skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This code does exactly the same thing as Rust code

Except it doesn't - because after the final parenthesis of the Lisp snippet, the let-binding is finished, i.e., the introduced variables are no longer in scope. That is not the case after the end of the last line in the Rust example.

The whole point of parentheses is to mark where something starts and where it ends. Here, it is where the scope of the let-defined variables starts and ends. Without some sort of "parenthesizing", there might be a start, but it's much harder to mark where something ends.
Never heard of this, despite a physics degree. Is this what happens after social media is invented and all sorts of bullshit is spread as fact?
Well, you deserve it
> The extremes to which they take their cargo cult mentality is out of this world.

Nah, just "webscale" like everything else Mongo.
It most certainly IS possible.

That's the whole point of resumes and LinkedIn...especially in technical fields. You self-select for the hiring criteria you're looking for. You then speak to the candidate to understand a bit more about their experience as it relates to the job you're seeking a candidate for. That's why it often makes sense for such roles, for technical people to interview other technical people.

"Oh, you have experience with XYZ technology stack, and you worked with it for a few years, awesome. That's what we use here, but could you please talk about some of the projects you worked on with said technology?"

But no, tell me how that's not possible to do quickly.
NPM package is at: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@sabre-js/sabre
Sure they can but I don't see much of that.
> Look you’re arguing that they should throw good money after bad.

Yes, when something is already done, the vast majority of the time you should throw enough good money at it for delivery.

Especially when you can make a contract to guarantee you get paid more than that. Upfront, even!

> So all this boils down to is whether or not you believe their accountants suddenly become wrong or liars about their expected expenses and returns the moment the “final” edit is committed to film.

It's not "suddenly". The necessary amount of "good money" to get the movie released drops precipitously as it approaches completion. At this point the "good money" is basically nothing. There are lots of companies that would happily pay for it.
That didn't stop World War I...
Nice to see Cloudflare fighting the good fight, but patent trolls aren’t the only issue with software patents. A major issue that people talk about way less is well funded/large companies getting bullshit patents, and using them to sue their small startup competitors into the ground. It doesn’t even matter if they win - when a company with billions in the bank sues a company with millions in the bank, the small company is basically just screwed no matter what because they can’t afford the legal fees. It’s a cheap way for big, bloated, slow moving companies to eliminate fast moving, lean, disruptive competition.

A major source of this problem IMO is the granting of bullshit patents in the first place - patents that should never have been granted because they’re obvious and/or there was prior art. Patent clerks aren’t actually subject matter experts in the field, and there’s little incentive for them to deny bullshit patents. They maybe deny them once or twice, but dedicated companies just keep applying and eventually get them granted, because the applicant has a major incentive to get the bullshit patent, and the patent office has only minor incentives to deny bullshit patents. I think these incentives need to be changed - for example, if company A sues company B over patent C, company B spends $10 million on their defence, and wins with the patent being deemed invalid, I think company B should get MAJOR financial rewards from BOTH company A and the patent office, on the order of 10x+ what they spent on their defence. If granting a bullshit patent was a $100 mil mistake, patent offices would be WAY more careful with the patents they grant, and applying for patents would be WAY more expensive, and those are both good things!

The right incentives could keep the good parts of the patent system while eliminating the (currently pretty massive, out of control) downsides. Patents are currently a mediocre idea implemented incredibly poorly.
That's why passthrough exists.
But at the moment it isn't good enough and it looks strange from the outside
If being late with payments was theft then by far, far the largest form of larceny would be B2B. Late payments from businesses to vendors eclipses late rent. That's why there's an entire industry built around collecting payments, called factoring companies. That's why there are people hired as credit controllers to chase late payments.

Source: wife worked as a credit controller.
I enjoyed the simplicity of this explanation as well:

https://praveshkoirala.com/2023/06/13/a-non-mathematical-int...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36971975
"Exactly! I would tell those people to use another telephone, not sue Bell Systems to change their phone network"

"Exactly! I would tell those people to find another supplier, not sue Standard Oil to change their business tactics"

"Exactly! I would tell those people to ride a different rail, not sue Pacific Railway Co. to change their train routes"

- Monopoly apologism, through the centuries
And for that added flair, don't forget: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/RainbowDelimiters.
Absolutely agree with everything you said. The biblical Jesus sets a high standard that is impossible to live up to. Even though I don’t believe now, I love people that try to live to that standard, and I aspire to as well
OMG! who’s gonna use the Internet anymore? ;)
You can take it here: https://fedexdataworksprod.traitify.com/assessment/31449c4a-...

Each one has a title like "Starter Not a Finisher", "Frequently Change My Mind", "Always Wonder Why", "Easily Offended", "Art Isn't My Thing", "Unstoppable", "Make Friends Everywhere", "Good Enough", "Not My Job", "Tend to Feel Sad", "Volunteering", "Believe the Best of People", "Hard to Start a New Task", "Loves the Social Scene", "Chats in Elevators", "Natural Leader", "Sometimes Thoughtless"
> It is not exactly a "hit piece" but it is in fact, a disagreement with one side trying to settle the matter as an authority.

Those are different worlds. The latter is someone arguing in good faith, albeit wrongly and stubbornly, for something they believe is true. The former is spending money intentionally trying to discredit something because you're worried it's true (or people will find out it's true). One is honest and the other is not. That matters.

The original comment accused the medical profession of spending "a lot of money" soliciting "hit pieces". Not some bad actors, but ("elements of", whatever that means) the medical profession as a whole. Not occasionally, not in a few notorious instances, but spending "a lot of money". Not being stubborn, not appealing to authority instead of evidence, but "hit pieces". That is bullshit disinformation and I called the poster on it. Nothing you said about our understanding of medicine changing over time, slower than it should have, involving more fights and stubbornness than it should, gets anywhere near the profession spending a lot of money on hit pieces.
That presumably demonstrates they think nuclear war is less dangerous than AI.
It tends to be on the lower end of the salaried world and/or less desired employers. I think it’s also increasingly less common in general. But there are many companies that time clock their salaried professionals or require time sheets. For instance, as a higher end example, Goldman Sachs requires most employees to file a time sheet allocating their work to the nearest hour. The reality is people just put in 40 hours regardless, but depending on the line manager it can be more tightly controlled. In some operations roles where cost control is a big deal and hours are billed back to the upstream revenue producing departments, time sheets are scrutinized closely.
> loser must disclose the ultimate name of the beneficial owners (or material, if public) of the loser. EINs not allowed. The "trolls" are thus, branded.

So TrollCo will just pay a different homeless person $100 to be the owner on paper for each of their patents?
The buyer is not buying the hard drive, they're buying the asset it holds. If you destroy the only copy, you make it unobtainable but the value of that intellectual property is arguably still $30m. (If said offer was $30m, in this case)

For that reason: if the studio destroyed all known copies of the movie, write it off, and then an unknown copy gets leaked by someone who worked on it -- the studio will still sue for damages >$0 and claim in court that any piracy downloads are potential viewings, ergo stolen profit.
I love the idea of this but it is so, so far from the iterative approach I normally use.

When I have taken this approach - pencil and paper - I find that it accelerates the initial big decisions (e.g. "what will this module's responsibility be?") but sometimes causes rework when I discover that I was optimistic or unaware of how two areas of the code interact.

Perhaps I'm just not doing it thoroughly enough.
Old internet for me was pre AOL. Pre web browsers with graphics. Lynx browser. FTP, Archie, Veronica... Great Newsgroups.

Commercial enterprises were hounded if they dared try to sell a product. Remember when the law firm's fax machine was crippled ( fax DDS attack?) in retaliation?

If you wanted to see the Olympics up close, you posted what sports you were interested in and folks would take pics for you and upload them onto an FTP server. You only used the server during off hours out of politeness.

Simtel is where you found your dos programs.

You downloaded Linux one disk at a time.

When AOL opened it up to its users, they destroyed many of the cozier aspects. But the porn definitely exploded.

Life is change.
Yes.

Or both...like a real world toggle switch.

Or have user configurable behavior (an idea that seems to be mostly out of fashion among designers...get off my lawn).
This is amazing work! Can you divulge what institutions in Oklahoma are currently using NeuralRad? As someone in the state who often has MRIs looked at, this would definitely move a given medical provider higher on my list!
Taxes are not punishment. With such a childish view of society it is probably for the best that you aren't a parent.
Wouldn't it be easier to fly into Reno, NV and take the bus to Bishop, CA?
This reminded me of http://ccl.cse.nd.edu/software/ftsh/
(I honestly wish I could so clearly order my thoughts in writing like you have done here)

That it is mutually beneficial is sort of my point. If every developer jumped ship, iOS would be in trouble. But they won't. They absolutely will not. It's a humorous hypothetical. So I'm not the only one viewing the platform users as an asset. So is everyone clamoring to reach them.

It's not being an evil monopoly merely to have built the most desirable thing. Android exists today. It doesn't have anywhere near the access to the people who spend money. Apple spent decades cultivating that access, and they're in an extremely strong position because of it.

I hate the app store, it's a lazy mess. I hate Apple's deliberate crippling of the open web to stifle competition. That's probably far more fruitful ground for legislative action. But setting a price for what you can choose to either buy or not buy from them seems wildly within the bounds of what they're allowed to do.
I would settle for a society which:

- afforded every citizen access to whatever education which they might choose/be interested in

- the chance to become the best version of themselves which is possible

- the leisure time to apply their talents to a project which makes the world a better place

It's kind of hard though, when the best school I ever attended, one which separated academics from social classes and allowed students to work at their ability level (up to 4 grade levels ahead through 4th grade, but after, one could work as far ahead and as fast as one's abilities allowed, and faculty members were dual-credentialed as high school teachers and professors at a local college, so students could easily graduate high school _and_ be conferred a 4 year degree, some students received multiple college degrees when graduating at age 18) which excelled at education was deemed an illegal arrangement by the Mississippi Supreme Court because it conferred an unfair advantage to those students who were able to apply themselves and take advantage of it, with no commensurate compensation for those who were unable to do so.
I have more than that on my ordinary consumer router and have never seen a problem. Worst case, it'd be straightforward to dedicate a Wi-Fi router to your smart devices in the same way that you have a hub (and possibly repeaters) for your Zigbee devices.
That is a poor design choice. VERB STATE TRUE is standard for every toggle switch on all my hardware, including prosumer amps. Changing this can be deadly, and was found to be part of the reason for the 737 MAX going down in 2019:

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boein...
Loving this. I feel like more and more layers of people keep getting added above engineers & engineers keep getting less and less ability to define shape and steer product forward, and it super depresses me seeing the role turned from creative into a mere resource for other people.
The government regulates the hell out of employers for the common good. There's nothing special about contraception versus other required benefits *unless you oppose contraception*.

As a point of comparison, the Supreme Court wouldn't take up a hypothetical case filed by a company that refused to provide nursing rooms, because Republicans don't oppose breastfeeding at work (yet...)
And indeed more than succeed, they invented x86_64.

If AMD invented the analogous to x86_64 for CUDA, this would increase competition and progress in AI by some huge fraction.
Had an interview once over Zoom. Dude has me do a coding test: normal String manipulation algorithmic problem solving stuff. So I’m screen sharing and try to google something and he’s like “STOP! What are you doing?” I’m like “well I don’t remember the exact name of the function” and he’s like “You can’t do that, this is a Test!!”

So I flunked his “test” and then immediately contacted the recruiter and said “no thanks” before he could muahahaha
I think the iOS switch controls are pretty easy to read, even though the only real clue to the state is that off is gray and on is colored.
> The 737 was only saved because it was finally being sold for less than its production costs, but it was not expected to pay back its development costs.

Presumably, "more" was intended here rather than "less".
I second the abolishment of patents.

The reasons people are for/against patents are political. A rightist view would be that patents allow first-to-the-finish-line inventors to reap financial awards that lead to success and freedom. A leftist view would be that the opportunity cost of patents is an increased cost (analogous to a tax) on everyone else in the form of licensing fees and barred entry to markets as improvements in science and technology make patents more obvious than innovative.

If we don't reform the system by at least reducing patent durations to something reasonable like 3-5 years, then that will create an incentive to operate outside the market. People will just use open source and 3D printing to build their own stuff, rather than purchasing it from someone else. In other words, more patents = bigger black market and smaller market/profits for those operating legally.

It's not a good look anymore to favor policies which encourage corruption. Other examples of unintended consequences include the War on Drugs, the Citizens United decision, NAFTA, etc etc etc. We know better now and we can do better, rather than letting special interests dictate the manner in which we do business.
I had a major vector db startup require a take home leetcode (4 questions in an hour and a half), as well as a in person leetcode (hour and who knows how many questions)... and I thought that was bad because it had nothing to do with the job.

This isn't even in the same realm as the job.
Depends on the role, applicant pool, experience, and risk tolerance.
Wait until they hear about upgrading the FW on the FW! [1]

[1] firewall
The US has both of these things for older people.
Where is it? Could you please give us name or location of the hot springs? Thank you!
Ah yeah I know what you mean. For what it is worth, they've been pushing a new gestures system that supercedes the old tool belt buttons. Not sure your tablet has that.

And you probably know now, but just in case
Triangle: back
Circle: close
Square: task manager
Error management in Rust, and libs that support it
Considering how much more is spent on marketing and executive salaries, maybe we don't?

Or the patent protection is contingent on limits to marketing and admin overhead
The "mortality was skewed by infant mortality" myth can't die soon enough. Yes the life expectancy being 35 didn't mean everyone died at 35, but your mortality at any given age was substantially higher than today. Whereas today living into your 70s is nearly a given and people have decent odds of remaining healthy into their 80s, in the past living to such ages was exceptional. Of course it happened on occasion, but if you look at the ages people actually died of natural causes, it was typically between 50 and 65. Even when people were noted for their incredibly long life, it was still rather short compared to today. Louis XIV, for example, was the longest reigning european monarch of all time, living to the ripe old age of 76, outliving his son (who died at 49) and grandson (dead at 29), to be succeeded by his great grandson who would live to be 64. The modern life expectancy in France is 82.
Strongly agree. If there's one thing the long arc of human history has taught us, it's that those in power have immense love, respect, and charity for those who are not.

Another thing I find to be unnecessary is all the organic matter whose ROI does not meet or exceed the elites' target metric.

When the robots are rounding up all of our unnecessary organic matter for reprocessing, I'll look back fondly at how I didn't give in to pessimism, no matter how accurate it may be. Always remember, when you're hiding under the floorboards from the nanobots sent to disassemble you, that it's "sadly pessimistic" to think that humans have slaughtered each other for a hundred thousand years, and slept soundly at night for having done so.

We achieved the status of Apex Predator and dominated the planet not by behaving like an apex predator or a dominator, but by communing with the trees, smoking ayahuasca with the buffalo, and using resources in a manner deferential and highly respectful of Mother Gaia.

One of the best things about modernity is that we were raised on enlightened Saturday Morning Cartoons to understand the true reality of our species, that 99.999% of us are good and caring, and even if by some impossible situation there is a bad person, it's nothing that can't be solved by a hearty Care Bear Stare!
What happens on a power failure?
Elf2Dos: Cross-compile a 32-bit DOS program with GCC
Tesla sold only one car in Korea in January
Yikes. I mean, on the one hand that’s literally elementary—as in elementary school, if only just barely—knowledge. On the other, I’ve not needed to find the circumference of a circle given the radius ever in adult life, and I’m quite sure I’ve forgotten more than a handful of “elementary” things due to lack of practice, over the years, especially in math (for which needing to reach for knowledge or techniques beyond about 6th grade is very rare, at least in my life).

… I am pretty sure I’d be fine on that particular example, but there are surely others about as “easy” that I’d flub because I’ve not used that knowledge in 20+ years.
I got asked "what was the last book you read" in a SW startup interview once. I told them and then the interviewers started arguing amongst themselves about whether or not they liked the book, based on what I had told them about it, instead of asking me what I thought about it and what I learned from it. That was one of about thirty red flags. I left without completing the interview.
Indeed the overdose data seems to indicate a worse problem in rural areas, with West Virginia topping the per capita OD rate:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/drug_poisoning_mor...
The fundamental observation that many kinds of prejudices that continue for generations create lasting harm for those that have been prejudiced against and their descendants is kind of self-evident.

The “woke” or DEI mindset is as far as I can tell, in origin basically about acknowledging that.

Then all sorts of things, including social media pressures, combined with grievance and resentment have led people really far astray in their attempts to “make things right”.

So I understand the visceral reaction the words can cause for some people, and partly agree.

However, the underlying observation is true, and if one for example were looking for a candidate and would, inspired by this observation, spend extra effort to advertise to certain groups, then that would be a pretty sensible DEI implementation.

Any sort of relaxed standards or claims that math is racist or something is bad however.
Racial or gender quotas are also dangerous, if they’re used it needs to be very careful and temporary.

I do feel that while this sort of stupid stuff obviously happens, is discriminatory and very bad, and should be stopped, it is probably being blown out of proportion as part of a bigger political fight.
I wonder what ChatGPT's impact in the revenues of companies have made - or the savings for spenders that were empowered by it....

But when we talk of fears of AI use, Im not so sure the UAE is going to be some pinnacle of well mannered 'truthiness' - how is UAE going to use GPT? Efficient water metering be a good start for everyone.

Is there a 'smart-home' LLM yet? (is that the proper phrasing?)
Except GP literally said they don't care about society after they are dead. That is a problem for society.
Yes, maybe something like that (preview only):

Usborne introduction to electronics:
https://archive.org/details/usborneintroduct0000beas

Fun with electronics:
https://archive.org/details/funwithelectroni0000mcph/mode/2u...
I don't realize that. We know that there was a short chat, and that it resulted in filling a position. We don't know whether it's an effective way to filter out poor candidates. Have you done it? What's your success rate?
> I can't imagine for a second the state of mind of someone who thinks that's OK as long as they can make money.

Devil's advocate, but they can rationalize it because the education and public health budget is anyhow going to be embezzled by some Minister (eg. the current Education Minister of Nigeria [0]) or local politician.

The amount of rot and corruption in LDCs is insane, as governance and institutions are inherently rotten.

The only solution in such an environment is to be corrupt like everyone else, and hope there are enough suckers motivated by ideals like "patriotism" or "responsibility" in order to continue managing development.

This is why you see a brain drain from a number of LDCs - a lot of smart people don't want to live in that kind of an environment. It's very soul crushing.

Edit: Devil's Advocate means I'm arguing for a position I am morally opposed to. This doesn't mean I support this kind of corruption.

[0] - https://eng.fatshimetrie.org/2024/01/07/corruption-scandal-n...