skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've lived there long enough to consider it a home, but not long enough to become a local. From my point of view, the words that best describe Santa Cruz are "a missed opportunity".

You see a place that could be nice but isn't. It's rough, there are too many cars everywhere, and the locals don't care. (Or they pretend they care, but they don't bother making things work.)

And because it's a small city, you can't avoid facing how remote California is. Pretty much everyone else is at least three time zones away.
Education is a part of culture. The American culture is one that doesn't actually value education. It's one of shortcuts and minimum effort and coasting by checking the boxes along the way to a decent enough paying job, or so we hope. We place value on our social lives much more so. Eg. popularity, sports, fraternities, "the college experience", etc
This writing style is why the guy can't hold down a job.
I send my kids to Singapore Math, because the math curriculum and how they teach math is lacking - it's superficial, they gloss over the concepts.
In schools my kids look at a worked example, then solve problems that very closely follow that example, repeating all the same steps with different numbers. In Singapore math, students must think through the concepts and apply them in new ways from the very start.
This is simple but so effective. When I was 5 or 6 years old, my mom would sometimes give me one page of simple math problems. They were all basic arithmetic, things like 12+17 or 99+99 or 8x7, etc. I did them and got on with my life. They probably didn't take more than 15-20 minutes. They didn't feel like much because they really weren't. I think any 5 year-old can do them.

I believe that whatever little "edge" that gave me in learning math in school compounded exponentially over the years. I always felt "ahead" of the standard school curriculum, and that created a virtuous feedback cycle of success, which bred confidence, which bred success, and so forth.

Just a little nudge here or there at home can make a big difference.
the vortex is called 'the Mystery Spot'
'If you don't have inflammation, then you'll die':

https://www.livescience.com/health/immune-system/if-you-dont...
Yeah looks like they were hoping that if they maximize the word count they will automatically "win" SEO.
Hiring people (mostly engineers) has been my full-time job now for about 15 years and I found myself emphatically agreeing with a lot of Matt's criticisms of modern hiring.

Most tech interviews are as relevant to job performance as if hiring a baker required interviewing them about how electron orbitals bind worked gluten together then rejecting bakers who don’t immediately draw a valid orbital configuration.

Matt's analogy works well for transactional hiring like hiring contractors but doesn't really translate well to situations where the mutual expectation is that we're going to spend a lot of time working together for at least the next few years. Most companies that are hiring engineers often need teams of people to bake bread. Sometimes those teams are huge and often the bakers in those teams are responsible for granular (pun intended) steps to ensure the bread is the best bread it can be. So, if I want some good bread and I intend to have a team of 40 bakers with individual strengths and disparate responsibilities baking that bread, then soon enough the responsibilities will become so granular that actually, I do need at least one baker capable of drawing a valid orbital configuration. Now that I've found a baker with strong quantum mechanics skills, I now need to figure out if they are going to be a horrible human to work with.

This is why referral hiring always has been and still is king. There's no greater hiring test than working with someone for a few years before deciding if they are any good at their job.
Wildcard certs are generally discouraged in secure environments due to a single cert being compromised can lead to a variety of compromised services -- or an attacker adding their own subdomain and 'valid' service.
it's built in RUST!
Honestly, we should just have native SQLite supported by the browser.

SQLite has become the defacto local single file database standard.

It has a very permissive license.

It has support contracts out to the 2050s (service lifetime of Airbus A350 airframe).

SQLite will probably have a longer lifetime than whatever browser standard we have now.
Amazon is hardly close to a monopoly no matter how much some political class and their big competitors want to hammer that point. In fact I rarely buy anything from them precisely because they suck quite a bit on retail and competitors have gotten better (and consciously want to take my business elsewhere because I don’t like to benefit AWS). Because they are not a monopoly I don’t feel particularly in pain not purchasing from them.

I suspect the cost structure and consumer behavior has forced their hand to be more restrictive on retail (and perhaps they no longer care as much either).
Thanks for sharing the details!
I'm not in biology/medicine, but my impression is inflammation is mostly about fighting off infectious diseases. Which, historically, have been a leading killer of mammals.

If current conditions (whether for lab mice, or humans) have removed ~99% of the deadly diseases from the equation - then it's kinda like someone who's heterozygous for sickle cell being stuck in a malaria-free region.
roger that! I like them though (am I a normie then?)
Why would you need a custom selectbox in the example you provided? Because you could use the menu element with the popup API and AJAX if I understand your example correctly.

On a sidenote, do you know about HTMX? If so, what do you think about it?
I should have put a big asterisk and mentioned that my comment didn't apply to straight-up math.
How is it a scam? If it was that bad nearly all companies would just use in-house recruiters

Someone has to do the work of pestering software developers on LinkedIn. If the external recruiters didn't do it, companies would just do it themselves.
This is what crushing of the middle class looks like, the Tech Market is no longer the safe harbor it used to be. This is also what demand destruction looks like.

Mathematically we will end up with some sort of wealth tax but that just means it’s in the government’s interest to continue exasperating wealth inequality. A wealth tax won’t save the middle class, it’s more likely to be another nail in the coffin. At least now I no longer have to argue with ‘inflation is good for us’ people.
It's convoluted and confused. Vance in office has adopted the trappings of economic populism but he has a VC fund, no?
All the kids I knew in those programs hated it. Last thing they wanted to do after school was more school. They wanted to play games or sports but their parents decided being an A student in elementary school is better than any potential social or physical development.
I'm all for users taking action to regulate their behavior, and then for governments to also regulate behavior where appropriate.

I see it a lot like cigarettes, in that individuals can make very restrictive choices, governments apply looser restrictions, and manufacturers provide supply.

Like cigarettes, there was likely some legally actionable misinformation long ago that should be addressed, but nobody today can honestly claim they are tricked into thinking smoking is healthy.
Ping me over slack (traceloop.com/slack) or email nir at traceloop dot com
Yeah, apparently it no longer works that way. You can ramble on social media, but if you publish it on your own site it needs to be worth publishing in a national newspaper or a peer-reviewed journal.
Wouldn't it be better to raise the floor? If given the choice of a higher floor but a higher ceiling of education quality vs equal but lower quality for everyone, I would prefer the former.
Elastic in AI LLM: Semantic Search Investigation
I tested 2 semantic search services — Elastic and Table-Search. Elastic was much harder to set up, had more limitations, and required more manual input, but showed better results. Table-Search was free and super easy to use but showed somewhat worse results.
I reduced my screentime by 80% (guide) [video]
Would appreciate support for comments, with CriticMarkup or something.
>The “most advanced” people often use simple solutions indistinguishable from people who don’t know what they are doing. Average people are often in the “knows enough to be dangerous” category by over-thinking and over-working and over-processing everything out of lack of more complete experience to discover simpler and cleaner solutions.

The article was worth reading just for the above gem.
I have a strong feeling that the type of person who hates reactions is going to hate this even more, but maybe that's just me.
Replace the 16th Amendment with a single tax on net assets at the interest rate on government debt, assessed at their liquidation value ... and use the revenue to privatize government with a citizen's dividend.

https://ota.polyonymo.us/others-papers/NetAssetTax_Bowery.tx...

When we got a law passed to privatize space launch services back in 1990

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boLdXiLJZoY

we were in the midst of a quasi-depression so I decided to address the problem of private capitalization of technology with the aforelinked proposal.
I am familiar with NEAT, it was very exciting when it came out. But, NEAT does not use back propagation or single network training at all. The genetic algorithm combines static neural networks in an ingenious way.

Several years prior, in undergrad, I talked to a professor about evolving network architectures with GA. He scoffed that squishing two "mediocre" techniques together wouldn't make a better algorithm. I still think he was wrong. Should have sent him that paper.

IIRC NEAT wasn't SOTA when it came out, but it is still a fascinating and effective way to evolve NN architecture using genetic algorithms.

If OP (or anyone in ML) hasn't studied it, they should.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroevolution_of_augmenting... (and check the bibliography for the papers)

Edit: looking at the continuation of NEAT it looks like they focused on control systems, which makes sense. The evolved network structures are relatively simple.
This is precisely correct. There's nothing wrong with doing that, and there's nothing wrong with some people deciding they don't want to visit as a result.
I have seen water heat pump systems. They are meant to replace boilers for radiators or under floor heating. Then the hot water can be stored. Or go to a heat exchanger for heating and cooling with ducts. Water is much easier fluid to work with than refrigerant.

One reason don't see combined systems is that refrigerator and water heater don't move that much heat. Refrigerator is fine dumping the heat into the kitchen, and water heater pulling heat from the basement. The air inside the house turns into the working fluid.
I considered including an aside mentioning I think lifestyle-type edutech startups are entirely doable, especially for those who can survive long periods before meaningful revenue without outside investors beyond friends/family (which probably includes Andrej). I posted a related reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40987394
My daycare has a lot of non-native people who do not speak the local, native language with their child, at all. Still, all children (age 3, they're usually in daycare since age 1) speak the local language fluidly, thanks to how much they they spend in daycare.
Story Points are inherently team specific as is Velocity. Trying to normalize them across an org for the purposes of a performance metric is folly. Velocity should be used internally on the team when doing timeline estimations, but exposing that outside the team is, again, folly. Even on a singular team, SP and V are subject to small drift or large corrections based on team makeup, time of year, or numerous other metrics. They are simply a planning estimation tool. As others have pointed out, the act of assigning SPs is a useful tool itself as it requires a team to collaboratively estimate complexity and it frequently helps surface miscommunication and missing details.
it's probably not unlike what it was like to say "let's build a chatbot company" in the west 20+ years ago. Way less compute power & lego-component services to utilize, higher prices for everything, and much more build evrything yourself.
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>” It's hard to make a case for start ups to bet on inexperienced people. For mature companies, why pay for 2 juniors, when you can get a senior for 1.5 price, who might do the same work. In the previous years even C-level companies had internship-to-full-time pipelines, but now it looks more scarce.”

I agree with you, and think the value proposition for these companies to hire junior talent is especially unappealing given the 1-2 year job hopping which has become popular of late. It’s just not worth training someone up if they’ll either leave or require a salary that could have bought you someone experienced in the first place.
Maybe wash/dump it if it has poop marks.
Target is the same way.
I think you're basically saying that you want to live in a big city longer term--which, for all its problems, SF is a pretty good example. I almost certainly find Santa Cruz more attractive than most of Silicon Valley generally.
Also, in the winter, it's not full of tourists from the other side of the hill.

Santa Cruz: where the 60's never died.
My immediate response was "7? Why does it take so many of them?" but after that it was about all the non-AI challenges they must be tackling.
The only thing I can think of is the author is calculating these numbers as if employees never sell the stock they are granted until retirement.

If you work for 10-15 years at a tech giant, bank your $150k in RSUs per year and then sell them all at retirement then maybe the numbers add up, if you're extraordinarily lucky.
Agreed, as a rule of thumb.

Yet when it's, say, a certificate for the HomeAssistant service at my personal residence, avoiding the subdomain being published to the transparency log is advantageous from a both a privacy and security perspective.

Naturally, best practices depend on the use-case and context.
My (non-expert) understanding is that inflammation is the body turning into a war zone, in response to damage or stress.

Preventing inflammation at the source is like unilateral disarmament. Great in the lab, with 0 stress and perfect food, but dangerous in the "real world"
Yes, I had a candidate litterally telling me "design decisions always goes my way because I can always convince others that I'm right and they're wrong".

OK, next!
Whats your username and password?
Behavioural interviews are extremely effective provided you do them properly. Running behavioural interviews properly is extremely difficult and takes legitimate skill and experience to orchestrate. It's not something you can pull off by simply following a few rote questions in an interview pack.

As a result, most behavioural interviews are ineffective and absolutely riddled with bias.
I really want to use these advanced approaches more, and they make a lot of sense in the daily fantasy scene (this analysis was for tourney long EURO 2024 I think?), but for something like season long NFL, I am convinced it is mostly luck:

Hope your top 3 picks stay healthy

Hope your 3-4 "flyer" picks (the guys who are on a new team, rookies, etc.,) don't completely bust

Play the waiver wire (mid week pickups to fill in positions where needed) well

The one part where more skill/operations research is involved would be playing the matchups (top defense vs crap offense, WR1 vs rookie corner) but even then it's not a surefire recipe for success since there is so much variance (that top WR play might be nuked by a run oriented game). But it is playing smart so you should do it.
How many times have you had the rona?
Oh wow, very different from my experience. I was just given the book, and deadlines for reading certain parts.
Epigram 54.

Beware of the Turing tar-pit
in which everything is possible
but nothing of interest is easy.
Allegedly, yes. Unfortunately the side effects for some people are intolerable.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141218141004.h...
Such innovations and community contributions as Absinthe for GraphQL API development, Oban for background job processing, Flop for Ecto queries, and others demonstrate Elixir's evolution into a mature platform for building scalable, maintainable applications.
A lot of email communication happens by this same rule.

Reactions are an interesting workaround, where people that need to ack a message can just send one, and the client can collapse repeating ones into a number, not bothering anyone.

But, of course, every client needs to know about that for it to work.
> Graded readers are ideal early on

Depends on learner. I’ve seen people really love graded readers from an early stage. I personally can’t stand them until the 1000-2000 word or more range. Note that I am a big fan of extensive reading, but the lower level stuff just makes my eyes bleed, and in some cases is just bad (e.g., graded English readers that use lower frequency meanings of common words to meet a word limit).

> going through multiple textbooks aimed at your level (e.g. an intro textbook from publisher A and another intro textbook from publisher B) is a good strategy

Very underrated, imho. I wish more folks would do this.

> Materials aimed at 5 or 6 year-old native learners are also often a decent path

Again, this makes my eyes bleed. There is often quite a bit of words that are aimed at children that maybe aren’t the best for beginning learners. I can’t remember what they were with Japanese, but I’m pretty sure a lot of them were onomatopoeic words that every Japanese kid knows but non-native speakers do not… and probably should not learn that early in the process.

Iirc, third grade is when the language becomes more “standard” and less kids talk, middle school stuff is godly for beginning mid-range fluency, and high school content fleshes out mid-range fluency (as one might expect).

Books and online content aimed at teenaged readers can be surprisingly accessible, with the main challenge being to find material with substance (imho).
I've heard about it a million times, but I also tend to follow tech-business things (folks on twitter, Stratechery, etc). Agree it doesn't explain Europe.
> As a last result you can nationalize industries on your own soil

You can only do this once in 40-60 years; and this will get everyone scared for their money and investors anxious to invest anything in your economy for a long time. Definitively not worth it (as the upside here is only the profit of the companies rather than security since they are already operating on your lands)
You explained exactly why apps should be apps and not business.
In post-Communist countries the defense industry is rock solid corruption and nepotism, mostly they assemble things on foreign licenses. In developed countries like Italy, France, Germany, Sweden defense industry don't hire foreigners and also nepotism, and even there the engineering jobs are meh. Basically there is no defense industry boom. There might be some drone related interesting things happening in Ukraine itself as they can squeeze out a lot of extremely cheap labor but you rather don't want to emigrate to Ukraine.
Yes, it's a tricky balance to be made between not having miscarriages of justice and not bogging down the entire court system.
Letter to sign:

https://pad.public.cat/lettre-NCP-NGI#

In France, framasoft reaction:

https://framablog.org/2024/07/14/lunion-europeenne-doit-pour...
The End of Agile: Why agile no longer makes sense in the LLM era
While the thesis based freeform option is liable to lead to practically learned mastery, it is perilous. What you might set out to learn and to do might not pan put. You might have to revise your ideas, redesign your studies. You may very well take a lot longer than 4 years through no fault of your own.

It can also feel incredibly demoralizing to be toiling in those trenches. Feeling like you are qualified for the job but you just need to get these damn experiments to finally work so you can actually leave and no longer be impoverished.
> High electric prices don't help.

Octopus gives me 7.5p per kWh at night, working out about 3p/mile for me vs about 12p/mile for my old diesel.

Not sure how you got 10k miles, but every mile is cheaper if you just look at fuel and can charge at home.
How far should a programming language aware diff go?
Yes, I don't really understand why he went from talking about tech jobs declining to bitching about the hiring process...
Amid outbreak?

“ The U.S. has documented three cases of humans with bird flu in 2024 “
Threatening anyone who claimed he was lying *in court*! Either he is a truthful bloke OR he is a courageous liar.
I've been observing that coworkers hired through the modern formulaic leetcode/sd/behavioral loop are homogeneously competent in a specific way — if there is an agreement (aka "alignment") on what needs to be actually done, they'd do it passably fine. Corporate dysfunction is more of a product of how that alignment is achieved.
That’s not true.

https://platform.openai.com/docs/gptbot
The example repos are free to use!
From personal experience the coding round gets easier for senior/staff roles, even for the exact same question, because of the experience the interviewers have and the signal they are looking for (eg problem solving, communication, testing, etc.)

At junior and "SDE II" level coding rounds are just toxic newly minted SDEs trying to make it a competition between the candidate and themselves ( I've got interviewers offended when I came up with a simpler solution than the one he had in mind)
"playing different roles" is kind of nebulous, though - and especially historically, it doesn't really mesh with what has been considered an RPG.
Depending on your strictness of definition, quite a bit more than "a few oddities" among the RPG classics would not fit this definition, on the other end it would encompass a ton of non-linear P&C/VN/Interactive fiction in general.

I know that the moniker has it's issues when taking it literally, but doing so too strictly makes the term almost meaningless when discussing genres. (..."even more meaningless", some may argue. ;) )
> everybody agrees on three things:
> - the tech job requirements are completely broken
> - the tech job interview process is completely broken
> - yet, every company follows the same hiring process and posts the same job requirements

The pain. The pain I feel.