skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe AWS should hire (even on a contract basis) these folks and let them build the tools users want. The AWS reinvent site/tooling in years past has had a horrendous UI, was slow/unresponsive...basically unusable especially in the bowels of a casino with already spotty wifi or cell service.
if it wasnt for govt subsidies, there wouldn't also be any cars made by USA ownership from GM, Chrystler etc on the roads, at least for the for the last decade or so.
If it's real stuff, it can easily be explained:

> Look, Bob. Sue has made X super valuable contributions in the last quarter, and she has done A and B, and she's the expert on that special topic. That's why she's paid 3% more than you, I hope you understand. If you want to get closer to her pay salary, look into improving yourself on XY, doing more AB work, etc.

Giving concrete reasons and targets to achieve is actually beneficial, and it can help motivate people. If there are no concrete reasons, well, then it's just pay discrimination for nothing more than gut feeling which is shitty, and Bob is right to feel bad about it.
CSS Findings from Photoshop Web Version
Right, this just seems like adding an alternate definition of life without moving the morphology problem.
Ask HN: Founders, what mistakes would you avoid when starting your next company?
What mistakes you will avoid when you start your next company? What will you do right?
I am a paying YT Premium customer and am honestly deeply frustrated by their child proofing controls. The worst is having a “Guest” mode on the TV app that you can’t turn off. It lets anybody completely bypass all restrictions. There is an open ticket on this dating back many years. Their best response to date has been ~ “it can’t be done - will share feedback with the team.”

The sudden interest/surge in custom YT frontends has inspired me to build a custom TV app with tighter controls.

Does anyone know how they work? Are they using YouTube private API directly, or running a full blown shadow browser and siphoning data into the custom front-end?

Update: edited for clarity
The uni-party in Canada is Just a load of creeps putting profit before health.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6591881/

This is obviously poison.
If you smoke you will tend to buy and use too much and I am telling you it has a massive impact on your mental and physical health.

No matter what cost to the users of this crap as long as there is a buck to be made for the creeps and their buddies in the eternal circle jerk it will remain legal.
My 2c: I would feel a lot more free to explore more interesting roles (ie startups, and anything other than “big corporate” roles) if the Housing Sword of Damocles weren’t hanging over my head

Rent and housing prices only go up. To work at a startup I would expect a 30-50% liquid compensation hit. There goes my dream of raising my children in a decent house.

Edit: that said, I don’t think this sufficiently explains why around the pandemic specifically, my job satisfaction took a hit (like with many others)
Yikes! This type of cynicism about society is scarier to me than anything LLMs will ever be. Seems rampant on the internet these days.
This is badass! Very into proc-gen as a starting point for content creation, but I haven't really found much use for proc-gen as a finishing utility. This seems like a great example of that, though! Detailing should be a lot more modular, using this process. I dig it!
If we inhibit that property then a cell dies. This is not a proof, of course, but let's call it a lemma.
Let me pour myself a martini while I ponder this.
I had a listing agent who refused to pass my offer onto the homeowner. That listing agent was representing a competing buyer who had put in an lower offer.

I drove to the property and made my offer in person. I lived there for 7 years.
I predict that in the next tax reform - in about 25 years - the mortgage deduction will disappear. It could not in the last round a few years back because so many people use it, but the standard deduction is now so high that most states only the filthy rich can use it and so most voters won't care. (sorry bay area residents, but your property values are something the rest of the country laughs at)
It could be, but I do not see why it has to be. And “vastly” is a nebulous term, maybe an employer wants to classify “levels” more or less broadly, and wants to reward within “levels”, I don’t know, I just don’t see a need to prescribe a very specific system of employee management.
Electric truck maker Volta Trucks files for bankruptcy in Sweden
I presume you like to get paid to do your job. I'm a bit miffed at that.
I think the general idea is that Georgism supports redevelopment instead of sprawl.

So the older residential suburb has become a denser urban city, and the new residential towers are supported by the schools having been rebuilt taller.

And for some value of “works” this does seem to be doable. Most land uses are stackable, though I’ve never personally seen a multi-story gas station.
Turing-completeness requires the ability to recall an infinite number of bits, which is obviously impossible in physical reality. A Turing machine with that property removed is a pushdown automaton.
Everyone probably subscribes even if they hate them so they can keep an eye.
Now, they, have eyes on us!
It's admirable, but the interviewee is always under some kind of pressure to perform. if you are taking a conversational tone, they're going out of their way to be similarly nonchalant
It would be feasible to construct a ciphertext that encodes two plaintexts, depending on which document is used to decrypt it.

To cover all possible plaintexts, you'd need 576 word indexes, representing each pair of letters AA, AB, ..., ZZ. It might be hard to find a number i such that the i'th word of the Declaration of Independence begins with Z and the i'th word of the document you are using as the other key begins with Q, etc. But with some license to tweak both plaintexts, this seems within the capabilities of a motivated 19th century prankster.

That said, I can't think of any legitimate reason to use this encoding, so it still points to a hoax or prank.
> However, I've never grabbed onto Dawkins atheism as much as come to believe that the ways things "live" is much more diverse and amazing than we can even imagine.

What has atheism to do with the "ways things "live"?
Wonder what "counterculture" is these days?
One of the big reasons custom hardware solutions struggle.

IMO - you’d have better luck as a hardware vendor implementing an LLM toolchain and bypassing a general purpose DL framework. At the very least you should be able to post impressive results with this approach rather than a half baked pytorch port.
The problem with that is that would displace virtually everyone from many cities in the US. There are plenty of cities with single family housing near the metro area. It was built before the city expanded. Nowadays the city engulfs it. Obviously the best use for most of that is medium density housing or some commercial use. The idea of taxing a house with a backyard like it's a $3 million quad-plex of town homes isn't very appealing.
I literally never have anyone watching me code, and the time pressure of an interview is way shorter than a 2 week development cycle
> runtime complexity has literally never once come up in my life

There are definitely different types of programming jobs, but for some contrast: I have never had a job where runtime complexity did not come up as a significant factor somewhat frequently.

It really comes down to what you’re doing, but at a certain scale or size of problem you really do need to know about algorithms, data structures, and runtime complexity to avoid having your runtime explode, server costs become untenable, opening the door to extremely long running requests and other problems.
Should've read the article. Tbh, this attitude is part of the problem.

To be as hard as the "Marlboro Man" (mentioned in the article) and require complete stoicism seems to have landed people like those described in the article in a place of pain. Not able to reflect on themselves or feel situationally aware.
It’s just a proxy measure for IQ really. They could have handed out Ravens matrices and got better outcomes prediction.
They've learned from their mistakes.

These days, people effortlessly get their beliefs enshrined in Wikipedia by paying "journalists" (freelance writers, not actual investigative journalists) to write fluff pieces, which then get cited as factual.
Yep, being a first generation person who moved cultures from India to the US, I am pretty sure I was a lot more deferential, if not flowery when I began working here. It took me a while to internalize the “No, I think you're wrong” or the “No, there's no way I can do that by Tuesday, sorry” confidence that seems to come naturally to even new grads at their first job in the US. I also suspect that this held me back a bit early in my career.
Not sure if it would be any better, and I say this as someone who hates leetcode-related interviews.

Code reviews are way more subjective than writing a piece code (at the end of the interview session, if the code works, then that's a huge thing already).

If I highlight something like "Perhaps we could inject that dependency, instead of harcoding it": sure, that seems probably the most correct assesment, but again, what if we are dealing with a really small project and hardcoding the dependency is the best way? Same goes for variable names ("i" is too short? Depends on the scope, right? Well, probably it depends on the interviewer's mind), what about composition vs inheritance? Again, subjective as hell. And don't let me get started with anything related to microservices vs monolith...
Well, all Earth life involves a lipid membrane with a significant potential across it due to a proton gradient. But of course these exist in non-living contexts too or else there wouldn't have been any way for life to evolve. And we can't be sure alien life would also use this.
A complete, fungible commodity. Except for size, location, appearance, appliances, insulation, water risk, lead risk, bugs, building codes, bathrooms, an endless list of amenities, a hefty weight of personal preference, HOAs, land, and that other negligible stuff off the top of my head.
Stockholm to ban gasoline and diesel cars from downtown commercial area in 2025
The sellers agent does advertise in various places, including pictures for those ads and writing the ads. Those are arts worth paying for. How much they are worth paying is a valid question though.
I don’t mind creators having sponsors. I skip past it if I’m not interested. How do you people expect all of this to be free?
Deforestation of the Amazon, kapoeira and carnavals is everything I know about Brasil without googling.
You shouldn't be downvoted - you're not wrong. The problem is that moves like this are counter to Amazons "customer obsessed" model.
Most things like that are owned by the city itself, and so they are exempt from the taxes (because it would just slosh the money in a circle).
Glad to see they are focussing on the right things. They couldn't give me a account manager that stayed longer then a few months, or understood their own processes and products, or could do anything useful beyond link support documentation...

But glad to see they took care of these terrible grifters! How dare they make the exprerience for our guests/user better! /s

tbf, they've invested a lot in messing up the UX the last 6 years, so maybe this is part of that effort..
Okay, but in the examples in the first link, standard error diffusion (Floyd-Steinberg and Jarvis-Judice-Ninke) still preserves more fine detail than the blue noise method. They only have the disadvantage of creating some line artifacts for gradients into pure white or pure black.

It would have been interesting if the author did additionally apply a low pass (Gaussian blur) filter to all the result images, not just to one homogeneous one in the beginning.
MemWalker: An alternative way for working with long documents using transformers
There is evidence thay de-escalation training works: https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2022/01/police-training-red...
Even the most cursory venture into a Wikipedia talk page usually reveals a Pandora's Box of vitriol, turf wars, ideological zealotry, personal attacks, bad-faith debate, and a pervasive, misanthropic anger, typically coming from long-standing contributors with a huge editing history. They said you don't want to see how the sausage is made, well in the case of Wikipedia the factory seems to double as a toxic waste processing plant. Ever since I realised this was the culture behind the curtain at Wikipedia, I've become far more skeptical about any topic that is remotely controversial.
This is, and the article points it out, the direct result of an excess number of managers and the explosion of management after the pandemic.

Silicon Valley was amazing because you could actually DO things and make an impact, but too much hiring added useless layers to the system. American management theory always tries to do this every tech cycle. That doesn’t work well with technical craft.
In my experience the biggest bottlenecks are in the network. Most optimizations are also very very low hanging fruit because the original code was written by a moron
Can you pay someone to look up this data for you?
I'm a CTO for a small software studio. We've used mini projects and code reviews in our interview process for years, and it works great. The code review is a great way to explore a candidate's ability to code, and also to communicate their decisions about a piece of code.

In the "age of AI", I'm not sure we'll ditch the mini projects. I think testing a candidate's ability to _use_ AI to generate code is an important skill. However, it's so new, I'm not sure what the best practices might be.

I'd be curious if anyone has any advice on this front...
This reads to me as '90% of interviewers are incompetent at interviewing'. Most developers have no training in how to interview properly and little interest in learning, to most of them its a distraction and a bother.

Most developers tend to ask questions about stuff they found challening or interesting, without consideration for how this related to the day to day job.

Like asking a web developer to perform binary shift operations, idenity magic bytes, work with complex numbers, non-trivial question about geometry from people who have no reason to use geometry in this or previous jobs.

I had two interview stages at AWS, second interviwer asked the exact same questions as the first one, and became angry when I pointed out that they probably had a mix up.

Also you sometimes get poor communication from interviewer, unclear instructions, and interviewers literally making mistakes in recursion but telling the candidate they got it wrong.
Awesome, it seems this is the way to go for me then!
> I think the point here is that it was not known whether all 3,3 halting problems are reducible to trivial Collatz-like problems.

True, but it still isn't known either way. Nothing changed in that regard.
Google, Meta, Apple, OpenAI, Citadel are incompetent organisations. Wow lads
The problem is that it might have been true at some point but now there are resources to “learn” for interviews, so currently you will get people willing to grind.

Nobody happy with their pay and job is going to grind leetcode.

They could just ignore leetcode and ask puzzle problems instead to test ability.
They pay you by providing you access to the infrastructure that lets you watch videos on their platform.
Often wonder how much life we've encountered without recognizing it.
The tech industry did this to themselves by giving everything away for free for a decade.

I always thought it was suspicious that all these tech companies survived for decades without being profitable. Now that ZIRP is over and they have to actually be profitable, it all makes sense.
It's not even the case that all of us (programmers) are riding so high on the hog.

I've been in tech for decades and make now what would be an entry level salary at a tech giant or VC funded startup. Why? Because I work in the education sector and didn't hop jobs during the pandemic.

This stuff has to level off. Everything is really distorted due to the money printing and the tech hiring bonanza during the pandemic days. People can't expect to go to a boot camp and then immediately make as much as doctors and lawyers who trained for years, it is totally unsustainable.
What's your experience moving to a solopreneur gig from a full-time job?
Pay scales are ranges not points. You want to be able to reward good performers higher than lesser performers, even in the same level, so that the incentives are aligned. Promotions to a next level are part of this but those only happen every few years for most people.
The key point is that morphology features can be mapped to equivalent math operations. So we can build from there to formally determine whether a given object can be alive or not.
"Willingness to work for a given range" gets exploited by employers at the expense of employees. It helps prop up structural (gender/race) pay gaps and breeds distrust among employees as some salaries inevitably leak out.
it's called "work" because it earns a living. don't give up finding fun work, it exists.
What an odd statement. "Meant to be" ?

I often have fun at work, cracking a hard bug for me is fun and yet I would never go in if I weren't paid. And my employer thinks I provide value for them and pays for this indeed.
Definitely not a sufficient criterion. A solar panel that charges a capacitor would be alive.
The semantics of the CUDA (or OpenCL) kernels are identical to the OpenMP Fortran "parallel do" and OpenMP C/C++ "parallel for" (which derive from similar syntax proposed by C.A.R. Hoare in 1978 and first implemented in the language Occam).

As you say, the difference between autovectorization and OpenMP or CUDA is that for the latter the programmer specifies the independent sequences of operations, so that the compiler knows with certainty when they can be safely scheduled to be executed concurrently, either on different processor cores or on different SIMD lanes of the same core, therefore the performance of the compiled code is predictable and it does not vary wildly after minor changes in the source code.

Moreover, the compiler can report errors when the programmer introduces by mistake dependencies between sequences of operations that are intended to be independent.
I presume this means you're now pirating. If so, then you've admitted you're a criminal. Nice work. If not, the what are you using your NAS for? Purchased content like I am?
I used Windows RT on a tablet and it was great. Easily beat iOS and Android at the time, and I still don't get why professionals went for iPads for so long when there were great Windows tablets that did so much more so much more easily.

I used Windows 8 on a laptop and it sucked. Windows 8.1 made the OS usable but it took until Windows 10 until I stopped being annoyed at the random mix between Windows and Windows Mobile UI controls. I still dislike how obviously touch-targeted the Windows applications I'll only ever interact with using a mouse are.

UWP itself was a better model in many ways, but the way they implemented them as a screen filling thing that took away your task bar was a mistake. The design language, which seems to be "make everything flat, make buttons difficult to recognise rectangles, add whitespace wherever you can", is something I'll probably never get over. I use a 1080p screen at 1x scaling, maybe I'm supposed to buy a 4k screen to make UWP feel less bloated?

I think the Windows 7 had perfectly fine mouse targets. I think the design matters too: when I was looking at a fake Windows 7 theme, I saw a picture of the X button independent of the title bar, and it felt weirdly large. Only when I dragged it up to the top right did I notice that the button was much larger than I remembered it being.

The touch targets could've been bigger (the OS was still optimised for stylus based touch screens) but Windows 10's tablet mode shows how that could've been resolved. I'm not suggesting we go back to the tiny buttons featured in Windows 2000, but I'd like to trade some modern whitespace back in for information density.
Privilege is the word of the times, 10 years ago you would have couched it in different language and in 10 years it would be yet another set of wording.

Apparently it's a fantastic ideal that people will do things for motivations other than money. I'm going to suggest that if you believe that you either hang out with the wrong people, or people just don't like you.
The market is just fine. There's definitely an oversupply of dispensaries, but most of them will go bust and that's fine. The only way to find the optimal number of dispensaries per population is to try it out.

Quality is good, prices are good, so I think a lot of people are getting confused because they don't appreciate the distribution of users. It's well documented in many other markets that most of the consumption is done by a small minority, ie most people barely drink any alcohol and a small number of alcoholics consume vast quantities. It's the same here - there's a small number of people that smoke crazy amounts, like ounces per month, and so they're extremely vocal and price sensitive. For most people, legalization eliminated the hassle of finding dealers, quality, products, etc.
meetings, design doc reviews, capacity plannings and allocations and alignments are not supposed to be used as ways to hide mediocrity
I’ll take luck when it comes to new antibiotics.

Do you think we will come up with AIs that can model potency? How can we further improve leveraging AI beyond discovery?
Society of Authors slams 'lack of consultation' on Spotify audiobooks deals
Do you think condominiums are more or less common than apartments for rent?
Why have levels then?
It appears you don't understand the role of the directly elected EU parliament.

It can and has fired the entire Commission in the past, and it must approve EU legislation.

Much more fun to subscribe to a conspiracy theory about all-powerful people behind the curtain though.
Oh, the free market passes this sweetheart deal on to me, the renter. Glad to see how well the system works.
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Besides that, the answers you do find are often not helpful. For example, “just use this function in jQuery” - I’m asking about JavaScript, not jQuery.

Since jQuery is open source, I do consider this to be at least a helpful step, since you can then simply look at the source code of the respective jQuery function.
But everyone wouldn't suddenly start using English, that's not feasible. Is everyone in your family fluent in English (my family is not)? In every country, there are people who couldn't adapt and disproportionally so in vulnerable groups. Suddenly, you would be in a country where you don't know the language. Everyone would be immigrants in their own country.

Protection of national languages is as much on the agenda of politicians, including right-wing populists. In your view, are the songs, stories, books and plays in Croatian the property of the elites and not of every Croatian?

You say we wouldn't force it, but if we left it to Hollywood etc. they would force it. Leaving issues for the markets to decide freely brushes aside all the negative externalities.
> I'm glad that iOS is zeroing out authentication requests voluntarily

Do you mean attestation? If so, I believe that’s mostly out of the picture already, since it does not even make any sense anymore with “cloud-resident” passkeys.

It can’t be what Amazon uses in any case, since I can use 1Password on Chrome, but not Firefox.
I was wondering about not tracking ip address. If you use a 1-way hash from ip address, that would work right regarding being able to get unique views and not know IP?
Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty cops for security
Google is providing a service here. I think people have gotten so used to the internet they forget the massive costs involved in running a website like YouTube.