skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah that's how it went, you would think most companies want people to view them positively. Except laziness and lack of critical thinking skills leads to useless policies. Here I am on, on a public forum, giving a shout out to MS. How many companies am I shit talking with my friends during their work search too? Like datadog giving me three! leetcode screen questions, then rejecting me without useful feedback. Or the various companies giving multihour take home assignments then giving generic rejections.

When the market turns around (or if? it'll turn around right guys?), all those companies that just left a bad impression need workers, which ones will get considered?
When science fiction mentions artificial intelligence it is almost always in reference to what we now call general artificial intelligence. Which is very different than the machine learning we now call AI.
I'm reading Jane Jacobs right now- she's excellent broadly, but one specific thing she argues for that I found really surprising is a diversity in the age of buildings. It's one way to make possible the diversity of uses and financial needs that are an aspect of vibrant neighbourhoods. In her analysis, older buildings tend to have paid off their capital costs.
Show HN: Is": An Inspector for Your Environment
https://github.com/oalders/is

I wrote a tool to make shell scripting just a little bit easier. It has a syntax that reads just a little bit like English, so that you can ask questions of your environment. That means you can do things like:

Check the version of a CLI tool:

$ is cli version tmux gt 3.2 && echo || echo

Check an OS version by its code name:

$ is os version-codename in ventura,monterey

Do things only if a dependency is installed:

$ is there go && go install golang.org/x/tools/cmd/goimports@latest

Query a CLI version:

$ is known cli version bash

5.2.15

Check if today is Wednesday using a case insensitive regex:

$ is cli output stdout date like "(?i)wed"

Update a binary if it's older than 7 days:

$ is cli age goimports gt 7 days && go install golang.org/x/tools/cmd/goimports@latest

Check the major (or minor, or patch) version of your OS:

$ is os version --major eq 13

Install if you have passwordless sudo:

$ is user sudoer && sudo apt-get install ripgrep

Check the output of STDERR for an arbitrary command:

$ is cli output stderr ssh --arg="-V" like 9.0p1

The idea is to make some scripting tasks less tedious. I mostly wrote this because I could and because I enjoyed doing it.
Carbon Removal Map
Small-Scale Wind Harvesting Is Attractive, but Is It Viable?
I think this goes a step too far to be believable.

Of course I can buy that you'd bite someone out of stress, and maybe a second time because you're hungry. At this point clearly the next step is building rapport through humour, and biting the interviewer is the logical step since that's what you have in common at this stage. And yeah I could get that the interviewer is agitated at this point, disregards your own character and preferences, and this triggers you.

But clearly you'd call. Or go in person. Or even write a card. Not send an email.
Well, sometimes it's just interesting to dig into and sometimes it has an effect. In this case I think it also extends past formal religion and to a broader more vague spiritual wish to see us as more than automatons. But religious views certainly tend to leave people with less flexible views on it.
So one of the things that comes up a lot is that it's not actually that correlated with cost.

Most vets I know (I also work for a state school, not a for profit company) are very sympathetic toward very large and expensive bills, and have always been up front about cost in a way that human medicine is not. There's also a myriad of ways they try to reduce bills when they can.

The toll is from folks who aren't spending much smaller amounts of money on life saving procedures.
High QoL car-free or car-reduced is perfectly possible in the USA, but it usually involves living in a more semi-rural area (a small town of 8-15k) - because by definition those are small enough to walk across.
And I was considering this site just last night.
Does any one knows if there is a connection between better help and Regain.us?
Yeah considering that we know it's possible to have walkable neighborhoods and cities without being outright hostile to vehicles (see: Japan), I don't see much value added.
The best way I got better at interviewing is being on the other side of the table trying to fill a professional position.

The number of resumes you get that just are not a good fit is crazy. The tech stack doesn’t match, the experience is totally different, etc. and then the ones that DO get an interview have wildly different experience because they embellish their resume.

If you ever do get a handful of candidates that are all actually good matches, it usually comes down to price and likability. If you’re asking for too high of a salary, it’s not impossible but it is a tough sell if there really are equal candidates. Even if you are a good match it is entirely possible that a team simply liked someone else’s personality and culture fit more.
That was a nice text. Very amusing. I've been thinking about start writing again, in English this time. You see, I've been writing since i was a teenager but always in my mother tongue. How do you distribute your content? RSS or people just go to your blog to read it? I was thinking nobody nowadays would go to a specific website just to read some text; they seem to want everything in a central place like a social network or even a RSS reader.

Please don't bite me for asking all those questions.
The EU doesn't have narrow laws about speech. It's up to each country, and they vary widely
This guy comes up to me on the street and says he hasn't had a bite in three days.

Well, I knew what he meant, but just to be funny, I took a big bite out of his jugular vein.

And he's yellin' and screamin' and bleeding all over, and I'm like, "Hey, come on, don'tcha get it?"

But he just keeps rolling around on the sidewalk, bleeding, and screaming, you know, just completely missing the irony of the whole situation.

Man, some people just can't take a joke, you know?
This isn’t quite accurate. The ad tech companies are finishing them off, but Craigslist is what started this process.
that's how facebook was sued. Their paper mentioned a data sources that was crawling books from pirated sites.
Ironically, self-driving cars are probably the most realistic route to walkable neighborhoods. Self-driving cars are much better road citizens (obeying traffic laws and driving courteously) and don't require any of the parking that human-driving cars do. If the self-driving cars become widespread for human transportation and deliveries, we will be shocked at the amount of free space have that can be put to better use.
> you can't pass the default values around, they can't flow in the code.

I see you worked very hard on those contortions just to find some way to call them dataflow ;)

The values can obviously be passed around just fine. The issue is duplication of their source of truth, not their inability to be passed around. And the duplication of the source is easy enough to fix - if you don't want to hard-code them then you can just make a static function (or constant) that returns them so callers can refer to that same value without duplicating the source of truth. No need to throw entire the baby out with the bathwater.

(And the struct solution is an alternative to unnamed arguments, not to default arguments per se. It has its own advantages and disadvantages.)
> they printed this data, scanned to PDF and sent the PDF via e-mail.

I guess it may not be in this case (low volume, text content), but this could be a tactic to generate hurdles for anyone attempting to use it in systematic fashion.

I've heard of a case where a state org was required to send some students a set of spreadsheets (I guess they required it).

They printed the spreadsheets, laid the pages out-of-order on a table (to be clear, a physical table, a flat surface made of wood with 4 legs) and took a picture with worse than average lighting and a skewed framing. Technically they complied. A person could, with some effort, read the contents of the spreadsheets. In practice, the students couldn't get to what they wanted (automated verification of the values in the spreadsheets)

TBH it had a bit of an urban legend vibe back when I heard it years ago, but I wouldn't doubt it
Probably got a 502 for it not being hosted on Pascal.

But iirc, HN is Lisp?
What?

The Germans pioneered modern fertilizer production in the 1890s-1910s.
>and then pressured the owner give the pup up when they couldn't afford that

My wife is a vet and I hear about this often.

From the vet's perspective, if the owner gives up the puppy then they don't have to put the puppy down. Putting down a puppy is heart-wrenching.

You can't give out free medical care, she regularly gives as many discounts as she's allowed to give away, even some she's not supposed to, especially for cases like that. But in the end, the choice is A: put the puppy down or B: do the procedure for free but then the owner has to give up the animal.

When presented that choice it's obvious you should try and convince the owner not to put the animal down.
3rd places have been politically co-oped. The best we can do is defund them.
Seems to be widely accepted in Japan (and not just recently), at least according to some Japanese friends.
on any other site i would have said this was clearly a joke
New product release that is going to help startups A LOT
An iterative landing page that automatically collect user feedbacks, analyze data, and improve landing page based on results.

Open fire for any critiques, pros and cons, or genuine feedbacks
Third place
Hyaluron- and verteporfin-loaded PLA nanogels promote scarless wound healing
Solar panels cannot currently be manufactured, distributed or repaired at any serious scale without fossil fuels.
Author’s friend’s comment is funny:

;; Basically, I was laboring under the impression that
;; `sentence-end-double-space' was telling Emacs the /right/ way to do
;; end-of-sentence spacing, but really it's just letting it know how sentences
;; work. So setting it to nil lets you do sentence-level stuff, even on people
;; who are /wrong/. So great.

I assume they were mostly kidding and this was only meant to be funny, but I learned the 2 spaces thing in college and then didn’t discover until a couple years ago that it had fallen out of fashion decades earlier, even before I went to college. IIRC the reason for the 2 spaces rule is because you need it in print, for non-fixed-width fonts, where the space character is really narrow. I think I even read that there never was a 2-space rule for fixed-width fonts? (*Edit just to say I think I (mis)remembered this story completely backward, and the corrections below are accurate. Print had different sized spaces already, typewriters need 2 to match.)

Anyway. I loved emacs back in the day, and for a long time, but over many many years my .emacs file bloated up to like a megabyte. (That might* be a slight exaggeration, but I’m not sure.) I can’t maintain it anymore. I probably have a very very enormous list of bad emacs defaults.
It's ironic to me because it flies in the face of their politics.
Living in New York City, the most walkable city in the US I believe, was the unhappiest I've been in my life, and I know plenty of others who feel the same way. So, there's that.
That's a Leslie speaker in the video, it doesn't operate on the same principle. Leslie speakers creates sound using a conventional vibrating membrane, whereas the rotary woofer does so by using a variable pitch fan. The rotating part effectively changes the geometry of the baffle, creating a tremolo effect. For the rotary woofer, the whole room acts as a baffle.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_speaker
The deep link equating math proofs and computer programs
I love this guide! I gave it as a reference to my students when I was teaching networks a few years ago. At the time it didn't have IPv6 taken into account! I'm so glad it is the case now, especially since I'm going to teach system and network programming against next semester =).

The other reference that I really like to give students about networks is Michal Zalewski's Silence on the wire [1]. A really great introduction that can be read cover to cover — almost as a novel — despite being really technical.

[1] https://nostarch.com/silence.htm
It doesn't take a lot of meters to pose a big problem for Victoria, BC. Look at a topographical map: https://en-ca.topographic-map.com/map-1926m2/Victoria/?cente...

That said, https://www.esquimalt.ca/sites/default/files/greater_victori... is built on more up to date information than I had. And suggests that subsidence + tsunami is only 4 meters. Which doesn't pose a serious threat. (If they are wrong and get a 10 meter combination, of course, that would be a far, far worse story.)
Oh thank goodness for that. Can you imagine if they were going to block Centralbron?

Question: does this mean NK are going to have to move their flagship shop if they want any customers in future?
IMHO, it's the monopoly aspect that really jumped the shark.

Google as one among competitors (read: pre-Android/~2005) still had to be a useful enough search engine to attract users.

Once their search share attained hegemony, user satisfaction deprioritized (relatively) and revenue was allowed to dominate.

And thus, we now get a Google who has little interest in weeding out SEO'd spam. (And not as in 'tweaking their algorithm' -- as in fundamentally detecting and delisting all recipe-story porn and answer-mills)
Large news organizations are accountable for this and print corrections on misinformation. People lost their jobs in the past... The scale between the misinformation there and in the general social network isn't really comparable.
RAW formats on digital cameras are also storing data in a log format. RAW conversion process is normally converting that to a color space along with (for most cameras) doing the De-Bayer algorithm.

The built in converter that produces JPG files in the camera does this too.

Our eyes perceive light as linear when it's really logarithmic.

There is really no difference between video and still here, it's just that it's more normalized at the consumer level to deal with RAW formats at this point for stills.
> A 200-bushel corn crop requires about 200 to 250 pounds nitrogen per acre.

So that’s about 240 lbs per acre of anhydrous ammonia.

https://www.rs.uky.edu/soil/calculators/mult_fert.php
Started reading... I'm trying to understand the difference between connectionless (datagram sockets) and persistent connection (stream sockets).

The thing I've realised is that I don't understand what a connection actually is. So I don't understand this bit

"Why are they connectionless? Well, basically, it’s because you don’t have to maintain an open connection as you do with stream sockets. You just build a packet, slap an IP header on it with destination information, and send it out. No connection needed"

How can anything be sent with no connection? What is a connection?
Worth noting - we just survived the hottest summer on record in PHX. Even by our standards, insanely brutal. No fun waiting for the bus in 115
That's what taste kind of does...
This was brilliant and hilarious (thank you OP for sharing).

I'm now going to do the thing that I think you're not supposed to do which is analyze the joke (rather than just appreciate it). My wife has been working hard at writing short stories and I've been observing the learning process and reading a lot of McSweeny's. Comedy writing is a true skill (like Comedy itself) -- and I think this piece really nails it. Comedy is about the unexpected -- leading a reader down a path and then changing directions in a way that provokes laughter, not confusion.

The first brilliant line: "The second time I bit you, I think I was just hungry." The title and opening paragraph imply and lead the reader into thinking that this was a joke about a single bite (which itself is absurd). When that line hits, the absurdity is amped up.

In fact that whole paragraph escalates and escalates the absurdity: "I hadn’t had any breakfast that morning" to "Okay. Full, full disclosure: I’d had a small breakfast" to "The sad irony is that my briefcase was full of leftover sausages from breakfast."

Anyway, I won't droll on here. A great piece and worth digesting if you have any interest in comedy writing :)
I wonder what you are supposed to do when you have bigger errands to run. Buying groceries for a family for whole week, get new furniture, going on vacation trip, etc.

I mean, yeah, it's great that you have everything necessary within walking distance, but sometimes you simply need to make larger trips...

I feel like there should be some kind of middle-ground...
> his enthusiasm for car-free living was born, he said, from living and traveling in countries such as Hungary, Japan and South Africa

I don't know about Hungary or Japan, but South Africa has extremely high car usage. Unless he lived in a very expensive area where you can also work (e.g. Melrose Arch or Parkhurst).
Delphi was really a "Concorde moment" in that it was actually rapid, both in terms of development speed, and performance, which was somehow forgotten as the web emerged.

Forgotten to the point that people thought Visual Basic was a good idea.
The explanations tell's me it's loading and interacting with remote file systems, not hosting them on their own. Which makes it different from dropbox&co., and a file explorer.
I don’t drive but I don’t want to live in a city that just bans cars.

I want to live in a city built that people choose not to drive because the other options are better, faster and more convenient.

Walkable cities need to outcompete the status quo!
Do you know if `pip3 install --user module` still works?
This is across-the-board important - because you can rarely "build new" what poorer people need. For example, nobody can "build used cars" - you need a vibrant car market that has used cars available at price points that others can afford.

Same thing applies to houses; you can't "build cheap housing" directly - you build new housing and the older housing decreases in price.

Which is why I have no problem with a brand new apartment building being built and having a luxury bent, even though it might be built on top of a walmart or something; the people living there free up space elsewhere.
Public transport is so inconvenient, even in the best cities. Your life revolves around transportation schedules. We walk several miles in our neighborhood every day. Yet we love the freedom a car gives us.
Problem: There are lots of forums like r/AppIdeas, r/ideas, indiehackers, hackernews etc where people post their ideas/products/landing-pages for feedback. They sparsely get any feedback as the other people on these forums are also looking for feedback, but not willing to "give" feedback.

Solution: Created a Discord Server where you need to give 3 feedbacks to request 1. This way it encourages people to participate in the discussion instead of just spamming their ideas.

Traction: 20 signups so far.

Link: https://discord.gg/FDDMzBnB
> Or go in person.

But only with a full stomach this time, please!

In any case, common courtesy dictates giving the office a short heads-up so that HR has time to get everybody up to date on their tetanus and rabies shots.
Maybe it just means they have a wide operating temperature range ?
Deciding not to engage with $BAD yourself is great; but then you've shirked your responsibility to decide what $BAD is for the rest of the world!

Just because you have the intelligence and judgement to perceive and avoid $BAD doesn't mean that you can trust your fellow citizens to do the same. They must be shielded from everything that you disagree with so as to protect you!

Seriously; the admission that you can't make decisions about what others should be reading is an embrace of humility that more people should attempt. I'm not sure when "we can agree to disagree" became a Sin but its has.
> All things considering, I don't think the idea of not providing feedback because of legal liabilities is sound.

Imagine you are GC and think about it from a risk/reward standpoint.

If you let people give feedback, given enough hires, some hiring manager will likely say something that draws a lawsuit. Doesn't matter if it is a reasonable case, that's still time, money and distraction.

And what does the company get in return? People who they didn't hire might think slightly better of it.

When you model it in terms of corporate incentives, the decision almost makes itself.
There are other candidates for true "flavors" that our tongues may contain receptors for that are currently being researched.

Kokumi - the presence of broken down amino acid chains common in aged protein products such as blue cheese or dry aged beef
https://www.fooddive.com/news/kokumi-the-sensation-that-make...

Oleogustus - the presence of certain lipids that in small amounts may make foods taste richer but may in fact be a way for us to detect rancid fats that we shouldn't ingest
https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2015/Q3/research-co...
The other comment is probably right, that this varies widely, but getting a vague order of magnitude is still useful. From some amateur googling, it seems that an acre requires on the order of 100 lbs/year (50-300lbs, though the higher figures seem to also include things other than just nitrogen/ammonia).

So 1 ton/day (assuming metric tonnage), would be in the range of 8000 acres/year, though with obviously large error bars.
Not coopted, privatized. There are surprisingly few places one can go in the US without the expectation of spending money
Legitimate requirements for hostnames longer than that have to be vanishingly small. I dare anybody to come up with a single anecdote from real world use.
LLaVA: Visual Instruction Tuning: Large Language-and-Vision Assistant
A number of commenters are pointing out that natural fertilizers exist. That is true. It is also true that artificial fertilizers were invented because around 1900 humanity ran out of biologically accessible ("fixed") nitrogen that it could convert to crops. The key nitrogen atom in roughly half of the amino acids in your body was part of a nitrogen-nitrogen pair floating in the atmosphere until it was fixed in a factory. If all the factories making fertilizers shut down tomorrow, there would be mass famine.
Bullet dodged IMO. I'd rather work somewhere where talent, productivity and genuine charisma gets me ahead instead of ass kissing (yes, it's always ass kissing... These letters are never sent out of a genuine gratitude for being able to interview with you).
They're changing font size, not fonts. I often C-scroll to zoom in, if there isn't a lot of text as I rather big fonts over lots of whitespace.
I ran this through GPT-4 Advanced Data Analytics version: https://chat.openai.com/share/b84feb03-22ed-4231-be41-cdb725...

Seems like it reasons it's way to this answer at the end to me:
Mind you, while averages are insightful, they don't capture the delightful unpredictability of each individual run. Would you like to explore this delightful chaos further, or shall we move on to other intellectual pursuits?
The big advantage of not using OpenGL is that D3D11, D3D12 and Metal all have excellent validation layers which tell you exactly what's wrong when you mess something up. In OpenGL you're pretty much left alone, staring at that black screen.

Xcode and Visual Studio also have builtin graphics debuggers for Metal and D3D11 (not sure if the VS debugger also supports D3D12 though).
Ah, yes, one readable file, top to bottom https://i.ibb.co/qdjct5K/Screenshot-20231011-095306.png