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by 999900000999 | 2025-09-03 01:06:14+00:00
I'm going to need more than 30k to achieve a profit.

I'm basically hiring a part time front end junior assistant to fill in some gaps.

I'm hiring out of a cheaper county where 30k can actually do something. The idea is the first 30 gets an MVP done.

I don't think I could finish anything worth selling for that.
by omosubi | 2025-09-03 01:07:03+00:00
not accusing the author, I agree with the article, but whenever I read prose like:

"In real-world engineering, simplicity is king. In interviews, complexity is currency.

Job interviews aren't assessments. They're auditions for a job title: The Architect Who Solves Hard Problems™."

it just sounds so much like it's written by ai.
by Jensson | 2025-09-03 01:07:42+00:00
> So when I was a kid, lawmakers largely upheld the norms, the rule of law

Only when McCarthy and those policies got unpopular, they let him do it as long as he was popular. So we will likely see the same with Trump, as long as he doesn't make as grave overreaches as they did back then likely nobody will do anything to him.

That isn't rule of law, that is rule of personality.
by frogperson | 2025-09-03 01:07:51+00:00
The extreme right cant hold power for ever, they might win some short term pyrrhic victories, but their policies just dont appeal to the majority.

The American public might seem slugish abd slow to act, but at some point they will 100% put a stop to all this non-sense. I believe this becuase americans are quiye possibly the most stubborn, loud, entitled, and armed group of people to ever exist. They simply wont stay down forever.
by dhosek | 2025-09-03 01:08:16+00:00
I had a coding challenge where if you didn’t implement what was essentially a Set in the exact way that they expected, you couldn’t proceed since the evaluation assumed you’d match their ordering (which was arbitrary). One of those automated test things and there was no way to contact a human and say, your process is broken. I’m eagerly counting down the days until I can retire. Between broken hiring processes and the rise of LLM coding, I’m left wondering if this is how I want to spend my precious time.
by bc569a80a344f9c | 2025-09-03 01:08:53+00:00
They are. I use LLMs. They need to be given context. Which is easy for things that are already on the Internet for them to pull from. When people stop writing news articles that connect events to one another then LLMs have nothing to pull into their context. They are not capable of connecting two random sources.

Edit: also, the primary point is that if everyone uses LLMs for reporting, the loss of revenue will cause the disappearance of the investigative journalism that funds, which LLMs sure as fuck aren’t going to do.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-09-03 01:08:55+00:00
In general:

- At a large tech company, a referral can help you get an interview; it rarely affects the actual hiring decision or the offer.

- As an interviewee, I might feel like I did great, but I don’t know what signal the interviewer wanted or what their bar is for that level.

My son’s school uses an adaptive test three times per year (MAP Growth). It’s designed so each student answers about 50% of the math questions correctly. Most students walk out with a similar perception of:

- how hard the test was, and

- how well they did.

Those perceptions aren’t strongly related to differences in their actual performance.

Interviews are similar. A good interviewer keeps raising the difficulty and probing until you hit an edge. Strong candidates often leave feeling 50/50. So “I crushed it” (or “that was brutal”) isn’t a reliable predictor of the outcome. What matters are the specific signals they were measuring for that role and level, which may not be obvious from the outside, especially when the exercise is intentionally simple.

Many years ago, when I interviewed at an investment bank for a structuring role, I answered all of their questions correctly, even though some of them were about things I'd never heard of (like a 'swaption'). I answered at what I thought was a reasonable pace, and only for one or two questions did I need a minute or two to work out the answer on paper. At the time, I thought I'd done well. I didn't get the job. I now know more about what they were looking for, and I'd say my performance was somewhere between 'meh' and 'good enough'. I'm sure they had better candidates.

When I interviewed at Google (back in 2014), I was asked the classic https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when question. I didn't know it was a common question, and hadn't specifically prepared for it. Nonetheless, I thought I crushed it. I explained a whole bunch of stuff about DNS, TCP, ARP, subnet masks, HTTP, TLS etc.

I said nothing about equally important things that were much less familiar to me: e.g. keyboard interrupts, parsing, rendering, ...

Luckily I passed that interview, but at the time I thought I'd covered everything important, when in reality my answer helped show the interviewer exactly where the gaps were in my understanding.
by defrost | 2025-09-03 01:09:43+00:00
I don't much care about the flagging either way; it's more I only noticed you replied when I saw my top level comment in this old discussion had changed state (HN makes it hard to follow old discussion threads, I don't have any custom tooling to highlight replies, just a habit of mostly circling back every few days).

> I suppose I could flag this one as complaining about downvotes/flags does violate HN guidelines.

You'd be hard pressed to justify on those claimed grounds; noticing a comment has been flagged is _not_ equivalent to complaining about a comment being flagged .. after more than ten years here it amuses me more than anything.

Again, you've sidestepped any comment with substance re: the original question of bigotry which you posed and I've addressed ..

If you'd like to address that or ask any more actual questions (rather than intuitive leaps of essentially incorrect judgement) I'm open to continuing here (tomorrow or the next day).
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by c0balt | 2025-09-03 01:10:46+00:00
> On Linux, yes you can spend months modifying Flatpaks, or writing SELinux rules or apparmor profiles but nobody does that.

For what it's worth, RHEL and to some degree Fedora do give you those SELinux rules for most of their packages. That OOB for anything you would install with rpm.

> it is only a matter of time that malware that steal secrets from home directory to arrive to Linux too.

No need to wait? Most of the malware distributed over npm/pypi has supported Linux and sometimes MacOS for a long time.
by BrendanLong | 2025-09-03 01:11:21+00:00
A big part of this is that CPU utilization metrics are frequently averaged over a long period of time (like a minute), but if your SLO is 100 ms, what you care about is whether there's any ~100 ms period where CPU utilization is at 100%. Measuring p99 (or even p100) CPU utilization can make this a lot more visible.
by xpe | 2025-09-03 01:11:29+00:00
Rather than getting sidetracked, I will repeat the central point and question to you again:

> How many people have more information than even an imperfect market-derived quantity?

I’ll restate the point because I don’t think you’re understanding what I mean.

Do you think this funding round was irrational from the point of view of the investors? If so, how can you make such a claim? Do you have information they do not?

It is possible you have some bit of knowledge they don’t, but on balance it is unlikely that you are operating from a position of having more relevant information.
by tptacek | 2025-09-03 01:12:09+00:00
This is the first I'm hearing that cold days in Chicago are rarely an issue for pedestrians. Here's Brian Fitzpatrick:

https://therealfitz.medium.com/how-i-learned-to-stop-worryin...

(I don't do even 1/4 of this, but then, I would almost never walk any real distance during a Chicago winter.)
by cmpalmer52 | 2025-09-03 01:13:33+00:00
I tried salted licorice. Granted, I don’t really like sweet licorice, or anise, or fennel, or any of the liquors that use that flavoring, but I tolerate them. The salted licorice was the worst thing I’d ever tasted.

So I bought a whole bag of it and ate a piece every day or so. After a week, I wasn’t cringing as much. After two or three weeks I started craving it. By the end of the month, I liked it. I don’t love it, but I did buy another bag when that one was done. And yes I know the health risks, but I’m never going to be eating a bag or two a day.

The weirdest, though, was cilantro. I’m in the genetic group that thinks it tastes soapy. And yet, after trying it enough, I love it.
by lkjdsklf | 2025-09-03 01:13:55+00:00
That has not been my experience at all.

It takes 30-40 minutes to generate a plan and it generates code that would have taken 20-30 minutes to write.

When it’s generating “weeks” worth of code, it inevitably goes off the rails and the crap you get goes in the garbage.

This isn’t to say agents don’t have their uses, but i have not seen this specific problem actually work. They’re great for refactoring (usually) and crapping out proof of concepts and debugging specific problems. It’s also great for exploring a new code base where you have little prior knowledge.

It makes sense that it sucks at generating large amounts of code that fits cohesively into the project. The context is too small. My code base is millions of lines of code. My brain has a shitload more of that in context than any of the models. So they have to guess and check and end up incorrect and poor and i don’t. I know which abstractions exist that i can use. It doesn’t. Sometimes it guesses right. Often Times it doesn’t. And once it’s wrong, it’s fucked for the entire rest of the session so you just have to start over
by pandemicsyn | 2025-09-03 01:14:03+00:00
Sure Amazon was a big established co at the dawn of the cloud, and a little bit of an unexpected dark horse. None of the managed hosting providers saw Amazon coming. Also ran's like Rackspace and the like where also pretty established by that point.

But there was also cool stuff happening at smaller places like Joyent, Heroku, Slicehost, Linode, Backblaze, iron.io, etc.
by nayuki | 2025-09-03 01:15:14+00:00
Nah, it's easier than that. Putting two chefs in the same kitchen doesn't let you cook twice the amount of food in the same amount of time, because sometimes the two chefs need to use the same resource at the same time - e.g. sink, counter space, oven. But, the additional chef does improve the utilization of the kitchen equipment, leaving fewer things unused.
by PaulKeeble | 2025-09-03 01:15:41+00:00
This is bang on, you can't count the hyperthreads as double the performance, typically they are actually in practice only going to bring 15-30% if the job works well with it and their use will double the latency. Failing to account for loss in clockspeed as the core utilisation climbs is another way its not linear and in modern software for the desktop its really something to pay careful attention to.

It should be possible from the information you can get on a CPU from the OS to better estimate utilisation involving at the very least these two factors. It becomes a bit more tricky to start to account for significantly going past the cache or available memory bandwidth and the potential drop in performance to existing threads that occurs from the increased pipeline stalls. But it can definitely be done better than it is currently.
by jleyank | 2025-09-03 01:18:38+00:00
Given that drug cartels aren't noted for kindness, I would think this raises the risk level for any gringo anywhere in Central or South America. Can't see them targeting the military, but everybody else better look over their shoulder. And if (when?) it escalates... Tom Clancy wrote this story back then, and (spoiler alert) the hero is the hero because he calls it off.
by lmm | 2025-09-03 01:19:16+00:00
> Is your position that the FSF is wrong? If so, why trust the licenses that the same FSF wrote?

The FSF says a program that exchanges complex data structures with the covered program "can" be something that requires a license; they don't claim that it always or usually is. My position is that they're correct that it's possible (at least in some jurisdictions) but the risk is low in cases where you're not trying to do a technological end run around something you obviously need a license for.

> In general, businesses acquire commercial licenses for proprietary software, which is a kind of derisking.

Only if the license grants permission to do the thing you're doing! Otherwise you're no better off than if you had no license (and you're worse off than under the GPL, which at least permits you to prepare derivative works freely, only putting conditions on distributing them). Almost every commercial/proprietary license I've seen has a blanket prohibition on preparing or distributing derivative works.
by dfstudioz | 2025-09-03 01:19:35+00:00
I’ve been tinkering on a project I call Franklin — an experiment to see if I could run a self-hosted AI router inside Docker.

Right now it can:

Answer natural prompts like “what’s in /memory?”

Route them to either local tools, a local model (TinyLlama via Ollama), or GPT in the cloud.

Stream responses back through a minimal Web UI.

It’s still very early, and the last couple of weeks were mostly broken ports, missing API keys, and containers restarting — but I finally reached the point where Franklin just answered me back. That moment made it feel less like a pile of logs and more like an assistant actually running on my server.

I wrote up a bit about the journey here: https://www.dfrankstudioz.com/blog

Would love feedback from anyone else experimenting with local + cloud AI setups.
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by jleyank | 2025-09-03 01:23:23+00:00
It might (will?) come down to Canada deciding that Trump can't be negotiated with and that appeasement isn't a smart move. If that comes to pass, digital taxes and rules can be resurrected or continued. No clue what is actually going to go down, but there's a fair number of pissed off Canadians up here. And your guess is as good as mine which country will endure economic pain better.
by maxloh | 2025-09-03 01:23:30+00:00
This is actually the case for ECMAScript (JavaScript).

All proposals must first be implemented by some browser vendors at Stage 3:

> The proposal has been recommended for implementation.

Then, the proposal shall be included in the standard at Stage 4:

> Two compatible implementations which pass the Test262 acceptance tests

https://tc39.es/process-document/
by mmaunder | 2025-09-03 01:23:34+00:00
I’m not ok with someone self promoting here at the cost of thousands of people thinking they’re either not smart enough, or are doing something incorrectly. We saw this same pattern during the dot com boom a quarter century ago with self promoters creating a “you just don’t get it” culture which eventually collapsed like a house of cards. What we share should be reproducible by others and we should avoid hand wavey excitement without substance. Especially here on HN where many of the next great companies and ideas will be born.
by xpe | 2025-09-03 01:23:35+00:00
I see what you are getting at, but it is important to understand the context for my example and the argument I’m making.

I’ve explained various points at length in other comments: (i) why I selected this example (simply to show that folk wisdom or common sense is less reliable than market-driven valuations) (ii) how a funding round is influenced by markets even though it isn’t directly driven by a classic full market mechanism.

Something I haven’t said yet would be a question: how can an outsider rigorously assess the error in a funding round or acquisition? To phrase the question a different way: what price or valuation would an oracle assign based on known information?

One might call this ex-ante rationality. Framing it this way helps remove hindsight bias; for example, a subsequent failure doesn’t necessarily mean it was mispriced (sp?) at the time.
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by sroussey | 2025-09-03 01:24:34+00:00
Will be interesting when (if?) Intel ships software defined cores which are the logical inverse of hyper threading.

Instead of having a big core with two instruction pipelines sharing big ALUs etc, they have two (or more) cores that combine resources and become one core.

Almost the same, yet quite different.

https://patents.google.com/patent/EP4579444A1/en
by duxup | 2025-09-03 01:24:39+00:00
I don't know what selling Chrome or Android would even mean ...

The next person who buys it, to make it a worthwhile investment does what? Put ads in Chrome and Android?

If I suddenly owned Chrome overnight (sort of like the movie Little Big League 1994), that would be neat, but as a commercial product there's not a lot of "good" things I could do to stay in business. Most immediate ideas would be bad.
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by rootusrootus | 2025-09-03 01:25:30+00:00
I feel this so, so much. The internet was so much better before it got commercialized and polluted with non-stop politics, hype, influencer crap, etc. I just want to be left alone, I know what I want, I don't want you to try and force it on me, trick me into it, etc. I want to have a functioning email account my friends can use where the messages won't get drowned in a sea of spam. I want a phone that only rings when someone I know calls.

We've created such a shithole, a perfect mirror of society I guess.
by jjk166 | 2025-09-03 01:26:15+00:00
I have interviewed many people. I have never once been impressed by someone figuring out a convoluted way to force a round peg into a square hole. The people I recommend are the ones who question why I would want to do something. If need be, I can always follow up with "but what if you had to do it this way." But for a question meant to evaluate technical ability, I am going to ask you how to do something which is a best practice. If I'm asking you how you would solve an absurd problem, the purpose of the question is to evaluate how you approach problems, and I will let you know that's the purpose of the inquiry.
by dvt | 2025-09-03 01:26:31+00:00
This gives a little "old man yells at cloud" vibes. Like, I get that some people are more misanthropic than others, but I personally have forgotten about appointments so text reminders were nice, I'm in plenty of Discord servers, getting help can be nice sometimes, etc.

Even if you're not religious or spiritual (which I would bet the author isn't), at the very least the natural process of evolution seems to value the idea of community and togetherness, so shunning it seems a bit shortsighted.
by bentocorp | 2025-09-03 01:27:59+00:00
Interesting idea.

Ideally the 'Never Monetise' site would record and have a non-removable list of any site which had a hyperlink through to it, as a ledger of the sites that have made this commitment.

If they do then change their policy in the future, this would be independent, verifiable proof of a prior commitment.

I've recently written about a similar topic, regarding an app's commitment to privacy and the cost of not selling user data:

https://www.magiclasso.co/insights/cost-of-privacy/

My post asked a similar question -- how much money could we make if we sold user data instead of committing to a privacy-first approach?
by rcarr | 2025-09-03 01:28:45+00:00
A technique I have found that works well is to have it working on one feature and then to have another session planning the next. Whilst it's busy generating some code, I open up another instance, tell it the next task and instruct it to create a gherkin feature file with an implementation plan. I then go back and forth between reviewing the code for the current feature and the plan for the next one.
by ajmurmann | 2025-09-03 01:28:51+00:00
I've been interviewing the last few months after having had the same leadership role for 7+ years and never really having interviewed before. Your point about maintaining interview-readiness is something everyone should tattoo on their arm. I wish I had kept a log of accomplishments, projects with associated tradeoffs, anecdotes, etc. I've been polishing my interview responses and sometimes I remember something I had done that would have been great to bring up in an interview but I hadn't thought about in years.