skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
conversion of the German Tribes

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

Christianity took hold as an organized system of bishops, serving under Kings, and acknowledged the practices of slavery; on the other hand, universal literacy, arts and science, sexual modesty and monogamous marriage were not always common.

Your rude reference to children is a special Catholic problem no? but truth be told, lots of cultures have rude low-class customs involving children, and second many Christians did lift up the standards for hygiene and habits.

source: a year with Lutherans in the USA recently
I don't have anything to say about the programming fast, because that's an assumption, I've had problem solving solutions fast, but overall I spend the time to make sure the app is tested and maintainable, but why should tech people care about company parties, what value does it add for the company? I'd like to understand that because I usually adopt ideas I agree with when I am explained, last time was "To make people connect to facilitate conflict resolution" as if when I have conflicts with people I don't know I shoot them
They didn't display any misunderstanding of C callbacks. The two complaints I read were: 1. You pass a const pointer in and get a mutable pointer out. 2. The value of one of the parameters was inconsistent.

Both are valid criticisms. The first point is objectively wrong API design.

Let me repeat, it is objectively wrong. C may not have the strongest type system but that doesn't mean that the intended programming model is "completely ignore const correctness".

> knows his craft

Maybe. But there are plenty of programmers who achieve great things while being objectively awful programmers.

The criticisms in this article (assuming they are true) are really unarguable.
... there's a leaderboard?

Kidding, of course, but that's pretty much how I feel about it. I haven't done any real programming in >5 years so I'm using it to dust off the cobwebs, get up to speed on C# language features and push myself to think about the problems functionally/recursively where I can, for fun. The freewheeling open-endedness is the best part because you can get value/enjoyment/satisfaction out of it a million different ways: you could golf the problems; use them to learn new languages; pretend you're writing production code and make it super clean and organized; do them with a partner or group; etc. etc. There's so much value simply in interesting, well-defined puzzles with a good scope, and the presence of the leaderboard is actually a really good example of not letting the need for greatness (especially by arbitrary measures!) stand in the way of enjoyment.

I'm in the same boat as you, I started late and I'm on day 14 or so with a couple skips that I'll get back to, hope to finish in January, and then maybe go back and clean a few of them up, reflect on them, write a little bit about them, and then start looking at problems from previous years.
I had a psychologist diagnose me, and I was almost on the spectrum according to the test (with points), but not quite to give me the diagnosis. Obviously the questionnaires are ambiguous with their questions enough to have so many different ways of interpreting the questions that to me makes many of those questions non-sensical in the first place. But actually, I have been to mental institutions multiple times, and in many cases the evaluators have mentioned "autistic tendencies". In the end - am I on the spectrum? I don't know, but I still would feel like I would benefit from it if I would just try to make a joke and then become warm and call them with the informal and singular "you" in my language. I hope it could show that we are all in this together.
I don’t accept the premise that being kind and respectful in an interview leads to underperforming teams. My current team is way, way into the “exceptional” range by common measures (DORA, etc). I don’t characterize what I do as “tests” because there is no wrong answer. I’ve never worked on software that didn’t have competition, and so literally different “right” answers.

Maybe it is a test as there is an evaluation, an assessment of fit and ability of compliment the team’s current skills and way of working. That evaluation is uncompromising, not an “easy pass” by any means.
Because there are many still-popular and important literary works like those of Shakespeare and the King James Bible which benefit from understanding the distinction.
Why does a doctor or lawyer get a pass? Plenty of admins etc are just cramming exams as well, I'm sure there are plenty of doctors out there that are as bad as some of the programmers/admins out there.

Hopefully not as many, or as bad, but still.
How is it different? Cameras can be invisible in a store too and often are.
One way to disconvince yourself of Anselm's OA is to look at it as a variant of Quine's "Platonic beard": formulation (1) is equivalent to asserting that the intelligibility of an object is a precursor to its necessary existence, which isn't true in non-logic settings.

Put another way: you can replace "God" with "a Unicorn that necessarily exists" in the OA and the proof is no less correct. But the Unicorn still does not necessarily exist.
I feel like 99% of eng interview advice sounds just like this: "I've interviewed a bazillion people, everyone else is doing it wrong, here's the one good way."

Honestly, I think a lot of it is akin to medieval quackery. "I've treated hundreds of patients with leeches and the large majority of them eventually recovered - you should listen to me!"

I wish that we, as an industry, would spend less time reinventing interviewing from first principles. There are decades of research on how to interview people effectively. I highly recommend Schmidt + Hunter's meta-analysis (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232564809_The_Valid...) as a starting point.

From my read of the research:

1. Use work-sample tests. Yes, they're annoying, but they're high-signal. Take-home tests, online tests, in-person tests, trial periods - there are plenty of options here, but it seems clear this is the most effective way.

2. Use structured interviews. Engineers love to just have loose conversations and judge people based on that, but structured > unstructured. Plus (just my guess here), I suspect unstructured interviews leave a lot more room for bias.

3. Plenty of techniques are effective on their own (eg references), but add minimal effectiveness when you're already doing a more effective test (eg work sample) and are therefore pretty much wastes.
I gave up on reading plays shortly after school. They are made to be enjoyed live.
Interesting. I learned German in Switzerland and the only people who ever use sie are all over 50. Everyone you meet is addressed as du, except maybe in formal letters.

I’m wondering if some weird looks I sometimes get in Germany might be because of that. Is “sie” used more commonly there?
He does not need consent because of Article 6 (e), which says that "to perform a task in the public interest or in official authority" is a lawful purpose.

Also people always forget that the scope of the GDPR is limited. The following three areas are generally exempt:

- Personal or household activities

- Law enforcement

- National Security
These systems are made to optimize not making bad hires, not necessarily missing out on good hires. Given that, multiple rounds does help. Per your example, if each interviewer has a 1/5 chance of mistakenly approving a bad hire, then three interviewers does in fact reduce that to a 1/125 chance of the company making a bad hire.
As you click the date picker, it updates entire page for that incomplete date, and it QUEUES dates for more update, even if you manage to click the correct year, it continues slowly through every year you touched/scrolled before that.
Seems riddled with holes.

"The concept of God". I reject God as a concept. Done. If you can speak God into existence by defining it, then I can speak it out of existence by calling BS.

"It is possible for God to exist". No it's laughably impossible. Done.
The irony is part of what makes this article so fun to read. It's like she understands the underlying problem, but the way that she goes about trying to solve it shows why it's a problem in the first place

It reminds me of this Carlin bit: youtube.com/watch?v=9kM2dDrndQk
Wow that's way worse than I would have expected. Especially those error messages. I imagine bosses could brush off "the API design is completely broken" because they don't have direct experience of it but how do you accept using a library with error messages like "You bitch!"?

I'm genuinely curious how Tizen came to use EFL.

Edit: I looked it up; apparently due to high performance and built in theming support (which tbf I do remember being true of E17 back in the day). They do also note the "unfamiliar developer experience" and lack of documentation and developers. Definitely an odd choice.
> The discrepancy for Kashmir-related hashtags makes me think there are a lot of Pakistanis on TikTok who never use Instagram...

Also, India banned TikTok, so there's no Indian TikTok accounts pushing alternative viewpoints/hashtags. It's not hard to imagine how that might have led to the observed results, and it's a little odd that ctrl+F-ing "India" produced no result in that report.
1,000,000 cranks
Yeah you still need a source of truth, duh.

I'm not sure what you are talking about vis a vie "changing the data layout". You can do whatever you want, it's just flat files. Git is great at tracking file renames.

Trying to say data is duplicated is basically wrong, as far as I'm concerned. There's a materialized view, which very few people I think would argue breaks the idea of data-nornamization. There is only one data source, the other is a generated view which can be regarded as ephemeral data.

I sympathize a lot with the parents perspective that Joplin switching to database backed world is a pain. I think the appeal of well managed flat files, controlled by git, is much more directly manageable & has much broader tooling. I appreciate attempts to raise dissent against this system, but none of your points carry much water for me personally. It strikes me as pretty weird having these litany of basically wrong non-issues to swat away?
And my favorite one (in UK): Governor!
If you've ever wondered why it's ctrl+g:

https://twitter.com/ViolenceWorks/status/1335382435031252992...
In a German sentence a change in capitalization of Sie can very well turn a "formal you" (Sie) into a more general "them" (sie). So it is not just spelling, although it is a very common mistake.
All I want for Christmas is freedom from being endlessly spammed by anti-GDPR zealots co-opting Santa Claus.
Why is it impossible for God to exist?
Both are bad but there is a qualitative difference between the badness of USA's global objectives and China's global objectives, and the means by which they work towards these objectives. The equivalence people draw between western powers and China is really puzzling to me. And no, I'm not American and I am no fan of American foreign policy.
> many philosophers find it intriguing

Citation needed.

1. It's possible to conceive of the greatest possible teapot-shaped 7-foot-tall spaghetti-descended invisible alien orbiting Jupiter. Even teapot-spaghetti-alien skeptics agree on this.

2. Existing in reality makes something greater than existing only in someone's head (proof: seems reasonable).

3. But we're talking about the greatest possible one of those things (see 1).

4. Therefore such a thing exists.

The article covers this -- it's Gaunilo's Island -- but it's very odd that this keeps coming up as a philosophical puzzler.
Fenethylline
Tell me you don't understand conditional probability without telling me you don't understand conditional probability.

CEO of Reddit, how'd that go?
Project Covalence, how'd that go?
Andrew Yang? Our next president, right?
2018, The year Sam Altman became the governor of California, no?
And of course: "I have guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israel Defense Forces, and a big patch of land in Big Sur I can fly to." - that aged well.

But he's now in a position where all his failures will be forgotten and his successes amplified forevermore (unless he buys a social media company, but he seems too smart for that so far). It is clear he has reached Jeff Dean levels of ridiculous hagiography though, but I guess worshipping CEOs is a step up from worshipping invisible friends or stinky geriatric ex-presidents so there's that.
For me, "y'all" has multiple forms

"y'all" - explicitly addressing >1 person

"y'all" - explicitly addressing 1 person while implicitly addressing >1 people. I might say "how y'all doin" to a friend, implying "how are you and your family doing"

"all y'all" - >>1 person or addressing >1 person that was not included in the previous "y'all"

"y'all" - explicitly and implicitly addressing 1 person whom I have not made acquaintance with. If I were working as a server in a restaurant and had a single person come in, I may address them with "y'all". "What can I get y'all?" is the same as "what can I get you?" but the "y'all" gives it some extra politeness or an "emphatic southern accent"
> TikTok is not banned here

False. It has already been banned in multiple jurisdictions, companies, and many government agencies.
extremely disturbing
IMO the best way to interview a software candidate is just to get them talking about the stuff on their resume. Ask for overviews, diagrams, justifications, etc, etc. If you really know something you will have a very clear mental model of it and be able to discuss it fluently.

Leetcode challenges are a waste of everyone's time. If you are a competent developer then you can google for algorithmic solutions if you really need to, but honestly how often does the need come up, and is googling for suggestions really the hardest part of the project ?!

The only thing that doing well on these type of problems proves is that you've been willing to put the practice time in to get good at them.
The person you're responding to isn't asking for a material proof.

They're pointing out that ontological arguments are typically seen as an "argument of last resort" in a philosophical setting, and are making an (abductive) argument that the use of an ontological argument indicates a weaker position than the importance of the proof (the existence of a god) would otherwise suggest.
Doesn't matter. He gets to assert that it's possible, so I get to assert that it's not.
I thought this was going to be an article about how someone used a Raspberry Pi and some maker fu to connect 0x7 on their terminal to a cathedral or something.
Given that Der Krampus arrives Dec. 6, he's probably just playing bad cop to St. Nick's good cop. According to traditional theology, animals don't have souls, so they don't have much to do with religion, and believers had better be satisfied spending an eternity strumming their harps with neither Fido nor Kat Vonnegut Jr. for company.

(does Dante mention any animals in the 1st circle? Non-philospher non-featherless non-biped animals, that is...)
Team / interpersonal communication overhead, planning overhead, and dealing with less skilled members of the team can easily make 4 engineers roughly as productive as one very skilled engineer, just at 4-5x the cost once you include the increase in product/project management required by multiple people. We tolerate this generally because eg upskilling peers is important to scale a company, but pre-PMF it's a huge advantage to have just the one outstanding engineer.
See the author's developers; raise him a faculty lounge full of academics.

Then defenestrate myself.
TBH, I don't really get the whole "insulting to good candidates" idea.* People who have been in industry long enough should understand that this is pretty common. If they get insulted, that's probably bad signal since they are taking it personally.

On the other hand, if the person is annoyed or frustrated by the idea I don't blame them.

* Caveat for people with high levels of experience going into more senior job titles.
> "Dictatorships are bad" is not the game-over argument that it once was, maybe 20 years ago.

Yes, it is. By god, something needs to be done about the absolute stupidity that is making its way through American universities. This is tragic.
The end of the article actually finishes with a GPT generation- I reason that’s why it made HN
Another unelected official in Europe
Is there a way to make this a bundled library (more like sqlite) than a server (more like postgresql)?

I want to have something running local and bundled into an app for friends, maybe more.
This was part of his plan for Rudolph to toughened up and be ready to lead the sleigh.

Rudolph is basically a Christmas version of Ender Wiggins.
Nix only caches at the package level, doesn't it?
>Only two registry settings are needed to switch between these two modes in NT 4.0, and only one setting in NT 3.51. This is extremely significant, and calls into question the related legal limitations

People who know things about software thinking they know things about law (when they do not): a tale as old as time.
That's not a company; that is a scam.
the difference in productivity between 1 and 2-person teams isn't in 100%, but in maybe 50%.
The more people you add, the smaller the productivity gain.

From my own experience, my most successful products have been built by one single full-stack dev. Who did everything
Also recommend Marlon Brando from the 1953 movie.
Devil's advocate...

Historically the reason corporations were given limited liability was in return for them performing a public good.

If in a democracy most people want open messaging, I see no reason why they shouldn't have it.

Corporations are not the same as people, they are tools.
There are two requirements for something to be a natural right:

- It must be something any human can exercise in the absence of outside interference by other humans;

- Any such interference must be presumptively immoral.

Freedom of expression meets both the empirical and moral requirements for being a natural right.
I'm very active in companies chat, always step up to help when I have a solution, always step up first when I notice something can be improved, I am not sure how you went from not be willing to socialise/be drunk/be around drunk people, to "be left alone"/"not able to casually interact"
This is why Demon’s Souls really resonated with me back in 2009 or whenever. The victories were truly earned. Every souls game since then has gotten easier by eliminating, one by one, all those unforgiving mechanics. (But I still genuinely enjoy them)
> it makes me overthink every time about which one is appropriate to use now with people I don't know

The issue still comes up, but in different ways. To a friend I might say "Where's the nearest cashpoint?", but to a stranger I'd say "Excuse me, but would you happen to know where I could find the nearest cashpoint, please".
From what I've read about the American civil war is that all
historians agree that the rebellion was about the right to hold
slaves. The argument about federalisim is a narrative constructed
afterwards to evoke sympathy for the rebels.

If not those who use the phase - and have been using it in exactly the
same way for decades - can decide what it means, then who can? Should
we apply the same argument to "pro choice" and agreee that that it is
a call for premediated murder of infants because that is what the "pro
life" crowd thinks?
Ah, got it. I know what you are referring to now. Yea, it is seen in hospitality more often.
Great piece of literature and also rather expensive. It requires a payment of investment to get the reward.
That is a great risk that I, a conscious, responsible human being with agency, should be in charge of managing. Not my fridge
As a heavy user of tiktok, most of these claims are anecdotal, and people just see what they want to see. Liziqi[0] has 18M subscribers on YouTube and seems to be far more effective of "soft propoganada" than anything I've seen on TikTok.

Twitter and Instagram Reels is far worse at surfacing destructive trends, it seems like a misstep for the CCP to try and push TikTok in this way when our own homemade companies are more than capable of doing it themselves. Between TikTok and IG, only one of them has a "STEM" feed; and it's unclear why its the CCP trying to push more US kids into STEM.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@cnliziqi/videos
German also has the 2 levels, but addressing the police with the informal you might get you into trouble. There's a great clip (not sure if it's a sketch show or a 360p mobile phone recording) of a guy peeking out of his apartment door and seeing a lot of coos, and he says to one of them, "Piss off, you (informal) asshole!." . The cop says "excuse me?", and the guy responds with, "Ah, sorry, you (formal) asshole!". The next bit is the cop kicking down the door... maybe it was one of those Cops-style reality shows.
> that hobby may be frivolous in the eyes of someone else.

So what? That's missing the entire point of <hobby>.
In Oz there are retailers who provide battery recycling services... https://au.news.yahoo.com/bunnings-ikea-aldi-recycling-old-h...
Give “Hades” a shot. Isometric rogue-lite, once you’re comfortable with the game, a “run” is <30 mins (<15 mins once you’re very comfortable).
>> As soon as you hit strong cultural disagreement (e.g. "new technologies" is a minefield)

> I am not sure what you mean by this. This is a question I ask and I’m concerned there’s something I’m missing here. Could you elaborate?

Easy :). Take me: I hate Go and think Java is the best programming language there is. (My daily drivers today are C++ and Python.) NodeJs should've never been invented. I'm pretty opinionated when it comes to this. I'd still accept the position where I have to code in Go (been there and it was OK for both sides), but I wouldn't keep my mouth shut during the interview -- I wonder how that would go with 80% interviewers.

> How do you comb through and make an initial choice of who to interview then?

Sorry, I didn't put it explicit enough. I don't do the initial selection or leveling. This is done for me. The CVs are useful for this. But if you can avoid reading the CV (e.g. assessing only the raw skills), then you should.
Y’all is a perfectly cromulent gender neutral way to address a group of people in a professional setting.
Well that's definitely not what they're supposed to do.
My 3 year old asked me how Santa knows when you are sleeping and I told him “metadata” - he asked how he knows if you’ve been bad or good, and I told him, intelligence sharing agreements between five eyes nations. I hope he has a sense of humor about this when he gets older (but he probably won’t remember it)
Nice, the morph filter is tantalizingly close to what the poster is looking for. (I’m sure you know already, but unfortunately that page doesn’t work on iOS.) Maybe there’s a ‘nearest neighbor’ or ‘box filter’ blur in SVG, but I’m not aware of one. I googled and see other people looking for the same effect and resorting to canvas and hand-crafted image processing. It might be doable and reasonably performant with a WebGL shader.
That's funny. But yeah, if someone has an authority over me like that, I wouldn't ever dare. It's mostly a question I guess when speaking to people I'm doing business/service with.
Hi, author here. Would you mind sharing which browser and version you are using? Thanks.
Yeah, true. I was being subtle. This narcissist is framing things as "even better" in comparison to someone who is likely, literally, the most intelligent person currently alive.
Hm, interesting. Our free tier is planned to be this plus R2, so I’m happy to hear S3-style data exchange is working for people. Thanks for sharing
That’s the real nail in the coffin for the argument. You don’t need to pick apart all the specific things wrong with it to tell it’s trash, because it’s easy to see that you can use it to “prove” all kinds of arbitrary bullshit. It’s clearly just useless.