skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Like monkeys picking bugs off one another" is a hell of a thing for a hominin to say. I take your point about geography and generational change, and I don't think you're wrong, but I'm also not at all convinced this is a healthy habit for a species remarkably social even among primates.
> When interviewing as a software engineer, for example, you’ll run into places that lean heavily on algorithms interviews.
And don’t get me wrong, those interviews can be fun (in the same way that Project Euler can be fun), but it’s not very relevant for most jobs

I'm curious what changed around 2015-2016 that led to the current interview process. In the before times the interview was more of a technical conversation, sure they had some gotcha questions, but nothing too brutal. If you had real experience that you could talk about, maybe it was validated against references or a background check. People usually looked for a CS or adjacent degree, and that was enough. The quality of folks wasn't too different in my experience.

I really feel for those with a lot of experience that are being dropped into the fire, especially those with families who may not have the time to memorize patterns for 3 months, but are still very capable. Non-tech, low paying jobs now ask you to create a soduko solver or trap rain water within 45 minutes. There's not many places to go for those that don't 'adapt'.
Also a high level of frustration tolerance.
Right; Backblaze has similar pricing as you can see on the table.
I would say that line of thought can be quite dangerous. I come to that conclusion because the human story seems completely devoted to that question.

As an Industrial Designer with plenty of latitude of how to focus my time this is my approach.

Our currently industrialized world has created opportunity for people above a certain earning threshold to make their own inflation. This can create many paradoxes but I will focus on one particular idea.

There are people at high income levels in cities that live in tiny little apartments and and will pay above average prices for appliances. If these people purchase appliances with extreme efficiency and high costs they are not affected. Overtime the idea is that the high-end of the market is choosing the ultra products and the low-end is tagging along.

Since both the high and the low market both are living in tiny apartments they share the same experience but at different price points.

What I'm personally doing is using an 8 unit apartment building as a development lab for future appliances with this goal in mind.

The past appliances have all come about with a new service for the "kitchen", fire, running water, refrigeration, and ...

The process of renovating the building had me scale back the initial services. I have built out the apartments so that running new services to each unit is expected. I have a list of services such as compressed air I expect to make available to kitchen.

What I believe is that we have to bring the energy envelope of the high-end to match the low-end.

I have added my email to my about if anyone wants to speak further.

https://cottagecraftworks.com/kitchen-food-prep/non-electric...
Temperature-sensitive prosthetic limb improves amputee dexterity and
There is a business model: niagara premium.
The Atlas of Analytical Signatures of Photographic Processes
Most of this is just "things were better when I was young". It's nostalgia for a past that might have had some advantages for some people, but was also worse in a lot of ways.

40 years ago if you lived in a small town and had nerdy or niche interests, you were mocked, bullied, and socially isolated from your peers. Now you can find thousands of other people who share your exact passions and interests and connect with them through the internet.

The status quo is always defended by people who are well adapted to it. But the status quo doesn't work for everyone. The internet age is making life a lot better for a lot of people who were previously marginalized.

I'm sure that when Gen Z gets old, they'll be nostalgic for the good old days of TikTok and Instagram. They won't understand whatever new VR metaverse their children live in, just like Boomers and Gen Xers don't understand the current situation. It's a story as old as time, but the world will move on and continue improving.
Everything has shortcomings but as a work of literature lotr is very obviously a great artistic work and the fact that you don't know that tells me immediately that you've never produced anything worthwhile.

Tell me I'm wrong.
Ask HN: Are there any reliable benchmarks for Machine Learning Model Serving?
Hi, I am searching for benchmarks that compare the performance of various machine learning model serving frameworks. Some of the previous posts such as the following exist but they don't paint the full picture. Is there any reliable benchmark that gives a good snapshot of the state of art?
1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28760158
2. https://github.com/cortexlabs/cortex/tree/v0.15.1
The Friar Who Became the Vatican's Go-To Guy on A.I
The reason to use fossilized diatoms instead of something synthesized is specifically so that you won't get silicosis from too much crystallized silica. But I agree, just sprinkling it liberally around your house as some kind of preventative measure sounds like way more exposure than I'd be comfortable with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous_earth#Safety_cons...
Congrats on the launch! I'm an author of https://logdy.dev seems like we had a similar problem with logs and decided to solve it but in a slightly different way.
Logdy works with pipes very well, I'm wrapping up another version to be released soon.
Ya agreed about that cost for a backup install - there are some interesting new options that should be less labor from an electrician.

https://us.ecoflow.com/products/delta-pro-transfer-switch
> The Go std lib is very complete for important things

Important thing like sets[0], or get-with-default from maps[1], or enums[2], or appending-to[3] or mapping-over[4] slices?

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34018908/golang-why-dont...
[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/understandi...
[2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14426366/what-is-an-idio...
[3] https://go.dev/tour/moretypes/15
[4] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71624828/is-there-a-way-...
Light cone? But over the park is not in the park.
Here in Seattle the underground part of the city is open for tours (parts of it anyways). They built the current downtown on top of the old one, so it's pretty surreal down there.

Not even tunnels in this case, just like a whole-ass other set of streets and storefronts, all abandoned, partially buried, and covered on top.
Is there some law of nature that Apple always has the right ideas? I very much doubt it.

They've had plenty of misses, not just hits. They got the mouse wrong (three buttons are now universal, one was never even close to good enough). The touch bar was a failure. The Apple Watch has not redefined how smartwatch UIs work. MacOS has plenty of UI ideas which have not been adopted by any other OS, most notably the top bar and the left-hand side window controls.
One interesting rabbit hole to go down is finding YouTube videos of urban explorers finding their way into such tunnels and exploring.

There's some really cool videos of people in London in all sorts of tunnels and places they shouldn't be in.
Effect types as currently understood are closer to Lawvere theories than monads. The biggest difference is that the former can be composed out-of-the-box with no ambiguity, whereas you can't really compose monads without resorting to a clunky "transformers" pattern.
Yeah, and equal time spent futzing with your launcher is better spent tinkering with a raspberry pi or similar. At least then you may develop a skill.

Android customization is sort of like junk food - enjoyable in the moment, but not meaningfully improving your life.
For customers like Ericsson it wouldn’t surprise me if they request special instructions and special hard function blocks. In telecom there are certain operations that’s specified by the standard (and some which aren’t but used as a de facto standard) which are performed so often that you want to do them in hardware instead of in software. Or the opposite, Ericsson just wants to integrate NVIDIAs IP into Ericsson’s own ASICs instead of using their own cores and other third party cores.
> My rule was that a vehicle was an artificially powered object capable of moving

The definition of a vehicle is quite broad and you've scoped it rather narrowly. When left so open people may scope it more or less narrow and land on differently scoped definitions.

I think there is certainly a middle ground when making rules(and laws). But this example purposefully uses an ill-defined rule to drive a point home.
Thanks, that makes sense. I'll update this so it's clearer.
xmonad window manager

IHP (Integrated Haskell Platform), except I don’t know if it’s popular, but very ambitious
I like the website
Aren’t pictures wireless?
> The daycare center aesthetic and all this weird pronoun crap achieves the same ends. If everyone around you is an androgynous alien speaking a novel language and communications mishaps will get you fired, you won't feel comfortable working there.

I'd argue that if you can remember people's names, you can remember their preferred pronouns - and that if you can't, or refuse to because you think it's "weird crap", they won't feel comfortable with you working there either.
Yeah but you're doing a different problem where instead of defining the threshold too low, you're defining the threshold too high. Like should our bar for trauma be really be "you were drafting against your will to go to a jungle and see your friends die while you mow down innocent villagers"?

The thing is, trauma is not like "you've crossed the threshold of objective sociality accepted suffering", trauma is like "did something start to give you flashbacks? Hypervigilance? anxiety? nightmares?"
Fourays: A Tribute to the AY-3-8910
Sharing the introductory post for a chip-tune synthesizer I wish to build.
> Not being able to use ? inside of arbitrary closures is an example of an effect mismatch.

Yes! This is probably the most annoying thing about Rust in day to day use IMO. You can work around it but it's always a pain.
> there's a certain measurable harm that you get because I'm smoking

Do you really believe that? Do you actually believe you get a "measurable harm" due to a few minutes of so-called "second hand smoke"? Does ANYONE actually believe that?

I'm not sure how people just buy into small memes and make no use of common sense, whatsoever.
If database is shared it is a part of an API. If it is shared between teams then it is a public API.

If DB is shared then data from different users is entered/updated through multiple transactions. So you cannot get anything better regarding consistency and integrity compared to multiple DBs and distributed TXs.

By introducing schema change coordination you will introduce enormous delays to almost any DB change. This is more realistic than everyone knowing each use case but less practical. Shared DB is an antipattern either way.
Global study: Wild megafauna shape ecosystem properties
> Asko drying cabinet

Thanks. I've never seen that.

I'm not clear about how it works, and specifically about what energy it uses: Is it a dehumidifier and a fan? Is there any heat (I see they offer a heat-pump versinon)? Can I run it on fan-only mode (eg, like my clothing out in the breeze)?
> None of that meaningfully contradicts “The Body Keeps the Score.”

I haven't read it, that's why I asked it as a question. What I've heard about the book is that it's not supported by the science. At least in the popular press I've seen positive coverage of the book claim that van der Kolk argues your mind can forget trauma and you can work from data from your body to recover information about forgotten trauma. For example, this school of life video [0] at t=284.

If I understand you correctly, it sounds like perhaps you're saying that's not a core part of the book. If so, then I defer to you since I haven't read it. But from the limited press I've seen, that appears to be what many people take away from it.

> I’ve read your sources and they don’t say what you claim

Hmm, okay, but I see them as being far more critical.

The second article talks in general about how he helps himself to discredited or unsupported theories, or in some cases research that he just doesn't seem to understand.

The first one talks about how his theory that the brain can forget trauma that is encoded in the body as the same "mistaken reasoning" that caused "arguably the most
serious catastrophe to strike the mental health field since the lobotomy era."

I don't know of any studies that evaluate the various interventions he suggests. Some of it I think is well studied, some seems more experimental. Some related ideas, such as shame or guilt being encoded in sunken body posture etc are old and well known and don't seem to be related to trauma in particular, at least not trauma as studied by psychologists.

My guess is that the book, like many pop psych books, may be a mixed bag and that lots of people see the overall work as a net benefit even if some of the psych community is concerned about inaccurate representation of the results and the revival of the old memory wars.

https://youtu.be/QSCXyYuT2rE?t=284
How about a hovercraft, which rides on an air cushion without actually touching the ground?
Even in French, it doesn't call it a gun. But I like this name. I'm calling my steam cleaner a "vapor gun" from now on. :)
It's entirely plausible that you're not on the moral high ground you think you are, calling other commenters jingoistic because you didn't read the article is prime example.
It is possible to structure interviews so that:

* Every candidate get an almost-identical interview

* The interview is not heavily dependent on the investment or natural aptitude of the interviewer

* Interviews generate data that can be scored by a rubric

* Interviews aren't scored by the interviewer, thus eliminating the intrinsic bias of being in the hot seat with the candidate

It looks different for every role. For instance, for a penetration testing role, I've run standardized interviews that involve generating and prioritizing attack surface lists and hypothetical bug lists. The output isn't "pass/fail", it's the list of places to test, the list of bugs expected, scheduling/testing budgets, and things like that. If I'm delivering the interview to the candidate, I'm presenting the panel of reviewers not my opinions on the candidate, but what they came up with.

The same approach works for general software development (we don't use it here, we have an even fussier process). You can do design exercises, you can work out the dependencies that are going to be needed for a particular complicated project, you can do estimation exercises, you can catalog likely bugs. Review some PRs together. Look at the day-to-day work your team does, and then make the exercise a model of that work.

It's not especially easy to do compared to just sitting down and asking a bunch of questions. Moreover, it's very hard to adopt it as a practice, because you have to trust the rubric (iterating on it over time, but using it enough for it to be meaningful) and not override it based on extrinsic considerations (referrals, misgivings about candidate background, &c).

But the upside is pretty obvious? Once you have it worked out, you get a repeatable process, something that is naturally geared towards iteration and improvement.

Standardize your interviews, generate data, have a panel make the decisions and not the interviewer.

You can still play the interview like D&D if you want!
Out of curiosity, did you try just isolating it into a separate virtual machine?

(I have no idea to what extent special pass-through support was needed for WMR.)
Anyone know why these principales are called tenets? I believe it’s a concept that originates from amazon.
> I'm curious what changed around 2015-2016 that led to the current interview process. In the before times the interview was more of a technical conversation, sure they had some gotcha questions, but nothing too brutal. If you had real experience that you co...

Places just copied big tech companies that were already doing that for many years prior to 2015. I had leetcode style interviews well before 2010 even.
New adhesive tape picks up and sticks down 2D materials easily
Argument I heard every time while in Germany "some people like to take the kitchen with them"... apparently they take all these fitted furniture and do something with it. Then yeah, lightning and sometimes even the flooring.... first days in new place in absolute darkness. Still the deposit is three months in case you damage... what exactly? ADSL internet from Vodafone or some other scum is the ultimate blow.
I keep wondering if the internet age + social media is helping to create another kind of cult, a decentralised new type of cultish beliefs without necessarily a single charismatic leader but a network of them feeding each other.

It's happening with conspiracy theories, there's no single central figure commanding them but a stochastic machine reeling people in, which then feedbacks into itself.

Nofap has definitely traces of cultish behaviour, I'd like a new word to describe such movements because it seems they will only increase over time.
This sounds like a regular situational interview?
I used “Excel” metaphorically.

Office Online doesn’t solve Photoshop, AutoCad, Ableton, utilities for configuring miscellaneous hardware, etc. etc.

Like I said, I drove Linux daily for close to a decade. I found and used work-arounds. Going to Windows removed a lot of “arounds” and lets me spend more mental cycles on the work.
As far as I understood you want to become a technician/programmer/scientist but not a doctor/psychologist so this story might be similar to Jeff Hawhins' one (former Palm officer who created a deep learning startup).
In most jurisdictions e-bikes are motor vehicles. Frequently if they are under 1000 watts they are in a special class of motor vehicle, same as mopeds/scooters. Technically they are typically not legal to have on bike paths, as motor vehicles. But this varies by jurisdiction.

Over the 1000 watt limit (1200w or 1500w some places) they tend to be considered motorcycles and require a license and break lights at a minimum to be legal.

Basically everyone ignores this and treats them like regular manual bicycles though.
Congestion Analysis for the DARPA Offset Ccast Swarm [pdf]
The history of Seattle is fairly interesting for those who are not aware of it. A lot of cities have rebuilt from fires, done terraforming etc, Seattle kind of took it to a whole new level.
I use espial (https://github.com/jonschoning/espial) for bookmarking since pinboard went unmaintained several years ago.
Researchers discover cosmic dust storms from Type 1a supernova
My favorite interview experience was a short take-home that required me to write a toy version of something the company actually did on a day-to-day basis, followed by an in-person pairing session to extend that toy to handle more functionality and cover certain edge cases.

Of course, the downside is that it required me to spend four hours working on this at home, and then another several hours at the interview - but having to spend time interviewing is something that cannot be avoided, so I'd much rather the time be spent on something relevant that actually shows off my abilities, rather than playing Advent of Code with money at stake, or filling out astrological profiles.
wow awesome analogy. I got rejected because my leet code solution wasn't fast enough for a security engineer position. The person who referred me was furious. Meanwhile, another interviewer did just this to me and it let me flex my knowledge.

Would love to see this more. There is also the inevitable future where someone publishes a book on it and it gets cargo-culted. C'est la vie.
You want “food grade” diatomaceous, which is reasonably safe. Personally I wouldn’t use it preemptively, only when there’s a suspected problem. I would wear a mask when applying.

“Pool grade” diatomaceous earth should not be used, it is hazardous to be around as it’s structure was changed by heating.

https://www.diatomaceousearth.com/blogs/learning-center/begi...
I agree with the principle of what he's saying, but using the game as an example exaggerates the level of difference here.

People disagreeing on whether an ambulance is violating the rule are mostly disagreeing on a technicality of whether it counts as a vehicle in the park if you only have this one rule, but in practice almost everyone would allow it as an exception. Thus, it doesn't represent true disagreement for most.

It's similar to how most message boards have some rule about civility and not being hostile/insulting, but if someone shows up who's unironically like "wow Nazis sure are great right??" then nobody has a problem with posters telling that person to fuck off.
R2 is an insane value proposition. We calculated the cost of moving HLS video delivery to it and unless you are delivering a huge amount of traffic, the costs are far lower. Highly recommend you consider it, assuming you are willing/able to handle appropriate transcoding yourself (if not, Cloudflare has it's Stream product)
Pretty much this. Companies needed software engineers, looked at what Google was doing, and copied. And they call themselves innovative for doing it.
Spent time in shopping malls?

Or at an arcade? Or a rec center? Or at church?

Or some other thing outside of their house that doesn't exist anymore in any real way?

The death of the third space outside of school/work and home has been awful for society tbh.
A lot of this is covered and contributes by Adam Grant's "Hidden Potential"

Learned that different learning styles was bunk (visual vs auditory). Also, experts are the worst teachers, they are far removed from being in your shoes and do not provide the empathy or the correct scaffolding to start newcomers down the path of understanding a topic.

The biggest success for pedagogy impact is study groups, and tutoring while or immediately after learning something (the accountability of needing to teach someone bumps.your motivation to understand the nuances, plus the act of teaching helps you remember)
It puts you in the same space at a time when your attention isn't fully engaged by other matters nor the task at hand with the same person for hours every week.

Furthermore at least some conversation is apt to be started for functional reasons.

This creates the space, opportunity, and time for meaningful conversation and interaction. Contrast this to standing in line for food together for 2 minutes with someone you aren't apt to ever meet again.
I should have qualified further: capitalism as the prevailing economic system within the United States.
"Veterans die by suicide at a higher rate than non-Veterans. In 2020, the age- and sex- adjusted suicide rate among Veterans was 57.3% higher than the age- and sex-adjusted rate among non-Veteran U.S. adults."

https://www.mentalhealth.va.gov/suicide_prevention/docs/FSTP...
Popularity combined with the fact that most apps are fairly simple and can be developed more or less independently. They have a platform where productivity scales linearly with the number of developers, and a lot of developers.
One of my favorite activities in college was exploring the campus - there were parts that weren't closed off to students, but I felt like we were probably not supposed to be in. It was fascinating walking around, looking at the weird architecture - in some places, the ceilings were barely six feet tall, and at one point to move between two adjacent buildings you had to use a door that was half the height of a regular one. Just a bizarre space that, nowadays, would be likened to "the backrooms".
lnav is great