skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think you're actually filtering on people that are curious about the same things you are. Learning things because you're curious is pretty much a 'free-time' activity. Tech is huge, and with all the stuff to learn - I guarantee I'd learn algorithms and data structures over most other stuff...

You're right, by the very nature of asking questions that I can think up, I am filtering for a shared knowledge set... But that's kinda the point. There needs to be some shared knowledge set. The person I want to hire needs to be able to talk about more than just data structures. And, unless you've invented one of your own, to me, that seems nothing but rote memorization?

How many data structures have you memorized? 1 a week for the past 2 years? and in those last two years, you never used git enough to figure out how to rewrite a commit, nor have an opinion about if you should or shouldn't?

> That doesn't mean I don't like learn, just that I like to learn different stuff from you... As others have pointed out, its easy enough to check the docs for command line tools

again, for the same reason above, I can look up documentation myself, I don't want to hire someone really good at reading documentation, I need someone who can think, and solve new novel problems... Another of my favorite questions to ask is "what's the first thing you'd do once you found out you were living in a zombie apocalypse?" Nothing to do about tech, but it's a great question to dig into how someone thinks, and if they're able to solve problems they weren't expecting. Just like any interview question worth asking, there's no one right answer. Sure it's great you've memorized every single data structure that exists, and the list of uses that are approved in some text book. But I can read too, that's not impressive, and not a sign of someone who I'd enjoy working with.
> Currently, he says, the new discs have a writing speed of about 100 milliseconds and an energy consumption of microjoules to millijoules.

Milliseconds is not a unit of writing speed though. How many bits in that time?
What software do you use to get the MIDI inputs into Lilypond?

(and thank you for contributing to IMSLP, one of the great commons of the internet)
They’ve since added a refresh button if you check the GitHub history. Both my previous comments were valid at the time of posting them, so again I don’t understand the downvotes-I suspect it’s a personal thing as it’s happened to many of my recent comments.
Well, when the cherry picked videos from OpenAI have a cat springing a fifth leg for no reason, people are right to be skeptical.
Interestingly, both terms return almost the same results. It seems even with the advent of AI/GPT, Google search still doesn't have even a basic understanding of the sentence typed. That being said, I haven't used Google search in years. It has stopped being useful a long time ago and it's way worse than the regular search.
Seismic waves lead to discovery of overturned slab in the Mediterranean
> Sometimes the journey is more important than the objective.

I wouldn’t say it’s more important, I’d just say it’s a different interest.
> Emphasis has *long* been done with asterisks.

Source?

Sounds interesting; but earliest continuous use I’m aware of would be Usenet. That’s not that long and quite niche (in the context of typography and its history).
It's explicitly about stabilising prices of necessary goods for which a country is a price taker. Using luxury goods to stabilise the prices of necessary goods.

Here's an analysis that raises it in the context of the broader problem: https://new-wayland.com/blog/the-uk-energy-crisis-mmt-analys...
Add correct pronouns :-P
I don't know where you're getting that from but it's simply wrong.
Testing is quite easy IMO. I've been working at the same place for almost 10 years and I introduced our testing framework. We have hundreds of thousands of tests. New guys have some trouble to get started, but after a couple of months they're writing tests for our systems like a pro.

Most tests are use-case based or written for checking error-handling.

Use-case tests are easy to write: you don't even need to be a programmer (in fact, it's good if use-cases are defined by a Product Owner or Tester), though of course some cases are only known to the programmer as they're the only ones who dive into the details. The programmer should come up with all use-cases the PO missed, of course, and judge whether or not they need to test those too... sometimes it's ok to not test as the cost-benefit is low. Anyway, once you have this use-case based test mentality, it's very easy to write the tests (using a proper language to do it is important! Don't use just JUnit if you're doing Java as it will be really tedious to write and you will stop midway - I know, I've been there... I highly recommend using Spock, though other frameworks to make writing test pleasurable exist).

This applies mostly for "integration tests". For unit tests, hopefully you don't find them difficult to write?! I find them quite easy to write since I know how to write testable code, which takes a while to learn but once you do, it's really easy.

If you have examples of difficult to write tests, I would be curious to see it! Perhaps we can discuss how to make them easy.
Well first, always be prepared to look for another job

1. Develop a strong network

2. Keep an updated career document with a list of your accomplishments in STAR format

3. Keep your skill set in line with the market

4. Live below your means and keep a cash cushion

5. Don’t be a “ticker taker” work on having projects with scope where you can talk about things “you led” or “you designed”

Now worse case, you can find another job quickly. I was PIPed from AWS last year and found another job within three weeks because I was prepared. I also lived enough below my means where I didn’t need “FAANG money” to be comfortable.

On the other hand, you need to know how to talk about trade offs within the holy trinity of any project - on time, on budget and meets requirements. When one changes, the others have to change.
Why are you paying for enterprise if it’s not useful to you?
A variation of that joke was in the "Sales Resistance" episode of I Love Lucy from 1953 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVJNQhGpwSw .

At the end, Lucy tries to make her money back by using the same sales techniques used on her. The vacuum cleaner doesn't work because electricity is turned off because the resident hadn't paid the power bill.
Yeah you can, it's called bills.
I can tell my dog to get your “new toy” and she’ll come back with the new toy. She’s a terrier and chihuahua mix. Before her, I hadn’t ever really considered that dogs are so capable. She’s learned words and phrases that are relevant to her consistently. If I’m on a walk with her and want to bribe her to go home I’ll say “Turkey?” and she’ll start pulling on her leash. The funny part is she normally gets a treat after taking a dump, but if I say “turkey” she will drop her treat and wait for me to give her Turkey. If I say “chicken” she will wait, with an unholy focus, until I give her chicken. She makes me keep my promise and knows what it is.

Her being small has sort of caused me to be more nurturing and closer than I had been with dogs growing up. As a result, I think it’s enabled her to express herself because I’m able to perceive it. It's a positive feedback loop. It’s also led me to believe there’s a lot of division between “us” (humans) and other animals is only because we can’t directly talk to them or lack the patience. We’ve tried to make our existence special, and we just aren’t (even if the amalgamation of our traits makes us unique).

That’s not to say she’s gonna be doing calculus (1) or philosophizing with me, but she’s much more capable than I had ever assumed the other “animals” are. And it’s made me acutely aware that we get what we give when it comes to our understanding of other species (or our lack thereof).

1) she’s able to “count” to three (or understand quantities at some level), and while, it is unlikely to impress a mathematician unless they have a love of dogs dogs. It certainly impresses me.
IMSPL looks go be https://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page
It seems that some uploads are just PDFs, while others include Lilypond files.
It sounds like you are deeply passionate about the art of software in general. I am the same way (and also had an MMORPG addiction lol). Now it turns out people really appreciate and will pay great sums for me performing my hobby for them, which is fantastic for me. For many other people I have met though, they get into software because they hear it's a good career move and provide job opportunities. For these people, I totally get that you can just walk away from software
A good boring job allows non-boring life outside of job.
This reminds me a bit of the Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37359193

Basically a foot bridge built over a highway to serve a particular community need. Today, however, it's unused, collects litter and is generally disliked by the community. A platform like Little Fixes is certainly a step in the right direction for city planners to apply their craft where it's needed most. That's assuming they have time and the city has the budget.
It's a nice demo. Unfortunately the article mixes up things in the explanation for causal masking, because it seems the author conflates aspects from training and inference. First, causal masking exists to prevent the model from "peeking" at future tokens during training, and second (at least for GPT-like architectures) for enforcing the autoregressive aspect during inference. During inference we only use the last token anyways, so it will attend the entire input sequence. So this token is definitely not decided only from the last token's embedding.
Nonsense. Meat has twice the caloric density of root vegetables (potato etc.) and a complete spectrum of amino acids and vitamins. Fats, which were a big part of our diet, have 5 times as much caloric density than meat.

Let alone the fact that most roots are toxic or contain anti nutrients, as seeds do.
Physical cash is typically used in face-to-face transactions, which somewhat reduces the risks. The scenarios in which a digital version of physical cash might make sense are few and far between. To suggest that such a currency could one day threaten the US dollar dominance is absurd, in my opinion.
Oh my bad! You can either categorize them as 'artisans' and 'blue collar'.

E.g. in no particular order: metal smith (silver gold etc), welder, carpentry, plumber, mechanic, fine artist, sculptor, textile. Basically the 'real trades' that have been around and should be around for many years.

The type of jobs that the white collars can't do without.

Either you outperform other CEOs and get rich on your own business, or you go this other path as I exemplified :D.

Now the gray zone is your regular 9-5, probably good co-workers, you make good living and work to live. The downside is that flexibility. So you need to think about what trades are you willing to make. I didn't mean to sound so 'dramatic' and pretend it's all black and white.
This happens to all search engines. I tried bing, ddg, yandex. Baidu shows the least interracial images (using the exact English phrase, not Chinese), but there are still a number of images.

It is probably something with the content being produced itself, rather than bias within the search engine. But then, with the way things work, it might make no sense to separate the two.
By your description you sound like you're woke as well. You're just less passionate and have a different approach. I think it would be benifitial to mingle with other woke people so that your different approaches kind of balance each other.
Start-ups don't have 100000+ employees to get everything right. Google does. The caliber of comments has deteriorated significantly on this site in the last decade. It's almost as if a new generation of money chasers invaded and displaced the actual hackers.
I would have thought the answer to this at a corporation was Single Sign On?

I don't run IT these days, but when I did...we used to mark them as inactive in Azure Active Directory. They could no longer log in to any Office 365 service, Outlook Teams or whatever, and none of the third party services we had using MS SSO. Wouldn't you join Slack to it too?
in the case of intraracial photos it seems (statistically reasoning) that google has some understanding of the search and it is intentionally ignoring the search terms in favor of something "better".
Seems like a very poor fit for the Fed's needs outside of a honeypot for people actually trying to launder money.
Anything else. I live in Switzerland and prefer to use galaxus, Migros, inter discount, mueller, foletti, or buy second hand. Absolutely anything I can to not buy from Amazon even if the alternative is 10–15% more expensive.
For me, "black woman with black man" gives almost identical results. I am at loss what is happening here.
Bing, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo all have similar results.

Before everyone gets up in arms about this, consider that this search is (for now) using simple keyword matching and isn't an AI that can understand sentences.

If you search for "woman with man" you'll get mostly white couples and the like.

Adding "white" anywhere prompts the search to look for the words "man", "woman", and "white". Images of random white couples aren't labelled with "white" in the alt-text or metadata. Images of mix-raced couples often mention "white", hence... the counter-intuitive behaviour.

This is a bit like adding "Earth" to a search term. Practically speaking no pictures taken on Earth are labelled as such, so the matches will tend to have a space theme to them.
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everywhere your budgeting allows them to be. there are high quality products out there, not really from your company, but they're there where people care to invest in software instead of selling ads at a better margin.
Seabird – native desktop app that simplifies working with Kubernetes
Contributing Scrutiny to Nixpkgs
You HAVE to priorize defect severity and the two main criteria are criticality (how many dependent functionalities) and whether it has a workaround (functionality can be achieved through other means)

Otherwise the scope will grow exponentially no matter how big is your company you won’t be able to fix all the defects.
Google Search Takedown Requests Rush to 8B at Record Pace
It can only be considered a scam for the tourists, because everyone in America knows that prices in the menu are 30% less than the real prices, and mentally adjusts for it.
> overly optimistic BIOS settings

First time I see this nice euphemism for overclocking.
if the search engines wouldn't grok the attributes and basically dig up pictures showing couples then there should still be more pictures of white couples as there are more white couples than black/white couples.
and most local modes don't have trillion dollar companies worried about getting sued. are you all dense or trolling here?
You're missing the point. The reason the dollar is the global currency of choice is because it offers the infrastructure for any two parties to settle a transaction. The existence of CDBCs for wholesale purposes has the potential to fundamentally change that. Central banks could directly settle transactions between themselves in local currencies via dedicated corridors that bypass the dollar settlement system. That would mean more diversification of currency pairs, with increased liquidity for currency pairs that do not include USD.

> It isn't nothing new,

It is though. The infrastructure to support cross-border payments with CBDCs is bleeding edge stuff. The term floated around in obscurity for a while, but it's only been in use since 2019 or so. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_CBDCs_by_country
that ... is a technically very plausible hypothesis
>They have successfully convinced the public that identity theft is a separate and distinct crime done exclusively by one person to another rather than simply fraud that they are aiding and abetting.

I interpret that as: Companies like Equifax allow (or disregard good security practices to enable) data breaches to land your data into identity theft rings. They (Equifax) then try to sell you "protection services" while they continue to dangle your data to tantalized thieves. What a fucking racket.
There is actually a possible innocent explanation of this.

* Google image search mostly looks at image captions.

* Relatively few people caption their pictures "Me and Jane, a proud white woman and white man". Like, only white supremacists.

* Relatively many people caption their pictures, "me and John, a white woman with a black husband". Like, interracial couples.

* "white woman" becomes associated with interracial couples.

* So does "white man".

I don't know if this is the true story, but it would be funny if so.
Git is pretty popular,and github was bought for over 7 billion.
This is amazing! I’ve been wanting this to exist for years for use in unit tests. This made my day (and maybe upcoming work week)
What am I missing here? Why is it cool to not use the fast GPU and instead do everything slow in a software renderer on the CPU? It surely is interesting to do it for the sake of it, but are there any practical use cases?
Then she would have waited 10 months for a CT scan instead of 10 days.
You must have missed the NYT's suit and initial evidence. Not a problem, you'll fit right in with all the other temporarily embarrassed millionaires simping for this plundering of the commons..
that would certainly be a possible explanation
"Hey guys, have you seen Dave's new tweet?"
I've never understood this argument. Why would somebody else getting to a point through a different easy way cause another to feel like the hard way lost its value?
> Reddit though, I’m really going to miss since they’ve avoided pissing in the pool they swim in longer than most of the others.

Did you miss the API protests and them effectively killing off 3rd party apps?
I agree it wasn’t light at all in the later parts. Very bleak. If it was ever supposed to be a comedy it didn’t end as one but I can’t think of other animated series you could class as a drama.

I think it is one of only about three animated shows that are genuinely outstanding as TV and not just animation or comedy. The other two being Simpsons and Futurama.
it's both. take it or fuck off. choice and ultimatum. your claim it's not a choice is clearly false.
Strange I didn't get that. For that, I got two interracial couples but the rest were of two black people: https://imgur.com/a/CSUmYUb
All this to write another CRUD app ;)
Do you believe LLMs are AI? I don't. It's just a very simple algo... not saying that they aren't great though.
I remember reading they had to make season 1 "wacky" to sell the show. What the show becomes later would have been ... hard to describe to studio executives.
Well, it’s of course not important to you, since you are not being unfairly suppressed. I’ve grown sensitive to this kind of stuff, since it has exploded over the recent years and it has a clear bias.

Anyhow, fair point about your time. Thank you! I still have no idea how flagging works, thought you are the one person who flagged the post and thus removed it from the home page.

Btw, I am the victim in this case, wouldn’t you agree? You know why? As you can see in my first comment to this story I did some research on what is allowed on this platform, and I also think this post is at home here due to this being Google and given the target audience. But at the same time, I now know much better, that this is a strongly biased place, so I already adjusted my expectations.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39477929
products are shaped for an audience and audiences use products that work for them.you're free to cater to least users, but successful people cater to most users.
No, lung cancer CT scans happen inside a week. I know this from experience.

You might wait a year for a knee replacement.
> was rashly awarded in very sketchy circumstances by a NASA executive that now works for spaceX

Except that it wasn't. That's just one of the CSS things that only he actually believes.

> so the executive calls spacex to have them ask a lower price

Except that not actually true.

In fact, a NASA official just recently got fired for this. If anybody had real evidence that this happened, the person responsible for selection would have been fired.

> Overall my impression is that SpaceX/Musk lives on hype

They just launched their 300 rocket and landed over 274 of them. They have many times tested the most advanced engine in the world. They supply cargo and crew transport to ISS. The are the largest rocket and sat operator in the world. This is the literal opposite of 'just hype'. SpaceX has actual revenue, something that actually makes sustainable over time.

BlueOrigin, the company CSS loves to hype because they are not SpaceX are literally just a vanity project. They have no done much yet and the re-usability of their rocket is 'hype'.

It really takes the mastermind delusional CSS to pretend the opposite is true.
An untethered passenger in a crash can be deadly to other people in the vehicle.
Quality has to be backed my metrics or else it will never happen.

PS. Big fan of this person’s recent blog posts. He’s been on a roll!
I can see why someone would be like wtf if their "viking" input produced less than 90% white people results, but there should be an equal wtf if "CEO" produced 90% men.

One is a historical fact that is never going to change, the other is a job in society where the demographics can and will change --- at least partially as our expectations of what "normal" looks like for that role are updated. By perpetuating the current (or historical) norm for a given role the biases of what person we naturally consider appropriate for that role remain unchallenged.