skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hiring is all about finding the best candidate. If you find you cannot function sitting in conference room with three other people for an hour, there is a 100% chance there is a better candidate suited for the role, even if his/her technical skills are less than yours.

> Jobs have soft skill requirements, and there is nothing bigoted about that.

Everything you just said also applies to someone who's deaf, blind, or physically impaired.

Apply that same logic to someone with one of those conditions, and enjoy losing the discrimination lawsuit.
I love the writing style, and ended up binge reading 4-5 other pieces! This one is my favorite:

https://rawandferal.substack.com/p/cooking-up-mehrans-steak-...
Never opened again after the first time—which I think most readers implicitly understood. Regardless, that’s my bad.
Skeptical and cynical are not the same thing.
Hadn’t read “how to get promoted” before!

Damn that’s a good read and sadly rings true
Nice! Micro-fix: you should remove the final `;` in the `FPRINTF()` macro definition, that's supposed to be added at the callsite to keep the syntax natural (for C). :)
Cooking Up Mehran's Steak House
What’s the contradiction you see?
And Never Let Me Go, which was also made into a movie I believe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Let_Me_Go_(novel)
That’s mental. Why have a resume in the first place then? Any info in the resume introduces “bias”. Well, actually, even wanting to hire the best candidate for a job is already a bias of its own.

So why not just have a lottery instead of a hiring process?

/s But only slightly.
I agree that live coding is very hard on a lot of candidates. How do you feel about asking candidates to read code and explain it? I had that only once and I thought it was genuinely innovative. Even if I couldn't understand all of it, we can discuss various points about it.
Oh I did miss that, thanks.

Are you saying the Norway rate violates the trade imbalance -> tariff formula that was published? I haven’t seen any reports on that. I clicked GP’s source but I can’t read it due to language difference.

This would be anti trump so I assume the media would be yelling about it, but maybe I missed it.

If that’s accurate though then I agree that it is confusing. Please contribute more details if you don’t mind.
Hopefully these can be used in human transplants too so people don't have to resort to stealing and kidnappings.

There are even militaries that are actively (right now) stealing human organs and distributing them to the civilian sector during conflict:

https://www.euronews.com/2023/11/27/israel-stealing-organs-f...

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna34503294

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2009/12/21/israel-admits-to-o...

https://researchcentre.trtworld.com/featured/perspectives/de...
It appears that the IDF killed medics in ambulances with emergency lights on and high vis clothing, then lied about it. So nothing should surprise us at this point.

"BBC Verify analyses video showing Israel's killing of Gaza medics"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cj9e22dezeno
Well I guess if the candidate would be a little be stronger and actually trying to reason with the LLM about the decision it suggested, he would be better prepared and maybe got away with his claims.

Or as current best chess player Magnus Carlson said, "if I would cheat, you would never know". Meaning very strong candidates will get away with flexing the truth with AI. But this means maybe, you shouldn't look for a perfect fit. Or check his merit by spending time and money to get in touch with his old companies.
Whenever there's protests, there's always people complaining that the protesters are doing it the wrong way - that's the history of protests and inevitably, the people complaining about the protesters end up on the wrong side of history (e.g. The Suffragettes went completely against the "rules of protesting" with such things as letter bombs).
That's moving the goalposts though, there was nothing in any of the idiotic statements about the tariffs on trading with China.
This requires a lot of passion and motivation from individual developers within the company. Of all things they could be slacking off with during a pointless video call, they have to choose to spend than time doing thankless bug fixing.
I'd love to hear the author's proposed constitutional order that's somehow technologically immune from being hijacked by a well-organized illiberal majority, which requires no sustained civic education and trust, and which can sustain unlimited derision without in any way fracturing its status as a norm.
The pointer arithmetic works both ways, same as square brackets.
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Great, somebody reinvented control vectors.

This industry needs to stop reinventing things every 6 months.
Most current MIT students (except ROTC) don't get out of bed until 10, have never worked a day in their precious little lives and prefer hot-pot to McDonalds.
omfg, it's a dump and pump scheme. come on Ray, tell it as it is. it's 2025, for Judas sake
You can understand it and come to the conclusion it's stupid. They are orthogonal concepts.
If the facility is being used regularly, practically nothing. Plus, being able to do these kinds of things is a great boost for morale for people who like what they're doing.
I can't believe that this would be an option they would be able to adjust.
Well, evidenced by the fact that these aren't even white men, and we have no evidence that anybody in the community in question are actually offended or feeling disempowered except for righteous social justice warriors like yourself, this comes off as screeching from someone who just wants to push their agenda.

And before you call me a sexist MAGA patriarchal asshole, not only am I liberal, but I actually live in Japan and interact with the local culture here all day every day. I speak the local langauge, am married to a local, have local friends and in fact talk about and interact with ojisans on a very regular basis, because it is a cultural touchpoint that is relevant here. Do you?

I am sick and tired of annoying people like you co-opting every discussion to push a specific victim-mindset zero-sum world view, reducing everything to your race and sex struggle without actually lifting a finger to, say, do things that actually affect outcomes in society besides pissing people off—unlike the people who set up this lighthearted card game, which is demonstrably bringing a community together. Not everywhere is the USA, let alone your toxic online ragebait bubble. What you are doing is repelling people from your cause more than helping it, myself included.

Please do some soul searching and if you really feel a need to irritate people, I would appreciate you do it somewhere else. I hope that your implication that Japanese culture is inferior because it doesn't kowtow to your cultural expectations, has made you feel good today.
I wish they would combine the GoboLinux file structure with Gentoo Portage. Slotted packages in Gentoo seems so primitive compared to Gobo and Gobo would benefit a lot from having all the Portage packages.
"The throw-away society is a human society strongly influenced by consumerism. The term describes a critical view of overconsumption and excessive production of short-lived or disposable items over durable goods that can be repaired."

— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throw-away_society
Dehumanizing the other side (whatever the other side is) is often abhorrent. The article references another UN report that investigates similar actions by the idf and find that it is a standard procedure. Now, that's abhorrent
Interestingly I've seen a few commentators in the UK suggest we should be more open to China as a result of all this.
Native frame transposition coming to Emacs 31
Lack of a viable business model is precisely what Zach points to in the article, which doesn't preclude him from feeling a bit sad about how it was stripped for parts.
Just remember that Ray Dalio is compromised.

He may speak the truth, but he speaks only truths that Chinese communist party allows.

He made massive bet on China. Large chunk of his personal assets are now tied in China and Bridgewater is the largest foreign asset manager in China. He was able to wiggle out some of them, but he is still tied there.
_Most_ of the coffee sold in cans in Japan is also sweetened. Not all, you can usually find a can or two that are just black and unsweetened, but a majority of the cans will be sweet to some degree.
Python startup times suck though. On my system `python3 -c 'print("hello world")'` takes 60-70ms. In contrast equivalents with bash or lua both are in 1-2ms range. The difference is definitely noticeable.
We still have here in Switzerland "repair cafes" run by volunteers, where mostly elderly bring their usually outdated devices to be repaired, while having a coffee and socializing. It works, as long it works...
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You've had multiple comments about orgs explicitly not hiring candidates that show up in suits, yet call it a "litmus test" if someone doesn't?

You sound like a typical classist MBA; don't you have Linkedin posts to make and employees to micromanage?
If you think sugar added to everything is a Japan phenomenon oh boi, time to travel.

As someone that lived there, frankly your take come off as the typical "English teacher/exchange student that lived in Tokyo and spend too much time on r/japanlife" and think Tokyo represent the average.
You can delete the curl request if created from a logged in account.

Non-logged in curls are auto purged after 30 days.
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No argument (not plausible, not probable, none) for the sequence was provided.

Communist revolution always precedes communist control of speech.
I have to do a bragsheet now anyway and yeah like gritting teeth. It is documenting your job basically!
The bins near vending machines are almost always _only_ for cans/plastic bottles.

That accounts for ~80% of the garbage you'll produce, but sometimes you'll have a onigiri wrapper, or a dirty tissue that'd be nice to get rid of, and finding a place to do that can be more difficult (ironically, especially so in heavily touristy areas).
> Black holes, the densest objects in the universe

My mind was blown when I found out that mean density of black holes inside the event horizon can be quite low.

> a super supermassive black hole with the mass of 4.3 billion Suns would have a density equal to one i.e. the same density as water.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/218816
In a world where AI takes over cognitive work it's not far fetched to imagine a future where robotics is going to hockey stick, at which case we will either end up like citizens of The Culture, or if not citizens of the Belt.
"Rural Japan" checks notes. Pop 1.7M
Thank you for the describing the interest.

You do not have to read the handbook to format the text. You can use Markdown in a text snippet :). This gives you a compressed overview:
https://book.gtoolkit.com/understanding-lepiter-in-7--6n7q1o...

> I know to really use it, I have to learn to program it, but I am also of the mind basic functionality should be self explanatory. And pharo itself as the basis of this seems so convoluted and complex...

We use Pharo as a programming language for building the system, and most extensions are expected to be written in it. It's possible to connect to other runtimes, like Python or JS, and extend the object inspector that works with remote objects using those languages. But overall, learning Pharo is a bit of a prerequisite. I certainly understand that it can appear foreign, but convoluted and complex are not an attributes I would associate with it :).

Now, in GT, the environment is built from the ground up anew and it's different from classic interfaces found in Pharo or Cuis. And of course, it's different from typical development environment, too, because we wanted to build a different kind of interface in which visualization is a first class entity.

Our community is indeed on Discord a lot, but we also host discussions on our GitHub repository: https://github.com/feenkcom/gtoolkit/discussions

In any case, I am happy you find the need for "a great knowledge base and data visualization" relevant and useful.
Thanks for the recommendations! I have a Yihua soldering station - such a solid budget option - I’ll shell out on a hot air rework station too, maybe one with a board preheater.
That's impressive. It looks like the original LGP-30 computer should have made IBM jealous.

> Oscilloscope monitors internal activity.

Now that is downright romantic. What other computer offers entertainment like this?
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> Nice! Micro-fix: you should remove the final `;` in the `FPRINTF()` macro definition, that's supposed to be added at the callsite to keep the syntax natural (for C).

I agree; this was probably an oversight (done in a single day, on a weekend day, so I probably spent no more than about 6 hours on it).

If I want to make this production-ready, I'd move it into a repo, split it into a library (so I can drive it from Python or similar), add some tests, etc...

I literally needed a once-off tool to parse HTML, and had some time to spare.
Japanese websites have a great aversion to even 2005 level Web homogeneity, let alone the modern tailstraps.
In one scenario, a browser exploit means your passwords are likely bust.

In the other, your password manager can still be safu even if your browser is bust.

Things are less likely to leak if they are further separated.

Letting your browser manage your passwords will never be as secure as alternatives can be.
That's not fault of MCP though, that's the fault of vendors peddling their MCPs while clinging to the SaaS model.

Yes, MCP is a way to streamline giving LLMs ability to run arbitrary code on your machine, however indirectly. It's meant to be used on "your side of the airlock", where you trust the things that run. Obviously it's too powerful for it to be used with third-party tools you neither trust nor control; it's not that different than downloading random binaries from the Internet.

I suppose it's good to spell out the risks, but it doesn't make sense blaming MCP itself, because those risks are fundamental aspects of the features it provides.
> One question that’s still unresolved is whether the supermaze versions of fuzzballs fully satisfy all the requirements scientists have for black holes

The only question about supermaze fuzzballs blackholes, still unresolved, is what do string theorist smoke these days.
He also states the corporate entity was quite valuable for complicated accounting reasons. I take that to mean he was not paid for the quite valuable thing since it wasn't transferred. After the money and assets were transferred, I take it that he eventually realized that a corporate entity has no actual value by itself, the buyout price can be anything and could have included the value of the corporate entity if he wanted, even if it wasn't transferred, and that statement was just a trick to pay him less money.
Great post!

I have some random guesses as to why the 40% vs 60-70% memory issues percentage:

- 180k is not that much code. The 60-70% number comes from Google and Microsoft, and they are dealing with way larger codebases. Of course, the size of the codebase in theory shouldn't affect the percentage, but I suspect in practice it does, as the larger the codebase is, the harder it is to enforce invariants and watch for all possible edge cases.

- A related aspect to that is that curl is primarily maintained by one person (you), or at most a handful of contributors. Of course many more people contribute to it, but there is a single maintainer who knows the whole codebase perfectly and can see behind all (or most) corners. For larger codebases with hundreds of people working on them, that is probably not the case.

- Curl is used by clients a lot (probably it's used more by clients than servers, for whatever definition of these words) over which you have no control and monitoring. That means that some UB or vulnerabilities that were triggered "in the wild", on the client side, might not ever be found. For Google/Microsoft, if we're talking about Chrome, Windows, web services etc., which are much more controled and monitored by their companies, I suspect that they are able to detect a larger fraction of vulnerabilities and issues than we are able to detect in curl.

- You write great code, love what you're doing and take pride in a job done well (again, if we scale this to a large codebase with hundreds of developers, it's quite hard to achieve the same level of quality and dedication there).

(sent this as a comment directly on the post, but it seems like it wasn't approved)
Tibet, before being re-integrated into the Chinese homeland, was a brutal theocracy whose population was 90% made of slaves. I hope you mentioned Tibet out of ignorance, and not out of nostalgia for human trafficking.
First impressions do count but I think the above poster has a point, a suit can actually harm your chances in an environment where no one wears suits.
>Recently, researchers have used these stem cells to create structures that seem to mimic the early development of actual human embryos. At the same time, artificial uterus technology is rapidly advancing, and other pathways may be opening to allow for the development of fetuses outside of the body.

>Such technologies, together with established genetic techniques to inhibit brain development, make it possible to envision the creation of “bodyoids”—a potentially unlimited source of human bodies, developed entirely outside of a human body from stem cells, that lack sentience or the ability to feel pain.

Where have I seen this before? Isn't this a plotline taken directly from numerous dystopian science fiction books and movies I have experienced? Life imitates art. Was this outcome inevitable? Think Aldous Huxley 'Brave New World'.
Nope.

Openrsync lacks the options of rsync for making exact copies.

Moreover, the OpenBSD file systems are unable to store all metadata that can accompany files in Linux filesystems or Windows filesystems, so that is the likely reason for removing the rsync options.

I also doubt that the developers of an utility for OpenBSD are also interested in taking care to preserve file metadata when copying to/from Windows, because the metadata access API is not portable, so a complete "rsync" utility must include specific code paths at least for Windows, for Linux and for FreeBSD. I do not know if the API of MacOS is also specific to it, or it is compatible with anything else.
> Does Norway still get to add tax for cleanup on these imported goods ?

If you import as a private person AFAIK no. Consumers have very good consumer protection on goods bought from domestic shops, so there's a strong incentive to do that rather than import.

Though all that Temu junk is another story...

But companies importing EE goods have to report to the return company they're a member of, and pay them accordingly.

Can't recall offhand if there's special "flag" on the import declaration or if they just go by HS code. And presumably they get audited on this.

IIRC it used to be more directly linked to the import declaration but they streamlined it.