skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can maybe make the argument that regional banks want people back in the office because they have self interest in commercial real estate as a whole but outside that the argument is brain dead stupid IMO.

To me, it is all so simple. Does the micro manager to a fault know they are a micro manager? Of course they do but they can't help it. It is strategic and a trade off. It is the same exact thought process but just applied at the company level.
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Nepal is not a rich country. Income per capita is just over $1000 per year.
Well candidly the Compaq acquisition of Zip2 was absolutely lucking into success. He built something, sure, but most people do not get their startups bought out at the height of a ridiculous Internet bubble for $307 million. If the place or time or circumstances had been slightly different it would not have worked out that way.

Lightning struck a second time with X.com, first with a very fortuitous merger and then with his gigantic golden parachute when the board voted to fire him as CEO in favor of Thiel (it's difficult to credit him for landing that giant eBay exit since he had gotten the boot over 2 years prior).

He deserves credit for taking the gamble on SpaceX and seeing the early potential in Tesla though.
There's a lot of truth to this. Ski resorts will be slammed at 9am, rental lines out the wazoo, beginner runs flooded, food court swamped at 11-12, but the real solid runs at 1pm are free and clear. Seems like most people show up, do a couple green runs or lessons and leave before the day even ends.
Apple computers have a time limit if you want to keep using MacOS. My 2012 MacBook Retina still works great ... if I put Linux on it.

Logic Pro is a great example. It requires MacOS 12 or greater. MacOS 12 will only run on 2015 or newer MacBooks.
I think that if that were the case, the change would be brutal. First, because as a comment below suggests, fewer people would be involved, so coordination would be simplified. Second, because many more people could access these coordination positions, and I think it would be likely that other professions would take on those roles, professions or personality types that are not usually "good coders" but now wouldn't need to be, since the machine itself could explain, for example, the general functioning of what is being produced. Therefore, I would expect the job field to be radically affected and salaries severely reduced.
Thank you! That's very good to know.
I tried 6B version on Ollama and it behaved similarly to the phythia < 1B models. English words with no meaning, poor formatting, etc

Maybe there’s a bug, as Llama 2 7B works much better
Yet it is still miles better than the previous state of the art, craigslist.
Ferrofluid can be used for INPUT too, not just output [1].

[1] A Reconfigurable Ferromagnetic Input Device https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&d...
> The average number of tellers per branch went down.

Why is the number of tellers per branch an important metric?
Fwiw my 2012 mbp still runs. Takes in plenty of dust working outside and on account of the plastic hinge turning brittle and falling apart years ago. Once every two years I will open her up and blow her clean again. Thats about all the maintenance she needs today. Ironically it has somewhat stronger specs than gps new m1 air, considering I also have 16gb memory, but then 1.5tb of storage and 2 operating systems.
Well we can say clearly it has not reached orbit, if we want a clear criteria to talk about. Obviously the first launch had many successes, but orbit was not one of them.
That was the thesis of "The Great Illusion", published in 1911. Basically, nation states would rationally avoid war, as it is pure downside, economically. Obviously it's at least insufficient.

I think it's a totally naive view. Even if we limit ourselves to only thinking about rational actors, we must always ask about economic costs for whom. Nation states do not operate as a unit as a rational economic actor -- we must look at the competing actors within. One group could somewhat win, and another substantially lose, and that may net out to a negative -- it happens regularly. Many are clamoring for it right now -- a new Cold War against China.
I think the confusion caused by this article is because the author presents a false "pick your side" choice: "React-style" custom elements with props, or, custom elements with light DOM. Unfortunately, discussion of web frameworks often seems to occur with tribalistic attitudes, which can obscure a clear understanding of appropriate choices for a given application.

The author's dichotomy could be seen as unnecessarily divisive by creating an artificial distinction and suggesting only one must be chosen. It also seems not to reflect an underlying technical reality nor suggested best practice. In reality, both React and custom elements can enable either style, and the choice should depend on what's most appropriate for the situation.

Not only can both frameworks do both approaches, they can do them at the same time! You can have a wrapper style elements that also takes props. A window-box that provides diverse content with an OS-style draggable-window capability is a good example.

As to the author's suggestion that HTML components (which appear nevertheless to still require JavaScript) are better, and prop-style is to worse, in general, I'll have to think more about it. I may have underappreciated the light DOM style in my creation of Hyphen: https://github.com/00000o1/-

Instead of focusing on slots for templating (which you can still use if you want) in Hyphen, I made templates easy with JS template literals, because it's not always just elements you may want to insert, but rather class names, attributes, and so on. Check it out if you are interested in new approaches to custom elements! It's only 3K and less than 300 lines, aiming to provide maximal utility with minimal code.
Gotcha! So this test criteria this weekend may not be to reach orbit, but just test out heavy booster and getting starship correct trajectory.

If they crash into the ocean do you know if they are supposed to be recoverable or will they sink?
Nepal is currently ruled by a coalition of secular communist or socialist parties
Or perhaps not [0].

> But the idea is a supposition. It was formulated as a way to explain characteristics humans possess. The best evidence for humans engaging in persistence hunting is merely that we have physical traits that suggest we could do so.

[0] https://undark.org/2019/10/03/persistent-myth-persistence-hu...
It's funny, back in the days of IE6, Firebug, jQuery, it was so frustrating just getting something to work.

Looking back, that's what made it fun. You could convince yourself you were a mad scientist building the next Turing machine.

Having stability in the JS ecosystem now (hold for laughter) is better for users, and the developments in AI are interesting, but it's not as challenging to ship things. Maybe embracing the new challenges is the "craft" we should focus on to bring the fun back.
So it sounds like we both agree the brain is at least a physical object that performs computations. I'm surprised you don't see similarities with other physical systems that perform computations, but sounds like a terminology difference
Zelle is exclusive to the US so yes, exactly
Unfortunately, some non-small percentage of men are awful prospects for marriage and/or raising children. A fair amount of this can be understood if we look clearly at the science of reproductive strategies. Certain men do better at reproducing multiple children by avoiding devoting energy and time to a single family, and instead being promiscuous. Because women are the ones carrying the children and feeding them initially, the genetic reproductive strategy for women usually leaves them bearing the brunt of child care in the face of this. (see “parental investment”)[1]

None of this is meant to rationalize or okay the behaviors, but if we don’t look honestly at the causes, especially ones that make us uncomfortable to face, we won’t find solutions.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mating_strategies
The NSA purpose is also to provide cybersecurity to protect US combat operations, which means they have to secure encryption.[1] I wouldn't go as far as to say the NSA should be trusted, or that they haven't tried to compromise encryption before, just that their motivations are contradictory.

Besides you aren't accounting for reverse psychology. What if SHA2 was insecure, and Blake was secure, and the NSA just tricked people into not using Blake by saying that it's secure? If we can't trust what the NSA says, it would be wisest to disregard what they say, rather than react to it.

[1] https://www.nsa.gov/About/Mission-Combat-Support/
We provide wireless and wired secure communications to our warfighters and others in uniform no matter where they are, whether traveling through Afghanistan in a Humvee, diving beneath the sea, or flying into outer space. Our cybersecurity mission also produces and packages the codes that secure our nation's weapons systems.

Additionally, we set common protocols and standards so that our military can securely share information with our allies, NATO and coalition forces around the world. Interoperability is a key to successful joint operations and exercises.
NIF is mostly to study weapons performance without violating test ban treaties. There's very little chance it'd ever be useful for power production, though that is the cover story for it.
Reading this on an X230! Check out a Kingsener battery (8400mAh) I get about 8 hours of mild use. [link](https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2251832160992805.html)
It doesn't represent either of those things to us, and to many.

Ultimately it's about tradition. I wear the ring my father (a master jeweler) made for my grandfather who wore it as his favorite ring for most of his life before passing it on to me when he passed. My wife's ring was hand made by my father, with a diamond which sat in his safe for years prior waiting for me.

It's not about the things. It's about the people.

In your rush to make these little trinkets spin a whole tale about broader humanity, you're missing the humanity right in front of you.
Not that long ago, protein folding prediction was thought to be a good example of a task that humans are good at and computers bad at.

https://kotaku.com/humans-triumph-over-machines-in-protein-f...
@dang can we update the title to say "Friday" instead of "weekend"?
Elon isn't on his A-game recently, but the fact is no other aerospace CEO would have pushed for, or dedicated as much capital to, as ambitious a vision as Starship. They would have chickened out and milked F9s for profit for 40 years.

Obviously Elon attracted a ton of smart hardworking employees to execute on that vision who were critical. But very few other CEOs could have built the culture and given them the opportunity to do so.
Fairly confident they just ask GPT-4 to do its best not to serve any requests that might violate copyright in the system prompt.
Look at composition of the HR recruitment team from all angles ... that's usually a clue.
IMO, this interview question is going to get you amazing developer who fail to build anything of value.

I don't like the trick of failing candidates if they don't ask a question. 90% of this style of interview want candidates to rifle through solutions. If you want to talk about requirements, be explicit about it.

I'm really amazed that this "best interview" question really just boils down to leetcode for a _Senior Staff_ level interview. I don't know about y'all, but the _Senior Staff_ and _Principal_ developers I've worked with aren't wasting their time of shit like this. They're ironing out requirements. They're working with stakeholder. They're architecting systems. They're figuring out how to deliver the value the customer wants - and they're ensuring that it's actually the customer wants.

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There's a place for performance, but the fast running turd is still a turd.
When such things happens they happen in a series, don't they?

I'm glad to hear that all turned out well
It's a good question, and the author explains it and the logic really well.

As someone going through this style of interview at the moment (but not having interviewed at Google, Microsoft or Amazon), two things jump out at me:

- If you're going to ask this question and get it done in 1 hour, does the code really matter? I'd argue that if you can get to a good or optimal solution, 99 times out of 100 you can write the code. If I got this question and didn't know better, I'd be stressing about writing the code within an hour. Knowing that we wanted to spend most of the time discussing the algos and data structures would be really useful to me. Maybe Google/Amazon/Microsoft interviews really stress this in their preamble, I don't know.

- The big "issue" I see with this question is that it relies on the interviewer knowing exactly how to steer the conversation. I think I could get to this solution with the hints, and the author seems to imply that it's ok to need a few hints. But an interviewer that doesn't know the right hints to give (or phrases them poorly) is going to turn this question into a train-wreck. This isn't an issue for the author, they clearly know this questions backwards and forwards. But giving this question as a 'standard' question that others will deliver? I think it could easily end up being too conservative and cutting out a lot of otherwise smart developers.

In general, that's my criticism of this style of question: they all claim that they're about 'seeing how you think'. But I think expecting interviewers to be able to elicit a conversation that really shows 'how a candidate thinks' is much more on the interviewer rather than the interviewee. You're expecting people whose primary job is writing software to be really good at delivering interviews.

Instead, you're going to have candidates who most of the time will do well if they can pattern-matching against problems they've seen in the past, and poorly otherwise. I can see how questions like this seem good on paper, and I'm glad this question works for the author. But it's the combination of interviewer and question that makes it effective, not just the question alone. A better title for this post might be 'My favourite way of interviewing candidates', because this post is mostly to do with the author's mental model of how to run an interview with this question.
I came here to add this, as a x230 user, the other laptop that has Mercedes diesel like longevity is the 2012 Macbook Pro. I've kept numerous alive for friends.
"Laws for thee, not for me"
I dunno… I apply this sentiment to Christian Republicanism and it concerns me greatly. They also have a lot to say about what disrupts social harmony. And of course, it’s what they’ve decided “social harmony” means to them.
> Can we please stop pretending China, as a national entity, is doing anything at all with TikTok USA?

You are arguing against a claim that the parent did not make.

It it true that political polarization of rival nations is advantageous. It is also true that filter bubbles do this naturally. There's no need for the CCP to tell TikTok to politically polarize the content they show to people.
You could get to something working and relatively bug free in 15 minutes with a shell script consisting of little more than cut, head, sort -u, and grep.

For reference: http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2011/12/more-shell-less-egg...
I also cannot stand the context your given this in. It's setup as a one-off task. Who cares how fast it runs? Is it correct?
> the sentiment of this comment comes off as asking what the end game is for any hacker demonstrating vulnerabilities

GP isn't asking about the "endgame" as in "for what purpose did this author do this thing?". It was "endgame" as in "how is the story of LLMs going to end up?".

It could be "just" more cat and mouse, like you both mentioned. But a sibling comment talks about the possibility for architectural changes, and I'm reminded of a comment [1] from the other week by inawarminister ...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38123310

I think it would be very interesting to see something that works like an LLM but where instead of consuming and producing natural language, it operates on something like Clojure/EDN.
You add their email addresses to a list of tester accounts, then they have to install the app via the Play Store. So yes, developers need to recruit users (well, Google accounts).
If we are talking simple missiles.... It'd be hard to really quantify anything against world war 2...
Typical losses with LNG are about 0.1-0.15% per day depending on the type of carrier. A round trip around the cape would add probably 20-25 days or so for a typical ship. More for slower ones. So, the price of that is 2-3% losses. The value of LNG fluctuates wildly in recent years. But it's not cheap. At the peak, a single ship could be carrying hundreds of millions $ worth of LNG. So, a few percent losses is quite significant.
You can download other browsers on iOS.
> I wouldn't marry anyone whose happiness is dependent on a artificially expensive hard and shiny rock whose prestige was inflated for years by an industry built on slave labor, especially when far less expensive alternatives exist.

One woman's diamond is another engineer's MacBook.
I care about the people in Nepal who don't want their government to restrict their access to the web. The people who want to be restricted in that way can exercise self-control.
2012 macbook pro checking in. 16gb of ram and two drive bays (swapping out the optical drive) and its perfectly fine for what I throw at it.
> We must first distinguish between can't and won't. Those who cannot leave the house, and those who will not leave. I claim that we have an uptick in the latter camp.

Nope. Things are just too expensive. Why move out a party extraordinary amount in rent when one can stay home, contribute to the bills for less, save up for a house and then move out? Make no mistake, there is such a think as unnecessary struggle.
I completely agree, and I think that's precisely the heart of the matter. Salaries will likely begin to decrease, or at the very least, they won't increase at the rate they would have if this technology didn't exist. It seems inevitable to me that programming will become just another job. It's saddening because I deeply love to code and understand the inner workings of it all.
Laser Fusion Startups Ignite the Quest for Boundless Energy
I'm not (pleased).

I'm simply saying we can just ban it. Our society is built on it. We need to be realistic. If we're willing to remake our entire agricultural economic system then yes. But that's simply not really an option especially in a free market like the US. It's just not really worth discussing, because it's impossible.
Maybe not only prudeness, but the rise of STDs like AIDS.
I think this is it -
Plus for anyone in a car-centric suburb there really isn't that much outside until you can drive
And my favorite answer to questions like this is, "Can I just use grep (or shell commands in general)?"

Grep, uniq, wc, and a few others can be treated as pipeline data transformers to answer questions like this interview question. As long as you make some smart decisions about the order of operations, you can usually get performance on par with what you might write custom code for.
Mindlessly consuming content for hours on end is 'silly'. It's easier than doing something worthwhile, sure. Our society wasted a lot of hours doing idle things yet complains we don't have time to be social or get other things done. People aren't lonely, just too lazy to try. Yet they can watch every episode of Below Deck and feel ok with how they have spent their lives...
I didn't feel my parents were strict at all - perhaps the opposite. It didn't help that Dr. Spock put out a free range parenting book at about the same time. It was a great excuse for how they just didn't function themselves as parents or to a large part: adults themselves.

I did find them very neglectful. I had needs and they didn't do a great job in getting them met. This reinforces the idea that your needs aren't important, and you instead become a people pleaser later in life, in an attempt to "win" the love of others. That's very sick thinking.

I'm not for helicopter parents or anything, but there sure is a happy medium somewhere in there. I'm finding out now that I have very obvious learning and attention disabilities, and probably a touch of the 'tism. That should have been picked up relatively easy by the fact that I'm highly intelligent but had a complete lack of being able to do any homework, what-so-ever.
you joke but this will happen.
money can't buy happiness, indeed, but it's more comfortable to cry in a leather chair inside a mercedes, than on the bus.
The work culture isn't putting kids in front of computer screens and discouraging outdoor activities.

It's not even something you can control as a parent. My kid, 16 years old, walks to school on his own - but he's always back right after classes. And it's not that he's an outcast. That's just how they roll in the SF Bay Area. Other kids go home too, or they are shuttled by their parents to some organized after-school activities.
My experience was similar. I could complain about the amount of time wasted on religious topics, but even there, the practice in reading, synthesizing, and writing was ultimately valuable.
Death Stranding happens
Related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_payment_service...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Payment_service_provi...

https://www.clearlypayments.com/blog/list-payment-processors...

https://www.bossrevolution.com/en-us/blog/best-peer-to-peer-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer_transaction

Note that with a cursory Google search, I could not find a web page which lists all worldwide payment companies in 2023 by revenue... (I suppose there's ChatGPT or other AI for that...)

Also note that none of these lists are all-inclusive for all worldwide payment providers and services, and also note that this Market (with a capital "M") -- apparently has a value in the billions of dollars...

In other words, any would-be entrepreneur with the skill to build apps who wanted to compete in a pre-existing Market -- would probably have a better shot at making money in the payments space (despite the intense and formidable competition) -- than in all other pre-existing Markets...

That's just a guess of course, looking at the revenue data...

If anyone wants to tell me I'm wrong, I'll accept it -- but if you do, then kindly support your claim with actual data of a larger pre-existing Market (with revenue reports showing dollar amounts please!) where the bar to entry of that Market is simply creating an app which moves several bytes of data (roughly, per customer) from point A to point B...

Remember, PayPal is one of the original companies in this Marketspace -- that put Elon Musk on the map...

Anyway, I think it would be an interesting idea to list (and compare!) all of the world's payment companies, in 2023, by revenue (income, expenses, gross/net profits, EDBITA, etc., etc.)
SpaceX themselves[1] seem to corroborate what you're saying. "The second flight test of a fully integrated Starship could launch as early as Friday, November 17, pending final regulatory approval." and the FAA page[2] for the approval still doesn't have any updates.

[1]: https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-...

[2]: https://www.faa.gov/space/stakeholder_engagement/spacex_star...
I assume that both parties have market research showing that enough people (maybe even 36%) don't care enough to figure out how to change the search engine or buy a different phone.
I'm sorry to hear that too. I'm very glad to hear that you seem to be doing well. It's not always the case and the scars are oftetimes internal and invisible. Take care of yourself.