skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my best hires in big tech was from a bootcamp.

He made Sr Eng in 3 years. Previous job was a musician and waiter. Currently a principal engineer at Twilio.

There’s a reason entry level tech recruiting pivoted from “new grad” programs to “early career” programs.

I will add, just like any school the quality of the instructors is very important. You are probably getting better boot camp experiences in the Bay Area.
I wonder if these biases are replicable in LLMs.
Not really taking a position on this one way or the other, but I would say that "this jives with my experience" is near to being a prerequisite for junk science. Somebody saying something controversial is going to be challenged -- confirming biases is precisely how you peddle junk.

For instance the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology [1] is a terrible journal, with a replication success rate in the 20% range. Yet it's ironically well regarded. Both can probably be explained by the exact same phenomena - go read their articles and reads like a stream of bias confirmations for those of a certain ideological orientation -- the same orientation that's clearly widely shared amongst social science researchers.

[1] - https://psycnet.apa.org/PsycARTICLES/journal/psp/126/2
The presentation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJjPi7uZ2OI&t=3696s
current curricular trends in California include "algebra removed from 8th grade as unfair" (or more extreme rhetoric given) and this week "equity grading for K-8" where there is no D or F given in any subject. These real-life changes combined with something so arbitrary as this one as "news" really give an impression of a collapse of some kind in public education discourse.
Smartphones are worse. Passive devices, no haptic feedback. Last one is especially bad for <5y olds.
TC39 Temporal Proposal
I thought that’s all it was, but as the video went on it seemed people thought he meant something different by the term, and they did perceive what he meant when he explained it.

That’s way more surprising to me than folks not being good at noticing it in the first place (they seemed to do that just fine!)
I would not compare those two situations.

When you are pointing out someone has misused a word, that's superficial. The word is wrong, but every one understood the actual meaning. I would only do this if I think it may interest the people around and could lead to an interesting discussion, but would remain silent about this otherwise. Unless, of course, there's a real (risk of) misunderstanding (then, people are thankful you lifted the misunderstanding, instead of being annoyed). If you just say "what he actually meant" when everybody got what he actually meant (even you, since you were able to suggest the right word), that probably just feels pedantic indeed.

While he is pointing out the difference between being out of tune with itself, or with another instrument, and out of tune in general because he means different things, different actual concepts, and needs the other musicians to understand the difference when using these terms, because their meaning is indeed widely different. He is clarifying what he, himself, means when he says out of tune, trying to fix an actual misunderstanding.

tl;dr: in one situation, the actual intended meaning is likely going through correctly even if the words are incorrect. In the other, the meaning is lost because of imprecise understanding of the term. The first one is not really problematic. The second one is critically problematic.

Now, of course, he could probably have clarified this thing in a 5 times shorter video (this is no rocket science) without making a mountain out of a molehill, and him pointing out out of tune things to people who don't care would probably feel equally pedantic.
Its easy in same sense that one can convert extra room in home into homeless shelter considering so many people in cities are facing homelessness.

Further even when you let people in they most likely live and work which are already crowded because thats where opportunity will be. They are not going to live in ghost towns of America that article refers.
Quantify it, anecdotal shit tons is not good enough.
I don't think you need to be immersed in music to be able to tell if a guitar's string is out of tune. Just listen to someone play a major chord (you don't even need to know what a major chord is), and if it sounds vaguely wrong to you, then you know one of the strings is out of tune. That's all there is to it.

Your example about word misuse is probably the closest to what's going on here. Here we have someone who cares about some topic, sees other people who don't know something, hopes to educate them, and then finds out that they just don't care about the topic as much as he does. People use words all the time that don't mean what they think they mean, and they don't care. It doesn't make them feel good or bad when you correct them, it's just that using the right word has never occurred to them and doesn't really matter to them.

The latest word misuse that grinds my gears I've seen with my daughter and her friends is "on read". As in "He left my text message on read." Don't you mean "unread"?? "Whatever!" I'm thinking to myself: NOT WHATEVER. THOSE WORDS MEAN TOTALLY DIFFERENT THINGS!!! ARGH!
It's not about the money. It's about convenience. If I can't rely on the media being available where I'm looking for it it gets annoying. I can't even rely on it still being there the next time I go looking for it in the same place.
I see people schedule what shows they watch during which subscription, when to subscribe where and when to unsubscribe etc.
If it's more complicated to pay for it than not I'll stop doing it.
I hope she gets to name it!
Cool solution, I'll give it a try.

I already have "Block YouTube Feed", but yours looks more feature-full!
This is an important observation!

The programmer's perspective and the user's perspective aren't always the same, and both need consideration. A user is going to see a list: it starts at the top, and it ends at the bottom. The first fields are higher, the later fields are lower.

Of course, if this is a sorted list, the first field will be the "lowest" value, for whatever comparison is used to sort it.
If a YC company sells me something for money, then it's because I value the thing more than the money.

The more companies, the better my negotiation ability.

Therefore, YC companies have helped me live better by providing goods and services in a competitive market.

I'm ok with that.
Santa Cruz where most of the local population lives gets half of its water from desalination plant.

Desalination is already cost-effective and can provide water for tourists if needed. They would just need to build a desalination plant in the south.

Electricity already is largely generated by wind, solar and tide.

Air transportation probably causes the biggest pollution.

Apart from that such tourism is very sustainable. It provides value to people who need to go on holidays. It doesn't matter if the food and necessities are imported because tourists would have consumed the food anyway if they had stayed at home.

While it causes unsustainable rent increases to local population, that can be managed somehow. Maybe give subsidies to them by using the profits from tourism. Tourism tax is not unusual invention in many places.
In a microprocessor with fixed-size registers numbers of 5 and 7 bits are going to be extended to at least 8 bits and interleaved into a code of 16, 32, 64 or even more bits: knowing that y5 and y6 are zero doesn't allow for a more efficient computation.

On the other hand, if you intend to store and compare compact codes of 12 bits you only need a few shift, OR and AND operations (or possibly dedicated fancy instructions) to knock out the known zero bits and place the significant digits contiguously.
Employers and job candidates are dueling with AI in the hiring process
>>> But, here, I'm not sure what he's saying in this video.

To paraphrase his point with editorial license: Laypeople don't seem to have an innate sense of "in tune," which is surprising to him because as a musician he just takes it for granted.

I'm a seasoned jazz musician with a classical background, and watching Beato's videos has given me a new and deeper appreciation of the creative process of making popular music.
Failed the macos test run:

https://github.com/nodejs/node/actions/runs/8765543251/job/2...
I know a few people who never struck me as the technical type or particularly interested in solving engineering problems who did a boot camp to crash course a new career in software and end up with cushy 6 figure work from home gigs.

I know one got laid off recently though, so maybe things are changing.
Not the case in socal, tons of kids use the bus, lausd even gives out a free pass.
If Socrates was wrong about reading you're wrong about whatever the kids are doing today.
> People that pick up a guitar can't just immediately tune it.

No, but they can recognize when a guitar sounds "good" vs when it sounds "bad." He mentions that in the video.

Humans have a certain amount of innate musical recognition that doesn't require education to understand.

This video demonstrates this with the pentatonic scale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjvR9UMQCrg
Sans the boot camp, you're describing many self-taught developers, myself included.

I was motivated to learn to code, and used the resources available — library, school computers, etc. — when a job turned me down because I know 8502 assembly but not 8086 assembly, I bought myself a cheap second hand, green screen PC and found a shareware assembler.

The critical part was finding that first employer that would hire me with an unrelated degree, because that served as my apprenticeship.

With one job on your resumé, the next is much easier

Luck, via an acquisition, was what got me into Microsoft, and with one of the big companies on your resumé job switching can become almost trivial. The Sankey diagrams for my last 4 job changes are close to being straight lines
Construction of n-dimensional Morton codes of an arbitrary bit length is regular enough that you can generate optimal shift/mask sequences at compile-time. There are also simpler generator algorithms that are slightly less optimal (e.g. in a few cases there may be an unnecessary shift/mask step).

Intel microarchitectures added fast ALU instructions (PDEP/PEXT) that can directly effect this as long ago as Haswell (2013) but AMD only very recently added comparable instruction implementations so portability of these instructions is an issue. Also, depending on the dimensionality and bit length of the code, there may be a few cases where the optimal shift/mask version will be about as fast without the portability concerns.
Many (most?) households have two cars, so I can see having a cheap shorter range EV for commuting and weekend errands, and a longer range car available for the other adult and longer range trips.
The old Twitter had a vigorous legal team that fought a number of government requests, particularly the ones that involved secret court orders. Most of those people were wiped out in the first round of layoffs. The new Twitter selectively fights requests on high-profile issues that align with the owner’s politics.
Does DNS mode work to issue for internal servers that don't expose 80/443 to the internet?
Did the union gets seats in the board of directors - as they have in germany?
medc Is Now MobileCode
In my experience, it varies. I've been on interview panels where we just weren't feeling it for a number of candidates and basically told the recruiter to try harder and eventually hit someone who we were "That's who we want. Find a way to make it happen."
Okay, we get the humblebrag, you have a great relative or even absolute pitch. I am not going around telling everyone that Monty Hall’s problem or Simpson’s paradox is glaringly obvious once you think about it. I am not getting confused like other people by two co-centered probability density graphs of the normal distribution, one with larger standard deviation than the other - it is obvious to me (but somehow not most other people) that they have the same average.

The point being is that if you don’t train yourself to recognize certain patterns, you will not recognize them.
Artist evicted by London landlord cuts rent by commuting from Argentina
> what they really mean is that they don't know if the bad sound they are hearing is intentional or not.

His whole point was his son's guitar was out of tune with itself, just like the example he showed with his C-string. Meaning every chord his son played that used the A string, sounded "just bad" in the same way. There aren't published songs where one string in a guitar is out of tune in that way, or where the piano is out of tune with the bass.
Also, it should arguably be Sabrinensis. cf https://operatoday.com/2020/05/herbert_howells_missa_sabrine...
A very relevant question. Acme.sh, a similar shell script ACME client, had a remote code execution problem last year.

https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh/issues/4668
> The latest word misuse that grinds my gears I've seen with my daughter and her friends is "on read".

I believe they do mean "on read," not "unread". On read (to the best of my knowledge) means the recipient saw the message but didn't reply. This only applies to chat systems that send read receipts.
For a long time enterprise firewalls (and more recently SD-WAN) allowed load balancing between different links, but unlike MPTCP the traffic of a single TCP connection is not split up. This is in line with the established network admin wisdom saying that reordering packets of a TCP connection hurts performance.

https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-Ho...
When you are a kid playing in the suburbs you often make shortcuts neither the developers nor current homeowners realize are there
Understand Positional Encoding for Self-Attention
I am not sure why you are taking this so personally or why you insist. It is an English notation and looks foreign in most of Europe, for example. I can say for sure that it is not “in all of them”, as I used to live in such a place. The only contact with AM or PM in daily life is in poorly localised software, and is completely foreign.

They use 24 hour time in most contexts, but often use 12 hour time informally and the actual time is understood in context. You might not believe it, but this happens.

It is, in fact, not unreasonable to ask for an option to format time in 12 hours without letters after. (I am not saying the author should do it; they are the one to choose what to do in their free time).

Settings like date and time formatting and physical units should ideally be changed by the user. You cannot expect a single setting to work all the time.
Heaters don't care. Zero effect.

High power ~300W AC/DC conversion is 90% efficient.

Low power ~1W AC/DC conversion is typically 65% efficient, but the energy used is also very small.
I was one of many TAs for a large math class in college (pre-calc - think high school math for college students). For uniformity, the prof had the partial credit down to a science - specifying points for getting certain aspects of the problem. For the finals, a few TAs would be assigned to a given page, for uniformity.

The fascinating thing was that the distribution of grades was about the same every year.

And I had a math prof for analysis who would give negative points for BS answers. You could say “I need X but don’t know how to prove it” in the middle of a proof, but if you made up something that was incorrect, you’d get negative points.
My strategy was to, like you said, grade problem by problem. Then for each problem, first find all those who got full marks. Then group the others into piles based on what mistakes they made.

This ensures that everyone who made the same mistake(s) gets the same grade. It also tends to shuffle the order of the exams after every problem.

Obviously you don’t need this strategy for simple multiple choice questions, and it’s probably also not a great fit for long-form essays. But it worked great for technical short answer problems in CS and security.
This is so hard to do well, especially when under all of the usual business pressures, but I 100% agree with you about the understanding gained from pushing quickly to hands-on implementation. Just anecdotally, I have historically done my absolute best work when it is my second attempt at implementing it.

As always, there is definitely a balance, and I definitely do not want to downplay the importance of critical thinking. You would not do well climbing Mt. Everest by simply starting the climb with the intent of figuring it out and adapting along the way, but you also won't be any good at basketball if you spend all your time reading books and watching videos without stepping onto the court and trying it out.

In my experience, there are two key things that determine whether or not I am successful at this:

1. To develop the ability to rapidly prototype something that is representative of the thing I ultimately want to build, without falling into the trap of all of the optimizations and rigor applicable to the final product I will ultimately deliver.

2. The ability to commit to throwing something away that I have invested time, effort, and learning labor in. At every step of the way, I find myself attached to the thing I'm building, and thus wanting to keep it around and apply all of the optimizations that violate point 1 above.
There’s always ‘stash’ too.
I don't think CBC, CNN, the NYT, etc are unbiased at all — I don't think any news source even can be unbiased, and I think the notion of neutrality that many news sources attempt to apply, most especially the NYT, actually acts as its own sort of bias; but I think you are engaging in a bit of a fallacy here: the fact that no source is precisely unbiased does not mean that all sources are equal, nor that all sources' biases manifest in the same way.

(Nor would the absence of bias automatically mean that every point of view would be treated with equal respect and giving equal time in which to air its ideas, because that in itself, if there is an inequality in the quality of the argumentation or facts of the relevant sides, would in fact be a bias in favor of the worst, least correct side.)

The bias of centrist liberal news sources tends to manifest more in the language they use to describe issues (excessive passive voice, waffling on things) or in what they choose to cover (focusing excessively on detransitioners when they make up a tiny minority compared to the vast majority of trans people who are happy with transitioning), not in a gross manipulation of and distortion of actual facts as is the case with Fox News. Speaking of which, I don't know what you could possibly mean about Fox News being more honest about their bias then cnn. They regularly claim that they are the only clear-headed, unbiased news source, that they are the only ones willing to tell you the real unvarnished truth compared to everyone else, but they are the only sane ones in this clown world, etc, and they present things in an exceedingly misleading way to the point of lying far more often than any news source which I don't think you could count as being honest about one's bias in any way unless you intend being honest to just mean being brazen.
what's with js devs getting their egos more inflated the more incorrect they are?
Agree with most of what you said, which is unfortunate (except for the silver lining that machines have the potential to massively increase both the supply and quality of medical treatment).

One bit puzzles me though, why would human doctors have an edge in research? Wouldn't the "person" who can read a trillion times more, remember everything, cross-reference it, and monitor billions of realtime data points (from billions of patients) for patterns, have a slight advantage?
Solar-Powered Drones Support Sustainable Aviation
Oh you meant for the whole block?
Applied for the 3rd time (B2B AI SaaS, 300% YoY growth, $109k revenue last month).

Decided to take a risk with the founder video. On my first 2 applications I did what everyone does and shot 100 takes to get one "right"... On this one though, I shot the whole video in one take (with warts and all) and used our own software to edit it, and then used that as the demo as well[0].

In a way, it feels like I can't win on this video thing

- if we follow instructions to "not edit" the founder video, the result is 100 takes for a basic video that is unworthy of a video-based startup.

- If we use our own tool, the video is "too polished" (even though it took less work to do!).

Hopefully the application stands on its own merits. A year ago I took the first rejection hard. I really really hate applying for stuff or having some kind of "jury" reviewing things when the only truth is what the market wants and whether people use what I've created. So as an engineer I prefer marketing to fundraising, by far.

If we don't get into YC I'll just keep bootstrapping. I see the value though, because with the right pointers we could grow way way faster. So, fingers crossed!

[0]: https://my.onetake.ai/b9502ad6/9dcd6eb6/
Isn't this just how language evolves? Its why Old English is barely intelligible to us today.
because of your processing events in single thread (or cooperative pseudo multi thread) you can miss data
Ghost Shark: the huge stealth advantage of autonomous submarines
Yes, exactly. All comparable. All struggle at the same point.
This micro benchmark cannot show subtle differences.
https://ssrn.com/abstract=4603146

Not on sci-hub, but downloadable in pdf for me without any issues
I think the giveaway was when he isolated the chord and played it for people everyone noticed, but when it's just part of a song, the non-musicians don't notice. Not everyone listens to music the same way, and it seems Mr. Beato listens for and appreciates things like key, meter, chord progressions, and so on, and it instantly sticks out when something is wrong. But maybe his "layman" family just vibe along and the only thoughts in their head are "well music is playing and I like/recognize this song." That's as deep as most people appreciate music.
Probably, I posted that from my phone.
That is comparable to the lower range of aircraft pilots salaries, which require far more skill and training and far greater responsibility: https://www.prospects.ac.uk/job-profiles/airline-pilot

it is higher than train drivers are paid in other European countries: https://www.dw.com/en/german-train-drivers-earn-less-than-yo...

It is far more than than a nurse earns.

> Anyone who complains train drivers are overpaid is always free to retrain as one

And anyone who complains CEOs are over paid is free to become one too, in theory.

I do not want to retrain as a train driver, but many people in occupations that are more skilled (such as nursing) would make more money if they did so.
Waaaaaaa too many people are selling shares in my company that made 4M and lost 80M and had 500k users… waaaaa

Insane.
At some point, a coffeeshop that is more or less forcing random socialization among customers seems like a tough sell. But, who knows, maybe it could be a selling point for some demographics based on uniqueness.
Bash is a shell script. Posix is not implied.
If I understand correctly, German law REQUIRES labor to be represented on the board, so it's interesting that they were able to set up a plant in Tennessee in the first place when they could not comply with German law doing so.

This in no way upsets Volkswagen, in other words. It's normal.
Signs of multiple sclerosis show up in blood years before symptoms
But the throws keyword means "this can throw", it's not used to actually handle exceptions at all. Exception handling always uses catch. I think breaking that pattern would be a terrible idea, even if you can make sense if it with English grammar