skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So would this be a way to terraform Mars? It would take a few million or billion years, but it would be cheap. There might be ways to speed up the process, for example by introducing multiple bacteria so you don't have to wait for them to evolve into the necessary forms. Start the process near the poles where there is some water. Would require the ability to dig deep holes on Mars. Analyzing samples from the holes might help target the best locations. A side benefit is that this might be a way to discover existing bacterial life on Mars. If life once did exist on Mars, underground seems a likely place for it to have retreated to.
OOM means "Out Of Memory". The post is about CPU.

> Everything in this post is about CPU and not memory.
Distrust in Big Tech Fuels Adblocker Usage Among 52% of Americans
I like this interview question. It's perfectly solvable without a calculator as the interviewer said. It doesn't rely on having memorized some weird binary tree inversion algorithm. It tests the ability to take facts that you already know (e.g. 2^8 or 2^10) and use them to solve a problem that might appear out of reach at first glance.
It's a fantastic drive if you've never done it
Love the blurb in your bio.
> Im sure I would NOT want to work with such person.

Well that's the opposite of what the interviewers are looking for. They DO want to work with such people.
AFAICT it’s used in professional applications and software does not need to be constantly updated, especially if it’s not for the web.
Its subjective. I think "I don't know" is a honest and better answer than to pretend that you know and waste interviewer's time.
A month ago, my 4 yr old daughter made a pet rock, fluffy, in preschool. So they haven't completely died out.

(She also complained that my cube was no longer "pretty" when I solved it.)
imagine if you could just park an icebergmountain on a small lake..all the power of a damed lake, none of the megastructure.
The Supreme Court decision wasn't absolute immunity?

So...kinda the same?
>But seems like half the work force is stoned now.

I live in a legal state and I haven't noticed this. The only place I've heard of any significant amount of people working stoned is Colorado and it was that way decades before legalization.
According to Scott Aaronson's blog post on this, there are 16,679,880,978,201 5-state Turing machines. I wonder if we know what percentage of them halt?

Edit: number of TM for n states: (4n + 1)^(2n). Found this (for smaller n), which is the kind of analysis I was curious about: https://github.com/LukasKalbertodt/beaver
Some other fad toys that persist:

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hula-hoop-patent...

https://www.si.edu/spotlight/yo-yo

https://time.com/3667058/frisbee-history/
Apple Bug Makes Cheating Husband's Lawsuit Not Insane
And you call that a success story? :D
Most of the Antd components wrap `rc-[x]` components[0] with a stylish UI.

In the past we've found Antd doesn't play well with custom components, and can often have weird performance implications.

It was a decent way to get a nice UI up fast, but we quickly found a need to build custom components or go elsewhere.

Styling was also a bit of a pain iirc, though I believe things are better with Antd 4+.

At my new gig we use Tailwind + shadcn, plus an increasing number of GPT-generated one-off components :)

[0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/rc-popover
What does your employment agreement look like? I'm curious if you can obtain a boring engineering job while asserting that "you (employer) will not, nor ever try to assert ownership or claims over code written when not-on-the-clock."

If the job is boring but the employment agreement puts your hobby projects at risk, because they can assert ownership is it worth it?

I'm guessing it's totally boring until you invent a novel algorithm as a hobby, at which point they are suddenly highly interested in being cutting edge and taking your creation.
You have just described in plain words why tech interview processes are beyond f-ed up.

Not every programmer is skilled to be an interviewer. Not every manager is skilled to be a hiring manager.
OmniAI (YC W24) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer in SF
Israel is actively committing a genocide right now. How is doing business with them not support for that?
Assuming the quotes are accurate, interviewer was indeed being a bit of a dick, but being able to tell approx how many bits a number needs is something I'd expect any programmer to be able to do, and I would also give negative feedback to someone who could not do that in an interview.
Americans own 70% of the U.S. Government debt which is roughly $21T. The other 30% is held in large part by Japan and China--both of which do not want to see a failure in the U.S. economy. The IMF has little to offer to U.S. economic policy, in my opinion.
Tests might be a valid use case, but doesn't seem to be the goal here and there are some solutions out there if you dont want to start a lightweight broker in a container.

Why would you want to use the SQS protocol in production without targeting the SQS "broker" as well? The timing and the AWS imposed quotas are bound to be different.

There are plenty brokers that fit different needs. I don't see the SQS protocol especially with security and so on in mind as a good fit in this case.
Ask HN: Transitioning from Machine Learning Researcher to Engineer
I recently earned my PhD in applied machine learning with focus on NLP. Although I've started my career with a title of "research engineer," my role leans heavily towards research rather than engineering. I've noticed that most job opportunities where I'm considered a strong candidate tend to be research-oriented. However, I don't envision myself in a long-term career focused on publishing papers; instead, I'm more interested in the ML engineering.

Could anyone share insights or advice on transitioning from a research-focused role to a more engineering-centric position in the field of machine learning? What steps should I take to make myself a more attractive candidate for engineering roles?
Dual monitors are very useful when you have one window you are working on 80% of the time reference material you look at 20% of the time. It is quicker to look over than to flip through 20 open programs to find the reference material.
> This strikes me as fairly petty “I didn’t answer wrong, you asked me the wrong questions!”. Honestly it’s the recruiting process working as intended - folks with this type of attitude don’t make good team members in my experience.

Imagine some weird employer where a narcissist has managed to capture the hiring process. They might well ask the wrong questions to torment, and in that case someone who became flustered could well say that to them without it being petty and without the hiring process working as intended. So no, I don't believe necessarily that someone with "that attitude" would always make poor team members.

> Now it seems like their mantra is just “Be evil”.

I know it's just empty rhetoric for most, when they use the word "evil"... but it's still amusing to me. How many times do you have to flippantly suggest that they're evil before you start to believe it literally, and what happens when you start to literally believe that? Is it possible to remain rational afterward?
Judge orders surprise release of Epstein transcripts
Well yes I'm using something familiar, to embed the HTML and JS directly. But want to embed a webpacked entity, and have it run through a typescript compiler. But would like something driven from build.rs
The problem is that the Kubernetes CPU scheduler is... not great.

There are many instances where it will throttle CPU of a pod way before it even reaches the requested amount, let alone the limits. This is only true if you set limits. If you don't, it will always have the requested amount available, plus whatever can be spared that's not in use by other processes. It will throttle at most down to the requested amount, and in most cases not at all.
Very true. Unfortunately a lot of the junior engineers I've spoken with would be happy to have any job and can't afford to be picky anymore. Such is the state of the hiring market :(
Why is Clojure so stable? (2018)
There's such a thing as righteous hate
> The research on artillery rounds by Bain & Company, which drew on publicly available information, found that Russian factories were forecast to manufacture or refurbish about 4.5 million artillery shells this year compared with a combined production of about 1.3 million rounds across European nations and the US.

Rheinmetall intends to increase their annual production to 750k by 2025 and the US is aiming for 1 million annually by 2025. That's still much less than Russia and that's before considering they have access to the significant reserves and the factories in North Korea.

> Since August, Pyongyang has shipped about 6,700 containers to Russia, which could accommodate more than 3 million rounds of artillery shells or more than 500,000 rounds for multiple rocket launchers, according to the South Korean Defense Ministry.

https://news.sky.com/story/russia-is-producing-artillery-she...

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/07/asia/north-korea-artiller...

https://www.rheinmetall.com/en/media/news-watch/news/2024/02...

https://www.army.mil/article/274905/munitions_for_ukraine_ob...
I mean,

> Competitiveness is a vice of mine. When I heard that a friend got Linux to boot off of NFS, I had to one-up her. I had to prove that I could create something harder, something better, faster, stronger.

sounds like they're well aware of the traditional way to do it, and are deliberately going out of their way to do something different and weird.
depends what you're talking about and what your criteria is. In gamedev, studios typically use a retopology tool like topogun (https://www.topogun.com/) to aid in the creation of efficient topologies, but it's still a manual task, as different topologies have different tradeoffs in terms of poly count, texture detail, options for how the model deforms when animated, etc. For example you may know that you're working on a model of a player character in a 3rd person game where the camera is typically behind you, so you want to spend more of your budget on the _back_ of the model than the _front_, because the player is typically looking at their character's back. If your criteria is "find the minimum number of polygons", sure, it's solved. That's just one of many different goals, and not the goal that is typically used by gamedev, which I assume to be a primary audience of this research.
It depends. I use the free models and most tasks are better on 4o, but I fairly often get better results with Claude. I often try the same task on both when I'm not satisfied with the first answer I get.
Can this potentially support :

- Image Input to 3D model Output

- 3D model(format) as Input

Question: What is the current state of the art commercially available product in that niche?
I love these threads. They always show what an absolute dice roll the interview process is. OP rates people taking a best guess at a problem they don't know as a positive character trait, this one rates it as a character flaw.

Google didn't reject the candidate, the interview loop he got rejected him for any of the myriad of knee-jerk split-second decisions made on the candidate's character in an unnatural and stressful environment.

I've been in hundreds of interview loops at $Megacorp. You can stack the deck with preparation, but sometimes you just hit a loop that doesn't click with you.
That map of Spanish dialect difficulty... I can confirm.
Agree with Daksh in the sibling comment. I think it's like you said - different people have different workflows and some might prefer using VSCode. IME though, most data scientists (and all data analysts) I worked with preferred using the company hosted internal Jupyter instance for their work.

Also, as we build more features, we're definitely going in the direction of more analytics workloads (live collaboration, leaving comments, google-doc type versioning, fully AI driven analyses similar to OpenAI Interpreter mode etc) and with these features, I think there will be a clear divergence of feature-set in VSCode/PyCharm vs Pretzel.

If I may ask, are you more on the engineering side (MLE) or more on the data side (Data Analyst)? EDIT: Just saw your other comment!
On average, you are still not going to see the effects of smoking for many years to decades. You might get some exceptions but almost all cases it will take many years of pretty heavy smoking.
Don't approve it! That's actually a thing you can do.
Yeah, you type it into a calculator. In what universe would I need to know this answer and NOT type it into a calculator? It isn't because I can't work it out, it's because I am a dumb human who makes mistakes and if I am trying to work out that exact number, it is because it matters. And if it matters, I don't want to fuck it up.
Very few of us have had to do difficult math in a high pressure social situation. Having someone sitting there and pushing for instant answers is just going to sink most candidates for no real reason.

I've found you often need to directly ask the interviewer not to do what they're doing when they try this sort of thing. Sometimes they're just bored and want to talk because there has been a moment of silence, or because they're enamored with their interview question.
There's definitely money being made buying dollars now to sell them to the BOJ later. They "intervene" by buying yen with dollars. And they always eventually intervene. So why use your own money to buy these dollars? Borrow those dollars instead. What happens if they don't intervene or start seriously for reals this time start raising rates? Those borrowed dollars that are themselves borrowed from someone else that are borrowed from someone else that are.... Well you get the idea. That's the fear, but will it actually happen? Will politicians that line their pockets with all the interest from that borrowed money allow it? How long can this go on?
It is what I usually call the "TV" or "media" standard. Same in french, the french language you listen on TV is very uncommon if you actually talk to french people from different areas of France and it is not even common in Paris.
Starck reminder that some founders/CEO are little more than immature people with too much power in their hands.
> Chileans really do speak their very own language

Only informally. Formal Chilean Spanish is probably one of the most understandable ones, accent-wise. (There's still some vocabulary differences)
You could be surprised.

For example, recently I wanted to call `gettid()` in a signal handler.
Which I guessed was just a simple wrapper around the syscall.

However, it seems this can cache the thread ID in thread local storage (can't remember exact details).

I switched to making a syscall instead.
I live in a legal state, you can definitely smell it coming from cars around you in traffic and when you park next to cars in parking lots. I'm pro-legalization, but it does sorta suck how often you have to smell it.
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The point of the question is to see your problem solving skills, not if you have your 2s memorized. Anyone with basic math skills should be able to arrive at the answer.
Doesn't the Constitution also say that the military cannot operate domestically?
Chilenos weones
I have to admit, as a coder, I do everything "MMU": huge address space slice once, then only release what I know I am finished with.
Someone who doesn't handle rejection well are often were not told no a lot growing up. I personally went through this phase and so I have a bit of sympathy for OP.

Looking back at my younger self and this person I can't help but cringe. It was a long uphill battle to be okay with rejection and I still struggle with it but I can't change my natural emotional response but I can control how I react to rejection.

I hope that OP will find his way without channelling his anger in ways that is counter-productive.
Credit where it's due, unlike most of these papers they do at least show some of their models sans textures on page 11, so you can see how undefined the actual geometry is (e.g. none of the characters have eyes until they are painted on).
> but Discord? In this day and age?

Discord IS the platform of this day and age, what the hell are you talking about? You might not like Discord for whatever reasons, but trying to make it sound outdated or legacy is very weird sounding.
More than any of that, it's influenced by Mapuzungun in a way other countries just aren't exposed - Argentina's Conquest of the Dessert was more brutal, and is the only other modern country where Mapuche land was.
Gatorade isn't a sport beverage. You will never see it in a dedicated sport nutrition shop or alley for instance and it is probably consumed more by sedantary overweight diabetic people than people actually practicing sports. I have been an elite athlete for years and never seen anyone using gatorade in my races.
Seriously; we could good big tech alternatives if more people in this field could communicate clearly.
>I don't know why the author is chasing his chickens back to the pen. They normally want to go back to the coop to roost at night on their own.

I assume people like to put the chickens to bed before the chickens are actually ready to go to be themselves.
I thought it would be dense, but it was lighthearted and didn't take itself too seriously, and both shared information and fun questions to ask. I enjoyed the speculation which had not even a shred of political or social agenda anywhere in sight. Just pure fun.
Well I’m not that interviewer, but I’m pretty sure that getting the exact answer is not really the point of the exercise. Understanding how the candidate thinks, does mental calculations, etc. is the point, and anyone that is hostile to this basic exercise is probably too unpleasant to be a desirable coworker anyway.
They seem to admit as much in Table 1 which indicates this model is not capable of "clean topology". Somewhat annoyingly, they do not discuss topology anywhere else in the paper (at least, I could not find the word "topology" via Ctrl+F).
English is not everyone's native language.
It's still good to do well at interviewing even for jobs that aren't the best fit for you, because whether you want to take those jobs or not, it will help you when negotiating for the job you really want to have those other offers in hand.
Well the goal is to create companies or teams with a consistent sense of what is positive vs a flaw
The mobile component library was entirely Chinese when I used it 3-5 years ago. You could still build responsive webapps using the standard components with English docs, though.
Compose is nicely user-extensible (~/.XCompose) for those with domain-specific needs; it's one of the few workstation-era holdovers that DesktopLinux™ hasn't ruined yet.
Fair enough, I have also worked with people like that. On the other end, asking asinine questions with limitations id never have in real life is also NPC stuff. I would say if an interviewer is getting dead eyed “I don’t know” answers a lot, it says something about the questions they are asking as much as the quality of interviewees they are getting.
I think it should be fairly standard expectation to be asked relevant questions to your expertise and not trivia. The interview seemed like a really low-signal interrogation where the folks that pass such an intense "psychological game" don't necessarily correlate to required expertise on the job.

I do agree that the spite aspect could have been reduced or removed. In fact, I couldn't really see the point the article makes: they had a bad interview, a 15 year gap, then they're building yet another search engine... to contest Google?
> but what's going on here?

I'm wondering the same thing. Google gives me _exactly_ what I want without me having to add keywords or cajole it. All of these other search engines give me such weird irrelevant results. If I search "python reverse string" on YaCy's demo peer, the third result is the ArchWiki page on ... MATLAB.

I really wish I knew what to do to help the situation here because distributed p2p search engines seem so cool. But then again, Google wouldn't be so dominant if it were so easy.
And these sorts of hazing rituals are how that changes.
Vercel.

- Vercel hired the founder as well as a few core-maintainers to just work on Svelte(Kit) full-time. So Vercel tends to have the best class support for SvelteKit.

- Other platforms like Netlify and Cloudflare have officially maintained adapters too.

- SvelteKit was designed as serverless-first, but Node and even static deployments (like Github pages) are supported, too
Are train derailments becoming more common in the US? (2023)
Difficult math? You just have to multiply 2s until you reach >56mil, and you can just round up (i.e 16k -> 32k -> 64k).
I'm not talking about the inner language semantics (which mostly don't matter, other than what optimizations they allow - particularly static typing and SROA), but the implementation of the interpreters themselves.
True, the hiring process working as intended - I don’t want to work for an employer that would waste my time having me solve irrelevant problems to placate some weirdly misplaced ego-driven attitude. Seems fairly gatekeepy, and I think it selects for a certain type of cult member, not necessarily “good team members.”

In my interviews I now throw out these dumb google style questions, not to see how they think, but to see how they react to a silly question. The person I’d like to hire, when asked “how would you calculate how many ping pong balls fit in a 747?” they would answer “I wouldn’t.” Only one so far has given me an answer like that and has been delightful to work with.
I agree. Argentine and Uruguayan Spanish are very close. I'd expect to have seen .85 or so. Argentine and Chilean Spanish are not that far apart either -- or at least they weren't 30 years ago.
Depression is a lot like being drunk. There’s a point where you wish you could puke and get it over with but it’s just not happening. As I understand it there’s a lot of ex football players in this state. Just hopelessly miserable but not on suicide watch. Or on their way to Parkinson’s.
The paper suggests Rodin Gen-1 [0] is capable of image-to-shape generation.

[0] https://hyperhuman.deemos.com/rodin
Meshroom, if you have enough images ;)
Have you checked out where there seems to be untapped market need/opportunity? i.e. disproportionately high-obesity states with disproportionately-low density of clinics?
(17* years) Discussion (17 points, yesterday, 18 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40845559
If it were them would you be surprised that they wanted to remain anonymous?
Component libraries are the major reason I’m still using React.

It would be so much nicer using something like Elixir LiveView for the kind of apps I’m developing. But having to implement so many basic components from scratch just doesn’t make sense.

I mean I can fully see the downsides of introducing big 3rd dependencies into a codebase but not using them would be (in my opinion) a huge waste of time.

Isn’t this a problem for other people (that aren’t using component libraries) as well?

How can anyone be productive with non React/Vue stacks for that reason?

I’d really wish there would be other solutions (web components) so I hadn’t rely on React.
UEFI provides a pretty complete environment; it would probably not be too hard to write a .efi program that connected to network and downloads whatever you want from Google Drive (or anywhere else) into RAM and runs it. For that matter, IIRC Linux can already build a combined kernel+initrd into a .efi, so you could make this semi-generic by writing a gdrive.efi that downloaded an arbitrary .efi from gdrive and booted it.
I just use PyCharm and Copilot plugin. Works like a charm.