skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's arguable. First it will be grown professionally and not in someone's garage so you get some quality standards there.

I think the grey market channels are pretty much the same as the black market channels used to be: some are selling garbage and some of selling better quality than you can get in the legal shops.
He's on the right track, except instead of ditching LeetCode use it as a source of code to review. I think many people overlook that each LeetCode problem has an associated forum where people discuss the problem and post solutions.

Here's what I'm going to try if I ever again have to conduct interviews.

1. I'll present the candidate with a LeetCode problem (or let them pick from a list), after emphasizing that I'm not going to be asking them to actually solve it.

2. After they read it we'll discuss it, starting with the problem statement and examples, until we are both sure we think we know what the problem is actually asking. We'll also talk about any edge cases we anticipate might give us problems.

3. We'll talk about possible approaches to the problem.

4. After we have come up with some approach that with sufficient hand waving could convince someone that we could actually right a solution, we'd go the forum for the problem and start looking at the solutions people have posted.

5. For some of those solutions we'll try to figure out if they would work, if they handle the edge cases, spot bugs, see if they are well organized, talk about how well they appear to be written, and stuff like that.
Show HN: Etcha, Infinite Scale Config Management for Distributed Platforms
They could certainly prepare a stream for every video with inline ads that's used as a fall back when personalised ads won't load. Certainly showing a non-targeted ad is better than showing no ad, right?

If you make the generic ads worse than personalized ads (show more, show them more frequently, or just get the most annoying ads) you'll actually get people opting into personalized ads as the lesser of 2 evils.
link here: https://www.apple.com/apple-pencil/

$79, USB-C, but no pressure sensitivity.
> Then we must define what the dimensions of a seat are to know what we're tealking about.

Why? We are buying a seat, not inches. But since you insist, here: https://seatguru.com/charts/generalcharts.php

How does this information move the conversation forward?
Two things:

1. I get compliments about how nice my handwriting is.

2. It really does help me to remember details. I don't need to go back through my notes (I rarely do these days) but the mere fact of having written it down seems to lock it more tightly into my memory.

Maybe I'll setup a little, completely un-scaleable online service whereby I'll write a hand written letter and send it to a chosen address on behalf of anyone willing to pay.

No ransom notes.
It is my understanding the buyers agent commission is a line item on the MLS entry. So only agents can see it, not the public. Too low? Now your buyers agent will refuse to show that house.
Sure, but I also prefer talking directly about what you're talking about though. If you have some Windows implementations that need to talk to each other, I'd rather they use HANDLE and HMODULE than "void* winkwinknudgenudge" style things. Hopefully users don't need to include these headers directly (but sometimes they do), but it's still something you need to consider in the APIs and such because while the header might say LoadLibrary, the caller is going to need to include windows.h and deal with the #define anyways.
> work isn’t meant to be fun

that tired joke just reinforces the silly notion that individuals should just put up with things for money, and probably even be grateful for it.

laying it all out, that’s quite funny.
The easiest way to combat "you have nothing to hide" is if you were in a country taken over by dictators or terrorists, those leaders don't care and cannot be reasoned with. They will use the backdoor at any time to punish dissent or any misalignment with their rules.

And if people say, "but our country is free", tell them that if your country was not, how would you get back to freedom? Is your software and hardware free and open so that you could do this?

If the E.U. really made Chat Control, it would require a DRM that would restrict non-signed OS from running. How would you install freedom software under this situation?

The only way is to prevent the implementation of locked hardware in the first place.
Navy in Middle Earth
Your opinion of him is irrelevant to, well, everything.
Isn't rates set per year?
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This is how the free market should work. Having the government subsidize insurance in areas where destruction is likely is insane.

People will still want to live there. They will build stronger houses. In the Outer Banks of North Carolina they build houses on stilts with the expectation of the first floor flooding. Or they will build cheap houses with the expectation they get destroyed and have to rebuild every N years. This is fine.

The only reason stuff never gets fixed, is when someone bails them out. Stop bailing them out and everything will fix itself.
There are startups and there are "startups". Lots of medium-sized (>150 people) companies call themselves startups but are filled with big company people and their big company practices, held up in many cases by a steady stream of VC. Real startups don't use bigco process.
The GP used the fact that we tell apart sculptures from rocks as a key point in their argument. The fact that removing knowledge eliminates the ability to tell them apart means that there's nothing intrinsic that we're observing when we say that something is a sculpture. There's nothing about the object itself that makes it a sculpture; it's a sculpture to the observer because it looks like what they understand sculptures look like. If the observer thought sculptures look like something different they would say the object is not a sculpture, even when nothing about the object changed.
I once made a small observation on the talk page of a biography of a living person. This identical observation had been made many times in the talk page, I was to learn.

That observation lead inevitably and inexorably, within a single week, in masterly chess moves, by people obviously coordinating, well versed in the rules of Wikipedia and with ungodly amounts of spare time, to my being harassed, doxxed, and sanctioned by Wikipedia. It was the first time in over 15 years of editing I ever had a hint of anything like that happening. It was harrowing. I walked away and will never edit another page at Wikipedia. I tried to have my profile removed under my GDPR rights and got stonewalled.

Wikipedia has no defenses against motivated, coordinating gangs of editors who use the purported concept of consensus and scholarly truth-seeking as a weapon. Amazing.
An Introduction to the Mathematics of Digital Signal Processing: Part II (1978)
Now imagine the power where you can save time wasted on the initial copying and invested it in summarizing (which could also be faster to edit)
Is it fair to call “implicit”, essentially retrieval augmented generation? While “explicit” is something different?
Show HN: Riffusion with Lyrics
Almost a year ago someone stumbled upon our hobby project and posted it to HN (edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33999162). It was magical to see so many of you enjoy something we built for our love of music. We’re back today with a real product and are excited to see what you think!

riffusion.com lets you create original music via short, shareable audio clips called “riffs”. You describe the lyrics and a musical style to generate riffs complete with singing and custom artwork in a few seconds. From inspiring musicians, to wishing your mom a ‘good morning!’, we are having a lot of fun with riffs as a form of expression and communication.

We hope you have as much of a blast traveling the latent space of music as we did making it. You can generate music from text, remix other riffs, or record your own lyric timings.

A riff for HN: https://www.riffusion.com/riffs/ac7ff4c3-d86d-4dfa-884e-bb19...

Hayk + Seth
Because adults with hobbies and families have better things to do. How is this so hard to grasp? Bonus is that 90% of devs literally will not use most of that knowledge.

My biggest problems are getting requirements, understanding the problem, working around a legacy system or deciphering old code, not actually writing code when requirements and documentation is on point.
Im pretty sure work isnt meant to be anything other than a way to earn money. So it can be fun there is nothing inherent in jt that prevents it from being so
>Music piracy is much harder today than it was 10 years ago

What does "harder" mean? Just because what.cd doesn't exist anymore there are still countless trackers and servers out there. I can pretty much download anything I want week 1. There are more music out there that we could listen in our entire lives.

Of course someone always comes up with the question like "what about the tanzanian panflute world music band I've heard in Quito in 1982, where can I find their CD"
For the past year I've worked with a large JS/TS project undergoing a slow, gradual transformation into TS - before that, for the better part of past 10 years I worked on a Python 3 + some typing, lightly enforced by mypy.

I must say I don't like JS, never have, likely never won't, but Typescript is a really pleasant language, even if JS underneath is more visible than I'd like. The mix of static analysis possible with TS vs added overhead of having to specify types (which can get very complex!) is just right. I welcome any and all efforts to make Python go this way - I'd be perfectly fine with transplanting TS type system as is.
It reminds me of a quote in a Doctor Who episode: "[Life is] Nature's way of keeping meat fresh.".
The announcement: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/10/apple-introduces-new-...
Ah! The resounding NAK! https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whFZoap+DBTYvJx6ohqPwn11P...

My take away:
jeffxu@google.com has to go back to rethink the whole thing.

Good idea, execution, not so, yet.
I think the real problem with handwriting is the way it has been thought in school. Growing up in mid 2000s Australia, I recall it being thought largely as a rote learning exercise in which one repeats the same letters over and over again without much context, which isn't a particularly exciting thing to do. (On the other hand I quickly learned to type fast as I enjoyed playing games + writing personal documents on my computer and wanted to do all of that as quickly as possible.)

The funny thing was that some years later in 2016, I became highly interested in learning other writing systems for fun (and which I talk about on a blog of mine at [1]), which eventually also evolved into a newfound obsession with handwriting that I still practice today. Its really changed the way I see the written word and is a good way to remind oneself how letters on a screen are really the culmination of a few thousand years of scribes iterating through the older sharp, rigid and awkward letters and gradually evolving them into smoother and more fluid forms which can be drawn much faster by hand.

[1]: https://alternatescriptbureau.wordpress.com
I use LibreTube[0] on my phone which is a client for Piped so you can probably make your TV App a client as well so you don't have to do the scraping yourself.

[0] https://github.com/libre-tube/LibreTube
> how much of this middle management heavy organizational structure was introduced by cultures that place undue significance to 'becoming a manager'

Big teams need management. Small teams, less so. The largest tech companies are larger today than ever before. And there are more tech companies above virtually any threshold now than there were then. It follows that the average person in tech now works at a larger company than previously.

The number of people in small start-ups may be larger than ever before. But, because of the distribution, they're outnumbered still by those in large organizations that require bureaucracy to stay aligned.
Thus. I happened to work with a former Allianz-employed mathematician once (the wonders of working around Munich). Insurances are very good in calculating risks, and if the numbers don't work out anymore, you will see it immediately in premiums. That is all there is.

In a sense, you can se the impact of climate change in insurance premiums. Including the math behind those risks. And the insurance industry doesn't have the reputation of being anything but profit driven.
> I wish people would just be honest and say yes, it's absurd and wasteful, but I think it'll make me rich so I don't care.

That's just your opinion. Most hardcore bitcoiners aren't in it to be rich, it's because it has a lot of potential to be a more sustainable monetary system over what we have now. I don't see the energy consumed by Bitcoin to be wasted and I'm doubtful that most who say it is understand why it's used in the first place.
Yea, the title is a bit clickbaity.

First of all it's only talking about FOSSILS, so that's a big thing. Secondly, it's only talking about single celled life. In this narrow context, the title is correct.
Dawkins had something to contribute when it comes to the claims of creationism, specifically the biological evidence for common descent. But when it comes to the question more generally, he is not a good source for counter-apologetics. He simply has little background in theology to make informed, nuanced claims.

There are others (like agnostic Bart Ehrman) who have the education and decades of study to comment on this history of religious thought.
Purely an anecdote, but I live within XX miles of west palm beach. Insurance cancelled with our HOA because our "15-year" roofs reached 12 years old. We just spent 3 million dollars redoing all the roofs in our community, and the new insurance rate is still increased over year 12's.

I wonder if this is retribution for all the TV infomercials for filing for "hail damage" many months after a hurricane last season.
> I was suggesting that the buffer be invalidated by each subsequent call

This would break very simple single-threaded programs that e.g. print two env vars in one printf call.
Well if Linus had worked with any android apis, he wouldn't be the least surprised by completely illogical APIs coming out of Google (or making once completely logical APIs illogical).
My favorite interviews are when they give me some code to read and understand, and then either test or fix bugs or add a feature to. That is what we all spend bulk of our time doing and so it makes sense to make that the "technical challenge" part of the interview
Yes and it was as predictable as sunrise after Microsoft acquired them. Formally, I was a paid subscriber and conducted a good bit of business via LinedIn. After Microsoft acquired them, I canceled and now visit LinkedIn infrequently, and usually then only in response to a direct message. Those on the previous thread cheering the prospects from Microsoft's acquisition of Activision/Blizzard are likely to be disappointed in the outcome as well.
Interesting. I wonder what the ramifications are if a significant number of people drop home insurance all together.

Home prices are so high there that I can only assume that, like California, you're essentially paying for the land, not so much the structure. It means your investment is not quite as at-risk as a home in another state.

If we built less-expensive homes perhaps home insurance need not be a thing at all.

But since in theory the prices of insurance takes into account that the risk is being spread around the insurance pool, would a significant number of people leaving that pool cause it to go up more for those remaining?
This isn't a fully formed point, just a thought.. but your air conditioner wouldn't exist without a living system directing matter to form an air conditioner; at least, it's so unlikely as to be practically impossible. So an air conditioner may not be a living system, but it's the product of a living system (at some point; maybe there are other non-living systems in the pipeline, e.g. factory robots).
This is going to lead to some weird data breeches, probably also some very weird faked data breeches.
Can selection tie evolution more closely to physics?
A lot of people attribute high costs of insurance in Florida to severe weather and global warming. I have also read that there has been a widespread and unaddressed roofing/insurance scam epidemic which has driven home insurance costs up all over Florida. I don't know how much of an impact it has had.

Also: https://archive.ph/mUQGC

Link to WSJ article in question.
People still have the option to live without insurance.

Perhaps you just decide that you're gonna keep everything that matters upstairs in your house, and the downstairs flooding a couple of times a year is worth it for the substantial reduction in house price.
You mean linked libraries you don't have the source of? Yes, in that case set the environment vars as early as possible (if possible before starting any thread).
There is a lot of room between being entirely self sufficient and minimizing impact. Simply "needing" less goes a very long way to reducing impact.
There is no such thing as a generic "European debit card". Dutch retailers accept specifically only Maestro, VPay, MasterCard Debit or VISA debit cards, but usually not not VISA Electron, or various other other country-specific European debit cards like Bancontact or giropay or EC. Albert Heijn (except in a few stores in Amsterdam and Schiphol) doesn't accept any credit cards and does not distinguish between domestic or foreign. It's a matter of costs, not xenophobia.

Retailers just choose from the options from their bank, which are the debit card I already listed (Maestro, VPay, MasterCard Debit or VISA debit), and optionally VISA and MasterCard credit cards (which are separate from their debit cards). Retailers do not have the option of accepting Dutch Maestro/VPay but excluding Maestro/VPay issued elsewhere in Europe. They do have the option to exclude credit cards altogether, and many do for the reason of € 0.06 transaction cost vs 1.7% and that around 100% of Dutch account holders have one of (Maestro, VPay, MasterCard Debit or VISA debit). Xenophobia has nothing to do with it, any more than retailers in your countries might not accept Bancontact, giropay or UnionPay cards.
Thank you for sharing.

Is the situation similar with CVS or Walgreens ? If not, why not ?

Did they have better controls, or they just got lucky from a number of factors (i.e. lower presence in states with serious opioid problems, etc)
If the governments vote laws that are aggressive towards the people, then the software developers need to make licenses for their software disallow government use until they start to be more citizen friendly.

There are a lot of software developers in this forum.
Right. If everyone hides in encryption, they'll outlaw encryption.
Regardless of the duplication, I don’t see how yet another random internet poster not understanding LLM hallucinations is news. You’ll probably find dozens of instances of this kind of post every single hour. (But 100 HN commenters in the other thread seem to disagree, so what do I know.)
He's making 3 statements and people are agreeing/disagreeing with each separately:

1. Am I the only one that is a little turned off

2. how everyone feels

3. they deserve everything for free?

It's complicated the fact that some of these are negating statements where agreement is expressed by a "no."
The author advocates using encryption as an ethical duty, OK. But it would not be an effective form of civil disobedience. This is unrealistic:

> We should all use PGP, SSL or equivalent tools; VPNs, Tor and/or SSH tunnelling; IPFS, or other distributed file systems — and ditch proprietary OS's in favour of Linux or truly free Android distros.

This is not anything the general public, for whom today their mobile phones with Play Services are the default device and things like WhatsApp their means of communication, is going to do. All the state needs to do is force weaker encryption on the common apps offered on the Play Store, and that covers the vast, vast majority of the population.
Dutch art sleuth recovers a further six stolen paintings
Thats step 1 of 10, you still need to do toxicity, side effects, absorbion, etc
All of these things can substantially vary within a single internal level (or external benchmark grade). Why would your physical location determine your level? Why would your career level change if you're doing the same type of work as someone, but using a technology or skillset that is more rare and thus commands a higher premium in the marketplace? Another example: two people doing the same type of accounting work, but one of them has to get national security clearance for the group they cover - same level, same job, but the barriers to entry for one of those jobs will create a substantial compensation variance (but the level doesn't change).

Organizational leveling criteria and compensation criteria are certainly related, but not interchangeable. Organizational leveling criteria is a reflection of your internal hierarchy of authority, decision making, and accountability. Compensation criteria considers that to a degree, but also accounts for more externalities, individual organizational differences, and at times a reflection of strategic priorities.
> I would rather be a the whim of customers than some manager

You'd rather give up the clarity that comes from working for a single person who you can ask exactly what they want, get near-instant feedback on whether it makes them happy, so that you can work for some fickle, amorphous, faceless people who you have little control over whether or not they keep paying you in the future, forcing you to constantly hunt for more, even paying large sums of money (i.e. marketing) to find them?

There's lots of great reasons to run your own business, but if your frame of mind is that you're working "for" your customers, that's definitely not one of them. Successful founders fall in love with solving a problem that many potential customers have, not with working for their customers. It's not the same thing.
It is easy to judge other people, why they have a nimby opinion. Show me your property, if it has windmills or photovoltaic on them. Then it would be an intellectually honest conversation.
So you only need to slow a person down to achieve the same effect, what's the value of handwriting?
But qualifying any particular moment as "death" already implies that we've granted the thing in question the quality of being alive at some point, so it's not a useful way to distinguish living from non-living.
I still have to disagree on both counts. First of all, plenty of writers write with at least the hope that their work will continue to generate residual income for the rest of their lives.

Second, no, even with the expiring copyright on Disney's earliest works, people can't just go out and make their own Mickey Mouse content, because there is trademark protection on Mickey Mouse and other major Disney IP, and that can be renewed indefinitely.[0] So even a quickly expiring copyright regime would still favor the deep-pocketed large corporations.

And you might say, well, the little author can trademark their work as well. But most won't. So all Disney and Warner would have to do is sit on the sidelines, trawl through the 25 year old fantasy section for interesting stories and characters that have not been trademarked, and just start use NG them without compensation. And what's worse, by introducing minimal changes to the characters (“Frobo Daggins“) they can then copyright and trademark their derivative works such that even the original author could not turn around and try to benefit from the resurgent popularity of their creation.

Not expecting to change your mind or anything, but I hope I have communicated my misgivings.

[0] https://blogs.luc.edu/ipbytes/2023/08/13/is-disney-losing-mi...