skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can add a few things here. (I'm a cofounder at Job Portraits[1], an employer branding studio in SF.)

In our experience, successful employer brands turn on a startup's willingness to be transparent. Everyone in the Bay Area (not just engineers) has a bloodhound's nose for bullshit. I can't overemphasize this—the norm is vicious, laugh-in-your-face skepticism.

Our best projects are with startups who get this, and the solution isn't rocket science: you have to address your struggles.

Marketing teams are most likely to balk at revealing their company's flaws, but what's surprised us is how often technical leaders also refuse to address their team's shortcomings. In part this is because technical folks are deeply skeptical of anything their recruiting teams want (that's another story), but it's also a function of embarrassment...or even outright shame.

The classic case is the eng leader at a small startup who was previously at a FAANG company. They've spent the last few years as part of a well-oiled machine—but now everything is broken! Processes aren't just inefficient—they don't exist! The mobile app doesn't just suck—nobody knows how to fix it because that one guy who built it ditched for a FAANG job! (Oops.)

A huge part of our job, as an agency, is coaching leaders to see transparency as a competitive advantage. We say something like, "This isn't about confessing your sins. It's about revealing challenges that the right engineers will be THRILLED to solve." It's not that [thing] is broken; instead tell candidates that "this is an opportunity to implement [thing] the way you've always wanted." It's not that your failure to build [blah] is hurting the business; instead tell candidates to "come build mission-critical infrastructure." And the more specific you are, the better.

This is a mindset shift more than anything, and when we're able to pull it off it opens the door to an employer brand that candidates will trust.

Oh, and a quick note for any product marketing people who are reading this: Jobs are not products. You can't return them to the store or ask for a refund. Every person your company hires is taking a huge gamble on you. If you only 'put your best face forward' with an employer branding project, you risk emotional apocalypse if, during the person's first 30 days, they realize they were misled by a rosy employer brand. Tread carefully!

As we like to say, assume your audience (candidates) is as smart, or smarter, than you are. Even if they don't trust you, you need to trust them to self-select in—or self-select out—and the only way they can do that is with the truth.

[1] https://www.jobportraits.com/
It's not like it will disappear after 2035. Some adjustments have to be made like probably raising the retirement age but that doesn't mean that the system doesn't work.
> It is hard to market a product that teach kids to code if you cannot show the product to kids.

You show it to their parents, don't you?
> if we could have cities outlaw advertising on billboards and instead collect a small tax to make up for the lost revenue, how much would our quality of life increase?

Ideally decisions would instead be made based on unbiased reviews and rational decision making.

Hopefully the lack of advertising would relieve us from unconscious decision fatigue and free up our energy for other parts of life.
The way I read it, the skill test is based on youthful agility, but no aspect of architecture/experience taken account of.

Now, you could argue that employers just need a certain skillset at this point of the market cycle, but the article implies a theme is emerging.

Anyhoo, I am not in SV, or USA, but I am in my second demi-century and spec and write specialist safety software and systems to international performance based standards, eg burner controls right now.

I have worked on contract all my working life, and I often wonder when my time will come.

But my fortunate reality is that the skill set needed is so broad and certification requires maybe a decade minimum of supervised work component, probably engineers in this game don't really hit their straps before 40, minimum.

But you never know when the rules change...
The people congregating in the sun spot in the middle of the town square remind me of this Portlandia sketch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-ppr9LDaQE
read digit as “finger” not “numerical representation form”; it means that a customs agent stuck their fingers in one or more bodily orifices.
What would it take for you to falsify your stance? If nothing can make you falsify it, then that's not science, that's pseudoscience.

Unconscious bias entering AI is bad. But consider this scenario. Imagine for decades, there's been a chemical leak in Cleveland, which has been causing people there to become worse at math. An AI detects that people from Cleveland are worse at math. Do you just throw the data away because it must be subconscious human bias? If you do, you're throwing away a chance to discover the underlying cause (the leak)! Who knows what sort of things we've thrown away on the altar of "everyone must be equal, there can be no nuance"!
Depends on the area a bit (by state, and how grumpy the particular cops involved are). My kids walk to school/playground/neighbors, but...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/04/13/parent...

> In December, the couple was accused of neglect for allowing the children to walk around their suburban Washington neighborhood together unaccompanied by an adult. In one instance, Rafi and Dvora were walking from a playground two blocks from home; in another, the park was about a mile away.
I had that same experience with my daughter—it was Thanksgiving, so we put on the Macy's Day Parade 'cause hey, giant balloons. And then a commercial came on and she asked me to put the balloons back.
Ads like that suck, but I think you are pearl clutching a bit.
"Web pages are made up of dozens (sometimes hundreds) of separate resources that are loaded and assembled by the browser into the final displayed content."

Could that be the reason that that the web needs to be "faster" (despite tremendous advances in CPU, storage, bandwidth and network speeds)?

The dozens (sometimes hundreds) of separate resources are loaded by default.

What is their purpose? Where do they come from? Are all of them necessary?

What if an advanced user could tell the browser to only load certain resources from certain sources?

For example, maybe skip certain ads and tracking, as specified by the user.

Perhaps do not load the Facebook "Like" buttons (images), but load all other images.

Control exactly which Javascripts to load.

In addition to the options that browsers now provide, provide more fine-grained controls.

Could that make the web faster?

A bonus would be if these user-defined, fine-grained browser settings could be saved in a portable, interoperable format, e.g. to external media, in addition to being able to save them to "the cloud" (which may be servers run by advertising-supported browser authors). Browser authors do not need to know which resources users may wish to block.
And given that Randall Stephenson said each billion would create 7000 jobs and AT&T got 3 billion, did they create anywhere near 21,000 jobs? He's kind of crappy at this. He was off by 44k. I guess making economic projections like this isn't in his wheelhouse.
If the person returns home, they release the lien: http://www.nls.org/Disability/MedicaidMedicare/MedicaidLegal...

Do all other OECD countries cover nursing homes for free until death? That's the case when liens apply - not hospitalization.

https://www.aarp.org/health/medicare-insurance/info-1996/are...

I don't think it is entirely unreasonable that medicaid - a medical program for poor people - has the right to put a lien on someone's estate. Normally people on medicaid don't even have estates (or else they wouldn't meet the asset test), but for some reason we don't count house equity for the asset qualification criteria. Very unfair for renters - this at least somewhat equalizes things.
What's the methodology? If the tv is on is that counted regardless of whether kids are actively watching or not? I could see a tv on all day skewing numbers easily.
Show HN: Netflix, Prime, Twitch, etc. video speed controller extension
Commercials are for the mind what spam e-mail is for your inbox, you can delete them but they'll annoy the hell of you. Of course it's not a good analogy as commercials are paying for the content but the problem is the quantity and quality.

In the US I normally turn off volume when there is a commercial or avoid commercial content at all costs. However, when I visit my friends in Europe I find that their (TV) commercial a lot more enjoyable. Anybody else experienced this as well?
The 5000 sq ft in the back of every Walmart is nowhere near being a fulfillment center. It's already full of items for the low turn-around shelves in the store. Instead, they'll be relying on their warehouses to handle this change. They were already dicking around with modifying scheduled loads to accommodate the internet sales orders, back in 2016. This will just be more of the same, really.
"Is that a PS Vita? I have a console at home; I play sometimes to relax. I oughta get one of these for the car" - House of Cards
They don't even have to be all that powerful. GPU transcoding is fast as heck. You really just need to decide where the line is between the storage tradeoff and needing a bigger GPU farm to handle more frequent transcoding requests. I'm betting you could get away with having just one copy for 90-95% of Youtube's content. There is an ocean of video on Youtube that is accessed less than once a month or even once a year.
How to Avoid Psychological Traps
Anything that's free to play and requires a credit card is potentially dangerous for kids.
Trump Proposes Extra $1.6B for Nasa's 2024 Return to Moon
I think your philosophical position that those questions are unanswerable by science is part of the problem. We need more science education and popularization of its tools for solving problems.
These CPU flaws make it seem as if virtualization in the data center is becoming really, really dangerous. If these exploits continue to appear, the only way forward would be dedicated machines for each application of each customer. Essentially, this might be killing the cloud by 1000 papercuts because it loses efficiency and cost effectiveness and locally hosted hardware does not necessarily have to have all mitigations applied (no potential of a unknown 3rd party code deployed to the same server).
Money is a tool of social organization that lacks instrinsic value. Any time we as a society refuse to do something worthwhile for the sole reason that it would cost too much, that's a capitulation to human stupidity and/or greed.
I can think of maybe 2 or 3 games total with a meaningful gimmick that needed specific hardware or control schemes to really "work". Losing it diminishes the game but doesn't completely invalidate it, so it's sad but it's not really the case for the thousands of other games I've played. Better to have the original game archived as an LP, perhaps even an LP that tries to capture the essence of the gimmick for people who can't experience it. I think we're entering a space now where this is a concern for more games though - an LP or emulated gameplay for experimental VR games or games with custom controllers may not live up to the experience at all, which is unfortunate, but not really avoidable.

The most easily understood example is 999, a game for the Nintendo DS that utilized the two-screens quirk of the system for narrative purposes. It was later ported to mobile and those versions had to drop the twist since there was no way to express it on other platforms. (To briefly summarize, the two screens represented separate timelines and the DS's constraint of only allowing touch input on one screen meant that whatever you saw on that screen was the only thing you could actively participate in)
Show HN: Netflix, Prime, Twitch, etc. video speed controller add-on Firefox
Also see https://mdsattacks.com for the RIDL and Fallout landing page
I don't think everybody has the capacity to be reckless. I think we are bounded by our temperament (nature + nurture). Some of us have exact perfectionist tendencies, and some of us have creative tendencies, and more. This is very much an oversimplification, but you can think of a Scientist as trying to get to the exact truth (in the realm of theory) and science as a field that aims for perfection. Engineers on the other hand are used to working with constraints and imperfect conditions (in the realm of practice), and the motto seems to be "get shit done" (a kind of pragmatism). And so sometimes you have to be a scientist and sometimes you have to be an engineer.
> I said that energy hungry enterprises are exempt from it.

That's not what I was arguing with. Your statement about "they now pay one of the lowest electricity prices in the world" is just terribly untrue.
What a terribly thin affiliate site? How'd this get front-paged? Why aren't we linking to the study instead of the summary of the study?

http://www.med.umich.edu/yourchild/topics/tv
I think GP is saying that what they asked for as a kid was much more affordable
A worst of both worlds result - very dirty coal generation currently in service throughout most of Australia - and the highest residential prices in the world.
Also, the extra free time will enable you to prepare for a new place. Searching and working fulltime simultaneously is hard.
IMO, $2500 seems extremely expensive for focusing 1.45m2 of light, especially when you can get at least 2.5kW of solar panels for the same price.
I was not Dave but I was the engineer who knew everything about the system at the MegaCorp. Turns out life goes on after I left and I’m sure after some pain the system still functions.

I was talking to my co-worker who was still there. He was afraid to leave since he’s now the only one left. I told him who cares the company wouldn’t care about you and our skills are marketable at the moment.

Don’t let guilt keep you underemployed or employed at a shitty place. Level up and move on.
My skepticism level is now of epic proportions when I see someone recommending products online. Louis Rossmann is one notable exception, but far too rare.

These days I usually just type "reviews for XXX reddit", but even that isn't a sure thing anymore.
How often do you rename files? How often do you open files?
Based on that knowledge, which of these actions deserves a single button?

It's the difference between doing something to a file, and doing something with a file.

Which button is universally used on all other platforms?

If all you've ever used is Windows and desktop environments that mimic Windows to make life easier for people coming from Windows, then you might have a narrow definition of "universal." But I've used dozens of platforms over the last 40 years, and can confidently state that there is no universal method.
Natural gas is not a sustainable long-term solution. World emissions need to be brought to zero, in the next five years, in order for us to avoid a climate castrophe.

If we are still positive at the five-year mark, that means zero at, say, the ten-year mark, and negative emissions for many decades.

Natural gas has no place in this long-term.
If there was, that organization would announce an investigation that was quickly concluded with a redacted report and confidential hearing and no further action. The chairman of said agency would then mysteriously get a high-paid position as an advisor to the AT&T board of directors, a job that necessitates a young female intern and frequently requires travel to countries with legal prostitution.
May be not relevant but somewhat related to the title -
Some plastic ended up at the bottom of Mariana Trench

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48230157
I think it's because they have designed automatic vulnerability detection devices that are efficient at finding even very obscure issues.
Deploying with Distillery and Docker
I am planning my first hire and I will follow the 1 day per month off.

It can be a Monday or a Friday per month, it cannot be moved to other month and accumulated for longer vacations.

This day can be used to catch up obligations, relax or be combined with a normal vacation time to extend the off period.
Abused how?
Isn't that just realistic, though? That's how dialogue in real life sounds, too. I and most people I know use "uber" as a generic term for a ride share service. We also distinguish which streaming service the show we're talking about is on if it's not already known by everybody in the conversation.
Ok "reelection" is the wrong term, but if anything this is worse, because if judges can have multiple terms then it means they're beholden to the current president when their term ends and therefore will be heavily swayed by party politics. This is why judgeships are normally lifetime roles, though the important part of "lifetime role" is "only one term" and not "never ends".
Sage with Waterfox. Old, but I've never found anything better. When it stopped working in FF I had a day of mourning, and then when I found Waterfox I had a day of rejoicing.
Text interpretation should also be valued, as well as the importance of "not completely twisting another person's comment to suit your own views". Your comment extrapolates wildly from the one you responded too, and thats AMAZINGLY POLITICAL AND ALSO DISHONEST.

*ps sorry for any English mistake, as it's not my first language.
Does kind of defeat the purpose though.
Maybe it's one of those drives that comes with a demo of the backup software and they're hoping you'll buy the full version?
Running many instances of various untrusted code on the same server is "new": it came with the cloud infrastructure.

Running many instances of various untrusted code on the same client machine is "new": it came with web apps, and with mobile apps.

Before several years ago, it was sort of a non-issue, because to exploit such a vulnerability one would need to write a virus or a trojan, and with this approach, there are many easier ways of privilege escalation.

Something like "cloud" existed likely on IBM mainframes under OS/VM [1] but System/370-compatible CPUs likely lacked all these exploitable speculative execution features.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_(operating_system)
As if their content wasn't also commercials.
Spot on mate. Not only a sharp and valid point, but also made me laugh.
+1. Very nicely said. Thank you for this
My bad. I am a citizen.
At what point do we simply revert to using typewriters for authoring sensitive documents, and pneumatic tubes (couriers for WAN) for networking?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/15/germany-typewr...
Tell me about Dave! Why does he wear the drag?
On the other hand my experience with YouTube and my kids is without an Adblock they get all sorts of commercials. Why does my 2 year old need to be exposed to a Toyota ad?
Technically "right thumb, or left thumb if you have no right thumb, or another finger if you have no thumbs".

Which I remember only because I was surprised/amused to see this in the driver's handbook (the pamphlet they give you if you are applying for a license). That handbook contains a tiny slice of the vehicle code, presumably the most important subset, which is why this made me laugh.

I just looked at the current one online and it no longer includes this info.
The $15/month was just local service. You had to pay per minute for long distance calls.

That $75/month now included unlimited calling as well as texts and probably has some data as well.
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> and most of Google's current users favor a small number of major outlets.

With what level of certainty do we actually know this? Sounds like an assumption to me.
https://www.additudemag.com/adhd-and-tv/
How do you even get the CA private key
> This is a clearly defined process in the C world

Rather, shared-library mechanisms are platform-specific. ELF shared libraries are different from Windows DLL's, for instance. The LGPL covers both, because it's mum on implementation details.

The abstraction is basically the same. The application has some symbolic references satisfied dynamically by the library, and possibly vice versa.

> The LLGPL is an easy amendment to make those intentions clear.

I wouldn't use it because it's a rare license, and I'm not a lawyer. It's best to use one of the top five or so popular licenses. Licenses aren't programming languages; it's okay to use the popular thing.

Furthermore, bosses and customers don't want to hear that Lisp is so weird that it needs a modified version of a license that everyone else uses in stock form.

The LLGPL contains dubious, superfluous clauses like: "It is permitted to add proprietary source code to the Library, but it must be done in a way such that the Library will still run without that proprietary code present."

w...hy? The LGPL doesn't allow that, and there is no reason to do that in a Lisp library.

Code is not added to libraries in Lisp; it is added to the image. We can add the proprietary application into the image and we can load the library into the image. That's all the mixture of proprietary and LGPL that is needed; the proprietary sources don't have to appear to be mixed into the library in the project tree. Keep it in a separate directory, which contains a copy of the LGPL which applies to every source file in it. No brainer.
The benefits of diversity is the Left’s pseudoscience, so I can’t take an article seriously that so prominently features it. There is an unbelievable amount of grift involved in getting a government scientific grant these days - major awards must have a D&I component and I know from personal experience it’s largely wasted.

The author only wants conservatives purged. I want climate deniers and diversity sycophants alike purged from the scientific apparatus.
The same can be said with automobiles - customers don't care what is under the bonnet. Except that this is not true, customers do care even if it is just a plastic engine cover that they see.

So the challenge is to market one's CSS as a quality product rather than the naive CSS that most websites use. So it is a 'Mercedes' rather than 'GM' product, a Swiss watch rather than a badge engineered generic Chinese watch, a fine meal rather than a bag of fast food.

The reality of most websites is that they are throwaway, within a couple of years it will look tired. If this premium website product can last longer without having a refurbishment then that can make a difference to a business that cares about more than the next quarter.
On the HiPE doc page it says:

> HiPE and execution of HiPE compiled code only have limited support by the OTP team at Ericsson. The OTP team only does limited maintenance of HiPE and does not actively develop HiPE. HiPE is mainly supported by the HiPE team at Uppsala University.

http://erlang.org/doc/man/HiPE_app.html
I wonder at what point the hardware fix for these issues stop becoming worthwhile and if we'll see a resurgence of processors without speculative execution or any of these other speed ups.
Anecdotal. Not the rule
And I'm constantly baffled by people like yourself who have accepted that culture influences technical work, but are unable to draw the logical conclusion that certain cultures are therefore better predisposed to success in a given industry than others.

You can't have it both ways. If we concede that culture influences ability, then we must accept that merit based hiring will inevitably result in disproportionate representation, and that hiring for the purpose of representation is very likely to have a negative impact on technical work.