skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There’s a large linguistic diversity within these countries, which that table doesn’t reflect or account for.

I’m pretty sure that’s the case for every country in the world.
Whenever I hear about alternative search engines, I try out a few famous people hoping to see Wikipedia entries towards the top. And almost always I see nonsense.

For instance, if you search for 'Trump', the top links are

```

1. http://www.trump.de — found via Mwmbl -- Trump

2. https://itep.org/md/ — found via Mwmbl -- Trump Tax Proposals Would Provide Richest One Percent in Maryland with 69.7 Percent of the State’s Tax Cuts Earlier this year, the Trump administration r…

3. https://is.gd/mUHYTg — found via Mwmbl --- Trump embraces QAnon conspiracy because ‘they like me’ After skirting the issue for weeks, President Donald Trump offered an embrace Wednesday of the fri…

4. http://dict.cn/trump — found via Mwmbl -- trump是什么意思_trump在线翻译_英语_读音_用法_例句_海词词典

```

Surely there are millions of results more relevant to the phrase 'Trump' than trump.de. The other links aren't better. A random article from 2017? Another one from 2020. A Chinese dictionary definition of 'Trump'?

I get that search is hard, but what's going on here? You can try any phrase, and you just get weird results.
I think it's a negative signal to not have the imagination to realize that anyone who has frozen during an interview due to performance anxiety is well-aware that their freezing was likely a job-candidacy-ending mistake. This is not particularly shocking information and it makes one wonder if you think they're just doing it on purpose or something or that they have control over it.
> you who ranks the search results

The actual link from it says the rankings are, like everywhere else:

> To train a learning to rank model. No matter how many queries are manually curated, most user queries will be organic because of the natural diversity of user queries. Curation is still important for these results since it impacts the machine learning model that will be trained on the curated rankings.

so this not true in the long term.
Or blasting their music from a phone or Bluetooth speaker.
Public opinion is a big deal in democratic countries, which makes them very much averse to loss of soldiers lives. Much less so in a dictatorship like Russia. They are losing more in a month than the US lost in years or decades in active campaigns.
I hate the idea of fearing movement so much that turning your head is “risking neck injury”.

I find it more likely that avoiding head movement causes neck injury. And harboring the idea that movement is something to fear and your body is fragile and unadaptable probably one of the greatest predictors of neck pain.
Yes. In fact, Allen Brady feared as early as 1988 that there would be a totally intractable machine with 5 states [0]:

> Prediction 5. It will never be proved that Σ(5) = 1,915 and S(5) = 2,358,064. (Or, if any larger lower bounds are ever found, the new values may be substituted into the prediction.)

> Reason: Nature has probably embedded among the five-state holdout machines one or more problems as illusive as the Goldbach Conjecture. Or, in other terms, there will likely be nonstopping recursive patterns which are beyond our powers of recognition.

Luckily, this prediction did not come to pass, but only by a margin of one extra state.

[0] Allen Brady, "The Busy Beaver Game and the Meaning of Life", in Rolf Herken (ed.), The Universal Turing Machine: A Half-Century Survey, Oxford University Press, 1988, pp. 259–277. This chapter can also be found in the 2nd ed., Springer, 1995, pp. 237–254.
No… it’s not. But if you know something I don’t the 5 primes will certainly be happy to pay you handsomely for the implementation!
> France actually is one place in Europe where things still work.

What "things" ?
Search engines are dying. Information retrieval and recommendation engines are still mostly living in the dark ages from all the work that's been done in the last 50 years.

Figure that problem out first (something novel and useful), then start marketing yourself.

Right now you just gave us a story we've all lived (academic hazing) without any plan of action -- so 2010.
I sympathize with some of what the author has to say. That said, Google's choice to do business with Israel does not represent "support for genocide." It is also within their prerogative to dismiss employees who protest company policy.

Naive / biased statements such of these cause me to lend less credence to author's other points.
Maybe? I don't use Wechat. But I think it's a good model if it is, though it would be nice if it were an open standard so it wasn't stuck in one app's ecosystem.
The soviets put the first satellite and man in space, so I bet they had functional equipment too
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Yeah. As a former interviewer: this question was stupid. Don't ask a candidate to solve a problem the machine can solve trivially via brute force.
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I thoroughly enjoyed reading the post. A breath of fresh air among all the click-bitey and false buildup so common in content these days. PLEASE DO TRAIN THE GPTs ON THIS GUY
Jet inlet covers intended to prevent foreign object damage - bright red so they can't be missed. Standard for basically every jet turbine.
I am a data scientist myself, one who moved from academia, vide https://p.migdal.pl/blog/2016/03/data-science-intro-for-math....

I used Jupyter Notebook before it was popular and back when I was a PhD student. I pushed in a few places for the unorthodox way of exploring data in a browser. Now, I am back - but only thanks to wonderful code editors and their good support of Jupyter Notebooks. I recommend VSC (or, this year, Cursor) as the default environment for data sci.
I guess it depends on what you mean by impacted. Wind and solar are dependent on the wind and sunshine for producing something. But nuclear is highly dependent on steady supply of cooling water to function, and the failure case for extreme events (for example a large wave hitting Japan) is much worse.
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I agree, but as a candidate you don't have much control over the interviewer you get.
It's really easy to read this as "shitty interviewer runs off good candidate".

It's also easy to read this as "interviewer hand-held a candidate through a problem".
> He continued to ask more questions about numbers of bits. I couldn’t answer any of them without a lot of help. He didn’t ask me about my PhD work building a new theory of natural language semantics.

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.

Also
> At the time “Don’t be evil” still meant something. Now it seems like their mantra is just “Be evil”.

Seems really petty. It’s a shame because we could good big tech alternatives, but building something out of spite without much perspective is unlikely to create a good alternative.
> quitting coffee led quite quickly to nasty headaches

That's caffeine withdrawal. That goes away after awhile, but it depends on how heavy an addict you were.
No, you want to work with people that say, "I don't know, but I think X is true, and here's how I'd find out if that's a correct assumption..."
And they are actively guided onto their targets. Even bullets are aimed by radar and a computer plotting a solution involving the trajectories of the target, your own aircraft, and the bullets themselves.
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Diversity in energy sources is a good point but not strictly an argumemt for nuclear power.

You claim some hypothetical event with china to cross the plans of global low tech solar/wind energy but ignore the impact on constructions of nuclear power plants, which, as previous comment noted, take much longer to build.

> If a source is green, it must be used.

"Green" is a perfect propaganda pitch btw. The actual problems we try to solve are energy source and waste products. Nuclear energy looses on both aspects, which is why its much more expensive (also including risk/complexity).

IMO nuclear power became just another alternative narrative, like ivermectin, because right wingers cant deny covid or climate change anymore and cant bow to the other side.

You have weak arguments against renewable energy and none for nuclear yet you smell propaganda and ideology and dismiss a well sourced comment.
I am using your own arguments against you.

> Besides the fact that no one predicts how much more renewables[/nuclear] can scale [or last], where prices will go, and whether they will be enough. All it takes is one war or a few more tariffs with China to screw up renewable[/nuclear]-only decarbonization.
https://github.com/wjakob/instant-meshes
Waymo got pulled over. What happens next in Phoenix?
Name and shame -- they don't need any investment from the community.
Money quote:

"It's totally a good look for the one company on Earth that has a backdoor into literally everything I own to remind me they might execute Order 66 with Chrome and hack into my computer to remotely disable the floating point array file I just downloaded."
It's an essential skill for reading scientific papers to notice what isn't there. It's as important as what is there.

In my field, analog IC design, if we face a wall, we often do some literature review with a colleague and more often than not, results are not relevant for commercial application. Forget about Monte Carlo, sometimes even there aren't full PVT corners.
Opening LibreCalc just once was enough to prove to me that it's not a viable alternative to Office. Both usability and performance were bad, performance egregiously so.
> Far south: too cold for another country

Chile has an Antarctic claim going all the way to the pole. If you consider that, it's impossible to go further south

If you don't, then we still just run out of land in the Continent. Note that the neighbour competition also applies to Tierra del Fuego, as we've had tensions with Argentina through history over the control of Magallanes Channel.
Misogyny is believing women are less capable than men for certain important things (there are other ways of being misogynistic, but this is one of the most common). Warfare is a very good example.
Spit on your hands, pick up the ax, and chop wood.

The code base won't fix itself.

And it ain't someone else's problem.

Good luck.
> lead to you being in the wrong when copy other humans

How so?

> Why would it be any different if you as a human get an AI to copy another human compared to if you as a human use a paintbrush to copy another human?

No difference indeed. AI is just a tool, like Photoshop or a paintbrush. Unfortunately it's practically impossible to argue in court when two works are "substantially similar" at scale. This happens for extremely high profile cases atm, most artists are copied and never seen a dime, because the definition of "substantially similar" isn't black and white.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/feb/06/damien-...
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Tenerife is a bit like that. 12k feet at the top.
Would you mind sharing your location (even vaguely) ? or maybe another place with similar architecture if you prefer.
I really don’t, not when the question is something as simple as something I can type into a calculator.
Most attempts fail. The "good luck" is warranted.
> Set up your tooling to make the process smooth.

> Leverage automation. Run [..] linters, static checkers [..]

These don't make the process smooth unless you set them up to simply give a warning rather than block the build/merge. And with that they'll likely get ignored anyway.

I think linters/etc should be avoided until you already have buy-in from the team.
Peer review in fundamental science is almost universally understood straightforwardly as part of the process of publishing said science. The other kinds you are referring to (there's actually more than one) are more common in other fields. Peer review in physics is very far from acceptance in general.
It's at the bottom of the article, but note that this interview experience is from 15 years ago.
I think whether or not there’s any truth

It's not entirely untrue and some of the cases where it is are famous but much of the time there were entirely pragmatic considerations and/or consequences of other policy decisions. A few things that come to mind are the many constraints on manufacturing capability and industrial capacity, 'dual use' goals, the size of the country (vs. the quantity of developed infrastructure), etc.
I was talking to Santiaguinos, so I took it with a grain of salt.
If you do NOT know, then answer that you do NOT know, unless you can speculate. Noone is omniscent. I really dont like when people with no knowledge trying guess the answer or speculate without any background. Im sure I would NOT want to work with such person.
up front: this situation is really messed up, this is a close to the opposite of how I got taught to do interviews at google (albeit, nearly a decade later)

conversely, it's reductive to compare it to a generic ban on saying "I don't know"

my first job was a startup I built, starting from being a waiter. There's a lot of people who don't even try, sort of reject the premise of engaging with the question.

Saying "I don't know", then looking at the interviewer, is about the least valuable interaction you can have with an interviewer, and there's a shocking # of people who do that: whether it be freezing up, some sort of implicit commentary on the question, or a form of performance art, whatever the implicit intent is, in 99% of cases, it doesn't serve you at all.

If I ask you how to fluffle nuffle the snorbknobs, you can at least come back with "I don't know, I may have misheard you: I've never heard of fluffle nuffle. Can you give me a hint?". If you're at the end of your rope with tech interviews: "Excuse me, those aren't sensical words, I'm worried you're having a stroke"

"I don't know" and silence is NPC stuff.
> exceedingly doubtful.

I hope you read Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s very important dissent while you're at it.
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Sorry, edited my comment to clarify. Your advice is good, I just don’t like that that’s how so many interviews work.
Well we got Mono and eventually open source .NET from that, so it can work sometimes.
I don't know is the correct answer. I would have brought out "get me your boss" them followed by "your recruiter is an (r-word)"
just to be clear, are you talking about the village being connected to a larger water infrastructure, or specific residents and businesses in the village being connected to the village infrastructure?
> completely freezing during an interview is a super negative signal.

I am sure you also go to your employers and tell them that asking super unnatural questions in a super unnatural pressure environment is also a super negative signal.

You do this right? Right?
In the context of the interview, the "I don't know" is said in a situation where there is no coworker or resource to fall back on. These kinds of questions happen all the time, and the business will generally not accept "I didn't know the answer so I abandoned the whole project - sorry". If you don't know the answer, you work to find it, or you try to work around it.
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I think the whole point of the study is exploratory. Looking for commonality in a search of a cause or suite of factors instead of making assumptions.

Maybe it is a physical phenomenon like adrenal fatigue or brain injury, maybe it isnt; that is why people study it.
Disruption is the way for David to defeat Goliath. See automobile startup taking on horse industry, or electricity taking on candles.
Because Andes?

See also “chilean empire map” (it’s not serious).
* Obvious typo: "data of DokuWiki is arguably more immediately portable... There is no database to administrate in DokuWiki." should replace "data of MediaWiki is arguably more immediately portable...There is no database to administrate in DokuWiki."
> Sounds like the interviewer definitely came on strong …

Possibly, but I’m sure these aren’t exact quotes after 15 years and I expect they reflect how the author remembers feeling a lot more than the actual conversation.
Damn, if the founder/CEO was this obnoxious in the interview, can you imagine what it would be like to actually work there?

The minute that he showed aggression or anger, I 100% would have just walked out. Life is too short for that nonsense.
Probably it does cost less - one imagines rent in Mogadishu is cheaper than in NYC - unless you're somewhere very unstable.
But, I think it doesn't cost nearly as much less as it would in other industries, e.g., manufacturing. The cost of producing a story probably stays fairly similar across countries. And people have much less money to donate or click on the products the ads are hawking, so you're still not getting enough money.
What are the chances this comes from a billionaire-loving GOP state?
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Can this be used for image to 3D generation? What is the SOTA in this area these days?
Rather than quit right now, I'd suggest you try to get a leave of absence. Amazon is a meat grinder, but they've got a leave policy, and it'll probably be better for you to take some time on a leave than to take some time unemployed.
That was my take. Judging by the media response I was looking for orange Satan to emerge from a portal and subjugate us all.
>> think of the possible nth-order effects for five fucking seconds, and you'll see what I mean.

In five seconds I can hardly even get into 2nd order thinking.

How many Ns deep can you go in 5 seconds?

Do you have a halting routine built in so that you can attend to other tasks?
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Indeed. Those interviews measure whether you can dutifully perform the dance the organization wants you to.

But if that doesn't come naturally to them, "prospective interview candidates" might also consider if that's really a problem. There remain plenty of fantastic engineering opportunities that don't involve memorizing dance steps.
I maintain an AUR package which builds a Rust enabled kernel: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linux-rust

So far I just pinned the rustc version used by requiring rustup as a build dependency. Let's see if this lets me drop it or if it is still easier in the end to build with pinned version.
The purpose of that kind of question is not to get a piece of information, it's to evaluate how you go about solving problems that you don't know the answer to and/or don't have immediately obvious ways (like using a calculator) to find the solution.
Yeah I agree, it's not hard to see why he was rejected from his attitude here
A piece of software that hasn’t been touched in 5 years, let alone adopted in any professional production environment? Cool…
If you can't share memory between threads you can't write high performance programs. If you have a global interpreter lock you can't write high performance programs. If your threads can only communicate through channels or IPC you can't have high performance programs.

Languages can't pack your data effectively unless you tell the compiler what data types to use. Array<u8> or Array<s32>? Should ints overflow or not? Unless the programmer specifies what should happen the compiler might pick a data type that is 4x larger than necessary.

Despite all the effort put into javascript engines in the past decades the fastest JS code is cross-compiled C code. Quake II runs perfectly in the browser and it's 140k lines of C. But you can't make games of similar complexity in regular Javascript because the browser would completely choke on it.
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Sorta. That timeline even says it wasn't "Rubik's Cube" until 1980. So that's 46 years.