skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This does not apply in all circumstances. My jump into tech lead came as the old tech lead (15+ years xp) and young superstar(~4 years with wisdom beyond his years) departed from it.

The replacements were a developer just coming off a PIP and a new graduate with zero industry experience, having not interned. I still kept the focus on developing the team as much as possible but the candle needed to be burned on both ends: taking on a large majority of implementation whilst quietly fixing mistakes made as to not shake growing confidence were commonplace throughout the first 6 months.

Towards the end of our involvement in our product I’m proud to say that both developers had outgrew their ranks and delegation and trust came without thought. I was pretty close to burnout by the end of that year if I’m honest with myself though and my own career progression has without doubt stalled due to it
In my experience IntelliJ is a bad Scala IDE. While it has lots of cool advanced features, none of them make up for not being able to compile the basic language accurately: what good is an IDE where I can't 100% rely on getting a red underline for invalid code and no red underlines for valid code?

The parts where IntelliJ has always fallen down on Scala seem to be precisely the parts that are missing from Kotlin. I can't help feeling that the JetBrains team just "doesn't get" higher-kinded types at all. Which is a shame, because there is a lot of good stuff in Kotlin otherwise.
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> I can't wait to study up and interview here again

If the decision to reject was purely objective then sure, but isn't a big part of it if not most of it subjective? And even when the reasons could be objective, I imagine people are deciding in part through gut-feeling and might not be able to articulate the reasons for rejection in an objective enough manner. That's why I imagine people are inclined to fight when given the reasons for rejection.
I'll give my dissenting opinion:

I do like the feature. If I'm actively looking for something to watch, I like the fact that I can quickly see a preview. They normally don't start playing until I've finished reading the excerpt anyway, so it's not some massive annoyance. By the time the preview starts to play, there is a high probability that I want to see it. And if not, I just continue scrolling. It is the tiniest of inconvenience for an overall improvement to the experience of finding something to watch.

I suspect there is a high correlation between people that hate autoplay and people that hate the open office. Some people find tiny little distractions absolutely unbearable, but I don't.

If I am actively looking for something to watch on TV, why would I be so bothered that a video starts playing on my TV? I don't really understand the use case of someone that wants to leave the Netflix home page up just hovering over a title.
Sure.

> Then maybe there can be a system that provides a disclaimer where they waive all ability to sue or otherwise get into a fight with you.

This ain't gonna help though, because it's not particularly useful at preventing the damage that these companies are afraid of, so it's not really going to tilt the existing balance.
First piece of advice is the title tech lead applies to several different roles.
Everything from pm to architect to just most sr. Dev.

First thing to do is go to your new boss and get them to give you an exhaustive list of your new duties, responsibilities, what success look like, etc..

Also go to other people who have done well in that role at your company and ask them the same questions.
> we really like you as a candidate

It’s not you, it’s me
So does this mean the submission was administratively flagged?

Not criticising, just asking for clarification on what being judged as 'not substantive enough to be on topic for HN' entails.
This is the sad truth of it. As a candidate I greatly appreciate feedback but I know there are others who will try to paint their not getting hired as due to bias (classism, racism, sexism, etc) without any evidence. I don't blame those who have been burned and ended the practice. An accusation might as well be a conviction in some situations.
Single-Table Design with Dynamodb
Evaluating the efficacy of the new image codec is not possible using only a decoder.

I was unable to find an APL2 JS polyfill decoder. Does one exist?
> CBT is not something you can start doing by yourself without an external catalyst.

I disagree strongly with this part. The "Feeling Good" book by David D Burns, which is essentially a fantastic primer on CBT, single handedly helped me conquer my depression in college and helped me graduate with high scores, just when I was on the verge of dropping out. It was god send to me because I couldn't afford to go to a therapist. (And depression was just one of the psychological problems that I had, which later therapy helped me identify).
Does it even matter if humans are causing it? Let's figure out solutions to fix the problem.
Again the non-sequitur argument of an explainable model must be worse than a deep learning system and there has to be a tradeoff.

You don’t need to reduce complexity to induce explainability. You just need to decompose the function into smaller parts which you can understand.

Contrastive LRP for example is a Function decomposition technique for explaining deep neural networks with high fidelity.
Agile is great when the maximum cost of system failure is momentary decreased sales.
I've heard it phrased as "a rich man doesn't have to tell you he's rich".
When battling with SARS, large dose of steroids was used as part of the treatment to suppress immune system [0]. But there are many side-effects (e.g. lots of SARS survivors in China need hip replacement [1]).

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC420028/

[1]: https://www.scmp.com/article/433797/28-sars-survivors-have-b...
I see where you’re going, but I think the advice still sticks.

If you’re at a startup, your product is your business.

The point about not hesitating to move fast is the biggest difference between startups and mature companies.
FilmAffinity is awesome for that - basically, after you vote a bunch of movies, it finds the N active users that voted most similarly, and then it offers you as recommendation whatever those people vote favorably that you haven't seen yet. You can actually see those selected people and filter them manually too.

The consequence is that you don't care about things like masses of teenage girls upvoting the latest vampire fad, people downvoting a classic because they don't understand the context or anything, because only your bubble matters to you. And if you fear that the bubble will keep you from discovering new things, there's a way to set up the algorithm to calculate your similar users so that they aren't exactly close to you - or you can go to a specific users profile if you know them and see what they're voting.

I find it amazing compared to IMDb or rottentomatoes, but for some reason I think it's mostly unknown outside of the Spanish speaking world.
Myst almost couldn't run on a CD-ROM
> what should I be doing about it?

There is currently no vaccine to prevent 2019-nCoV infection. The best way to prevent infection is to avoid being exposed to this virus. However, as a reminder, CDC always recommends everyday preventive actions to help prevent the spread of respiratory viruses, including:

Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, especially after going to the bathroom; before eating; and after blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing.
If soap and water are not readily available, use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol. Always wash hands with soap and water if hands are visibly dirty.
Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands.
Avoid close contact with people who are sick.
Stay home when you are sick.
Cover your cough or sneeze with a tissue, then throw the tissue in the trash.
Clean and disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces using a regular household cleaning spray or wipe.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/prevention-t...
Not being able to leave the planet is not really ever going to be an issue.

Space debris can make specific orbits unusable, but you can pass through those orbits no worries.

You can think of it like the asteroid belt.

If you are flying out past the asteroid belt you don't really need to worry about it, as the objects are spread out so much your chance of intercepting one is very small.

If you want to have an orbit within the asteroid belt you will definitely need active course correction and obstacle avoidance.

Of course, there is a point in which if there were truly stupid amounts of debris in a specific orbit then you might have difficulty avoiding it, but that seems incredibly unlikely - if only that we would stop throwing debris into that orbit way before we got to that point.
Yes! Anecdotally, I have known people with similar issues who were helped by mushrooms or mdma. They seem to experience some fundamental change in their perspective. However, that benefit came with one or maybe a few trips, not ongoing consumption.
The only Canadians I know who aren't retired and work in the US are there for the money. Though I'm not sure what not fitting into Canadian culture can even mean, to be honest.

I think it's way more complex than you describe: Canadians don't go through all the hoops to become American residents in order to work at Walmart... But I think South Americans probably would...
I don't know about monopoly rates.

I take a private car service to the airport. There are a number of different services I could choose from but the one I use is reliable and competitive with competing service when I've checked. Yes, they're quite a bit more than Uber but they're reliable, including in situations where Uber would not be (very early morning pickups well outside of a major urban area).
Think more in terms of function decomposition rather than having to look at each individual parameter and you will find papers and techniques which lead to deep neural networks being quite explainable.

Contrastive LRP would be a good starting point for you for generating high fidelity explanations at any point in the network.
Would the car detect the tampering and refuse to operate? Seems like there is a fair argument to be made for that by car manufacturers in the name of safety.
Apps are helping Chinese netizens tackle the coronavirus
> it's always the person who repaired who was blamed and not the company that manufactured the product (unless they gave faulty parts).

Not always. See Brown v. Quick Mix Co.

Under the doctrine of joint and several liability a plaintiff may pursue an obligation against any one party as if they were jointly liable. That means that if Apple were found even 0.05% responsible for a third party battery explosion (i.e. the metal out of which they made the phones is conducive to fragmenting in an explosion, or some other such legal gymnastics,) then The defendant could collect 100% of the damages from Apple — even though Apple. This means that the plaintiff could recover all of their damages even if Apple’s share of the liability were near zero.

It’s pretty clear that those that claim “it’s always the person that repaired who was blamed” — has never spent any time in a courtroom. That’s just outright false.
Yeah I experienced enough of it to where it just seems like it is how things work ;)

Job hunting is / often is pretty brutal / stressful so I try to avoid taking anything personally.
It's very difficult, but it's quite common for amateur astronomers to grind mirrors to a precision of 0.1 microns or better, using century-old techniques. (Typically the mirrors are smaller, but that's a matter of the available budget for materials and man-hours, not the metrological precision.) I think it's reasonable to assert that if a company doesn't have such amateurs on staff, it will not be able to fabricate optics to such demanding precisions. There are not currently any assembly lines for such things.

The century-old techniques are a little better now that you can use a laser instead of a candle, and there are improved techniques you can use, but amateur telescope fabrication techniques are totally capable of hitting λ/8 precision.
Even that in a way is useful to them. If they are constantly getting confused, bemused, or angry responses to what they think is honest feedback, it is a red flag about their hiring process.
you should read the op
Made by the same folks who brought you JPEG 2000. /s
Not real, clinical, narcicissim. But more like an understanding I can be a real A-hole at times.

This: https://fs.blog/2012/04/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/
Oh, that's good news.
That was from "Improv Wisdom" by Patricia Ryan Madson.
Your employer must be paying for a portion of your health insurance premiums, so you have to include that if you’re going to compare to the $7k GBP figure.

And everyone would get a different job with nice health insurance offerings, if they could.
You can thank limiting the use of pointers and macros for that.
Ask HN: How do you do your taxes?
very interesting advice here. thanks y'all
> even when the real reason is something like "meh I'm not sure the candidate quite clears our bar".

That's the problem, though - you're trying to make a hiring decision on hopelessly incomplete information, and so it will come down in large part to gut feeling. And the moment you admit to using some non-quantifiable feeling as a basis for not hiring someone, you open yourself up to claims of some form of discrimination.

It's all around safest to just stay quiet.
My wife has the same thing... has to leave the house by a certain time if she wants to work on the same floor as the rest if the team.

I never thought the hot desk policy at a company I wasn’t even working at would affect my morning...
taste.io does Awful/Meh/Good/Amazing
Remember at the time this was a closed network of less than a thousand computers, and there was no secrecy about what was connected to the network. For example, knowledgable users were able to identify where a computer was from its name, because sites had distinctive naming schemes https://elists.isoc.org/pipermail/internet-history/2020-Febr...
Ask HN: Simple Software to Track Invoices?
Anyone know of simple software to track customers and how much they owe, invoicing schedule etc? Don't actually need the sending-of-invoices part, just scheduling for billing and recording of whats been paid and not.

Ideally with APIs in so later if we want to invoice from our application we can.
I've been on both sides, interviewer and interviewee. I always give feedback if asked, and endeavor to be scrupulously fair.

My take is that it's all pretty arbitrary, at the end of the day. Most interviewers do not 1) spend time putting the candidate at ease, 2) ask the same interview questions across candidates for the same position, 3) really introspect about whether they are doing it well.

Interviews are a notoriously terrible way to get a good grasp of how someone will do on the job, and most interviewers in my experience do not recognize that. The more an interviewer is convinced they are good at it, the more they really just suffer from Dunning-Kruger. No interviewer ever feels like they have failed when they reject a candidate, although it's very well possible that they did, and badly.
That company's problem is their shit-tier hiring process, not the fact that they give feedback.
Ask HN: what to reverse engineer?
Reading "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!", I realize how much fun reverse engineering is. What are the most fun things/systems to reverse engineer in the digital world?
My internal translation: "I feel" -> "I have concluded, based on no evidence"
From a liberty point of you, aren't you taking away Apple's freedom of association and forcing it to share it's proprietary information with competitors?

Apple is free to have the repair policies they like, and I am free to buy or not buy Apple with their repair policies forming one of the inputs for my decision.
Like locks and doors, secure and safe are not a binary state, it's a spectrum, where your purpose is to provide more hurdles of time, effort, discovery, consequences, etc to the attacker such that what they would want from you is not worth it. Nothing will leave you entirely secure (and conversely nothing will leave you entirely insecure. You can leave piles of cash on your front porch and it still depends on someone actually walking by to note there's something to steal).

If you're a bank in a metropolis, you get a sophisticated vault. If you're a business you get an alarm system to protect your inventory. If you're a farmer and it's the less expensive farm equipment, you might not even lock the barn/shed.

If you expect state level adversaries, you probably need state level resources, planning, and mitigations. If you're jane/joe schmoe citizen, don't give out your passwords or click on unknown binaries, and be wary of people asking you for SMS codes in IMs. Scale appropriately for the threat you think you'll face, and as much buffer as you think you can stomach.
That is interesting. I was trying to roughly say that Cloudflare stats might be artificially high/slow if measured from the center vs the "edge". Sounds like perhaps not?
If it flies for a few months without incident, most people will stop noticing.

After a few years, no one will care anymore.
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An important question: How old are you?

If you are in your teens, 20s or 30s then I'd say don't get too upset about being self focused. A lot of us are.

Having kids changes you too :-)

Not saying you should get old or have kids, but it's a factor :-)

Enjoy being you whilst you can :-)
Didn't intend to imply we're on the edge of a tech-recession or anything close to that.

But I'm pretty sure property prices are not a leading indicator of tech crashes. In the first dot.com crash they didn't drop until after the job market carnage was well over.

https://www.bayareamarketreports.com/trend/3-recessions-2-bu...
I agree that thumbs up/thumbs down is probably better to encode appreciation than a 0-5 scale. But for building a recommendations engine a single bit of information is not enough. If I and everyone else flags shows we are not interested in viewing 'thumbs down', then all shows end up with terrible ratings. Similarly 'thumbs down' for a great movie, but seen it already thanks so stop screaming it at me. Thumbs up and Thumbs down is certainly not all the data you need, as is demonstrated by Netflix as it stands today.
Do you mean narcissism in the sense of the personality disorder?

If so, the symptoms you describe could be due to a number of causes. For example, they're also consistent with Asperger's.

You probably want to be very sure of the root issue before you go down a rabbit hole of trying to fix things.

Neither narcissism nor Asperger's can be "fixed". That's why you can't find any books about treating narcissism. You can manage the symptoms of Asperger's, but I think narcissism is much more resistant.

Maybe take some online quizzes and then talk to a therapist. They don't have to be an amazing therapist, but it makes sense to get some feedback from a third party who has met many narcissists. They'll be able to tell you very quickly if you fit the type.
> Yes if the MTU is bogus and causes fragmentation or dropped packets that's bad, but I'm comfortable it also happened to every other packet sent, I'm only making things go from terrible to slightly more terrible, not from good to bad, and only for people who've got problems.

Certainly, this would only affect people who have problems, which is low, but if you're always padding all requests up to the full MTU, it has the potential to make things go from almost always working, to never working.

Looking at tcpdump with a real browser to one of my sites, firefox is only sending pretty short packets, everything is less than 512 bytes. But if you pad out to the full MTU, and the network is broken, those large packets may all be dropped, and the ICMPs either supressed filtered or so rate limited that they never get seen. Users on these networks with this padding would not be able to make https requests to most servers, but would be able to make connections to services where they have taken special effort to avoid MTU problems.

Special efforts like: Google and Facebook clamp the maximum MSS they send to 1380 and 1400 for IPv4; FreeBSD used to return the client MSS in SYN+ACK if it was smaller than the locally configured MSS, but that was removed with this commit: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/e1f9aeedee0bae9281...
Phrenology but for gender: a biometric app for a girls only social network
Protect your team and make sure they're empowered to do their jobs and are unblocked. Depending on the organisation a lot of pressure may be placed on your shoulders and you need to make sure that doesn't impact on their productivity.
Disney comics, especially Scrooge McDuck, have been way more popular in Europe than in the US.
It’s a little big for pockets but the iPad mini would work well if you carry a bag.
> The MCAS system didn't fail. It operated exactly as it was designed, it received faulty sensor data which in turn flew the plane into the ground.

"It worked on my airplane"
Optics technology is not advancing that fast. It had a rapid growth phase in the 17th and 18th centuries, and then a lot of the techniques remained almost unchanged until the mid-20th century, when the laser improved a lot of things. But consider that the big spectacular innovation of the last few years is Rayform, which patented a gradient-descent algorithm for making a makkyo mirror, as people have been doing for thousands of years.

There are some advances in, for example, using glass-ceramics instead of glasses, which give better strength, better rigidity, and enormously better fatigue tolerance. I don't think anybody makes multi-meter mirrors out of fused quartz, even though it would be a near-ideal material from a TCE perspective.
My team has a rule- if it's not in writing at a permalink it doesn't exist.

A simple 2-3 line github issue is often enough. what and why.
U.S. could take 'controlling stake' in Ericsson, Nokia: attorney general
> You have to show that humans are impacting the trend and causing it to deviate from its baseline for a long enough duration. We are in one of the coolest periods in the last 65m years. [1] The curve-fitting is misleading because too many scientists are attempting to make projections using truncated data.

The earth has warmed ~1 degree in a matter of decades. Since you accept this and it's only the human/CO2e influence you doubt then the onus is on you to explain where this tremendous amount of energy has come from. So where is this energy coming from? Which branch of science are you about to shake the foundation of to claim your nobel prize?
Ask HN: How to explain to people about bad privacy?
What's the best way to educate people about their bad privacy, both to family & friends and public persons?

Recently I was practicing my social engineering and OSINT skills when I came across a rather large Youtuber showing their apartment ("room tour"). Being curious to how much data I am able to gather in a limited time frame, I challenged myself to find as much information as possible in 3 hours. Surprisingly nearly everything: name, birthdate, address, phone number, relatives, etc. (using traditional approach not from doxing sites).

As I consider myself an outright white hat, I intended to share my knowledge with them via e-mail. But to my surprise I received no answer within two weeks. I tried to explain and argue as neutral as possible because of the more formal distance but from my experience with friends and members of my family, the reactions to neutral arguments are always worse than to fictional threatening examples.

How would you approach these situations?