jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Ah, I see what you mean now.

> One friend of mine, who happens to be a head of the HR at a medium-sized company, told me, that for each publicly posted SWE job ad they get several 100s of applications. So they don't even bother to review the submitted applications anymore (!). Instead, they merely wait for the recruitment agencies to pick up the ad and find some reasonable number of "vetted" candidates via their own channels and bring them in to an interview.

This is kind of a poor analogy, but I think a lot about parallels between talent agencies and the entertainment industry. Prima facie, there shouldn't need to be middlemen involved, right? And yet, there are, and they vary in quality from being horrible to being stars that the talent absolutely prefers to have. Interestingly enough, plenty of companies that try to disintermediate them can end up getting reputations as being talent unfriendly (IE Spotify), to the extent that the disrupting competitor inevitably plays ball.

I guess what I think is fascinating is that your anecdote may reflect this. Frankly, I think the job application is not useful. Creating the equivalent of an effective "spam filter" or ranking for job applications is challenging, so there's no reason to expect it to always be clogged with poor match applications. Having been a hiring manager before, it's really, really time consuming to go through low quality applicant leads. It's time consuming enough that your job is nearly intractable unless you have an in house or contingent recruiter that does a good enough job at separating the wheat from the chaff. I've had to play recruiter and hiring manager at the same time before, and it was more than a full time job. Good recruiters are worth their weight in gold, and then some.

What you want as a hiring manager is a lead, not an "application" and in order to get that, you need some kind of a pre-qualification process. I've had some really awful experiences with recruiters, some of whom will join my LI network, have an intro with me about a position, never respond, and then re-post that same position on LI. Then again, I've had professional recruiters that are extremely well informed, shephard me through the process with very well defined expectations of timeframes, and timely communication at every step up to and including a potential rejection. What I'm trying to get at is that you seem to think that the problem is too many middlemen, but I think the problem is not enough -- that is, the middlemen have an important job to do, but there are too many incompetent ones that are costing both companies and candidates valuable missed opportunities.
I believe you missed a key point of this technique

>First found a job that I was actually willing to quit for.

Check out BATNA - all about improving your Second option
Steve's glamor shots rival those of Jimmy Wales that have commandeered Wikipedia recently. The pic of Jobs with his legs dangling over the chair is particularly charming.
I wasn't thinking it would make a difference in weight loss necessarily, but thought it would be better one way or the other for digestion.
Kudos, but is there a flip side of the coin, where the software you write can cost someone life (if you screw something up/introduce a bug)?
Earlier submission at:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30258530
Of course they have, literally billions of times. Digital assets are represented by the intellectual property license you buy because as we know digital assets (and really most things trivially copyable) are not themselves scarce. This is true of NFTs as well, some of which grant no rights what-so-ever and some that do actually grant a license. That license grants you rights to use the asset in a set of circumstances. For example you can hire freelance artists to make models for a videogame and get full rights to the IP. Buying an e-book or music works the same way with less and different rights granted.

You can commission an artist right now to build you a VR Chat avatar, a Second Life avatar, a sweet PFP for Twitter and your own set of emoji's to use on Twitch etc. and get full rights to the images created. No NFTs needed.

If you want to take your VR Chat avatar into Second Life well that's going to need some kind of standardization not NFTs.
this sounds like the way every other company operates

It doesn’t sound like the way Epic operates, which is why Unreal is a solid, successful product.
I would lean this way - I'm not a software developer by trade but I can cut and paste and look at compiler output.

Changing a bool to an int is the kind of thing that I would worry would have unknown side-effects somewhere, whereas adding new code paths is unlikely to explode the existing.

Upstream would be a consideration, and potentially seeing what kind of a patch they'd accept.
It was a typical podcast talk between typical Rubyists. There's a copy of it up on archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/Coderpath10-JamesGolick

I think the only people who would really have been offended by it are those who hadn't listen to it :) It's the same sort of banter you hear at clubs, conferences, and other podcasts, except that I'm not very smart and James is (or was... ugh, still having a hard time believing he's gone).
If The Verge is "far-left", I don't want to be Right.
Can't satisfy everybody.
Is there such a solution for phones? It seems like, given the magnetometer and accelerometer, you could get great accuracy even if the GPS signal is lost.
There is no argument. People spend money on what they want to. Maybe he has some interesting reason for it or maybe he just believes it to be a good investment.

I'd like to think Musk has a plan for Twitter to be his Washington Post but people aren't even that rational so who knows.
Isn’t ignoring the difficult edge cases of commutative operations what got darcs and theory of patches into problems?

I never used it (darcs) but got the impression that it was easy to get into merge cases that were very hard to resolve.

(To be clear: I am not /claiming/ the above, I am asking whether my recollection is correct)
Because wikipedia was meant to be open. When the article was first created it had zero documentation. Someone just wrote from memory and published it. It then sat for a decade without additions. Now it cannot be touched because editing an old article draws mod attention. I guess if I cared I could hire someone to make the edit, someone with a longstanding wikipedia account. Such things do happen. I guess that is the real future of openness.
VRML isn't based on XML - the syntax is all curly brackets and spaces. The name was definitely an attempt to ride the XML hype train though. In a way, VRML was to XML as JavaScript was to Java.
Another story on the topic: https://www.nj.com/news/2022/04/a-mystery-in-colonia.html

Including an anecdote from finding a radioactive rock in the school in 1999:

"But when the teacher moved to an unremarkable, slate-gray, grapefruit-sized rock, the Geiger counter erupted like an alarm clock, sending the tiny gauge on the device to whiz to the highest reading levels, Gallo said."

(My hometown, but did not attend the high school, AMA)
You don’t have to try and excel at everything you do. Kids should do gymnastics to gain the spatial and body awareness, and ligament strength that they would not otherwise get from other sports. Climbing, parkour would also teach more practical application of balance, awareness and different movement patterns.
Shoot, just ask them bout their own FOSS changes.

"Why'd you design it that way?"

"Why'd you implement it that way?"

"What alternatives did you consider?"

Interviewers be so lazy in 2022 though. 'uh um do a fizzbuzz in ten seconds no your solution not match my first mental solution bye'
> ActivityPub

Problem is that platforms don't see any incentive in letting their APIs loose like this.
Personally I think this comment explains why Go isn't the solution. It's magical for fast development following the most minimum and well trodden path. Stray outside and face demons at every turn.

We, like the commenter have made the decision to start slowly depreciating our Go code base in favor of Rust.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31019234#31024525
I don't know about this. I caution people against microservices architecture all the time, but at my company having a scheduler just made sense. We spin up and down queue workers by massive amounts every hour, and doing this with anything besides a scheduler would be really tricky.

Granted, we use Nomad, not k8s, but we definitely need a scheduler and definitely are not reaching Google-scale.
Perhaps I hold an unpopular or uncharitable opinion but I'm in favor of this. I recently had a horrendous experience with Uber when returning to SFO. Usually a ride from the airport to my home is in the neighborhood of $40. I requested a ride at that estimated price. After a minute or two of waiting, I was presented with a modal that said a driver was willing to take me home for $80. I rejected it, figuring that it was a probably a fluke or an outlier. However, the moment I dismissed the prompt the app flashed another one with a similar offer. I ended up having to constantly dismiss those prompts for over 30 minutes in order to eventually get a ride. In addition to being a miserable user experience, it seems like setting prices allows drivers the option to discriminate as to where they want to take rides, bringing us back to the level of service of taxis where it was common for drivers to refuse rides based on destination.

I'm sympathetic to the situation that drivers are in. It's an extremely difficult and often unrewarding job. But the way driver price setting has been implemented so far feels like a big step backwards, at least in terms of rider experience.
I'd like to but unfortunately they are using that stupid department billing system. For me to collaborate I have to be invited in, basically. Can't have an engineer working on a project they aren't billing for no matter how interesting it looks.

I'm trying to find the project managers so they know I'm available and to include me on future projects. The current projects are staffed up and any change in manpower is a change request, client approval, etc.
Latinos are white, why would you separate them ?
Which widely used antibody tests where not checked and validated against uninfected blood/individuals?
What are you using right now?

Is learning a new project management tool the best use of your time right now?

More important than sales?

Good luck.
Mercurial works more or less the same way, and yet I find mercurial UI much simpler.

The main difference, I think, is that mercurial has stronger opinions on how you should manage your repository and hides everything that doesn't fit its views behind extensions.

Really, I don't understand how git managed to become so popular. It is really good and I like it a lot but it really takes time getting used to. I screwed up a lot before getting competent with it, and I still screw up from time to time. It didn't happen with cvs, svn and mercurial.

It makes me think of Perl. Powerful and messy, I like if for the same reason I like git. But while Perl is on the way down, progressively replaced by cleaner, more opinionated alternatives, git is becoming a de-facto standard.
I thought the same thing. Very hilarious episode, nevertheless.
Hello ay. Glad to spread this if it can help anyone.

Could you elaborate a bit more on your experience? The 13khz whistle how long have you been hearing that? How much did you use the tool? Is the whistle permanently gone?
naive question, if renewable become cheaper than fossil fuel options, why would they continue to increase emissions.
How would the tiny locality establish jurisdiction, or even standing? Locate a branch office of Facebook there?
Why can I not resist these urges? Here it is in J, which is basically APL but in ASCII:

({.,(":@(_2+$)),{:) 'accessibility'
--> a11y
Even I have two graphic calculators (HP not TI). I never used them really to draw even a single graph. I mostly use the larger display just to check and copy more easy previous results. On work I prefer these days to use just my HP35S (two lines display / RPN).

And yes, drawing the graph by yourself is for sure the way better way to learn something. But what do we know ...
That doesn't really answer the point, which was that new solar and wind tend to be cheaper than new nuclear as of 2019.
Good point. How can one prevent this though, for any free/open source software? Introducing issues (intentional or careless) to keep some funding going.
That isn't that clear-cut. France has lots of nuclear power, but most of the power plants are getting quite old and eventually have to be dismantled and replaced. We will see how affordable the nuclear electricity is, after all costs have been paid. I don't think they will be replacing nuclear power plants with new ones, at current costs.

Still, currently electricity is way cheaper and much cleaner than in Germany. I certainly disagree with the amount of coal used in Germany.
Insane. What on earth is even going on in these school districts? Why don't they just ask TI to set the math curriculum next?
Pretty cool, I like the lockdown simulation as it shows dots can only move within a certain region.

But, the "Mass Testing" simulation has tester dots randomly zooming around the screen, surely they would be seeking out dots that haven't been tested right?
Definitely new to me.
Exactly. It could be that this guy was just born to be a real racing driver but never realised until too late, or just didn't want that career. And that a good racing driver is likely to be a good simulation player.
The answer would likely be along the lines of torches using a minimal amount of memory, while combat would involve adding multiple large sprites for the player in combat as well as many large sprites for the the combatants's combat and motion. Given that the game was already pushing the limits of computer graphics with it's art style, it was likely desirable to differentiate the appearance of at least some of the combatants, pushing the memory requirements even higher.

Then there was the author's lack of desire to make another game focused upon combat.

Which is the beauty of the shadow character. Since it is based upon a computational trick, it added a minimum to the resources required. At the same time, it afforded a twist in the plot that allowed the author to accept and integrate combat into the game. It changed the nature of the combat and of the player's decisions, permitted the antagonist to exist long enough to have it's own story, and got rid of the cheap feeling of a clone army (i.e. reused sprites).
Like leaving snarky comments on here?

Have you deliberately ignored the rest of the sentence? CSS3 and display grid solved a lot of the issues. It is supported by any modern browser.

Leveraging grid layout makes for a complete separation of concerns and still keep semantic markup without any hacks that only add to the amount of work. Take just a couple of hours of your very important time to learn it, and you might see the payoff.
Seriously. A single web server with no dynamic content will handle a TON of traffic.
It may be bold but why not be a little bold now and then.
No, they wouldn't. They couldn't. Nobody has enough money.

Besides, you can you have a constrained space in a free market?

I'm dissapointed this type of thinking still pops up. The whole point of this article is to discuss increases in supply.
They do price testing, if they believe there is no better option for you, and you will pay, they will charge you.

They will not charge you if, for example, you're someone living in the USA. There is far too much free competition.

For their non smartphone market (don't have numbers but its large), there is very little if any at all competition, and people in places like india gladly pay the $1 fee for a years access on their dumbphone.
That's awesome. You've me hooked. For postgres database access, what library do you suggest? Also, I remember lua-nginx can also do non-blocking IO in blocking style code. (http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpLuaModule, http://openresty.org) How does luaw compared to that?
I made an web application and I'm trying to figure out if there is value in a service like this so I'm hoping to get some feedback. Rivyr.com is a site that provides timeline based news feeds for specific products. My hope is that if you are passionate about the iPhone 6 (for example) you can check back here to get news and updates about that product. You can also follow different products to get updates about various products in your own timeline.

The way it works is I monitor about 30 RSS feeds (TheVerge, DigitalTrends, etc. and adding more), and I reverse search the title against the product database using ElasticSearch. If I find a match, it suggests that article to me and attempts to categorize it. Once or twice a day I'll look over the suggested news stories and select which ones should enter the news stream (I do this by hand to avoid duplicate content, fix categorization mis-matches etc).

So I'm curious if you think a site like this would be valuable to readers / early adopters.
San Francisco -- I'm hiring for a good product marketing / product manager - http://solutions.liveperson.com - no job desc up yet, so just email me at jschorzman@liveperson.com if interested.
When he says "object serialization" is broken, does he mean Java's built-in object serialization (JOS), or the concept of serialization, independent of any specific implementation? He later says "default serialization", which is what JOS's serialization of an object is called if its serialization hasn't been customized - but maybe he means JOS itself?

Anyway: for JOS, you don't need to provide no-arg constructors and you don't need to un-final fields, because JOS extralinguistically both creates without constructors and sets final fields. JOS also provides hooks for you to initialize objects. It has many other other hooks that few people use.

It's true that some aspects of JOS are ugly in how it implements what it does, but much of what it sets out to do is necessary for a full-featured serialization, that can work over the network. Serialization in other languages hasn't shown a "right" way to do it that I'm aware of.

I'm interested to hear more about the problems Charles found with JOS, and whether he has misunderstandings about this arcane bit of java, or if it's me who's misunderstood his very brief aside on it here.
And most of all, it's easy when you are starting a project from scratch. Then again, Douglas Crockford describes HTML5 as a "giant step in the wrong direction".
> not useful

...Yet. The point of basic research is not to generate patents.
> Subscribed since: November 23, 2014 12:10 (Yearly payment)

I could simply not have asked for a better day for this to surface on HN :D
The fact that Google has 70 locations around the world, including 26 around the US, indicates that some Google employees are happy to work outside of SF.
This is why I've never understood what it is. I see words, (and it's not that I don't understand what those words mean) but I simply don't know what is meant by them arranged in this way.

There's some understanding that I'm fundamentally lacking which I've been searching to correct for years. I've put it down to "Math" which seems to be a whole impenetrable language itself. A language that my lack of understanding of (despite many unguided attempts) means I'll continue to be downvoted and snorted at when I say I still don't understand what a Turing machine or a monad actually is.
For such a big, international and tech city as San Francisco to require a car to feel free reveals how poorly organised the US are in terms of public services.

I guess the public transport system is almost non-existent.

I'm glad my country isn't an oil producer. We're less rich, but if the GDP per capita difference all goes to buying a (30k$ berline electric) car to feel free...
Can you make yourself intentionally interested in a topic?
I have been using org mode for years and it is second nature now, and continually learn new things I love about it. This is a great video intro to the topic, kudos!

When collaborating with others though on pure documentation, I will say I am increasingly impressed with the usefulness of asciidoc/doctor. Have you used it at all or have any thoughts?
You obviously have never been to a good coffee place in Switzerland. Sure Nestlé produces some absolute garbage but go to a real coffee place in Zürich or Lugano.
Very good observation. While the programming tools and infrastructure have improved tremendously, so have user demands increased. To make money today, you can't release yesterday's functionality. SW development keeps moving to higher levels of abstraction, and not everyone likes that (I don't).
For those who CHOOSE to quit in order to find greener pastures, I think it’s fair for a probation period. If they talk the talk, that doesn’t mean they can walk the walk. Our business shouldn’t be punished by someone who is talking out their ass or having an inflated opinion about their ability. We should have the opportunity to verify, over a period of time, they walk the walk.
Hm that's a cool trick. IIRC some distributions (Suse?) had a 'bash' clause where you couldn't do "rm -rf /" without 'y'.

My 'zsh' has this one too, when I 'rm -rf /some/dir/' always asks if I'm "sure". Truth to be told, I'm not even expecting the text in "stdout" anymore, my finger goes to the 'y' automatically, which means that if I make something stupid it won't be able to protect me :-P

The last couple of years I stopped doing 'stupid things' by stop working on the shell when I'm very tired. That was the cause of my rm-related-incidents in the past :-)
How is the app different from the mainstream q&a social apps like

Quora https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.quora.andr.... or

ask.fm https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.askfm&hl=e.... or

kiwi.qa https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chatous.po.... ?
We'll know AGI is ready to take over the world when Watson uses this to acquire its own funding.
"systemd" and "sane" only ever go in the same sentence as "sane people don't use systemd".

It looks like a bug in the init script; runnign it as squid's user wouldn't have triggered destroying the whole filesystem; likely just squid's config and anything under its /var.
Could this qualify for an aptronym ? Bill Gates, getting rich selling Windows on binary logic.
Not arguing that it effective, as I haven't done any research on this, but the article does little to show that it is ineffective or that it is "Junk Science".

Not a big fan of TSA, so I can reasonably believe that they screwed up, but would like to see at least a little more data if they are going to pull the "Junk Science" card.
Hi svk, the app tries to be more q&a centric rather than being a people centric one.
The issue with speed in an editor isn't so much that if your editor is slow that it makes you code faster, but that if your editor pauses, it interrupts your thinking and prevents it becoming very natural and quick to use, like an extension of your mind.

So it's not so much '60 seconds of waiting for the editor in a day', as '2s delay opening that file so my brain switched to thinking about something else, slowing me down for 10+ mins'
As crowding rises the value of labor relative to land will fall, something very beneficial to the wealthy and harmful to the employed.

It's also beneficial to the unemployed who want to go to SF. Saying it's generally harmful to the workers is only true if you ignore those left out by the restrictions.
4 hour immigration lines at Heathrow are normal for the rest of Europe? Schiphol is about 30 minutes. I am never flying in to Heathrow again, if I can avoid it.