skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't this construction indicate that your premise is false? That is, the influence of money in politics and corruption is not the underlying force that led to Trump's electoral and popular vote win?
The long term "solution" here for candidates will devolve to a second device that uses a camera and microphone to monitor the device from which they are being tested and presents feedback on a second monitor visible to the applicant but not interviewer.

For interviewers, the solution will be proctored testing centers with metal detectors and all devices required to be in a locker outside the test area. (This is how the FAA conducts its written exams.)
To be clear, I'm not saying he should be committed for his opinions, but he does do some other very strange things and I think he really does need help. Unfortunately the medical bills would bankrupt him.
So, my sibling took a Constitutional Law class once. And they were telling me that the lecturer was saying that there is one major factor underappreciated in current law: Dueling

The US system is one that is set up under a very different cultural system than what we currently have (in many ways). But one important release valve that the first generation had was duels. If you were being a shithead over and over, you'd be killed. Maybe not by the first duel, or even the fifth duel. But your luck would run out eventually.

Now, these days, we know that duels are just crazy, and the social effects of them are dumb. But we've also gotten rid of the shaming and shunning effects that came after them. Something else (white/blacklists, anti-NETTR, an anti-trolling league, etc) should come out to replace and gain these functions again. Our system really only works if done in good faith and requires an extra-judicial method of enforcement.
The GPT era is already ending
Oh, yes, totally true. It wasn't a lot of actual use, but a few non-trivial apps ran. (Briefly, this being Win3.)

But it falsifies the statement that 32-bit code didn't run on Win3. Even late-era DOS has 32-bit apps.
https://archive.is/2024.12.07-083509/https://www.theatlantic...
Yes, you need stupid amounts of money to win, and I see that as normal in capitalist countries given how significant winning is. However, there's also an obligation to disclose the funding sources so people can decide whether they agree with them.

Some may downplay the importance of this, but I see it as absolutely crucial.
I encourage anyone to stand their ground on this. Competing with liars is an enormous soft-skill challenge. But it doesn’t exercise critical thinking. Structuring a personal plan that builds those soft skills is really annoying. Especially if you just want to solve complex problems all day.

That said,

- the interviewer likely embellished or lied to get his job. Be careful.

- a lot of this thread is about avoiding a bad hire. In engineering, someone technical who can detect deception is too valuable to put in the interviewer role. Send them to conferences to “poach”.

Just like the soft skills of competing with liars, you can also improve detecting deception.
Oh, for any companies, I'd think.
Without any issue is a stretch, using a French keyboard is bad enough experience for passwords, not everyone uses standard English keyboards.
pretty much this. Firefox is the twitter of software projects. You can Elon the workforce and end up way better off releasing features people care about again if you get a decent elon knockoff to skillfully fire everybody.
If you can just do that, then why are you not quitting your job and why don't you have $800k in the bank?

It's easy, just build a million dollar asset and sell it. Pssh, I am on my third one this week.
Yeah, just implementing a 4 day week without clarity is horseshit

We've just implemented it for the winter and, while kind of good, the expectation is that you'll just get your work done with no conversation about capacity or differences between employees and departments and workloads.

I've actually said it ... I'd prefer 5 days with hybrid than a 4 day week

Who thought everyone wants a 4 day week? ... I just want the freedom to choose a balanced life and get a job done ... effectively giving the employer a day back!

I feel like we've learned nothing from Covid.

Having ranted that. For those implementing this properly. Kudos.
What way of spelling of Gaza do you prefer?
That is completely ridiculous because the candidate could be looking at a relevant documentation page, which is fair game. Next time, try a voice interview.
If you don't like technical interviews then what the industry needs is proper and formal certification process akin to the medical, legal, and engineering fields. In the absence of some outside resource to validate that a person has the basic fundamental skills, then you have to ask questions to determine if the applicant knows any of those skills.
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My apologies for the lack of understanding. I am completely ignorant of everything TikTok. Personally, I am already easily distracted/side tracked and I don’t need another thing to keep me on my phone.

My comment was made on the side of the public majority, be it meat space or the ether, holding little regard for a man who’s responsible for policies that have denied care that they payed for. Believe it or not, actions have consequences.

As to comment on “TikTok sleuths”: I would doubt their prowess and abilities to maintain any level of professionalism. They are on a website that is targeting your short term attention span. Long, drawn out, in depth analysis and (what is it) 1 minute max length videos don’t seem a positive mix. Just as I am now, I would assume they are merely speculating. This just seems like another “we did it Reddit!”.
I've recently been studying leetcode (for reasons) and went through an interview process.

It was, by far, the most boring interview I've ever had to participate in. The leetcode problem was easy (detect if two strings are anagrams; solved with O(n) solution in < 10 LOC; then aggregate sets of anagrams). System design was easy because it is to the point that it is largely "formulaic". It feels like those rhythm games where you need to know when the trigger is coming and the pattern to hit those triggers (talk about functional requirements -> talk about non-functional requirements -> write some API routes -> draw a load balancer (because of course, there's always a load balancer) -> draw a service -> draw Redis/Memcached -> draw a database). It's comically laughable how it's just like a rhythm game at this point.

What I don't understand is why teams don't just "get to the point". A lot of times, the assessment is looking for specific notes. Why not just ask about those notes directly? A friend recently went through an interview where he was docked for not using C# `yield` when implementing an `IEnumerable`. But had the interviewer asked "What is `yield` and why would you use it?", the interviewer would have gained the same exact insight in 15 seconds with one question.

I think what's also striking is how slow orgs are to adapt their interview process to account for AI. There's a distinct lack of focus on code reviews as part of the assessment. If the future of coding is AIs for productivity, then teams should be adding code reviews into their process (check for correctness, check for defects, check for performance, check for security, etc).
Amazon's New Robotic Warehouse Will Rely on Human Workers
It was true -- but he was flying to visit a client, and he was a programmer not a lawyer. His wife, Barbara McEwen, was the company lawyer and she did the negotiating. It was her job, not Gary's.
So you are arguing that the world does not have objective rule criteria, like Physics?

And that an AI could not model the world and then run simulations and have each simulation generate data and learn from that, similar to AlphaZero.

Here is a possible objective win environment

Model complex multicellular organisms that become capable of passing the Turing test that also self-replicate.
Some validators are silly regular expressions that someone wrote in a minute without thinking about it ("Mastering Regular Expressions" has a regex associated with it for better matching an address; that regex is quite the sight to behold). And disallowing + is a crummy solution to whatever "force people to use their actual email address" means given that someone with full control of a domain can invent the alias whatevertheywant@example.org instead of using something with a + in it, or they can spin up an alternate address on some alternate provider, etc.

Other reasons folks use + in their email is to do mail routing (except where crappy web services disallow the + because they relied on a crappy regex) but then again I have no idea what "potential breach can't be tied back to the service" is meant to mean.
The growing threat of firearms that can be made at home
On Lisp you can jump into Common Lisp from Maxima in a breeze. Better with SBCL because of performance.
Valve's master plan for Steam Machines is finally coming into focus
I was 18th on the list, thanks for the donation!

There's also the approach to funding that looks at things from another angle, and says we should have a basic income, or negative income tax, for everyone.
Polls show that year after year influence of money in politics and corruption is one of the causes that unite people.

Ignorance, emotion, identity politics, and good showmanship are more than enough to explain voter irrationality.
Facing Wicked Problems: Rittel and Webber's General Theory of Planning (1973)
>I simply pointed out that the correlation you pointed out may not be causal, and asked whether the intervention you propose has been shown to be effective.

>It sounds like the answer is 'no'.

I answered your question, and the answer was not "no".

You're putting words in my mouth. Nice decorum. Is that your method of creating an illusion of making a point?

Ignoring my general reluctance to play fetch as a matter of debating someone that has no subject matter expertise.

I said that your request asks for overly specific variables that are more than covered by orthodox child development research and practice.

Have you heard children making up songs, stories, and narratives while playing? Can illiterate parents tell stories independent of reading? Can they do it while using the pictures in the child's book?

The fault that invalidates your variable is that children will independently pick up books, regardless of parents. What they tend to do with those books, pre-literacy, are the building blocks of later literacy. Additionally, this process can be helped if the child incidentally happens to see literacy modeled on TV for example.

Your question is roughly parallel to asking a doctor to prove that having nutritious food in a house is healthy for a child, even if the parents themselves choose personal malnourishment.

If there is a chance that the child will reach out and put the better food in their mouth, then it is worth it. Double so if the parent comes to understand that the child enjoys the better food, and so begins looking to feed them with it. This is precisely what happens in child development with books and stories. Reading the words on the page isn't even required for many years. Better?

Yours is a nonsense request that comes from a place of either bottom-barrel debate tactics or a weird level of ignorance that doesn't deserve anyone's time aside from the expert assuring you that you're wrong.

I have a Master of Science in a child development domain as well as a Bachelor of Science in Communication Disorders. I'm assuring you that you are wrong. If you do not believe me, then consult a textbook or google scholar. Assuming that you'd know what you'd need to read across the domain.

>Giving books to illiterate parents is not going to result in stories being read to children.

I prior explained why this is wrong.
> How did we enter a world in which the only given fact that must be held true is that "the business profit will grow unceasingly for all time, no matter the consequence"

What do you mean enter? This was always the model of capitalistic acquisition. Early industrial revolution was not known for it's blue skies, labor friendly laws and preventing children from working in the mines.

The moment you have inflation, which you need to suppress wages of people living from wages (i.e. labor), is the moment you entered the magical roundabout of infinite growth.

The only time capitalism had to placate labor was when communism was a credible rival.
It's weird that OpenAI has lower prices for same models and Azure has higher prices. Anyone can explain?

BTW impressive idea and upvoted on PH as well.
The demo is impressive!

https://huggingface.co/spaces/big-vision/paligemma
This whole thing is getting ridiculous and is a symptom of wealth inequality and our cutthroat society that demands we pay for the privilege of being able to work.
Not OP, but he's quoting this article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7689659/
I think Tyskland is pretty close, particularly given how neighboring folks actually speak there. Allemange has reasons in history as does Germany. I suppose the others can easily explained likewise. Really, it could be much worse.
It's also got an infinitely better reputation since it's arguably not social media, but just a solid instant messenger.

I was personally very concerned when they acquired it, but went from a begrudging user (it was the de facto standard in the country I was living in at the time) to an excited one (Facebook/Meta added end-to-end encryption, multi-device capability, device migration etc.)
Your answer is good, mine was meant as a joke.
how's a 10 year old supposed to know that
Don Knuth's 28th Annual Christmas Lecture (Stanford)- Strong and Weak Components
eliminating the noise makes the useful information clearer, but the information describing the noise is lost
I doubt it will make a difference but climate change isn't expected to cause great suffering. Compared to great filter events, climate change doesn't even register. Estimates are of a rise of [2-4 degrees centigrade by 2100.](https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/climatechange/science#:~:text=Glob....) This will likely result in an [increase](https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/6/1/014....) of arable land. [Global mean sea-level rise is expected to be between 0.30 and 0.65 m by 2100,](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-020-0121-5) which might affect some Dutch towns during storms but is negligible. [As the number of storms are estimated to decrease, the threat vector is slightly increasing storm intensity.](https://climate.nasa.gov/news/3184/a-force-of-nature-hurrica....) Humans can handle storms. We can rebuild homes, change where we settle and live, build with better materials and practises, and improve storm infrastructure and protections. In fact, as the temperature rises slightly, fewer people will die due to temperature extremes. This is because at present, many more people die due to exposure to low temperatures than high temperatures.

We really have done a great disservice to a generation which believes the planet will be dead in a few decades.
Cambridge University urged to apologise over jailing of thousands of women
Advanced Civilizations Could Be Indistinguishable from Nature
> Any smart nation who wants to protect the minds of their citizens would do well to extremely regulate social media in their country.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions like this one.

Muzzle social media and make sure everyone gets their news from the "approved" mainstream media platforms which we all know never lie and have never pushed one narrative only instead of providing facts.

I am sure this will end well.

Next step, we should all leave our TVs on 24/7 just so we don't miss a single word from our beloved leaders. Maybe install some cameras in every home while we are it, you know to save the children/defeat terrorism/save the planet (take your pick)...
On "Where’s my dopamine?", while I'm not a manager but just a tech lead, so still working as an IC for most of the time, I do get satisfaction from eliminating repetitive work for people in my team and optimizing process.

It's great to be able to tell your teammates that the meeting is canceled because you just sent an email explaining that you prepared everything for next sprint and here's a 5 lines summary.
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I love the idea! Anyone here from MS/Github who could integrate this into Github sponsors? That way you could "Donate to Open Source" and see the allocation distribution without having to do all this work.
Thank you for this in-depth clarification. Much appreciated.

I'd argue the situation is quite dire and the, arguably fatalistic, phrasing is not incorrect here.

Men are not allowed to exit the country, and I know personally quite a few cases where males, who were in no real fighting age or condition, were literally picked up on the street and sent to the front. With handcuffs and aggressive force. In my former hometown.

So, staying in your analogy, "everyone's leaving" is rather correct, with the modifier "...who has enough money or sheer luck". "But they're still there" feels like nitpicking for the sake of nitpicking.
Yes, but it also seems to have plateaued, and has held steady for the past 9 months or so.
Tricking c64 basic into clearing a hi-res screen quickly
Doctors and lawyers are licensed, software engineers are not. If a doctor or lawyer screws up they will often face sanctions and lawsuits, whereas a software engineer can just jump ship to a different company and let their resume do the talking. In general it is way easier to get 3 years of experience as a software engineer than it is to go to law school and pass the bar.

I am sympathetic to the argument that software engineers should be licensed, which would reduce the need for dumb technical interviews. But I imagine HN wouldn't like that very much.
This is interesting price-wise, but quality-wise if you do not provide benchmark results, it's not that helpful a comparision.
Then you merely have unreasonably long waits for specialists and testing, and then more waiting for treatment!
Maybe I'm mistaken, but I don't think of Octave, Matlab or numpy as operating in the same space as a computer algebra system -- to me, those are all numerics oriented languages/libraries, used to obtain numerical solutions to problems vs exact symbolic expressions. They complement each other and are often used together, like Mathematica and mathics seem to support both paradigms, but they aren't the same.
I added this to https://cppbuilder.com/ which used to use a standard blur for the header background. It's very subtle, especially with the bottom border turned off, but I appreciate the knowledge of it being a 'better', ie a more real effect matching how real-world light or glass works. Feels like doing it right.

Firefox on Mac _may_ have a slight lag scrolling now which Chrome does not show.

Not mentioned in the article (that I saw) is that despite being a background blur it will affect all elements placed in the header, even with z-index higher than the blur, unless you mark them `position: relative;`. I added that style to my nav container.
IIRC Algol was already dead and buried in the 80's, it certainly wasn't relevant or even available on most computer systems an 80's teenager had access to. The most popular high level language on 8-bit home computers was certainly BASIC, for compiled languages probably some dialect of PASCAL, and maybe FORTH for something entirely different.

BASIC didn't have to be a bad choice either, Acorn/BBC BASIC even had proper inline assembly.
just because you are "responding to the market signals and the incentives" doesn't make it right!

in fact, it signals to me how the market and incentive structure dogma can be a harmful and destructive ideology to follow.
Not everyone has open source projects to show. Also, for the ones that do, extremely few would be used as dependencies in larger projects, so that requirement is just ridiculous.

Also, how do you even know if it's the candidate that has developed the code? You simply don't know if the candidate copy-pasted the code.

Secondly, just because someone cheated at an extremely difficult Leetcode problem doesn't in any way mean that they can't code on the job. Jobs hardly require such problems.

Instead, ask the candidate to explain specific parts of your code that you show them. It can also be cheated, but it has both a screen and a voice input component, so cheating would take more work.
While interesting, this seems to have all the downsides of 5 axis without any benefit over just using 5 axis (ie it's not cheaper or easier in practice)
NATO draws up plans for its own fleet of naval surveillance drones
Galloping Search
The Allure of 'Microdosing' Ozempic
Good point – transliteration obviously needs to be aware of the source language! Even in English, or you might end up attending a Motoerhead concert :)
https://archive.ph/pcdcE
AMD confirms Ryzen 7 9800X3D stock will improve soon
"Until it's a problem" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your sentence. For 99% of projects that "until" will never come.
I agree it might not be worth promoting as a main feature at all. But from experience, there are users that will be very vocal about it and request a dark mode.
>pro Russian

doesn't necessarily mean

> Russian influence
"The map is not the territory"
How many jobs have you got? 1000?

How about you hire the first 1000 people who seem competent, and then tell everyone else you've filled the roles?
No, they shouldn’t. Holding people liable for finance law violations can still provide signals to the public, which may affect their voting. But you can’t allow unelected criminal justice officials to override elections. That’s a path straight to hell, as has been proven time and again in Asian countries that do that.
Please elaborate! What's your definition? I was struggling a bit to phrase it precisely. My main point was to distinguish between "well-defined panic" (which is just like any other panic) and "silent memory corruption which keeps the program running".

To me it seems rather arbitrary that appending to a slice concurrently in two different goroutines causes the garbage collector's sweep-phase to internally think another allocation has occurred.
This is the lazy explanation peddled by the elites who can't be bothered to look outside their own little bubble.

The far right is rising => everybody is racist.
The cost of living is rising too quickly and people are complaining => you are too stupid to see that the economy is doing extremely well and if that doesnt make sense to you then you must be Chinese or Russian puppet.

it's so easy a toddler could do it.
> like your personal life, don't get married until you're absolutely sure

I misread “personal wife” (in Kripky’s voice from big bang theory) and after I was done chuckling, I started thinking of something funny to comment about the other types of wives there are… then reread your comment and… yeah.
Please re-read the thread, you might have misunderstood.

GP's comment was:

> You could have said "they don't have enough people". But instead you had to dial it up to "they have no men left"

which I, mistakenly, as GP pointed out here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42349533, assumed to be a play on "there are also women on the front". Which there are, but in vastly fewer numbers.
At least GNU grep supports `-P`, which makes it use PCREs (which do support \d).
https://archive.is/t1NwF
One of my first ever public projects actually had a bug report that ended up being the Turkish i problem. Didn’t know there were more!
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