skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Imagine your own scenario where the facts reported on the day might conflict with something claimed to be true much later, and the person wasn’t notable at the time but they’re highly notable now.

I do see your point. I'm reminded of the photograph who snapped basically a digital throw away picture of Monica Lewinsky weeks/months/years before anyone really knew who she was. later on, he was happy to have that picture, since it was one (or the only one) of her at some event hugging Clinton.

Text is easy enough to store, but making it useful to search and access seems like another problem to solve.
That’s interesting. Can’t say I get those.
They may be trying to, but when has Google ever successfully positioned something as a premium product and defended that?
It's 5xxx. And "rough launch" is not an excuse. They've had plenty of time. Is it that different from the other RDNA cards?

The unofficial support for so many cards is not a good situation either.

Edit: Actually, no, I know it's not that different, because some versions of ROCm largely work on RDNA1 if you trick them. They are just refusing to do the extra bit of work to patch over the differences.
Priors and bias is exactly why you want MORE interviewers though.
Scientific American is anything but.
> but someone had to start. It didn't just come out of nowhere.

Weird grammar often comes from other languages, not from someone making a mistake. Is it possible that West African languages were an influence?
Personally I think we should have already live in an age of no barrier of communication. Machine translation is working well. I often click on "translate" button on Facebook, TikTok for comments in languages I don't understand. I think it is a problem for GitHub to solve, not you. So I would say, you can reject based on the fact that as a maintainer you don't understand the commit message, it is fair.
Who’s to say what unit economics they’ve achieved but I’d hazard to guess that their investors wouldn’t support expanding their fleet and service unless the unit economics are at least close to break even. Cost for sensors and overall BOM keeps going down as more suppliers enter the market.
Yes, I know that we can't all have a pony. Though some places' lawmakers still manage to make explicit rules on cases where it matters than some other places.

(Btw, I'm not even talking about what rules I agree with or not. Eg Americans really like their state-owned mail service. So in that particular area, democracy is delivering what the people want, whether I like it or not.)
It’s funny, the graphic nature of Hypercard is what put me off of it.

It was essentially MacPaint with a few controls and a scripting language. While fundamentally it was persistent cards with fields, buttons, and actions, as presented with the assorted demos, it was graphically rich.

And myself, I am not graphically rich. Hardly. I find it intimidating. I find the web intimidating for the same reason. I really struggle trying to make a web page, even with a zillion templates. For whatever reason, it’s very hard for me.

It’s a cool system. It was a bit hamstrung later on by being trapped with its original card size. Even as screens got larger.
Another implicit assumption is that LLMs will be SoTA throughout that period, or the successor architecture will have an equally insatiable appetite for lots of compute, memory and memory bandwidth; I'd like to believe that Nvidia is one research paper away from a steep drop in revenue.
In quantum mechanics, the measurement and observation are two sides of the same coin, and the sample space is _defined_ by the random variable (observable) of interest, so it makes a little less sense to separate the two. (There is no hidden observation-independent sample space.)
NASA's commercial spacesuit program just hit a major snag
You’re getting downvoted but it really was pretty fantastic.
You’re not but it already reduces the sample size by a lot. There is no 100% effective way to detect liars. I’ve been a hiring manager in multiple companies (including currently) and fortunately for me they were so far rare (maybe because Germany isn’t attractive enough as a job market for programmers to get the bulk of people putting a lot of effort into fraudulently getting a job).

Either way it is customary to start new hires with a 6 month probation, and their long term contract only kicks in after that. That’s long enough to detect if someone is incompetent (I’ve had to fire people during their probation when finding out they weren’t actually capable altho I don’t think they outright lied).
took two waymo rides in SF and two nightmare cab rides in SF and memphis in the last couple of days.

one waymo was perfect, the other ran a red light then stopped in the intersection diagonally across two lanes of traffic until the light turned green. didn't endanger anyone but felt awkward!

on the cab ride to SFO my driver kept falling asleep and veering into the next lane, i tried talking with him to keep him awake but it was clear he'd been driving all morning and was exhausted.

the cab ride from memphis international was interesting, the cab was falling apart, driver was nice but he tried to convert me to christianity for the last ten minutes of the ride.

the waymos will end up safer but totally devoid of character.
It isn't an assumption. Not every civilization needs to expand but the ones that do will expand more than the ones that don't. And the expansionist subset of any civilization will wind up representing the whole of that Civilization on the larger scale.

Any proposed great filter to the Fermi paradox needs to be non-exclusive. As in it can't be something that will only impact some of the group, it needs to impact all or very near to all in a statistically significant way.

In the previous example if even just 1% of civilizations wind up having just a subset that go out and explore we would still expect to be able to have seen some here in the Milky Way because that would be 100,000 or so planets or Stars producing multicellular life and with the presumed odds we were discussing civilizations that expand. We presumed for the ease of math, because we're not pulling out the whole Drake equation, that the one in 1000 was just for the one filter. Of course you can do the math with whatever percentages you like at any filter. And each set of numbers you plug in means something slightly different with regards to what we're seeing and why we're seeing it out here in the real world.
maybe a balance can be struck? audition/take-home to select potential candidates, a follow up interview with each to confirm they wrote the code and are a good team fit.
Majority of Americans own their house and don't have any landlords to send assets to. Furthermore, many landlords require the income to be at least 40 times more the monthly rent, some alternate this with showing funds for triple annual rent. None of these scenarios is possible when the rent is majority of one's assets.
Are we doing more spicy takes? I'll give you one: this is just not a thing. Unless you're operating at a very large scale, I think you can simply ignore this problem.

If your team is at all well run, and your work-sample testing mirrors the team's work, it's not a very good scam to run: it'll be immediately obvious on the job.

We thought we'd put some energy into this back in 2021, and we have yet to reach a point where thinking about this makes any sense (except for tech writers, where spotting GPT is maybe somewhat useful).
Writing/Acting credits for him as Kap'n Karl in the adult version of the The Peewee Herman Show.

He always possessed a balanced approach to his across the board talent.
Trojanware aside, bonzibuddy was so much fun.
Someone didn't read the docs.
This article is overly complicated. The random variable X is a function mapping the outcome to its probability. The distribution, or the probability density function, or pdf, is the integral of that function. The cumulative density function, the cdf, is in turn the integral of the pdf.
> If a word in a context is bound to a function it evaluates it, if not it returns the value bound to it.

One of my favorite compositional patterns! I wish we saw this .ore, not just in contexts but everywhere.

It's something I saw Ansible inventories do that I absolutely loved. Point at an inventory, and Ansible will run it & use the output as inventory, or will otherwise use the contents.

I wish more languages had stuff like this. I just skeeted today that JS should have an optional function invocation syntax. myVar.??(). Run myVar if it's a function else use its value.
Sure, that's how it should work. But how do you intend to make that happen? A double-digit percentage of households has a double-digit percentage of their net worth in index funds. If you say to them, "we're suddenly going to increase your fund fees by a couple orders of magnitude so we can have better corporate governance", you're going to be torn apart by an angry mob (or at least, voted out and replaced with someone who will not do this).
This is a mayonnaise-spicy take as far as I'm concerned, in the sense that I agree with it entirely.

Once you've read someone's resume you should have a pretty good idea whether or not you want to hire them. The interview should confirm that they can discuss their relevant experience and address any potential concerns that you might have without raising red flags.

Beyond that, if they have deep flaws that you didn't suspect from the resume or the interview, they're probably good enough at hiding them and more interviews aren't going to help.
to speak to your example: my girlfriend's dad was a welder on aluminum boats. he is always excited to see aluminum boats, find out who built them, etc.
> I can understand why some might make a cut between pure numbers and other objects, but it's not something that troubles many.

I can see why you would teach the more restricted definition eg in high school.
If you want to see a weird process, apply for a dev role at Meta. They appear to optimize for people who have either memorized leetcode or are really good at cheating. I’m in their process as a pretty senior dev mostly on a lark (I hate the company). I’m pretty sure the only way I could get hired is to cheat. Why would they want to hire folks that way?
> Presumably this requires humans to physically clean periodically.

That's a good robotics project. All the cars are the same. The cars do not have any objects inside that belong to the occupants and should stay. So robotic interior vacuuming could be quite practical, as a station in the car wash. A vision system can inspect for damage and route that car to the maintenance line.
I loved reading this thank u! Very interesting. I wonder how many other stuff exists that would help you decipher between good and bad content specially these days.
Edit: grammar
I had a great experience with work-sample testing once until I had to work with the founder's wife who was an absolute nightmare to work with and was forced to sit in on zoom calls with the investors just because they wanted to be face to face with who they were paying for. It was only then that I realized that my performance didn't mean shit and I was playing an optics game.

The problem isn't the process. It's just like dating. Everyone is lying and pretending to be their best self. Hiring process can't fix that -- you fix it by making employing people and taking employment low risk. Give a generous evaluation period and the option to take walk-away money/severance.

You can never see how terrible a company's culture truly is until you've been there 3-6 months.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40796146
We're talking about Brazil here, not the United States. Brazil does not use an English common law system where court decisions create precedence. To have any real power, laws in civil law countries need to come from legislation.
SF traffic lights do not.
Organized crime, domestic violence perps are big buyers of tracking devices
God this is such a prime example of how we just don't do security well enough industry wide, and then you end up with weird stupid stuff like encryption being an enterprise paid feature.

Secrets have to be somewhere. Environment variables are not a good place for them, but if you can't trust your filesystem to be secure, you're already screwed. There's no where else to go. The only remaining place is memory, and it's the same story.

If you can't trust memory isolation, you're screwed.

As a counterintuitive example from a former insider: virtually no one is storing secrets for financial software on an HSM. Almost no one does it, period.
I agree. If your organization has the resources for it, go contract-to-hire. 3 to 6 month contractor and then make your decision bringing them on as a full employee.
closely related, just a few days ago I got a quote for a pair of boots that after taxes and duty would have worked out to about $12,000 and an 8-month wait not including travel costs to be there for a fitting. I'm passing on them for every conceivable reason, but it raised the question of why buy them at all. tbh, I didn't know how much they cost, and I just like them because the maker has figured in stories I've liked for years and there's a kind of actualization to making them part of mine. nobody would ever know as there's no brand or way to tell, it was a personal interest.

however, the "economics" of those boots or a handbag are closer to poor-coded aftermarket car accessories, in that they're more of an indicator of economic conditions. You've made good money but it's not life circumstance changing money. It's not actually wasted or surplus, it's just not enough to change anything, so you spend it. whether it's at Hermés or spinny chrome rims, the underlying belief is that below a certain capital threshold signalling is a better strategic bet than marginal savings. it's a bet against future purchasing power of cash, but also a bet on personal growth.

And that's how you talk yourself into buying stuff like that.
> The UX was not great...

UX patterns are different in Asia by the way.

Also majority of tourists to Korea do not speak English, so it’s a little weird you think English should be prioritized over other Asian languages
Not Microsoft’s fault in any way. EU is legally requiring them to charge more. Unless you know a way they could comply with the rules (which state they can’t charge less) without charging more?
It’s not because of xenophobia, overseas Koreans without a Korean bank account have also faced this before.
The last time I worked for a larger, local company with printing needs, we had printers that were either leased with a support contract or were rented or something like that.

Pricing was per unit, with billing per page. Reasonably cheap, too. Pennies per page.

The maintenance guy stopped by once a week to refill consumables and run diagnostics. I was convinced it was a waste of money.

But the printers always worked.
They cannot do it before damage is done, it would be like charging people with pre-crime. Nobody wants that.
thoroughly enjoyed this, never realized Nefertari's tomb was so well preserved.
I have this idea that we only have one universe of historical financial data, and it is only 500 years long, which is ridiculously small. So backtesting and drawing conclusions is highly overrated.

Another thing as you said is that it's hard to get quality data. For example most databases don't include price history for bankrupt companies (or miss quite a bunch), which makes some quantitative strategies like focusing on low PE and PB for example, completely bogus. Which is sad because most books will actually tell you to do that, without ever talking about how many of those backtests lack companies with -100% return in their virtual portfolios. Those tend to be low PE companies that the market consider risky, and it was right, but because they disappeared, the strategies outperform because they ignore so many losers.
Majority of tourists to Korea do not speak English. You’re really thinking from an American bias there.
Addressed directly in TFA:

"Drawing out the interview process is a thinly veiled attempt to launder this bias with a "neutral" process that they will likely disregard/overrule if it contradicts their personal preference.

That doesn't mean that I think this sort of interviewing bias is good or acceptable, but I also don't think drawing out the interviewing process corrects for this bias either."
Right, but not everyone wants it equally. Some people are like, "I kind of like milk sometimes so I'll buy it if it's cheap" while others are like "my kids need to drink milk to survive I'll buy it no matter what". Surge pricing can help make sure the "kinda want it maybe" people aren't taking supply from the "I really really need it" folks
Don’t confuse the event with the distribution. An event always either has or hasn’t occurred, no further statement can be made. It’s only in bulk that one can talk about distributions. But in this contrived anecdote, there is only one observation, one event.
Yeah, I agree with your assessment here. The statement "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" is a bit hyperbolic given all of the nuances introduced. But, still, at the end of the day, clinical recommendations have to be made; and physicians have to talk to patients in a very straightforward and un-nuanced manner. I still think the adage, breakfast being the most important meal of the day, can ring true for most people; as placeholder advice to "try to eat more earlier". The statements are not synonymous as you've pointed out; but my goal was to plant a flag because I think most people throw the baby out with the bathwater when they decide to skip breakfast (i.e they tend to consume too many calories too late).
Thanks. Yeah, I thought of that, but I'm at work at a place where I very much should not be having Sci Hub in my browsing log.
Golf is facing a similar crisis with distance gains caused by driver technology. Many of the world’s famous golf courses can’t hold the best players.

Two of golf’s governing body, the USGA (the United States Golf Association) and the R&A (the Royal and Ancient) have recommended a rollback of the golf ball, which has caused significant debate in golf circles.
It’s up to the admin of each organization to choose if anonymous guests are allowed or not.
A company cannot control itself and shares that are bought back are canceled so it doesn't really change the ownership.

The effects of dividends and buybacks are the same but they are taxed differently.
"Eisenstein asked whether there were some more instructions regarding the film.

Stalin. I am not giving you instructions but expressing the viewer's opinion."

Yeah, right...
The filesystem is fine, but we really shouldn't be using .env files that get loaded into environment variables due to them leaking in a few different ways.
It's weirder than that. For Meta's interview, how well you do on preparing specifically for their interview and trying to max out the specific metrics that they're judging you on isn't just tied to whether you get an offer or not but where in the scale they pay you.

They care a lot less about what you've done and where you are in your career, mainly because most of the what and how of the job is fairly unique to Meta.

They want good Meta employees and people who thrive specifically in their culture and not necessarily people with a career trajectory and goals beyond the company.

Turns out that there's a lot of over-achieving types out there whose sole desire in life is to be Good Germans. You will know immediately if this is or isn't you.
Exactly! Google famously did 8-10 interviews during their startup stage and they absolutely hired rock stars who helped them lay the foundation for Google's $2T company.

People who haven't build sustainable, profitable organizations typically have no clue about hiring. Sure, they may be able to hire well for their little project. But, if you care about the culture of the company and how you want to shape it, you almost want all of your current members to have a say in the new member
What senior person wants to do this?
So Apple Intelligence “is a bad thing” because from day one they don’t have interoperability? Does that serve customers in the EU better?

What juicy revenue do you think they were going to get from iPhone mirroring to the Mac?

And the EU as a whole is less than 10% of their revenue?
Yes it’s inevitable given how many developers are out of a job now. Everyone eventually has a price
> none of which can be safely ignored

Or more accurately speaking, they can be ignored but at some expense of accuracy. (You can always approximate every variable with a (-inf, +inf) interval!) There are several working ways to "compress" affine variables when they get too many.

Probably a worse problem with AA is that every multiplication introduces a new variable, so it can be very frequent to head into the maximum number of variables set for the reasonable performance...
Unsolved Problems for Local-First Software
Yeah this part didn't make any sense to me - is he claiming that later interviewers will be heavily biased by talking to previous interviewers? If so, I think that's probably not as strong an effect as he's claiming, and its also easily correctable by just having interviewers not talk to each other.

I do agree about the "you only need 15 minutes" part, but the solution there would seem to be replacing four hour long interviews with four 15 minute interviews, rather than with 1 hour long interview.
Only if they have competition. Which long term is not the default state in the market.
In the AI/ChatGPT world that we are in, cooking up a neat resume is not that hard. But I agree, you are going to interview someone who did at least that part good, and worked a little hard to prepare for it.
I had the privilege of playing CS from 2004-2007 on a sponsored team I led. These days, that would be "professionally" but back then, no one really took esports seriously, as it was all pre-Twitch and before broadband was widely available.

CS remains one of the deepest and most strategic games I've ever played, and a venue that allowed me to mix competition + computers. It's point-and-click distilled in its purest forms, and its 5-on-5 strategy is reminiscent of something like basketball. I met many friends, a few enemies, and even my first girlfriend, through the game, its LAN tournaments, and the forums that surrounded it. At my high school, I started the first computer club (where we mostly played 1.6). I even launched a startup a few years ago[1] which was still tangentially related to gaming and esports.

CS taught me how to lead a team, how to win (more importantly, also how to lose). How to look for qualities that matter in people (which I think made me pretty good at hiring), and how to pursue goals in spite of adversity. At my peak, my team was the top 5 teams in CS:Source in North America and we placed (I think) top 8 at CPL 2005. I'm still way better than the average first person shooter player, but my reaction time, which used to be ~150ms, is now a noticeably worse ~220ms.

I cannot emphasise how much impact Counter-Strike made on my personal life (for better or for worse). The real story is that I also played because we moved a lot, I had few local friends, and it also provided a great escape from the tough life of an immigrant kid in a strange new country. It's a silly, pointless, little game, but, like all games, it's also a metaphor for life. Happy 25th birthday, Counter-Strike!

[1] https://www.pcgamer.com/introducing-gameref-the-anti-cheat-h...
150 cars long! 90000 horsepower! May Immortan Joe live forever!!! To the Vineyards!
I don’t understand your point. One should get away with a crime because others are getting away with it? Even if Julian Assange was a Russian spy (which I highly doubt), what difference does it make regarding the crimes he exposed?

You can’t diminish facts depending on who is telling them - as long as these are facts.
> UX patterns are different in Asia by the way.

I would be interested in elaboration on this.

> so it’s a little weird you think [thing they definitely did not say they think]

Uh huh.