skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These companies have their own often quite robust recruiting pipelines, which are far more effective and predictable than posting an opening on their jobs page.

Think about it this way: your task is to have an inflow of X engineers / year. You can:
a) pay recruiters to do whatever they do to bring you candidates that match a certain spec.
b) build relationships with local campuses and recruit smart new grads, train them, and turn them into very capable engineers in a few years.
c) host various tech events and do the "come work for us" speech every now and then.
d) post a job on the jobs page.

In a long run (and they operate with this perspective in mind) you have way more control over your outcomes with options a-c. If you want more people on the output - you commit more money, effort, etc to each pipeline, and you will get your increased quantity. With the jobs page - all you can do is post and hope.

So it is no surprise to me that jobs pages get stale sometimes. Don't let that discourage you from applying to large companies. Instead, learn to play by their rules. Reach out to recruiters at those companies. Often those guys can be way more helpful than your friend engineer. Go to the talks they host, eat free pizza, socialize :)

That being said, there are some big companies out there that outsource their recruiting entirely, so it is really hard to find a recruiter that would help you. There are also big companies that don't host any talks or meetups. So if that's the case - don't waste your time and skip em - its their loss.

Cheers :)
>That's impossible. Everyone keeps telling me that Apple is dying.

It's the reverse of a pump and dump scam. It has happened every quarter for the last 21 years. I honestly think it was something SJ cooked up. It started happening just after he returned. My guess, he got John Dvorak in on the scam. That guy's 'beleaguered Apple' PCMag trolling was instrumental in driving the price down for years. Everyone would parrot it. Then, "bam" Apple produces a great quarter. I wonder if JD still does that schtick... You can make money without fail by buying on the dip before earnings announcements and selling on the news.
I'll admit the mobile version of uMatrix on FF could work a lot better especially considering I have to disable and enable it in order to get it working at times. That doesn't diminish the fact that I like having the option to do so. Most of the time if I don't want to spend to much time configuring a website I just open it in Chrome.
> NYT employs 1,300 people.

See 2 in the article. A sample:

“As Graeber observed in his essay and book, bullshit jobs tend to spawn other bullshit jobs for which the sole function is a dependence on the existence of more senior bullshit jobs:“

I work for one of the vacation rentals

No reason private owners couldn’t be doing the work over email. But certain fetishized models of doing, in this case cloud and web apps, get the focus.

It’s all for eyeballs and buy in at scale to justify the bullshit. “Look everyone is watching us talk up this shit! Better keep justifying it, bringing them into our flock!”

It’s turned us all into corporate sycophants. Religious conviction isn’t limited to belief in sky wizards

Anything sufficiently magical to the layman will instill blind allegiance

And despite all the smart people here, life as is seems magical and there’s a lot of blind buy-in
Wonders aloud — are laptop/desktop markets growing at all? Has the phone killed the computer? Or are Chromebooks/Winbooks on the rise?
Hey, I made this! There are Arduino solutions for motion control with dragonframe, but I opted to invest in the DMC16 because it can handle in/out triggers (which I tapped into with the custom control box), it has DMX out lighting control, and it does motion control signals (faster than Arduino can), all in one nice package that I can rack together with the rest of the gear. Might be a little overkill and I'm sure a custom solution could work, but I'm more interested in results than process, so I tend to take the prebuilt approaches when possible.
They do, but different cards on different networks have vastly different fees.

The consumer using Visa SuperRewardsPlatinum probably doesn't know that it's costing the retailer more than other cards when they use it.

The originating bank does though, which is exactly why they chose that network in the first place. The market is opaque and doesn't lead towards lower fees and greater efficiency.

It reminds me of super-expensive "we'll pay your insurance deductible" auto glass places which used to advertise on TV all the time. Inflate the cost, and give the consumer a kickback.
To me, Wikileaks is known to be compromised as soon as they have leaked the Hillary email. The timing is too nicely paired and the only actor benefitting is Russia.

But as with all propaganda, critical viewing and multiple sources are the tools to defeat them.
I'm all for the demise of Mac if it means Apple would eventually have to let developers build iOS apps on other platforms.
"I just loaded the New York Times front page. It was 6.6mb."

ftp -4o 1.htm https://www.nytimes.com

du -h 1.htm

206K

For the author, 206K somehow grew to 6.6M.

Could it have anything to do with the browser he is using?

Does it automatically load resources specified by someone other than the user, without any user input?

Above I specified www.nytimes.com. I did not specify any other sources. I got what I wanted: text/html. It came from the domain I specified. (I can use a client that does not do redirects.)

But what if I used a popular web browser to download the front page?

What would I get then? Maybe I would get more than just text, more than 206K and perhaps more from sources I did not specify.

If the user wants application/json instead of text/html, NYTimes has feeds for each section:

curl https://static01.nyt.com/services/json/sectionfronts/$1/index.jsonp

where $1 is the section name, e.g., "world".

The user can use the json to create the html page she wants, client-side. Or she can let a browser javascript engine use it to construct the page that someone else wants, probably constructing it in a way that benefits advertisers.
> <insert giant leap of logic>

The justification is first mover advantage
At least for cuneiform tablets, somewhere I read most of them are utterly boring, mostly inventory and transactions. Maybe you could pass years sifting through it to finally find something valuable.
IIRC, Compaq (remember them?) managed to come up with a clean-room PC BIOS clone, which started that whole ball rolling. Then, after IBM tried to re-establish control with the MCA (which folks pretty much immediately started trying to work around in various nefarious ways), Compaq also came up with EISA, which kind of blew that out of the water. In fact, IBM's original decision to work with mostly off-the-shelf parts in designing their PC (instead of home-grown stuff) pretty much came back to bite them here, but they were still in the PC/server business for quite a long time.

As for their other hardware, these days they're pretty much the only game in town for mainframe and midrange systems. And they jealously guard those markets, as lethargic as these may currently be.
A bigger chassis with a bigger/twin heatpipe and bigger holes to vent the heat from are completely silent ways to increase cooling performance. In fact they could even be utilized to make the fans even more silent depending on the workload.
Maybe now Netflix will show me titles I'm actually interested in.
Apply already makes a $1000 laptop - the MacBook Air
That's an expression I know as a former military wife that explains the need to accept training deaths. I have enormous difficulty with the idea that we really need to accept training deaths in self driving cars.
> Unix as the User Hostile Operating System

That would be UHOS, not UNIX.
>Simply rendering text isn't a business-model anymore unfortunately, and publishers are doing everything they can to actually make their content profitable.

If they can't come with a business model that works on the web then they're welcome to leave the web and go back to the printing press. The web wasn't made to provide a stable platform for monetizing content, they have literally every other media paradigm ever created for that.
That sarcastic example you're giving is most likely to be true. I had heated arguments on reddit with people (most likely gamers) being very tense about my dismissal of the need for FTTH. And the telecom companies are just in it for the new market, they couldn't care less about anything else. xDSL was also meant to be high speed for everybody, and it's not the case.

And sadly, as long as there's a market, there will be products. Oh, and I don't know about you, but ISP are quite aggressive with FTTH these days. I see lots of tech upgrading links, and get more texts about new offers than I ever got .. that's a strong hint :)

I often want to assemble low bandwidth low power (solar powered even) router nodes. Something you could drop in a field and have a mile radius range of wifi (some people on youtube got more than that with a tiny esp8266 IC). The rest would be some mesh network topology. Just enough for simple data, emergency, maybe compressed voice you know.

Thanks for the radio link.
What could Apple possibly do to make a really compelling MacBook - except drop the price? Intel hasn’t exactly been delivering on its chipsets lately.

They do need to update the Mac Mini.
Super narrow scope. Doesn't apply here. Read your own source. Smh.
They're typically 2.5 - 3.5%.
Two projects to watch out for: 1) The Gvt-g stuff from Intel 2) Crostini on chromebooks. Both are in development, but may eventually enable a wide variety of use cases out of the box.
Unless a retailer doesn't accept any cash, the marginal cost of accepting another cash transaction is low.
These kinds of problems (swipe fees, etc) is where I believe cryptocurrencies shine.

Having a fee payment which is reasonable and fast confirmation times would solve this problem immediately removing the need for third parties.
Looks similar to the project my team uses for Kafka / Kinesis stream processing in Python / Django projects: https://gitlab.com/thelabnyc/django-logpipe
Just wanted to say I really appreciated this answer and it does let me see the book in a new light. It's interesting how many of the others I listed are not in that kind of competitive environment!
Thank you!! One can hope, maybe someday I'll get hired. But also it might be funner to stay indie for a while and build a personal audience.
It’s closer to an anti-cartel according your definition. Software engineers are chronically underpaid relative to the value they create, due to poor social skills and confidence.
The Boyer–Moore string-search algorithm?
If you fire up an editor on the remote machine, there is going to be typing lag, unless your Linux machine is in your local network. You can ameliorate this with software such as Mosh, but that comes with its own disadvantages (losing scrollback buffers).

No typing lag for me on remote machines (< 70ms). I don't use mosh but the scrollback issue can be solved with tmux which is a must for remote dev.

If you edit locally but save the files to the remote system, you have to worry about getting disconnected or your machine shutting off and losing changes.

Again, learn what tmux is.
I find white noise harsh as well. Brown noise works perfectly for me.
>I don't think vocab can be taught. The reason is, vocab is very highly correlated with IQ, which is stable thought life and cannot be boosted.

The fact that IQ and vocabulary are correlated across a population doesn't imply that, and it's clearly not true unless you don't think someone can learn a new language later in life. Or you think that a person can learn 10k new words in a new language, but not an extra few thousand in their existing language?

>Competent writers have a varied vocabulary which does not come across as forced

Yes competent writing requires some minimum vocabulary. It doesn't require a vocabulary sufficient to score near perfect on the SAT. Most writers limit the vocabulary they use to match their target audience, so having a much larger vocabulary than your target audience isn't going to be that useful.
This inadvertently triggered my A20 gate rage.
I like my rewards Visa more than I like Kroger. Good luck with that ban, guys.
I don’t see how caring for a Waymo or a Cruise fleet would be different from that of a city fleet.

A city fleet is basically the set of vehicles owned and operated by a city government, mostly for use by its employees but could also be interpreted to include public transportation.

A caveat is that the Waymo fleet would obviously be significantly bigger and thus more complex to handle, but I’m sure there’s a physical analog of “sharding” or dividing up fleets into geographical sets.
I hate credit card fees as much as the next guy, but to be fair my credit card was the only way I could pay for things in Asia since I just lived there for 6 months. If I had used cash, the only ATM near me stole my friends debit card, and multiple people I know were robbed and pick-pocketed. My credit card insulated me from those risks, which I was fine paying an extra 1% for.

Now that I’m back in America the risk is far less, but what alternatives in America are there? I hope the payment apps/wallets become universal but we definitely aren’t there yet.
Faust looks really cool with its native Python implementation. How does this compared with Apache Beam or Google's Dataflow as they have recently rolled out their Python SDK?
> These kinds of problems (swipe fees, etc) is where I believe cryptocurrencies shine. Having a fee payment which is reasonable and fast confirmation times would solve this problem immediately removing the need for third parties.

Isn't this precisely where cryptocurrencies have utterly failed with their high fees and long confirmation times?
It would show up under x-ray.
I'm also on the Sony MDR7506 plan. It feels about as good as a Bose QC in an office setting but is far less expensive. I had to give up on Bose QC after going through two of them in about five years - the plastic started to flake off and they were falling apart. Active noise cancelation is good for aircraft, but they are tuned to NOT block out human voice, which the opposite of what is needed.
Sweden: Four African migrants rape disabled woman vaginally and anally
Porsche reveals Taycan specs: 310-mile range, ultra-fast charge 800V battery
> Well, we are the ones paying those people's pensions,

My dad (retired) was a career public employee. He paid into his pension every month of his entire career. He earned every damn penny he's getting right now.
It can matter, but it doesn't matter universally. Just because some, or even most, people want to reproduce, doesn't mean that has to be everyone's goal or plan.

People who can't or don't want to reproduce routinely get married. There is no legal requirement for reproduction, and people don't only get married for that reason.

You can't take the root causes for human behaviour and say they apply universally - e.g: humans want to eat more than they need to eat at that moment to stockpile a reserve - this behaviour is no longer relevant in most modern societies. Food is not about just fuelling our bodies today, even if that's the root of the behaviour "based in biology". Human desires and motives are distinct from the evolutionary reasons for them, and pretending they aren't is rejecting reality.

Your view is deeply and fundamentally flawed - it doesn't reflect reality as we see it in practice. Data models where you just throw away edge cases is failing to do the job well.
That's more of a "bullshit politics" problem than a web design problem.
Steam game pulled from store after allegations of cryptocurrency mining
Well, probably a more accurate way to say it is from the article

>very successful authors (your JK Rowlings and James Pattersons) help pay the bills for the less successful books

The editors don't just take home the money. They're paid a normal salary, and the publishing company uses the money to make additional risks. But these risks are mostly spent on editing costs.
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I have a 10 year old Dell Core 2 Duo 2.66Ghz running Windows 10 being used as a Plex Server. It’s only slow when overtaxed because I haven’t bothered upgrading to 8GB of RAM or replace the hard drive with an SSD.

Luckily it has a gigabit Ethernet port so it can take full advantage of my gig internet.
Lumping test scores and grades together seems to obscure that one was intended to fix issues with the other.

I think that a purpose of the SAT was to combat the undesirable effects of judging people solely on grades. It's meant to be a measure of aptitude, exactly because your grades can reflect how good your school was, how much you memorized, your economic/social class, grade inflation, and so on.

People who do well on the SAT (or at least who did on the old SAT back in the early 90s and before) did not necessarily study at all for it.
> The consumer using Visa SuperRewardsPlatinum probably doesn't know that it's costing the retailer more than other cards when they use it.

You mean the merchant pays a higher fee when you use one Visa card vs. another Visa card? Or you mean compared to Mastercard etc.?
That holds for thinking it's what someone should do, but wanting to enforce it? That's pretty crazy.
Cars kill and injure more Americans than wars.

Cruise and Waymo have been as cautious as they can reasonably expect to be. They both have months long training courses for their safety drivers, and camera in the vehicle that monitor driver attention. While the vehicles are still challenged by complex scenarios, basic object detection and emergency braking are pretty good. Neither has had an at-fault accident, excluding an ambiguous but non-injurious incident between a Cruise car and a lane splitting motorcyclist.
The figure sounds reasonable to me.

IIRC, a recent figure for US interchange revenue to originating banks was around $40 billion a year. (Interchange fees are a large component of swipe fees.)
If that’s what you want, the 13” MacBook Pro for $1299 should fit the bill.

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/13-inch-space...
I think you're right. My suspicion is that if FB/TWTR go totally ban-happy, the social discussion will evolve into a legal one and move towards overt regulation a la utilities.

EDIT: IANAL, but if these platforms start favoring one political group over others, it seems potentially illegal, as it could be considered in-kind political donations.
Most human drivers have an ACL to only accept these inputs from LEOs working in an official capacity. How would we add a visual ACL to a self-driving car?
iPad.

It's a $330 "laptop". It's less of a general computing device, but there's plenty of software avail for it.

You and I may not think about it as a development laptop, but it does the majority of what the majority of cheap laptop owners want. I love the iPad for family members because it Just Works(tm) and I don't have to play IT for most of it (save the occasional force-quit app).
Don't forget to take ride sharing into account. I'd be happy to be in a vanpool picking up a half dozen people as it drives into SF. Six people per vehicle makes even $1.70/mile cost competitive with BART.
This idea naturally lends itself to a clustering problem such as k-means! We can imagine a geographical density as a cluster and that semi centralized pickup point as a centroid. As for deciding k, the number of cluster-centroid pairs, we can leave that up to market prices.

One way to adapt the k-means algorithm to this would be to add a “regularizing” or penalizing term proportional to the number of cars needed to be deployed — you can think of this as the cost per car.
>So we move to something else, even if that something else if 10x harder to deploy.

Developers might be creating that "something else" but they're not the ones making the decisions about what to deploy, or how much to pay someone to deploy it. As much as we might like to think otherwise, we don't have that much power.
I don't really know why you are being downvoted. There are a lot of string libraries that do not work well with Unicode strings. If you natively speak any non-European language it can be hard to use those libraries to effectively solve your problems. Not to bad mouth this project, but we don't really need a fast incomplete library.
I have some concerns about this future of relying on an "AI" to design PCBs.

1. Circuit board design shouldn't be easy and shouldn't be available to everyone. PCB's and the components used require a lot of natural resources. In my opinion, we should be reducing the waste and harvesting the resources from PCB's that are thrown away every day.

2. The flaws or bugs in your logic will potentially end up in your customer's products. This happens today, but typically on a smaller scale that can easily be traced to the root issue. How will your company handle the situation when faulty products are determined to be because of your AI driven logic?

3. I'm so tired of seeing "AI" as a marketable term. A bunch of code that is written by humans to do something is not AI, it's just software.
I emailed you, let me know if you don't get it. (copy/paste error?) Thanks for the consideration.
Instead of this they should look into adopting Apple Pay. Creating additional friction in payments is idiotic.
Great conversation thread here. I will add my bit: I have been an Apple customer since buying serial number 72 of the Apple II (and worked writing software for 45+ years).

I love the iPad. I use Mac laptops for programming at work and my personal projects, but, I use my iPad for SSHing to my servers, reading, audio books, watch movies, research material for new books and technologies I want to learn, take online courses, write, etc.

Yes, laptops are great for writing code, but much of my thinking time is done with an iPad. When I retire, I can imagine just using a remote VPS for recreational coding with whatever can get decent screen space and a keyboard for a few SSH shells, and everything else could be an iPad.
I think you would be surprised at how little cash many places need to operate with in the presence of credit cards.

Consider a front desk at a hotel. Thousands of dollars a day in transactions occur via card, which would warrant frequent drops into an expensive safe if they happened with cash. With cards they pretty much only hold a trivial amount to deal with sundries that isn't worth protecting beyond a simple envelope to a back-office.

Credit cards dominate many industries in the US to a point where cash management is now trivial because the daily amounts aren't worth any employee losing their job over or a criminal risking robbery punishment for.
> They are probably illegal (or against contracts) in most states, but you see them very often.

Minimum purchase requirements for credit cards were explicitly legalized in the US in 2010 as part of Dodd-Frank. Merchant agreements are not legally allowed to prohibit them.
Great project! Reminds me of pre-CG special effects that were also achieved with motion control and long exposures, like the 1980 HBO opening animation:

https://youtu.be/wqzihgR_-SI?t=400

Or the slit scan technique used for the stargate sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey:

https://youtu.be/KhRo2WbWnKU?t=346
> But do it because you want to, not because someone suggested it one time.

Does this author live in a world where people write books unwillingly to appease their friends?
You don't HAVE to use energy, banking or telecommunications either. It's not like having a monopoly on food or water. The line you drew here is completely arbitary.