skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If someone has completed a certification or course, it becomes a potential topic for discussion. It doesn't matter much to me whether they paid for it, if there's proof it was completed (a code repo or documentation could be an alternative to paying for a certificate).

Any technology that I’m able to discuss intelligently is usually referenced as part of what I did on a job. I leave off any technology that I know but don’t want to be asked about or come up in a recruiter’s keyword search.

For instance, I don’t mention C/C++ even though I did it for 12 years or PHP.

I want my interviews to be focused on my strong areas and technologies that I want to use- which are usually the ones that I have real world experience with.
Farmers are no more on the hook to give free food to food banks than you and I are.
Hardly. Europe who you can credit for inventing the www missed the computer revolution? Funny how banking, payments, government services, car tech, happen to be at a higher level than in the US.
Donger Factory
This video led me to another one titled "The Most Unusual Musical Instruments in the World" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCYHMVlQezA

My favorite was the juggling drummer. (Starting around 2:30.)
My late realisation (and at a cost) may be related to yours - your coworker is not your friend, better keep it that way.
Yes, absolutely.

The language around MVPs tends to be couched in terms that pretty directly implies designing a product for external customers, though, so it tends to be harder to internalize for people who are doing in-house work, and even people who are somewhat removed from the product design process, such as many junior developers. What I've seen in is that it's common for people who are eager to impress their clients or teammates to want to say "yes" to everything. So, even if they like the idea of building MVPs in principle, in practice, their MVPs end up being pretty maximal.

Which is why I think there's value in framing the principle in terms of human-human relationships, and not just in terms of stuff like finding product-market fit. It's a more personal, relatable way of thinking about it.

The magic insight for me was when I finally realized that I could give people less than what they asked for, and they'd actually be happier than if I tried to give them everything they wanted.
On the story of backups, I bought a webcam when I was young and started doing sketchs with my friends. We recorded so many videos, created our own tv shows acted like hosts and so on. later, my computer was not working well with some games, so I asked the place where I bought it to take a look. I came back a few days ago and they told me they had formatted the hard drive. I was like what? All my stuff was on there. I cried so much. Childhood trauma right here. Now I have multiple backups of everything.
Honestly this makes sense, and I hope the rest of the industry follows suit. I'd rather all car companies be working towards one, strong implementation of self-driving, than for every individual company to work on their own.

It would also mean liability could be diffused to the industry rather than companies.
I'm not convinced that this is an illusion.

Here is the confounding thing: our ears perceive the spectral distribution as pitch. So that is to say "aaah" sounds higher than "oooo", even with the same underlying pitch; just different equalization.

If we boost a narrow frequency with a parametric equalizer and then sweep the frequency up and down, we can use it as a musical instrument, pretty much regardless of what is the input sound.

You can do this with your mouth: make a chhhhh voiceless sound and just change the shape of your mouth and move your tongue; you can make a melody. Yet, there is no underlying tone; just noise.

Your ear doesn't care; pitch is just which part of the basiliar membrane is stimulated more. Doesn't matter whether that came by equalizing noise so more of it is concentrated in that spot, or whether it came from a periodic signal.

The human voice is a combination of the periodic signal with harmonics from the vocal cords, and the filtration of the vocal tract creating the "formants". Both of these contribute to the perceived pitch; we know that we can make a melody just with the formants alone with the "chhhhhhhh" experiment. It's not just the vibration of the vocal cords that produces pitch.

I think we can even hear these separately. If I make a monotonous sound with my vocal chords and at the same time a constricted hissing sound "ghhhhhh", and then vary the shape of my mouth, then "inside the hiss", I hear the melody created by the filtration. At the same time, I also hear the unchanging pitch of the sound from my vocal cords as a separate voice. We can't say that the melody of the modulated hiss is an illusion because the vocal cords are pinned to one note.
Write everything down. Even better commit the things you write down. Take notes, document best practices, scribble on your hand, whatever you can do to remember that obscure command that person executed that one time while you were half awake.
You don't pay by the hour, you pay for the job...
Japan Waves Goodbye to U.K. As ‘Gateway to Europe’ Post-Brexit
TrueVault (YC W14) Is Hiring Senior Kotlin Engineers (remote or SF)
Introduction to Lucee Code Samples
My experience has been that being firm but polite over a phone call or in an in-person meeting is more effective than sending a sarcastic, clever, trying to be funny, or smiley-face-at-the-end email.
Berin Szóka, Matthew Starr, Jon Henke -- the authors of that opinion piece -- also oppose net neutrality.

Their "think tank" organization TechFreedom is funded by the wireless industry and the Koch brothers. TechFreedom has also been (still is?) a member of ALEC.

Jon Henke is a Republican political consultant and self-described "neo-libertarian". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Henke

https://twitter.com/BerinSzoka
Another tidbit:

Questions have also been asked as to whether Danske received special treatment from its regulator, which was until May headed by the bank's former chief financial officer.

I.e. the body that had sole responsibility to enforce anti-money laundering on the bank was its former CFO. SMH...
I guess you'll need just need to get the bus when you cant get a fossil fuel vehicle any more. Good luck.

P.S. 350kw fast chargers are typically being advertised as zero to 80% charge in 15 minutes - cars that can accept these chargers are due in the next couple of years from Audi, Ford, BMW et al so mainstream "ordinary" cars as well as exotica like Porsche. I cant find any stats online, but I have read that the average time someone spends filling up with fossil fuels is 7 minutes, so an extra 8 minutes is not that outrageous and even that is zero to 80% - if you had say 20% remaining I'd imagine that the time would be in the order 10-12 minutes (guesstimate)
Lessons from the Last Swiss Finishing School
Ask HN: Was hired to improve company's devops, founder won't listen to my ideas
Three weeks ago I joined a fast growing startup on the West Coast to improve their dev operations and processes. The company is seeing crazy growth but they are still doing things like pushing directly to master and using prod deploys to test things out. I was hired to help improve this and implement things like staging environments, autoscaling of resources, and other DevOpsy stuff.
Since joining I've received considerable pushback on my ideas. Obviously I am the new guy and don't expect to just dictate people around nor is that my intention. However what really gets me is that the founder just straight up does not seem to trust me. Every suggestion I give - even things as industry standard such as the use of a staging environment - is met with suspicion and doubt and the insistence that I hadn't done enough proper "research" on the idea. I find this highly offensive considering I've been working in DevOps for almost seven years and before that was a SysAdmin.

So after two weeks, I got the approval to create a staging branch. I wrote up a huge document on the staging workflow, covering edge cases such as hotfixes and rollbacks. I put time on people's calendars and walked them through it including the founder. Yet he still continues to resist the change and pushes directly to master, ignores the new processes I put in place, and generally just does what he wants. He also keeps harping that I need to "earn his trust." I find this baffling - I mean, I was hired for a reason right? Why would they hire me if they didn't trust me?

I am starting to get frustrated, especially since the founder has pushed breaking changes directly to master and then I got flack since I am now the "systems" guy and am responsible for the health of the app. I'm trying to think of the best way to approach this diplomatically. Do any HNers have some pointers or advice to give? I've worked with difficult clients before but I've never faced such a huge lack of trust.
Bill Gates recently recommended this book by Hans Rosling called "Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think" and it is a great book to read to be a realist.

The world is NOT getting worse, it is getting better. The news is only picking up issues that sell, and fear and devastation sell, just like sex.

Solving global warming -- let's start with being mindful of our carbon footprint. I'd love to see every car on the road to be driverless, electric cars in the future. I think we are on our way.

In any case, don't read the news. Read books instead.
This comment and the one above it in the thread are perfect examples of use cases of "Should I send it?"
Great. I apply something I’ve came across:

- if you question whether you should send an email, call the person

- if you ask yourself for too long what to say on the phone, go and see the person

Has worked well for me
Here's a guy who reacted to the comments on HN on the front page story a week ago on Lucee, which is an open source version of Adobe's ColdFusion language.
It doesn't matter what language or frameworks you use. Just use what you're familiar with. The goal is to show competency.
What does looking at guns say about someone's personality? That's what I don't get. Are they fearful after a home invasion? Do they like marksmanship? Are they looking for a gift for someone? Are their friends into shooting, and they're looking for ways to hang out more with their friends? How do you know why? And if you did, does that tell you about their personality?

There's a large jump there between an interest and "Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, Openness, Extroversion." I don't think any amount of "throw big data and other buzzword at it" will reduce that jump, because you're more likely to train against other attributes of your population than their personality.
Not only is it thankless work, but some of us don't want it, I prefer to say "no thanks"

I want to see the scary boot log, I don't need the system to be pretty, I need it to be functional.
Ask HN: Any companies or freelancers that you have used for a design 'makeover'?
Hi all, I'm looking to find someone (freelancer or company) that can help do a visual design / copy make over for a site. Anyone know any good places to find one? To be clear, no one needs to touch the back-end or touch the application code. I just want a css/visual design make over.
I find gmail's undo send works wonders for me.

30s is usually enough for me to go from "hell yeah, that'll show em" to "fuck fuck fuck, what did I just do"
"More than once, it's been in the news that a factory/food processing plant/etc... has been busted for having illegal workers, paying its workers below minimum wage, or both. A week later, the factory has to hire legal workers and Americans for the previously under-paid jobs, and there's a line around the block of people willing to now work for a fair rate of pay."

I've never heard that, could you provide a couple of concrete examples?
What privacy intrusion are you worried about exactly? I'd be more worried about how accurate the actual results are and whether that inaccuracy is worth the money.
I was an imperfect customer, frankly it figuratively stunk. I was charged $14-$18 per week for around a pound of produce. It was mostly just overstock. Honestly, weird shaped produce was part of the fun for me. It was always on the brink of going very bad, so ironically even though it was just a pound I often threw some away.

After a few weeks I realized that I could get the same value by simply buying some older produce at my grocery store for much cheaper. I can get a pound from any store here in the Chicago area for around $5 - $6.

Also the "carbon savings" their website gave to me seemed pretty suspect. It seemed they were just spitting an average at me and not doing any hard calculations. It's curious that getting a pound of food each week delivered on a truck could actually be a net positive for the environment. I'm sure they can justify it but the premise itself seems kind of absurd.

I was suckered in by the allure this article talks about. No more fancy food startups for me, let me just focus on using all of what I get from a conventional grocery store.
I've found this oft-cited advice of avoiding over work and late nights misplaced if the argument is that you get no net benefit from it, esp if you are young and have the energy. The best work I've done has largely been the product of intense personal focus, and late nights of long deep work sessions. I don't buy the notion that there is no "free lunch" and that pushing yourself always results in "performance debt" -- though it may come at the cost of other things like relationships or personal health. I think being conscious of this, as you said, is the key -- but I don't think you are just given a flat balance of performance and ultimately "pay it back" if you throw yourself into your work in your 20s.

It's certainly possible to go too far but certainly the path to mastery is paved with many hours of practice, often to the sacrifice of other things. It may not make one feel great to consider you can't become Mozart without deep sacrifices and it doesn't make for advice one feels like giving others. I think the best version of this is probably "work really hard but be aware you have limits, and that sometimes it's important to sacrifice performance and skills development in the name of a balanced life and good health." I don't like framings that could be interpreted to mean if you hustle or don't hustle you'll get the same result, since "there is only so much you can do in a day." Knowing there is a real tradeoff and "know thyself" is a better pov imho.
Electric Cars Cast Growing Shadow on Profits
It is really. The older you get the more you’ll observe or hear about people dying or having serious medical issues. Then there are the people getting raped or kidnapped or beaten up randomly... At this point i’m happy I wasn’t born in the middle of a war, but I’m hopping none of that will happen to me.
As a QA dev, myself, I run across this occasionally. For a recent bug, the dev couldn't reproduce it, yet I could consistently. The difference: the width the window we were using; he was using the default, I was not. Most of the bugs I run into are not config dependent, so it is always surprising when one is.
It doesn't matter if they have money. It doesn't matter if they espouse religion or any other outward signs of honesty. It doesn't matter what they say. If you have any reason to believe they can't be trusted, even if it is a silly gut feeling, then they can't be trusted. Nor can you give them any possible wiggle room, like payment terms.
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I come to HN not just for the links to the articles, but more so for the comments. If you inline the articles, why not snap-shot the comments too?
If some drug was unconditionally good for us, why haven't our bodies evolved to secrete that drug on their own?
it's going well. the ambition is large but i'm trying to keep it as simple as possible.
Anything dealing with date/time will take 4 times longer than you expect and involve 10 times as many discussions as anything else.
I was wondering if this is happening only in my company. I am frustrated and outraged that there is no easy way to find out who is responsible for X, nor what is person Y responsible for. I wrote and email to our CIO, explaining my struggle, but he does not seem to care.
They have my DNA in their system. A lot of rich information for companies to seel that to with that, no?
Sounds like we just need to import some Chinese wasps to eat all of the stinkbugs, then needlesnakes to eat the wasps, then needlesnake-eating gorillas of course... and in the winter the gorillas will simply freeze to death! Easy.
Same intuition needed for differentiating telescope aperture sizes

(context: https://xkcd.com/1294/)
That's cool, I'll need to read up on the v3 design.

I think you are right about the rebuilds, but maybe not in all cases.. If you had.

FROM nodejs:whatever as js
RUN npm build

FROM golang:whatever as go
RUN go build

FROM base
COPY --from js app.js
COPY --from go app

If only 'base' was updated rebuilding the image would just need to re-run the COPY commands. The only way everything would get rebuilt is if you also updated the go and js images.

I think for more complicated applications https://grahamc.com/blog/nix-and-layered-docker-images is ultimately the best way to do things... ensuring that every step is isolated with explicit dependency information.
Maybe supermarkets will begin selling ugly produce now, too, since Imperfect Produce is raising awareness. If they had aisles of ugly produce at discount prices, would it really undercut their sales of pretty produce? Maybe they should run experiments, to see if they can make higher profit margins on ugly veggies, even sold at discount prices, since they have bargaining power over what they pay the producers.
Ooh that's going to get you a negative bar!

Yay hn profile is great, also puppies are fantastic. Love, happy, awesome, woo!
Interesting and Good Article
Car crashes killed 37,133 people in the US in 2017
Some foundational stuff I usually recommend:
- algorithms and datastructures (princeton coursera course)
- functional programming will make you a better developer
- "head first design patterns" is a book that will get you to understand the heuristic of design patterns in OO fast
Hmm brainstation, an institution that makes money off of people paying for and attending its courses, is making the case for it's own existence. I sense no bias here /s.
In my experience, American companies tend to be overly optimistic, and Japanese companies tend to be overly cautious about timelines.

See uncertainty avoidance and long-term orientation:
https://www.hofstede-insights.com/country-comparison/japan,t...
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> [Nim] is too new

It's actually a year older than Go (2008 rather than 2009).

If you don't want to use Nim because it's not stable enough or has too small an ecosystem (I disagree), you could try out Scala Native or Kotlin Native. A large portion of their ecosystem successfully compile to native code (although you may have issues with Scala Native compile times).

You can also check out OCaml.
Great question!

1. As a younger man I done a business deal on a handshake and then got ripped off after putting in a year of work - always get it in writing!

2. Companies are not loyal to people, people may be loyal to people, but never think an organisation will be

3. I ran up some debt as a student until I figured out personal finances, which boils down to; increase income, reduce expenditure, save and invest the rest, avoid liabilities as far as possible (e.g. do you really need a car on finance)

4. Avoid getting drunk! Get tipsy, not drunk

5. You'll always get over a breakup, no matter how difficult it seems at the time

6. Sometimes you have to leave a group of friends, a partner, or even family behind, to grow into who you want to be

7. Don't wait for other people to help you in your career or life, any help you get it a bonus and be grateful, but you're the captain of the ship - push yourself forward

8. Be yourself

9. You're better and more capable than you think

10. Tell those you care about you how you feel, you never know when you might lose that chance

We live and learn!
Unfortunately that's a non starter for things like debian.. but that's good to know, I'll give it another look.

One thing I really like about bazel is the pkg rules.. I currently use fpm/goreleaser(nfpm) to build rpms for things, and it's nice having a single build tool that can build the app and spit out an rpm.
Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata visualised
That is incorrect. Toyota's Hybrid Synergy Drive is able to power the wheels with either 100% electric, or 100% gas, or a combination of the two using planetary gears. This allows the use of a more efficient engine running the Atkinson cycle, with the electric motors filling in for the reduced low-end torque.

At highway speeds the engine is driving the wheels directly, which is more efficient than converting torque to electric power to drive an electric motor. Honda's two-motor system runs much like the transmission you linked, but again drives the wheels directly at highway speeds.