skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So what if a candidate wants to look good? How you feel about your looks affects your confidence, and you want to be confident in an interview.

Like it or not, if someone needs to wear a suit to feel confident that says something about them. It may just be a personality quirk of them unrelated to their skills, but it often is not. There’s no reason you need to wear a suit to feel confident.

> You get judged on your merits, not on anything else. This way of thinking is how you create an environment hostile to women and minorities.

How often does tech discriminate for “culture fit” reasons? Someone’s personality fit is often a huge point of contention, and wearing a suit is part of someone’s personality and choices.

I’m not advocating for it being an absolute state, but you certainly have to give some consideration to the fact that dressing up far more than is needed implies you don’t culturally understand. It’s as simple as that.
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Yeah I'm in the same boat. I have a MacBook Pro 2009 that still works fine. That is 16 years old! I use it for web browsing occasionally, although I do have to update the certs manually.

Only downsides are it has only 2GB of RAM and about 0.1 seconds of battery life.

When I bought a new one, I made sure to get 32GB of RAM. That way I'll still be able to browse the web in twenty years, although I'm sure it'll be very slow because of the CPU.
Fission plants are way too expensive to let idle. They make ideal baseload plants, but they suck as peaking plants.
Pretty sure he was simply informed of all of that and he put himself on a pedestal as the CEO as he's done for countless interviews.

He seems to have a mostly surface level of understanding of what goes on at his companies, which is all a CEO needs. But it doesn't justify all the people I see idolising him as some sort of technical God. I heard he's a master of PoE, too ;)
Props to Hans Rosling I think:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w (2003)
None of your observations say anything about how these images are generated one way or another.

The only thing we currently have to go off of is OpenAI's own words, which claims the images are generated by a single multimodal model autoregressively, and I don't think they are lying.
> If we can create human bodies that never achieve an intelligence level beyond that of a sea slug, then surely nobody rational would be against using them for science

Most of them would become presidents of the USA. And no, i'm not talking about Trump.
This is really cool! Any tips for finding poems hidden in a large block of text?

It reminds me of the poem composed from one of Trump's tweets: "O, the Pelican. so smoothly doth he crest. a wind god!" There are lots of other examples on
r/othepelican.
I really like these - I have an XP boost/ buff PR in the works which activates when you reach a typing velocity (and adds a cool swirling effect around your character).

Git integration would be low hanging fruit so could def add that in. (build/ testing/ ci integrations would be trickier I suspect?)
Fair enough, but you'll get a lot less if the laptop has no drive, so you could do as the other comment here notes, which is replace it with a cheap drive. However, I emphasize that if you don't want to do that or are short enough on cash that you can't even buy a replacement drive (it happens), encrypting the whole drive with a free tool like veracrypt or bitlocker is absolutely as secure for protecting residual data. Nobody who buys that shit is going to break through 256 bit AES for your favorite nude photos and love notes!
Nope. I’ve despised using Google Search for years, and thought it would eventually be replaced with another better search engine. At one point I even switched to a paid Kagi subscription for a few months and it was sooo much better than Google. I only stopped using Kagi because I’ve completely switched to ChatGPT now. It’s a really great search engine but for my daily use ChatGPT is more convenient and faster to use.
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There were a few years of professional cycling when people did this on downhills until they outlawed it. You don’t have much control when doing this. At least on the salt flats the whole point it to try to go in a straight line, so if you need to turn you’re already in dire straits.
Thanks! And is it more or less performant on large datasets (100k+ data points).
I saw that the rendering library for echarts, zrender, is managed by a GitHub org associated with Baidu

https://github.com/ecomfe
How do you reconcile that opinion with the fact that LLMs trained on programming concepts generally give incorrect answers about 50% of the time?

Is it actually more useful than Googling, or is it just so convenient that you let it convince you that it was useful? Or, depressingly, is Google just becoming so useless that something wrong a solid half of the time is still better?
I have this happen largely with Apple OS devices. Apple's DNS service can be notoriously persnickity (I've had issues with it outside of Tailscale as well), and I usually need to bounce interfaces or flush DNS cache (where I can on macOS) to resolve issues. WRT Tailscale, I also have issues with it on my phone. I currently have my phone configured to connect to my Tailnet when I leave networks I don't control so that I can maintain access to my personal cloud on the go, however after a few connections and disconnections, I have to bounce several interfaces in order to correct both DNS and routing.
Yes, rerun does replay, that was my main use case when prototyping.

They've since raised more funding recently, and have larger use cases in mind for robotics: https://rerun.io/blog/physical-ai-data

I've spoken with members of the team, and they're all great. Wouldn't hesitate to use the product / work with them anywhere.
He's not wrong though. "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" is a popular saying here. People who lived under a military dictatorship not even half a century ago will actually utter those words.
One would not directly. Given measures of intelligence of evaluable existing life, work backwards to find last common ancestors given evolutionary theory from the available fossil record.

This leaves a lot to be desired, in my mind. Examples: * Soft tissue organisms may not be well enough preserved to be studied. * Can't evaluate intelligence in evolutionary dead-ends that no longer exist. * Limited evolution theory may miss mechanisms of how intelligence comes about, like maybe from something akin to a shared toxoplasmosis infection among different species rather than each getting there through a random walk.
Wonder if Elon has pointed that out to Peter Navarro in their recent exchanges.
bitter about what? I'm a long time employee
Will do, thanks for the tip.

Would appreciate any thoughts you have on the product if you had a chance to take a look at the video!
My only guess is that it either prevents quitting of applications (accidentally) or quits them on idle?

I dunno, there doesn't seem to be a lot to work with. Not to mention it hasn't been touched in 2 years.
Also, does it support micropayments?
Congrats! Some feedback, if you're taking any:

- Without the tutorial, it's confusing that you're not supposed to click and you're supposed to start typing. I wonder if placing the text box at the top would make that more clear.

- Some of the clues are confusing due to inconsistent punctuation. For example:

[to ___fish, to lure someone in using a fake internet persona] = cat
[do this or cut bait] = fish
[taking a pay one is a bummer] = cut
[rocks when added to soda will NOT cause your stomach to explode] = pop

The first line uses a comma, the second line uses "or", the third and fourth lines don't have any punctuation at all, so the sentences make no sense.
> many scenarios where the only option was to pay with PIX

I guess you want to say "only option _beyond cash_ was Pix". Most places should accept Passport ID to replace CPF. But if you found hard to pay using credit cards, that has nothing to do with Pix...
As somebody who actually tried to build a multimodal stable diffusion chat agent about a year back using YOLO to build partial masks for adjustments via inpainting, dynamic controlnets, and a whole host of other things, I highly doubt that it's as simple as an agentic process.

Using the prompt to detect and choose the most appropriate model checkpoint and LoRa(s) along with rewriting a prompt to most appropriately suit the chosen model has been pretty bog standard for a long time now.
AI companies are definitely pitting their AI models against both in-house and external models. Didn’t Alpha Zero get to some insanely high level in go by only playing against itself without any reference to existing go literature? So if this generation of AI plateaus at some point, lack of competition again other AI won’t be the reason.
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It'll be a sad day when this reference is posted and understood for the last time.
One very important distinction between image models is the implementation: 4o is autogressive, slow, and extremely expensive.

Although the Ghibli trend is market validation, I suspect that competitors may not want to copy it just yet.
Uh, almost nobody I've worked with to date codes in their free time with any kind of regularity.

If you've never encountered the average 9-5 dev that just does the least amount of effort they can get away with, then I have to apploud the HR departments of the companies you've worked for. Whatever they're doing, they're doing splendid work.

And almost all of my coworkers are university grads that do literally the same you've used as an example for non formally taught people: they write abysmally performing code because they often have an unreasonable fixation on practices like inversion of control (as a random example).

As a particularly hilarious example I've had to explain to such a developer that an includes check on a large list in a dynamic language such as JS performs abysmally
With the disclaimer that I know nothing about zig, I will say that Nix's flake files follow an interesting pattern where the output section is evaluated under the regular Nix interpreter and can do anything, whereas the input section is evaluated under a far stricter mini-interpreter that prohibits everything other than basic strings and attrsets (dictionaries).

A flake.nix is certainly not packaging metadata, but I do know those input section restrictions do cause occasional confusion with users who think "ah, Nix code" and only realise afterward that it's really json in Nix syntax."

All that to say, if a thing is not evaluate-able, it's probably best to represent it in a different enough form that no one could mistake it for a thing that can be evaluated.
Pleasing visual which had my browser's FPS went low, especially at the liquid fill extension part.
I’m eager to see research confirm whether microplastic contamination is harmful for humans. Given that 'These can be smaller than a virus -- just the right size to disrupt cells and even alter DNA.’, I’m not too hopeful that this is harmless.
This is a lot of fun. Congratulations!
Isn't Steam Library already doing this?
Congrats — well deserved! I love the game and play it every day; it's actually the first thing I do in the morning. A big fan of Hard mode! My best friend has also started playing it and we share the results with each other.

Just one feedback - on desktop browsers, I can see the list of answered clues below the textbox, but on the phone (Brave or Firefox on Android), I don't see that list. I am not sure if this is a feature or a bug, but it’s a feature I miss when playing on my phone. Seeing those answers gives that little “aha!” moment of satisfaction.

I also made a custom GPT - Bracket GPT [0] that helps in solving the clues when I am stuck. It doesn’t directly give the answers, but offers hints to help nudge you to the solution. It’s a fun companion when you're totally blanking.

[0] https://chatgpt.com/g/g-67e0f124cd408191943faadb3d70c6df-bra...
Obviously. But then you still have caching, passing data/artifacts between stages, workflow logic (like skipping steps if unnecessary), running on multiple platforms, and exposing test results/coverage to the system you are running in.

Written properly, actually building the software is the least of what the CI is doing.

If your build is simple enough that you don’t need any of that - great. But pretending that the big CI systems never do anything except lock you in is a trifle simplistic.
Agreed about the matching brackets, I had sent that suggestion to mayor@ a couple weeks ago, so maybe once this craziness settles down...
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Was hoping this would be a deep dive into the Quartz compositor.
What are the failure points of hosted solutions like Tail scale versus self hosted options?
This is only tangentially related, but one thing that I am still kind of hopeful about is analytic combinatorics will free us from the tyranny of asymptotic analysis.

I suppose this is kind of a hot take, and in some ways less relevant than it was (say) 10 years ago, but I believe the theoretical CS community has spent a lot of time analyzing the performance of various algorithms over the years and kind of pointedly not inventing algorithms which accomplish some result at all, even if it is only known to be computable in a pathologically inefficient way. This means a lot of breakthroughs that could have been TCS breakthroughs have been invented, usually worse, by other communities.

I am not the only one who thinks so, here[1] is an obscure talk where Michael Mitzenmacher (a well-known CS theory prof at Harvard) makes more or less this specific complaint.

One of the nice things about Flajolet/Sedgewick[2] (mentioned in this post) is that it gives a nice set of combinators for (at least it seems to me, in theory) precisely enumerating how many "steps" an algorithm would take given some input. I optimistically imagine a world where we replace the relatively non-specific asymptotic bounds of an algorithm with a very specific quantification of the work an algorithm will take. And that this in turn would free TCS to focus on things that are more germane to the field as a whole.

With that all said I'm open to the argument that TCS has fundamentally changed and this is no longer such a big issue. But perusing the various TCS conferences I sense it isn't.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3anjSAnKBo

[2]: https://algo.inria.fr/flajolet/Publications/book.pdf
I deserve the downvotes for my first line, heh.

Maybe I can redeem myself by clarifying that the real frustration here is with bad macOS UX, not people trying to hack around it. I barked up the wrong tree.
You make it sound like an unfair wish, which I would say is unfair itself. I like the book, I like visualising it in my head, and I fantasise what a scene would look like. AI won't generate a true visual. It's all fantasy anyway and AI can actually do it the way I have it in my head. It will solidify that thought.

For this book in particular, I read the comic version and I didn't like the visuals very much. I have a different idea of babel fish. Vogons look different. I would love to see the visual that's in my head on paper.
Figuring out how to carry enough stuff might be a problem, but making a sling or primitive backpack from the upholstery should be doable with a knife.
Indeed. I find it interesting to look at the generational outliers on that curve: The Cray-1 wasn’t eclipsed in raw FP compute by a consumer system until the Pentium more than 15 years later.

http://www.roylongbottom.org.uk/Cray%201%20Supercomputer%20P...
Impressive work! Their main demo there pays some homage to Mike Bostock's d3 transitions showcase from 2011: https://mbostock.github.io/d3/talk/20111116/transitions.html (click to start)
The USS Hornet, a WWII aircraft carrier set up as a museum ship in Oakland, has a very similar escalator.[1] It's a Westinghouse model, like the one in New York. You can visit and walk the escalator, but it hasn't worked in decades. Carriers had escalators to get many pilots in all their gear from the ready room to the flight deck, fast.

[1] https://www.twz.com/12804/us-navy-aircraft-carriers-had-esca...
The switching costs are so low (zero) that anyone using these models just jumps to the best performer. I also agree that this is not a brand or narrative sensitive project.
Ha! One of my clients who was interviewing about a dozen candidates had the same experience with most of them, they have a few left to interview.

All the candidates did really well on the online intake questions and the general meet and greet over video. However, once they arrived for the in-person part of the interview, and it got relatively technical, most did nowhere nearly as good as they did on the online. Only one or two admitted to using AI.
Something's off here. The data appears as "life-expectancy-table.json" but the title refers to Income. Not sure where the mistake is.
Researchers pull carbon directly from the air using changes in humidity
Ah sorry to hear it’s frustrating - You could switch to the Explorer mode in settings which might be a better option.

In panel mode: The panel is treated like another open file tab, so needs to be manually positioned alongside your open code (so that both are visible simultaneously).
> I think its entirely reasonable for an employer to monitor employee communications on company media channels.

Okay but we're talking about a government with protections around speech and privacy. What does this have to do with "company media channels"?
Some feedback: On mobile, why is there a custom keyboard? I found it pretty annoying. I kept getting missed taps, and at least one wrong guess due to a typo I didn’t catch before. It doesn’t seem like the system keyboard’s spellchecking would interfere with the puzzle, so why not just use it? Is it an issue with layout consistency?

Otherwise I quite liked the puzzle.
Conspicuously missing from TFA: any measurement of the escalator's width.

There's no shortage of single-file escalators in NYC. I wildly surmise they're seen as fancier than the two-person-wide kind associated with subway stations and malls.

The Marriott Marquis in Times Square has two single-file escalators side by side — presumably the height of decadent luxury. Video: https://youtu.be/35-2FAI2DKU
Truly insane that the GOP is attacking US taxpayers like this. China is only able to be harmed by how much pain is inflicted through a domestic tax hike.

When the dust settles on this, the executive branch needs to be nerfed to the point that it's mostly a figurehead. Certainly the unchecked tax hike via tariffs power needs to be ripped out immediately, before (any further) permanent damage can be inflicted on the country.
Sure, but there's something to be said for continuing to add non-green energy alongside it.

From an ecological perspective, it's like going on a diet and smoking an extra cigarette for every 100 calories you cut out.
If the US escalator/elevator market were integrated with the global market, would there be a US escalator/elevator market, or would it have been offshored and the jobs lost?
Well I find conversations with people in interviews to be less of a game than giving them “homework” to do, given that unless they’re totally green with no work experience, I’d assume they would actually have some stuff they’ve worked on and would like to talk about.

It’s completely bizarre to me that take home assignments have been normalized as part of an interview with professional working people.
Targeted tariffs to protect or foster certain industries are acceptable. Blanket ones are not.

And they should be set just high enough that the industry remains competitive while not allowing for price gouging. We know companies will seek to maximize their prices. So if a foreign competitor is selling for 8% cheaper, then tariffs should be no more than 9%. We know from experience that manufactures will sell at the same price as foreign competition and will pocket the difference.

They should also be gradually reduced over time. The goal is to have domestic industries become globally competitive. And that necessarily means that companies need to strive to improve efficiency so they can match or beat the prices of global competitors. If that can't happen, then maybe those companies need to go away.

The reason tariffs are bad in the long term is A) it incentivize global competition to become even more efficient; B) it encourages domestic industries to be non-competitive. So the industry being favored by tariffs will never grow into a global power.

So tariffs on solar panels are fine, so long as they come with other incentives to spur domestic consumption (to drive efficiency gains) and a plan to lower those tariffs over time.

Blanket tariffs are pretty much never good, the only good reason to institute blanket tariffs on a country is as a prelude to direct conflict. As it will provide a market incentive for consumers to replace goods from that country with a more expensive alternative.

After all, a blanket tariff on all the goods coming from a country is a type of economic sanction. So a country who puts tariffs on the goods of every other country in the world is effectively feeling the impact of the first phase of conflict, when allies come together and enact trade barriers with a country. And why to countries band together to push economic sanctions on an adversary? To hurt their economy.

So TL;DR: Biden solar tariffs - well thought out and likely productive. Trump tariffs - pushing yourself in the face.
Did he know the next settlement was only 20 miles away?
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Darwin saw sexual selection as so important to evolution and that he discusses natural selection and sexual selection as different types. Of course sex is part of nature.
That would make a majority of the solar farms built and operated by chinese companies? And wouldn't that essentially make CCP in charge of a considerable part of Pakistans energy sector?
Could be, but why would I trust that when it's clearly so bad at the things I am good at?
When people see “I collect” they won’t even bother reading further.

This is showstopper.

Noble reasons won’t matter.

Spyware perception.
What if they were offered $160mm and Tailscale countered with 4X the valuation, lowering the number of shares by 75%? Similarly, what if they wanted $40mm but the only deal on the table was $160mm due to ownership targets of funds that can actually write $40mm+ checks? It's hard to play these armchair games, even less so when the terms aren't known.
You’re in too deep into the fake conspiracy theories and lies. Please seek professional help and come back to reality
Well, it seems like they use an intense scoring system that reeks of management involvement and inconsistency (per interviewer).

I mean I'm for sure making some presumptions and plenty of assumptions; we literally evolved to do this. Otherwise we'd shake the cold paw of every shadow in the dark.
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