skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, are you aware of anyone going off-grid for this reason? Where I live (Menlo), I don't think anyone would have a propane tank installed because of the size and unsightliness. The sound would also be annoying to them (and their neighbors, given how small the plots are). People generally build to the very edge of their property to maximize resale value, and this would take up a decent chunk of space. Maybe out in Woodside people would do this, since it's a bit more rural. Still, I've not heard of anyone saying the new income-based fees (which I disagree with, as noted above) are too high, and I'm going to install a propane tank and genearator. As you point out, this would go against the environmental rationale, which most folks with solar probably care a lot about. It's an interesting thought experiment though!
The old Microsoft wasn't so myopic which resulted in not one but two of the biggest software dynasties with windows and office and in more recent times Azure.

You can't get a winner if you leave the game early.
Probably because the war against Hamas is costing Israel a lot of money.
Going down a layer below Tim Ferriss to his staff… /s
They are humans indeed, and as the phrase goes, "your mental health is not your fault, but your responsibility"
I haven't heard a single convincing reason why these companies hired so many employees.

The only reason you hire people you don't need long-term...is short-term gain.

That's what contractors are for!
Destroying the relationship between employee and employer en masse isn't commendable.
In some ways, these businesses are akin to the CCCP: they want to own our hearts and minds.

They want our whole selves. They want every drop of what they can get out of us.

This is so often what they mean when they say that they want people who are "passionate" about the work. They want us obsessed and fixated.

So they want to more than own us.

This isn't all businesses but increasingly this is becoming normalized.
Ad blocking is opsec. This will cause huge problems.
I went through something similar once when I was interviewing for an IT position in the Antarctic (I'd applied for positions at both McMurdo and Amundsen-Scott), and I was supposed to connect to their network simulator to troubleshoot and solve some network issue, but it wasn't working on their end so the interviewer walked me through the scenario, and responded as a DM would. - Quite frustratingly this was my 3rd interview for the position, and although I diagnosed and solved the DM'd scenario of a downed vlan issue in a Cisco environment in ~5 minutes of this off-the-cuff "simulation" using DM provided prompts, help menus, and outputs, I did not get the job. I think he penalized me for relying on the DM provided help menus and auto suggest tabbing...which is something anyone on a working simulator would have done. Which was a bummer because even though I was overqualified for the positions and would take a pay cut, I really wanted the experience of living for months in the Antarctic. So while I see the usefulness of this kind of interview, there are noteworthy issues of bias which a real simulator wouldn't begrudge you.
Anecdata. I know, not great for a scientific study’s purposes, but I cannot deny my own experiences either. :)
GitHub considered harmful.
My aunt is an addictologist (my spellchecker disagree with this word, "addictologue" in French?), and 15 years ago, we talked about sex addiction replacing other addictions, and how some people could have characteristics/behavioral patterns that will push them towards comportemental addictions that will hurt them.

I'm definitely in that case, and i try to keep masturbation as at most an escape when i'm bored, and try to keep the material light (mostly erotica literature), to avoid addiction.

I do think that a masturbating addiction can be damaging, and if people really cannot control themselves, maybe abstinence can be a way.

I would temper that a bit more: by far, the most damaging comportmental addiction to me is food addiction, except you cannot be a food abstinent. Masturbation is quite tame, and easy to replace with something more enjoyable in the long run. And also, masturbating is a great way of knowing your body, how it work and respond, and how to control it better.
Big Tech could afford to do that due to their aura of mysticism and greatness, but if you're a mom and pop shop with Google-esque aspirations but none of the compensation and status, I wonder how many candidates have the patience and interest to go through the hoops.
What does it mean for an interview question to be contrived?
Natural Stupidity is already doing a pretty good job of causing wars.
Not a radio guy but, isn't the whole point of LoRa to use lower frequencies for greater range?
Death of MMLU? Revealing the Sensitivity and Instability of LLM Leaderboards
I don't know what you and others are on about. Work systems have no expectation of privacy. Just how it is.

If there was a law where certain types of communication had expectation of privacy, similar to how toilets at work have an expectation of privacy, that'd be nice. Some countries like Germany do have this, it's not always a good thing but if that's what you want then have your state's lawmakers pass that law.

I worked in environments where hot mic's and cameras are being used to monitor what we say and do in addition to screen recording, chat monitoring (slack,teams,etc... all have a feature), browser monitoring,etc... and that's just the tip of the ice berg, the layers of shady shit they do, because in their messed up heads employee and slave are not all that different, is endless. Is it illegal? That's the wrong question, the right question is obviously most people don't want any of this because it is against their advantage, but can the government which derives it's power and authority from most people represent them and legislate to begin with? The answer is no it cannot.

Can my employer record conversations and video using my work laptop in my home, I mean just petty managers not even for a legitimate inquiry? Yes, they can get away with that. Why is there no law to govern this? Because legislation does not follow the will of the people, it follows the will of fund raisers.

Companies are people too but with bigger political contributions. "For the people, by the people, of the people", people in that context now means mostly corporate persons and their interest trumps the individuals'.
I'm genuinely curious as to why you are avoiding the topic of this thread?

Is it possible that someone who regularly eats 4000 calories of pizza and fast food in a day would gain less weight than someone who eats 800 calories of bread in a day?
My bad. I was replying to the parent comment but you're right that I should have read the article.
Most Middle Eastern countries have made approximately zero progress on worker training and productivity in the past 20 years. Some have even gone backwards. There's no reason to expect they will do better in the next 20.

It's a sad waste of human potential due to toxic politics and unfavorable geography.
Service? Thank me when it's published and the real life feedback comes in. Maybe. :D
> My pet peeve was the Audi S3 I had as rental once, this minuscule, barely recognicable, delay between kicking down the pedal and the car accelerating drove me crazy.

There could be a number of reasons for this but no modern car has a direct connection between the pedal and the throttle bodies, so it isn’t inherent to drive-by-wire. It can probably be tuned out of the S3 in software pretty easily. I haven’t driven one so I won’t claim there is no lag in the Cybertruck’s steering, but I find it pretty unlikely there is observable lag in the initial response compared to other vehicles in its weight class, which aren’t particularly responsive.

The three reasons I think are most relevant to Tesla:

1. Packaging - removing the steering column is a pretty dramatic reduction in the number of parts in the front of the car and makes it possible to reuse that space. It may make it easier to design the front crumple zone as well.

2. Extreme variable steering ratios - you can tune the steering ratios much further with a fully by-wire system. In a large vehicle it makes it easier to maneuver at low and high speeds with less effort for the driver.

3. If autopilot were ever to come to fruition, the steering wheel won’t have to move while autopilot turns the car.
Lets ban the internet itself. And then ban reading/writing too.
The most effective use of taking notes is to actively engage with the content by figuring out how to organize it and what to include and what to leave out. Even though the author says to just capture everything, if you are doing it by hand, you are making decisions on what to write and what to skip simply because you can't write as fast as someone talks. One of the reasons taking notes on a computer isn't as good for retaining information is because you CAN probably keep up with how fast a professor talks and capture everything--so you don't end up actively thinking about what is being said.
> That doesn't mean the ambulance driver is in the wrong, though. There could be other rules that supersede that rule. We aren't told of any, though, and are simply asked about that one rule.

Yeah, this was my thought exactly. Anyone who says an ambulance is allowed is not following the rules of the game, which say to only consider the "no vehicles in the park" rule. In a real scenario, there would of course be other rules (the WW2 tank would be there by permission of the park management, for example). But if you only consider the one rule (as you were told to) then the answers are imo quite straightforward.

I agreed with 93% of people when I played the game, so it sure seems to me like there's broad agreement on this.
> defecating and urinating are absolutely essential activities

But doing them in a toilet is not, unless we start expanding the definition of essential to include dignity and thriving.
I agree SF has shit roads. I do not find that to be the case almost anywhere else in CA.

I’ll put it this way too: while I’m mindful of potholes, generally, I have yet to have a single issue popping any of my 21” thin sidewall summer tires on my >5500lb EV.

My counterparts in the South have popped between 2 and 10 depending on who you ask. The answer each time is: hit a pothole.

Some of that’s driving. Some of it is also just the roads. They’re far from perfect. But they’re better than most other states.
Fantastic, first time I hear about it. So there's _something_ to it, alright.
Twitter post with 250k views discussing the paper: https://x.com/haidarkk1/status/1754828398353133699?s=46&t=Uv...
Mac only, Damn
No, it's C++, based on LLVM. https://github.com/microsoft/DirectXShaderCompiler

Edit: apparently dxil.dll is not part of DXC (the classic move to make "open source" software dependent on external proprietary garbage, apparently.) But I'd still doubt it's a managed DLL.
Then why on earth are you playing a game which is purely about hypotheticals to begin with? It's like if someone were to sit down to play Monopoly but refuse to hand over rent because "I believe that having a dwelling should be free". Ok, good for you, but then it's really foolish to play the game to begin with.
And this Dungeon Master tool can add some ambience to your adventure)) https://tabletopy.com
Snowflake's margins are like 90%+ on top of the compute they sell, and they pass on all these costs including egress directly to customers.
Rent stabilized apartments increase their rent by ~3% a year. That seems fine for keeping up with costs. You also have to keep in mind that the required work becomes more efficient over time. An example I've noticed is that in times past, every building had a live-in super/porter that would (among other things) take out the trash 3 times a week. Now I see someone driving around the neighborhood in a moped on trash day, parking in front of a building, taking out the trash, and moving on to the next customer. That's probably cheaper than it was, even if the person's apartment now costs more.
1. I've already answered about "in the browser"

2. Even in the browser it's the worst possible system

3. The original comment I was replying to didn't make any references to "in the browser", and explicitly talked about things like QML and XIB which are very much not in the browser.
How did they miss the tunnel from the Detroit News building to the former studios of WWJ? They are essentially the same paper these days.

The tunnel is under LaFayette Blvd. The Detroit News remains but the TV station is next door. The beautiful Alfred Kahn designed studios are now an AFL-CIO union hall.

The main theater used for live TV at the old studios is still magnificent.
When I was in high school [1] students were given a rule book on the first day of school each year. It was always amusing to read the weapons rule: "No weapons are allowed, which include, but are not limited to ... " followed by a paragraph long list of "weapons." Many of the rules were like that, "blah blah which includes, but limited to ... " I can only conclude that such lists were the result of some student somewhere arguing that "this isn't a weapon."

[1] In the, at the time, second or third largest school district in the US.
I like to think it went like this

1. Interviewer: If you're a good software engineer, you can answer basic algorithmic questions.

2. Interviewees: Practice algorithmic questions so you appear to be a good software engineer.

3. Interviewer: People are just studying leetcode to get jobs, what can we do? Ask harder leetcode questions.

4. Other companies: Let's copy them since they're successful.

In short, the questions used to be reasonable until people specifically prepared for them. No one knew what to do about it so they just raised the difficulty, which made it even more unfair for people who don't specifically prep.
Your little NAS is not directly connected to hundreds of metro areas around the globe. Even on Google Fiber, which is an excellent network, you only have a few dozen points of exchange, all in America. As a Google Cloud customer your egress traffic will be on Google's network all the way to the very edges of the world, at hundreds of interconnect points and exchanges. Your traffic will be on private networks until it is with a few miles of your end user, in all likelihood. This is a comparison between apples and diamonds.
Obligatory reference to the movie https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0164961/
Can I qoute my comment verbatim back at you?

Seriously. Just don't use ==. Use ===. Et voila you're using a modern pleasant scripting language.

Modern guides on js won't ever mention ==. As a noob today you won't ever learn it. In a big project there will be a linter to stop you
Which part of dxil/dxc is proprietary exactly? Trying to make sense of the license barf at https://github.com/microsoft/DirectXShaderCompiler
>A touch screen is unavoidable for very small devices like mobile phones, but whenever any alternative is possible it is better.

I have to disagree. I think as with any engineering challenge, it's about what tradeoffs work best for your specific application.

If non-touch screens were better for the tablet application (that is a tablet in general, not any particular app on the phone), we would have stuck with physical keyboards and blackberry's roller ball, or the classic palm styluses or some other new pointer device. Yet here we are.

Fruit Ninja was always possible with mouse or trackpads. And yet, it wasn't a thing until modern capacitive touch screens. Tellingly it has also only been ported to console applications where motion controls / VR is an option.

Even something like a Wacom tablet. They've existed for years as external devices with none of the "obscuring your view" problems that having a touch screen has, and high degree point to point precision. And yet as soon as the Cintiqs and other touch screen versions of their drawing tablets appeared, most artists I knew switched or started saving to switch right away.

And touch controls allow for the possibility of multiple simultaneous inputs, something that a track pad or stylus does not, so something like a software mixing board is clearly better experienced via a touch interface than a mouse and track pad.

And that's not to say that you aren't right that there are applications where a touch interface is worse.

For CAD/CAM where precise (and in many cases pixel perfect) movement is required? Something with a higher degree of precision than your average half inch meat stylus is going to be better.

First Person Shooter games don't seem to have really made the transition to touch devices (other than with emulated joystick controllers), despite the fact that tapping on your target is going to be faster target acquisition than using a mouse. There's just something that doesn't translate into touch.

A physical keyboard for typing input is leagues better than any touch screen keyboard I've tried.

If you're at your desk, a track pad in front of you is worlds better than getting gorilla arm trying to work all your desktop mousing activities with your 30 inch touch screen.

But I can't agree that one can make a universal statement that alternatives are always better if they are possible.
every custom chip sold is another NVidia H100 not bought
Your mention of "growth" makes me think about :
https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu/local/growth_coalition_theo...
I am so excited about this!
Yes. Unfortunately we've not inly settled for one of the worst systems, but we additionally further settled for limited subsets of it as well (email, ebooks)
Oh, I don’t intend anything dismissive. I think if you read that paragraph again you may hear the patience and compassion I have for my kid and their friends. I don’t mind them defining their own language and experience.
Me too. But science tells it's the reverse. Obv. statistics, so it doesn't apply to your personal situation.

Yet, I, introvert++ have had the best moments when travelling, talked to random strangers or exchanged beers, music and stories when stuck in transport. This still comes out as net positive for me in all the decades of having awkward conversations, unwanted attention or just social interaction. I won't give up those hundred of situations that made me uncomfortable for the few that truly changed my life.
This only happens because people allow it.

If these same businesses all decided they were going to take your first born as collateral, I suspect a lot of CEOs and chairmen would be swinging from lamp posts (as they should) within a week.

Personally, I would do far worse to such scumbags -- things that are not only (somehow) illegal to describe, but would likely get plenty of downvotes by the most milquetoast and pathetic. Things that up until the last 100 years, would have been regarded as normal for the entirety of recorded human history.
There's an energy crisis that was caused by the Russians

I think you misspelled "an energy crisis that was caused by short-sightedly failing to invest in and build out nuclear power."

Germany was warned for decades about the dangers of relying on Russia, and ignored the warnings.
Nice work! I will have to check out your implementation and see if I can borrow any of your optimization ideas. I built jindex (https://github.com/ckampfe/jindex) because I also wanted a faster gron!
The question is actually not restricted to communications services. Not sure exactly what the questioner wants.

Here we have a MySQL database holding accounting data that is interfaced by programs that were internally-written in C, for a real estate rentals business.
Interview: Kenta Cho (Japanese indie game developer)
$7T into AI could cure all human ailments including death.
Even a million tasks a day is less than 12 a second. Most queues are going to have surges since that's part of the point of a queue, but it's still a few orders of magnitude away from what should overwhelm a database.
Yeah, "I got 100%" therefore it's easy.
AI so much much more than retrieval since it knows how to correctly apply exist concepts to previously unexplored areas.

You can ask ChatGPT how one might implement and enforce laws in a world where magic exists. Or time travel. Or whatever. Because it knows laws and it knows common fiction tropes and can reason well enough to surmise how to apply them together.
Maybe they had never been afield? I was once having dinner at a small restaurant in a village in northern Iceland. The server had impeccable English with an American accent. I got to talking to him and learned that he had never in his life (he was probably in his mid 20s) left his village. He had never even travelled to the nearest town/city.
Svelte 5 moves closer to React in quite a few ways. The single component per file is still a dealbreaker for me. React got it right with composition and being able to break a component out into its sub-components.
Ditto. Python(3.13) types are so crudimentary that it becomes a Sisyphian struggle. Library type support is patchy at best. **kwargs is an abomination. Python is incredibly slow. Async code and anonymous functions are awkward and verbose. Hell, Python is verbose.[1] I could complain endlessly, but I'm mainly just disappointed in how little has changed since I last professionally wrote Python. The biggest benefits were basically a) familiarity, and b) powerful stats/ML libs.

I hadn't seen analogs of `AttributeError`s and `TypeError`s for years, until revisiting Python and remembering that those are still unsolved issues outside of TypeScript. Ugh.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36407112
Which one did you buy?
Their training data is clearly better than whatever most journalists train on.
A person who makes bold assertions about something and when asked to clarify only answers in vagaries while alluding to something spiritual. How original and compelling.
Yeah, there are a lot of more affordably priced solutions out there, but they still need a subpanel or similar cutover switch to be installed and that's where a lot of the electrician's cost is. Plus, the inexpensive ones like this $3300 Ecoflow are 120VAC (up to 3600W), so if you want to be able to power larger household loads like an oven or heat pump, you need to buy two (or more) of them (or a bigger unit), which doubles the price and gets you into the price ranger of other whole-house systems like a Powerwall or Enphase.

With the 120VAC unit, about all I could power in my house is lights, TV's, and maybe some small kitchen appliances, which limits how much power I could shift off of peak, maybe a KWh or two, which makes it harder to get any payback on the investment.

Unless the spread between peak/offpeak power prices becomes larger, I'm not sure that battery storage is going to be a worthwhile investment (for me). Or maybe if the utility bought back power at a reasonable rate during peak periods as the other poster's power company does...But the California PUC doesn't seem to be interested in incentivizing that model.