skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. Ambition is an intangible that should also be assessed during the hiring process.
Haven't read them, but they are on my to-do-list:

"Turing's Cathedral"
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/mar/25/turings-cathed...

"The Innovators"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovators_(book)
Please turn up the sensitivity on your sarcasm detector.
Looking for embedded software developers C
Is anyone looking for an embedded C role in the UK. Must be UK resident due to restrictions from my client. Medical devices company.
Major extinction events have historically paved the way for new and interesting forms of life, including humans.
In the US it looks like some businesses have been refusing to pay rent[1], California has asked banks (who agreed except Bank of America) to freeze mortgage payments for 90 days[2] and there is a national freeze on evictions in the US for residential properties overseen by HUD or backed by Freddie/Fannie Mac[3]. Unfortunately it looks like you're correct in the US, no specific help is guaranteed.

I'd still suggest trying to reach out to your landlord to defer payments if you own a commercial property - some sectors of the economy are fine, but Amazon isn't going to want to move into an old Wendy's for extra office space. Since everyone nation-wide is in the same boat there is some safety in leaning on the crisis. Do try and preserve any liquid assets in your business as long as possible, they may be required for funding an attempt to qualify for relief or to spin up the business on the far side of the virus and that money is more valuable in the pockets of small business than in real-estate owners that, honestly, aren't facing this crunch nearly as hard since their main pressure would be from property tax & utility requirements.

1. https://la.eater.com/2020/3/25/21194144/cheesecake-factory-r...

2. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/us/90-day-mortgage-relief...

3. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-evicti...
Ask HN: What is your monolith's CI build model?
For example, we're a team of ~80 developers and our model is that we have 1 Jenkins job per developer and 1 for the 'master' branch. Developers push to a corresponding git branch via a handy alias (`git testit`) and Jenkins triggers their corresponding build. So we have N+1 Jenkins jobs (where N=no. of devs). Then we have 3 executors, each waiting listening for all types of builds (master or dev builds).

I'd be interested in knowing how people are structuring their CI. Do you have a single job for your monolith's unit tests? Or do you also use multiple jobs (for specific branches or devs).
I can't help myself, the required semicolon at the end of each line in Dart programs keep hurting after writing for many years in Python, JS, Kotlin and Swift. I grew up semicolon-less with QBasic and learned semicolon since Delphi 1.0 and Java 1.0 but today, wanting as few noise on the screen as possible, they are hurting in my eyes.
It's a good question, and unfortunately, the answer is that zipcode does not map well to other kinds of geographical regions, or to day-to-day-reality for that matter.

To directly answer your question, it is not uncommon for zipcodes to span county boundaries. And there are even a handful that span more than one state: https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/53918/determining-wh...

To the broader question of why zip codes can be lacking for geospatial analysis, here's a real-world situation:

https://theconversation.com/how-zip-codes-nearly-masked-the-...

Here's a more broader essay from CartoDB: https://carto.com/blog/zip-codes-spatial-analysis/
And emails too? :- )

Looking at your list of tools, seems to me GitLab will stay "forever", and... Mattermost is probably always going to be a better chat,

I'm thinking maybe a Mattermost + Talkyard (+ Gitlab?) integration somehow, could make sense

What about Sharepoint, you use it for document management?
These are the standard disaster assistance loans and very different from the new CARES part of the stimulus bill which was just signed into law.

This will be a new loan program to give 2.5x the average monthly payroll costs over the last year, and can be forgiven if the company doesn't lay off anyone.

Good overview: https://www.venable.com/insights/publications/2020/03/the-ca...
Right, but they both were Ph.D. students and Brin I think published quite a bit of scientific papers before dropping out.
I just downloaded Zoom for Mac, saw that it was a .pkg file. Great, I can see what files it installs before I install it.

I open the .pkg, click Continue so it can run its script, then a second later Installer quits and the app launches. What?!

Turns out, Zoom installs the entire app in the 'preinstall' script of the installer package! Inside there's a copy of '7z', and the app is extracted with that. The preinstall script is littered with typos and poor grammar.

I'm not one of those people who thinks that Apple is going to force all Mac software to come through the App Store, but when I see stuff this stupid...I start to wonder.
Well, let's see. They're soliciting for _donations_ to a business that hasn't asked for it and possibly doesn't need it. I doubt JWZ needs it. If you want to throw money at something, how about a legitimate charity. Maybe this would be welcome if it where opt-in, but c'mon. What's the point of trying to ram a GoFundMe down everyone's throat?

I mean, imagine of Facebook tried this and started spamming your friends asking for donations to help you. I can't believe that even in Silicon Valley anyone can be this tone deaf.
hey there, for you, what are some characteristics that make a topic seem 'even vaguely related to gender'?
I grew up in the rural deserts of Eastern California where coyotes are abundant, and never directly saw one once. Just the occasional rustling in the brushes and darting glances, and sometimes the flick of a glowing eye.

And then I come to San Francisco and one just walks past me and sniffs my hand while I'm going to the 7-11. Didn't even register that it wasn't just a dog until it had walked past.

It's crazy how much more comfortable around humans animals become in urban environments.
Please provide us any feedback that you have on the UI or experience so we can improve =)
That's actually a fair point.

I only considered the harm to yourself, but the risk you put others in is also a real factor.
> Not in the context presented, no.

You're contracting yourself and just being argumentative. The whole context is their international assistance work, and there is nothing but praise in that article. Meanwhile the article just brushes aside their initial deceit which greatly magnified the problem.
> wearing a mask is not a 100% protection against getting infected

Most things are never 100% safe. Wearing a seatbelt does not guarantee you won't be injured in case of an accident, it's still something everyone recognizes it's a good thing to wear. I wonder what the tipping point is in terms of something being silly to do vs. it makes sense to do it for the general public. I would guess that social stigma plays a big role in it.
I don't think HN community is particularly healthy. People here have severely biased views on certain issues - Especially social issues related to money and politics.

A few hours ago, a video which explained how the government (the Fed) injects money into the economy was quietly removed from the front page even though it was getting a lot of upvotes and made some interesting points.

HN is becoming increasingly political and divisive. The losers of our modern economy have already started leaving the site and those remaining are being actively downvoted by remaining elitist community members for not sharing the same techno-utopian ideals.

Also, to prove my point, this comment will almost certainly get down-voted. It will get down-voted in spite of me saying so because most people won't even bother reading past the first line of my comment. The community is extremely defensive of itself and its techno-utopian ideals.
An Update on Coronavirus Content on Medium
I have found that all these distraction elimination apps are ultimately useless once their novelty wears off.

The only truly lasting way I found to stay off my phone is to wear an Apple Watch and leave my phone at home.
Yep! CT scans and clinician's experience is more reliable than any tests for COVID-19 diagnostics (which should only serving as a definitive confirmation). This also why I believe human doctors are still unbeatable by AI
Even if you think the Kingdom of Saud will explode tomorrow, whatever despot/warlord/theocracy/hippy commune that will arise to replace it will keep pumping that oil out of the sand.

Waiting for Saudi oil to go away is magical thinking.
The particular creditor had put in $250k through a convertible note. There were almost no assets, small saas startup. But the creditor was trying to use his leverage to take over the company. He got pissed when we filed for Chapter 7 instead, then bought all claims and assets from the Trustee and sued us founders personally. Long story.
How Soon Will Covid-19 Peak? (And How To Tell) [video]
Keep in mind stricter climate controls wouldn’t even hurt the economy this bad. A harsh carbon tax on all fossil fuels in exchange for COVID-19 to disappear to be gone would be a welcome relief to the economy.
I don't downvote comments like "I agree!" and "This is good." but I often feel like I should. They're mostly noise. If you want to express gratitude get in touch with the article author. It'll have much more impact.
https://www.folklore.org/

has pretty good yarns about the people who worked on the original Macintosh.
> the moderators definitely have a personal libertarian bent that regularly seeps into selective moderation

This is very much in the eye of the beholder. People's assumptions condition which posts they notice and how strongly they weight them. People with opposite assumptions end up with the opposite picture. (Edit: here's a nice exchange in this very thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22706035). There are endless examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20438487

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22256458

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15032682

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15307915

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21588105

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21325122

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15546533

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=BetterThanSlave

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16397133

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19912334

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20742578

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21803541

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21907232

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=13110004&sort=byDate&prefix&pa...
A food desert. :)
Yes, that's true. There is a cultural element that is to blame as well. My point is that the term "China virus" is not the right way to place blame where blame is due. There will be a lot of collateral damage if it becomes popular.
Haha, it's a completely garbage hodge-podge of Node and Bash right now, but I'm cleaning it up and will be sharing soon!
It somewhat annoys me when people call HN small or niche or similar. It's a common sentiment and I'm rather baffled by it.

Reddit as a whole is huge. I think of Reddit like a megalopolis, not a community.

I think some of the subreddits are communities. It would be sort of like a strong neighborhood association within a really big city.

The neighborhood or neighborhood association can have a strong sense of local community. The city as a whole probably cannot.

HN gets about 5 million unique visitors per month. It's the largest forum I consistently participate in. I'm not personally aware of any other "tech" forums that are larger.

For example, Lobste.rs is much smaller. And that's one of the names I hear the most.

According to this source, there are currently 58 subreddits with more than 5 million subscribers:

https://redditmetrics.com/top

Some of them are for STEM topics and maybe Data Is Beautiful is sort of like HN, but I'm not seeing anything obviously aimed at programmers the way HN is somewhat positioned. (Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.)

Facebook is also huge. I want to say it's got like a billion users. But it's not a community of a billion people. It's a bunch of individuals with a curated list of "friends."

There are Facebook groups. That's where you would look for "communities" on Facebook. I have no data on them and I'm not going to look.

I would be curious if anyone else can even name any other online communities with at least 5 million members that aren't on either Reddit or Facebook.

From where I sit, HN looks quite large and looks to me to be possibly one of the largest tech communities. I welcome any data that suggests otherwise.
Live: Who's Freezing Hiring from Coronavirus?
I live about a mile from the Minnesota river, and I see coyotes occasionally. Once right in our back yard, I even got a picture.
haha-- i've heard this in reference to raccoons many times, and i've always wondered: what kinds of things to raccoons get up to that earn them such a universal designation (condemnation?)? like, surely even though a coyote technically doesn't impose (much of) a physical threat, it is more threatening than a raccoon... i do know that they are terribly fond of pulling lids off trash cans, etc., so i assume the annoyance power has at least something to do with it?

(they're so _cute_ though!... xD)
Google cloud outage
Hi, this is David — lots of movement in tech hiring in the last few days. Spent some time to put together a list of companies freezing hiring or doing layoffs.

If you have any information on layoffs/freezes, please comment below or email at hello@candor.co.
http://usingcsp.com/cspbook.pdf is the classic.

It has some unusual notation you might need to get used to, but it's a real goldmine of ideas.
Haven't humans also cultivated much of the natural world? Some ecosystems fall apart once humans leave.
Great points—I completely agree that the human element of hiring is of critical importance when it comes to building effective and high functioning teams. This article is intended to focus on the more technical/job focused component of hiring. That said, I agree with your comments here across the board.
Can’t tell the difference between zoom and slack in terms of video quality. Both are perfect.
There's multilingual support yes, and user contributed out-of-date translations to Brazilian Portuguese, Russian and Polish

(I keep adding new buttons and labels, and renaming things, so the translations get out-of-date / fallback to English.)

There's RTL support but no Arabic / Hebrew / etc translations yet.

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> It would be nice to have a button to collapse replies for a given comment, but not the comment itself

Yes :- ) Do you mean 1) for yourself only, or 2) for all site visitors (so those replies would be collapsed by default, for everyone) ?

Actually there was a feature for 2, in the past, but it's disabled now though. The database fields are still there, plan to make that code work again some time in the future. (Then you could manually "curate" a discussion, by collapsing all replies to certain posts, to make the reading experience better for your site visitors.)

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Can I ask which Android version and phone do you use? — I optimized Talkyard a while ago, by looking in Chrome Dev Tools, but this was on my laptop.

What things lag the most? (Some specific button(s) or animation or scrolling or ... ?)
This website doesn't work at all in chrome
Thanks very informative video
on every site apparently ;-)
Yeah. We have no disagreements about that.

> If I use UTC, I still have to know what time (in UTC) the New Yorkers wake up...

This is also true under the current system.
> Yes, the iOS app has more downloads, and it got there in only a few weeks. But if the iOS market were so much larger than the Mac market, you’d have expected this to happen within a day or two of launch day.

Based on what logic? Everything about this article feels like it's based on vague and incorrect assumptions.
> you will ... disengage

Isn't that what the GP said?
I think you're mistaking
"It just works" for "It just works in the way I want it to"

Unfortunately if you go with the suggested methods for using zoom, it is very easy to join a meeting
Walking around my neighborhood and the silence is absolutely sublime. Airplanes, cars, highway noise, all diminished. The birds and chirps and friendly "Hellos" are amplified. It's bee n marvelous.
> But that can be done independently of our production of oil.

If you are an oil producer, and a large part of your economy depends on oil production, there is little incentive for cuts on oil usage. This is exactly the pattern we see in the modern US economy.
But then you have to shop at Walmart.
There's "the CSP book", by Tony Hoare himself: http://usingcsp.com/cspbook.pdf
What if humans are special, and help hold ecosystems together? We know of some, like the great plains and the redwood forests, where lack of human management leads to ecosystem breakdown.
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

One of my favorite books, it covers everything from braille to microprocessors. A great book for anyone interested in technology.
Why isn't it? Any job where enough information can be known to know that someone should be fired or promoted is a job that can be quantitatively measured to some degree.
Are you saying that merely reporting on the fact that China is providing international assistance is... praise?

I genuinely thought you were talking about the tweet about the article being the praise. The article was just facts. Facts, to borrow a phrase, don't care about your feelings.
The dart formatter is awesome - kudos to Bob.

All languages should come with a highly opinionated formatter. It puts an end to useless style arguments.
> Now that I can see the code, I understand why the dev shop needed so many people working on it, and why all features were hard to do. It's because when you use a lot of mediocre programmers, they all create work for themselves and one another. Not intentionally, but just because they aren't able to see how the differing approaches and sloppy work slowly diminish productivity.

To me, that sounds like a leadership problem at the outside dev shop. Properly supervised, properly supported, and with reasonable deadlines, mediocre developers can provide extraordinary results per dollar spent on probably 80-90% of dev tasks.
I do think that employees should be taken care of. I have no idea of the best way to do that. It sounds like a job for economists and politicians.

Re the ventilators, the most obvious standard would be not the F-35 cost, but rather what we pay to support a statistical life under other circumstances (e.g., medicaid, EMS services, etc.) No idea what the right balance is, but we don't want people to needlessly die because we overshot on the ventilators.
Those plants require petroleum-based fertilizers to produce at industrial scale.
The purpose of this paper is to present research that's completely independent of any product, and show how the concepts apply to software engineering specifically. What's your source in saying "software engineering has one of the highest amounts of variability in productivity of any profession?" That seems hugely unfounded.
Ok so we just need those people to write a precise definition of "bubble" so we all can see it coming
Not only that, many SF parks have signs warning about this, even years before the pandemic.

That they would wander out of the wooded areas is no shock. A couple years ago I saw one strolling along the sidewalk in the Presidio not far from Main Post, acting more or less the same way a tourist would.
I only understand weight in olympic swimming pools.
So with UBI demand for self-cleaning toilets comes up high enough that they're mass produced and i can pick one up at Lowe's any random weekend? Sounds good.
Pipes are bytes Streams. Communication between actors as well as CSP channels are object streams.

Pipes exercise backpressure on the writer - if the pipe is full the writer is blocked. Actor systems mostly use seemingly unbounded queues. The sender will not get blocked.
You mean Safari team accidentally forgot to test a video feature on a largest video website?
So then help me here, I am kind of lost, in which ISO C page are EMSCRIPTEN_BINDINGS, EXPORTED_FUNCTIONS described, or WebIDL for that matter?
Yep, that's fair pushback on the author; I agree.
Semicolons are just extra signal to humans and compilers, they shouldn’t hurt eyes like the use of fixed width fonts do.
I don't take comfort in the potential extinction of humanity!

Surely we recognize that living things exist independent and outside of us without needing to lessen our own existence.

>Couldn't you make the analogous argument that the extinction of all life on Earth would be fine since it would have absolutely no effect on the vast majority of the universe?

I suppose you could but that's not what I said.
I just rewrote our Caddy v2 Caddyfile formatter this week [1]. It's not as "smart" as a true code formatter, but what I thought would be just a 1 hour task ended up taking all day. And I'm lucky it wasn't longer!

Lessons learned:

- State is hard. There's something to be said for functional languages, or at least functional patterns.

- The Caddyfile is a very theoretically-impure syntax.

- User input is always messier than you think it will be. (Spend some time helping people on the forums, you'll see what I mean. I'm a neat freak though, so I notice it...)

[1]: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/commit/7ee3ab7baa216599...
Dropbox announced they plan to be GAAP profitable by the end of this year: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/20/dropbox-dbx-earnings-q4-2019...
Isn't this the Apple News model?
Unless you use https://www.hnreplies.com/, you don't get a notification for when someone has replied to your comment. Even then it is as an email, decreasing immediacy and causing back and forth sessions to have overhead.

I understand this as an intentional feature of HN.
I live on Mt Davidson and I see em running down the street at least once a week...
Yes unpkg and s3, anyone can get content up on them.
What if humans are a unique higher lifeform that will never be matched in the history of the universe?
We were seeing timeouts in east-1. I don't know what "normal" looks like, but Pingdom's map seems to show the whole east coast as affected https://livemap.pingdom.com/
No argument there!
They are, but as they say back home, those who don't have dogs, hunt with cats.
But easy access to energy is gone. This is Earth’s last chance to bootstrap to the stars.
this is a guaranteed-fail way of introducing this topic IMHO, at a critical point in history.. please avoid "landmine" or "hot button" phrases discussing massive topics !
> I doubt JWZ needs it.

Dude's broke AF. https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2016/12/19.html
This is not the catastrophe that I expected. Good grief--time to get a grip.
I hope this is the case. The increasing number of deaths is a fairly recent occurrence in Germany with them surpassing ten deaths two days after the UK did.
Code is excellent, Innovators are immersive, the Code Book is brilliant, albeit less about computer history and more about cryptography in general (all books by simon Singh are super interesting).
>There is enough oil on the planet for another 500 years

Math please?

And remember when people talk about peak oil, they mean oil that is cheap enough to be of economic use.
>If you know what kind of company/situation you're in

That's my point. You don't unless you're in a very simplistic business.

I really don't think you can define/bottle this easily - even with high quality interviewing.

Nor do I think you should. To use a very cliched phrase the hottest hires are the ones that think outside the box AND are killing it. Without some flexibility in terms of filtering and criteria you might miss out on that