skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really hope this article only represents a handful of companies and not a material percentage. My true hope is:

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Interviewer: We brought in some frames, please help me construct a part of a house

Carpenter: *bang* *bang* *bang* - *completes*

Interviewer: I noticed you did this but didn't true up the corners. Can you walk me through this:

Carpenter: While it visually looks more impressive, the long term stresses by forcing it to move the 5" causes it to break and needing replacement/repair within 4-6 years. Keeping it uneven is a better long term solution without sacrificing its load bearing ability.

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Or, You know... building stuff. (everything above is made up - i have no idea how to frame a house)
As for the last paragraph, don't worry, when I read your reply I thought it's like you're giving me free pentesting for arguing a highly volatile issue. Thanks.

I know it's repetitive, but I don't think of it as being pro-Israel or being pro-Palestine. Especially since this right-wing messianic stuff paints Israel into a very, very dark corner. Blind support of it is helping Netanyahu and some very cruel and ultimately sad people, maybe some arms manufacturers, but not really anyone else, not even in Israel.

> displacement doesn't necessarily qualify

Not necessarily, but possibly. E.g. from Wikipedia on genocide:

> The term Bosnian genocide is used to refer either to the killings committed by Serb forces in Srebrenica in 1995, or to ethnic cleansing that took place elsewhere during the 1992–1995 Bosnian War.

Just scattering people in the world to never return, to settle their land, is destroying them as a national group in my books. But we'll see.

The bulk of the quotes I saw can basically be summarized as "we don't care, ethnic cleansing is fine, genocide is fine too, as long as Israel controls the land afterwards", and if anything beyond that is said, everything is blamed on Hamas, case closed.

That is bad enough, but that messianic stuff goes a farther than that IMO. When Netanyahu invoked Amalek, which he and others did more than once, that implies wiping out everyone, children and even animals, showing no mercy, blotting out their memory. And his reference to "fulfilling the prophecy of Isaiah"..

> "Destruction has been decreed, overwhelming and righteous. The Lord, the Lord Almighty, will carry out the destruction decreed upon the whole land."

I can't tell you what exactly Netanyahu means by that, but you'd have to squint harder than I am able to to not be pretty sure it's not within international law.

> "When there is absolute evil, one must not look back, one must not express empathy. The actions of the oppressors on Black Sabbath [meaning October 7th] are tens of times worse than the actions of Sodom and Gomorrah. The war is not about territory or Economy but a war for the loss of evil from the world and the perpetuation of the absolute good." -- Avishai Levy, Lieutenant Colonel and Rabbi of the Northern command, 03/11/2023

I do think we have tacit approval of genocidal statements, combined with the atrocities we know about, which in turn are probably just the tip of the iceberg. If the stuff people proudly post on social media is so sickening, singing "Gaza is a cemetery" and all that, obviously not fearing for their military careers at all, what are people doing that they don't film? We know enough to know it needs to be stopped and investigated, of that I'm confident.
Kids need more time away from other kids. They're spending too much time in the insane asylum with the other inmates. This leads to bullying, gossiping, comparing themselves against one another. Social media made it worse.

Kids at home on the farm, reading books, exploring nature - that was healthy. Now they're addicted to algorithmic peer pressure before their brains can even adjust to filtering it out.
On that subject, it's worth knowing that with the default BIOS settings the whole socket shows up as a single NUMA node, which means that most workloads don't benefit from automatic NUMA balancing or manual NUMA-aware placement within a socket.

One needs to set NPS "Nodes per socket" to e.g. 4 to have one NUMA node per quadrant, and potentially also "L3 cache as NUMA" to have one per CCX [0].

[0] https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/epyc-techni...
>USA's manufacturing prowess is still there btw. It took advanced computers, chemicals, and life-sciences to develop the COVID19 vaccines (and the updates to said vaccines) so quickly. China has seemingly been unable to replicate the feat.

That's not manufacturing so much as R&D. China isn't so great in that department, but they're great at pumping out manufactured goods with slightly behind-cutting-edge technologies at huge volumes. If China had access to all the R&D behind the mRNA vaccines, they could probably manufacture them too.
You do what people in big companies do: minimum-effort coasting. If high performers are also vulnerable to layoffs, why bother putting in a lot of effort?
I built a supabase app the past two days, and I agree.

I did find it a footgun that creating a table through SQL was not private by default. (Why doesn't Supabase apply RLS by default to tables created through SQL?)

Serverless also turned out to be more trouble than it was worth. In particular:

* Doing DB business logic in JS is gross.

* It's tricky to secure a table to be semi-public. e.g. you have a bookmark site and you don't want users to browse all URLs, just the ones they have bookmarked. The best solution appears to be disabling foreign-keys until transactions are done and then having a complicated policy.

* It's a pain to set up a CLI client that interacts with the DB. I think you have to copy-paste the access AND refresh tokens to it. I couldn't figure out a way to create my own API tokens.

A backend is nice, because it is private by default.
The information that person X owns Y shares is private cap table info. Carta breached that privacy by using it for lead generation
Parents weren't GPS tracking their children in the 1990s.
If only this were hyperbole.

I once interviewed with a startup whose process was:

1. Pass TripleByte (already puts you in top whatever percentage of SWEs)

2. Meet with 4 members of the company for an hour each, and if they all like you:

3. Create a 15 minute presentation on some code you worked on. It can be code from a current or past job, but that will probably reflect poorly on you, so go build something so you can create a 15 minute presentation on it.

4. Deliver the presentation during lunch to anyone at the company who joins the meeting. Also, join the meeting via some pseudo video game in the browser that you’ve never heard of and probably won’t exist in 2 years (about 8 people joined the meeting, most of which I never met).

5. Meet with the cofounder for an hour, and if they like you enough:

6. You have the privilege of working for them for a week “trial” to make sure it’s really a good fit. You can still be rejected at this point, though if I made it this far only to be rejected, I’d have killed myself, so the fact that I’m writing this now should tell you I did not make it past #4.

For those curious, #4, my presentation was about how I reverse engineered the Robinhood API, spoofed requests to get around their “security”, and used two levels of caching (Redis and a typical relational DB) to subvert rate limiting/IP blacklisting. I don’t know anybody who has done something as remarkable, especially in their spare time, for fun. BUT, I apparently said or did something they didn’t like so all that is moot.

If carpenters had to go through what we go through… Jesus Christ himself could come back to Earth, apply at the Google of construction firms, and be rejected because of the gap on his resume. Ooo, sorry, that gap is a huge red flag. What’s that, you were murdered by Romans and it’s not your fault? Ehhh…. I don’t want to risk making a bad hire. Thank you so much for your interest though, we will surely keep you in mind for future opportunities.
Most urban spaces these days are incredibly depressing. No points of interest within walking distance. Lots of large and difficult to cross roads. Combined with the very real danger of cycling in many places. As well as the loss of small businesses that used to be interspersed in residential areas.
What is the "leaking problem"?
Student should never assess a teacher.
Which company? ULA? BO? Astrobotic?
While I doubt I'd quit my day job for it, over the past couple of years I've been poking at my own database-backed shell history. The key requirements for me were that it be extremely fast and that it support syncing across multiple systems.

The former is easy(ish); the latter is trickier since I didn't want to provide a hosted service but there aren't easily usable APIs like s3 that are "bring your own wallet" that could be used. So I punted and made it directory based and compatible with Dropbox and similar shared storage.

Being able to quickly search history, including tricks like 'show me the last 50 commands I ran in this directory that contained `git`' has been quite useful for my own workflows, and performance is quite fine on my ~400k history across multiple machines starting around 2011. (pxhist is able to import your history file so you can maintain that continuity)

https://github.com/chipturner/pxhist
Insane. I could consistently sit in a room with a candidate for an hour, and at the end describe which positions they could handle, which would be a stretch, and which would be a fiasco. I ended up being a bit of a candidate whisperer.

But the truth is simply that if you speak clearly and listen closely, you'll learn more than enough in an hour. All this madness is to avoid developing these important skills. It's sad.
I deny a drinking age is necessary. From what it sounds like, the kids should be out there drinking more!
I suppose the interesting question is what parents of non-sick teens are doing differently from parents of sick teens. Is it a property that some teens are inherently more resilient or is it a property that some teens have a different home environment? There's many post-hoc explanations possible but the really interesting question to me is how some aren't sick.

Is it just like PTSD where most people who encounter combat trauma just make it back fine and even that one-third of those who encounter extreme combat trauma make it back just fine? Or is it that it's like PTSD where most people never encounter traumatic events of any cause and therefore don't have PTSD.

Identifying what's different about those who are sick and those who aren't will probably yield something interesting.
…partly (mostly?) because of social media addiction.

My son sometimes has a hard time trying to get his friends to spend time outside, because they’d rather be on their phone on TikTok or Snap.
I'm not sure if this was covered in the video, but the other conspiracy I heard a few years back now makes a lot of sense.

Mark Slaughter of the famous hair metal band Slaughter came out and said that there is a widespread misconception that grunge killed hair metal. He claims MTV hired a new president who was also a program manager at KROQ in California and he came out and said he wasn't going to play hair metal any more - and it was his decision not to play that music any more that killed that entire genre.

He readily admits there was an undercurrent brewing with people getting tired of the hair metal scene and labels essentially trying to create the next big thing, all in the image of these successful bands, but its interesting to note how one guy basically cratered the entire genre in the span of less than a year.
At least with leetcode there’s a standard, there’s consistency. You judge my ability to code by how well I know Djikstra? Fine, at least there’s only one Djikstra’s Algo, and I only have to learn it once.
It's able to do this via a temp change as part of the compression cycle. When gas expands it's container gets cold. These systems can move heat from outdoors to inside in cooler weather. Your Air Conditioner doesn't make cold, it moves your heat outside. So being able to move or collect heat is how efficiencies over '100%' can happen, it isn't free just more efficient than space heaters.
I think ultimately the point still stands.

On most OSes you have more interpreters/compilers than you could hope to be competent with installed by default.

Full stop.

Casual coding by whatever standards you want, it's more approachable than ever.

Fine, python is a mess. I would never disagree with this, given the pain between 2.x and 3.x and the hell that we went through to get there.

But 2.x has been officially dead for 4 years, and that's it. Trying to use that as a crutch fails to work anymore.
The causal link to social media is presented very simply in the article, but I suspect that's mainly because the article is not about diagnosis, but about the prevalence of the pattern.

There is a lot of data to support the social media effect specifically (some referenced in the linked articles from Twenge), and I suspect the next few posts from Rausch will dive in more deeply, so it's not right to claim that they're jumping to convenient answers - these aren't casual bloggers sharing their reckons.

edit: actually there's a heap of related writing on that site, e.g. https://www.afterbabel.com/p/social-media-mental-illness-epi...
This can be seen as more of an argument against alcohol than in favour of other drugs.
I’ve spent a few hours reading the Mamba paper, examining the code, and watching Yannick’s YouTube dive into the paper. If you took discrete time signal processing in school, you will have what you need to work through the math.

Here is my intuition about Mamba. It’s a linear discrete time signal filter where the filter blocks are conditioned on the input at each time step as well as receiving the input as a normal filter would. Think of the predecessor to Mamba as a discrete time filter without this conditioning. That’s the first innovation.

The other innovation is some lovely algebra allowing them to reorganize things so they can be computed much more efficiently on current GPU hardware, with respect to slow and fast memory.

State space models are very simple conceptually. It’s kind of amazing that Mamba does so well on long sequence modeling because the architecture is ridiculously simple. But when you consider that the state matrices are conditioned on the input, it all makes sense. Somehow, they learn how to adapt the “filter” based on the input. That’s where the intelligence lies.
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Edit: might be a one off.
I look at my ability to free roam as a young teen and even late single digits with appreciation and also recognition of the danger. But then I look at the amount of traffic on the streets I crossed on bicycle compared to when I was younger, it makes sense. Even residential streets are less safe from cars.

But I know those aren’t the reasons kids don’t play outside anymore.
So it may be possible for two pieces of hardware to talk and prove a thing is signed by a reputable place.. so I could check an ID and be pretty certain the age is correct in the data pulled from it.. I guess..

But if I needed to take that ID and run it to check for a valid license or valid insurance - or if they are on a gov deceased list or other background check or something..

Unless I could have all these DBs on device I can't see a real way to do them zero knowledge checks.. I could imagine a service could promise to not log requests but no way to verify they are not..

I suppose I'd like to see a system where you could batch check 100 or so IDs at once to run checks to see if they have insurance, a valid drivers license, a valid XY or Z license, any warrants, pending litigation and such - able to do so in a way that the check on the person is not logged, prove-ably.
You say urban, but this applies to suburban and rural areas as well. If anything, urban areas are the places that have probably resisted these factors the most effectively. For everyone else: "You get a stroad, and you get a stroad, everybody gets a stroad!"
> but you're not paying less per user than if you scaled higher

Except you need more money thrown in the hardware to be able to utilize that bandwidth. It doesn't scale linearly. At some point it's easier to setup another node to handle another 10Gbit and while you now pay double the node cost , now you can actually scale horizontally, because it's easier to serve the same content to different people from many nodes than from one big fat one.

Also, you need clients who would watch your content and would give you ad views and hence money. If you pay $1000/m more for another 10Gbit for each node in the first place then it's another $1000/node you need to get each month.

Remember, this is not enterprise customers, with $/user costs, this is profiteering from a highly fluctuating and risky market of solving the service problem... without paying the IP holders anything. Though that's a B2B service problem too, but it wouldn't be solved till corporations' greed would exist.
Since my youth climate change has been A wildly depressing concept to grapple with. Environment destruction period.

I mean being depressed is one thing, living in a world that's literally cooking at the same time just takes it up a whole other level.

I guess in the past, no matter how bad things got for you on a personal level, you could kind of count on the world being there if you got through it, now it's sort of 50/50.
Coming in at under $100 is a lofty goal, but if they make the hardware, I'll buy one. The Turris Omnia was close.

I've been using (and previously contributing) to OpenWrt for almost 10 years, it's an excellent project and deserves some spotlight, I really hope this gains some traction.
>Primes like the least interesting part of Amazon in terms of regulation

I suppose that's a matter of opinion. But, sure, there are certainly other interesting "parts" (e.g. how they treat merchants [0]).

>Prime needs regulation like Costco Petrol needs regulation. Video is a cool free bolt on to free shipping with its own bolt ons.

No. Amazon is responsible for nearly 38% of e-commerce and commands the broadest merchant network available [0]. That's an issue in itself and the bundling of non-commerce items like Video make it worse.

And, I'm not sure why anyone would assume that it's free. They have increased the price of Prime membership multiple times since introducing Video and simply don't itemize its contribution to the price, but that doesn't mean we're not paying for it.

That's actually part of the issue. You don't know what you're paying and you can't opt out of their bundling to reduce your price.

That puts pure-streaming competitors at an unfair disadvantage, and also pressures e-commerce consumers to consider dropping other streaming services.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-sues-amazoncom-breakin...
To be fair, GPS tracking may actually make parents feel more comfortable allowing their kids to free roam.
Tzero had major timing issues. They used lead acid batteries which were too heavy to offer long ranges and at the time lithium ions just couldn’t hit a reasonable price point. Worse they couldn’t wait around for batteries to get better. Thus the company gave up on trying to get into production for basic economic reasons.

Tesla was founded so roughly 5 years down the line when they could start roadster production battery technology would ready for the ultra enthusiasts. With a luxury sedan to hit a few years later.

As to Musk’s role he wasn’t involved in seed funding, was the largest but not only Series A investor, and became the 3rd CEO 6 months after the roadster entered production and 6 months before the Model S was unveiled. So he may have influenced the Model S, but it was well into development at that point. The company may have been less successful without his involvement, but it would have likely gotten both the Roadster and Model S into production.
I don’t understand the RLS is disabled warning thing. I also have that warning on a project where I migrated to Supabase from a sql dump/restore from another PG instance.

I’m using supabase as “just Postgres” at the moment and the only access to the data comes from a server I control.

Could you explain how my data is being “blasted to the internet”?

Genuinely concerned if I’m grossly overlooking something.
It's because they thought secondary could be the real business, because the hypothetical total addressable market is so large.
in no small part "thanks" to social media, no? like yeah in the us and anglosphere it's no small part car centricity, but like the blog post points out, this is a trend that's visible even places that don't have school shootings and car centricity, so it kind of has to be social media. (actually proving it is hard but, like, at this point, i don't see how it can even be disputed by any reasonable person, only pedants)
All India Pregnant Job service: How these Indian men fell for a scam
if only there was an easy markup language that one could use to make websites...
I've seen paid exclusivity deals from youtube before (https://www.gamesindustry.biz/youtube-reportedly-paid-usd160...) and while I'm surprised they paid a streamer like Ludwig to defect I'm pretty sure those kinds of deals don't exist for 99% of the content that gets uploaded to the platform.
remove duplicates, remove trivial commands like cat, less , more, cp etc
TIL about Atuin!

I just deployed this to my "everything" NixOS server with `services.atuin.enable` and synced a few of my machines up with it. Very cool! I hope this move goes well for Ellie!
Fundamentally misses the original notion behind company bonuses. The idea was, a base salary, plus a bonus based on company performance. So, participate in corporate profit (theoretically in a transparent way) without locking that into salary structure.

Key is, do not incorporate individual performance. That introduces subjective factors and conflicts between
'my goals' and 'company goals'.

The second and third options both look like "do things you think we will like and maybe we will reward them". Lottery tickets are cheaper and require less effort.
> Never heard of burrito before

I would start with the Americanized version at Chipotle and move up from there :)

On a serious note, I'm not sure if you can use the usual quick mozzarella recipe [1] for burrata because the mozzarella might not be stretchy enough to form the shell or the mixture might be too acidic - I forgot what the issue was. You'll have to use the proper recipe [2] which is quite a bit more involved (I also recommend looking up videos of Italian cheesemongers making burrata for the technique, there are tricks to it). A sous vide recirculator comes in real handy.

Burrata is more about the flavor of the cream which combines very nicely with the texture of the cheese. Definitely recommend getting the cream from a proper dairy even if you don't get raw milk for the cheese. The stracciatella absorbs the cream which creates a unique and very rich flavor.

[1] https://cheesemaking.com/products/30-minute-mozzarella-recip...

[2] https://cheesemaking.com/products/burrata-recipe
I worked at a place where we'd sometimes give take homes, but only for roles where we were hiring outside of their experience. Oh, you think you can learn tech XYZ even though it isn't on your resume? Ok, take a test that a novice in that area could pass fairly easily.

You don't even have to pass, just explain what you tried and what your reasoning was. A few syntax errors and a directionally correct attempt are fine.

We got a few good candidates that way, and I think we also filtered out some bad ones. Probably filtered out a few good ones too, though, tbh.
We just used a big cheap battery as a backup and the system is grid tied for horrible storms in winter and whatnot.

Everything was off the shelf — the new systems are crazy better than just a few years ago.