skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also had this problem with hiring a front-end developer. Someone was really good at the theory, but practically couldn't handle himself.

I currently do a job interview where we start from a super easy app, and then I ask "how would you add feature X", then I go to the next (predefined) step.

The challenge of the test is that we run into certain problems. Some senior devs can foresee them, but most don't. Then the question comes "Why isn't this working and how to fix it".

I've done a crazy amount of interviews already, and this kind of job interview gives me the most confidence. I didn't have any false positives anymore.

You could see the test as "There is this junior that is stuck on something, can you help him out". I want my candidates to be able to deal with the weird shit, and in the end that requires a proper understanding of the underlying technology.

I don't like "take home" assignments, because you never know that someone's software dev spouse is sitting besides them.

We have a HackerRank test to first filter out the worst, and next stage is this interview I described. We use the same for both juniors and seniors.
"we don't know what it does, therefore is is junk" feels like a very arrogant and/or short sighted way of thinking to me.
Not to be a wet blanket, but people have talked about pricing externalities into manufacturing for years now and as far as I can tell literally nobody at the policy making level is even breathing a word of it.
Someone with root access can't see anything that has been deleted, or the contents of secure web pages I've visited, like my banks, doctor, or email. Very different.
I think it's clear. Tires. Tires are what's killing everyone. Or at least contributing more than we'd like to admit. Rise in cancer among young people, microplastics in the ocean, among a litany of other health issues on the rise. A hundred years of tire wear and industry is making itself known.
I like what a cold shower does to my brain. It's uncomfortable in the moment but it sort of stays with you all day in a nice way. I used to time them at 5m when I was building the habit but now I gravitate to around 2m.

Admittedly, Colorado "cold" is not Antarctica "cold". Just saying that 2m is plenty of time for a shower if you're not luxuriating in world of steam and shower thoughts.
Hahaha, maybe if they control with LSD which we've studied extensively since sixties... Not.
But compared to regular Big Pharma meds, one dose of psychedelics is usually the whole treatment.

Getting out of depression or other severe conditions is hard, whether using psychedelics or SSRI. Take care of yourself so you don't get there in the first place.
How do they assess this? Do they experiment in isolation, or do they add all other known maximum exposures to the mix before they add this other one?
For current systems, sure, a developer might want to make it difficult to run their game in an emulator to deter piracy. There were a handful of Wii games which did that since Dolphin matured while new Wii games were still being released. Nobody is making new commercial PS2 games anymore though, so any anti-emulator trick that wasn't deployed back in the day is never going to matter in practice.
I mentioned the GeForce 2 in my comment :)

Apple was also on its dying legs at the time, and their stellar rise was even faster.
Careful, its important to avoid newspapers with colored inks, glossy finishes, or any coated papers, as these can contain harmful chemicals that might leach into the soil.
Rendezvous with Rama is basically a travelogue. I enjoyed it well enough but there are probably 100s of SF books/stories I would choose to adapt to film before that one. But we'll see. I may well be wrong but the necessary adaptations probably won't be loved by fans.
I don't know, if they really are as bad as op says then I think most people would cheer them on.

I certainly appreciate seeing the occasional "we agreed it would be best for them to take a different path" emails from my company. Bit weird for them to send a global email for that tbh, but it really does send the message that they are actually responding to complaints and taking performance seriously, which is good.

In most companies in Europe it's incredibly hard to fire people even if they are bad at their job, and people know it. It's refreshing when managers actually do get rid of poorly performing employees.
GuessTheGame: Challange Your Videogames Knwoledge
Universities need more than off-the-shelf AI solutions
Soles do wear out. It's not like the rubber just disappears.
I think the site owner would benefit from options for manual approve, or auto approve, and auto approve would have settings for checked for backlink, checked blacklist of sites / words, third party list..

ultimately there are those who will do the manual work, but majority adoption will be based on install and let the code do the work / no manual work needed.

This kind of code was everywhere ~2005 with (adult) TGPs / traffic trade scripts - making things automatic and preplanning for abuse handling, such as having your script check for backlinks on random occasions, that the site is up and running.. some backend stats clicks to, clicks from perhaps.. auto thumbnail / screenshot..

lots of shareware like this back in the day, eg: http://www.allworldsoft.com/cgi/search.cgi?s=9085&t=2&w=2

It may be time to make this as a WP plugin and make it cool again.
But if part of the problem is simply tire particles in the air and rain, a backyard garden will have the same problem.
"We don't know what it does, but junk DNA is a real thing, and that's one possible explanation" is a lot more reasonable. And I think that's a more charitable reading of the comment you replied to.
Israel has been placed on a list of offenders who are failing to protect children: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8883ndp2lko

Israel appears to be contesting this which feels surprising given they have killed many thousands of innocent children recently, and historically.
Every future historian is hissing at you right now.

So much of the past is completely opaque to us because of decay, intentional destruction and lack of interest. I think there's a moral imperative to preserve.
ChatGPT did not kill Wikipedia, but might have reduced its growth
Fahrenheit is based on what a human body finds hazardous, and this is a life support system for humans. It's the right tool for the job.

I doubt they're using Fahrenheit in contexts that don't benefit from a human bias.
Another difference is that this solution uses parquet_fdw, which handles fast scans through Parquet files and filter pushdown via row group pruning, but doesn't vectorize the groupby / join operations above the table scan in the query tree (so you're still using the row-by-row PG query executor in the end).

pg_analytics uses DataFusion (dedicated analytical query engine) to run the entire query, which can achieve orders of magnitude speedups over vanilla PG with indexes on analytical benchmarks like TPC-H. We use the same approach at EDB for our Postgres Lakehouse (I'm part of the team that works on it).
Damn, that's a sweet set of upgrades. And shoving in a decent SSD too?

I just got given a 2010 MacBook Air with 2GB of RAM, and well, it's kinda sad :(
How did people hunting for the origin of this image discover the random niche website preserved by the Internet Archive that this image happened to come from?
Physical Turing machines cannot physically exist for we do not have infinite tape.
What share of the total organism weight would be the DNA? Is it something non trivial in this case?
David Boaz and the State of Libertarianism
How do they know it's the largest? They should rather say it's the largest known if anything.
The POSIX API comes with a large number of warts and constraints, and requires a great deal of specific machinery to support.
From what I understand no more of a risk than fossil fuel fires?

https://insideevs.com/features/720764/ev-electric-car-fire-r...
> There's also the question of pushing the semantic aspect to the ranker vs the index

Could it make sense to perform dynamic vector lookup over the FTS result set best fragments? This could save a lot of money if you have a massive corpus to index because you'd only be paying to embed things that are being searched for at runtime.

Focusing on just the best fragments could also improve the SnR going into the final vector search phase, especially if the fragment length is managed appropriately for each kind of document. If we are dealing with a method from a codebase, then we might prefer to have an unlimited fragment length. For a 20 megabyte PDF, it could be closer to the size of a tweet.
Calling All Gen Z: Phone Free Friday Summer Challenge
Speak for yourself my friend.
This is not true. It’s impossible to fire an employee for performance reason after the probation period in Germany. If an employee cannot deliver on the tasks assigned, they need to be assigned easier tasks. In order to risk your job you have to actively work against solving your skill gap, e.g. declining offers of upskilling.
It's a already solved. It's called the farming industry.

All these small permaculture farms neglect to mention that it's way more labor intensive to maintain than regular farming (the one with big tractors and pesticides). Farming is hard physical work - so if you are in poor health, then what? Just starve, I guess.

Try this next year as an experiment - grow 25% of your yearly calories worth of potatoes. Doesn't even have to include your family (if you have one). Just for 1 adult person. See how "sustainable" that is for you in terms of labor.

Also not sure what this has to do with tire microplastic pollution. The 2 are kind of orthogonal.
"If these things are unpredictable its likely cause they have not been studied..."

Sorry but this is a very ignorant perspective in my opinion. Psychedelics are wildly ubpredictable in their effects, even those that have been extensively studied, like LSD. You cannot predict how an individual will respond.

This is also true of many prescription meds.
You can specify FIM objective models for completion. I find that Codestral from Mistral works pretty well.

That next stage is currently what I am working. I'm building out a code splitter using TreeSitter right now and already have experimental vector search in the language server.
Does the (build side) hash table have to entirely fit in RAM with the current implementation?
Interesting example of the kind of thing it's probably not worth caring about in software emulation. Emulating the bug would be considerably slower.

Some day replicating the PS2 on an FPGA will be feasible, and then figuring out how this worked will be a fun project for someone.
Things That Can Happen When You Stop Taking Mounjaro, Zepbound
Monopoly concerns are better addressed by going after monopolies for being anticompetitive. Intermediary liability seems pretty orthogonal to competition concerns. I would need a lot of convincing to start believing that categories like search or even social media (despite network effects) are natural monopolies akin to railroads or POTS-type phone companies of yore – where you can't have efficient competition, and don't have thorny 1A issues to deal with, so common-carrier approaches are defensible.

As an aside, one reason I think 230 pretty much correct is that authoritarians on both sides of the spectrum want to axe it, but for different reasons.
Rookie mistake. My bad.
Hell yes! I've been waiting for somebody to do this.
Yes, free as in beer and free as in freedom. No complicated licensing, code open for change, any scale, any use-case.

Hard to compete against with all these "license per working space" or "tcp stack not included" or "no code for you" of the usual competitors.

> Just wait until the Linux founding fathers are no longer around.

Yes, things change all the time. People come and go. Just as companies do.
It’s a toy compared to say a graviton host in aws or other server class machines. The comparison is temporally anchored in the present and isn’t meant to be a comparison to machines built for enthusiasts 40 years ago but to be an enthusiast computer in the present.
Seed-TTS: A Family of High-Quality Versatile Speech Generation Models
Scientists wonder if shape of the universe is like a doughnut
IANAL. With that out of the way,

That's not even a contract but a public statement. A lawyer would wipe her ass with it.

We do not get to see the actual agreement, and this "access" could very well mean the RAND I mentioned, i.e. that they won't be arbitrarily denied a license.

Incidentally, the key word "license" is remarkably not included in the language used.
I've had both chaliponga and lab 5-meo. I find oral lab 5-meo unpleasant, but chaliponga does have some other impurities that amplify the problem. I think smoking 5-meo makes a lot of the side effects less noticeable compared with regular DMT, but it still has this more dark, muddy, wild feeling and a weight, whereas I find regular DMT to be clear and light by comparison.
Different lifestyles, and different deaths, have different glory and honor attached to them, whether you like it or not.

Being an astronaut that went to the moon and a pilot that dies flying at 90 will always and forever be cooler and more impressive than a cook, and most athletes too. I love this reasoning.
Jony Ive on what Steve Jobs taught him about focus [video]
I wonder how strong the placebo effect can be in this kind of a study.
Configuring Windows Terminal to Use Oh My Posh with Zsh and Zsh-Autosuggestions
Try Cody with gpt-4o and explicit prompting (option+k). It is a nice experience to have the llm at your finger tips instead of having to do round-trips to a different ui.

The models used for autocompletion in Github Copilot and other systems are usually not as strong but faster and cheaper.

You can still get decent results from the autocomplete models if you guide them with comments but I find explicit prompting less frustrating when I care about getting a good result.
Being in a news report is a fatal bias, though, since there won't be one for a bruised knee. It's not possible to derive any accurate knowledge from that.
They only need unbounded tape, which is fine, you can just run them a bit slower while your paperclip maximizer turns more of the solar system into tape.
Why Bitcoin Mining is Good for the Environment – And why it isn't
'This should have never happened': CA may let restaurants keep charging fees
Of course it didn't. People who don't stand for anything will fall for everything.

No one is pushing anyone to not make 90s looking web pages or finding interests amongst equals.

The choice is there. Use it.

But stating that the Web is ruined is definitely an overstatement.
Depends on whether the bug breaks games or not.
Thank you! Let me know if there are features you are wanting that are currently missing!
This is not how that works my brother. The AI is already on my computer and the computers of millions of other people, it doesn't need to talk to the internet and uses an entirely open source stack. The minimum system requirements are a gaming computer from the last decade.
I’ve also had mostly negative experiences with psylocybin for example. I have some anxiety but it kicks that and mania into a level that I never get in normal life
Im happy there are comments like those, makes me feel Im not alone in this..
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Not really interested in web and frontend development.
Interested in performance and low-level software. Fond of technology in general and not afraid to learn new stuff.
Google avoids jury trial by sending $2.3M check to US Government
How South Africa's sardine run is changing
Viking Age 'treasure' discovered by metal detectorist on Isle of Man
New 'Aging Clock' Predicts the Maximum Lifespan of 348 Mammals Including Humans
No, I can see the commenters frustration. Unless one is versed in Llm space, one is more likely to know mamba as the package manager and find the headline and also the GitHub page confusing. The markdown read me is supposed to provide the info the commenter wanted.

Even that first line you posted is unhelpfully circular, defining mamba as an implementation of mamba.

Call me old fashioned, but a best practice read me should concisely provide: what the thing is, and why it is, aka the problem it solves. (And not with circular definition.)
Which statements do you disagree with? It has a citation for most everything.
It's an active area of research but there's no consensus on why this happens other than hand wavy evolutionary biology stuff. The most interesting mechanism is paleopolyploidy [1] where the whole genome of the organism is doubled due to hybridization or DNA replication errors and from that point on the duplicates start diverging. It has occurred at least once in most flowering plants and it must have happened several times with this fern. Normally after this kind of event, the genome is paired down and duplicate genes are "silenced" in a process called diploidization [2] but if there are a bunch of transposable element, they might differentiate the copies enough to keep them before the process completes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleopolyploidy

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diploidization
Offer choice of either downrank (and criteria to get back), or fire.
Yea, I think it really depends on if the team's manager is getting comments from other devs on the team about the person getting fired. I had a QA get fired from one of my teams way back and while I liked them as a person, it was clear they weren't doing good work or having any real focus on what they were assigned, unlike their peers in the role, so it made sense.

I would add, a big point of the announcement should be "And we'll be expediting backfilling them". The worst sort of firings/quits is when management sits on their hands for weeks in replacing them.
I prefer the Lego version: https://vimeo.com/44202270

If we had the infinite blocks..
My most obscure video is about programming VBA in VS Code. Other than that, I focus on Python for Excel (no "Python in Excel"): https://www.youtube.com/@xlwings9689
I've usually had a probation period clause in my employment terms.
Show HN: Golang Clone of Super-Productivity
Not everyone should do psychedelics. Your friend is probably one of those people. I'm curious if they had ever tried any other psychedelics before going to DMT? I think that eating a low dose of psilocybin mushrooms is a much easier way to get introduced to psychedelics, and then if things go well, increase the dose. If the DMT was smoked, then maybe smoking a bit less would be advised at first. Going straight for a high dose of DMT without ever having done any psychedelics before isn't really the best way. I've also witnessed a couple of people take massive hits of DMT and not feel a single thing, which was rather curious.

But I doubt that DMT alone would cause the problems in your friend, as NN-DMT is endogenous, it's created in your pineal gland and is thought to have a role in REM sleep. If it was smoked instead of ingested (ayahuasca) then it's metabolized quite rapidly and the trip lasts only about 10 minutes. I'd probably never do the ayahuasca form, as it's a far longer trip and can be difficult to handle (so I've heard). Smoked DMT is really easy in comparison, but can also be very intense.
Let’s not forget Mighty Machines.
Here is the paper in arxiv the article is refering to for anyone else interested
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06603

Though maybe just the proof outline section is enough for a Saturday.
A DSL for Implementing Math Functions
maybe we should get rid of names entirely, and call it all software. "software: a super fast and fun retro-encabulator written in rust!"
"YoutTube" — Nice.
To say that 5-MeO is a short duration psychedelic doesn't convey what's actually happening -- basically, you go from your normal waking state to likely the most profound experience of your life, and then, if you felt so inclined, back to work...all within 10-20 minutes.

That's precisely what I didn't like about it, the rapid shift back to everyday consciousness. At least with other psychedelics you can spend an entire day in the woods, feeling the entire ebb and flow of the experience, and perhaps learn something in that process.

With 5-MeO it's just instant God realm, and then, hmmm, what's for breakfast? Strange substance :)

Finally, it's not for the feint of heart; until you try it you have no idea what you're getting into -- there is no preparation for the rocketship that is 5-MeO.
The infection hospital risk analysis across the Covid-19 pandemic in England
Full title, which was too long to fit:

“The real-time infection hospitalisation and fatality risk across the COVID-19 pandemic in England”

Abstract:

The COVID-19 pandemic led to 231,841 deaths and 940,243 hospitalisations in England, by the end of March 2023. This paper calculates the real-time infection hospitalisation risk (IHR) and infection fatality risk (IFR) using the Office for National Statistics Coronavirus Infection Survey (ONS CIS) and the Real-time Assessment of Community Transmission Survey between November 2020 to March 2023. The IHR and the IFR in England peaked in January 2021 at 3.39% (95% Credible Intervals (CrI): 2.79, 3.97) and 0.97% (95% CrI: 0.62, 1.36), respectively. After this time, there was a rapid decline in the severity from infection, with the lowest estimated IHR of 0.32% (95% CrI: 0.27, 0.39) in December 2022 and IFR of 0.06% (95% CrI: 0.04, 0.08) in April 2022. We found infection severity to vary more markedly between regions early in the pandemic however, the absolute heterogeneity has since reduced. The risk from infection of SARS-CoV-2 has changed substantially throughout the COVID-19 pandemic with a decline of 86.03% (80.86, 89.35) and 89.67% (80.18, 93.93) in the IHR and IFR, respectively, since early 2021. From April 2022 until March 2023, the end of the ONS CIS study, we found fluctuating patterns in the severity of infection with the resumption of more normative mixing, resurgent epidemic waves, patterns of waning immunity, and emerging variants that have shown signs of convergent evolution.
Brake dust? I know the misinformation campaign is in full swing about battery vehicles, but are they really claiming they cause more brake dust with a straight face? That’s famously where regenerative braking causes less wear.

https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/electric-cars/running/do-electri...

> his 11 electric Nissan Leaf taxis typically have a brake pad lifespan of 80,000 to 100,000 miles, with discs typically being changed because of warping rather than wear.

> Those brake pad and disc lifespans are four times and two times those of the brakes on his diesel taxis, respectively, and that’s on a type of vehicle that is known to be driven with little thought given to brake wear or efficiency.
They realized that people wait for AMD to compete and drop prices just so that they can buy Nvidia at reduced prices. AMD doesn't actually gain any new market share because people simply like Nvidia that much more.
Thank you!

Not sure how it is supposed to look like on other OSes, but this is barely a GUI application on macOS. (I have to launch it from the command line, UI and text rendering are extremely pixelated etc.)

It's definitely not up to par with any PDF viewer I've used so far, especially when it comes to quickly navigating between pages and chapters (crucial for non-linearly working with scientific papers etc).
Nice - you have a lot of subs! How long have you been doing it for?