skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure it's like 4 long articles/diatribes smashed together with little bridge between them.

But I still love it. This capture the zeitgeist of where we are all too well. From pointing out the destructive cycle where only huge already well off companies are any good to work at, to hammering on the absurdly poor tech interviews, this is some decent almost-gonzo journalism that talks to the place & time, and boy are we at a wacky junction.

Rarely does it seem like there are sensible people steering the ship. It all feels madcap. And for reasons listed making new things is incredibly scary, hard, & long, isn't a desirable path for most employees.
Ask a question like “Why do EVs use less electricity per mile when it is 100 than 70 degrees outside” and then reverse the question.

You’ll get two answers that totally contradict each other.

“Electric vehicles (EVs) use less electricity per mile in warmer temperatures (around 100 degrees) compared to cooler temperatures (around 70 degrees) primarily due to the following reasons:

1. *Battery Efficiency*: EV batteries operate more efficiently in warmer temperatures. Cold weather can reduce the battery's ability to hold a charge and increase internal resistance, leading to higher energy consumption.

2. *Thermal Management Systems*: In cooler temperatures, the EV’s thermal management system works harder to keep the battery at an optimal operating temperature, consuming more energy. Conversely, in warmer weather, less energy is required to maintain this temperature.

3. *Reduced Heating Requirements*: When it’s around 100 degrees, the need for cabin heating is eliminated, whereas at 70 degrees, some heating might still be required for comfort, consuming additional energy.

4. *Air Conditioning Efficiency*: While air conditioning is used more in hotter weather, modern EVs are designed to be highly efficient in cooling compared to heating, leading to lower overall energy consumption even when the AC is in use.

These factors combined result in lower electricity consumption per mile in warmer conditions compared to cooler ones.”

Reversed:

“ Electric vehicles (EVs) use more electricity per mile in extreme temperatures (both hot and cold) due to the increased energy demands of their climate control systems. Here’s why:

1. *Air Conditioning in Hot Weather:* When it’s 100 degrees outside, the EV’s air conditioning system has to work harder to cool the cabin to a comfortable temperature. This requires additional energy from the battery.

2. *Battery Cooling:* High temperatures can affect the performance and longevity of the battery. To protect the battery, the EV’s thermal management system will actively cool the battery, consuming more electricity.

3. *Increased Resistance:* High temperatures can slightly increase the electrical resistance in the battery and other components, which can lead to marginally higher energy consumption.

In contrast, at a moderate temperature like 70 degrees, the demands on the air conditioning and thermal management systems are much lower, resulting in more efficient energy use.”
Damn... I know it won't happen, but imagine Apple building out a device in a form factor similar to this case, using the extra internal space (compared to an apple watch) for a really nice DAC + headphone jack... I'd buy it. A streaming iPod! WatchOS would need some tweaks, but really most of the software is there.
A brief interview with Awk creator Dr. Brian Kernighan (2022)
Landless Theatre in DC is doing a show right now called "Tom Lehrer Is Alive And Well And Has Given Away All Rights To His Music". Definitely the best title of any show at Capital Fringe this year. Reviews are very positive.

https://capitalfringe.org/events/tom-lehrer-is-alive-and-wel...
Which of the factual statements do you count as an opinion?
Agreed that it's a soft skills interview at that point for the interviewee, but I think what OP above may be pointing at is that if you've got a good solution, and your interviewer is getting mad... maybe you as the interviewee are getting culture fit signals from the interviewer?

Wanting the job might be down to you needing money. OK, use the soft skills, and make the interviewer happy. If you don't particularly need the money right now, then evaluate whether you want to work with this interviewer at all.
>Healthy adults were tracked before, during and for 3 weeks after high-dose psilocybin (25 mg) and methylphenidate (40 mg), and brought back for an additional psilocybin dose 6–12 months later.

Not simultaneously I hope.. that sounds like it would be a rough ride
Too bad there isn't a test for "fucks given." That would weed out about 80% of applicants. I can work with just about anyone who passes that test.
We can only imagine the proliferation on the application of "rebuttable presumption".

Is DNA evidence yet another form of "rebuttable presumption" in Wales & England?
Vitalik is pretty based.
"The setup in this documentation will help you recover X% more measurement signals on your website."

Caught! The conclusion was written before they actually knew if it worked.
Incidentally, I read a post today which swore that the only way to get hired is NOT to rely on network. Because hiring managers receive so many applications if you don't get your app in the first 24 hours it's guaranteed to be rejected.
I think the network thing works only for smaller companies.
There's also the annoying other side where Amazon shipped a clearly underweight package but refuses to acknowledge their own equipment's measurement for a return. The person bought a 7-8 pound graphics card and the package only weighed a little over 1 pound according to the package's own shipment info. Amazon is still giving the guy the run around demanding police reports etc when it clearly left the depot without the gpu.
>psilocybin is one of the few treatments in the wild right now showing any hope of treating long term PTSD.

CBT, EMDR and SSRIs are effective, empirically-supported treatments for PTSD. For people who don't benefit from established treatments, psilocybin is just one of dozens of different potential treatments currently being researched.

https://clinicaltrials.gov/search?cond=Posttraumatic%20Stres...

Psilocybin might be an effective treatment for some patients with PTSD, but there's a dangerous hype bubble surrounding psychedelics that simply doesn't match up to the evidence. We need to be extremely careful about generalising from anecdotal reports and small unblinded trials. Psilocybin might be a huge advance, it might be only marginally more effective than current treatments, or the risks might substantially outweigh the benefits in real clinical populations - we just don't know yet.
The rules are "don't delete and repost", not "don't repost" (and this isn't just me rules-lawyering, I believe it's the intended interpretation)
Are the scare quotes around wisdom because you're embarrassed to admit that such a thing exists? ;)

Since it seems you've thought about it a bit, I'm interested to hear your definition of what is / isn't wisdom in an engineering context.
Oh look, carcinisation for Apple products.

ipodisation: the tendency for non-iPod Apple products to evolve iPod-like features over time.
Big congrats on the official launch!

Slightly tooting my own horn here, but at OpenPipe we've got a collaboration set up with Traceloop. That means you can record your production traces in Traceloop then export them to OpenPipe where you can filter/enrich them and use them to fine-tune a super strong model. :)
You made up your own definition of politician to prove your point. Thats fallacious reasoning. I was in politics for four years not for power but to help people organize and prevent corporate takeover of family farms. Get bent, dude.
Are you sure it wasn't always meant to just be a preorder + data harvesting scam?
Even if you were right, I'd still chose that society over death. I am not convinced though, wealth seems to dissipate over long periods (e.g. most billionaires today did not inherit their wealth).
> Most jobs are now hoops after hoops, not taking into consideration your particular profile or the contributions you can make.

I’ve done some mentoring of CS grads for the past few years. We some times get people with unreasonable interview demands, like companies asking them to make an entire app or website for the interview process. We advise them to decline the really excessive ones. However, it’s rare to see that.

Often we’ll get people complaining about excessive interview loops, but when they describe the process it adds up to around 4-5 hours total. I think the expectations for interviews became really distorted during the period a few years ago when some companies were hiring anyone willing to do a short interview. Many younger engineers entered the workforce when that was normal and now any amount of interviewing feels unreasonable.

I frequently have to convince people to do simple take-home problems (often 60 minutes or less, I see them because they post them into the chat frequently) because Reddit tells them to decline all take homes. Some days I’m pulling my hair out because someone who has been unemployed for months has valiantly refused yet another take home problem that could have moved their application forward with a minimal time investment.

Another problem I’m seeing a lot is people who halt their job search as soon as they receive a response from a company. We have to repeat over and over again that job searches are a parallel process, not a sequential one. It really hurts candidates who interview with one slow company and then wait around for months for a response before they move on to the next application.

While there are definitely some excessive interview loops out there, the average case honestly isn’t as bad as I read about on the internet.
Exactly. Most of the medium difficulty interview questions are just typical cs algorithms that you are supposed to know. If you are a competent software engineer, it doesn't take long to just brush up and get enough practices for all of them.
I have also been in the industry for 20 years, I get where he is coming from, I also "failed" interviews at GOOG and AMZN for the reason he explained, but I'm not bitter, in fact I feel guilt if anything for how easy my life has been as far as work goes.

Being the guy that actually understands the infrastructure means you never get fired because they know they really need you from time to time.

But overall those of us that got into software and hardware 20 years ago did it because we enjoy it. We are in a much better situation than the faker people who are doing this work out of necessity.
What a fun and cool idea on such a horrid web page. I am curious what it can do, but whatever is going on is illegible and busted for me. I literally couldn't read any text on the left half of the page.

I managed to scroll down to a price and for what appears to be a tech toy $80 isn't the worst price, people burn more on a 3d only to make 1 toy boat that doesn't float then stuff it in a closet.

EDIT - Why the rollercoaster of upvotes and downvotes?

Their page is busted, the toy seems neat. If you are downvoting can you explain why? Do you disagree about the toy? Did the webpage work for you?
Maybe a basic question, but if jobs are hard to come by, why is unemployment low?
This is true for the top, known' brands as well.

Wyze camera (top seller on Amazon) is a Tianjin Hualai Technology camera https://www.hualaikeji.com/en/product

Roku just rolled our a similar cube-shaped cam (you can tell by the overall design).

There's very little real innovation happening in consumer cameras right now.
Mini PCs Database
A different take: All companies are built on relationships. Large companies are a form of nepo companies where you get paid for a relationship to the management chain.
Around 1% of people have schizophrenia. This holds over a lifetime - there's a structural, unavoidable component to the person's neural wiring or physiology that will result in a schizophrenic break. Prior to the break, they may seem more or less normal, but after, they will experience deficits in cognition and perception, and may have significant barriers to living a normal life.

Schizophrenics, as a rule, will have a psychotic break before they turn 45. Psychoactive substances, and high doses of psychedelics, will trigger breaks from reality earlier than they might otherwise happen. Stress, caffeine, trauma, or significant excitement can also be triggers, but psychedelic drug trips are a reliable trigger, and in conjunction with other effects, can spiral a "bad trip" into a much worse trauma.

Another 3 to 4% of the population have significant mental disorders, ranging from those we know, to those we can observe but don't have a good diagnostic criteria for. In these cases, it can be very detrimental to use psychoactive substances generally, and psychedelics in particular.

It's crucial to visit with a doctor to rule out the likelihood that you're in the roughly one in twenty people that might have a significant negative reaction to psychedelics. Some of the people in that camp might be safe from harm later in life. I know a person with significant family history of schizophrenia and earlier life indicators he was at risk, who then started using mushrooms in his 50s and seems very stable. He talked things over with his doctors before deciding to take the risk - apparently after you turn 45 it's incredibly rare, even with significant trauma and stressors, for schizophrenic breaks to occur, so if that's your main threat, it might be safe to engage in psychedelics when you're older.

If you're not in the high risk camp, you should still have at least one frank discussion with your doctor about pitfalls, and do a metric ton of personal research about any substance you intend to use. It can be a profound and wonderful departure from the norm, or a mildly unpleasant experience, or a stressful confrontation with your inner demons, depending on the dose and preparation.
Notion takes 15s to load to an empty page. Then another 5 to dismiss the popup about new AI features and the like.

I'm glad they are making their app faster, in the meantime I (browser user) have cancelled my team's subscription and will be using something else.
> I do need at least one baker capable of drawing a valid orbital configuration.

this way of thinking that contributes to such a toxic job market.

there's too many people applying for too few jobs. that's it.

this bullcrap about inflation, baking bread, interest rates, team building are all symptoms of entitlement.

if you only had 2 applicants you wouldn't be thinking that way.
Receiving a controlled dose of psilocybin in a supervised medical environment is not the same as tripping balls off shrooms you bought from the guy down the street. I think OP is cautioning vulnerable people against rashly self-administering psychedelics because they think it will solve all their problems. I do not think he believes all research and use of psilocybin should be stopped because of one tragic accident.
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> It doesn't have a standard Android interface. The only interface is through the Rabbit app, so by definition the app must also handle WiFi at some point.

Per the article, this is a new development. It originally shipped with the Settings app, albeit hidden. They could have easily linked to the WiFi page; I have a hotspot which does just that but overall obscures the Settings page away.
>That's the 10x use case

It might be, or it might be a ritual that has no meaningful benefit. There's a huge amount of hype around psychedelics, but extremely limited evidence with a very high risk of bias.
Because the Red and Blue agents are both trying to convince a smaller language model of the rightness of their answer, they each have to simplify their logic and wording down.

This feels like the ML equivalent of the old adage "If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
My hunch feels validated. I think it highly depends on area affected because vasoconstriction decreases limphatic throughbout as well as bloodflow. Still highly case-by-case but I think lowering inflammation in load bearing or complex joints like knees or ankles is conducive to nominal operation and therefore healing. (100% rest not recommended, as repair byproducts accumulate and don't clear away, and decreases bloodflow rsults in lower delivery of nutrients, building blocks of tissue, etc.
It's hard to make a fair comparison, because there hasn't been anywhere near as much money, effort, or compute invested in trying to scale up routing methods.

Promising approaches are often ignored for reasons that have little to do with their merits. For example, Hinton, Bengio, and Lecun spent much of the 1990's and all of the 2000's in the fringes of academia, unable to get much funding, because few others were interested in or saw any promise in deep learning! Similarly, Katalin Karikó lost her job and spent almost two decades in obscurity because few others were interested or saw any promise in RNA vaccines!

Now, I'm not saying routing methods will become more popular in the future. I mean, who the heck knows?

What I'm saying is that promising approaches can fall out of favor for reasons that are not intrinsic to them.
I have, in fact, not heard of the Rabbit R1. And the link in TFA leads to some weird promo video instead of something informative. Does anyone have a succinct explanation of what the article is talking about?

Edit: nm, I commented before reading other comments. Anyone else confused should read jylam's comment explaining.
I saw a thing a few months ago where someone was trying to get some milk tested and the testing facility refused to do it without permission of the producer.

No law demanded this, it was just a business on one side of the industry looking out for the interests of one on another, to all of our detriment.
Without navel-gazers, we'd still be farming our feudal lord's land and sending our 4 year old children to work in coal mines. If anything, progress requires navel-gazing, and we need more of it.
Yeah, that’s an incredibly short timeframe, done on a Friday with what looks like an 8-hour time difference.

Back before bug bounties, the industry mostly coalesced around RFPolicy[0] in terms of security notification and response timelines. Upon establishing initial contact, five business days were given for a response before public disclosure if no response was received.

To me five business days seems appropriate if you’re acting in good faith and truly interested in hearing a response. It doesn’t feel like that was the intent; it feels more like a weak attempt to use the lack of response to pile on further.

https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/23364/rfpolicy-2.0.txt...
Yea, cause everyone who is already writing C++ is really good at it and good at not writing bugs.
The article also explains that the log issue was fixed a week before this article was posted, but it’s buried at the bottom.

> They could have easily linked to the WiFi page;

The device has an extremely small display and no keyboard. The stock WiFi settings app would not be a good experience.
It’s okay to recognize that something serves a great purpose in a controlled, therapeutic setting but may lead to unpredictable results in an uncontrolled environment. People without experience should absolutely be cautious.

And to the original commenter: Thank you for sharing your story, I am very sorry for your loss.
> As in, a person who has used and learned a dozen plus languages but only tacitly used C++ suddenly will be a complete invalid when trying to write in C++?

I've switched at least 5 languages professionally and used probably 5 more for extended periods of time and wrote a decent chunk of C++ "back in the day". I'd say C++ is the least suitable for "learn on the job" approach out of any language I can think of (I'm lumping C in there) - soo many footguns all over the place and very little to guide you to the right path.

They are at fault for even starting the conversation without making it obvious is a hard requirement.
I think you’re right, I see that his resume links to Distinguished Engineer roles at Google / Amazon. Which … I don’t know. At my FAANG-adjacent company, there have only ever been _low_ single-digit number of ICs at that level. We’re talking 0.1-0.3% of all engineers. And they had insane track records.

And FWIW I think that there’s at least an order of magnitude more “happy L5s” older than 40 at FAANGs than senior staff+
Sure. My point is that it's not a super clear-cut line or definition.
As I said in another post, the mental illness is not the issue here, the immediate access to a gun while blasted on shrooms is.
> Using SQLite improved page navigation times by 20 percent in all modern browsers.

Couldn't you cache the data in LocalStorage and get similar speed improvements?

I mean, how to run SQLite in the browser is a great topic and surely has a lot of very good use cases. But attributing the performance improvements to it sounds a bit misleading, when you had no client caching strategy before and you do now. Obviously loading data from a local cache is faster than loading data from a remote server.

Comparing WASM SQLite vs. other client caching solutions (LS, IndexDB, etc) could be interesting. In terms of perf, complexity, compatibility, storage capacity, query language, etc.
> How many times do you think you can do that?

I mean, maybe a couple more times? privatizing healthcare specifically has been studying extensively and is very likely to save large sums of money
In general, people are completely uninterested in experience that they don't understand, I've found. They don't want to even ask about it because it would showcase that they, gasp, don't know something that you do.
GenAI Sinks into the 'Trough of Disillusionment'
Thank you for clarifying!

I guess math is uniquely suited for this kind of strategy, but would you say it translates to learning concepts in other domains too?

I was thinking about whether something like "what is X?" -> "What field is X used in?", which seems to form a hierarchy for me, would benefit of this technique? Personally, I found that for something like the preceding example, I could answer the second question without thinking about what X is at all, just by rote memorization of the wording. Happened to me quite a lot when I was using Anki. And actually, I guess this is even acceptable in some way, since the question is not about activating "what X is", but "what X is used in". What I am trying to express: I feel like I would not necessarily activate a parent concept by answering a child concept, and I think that might be true for a lot of questions outside math problems, although they form a hierarchy. So I am wondering what you think about the general applicability of this technique...

Please don't take all of this questioning wrong, I think you are doing pretty cool stuff, and I am grateful for everyone trying to push the boundaries of current SRS approaches :-)!
Personally, I think a lot of people are in "test fatigue"

And that is whether or not they think Covid was planned, leaked, or totally random

Relatively high false-positive rates[0] with the PCR test for Covid, imo, factor into that

That, and not wanting to get stuck in some kind of lockdowns again (the negative benefits of which are still being discussed and debated) ... especially for something which, odds are, you have practically no chance of being exposed to ... and most people are going to say, "why test?"

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[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7934325/#:~:tex....