skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The FAANG and similar interviews are designed—one hopes, anyway, because if they're trying to do something else they've screwed up—to select for some combination of decent-or-better IQ and having put in enough work to prep for their tests using, yes, online exercises and some books, with the set of things one needs to study being fairly large but also very well-known. There are lists all over the place, including one sort-of famous guide someone put on Github, outlining what you need to study, and where to study it.

Basically they want you to be at least semi-smart in a raw general intelligence sense, and to really want the job and have put in the work to get it. Whatever their reasons for this, it will almost certainly have the effect of making a successful candidate value the offer more and think more highly of their co-workers, for the same reason that e.g. initiation (hazing) rituals or costs tend to improve group cohesion. Perhaps this is why they do it.
> unless you're curing cancer, you shouldn't put any effort into making some billionaires richer

As someone working on that particular problem, I really wonder how I would deal with someone like you in my team. Maybe a bit flips due to the problem and you actually do work? I wonder what I would see if I married your resume with this post.
That's all fine if you stay stateless. Once a well-meaning developer introduces local application state into your web app or adds a feature that locks your database, your web server is no longer "embarrassingly parallelizable". This doesn't even start to handle issues you get when you use a single-threaded langugage that cannot handle multitasking well. Sidekiq makes money purely because Ruby is single threaded, and its thread will lock if you give it a task that takes too long.

The microservices movement seems to be a misguided reaction to these self-imposed issues where instead of handling proper task management on a process level or with async/concurrency, functionality is split between servers, codebases and infrastructure. This problem was solved with Erlang decades ago with the actor model and supervision, and newer BEAM languages like Elixir and LFE are a pleasure to work in.

You even have this model and concurrency ported to JVM with Akka, C++ with CAF. Granted, the Actor model and the field of concurrency as a whole is solving the problem of enforcing statelessness in a way such that tasks can be efficiently distributed multiple cores, and that no single task locks up your machine for too long.
Seriously, you have a 0.01%/yr chance of dying when you’re driving by yourself normally. I’d speculate 3 deaths so far is way way way better than that. Anything better than the status quo should be welcomed with open arms, not berated for being fallible. Of course it’s not perfect but you know what, it’s getting better and humans aren’t.
Can you clarify whether you mean only the `attestationObject` should be sent to the server or that everything should be encoded as a single CBOR object and then sent to the server?
Well, this long list is certainly a nice reminder that Google is going to be a permanent part of most peoples' lives for ... forever.

Seriously. Google can use this as marketing for why people love Google so much.
Europe indeed has plenty of slow moving multinationals where one can slack off, the difference is they're slacking off on crap salaries while FAANGers slack off for high six figure salaries. :)
how do Ceph and PureStorage handle their S3 implementations? the API doesnt seem variable enough that I cant use duplicity to send/receive with either of these...
Maybe it does?

A causal reader might not be aware of how hypocritical certain operators are in the IT space and are reading this for the first time.

Just because it's obvious TO YOU doesn't mean it's obvious to everyone.

Though I do agree that lots of "because they're evil" comments do not add to the discussion.

Personally I think downvoting should be done carefully and not because the downvoter disagrees with the comment.
The 'Toothbrush Test' Google's CEO Uses to Make Acquisition Decisions (2014)
Forever drops node 4
"Just like someone who is into some of the best/most intellectually challenging Anime probably wouldn’t be all that impressed by The Simpsons."

Current Simpsons perhaps not. Seasons 1-8 Simpsons, though, quite possibly. Much more intelligent than the current stuff. Though it does suffer from being completely episodic; there are several episodes that deftly handle some character's development, but almost none of it gets to stick around until next week. On that front it definitely isn't a good anime.
Well they shouldn’t have any trouble funding the first one...
TIL - the bobs had a surname
Sybase wasn't founded until five years after Oracle DB's first release.
Who is currently in space?

https://www.worldspaceflight.com/bios/currentlyinspace.php
I logged in no problem with Firefox nightly, macOS, and Yubikey nano c.
You may be right, but intrinsic motivation can be strangled by poorly managed organizations.
I mean this in the nicest way possible (I envy your optimism!), but I'm curious how long you've been working as the last 12 years have been an exceptionally good period in tech. My career started in the middle of the dot-com era in the late 90s, so I've been through a few cycles where finding engineering work was hard and people who had crappy jobs were grateful for the income. Those experiences dulled my optimism about the meaningfulness work -- I spent a year in the early 2000s eating ramen and freelancing websites in PHP because I couldn't find a "real" job after the startup I worked for that was going to save the world went bust. Maybe I'm just a cynical old lady at this point, but I do feel emotionally well-prepared for whatever happens next.
Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz
Just to be clear, you can get away with this?
Not sure that's true-- From the paper it seems like they are making bio-coal by distilling the liquid fraction produced during the charring process (the bio-oil). Bio coal is more like a very dry, solid tar than a charcoal.
Nope but that one looks great. The one I played is http://www.phial.com/puerto-rico/ (which apparently still exists). Apparently, it's a Curl web applet.
Thanks for sharing. Although anecdotal, more posts like these would be very useful to gauge the markets.
You're right. Even if the email contents are encrypted, there is still the metadata.

I wonder if the Monero Message System is still being developed. It would solve the metadata problem.
My dude, I hope you realize that you're only one crappy and traitless newly hired manager or technical leader away from being extremely miserable at your job.
I would say keep an eye on Apache Arrow, it can potentially change how we operate with data.
I'm personally not L6+ and totally agree that if you can get to 6 then your compensation changes drastically.

At my previous company, I had stock options which had I held onto them would have been roughly comparable in value to my current stock grants.

But I agree that the biggest advantage over other companies are the stock grants, which have much less risk than supplemental compensation at other companies.

The moral of the story is that one really has to get to L6+ at Google to really earn money that one couldn't earn elsewhere.

IMO, that can be difficult depending on what projects you work on, your soft skills, and ability.

I routinely get solicited about jobs that have quite a bit higher compensation than Google's, particularly in finance.
The Fastmail app is very nice, but not required

Using Apple’s iOS apps will give you better integration with the whole Apple ecosystem, Fastmail‘s app has better integration with a few of their specific features

The biggest advantage of using Fastmail’s app is that searching emails is MUCH faster and flexible
I don't believe this is the case. In central Europe (Poland, Czech, Slovakia, Hungary) you can have < 20 - 25% effective taxes even including basic health insurance. In german speaking countries (Austria, Germany) you get twice the salary but that goes with higher taxes. AFAIK in US just the health insurance is very expensive.

EDIT: (using the most tax-effective form of employment, which most of the time is working as a contractor. Being a full-time employee comes with so much higher taxes in EU)
At least you don't need to spend 4+ years on a degree that's not worth anything.

Don't know how accurate this list is, but I'm pretty sure an electrician in my area wouldn't even want to get out of bed in the morning for 40K euro per year.

https://www.buildingtalk.com/tradesmen-around-the-world-whic...
Study shows urgent care pricing can vary 3 times for those without insurance
Being utterly confident means people will assume you bring a lot of value to the table, whether or not you do. The signals you give are usually the first and some of the strongest ones that people look at. Of course, if you're a total charlatan, you'll be exposed eventually; but you'll get much farther with excellent confidence in mediocre work than you will with wavering confidence in excellent work.

That said, I almost always stand out in my manner of dress, and it's bought me no particular advantages. It would surprise me if "the tall girl with the great outfits" was not a good enough description to get most people in my area to identify me. Still, being visually recognizable confers no immediate advantage, beyond that whenever I meet people they remember me and have seen me around before. (I just love fashion, so I do it for me more than anything else)
> "I wonder who owns SQL."

I don't know what it would mean for someone to "own SQL". It's
an ISO standard:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL#Interoperability_and_stand...
It's in my experience that when one elects to keep themselves busy with A instead of B, it's because they're more adept at A than at B. Doing B requires one to get out of their comfort zone, and doing A let's them believe they're making progress while avoiding having to think about B.

Now that's just me, maybe it's different for you.

If I may ask: how are the sprint tasks different from the other small things you feel compelled to do?
Choose to challenge yourself. With Google on your resume you’ll have a pretty good safety net via pedigree. Choose temporary discomfort. Make Linux a viable desktop platform or something. ;)
What will happen to cryptocurrency in the 2020s?
> My advice would be work hard, save your money, travel when you can to better locales to improve your social life, but with the eventual goal of permanently moving out when you've saved enough. If you pick your destination within the USA well, dating prospects will improve greatly, and if you look worldwide (and can overcome the language and immigration issues), it could improve dramatically. The Bay Area will seem like a bad dream.

I just created my HN account to emphasize this point. After 4 years in the Bay Area, I've come to the same conclusion. I've been saving money for 9 years now & should be at the $1,000,000 mark within 2 years. First 5 years of saving in Los Angeles got me to $200,000, and the last 4 years have pushed me to $700,000. Assuming Trump is re-elected, my portfolio should hit the $1,000,000 mark within two years.

A million bucks isn't much here, but its a sizable nest-egg in most places in America. Saving money in the Bay Area is much easier to do than anywhere else. I plan to move to a rural state as soon as I get to a million. The misery of living here has to end at some point.
I would like to find the motivated time to analyze how Forth and lambda-calculus functional languages compare/connect. Each Forth word seems to be effectively a lambda that must be connected to a correctly-typed stack, and words can themselves manipulate the stack as its own structure.
I have seen this happen before. In the 1990's I was an audio engineer for a radio station that had just spent millions on digital suites with hard drives that would crash regularly, destroying in-progress work.

The station actually got techs to fly to Australia to try to diagnose the problem -- A bunch of SCSI disks stacked vertically was causing the topmost drive to overheat.
On the contrary, I believe developers should stand up to Apple where they can, and the browser is likely the only place for it, given they have zero leverage in negotiations on native apps, in which Apple is making life very very hard for developers who simply do not fall in line with their guidance.

If Apple will willy-nilly reject app store (both Mac and iOS) apps, retroactively change rules to kill competition (look up what they did with steam) and randomly start banning popular frameworks (electron apps are the latest victim), and still insist on being W3C non-compliant, in a blatant effort to force users and developers to their walled garden, developers need to grow a backbone and take Apple on where they can. If Mac users really want your webapp, Firefox/Opera.... are just an install away
Check out Balena and apply if you’re interested; they’re hiring. (disclaimer: I’m married to an employee)
The variance arises from the fact that none of it is formalized or theoretical. It's just a bunch of opinions.
With a lifelong auction for individuals, perhaps with an agreed upon inflation agreement (which can also be bid in the auction) and a sufficiently long auction cycle for big corporate projects to be worth doing (50 years?), I could see this being feasible. I still don't see a way to condone eviction outside of this period, just because the new land renter A. happened upon unexpected value on the land or B. had more insight to identify the value than other auctioneers. And even with a 50 year cycle, if a business builds a business specific factory, this cycle would discourage more investment into the factory near the end of the "lease" and encourage wastefully leasing some new land and building a new factory on it. There are a lot of theoretical challenges with Georgism, and combined with the impossibility of stripping all existing landowners of their property, it's all just a theoretical exercise. Still an interesting thought experiment though, and could be worth exploring if science opens up new land to divvy up (e.g. on Mars).
This is the stance that Browserify took, and a stance I really liked myself. But the community overwhelmingly voted for Webpack.
If those organizations wanted to do what you say, and WebAuthn didn't support attestation, I doubt they'd say "well I guess we just can't do that" and give up, though.
Except that work visas are virtually impossible to get these days.
I'm trying to think of how working 16 hours a day, near 365 days a year isn't a "tragedy".
This is a systemic problem with JS dev in general. I know of zero projects that keep the number of dependencies low enough to enable manual audit. Pretty much everyone out there is blindly installing hundreds, and often thousands, of packages, no matter what setup they choose.
It does! We built the whole platform using serverless on AWS. We wrote about it here: https://hypertrack.com/blog/2019/07/11/how-we-built-a-server.... It's been validated by many customers and scales up and down easily.
As someone not from a NATO country, the discussions on r/worldnews have been pretty disappointing about anything outside of NATO. The news stories upvoted there suffer from similar problems.
I offer you the opportunity to wire it to me and you'll never have to think about it again.
It doesn't have to be fastest, it just has to be faster than what you're using now. C++ compiler has a suite of automatic compiler optimizations that'll make your code performant. Things like loop unrolling, strength reduction, vectorization, cache optimization can make your code many times faster than what you can muster with js.

There's a reason why many AAA titles use C++. No benchmark necessary.
Surprisingly, I didn't learn the hard way, I actually took advice from other people. Granted, I've learned a LOT the hard way, but not that one.

There's a clause that says the scope of the project is defined in an addendum document, and any changes to that may incur additional fees that must be agreed upon by both parties. There's also a clause that the deposit is 100% non-refundable once I have begun work in any manner, and that I'm not obligated to turn over anything until the final payment has been made. This way they have skin in the game, and can't try to pull a fast one with a huge change expecting me to do it free or lose the contract.
Git Pretty
Excellent review.

Just wanted to say thanks. ZEIT's attention to developer experience has transformed the way I (and many others) create web applications.

Just a few years ago, I would have opted to use vanilla React with GitHub Pages. If I needed a server, maybe Flask deployed to Heroku. There's nothing wrong with this approach. However, I've never felt more productive with Next.js and zero-config deployments via Now.

The flexibility that Next.js offers (as touched on the review) continues to provide a platform for simple static sites to complex, typed web apps with API routes or even a custom server. The best part? Very minimal breaking changes.

Kudos to everyone at ZEIT and the Next.js contributors.
Your link is from 2016. HN Guidelines allow re-posts if there has been no significant discussion in the last year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
>Unfortunately, in some ways (particularly politically) eminent domain powers are at their nader in the U.S. Which is a big part of the reason why we can't accomplish things like California Highspeed Rail. I think that drives home the point that Georgist taxation is less workable today than it ever has been in recent history.

HSR would be easier with a land value tax - there would be a negative incentive to hoard land, so land acquisition costs would be minimised.
So is Java, but here we are.

https://www.cnet.com/news/sun-wins-java-iso-approval/
This hasn't been my experience. My current employer doesn't have a clause like this, and although they wouldn't have needed to, they also in-writing cleared my side-projects when I joined, even commercial ones.
If you happen to check your replies - curious why you would pick yarn over npm or pnpm in 2020.
Be like a friend of mine in Argentina who works remote on U.S jobs. He's from the U.S and moved there, so he speaks perfect English, and Spanish but he make enough in a month to live for the whole year. He bought a house, has a nice smart girlfriend much younger than him. He's doing very well.
> nuclear seems to have a limited impact on nature

I mostly agree, but don't forget about the mining operations:

https://phys.org/news/2019-05-uranium-heart-kakadu-cleanup.h...

https://goo.gl/maps/8NVrpwSy7mCmJzq69

https://goo.gl/maps/ZdKKHc4jHBBrMcio8

And in the USA: http://cleanupthemines.org/facts/
Sigh

It’s sad that there are people who think calling garbage code garbage is inappropriate. What goes in their mind? Don’t they smell or call a smell a smell?
Are you truly making the argument that disenfranchisement of groups based on demographics has as little to do with libertarianism as the results of a sports game?
Thank you! is there a way for us use a safe and secure bank transaction ... i'd love to see a bank who does not sell our data to a insurance firm or an analytics firm.
This is the problem -- who determines how much these things are worth? And if you risk other people pricing you out of property you currently hold a lease for (especially because they think the value is going up because of your investments in it) I can't imagine that would encourage any development at all.

If LVT is subject to arbitrary changes outside of precise terms negotiated during the initial auction (which should cover the annual cost plus cost increase schedule).

Ultimately, nothing will incentivize the improvement of the value of the property as much as owning the property. I think it's apparent that total infrastructure development would go down significantly under this system, even if there are other advantages. We can minimize risk by including length of lease in the auction, but if there is a maximum lease length, the end part of that lease will always be devoid of infrastructure improvements.
I think it's just the perspective. Most software engineering that provides significant value to businesses isn't very hard from the perspective of the person doing it. It just requires a shit ton of specific knowledge, and a bunch of time and tedious work. Of course mustering those things is hard. Try and find someone to replace you in all the things you do, and see how much work they have to put into it. Depending on how deep you're into it, or on how wide the spectrum is, it might even require a really talented person to achieve the skill required to not find the work hard ;)
Great work - I got my visiting family to play this all together (about a total of 6 people, including myself) with the living room TV as a spectator for others not playing and we all had a lot of fun!

One suggestion, or option, what would you think about the Game Log being reversed?.. where the older logs are at the bottom and newer ones up-top, closer to the score? Could maybe be just a toggle/button?

Nonetheless, a lot of fun, great work again!
>Basically, the social value of land is 100% socially constructed, but under a system of landownership, it's 100% privately held and all the profit goes to private hands.

But this can be said for anything, no? After all the value of every asset is socially constructed, whether that's shares in a company or land seems irrelevant, so if you buy that logic I feel like the Marxist case makes more sense instead of just arbitrarily stopping at land.

It also seems counterintuitive because it would essentially mean that someone who holds billions in shares or digital assets has no tax burden under the Georgist logic but a small independent farmer does.
> If it can manage to only use a megabyte or two of RAM as overhead I can seriously consider it

Lets see if we can make this happen! If you are interested I would love to help. I have been looking at making Pion WebRTC work with TinyGo, then it would work really well!

> I come off as arrogant in my previous comment

You are fine! Everyone has different communication styles. You bring up valid points, and I really appreciate your enthusiasm. Earlier in my career it would have hurt though, but I have been through much worse. I will work on adding a spell checker to travis, not sure how else to stop something like that from happening again.

> "Pure C"--is extremely disappointing

I walk two very distinct paths in life. At one time I work on Pion and have very idealistic goals. I am proud that it builds fast, it is accessible, community owned and safe code. The unfortunate reality is that many people are never going to use it and those that use it usually aren't in the position to pay. The majority of the working hours in my last two years have been on it.

There is a demand for the C SDK. People have things they want to build, and I want to empower them. I agree that C has issues, but all I can do is try to fight that (sanitizers, fuzzing, code coverage). I am excited about what people are going to build with it. I try to be pragmatic, and my paying work lets me go and accomplish things like Pion.
I feel the following line (from [1], quote original) is a way better summary:

> Remember the freedom quote? "Forth is about the freedom to change the language, the compiler, the OS or even the hardware design".

> …And the freedom to change the problem.

[1] http://yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines....
Lots of health tracking and life logging apps depending on what you wan tot do.
https://github.com/woop/awesome-quantified-self
https://www.reddit.com/r/QuantifiedSelf/comments/eibrof/ask_...
There is about 19,600,000 articles available according to google search "chrome hard refresh".