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> "Turns out it was Joel Spolsky who invented that practice. I'm sure most programmers want to strangle that guy. Lol."

Really? Here's Joel writing about his interviewing technique for software developers, it's a 1 hour interview with the focus on letting the interviewee talk about how smart they are: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/10/25/the-guerrilla-guid...

1. Introduction
2. Question about recent project candidate worked on
3. Easy Programming Question
4. Pointer/Recursion Question
5. Are you satisfied? [with your whiteboard code answer]
6. Do you have any questions?

Has he changed from that in the last 20 years?
I hired a driver in Spain to take us from Valencia to Granada. Striking up a conversation with him on the way I learned he used to be an electrician and said he would never go back to it. Guess it depends on the individual. I worked in Alaska one summer and got to kind of assist an electrician while we were getting the cannery ready to process fish for the upcoming season. For a commercial job like that there was a good amount of physical labor and crawling around in attics etc involved getting the cables from place to place. I also had a job doing telecom wiring at my university. Most of that was just straightforward wiring jacks or hooking up lines at the end points but it did lead to another job I got at better pay but involved more physical labor pulling wires. Like anything else, any career you go into will need to be managed or you could just find yourself stagnating.
State level actor? China?
But you're having to write whatever in C++ versus just using Flask/Pytorch.
What's happening here is that we put your search query into a model that tries to figure out what skincare product characteristics (e.g. Vitamin C, Retinol, etc) would be good for you, but when it sees something that isn't a skincare product or a skincare concern, it gets confused and doesn't return anything.

I'll put in an error handler for this soon.
Starnix is clearly the focus now esp. if you focus on the platform goals and ignore the devex goals. Check out the previous roadmaps where Starnix was only mentioned once or not at all.

Aside: the 2024 roadmap also has way more devex goals than previous roadmaps, so it looks like devex in general is also a focus now

https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/contribute/roadmap
Part of what was always so exciting was that Google presented open possibilities, an opening world, and was excited about getting developers & others onboard & jamming & seeing what was possible.

Google no longer does this. Since the G+ era, it's more and more about Google and what Google can do for you and Google's ideas, in whatever form they've crafted for you. They launch products, not platforms. There are no APIs. APIs and possibilities are in retreat; the Google Home / Google Assistant ecosphere has gotten smaller and smaller, tighter and tighter and tigher controlled. Most products don't really have APIs.

We've really lost the web2 mojo & humility, where humanity was winning because we all were cooperatively building forward. Now there's no major tech companies left that exhibit that cooperative dynamic, not in the same way. Google is there to present Google's vision, just like every other company is there to present their pre-packaged consumerized vision of how their stuff will run your life.

R.I.P. personal computing era, may you return again. What we have now - across the board - is ultra-massified ready-made consumerware.
Previously [0](4 points, 8 days ago) [1](19 points, 1 day ago, 6 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39856806
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39783900
> I wish someone would ask Sundar Pichai in an interview or something if he is aware of the damage that these constant shutdowns do to his company's reputation.

I bet he would like to ask you if you are aware of how little damage a bad reputation does to the company's money.
Don't worry. There will be a few witless attempts too.
The web of trust is a really nice idea, but it works badly against that kind of attacks. Just consider that in the real world, most living people (all eight billions) are linked by only six degrees of separation. It really works, for code and for trusted social relations (like "I lend you 100 bucks and you pay me them back when you get your salary") mostly when you know the code author in person.

This is also not a new insight. In the beginning of the naughties, there was a web site named kuro5hin.org, which experiemented with user ratings and trust networks. It turned out impossible to prevent take-overs.
Tesla redefines luxury. Traditional luxury car snobs object mightily to this new definition. In a way, I can understand their view. If some new group of people comes in and redefines a word that you've been using for decades, then it's normal to be upset. For example, for me, crypto will always mean cryptography, but it seems that normal people think crypto means cryptocurrency now.

For now, let's get past this initial disagreement by using a different name. I've seen people use the phrase "techno-luxury" to describe what Tesla is doing and to distinguish it from the usual notion of luxury cars.

Luxury cars, as I understand it, are characterized by some or all of the following things: physical comfort, richness of sensory experiences, quality of materials and build, noise reduction, and at the very high end of the market, "quirks and features" such as automatically opening and closing car doors, refrigerators in the back seat, umbrellas inside the door jambs, and so on. There is a category of luxury such as Ferrari or Bugatti that emphasizes performance to a certain extent, but I really really doubt that many people will take their Bugatti out to the track for a day.

Techno-luxury, on the other hand, emphasizes entirely different quirks and features: app access, long-term climate control (4 hours+) for when you're sitting in the car a long time, in-car youtube, in-car netflix, in-car video games, autonomous driving capability, built-in dashcam viewable from the app, location tracking, valet mode and other security features, and so on. There is some overlap between luxury and techno-luxury, in that some traditional luxury cars have some of these features, but Tesla still does it better than anyone else if you are specifically looking for techno-luxury, which I am.
More like a 0th world country - Once the 1st first world country, now on the downward slide into corruption and collapse. Other 1st world countries to follow
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Gas turbines are economically effective when larger than about 300hp. This border with time slow lowered, but I don't know, when it will appear somewhere about 50Kw of most popular automobiles (Toyota Corolla, WV Golf, Ford Focus).

When scaling down, gas turbines become much more expensive than ICE. For example on small planes market, exist many dual-powered models (in range 200-300hp), and with gas turbine it typically priced twice of ICU-powered with very similar parameters. Range of 1000hp+ on planes are near totally gas turbines.
That's the same Hans Jansen mentioned here: https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdo...
Just kept my kids out of school a couple days for skiing earlier this week. In my opinion, the education that school offers is only a small subset of all the things one can and/or should learn and experience in life. Academics are, of course, important, and we ensure that our kids are among the top of their classes. But there's so much more to life. I feel absolutely zero guilt for playing hookie to expose them to exciting, interesting, challenging, fulfilling experiences.
The original or real law considers counterfeiting one stamp a crime, which I think is fine.

I took issue with somebody criticizing that law by saying only counterfeiting one stamp shouldn't be a crime. So I pointed out that if you made some arbitrary non-one number the breaking point you're opening up loopholes. I'm not trying to introduce loopholes, the law is what it is to prevent loopholes.

And the ridiculousness of counterfeiting one stamp being a felony is avoided by not prosecuting anyone who only counterfeits one stamp.
Even with Google Maps, I find the UX of Apple Maps to be superior.

The worst part is how when you’re on a trip and move to another app and back, Google Maps will wait 5-10 secs before showing you the trip you’re literally on. Instead it prioritises the unwanted “what’s on” box.

I’ll use Google Maps for reviews, and Apple Maps for everything else.
That's what I do, I think I provide a great product/service but also still want to get the word out.

A marketing agency who will sell a bag of shit as long as they get paid is definitely a net negative.

Overall reddit has been going down hill for a decade at this point and it only makes sense that it will/has been captured by companies trying to profit off it.
Previously [0](6 points, 5 hours, 1 comment) [1](11 points, 2 hours, 7 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39867674
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39869158
My Chrome installation updated itself recently, and when I restarted it today, it asked me whether I wanted to enable new AI features. I told it no. In retrospect, if it were really intelligent, it would have known I was going to say no.
This entire thread is above my pay grade, but isn’t minimizing the attack surface always a good thing?
can I somehow share the binary privately? It's a proprietary module that I probably shouldn't share publically (also it's ... rather large)

I opened issue #366 for it already
State actors have equaly long horizons to compromise
This is a great example of how the internet wastes my time. I'm unlikely to ever need to worry about my billion dollar jackpot.
LinkedIn flirts with user-created TikTok-style videos
> I confess I couldn't quite figure out the branching and tagging strategy on that repo.

It's just a regular Debian packaging repository, which includes imports of upstream tarballs - nothing out of ordinary there. Debian packaging is based on tarballs, not on git repos (although in absence of upstream tarballs, Debian maintainer may create a tarball out of VCS repo themselves).

The linked repo just happens to include some tags from upstream repo, but those tags are irrelevant to the packaging. Only "debian/*" and "upstream/*" tags are relevant. Upstream VCS history is only imported for the convenience of the packager, it doesn't have to be there.

Debian's git repositories don't have any forced layout (they don't even have to exist or be up-to-date, the Debian Archive is the only source of truth - note how this repo doesn't contain the latest version of the package), but in practice most of them follow the conventions of DEP-14 implemented by gbp (in this particular case, it looks like `gbp import-orig --upstream-vcs-tag`: https://wiki.debian.org/PackagingWithGit#Upstream_import_met...).
That's crazy, going to be really interesting once this ramps up/if it starts getting good traffic.
Even with a perfectly convincing TTS voice it's still given away by the fact that they don't show themselves on video interacting with the product, they usually just show a slideshow of official product images. At least some people must already be falling for this crudely generated content for it to be worth their while to produce it though.
Romanian postage stamp from 2001: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Romania_...

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/06/23/first-impressi...

Also check out Herzog's 2010 documentary "Cave of Forgotten Dreams"

The nonstop gibberish about "AI" bores me to tears. These paintings suggest a different view of what it means to become "conscious".

http://www.tcnj.edu/~library/e-reserve/shestakow/SHESHAAH105...
I think we're sorta talking about a couple different (but related) things. One "feature" of many corrupt oligarchies that US doesn't have (yet?) is the totalitarian or authoritarian nature of the executive government, which leads to persecution of critics of the system and especially of critics of the oligarchs.

While I'm not comfortable with the wealth concentration in the US, at least people aren't getting rounded up and "disappeared" when they talk about it.
he wasn't skittish, he just took interest in the world around him
there's a gulf between "there are no differences between genders" and mass generalisation based on emotional reaction, and for me this flies a lot closer to the second one
yes, hat electrodes + plus about 300 dollars
I strongly disagree with your assessment of ICE vs EV but I don't watch FE either for different reasons - it's a driver series, not a constructor series like F1.

Give us a constructor battle and let the teams go nuts on power and drivetrain. If you're going to constrain anything beyond safety, make it aero to keep things affordable, but then let them make fuckin WACKY powertrains and let's see what EV can do!

I just want the engineering marvel of fast cars going fast, I'm not that tied into vroom vroom sounds and I'd rather be able to hear the grip of the tires than the sound of exploding dinos.
I've seen AI generated content about dog breeds, the content was absolutely horrible to watch and listen too.

In the near future we will have YouTube videos that pride themselves on being organically made, no GMOs and built by humans.
I believe the future is 4*4 bit look up tables with output latches, with a bit to/from each Cartesian neighbor. Clock them like the colors of a chessboard, in 2 phases, and you don't have to worry about timing dependencies.

All of your code gets converted to a directed acyclic graph(DAG), executing at Ghz rates if you want.

Imagine a machine that can output a million parallel GPT-4 streams at 1000 tokens per second each.

If the architecture changes it's just a different DAG. Unlike with FPGAs and their custom blocks that have to be optimally used, you can compile a DAG almost instantly.
The US government committed explicit genocide against Native Americans (including Hawaiians), and many of the actions undertaken by the federal and state governments, or allowed to be undertaken by private citizens, against black and Asian Americans fall under the definition of genocide, including, but not limited to: forced internment during WWII, forced sterilization, and the various acts of terror and massacre undertaken by white supremacist organizations since the end of the Civil War. Additionally, the forced, systematic destruction and relocation of black (and, to a lesser extent, Latino, Asian, and Jewish) communities, which has been variously characterized as "urban renewal" and "gentrification", may not rise to the level of genocide, but it certainly carries the scent of it. So does the policy of mass incarceration.
I can’t imagine a more insufferable form of media
No. The best model wins. I’m currently paying $20/mo for all three leading models (GPT4, Opus, and Ultra). But in the future, when GPT5/Opus2/Ultra1.5 come out, I expect the prices to go up. So I will be choosing the best one. Whatever is on the top of the leaderboard will get my $200/mo (maybe even $2k/mo if it’s really smart).
I doubt that's the case. The countries of the world were much less interdependent after WWII than they are today. The collapse of the US will take much of the rest of the developed world with it -- including China.
I think the problem is that you are also trying to represent the biases of directionality in the connection e.g.: [-1,0,1]. In the adjacency matrix, if you store the sign (direction) of the edge, then I think that would map fairly isomorphically.
true, but that doesn't mean that's what was happening. did you read the article?
I agree with the adage, but brute force seems to win in this specific case. Even though it's the lightest model made, my Miata only gets 0.82g on the skidpad.[1] The Model 3 Performance gets 0.96g thanks to its wide tires, which are needed to transfer all its power to the asphalt.[2] This difference isn't just due to the 1990 Miata's older suspension and tire technology. Even the latest Miatas only get 0.90g of lateral acceleration.[3]

1. https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a15141519/1990-mazda-mx...

2. https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a36329678/2019-tesla-mo...

3. https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a22678665/2019-mazda-mx...
is is possible measure EEG with 8 bits ADC ?
Formula-E cars used to look weird to me. Now F1 cars are starting to look like them.

At least now the cars recharge their batteries rather than swap car/battery mid-race which didn't seem like 'true racing' to me.

There will come a time when combustion engines aren't appealing to viewers, similar to how smaller turbo ones came into use. In particular if Formula-E cars are doing faster laps and is more challenging/competitive. One way to preserve F1 status is to artificially keep FE slower.
> My ... business are not any less ... valuable than anyone else's,

Plainly untrue. The reason they keep distribution minimal is to maximise the chance of keeping the vuln secret. Your business is plainly less valuable than google, than walmart, than godaddy, than BoA. Maybe you're some big cheese with a big reputation to keep, but seeing as you're feeling excluded, I guess these orgs have no more reason to trust you than they have to trust me, or hundreds of thousands of others who want to know. If they let you in, they'd let all the others in, and odds are greatly increased that now your customers are at risk from something one of these others has worked out, and either blabbed about or has themselves a reason to exploit it.

Similarly plainly, by disclosing to 100 major companies, they protect a vast breadth of consumers/customer-businesses of these major companies at a risk of 10,000,000/100 (or even less, given they may have more valuable reputation to keep). Changing that risk to 12,000,000/10,000 is, well, a risk they don't feel is worth taking.
github should add a badge for "inject backdoor into core open source infrastructure"
So wait, if I did a find / -n 'liblzma*' and saw 5.4, I'm good? This is only 5.6 and 5.6.1, right?
Context: This image was a "Utah teapot" for testing early image compression file formats and algorithms such as PCX, TIFF, GIF, JPG, etc.
> It feels much more like the Soviet Union collapsed than the US won.

I mean, that's literally what happened. The USSR collapsed. I'm sure the US had some part in that, but I don't think it was a major part. The US "winning" the Cold War was just spin.

But still, being the last one standing is indeed a certain kind of winning.
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I think the Americans with bad reputations tend to stick to tropical climates and beaches. The type of place where tourists are probably just sunning themselves or getting drunk.

Interestingly enough, I recently went on a short trip to Cozumel, MX. It wasn't my choice, I was just going to see some family who had planned their vacation there. I've been to more than 20 countries and boy oh boy was Cozumel my least favorite place abroad. Felt like the whole island was tailor-made to rip off or outright scam tourists arriving via cruise ships.
For what it's worth, Elon Musk recently retweeted a very flattering picture of Hassabis, perhaps throwing his support behind him.
The military industrial complex connection is potentially pretty significant. Any number of players may have been motivated to bring the noise level down or keep certain things out of the public eye, and it’s not that much of a stretch to go from selling killing to buying just a little bit.
Not any where close, but I do think I can save them money for building the new collider if they were to just use particle board.
I feel like I can’t travel on a rural road for more than an hour without seeing a dead bird in the road. Never mind all of the pesticides we use. After some neighbors complained, the mosquito spray truck ran our neighborhood three times in a row. The next day I found 5 dead blue jays in and around my yard. My blue jays still haven’t returned. I think they killed the entire flock.
A Model 3 or Model Y's "rated efficiency" of 250-300 Wh/mi corresponds to 16-20 kW assuming a 65 mph speed. That's well within that range you quote.
Is someone maintaining a big list of BCIs somewhere? If you're going with extra-cranial hardware, I think the best available involves Microwave Brain Stimulation along with passive sensing methods like this. Unidirectional brain -> computer is neat but so long as the feedback is via sight or sound it's just another move-the-mouse alternative.
Unfortunately with up to a few dozen dogs needing to go outside multiple times a day and a half dozen volunteers that are only on shifts for a few hours at a time, there were just too many different people needing to go through that door too often for it to be worth locking it and distributing keys to everyone. Maybe having the door locked and the key hanging right next to it would be enough for people to disengage autopilot, but I'm not convinced that non-volunteers wouldn't just grab the key and open the door sometimes as well. Plus, some of the dogs could be quite strong, and the volunteers ranged from teenagers to retirees, so having both hands on the leash and being able to just push the door open was preferable in a lot of circumstances.
I got off to a pretty rocky start in my life, and have periodically suffered from depression and anxiety. I am now doing pretty well I think.

First of all, recognise that you cannot achieve great things or have good relationships if you are suffering and beating yourself up all the time. That is just a vicious cycle that feeds itself. I don't know if therapy, or medication or exercise or something else is what you need, but work on yourself. Give yourself love first.

Secondly, I have found that when I am really engaged by something, learning comes quite easily. This is not to say that there is no effort; I have had to put a lot of effort in. It's just that I enjoy it, so it's not so hard to make myself do it. After some time, I suddenly realise I'm quite good at something!

But the most important thing in my opinion is to learn to be kind to yourself.
I barely managed to get one good output(by following the installation for Linux instructions) before the 1st Jupyter Demo crapped out on me. I didn’t have the patience to investigate the error, but I am very impressed with the quality considering I’m also running it on an M2 laptop.
> You don't need a PR campaign to oust Sundar. I think 7 out of 10 Googlers would agree that Sundar is uninspiring

Do Google RSUs come with voting rights? If not, then Googlers don't get much of a say on when/how Sundar is ousted - Larry and Sergei do.
> The less discretion the bureaucrat has, the harder it is for them to be corrupt.

This is what pisses me off about the SF planning commission. They shouldn't get to make case-by-case decisions about what building projects go through. This should be handled by career employees that consult a checklist of items that need to be completed, and codes that need to be followed, and when all those boxes are checked, that's what approval looks like.

It's not even relevant whether the planning commission is corrupt or not. The fact that they get to make arbitrary value judgments is a problem.
Hey all, just sharing this with a quick note. Recently, I was part of a small group of journalists/researchers who determined that the sports site Deadspin sold to investors with close affiliations with the online gaming affiliate industry in Malta.

Eventually, it led to a story in 404 Media that tied specific names to the purchase and highlighted some of their M.O.: https://www.404media.co/who-owns-deadspin-now-lineup-publish...

It turns out that one of the key figures in the Deadspin purchase is also attempting to buy a bankrupt newspaper’s website, likely because the domain (NewsPress.com) has a lot of SEO value. That’s what the above story is about.

This story is really important, because it is essentially putting a community’s history at risk. To me, it feels like a harbinger of what we could see in the future re: domain purchases.