skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is spot on. When I started in the 90s hiring was more like “you are smart so you will be able to learn”. Now it seems you really have to chase the latest cool stuff all the time or you quickly are marked as outdated. What they don’t seem to understand is that if you are the cool hotshot that’s working on an important project for a while you are almost by definition outdated after a while because you will not work on the latest hot tech. Realistically the best way to deal with is to do resume driven development and have constant churn by replacing frameworks and databases constantly just for the heck of it.

Even better is to either have a degree from a fancy school or having the name of a currently cool company on your resume but be aware that the currently cool company may fall out of favor any time.
Exactly... if finding that stuff were extremely common the place would be nothing more than a running joke.
> The key factor is the compatibility with international roaming

You could have an encryption setting in the phone, and the handshake with the network could have a bit telling you the setting isn't supported.
May want to get evaluated for ADD. My worklife improved greatly once I had a diagnosis, because at least for me there are some meds that truly help.
And James Watt based horsepower itself on the 1700s horse-to-mining pony ratio.
I want to actually make an IDE in the coming year - I've been thinking about it for months and just need to dive in
How would you turn it back on again when they do pay?

Having to visit a dealership to enable the feature would cost them more in "meh, I can't be bothered" lost sales than the couple kilobytes of cellular data probably incurs.
For the specific example given I have turned down many individuals who sound like they have a similar background because they could not figure out how to work outside of their toolchain. I see it all the time with .NET and Java developers, if they are not in Visual Studios or Eclipse they don't know how to even compile their software. Both those ecosystems are fantastic and developers can be very productive, especially in an enterprise setting, but it is rare you can take a .NET developer put them in front of Python or Go and have them actually be able to be productive without extensive training.

Which leads to the second problem. Fenerally I have found a lot of the Enterprise developers to be very resistant to training and change. They don't know how to deal with a world where they have to be responsible for the entire software project not just one small module, and they definitely don't know how to deal with any part of operations like deploying the software or troubleshooting problems. As soon as something goes wrong they blame the tech stack and pine for the days when they could just push a button on Visual Studios and have everything build and test for them without actually understanding what was going on.
You’re not alone. Lots of people and lots of companies just like working in the same room. There’s nothing wrong with it, just as there’s nothing wrong with distributed companies and remote work. Choice is good :)
Apparently it doesn't feel good enough to post on a non-throwaway though.
Eeek...sorry.
Americans’ Credit Card Debt Poised to Reach 10-Year High
that wasn't there, when I noticed the commit
The last company I worked for put together a dev team in the Ukraine and poached some talent from a local company that was connected to the local government. Our company ended up paying a relatively small (significant in the Ukraine) 'fee' to not have the team physically shut down by the locals.
No kinda about it. The cost savings is huge. I'm cheering for the bean counters to overrule the PHBs on this one.
> They probably work on the video game Beat Sabre. (recently bought by Facebook).

And now that it's bought guess what's the purpose of this game (hint: it's not about being a game, it's about collecting even more data and getting people addicted; the "game" part is just a side-effect).

At this point anyone that works at that toxic company is either naive or unethical. There's been way too many warning signs and incidents to figure out that anything they do is in one way or another to stalk people even more and waste their time with ads.
I don't see a problem here. It isn’t free for Crassus to staff his fire brigade and maintain the chariots that allow him to do this.
> The "retail" integration space remains underserved

This is accurate, there's a significant opportunity in this space but it won't stay that way for long.

There's a well-known entrepreneur I know with significant exits and capital entering this space that's going after Zapier's market and I'm certain he's not alone.
> so any company that claims to care about the environment and their future should really be doing all they can

The company that owns my office publicly boast about ecology and saving the planet all the time. Yet every single morning I come in to find the windows open and the heaters on, lights stay on all night, they heat the stairs to 30c degrees even though nobody ever use them, &c.

It's always the same shit, they talk the talk but never walk the walk. Apple doing everything in its power to not let you repair your devices, not even replace consumables, is a prime example of that. 0 companies really give a shit about ecology outside of PR moves.

Anyway, many people value office time to meet actual human beings. Commute isn't that bad if the public infrastructure is decent.
PICO-8 harkens back to limited colors and resolutions, and includes a chiptune editor. It exports to a web player, so should work anywhere.

https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php

If you want to make an adventure game, you can make a hypercard-like text game in Twine which also exports to the web. You could even draw on old DOS fonts like at https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/ and style your game like it's 1990!

https://twinery.org/
Yes, very interesting indeed! Either there is a big conspiracy to uncover or said CEO reads HN and if something is number 1 and is related to his product he pays close attention. We will maybe never find out the truth...
I always have a hard time deciding whether it's sour grapes or an actual problem when I read these posts. The mid tier startups should all be flushed out in a few years if they make such poor decisions, both in hiring and their tech stacks. For the giants I can only say - google and fb stuff works, even if you don't like their culture or morals so how wrong can they be in running their businesses? Over the next few years I'm assuming that the industry as a whole will mature and things will become more stable and sane.
Is this something I'm supposed to feel outraged about? Amazon refused to give me an EC2 instance with 2GB of RAM because I only paid for 1GB. Microsoft refused to give me 1 hour response times because I only paid for 24 hour response. Google refused to let me use Gmail with my own domain name because I didn't pay for Gmail for Business. Nest won't show me what happened on my camera five days ago because I only pay them to store that data for three days.

If Honda offers a service that lets you track your car and you choose not to pay for the service that lets you track your car, you should expect that Honda will not let you use that service for free. And we should all be especially glad that they didn't provide the information to law enforcement without a warrant. There is a provision in the legal system for law enforcement to infringe on your right to privacy, and it's called a warrant and has to be authorized by a judge. This is one of the core tenants of many Western justice systems.

This seems like a complete non-story. "Man didn't pay for service, company refused to provide said service for free". Kinda loses the punch there, doesn't it?
Newly Discovered Indonesian Cave Art May Be Oldest Known Hunting Scene
$130M sounds like a tiny sum for content arbitration at Facebook’s scale and the number of jurisdictions it crosses. I mean, nobody’s done it before, so it will be interesting. But I don’t think this is or could be a serious attempt to solve the systemic issues at stake with the platform.
Very nice. Here's a similar post but for Python.

http://notes.eatonphil.com/writing-a-simple-json-parser.html
location / {
add_header X-Supports "Igor Sysoev" always;
}
There is a nice coursera or edx course on negotiations
BNF sounds like the standard approach. Are there any BNF parsers + generators usable from Javascript?
That's a wonderful story. My only New Year's resolution this year was to befriend a crow. So far, no progress. Maybe next year.
There were also a few disparaging comments about the South in general

Silicon Valley is all about equality and opportunity. Except when it isn't.

Certain types of bigotry are not only tolerated, they're celebrated.
I have no way to prove this but I feel certain I missed out on the next step in some jobs because of my Southern accent.
I’d assume that’s pretty in demand, right? Lots of hardware startups trying to hit growth phase and need stuff to work right.
> There's a well-known entrepreneur I know with significant exits and capital entering this space that's going after Zapier's market and I'm certain he's not alone.

Having seen how the sausage is made and what it takes to build and support such a product, I will say that past success is no guarantee of success in this market. It is a grind, day and day out of dealing with queues, API integrations that fail or degrade either loudly or silently and you have no visibility into them, non-technical users who are are not happy when the magic isn't working, blobs of data that just shouldn't be, spending hours tracking down single edge cases or failures, and so on.

It's not "write some code, here's your $1B exit" (but you will be writing a lot of code!). It is constant tending of a complex piece of machinery, and failures are painful (outages somewhat, data loss exceptionally so).
> Dress appropriately

> Don’t overdress, don’t underdress.

That's the kind of ultra generic advice bordering on truism. Without knowledge of exactly what that startup expects, it looks like (and the rest of the article enforces this) the only generically safe choice is jeans and sneakers. Suit is clearly defined as overdressing.

I can assume flip-flops would be a case of underdressing but I think that would be a bit ridiculous for any kind of interview regardless. So honestly, what's underdressing when it comes to such a startup interview?
Yes, I know Synthwave, and you're right, it's close and also, for me at least, super compatible with programming. Thanks for the link, will check it out. :)
I realize we live in an upside down world nowadays, but I'd like to point out that FISA reauthorization votes in the past have been unanimously supported by Republicans while half of Democrats would vote against them.
Phone call and a take home test.
I've always thought it was weird how people have no problem sleeping on a hotel bed that has been slept on by potentially hundreds/thousands of people (and will even steal those mattresses), but they would never dream of buying a used mattress that even one person has slept on.
Big fan of their Ukranian folk album "Chi no Hibiki Higashi Yuroppu wo Utau", it's a jewel for programming (apart from THAT track).

It's precisely via Gamelan, which led me to Akira OST gamelan sounds, that I've discovered Geinoh Yamashirogumi (which then led to Muslimgauze, tangentially)

Cheers!
Absolutely not true. There is no Marriott/Hyatt/IHG/Hilton hotel that would bother with used mattresses. Mattresses alone are only $250 to $500 a piece, and the labor and logistics to transport mattresses is huge. They are sold with 10 year warranties from Tempur Sealy and Simmons. There is no way any half decent hotel risks getting bed bugs or any other issues from another hotel to save a few thousand dollars.

The idea of using a mattress a couple times and then moving it to another hotel is laughable, much less for a "month". They easily last 5 years, if not longer, and it's a huge capital expense when they need to be replaced as it's usually done all at once since it disrupts operations quite a bit.
Honest answer: I feel like I did.
Sometimes, there is an objective truth
Getting Drivers for Old Hardware Is Harder Than Ever
[quote]There are many famous game devs including Shigeru Miyamoto, Todd Howard (I'm not sure if you were joking in your first comment because he definitely used to have a cult following), Peter Molyneux, Gabe Newell, Carmack and Romero, Will Wright.[/quote]

Well, I consider myself a serious gamer but I have no idea who Todd Howard is... <googles>... oh, Bethesda.

That kinda proves my point because I have bought and played most Bethesda titles. Had absolutely no idea who the lead designer/director was though.

However, I absolutely knew about Kojima from MGS 1 onwards...

You forgot Warren Spector btw :) But there was no "Peter Molyneux's Black and White", or "Will Wright's The Sims". Was there?
Why does facebook continue to allow the running of political ads and all the headache that comes with it (despite it being a minuscule piece of it's overall revenue)? Power. You can see this as being the most tone-deaf way possible to address the problem, or as a power grab to become an arbiter of truth.
> One thing I have not figured out about huginn and which all of these automation tools seem to lack are loops.

I do some very complex stuff using the "Shell Command Agent". You might want to look into using that if you haven't already.

You can also create your own agent gem https://github.com/huginn/huginn_agent
Regardless of subscription payment or not, if they gather evidence of a crime, they must release such information to the police if presented by a warrant. Illegal tracking is another issue.
If the car has a cell connection they can enable the feature remotely.
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Very true! They are rare, and also loud so they draw attention.
The problem wasn’t cold weather, this was the middle of summer!

They were just stuck on too hard. At that age I didn’t know any better, and my dad who was the one encouraging me to gun it was never that mechanically minded.

Over 10 years later I now do all maintenance and servicing on my cars myself, so yeah if it happened again I would not have been doing that!
1 language vs 2 intertwined languages is compelling enough for me.
Obligatory HN post not about the contents of the post:

On my MacBook, fullscreen, I get horizontal scrolling on this page. Honestly, what kind of monitor was this site designed for?

The content is excellent, though.
Hexdump and Binary Logarithm
A large-ish, very pro-underdog company I worked for was absolutely fine with "toothless" jokes because I was from Tennessee and fat jokes. I was pretty incensed about the fat joke because that's one level under orientation, skin color, etc IMO.
With vscode recent remote capabilities its hard to push(come up with a argument) vim/emacs for programmers who do dev in remote VMs.
Hadn't looked at OSM in a while - wow the maps are gorgeous. Remind me of the topo maps I grew up with in Germany, which are basically pieces of art.
My question for that is how to figure out what the workplace looks like before you interview.
> Try finding a gig as a top-notch embedded coder who has spent a decade or two doing C. Uncool stack with a helping of age bias on top.

my previous employer literally can't hire folks like that fast enough.
They claimed they would never use 2FA phone numbers for ad targeting (which I didn't believe to begin with)... and guess what, at some point they started using them for ads and when things blew up they issued a fake apology and continued as usual.
Crow of course knows how good (or rather, the opposite) of a shot the farmer is.
I think there's an inherent problem between programmers/software engineers and the rest of the science/math community when it comes to their outlook on life. There was a post, I think last year, on HN on famous science, math, dev, physics quotes. It was just a large list really. Anyways, when you read through them, you pick up that in other technical professions, they have a rather bright, happy outlook on life. Science is a way to bring joy to the world, some way some how. Even math is a way to find the beauty in the natural world. Humanity's pursuit in the sciences will make the sky bluer. Hope is powered by the study of physics.

Every quote by a dev/coder/cs quote amounted to, "The light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train."

I do agree it would be interesting for a computer science version of this and in practice would be online similar to a Slack Exchange or Reddit format... but reality is, it's going to be a dumpster fire without a nuclear-powered-iron-fist of keeping the peace.
What company is on a trendy tech stack and paying higher than FAANG+M?
It's not a complaint about your post, just a moderation request. :)
Hello voice: Tech's biggest platform shift since the smartphone is happening
Depends on the level of effort you want to put into it. I've been working on a hobby project with PostGIS recently, and I've found it very easy to get started (a few hours to get PostGIS running + import just the UK's dataset using osm2pgsql). But it's taken me months to get to a point where I'd say I'm pretty experienced with it.
Surely there's a way to wordsmith an expectation like that into the post. Off the top of my head, you could include a bullet along the lines of

- Responsible for advocating for the team's needs in liaison with vendors

Although doing so kind of points out the fundamental problem: that you probably shouldn't expect a data nerd to do this. Ideally you'd have an account manager of some kind with just enough technical understanding, but who's actually a negotiation/people person.
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Is there a mix among these that isn't so... dark? I tend to go for lighter tone colors/airier ambient works when I want to really engage.
I agree. And am glad they're not handing over personal info without a warrant.

That said, it's easy enough to look up a police departments phone number and call back, should one want to verify they're actually taking to the police. It's not a problem of verifying identity.
Milk protein fermentation company Perfect Day raises $140m
> checking the weather

I actually use Huginn to check the weather, compare it with weather conditions for the previous two days and send the result to my Telegram as a simple text ("It should be a bit warmer than yesterday in the first half of the day").

I do this because I have a hard time understanding if wearing a coat would be enough for '-5 deg. Celsium, NW wind 30 kmph'. Comparison with previous days helps a lot since I already know that I was feeling ok in my coat yesterday.
HMAC and Mac Explained Simply – Building Secure Auth with JWTs
I don't see that scaling very far, if I take Berlin as an example there is absolutely no way to find a library/coffee shop spot for even 10% of the IT workers. I'd reckon Zalando employees alone would fill all the coffee shops of the city.
Distrust of tech could be encryption's Achilles heel
>> Seems unlikely. But that's not the baseline.

> Ok, what is

I don't have a number.

> and on who's authority?

By common sense. The only way to get zero error in the absence of perfect information is to avoid convictions entirely. I'm not saying I like this trade-off; I'm just saying this is reality.

> And just to be sure I understand, you're judging mechanisms designed to come to factual conclusions by evaluating how many of their decisions lean one way, without reference to or concern with their factual basis?

No, that's the complete opposite of what I was saying, which was that you have to look a the factual bases and can't just judge by the statistics. Hence my reply earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21773010
Yeah I just use the Javascript agent for v complex stuff like this.
tl;dr you may have ADD
A suit costs way more money than t shirt and jeans. And people will know if you only have one suit, and people can eyeball if you have a bad suit — it’s like an advertisement for how low class you are, and it is in fact embarrassing and reflects on your credibility for those who don’t know you. That’s not something you control.

The casual look is as low a hurdle as you can make it. Complaining that you don’t walk in like it’s Goldman Sachs is a bit silly. What a deprivation.
Currently have been running essentially the same PHP + plain text files stack on my website for about 10 years. No more complex than it needs to be.
Does vscode have vim emulation or actual vim that runs plugins. If it's the former, your statement is ludicrous.
It worked beautifully on my stupid loaner 1080p screen.
Help me understand more: what are "remote capabilities" wrt vscode?

I kicked the tires on vscode and atom and while I liked lots of things about them, it seemed like they were kinda overboard with memory consumption. These things are ultimately running web browsers, right? I'll probably have to give it another look.
Something I'm not entirely clear on:

One use case for Zapier (from a developer/company standpoint) is to allow customers to connect their existing services to actions inside your own app. For instance, if a customer updates a CRM record, you can have a custom zap update a record in your own SaaS platform.

To pull that off with huginn, is that as simple as connecting this up to Singer.io? Or would that require a big marketplace of huginn agents for popular integrations?
Just means someone imported their address book and added everyone.
Funnily enough, that is one of the features it already supports (avoiding unlit streets). Another one is avoiding especially hilly routes.
> what I was searching for

I think you’re saying that Google sends the search terms to the site you visit? It doesn’t do that, at least not for a bunch of years now. As a site owner you can get aggregate ideas of what queries lead people to particular pages, but you can’t tie it to individual visitors.
> HondaLink® Service* Is a subscription-based service that provides convenient features such as voice communication in case of emergency, online security, and one-on-one operator assistance. (source: 2019 SEDAN OWNER’S MANUAL)

Perhaps a case of not reading the manual, clicking next, not reading the EULA... ?
access to car tracking is a human right
I expect reforming the justice system might take too long as well.
For those interested, there is also jison, a flex+bison ~1:1 reimplementation in js. I used it for a domain-specific format, it is really nice, easy and go-to, compared to traditional alternatives.

https://zaa.ch/jison/
The sad reality is often startups are started by smart but inexperianced founders. They hire smart and hardworking but again inexperianced senior leaders or employees who get promoted into senior leaders.

If the company then is sucessfull enough to grow/scale they need to put in formal processes and hire departments.

This inexperianced managment team often tries to cut and paste processes and demands large companies have. "They are super successful so we should copy that!!!". However what they fail to see is that's a process of a giant unicorn... and theres no way for them to truly follow there process or pay the premiums needed to support it. Thoes unicorns grew on completely different processes/tech/people. This leads to the broken disjointed processes and expectations I see in most startups.
PEG is another popular approach
>What's underdressing when it comes to such a startup interview?

Flip-flops, jorts, and a cutoff tee that says "GTL" in a neon font of your choice.
It sounds like some kind of checkpoint/release system for the map could have saved you there. For example, you set your system to use the 2019-01 epoch of the map or whatever, you'll be guaranteed to not have any surprise changes until next time you update checkpoint.