skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the thing about take-home tests. Let's say I put 5 hours into it. That's all right, if I get the job. But let's say I don't. I don't get the next one, either. Let's say it takes me 20 tries to land a job. Well, that's 100 hours just on take-home exams. That's 2.5 full-time weeks on take-home exams.

So, no. It's a nightmare, and it's one I won't subject myself to. I mean, for one job, I might if I really wanted that particular job. In general, though, no. Just no.

See, with an interview, if you waste my time, you also waste your own - you have skin in the game too. But if you give me a take-home exam, and I spend 5 hours on it, and you never look at it, it costs you zero. Or you give it to 30 people and spend two minutes looking at each persons' results. You can waste my time without wasting your own. And I have a strong suspicion that interviewers do in fact waste applicants' time with take-homes. They don't bother to be efficient with the interviewers' time.
Alia walking around would have been goofy.
Policing is a climate issue, for those who care.
Agreed, I remember getting it in an Xbox demo disk and playing the same level over and over again.
is Ian not writing for anandtech anymore?
You really don't want to do subpixel AA anymore.

For one, subpixels aren't just lines in some order - they can have completely arbitrary geometries. A triangle, 3 vertical slats, a square split in four with a duplicate of one color, 4 different colors, subpixels that activate differently depending not just on chromaticity but also luminance (i.e., also differs with monitor brightness instead of just color), subpixels shared between other pixels (pentile) and so on.

And then there's screenshots and recordings that are completely messed up by subpixels antialiasing as the content is viewed on a different subpixel configuration or not at 1:1 physical pixels (how dare they zoom slightly in on a screenshot!).

The only type of antialiasing that works well is greyscale/alpha antialias. Subpixel antialiasing is a horrible hack that never worked well, and it will only get worse from here. The issues with QD-OLED and other new layouts underline that.

The reason we lived with it was because it was necessary hack for when screens really didn't have anywhere near enough resolution to show decently legible text at practical font sizes on VGA or Super VGA resolutions.
Seems to me that the only difference between what you're proposing and just self regulating your social media intake is FOMO.
That’s the summary.

> Would this apply to X with a large investment from Saudi Arabia for example?

No, it’s not a foreign adversary country [1].

[1] https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-15/subtitle-A/part-7/subp...
I don't think Occam's Razor is that helpful in explaining why I can't find my glasses in a pitch black room. A better explanation is that it's dark. There may well be other good reasons, but Occam's Razor says to stick with it being dark.

Other stars are a long ways away, and intelligence-generated signals mostly dissipate into the cube of that distance. Also, the vast majority of stars are far enough away that intelligent life would have had to evolve a lot sooner in order for the light to have already reached us. Occam's Razor is going to look at those before working out the more complicated questions of how common life and intelligence actually are.
825gb seems really small
There are a decent number of NYPD officers in the subway system, but they do not seem to be utilized effectively.
They almost exclusively congregate near station entrances, rather than patrolling the platforms where incidents actually occur.
It doesn't ask them to cease sending data to China, it asks them to completely completely divulge themselves of any Chinese ownership. It's like if Europe told Google they could only operate in Europe if no American citizens had any significant ownership stake in the company.
The problem with your idealist view here is that an individual or even a big corporation can't compete with an entire country. Douyin (Chinese version of TikTok) was subsidized and promoted by the Chinese government. Even a rich American corporation can't compete with a government that heavily controls which apps their users are allowed to use (the problem you're talking about).

Once the (addiction-tuned) algorithms were mastered and the back end was nice and stable ByteDance made their Westernized version for the rest of the world, TikTok. Again, subsidized and promoted by the Chinese government.

A lot of people are worried about the data collection but I don't think that's as big a deal of having control over the algorithms. If the Chinese government says, "promote this" to ByteDance it gets promoted (can they realistically say no?). It could be propaganda, competitors of people they don't like, or similar. If they say, "get rid of this content/these users" it all but disappears.

The US government can't control media like that (and is explicitly barred from doing so). They can ask for such things (as nicely as possible) but that's it.

Because of the popularity of TikTok it has an extremely powerful influence over millions of Americans. Is it in the US's best interests to allow that level of control to persist?

The fact that so many people called up these Congressmen because of a pop-up in the app is really strong evidence of the sort of propaganda they can distribute and the level of control and influence they can have (indirectly) over the US government. It's not a good situation.

Perhaps a bill that says something like, "It must not be possible for foreign governments to influence algorithms or target specific users or categories of users with propaganda" might be in order. I know that's a tall order but there are a number of low-bar steps that can be taken to prevent or at least slow down such foreign government shenanigans.
You mean like the GPL open source license?
Copyright in the US has an option for fee shifting. Usually it's loser pays, and there's limits on how much can be shifted, but there was a case where a zealously litigious photographer wound up being on the hook for the loser's attorney's fees because the loser had offered to settle the case for a reasonable amount early on, but the photographer thought they could get more money, which they didn't.
Client web app makes POST request. It leaves browser, but not in URL
I'm unaware of those, but I do know that US nuclear targets from the 50s were relatively recently declassified [1], and they were far more macabre.

We focused on taking out Soviet air forces (to eliminate their ability to deliver nukes of their own - as this was before the USSR had developed ICBMs), but also focused on targets marked simply as "population" as well as medical production facilities. The goal was not to just defeat the military, but to literally destroy the nation. And I'm certain the USSR had, more or less, identical plans. And I suspect those still remain the plans for both sides to this day.

Nukes aren't going to falling out in the middle of nowhere trying to take out military bases, they're going to be falling in NYC, San Francisco, Moscow, and St. Petersburg - to try to completely take out the other country's population and economy. Nuclear war is do or die. The goal is going to be to eliminate the enemy's country from the face of this Earth, so that they can't just recover to become a threat 10 years down the line.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/23/us/politics/1950s-us-nucl...
It's not only TikTok prompting people, it's also the content creators whose livelihoods exist on TikTok who are prompting people.

The speed and stealth with which congress is moving this through adds a certain sense of urgency to the message.
I think GP means he personally doesn't feel the difference, where he lives — which makes perfect sense. Temparture a tiny bit higher then same day a year ago (or 9), that kind of thing.

I don't think GP "doesn't believe" in climate change, she/he simply points out that no one is acting on the Cassandra's trying to get attention.
Open your eyes. That's just post justification for when the IDF destroys schools, mosques and hospitals.
On closer inspection - are the templates AI-generated? There are some odd AI-ish inconsistencies in some of them (a toy elephant with no ears, stools with missing parts, light fitting hanging midair...)
There's absolutely no reason American workers couldn't be trained, other than capitalists being too cheap to pay for training.
They likely don't have night vision, so they would need to use instruments. They can only discover stars (perhaps except few brightest ones) after invention of photography.
It’s enough for pre training to later tackle specific NLP tasks.

To get something interesting you would have to generate an instruct dataset from it. It would have to cover a diverse range of tasks. The completions themselves do not make LLMs manifest knowledge and reasoning, a large and diverse instruct dataset does.
> Many migrants with low level of education usually fill low skilled jobs that most locals aren't willing to do.

Most likely because those low skilled jobs don’t pay enough.
Sounds like a bill of attainder, which is explicitly forbidden in the Constitution.
It's a very real possibility. I believe this is the gunfire I heard:
https://katv.com/news/local/pine-bluff-police-searching-for-...

This is one block east of my new warehouse.

I am making progress though. It may not be visible to users yet, but I'm actually starting to get the infrastructure set up to begin processing media at the new location, and am running for mayor with some ideas that should eliminate all crime here... If successful, I think it could bode well for the elimination of crime everywhere.

I looked to nature for solutions to predators. Predators and criminals need constant sources of food/targets, but Cicadas emerge periodically and overwhelm the predator population. During lean times, the predator population shrinks.

By periodically clamping down HARD, criminals will be forced to target riskier and riskier targets. Then the key is our ability to hunt. There is nothing humans are better at than hunting. We can hunt things to extinction, and criminal activity is no different.

Criminals that can't crime, will have to find other sources of income. If we set up easy sources of lawful income, they will move in that direction.

The choice for a criminal becomes starve, or change.

I truly believe that technology and fast responses can make the difference.
It's not about "who does the deed". It's about who accrues the benefits, and who has a stake.

Without a strong local stake, the only projects that work are resource extraction projects. These have a tendency to create dependencies, and strong political instability.

There's also the fact that many technocratic proposals from rich countries never progress past first order thinking: "Trees missing, add trees here". Again, a function of skin in the game - rich nations overwhelmingly operate on a form of capitalism that prioritizes short term wins, and they're not around for the cleanup after that. This is why you want a local stake - not due to theoretical arguments around capitalism or colonialism, but because you want to make sure the people who own the consequences are part of the process. Which usually leads to better outcomes.
Yeah, if you are someone who needs inkjet, epson ecotank is 100% the best option on the market.

also, the "just a tank of ink" model makes it super easy to try out different kinds of ink - you mentioned "photo grey" and "photo black" but there are actually specialty inks for B+W prints that you can experiment with etc.
But what about the reaction is specific to cars? It's a very expensive thing with paint that can be somewhat easily scratched. Unwelcome, uninvited contact by a stranger on literally any other possession would, I think, invite a similar reaction.
The power generation wouldn't necessarily need to happen on-premises, would it?
They also presented their study as “tentative and preliminary.”
Colonization is not just about boots on the ground. European dominance is a truth self-evident to anyone actually living on those other countries; just go and ask them! Even large and powerful countries like China are disproportionally influenced by Western culture and economics, while influence in the other direction is much more limited. In the "third world", election results in US are front-page news, because that matters to them in a very real way; but few people in US care (or even know) of politics in other countries.

All those other examples that you have listed are precisely why the question arises in the first place. E.g. Mongol Empire was a comparable project in intent, and wildly successful at the time (I hail from one of the places that were colonized by it). It also predated the European project. So, why aren't we living in a Mongol-dominated world today? Why did I have to learn English and not Mongol as my second language? Why did I have to emigrate to US and not to Mongolia to get paid more?

You seem to be responding from the assumption that I'm trying to push some kind of "white Europeans are superior" agenda, but this perspective is fundamentally wrong starting with the basic premise that the ability to dominate other cultures is a mark of superiority. I don't believe that it is; quite the opposite. But that doesn't negate the question of why Europeans are so much more successful at dominating than any of their competitors.
100% agree - and that’s the whole point.

Anyone arguing that it is invalid and unenforceable is arguing to invalidate their own, equally unenforceable ‘private and confidential’ note at the bottom of their original emails.

Heads I win, tails you lose.
That still makes it easier compared to computing constants in which the series are not globally convergent, like inverse trig functions. Obviously, you would have to break it apart to speed convergence.
Do you explain whatever happened to Assange in Europe within the framework of “alliance”?
AFAIK, salaries for electrical engineers are very low compared to software engineers so there isn't much interest in working on EE problems. Unless it's your passion and you're willing to give up a good salary.
I think there are a lot of ECEs that work in software. A lot of my classmates from my EE undergrad went to software despite getting a more hardware centric education because software was offering more money.

I imagine there are many people people that, if they pay was higher, would move back to more 'pure' EE/ECE work.
There's a difference between member states pulling their weight and the org itself pulling itself together to behave as a coherent entity. If Turkey (or any member) decides to veto or drags its feet prevent any action at all from occurring, it doesn't matter. In the mean time, the aggressor is taking advantage and ransacking its way through Europe. The whole time, the individual members are waiting for the Yanks to get off their arses to unilaterally come to action. Then they can later point at how the Yanks are always doing things unilaterally and turn them into the whipping boy.
> MOUs

MOU = Memo of Understanding?

(Which are typically non-binding but formalized acknowledgement of intent)
So a bunch of extra work to create a downgrade? I'm sure that's going to be very popular.
Some folks forget that not everyone is "terminally online" and won't get every reference and idiom.
That's a very shortsighted take. We don't want americans to use a chinese app that could be used to do harm to america and americans. This is part if their strategy, the same way they're using fentanyly exports. They learned the tactic from the opium wars against China by the british and how opium strangled china's society.

I can't believe how small fellow americans' value of our country and understanding of its fragility is.
Did you read the article? Bytedance isn't just required to stop sending all data to China, it's required to divest itself of Chinese ownership.
Some of the founders were convicted of crimes but the database and code are out there.
they have gotten much more aggressive with it in the last few years

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131
According to this article it was much earlier.
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/the-truth...
One of the biggest challenges for us has been getting through people's heads that "version controlled database" doesn't mean "schema migrations with extra steps". Some people get it immediately, but in general there's a real failure of imagination about what kind of use cases this technology enables.

Our customers are building workflows that are just impossible to achieve with other databases. There are a few common use cases that come up over and over:

* Game development, to version control game configuration data being edited by an entire team of developers at once
* CMS-like tools, including online storefronts, so you can have pull request workflows and easy rollback
* Collaborative data sourcing, where multiple independent sources get merged together into a single database

There's also the distributed use case, where people fork and clone each other's data sets, that we haven't really seen take off yet. Or maybe those people are just unlikely to buy hosting services or file support tickets.
Is there any actual, concrete data about the supposed harm Tiktok poses to health or security? The first one seems like out-of-touch geriatric politicians having a go at a wedge issue in an election year, and the second one places it on equal footing with Facebook and YouTube.

I don't find the "China scary" motivations behind this bill to be particularly convincing.
I think it’s called the Netflix look. If you look it up you get several discussions on color grading and other matters.
I heartily agree that the problems are hard and unpredictable things don't get made predictable by a method.

I think, however, if you're in a company with bastards who don't care they will find out how to screw agile just as they screwed the scheme before that. In the waterfall projects the example you gave is just the same.

In your example "I don't know, it's very complex" should lead to a spike where you have a chance to find out more. Then you'd give a high complexity estimate and everyone would try to think of ways to chip off a bit of the problem at a time.

You're also trying to get your whole team to think about what can be done rather than each developer facing horrible problems alone. But if you're managed by arseholes then even the most positive ideas tend to get turned into nightmares.
How is this less relevant to HN than, say, tidal locking, or bird brains, or sourdough bread, or jetliners, or god forbid the Gaza conflict?
It honestly doesn't make sense. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but sometimes the stupidity coming from both sides in government is so obvious I have to believe it is intentional.

It feels like our country is being prostituted economically -- foreign aid, welfare, corporate welfare, endless wars and foreign intervention, millions in earmarks to promote perverse ideologies, preventing municipalities from offering high-speed Internet as a utility despite ridiculously successful examples like Chattanooga, all to maintain Comcast's and AT&Ts monopoly on those services.

It's too much...
> that has been fed to you

Nobody fed me anything. I used basic logic to come to that conclusion.
Awesome, thank you. I was worried my question came across as combative but I only realized that after the edit window had passed.
I assume it's a mix of that gym model and the fact that ink is just overpriced so they can take less margin in exchange for the more stable revenue.
You really buy into this nonsense?

Imagine you buy a can of turtle wax that locks after 20 opens. "We don't sell wax! We sell car waxes!" A water hose that sells sips of water.

You're buying ink. Just because HP wants to market it as something different doesn't make their bullshit true. Unless they're shipping you a printed page, they're selling you ink and then charging you per use, their bottom line doesn't list pages printed, it lists profit per cartridge. People just don't like buying an object and paying for it like it's a service, because it's an obvious scam. Ink is a product.
Water Worries vs. Green Hydrogen in the West
"A clean energy company wants federal permission to use Arizona's sunshine and water to create carbon-free hydrogen fuel in one of the state’s more stressed rural groundwater basins".
It is kind of funny how printers just hop onto the latest marketing trends. Previously it was the "razor blade" model of making the device "inexpensive" and charging more for the consumables, now its subscriptions.

The thing for me is that neither the razor blade model nor the subscription model fit my actual use of the product. For me a printer is essentially a piece of infrastructure. It's not the kind of thing I upgrade or want to pay any attention to. I buy one, set it up, and basically run it until it dies or falls out of support. I only replace them when I absolutely have to, and I would prefer that to be as infrequent as possible.

I'm willing to pay for something that fits that model. Charge me the real cost for the physical printer - including R&D and ongoing support - and in turn come back down to reality on the consumables.

I'm saddened that no one can make this model work, but I understand why. Very few people are going to want to go from $100 printers to $500 printers. Though, as the world becomes more paperless I can see this occurring in the long tail - "Hey, buy a printer. Never know when you'll need it and it's going to last you."
Well welcome to the world outside the us. I take the bus in front of my house, take a seat to the train station and read the news while munching a banana, take the commuter train where I can work on my laptop for half an hour, walk 10 minutes (or take another bus) to the office and all in less time than I'd need to drive. It doesn't matter whether you believe it or not, it's just reality.
I asked an AI tool to create a cheery poem about ringworms infecting kids from the 1600s and it created something that's never existed before. Which author gets paid for this labor they performed?
This made me realize that trigonometric functions are not deterministic across different CPU architectures, OS, and programming languages (floating point precision aside).

E.g. I would assume that Math.sin(x) returns the same thing in NodeJS on Windows and Mac/M1, but it turns out it is necessarily so.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74074312/standard-math-f...
> A single lane can be better for drivers, cars chugging along calmly in single file, and can be more efficient than the reptile brained jostling for position that arises when you have two parallel driving lanes.

The only way that happens is if people now refuse to use that road because the capacity has reduced. People who used to drive that road but now are not driving on the road are still pissed off about that bike lane.

Bikes are in conflict with cars. Full stop. Quit trying to bamboozle people about this--they are not fooled, you come off as a liar, and you just piss them off.

And you don't have to lie--car-centric culture is a huge problem. The fact the people need to keep driving long past an age when they should be is a problem. The fact that people need to drive simply to have access to certain goods and services is a problem. Solving these issues and making cars less necessary and less desirable also makes life better for bikes.

When sufficient people can avoid a car such that your two lane road is now underutilized enough that shutting down a lane doesn't matter, no one will care that you put in that bike lane. That should be your goal if you don't want people to oppose you.