skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You still need to be able to give a few sentence summary of the solution, trick or not and you will need to be able to give an answer that actually matches if you are going to say "ive seen this question before, [implying you know how to solve it]" while you actually have not and are lying.

You would probably fail in an interview with me because you assume things that simply not stated. If someone says "I have seen this before" that does not imply that they know how to solve it. They might have seen the question and decided it was not worth their time, or they didn't actually solve it, or whatever. You CANNOT infer that they are lying if they follow up with "I don't know (or remember) how I (or anyone else) solved it." People have fallible memory. In a high pressure situation anyone can get mixed up, misread the question, etc. So, don't be a jerk.

>It doesn't matter if it is 'stupid', or 'wrong', or whatever other cope you want to invent, people will do it and if your caught in a lie because you do not even know the answer to that, you've disqualified yourself immediately and potentially get blackballed as a liar.

It's so trivially easy to get disqualified, that's stupid. If they really push you, you can say "Yeah I think I saw it a long time ago and I don't remember the solution. You decide if you want to switch." And that is probably the truth in most cases anyway. If someone would disqualify me over that then they're not my kind of people.

As for whether it is a "cope" to observe that these questions are counterproductive and pushed by a lot of smug and incompetent copycats, I think it is worthwhile for one's own sanity to recognize that solving leetcode questions is a separate non-work-related skill. Being good at those questions does not make you a good engineer, and vice versa. Yet, in some cases, your future may be decided by these pseudo-academic timed exercises, judged harshly by baboons.

>If I've caught such an immediate lie as an interviewer, I'd be a bit relieved on some level because I now have a legit excuse to end the interview series early and go do something else and save my coworkers from doing interviews, because for most interviewers, they are chores.

I think what you're really saying here is that you would rather hire a good liar over a non-liar, assuming they have equal leetcode skills. Because that's what you are selecting for if you don't allow people to comfortably say "I've seen it before and I don't recall the answer right now."
Libraries which are constantly under attack, explicit or implicit, by conservative parts of society - whether because they oppose any government projects, because they oppose the existence of certain books, because they oppose the kind of people who rely the most on libraries, or so on. If they're not shutting them down they're slashing their budgets or imposing draconian rules about what they can do.

They're unfortunately not something that can be relied on exclusively for an indefinite future.

This is not an imaginary threat: https://www.al.com/news/2024/08/this-alabama-library-had-to-...
What about direct DMA access to the memory?
I wonder how many Automattic resources Matt threw at ACF to find a vulnerability to catalyze this situation?
Typescript doesn’t tell the JS runtime anything about what it knows
Learn as much about computers and electronics as I can as deep as possible.

Built a very basic computer from scratch from electronics.

So basically what I’m doing now, but even more.

Also dog walk every day, hike, read books, teach
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I have thought PayPal was circling the drain for so long that, honestly, it probably says more about me than PayPal. Still though, I don’t get it, as far as I can tell they are just… essentially doing the same thing as credit card companies, but with less regulatory protection for their customers.(?)

Like they made sense 20 years ago when banks didn’t know about the internet. But now they are befuddling.
The park to park comparison is the opposite of what's being discussed. That's comparing the value of apple to another from the same tree - there are many subjective elements to compare but given that they're both nearly identical it's quite easy. Still doesn't fit on a spreadsheet e.g. bitterness, likelihood of having a worm inside, prettiness, whatever.

What is being suggested is comparing a train subsidy to... Unknown. Other modes of transportation? The money being spent on other carbon reduction efforts?

I don't understand why carbon reduction is the primary topic for discussion when trying to put a dollar value on the thing. Two apples are still a little difficult to compare but you at least can agree that the bigger tastier one is probably better value (unless the smaller is cheaper and you need to do gram for dollar value, idk, good luck). A train vs other things though is imo essentially impossible to compare, a genuine apples to oranges comparison.

For carbon reduction, I challenge the OP estimate. It assumes everyone drives if no train, as I understand it. So that's the carbon reduction comparison - wow great so many people not driving. But it's not just that. Less parking lots need to be constructed. Less concrete, less carbon. Less roads need re paving every 10 years or whatever - let's compare the carbon of rail maintenance to an asphalt road. Less car accidents, less cars needing to be recycled at plants. Maybe city designs start accommodating the train subsidy, less car centric design, more vertical and dense, less car travel that wouldn't have been served by the train but is now served by walking. On and on and on.

You can't compare these two on carbon alone, and that's not even considering the fact that I find it kinda ridiculous to focus on just carbon as a measure of worth-to-humans. There's so many other factors at play that I genuinely think it's impossible to put a dollar value on. Reduction in road noise for people near the highway. Reduction in smog and thus a reduction in lung cancer and related medical costs. Reduction in human deaths from car accidents. Increase in psychological happiness in commuters not exposed to daily road rage and also suddenly having more time to read or play games. Endless, endless comparisons.

Dollars are a bad way to measure value. We either need a new way to describe value-for-dollars or a new way to describe actual value. Conflating the two was capitalism's ultimate coup and this thread is a great example of why.
Are all these “higher-level datatypes for key abstractions” trying to achieve first-class collaborative editing? That sounds a lot like Zed.
Flux is the leading contender for a locally hosted generative systems in terms of prompt adherence, but the omnipresent shallow depth of field is irritatingly hard to get rid of.
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For anyone who is interested in speeding up Typst, I can recommend taking a look at this issue: https://github.com/typst/typst/issues/1733

TL;DR - Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO) can improve Typst's performance for 10%+
Not a small number even for BBQr.

https://github.com/coinkite/BBQr
That 192 core CPU comes with 12 ddr5 memory channels up to 6000mt/s - test results show 420-450 GB/s for both reads and writes.
it's a very groovy mutation.
Don't let that stop you. Amazing film, regardless.
Tahoma is the most potentially destructive one. some projections suggest lahar flows reaching downtown Seattle in a worst-case.

https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/ofr98428

https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/mount-rainier-volcano-haza...
There are lots of things that can kill you, like lead and arsenic. It’s not just a matter of pouring a little bleach down the well.

I have a whole house arsenic filter. It’s like a water softener but sits before the softener.
From the article:

>A recent analysis by the Economist found that among the heaviest one percent of American cars, 12 people die inside smaller models for each person saved by the enormity of their vehicle.

What benefit exactly are hundreds of millions of people getting from having tall-grille cars? Many of these tall fronts are fake, they're taller than what is needed to fit the engine - purely an aesthetic choice, to give the look of a large and powerful machine.
Text to image models feels inefficient to me. I wonder if it would be possible and better to do it in separate steps, like text to scene graph, scene graph to semantically segmented image, segmented image to final image. That way each step could be trained separately and be modular, and the image would be easier to edit instead of completely replace it with the output of a new prompt. That way it should be much easier to generate stuff like "object x next to object y, with the text foo on it", and the art style or level of realism would depend on the final rendering model which would be separate from the prompt adherence.

Kind of like those video2video (or img2img on each frame I guess) models where they enhance the image outputs from video games:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/12/22432945/intel-gta-v-real...
https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1fx6zdr/gta_iv_wit...
You can do that in a couple different ways in Typst. First, if the user passes content into the template, then it's the user's content that ultimately gets to choose its styling. That is, there are three places that a style can be set:

1. In the content passed that the user passes to the template

2. In the template itself

3. By the user, outside the template

They take priority in that order.

OTOH, if the template really wants control, it can take optional styling arguments with defaults, and do as it likes with them. And if it wants content from the user that the user doesn't get to style, it can take that content as a string.

It's a fantastic system, so far as I've seen.
All of this is possible in the current Emacs.

1. You can already define what program opens a file in dired. You could even use detach it from the Emacs process so it stays open when Emacs closes.

2 we already have vterm, which has all the features you described.

3. There are ways to make this better. I am actually in the process of writing a blog post about working efficiently over tramp.
>Open source in AI means we should be able to reproduce their exact model.

like: Use this specific RNG seed and train for 10 trillion cycles in this data to get X duplicate model?
There is usually no technical reason why you can't, but any vegetation needs labor to maintain, a source of water, soil that is actually suitable and not poisoned. Then this vegetation would make the property hard to visually see or traverse, and it would likely be destroyed by the buyer anyway. There may also be zoning restrictions against growing tall vegetation on random land, leading to fines and fees. If you create visual obstructions, homeless people might also start squatting on the land or littering, leading to further headaches.

As cool as it sounds to just whimsically plant flowers, vegetables, and trees everywhere, this does create problems for people. Just because someone has property and you don't doesn't mean you have a divine right to tell them what to do with it. It could literally be owned by an old granny who is trying to sell it with the least amount of headaches, or someone who intends to build on it as soon as they save enough money to do so.
http://awssupport5-env.eba-34cpyink.us-east-1.elasticbeansta...
He didn't even "go public" as that term is normally used in bug disclosure. He didn't write it up and release and exploit when Zendesk told him it was out of scope and didn't give him any indication they considered it a problem or were planning a fix. Instead he reached out to affected companies in at least a semi private way, and those companies considered the bug serious enough to pay him 50k collectively and in at least some cases drop Zendesk altogether.

I am 100% certain that every one of the companies that paid the researched would consider the way this was handled by that researched "the best alternative to HackerOne rules 'ethical disclosure' in the face of a vendor trying to cover up serious flaws".

In an ideal world, in my opinion HackerOne should publicly revoke Zendesk's account for abusing the rules and rejecting obviously valid bug payouts.
These asshats also have the world's worst OTP page that does not auto submit when you type out the 6 numbers and still doesn't submit on pressing Enter.

Everytime I have to move my mouse to the Submit button, I think about how their UX to nickel and dime microfees from you is super slick.
Interesting. I grew up in Roseland, and there was a hill east of Michigan Ave. going down. I always thought that was from Lake Calumet which used to be a lot bigger.
Most people want to use privacy.com so you don’t have to cancel the subscription because websites like to put up artificial barriers like having to call a phone number and wait on hold to cancel a subscription. So what happens in that situation where you technically never officially canceled the subscription and so the company continues to bill you and when the payments don’t succeed, they send it to collections?
I wonder why Google would make an SSO assertion along the lines of "yes, this user Bob has email address bob@example.com" in the situation where example.com is not under a Workspace account. Such assertions ought to be made only for Workspace (and Google's own domains such as gmail.com, googlemail.com, etc.) since outside of that it's obsolete proof as you say, i.e. it's merely a username of a Google account which happens to look like an email address, and nothing more.
What if I need an ID in the filename and I get the date sorting for free?

You know, like described in the OP.

Is it okay if thats useful?
What advantage would you get by rewriting it in Rust?
I’ve been building a production app on top of ASR and find the range of models kind of bewildering compared to LLMs and video. The commercial offerings seem to be custom or built on top of Whisper or maybe nvidia canary/parakeet and then you have stuff like speechbrain that seems to run on top of lots of different open models for different tasks. Sometimes it’s genuinely hard to tell what’s a foundation model and what isn’t.

Separately, I wonder if this is the model Speechmatics uses.
Unscientific and anecdotal survivor bias.
Why is it ICs will argue endlessly for and against WFH, while at least in the press the main story from employers is pro-RTO?

Embracing remote is such a huge win for hiring (access a way larger talent pool) and budgets (who needs a lease??). ICs overall are more open to remote than otherwise so it's decently rare you lose a hire because remote.

Are these companies just not giving interviews? I get it: other companies screaming RTO drive ICs into your arms, no need to draw attention to it...
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Can someone make this app? I want it so badly and will be the first paying user.

I use Kindle Whisper Sync most days. It lets me listen to books at the gym in the morning and then keep reading on the kindle app before bed at night. The critical thing is that I can read and listen to the same book and it tracks my progress regardless of how I'm consuming the book. This is the only way I can spend 2-3hrs reading/listening per day. If I didn't have Whisper Sync then I'd only have 1hr to read each day and my progress would be so slow that I lose interest in the book.

But my big problem is that so few books have Whisper Sync enabled. I have loads of epub digital books and PDF files of reports and other things that I want this functionality for. Whisper Sync doesn't support all these things.

Could it be easy for an engineer to make this app using Cursor or something similar? It needs web app/iPhone/iPad apps and I could upload any ePub or PDF file and consume them all like Whisper Sync. It would use OpenAI TTS API for high quality audio.

I cannot overstate how badly I want this app. If someone here makes it then I'll pay $50/m baseline plus all the API fees needed for TTS API. I'd happily pay $20 per book, which I think would cover most books based on my reading of the API pricing docs.

If this app existed I would make 10x more progress on my reading backlog. It would be more important than any of the other apps on my iPhone currently.
This is fine-ish till O(10^3)
Realize that VI was the superior editor, give up on the endeavor, print out the code I had already written for emacs, shred it, then set the shredder unceremoniously on fire.

For those that downvote me, worth it.
… and yet another theory was that a time traveler became stranded in the past, and devoted the rest of their life to marking their presence as a signal to their colleagues in the future, similar to a Vernor Vinge or Michael Crichton storyline.
…and: “This is just what we choose to disclose”
They certainly can do something about methane emissions in other countries, such as this proposal (which is similar to the EU carbon adjustment which came into force this year):

https://juliabrownley.house.gov/brownley-introduces-legislat...
Writing Typst in Emacs is pretty easy with this setup.

https://codeberg.org/meow_king/typst-ts-mode/wiki/

https://github.com/Myriad-Dreamin/tinymist/tree/main/editors...
Hard agree that these are true ‘fundamental pitfalls’ of Emacs’ design. However I may go further on your third point. I would like to see a dedicated new user/learner mode that in addition to saner defaults would be pretty fully configured and pre-loaded with the most common extensions/plug-ins/etc. This could then lead to development of dedicated documentation/tutorials that assist the new user in becoming proficient in the common style/habits of Emacs usage.

This could provide a much simpler full featured ‘base’ state for the app, that can then be customized from that point or can be stripped back by removing the more common add-ons and customized from the ground up.

It would in some ways necessitate a strongly opinionated set of defaults and an additional focus on documentation, but I think in the long run the app would benefit from higher retention.
The corporate neocons and neoliberals are vampirically sacrificing and selling off essential commonwealth public infrastructure and cultural institutions for profit to the detriment of long term investment. The net result is decline and regression.
On a different hand the way things were scaling 20 years ago (1ghz took 35 watts) we'd have 5,000W processors - instead we have 196 for 300 watts. If these are anything like ThreadRipper I wonder if they can unlock to 1000W with liquid cooling. On the flip side we are rolling about 1 to 2 watts per core which is wild. Also, can't some of these do 512bit math instructions instead of just 32bit?
Well instances were both painful but in my mind mostly affected a few core groups of devs, and a lot of the community was oblivious to anything going on. The Drupal 8 migration and subsequent forking of D7 into Backdrop caused a lot more consternation with smaller agencies especially.

I mostly did Drupal stuff with local and regional camps at the time, I was hired at Acquia slightly after, so I remember a lot of pain back then, especially as Wordpress and Drupal were often considered in the same meetings when building small local sites for nonprofits, small businesses, etc.

Nowadays it seems Drupal isn't part of the conversation unless there's a C-suite at the place building the website, it's moved upmarket quite a bit.
When private edifices rival public institutions, it should give people pause that there is policy failure or decline teetering on collapse.
As someone who grew up in suburban sprawl, maybe it makes parenting easier, maybe. But they also had to drive me to and from school every day, and band practice, and every single game, and whenever I wanted to hang out with my friends. I would argue my parents basically were moonlighting as my Uber driver for about 16 years until I got my own car.

Big yards are great, but empty. Mom, can you drive me to my friend's bigger backyard? That times the 5 other friends that want to go to the friend's house that has the biggest backyard. Comically the 5 cars all waiting at the same stop light before the final turn, taking up the entire residential street as we all get dropped off and later picked up.

Eh, going to my friend's house is tedious. I'll just fully immerse myself in world of Warcraft, get fat, get socially maladjusted by spending all my time on the internet and 4chan, and enter college as a practically sociopathic asshole with no social skills.

Could just be me. But if I have kids, I'm raising them somewhere where they can just get on a train to get to band practice.
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That isn't "consultant logic", that's the way the world works. Resources are finite. We can't do everything everyone wants to do, so we need some means of prioritizing which things we are to do. You can call names all you want, but this is an unavoidable reality of existence.
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Once they'd brushed him off and made it clear they were not interested in listening to him, resolving the bug, or living up to the usual expectations that researchers have in companies claiming to have bug bounties on HackerOne, I'd say they lost any reasonable expectation that he'd do that.

I'll note he did go to the effort of having the first stab at that sort of resolution, when he pushed back on HackerOne's inaccurate triage of the bug as an SPF/DKIM/DMARC email issue. He clearly understood the need for triage for programs like this, and that the HackerOne internal triage team didn't understand the actual problem, but again was rebuffed.
They do have to do it every time, through the fuel tax. Driving costs fuel. I guess people just don't think of it though.
OK that does sound like an actual problem. But I think you would only be in a position to need to do it that way if you don't use CMake, Ninja, or one of those other tools. Bear works the way it does because it's kind of a hack. I have only wanted to use it for Make projects. If the problem is big enough for you and constant enough then you can switch tools to avoid having to compile. It's just an uncommon problem IMO.
Further thought - humans are obsessed with powers of 10. These stones were arranged 9,000 to 10,000 years ago. Would it not make sense that the traveler dialed up “10,000 years ago” in their machine? Can we use this with our own relative position to the stones’ placement (eg 9,500 years) to predict when humans will achieve time travel (eg 500 years from now)? Lovely fantastical thoughts for a Saturday - enjoy!
Video encoding. To get the best quality for bitrate you need to use a software encoder, and to get the best encode time you need to give it CPU resources.

It's been impressive how much SVT-AV1 has increased performance between releases. SVT-AV1 2.2 is a significant step up from 2.1:

https://www.phoronix.com/news/SVT-AV1-2.2-Released

https://gitlab.com/AOMediaCodec/SVT-AV1
Improve performance handling large files and large numbers of buffers. Emacs has been my daily driver for the last 10+ years and yeah perf could use some help. Everything else is superb.
(Conventionally known as Mt Rainier.)
The suburbs southeast of Seattle are maybe at risk of lahar flows. The city itself and suburbs to the north are mostly not at risk.
> in addition to saner defaults

Isn't that cua-mode?

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/CU...

> would be pretty fully configured and pre-loaded with the most common extensions/plug-ins/etc.

Doesn't it already do this? org-mode comes pre-installed for instance.