skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I missed that important point, bad reading comprehension. I thought he said he was getting a degree and was a junior in college but I read it again and he didn't mention college. He's looking at "junior engineer" or beginning programmer jobs.

College internships aren't available, he's not a student. Still, he or she needs one recent dev job on his resume, that will unlock further job opportunities. I think going to recruiting events in person and talking to devs and recruiters in person is one way to make that personal connection that could put you over the hump. Go to an event related to your area of biggest interest, try to make a personal connection.
Yeah in my case I've got my manager and architect on board and they love it. My more senior teammates might be threatened though.

I found an impending any-day-now production down scenario last week and got it fixed while learning tremendously and fixing some incidentally related things. It feels amazing.

No tests, no docs, no comments, total spaghetti, global variables everywhere, no logs, and I am loving it. What a job.

Upper upper management is starting to keep tabs on the "productive" output of my team though. We'll see.
I worked at a startup for a bit that started OKRs and I found experience super enjoyable; to the point where working in a more relaxed environment(for lack of a better description) is kinda hard these days.

The two things people and teams struggled the most with though, IMHO, is:

A.) Coming up with a good OKR that met longer term, higher level company priorities that intersected your work.

B.) Coming up with a good ORK in terms of measurable key results.

It can be tough and time consuming to get the measurements in place necessary to gauge the results, or even make a case for the OKR in the first place(incidentally this is the dirty secret of SRE IMHO). We would pro-actively get data collection in place on occasion for reasons that included helping to launch and score future OKRs.
I'm not an American myself, but I was talking specifically about US, since that is the context of the story.

But also, if it's cheaper? People will eat it for sure regardless of the culture.

Side note: a lot of those things that are "hundreds if not thousands of years" are actually a lot more recent if you look at them. It's pretty common for cultures to reuse the name of some old dish for a new one that becomes more common, and is similar in some way - not even necessarily in terms of how it tastes, but e.g. in its purpose. In other cases, you can trace a direct connection to some much older recipe, but new additions have mutated it beyond all recognition. Just look at what the introduction of potato did to traditional recipes in Europe.
In fact we have a lot of very solid science on nutrition. It's just that some companies with billions of dollars to lose are doing their best to confuse the issue and get everyone to give up, just as you have. It's straight out of big tobacco's playbook.
They were talking about Congress not the presidency, and the presidency is not popular vote. The electoral college is specifically designed to be different
Is optimizing for bikes worth the disruption to traffic? It seems like a handful of bicyclists hold up a lot of people in cars.

(Also, the anti-suburb sentiment is quite ... problematic. Hint: There is a reason most of the good ethnic food in New York is in actually in Westchester and Long Island.)
Yes, that's what I meant. Cleaning up unreferenced nodes (should you want to do that) would require some kind of mini-garbage collection algorithm. And indeed, git has a gc command to do this, even though reference counting would work for a DAG. It's doable, but it's not what I'd call simple.

But if you know through some other means the exact time when a node should be deleted, you can delete it at that time, and anyone following a soft reference will find that it's no longer there, which may be a way of catching a bug. This is how both databases and entity component systems work. But it does mean that resolving a reference can fail, and you have to handle that somehow.
Development follows transportation, and since the main method of travel in the U.S. has been rubber tires and individual vehicles for the last 80 years, naturally a train can't service a whole suburb or exurb efficiently.

Trains have trouble in the U.S. because the technology allows--even requires-- central planning and authority on an active, everyday basis. If the transportation department goes on strike, we in cars keep driving. Not so for trains. Also it's not a fair fight to have a public decentralized asphalt road system compete with a highly regulated centralized private rail system. It's not a pure technology vs. technology battle-- the political aspects dominate.
How to separate your data from your code
”Quickly dropping a very important lock and retaking it is a common anti-pattern I've observed across the XNU codebase

[…]

This is trying to detect whether another thread acquired and dropped the lock while this thread dropped it then reacquired it. If so, the code checks whether there's still a vm_map_entry covering the current address its trying to copy and then bails out and looks up the entry again.”

I find that disconcerting. Apparently, the writers of this didn’t have a clear model of what locks are needed where, or (worse) they had a model, but knew it didn’t work.

Anybody writing that code should have seen this coming.
Not if you have lower income and a job that makes you happier, which was the question up above.
Fun anecdote here. Just last month my wife and I were in Barcelona and we needed to go to Madrid. She had her company buy a plane ticket and I took the train. We left at the exact same time and I took 100% public transportation and she had a car service on both ends and a plane ticket.

I made it to our destination across the town from the Madrid central 45 minutes before she did.
Higher math isn't harder arithmetic, it's increasingly more abstract and sometimes doesn't even involve numbers. A student with their times tables down isn't going to do any better in a calculus course than one who relies on a calculator.
This is for New York, which has awesome public transport.

And how do you get better public transport in cities? By getting cars out of them.

And we should actually start getting drivers to pay for what they use, instead of subsidising them billions.
Maybe the lock-in caused by Google (and others) making Chrome-only websites. But AFAIK its not brazen enough to exclude other Blink browsers.
This is absolutely not true, and is a fundamental misunderstanding of socialist systems of government. There are even variants of socialism that embrace markets and competition, and almost all allow ownership of _personal_ means of production... That is, acquiring enough capital to run a personal business. What is not allowed is owning collective means of production, and the consequential rent-seeking and extraction of surplus value that business owners and landlords engage in.

Your comment is obviously propaganda, so I doubt this will help, but I strongly recommend reading some anarchist literature before making claims like that. The Conquest of Bread is a good starting point, but a bit outdated at this point.
I'm assuming that the business card size restriction is an April Fool's joke. There's already a pretty big movement of people dissatisfied with the big AAA games: the indie video game scene. I can't believe someone in the video game world wouldn't know about that.

Actually, now I wonder if the whole post was actually supposed to be taking the piss out of indie game developers? If so, that's pretty damned elitist, as there are many many many good indie games that I'd happily play over most AAA titles. Plus there are great AAA titles that started life in the indie game scene, like Portal.
What you said actually proves my point.

If Lyft becomes the next Pets.com and goes bust, its stock would be worth $0. If that happened, it would be laughable to say that Lyft is under-valued, simply because Ford is valued in the billions.

Ford's valuation has nothing to do with how Lyft is valued. To say that Lyft is over/under valued because Ford has X valuation, like what your graphic is saying, makes no sense at all.
None. That's the point. Just because something is cleaner does not make it practical. Passenger rail isn't happening in the USA. It would take huge investment, and flying would always win on route flexibility. Once you build a rail line you're pretty committed to it. Flight routes can be changed on demand. Just get over it. We'll never see widespread intercity rail in the USA.
Observing synthetic endpoints is only going to give you an indication of whether or not your service is online and available - what if you deploy a change that breaks the endpoints your customers rely on, or some deep dependency starts failing (3rd party api, database, whatever).

You really need to look into distributed tracing solutions and instrument the endpoints which your customers rely on - and measure the response time, codes, and availability of those.

I work for an APM company, and that's what we do at instana.com -- what you've built here is cool, and it's inspiring, but it's not going to help anybody if your customers are getting 500's from their calls, but your "health check" is sending back 200's.
How do get the job classification correct? (Employees are notoriously poor at self-reporting their own job level correctly).
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Thanks for the shoutout to trust-dns.

I would take the fact that there have been no CVEs on the server with a grain of salt, as I don’t think it’s seeing a lot of use. The embedded resolver is getting a lot...

Feel free to open any issues for features you’d like to see.
Can we not turn HN into /r/politics? Or, if we are, be very up-front about HN supporting political 'news' and gossip?
Zero. I stopped using sites that use recaptcha.
Just bought and read the book.

For me, it was fantastically depressing: basically it says: “OK, so you have ADHD. Sucks to be you. Go through this huge laundry list of these and those things to do, don’t forget to take your medication, find a mentor — assuming anybody would want to deal with you, and who could blame them? — and if you are extremely lucky, and with heavy effort, maybe you can become half a normal man or woman who runs through all of this effortlessly, which you’ll never be. What a burden to society!”

All of this is true perhaps, but now I just want to die.
I hate it when people use TLAs without defining them.
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I'm a full-stack engineer turned front-end engineer at my current role... let's see

> First, "front-end" is chalk-full of people who don't know what they're doing or talking about

I've seen no shortage of this in backend roles, and in any technical role there's been no hesitation to let go of underperforming developers. If there is you have a culture problem

> The front-end is the most visible part of the product even though it is often the smallest piece of the product so business leaders, who have little technical experience, will often put the front-end team in a position of de-facto authority over the product or at least give them out-sized input

From previous job experience I agree with this. One role where I was the backend developer the project failed because the UI was prioritized to the extent that the API was fully fleshed out, but the infrastructure and user migration plan was nonexistent. But it's a leadership failure, not a technical one.

I'd also caution against seeing the front-end team as "de-facto authority" to business leaders. They're more visible to the business so they have more frequent communications, but I've learned that it's naive to think them as having _any_ authority. If anything I now spend most of my time fighting against impractical requirements that would impede a successful, timely product launch (sometimes at the expense of launching at all), and business leaders are deaf to it. It's an exercise in frustration if anything.

> The stereotype that emerges is that front-end teams often get more resources then they need, get to rewrite the front-end once a year using the front-end framework du jour

The team I'm on is on its 3rd or 4th front-end rewrite of the same application. You say 'framework du jour', I say "technology that has been abandoned by the vendor, is not meaningfully cross-platform, is too difficult to hire for". I've not been involved in the previous 3 rewrites, but I can tell you the company would lose the business if the rewrites weren't done. When technology at large moves on, front-end developers are rarely to blame

> Two thirds of our users interactions (as evidenced by our server logs) were through the CLI that the back-end team maintained and wrote.

It's true that depending on the application, a front-end may not even be necessary. But I would say that given a 2/3rd 1/3rd split, it's worth the investment for marketing purposes alone. Unless your salespeople are out there selling CLIs/APIs to clients (which in my experience, even if you're selling APIs, it's rarely the case).

> Users often had no idea how to do something on the front-end, because there was so much feature clutter.

In my case the feature clutter is likely a business requirement by a team of designers that the front-end developers can't meaningfully influence. I'd love nothing more than to have buttons with meaningful labels instead of implementing a designer's shitty iconography for the Nth time.
people reviewed its not working in China lol
Bus trips in SF are easily 3X longer than car trips on the same routes. Traffic affects cars just as much - it can’t be the reason buses are so slow. Talking about the time people are wasting sitting in traffic is silly - now they will be wasting even more time standing on buses.

How about some parking protected bike lanes and encouragement for e-bikes, which can actually deliver reasonable door to door times?
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Be careful. This article's sole purpose is to help sell decades' worth of toxic fish oil supply that's become worthless in light of more in-depth research. DHA accumulates in the brain with age and dementia as esters of cholesterol.

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I hope cars move out of cities, the people can stay. And since cities are much more pleasant without cars, without constant risk, without the huge number of deaths and pollution they cause, more people may move in.
Canned meat that tastes like cat pate although I assume because I've just smelled it so far (cat food). Not sure exactly sure how to describe the weirdness of the impossible 1.
The expenses associated with animal husbandry at most research institutes raise the price to ~$1/day per cage of 5 mice.
Most animal experiments are performed only if an effect size large enough to be ascertained using a small number of mice (i.e. <10, typically) is predicted based on in vitro or other models. Grant funded researchers do not typically have the resources to maintain such large colonies as you propose.

Also, most mice used in experimentation are inbred strains. Most human studies rely on such huge sample sizes to to identify low effect sizes within a diverse population.
Proof? On D-Day there are no ...

Does not hold. Time travel might be invented after the cloaking device!

no [...] drones in the sky recording everything.

Are you sure about that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_fighter
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Wow, that is a fantastic video, thanks!
The requirement for colinearity seems like something you made up. And, you don’t gauge travel demand for one mode based on another. They didn’t build the Golden Gate Bridge because there were many people swimming to Marin. Two well-connected cities with robust economies will enjoy strong travel demand.
At the time, the alternative to the interstate were local roads which took 2-3x longer[1] (and probably at least 2x more expensive factoring in time, gas, and lodging), or commercial aviation which was crazy expensive[2]. What's the alternative to HSR? Planes which are in the same ballpark in terms of speeed and cost.

[1] https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/how-did-people-drive...

[2] https://www.travelandleisure.com/airlines-airports/history-o...
Because those cars also bring money into the city. With less cars in the city there will be fewer people going there, which means less economic activity.

Can New York thrive with less money? I guess we'll see.
Dedicated bus lanes fix that.
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To counter this, I know dozens of people working as FAANG devs from app academy & hack reactor.
Anything can be said to be “worthwhile,” a political rather than an economic characterization commonly followed by handwavy appeals to unidentified stakeholders, intangible dividends, and vague but supposedly urgent need.

If customers are unwilling to pay the asking price for an offering, the value proposition is off. Perhaps the model is bad, the price too expensive, or the terms old-fashioned. “The market” is individuals seeking mutually beneficial trades: greedy capitalists and greedy consumers. If the trades aren’t happening, the necessary mutual benefit is not present. Forcing people to render services or accept services for terms they wouldn’t voluntarily agree to is not freedom.

Yes, voluntary persuasion is hard work.
> Most of the US freight rail system isn't electrified because the capital expenditures of doing so would be very large, and its return on investment in terms of direct monetary savings wouldn't materialize for many, many years.

There's a decent amount of mainline freight rail that was electrified 100 years ago but has since been ripped out. It turns out that electrification has a lot of operational constraints that make it a less-clearly-good proposition.

One obvious constraint is loading gauge issues--you need about another 2 feet of clearance for the wires. And if one bridge or tunnel along your entire route isn't high enough, you can't move along the double-stacked containers. You also need a lot of infrastructure for the tractive power substations, and if you don't have enough of them, you literally can't run more trains if the traffic demands it (and too many means infrastructure costs you're not benefiting from). The operational inflexibilities of electric locomotives in partially-electrified systems should have course be obvious.

That said, there are substantial benefits to having electric motors driving your wheels... which is why virtually all diesel locomotives are actually diesel-electric locomotives: electric locomotives that use a diesel generator onboard rather than hooking up to electrical catenary or third rail.
I went to your site and did not see any devops positions, only a data engineer
What about delivery trucks?
Eh, so was VR. Sooner or later, "just around the corner" actually arrives.

I actually think the speed plateau is going to make life very interesting. If we want to keep seeing improvements, we need to become smarter. It's getting more and more worthwhile making dedicated silicon to accomplish tasks, rather than just waiting a few years. We're probably near the peak of what we can do with traditional graphics - we've used every trick in the book and we're running out of transistors to throw at the problem. We need new approaches.
I find it interesting that politics is, once again, rearing its ugly head in NASA and that people are willing to keep bad projects going instead of pivoting to more cost-effective options. SpaceX is an American-owned company largely operated in America- what's the big deal with using them?
I think you should do the opposite: Make public transport free.

Transportation is a basic service cities should provide for free, that includes both roads and public transport.
Even if I’m just a few hours late taking my Effexor I start getting brain zaps. They are terrible. I’m not looking forward to ever having to go off it
Adding to what josephpmay said, there's the issue of dealing genetic drift, so some groups have expensive-to-maintain systems to deal with that [0]. Which looks like restarting the line every 5 generations.

I have more experience with tissue culture than mice, but that's sounds surprisingly similar to passaging tissue cultures over and over [1]. Eventually you get to far out and have to start fresh, going back to stock cells.

[0] https://www.jax.org/jax-mice-and-services/find-and-order-jax...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortalised_cell_line
The Bronx is not Westchester.
Is that a difference between the US and socialized models? Are malpractice lawsuits really a thing in Europe for example?
The US has no obligation to provide benefits and services to non-citizens. If the guest worker program wasn't being horribly abused it would be worthwhile. As it stands, H1-B needs a wholesale revision to serve its stated goals.
Or maybe, "culture" theorists don't understand IR-- or economic development, for that matter. Culture, taken in a broad sense, explains almost everything about which societies become economically successful and which don't! As Deirdre McCloskey's work on the 'bourgeois virtues' makes quite clear, this is true over a huge range of scales, from the fairly small and local to the very large.
I think a defense (oral examination) of the paper can cover that scenario.