skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feels like the guy was a douche, sociopath or some kind of scammer. It's not worth interacting and definitely not worth trying to figure out what happened.

Fun red flag things candidates have said to me in interviewing:

1) Me: I see you have a PhD in computer science, what was your thesis topic? (Because I hadn't managed to find their thesis)

Candidate: Object orientation

2)
Candidate (for a unix sysadmin role): I don't see how these questions are relevant to the role.

Me: I do the role currently and these questions are a selection of some of the more interesting shell-scripting things I've had to do in the last couple of weeks.

Candidate (yelling over the phone): I WROTE THE LINUX KERNEL (they didn't have any linux kernel code contributions and weren't even active on lkml)

3) Me: Here's an interesting challenge we're facing right now. See it's right in the hot path of some code that gets called a lot and basically we need (as fast as possible) to count the number of bits that are set in millions of flag variables. How would you approach that?

Candidate (with a smile, leaning back, arms crossed): You're never going to interest a pure computer scientist in optimizing a O(1) problem.
That's if you're only judging by APY. Vanguard has an atrocious app, and is missing many 'bank-like' features that Fidelity provides - I've enumerated some in a sibling comment. I don't think Vanguard even has a debit card, unless that's changed recently.
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It's amazing that people still think children will learn anything by being shielded from the real world.
I've been on h.news for 12 years, but rarely post. Mostly listen and learn. This one just hit me.

I do a fair amount of hiring. In the past 5 yrs-ish, I've seen a new level of arrogance in interviews. People can (and do) think very highly of themselves. That's ok. But the outright person-to-person rudeness and breakdown of simple courtesy is new. My suspicion is the prevalence of social media as a primary comms method for many, and its tendency to stoke open conflict, has lowered the bar on what is considered "acceptable" in interpersonal contact.

I'm a pretty kind and forgiving soul. But folks like that go on a special list. I don't want to make the mistake of letting that particular person pass through in future hiring rounds. That kind of naked toxicity can kill a team, or at the very least, create a giant management and HR headache.

"Adam" will eventually figure out that everybody you pass on the way up, you meet on the way down. Experience is what you get just after you need it.
The last line of the article highlights their bias pretty clearly.
Those LunaKron clocks are so cool! Do you do this as a full-time job or side hustle? Looked into mass-market manufacturing and distribution?
I don't know the performance implications, but the brief description of the feature is that guest memory is encrypted with a key that the host doesn't know, so the host can't observe the contents of guest memory.
US did X is different from saying US defeated communism by doing X. I am not disputing the former and indeed there were terrible actions including bombing of civilians, and the removal of elected governments.

But that is not to say that X was the cause of victory. For too many cases, it actually lead to a backlash with regimes which were not friendly to US interests coming to power(Iran, Vietnam,..). Also, the USSR did similar acts (Hungary, Afghanistan) but could not win.

That the US prevailed owes a lot to its economic dynamism relative to USSR. (As an aside, US had a high tax regime and state-funded research during much of the Cold War, so the victory doesn't necessarily validate a lot of the libertarian rhetoric.)
Where do you read "full" and "unattended"? IPad has the best parental control solution of all options.
Okay, for the sake of the argument, let's assume at some point you amortize the fixed costs of native compilation down to zero.

Tell me how running a native binary is inherently easier than opening a webpage?
This sounds like a solid next step. I’d like to stop storing URLs we don’t control in our DB and share URLs to these images behind a CDN. We could slowly roll that out and update each image url in our database over time with both continuing to work.

I didn’t realize you could do this with a private bucket by granting it access either. That combined with IP throttling at the CDN level might be a good replacement for this and cut out the need for Rails.
FYI, the Apple flow of installing the third-party marketplace is (unsurprisingly) designed to be a pain in the ass.

Here's the general experience:

https://adamdemasi.com/2024/04/19/app-marketplace-experience...

For me, installing the Epic Games Store was such a weird experience that felt very un-Apple-like.

I recommend people (in EU) try it out for themselves just to see what it's like: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/mobile/ios.
I suspect this is an example of "when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure". If you're incentivized to rustle up a bunch of terrorists that just aren't there, you're strongly incentivized towards activity that will create terrorists that you can then lock up. Basically harassing lonely people and ruining their lives in the name of security theater. I think people around me, at least, are more scared of mass shootings by my neighbors now than they ever were of people these anti-terrorism programs were actually built to defend against—namely, muslims (at least here in the US, i'm sure australia has its own issues).

EDIT: wording, done editing.
Yeah sometimes people advocate for it but might end up making problematic decisions when it comes to voting. Many people may vote after all but if it's not based on news it can be problematic. Solely relying on Wikipedia or History might not give full context and could overly rationalize the decision making. After all, people want their policy makers to make their inhabitants happy (irrational) and not just optimize a (simplified yet rational) metric.

I don't think though there is unbiased news. Generally a classic recommendation has been to read across multiple sources.
I used to hire models to pose me, or have people volunteer. I'd expect to take maybe 500 pictures an hour, and out of that get ten average results and one perfect image.

Taking more images is absolutely a valid approach to photography! Of course it gets harder if you're shooting children or animals, where you need to react and be in the moment, anticipating.

It's also something that can't be done if you're planning to be constrained by analog film, or plotting and planning every shot in advance. But those styles never worked for me anyway - too much planning and trying to craft-in-advance just feels sterile and fake to me.
Are their alternatives? Maybe. I have no idea how they measure up because I don’t use them and wouldn’t comment about alternatives because it was not germane to my point.
Because they are all biased propaganda one way or the other and are working for someone else's interests, not mine as the subscriber.
Imagine if we had a Turbo Swift now.
How are you using AI?
'm a journalist working on a story about quirky ways SF and Bay Area locals are using AI.

Have you used to code for you at work or write your performance reviews? Compose a break up text message? Create a meme for a inside joke? Pretend to be a lawyer and fight your landlord over email in legalize?

I would love to chat to anyone who lives in the Bay Area and has an interesting story.

I can offer anonymity to anyone who feels the way they use it is sensitive.

The piece is for the SF Gazetteer, a new local publication. I have written for Wired, TechCrunch, New York Times and others. Feel free to check out my website. https://jesseerynklein.com.
I recently had a call with Google and have a sales/solution person I’ve been talking to about moving more services there. I’ll share what happened and see what they say.
Isn’t it a good thing that we’re stopping mentally ill kids from shooting up stuff before it happens?

(and no, I’m not saying autism automatically means mental illness or danger to society, so go ahead and save that outrage for someone else)
I’d like to see a map showing US cell coverage that offers minimum 20 mbps rates (current bar for ‘high speed’ internet). I expect the vast majority of rural locations aren’t covered. Other countries will be far worse on average.

Cell internet is also quite expensive.

Starlink offers 10x the minimum bandwidth.

Running fiber everywhere it needs to go for backhaul would be fabulously expensive, and involve major environmental impacts.
> to make sure I didn’t accidentally plagiarize open source code.

If you didn't plagiarize, you don't need to run the tool. If you did plagiarize and want to hide it, tho...
>Apple M3 silicon has about 3-4x the perf/w

Yeah, it's great in terms of ops/J. It absolutely is, and if I was in the market for a laptop, I could see myself seriously considering a modern Apple laptop. But, I only use desktops, so I don't care about ops/J, I just care about ops/s. Apple desktop computers are and have always been atrocious in terms of ops/s/$.

So tell me, exactly what alternative possibility am I missing? I'm not even saying it's wrong to care about things that I don't care about, I'm just saying that the people who care about those things... care about those things? Honestly, I don't know what you're complaining about.
Education was the niche that kept Apple afloat back then -- they'd managed to make the Apple II the de facto standard for school computing, and when they wanted to transition schools to the Mac in the early '90s, they had to go so far as to design an Apple IIe on a card [1] to allow the Mac models they were offering to schools to remain compatible with the huge library of Apple II educational software.

They never succeeded in actually turning the Mac itself into the standard platform for school computing, and as you point out, once the Apple II platform was long in tooth, schools
began migrating in droves to Wintel boxes, and Apple's finances took a major hit.

Apple barely made it out of the '90s intact. They had a massive turnaround after Jobs returned, and are a major powerhouse today, but people forget just how marginal the Mac was in its early years.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIe_Card
Does something built off this or Pyodide exist that's effectively a replacement to using React?
Yes, it works, but Apple didn’t put too much effort in user friendlyness:

Note: In non-Safari (e.g. Firefox) browser nothing happens when you click the button. You must use Safari directly.

Install process is as follows:

1. You visit the page and click the button.

2. You get a prompt, and need to confirm. You may also not get a prompt.

3. Go to the iOS Settings and below the first section (profile section) there is a button to give permission to a new app store.

4. Then you return to the browser and click the button again, and the app store installs and appears on your home screen.
I think the count dankula (guy who taught his dog to do a Nazi salute) case in the UK is a pretty good example of this although on a lesser scale than terrorism charges

The guy (a clown, not genuine problem afaict) makes bad joke, gov goes after him for being offensive, he's now radicalized against a state that has clearly abused him.
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A trip to Lahore, Pakistan, one of the hottest cities on the planet
Me reading in the news that for the eighth year in a row the city has come in on budget, crime is low, and school achievement is up is great and I enjoy it. Because it affects my life directly. The value of news, repetitious or otherwise, is that it's part of the feedback loop of governance.
Building turnover is such that you can’t really destroy it all to be fair. Either way its not your town, you just live there. Who builds on land? Not people who show up and say you should build on land. No, its the landowners who build on land. You don’t have claim for what other people ought to do with their land. If they think its a good business decision to build and apartment on their land, so be it. This is america, not a feudal society.
https://archive.ph/c1778
I always thought that I should put as many people in the photo as possible in group settings, because more lively energy = better right? but my brother is a trained photographer and he encouraged me to focus on one or two people at most, to create a more interesting photo. it becomes a character study instead of a bunch of people where you don't know where to look.
Neat game but why is it so slow? It runs smooth at the start but whenever I get near some enemies, as soon as 1 or 2 explosions happen it runs at like 10fps or less. I'm on an M1 Mac which can run some pretty high end games. I tried Safari, Firefox, and Chrome
I just so happen to be working on one! It stemmed from my dissatisfaction with the existing meal tracking apps I’ve tried.

Initially I’d wanted to track spending as well but apps like YNAB cover this use-case better than I can in the near term so I struck it from the roadmap.

I’m trying to focus on health: meal planning and workout scheduling in a system flexible enough to make suggestions as your exercise regimen (and thus your nutritional requirements) change. Will also be looking into sleep tracking and other metrics.

Let me know if there’s anything else you’d want to see from an app like this. Happy to shoot you a link to the repo when the MVP gets off the ground.
I would pay for news, I won't pay for opinions.
Why does it require signing in just to try it out? Someone else below mentioned that it's just adding a <script> tag to your HTML.
Ink is completely full: Woman warns of HP printers. Won't let her print anything
Thanks; before clicking I was confused because I thought about Agence France Press, the French press agency.
>Muhammad told me that heat-afflicted patients are usually carried into his emergency room unconscious. His staff tries to bring their body temperature down quickly, before brain damage sets in. Nurses wedge ice packs into a patient’s armpits and groin, and sometimes even cool them from within by pumping cold water through a tube into their upper stomach.
if you stop something before it happens, no crime has been committed.
> In a tax-funded situation, everyone is writing the checks.

To further the analogy, everyone's pooling money in the same bank account, but there's still someone in charge of signing the checks. That someone is as capable of anybody else of holding biases, which has the strong potential to be reflected in the media program that the money is funding.
You should read non-fiction books and magazines, they still won't cover completely what you could've gleaned from also reading, I don't know, Reuters, just to pick one nobody really seems to ever criticize.

The example I picked about imigration numbers is the tree hiding the forest
Then what are you saying? It's clearly not commentary on the article.

> As the court order overturning the criminal charges noted, officers deliberately steered Carrick away from anything that would have helped him and towards actions that would have seen the rest of his life destroyed.

> The community would not expect law enforcement officers to encourage a 13-14 year old child towards racial hatred, distrust of police and violent extremism, encouraging the child’s fixation on ISIS,” magistrate Lesley Fleming said in the decision.
Residents do have say. They are the ones selling or developing their land. Clearly a certain percentage don’t care.
well said but lacking?

> modification of one's internal state can be done through

there is an old theology question.. can enlightenment/grace/salvation come through individual will and effort? purifications? a certain diet? the right books?

extend that to all manner of transformations .. is it really the sole power of an individual human that can effect such changes? How does a human live, eat, exist each day.. not alone really.. similarly in the unseen realms..

Those who have strong will tend to see the case for individual efforts.
There’s also an easy fix, switch the structure from aluminum to carbon fiber…
> It seems to me that this either underemphasizes the importance of happiness or assumes that happiness

Isn't it understood that focusing on trying to make yourself happy will actually make you miserable, and in any case "happiness" tends to revert to the mean fairly quickly?
white moves first, in any perfect game black can only play to a draw
That's one of the fundamentals of quantum mechanics. How that works on the intuitive level, is still being debated. All the mathematics and the experimental results support that with an extremely high level confidence though.

Not sure if a HN comment is a right to go back to the fundamentals here either, but I'll try again: reading the quantum information means to "measure it". Measurement alters the state of the system. If someone then "measures" it (i.e. "reads", i.e "eavesdrops"), the communicating parties will find out.
Considering there is already another person replying to this comment saying that 'hacker' doesn't really mean anti-establishment, sharing them here seems like a good way to get a wave of unsavory folks.
Perhaps, but also the new generation didn't know anything else. There's plenty of fresh grads where I work, here, and elsewhere, who just don't value that fight as much or see it as the winnable-struggle-against-the-empire like we did.

I'm sure having a few kids takes the wind out of the middle-aged pirate ship's sails, but there are plenty of younger folks here who just value the startup culture, technology for its own sake, hustle, and have other values we can admire.

I adore the level of professionalism, diligence, and expertise I'm seeing in new grads who grew up knowing what a giant software company is (unlike us when they were kind of emerging as we were kids).
Its usually from a lack of understanding history and nuance
My opinion is about as strong as my knowledge is weak buuuut here's my take. There's no editorial control over blogs or social media or chat. That opens them up to everything from typos to honest mistakes to outright disinformation. And people are using them for that.

However that lack of editorial oversight also means instant information, which also can't be beat.
No Outer Margin
Best is short for "best regards" and is, in fact, how many professional people write. I agree with the rest.
The parser: https://github.com/tpecholt/imrad/blob/main/src/cpp_parser.h

> Is the parsing part just to read it's own code it generates?

It would seem so. Their hand-rolled parser handles only a subset of the language. E.g. it hard-codes recognition for stl containers, and presumably only the ones that it might emit in generated code.

There's no AST built, at least not at this level. It tokenizes and lexes, and seems to leave it up to the caller to understand how to pump the parsing "state machine".

AST building and codegen appears to be done in this >9000LOC file - https://github.com/tpecholt/imrad/blob/main/src/node.cpp
that phrasing is a stupid and annoying passive agressive way of calling someone out, but it's when the person saying it gets it wrong, it's really embarrassing for them.

Specifically, Wells Fargo, Chase, and Bank of America still offer "savings" accounts with APYs of around than 0.05% APY as in way less than 1 percent.

0.05% APY https://www.wellsfargo.com/savings-cds/platinum/

0.01% APY https://www.chase.com/personal/savings/savings-account/inter... - https://imgur.com/a/eFILVca

0.03% APY https://www.bankofamerica.com/deposits/bank-account-interest...
You can install a local model like llama and try that. It’ll be free, but I’m not sure it’s as good as Claude or GPT.
Do you have data to back up that android users get scammed more? Because that seems to be the implication here.
I invite you to consider the possibility that, although individually we are powerless -- collectively and in an emergent fashion, we very much do create the reality of the world we live in (as concerns human and social constructs at least).

So if enough people are resigned to the idea that fascism (or its brother in terms of international relations -- the idea that the world is intrinsically amoral, and no one is ever really held to account for anything) is "just the way the world works" -- sooner or later, that's the system they'll be living under.

And in fact, this is one of the core mechanisms by which such oppressive systems take hold and gains their legs.

In more succinct terms (to the point of sounding trite): Another world is possible.
Yes, especially when federal agents are the ones to encourage and feed that sort of behaviour in the kid. Then lets stop the feds from committing child abuse.
> if you stop something before it happens, no crime has been committed.

Attempting to kill people is a crime in most jurisdictions, even if someone stops you before you actually do it.
Sorry, I guess instead I should ask "How does your engine fire at locations that are evaluated in the past?" One way is to keep a queue.

Again, how does the language do it? If you query past values you can then know to keep track of past values.

Also there is no reason to use coroutines to make game bullets. You can just let a function keep track of state if it needs to and call it every frame.

At the core of all this is classic examples of over complicating things. As soon as someone declares they are making a brand new language with VM and coroutines to decide how bullets emit in a simple shooter, anyone else involved should be stepping in and putting a stop to it.
And how many of those mentally ill kids are going to actually shoot anything up? Very, very, very few, if any at all. So what about everyone else? Just, like, what... fuck em? Hurray we saved people from something we aren't even sure exists??

That's just fucked up, man.
any navmesh alternatives for dynamic worlds? I am toying with gamedev and this one still has me stumped.
Job interview for a potential hire: Candidate had a decent resume with previous experience, had passed the initial non-tech interview, and seemed excited about the job. We talked about the job and how they would approach doing it.

Came to the part of the interview where we do about five minutes of sample work - very basic, no tricks.

Candidate opened up screen sharing, stared at the screen for a few seconds, and then unleashed a tirade about about how much they hated the role we were hiring for and that they had quit their previous job doing this because they passionately hated this job, etc.

It was shocking to have them go from excited about X to ranting about X. Still don't know what was going on.
EU can focus on making more regulations, while US focuses on building new businesses. Then the new businesses will adapt to the regulations, while Europe has no businesses that need to be regulated.
> Anyone know of a project like that?

Zenobase https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4411518

Flow https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14279515

Wolfram Blog post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3680283

RoutineTap (dead) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3231406

And more:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=personal%20dashboard
Related from earlier:

Epic Games Store Launches on iPhone in EU, Brings Fortnite Back to iOS

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41265892
> RIAA

There is something about treating the RIAA as the scary internet boggy man in 2024 that just seems so quaint.
For those of us not in-the-know about national intelligence acronyms:

SCIF = Sensitive compartmented information facility
1) Why is the company supposed to give anything back to society? Should your hobbies be banned because they may not be socially useful?

2) In any case it's the creators doing the cheating. Should malls be banned if one store happens to sell counterfeited handbags?
A quarterly magazine is all that's needed for (inter)national news. Perhaps monthly for local.
A multi-platform, minimal dependency project such as this is a perfect fit for targeting wasm, which of course is "just" another platform (not sure what additional dependencies you think it would need?)