skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was an observed phenomenon - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_exper...

Einsteins more impressive stuff was explaining that by time passing at different rates for different observers
Wait, I threw out my black plastic spatula for nothing? So there was all this media noise about it - but not a single article came across my (many) newsfeeds about a mistake or a retraction.
It was truly jaw dropping firing up quake 1 for the first time on 3dfx voodoo1. Double the resolution of software and super smooth framerate, and much better quality texture mapping too. I recall tweaking some setting (gl_flashblend?) so that I could see pretty glowing orbs around my rockets (and strategically, also everybody else's rockets).
> In spite of that, practically everyone knew that despite the marketing of everyone being equal, some were "more equal".

It’s the “practically everyone” that I question. Some people, sure, but “practically everyone” seems like a stretch. Your previous claim (which is consistent with that one) was:

> Even people under regimes with media consisting of 100% propaganda can see the real picture.

But what we can see is that even under regimes where media is not 100% propaganda it is not true that “practically everyone” “can see the real picture”. You need only look at the USA right now. Regardless of what you think the real picture is, about half the country believes the opposite of the other half. By definition, that cannot be “practically everyone”.

Unless you mean that specifically in countries where media is 100% propaganda, practically everyone can see the real picture. Which I don’t think is true either, and I’m close with people who lived in a dictatorship which can attest to that.
The article includes a link to the pull request which fixes the regression in LLVM: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/114990
It's to fund re-armament.
"Pilot tells Air Traffic Control that door of small plane is open moments before crash in Pa."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iszy62yt_i8
What am I gonna do about it? I'm going to start buying from the small farm half a mile from me that has eggs in an honor box at the end of their driveway.

There is no inventory anywhere except bottom? Fine. I'll go to the bottom.

> They have chosen to treat politics like sportsball rather than something to actively think about.

Not going to argue about that one...
I deemed it real because I believed and still believe that private companies (even if I dislike them) have the right to moderate speech as they please. A big section of the right wing believes differently and passed laws in several states overriding that principle, while proclaiming that a direct and obvious violation of the First Amendment was actually “free speech.” I also believed and still believe that this fake free-speech posturing would lead directly to what’s happening now: direct governmental attacks on speech the administration doesn’t like.

You may be a troll or so lost in politics that nothing reaches you anymore. But if you’re actually an American who cares about the bill of rights, the time to stand up has already arrived. It’s going to be hard for you to do so if you’re busy telling people “well, the government using police to target opponents is bad, but here’s this other thing that manifestly isn’t as bad and I am going to dismiss the former and dwell on the latter.”
Sorry. We got a good answer thankfully by thesuperbigfrog. :)
We’ll have millions of gamers’ eyeballs on the internals of the multimodal LLMs. They’ll probably find many stolen things there and some “monsters”, unknown unknowns. Probably will inspire them to learn the lower “machine code” of LLMs, the same way graphical user interfaces made computers widespread. Plus we’ll tap into the game dev ecosystem and their tools to start solving alignment together. I don’t see downsides
<satire>

Maybe after this “takes off”, they can explore some other domains.

“We built a crowdsourced examiner question database for pilot exams.”

“We built a crowdsourced set of best responses for marginalized peoples who come in contact with hostile police officers.”

So on, so forth.

Then they can franchise it into a set of “exchanges”.
Convenience, support, and performance.

Ampere is the floor, in practice, which is what effectively makes the "buy a Mac Studio" crowd P40 people with 10x the budget.
It just feels so good to think that I can just get out and
forget all about it. It relaxes me, and it brings me tears of joy.

Yesterday I've spent 8 hours hoping that I could do a super easy task,
I had to cry before I could focus and do that (it took me 15 minutes, mental preparation for it took me 7 hours).

The problem though, I haven't interviewed for 6 years and it
is very likely that I will not find anything for at least a year.

Another problem, I don't feel like coding, ever. I've spent 15 years
doing it and, in general, I am not passionate about it at all. I just
don't want to do it anymore.

After I've written entire systems that serve ok (I hope).
I just can't do a single if statement without DPDR symptoms
anymore.

I am so thoroughly done, I just can't imagine doing this for another
month. Boss knows, everyone else knows too. I sort of coast for a month
and then it is likely that I am gone. I hope I will be gone on good terms.

The biggest question is what is next for me in life? I have absolutely no idea.
But Ricardo determined the opposite. That unilateral free trade is better even in the face of tariffs. In the end, it's their own consumers that pay the tariffs.

If Trump wants to make Americans poorer then so be it, but we shouldn't follow suit.
Yet, these tech interview tests and questions have already been gamed to death by very clever folks like the creator of InterviewCoder: [0] who is now making more than $100K a month out of it.

But do you know what? Good. It is for the best.

This also signals the definitive end of Leetcode, Hackerrank and all the other useless online assessment tools. It is now a completely ineffective tool thanks to AI.

It also is an example that fits the Y Combinator definition to find those who are "hacking a system to your advantage" instead of a "computer system".

Whoever built this destroyed the online assessment system with all its participants in it.

If you're still using online assessment tools like Leetcode, it's now time to find a much more rigorous method of interviewing candidates and also bring on-site interviews back.

[0] https://www.interviewcoder.co/
Sure. But what is the reason sites like this are popping up? Which county is threatening to take over Greenland "one way or another"? Not China. Which country has invaded multiple countries over the last decades? Not China.

Which is the lesser evil, really?
OLTP Through the Looking Glass 16 Years Later: Communication Is the Bottleneck [pdf]
> The October Revolution wasn’t a popular uprising but a surgical strike by a minority faction

And with that argument, you reduce every.single.revolution to a 'surgical strike by a minority faction'. The French Revolution becomes a surgical strike of a few enlightened bourgeois in Paris. The American Rebellion becomes the rebellion of a very small clique of rich colonial landowners. No revolution would be an exception.

Every single revolution happens through a vanguard party pushing it forward - that's what the Bolsheviks got right.

> it wasn't about what people wanted

It wasn't what the better-off bourgeois and their dependents in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other regions wanted. It was apparently what the people wanted, because the resulting, foreign-aided civil war was won by the power of those people. No revolution can win a civil war without popular support.
Sadly this doesn’t solve the problem.

Spoofers simply receive the signed signal and re-broadcast it with a tiny delay. Signatures still intact.
Deporting foreign political agents isn't extreme though, it's been standard practice worldwide for thousands of years. It's actually less extreme than what has been practiced in many locales for dealing with foreign agents: torture, summary execution, etc.
> If the EU would accept a FTA without free movement of people is another matter.

Absolutely not. This was made clear repeatedly. What became clear in the UK was that we'd rather lose market access in order to appease people with an irrational hatred of our fellow Europeans.

If people think trade and movement boundaries are good, why don't we have internal ones? Why should Mancunians be allowed to take up scarce housing in London?
Ythis community needs more people to be accountable for the nonsense they post. Still want to talk about how there’s no territorial threat to canada?
What a Wrongful Death Lawsuit Reveals About America's Largest Oxygen Provider
>job queues

In Go, these are called "channels".
nvim -o $FILES
The military 'ambitions' of China exist only because the military ambitions of the US exist.
> Which is of no consequence to the incumbents who have enough existing stock to last them forever (with tricks like CGNAT/etc).

And yet, Comcast was one of the first nationwide ISPs to enable residential IPv6 service. Comcast is a Very Large ISP. They also happen to have switched ages ago to an all-IPv6 internal network because they ran out of non-routable IPv4 addresses many times over. I suspect (but do not know) that Comcast's experience with how much easier switching over made operations for them to have been a significant factor in providing IPv6 service to residential (and eventually business) users.
What makes those questions ok for Tier-1 companies to ask, in your opinion?
Do you really need this?

It's usually enough to think as HR/recruiter. Aka open favorite LLM chatbot and let it generate these questions. Because that's what they will do.
So safe to say these questions wont be showing up on any upcoming interviews.
Your Android phone will run Debian Linux soon
For Scale AI at least. My armchair assessment is that Alexander Wang and Scale AI don't have a venture scale business yet has a $13.8 billion valuation to live up to. I think Wang knows this and so he's pivoting to defense where the outcomes will be squishy to non-existent and the contracts are guaranteed.
Devil's advocate: there exists a corpus of questions solvable with a small number of techniques after a few weeks of decicated study. When someone has the right brain, these questions are the barrier to a 99th percentile income. What does it say about an interviewee that doesn't bother?
It’s missing a card reader to jam by feeding your lace card into it.
The text has some great explanatory diagrams and looks to be a very high quality overview of ML thru the lens of probability, with lots of math.

I was also recently impressed by Zhaos "Mathematical Foundation of Reinforcement Learning", free textbook and video lectures on YT : https://github.com/MathFoundationRL/Book-Mathematical-Founda...

If you dont have a lot of time, at least glance at Zhaos overview contents diagram, its a good conceptual map of the whole field, imo .. here :

https://github.com/MathFoundationRL/Book-Mathematical-Founda...

and maybe watch the intro video.
not really, islr is a pretty basic book - this is about more advanced techniques to propagate probability estimates rather than point-wise

and frankly i would not recommend islr anymore today, too dated
My recollection (which could be rusty, it has been >30 years) is that the Motif API, coded in C, implemented a kind of polymorphism.
Yep. There's some immense "the Leader can never be wrong" energy with the response to the (factually inaccurate, and thus untrue) "transgender mice" line in Trump's address to Congress.

Any remotely sane administration, faced with something similar, would just put out a statement about how a speechwriter made a mistake, the intent was different than the exact wording used by the President, and let it go.

Instead, various lackeys are left to performatively scramble and media outlets are under pressure, all to find some twisted interpretation under which he can retroactively have been right all along. Madness reminiscent of Orwell's writing. It makes you wonder, happens if he says "pi is 3"?
I occasionally interview people and that wouldn't really bother me. If you can learn something once you'll be able to re-learn it down the road when needed.

I've found myself in that situation helping my kids with their homework. I might not be able to define L'Hôpital's rule off the top of my head, but it only takes a few minutes of reading to reload it into my brain.
In the dotcom boom, my impression was that (pre-existing Microsoft interviews aside) current techbro interview baggery was caused by a bunch of affluent people rushing into the field, and (for various reasons) seeking to erect barriers to entry for people who are not them.

But now most people working implicitly assume that the interviews are supposed to be some BS test rituals, rather than a collegial dialogue. So now we're just beating anyone who tries to climb the ladder to get the bananas.

I think you're right that there's also something to the obedient corporate drone theory, for some very large and stodgy companies, in the exact flavor of interview nonsense that they do. But at the bulk of tech companies, I think a lot of hiring managers just want people who will be productive and professional, and these interview rituals don't seem to be good indicators of that.

It may also be that "elite overproduction" is also going on, depending on how you define the terms. Or just oversupply of people who meet the (as XKCD put it) "our entire field is bad at what we do" bar for competence. But in any case, I don't think that overproduction is the cause of the nonsense interviews, but maybe overproduction permits the process to be ridiculous.
Does dependency make wars less probable? Genuine question. Logically it should, but I don’t know the numbers.
Yes absolutely. The free speech of pro-palestine protestors has been restricted since the start
Bugs from engineers comes from a variety of reasons and most have nothing in common with an LLM hallucinating.

For exemple I can’t remember seing a PR with an API that seems plausible but never ever existed, or an interpretation of the specs so convoluted
and edgy that you couldn’t even use sarcasm as a justification for that code.

Don’t take me wrong: some LLMs are capable of producing bugs that looks like humans ones, but the term hallucinate is something else’s and doesn’t fit with much humans bugs.
It seems that you have not yet gotten to the part of actually reading from the tape.
These days I’m used to a 16” MacBook. Once or twice I’ve picked up a MacBook Air and thought it a featherweight.
I chose early on to invest in Canon's L lenses even though I'm an amateur. Yes, they are considerably more expensive than consumer lenses but for the price, you get a more rugged, weatherproof body, sharper and faster glass, and a greater selection of both fixed and zoom lens. The down side is they are quite heavy making them more difficult to carry when shooting outdoors and they can require a stronger tripod to support the weight of the lens and camera. But, the images they can produce can be simply stunning at times and that, after all, is why we do photography.
Might want to include a DMCA takedown address, so that you don't get them sent to your upstream provider. I regularly submit takedown requests to other sites when I see my interview questions posted there. I'm sure others do as well.
I got a pair of these just before Christmas and they've really helped - I tried "occupational lenses" which are a strange bifocal with a central focus of 3ft and then outwards it changes to the reading prescription, did not work with how I use the display in that my head is usually fixed and I move my eyes.

The intermediate distance lenses are great and my headaches have vastly reduced - because they were specific for VDU, my work paid for a portion of them.
Can you explain what you mean by making every[one?] noticeably poorer when they have most to all of their payment reimbursed? (for the median individual it is more like "all to more" since the carbon credit is not capped at one's individual carbon tax payments)
Huh? Database hosting? I dont see it anywhere in Hetzner offerings?
There is this repository: https://github.com/tejado/android-usb-gadget

They have some examples that emulate an USB keyboard and mouse, and the app shows how to configure the Gadget API to turn the phone into whatever USB device you want.

The repo is unfortunately inactive, but the underlying feature is exposed through a stable Linux kernel API (via ConfigFS), so everything will continue working as long as Android leaves the feature enabled.

You do need to be root, however, since you will essentially be writing a USB device. Then all you have to do is open `/dev/hidg0`, and when you read from this file you will be reading USB HID packets. Write your response and it is sent on the cable.
When I'm showing people the power of vim, I often use the `i` verb, like `ci"` and how it's not a "shortcut" but instead a sentence: change in quotes. If you start thinking about vim as a language instead of a collection of things to memorize, it becomes much easier, IMO.
I was the unfortunate owner of an S3 ViRGE card at the time - the (in)famous "3D decelerator". I managed to get Quake running on it, and it looked nice, but was slower than with software rendering...
WML was forgotten too quick. A lot of ideas from it are still interesting and can still be implemented on top of the Javascript + HTML stack such as a more declarative language for complex forms.
I don't think it's ok, but the compensation and competition are both so high they can get away with it. A senior dev at Google in Manhattan will make more than a general practice physician in the same area. This is for a job that you can do with zero credentialing, no degree required, for half the hours and none of the liability. The competition is insane.

Me being on my high horse is not going to change Facebook's hiring practices. But if I get asked to interview somewhere local where they may only be interviewing a half dozen people for a role over a few months, and I stop it early because they start throwing out LeetCode hards, that could be a non-trivial signal for them.
A Facebook Insider's Exposé Alleges Bad Behavior at the Top
I mean, if theres people that need this i won't judge - but im in tech for ~20 years now and its really not hard to formulate interview questions if you know what the target position is and also have a little of social skills.
You are right, I can change that.
> And I only wonder why EU has put up so long with price dumping in other domains. Like the whole Microsoft world domination strategy that was made possible by intentionally lousy enforcement of its IP.

Because eing a US vassal makes it difficult to sanction your overlord.
My last company _refused_ to buy me an air (what I use personally) and instead insisted on sending me their "standard" specced out 16" MBP and I _hate_ it. Flying with that thing to the offsite felt like I was smuggling a cinderblock through security.
I have a hard time imagining what that means but it sounds like it could be helpful for a project at work. Can you point to a source that elaborates on error propagation on rpcs?
Stock Market Today: Dow, Nasdaq Fall After Trump Doesn't Rule Out Recession
I still depend heavily on textfx npp plugins for many mundane tasks, such as quickly sorting a few lines in a text file and I have not bothered to find a replacement so far, like in almost 2 decades hehehe
NIH will eliminate many peer review panels, lay off scientists overseeing them
We’ll need to fire all the industry plants in the EPA before we can legally have a small (fuel efficient) truck here in US. Our emissions laws were written by Big Truck.
I have an EOS 35mm lying around that can use the same lenses too.
Connection reuse matters in high latency situations like for end-user connections. The fact that connections over localhost (or even UNIX socket) between your reverse proxy and app server aren't reused is no big deal as it takes less than a millisecond to establish a new one anyway.
Its not a non sequitur. The court can only rule based on what was admitted into the record, and that's controlled by the lawyers who as I said earlier are there to make the best case for their client, not the most complete and accurate case.
Pact is £7.95/250g (or I think £8.95 to new customers) for the mid-tier (any roast) bags. House blend & premium tier are iirc £1 either side.
Just keep using Firefox or a fork like Zen.

The idea that using a chrome fork is somehow better is ridiculous.
That’s Michelangelo! Leonardo says “Taste cold steel!” :D
The MacBook 12" with an M1 or M4 would've been amazing by today.
Still lovely form factor.
> - Why are these firings considered illegal? What is the legal argument?

There's a lot here and you should really take the time to learn about it for yourself than relying on random Internet comments to summarize, but in short:

- Federal employees in general have protections about being fired without process

- Most of the employees being fired are probationary employees who lack such protection. Note how the term is always "fired" not "laid off". There's a reason for that, these people are being fired "for cause", being told their performance is not up to par to avoid the beurocratic overhead of a structed layoff. Misusing for cause termination like this is not even legal for a private employer to do.

- Congress controls spending, and the Executive is generally obligated to spend the funds Congress has allocated for the purposes they allocated them (see also: Impoundment). Attempting to shut down agencies Congress has setup by firing everyone is generally runs contra to this idea.

- some agencies are setup specifically as independent agencies by Congress. Their heads can generally only be removed either by Congress, or by the President for some form of malfeasance. This sort of makes sense when you think about it. A agency responsible for protecting whistle blowers isn't much good if the president is just going to replace the head until he gets someone who won't protect the ones whistleblowing his malfeasance.

> My understanding of how the U.S. government works is that the President functions as the CEO of all federal employees.

This isn't correct. In a private company the CEO has tons of rule make power. The board doesn't generally set the rules directly instead controlling them by putting the right officers like the CEO in place. In the government however the primary rulemaking power rests with Congress. The Executive branch is doesn't have much (or isn't supposed to, this has been slipping for a long, long time) outside what is delegated by Congress. The Executive is simply charged with executing those laws and directives of the Legislative.
The Android (hardware) ecosystem just keeps getting laughably worse -- full of unforced errors. Except for price, why would anyone continue to roll the dice on this manufacturers?
Favorite is hard, but if you use vim and don't know that `.` repeats the last change then you're missing out. It's really useful for those times where you need to make the same change in lots of places in a file, but not everywhere.
That doesn't make sense to me. Memory bandwidth refers to the throughput of moving data from memory. Even if FP4 calculations aren't natively supported, you still move 4 bits of data per number from memory and then cast it to a FP8 or FP16 or other higher-precision number, right?
Yup, currently charging my one for the 3rd time today (thank god I work from home). I am annoyed because that phone still had years left in it.

Thinking of getting the Nothing 3a when it's released here in the next couple of days.
I wish he'd taught her about brevity.