skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not aware of any mode of watching Netflix that is constrained to 15 minutes.

"Trying" to sleep is also doomed to failure, of course.

Personally, what works best for me is modeling solutions to issues in projects (work or otherwise).

I originally tried this, hoping for the benefit of "sleeping on a problem". I don't think it's been particularly successful for that (though it could be subtly so, I guess), but it has about a 90% success rate for inducing sleep within 15 minutes. :)

My solution and yours might be the same thing (distraction from the goal of sleep), but I'd worry about the stimulation of video, the light from the screen, disturbing partners, etc. And also that I might get interested, and stay up for hours instead (this is my failure mode for reading before sleep).
I really love the commit messages. This style adds a lot of value.
"Another story in the Railway and Engineering Review included a similar hack attempt by a Portland night watchman. Having previously been caught mechanically rigging the button-pushing work of his nightly rounds, the watchman was given a pedometer to ensure that he was manually completing his work. Although this use of quantum media — media that count, quantify, or enumerate — to more closely monitor the watchman’s activities seemed to work for several nights, he was eventually found sleeping in the engine room, having attached the pedometer to a piston rod"

Having worked briefly in security - I found it hilarious.
Nowdays it works by scanning RFID chips on the guarded areas with a smartphone, so cheating here is way harder (I considered it of course), it would have included hacking the work smartphone and the surveillance software.

Either way - the other nightguards there complained a lot because of their recent high raise in workload - which now meant patrolling by car and foot for 2 hours, instead of 1 - then you checked in all the points - and could sleep or play consoles for the next 10 hours (or in my case programming on my projects), as long as you could wake up if an actual alarm happened. So not that much stress ..
> Social media [..] were uniquely effective at delivering near real-time breaking updates

> I don't really know of a way to replicate that in other systems

Usenet, IRC, mailing lists, news websites, web forums, RSS feeds, etc. We had plenty of breaking news sources. It just wasn't as convenient as posting on twitter or looking at an endless trending feed. We've gained convenience, at the cost of our health.

And ironically, what's become easier is the pushing of "breaking news" that isn't actually important, but will sure get eyeballs on screens and enraged replies. "Kayne said WHAT???" Who in the fuck cares? Why are we hearing about this in real time? Why are we allowing ourselves to be deluged in shit?
Official Sega lore manager confirms Sonic is homeless
Google in particular often downlevelled incoming engineers by one level from what their "natural" level should be- IE, a person who should have been an L6 would often be hired at L5 and then have to "prove themself" before getting that promo.
When I interviewed at Stripe, they had a "debug this!" question ready to go in a number of languages. (I think the list was something like: ruby, java, python, javascript, go, maybe one or two more.) I thought this was pretty great, but also seemed pretty labor intensive.
The man is so egotistical that every penny he loses hurts him a lot. Losing this amount of money will bother him massively.
The beatings will continue until morale (or the job market) improves.

In all seriousness, we just need to get together and refuse to do these types of problems (starting with hiring managers and strong candidates).
The ease with which interviews allow the unscrupulous to inflate their abilities has been well-known for long enough for it to be metagamed and exploited for profit and now the effects have become abundantly apparent. Imposters institutionally infested in this manner across industries have reached a critical threshold where their fundamental lack of competency can no longer remain hidden.
Typical table stakes prep work for a high paying job with a lot of competition.

I’m serious. It’s not even guaranteed you’ll get the job if you do the above but everyone who passed the big tech interviews will acknowledge they fucking studied for it. What do expect here?
It's funny that two different posts today are having the same "tabs vs spaces" about "printf vs debugger" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42146338 (Seer: A GUI front end to GDB for Linux)
According to Wikipedia, the reactor on a Virginia-class sub has 280,000 hp (thermal, I guess) and 2x40,000 shp steam turbines.

So a little less oomph than 2 out of the 5 fuel pumps on a Saturn V, just for an irrelevant comparison ;)
But I'd still be able to do my banking at X, right?
How close to zero? 1 MWh at 100% efficiency is enough to convert 180 kg of CO2 to ethylene (note this only produces 51 kg ethylene). Annual excess carbon emissions are 36.8 trillion kg of CO2. At a cost of $0.10 per MWh, which is about 3-4 orders of magnitude lower than it currently is, that's still $20 Billion per year. A cheaper pathway is still going to save an incredible amount of money even if solar power got ridiculously cheap.
On the other hand if someone blocks you yet your Twitter circle keeps interacting with that person–maybe because they are a big player in the space–your feed is full of "You cannot read this message" tombstones. It's stupid that you can't just see the tweet/reply at that point. And no less provocative.

I guess they could hide quote-tweets from people you follow if they responded to someone who blocked you but that has major drawbacks and is weirdly heavy handed. (Why should someone blocking me prevent me from seeing tweets from people I follow?)

I think Elon's change to the block system has the most sensible trade-offs in this example. If someone blocks you, their tweets don't show up on your feed, but you can still see them when they interact with other tweets and when people quote-tweet them. It should really just prevent interaction.
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Even if it is a net win, voters won't perceive it as one, judging by the historical response to inflation against incumbent governments worldwide and through the decades.
Interesting work. I appreciate this. It would be interesting to compare the original article with the one that appears in the so-called “Trust” book that the OP refers to and derives their own version from.

I’m even less keen on OP’s changes than before. They might as well have written a review of it or an inspired work of their own than render the integrity of the text questionable, even to the slightest extent.
The article fails to mention this somehow, so I'd like to mention that Sony designed the SNES sound chip, the SPC700. It is unsurprising then that the Playstation's sound hardware is similar.
> they were completely unfit to complete their assigned tasks, or that they were getting hung up on simple tasks

They were unfit to complete the tasks. But again was not their fault, I think was the hiring that failed.

One concrete example was the fact that our pipelines was quite straightforward for data engineers: packaged Ruby and Python CLIs that runs commands. The runtime was k8s. One of the biggest issues were when something broke in production, none of the people couldn’t go to the container, check the logs and understand the failure.

There’s one situation where I think makes sense to hiring without a test: if the company has the resources and money to provide levelling training for all new hires with no exceptions. I do not know how practical it is.
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It's hard to take this seriously when it is so laden with name-calling and bitter sarcasm. There is nothing ambiguous or complex about either side of the argument. If you can't defend your side of the argument without falsely accusing the opposing argument as being non-existent or factually incorrect when it's laid out so clearly (see siblings, or any responses any time this comes up), you should stop and come at it from another angle.

And, to be clear, this is not me saying that one side of this argument is correct and the other is wrong. I just think your attitude is non-constructive.
As expected. Without you providing any answer to my previous question proves my point once again as to why little to no-one can realistically take Mastodon seriously, nor do they want to choose to sign up.

You're the only one complaining about (and seemingly offended) over the fact that someone showing the basic reasons why former Twitter / X and new users are not choosing to move to Mastodon, as other social networks such as Bluesky have largely handled this better than Mastodon should have.

So once again, how many DAUs does Mastodon have to show for after the failed migration from Twitter / X?
You can only get so far as a pastry chef knowing the recipes. Understanding the chemistry does take your craft to a higher level.

I’m never really surprised that there are so many security vulnerabilities out there. Tons of software is completely half-assed: slow, error-prone and inefficient. The market supports it because VCs keep pumping out companies that throw spaghetti at the wall until something sticks. And it has had an influence on the kinds of skills we optimize for at the hiring level.

The problem I see isn’t that we’re trying to hire better developers. It’s that the tests we use are misaligned. Getting into a MAANG with all these hazing rituals and then you get stuck resizing the corners on buttons or editing XML configuration for some ancient system is a waste of time.

But so is hiring programmers that only understand frameworks.
The logic is very easy: Certain groups objectives are not "Everyone lives well" or even "I live well", they are "I live well in comparison to those I see around me". They do not say it aloud and they are not very bright, but by their actions and what compromises they are willing and unwilling to accept you can eke out their true utility function. They thrive in chaos because they receive relative pleasure from seeing others fall, and even more from importing the miserable and keeping them miserable.

To be perfectly honest, everyone does this. Schadenfreude is an inherently human trait. The relative weight is different by person, though.
> a more effective appeal to nature would be that need to return to a near starvation diet

Also increases CVD and mortality [1]. And causes your descendants to be fat [2].

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7792411/

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36507560/
> the leading ideology of the 21st century thus far appears to be a hyper-Christian bleeding-heart liberalism

I would love to hear the reasoning behind this claim. Perhaps it rests on a different meaning of the word “leading” than I am expecting.
Obviously it’s left-leaning. X is pushing to the right. People are voting with their feet as a natural result: “like Twitter but not an alt-right foghorn” is a good enough selling point. It probably won’t stay that way as it gains traction.

However, it’s not just that. If you want to see more tailored content you have to follow people. Expecting to see anything other than the most currently-popular posts when you’re not following anyone and haven’t set any preferences is frankly ridiculous.

One thing I will say though is that although BSky has good science and arts communities the tech community seems to be sticking with Mastodon.
(And `ignore` uses `walkdir` internally)
Seven lessons I didn't learn from election day
Non human identity management will definitely be a huge issue in the future...excited to see how players in the field will tackle this. E.g. Entro/Okta
This is absolute ahistorical nonsense. The rise of Christianity is definitely not a story of Cooperate bot.
I think the reality is that it's too costly to put together a process that filters better. This has been deemed "good enough" and they can fire you if the filter didn't work properly.
Struggles? If "smartphone" is missing from a dictionary that was finished literally the other day, that's not struggle. That's DOA.

(Reminds me of the classic Monty Python sketch from the Holy Grail: "I'm not dead yet! I'm not dead yet!")
> It also sounds like you’re a subject matter expert.

Hmm sounds like the opposite to me. If you have some experience with Ardupilot, it actually works really, really well.

Those open source autopilots are used in Ukraine right now.
There are only two inputs to BMI, and height is one of them.
For single threaded use cases. For multi-threaded, it has its own parallel directory traversal. :-)
I've never considered chess engines or video games to have AI, I guess in that sense you could say I balked at it.

> It's actually long been noted that the bar keeps rising, that when we figure something out it stops being called AI by a lot of people.

That's interesting, I've seen it the other way around. In the 90s I don't remember anything related to AI depicting something as simple as fancy text prediction or human-like speech. Going back further and Hal from Space Odyssey didn't seem like an AI that was just predictive text.

Its always possible my expectations were born from science fiction and not academic research, but that's a pretty big gap if academics considered AI to only require natural language processing and text prediction.
There is no need to be hyperbolic. The US has regularly deported up to 1/2 a million people per year for over a decade until 2020 or so. Some years, the number of deportations exceeded 2 mil. This policy is just a return to the status quo.

https://ohss.dhs.gov/topics/immigration/yearbook/2019/table3...
I use sign language myself everyday.

Sign language is way more than just gesturing. I did not see read that link from the above post, regardless, gestures are fundamentally a semiotic expression of meaning with the body rather than speech.

Like sounds, one can create a basic Piercian sign, and build onto that sign.

I believe that sign language has the unfortunate implication of being composed exclusively of gesturing. The word “sign” is confusing as well, especially when “sign” signifies (pun intended) a set of commonly understood meanings in linguistics. Body language, gestures, manual expressions all are just parts that come together and become more than the total of sum parts.

I see spoken and sign languages as two different tools that can do similar job with different features and weaknesses. Like python vs go vs JavaScript.
> How do you explain that there are smart people who [..] respond positively to "the solution to misinformation is more/better information"

Someone can be intelligent and still have misplaced hope for humanity to the point where I would consider them to be outright naive.

All it took was an hour or two on social media back in 2020/21. You could easily find someone who insisted that Ivermectin cured COVID, point out tons of studies showing that it's worthless against COVID, and yet they would reject all those studies as lies.

> I don't suppose you know of a solution

Nope. :-(

Kids are taught the scientific method, but that doesn't seem to be enough. They learn enough to pass a test and then forget about it all.

> The proposed solutions I've seen appearing on the left are frightening.

Agreed, though be careful to not read words that aren't there. Elsewhere in this thread, someone accused me of being in favor of government enforcement against free speech despite me saying nothing of the sort. Arguments that misinformation is bad is not an argument that it should be legally enforced!

In other words, yes, some leftists believe that misinformation should be illegal, but not everyone arguing that misinformation is bad is arguing that it should be illegal.
From my (super limited) experience, debuggers shine when:

- You're using a dynamically typed language.

Something like Rust can eliminate most bugs that come from incorrect data types. For me, a lot of bugs used to come from types that were different from what I expect.

- It is super easy to run your program with a debugger attached.

If your code needs to run on a K8s cluster or a dedicated test machine instead of locally, logs are much easier to get hold of than a remote debug session. Some people aren't even aware that they can attach a debugger to a computer over the network, or inside a Docker container.

- Your environment.

If you don't use an IDE that supports a debugger, it's another friction point. I'm not sure if Vim has something similar to, say, PyCharm's debugger.

Similarly, if you're a junior, and you reach out to a senior and they tell you to debug using logs, you probably will never switch to using a debugger yourself.
There is plenty going on in global news apart from US elections to be concerned about. Even apart from the wars, I think we've been acting insane for a few decades at least w.r.t. emissions and pollution. One person has intelligence, many, not so much.
My wife and I faced a similar situation and found it a simple decision. We both carry GJB-2 gene mutations that will likely result in profound non-syndromic hearing loss. We went through Orchid Health to get a whole genome sequence of our prospective embryos and then selected one that was not affected by the condition.

We have 1 more carrier girl and 2 more unaffected girls to work with, and if we want boys later in life we will probably wait for Decibel Therapeutics / Regeneron to finish their GJB-2 gene therapy before we have that child. If there are constraints then we will have a cochlear implant or simply not implant that embryo.

It was obvious to us how it should play out. My wife and I have an obligation to maximize the cone of possibility for our children and a duty to equip them best to experience the world so that they can choose the path through it that they wish.

Just like I would not pierce the eardrums of my child after she is born, I shall not intentionally choose an embryo that carries a debilitating condition that I cannot remedy or mitigate if I can choose otherwise. I don’t think this is a dilemma in any way. There is an obvious choice for us. We will not deny her normative sense organs. My parents got me glasses and contact lenses. My life would have been much less vibrant if they had chosen to not provide me those prosthetics.

Some parents are not so fortunate as us to have this choice. I hope modern therapeutics will enable all children and adults to have the full range of sensors that most humans carry.
A common thread across all the disability groups is an intrinsic desire to normalize it, a drive towards a world where everyone has the disability and therefore no one is disabled.

Prune it down and it is simply "You can fix something by developing a fix, and if you can't do that you can fix something by redefining what "fixed" means".
> > When was the last time you had to debug an ancient codebase without documentation or help from a team?

I would rather do this than some tired ass LeetCode problem.
That is the way to do it, good on Stripe. Its definitely labor intensive, but I think that you either need to outsource it or be big enough that you can source the talent to build a half-dozen plus idiomatic and kind of big applications to make it a good test.
Have you got the high paying big tech job then?

If you do the above prep work and pass the multiple interview loops you’re pretty smart honestly. The vast majority couldn’t do it even with all the study possible and even the smartest couldn't do it without any study at all. The bar is pretty high.
Oh thanks, I know about that and agree. I did not understand the point about doing debugging in containers.

But I think I understand now. I guess they only debugging a program that is running in a container.
When the interviewee is asked to complete an assignment, they have to invest substantially more time than their counterpart.
I don't drink soda at all. I have used food journals for years.
Of course all points are correct - and yet

> nearly half [of gen z] admit that speaking on the phone makes them feel anxious (49 per cent)

> an awkward phone call is one of the top three things they would most want to avoid (42 per cent)

That being said I'm quite confident there is enough of a market that doesn't dread talking on the phone that this company could do very well for itself and its founders financial goals.

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https://www.commbank.com.au/articles/newsroom/2023/06/CBA-Mo...
Skeptical that this will be a "good" experience for everyone involved considering how generic AI openers/responses are, but also hopeful that it can reduce friction for some.

Excited to see what y'all cook up.
Thanks for sharing. A refreshing, and more real perspective on business compared to other “indie hackers”.
Yeah, what is hard is actually implementing this.
I am wondering if there are any major difference in Firefox and Chrome on Website support. Because I haven't had any problem for a very long time.
That's not the way the change to blocking worked right? I haven't used the site since he became owner, but isn't the recent change that if you yourself have been blocked by someone, you will now be able to see their posts if they're public (just as if you were logged out) and you stumble onto them somehow?

So if Musk is being blocked all the time, he wouldn't be able to see posts from the randos who blocked him. His posts presumably would still be hidden by those who blocked him?
Blocking from interacting makes sense and from showing up in the feed/search results also makes sense, blocking from viewing at all encourages trolls and deceivers.

E.g. I’ve noticed cases where user A replies to user B, writes something pretending to carry on a conversation, then immediately after tweeting goes to block user B such that it looks like, to passing readers, that user B made a decision to stop responding.

Which of course, in addition to wrecking the credibility of user A and deceiving user B, slightly reduces the credibility of every other conversation chain on the site and the site itself, every time that is discovered.
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I'm not even a huge fan of the Donkey Kong Country games, I'd rather play Super Mario World or Mega Man X.

But man, I can never get over what they were able to accomplish with that soundtrack. It's impressive on its own, not even factoring in that it was pulled off on the SNES.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKAc3nYEatw

I don't even think I got to the water levels when I was a kid, but this song feels like it can invoke nostalgia in anyone, even if you never played the game.
Field Notes from a Gear Tester
Do you leave your phone outside when you use it? Do you use the same wifi? I would find it hard to believe that Meta can't predict who you are.
Back when I had a job hiring people we created problems we could walk people through and see what they figured out on the fly/what they knew but didn't know they knew. That was what I was taught whiteboard problems were, not this lame leet code. But I grew up with both parents in 1980s/90s Santa Cruz tech. The current scene adopted the practice but made it exclusive when it was intended to be inclusive (because there wasn't a huge talent pool back then so they were looking for people they could grow into developers).

One of my hires was a physicist who didn't know any of the jargon and had a look of terror when she first started on our whiteboard problems. Once we led her to a comfortable spot and she got into it she started talking about tools she made to help with her physics work with zero dev knowledge (she was shocked when we called her tools software, she was like, but it wasn't REAL software, we were like hate to break it to you, but that was not only real software you wrote, but crazy impressive). The white board problems were a tool to highlight potential.

I get that these big companies just want drop in widgets not people and that is what they are searching for, I just think it's funny they are using something that was created for the exact opposite purpose.

Part of me is kind of glad I'm too old to be one of the cool kids and have no hope to land a job that does these sorts of code challenges.