened with that.
100% this! And you can save a link to the conversation and go right back to it.
O'neill Cylinder
Trusses for Notre Dame’s new roof arrive by barge
Java compiler have a (not too bad) escape analysis engine. For something as low level as String intern/optimisation, it can be done in compile time
I'm pleasantly surprised the save icon hasn't been replaced by something else (eg: a piggy bank), in this current era of Accessibility to the Point of Inaccessibility.
As much as i want Blizzard games included in Game Pass, this will end up resulting in lower quality games titles . Fewer studios are going to be able to compete
Calculus is needed to understand, like, basic sophomore and junior year engineering stuff. You can maybe pass the tests without understanding where the models came from if your professors are just really lazy and only give you canned problems, but that isn’t a goal we should strive for.

And engineers should usually be using battle-tested models rather than coming up with their own derivations, so to some extent using the calculus day-to-day shouldn’t be necessary in many cases. But it is necessary in order to understand where the models came from. This is what separates engineers from tech-priests.
Because everyone loves buying at car dealerships?
Seeing Hitoshi Doi's anime information web site, exactly like it was in the 90s, <TABLE> layout and all, is so refreshing: http://www.usagi.org/doi/
Adderview made some of the best KVMs, but I don’t know if they have a good DisplayPort model or not.
But, the trick is to also not get overwhelmed, and to prioritize.

Especially if you own a home, you'll quickly realize there are 1000 little things you need to "get over" or "get to them later" sure you can knock all them out, but I'm not sure that would always be worth the cost.

Sometimes things are okay to let go.
I'm so excited about the new language features in ADD 1 TO COBOL GIVING COBOL EX TWENTY-THREE.
Yeah, there’s a weird thing with how they “interpret” system prompts for identity.

If you suppress tokens “OpenAI”, “Microsoft”, and “Google”, GPT-4 will tell you that it is Project December, a language modeling project to duplicate the deceased based on text history.

It’s just whatever’s close in the latent space. https://projectdecember.net/
Show me one site that still looks/feels like Flash.

(Actually, the more the merrier!)
A take home test as a first round filter usually means they are not that serious about hiring and it costs them no time, money. Meanwhile you need to invest 4 hours (they actually want you to spend 8 hours) for a position you have no idea if you are really interested in yet.

The chance you will get ghosted? Very high.

The four hours could be better spent.. you are more likely to get a response by cold emailing other companies.

Send them open source work and ask them to judge your ability/style based on that. If they are not interested they were never going to judge your submission based om your style / abilities and the four (8) hours can be better spent.
Houses are against nature. That doesn't mean they're bad.
One time I asked an engineer if he used calculus and he said no, so it must not be useful.
Leave two English programs running in isolation for a few centuries and suddenly you need a translation layer…
I'm gonna join the 2 other commenters to say: stop using Google Chrome.
These are not problems.
I've worked with a group that tried to allow houseless people to camp on their property. The main thing most people are looking for when homeless is safety. The most common story I hear when talking to houseless people is the "woman who just escaped an abusive relationship" story. Others have dear pets or are even pregnant. The place was literally just a parking lot but it felt safe and that meant a lot to a lot of people.

The city labelled it a campground and said it was illegal. We worked out a contract with the city to let us slowly move people and try to find somewhere else for each individual instead of violently kicking everyone out all at once. Despite the contract, cops tried showing up at 5am or other weird hours on multiple occasions to kick everyone out. One of us always had to be on call because the only thing that stopped them was housed people with cameras filming them doing illegal actions. Eventually they got through though and most people lost a lot of their belongings. Even IDs and wallets were taken making it impossible for folks to access other possible services

A service like this geared towards houseless people would certainly mean a lot but if it existed (and wanted to continue existing) it could not be this public. Some cities are better than others (Santa Clara has "safe parking places" e.g. but it's only a few dozen spots) but many of our laws (e.g. why a campground costs many thousands more in taxes to run than a motel) are specifically structured to prevent networks like that
I'm using 1600x900 on my Laptop now and I use 1366x768 on my 24" monitors.

It used to be faster before they started 'scaling' the display.
>shes more knowledgeable and capable in her field of work

That's a weird statement. Hip-hop success is orthogonal to knowledge, there are illiterate (and proud of it) stars and obscure Berklee graduates.
Its also ripe for abuse; create dummy accounts that use their free stays to give a host credit, then the host sells those credits for real money.

On a certain movie tracker some invite selling scum would join via the signup process that used to exist on reddit, cheat a bunch of upload on popular torrents, convert that upload into bonus points, launder the points to their main account through a forum contest where they also gave away BP to innocent users, and buy invites to sell for real $ with the laundered BP. Similarly the dummy camping accounts could make sure to mix in some legit hosts as their free stays by picking hosts that may not be around/able to verify the dummy account stayed at their location (because it didn't).
“Nobody uses crypto!” - people trying to make the use of crypto illegal
And if Apple “fails” with “trendsetting professionals” which is only a tiny market and the Mac itself is only 10% of Apple’s revenue, does it matter?

The entire global PC market is around 286 million:

https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2023-01-1....

Compared to 1.5 billion+ phones

https://www.sellcell.com/how-many-mobile-phones-are-sold-eac...

“Trendsetting professionals who buy PCs” don’t even move the needle.
I asked "what well known pieces of American minimalism feature the marimba"

Claude answered with several well-known works, but also included "Marimba Lumina" (1986) by Philip Glass - Written for the virtuoso marimbist Rei Sasaki, it merges Glass's repetitive rhythmic style with dramatic gestures."

That's not a thing...

I followed up with "actually, I don't see any evidence that Marimba Lumina (1986) by Philip Glass is a real piece of music - is it possible that you hallucinated it?"

And Claude answered "You're absolutely right, upon further research it appears I did make a mistake in citing "Marimba Lumina" by Philip Glass as an actual musical composition. I do not have any factual evidence that such a piece exists. As an AI, I do not truly "hallucinate" or imagine non-existent information, but I can generate incorrect information if there are gaps or inaccuracies in my training data. In this case, it seems I conflated details between Steve Reich's "Six Marimbas" and Philip Glass's legitmate "Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra." I likely crossed the concepts of Philip Glass, marimba, and minimalism too eagerly when answering the original question. As an AI still in development and training, mistakes like this can happen in my efforts to produce relevant, detailed responses. Thank you for catching this inaccurate example - it will help strengthen my knowledge and improve my response validity going forward. I appreciate you taking the time to verify and correct me."

which was pretty interesting...
Derivation from AI vs derivation from 100000 humans can be interpreted many ways but a legal system.
> Like this website, the important caveat is in the Southwest. Public lands other than formal parks and preserves are basically nonexistent elsewhere.

What I call the greater west (all of the “West”, “Southwest”, and “Pacific Northwest”) are largely public, federal lands.
That explains it! I didn't know about faceplates - thanks for the info.
NUC was always a platform that exposed the latest and greatest in a small form factor. I, honestly, don't believe the form factor itself was the driver. But the ability to show off the new hardware capabilities in a cheap, small, package. People were using these things in the DC, not because of the size (in fact that was often an impediment) but the capabilities in a small footprint.

Losing this outlet for them is a loss for Intel to bring new considerations to their platform beyond just chips. Again, if Intel was looking at NUC as a profit center, surely it was smart to shut it down. But I highly doubt the NUC line was a significant revenue generator to begin with. Because that wasn't the real value add for Intel. It got people talking about Intel and using it. That is one of the greatest forms of marketing for a chip manufacturer.
Thanks everyone for the feedback. I really appreciate it!
I am totally for software assisted math. Math isn’t just pencil on paper, and it isn’t only proof, and it’s great to talk about over beers.
Activision isn’t successful? They own several of the biggest franchises in console, PC and mobile. 2022 was a record year for them - over $7b in revenue - and that was before Diablo IV shipped.