skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Attention to detail is not micro-managing. In fact, it's very very good thing and you should have respect for people at CEO level having this kind of care, understanding and passion for their products. It's kind of thing that makes Steve Jobs, the Steve Jobs.
What's wrong with meetings while walking? It's a great way to have a meeting, even better if it's a one on one and you're both walking.
I don't care if you respect Sunday or not. What I am saying is that it's a little strange that a Christian nation is not respecting Sunday.
Well, my favorite domain. As the standard saying goes, recruiting is hard. It mostly about matching candidates and company's expectation and they tend to wildly fluctuate.

Hired, A-List, Vettery, Indeed Prime all fit in the same category. A market place for pre-filtered candidates with known expectations(salary range), Why more than one of these exist, I have no idea. There is nothing innovative in all these companies, just a fancy recruiting firm.

Triplebyte on the other hand definitely trying to change the Status Quo by letting candidates avoid multiple phone interviews. But while it works for limited set of candidates, scaling interviews while still maintaining quality is super tough. Beyond these, there are standard job boards and of course, LinkedIn for networking.

I see the traditional recruiting domain as the following parts:
1. Job discovery(job boards, search engine, distributions(aka zip recruiter).
2. ATS(Applicant tracking systems) which help companies manage interview process.
3. Screening and Preparation(Hackerrank, Leetcode etc)

A lot could be done in each of the following areas, but there's not much innovation so far.
There’s a review[1] on Amazon that speaks to the kind of books Gladwell writes, and it's both funny and perhaps contains a shred of truth. It goes:

”There's a school of thought that runs something like this: the average US citizen isn't very bright, has a limited attention span, and has an appetite only for the superficial. So if you want to write a book about something you feel to be important, you have to sugar the pill - with lots and lots of sugar and make sure it's a very small pill indeed.

Hence the style "American-Folksy." In this genre the author leads the reader gently along by means of first-person narrative, tons of anecdote, and just the gentlest hint of new information here and there. The lexicon is undemanding and the pace is calculated to be just brisk enough to prevent the onset of catatonia while being leisurely enough not to require any strenuous intellectual activity on the part of the reader. It's basically DisneyWords.

This is a well-tried genre used across a wide variety of subjects. In Search of Excellence and The Omnivore's Dilemma both use the same style despite their contexts being very different. And Weiner uses American-Folksy here for precisely the same reasons and to precisely the same effect. The purpose of American-Folksy is to take something that could have made a somewhat interesting 6-page monograph and stretch it out into a book-length peregrination.”

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R3KMN29SZX9ZKS/re...
I'm sorry to see another couple going through this. It's certainly a shitty situation, but I hope it'll work out for you.
Also don’t believe anything will be free forever.
On Icotar, his devil name is an orange bicycle: http://icotar.com/avatar/heapaepaemnunea
This thread suggests Segment is anchored to their initial value prop for developers here[1]. To this crowd they seem to be more or less a one-way JS wrapper for websites that can later be replaced with a simple "logs to S3" instrumentation.

From my perspective as a "business ops" person, they graduated past this years ago and have unlocked a ton of value with identity normalization and server-side Track events, particular in moving data around between core product and the services marketing + sales use to acquire and engage customers.

Segment is the one place I can manually push an identity update or Track event and know it will be broadcast back to all the other endpoints, including a warehouse. In addition, the services I use also push their user activity back to Segment as a destination, which then automatically broadcasts it back out to everything else.

Asking product engineers to do all this work every time a new need pops up (a) literally never happens, and (b) if it does happen, drives them crazy because they hate working on that stuff and they'll never touch it again once v1 ships.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4912076
You're joking but it's almost too accurate to be humorous. This is being foisted on us right now and it's giving me nearly crippling anxiety.
He likes to construct scenarios with specific dimensions and then make wild claims about them. He also likes to assertively make proclamations about things he admits he knows nothing about, and at times seems to enjoy being patronizing or insulting. He's an ass, and also a pretty good writer and speaker.
Flat wooden table top, laptop, sketch pad with plain unlined paper, colored pens.

Are you sure you wouldn't like to try a plain sketch pad rather than graph paper with all those nasty lines?
On a side note, I thought I stumbled on to Financial Times. This was the first article I read in NY Times in pink canvas.
It's his actual timezone - EST (Concord, Massachusetts).

>The first thing one sees from this plot is that, yes, I’ve been busy. And for more than 20 years, I’ve been sending emails throughout my waking day, albeit with a little dip around dinner time. The big gap each day comes from when I was asleep. And for the last decade, the plot shows I’ve been pretty consistent, going to sleep around 3am ET, and getting up around 11am (yes, I’m something of a night owl). (The stripe in summer 2009 is a trip to Europe.)

https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analyti...
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> Seems like in jobs where individual talent / skills matter, a union is by definition harmful (unless you’re in the lower 50%).

Professional athlete unions would be a counterexample, I believe. It really depends on how the union is structured. I doubt a union for high paid tech workers would be structured the same way as one for blue collar labourers.
For those who prefer skimmable text, it's summed up here: https://deadspin.com/malcolm-gladwell-goes-on-bill-simmonss-...
Recruiting is a human resources intensive industry where the quality of a firm's output is dependent on the quality of the individual(s) handling your account. Companies like Triplybyte and Hired who raised gobs of VC with the promise of shaking the recruiting business (with their like totally amazing algorithms and "innovative" testing processes) haven't really done much and IMO are reverting to more traditional models while they leverage their resources to build walled gardens of data with hopes that machine learning will carry them into the sunset sometime soon.

In my view the only companies that are innovating are smaller firms and solo recruiters/consultants who have built up a high level of domain knowledge. This isn't so much innovation as just working well and consistently providing good results.

This isn't to say all small recruiting firms are wonderkins. But the good ones will not only find you good candidates but help consult and guide you where appropriate (this is especially important for startups).

Source: SWE at a small SF based recruiting co. which focuses exclusively on Start-up sales positions. Have been working on modernizing our software stack and have done a lot of competitive analysis over the past year. The people I work with will routinely school me on startups (i'll attempt to show them a new product after reading about its launch on HN and they'll tell me they knew about it two weeks ago).
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Millions of Websites Threatened by Highly Critical Code-Execution Bug in Drupal
Yes this is true. And it's a good thing to remember to ask about when applying for jobs (and seems like an entirely reasonable thing to want to know before you sign up)

It was helpful when I had a more structured on-call rotation and once we switched to 3 day shifts I was able to trade off shifts so I almost never was on-call Sunday morning.

Unfortunately I was also team lead on a temperamental system for a while which had many production issues, so despite the on-call rotation, things often escalated. It was not a fun year.

That said it only happened a few times that year, though the constant threat of it wears on you after a while, and it's precisely that issue which lies at the spirit of the Sabbath. It's not really a day off if you're worried about the pager going off all the time and constantly checking slack, even if nothing is happening.
My extended family of 16 which ranges in age from 5 to 85 uses this Matrix instance. We didn't want pictures of our young kids on Whatsapp (Facebook) servers. These young kids and grandparents don't have smartphones so Signal isn't an option. Also, many of us access Matrix on other devices and computers other than phones.

This is how the internet is supposed to be.
I love it, but it's not a wrapper. It's just a dead-simple mechanism for making iptables persistent.

The cool thing is that /etc/iptables/rules.v4 and /etc/iptables/rules.v6 get loaded at bootup. So if you're living dangerously, you just use /etc/iptables/test-rules.v4 or whatever. If you get locked out, just reboot the server. Or have it rebooted, if you don't have a management console.
The Linux Foundation Launches Elisa, Enabling Linux in Safety-Critical Systems
I appreciate your comment; it gives me hope that formerly toxic people can change.

EDIT: toxic might be too strong; let's say difficult to work with.
You mean like github?
Whatever you think about the content, you have to admit Gladwell is a remarkably engaging writer.
It depends on the stack. You have to be more mindful of cold start when running Java/Clojure apps, less with JS and .net. There are some good benchmarks out there. There are also some easy ways to keep routes warm, although for certain setups I imagine that could be quite expansive, though still probably not expensive.
Is the jawline a Greek thing or a thousands of years ago thing?
This is cool. I wonder... If you enter "first" (https://icotar.com/avatar/first) then enter in the primary color closest to the color of the background, a space, and the name of the picture, e.g. https://icotar.com/avatar/green%20snowflake and continue doing this, how far could it go before leading to a cycle, and what is the average distance to a cycle given some arbitrary input?

Sample:
https://icotar.com/avatar/first
https://icotar.com/avatar/green%20snowflake
https://icotar.com/avatar/yellow%20plane
https://icotar.com/avatar/blue%20car
https://icotar.com/avatar/green%20waves
https://icotar.com/avatar/green%20moon
etc...
Agreed. It's a graveyard but one that is visited frequently.
> To perform a civil asset seizure, a person must be convicted of a crime

This is very unclear to me. I can see how that could be read into the decisions, but I don't think that's what they are actually saying.
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Because iptables changes aren't persistent unless you write them to some file that gets loaded at bootup.
For the past few years, I've mostly been on the employer side of this, recruiting engineers in my teams with a brief period where I had to find a job. It plain sucks.

As the hiring manager, I wish I didn't have to deal with recruiters and their 20% fee. But sourcing candidates and reaching out to them is painful too. OTOH there is too much noise in applications that come through your job board/career page links. Using any of these platforms is a full-time job in itself. Sifting through dozens of profiles and reaching out individually is extremely time consuming.

As someone who had to look for a job, that sucked too. You either go to a recruiter who forces you into a bunch of interviews, or you apply cold.

Referrals definitely make it easier on both sides but you can't always rely on just that one channel.

What can materially improve the discovery process, on both the hired and hiring sides? I think about this often. How can talent find roles suited to it and vice versa? Wasn't technology going to make this a breeze?
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Interestingly enough, if I wake up before 10 I'm hungry for breakfast, if I wake up later, I'm not.
Live webcam demo: https://storage.googleapis.com/tfjs-models/demos/body-pix/in...

Relatedly, I've had good results with PoseNet: https://storage.googleapis.com/tfjs-models/demos/posenet/cam...
They're sold out.
> I found the article a little disorganized and the author seems to be having trouble expounding a clear thesis.

How many psychotic episodes have you had in your life?

Perhaps it is amazing that the author could even put words to paper to describe the experience. Yes, the piece is a bit rambling, but how often do you get a first-hand account of a visit to the Dark Night and back again?

The notion that meditation is not a universally "good" thing, that it might unlock parts of your mind that you might not want to (or be able to) deal with, is certainly worthy of exploration.
Mathematica should be open source
Unions allow whatever they want to allow, and block whatever they want to block. So if Google employees wanted to form a very light touch union they could do exactly that.
I've been working remote for decades and my observation is that whats standing inbetween great communication in remote teams are often trival, easily fixable things like poor software and hardware.

When it comes to hardware, people use whatever headset and camera they have, connected to wifi served by the a cheap SOHO router. More or less the stuff you use to call your parents over skype once a week.
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Isn't it at least conceivable that there are a small number of people who can just be mentally productive all the time? Considering what he has accomplished in his life, if such a person could exist, wouldn't he be one of them?
Thanks. I've been tossing up setting up a forum of sorts for some close friends, but I've been going back and forth on the two extremes; an obscure telnet-only accessible BBS for the nostalgia, or a Matrix/Riot page for the ease of use.
If you only need the first 72 values, the speed doesn't really matter. You can just build the table once and do lookups.
The author doesn't mention where he went on retreat, but there's more than enough information in his post to figure it out. I won't name them, but I will say that they aren't a monastery and aren't part of an established Buddhist tradition. The movement that the retreat centre is affiliated to was established in the late 1960s by a businessman with no monastic training. Bluntly, there are a lot of organisations out there who are accountable to nobody and are teaching stuff that isn't Buddhism, but sorta-kinda looks like Buddhism if you don't know any better.

Actual Buddhist practice is, by and large, considerably less bizarre. Not eating after noon is the sixth of the eight precepts accepted by laypeople during retreats or special days in the Buddhist calendar. The purpose of these precepts is to focus the mind on spiritual matters rather than worldly pleasures; they aren't all that different to the restrictions of Lent, Ramadan or Ta'anit. The overwhelming majority of religious and spiritual traditions make use of some kind of temporary asceticism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_precepts

The eight precepts aren't terribly difficult to follow, but they can be a shock to the system, especially if you go from dabbling in meditation to an intensive retreat. More significantly, meditation is much more physically and mentally taxing than you might expect, so an intensive schedule of meditation can be utterly exhausting if you haven't built up a baseline of endurance. It'd be like going straight from jogging in your local park to a desert ultramarathon.

No reputable Buddhist sangha would invite someone who is pretty much a total novice to a ten-day retreat. I'm a fairly experienced meditator and I'm comfortable with sustained and lengthy meditation sessions, but there's absolutely no way I'd go on a retreat of this level of intensity. Novice monks in my tradition wouldn't be expected to follow this kind of schedule, let alone people who had just walked in off the street.

I think there's a problem on both the supply and demand side; dodgy organisations are offering recklessly intensive retreats, but there's also a broader culture of extremism and quick-fixes that drives people to seek Enlightenment In A Week™. A huge amount of diet advice is dangerously unhealthy, because sensible eating is much less appealing than "The Miracle Diet - Get Your Perfect Body In 21 Days". CrossFit practitioners joke about rhabdomyolysis, a potentially fatal symptom of extreme overexertion. I regularly see submissions to HN that brag about extreme "productivity hacks" that involve chronic sleep deprivation or eating pseudo-food substitutes.

Ironically, this all runs directly contrary to one of the core tenets of Buddhist practice - the Middle Way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Way
Also, I looked at the buildpacks-ci repo you linked, and it still has ~2000 lines of shell in ~80 files.

For comparison, there's ~12,500 lines of Ruby.

Another issue I have is that if Kubernetes replaces its 44,000 lines of shell with 100,000 lines of Go (or probably more), that's a mixed result at best. There's just a lot of logic to express and shell does it concisely.

Of course, without a better shell, I don't blame them if they switch, but it's still a suboptimal state of affairs.
Thanks, we appreciate the shoutout.
I grew up on less than $10 per month for all expenses, including food, clothing and shelter. Now I'm worth $2MM+ at age 40 and an executive at Silicon Valley. I also have an Ivy League MBA. Money doesn't buy happiness, but it does solve for basic anxiety that arises when you don't know where your next meal is going to come from. There are things in life that money can't solve for, such as genuine love of a person, mental health, kid's health, family ego clashes.
Mythbusters seems to think that ginger actually works. [1]

[1] https://mythresults.com/episode43
What could be done in innovation for job boards?
> A Facebook spokesperson claimed in a statement that “there was nothing ‘secret’ about this”, yet it had threatened legal action if users publicly discussed the Research program.

Will wonders never cease?
Numerator, denominator?
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The tradeoff is the cold start wait time vs. easy scaling.
Common Assumptions to Avoid When Starting with Kubernetes
I'm sure I could have got most of those things working by fiddling with fuse or xorg.conf or some other silliness but I don't count that as "working".

The number of times I've had network manager simply refuse to connect after opening the laptop lid makes me think we're just living in parallel universes.
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For a start, showing the most relevant details. Tech stack, whether they support Visa/Relocation, % of the people who heard back when they have applied(is it worth candidates time to even look at it). Also better filtering with multiple parameters, more personalization(beyond tags)
Those do too. The only thing that doesn't is deferred compensation in the form of an ISO or NSO. The latter is recognized as ordinary income when exercised.
Yes, Gladwell's books are total nonsense that sounds good.

But... that means he has exactly the skill set you'd hope for in a writing instructor. He's not teaching you how to think or how to do research. He's teaching you how to sound good.
They do; RSU vesting is a taxable event. It's counted as ordinary income based on the fair market value at the time it vests and taxes are due immediately. Companies tend to withhold a percentage of the shares and sell them to cover your tax burden.
It continues to amaze me that most businesses use worse conferencing tools than the average e-sports clan. High-quality, low-latency conferencing and screen sharing is essentially a solved problem if you don't use completely crappy tools.
And employers will maliciously comply, they'll advertise their low salary so no one applies, then if people are desperate enough they'll find some reason to reject their resume.
An Overview of the NLP Ecosystem in R
Exceleent library. But how does this differ from PoseNet and other libraries that pinpoint eyes, feet and other key points? I guess what I am really missing is a tensorflow library that can show me how far the body part is from the camera as well, that way I can have multiple people in front of the camera and can judge distances too
Quotes from the article, with my emphasis in italics:

> Facebook will end its unpaid market research programs and proactively take its Onavo VPN app off the Google Play store in the wake of backlash following TechCrunch’s investigation about Onavo code being used in a Facebook Research app the sucked up data about teens.

> Facebook has also ceased to recruit new users for the Facebook Research app that still runs on Android but was forced off of iOS by Apple after we reported on how it violated Apple’s Enterprise Certificate program for employee-only apps. Existing Facebook Research app studies will continue to run, though.

> To preempt any more scandals around Onavo and the Facebook Research app and avoid Google stepping in to forcibly block the apps, Facebook is now taking Onavo off the Play Store and stopping recruitment of Research testers.

It’s a very weird use of “proactively” in this context. Facebook doesn’t seem to be acting quick either. Given that Google hasn’t yet done anything on this app on the Play Store (after all this while), that’s not a serious threat.

Facebook is just being Facebook here, doing some minimal changes to fend off criticism while it continues with its dubious practices wherever it hasn’t been caught and shamed multiple times yet.
The difficulty of assimilating in a strange new country is enough to make many people want to go back, with or without employment. I don't think employment is the issue here. Culture shock is real.

You're also away from extended family. This is difficult for many people.

Native-born people, with or without both spouses working, experience relationship troubles and depression. It happens, even without the culture shock. You may have had the exact same problems had you stayed where you were born.

FWIW though, there is no need for the spouse to sit around being bored out of her mind. The solution is to participate in in-person local mommy groups. Typically the moms gather together at a local park or library, bringing their little kids. The moms chat with each other while the kids do some activity together.