skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Good luck convincing the families of the 5%! I'm not arguing this approach wouldn't improve outcomes - just that it's not considered an acceptable solution to "the problem of education." So it doesn't seem like a good faith contribution to the conversation the article is addressing because I believe it's already been rejected as an option.

Of course it's an option: this is why charter schools, private schools and home schools are increasingly popular!

Government education is the only meaningful way in which the majority of people are prohibited from meaningful choices for their kids because the government says "but what about the bottom 5%" -- so folks _opt out_ of government education entirely.

This is why "progressive" (i.e. leftist) politicians and activists are trying to make opting out as difficult as possible -- even though "marginalized minorities" disproportionately support opting out.

But despite the "progressive" (i.e. leftist) politicians and activists, the alternatives are increasingly popular. It's slow, but there is improvement on the alternatives.
I wonder if they can overlay a GIF of a cat on top of the video when the ad is playing...
I don’t agree with that statement at all. I think it encompasses a very myopic definition of engineering, and implies that humans can’t build or evaluate government structures on the basis of specific design goals.
EasyApply filter on, hit apply on every job for the first 10 pages that even remotely mentions something you do, want to do, or thought about once.

I would not be surprised if jobs were getting 1000+ applicants.
To rein in climate change, Biden pledges $7B to regional 'hydrogen hubs'
>but people seem so unmotivated right now to work and learn

Hmm.. not been my experience and not for me specifically. My attitude to interviewing (when I was on that side of the fence), was to hire for (I hate to say it as it's subjective), by perceived IQ and their drive to learn/get stuff done. It usually worked out quite well for my hires.

ATM, I'm getting rejected for the most stupid f.things of not knowing some obscure dated framework/library. Not sure if interviewers realize this, but in a lot of cases, it's an evening hacking on a project to learn it. These things are not rocket science.

My thoughts is that there's so many candidates (or maybe posting bots?), that if all checkboxes are not ticked, they can discard them.
Coax that's already been run to the home and pulled through walls is also "almost" free. Perhaps even moreso.

I switched to fiber at my current home the moment it became available, but until then I enjoyed being fairly well-served by gigabit (down) cable over DOCSIS 3.1 on the infrastructure that was ready to use on move-in day.
Germany is rulled by car makers lobby, it's obvious train infra is let to rot and underfunded
I agree on the 'T' being harder to read, but dislike the use of a space as it makes it ill-suited for use in a filename, and would allow word-wrapping to occur between the two sections. I'd much rather they had used an underscore instead of a 'T'.
From https://www.boxcast.com/blog/internet-speeds-for-4k-live-str... :

> Even with good compression, video content still requires a significant amount of bandwidth. For example, YouTube recommends sending 34 Mbps for 4Kp30, and 50 Mbps for 4Kp60.

> In addition to needing high internet speed for 4k streaming, you need to factor in more bandwidth for your audio (typically in the 128–320 Kbps range) and a small amount more for overhead. Then double it — you should plan to always stay at 50% or less of available bandwidth in case of disruptions
> it's not and should not be the responsibility of the OS to apply effects or manipulate or alter the data of the hardware.

This position is unworkable in so many cases, but it's especially so for cameras. The data coming out of these sensors is awful, and requires several computationally-expensive passes to clean up. Once you grant that there is a spectrum of data manipulation where reasonable defaults must be selected, you grant that your stated position is unrealistic.
Cover letter = I don't want to discover what other archaic rituals and customs this dinosaur company has
My bus from east bay to SF is always full of businesspeople.
There were rumours that the DX and SX chips were exactly the same:

Intel zapped the FPU on the SX to disable it. Apparently it cost more to make, but sold for less.
I’ve already updated, and confirmed with others that an update had occurred.
Smartwatches Keep Phone-Begging Kids at Bay, but There Are Downsides
Might not wrestle better in open weight class, chop as much wood or shovel as much snow or dirt, though ?
I’m a really big fan of giving ICs a goal and letting them plan and execute how they’ll get there on their own. If they have questions I’m there and if they’re going down a dark hole, I pull them out of it. But otherwise, I just get out of their way.

It’s kind of sad because you can tell pretty quickly who has always been told what to do. In the beginning they’ll struggle so you can’t just leave them to drown. When they get over that, they need almost constant affirmation. It can take years which is fine. But it often operationalizes itself as really talented people who get stuck as intermediate developers.

So it turns into two competing management problems. How do you convince them that management works for them? And how do you groom them into leadership positions? The first is the easier of the two.
Having worked in the recruiting industry, these are the three top barriers to hiring:

1. The CEO/Board/Leaders ignore clear signals from candidates on what they want in a job (hybrid/remote being most common issue)

2. Hiring managers refused to learn the basics on how to attract & vet quality candidates. They are unreliable, capricious, and generally run hot/cold during the process

3. Recruiters have given up on addressing points #1 & #2, so they shovel candidates and jobs back and forth without expecting to be heard

Most intermediaries are in this position, they are trying to apply expertise on a business function to those who don’t share it. It’s very difficult to overcome, even when internal owners (like HR team members) know the gap and are advocating for an effective approach
Sony's PS+ is really good, I was really impressed at how smooth the whole experience was. The ability to play titles all the way back to PS2 in an officially supported manner is really nice!
A big climate change stress test is coming for Amazon sellers and suppliers
You seem to be missing that the biggest expense is actually running and burying the wires themselves. Coax is already deployed in huge parts of the US, and it’s not easy or fast to rewire the whole country with something new.
> FreeBSD 15.0 is not expected to include support for 32-bit platforms. However, 64-bit systems will still be able to run older 32-bit binaries.

> ...

> With the current support schedule, stable/14 will be reach End of Life (EOL) 5 years after the release of FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE. The EOL of stable/14 would mark the end of support for 32-bit platforms including source releases, pre-built packages, and support for building applications from ports. Given an estimated release date of October 2023 for 14.0-RELEASE, support for 32-bit platforms would end in October 2028.

Still quite a bit of a long tail, but likely time to do it, if not overdue.
I think the last time I had a 32-bit laptop was a Thinkpad r60 which I was able to upgrade to a 64-bit CPU...that laptop was from 2006.
Next.js v13 websites are a heaven for scraping
Just a random thought while analyzing some Next.js v13 website HTML markup.

Due to the way that RSC hydrates elements during client-side rendering, Next.js has to provide all their property data using JSON (see this issue https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions/42170)

As a result, any website that uses Next.js with RSC is extremely easy to extract data from since you can tap into JSON of every element.

Just an interesting observation without implying whether it is good or bad for the ecosystem.
What is "the Internet"? You are free to create communities that serve your needs and I am sure more exist now than ever did in the history of Internet, just because of sheer user base. Should everyone else be forced into your style of communities? Seems unfair, live and let live.
No reason at all, and we don't rule out applicants because of language. But Java/etc programmers have a strong tendency to be specialized in a particular sort of programming that we don't do, and get very weak when they're not doing that. They need more training that we can afford in order to come up to speed.

But we absolutely interview the ones who seem like they'd be able to come up to speed. The pickings seem a bit slim, though.

We also aren't in SV, Seattle, or any of the other hot places people want to be. That's why I think the problem is more the office requirement than anything else.

The positions also aren't ML positions (we do use ML, but those positions are already well-covered.)
I consult internally in a large tech company on management among other org design and behavior topics.

I recommend Managing Humans and Bringing up the Boss. They are the most practical and useful day to day. Avoid Making of a Manager. It’s recommended often but it’s a memoir masquerading as a management book and way too focused on the writers specific situation.

Also get coffee with your HRBP. They are a wealth of knowledge and best to start the relationship before you really need them.
> 4000 calories when they were skinny, and now they can't lose weight on 1500 calories when their maintenance intake is 2600.

4000 is a conservative estimate. Four pop tarts, an entire large pizza (all you can eat buffets FTW), two liters of soda, and an entire large bag of chips was, like… a totally normal day for me. There’s probably also be some cookies or hostess donuts in there, too.

> If you couldn't lose weight on 1400 calories then where exactly was the energy coming from?

No clue, but I didn’t cheat once and ate fixed meals of pre-measured calories every day. So.
https://github.com/did-1
https://writer.did-1.com/

DID is novel decentralized social media infrastructure that empowers users to own and distribute their content. Think of it like a decentralized Twitter where the data is entirely in the user's hands and where everyone is free to post content and subscribe to new posts. It could be also be compared to decentralized global RSS feed.
You can look at the Spring 1970 issue and see the price, the seller's contact info, and the "or WHOLE EARTH CATALOG" statements:

https://wholeearth.info/p/whole-earth-catalog-spring-1970?fo...
> You can improve the outcomes of the non-low-performers, but it's hard to say it's a "net societal improvement" because the low performers are also part of society.

That depends on the improvement vs loss -- IME, it is a net improvement.

With 100 students, 5 are disruptive, verbally abusive, maybe physically violent. How much does that 5% bring down the other 95%? If we remove that 5% from the other 95%, how much does the 5% lose versus the 95% gain?

IME, the gains in the 95% are miles ahead of the losses in the 5%, which makes it's net improvement.
Length, Size, and Count in Ruby and Rails: When to Use Which?
I don't see "free to do X" being exclusively "it's allowed by law". One is always free to do whatever one wants. Criminal law exists to punish those who abuse that freedom in ways their society has deemed to be harmful.

That is to say "free to do X (under the law)" is a subset of "free to do X".
It won't perform the ROT13 algorithm. It has seen enough ROT13 text transformations that it will just spit out memorized byte-by-byte transformations.

Same with decoding ROT13, etc.
Interesting point! That's my understanding as well.
> I do feel it's odd they continue to allow to support existing mobi's

Those files have, presumably, already been converted.
Did you post a salary range in the job posting?
Nothing new for the EU commission. They are the least democratic of the EU bodies. The name the have (the commission, from the soviet union commissars) is very appropriate and the do live up to it. Just look how they attack every country that has the audacity to elect forces opposed to their paymasters (that mostly include German interest groups, and Russia by proxy). Trying to redefine words like "rule of law" to hit for example Poland(ruled by a party opposed to EPP, the ruling party in the EU) while 100% ignoring horrible corruption in Bulgaria that is aligned with them. No reaction whatsoever to huge corruption in the Court of Justice of the EU (the Court of Justice is the opposite of the rule of law at the moment, but it's a long story). All while trying to force more power to itself against treaties, get rid of veto rights, and push through things like this law. Sad really, because the EU itself was a great idea, but everything can be corrupted.
I’ve noticed I can get it to answer questions into March 2022, but not further (yet). I suspect their September 25 update included a chunk of content from February and March 2022, but not enough for them to say “we got it.”
A historic agreement aims to pave the way for large scale solar farms
I'm not going to break out references to everything in the Knife deburring book, but I'd advocate that anyone who wants proof of what I'm basically parroting back (with photos and sharpness tests, wear tests, and real world tests to back that up) read the book.

Once you've ground an edge, there may be a burr or wire that you can feel. Secondary honing brings that edge to something so fine, you can't see it or feel it, but it's not the edge apex. There is either a wire edge so small you can't see it, a feather edge, or a foil edge. These edges after honing may even pass sharpness tests, but will almost immediately roll and lose sharpness. This is exacerbated by the modern "super" steels and stainless steels that are used in knives today, and that is a whole other avenue of discussion.

For example, take a pretty bog standard Global kitchen knife. This is a high vanadium content stainless steel, so it should be ground with a diamond or CBN wheel. Sharpening with conventional abrasives will actually erode the substrate steel around the vanadium carbides in the blade, giving the edge a toothed appearance that eventually results in carbide breakout during use. Because these knives are an "in-between" burr forming steel (which means they don't necessarily form a positive burr or negative burr) and because the vanadium carbides need to be honed away with diamonds, the recommended method for honing this knife would be to sharpen 12 deg per side edge angle, progressing up to 1000 grit CBN or diamond wheel while grinding into the edge, then de-burr the edge with a slotted paper wheel at 5 micron diamond paste, then with felt wheel running away from the edge, impregnated with diamond spray at 1 micron, and +0.8 degrees edge angle. This will remove the wire edge and deburr the edge down to the root of the edge apex. Then hone with slotted paper wheel with Chromium Oxide (which is about grit level 60,000 or 0.5 micron) on a paper wheel for the last pass. This should read about 40 BESS on a tester, and a SEM photo will show no foil or feather edge. That is about 10-15 BESS sharper than a safety razor, but that is what is required to get rid of the different type of burrs that will cause the knife to dull quickly. These degrees are very precise, free-hand sharpening will not end up with the desired effect.

Anyway, not far off what your grandfather recommended, but somewhat different. According to Dr. Kraichuk's testing, leaving the knife more dull than 50-90 BESS almost always has an undesirable edge burr, be it foil, feather, or wire. This burr will roll over almost immediately under use, bringing the knife to a "working sharp" level of 300 BESS, which is pretty bad.

I can't really summarize this book in a HN comment, but if you're at all interested in this research, check out that book. You can get it on a PDF from the author's website, http://knifegrinders.com.au but the author died suddenly so don't look for any support.
Let us hope if it comes to that, you will be safe somehow.
oh, the railways recently became measurably more on schedule. Simply by raising the threshold value for 'belatedness' for the statistics. Magical.
Old pinball machines are amazingly complex [video]
>For about 3 months my mac had 1second network delays when opening any new connections, but only sometimes?

This sounds like the primary configured DNS server was unreachable, but the secondary was reachable.
According to GPT3.5-ChatGPT, your first sentence rot13 encoded is

"V unq'ir cynlq zhpug jvgu vg ercerfrag ohg V jnf haqre gur vacebprffvba gung PungTGC jnf abg tengure ng zngpuvfgbef."

According to the internet that decodes to

"I had've playd mucht with it represent but I was under the inprocession that ChatGTP was not grather at matchistors."

base64 of the original according to GPT3.5:

"SSBoYXZlbid0IHBsYXllZCBtdWNoIHdpdGggaXQgcmVjZW50bHkgYnV0IEkgd2FzIHVuZGVlciB0aGF0IENoYXRHUFQgd2FzIG5vdCBncmVhdCBhdCBtYXRjaGVtYXRpY2FsIGNvbXB1dGlvbnM="

Decoded with online tool:

"I haven't played much with it recently but I was undeer that ChatGPT was not great at matchematical computions"

Both get worse as the sentence goes on, but they are pretty viable for information extraction. I remember GPT4 being even better.
> FAANG layoffs that mostly impacted non tech roles.

Source? My impression is the exact opposite.
You can build it yourself, although it's a pain in the ass.
What criteria are you looking for in a cover letter?

I find the concept of cover letter completely disassociated of a candidate competency to do their job.

I can spend 1h to write a cover letter with perfect structure, good intention and really speaking my vision of me in the company, this won't show that I can do a leetcode medium or that my clipper code is well structured.
This one is great!
https://janismac.github.io/ControlChallenges/
popcorn!
IRC never died. Join us.

All the HTTP-alikes (gemini, etc) are cool but you can achieve the same thing on the actual web just by actually making a website in HTML. There are still plenty of actual websites out there. You just won't ever encounter links to them from within the walled gardens. And in their own more benign way, gemini and the like are walled gardens. Hiding in small niche protocol communities isn't going to "fix" things.

As for finding others: you have to surf. And that's something people don't do anymore generally. Google becoming crap has made it harder but it's still possible. We need a new searchlores for the modern era.
You can do that kind of thing in the US, but land use is a real constraint in the UK.

The politics of land use in the UK are also diabolical.
Wrestling seems like exactly the wrong thing to cite here, since it's generally not done in openweight, and if you're wrestling in traditional weight classes then what's described here is hugely beneficial - you can drop a weight class but not lose strength.
I wonder why more dissertations aren't written in an entertaining or "layperson" way as these are. Is it just deemed nonproper in the various communities?
I've thought about getting an Apple Watch for my kids, before getting them phones. Is it possible to use parental controls to prevent them from being used for texting/etc. during the school day? Or only to/from certain numbers (ours)? I wouldn't want them to be distracted texting their friends during class.
Try this one: https://praveshkoirala.com/2023/06/13/a-non-mathematical-int...
"I mean it's one banana, Michael. What could it cost? 10 dollars?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl_Qyk9DSUw
Thank you for the really detailed and thorough comment! I appreciate it.
Do you think the ability for the owner to root is not worthy of protections? It seems odd to draw that distinction when they are two sides of the same coin
I feel like with a lot of languages this is true - it's pretty easy to pick up Python if you know Ruby (and vice-versa) for example. But with C++... there's just so much complexity now and still so many footguns. Hiring C++ devs familiar with modern C++ (C++11 and beyond) is probably not easy. I've done a good bit of C++ in the past (prior to C++11) and I've done a bit of modern C++, but when a job ad lists C++17+ I'm really hesitant to apply. It's a whole different beast than it was 15 years ago.
There is actually no democracy in the European Union, nor in any of its state members. There is no power separation, the executive branch and the legislative branch is all one that is trying to control everything.

You can see it with all these laws that bypass the judiciary system when censoring content on the internet. It's not a judge who decides to ban or not Russia Today or Twitter.

This is basically Michels' iron law of oligarchy unfolding under our eyes. They create the laws, they execute them and they punish if you don't follow.
> I'm perfectly happy to pay for YouTube premium. It supports the creators that I watch and I don't see ads.

When I'm on TikTok, I get ads and yet... they feel completely unobtrusive. I also find myself actually watching ads on TikTok - they're relatable, fit into my interests, etc.. It's interesting too that a real effort at putting together a great looking ad is made.

For example... I will see low-end ADs on TikTok re: vitamins. Not interested but... wow! They are fantastically made (AI generated: both visuals and audio).

In contrast, when I'm on Youtube, the ads are obnoxious and have little to do with my interests. They may be political, they may be related to big pharma pushing pills that I have no interest in. There is little effort at even producing anything entertaining.

Also, if I click on a 2 minute video, I start off with a couple of ads and I might even see an ad in the middle. I might also see the creator start off with a sponsor AD at the start or at some point in the middle.

One site takes the user experience into consideration (TikTok). The other (YT) is a warzone.

I can no longer access the original article (they blocked my VPN...) but I recall reading it was a laughable $14 a month. I'm laughing all the way to the alternatives...
VW Won't Make Its Electric Dune Buggy, but Your Kid Can Still Have One
Cover letters that just say how much you love the company are pretty useless. Cover letters that provide additional information about why you're a good use of the company's interviewer's time are useful. I've submitted letters about, say, how I think one project on my resume is specifically applicable to a problem the company has. This both shows I researched the company, which is proof of investment from me, and provides some evidence that I should work at this particular company (or I could have done bad research and misunderstood the company and what it wants, in which case it will help them reject me and help me find my way to a company I'm more interested in)
ROT13 is just one-to-one character replacement in the end. You can also presumably ask it to do other character replacement, foreign language or even made up languages. At some point you need an LLM to even have a chance of figuring out if the prompt is leaking and that'd get very expensive to run.
For me, it’s still the remote thing. I’m a principal, couple decades of experience, I’m still seeing quite a few approaches on LinkedIn but almost all are wanting a few days a week / month in some “fantastic” office in some city. Nope.
The author even mentioned him in the notes. Do you know any of the other designers names?
How are you going to stop people from lying?

Job seekers exaggerate their experience and skills.

Hiring managers exaggerate how great job is.

It is a problem with no technical solution.

Well you have leetcode to check tech proficiency but is leetcode grinding hire best hire for the company?

There is also bunch of problems like, company itself doesn’t know what they want. Job seekers on the other hand not knowing what position they exactly want.
You have that backwards. Governmental regulation increases the barriers to entry, which reduces competition and creates monopolies.