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It's become almost a cliche as an interview question. That's the main reason I've thought about it enough to be able to critique it.

I think it's not necessarily a bad question assuming that the candidate can recite it. If they can, they probably should have thought about what it means.

I've met plenty of devs who can't recite it but who do it all instinctively though. That's why I'd rather see people demonstrate these principles while coding without using the term at all.

But, coding interviews are expensive and you need some way of sorting the 100 applicants into the 90 who can be ignored and the 10 who are worth an interview. This is a hard problem I've never found a really good answer to. OP's question isn't worse than most of the attempts I've seen.
I don't know, it's clearly a synonym to me. "Why? Are we running out of names to give out?" is clearly with the intention to be mean but be smug about it, so hence the passive agressiveness.
>> But there's no way, all things considered, it's a net benefit overall.

> This seems like a very dogmatic statement to make

Do you think climate change could have a net benefit? I don't think that thinking that's false is dogmatic.

It's too late for "we'll manage". Time to go for "We need to manage now" because...

> A wealthier world can build the infrastructure to handle potentially negative effects of climate change.

... has not happened. The wealthy civilization needs to want it and make it a priority now.

Anyway, I'm replying to someone who speaks about potentially negative effects of climate change. Wake up! It's not "potentially" anymore, it's already started!

"Technology will save us" is a tired trope at this point.
Qt had licensing terms that were less compatible with open source.
Words Matter (2012)
The Psychology of Language (2013)
The meant Google Circles.

Or maybe they meant that project management tool... F - I cant recall what it was called, but we spent millions adopting it at Lockheed in 2007....

OH no they meant the google appliance for on prem google search?

Oh, wait you mean POSTINI that google bought to screen for spam on gmail... which had enterprise customers to anti-spam - then moulded that into gmail and killed it... but recently brought spam-to-inbox-as-a-service and this is why gmail is a dumpster fire of recent mem?

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Poverty is famously a one time, single solution issue. /s
Ironic, given that in the dim and distant past (i.e. version 1.2) Gtk's (admittedly butt-ugly) file dialog could be driven very easily from the keyboard, even supported effortless wildcard filtering and shell-style tab completion.
> if you spend it on entrepreneurship, your chances of success are much higher.
as nice as this sounds, considering that vast majority of new businesses fail, I'm not sure that this is true
The move of the top bar to the bottom makes a lot of sense!

I personally use KDE with the taskbar on the left, as it allows for greater vertical screen real estate. Also changed the workspaces keybindings to the same ones as Gnome, which are quite better!
Maybe governments should provide 'pro deo' certification services for new players that wish to enter the market.
Dude does not know how to install an ad blocker. WTF dude.
Works reasonably well on Windows:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/multiple-desktop...

I can never remember the (easy) shortcuts so this is helpful:
https://learn.microsoft.com/da-dk/windows/powertoys/shortcut...

From PowerToys:
https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys

(Which also have the (in this context) useful FancyZones)
Reveal the true nature of God
Probably just boils down to differences in mental models but the Windows implementation of workspaces makes the problem even worse in my opinion, since without per-app grouping on the OS level there’s no way to see or manage all windows of a particular program across workspaces unless implemented by each individual app.
I’m pretty sure Europe has done a real bang-up job not only supporting genocide but perpetrating it on a massive scale in the modern era. The moral stain of these countries, especially as it relates to Jews, comes into sharp relief when they fund Hamas and its evil, supporting school curricula that teaches kids to hate and murder Jews, treats Israel is an illegitimate state from it’s inception, and uses histrionic language that itself proved the need for a Jewish state.
It's not completely meaningless but it does tend to be something people recite and then never think about - even when they're inadvertently following it. It's performative - a bit like reciting the bible.

Take I as an example - "don't depend upon interfaces which you do not use". I've seen good developers cut out dependencies hundreds of times for this reason - not because they've trained themselves on SOLID but because it just feels right after years of experience. If I said "this is part of SOLID" many of them would go "... is it?" "hmmm. I guess it is..."

As with reciting the bible, just because somebody recites it doesn't mean that they took it to heart and people who take it to heart can't necessarily recite it.

Being able to recite it is just a ritual used as a social signaling mechanism. It's a bit like leetcode, an ability to recite big O notation or knowledge of git's internals - symbols of "developerness" that don't necessarily align with skill.
Roofs aren’t getting any cheaper. Neither are healthcare or education. If you really want to experience indignity, try obtaining all that on a low income.
thanks, hope you're doing OK bud
Are AI Web Agents a Gimmick?
> average tenure at big Tech is 1.5 years

Can you direct me to the underlying data for this?
Tor was created to allow contacting people securely from within restrictive regimes, wasn't it? Doesn't seem like the same thing to me. The US has a history of free speech advocacy, not of encouraging others to be able to spend money freely.

It's also a big government though, it is quite possible that some part would have driven something like Bitcoin for its own reasons. It just doesn't strike me as very likely compared to the alternatives.

Most likely, in my estimation, is still probably it being started by non-government to be clear.
True, but smallpox is just an aspect of health. Solving smallpox leaves a lot of health related issues for WHO to focus on.
How do you become a corporate drone without a college degree? Also the primary purpose of college seems to be to create corporate drones these days, also what a lot of the student body is after.
I thought that's what you were saying here? "The goal is of course to make this unnecessary, because adjusting a single element doesn’t benefit much from ai."

(And re AI also doing fine-grained yeah addressed that above: Just showing up isn't impressive, it needs to be absolutely amazing at fine-grained control to be a real creative tool in my opinion.)
> I’m sometimes in a practical part of the interview where a certain part isn’t going well. ... At this point I’ll try to offer the interviewee some hints or maybe even just tell them what to move them along. However, on quite a number of occasions this advice has been flat out ignored and the candidates have kept ploughing on with whatever failing approach they were using. To put it bluntly, the initial inability may not have been a deal-breaker but ignoring advice is.

Yes! If I set it a problem for you, and you're not getting it, it turns into a new interview challenge: can you work with me to get back in track? I'm not a ghoul looking for any chance to hang you. I'm your potential future colleague, and I'm looking to see if we can work together. Not knowing something is fine. Not listening to me as I try to get you unstuck and work with you too get moving again is unforgivable.
Lawyers are bound by ethical rules of the profession and also take an oath when being admitted as lawyers.
> plus most people had professions by the time they were 14 before the school system became normal

Serf?
I'm not sure shoes is sustainable, but I think jruby runs on any modern JVM, where did you get the information that it does not work on java 9+?

Edit: I see, the readme for shoes4 is itself many years old.
Please tell me, what companies are involved in the "homeless industrial complex" and what industrial product do they produce?
I'm not running i3 (any more; went to bspwm and then my own) but I've always started with normal Ubuntu. For i3wm I seem to remember it was reasonably straightforward as long as you're fine with some of the tentacles of Gnome. That is, I'd still typically run the Gnome settings stuff, and run a bar that'd happily handle docking of nm-applet and the like. I think next time I might look to a distro with xfce or similar and strip down from that instead as a means to get a cleaner system without the pain of building up from scratch.
Charities too.
movie "The Father" [0] really drived home the point of how much memory is part of our identity. I highly recommend this movie.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TZb7YfK-JI
Lesson I learned from my first adult job: money might not buy happiness, but being broke sure is stressful.
You can already do that now. Run a sliding window over it, collecting anything relevant to your question. Then, summarize the summaries. (Or run vector search. But everybody does that, so it’s boring. :))
The people pushing secularism in India (and Bangladesh) are undeniably an “elite.” They’re part of the 1-2% with college degrees, they’re often exposed to the west or even western educated, they work in industries where they have contact with the west, etc. my dad, who got a college education and then left the country, is a secularist. The other people from his village aren’t.

The fact that some of the proles might agree or disagree with the elites for various reasons (e.g. Indian Muslims) is irrelevant. Indian Muslims don’t believe in secularism either, the elite view on secularism just happens to be beneficial to their situation as a religious minority in the country. That doesn’t change the fact that secularism originates in and is advanced by the elite.

But remember, my point is that “populist” isn’t a good description of this. It’s common in politics to assign lower moral weight to the views of various groups—in India or Bangladesh, ideas of western origin are viewed as suspect. In America, anything supported by “Wall Street” or “the Harvard faculty lounge” is automatically questionable. Playing to that was a staple of ordinary liberal and conservative rhetoric throughout the 20th century. Thats not “populist.”
Exactly. You should shape an environment where institutions _cannot_ exist if they don't solve the problem. E.g., 'no cure, no pay', set and fixed subsidies, under-performance penalties, competition.
There's many safer ways to let a mostly untrusted process run shutdown. Like a sudo setup letting the UPS user only run shutdown. Or /etc/shutdown.allow. Or something using CAP_SYS_BOOT. systemd might have a solution too. I get the impression I just spent more time thinking about this writing my response to you than the APC folks ever did.

Yes, I am afraid my UPS will hack me. More specifically I'm afraid this badly written closed source software will have some security hole that can be used to escalate to root.
> a college education is tremendously important for our democracy to exist in any meaningful way

this was the original purpose of college (and what liberal arts colleges still attempt to do today); but at some point (maybe starting in the 70s?) college became a place to get the skills necessary to enter the job market, until now it's basically become a prereq for almost any job that's not minimum wage so basically an extension of HS -- serves no real purpose but companies require the piece of paper so you have to have it.

(Yes there are exceptions -- tech, professional sports, acting -- but only if you are supremely talented at a young age, or very lucky, and therefore for the very very few.)
I can pick up and place objects myself if only I could remember where I put them.

You could take video data and have fuzzy identification of objects moving around, then throw away the video and keep track of the objects, the blue floppy thing (gloves) and the metal shiny deforming things (keys) then have a more constructive dialog about the keys. A voice responding, what do the keys look like? Is there a blue square thing on the key ring? The less identifiable the object the funnier the discussion. What shirt? You have many shirts! Oh, the blue one, you have 4 of those, one in the sink, one behind the bed, one in the laundry basket, one in the closet. Oh the one with stripes! Why didn't you say so, it's behind the bed bro.

It could also ask you if they are suppose to be on the outside in the front door after you close it.
Sounds neurotic imo. You are supposed to enjoy those 4 years.
The Sacrament of Sin is their best; almost every song on that one is great. It's one of the rare examples of a band that was boring and bland at first and then greatly improved. Call of the Wild is a close second. On their other albums I like 1-2 tracks each.
> Edit: also if Apple cares so much about this, why do they make the close/minimize buttons so tiny?

I think daily users graduate to ⌘W and ⌘M (which are all-app standards) fairly quickly, while power users graduate to the window manager they prefer.

> …I'm still slower at this specific thing on Mac OS because I always first have to make sure the right window is focused…

You might find this useful: https://hazeover.com/
I don't really understand this attitude either. "You're only pretending to care about the Earth, but you actually care about humans and society as we know it!" Right. Duh. So?

Some people are definitely weird about it. Others just enjoy fish, or snow, or living without paying for AC. I'd argue it's pretty illogical to equate these, and outright dishonest to dismiss the latter due to the former.

The statements: "we're hurting Mother Earth" and "hot rocks are still rocks" are both true and both useless, and dogmatic adherence to either can be shortsighted.
People Share the Dumbest Ways They've Been Scammed
Try to keep up with the rebrands and reorgs. It's hard.

https://blog.google/technology/ai/april-ai-update/
Power metal is either brazen ego worship and/or or similarly (to death metal) talking of topics like mass murders and rapes. Though unlike the more neutral/clinical approach of death metal, power metal lyrics usually come from an angle of glorifying these things.

edit: I am merely relaying the common lyrical subjects of the genre. I made no judgment whether its a good or bad thing.
Notable alumni:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/ethereum_founder_awarded_100k...
Ah, another MWWB fan.
One solution is to keep these organizations so lean and understaffed that they would love to eliminate tasks and reduce the scope of their responsibilities.
Cant wait to see the box it comes in. 1TB RAM! or terrible LLM branded as Ask Jeeves
A new study bolsters evidence that obesity is increasing in kids in the US
Thanks for looking that up to confirm. My hunch was based on Medicare + Medicaid + Social Security eclipsing everything else in the US federal budget.
>> the 2 major US political parties and their mission of promising things they have no intention of ever doing

> This is quite independent of the US.

Happens less in electoral systems where the 2nd party can become 3rd overnight. Politics become less rigid.
Hope you're doing well Jeff! Those were good days!
The political right uses multiple deca-billion-dollar megaphones to talk nonstop about this problem as it relates to the government while dramatically underrepresenting the extent to which it happens in the private sector so that they can lobby for privatization as a silver-bullet. I think it's fair for the article to shore up the complementary point of view. No less fair than what the right is doing, at any rate.
This isn't really debilitating. Yes, it's a big "bug", but that doesn't make the product unusable.

OpenAI effectively had a global outage on ChatGPT.
It might be. How can we say when all be get are "solutions" that deepen it, perpetuate it, normalize it, etc.?

So yeah, I'm glad we agree. Thanks for proving my point.

Hint: Start by reading Matt Desmond's "Evicted" and then go from there.

Also, watch the Rob Redford film "The Candidate". Make note of how many of "the issues" - and the associated narratives - persist today. Imagine selling a product that promises a solution but ultimately only keeps selling you promises.
> should consider community college as an alternative and that the stigma surrounding "inferior" forms of higher education is harmful

very true; and CC captures the original intent of college which was to gain knowledge, whereas 4-year colleges are focused on a lot of other stuff (prestige, network opportunities, job opportunities, sports, college life, etc.)
Doh, thanks for reminding us!
Literally what Ivan Illich was saying 50 years ago when he talked about counterproductivity in institutions
> Quality is expensive. Even a fairly minor improvement in basic Quality can double the cost of implementation.

Quality is expensive, but lack of quality is also expensive.

Low-quality software causes customer churn, increases implementation time for new features, causes more incidents, negatively affects your reputation, etc.

Moving fast is the right thing sometimes. But overall, quality is the way.
One of the most interesting thoughts I have read on hacker news in the last several weeks.
For anyone to have any reasons to offer up a stronger rebuttal, you'd need to have substantiated your claims with anything other than speculation first.

> I want to see the receipts. I want evidence.

Show us the receipts and evidence for your claims first. You're the one who started this without presenting a shred of evidence.

To then imply the people contradicting you are lying when they present their description of their experience is at best wildly distasteful.
It is easier & better to edit before baking to PDF, that is true.
U.S. lunar lander is on its side with some antennas covered up, the company says
Hello ATF.
I think the "context window" that people refer to with large language models means there's a maximum number of tokens that are retained, with the oldest being discarded. The window is a sliding window.
If I get a message on linkedin that pertains to a work issue, you had better believe that I'm going to be dealing with it on work time.
N64 Emulator Can Get You Hacked [video]
I’m get the feeling Thiels of today won’t make any history books. College gives you a way to learn about the people history deemed important, and learn from them. If making more money is your goal, then Thiel’s advice is probably good. But it is a one or the other. You won’t have time at your startup for that.
I think it's when there's no (need for an) exit strategy for the people working for institutions set up for solvable problems (i.e. reducing the inflated housing prices, restructuring other institutions) you get the self preservation effect.

That's why for-profit, non-government/community anything is so terrible at solving problems. Charities spending 80% of the money you give them on marketing efforts. For-profit prisons in general. Self-regulation of most industries. The whole plastic recycling farce. Unless your institution is built with a real intent to solve a problem, and the people put in charge actually care, you get a self-serving institute. That doesn't just happen in private institutions either, corrupt governments accepting bribes and operating on nepotism also tend to set up useless institutions that just serve as job mills for friends or government officials.

A group created to clean up trash in a city park will exist forever if the mayor hires their nephew to run it because he was too incompetent to find a job himself.
Having now read the paper, the research area is interesting because optimizations in optimal path finding have applications in robotics, gaming, and reasoning (what the ultimate intention of this paper is).

The research team identified ways to tokenized path finding algorithms for two tasks maze solving and sokoban (a game where a crate has to be pushed to goal) and then trained a model on the execution traces of these algorithms.

The insight this provided was that the "searchformer" model was about 26% faster than the traditional methods. If that is applied to Route-planning, Robotics, and Game Development, it could have tangible performance benefits.

IMHO, it is not a wild breakthrough but an interesting solution to a real-world problem.
When you compute the break even point did you factor in that you still own the cards and you can resell them? I bought my 3090s for 1000$ and after 1 year I think they go for more in the open market if I resell them now.
HN is not Stack Overflow. You might have more luck on the HF forums: https://discuss.huggingface.co/
This is nothing new that more CO2 = greener Earth.
> IMO if you're 16-18 and have no idea what kind of things you enjoy you've already failed/been failed.

Please. College is a chance to gain exposure to things you otherwise never would know existed. I knew what I enjoyed doing going into college, but I found a lot more.
It's not necessary the knowledge but the social experience which makes it worth for many. You can always become part of the corporate world later. Though i'm aware that not everyone is given those chances.
> For people who might not know, Rhapsody of Fire broke into in two bands, one keeping the original name and the other becoming Rhapsody.

Ehm, this is not what happened.
In 2006 Rhapsody became Rhapsody of Fire to avoid some trademark dispute.
Then they split around 2009, though the main chunk is still called Rhapsody of Fire whereas the spinoff is called Luca Turilli's Rhapsody.
Or at least put a finite deadline and/or other limits (e.g., budget) on the "project".

Instead we back unproven "solutions" and then keep throwing money at them in an insanity sorta way. Boggles the fucking mind.
What do you propose the doctors should do instead in this situation?
Read the article and you’ll find out you’re wrong.
> What comes to my mind are labor unions, the NAACP,as well as feminists and other identity groups.

> They seem to follow a pattern of being really important for their time and place, but after winning the important, landmark victories, they stick around.

They stick around because union busting corporations, racists, and sexists don't just magically disappear or give up after they lose a battle.
Trad revival is a big thing these days. But I think there is something subtle about even older power metal that sometimes makes it a bit different from something you'd class as "plain" speed metal. Its a bit hard to put in words precisely. But that is why I love the genre so much. I am not so much into pure speed metal or thrash metal.
> You don't need college if your goal in life is to be a corporate drone. It's a huge waste of money. If your goal is to be a critical thinker with a diverse education and social experiences, college is one of the lowest barrier to entry (not necessarily best) ways to achieve that.

I'd argue the opposite: you need college to become a corporate drone (you're not getting in otherwise); forging your own path provides many more opportunities to learn critical thinking and social experiences (provided you have the guts to strike out and not stay at home working at McD).
This was exactly what came to mind. Thanks for posting the reference
Dragonruby is actively developed and quite fun to work with, but I'm not sure it's the same thing.
Impersonating a police officer is its own charge though, so while impersonating a best buy employee isn't going to get an extra charge applied, impersonating a cop, is.
GP probably meant Forbes' 30 under 30.
US college requires you to understand the enlightenment roots of American democracy. Something that Thiel is fundamentally against
Lovecraftian movie posters from Ghana