skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A while ago I ran across some team members so bad, I could virtually guarantee they would not have passed even the fizzbuzz phone screens we use before the stricter interview gauntlet. It made me wonder if they got a friend or paid a stand-in to do the interviews. When you think about it, who will check that it's the same person? The only person who might see the candidate in different contexts is the hiring manager, who doesn't do the actual interview.
No, they are publishing rules, citing those rules as published in court hearings regarding antitrust etc., and then covertly disregarding their own rules when it is convenient for them.
It blinked in and out for me in Firefox 128 (Windows)
Ya there seemed to be some server downtime preventing you from loading the space, and because the app works offline you got that message
We are more broke than woke
And that doesn't matter, because:

- Such custom extensions live in custom extension space.

- Software ecosystem that must work across vendors will use neither.

- If these extensions actually do something useful, the experience from them will be leveraged to make a standard extension, which will at some point make it into a standard profile, and thus adopted by the software ecosystem.
Are you using flakes? If you don't do `nix flake update` there won't be all that much to update.
Totally unrelated to the content of the article, but I absolutely hate the font on those blockquotes!
Please, at least ask for RFC 3339.
How is this better than an i7-8k series from Ebay with 16GB ram and a 256GB SSD for $150 USD or less?
Mars, the Candy-Company, Buys Another Veterinary Network
If we start making things in America again we need to go back to sharing the profits more with workers so they can afford to purchase domestic products. As it stands now Americans can barely afford Chinese goods.
Apple will make a much better version? On what evidence?
My issue is I want a mini with the pro features. I’d happily pay the same price as the pro. But I doubt I’m a common type of customer.
I was at first surprised that people thank God in the acknowledgements. Then remembered what PhD students go through.
The Flattening Machine: This Is What Happens When News Breaks
https://archive.ph/TtaFP

https://archive.today/TtaFP
An opinion on support from over ten years ago is not a very strong suggestion.
I think it translates to solving day-to-day problems. I don't think I could trust someone who couldn't figure out the binary tree thing cold, to figure out that some Spring bean is not request scoped by looking at the object reference, or that openapi code generator is looking in the wrong folder, or a dozen other things that require some mental effort and can't be googled easily.
I'm not sure I understand. Somebody really needing the work being a red flag during a job application process is nonsensical.

Of course the need the work...that is why they applied for a job...
I remember being taught about associative caches in CPU architecture, and later on programming the same in C. So I'm not sure about the 90's and hash tables being "exotic".

My first real use of hashes was in perl4; with perl5 released in 1996 (https://dev.perl.org/perl5/news/), surely it meant people were also well aware of the usefulness of hash arrays even back then.
Interesting to compare this article and these comments to Fucked Company musings from the dot com era.
Good question. Neither Rivian’s truck nor Cybertruck can.
Not a concern, as the common ecosystem of binary software follows RVA profiles.

Microcontrollers / embedded can go wild, as the vendor controls the whole stack and can build its firmware images to suit the system.
is there a mux switch?
I imagine a lot of times that is part of a settlement reached before the court case proceeds further. Example is Fox News vs Dominion voting systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Voting_Systems_v._Fox...
I wonder if this will scale up? Not having to unclog filters and less energy for pumping makes it sound like this could make much cheaper desalination plants. What is the catch? They must have been concentrating on a portable unit for a reason?
I have a pet problem that is also solved with a pair of nested loops. I had one candidate use infinite loops and a bunch of convoluted logic to manually move the index around (a single index).
Maybe not today, but what about tomorrow?
The “gotchya” isn’t a way to fail the interview. But for candidates that ask about that edge case right away they get extra points.
My housemate during our honours year had large portions of his thesis plagarised by the student who took over his work afterwards. We were surprised to discover that of all the lifted sections it was the acknowledgements that had the highest proportion of copying! I found this doubly funny because, compared to the adroit technical writing in the rest of the thesis, my friend's acknowledgement seemed florid and overwritten to me. It's a truly fascinating phenomenon.
Random 4 bytes sounds like reading a pointer as something else, shouldn't be too hard to debug.
"Ooh, brushing! Let me get a crowbar."
Wow, that situation with Android phones looks DIRE.

The charts for Android look intriguing; are they claiming they can break into BFU (before first unlock) phones that have secure startup (i.e. pin at boot) enabled?
I watched the whole discussion

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cPvRIWXNgaM&t=450

> My fear is that...

Get off my lawn
Candidates that handle this in a streaming fashion get extra points, but it’s not required.
If your UI needs A and A.B and A.B.C, then you end up with three rest queries. Or you end up with some expansion logic. Meanwhile your REST query will likely also be throwing along for the write A.D, A.E, A.F, and maybe A.G.H because of some auto-expansion.

> Unless you use and optimise for persisted queries which just makes it REST with extra steps.

GraphQL offering a syntax and a way to state exactly what will be used makes it possible to chip away what is sent over the wire in persisted queries. This is not a negligable thing in environments with very wide and deep data models. These are places where their "REST" queries end up with "GraphQL with extra steps" through path inclusion/exclusion logic and expansion logic.

Obviously at the end of the day context matters most, but there's been loads of places and APIs I've used where you could feel REST causing performance issues in an end-to-end way, either by generating N+1 HTTP queries, or just shipping way too much data to show a list of names of resources.
Implement it as part of the network, not as a discrete system outside of it.
This happened already at least once with a couple Soviet Mars probes - they found a batch of transistors they used were faulty and deteriorate much too quickly in space - after the probes vere already launched.

IIRC some did not even reach Mars while others failed soon after orbit insertion due to various sub-systems failing.
Nothing so complicated. It’s supposed to be a level or two above fizzbuzz
> but the reality is whatever Silicon Valley has, you can't bottle it.

Financing, escalating rounds of investment betting on market penetration without regard for profit. Nobody else is willing to wait up to a decade funding companies with increasing orders of magnitude of money every two years if they don’t make money.
Colonialism is bad
>and AVX-512 which landed in the desktop P-cores before big-little happened, where they were turned off because the E-cores don't support AVX-512.

x86-64v4 requires avx-512.

In short, they utterly fucked up.
> Although I can see a case for protecting children from abusive parents (we have laws for that already)

There are laws preventing gross abuse, yes, but there’s still a great deal of harm which won’t get action or won’t get it in time. If you beat your gay/trans child, yes, the cops are in your future but you can ground them forever, surround them with people who tell them they’re going to burn in hell for expressing their identity, or ship them off to some kind of unregulated Bible camp/school and likely see no consequences.

Not LGBT but if you haven’t read Jesus Land, it’s brutal and a good reminder of what happens at these private “reform” schools – and I note that the decades of abuse finally being disclosed meant that a different church bought it and hired many of the staff:

https://archive.org/details/jesuslandmemoir0000sche

That’s a common problem with laws like this: they sound over the top - and will be the target for lazy jokes – because they’re focused on stopping the edge cases which most people aren’t really aware of.
so the play button creates variations of the image - it goes through a language model and the prompt is adjusted heavily inspired by the current prompt - that and the current image are used to create the next image

You can see the current prompt of an image by clicking the edit button
reminds me of the (apocryphal) joke about James Gosling (who invented Java in 1994);

interviewer in 1999: we are looking for someone with 10 years of java experience.

james: I invented java 5 years ago.
I would enjoy this as well, but they need to be transparent about the plans, so people who want small phones can get them. On several occasions I bought something new (that I hated), because I thought the line I liked was dead. Then a year later they release something new to fill the gap.

I bought an iPhone 13 mini the day the iPhone 15 was released and the 13 mini was discounted, with plans to keep it until it was pried from my cold dead hands. Now, less than a year later, I’m not sure how that’s going to go. While I love the size, and have hated every other iPhone since the 5/5S/SE, the lack of RAM on this thing is a real problem. The browser can’t handle some pages, things constantly reload causing me to lose stuff. It’s not great. Some developers have also seemed to stop caring about making sure things work well on the smaller screen. I sent 1Password a bug report, they tested and confirmed it was an issue and said they do still support the Mini, yet the issue remains a year later, last I noticed.

I’ve also wanted the Pro camera setup for years, but it’s only on larger phones, so I didn’t get it. There is this misguided idea that people want small phones because they’re cheaper. I’d pay a premium for a small Pro phone. If they need to make it thicker to fit everything in and give it the same size battery, I’m good with that… it would eliminate the camera bump, which would be great.

I buy my phones through work, so my next upgrade opportunity isn’t for another 14 months. When the time comes, I’m not sure if I’ll be as excited to hold onto the mini. I want to make my point, but also want a usable phone. Not to mention probably wanting some of those Apple Intelligence features. I’m troubled by the whole situation.
Unfortunately, role of food in human health isn't studied properly because of won't make anyone money.

Traditional Indian medicine and grandma's wisdom have a long list of foods to eat or not depending on disease/pregnancy/breast feeding etc. But there isn't enough scientific research on it.

Unfortunately the Internet has made it worse now everybody is peddling something or other.
And during the 1977 - 1982 period consumers chose the Tandy TRS-80 line of computers over the Apple II by a significant margin.
I'm looking over at my Decstation 5000/260 with the burnt-out power supply. Maybe this is what I need to get that feeling back.
It means a lot of them!
Presumably this is for Starbucks where they still allow you to sit down.
There is at least some market for it, judging by the amount of money raised by Tangara: https://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara
I stumbled upon Leaningetch in the past looking for a way to compile Java to JavaScript. This is a company that found a niche in "modernizing" old software, like, serving customers that still have mission-critical software written as a C++/MFC or even Java Applets and help them keep that software alive.

There's nothing wrong with their niche, but I feel like there's a big disconnect to what could be attractive to the HN crowd. In particular:

> WebVM is released under the Apache License, Version 2.0 [...] free to use for technological exploration, testing and non-commercial uses. [...] If you want to build a product on top of CheerpX/WebVM, please get in touch: sales@leaningtech.com. [0]

Embarcadero is another company that releases great-looking tech but I would personally not want to dig too much into [1], because of the involved costs.

--

0: https://github.com/leaningtech/webvm?tab=readme-ov-file#lice...

1: https://www.embarcadero.com/
It should be fine to add a link.
The chargers they showed at their first Mercedes location in Atlanta are 400kw split between 2 units. So 200kw each for 2 cars that can handle it, and balanced between the 2. Eg if one car only needs 100kw, the other can pull up to 300kw

I’ve seen video of the Cybertruck getting more than 330kw, and the Lotus cars seem to charge at high rates too. But 200kw each is a fine charge whilst getting a coffee

The question is how reliable they can be - if a charger is broken, it doesn’t matter what the numbers on the label say
In addition to your points, I can't figure out the licensing - they state that CheerpX is a commercial product, but I am unable to find any information about paid or free usage tiers... Or maybe I just didn't dig deep enough...
> Honestly, I think it was clear.

It wasn't. What were you suggesting?

> In a very alpha stage version, sure.

It has been like this for twenty-five years. I know this because I've been playing around with these tools for that long.

That these tools just haven't got much better over the last *quarter century* suggests that either really solving the problem is effectively impossible, or that solving it isn't actually worth the effort, given that someone with a $2 pipe wrench can nearly always extract security-relevant encryption material from a knowledgeable insider.

> I want something significantly closer to the 'normal' internet, but with a greater capacity for redundancy, privacy and anonymity.

You need to learn how the Internet works. It is (and always has been) a federated, distributed system, even back when it was known as the ARPANET. These days, usually-larger-than-end-user (but not always) participants in the Internet run one or more Autonomous Systems, and negotiate connection agreements (often called "Peering" or "Transit" agreements) to interconnect their Autonomous Systems with others.

You want privacy? Get service from operators that only interconnect with other operators that refuse to use their god-like powers of observation to deanonymize your traffic.
Alright!!! Let the money flow.
The Summer of Sci-Fi
I had a 3100 on my desk for several years, with an LK201 keyboard and a 19" color monitor, running Ultrix 4.2/3/4 iirc.

It was snappy enough running plain X11 or Athena (Xaw) applications, but Motif stuff slowed it down a bit. I had a tvtwm running a big virtual desktop, an Emacs with a bunch of frames, and a stack of Xterms.

We had a couple of 5000/25's with the multimedia peripherals, but they weren't really worth it. IIRC, our group's server was a 5000/240 (?)

Then we moved to Alphas (3000 AXP, then 4/255), then a Sun Ultra 10, and finally Linux PCs.
https://archive.ph/MI65x
I just posted the same thing. I think there are more of us than Apple thinks, at least I like to believe that. I think Steve Jobs was in that camp as well.

When the 12 mini was released I bought it and Apple sent me a survey. It seemed like have the questions were asking if I bought the mini because it was cheaper. It seemed like that was the assumption they were going with. I answered over and over again that I didn’t care about price, and if there were comments I wrote that I was price insensitive and cared about the size, not the price.

I get steep discounts on phone hardware through work, but if they released an iPhone 16 mini Pro tomorrow, I’d pay full price out of pocket, no questions asked.
I'm genuinely curious about what this challenge looks like exactly. I know you probably can't share it but are there any analogous code challenges/problems out there that you can? It sounds interesting.
> Such an integral is well known to be reducible to the elliptic integrals, which have no closed form.

I believe you're stating the reduction in the wrong direction?
You're like 70 years late

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra

Project MKUltra was an illegal human experiments program designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to develop procedures and identify drugs that could be used during interrogations to weaken people and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture.

[...]

The project studied the effects of psychoactive drugs, particularly LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, cocaine, AMT and DMT on people
The NYT is designed as an attention sink where you exchange money for some quantity and duration of intellectual feels.

They don't need to communicate this to achieve their objective. Their headline is designed to bait, capture, and sell its product.
My 11 year old ThinkPad still runs Linux fine. It is up to date and as secure as that makes it. Firefox, Thunderbird, VSCodium, Zettlr are snappy, background processes from python or postgres are stable. I have confidence a similar ThinkPad bought today will be fine in a decade.

An 11 year old Apple isn't in the same state. An M* processor is a gimmick for today's needs; it is a niche platform solution that's reactionary to niche needs of today; that's not a design for the future. Hence M1, M2, M2, M4, M88, etc. The Apple OS will not support decade old hardware, it's not in the business model. You have a fine computer for today that is designed to be disposable. Like buying a plastic stool instead of a wooden one. The plastic one may be lighter, in a variety of colours, your friends might go for them, and it could lie about being privacy focused, but in the end it's a plastic stool not a wooden one.
> A nonfunctional “mass simulator” will take its place. ... NASA had spent $450 million on VIPER, which is already fully assembled with its science instruments installed ... testing of the rover to make sure it would survive the shaking of a rocket launch and the harsh conditions of space has not been completed. The cancellation would save at least $84 million, as NASA would no longer need to pay to complete the tests or to operate the rover on the moon ... The agency is still planning to pay Astrobotic $323 million to [take the mass simulator to the moon].

If you've already built the rover and are paying to transport it to the moon regardless, why not skip the testing and send the rover instead of a "mass simulator"? Then if it works you have a functional rover on the moon and paying to operate it is worth it, and if it doesn't work then it's the same as if you sent something non-functional on purpose.
I don't think anyone ever claimed Brian Kernighan was the best programmer ever.
I do wonder if they considered any alternatives to requiring DNS challenges. I'd like to know the reasoning.

I have a domain set up where every subdomain not otherwise specified gives a CNAME to one of the subdomains. (gandi lets me do it, don't know if it's standard) Certbot could easily serve the response to any challenge issued to <random number>.example.com as many times as it takes to be sure.
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Sunk cost implies future costs being spent in excess of value.

Costs already spent:

- Design
- Part manufacturing
- Final assembly

Costs remaining:

- Testing
- Operations

Future costs which will be spent anyway:

- Launch

Which begs the question... why not skip testing?

Worst case, it's non-functional or fails to land, in which case you don't have to spend the operational costs.
There are plenty of advanced compiler techniques, but you can't understand them until you understand the fundamentals. There will always be a place for the purple dragon book.
I've sometimes done the opposite - when working in scheme/racket, searched for implementations of things like loop, defmacro or tagbody. (They have their quirks, but when they're a good fit for a problem they can save a lot of typing.)
Americans' confidence in higher education has taken a nosedive
>In many ways it skews the ratings of the schools because they can be lazy and not teach as well...but still show great school average scores, since so many kids are already enriching externally.

If you didn't already know, SES is the rating (with relevant cultural differences that override wealth). Everything about the school is statistical noise by comparison.
I did misread that. Several times in fact.
They're looking ahead to the solid state battery era.

Solid state batteries are now real enough that you can buy them at Home Depot.[1]

[1] https://www.homedepot.com/p/YOSHINO-Solid-State-Portable-Pow...
Tight-Knit Microbes Live Together to Make a Vital Nutrient
That's because the big optimization would be "don't cram this entire application into the browser", but we've all collectively decided desktop software is impossible, so.
I wish he went into how to improve confidence scores, though I guess training on better data to begin with should improve results and thus confidence.
I hope SAP does a hard retrospective on why Wiz's research was not disrupted before they got full cluster admin. Like, I want to know from SAP's side whether they received any alerts for any of this activity and whether they investigated them properly. I wonder if there is any regulation SAP has to follow that requires them to have adequate alerting for suspicious network activity and whether this research can be used to show that they do not.
It’ll never happen, but I’d vote for any politician campaigning on requiring, across the board, that H-1Bs be in the top 10% of industry comp for the role.
Why couldn't they just make it, like... a program that runs?
One of the main factors that makes LLMs popular today is that scaling up the models is a simple and (relatively) inexpensive matter of buying compute capacity and scraping together more raw text to train them. Without large and highly diverse training datasets to construct base models, LLMs cannot produce even the superficial appearance of good results.

Manually curating "tidy", properly-licensed and verified datasets is immensely more difficult, expensive, and time-consuming than stealing whatever you can find on the open internet. Wolfram Alpha is one of the more successful attempts in that curation-based direction (using good-old-fashioned heuristic techniques instead of opaque ML models), and while it is very useful and contains a great deal of factual information, it does not conjure appealing fantasies of magical capabilities springing up from thin air and hands-off exponential improvement.
I know next to nothing about this. How do people make use of forecasts that don't provide an uncertainty? It seems like that's the most important part. Why hasn't bayseyan statistics taken over completely?
I think this is the root cause of most problems.

No hiring process has a zero false positive rate. A company needs to be able to fire people quickly and humanely, otherwise good people will leave and you have a mediocracy / Peter principle problem.

If you keep a reasonable hiring bar and enforce a reasonable firing bar, you’ll do fine. Netflix famously did a lot of experiments on this that have been written about in public.

Being squeamish about freeing people to find a better mutual fit job is really harmful, to an underrated extent.
Because none of the COVID vaccines were vaccines in the traditional sense. They did not prevent infection nor disease.

The definition of 'vaccine' was changed to 'stimulates the immune system'. Likely to avoid litigation.