skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since this article mentions driving navigation:
My absolute dream feature for that would be a navigation text to speech voice which can be set to English, but pronounces location names in other languages correctly and not like an English person trying to pronounce an odd English word.
As someone who has their phone set to English but usually drives in Germany, sometimes France, Italy or Switzerland it’s funny at first to hear the strange attempts to pronounce street names but it really does get old.

Since it appears like none of the big maps apps seem to be interested in this feature I’ve sometimes wondered if it could be done by contributing to something like organic maps. I’ve found some academic projects about doing code-switching tts like that, but nothing built into an actual product.
If anyone has any thoughts on that it would be interesting to hear.
Granted, this is at Princeton and for a child prodigy. Certainly only a few schools in the U.S. will have oral exams like this. Also, there's a potentiality of an unreliable narrator and certainly a modicum of figurative dick measuring on both sides of the examination table.
Having been an engineer interviewing other engineers applying to work for Apple (for 26 years) I can tell you that the best resume was one where the engineer shipped code. Degree became a non-issue if that box was checked.
This is a useful comparison for me to check Apples claims:

https://www.apple.com/environment/pdf/products/notebooks/14-...

The M2 MacBook Pro is 240 kg CO2 with a similar split of 79% production and 20% usage.
The UK MSM are highly in favor of it. The Daily Mail has pushed for this kind of thing for years.
Electrifying a line isn't as easy as simply pulling a cable.

You need more space above the train for the power line, which means all bridges and tunnels have to be adapted, thus rebuilt. You need space in the side to place the masts, which may mean acquiring land or some complex engineering in close (hilly?) areas.

This then often means that regulation treats it as a major change, thus the whole signaling system and other aspects have to be adapted to current standards.

And then you need all the side infrastructure like substations etc.

In the end it's almost as expensive as building a new line.
LOL that's great. Exactly how I feel about this guy.
> I got a Brother.

And what's his name? :D

Jokes apart, it's doable when people still haven't bought anything, but the frustration that I wish was changed is the change in terms and conditions that affects hardware functioning at a level where it's either you selling your data or you being unable to use the hardware, hardware that could also generate e-waste if thrown away
It means that there are bug fixesall the time, but most of the time no one sorts these into "security" and "non-security" categories.

I remember a message (I can't find it back right now) where this is explained. Basically the thinking is that a lot of bugs can be used to break security, but sometimes it takes a lot of effort to figure out how to exploit a bug.

So you have some choices:

* Research every bug to find out the security implications, which is additional work on top of fixing the bug.

* Mark only the bugs that have known security implications as security fixes, basically guaranteeing that you will miss some that you haven't researched.

* Consider all bugs as potentially having security implications. This is basically what they do now.
FAANG != "or other tech companies"

Choose one side of the coin and prepare accordingly.

To simplify:

- FAANG (and FAANG wannabes): leet code, algo, CS stuff

- other tech companies: getting things done, Open Source contributions
Thanks very much for the pointer to [2], that's just saved me a heap of time and effort!
Oh?

I applied to Google in late 2021 / early 2022. The suggestion was to grind leetcode.

The recruiter emailed me after my interviews to say they'd resulted in good news. She set up a phone call shortly afterward in which she told me I'd passed the interviews, I should prepare for a series of "team fit" interviews, I should see a job offer in about 6 weeks ("the end of February", when the call occurred in mid-January), and congratulations!

I was never offered, or contacted about, a single "team fit" interview. When the end of February rolled around, she informed me that, because I'd done poorly in the interviews (the same ones mentioned above; my results were good in January, but by February they had apparently spoiled), Google was uninterested in hiring me.

No one has really been able to explain why, in Google's eyes, "you did so poorly we're rejecting you" is a message to congratulate the candidate over, or why performing at that level is considered "passing" the interviews.
Yep. But, not to be confused with overall crime rate (which my parent was referring to)! That's a very dangerous slide in facts.
A CTO’s Playbook for Building Great Technology Products
How did you learn stuff for working in such companies? I always assumed you need a lot of math and theory to work in finance.
The very best was for last... After all the files are in place but before the reboot (or even during setup if using offline media) remain offline until you've signed in.

In fact, don't even set a _password_ initially. Change that AFTER the first boot so the installer doesn't interrogate for recovery information / etc.

"""
Bypass OOBE

The Out of Box Experience is changing all the time. The requirement to be online or only use a Microsoft account. Bypass it with this command and using Shift+F10 to bring up the command prompt. NOTE: DISCONNECT FROM INTERNET before booting!

oobe\BypassNRO

System will restart after executing the command. Select Continue with limited Setup and name the device and create a local account.
"""
yep, we're a nation of cowards and we deserve it.
As the authors of the study say, patients are interested in all-cause mortality, not specifically in cardiovascular mortality. Specialists may be blinded by their own specialization, but the most important outcome for you as a person is whether you live or die, and not whether you will have a heart attack or not.

If I reduce my own ACM and increase risk of a heart attack at the same time, it still looks like a good trade-off.
There is a somewhat strangely named German brand that sells private IoT door / security cams. Forgot the name, sadly. They’re quite expensive though. My guess is they might sell private lightbulbs.

For home audio, Sonos is great. Their voice assistant is completely locally processed.
I have the real unpopular opinion that some psychological pressure is necessary for human societies to operate somewhat optimally.

Straight up giving people money is different from living "on stamps". I know it's fashionable these days to call this "shaming" and I guess it is. My question is, is that a bad thing?

If I wasn't shamed/bullied/pestered into being a proper citizen I don't think I'd become one. Maybe I'm just an inferior breed or something, but my guess is this is true for a lot of folks.
What is a game changer is to be able to just turn off everything in the house when I leave, and know the iron will be off, along with all the lights.

It's not critically important, but the many individually small conveniences add up.
I do agree with that, and I understand there are many things that just plain cannot be represented accurately on paper - whether through drawings or symbolically. But once you draw an illustration of some thing, I'd expect everything about the drawing to be depicting the real thing as accurately as possible, unless explicitly marked otherwise. If you're not doing that, you may as well skip the illustration entirely, because it confuses things more than it helps.
>Blockchain allows it to be decentralized.

>>A mechanism could surely be developed where the company or group in charge could periodically release new cards (perhaps after the mechanics had been voted on by participants), and issued once or twice a year.

%$#@! decentralization. Who cares about it in this context? You're anyway adding back the 'centralization' via the backdoor. Since such games are community-based, they'll always involve this level of centralization.

Or is it that you want the profits to be distributed a bit differently? But that would inevitably involve financial regulation and scams, and people just want to play a card game.
>native console support

that's a lot narrower than you think, I wouldn't even put it in the dozens. Maybe a few dozen if we include all the in-house proprietary engines. Being easy to port to console =/= native console support.

But yes, a few dozen out of hundreds of engines is the 99th percentile.
Why do you want to work for FAANG?
I have a BSc and an MSc and I don't ever want to work for FAANG. I work as a contractor and work only few months a year if it allows it. Rest of the time I work on my own side projects - the dream for me is for them to get successful.
UK based but relocated to Asia.
FAANG might seem like the successful endpoint but theres many exciting companies/startups out there that might make you feel more accomplished than working in a massive ORG.
But people keep voting them into office, literally the worst of all alternatives.

I think for the last 50 years, possibly excepting one Labour leader, the wider electorate have seen Labour as literally the worst of all alternatives. That's why the Conservatives are consistently voted in.

The problem isn't really either of our two terrible main political parties though, it's the absence of any realistic competition. If there were an obviously better alternative I believe that despite any historical affiliations voters today on all sides would leap to it. We've had that 50 years to find an alternative and there's still nothing palatable waiting in the wings.

Why this is, I think is more debatable. Maybe the answer is PR, maybe we need to pay MPs more in line with historic rates in real terms (and more than some recent software dev grads), maybe it's something else. But it's pretty clear to me that as much as people don't want the Conservatives, they really don't want Labour either.
I’d have to check namecheap, earlier this year? I think the domain was good even for internal energy, it helped get people excited and focused product thinking that much more.
Make no mistake. The hyperloop concept was put forward when California came close to building public transport infrastructure. It was intended to provide arguments against by putting into question if large investments in rail really is future proof. It could be aruged that it is indefensible to build rails at great cost if we might get flying trains tomorrow. And it did indeed work out as intended, at almost no cost.
I don’t have a CS degree either and I’m at a FAANG. If you’ve got a resume with “senior developer” on it, no good employer will care.
Brother is unfortunately playing games with DRM and similar now too. :(
Hetzner has some insane offerings.

For ~$100/mo:

- AMD 7950X3D

- 16 cores (Zen5)

- 128 GB ECC DDR5

- 2x2TB NVMe

At any other provider this would cost 5-10x the cost.

https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax102
Hate speech is just whatever they don't like such as opinions outside the Overton window.
Even the law enforcement people are scared of being labeled hateful. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploit...
The UK's BBC also knew about kiddy fiddler Jimmy Saville but they kept calm and carried on letting him fiddle.

Given that the terminology comes straight of Orwell's 1984 they're barely even trying to hide the blatant power grab with a few cliche excuses (children, terrorism).
Van method (method to predict earthquakes)
I’m a UK based software developer without a CS degree. I wrote about my experience interviewing at various software companies (including Google) in 2021 - https://blog.nindalf.com/posts/tech-interview/. I also talk about how I prepared for the interview, so that may be useful.

If you want to talk to someone about this don’t hesitate to reach out over email!
/r/cscareerquestions has different feeling
Genuine question: why are you focused on just those five companies?
I didn't read it as such, I just replied like this because there might be people out there who need to read it. There are too many men who believe being strong means being aggressive, even if in their mind they do it for their kids. If the kids see that different it can lead to a growing gap between those men and their kids.

That is bad, so those who need to think about this should do so.
No it would be an indication that Apple like money more than the privacy and safety of their users which would not be entirely surprising.
Being able to have food delivered is an important option to have! I'm surprised that the pandemic hasn't made that clear to everyone. Some folks are going to need food delivered at some point in their lives. Poor people too.

I'd much rather have people who are struggling get delivery if they can manage it than have them go into the grocery store when they know they're infected, or when they've got a vulnerable person they'd risk bringing disease home to.
Support voice-messages code comments (prototype plugin available)
You might be thinking of the Homematic IP line, great products for home automation, they also have door locks etc. They are also compatible with just Homematic which doesn't use the internet (so no IoT), but rather a local gateway for controlling the devices. I don't think they have lightbulbs though. The company name is eQ-3
Windows ISO files are iso9660, so you cannot "burn them" into the usb; only to optical drive.

For USB, Microsoft provides media creation tool, which will format the usb to FAT32, and then copy the files there. As said elsewhere in this thread, it will use esd instead of wim container, which has better compression, so it will fit.

The install USB can be neither NTFS nor exFAT, because neither of these filesystems are recognized by UEFI (as mandatory filesystem, by UEFI spec; yes, some implementations can recognize NTFS, but as a system vendor, you cannot rely on that). So if you want to boot it on a all systems, FAT32 is it.
I do have real use-case, though : lights on a cable system, but long enough to light different areas (dining table AND couch, for instance). It's quite convenient to be able to control each area separately, instead of needing to turn them all on or all off.
Internet of Trash would be a better name (same IoT abbrev.)
I saw the title in my email and had a moment of panic; my favorite laptop maker, in trouble?

The first paragraph relieved my concerns and reading about Ryzen graphical performance on the Framework 13 got me thinking about upgrading my 11th gen i5 - Skyrim, the Mass Effects, and more recently Dishonored all run ok (often at 720p for decent FPS), but the multiplayer games my friends play are more than my system can handle.

Framework is a deal that’s getting sweeter the longer they make laptops, as users like me forgo buying a new laptop in favor of a new main board, repurposing the old one (maybe a Retroarch box?).
Kind of. Same for companies that send "we've updated this or that" emails. Spam that pretends it is not spam, attention thieves.
I think they understand it, they just don't give a shit, because they aren't the people being targeted.
Damn this is a cool gadget. Seems easy enough to be doable even for an hardware noob like me!
Yeah I also use Mullvad and only have good things to say about them.
Besides that, what can a person do?
I think these are normally referred to as oral exams. Most PhDs go from qualifying exams to oral exams to thesis defense.
Interview with Tom Kilburn [video]
people need private transportation in the us.

but surely people don't need big suv's. I like big cars too - but those things are unsustaianble.

wish people would adopt the smaller cars found in asia, motorcycles, mopeds etc. i'm sure you can even have a 'jek' like vehicle which protects user from elements and can go up to 70mph on a motorcycle engine.

but alas there's no drive
A few years back, I had the opportunity to work on a project in rural India. Our team was responsible for creating a new patient booking system for a community hospital. We designed a web-based application that could be accessed through the hospital's intranet.

Everything seemed to be going well, but then we hit a snag. Our server began restarting unexpectedly at random intervals throughout the day. Initially, we were baffled. We assumed that the application was crashing because it could not handle the load, and we spent hours digging through code and logs.

But the real culprit turned out to be something entirely different. The server was located next to a storage cabinet, and its power supply line was inconveniently blocking the cabinet's door. Whenever the nurses needed to access the cabinet, they would simply unplug the server, get what they needed, and then plug it back in, oblivious to the chaos it caused in the system.

It taught us the importance of considering all variables, even the human ones, when troubleshooting technical issues. And so, we moved the server, cleared the path to the storage cabinet, and things were back to normal :)
I didn't say it doesn't make sense. I said he's either dishonest (he's just saying this sort of thing as pro-Car/Tesla PR) or he is naive (he genuinely thinks he can "fix" urban transportation).
I don't see the problem. They could make a bunch of tunnels and put cars in them. Think about how efficient it would be! Hundreds of passengers per hour!
A lot of people misunderstand what he's actually saying.

There are two categories of constructors. One is for data that should not be executed, the other is for trusted data that should be executed.

There are two libraries. One has default constructors that can execute data, the other has default constructors that don't execute data.

He's saying to rtfm and choose the library with the correct defaults, choose the correct constructor from that library, and stop trying to take away the choice.
Honest question: Why choose BSD over Linux?

I've worked/played around with BSD back in the 90s and actually never looked back. Tried it here and there within the last 20 years but never found it as versatile as Linux.

Working on macOS (how much BSD is still in that system?) since 6 month now and finally getting used to it. Still feels a bit crippled compared to the tools I used under Windows/Linux.
The exams would be at the beginning to middle of the program.
Bold of them to not spoof the wget UserAgent
It's 3 miles, no hills or tunnels, and I can see from the Google maps arial and street view photos that the overhead wires are already present, at least until the last bit that branches off away from the main line and skirts around the edge of the Tesla site.
Incredible read, had absolutely no idea about such world of fixed matches and betting in fake sport leagues.
> In fluids, Bernoulli devised experiments to demonstrate to his calculus illiterate colleagues what he had already mathematically proven.

Maybe I misunderstood you, but I have the feeling you're downplaying the importance of experiments in Physics. Once you mathematically prove something, you proved that a statement is true when given a certain set of axioms. This is enough in Mathematics, like your example of the Pythagorean theorem, but it isn't in Physics. The reason being that proving something Mathematically consistent isn't enough to prove that it reflects what happens in the real world. A famous example in pop science of this is string theory.

I also have some doubts about what you say regarding evolution theory, but I'm not familiar whit how biologists verified it. Maybe every time a new fossil is found we can consider it as an experiment that can add a data point in favor or against the theory?
Other reference to Oppenheimer:

James Franck, who had emigrated to the US, advocated to not use the Atomic bomb against Japan:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franck_Report
Nestlé has been under constant boycott for 46 years, and couldn't seem to stop abusing mothers and their young children. Flint or not, I will never purchase or use a Nestlé product.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Nestl%C3%A9_boycott

N.B. Nestlé sold their bottling operations in these USA, and no longer owns Arrowhead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrowhead_Water
Sure, but mostly they won't accept you if you are from a developing country trying to break in to the tech world. Its a catch 22 situation - they offer cheaper prices only to those who can afford expensive servers.

I know it's because of spam - but it is what it is.
Indeed, people are starting to understand that democracy is just another type of control, and most of its promises are actual lies. If you critically review what the parties you voted for have actually done, it is quite likely that you end up without a party to vote after a number of voting iterations. For me, it took roughly 25 years of being able to vote until I realized I dont want to do it anymore.
That only tells me something about naming? I have no clue how many LTS or non-LTS versions were between the one that shipped with windows 10 and 10.0.22621.900. For all I know, that could be like Linux 2.something being all the way from 1996 to 2011, except that Linux 3.something had a major change of "NOTHING. Absolutely nothing." except for a shiny new number (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel).

So honest question: What does 10.0.22621.900 mean? Is 10.0.X.Y supported for a decade or is that discontinued at some point and I am forced to upgrade to 10.0.X+10,Y-5?
Who is the evil bond villain behind this dastardly plan, exactly?

The UK government has made the practicalities of everyday life extremely miserable through a combination of

(a) ham-fisted political decisions (Brexit referendum held for party-political reasons, followed by the multi-decade car crash that is still ongoing); plus

(b) plain and simple not giving a single shit about the majority of the population, because it isn't in the personal interests of most of the current set of ruling MPs to give said shit.

There's no overarching devious plan to enslave us all, here. It's just classic honest-to-goodness incompetence and disinterest.
Of course. I'm definitely not blaming browsers for this - we're talking about trivial requirements here, while browsers themselves are absurdly well-optimized these days. Which makes it even harder to watch the webdevs casually throw that all away using crummy tools, too focused on moving fast themselves to give a damn about letting users move fast too.
Been a few years since I read it, but worth a look due to the detail it goes into.

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/imo/media/do...
Personally I would follow Microsoft's guide on partitioning [1] mostly, except the recovery partition which I skip creating. If Windows needs it they will auto create it again anyways in the next major update.

Then I use WinNTSetup [2], just point it to where the Windows setup files are, and which partition is the boot partition (EFI partition) and which partition is to become C:.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufactu...

[2] https://msfn.org/board/topic/149612-winntsetup-v531/
Why would you ever have lockin if you're using open telemetry?
It's still generally true though, isn't it?

Football (soccer) players sometimes don't have their high school degrees, but they have training in a high paying profession.

Same goes with people who can code.