skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the range argument silly - if I start with a full tank and drive my car until the tank is exhausted, I'll be exhausted too and need several hours of rest. In the case of an EV, I'll just plug it in and charge overnight while I rest and recharge myself. I can't remember a single ICE car I have driven that I could safely use up the tank in a single drive - If I could, I'd be the king of Le Mans.

The only issue is the possible surprise long drive, when you need to jump into your car and drive for a long time immediately. It's doable with an ICE and not great with an EV.
This is the company that famously runs their main website on ... drum roll ... PHP. I know it's not off-the-shelf PHP, and they do a lot of clever stuff with it, but to worry about single digit milliseconds when you have such a barnacle as the centerpiece of your business is hilarious.
> I find efforts by Bryan Johnson to increase his lifespan pretty idiotic- he won’t be able to avoid the cancer and the Alzheimer’s risks as he ages

At worst, he can be another data point. With enough of those, maybe someone will find a better treatment.
The solar panels are made by First Solar, which has a significant market share for panels in large US solar farms.

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/11/18/weekend-read-the-frui...

First Solar is not the only cadmium telluride solar manufacturer but it is by far the biggest. It is also the only thin-film company in the list of top 10 solar manufacturers by shipments in the 2022 ranking published by California-based SPV Market Research. First Solar is also in the top 10 in the latest ranking from Taiwan-based InfoLink.

...

Paula Mints, chief market research analyst at SPV Market Research, said that First Solar had a 36% share of the United States utility-scale solar market in 2022. “I would look at their 2023 share of the US utility-scale market as similar,” she said.
I think I managed about 10k users with my mac shareware games in 2009/10, and that didn't get me ramen profitability let alone modern pay scales.

So not necessarily any budget for more than they did.
Yeah from the title I thought this was going to be about leetcode problems, but this is truly something that comes up regularly.

Where are these dev jobs where _don't_ have to figure out some mysterious issue in a barely maintained GitHub repo semi-regularly?
Is this the reason for the current black bar?

EDIT: Maybe Thomas Kurtz? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42141761
Chemist Identifies Mystery 'Blobs' Washing Up in Newfoundland
But the reason DNA is an apt analogy is because as we see in reality cancer does exist. So a self replicating probe would in theory be following same principles of DNA, it would develop a cancerous probe, that in theory could defeat the original design plan and maybe kill all previous probes. Or say by a bacteria on a planet laying latent that causes unexpected issues, etc.
Yes, that popped up quickly, but normally isn't that reserved for after someone has passed away?

edi: Oh, for Thomas Kurtz, another thread
> In reality, it's a pretty objective fact that being disabled means being unable to do something.

This isn't an argument for or against the comment or the OP, but this is not universally seen as objective, and there are more ways to think about this than the medical model where there are "normal" people and that disabilities are deviations from what is "normal". Many disabled people and experts on disability see it as socially constructed, because certain conditions (e.g. being shorter than average), while limiting your physical abilities, are not disabilities because society generally provides for those conditions and extends equal access. If 50% of people were born Deaf, our society would still function, but it would address Deafness with affordances like the ones currently offered to short people.

To put it another way, despite e.g. being gay or short posing various social or physical disadvantages, we shy away from encouraging conversion therapy or height extension surgery by default, instead opting for a more inclusive society. And human beings are complex — a person who has found culture and meaning as a member of the Deaf community may disagree with you that they are "objectively worse off" for not having hearing, despite the obstacles.

This article I think does a good job of explaining the quandary of a parent faced with a "fix" for a condition that is challenging but through which people have developed identity and culture. I am lucky to not currently have to take a stand on the right choice here, but I think the complexity of the issue deserves more respect than to be dismissed out of hand.
In this example, we're talking about an L6/staff role.

If the role is correctly staffed, nobody should have to be looking over that person's shoulder questioning data structure choices and algorithm efficiency regardless of what the person's background is.

It's absolutely the case that there are people with 9 years of experience who are not prepared to meet the needs of that role. There are people with 19 and 29 and 49 years of experience that fit into that bucket. Practice alone doesn't get you there.

But as you note, as a rule, you expect your bright, leetcode-grinding "newbie" to need mentoring and oversight to compensate for their propensity to rely on shallow theory where they don't know better from experience. That's not someone a team wants in a L6/staff role either!

For high level roles, you need bright, curious people who are experienced but not rigid. Admittedly, there's only so many of them, but when you start having to fill those roles with people that don't meet each of those criteria, you can't be surprised when the team's morale and output suffer. Which is exactly what we see as an outcome of the recent boom (and each prior one), because you end up having the blind lead the blind through the minefield of engineering.. and that's going to be messy no matter how clever or book-studied those folk happen to be.
oh, i was just thinking if something should be developed, do you have the link?
This kind of post is what brings me back to this website :-)

I'm the guy with the enthusiastic thread earlier on in this post. I'd love to sit down and chat with you for an hour on zoom and hear all about those times, which we could then we could post the video on here - I think people would appreciate.

I have absolutely zero experience in interviewing people, nor do I have a media channel of any kind, but I promise I'd do my best to ask interesting questions. If that sounds interesting, shoot me an email (you can find it in my profile).
The improvements in transformer implementation (e.g. "Flash Attention") have saved gobs of money on training and inference, I am guessing most likely more than the salary of those researchers.
We have the same mutation and have a deaf son (we had no idea we were carriers until after he was born and failed the hearing screening). I've often wondered if we had decided to have another child if I would have done IVF and selected a hearing child. And I don't think I could do it. It's not rational at all, but it would feel like a rejection of my son (who is doing amazing with his cochlear implant).
Yeah this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXCBz_8hM9w&t=2324s

Not quite that wording. More we know which way to head. I think he's sincere.
Musk expands lawsuit against OpenAI, adding Microsoft and antitrust claims
I'm a senior developer. Of course I know how to code. Do you know how many code challenges I've done over the course of my career? 99% of them where terrible at evaluating my ability to code. They are a waste of time at the senior level. You are much better off with a conversation, looking at past work and experience and references than you are doing code challenges.
> start mining monero

Good luck with that! Even Monero's "light mode" requires 16 times more memory than is available on the system.
addressed in the piece
we administer a coding challenge designed to ensure people can do some basic coding - we don't even have them compile it. But we have caught people who start talking about using a B tree to solve fizzbuzz and we know they're not a fit. It's useful as an initial screener.
Deep learning is the very opposite of generalization.
Polk County, Wisconsin is at a 45.46 N.

That is the same latitude as Milan, Italy and Southern France!
This is a relatively recent development (<3 months), at least for OpenAI, where the model will generate code to solve math and use the response
Had the weirdest interview of my life on Tuesday, more on that at the end.

Relevant part: the interviewer/CEO's philosophy is not to code challenge because no one properly vetted for "problem-solving, collaboration, and growth in relevant areas" (tfa) would ever accept a job they were going to fail at. Will always stick with me.

Now, here's the weirdest interview of my life: An acquaintance who runs a software business interviewed me by bringing me along to an NBA game he has season tickets for. The interview in the dining area before the game was normal, the game included some breaks for more interview discussion, but the home team had the best shooting night of their entire season so the crowd was very rowdy and we each had 2 beers.
When I lived in the Bay Area I was told there were some fucked up chemicals used in the production of PCBs that remained in the water from the valley's Golden Era (?). Perhaps there is something in the water then?
This will be a good introduction, but won't cover the cost and benefits of a statistical space IID etc..

https://youtu.be/q8gng_2gn70
Cyph – A cryptographically secure messaging and social networking service
That’s a false dichotomy. I’ve never felt the need to do the DS&A grind for one of these roles and I would never dream of writing the ungodly inefficient code you just imputed to my peer group.
Dan Gelbart Mec520 – Sensors and Actuators for Control Systems
They are extraordinarily different languages and runtime systems.
Global Pharma and Local Science: The Untold Tale of Reserpine
Are they going to build it in the shadow of the Foxconn factory?
Is the HN black bar for Kurtz?
15-20M people over (at max) 4 years would be as much as 5 million per year, which is more than double "some years".

Even in the most generous (slow) version of this "deportation" scheme, the numbers are much higher than have been operated in the past.
When has that been a thing? When I got a concussion 5 years ago, the hospital in Seattle let me sleep all day in bed and told me to get plenty of rest.
It defaults to US. That is why it doesn't like correctly spelled colours and flavours of aluminium.
BASIC on an Apple IIe in the early 1980's was my first language.

RIP Kurtz.
Yep. Wholesale electric contracts for electricity producers in California are as low as 3-4 cents per kilowatt hour. Many prices at the meter are closer to 45 cents per kilowatt hour.

It certainly doesn't help that our monopoly transmission companies are regulated by price caps set on a cost plus basis. They have every incentive to drive up their costs and make transmission as expensive as possible.
Python no longer comes preinstalled with macOS. Though running any command against /usr/bin/python3 will make macOS prompt you about installing the Xcode Developer Tools (takes two clicks), which does get you Python.

Anyway, jq now ships with macOS Sequoia.

For older versions of macOS, using JavaScript for Automation is preinstalled and gets the job done with a bit more verbosity:

osascript -l JavaScript -e 'function run(argv) { return JSON.stringify(JSON.parse(argv[0]),null,2) }' '{"key": "value"}'
I had one coding challenge a month ago that said: this should take you no longer than 2 hours. It didn't have guard rails on it so you could technically spend more time on it. It ended up taking me 2 days on and off because it was basically build a front and and a backend. And then later I realized the instructions for submission were totally broken too: DONT make a PR - later in the instructions: make a PR.
I don't get this, can someone explain
Malicious NPM Package Exploits WhatsApp Authentication with Remote Kill Switch
Sort of. But vaguely.
I'm from the Bay but I've never heard "Santa Cruz Tech" before. Its always been a sleepy beach/uni town to me. Have any interesting anecdotes?
Wouldn't that be a red flag if they don't have any public code at all as a senior developer? They aren't fresh out of school or just starting their careers. They should have something.
I'm the author of the article. Yes, I agree. I think AI reviewers, in their current state, are essentially glorified linters. Much of what they excel at can already be achieved with linting. However, I believe their edge lies in spotting semantic mistakes, whereas linters are ideally suited for syntactic or stylistic issues.
It sounds like your friend is going through an incredibly challenging time, and you're doing the best you can in an incredibly difficult situation. Mental health breakdowns often result from prolonged stress, negative self-talk, and an overwhelming sense of being unable to cope with life's challenges. While everyone’s experience is unique, encouraging your friend—when appropriate—to be less reactive and more compassionate toward himself could be beneficial. Right now, though, the priority should be ensuring his safety and stability. It’s tough, but engaging professionals, as you’ve done, is the right move, even if it feels harsh or damages trust in the short term.

Long-term, one way to help might be encouraging him to rebuild a more positive and resilient self-image once he’s ready. Often, people in mental health crises are trapped in patterns of negative self-talk, which make manageable situations feel insurmountable. Helping him regain confidence in his ability to handle challenges—whether by facing fears or celebrating small victories—could gradually improve his outlook. For now, be firm yet compassionate, and don't carry the burden alone. Involve his family and the professionals in decision-making while reminding yourself you’re doing your best for a friend you clearly care deeply about.
Yes.

GDPR says on Consent:

> The basic requirements for the effectiveness of a valid legal consent are defined in Article 7 and specified further in recital 32 of the GDPR. Consent must be freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous. In order to obtain freely given consent, it must be given on a voluntary basis. The element “free” implies a real choice by the data subject. Any element of inappropriate pressure or influence which could affect the outcome of that choice renders the consent invalid.

Pretty clear, isn't it?

There have been subsequent rulings stating that not giving a equally styled no/reject option or letting people choose between one yes option and thousand separate no options is already a influence that nullifies consent.

Also specific means you can't just tell them you have to use a cookie for technical reasons and use it for tracking later — they might have given you consent for that cookie for the purpose you told them about, not for the purpose of tracking.

All kinds of actors try to bend the rules here, while the rules are verh clear.
Great question. That was my first idea, but I couldn't get it to work.

I tried with no signal handler, and the whole process (the parent) gets killed and a generic "Alarm clock" message is printed.

I tried with a (no-op) signal handler, and wait() keeps waiting.

"man 2 wait" does seem to say it should work. When I tried it, I installed my handler with signal(). Maybe with sigaction() it would work since "man 7 signal" says it should if I don't pass SA_RESTART.
> Exponential inner loops for big searches, huge recursive calls. Those things show up in code written by experienced coders IRL.

The thing is, those things are easily fixable after the fact. A bad architecture is not, and without practical experience designing systems in the real world, you don't have those instincts to guide you towards the correct choices because you haven't made any mistakes to learn from.
Learning to speak to whales using AI, with David Gruber (Ep. 137)
No experience with CI, however:

SI has SSHL left side from infection. Dealt with it for 20 years, then an impact basal fracture degraded the right side.

Started with Apple Airpods Pro as aids. Now using Oticon CROS and Own. CROS works OK, Own works OK, but both are compromises, and have the overhead of using aids. Both have a different sound experience.

CI seems like another compromise. I am guessing stem cell is the golden ring - growing back the nerves.
On my sleep
Berlin's beat goes quiet as techno clubs close their doors
We made an app to simulate car/phone speakers+ streaming platforms on browser
The privacy and security part is not inspiring confidence. Scrolling to the next section got me thinking "Don't get scammed at closing, get scammed before closing after uploading your mortgage documents to a random website."

Cool idea though.
I just told you.
Bitcoin for the Sovereign
The Social Web
> I wonder how nobody talks about moral considerations of this atrocity.

There has been a lot of talk about how immoral this is; but if you're not seeing it anymore, it's because the people in the spaces you learn from have given up. The people that don't want it *know* it's horrible and immoral and terrifying and evil and will result in enormous casualties of many, many, *many* of the proposed 20M as well as many many many of their friends and family.
"The corruption of Twitter"? Whenabout do you pinpoint that? For me, it took place when the platform went from being a place where virtually every user was just a regular person and it got raided and invaded by corporate media, "celebrities" and politicians, so pretty soon. Shortly afterwards it began curtailing freedom of speech heavily by way of very suspicious and surreptitious means (deplatforming, suppression of ideas, removal of posts, shadowbanning, penalizing certain keywords, collaborating with governments to silence opposition and dissent, etcetera). Only since Elon Musk took over all of those vile tactics went out the window globally, though I admit I don't like the walled-garden nature of it all one bit, but at least one can express oneself there more or less freely now, and community notes are truly a boon to every sane individual--albeit certainly not to legacy media and woke cultists.

With regards to federation, I think in this case it just takes the worst of both worlds, but to each their own. I'd prefer a truly decentralized approach.
You’re underestimating the variance in senior devs, and you’re failing to look at this from the interviewer’s perspective. Sometimes doctors should be quizzed on anatomy, btw.

They need to be able to compare candidates, and senior devs will be expected to code. Their goal is to pick the best candidate. Asking them to demonstrate their coding skill isn’t just fair game, it’s what half the interviewees actually want. A lot of people prefer being evaluated on code than on soft skills (just read the threads here for tons of evidence.)

It’s useful to know whether a candidate is going to be on the principal engineer path or management path. It’s useful to know whether they are actually good at coding, and how good exactly. And it’s also useful to know if they are willing to do what needs to be done once hired. Someone interviewing for a senior coding position who refuses to code during the interview is about as big of a red flag as you can have, and I’ve been part of hiring teams that will politely excuse someone for that, and I agree with the reasoning.

This might not make sense until you’re on the hiring side of things, but having a resume does not entitle one to being hired for a higher title and more money.
Being rusty at school math, I was going to ask you how to solve that, then decided to google it.

I typed "5 to the power of 2.5", and after a few clicks, got this (with 'math solver' shown in the search box:

https://www.google.com/search?q=5%5E(2.5)

There is a button to show solving steps.

There is also a Quora answer that shows two different ways of solving it, using properties of exponents.

Cool. Now I need to go brush up on my school math. :)
Synchronous communication is sometimes effective, but when its the default it is plodding, wasteful, and an absolute minefield of anxieties and banalities for some people, myself included.

Strangely, it seems like the world is becoming more like me over time. I tend to think of my preferred communication style as strange and awkward because that's what a lifetime of experience has taught me but the new generation seems to also prefer it.
The period of fastest growth of Christianity was a period of Christian violence and darkness: the Crusades, The Inquisition, Christian colonialism and imperialism, the Dark Ages.

The fastest growing religion now is Islam, which is in many ways following the earlier playbook of Christianity.

Whereas Buddhism, the real kind, not the new agey California kind that is centered on self, or the popular Asian kind that is as close to Buddhist principles as Evangelicals are to Jesus's teachings, has nearly vanished from its place of birth, India, suppressed in favor of Islam or Hinduism, whichever the rulers of India favored at the time, and is a rarity everywhere else on the planet.

If any religion is COOPERATE-BOT, it is Buddhism, the real kind.
> 2. If they can't charge at night at home, get a hybrid (WHAT?)

It's entirely possible a BEV doesn't fit someone's lifestyle. This is a well known issue of BEV's - that charging takes longer than filling up a tank at a gas station. In this case, the advice to get a HEV is perfectly fine if you want some of the benefits of a BEV without the inconvenient issue of wall charging.

Also, if the distances you drive are small, it won't make financial sense to get a BEV, which are more expensive than ICE vehicles of the same size.
I assume OP was talking about US manufactured solar panels. Just buying PV from China is good for China only- they keep the profits, expertise and can choose to deploy the best panels for themselves if they feel the need.