skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This guy sounds more like the people we've encountered in our careers who seem to get by entirely on confidence and bullshit. All he needs to do is find one vulnerable company that has a weakness in its hiring chain, nestle in, and schmooze his way as fast as possible to a Director or some other "thought leader" job where he doesn't have to write code. It's a tried and true strategy.

Usually the schmoozers don't take such an aggressive route right from the start, but I can see it working on a certain type of company.

In the rare chance that "Adam" was, in fact, as good as he said he was, you still dodged a bullet because nobody wants to work with a brilliant, arrogant jerk, no matter how good he is. Someone could have the demonstrated programming skills of Linus Torvalds and John Carmack put together, but if he acts and talks like "Adam" I'm not going to hire him.
> OP was saying about how apple laptops are the fastest thing in the world.

No, they did not.

There are more axes to a good powerful laptop computer than maximum speed.
This is not true. While the extremely low life expectancies are indeed mostly a result of high infant mortality, and the maximum life expectancy was comparable, people that reached adulthood still died substantially younger than today.

For example amongst english aristocracy that made it to 21, the average lifespan was early 60s for most of the period from 1200 to 1750. The average age of death of English kings from 1000 to 1600 was 48. Excavations of graves of anglo-saxon field workers from 400-1000 found none over 45, while among clergy only 5% lived past 45. For English commoners from 1200 to 1750, adult life expectancy was generally early 50s.

People did not drop dead due to old age at these younger ages. The odds of dying due to malnourishment or disease were much higher at every age range. It was very possible for someone to live into their 90s back then, it was just substantially rarer.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1102957/life-expectancy-...
https://www.sarahwoodbury.com/life-expectancy-in-the-middle-....
I know right? It made me want to apply even though I'm not even looking.
You're welcome. In fact I only discovered this recently myself, I have no idea how long it has been backeed into windows.
AI in 2024: What Good is Bullshit?
Given how everything went it seems clear that Adam was just trolling from the start. He seems awfully bitter about something else in his life and decided to harass an interviewer. At least he did it in a somewhat novel and amusing way so that Daniel could get a good story out of it!
Maybe this is just not the microcontroller you are looking for?
> I don't want to watch a video if it could have been an article.

Same for me. I can read a transcript of a talk in 5 minutes, while it would take an hour to listen to the video.
Not the main topic, but Tom Cruise's fitness at 62 is incredible. Have you seen him at the end of the 2024 Olympics? [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIeHFbfSbCM
This would work assuming the governing and policing system is to be trusted. The reason fire arms purchased with the intent for self defense already demonstrates you don’t.

Not to mention the possibility someone dupes a firearms ID and negates the system.
(In case you didn’t know, it’s fun that) Jacob Collier plays a 5-string guitar in a tuning that takes advantage of this trick exactly. IIRC, from lowest to highest he tunes them a fifth, a fifth, a fourth and a fourth apart. By flatting the middle string a dozen cents or so, you can get a root-fifth-perfect tenth voicing of a major chord. Neat trick.
> Programmers always want to automate content creation

We have a god complex that brain surgeons can only envy. How many universes have they built?
Well, that's the answer. Thank you.
yeah, in general I do want to open source it, but for the time being I’m a student and every little bit counts
If I can watch/listen at 2.5x speed, I might prefer that over reading. It's a question of bandwidth and comfort.
I like this a lot, would be neat if you supported wikipedia's new dark mode.
FYI they misquoted the price for Starlink service. They used the city price which is higher.

In the country Starlink makes it cheaper. So essentially city users who don’t really need Starlink are subsidizing the rural users, which is kind of awesome imho.

Sad that journalists can’t get a level of nuance and accuracy about this kind of stuff, but they’re happy to misuse the wrong price to try to make a false dig against Starlink.
As usual, all the charts only show single core workloads.
Sure, I also use Firefox but I don't have this error, so that's not really enough detail for me to look into it.
Yup. I used to listen to it while working summer jobs, something new every day to pass the time (not just politics either, Diane was almost a variety show in a sense, sometimes it’d be literature or authors or whatever too) and her retiring/her slot switching to 1A was really the catalyst for me to stop listening to npr altogether. I lasted a few months and realized it wasn’t going to get better and this was just the angle they wanted now.

I adore Terri Gross tho, I should put fresh air on my podcast app.
PyPI Safety and Security Engineer: First Year in Review
> Yes I am the best Node/React developer in San Francisco by far.

This reminds me of candidates who put "Expert in C++" on their resume. To me it's a good indicator that someone is on "Mount Stupid" of the Dunning Kruger curve[1].

[1] https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-12-28
A link in bio is primarily used by social media influencers. It would usually link to their other social media pages, a merch website, and stuff like that. It solves the issue of most social media platforms only allowing one link
As someone who has acted in a similar way, I would strike this up to mental health issues.
He feels he has the power in the relationship and gets his jollies off playing the big shot and trying to tear you to pieces. If this is a foreign concept to you then you are probably emotionally stable and not consumed by self obsession and fear.
Again, I have been this way in the passed, but have hopefully worked it out with professional help and happy pills :).

Normal people don’t act like this. They need help. But until they get help it’s best to avoid feeding the monster.
So he hoped to achieve this by applying to an early stage YC startup with probably under 10 employees??
So the argument is based on the fact, that her talk was given before she became CEO, so her truthfulness values as a CEO are actually OK?
Onboarding to a 'legacy' codebase with the help of AI
Read that in DavePL's voice for some reason !
I’ve been a paid subscriber to County Highway for over a year now and can’t tell you how nice it is to sit down with a coffee and read the paper every once in a while.

https://countyhighway.com/about
Am I missing something, or are we talking about two different things - commercial vs. military usage? Starlink is not a military asset. Well, not for the US at least. Ukrane and Russia, certainly.
Awesome, I've been working on a project with ImGui and keep thinking how great something like this would be. I'll be trying this out!
>They are not "hackers" in anything but name

A sweeping generalisation. Being a "hacker" is a multidimensional thing. Most people here have a hacker spirit when it comes to curiosity and willingness to learn. The only thing we don't have in common with you idea of a hacker -in general- is the anti establishment attitude.
This is true. I’d still need a CDN in front of the actual files to prevent that. That’s a takeaway for me from this feedback.
Ask HN: Advice for Parents of an Autistic Child
Hello HN,
I'm a parent of a 4 year-old daughter who was just diagnosed with autism. We've known for a while that something was different about her and have had her in speech and occupational therapy for about a year, but an official diagnosis has been overwhelming. She's a sweet, happy girl and she seems to be developing well, but I wanted to draw on HNs experiences with autism for advice on how to help give her the best life possible. What are things you wish you had known as a parent of an autistic child? What are things you wish your parents had known to help you with your own autism? All advice and thoughts greatly appreciated.
If I wake up to find that I’m going to die from ww3 over some nonsense involving Taiwan, I’ll make sure to die happy, knowing that the fifty cent army will be dying right around the same time that I do.
It's sad that this discussion about git being the standard turned into "Why GitHub won" -- shows that people conflate the two. Who said GitHub had anything to do with git becoming the standard in the first place? (I only even heard of GitHub long after we'd adopted git at a previous workplace.)
OP - I felt like he was contemplating all along (to do or not to do the interview) & suddenly made a decision during the interview. He wasn't prepared to end the interview gracefully. Even if he is an excellent coder, I don't think he would have helped you much.
Actually noticed the compo in time this time (no idea good ideas for the theme though), got 2 or 3 interesting failed attempts to scrounge code from (but not sure of the approach to take yet).
but if he was a scammer, "Adam" didn't have to follow up with a vitriol-filled email chain after abruptly hanging up. This felt personal, he genuinely felt wronged because the small startup calling him back for an interview was not begging to get him on because he was the "best Node/React developer in San Francisco by far" just from looking at his GitHub profile alone.
Linguistic "Power" of Definite Clause Grammars?
This discussion was about git, not GitHub. There's a difference.
What does this have to do with what I said?
Py5, a Python version of Processing for your creative coding projects
I used to think "they'll tell me what to build and I'll build it." I was plain wrong. Good business doesn't work that way. The more correct way to think is "we're going to figure out together what makes sense to build, from many perspectives, and then we'll build it iteratively and collaboratively."

That implies that on the way to success there will be a lot of communication, push-back, changing requirements, slipped deadlines, disagreements, compromise, shortcuts, refactoring, team meetings, celebration, interviews, promotions, and growth. The best companies have people who work well with other people. The best companies don't need prima donnas.
Things that Used to be Impossible, but are Now Hard
Similar idea: https://teachyourselfcs.com/
I always felt like .plan was more of an about page, and .project was the now page.
Wow. Dodged a major bullet. Your process is very similar to how I would like to run interviews on both sides.

I expect that guy is playing a different game - looking for overemployment or obligated to apply for a certain number of jobs per week. He might also just be in a really bad mental place right now and unable to see not everyone is stupid and against him. Absolutely doesn't excuse the bullying and rudeness but might be part of an explanation.

If Adam reads HN maybe these comments will push him to reflect or get some help.

This is part of why we still need to do interviews!
I've found that caring deeply about one's craft leads to being unhappy when the craft isn't perfect, unhappy with teammates who don't care as much as they do, unhappy with an industry that doesn't focus on the craft, unhappy with the customer who doesn't respect the end result, etc. That leads to conflict, and then nobody is happy. You can still care without caring deeply.
Monopoly does monopoly things. It baffles me if this thurns out to be legal.
Sort of related, but I just came off a RyanAir flight of all things, and they have something similar. Instead of talking a stewardess to get a sandwich, I order it on the app and they bring it to me.

It worked quite well, and surprising coming from RyanAir.
Realtors Resist Changes in Commissions
There are many possibilities around the candidate's behavior. They could be going through a manic episode, or autistic, or just a jerk, or scammer.

OP handled it well, but two things I would do differently in responding.

1. "Sorry you feel that way". I never apologize for other people's feelings, only my own actions, when am am sincerely sorry. "Not-really-apologies" are, IMO, always in bad taste.

2. Not sign emails using "best". Best what? Obviously this is up for interpretation but a dangling best is (IMO) corny and exudes "I am writing unnaturally and I think this is how professional people write"
But did you get a loan and.... pay for it in instalments?
Lithium-Ion Batteries:How They're Made, Advantages,and Whats Wrong with Them [video]
https://archive.is/S4hsb
I immediately lost interest when I saw that I couldn't see pricing until making an account.
Thinking is probably not a single unified process, but several simultaneous activities at different levels. Including the unconscious ones. So you might very well both be right, as we may be thinking sometimes simultaneously in language and in other ways (like when we talk and cook, when we write, etc.)
Great news for Europeans! If only the US actually cared about their citizens.
The whitepaper on the Grail framework is interesting [1]. It's an AI C++/C# framework you can use in game development.

I would call it a very good implementation of "old school" AI, where the behavior of your actors is all about utility curves, Monte Carlo search, and genetic algorithms. Basically all math/algorithm based stuff, kind of like old expert system AI implementations.

Of course "new school" AI is all about neural networks that can automatically learn those complex actor behaviors without the developer explicitly specifying all those mathematical algorithms.

Like many people here I'm very interested in working on hooking up modern "new school" AIs to virtual worlds, so it's very interesting to see Grail as a good concrete example of the algorithmic approach to game AI. I suspect some hybrid fusion of both approaches may give us some interesting and fun AI behavior.

[1] https://grail.com.pl/media/Grail_Whitepaper_June_2021.pdf
Researchers find mechanism that may have stabilized the first RNA molecules
Characterization Testing (2016)
In the specific case of Celeste, the game was playable before development, because it was preceded by the PICO-8 version.

Valve did this a couple times by just buying out teams who made mods or interesting games - Narbacular Drop becoming Portal, that goo thing becoming the goo thing in Portal 2, Counterstrike becoming Counterstrike, then a CS mod becoming Left 4 Dead.

"Every big program that works evolved from a small program that worked" is even true for games
It sure sounded like he was interviewing at a lot of places. For all we know, at the time of this call, "Adam" was one of those mythical folks who's holding down four jobs at a time, slowly rotating through them as he gets fired.
Yes, x86 does ok in bulk vector computations, but performance really falls off in 1T or light-load scenarios. So they have to boost super high to keep up, which tanks performance. That’s the major difference right now.

Presumably this is because decoding x86 is quite difficult and x86 chips lean really heavily on SMT to keep the cores filled as a result. I’m excited to see how Arrow Lake/Lunar Lake end up working out and if efficiency is improved, but right now it’s not good, some would say objectively bad (60w peak for a literal single thread on AMD, 50w+ on intel, for scores that are +/- 5% from apple and Qualcomm).

If you feel like this is brought up a lot: consider that efficiency under light mixed workloads is pretty much the primary consideration for a large number of laptop buyers. I have a 9900k and epyc systems if I want something beyond what a laptop will deliver (and M1 Max isn’t exactly a lightweight to begin with) so this complements each other quite well.

It's also very helpful to have proper first-party driver support. Linux is a mess and not getting better. HDMI 2.1 still isn't upstreamed even 4 years after AMD started trying, for example. Windows is (ineptly) doing an ARM-to-Windows switchover and (ineptly) doing a big "AI PC" push too, in ways that are much more adversarial than apple. Hard to enunciate the difference, but it's really the same classic "you're the product, not the customer" whereas with apple that's never really in question. I do really enjoy never having to fight bluetooth drivers and whatnot. Linux is great for server PCs etc, but "year of linux on the desktop" is a meme for a reason... and "year of linux on the laptop" is even farther away.

And before you say framework... framework laptops actually do not have very good battery life at all, even among x86 laptops. That's sort of the problem in general: there isn't a turnkey "just buy this and linux works and it's just as good as a macbook" option for x86, at any price, even ignoring the 1T efficiency problems. For example even the latest AMD laptops still have broken HDMI support under linux. That's unacceptable on a big-ticket purchase.

Make a decent x86 laptop and I'll consider it, but right now the AMD and Intel offerings just aren't there. Far from your original claim, to me it's the exact opposite and people are constantly pushing you to buy x86 and overlook all the problems and defects and shortcomings. Offer me something comparable and I'll consider it, but for now I am not going back at least on my laptop.
why would I pay for a narrative?
Are there any high-quality suppliers you can recommend?
Fascinating, thank you for your response. Best of luck as your team’s work progresses!
I would have not responded at all.
>The "news" is never "new". There is nothing in the news that people haven't been doing to each other for thousands of years.

Huh? You can easily name the news that literally never happened before e.g innovation and tech
> What if the gains are not on the other platforms?

All platforms can do everything. They are all just computers, you just have to learn how to do it.

Everything else here is subjective, which I think we agree on.

> but you’re ignoring subjective needs and opinions.

No I'm not quite the opposite. All platforms are equal if you put the time and efffort into finding the ways to do things you want to. After that, the preference on which you would like to use is subjective.

To clarify definition, needs are not subjective but opinions are.
"I think that the most confusing thing about testing is the word testing. We use it for many things, from exploratory testing and manual testing to unit testing and other forms of automation. The core issue is that we need to know that our code works, and we’ve lumped together a variety of practices and put them under this banner. We can look for some common strands between them but they are hard to find."

Even just this opening already resonates a lot. I feel similarly about the term "QA" where what we mean by testing (and/or QA) can often refer to a number of different tools, practices, and even people. And I feel like there's often a sort of kneejerk reaction around these topics before it's even clear what is actually meant by them.
Are you sure it wasn’t from a panorama? That’s the only camera mode that does any kind of stitching that could cause that. None of the other camera modes are capable of doing extrapolation like that.
I think going to war might be one of those things where if you plan for it, you substantially increase the chance that you'll do it.
The Lifetime Costs of Bad Health
Sure, but is it not unusual to have "dead code consisting of lines from the original file repeated in random locations"? That would certainly stick out in any other environment (like a professional one).

I didn't study anything related to computers/software/programming in school, so I don't know what level is expected. But if I was tutoring someone and they handed me something with dead code in random locations in it, it would certainly catch my attention.
I wouldn't have even responded to the first E-mail. The guy is clearly trolling at that point, and nothing good can come from feeding him.
This article seemed to be going good/interesting places, with a few good questions to explore, but then (as told) it suddenly degenerated into someone who appeared to have a personality problem (or going through a really difficult time).

Not only did the personality thing derail other topics in this particular conversation, but the Adam character is tainting some valid points by association.
I used to be this way, but I've started to err on the side of video because there's a lot that's unspoken/unfiltered through the journalists biases if you watch someone in an interview. Body language, what they leave unspoken, answers to questions that seem conflicting or irreconcilable with previous answers.
It this case revenue or profit was stolen just like in wage theft. But you are not debating that for political reasons as wage theft won’t be theft going by your definition.

Let’s say you write a book. I copy its pdf and sell it without your permission. You really think there is nothing immoral here?

IP theft is a form of stealing fruits of labor.
https://archive.ph/lUXOs
Looks like the interview process triggered him and your intuition was right about it.
The Big Day a Chaos Engineering Experiment
If I understand correctly, it’s the push back on the call center in general when using AI agents. Why go through the trouble at that point versus another manner of fixing my issue.

For example, when I need to activate a new SIM card, I need to call the company to get it activated. But if I’m talking to an AI agent at that point, why not have me go through another channel (website/app?) to activate it?
ChatGPT answers don't differ that much without being prompted to do so
The other thing to keep in mind is that CA built their own game engine for this series of games.

Tearing up any part of the game engine (which dates to the late 90s) is sure to have big breaking consequences for other teams and any half decent project manager or mid level manager should be aware that this cannot be done in parallel with other activities without first really carefully communicating and engineering interfaces.

Any sort of navmesh rewrite or fix in the engine would ideally be done BEFORE non artistic assets are laid out. Ideally, they should have set out to automate the mesh generation and built artist tools for mesh editing as a major goal.
All what you said is why I believe artists have much firmer ground to stand on by going after output. We can have dumb AI that scans outputs for copyright violation the same way youtube scans for it.

Just because I can draw spider man from memory doesn't mean I owe Disney money or that I am 'problematic'. It means I just have to censor my outputs when doing drawings for people.

But again, artists don't want this outcome, so there is a purposeful muddying of the waters going on.
Totally valid, and agree.
If it is important, I want to read it. If it is merely a curiosity, I want to listen to it while doing something else. The newspapers deliver mostly curiosities.
Ethically they’d return all profits to all employees regardless of ownership instead of leaching off the value of their labor
No…I did not infer anything other than the ecosystem works for me and I find quality in their products. If some other method or product works for you… a salud.

If it bothers you that I (Some random person on the internet) prefers Apple over whatever you prefer or did not illustrate every possible alternative in my comment…well you should probably explore concern that with your therapist of choice at your next appointment.
They are even scrappier today than in 2003 despite making more money than ever. I think tf2 is down to one maintainer and hackers have them by the you know what.
Then they can clarify that statement in a reply and I will apologise, like an amicable exchange should happen.

It doesnt need other people chiming in trying to clarify what someone else was trying to say.
it may be helpful to have the context that gumby's years on gcc were something like 01987–01997, before most of the ub fuckery