jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There are several problems with certifications.

The first is that the certifying authority gets paid by the candidates. Therefore the trend over time inevitably is to make the certification easier and easier to get so that the candidates keep paying them.

The second is that the field tends to move more rapidly than the certification. What does a certificate from 10 years ago about how well I know Python and JavaScript tell you about my current skills as a developer? Not a whole lot.

There are reasonable certifications out there put out by companies for those who wish to work on their technology stack. (Open source, not so much.) The company has the resources and motivation to make sure that people who are certified for their technologies are going to be reasonably competent. But now the certification becomes a sales pitch. The company shows you how to use the latest version of all of their tooling with all of the optional side products. You go out into a real company and they are a couple of versions behind and didn't license all of those optional add-ons. You, the certified expert, are likely to become the person asking for everything to be upgraded and for a ton of new licenses for stuff that is only marginally useful. This isn't necessarily in the company's interests.

True story. Many years ago I worked at a large FAANG. To limit how much time was wasted on bad candidates, they built a machine learning system to filter out bad resumes. In practice it was better than a recruiter at identifying promising resumes, but worse than a developer. But it limited how much recruiters had to bug developers with bad resumes.

The machine learning system picked up all of the things that you'd expect. For example someone who thought it important to list Microsoft Word as a skill probably isn't a viable candidate for a senior software engineer.

But the single strongest signal that it picked up was kind of interesting. At the time the MCSE (Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert) was one of the most popular certifications around. Anyone listing that was unlikely to be worth interviewing.
Yes, same (also in Germany). I survive, can't complain too much, I prefer the advantages of not having a smartphone. But for example my neighbours have organized a WhatsApp group, which is nice, for stuff that goes on in the building and helping eachother out. There are lots of examples like that (parents groups at school, etc.) Another thing I'm noticing is that SMS is becoming less and less reliable, sometimes the messages not reaching the other part, particularly when changing country codes...
This isn't a limitation of PeerJS or event WebRTC. This is a limitation imposed by IPv4 implementations that include NAT and PAT. These services in the middle are there to create tunnels as a mutually available broker for all concerned end points. Even after the connection is established additional third party services are still required for authentication, identity management (trust/certificates/keys), and possibly codec resolution.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebRTC_API#...

If all parties were IPv6 first they would still need the secondary services mentioned above, but they could likely broker a direct peer-to-peer connection without a separate service provider.
My form of dealing with that is by not having friends.
> They were not real friends but 'friends' of proximity. I had confused friendly with friends.

I had similar feelings before I left Facebook. This sort of thing even irked me back in high school, but I couldn't quite put my finger on why.

Every time it was my birthday, my timeline (or "wall" as I think it's known on FB) was inundated with Birthday wishes and greetings. Most of these greetings and wishes came from people who very rarely, if ever, talked to me on FB and oftentimes, never talked to me in real life (Usually my "true" friends would send me a direct message and wish me a Happy Birthday), and these people most certainly wouldn't know when my birthday was if Facebook hadn't reminded them.

It all just seemed so disingenuous, fake, and at the risk of exaggerating, inhuman. It all felt so joyless and disconnected. Before I left FB, I simply got to the point where I wouldn't comment, like, or interact with these birthday wishes in any way. Eventually, the amount of birthday wishes I received became less and less. Thinking about it now, I probably should've just removed my birthday from Facebook.

Regardless, I'm happier without Facebook and I certainly don't miss it.
What sort of "quirks" are we talking about?

> interrupting me/talking over me, talking down to me, comparing their last junior position to being Steve Jobs, being sing-songy, inappropriate jokes in any way/shape/form, getting in arguments with themselves... etc etc.

Besides being "sing-songy", none of these things are quirks, they're ineffective communication or untruthfulness of their past positions.

As far as dress and "sing-songy" go, I would agree with the above poster: software development tends to be much more inclusive of these sorts of characteristics. Jeans and a T-shirt is perfectly acceptable attire for an interview. Do your software devs wear suits 5 days a week? Why expect a candidate to do so, either? A candidate I interviewed going, "uh-oh sphaghetti-oh!" when they hit a segfault when running their interviewing solution was kind of ridiculous, but ultimately has no impact on their contributions as a developer. Factoring in these kinds of thins into the hiring decisions is ultimately about including people from a culture similar to your own. Different cultures have different definitions of "weirdness" so selecting based on the ability of the candidate to identify what is "weirdness" is ultimately a cultural litmus test. And expecting male candidates to be shaved, as per your other comment, is just blatant cultural discrimination - some demographics like Sikhs could even sue you for illegal discrimination over this. This cuts both ways, both the case where a candidate in a T-shirt and jeans gets rejected for not wearing a suit and when a suited up candidate gets rejected for being too formal. Both ultimately hurt the company by excluding effective workers.
I am willing to help you iterate on the ideas you could possibly be working on. I have the background and network that can help. Feel free to reach out.
Sure, I expect my stereo, dishwasher, iron, dryer, electric shaver, alarm clock, and blender to work for more than two years. But how many of those devices would receive an update (or recall) to fix a bug that prevents the use of a single minor feature?

Your Nexus 4 doesn't stop working when it stops receiving updates. The closing of this bug doesn't mean your phone is less functional than it was yesterday. You are free to continue using the Nexus 4 tomorrow exactly as you have been for the last two years. This decision only means that Google is moving on to more pressing issues that either affect more users or have a bigger impact on their bottom line.
and of course there are many non-funded, non-tech, startups that make that much after 2-3 years too.
The weather in Russia is by no means something that I would call "small." It helped the Russians defeat Napoleon in 1812.

When the Germans invaded, they were ill-prepared as well. They're vehicles couldn't cope with the cold, so in the winter months, they were bombarded by Soviet bombers but couldn't get any of their own planes in the air. They couldn't move vehicles because the ground turns to mud (they ended up using dead bodies to gain traction). At one point, the Germans were very close to Moscow (within visual distance IIRC) when winter hit. That winter, fresh troops from Siberia who were specially trained for winter warfare arrived in Moscow to push the Germans back. I think it's safe to say that the Russian winter prevented the Germans from capturing Moscow that winter.

My favorite podcast (Dan Carlin's Hardcore History) covered the eastern front of WWII in a four-part series, titled "Ghosts of the Ostfront": http://bit.ly/W4ig (episodes 27-30). I highly recommend it to anyone that's interested in history.

(That's not an affiliate link, btw.)
I have to say that that is awesome uptime overall. Considering the amount of blogs and sites running on WP.com

TC should switch to some other hosting.. then they would experince downtime...

If I had uptime like that, I would be praising the host for the uptime and patting them on the back, because they probably get a ton of shit from other people all the time.
They aren't calling our servers. And that was a European backbone (Tiscali) having trouble - if you're in the EU or small fractions of the east coast you may have seen that hiccup. Unrelated to our servers.
I have industry experience as a broker, trader, and currently developing strategies.

EDIT: My current position is only an internship for the summer as I finish up my MSFE degree.
Well, it would be an investment with an uncertain payout at some undetermined point in the future. The person flipping their policy could be 55 and live to 85, and your investment is tied up for 30 years awaiting the payoff. The risk would come if these are term life insurance policies, as in, the person might die within the term of the policy, or might outlast it and not pay out.
As with most things, the one dollar Detroit houses are far more complex than that. For example, typically you will pay taxes on the appraised value rather than the one dollar. You're also buying into a neighborhood with little in the way of city services, although the city is working on that.
As others noted, it's not, but for different reasons. The moon landings were sort of a different task (get people to the moon and back and don't kill 'em). SpaceX is trying something a bit different though: make this whole thing boring and industrialize it.

The first is a historic series of one-shots that really can't be repeated for any sane economic purpose. The second is an attempt to automate and ruggedize it.

It's sort of why the sky-crane landing on Mars was such a historic achievement, arguably far more complex than the Apollo work. Don't let that diminish the greatness of Apollo, though. Today we have tools bording on magic, while they literally used wax pencils and slide rules. But don't let that diminish the accomplishment here, where the tools are being properly leveraged to make LEO an everyday occurrence.

In short: there's plenty of awesome to go around!
I am not a fan of Thiel in general but China has the majority of Bitcoins hash rate last I checked and if the maximalist dreams come true with debasing USD while BTC gains relative value then that is a lot of leverage, no?
Please don't take HN threads into regional or other flamewar. It's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Also cycling in 100+ degree weather is rough in Texas, Arizona, etc
More or less. Be aware of your weakness, basically.
MacRuby isn't a scripting language, though. Or, it doesn't have to be. It can get compiled down to machine code if you're making an application in it.
The device comes with ubuntu 9.04. You can install LAMP from the repository directly if you want to for no cost. The image is meant for people who don't have time to do that.
I think we get what you mean, but technically a laser, which are lightwaves of a single frequency wouldn't be spread out like a white light source hitting a prism. It would be bent but still would be a focused beam.
What I'd pay good money for (in addition to what I mentioned prior) would be a part-for-part changelog for motorcycles between models along with better cross-compatibility information. As I'm sure you know, its difficult to tell immediately what parts are compatible with what bikes.

BTW- great looking site. I'm checking out now. Shoot me an email at my username at gmail if you've got a chance.
Yeah, I mean, they could wait until the federal government slaps them with the fines ($4k or so per barrel) and then try to fight those fines in court, but there's not a jury in the USA who's going to believe BP's numbers over whichever experts the government picks, and it's not like BP can claim there's no oil spill.

On the civil front, any negligence or shenanigans at that well before April 20th blows straight through the liability cap. There are a number of stories just below the mainstream media radar that I've see talked about on TheOilDrum and other places that, if there's any truth at all to them would obliterate the liability cap. If they think they can't win that point at trial, then they're best off just paying upfront instead of fighting. Again, good luck finding a jury who won't use the flimsiest excuse to crush that liability cap.
Love the background image.
> Then why send the resume at all? If you have little interest in the company, have no interest to spend 5 minutes writing a cover letter

Okay, I really don't understand this line of thinking at all. I would genuinely like it if someone could possibly explain this.

As I said above, I'm a professional, you're a professional. I am offering to you my talent and wisdom which will earn you more than it costs you. You are offering to me money and (maybe) a pleasant working environment.

So we're entering into this on a level playing field. Why am I expected to do a bunch of research and write up a customized cover letter, other than to satisfy your ego?

As far as I'm concerned, this is a courtship like any other. I say, "hey, here's my resume, what do you think?" You say, "hey, I like it, here's what we're like, what do you think?" and we go from there.

The whole, "we demand a cover letter that makes our nipples tingle," thing strikes me as ineffectual middle-management HR B.S. which probably keeps a lot of great people from ever getting interviewed.
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There is an immense difference between what you describe and the user experience of Amazon Go. It was one of the most revolutionary experiences once I got accustomed to it.

I used to regularly get lunch in < 30 seconds at Amazon Go. My record was 12 seconds for a soda and sandwhich. They added more processing time for that calculation at some point. But I basically could get things as quick as my feet could take me in and out.

It's really not the same experience. You should try it when you get the chance.

Here are my most recent trip times according to the app (assume a 15s overestimate to my real experience):

37s - Dr Pepper

32s - Dr Pepper

1m12s - Dr Pepper, sandwhich, cookies

33s - Dr Pepper

1m33s - Dr Pepper

36s - Dr Pepper

44s - Vitamin Water

46s - Sandwhich, cookies

30s - Vitamin Water

32s - Dr Pepper

31s - Dr Pepper

35s - Dr Pepper

I would estimate that most of these have a 15s overestimate.

This has not been a Dr Pepper advertisement.
Nope. The author is a C programmer too.

The post is talking about who writes the interface that client code relies on. Is it the author of a package (eg like header files) or the user of the package?

In Go and Typescript its easy for users to write their own interfaces describing just the functionality they rely on. This makes testing a lot easier.
Maybe it's just me but yes, I do. I'm a very social person and coding is a solitary activity and I can't stand having spent my whole day without any meaningful human interaction. I feel and sleep better after having a meaningfull human interaction or having had a portion of exercise. If I do more coding after the coding at work I can't sleep well, my brain can't unwind before bed as it keeps crunching away at the problems.
(At Square, we currently use Pants for our Java monorepo. Don’t do that; we’re switching.)
Martin Fowler is an example.
I think he would say "writing short programs", which leads to Lisp.

He designed the Arc language before he started ycombinator. He designed the Bel language after he left ycombinator. So it seems like ycombinator (and changing an entire industry) was an interlude between Lisps :)

If you had to rate obsessions on a scale from 0-100 on how likely they are to be useful, I would rate programming languages around a 5/100. It's exceedingly unlikely to come to anything (which I know from working on my own language :) )

Related:

https://famicol.in/language_checklist.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6784085
I saw the Dell G5 (entry level gaming series from Dell) with a i7-9750H, 16 GB DDR4 RAM, RTX 2060 and 512 GB SSD for currently 1260 EUR (screen is Full HD IPS), that's quite a nice deal.

But in general in regards to laptop / computers, there's no one size fits all. It really depends on what your focus is.

I'm shelling out for a Mini Tower soon, including a new Ryzen. Not sure yet if going for the 8 core 3700X or go all in with the 16 core 3950X.

If you like portability, the Dell XPS or something like Razer Blade (Stealth) or MSI GS series might be nice. If you need power, maybe something more in the lines of an XMG Ultra with a desktop CPU fits better.
This is a reasonable, yet generous reading of the situation. But the situation stinks. Tripp raised what seemed to be sincere concerns, yet was retaliated against by Tesla in an exceedingly heavy-handed manner. Tesla's current claim is that he caused them over 100 million dollars in damage. The trouble in my mind is that Tesla escalated and has continued to escalate an incredibly unpleasant situation involving Tripp. This situation, and others, seem to strongly suggest that company that runs deeply on principles of fear, going so far as to use incredible amounts of energy on going after a low-level engineer with a possibly reasonable complaint.

A more enlightened response from Tesla, in my mind, had the complaints by Tripp been untrue, would have been to have been to quietly dismiss him, address his claims in a press release, and use gentle language to address him, identifying him, sincerely, if possible, as a genuinely useful member of the team with whom Tesla had an irreconcilable disagreement.

Tesla is not taking this route, however. Their handling of the situation suggests that they may have something more serious to hide or, at minimum, that they are not committed to deeper humanistic means of engaging with individuals that challenge them (though Musk must not be exclusively defined by this, is it so surprising given the terrible names he called one of the Thai rescuers?). Tesla has and are continues to attend to Tripp with tremendous force (legal, and perhaps otherwise -- as suggested by this link) as opposed to just moving on and letting things be. They are proactively seeking to proactively discredit and arguably harm Tripp as opposed to contending with his contentions head on.
I grepped for "bot" on this, the source and their methodology page. Bot activity on Twitter is especially high and not at least mentioning how they accounted for that kinda voids this whole effort. It'd be very interesting to identify the political leanings of automated posts. I bet they could analyze the messages to determine bot networks. Disappointed this wasn't considered.
I also have similar situation - I live in Dubai - and don't have many passionate programmers here. After lot of reading and research I have realized that it is very important to work with good programmers like in USA in order to grow and moving physically to Silicon Valley is the best option but if you like your country and have a family to look after you can also try remote jobs.. if you look at remote working with companies in USA it will be almost as beneficial as working as physically present there.

e.g.
https://angel.co/jobs
http://remoteworking.co
http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs

You can also try contributing to open source projects on github until you find a way to be around good programmers
How does a cloud VM satisfy the 'intel stick' use-case? Where is the HDMI port?

Also, since you're piling on every possible thing you can to make your case, you should also include the power systems of every networking device between your cloud VM and you.
For such people, is there a good reason to learn math?
I investigated a little bit and it appears that the answer is yes. While this is a disastrously speculative article:

http://www.dragtimes.com/blog/tesla-model-s-ethernet-network...

It claims they told the owner that the activity "can be related to industrial espionage and advised me to stop investigation, to not void the warranty”.

Usually when people use words like "industrial espionage" and "void the warranty", there's something that they don't want you to know that they think you're about to know.
Wearing a sweater instead of heating my home improves my standard of living? What kind of bizarre doublespeak is this?
There are no unbiased sources for anything. Try finding an unbiased source for the opposite claim, preferably one that has a better explanation for the data that we've been collecting the last few decades.
It looks like a bullet proof DeDelorean and that's not intended as a complement.
500 miles is fairly substantial range. I can see this being useful for a very wide variety of use cases, but obviously not those longer-term multi-day excursions into the wilderness.

That said, it is a truck, and maybe someone (perhaps even Tesla) will develop a modular LNG/propane/diesel generator unit you can put into the back of the truck for purposes of range extension. I realize this is inefficient, not environmentally friendly, and going in the opposite direction of what the electric car is supposed to do, but its also only applicable in those extreme edge cases where you need to be away from the grid for days or weeks.
In #2 the object is in your guests possession, not yours. So,no, you can't destroy it. In the other two cases, yes, I believe it is in your possession.
Failed demo is a 100% totally intended publicity trick.
The cartel disbanded in 1939. Were the bulbs labeled and classified by power consumption before then?
I seem to remember that Google Cloud Print was the only way you were supposed to print on early Chromebooks.

At least the current Chromebooks let you print on a networked printer.
Awesome balanced team with engineering, design & business chops
I was about to write that there are no native deciduous trees in Australia but I decided to double-check that fact first and it turns out I'm wrong:

http://anpsa.org.au/faq-18.html

there are a couple of varieties of deciduous trees in Australia, but rather than being cold-hardened they live only in the tropics (!) and lose their leaves shortly before the wet season starts and grow them almost immediately afterwards.

I'm really not sure why these guys are deciduous though. Is it just random evolutionary happenstance (as in, they evolved from cold-weather deciduous trees and haven't been able to shake off this particular habit) or is there some tropics-related reason to shed your leaves?