skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone spending a large amount of their week doing interviews these days, I really empathize with the spirit of this article. I've expressed an annoyance very similar to this one many times before - it's astounding how many nominally senior programmers are not adept at manipulating text.

If you've been writing a lot of software, I would expect you to be good at actually putting the characters into a file and moving them around therein. I would be very suspicious of someone who claimed to be a master carpenter but couldn't drive a nail cleanly. Muscle memory is a real thing, and the mechanics of a task matter. What is the point of all our fetishization of editors and keyboards and such if not to smooth the transition between brain and paper?

This isn't even always a matter of candidates operating in an unfamiliar environment. Even on their own personal computers, in the editor they presumably use for work, I see a lot of flailing.
And what makes him think that his company is so special that I would be willing to deal with his attitude at the interview let alone accept the job?

I’ve rejected plenty of offers because I didn’t like the interviewer.
Juju (black magic) in the age of social media
I agree. I'm not sure where they came up with $84/year, but that's a lot of money for a blog. wordpress.com's personal plan (not even the cheap plan) is only $60/year. I just don't see a big market at that price point for a limited product from a company that probably won't be around in a year.
Foxconn Still Trying to Tap Dance Around Its Ever-Shrinking Wisconsin Promises
I need more of a definition of "superiorize". I kind of lost the meaning of every sentence where that word appeared.
EFF Supports Unnamed Company in Bringing an End to Endless NSL Gag Orders
In some cases the cheaper Aldi products is the same as the more expensive product from another store.

When I was younger there was no difference between olé’s chocolate and Leo with the exception of the package. It was the same taste and factory producing them.
That sounds cool (sorry couldn't resist) but very much a long shot as the wikipedia article itself notes :

"None of these efforts has yet tested its device with hydrogen–boron fuel, so the anticipated performance is based on extrapolating from theory, experimental results with other fuels and from simulations."

Also, even with good proportion of energy contained in such particles to somehow tap efficiently in practice, the reactor itself is still going to need a great deal of cooling, just to stop it melting.

Also the article we are commenting on, does not seem to concern such a reactor.
That compass 🧭 pointing different north puzzled me, may be because of the materials they use to carve the figures
That take rests too heavily on the idea that pulling together a lot of loose ends necessarily means an undercooked and fan-service-y plot.

>What big moments did they want to deliver? Where should the characters end up? What did they think we, the audience, wanted to see on screen before the show came to an end? It was a Game of Thrones bucket list. /18

This tweet from that set sorta highlights it. Because choosing to build a timeline working backwards is different than how they approached filling up that timeline.
It's everywhere if you're on unix systems. Windows devs have little exposure to it.
Deliveroo has basically doing this kind of thing in the UK for a while. They operate "dark kitchens" (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/oct/28/deliveroo-d...) which are industrial-zone food prep facilities combining a variety of different vendors on one site. There's still a brand associated with it and everything, which I would guess is actually quite important for customer comprehension.
Well it seems like a gray area. There's a meaningful difference between "accessing" something and "having access to" something. To me this seems like it would only cover the former.
Even if the nuclear island of a nuclear power plant cost $0 (it is currently about 1/3 the construction cost), nuclear power still wouldn't be competitive.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/amorylovins/2014/09/07/fusion-p...
This is my first foray into SaaS. The price is purely based on what I'd personally be willing to pay; I'm actually paying for my personal blog. I'm hoping to add more value over time, and of course will experiment with price as I get more feedback and insight into what a fair price is.
With libraries like react static that prebuild the dom of your page you don't have to worry about that
> just hit "i" to be dropped into insert mode, then just navigate with the arrows and use backspace like in any other editor.
Yeah, no. Let me call bullshit on you calling bullshit.

I've been working as a mediocre programmer at the same company for the last 10 years. when I landed this job, I had never ever even heard of vi. I was "gently" introduced to it by my boss, and eventually got to kind of get used to a basic usage of it.

But in the box where our server run it is configured to highlight syntax, maintain tabs and shit, delete deletes, you can move using arrow keys, and a slew of other non default niceties.

Over the years I more or less got acquainted with different tastes of Linux, and used and installed it in a few of my own boxes (Debian, mostly).

Even thought vi respects arrow keys by default now it seems (thanks god I don't have to use hjkl. It is hjkl, right?) there's this conf issue that I've never been able to fix _because I don't know how to formulated the question in order to google it_ and it's the fact that when you're in non edit mode, _the cursor never goes to the end of the line_, so if I have to let's say add a new line, and the last word is `return;` I have to convert that to `return;;` put the line jump between the 2 ;; and then remove the extra ;. Plus, arrow keys in non edit mode add lines with crap in it.

I can't even fathom how stressfull would be doing a job interview under this circumstances.

Force a person to use a different OS than they are used to? Well, may be. Even thought I don't like nano, it would be a better choice than vi because at least it beheaves as a "normal" editor.

force a person to use vi with default settings? thank you very much for your time.
Because he made a funny joke.
Sounds like that's a benefit in your favor then, in that you can really grind it out when necessary whereas some of your coworkers haven't ever had to push themselves really hard (and thus can't).

Now, in an ideal world, you would never need heroes in an office environment, but I get that shit happens. And there's also been plenty of times in my career when busting my ass was directly tied to faster advancement (and serious monetary rewards), so I definitely don't regret any of the times I really chose to push myself hard to accomplish something.
>I'm curious whether you feel the same way about windows, which kill hundreds of millions of birds each year.

I do feel the same way, which is why I take steps to remediate it on all of my windows duh. I put up screens on many windows year round (higher light pass through meshes like UltraVue make this much less of an impact on views vs older ones, and the tech could improve farther), ultraviolet decals/solutions (also lower view impact, they look milky clear to humans but strongly reflect UV which most birds can see, though since they're chemical they must be refreshed), golden spiderweb decals on some higher windows, etc. On new buildings thought can be put into materials, how the windows face vs light and surrounding environments, and so on as well. There are plenty of remediation steps available even for existing structures though and yes those steps should be taken.

You casting this as some zero-sum game is confusing regardless, because even if no steps were possible for windows rather then many, why the heck would you suggest that meant we shouldn't encourage what action could be taken?
You dodged the question. Is it better to live a life in terror than not having lived at all?

If these animals lived in the wild in such numbers, they would eventually overbreed and starve, unless there was a predator animal that kept their numbers in check.
I did C afor over a decade, I was really good at it. I haven’t used it in a decade. But, I left it off of my resume after an experience I had 4 years ago. I was applying for a C#/JavaScript job that didn’t have one line of C in the codebase, but one of the interviewers started asking me trivia about C. I happened to remember it, I got the job, but I learned my lesson.
To be honest I live in Europe and it's more about getting the quarter back so that you have one for the next time rather than 25c.
No, most don't reprocess. Most don't even have the facilities for reprocessing. Some send their fuel to France for reprocessing, but the french admit this is not economically rational to do.

Reprocessing is a net economic loser (and that's why there's no reprocessing in the US, not because of prohibitions that were removed long ago). It's cheaper to just make new fuel from uranium. This is because uranium turned out to be more abundant than feared, nuclear power growth stalled, fabricating fuel elements with mixed oxides is more expensive because of TRU toxicity, and because the cost of enrichment went WAY down when the world switched from gaseous diffusion to centrifuges.

Reprocessing does not significantly reduce the cost of disposal, especially if fast reactors are not being used. Thermal reactors can tolerate maybe one go around of the fuel, but you then end up with more transuranics like curium that have higher thermal output, which limits how tightly they can be packed in an underground repository. And fast reactors are expensive, so using them doesn't make this an easier sell.

Countries have not foreclosed the possibility of reprocessing in the future, but (aside from it being a kind of deniable weapon material proliferation) it's difficult to see why they would ever want to.
Interesting, I brought my laptop to every interview for a software job I've had. Figured that's the best way for me to show and talk about some of my code, and maybe even code too if it comes to that.
Don't you have homeless people? ;)
In Poland they are quite good at collecting coins from those (and also collecting cans).
It's easy to move a box 1,000 times with little change in quality. It's not easy to design great software when tired or overworked.
Zalando's REST API resource is quite helpful: https://opensource.zalando.com/restful-api-guidelines/#intro...
I’m volunteering with my local EMS service am loving it. It’s just about the opposite work environment as coding.

I’m outside, moving around, helping people and working hand-on in a small & highly focused team. Knowing the basics of emergency medical care is a great life skill too.

Interestingly the skill of “debugging” translates pretty well and is quite useful.
Edit: obviously I don't blame the author in the slightest. I'm just saying that thebookpatch shipping prices are insane - there is no way USPS takes $76 USD to ship a book to UK. I've checked and sending a (very generous for a book) 2KG parcel from UK to US would cost £15 with DPD and £25 with UPS. £50 gets you guaranteed next day delivery(across the ocean!). No idea where they get that $76 postage cost from.
Undoubtedly there are really hard jobs. I'd put a mover on that list as well, along with oil field worker.

But it seems dismissive to say a dev can't claim burnout because they aren't doing something physical. When a junior dev, I once went into the office 23 days in a row and was usually there until 11 pm or midnight, sometimes later, sometimes earlier. I got burned out and left. It wasn't good for my health or relationships. I bet if you worked hours like that loading a truck you at least would have gotten overtime.
Fusion power is in between the research stage and the commercial stage. It’s tough to find investors who are willing to put their capital up for something which has a good chance of _eventually_ succeeding, but where you have very little confidence in how long it will take to succeed.

General Fusion - one of the first private fusion companies - has been going for 12 years without revenue and might need another ten. That’s a long time for venture capital.
He's a game developer. Games used to be released on hardware, with no possibilty of being patched.
... Anyhow, I think that the venture risk is mirrored in the political realm. Politicians don’t want to stake their reelection on something that won’t be ready for a decade or two (or three).
Summary: if you don't know little thing X for sure you can't do Y! now and forever! because Y can no longer be learned!

"you can’t program anymore" and forever?

"can’t edit text on any machine" and forever?

"can’t figure out the magic command keys to indent code" and forever?

He sees the developer as having static knowledge that somehow, in the very moment of the interview, becomes frozen in time and nothing can be done about it.

I should copy/paste this article and change the name "How not to hire -the best-"
Thanks, that means a lot :)

In this case real-time in the sense that one can adjust parameters and (for not too many points) get an instant result instead of an image on disk. Additionally, I used all components to have it displayed with an adjustable fps count (OpenGL based rendering).

But I see, that the meaning of real-time is a bit biased. Any suggestions?
1) You are both wrong and a jerk. Freshwater usage is a limiting factor and a concern.

2) That's exactly the kind of thing that's needed in addition to sustainable fusion reaction to actually make "unlimited" power.
I guess plenty of bird poo is already with the harvest. If birds sit on trees, a lot of poo is bound to get stuck on branches
Ok, in my opinion it would be better for them not to have existed at all.
I’m glad one of my interviewers didn’t feel that way. I was about to start a pair programming session and they had an ergonomic split keyboard for me to use. I just asked for a regular keyboard, I purposefully didn’t explain why just to see what they would say. They had no problem finding me one.

After they gave me the keyboard, I told them that I can only type with one hand for physical reasons.
There are IIRC a few minor exceptions, but those are for smaller communities just out of Area 51 AFAIK and those still apply to users that have shown extensive involvement in those communities. That said those users still have more than 1 rep in all cases AFAIK.
That's rare to hear, on HN.
I don’t know about the quality it’s not particularly bad as they also have a brands but Lidl is certainly not all about efficiency. Not those here in Belgium regardless where you go to the Lidl.

I really dislike going there. They have 8 cash registers and open only on or two. The reason being that they are understaffed and employees have a gazillion of tasks: baking, unloading, stock, cash register,...
> The default vi config that comes with FreeBSD will get out of insert mode if you use the arrow keys to go beyond the end of the line

No it doesn't.
Consider this, Google is focused on maximizing profitability and most features people don't pay for. How does that work? Who are the paying customers, how does Google maximize income from them, and how does it impact the non-paying users?
If JavaScript is getting popular why does Google Trends show decline?
Oh, after they complain about everything that is not really important, they spend 2 weeks to create a user/pass for you and months to learn the project because the senior left.
You read how Javascript is getting popular year after year yet Google trends search reveals a declining search volume for Javascript. What explains this?
Does that not translate to all life? Humans included? No kids for you? Honestly asking. Not being snide. Lots of people feel this way.
Dev.to Zen Mode
Their SortedMap operation times are quite a lot less than the 1ms recommended yield time for NIFs http://erlang.org/doc/man/erl_nif.html#lengthy_work
In my experience DOS but also all Windows from 1.2 to 95 never experienced crashes. For me it started with Windows 98 (heavily pirated by people) and the horror story was Windows me.
My wife told me to do something and as there were versions of Windows 2000 provided for free in magazines, I used one.
Windows 2000 was such a relief from Windows me!
But there was no USB and other niceties in W2K.

The nightmare started again with Windows XP, then I switched to Ubuntu which was reminiscent of Windows 2000.

A funny thing and proof of solid interfaces in Windows 3.1/3.11 and Windows, is that people were making their own versions by removing/adding components and sometimes even changing their content with hexadecimal editors.

There is still a fandom for old Windows versions out there.

And you could catch viruses literally by hand by looking in kernel files, checking their size, and checking what was loaded in memory.

I remember that time with great pleasure.
Of course it runs Doom.[1] I don't think there are any esp32 boards that come with support for cellular networks, but there are esp32 boards that come with support for LoRa, which does low power, long range (miles), slow speed radio communication.

[1] https://youtube.com/results?search_query=doom+esp32
Thanks for all the replies, I did not know it worked that way.
Sometimes, optimizing for the smallest diff is clearly not worth it. For example:

months = ["January", "February", "March", ...]

A human can make a smart decision, an autoformatter can't.
I don't buy that argument. GMOs enable the use of low toxicity herbicides, like glyphosate (demonizing propaganda notwithstanding). And herbicides allow low impact farming practices like no-till, or substitute for terrible practices like slash-and-burn in the tropics.
"if you haven’t been programming for a while, you can’t program anymore."

I do not agree with this at all. For a person who has a proper understanding of how a computers works from the basics, getting up to speed on any language and paradigm might take a short time but telling a person they cannot program anymore is complete BS.

Ok, object oriented environments are now more common but so what; they were invented 50 years ago and most of us have had some exposure to them at least on a general level.

So telling us we can't program anymore because we cannot pick up your laptop and your editor and toss out a program in five minutes is not a test of the person, but more designed to make the tester feel superior.

I am happy that I do not have to interview with Josh Carter.
The blogs don't seem to have an RSS feed. I might be old-fashioned but I think that's one of the first requirements of a blog platform no?
I'm an olive producer in Portugal.

I suspect the main reason behind the need for harvesting at night is that the demand exceeds the supply for super high density harvesting service, and contractors harvest day and night in order to face the demand.

As soon as there are enough providers, working extra hours will become less interesting and this kind of practice will go away. This kind of harvesting is a lot quicker than previous practices, so harvesting during the day will be more than enough.

Harvesting is done usually in the winter (ranging from November to January) so only non-migratory birds are afected, and even then only those nesting in super high density orchards.

The harvesters are quite expensive, and usually only larger producers own them. This kind of investment is tricky, because for the most part of the year there is nothing to harvest (although there are some other crops where the harvesters are being tried in order to recover the investment more quickly).

Of course no farmer wants to needlessly kill harmless birds, but I will wait for more data, since there has been some hype regarding super high density orchards in the past months, usually portraying them as something horrible and bad to the environment.

By the way, birds to not get into the oil presses, because olives pass through a mesh in order to remove branches and leaves. Then they're washed, so there is no risk of contamination with dead birds.

I also suspect the decline of bird populations in the south has something to do with the big fires of past years, that forced northern predatory birds to come searching for food at lower latitudes. I have never seen so many eagles like this year.

Or the other side, the Eurasian magpie populations seem to be doing fine, as well as the once endangered storks.

Edit to add: the research cited in the article is not research but an information notice by the Environment Council of the government of Andalucia.
Heat, unlike CO2, is relatively easy to deal with - install cheap giant mirrors in deserts, reflect a ton of heat back into space. Space blanket type of mirrors are VERY cheap, especially at large scales.
Some airlines do not require to have two pilots or two humans in the flight deck at all times.
I haven’t considered the case for humans, but probably yes. All life might include simple organisms that don’t have the capacity to suffer, and in their case it obviously won’t matter. Yes, no kids for me.
It sounds like we have similar trajectories. I went from construction laborerer in summers of HS and for 2 years out, into commercial real estate maintanence FT during undergrad and grad, then to tech writing which transitioned to UX design, then into development in my late 20s and through the levels there, up to right now as lead/architect.

You’re right—our experiences are pretty unique especially in places like the Bay Area. In fact, you are the first person I’ve ever met with a similar background. I was stoked to read your comment—“I’m not the only one.”

And like you noted, no matter how brutal work can get now, it takes just a bit of reflection to recenter myself. This is almost like a dream. I’ve been very fortunate to wind up where I did. Most folks where I’m from are still busting their asses working those real hard jobs.
Yes, and many people don't get the quick death of a captive-bolt pistol to the forehead. Many people die in a hospital after years of suffering from gradual organ failure, dementia, cancer, or other terminal diseases.

Besides that, I don't think we know if cattle are aware that when their herdmates disappear that they are dying. Herd animals in the wild such as zebras and wildebeest witness their herdmates being killed by predatory cats on a daily basis, something I think would be far more traumatizing than just having them disappear on a truck. Maybe I'm wrong, though.
I feel like that sometimes too. I find going for a run at lunch helps a lot.

It also helps my reality in check - when the weather is nasty, I get to go back inside after my run is done. That wouldn't be the case if I had to work outdoors...
That would be a reason to be against specific uses of GMO technology. It is not a reason to be categorically anti-GMO.

The general arguments against GMO are entirely without merit, in my opinion. Moreover, their consequences are monstrous, imposing costs on the third world just so first worlders can practice a deplorable philosophical fetish (or, more banally, inflame anti-GMO passions as a kind of agricultural protectionism.)
I flew SW for the first time a few weeks ago (I live in France).
The flight was great but I discovered something I have never seen elsewhere : the bus stop plane.

I flew from Phoenix to Oakland with a stop in Portland. The ticket was PHX-OAK, people got off the plane at Portland, some more got in. A bus stop in short.
It took 2.5 + 1.5h for a nominally 1h40min flight.
The best advice I ever heard: Every text you read is both an advice how to write and an advice how not to.
But the point here is that these creature are executed and that too either young or in the prime of their lives.
> Part of the reason white-collar salaries are so high (along with demand) is that a lot of jobs actually aren't that interesting to do.

I'd buy that if all these blue collar jobs seemed more interesting. Holy shit they tend to sound boring. Even when there's something interesting involved in the job (for example, as a machinist, you get to play with fancy expensive CNC machines!), it's often turned into monotonous and repetitive grind.