skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any management strategy that is based on the assumption that everyone is the same and wants the same things and can act the same way is doomed to fail. I didn't see a single sentence about this person listening to and adapting to his team members as individual people. Some people might mumble the words, but aren't really interested in being leaders at all.

> Initially, my team was a team of eight engineers, from juniors to more senior members. Two years later, I have a team of triple the size, where most people have led a significant project, with mentorship/coaching support from a more experienced leader.

Huh. Two years. TBH that is not long enough to understand the sustainability of this approach. It's frustrating that people shout from the rooftops after one success like this.

There is some good advice in this post, but its hubris is galling. I would encourage the author of this post to continue growing and learning, maybe go through a failure or two, before speaking up.
You can stop at “go f* themselves”, plenty of jobs to choose from.
I'm currently using ZeroTier for a similar purpose to what Tailscale seems to be targeted at.

The problem I ran into with ipv6 is that the OS (either macOS or Android, I don't recall which unfortunately) won't query for AAAA records when it does DNS lookups unless there is a DNS resolver configured that is reachable over ipv6.

ZeroTier doesn't provide its own DNS, so I'd manually entered A and AAAA records into Google Cloud DNS on a domain I own, but because of that quirk I wasn't able to use ipv6 since my Internet links at home and work were both ipv4 only.
I say "no" a lot, or at least "I don't recommend that", and it's usually not appreciated in the USA either, even if I carefully justify it.

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19078308

For example, our org has been sued twice over ADA issues (accessibility), and my recommendations are still ignored because bosses want pretty eye-candy UI's. The org deserves to be sued again, but then there's no money for servers I need. Stupid humans follow the shiny red ball over the cliff (cue grumbling sounds). Can I try chimps instead?
He already knows what I'm talking about. And the evidence is out there, just search "Matthew Prince censorship". Abusing 1A rights because he feels like it, hiding under the corporate veil. It's about as un-American as it gets.
The only way to make companies like Google stop this arrogant bullshit interviews is if no one applies anymore. But as long as hundered desperate freshman Software Engineers fill their pipe because of "money and free food", they can continue this game.
"There's only so much that fits on blotter paper."

Unfortunately, some of those are the potentially lethal NBOMes.

Yes, you could test, but tests from ecstasydata.org cost $100, and only tests that one sample you send. It also takes a couple of weeks to get results.

That kind of outlay of time and money is only going to be acceptable to a small minority of users, and the unfortunate fact is that most users will not test.

The real solution is to get LSD legalized and then safety and purity could be assured.

Another alternative is to try some other psychedelics, like:

- Salvia Divinorum, which is legal in many places

- MDMA, which is likely to be rescheduled next year and then can be used legally under the supervision of a therapist (which can already be done under limited circumstances)

- Psilocybin, which will probably be rescheduled within the next 5 years, and can then also be used legally under the supervision of a therapist

- Ketamine, which can be legally prescribed for depression right now (search around for Ketamine clinics)

- Peyote or Ayahuasca, if you're part of certain religious groups

- Psilocybin mushrooms, which you could pick (be careful!!!) or grow.

- Psychedelic cacti, which you could grow. But, unfortunately they take a really long time to grow, and over-harvesting of peyote (for example) is a very serious sustainability problem.

- Cannabis, which can have psychedelic effects at high doses.

Being part of a legitimate medical research study can also get you access to pure LSD, and a limited amount of such research is now ongoing and planned.
Nice article. The flip side of the coin is that all these “problems” are potential moats for a well tuned ML company to use to defend market share.
Oh my. That’s all I can say. Gasp.
The latest version of Android 4.1 was released in 2012. The latest version of chrome for that seems to be around 23. A lot of android 4.1 shipped without TLS 1.1 by default. So you are stuck with SSLv3 or TLSv1. Those are just examples, there's a lot in security that has changed since 2012.

A lot of basic security was missing back then, asking anyone to enter any security-sensitive info on those devices now is like telling someone to use WinXP and IE8 for online banking. Besides that the great variety of devices that shipped on versions v4.1-v4.4 and with their different hacks/customizations it is simply not feasible to ask developers to support them years after many of them cannot be had to even test a website on, let alone debug it.
They are clearly responding to a real market signal (the belief, at least, that too many men behave poorly on some of these apps) that at least some women respond very favorably to. I guess if they remain successful that tells us something about both that signal and the sustainability.
The same type of technical app may still turn out quite differently if it's for a vastly different demographic; it may be worth comparing outcomes to some relevant baseline metrics, such as the female divorce rate being >2x that of the male divorce rate in homosexual marriages in most countries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce_of_same-sex_couples
I agree. I think that's at play here even if Google or their hiring department will never admit it.

Having a long, drawn-out process will dissuade a lot of older workers with families who may not have time to invest in practicing for the interviews or scheduling them all, again maybe something Google benefits from if they want to have young workers who are more easily shaped and eager to devote more time to their jobs.
> Who's paying 40% taxes on $300k/year?

People in California.

> $135k/year will make you a millionaire in 7 years

Yea if you are a person who somehow has 0 expenses over the course of those 7 years. Again, all but impossible in California.
Originally, OkCupid and PoF were free with paid options.
My experience is anecdotal, but I never had a problem with bots on OkCupid until after the IAC buyout. PoF has always had its share of bots.
Python to Web – Your Python App Online
Wow. They must have had wrenches and other passable hand tools as well. How in the world could they get that far, without managing to build and harness even rudimentary steam engines?

If someone had described Hero's aeolipile to the people who built this plumbing, it might have made all the difference.
I painfully agree with you, as a French. So much so that I comment my code in English for brevity.

Regarding "aujourd'hui", this monstrosity litterally means :
"to the day of today"..

Our dear language needs a reform, lest it will survive only as a roman dialect.
Originally, OkCupid and PoF were free to message and had paid options.
My experience is anecdotal, but I never had a problem with bots on OkCupid until after the IAC buyout. PoF has always had its share of bots.
The system setup of old devices was quite different from what we're used to now. CRT TV's, no OS in the way. Just inputs and near instant display of what was going on.

The more modern your game system gets, the harder it is to perform runahead. But it's also required less and less. Newer consoles got more 'laggy' by default, with OSes, USB/Bluetooth input processing, triple buffering and so on. So runahead requirements have become less and less to recreate experiences.

As to you examples, the PS3 was meant to be played on LCD TVs much like our current setups. I don't know how RPCS3 compares to a real console, but I expect the difference isn't huge. Dolphin (GameCube) and Mupen (N64) can emulate their consoles so efficiently that you should be able to achieve 1 frame of runahead on somewhat powerful systems for many games.
We would certainly compensate employees. I didn't feel it appropriate to disclose every last detail regarding the arrangement in a thread which is only tangentially-related to the OP.

This was my idea. I am a developer in my company. We are a flat structure. We have a lot of respect for each other. I am on a standup with the CEO every day. We all believe in our product and would happily participate in whatever activity brings it to market more quickly. We do not hire or retain the kind of talent that would flatly refuse to participate in experimental projects like this. At least not without some sort of initial conversation about why it's not a good fit for a particular individual.

I certainly see how someone might share your perspective. I used to work for a souless megacorp and I could have easily found myself telling my former employer to "go fuck themselves" if a proposal similar to this was imposed upon me.
> you can compress JSON as it's being transmitted (GZIP, baby).

Gzip doesn't buy much advantage on small records, because there's not much repetition in the source document. And there's no law against compressing binaries, last I checked.

> Next, I have yet to see somewhere... anywhere, not at the scale of something like Uber, or a high-performance game server, really need to worry about serialization and deserialization of JSON.

I built a discrete-event simulator[0] which presents its findings with a simple web interface from the localhost. It's about the simplest possible setup. The simulator can process millions of simulated events in a few seconds, but it takes much longer to stream the JSON to the browser for rendering. Even with "GZIP, baby".

As an experiment I converted it to stream records in Avro format. There are several javascript libraries and Golang libraries. The conversion took me an afternoon. The amount of data streamed went down by approximately half. I didn't gain on rendering time because it currently completes the entire stream before conversion. If that wasn't the case I expect the Avro version would noticeably faster.

So if "it took one random person an afternoon to hook up some libraries" is tech debt, then I guess I better call my bank, because I do that pretty much every day.

[0] https://github.com/pivotal/skenario
In my experience those PI Zero cases and camera are very unreliable. They over heat
She probably wore an Apple Watch.
Even if it's for academics, the academics 30 years from now won't be able to study the game. Five years ago, I examined BASIC for the Atari 2600. I'm far from an academic, but even so, I was still blown away with that was done with 4K ROM and 128 bytes of RAM. Yes, the emulation was annoying (I think it would have been slightly easier on real hardware) but I still found it to be a positive experience.

To be sure, I could have had first hand experience with this, as I do remember seeing this cartridge advertised when it was initially released, but I never got the chance back then. And in retrospect, I think it's for the best, as I now have the background and experience now to know just how impressive a feat it really is.

So just because you don't feel a need to revisit games (or programs) of today 30 years from now (or use programs from 30 years ago) doesn't mean apply to everyone.

[1] http://boston.conman.org/2015/06/16.1
John Carmack on “antifragile” idea generation
This is factually inaccurate. Gmail is and was always JavaScript. GWT had some successes (eg AdWords). Gmail wasn’t one of them.
You forgot about state tax in addition to federal taxes.
FTA, "King County, Washington, tech workers average $5,367 per week, or about $279,000 a year."

Sounds about right, when including stock compensation. I wish they'd provide the median and not the average.
Based on the diversity numbers reported by Google[[1] in 2018, 59.7% of leaders hired in 2018 were White. This number was 63% in 2017, 65% in 2016, 69% in 2015 and 68% in 2014 (I only found numbers only from last 5 years)

Overall workforce representation numbers tell us that Google's leadership team in 2019 is 66% White so I am not sure if what you are claiming is right.

[1]: https://diversity.google/annual-report/
For anyone who hasn't done interviews and are curious, the interview chain is not vetted in any way or form at most places. Typically in bigger companies there is a one or two hour session where you are told what you can and can't ask from a legal perspective. Sometimes there will also be a tech question bank you might be expected to ask questions from.

Having worked at four companies I have yet to see there being any serious discussions on merits of which questions to ask, the style of interview to be conducted, how to grade candidates reliably, or the amount of help and guidance to give candidates. In short as far as I can tell the whole tech interview process is generally a mess.

I have tried to push for discussions on all of the topics above and most engineers simply do not find the topic interesting enough to engage at length. There's a lot to discuss and everyone complains about the current state of the interview process across the whole field yet few do more than complain. Alas that is life.

As for vetting for "positive-only", I am not sure that's something that can even be done. Usually conducting interviews is part of your performance and you are expected to do them or it will reflect poorly on you as an employee. So every senior engineer or above typically will aim to do some amount of interviews and, let's say you are one of them and you are not very happy, when you get asked by your manager whether you are a positive employee, you are very unlikely to say no.

Also unhappiness is a pervasive quality regardless of title and you can very easily find high level managers and one year out of college engineers that are equally unhappy if you were to ask them candidly. This is a separate topic, but we as an industry have potential to make our workplaces incredibly engaging and rewarding but that potential somehow seems so very hard to achieve.
> The next job on the chopping block, in my opinion, is that of a human optimizer. In fact the only reason it hasn’t been eliminated yet is economical. It’s still cheaper to hire people to optimize code than it is to invest in the necessary infrastructure.

What would that infrastructure be, exactly? You can write a program that performs any mathematical operation. A program that can handle any input program, and optimize it as well as any human could, would need to be an AI with at least human intelligence, and a deep understanding of all known mathematics.

But then we're told that mathematical knowledge is a defense against automation? One wonders why we don't just hand all the math off to this optimization AI.
> if there's no cost to the company to ignore the customer

Simplifying, that's "if (false)", since ignoring the customers in the limit gets you a failed business and bankruptcy.
Continuous Deployments at BuzzFeed
They have been doing this since before Alphabet. Now the future of that strategy seems uncertain and it doesn’t seem like it will be in their future strategy.
That’s not true. Inbox was written in Angular originally. Not sure what it evolved to but it was always JavaScript.
>It's easy to forget, but for years after its introduction JavaScript didn't work well.

I haven't forgotten, and I will never forget.
Modular seems to be a craft of sorts, even if most people don't use it for life performances it still awesome to create unimaginable patches. Oh Lord please forgive us for our synths. Amen
Interesting how less than 15% of pain is labeled as a “physical issue.” Hopefully this tool can help patients with pain learn about what may be causes (and try out ideas with their doctors help).
Many years ago I learned that the size of the specialty publication industry was just enormous. I don't know if that's still true, but the existence of "Valve Magazine" isn't too surprising to me. We had fun at work thinking up fake industrial specialty pubs, such as "Door Knob Monthly" and "Parking Meter Trends".
Why can you delete DNS records? Well it's pretty common to want to do so (usually followed by adding some new ones).

Your doctor has a syringe as a medical instrument. They can kill if not used correctly.
The Revolution by Lucio Russo (1996) [pdf]
> The process is designed to entertain the hiring manager

Hahaha no. Please talk to a hiring manager at Google, especially if they're trying to fill an even slightly niche role, about how tough it is to get anybody through the hiring process.

Also, for "generic" roles like SWE, the hiring manager has literally no input into the process: the hiring takes place first, and team allocation only happens afterwards.
Saying that you're going to "use AI" is more akin to saying "we're going to have a web application" back in 1998.

Back then a lot of startups didn't have websites, because they were making other products (hardware, boxed software, etc). If they had a website it was just a marketing page.

So saying that you were going to make a "web application" did in fact differentiate you, in that it showed your approach was very different from the boxed software folks, but it didn't tell you much beyond that.
AI != gold. The market for selling tools to people who are essentially chasing buzz words is much smaller than that of selling tools to people extracting scarce metals from the ground.

Ultimately the value of selling tools is dependent on the riches being mined actually existing. The value of AI/big data to the average business has yet to be determined
Show HN: AiDee – a open source micro-framework for Touch ID and Face ID
Thanks, pininja. I have high hopes for the tool also.
Yeah they meant why does the Barack Obama article in English differ in content than the Swedish one
I believe that just due to memory constraints, running any high-quality neural network on phones is currently impossible.

State of the art optical flow tracking needs about 10 GB of GPU memory to execute on full HD frames. I wouldn't know of any mainstream phone with that much RAM.

That, BTW, is also the reason why autonomous drones usually downsample the images before AI tracking, which has the nasty side effect of making thin branches, fences, telephone wires, etc. invisible.
An Antarctica heat wave melted 20% of an island's snow in 9 days
>"Most people in AI forget that the hardest part of building a new AI solution or product is not the AI or algorithms — it’s the data collection and labeling."

A lot of those companies are styled as "AI" companies themselves, aiming to automate the process of labeling.

The main winner here really is Amazon. They get a chunk by serving up infrastructure and in labeling through mechanical turk.
I believe the latest change happened afterwards when on judge2020's advice I re-added the domain to cloudflare which I think triggered a NS change back to them.
"Contains Ads"
No thanks
OK, so, you're not familiar with the concept of a joke, in fact.

Again - if you wanted to argue that Broderick's posts were in bad taste, sure, that's a defensible argument (and I might even agree with you). But that's not what you said. You said he's a self-proclaimed hebephile.

Of course, I don't expect everyone to be familiar with 4chan-style humor. Oprah once earnestly warned her viewers about a message she received about "over 9000 penises": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7liYfhRgXGk Last month, Congressional candidate Regina Marston started reporting the Navy SEAL copypasta to the FBI: https://twitter.com/samosu_/status/1224169132410753024 But if you're running a popular DNS host and writing books about how to protect yourself from cancel culture... yes, I expect you in particular to understand what's going on here, and I stand by my claim that you're not a credible voice.
I am part of the team that worked on this project. AMA
If you don't like a person don't swipe on them. If they behave badly, unmatch them. I fail to see how women are systematically oppressed under this system vs the one Bumble provides.
Emulation is a fascinating topic on many dimensions. One that I find particularly interesting is that it seems like more primitive systems are exponentially more "sharable" than small ones - I can fit a NES emulator with the entire NES library in a hundred megabytes or so. The entire library of the PS3 would be many many terabytes, and not only do we not even have good PS3 emulation, it's unclear if we'll never get it. While any programmer can code a functional NES emulator in a weekend, it is not the case for these more sophisticated platforms.

I wouldn't be surprised that, if humanity is still around and computing a few hundred years from now, people will still be playing SNES ROMs. PS5 games though might be entirely forgotten (especially given online components, endless patches, etc.).

The corollary of that is that if you want your software to be preserved by history, your best bet is probably to package it as a NES/SNES/GBA ROM or something like that.
Original source required.
Ask HN: How do engineers get into the Sports business space?
Hey all,

I am a huge European football (soccer) fan and also worked in this industry for many years as SWE. In the past few months, I have been not that motivated to work on the product at work and want a fresh start. I would like to combine engineering/data science + soccer, and hopefully I can work on something that I have a strong passion about, and also combining love + work together.

Is anyone having similiar background and can give advice where to start?
I didn't downvote you but you describe a crazy interview process and then conclude with "demonstrably has similar compensation to the FAANGs (check levels.fyi) without a crazy interview process." I would consider a company that can't figure out which side of the US they want you to work in a crazy interview process
A recent post on HN reminded me of this great forgotten book. Where you to read it, you will captivated by a different tale on the science and technology of “ancient Greeks” (more specifically of the Hellenistic period of second and third century BC), how modern they were and how the modern times and modern science really got off trying to reach for those heights. You will be gifted with a complete new point of view over modern and ancient science, how it comes to be and how it can get lost on her way.
Decimal and Thousands Separators
Take a look at the old entrance exams to ivy league schools from back then.

https://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/education/harvard...
First time i've seen a https://txti.es posted on here. nice.
I had several onsets of RSI a few years back, and had to resort to voice coding as a last resort, after stretches, pauses and ergonomic everything did not do the job. It was pretty awful.

But then, after having seen doctors and neurologists, and finally a physical therapist, I came across my salvation:
- Exercising my hands.

I very rarely see this mentioned for some reason. I exercised regularly, but only the bigger muscle groups, rarely grip strength and wrist strength. It felt counter-intuitive to exercise my already extremely painfully aching hands (when typing), but using grip weights and other methods to work out my hands and wrists, the pain went away quickly! If you are not diagnosed with carpal tunnel, and not already doing this, definitely try it, it saved my career.