skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I ask because I see simple things like mask wearing to be something that a lot of people seem to have a big problem with, whereas it seems to be something that confers clear benefits while having very little downside aside from some minor discomfort for some people.

I'm someone who was strongly anti-mask (and I still am), but I've softened that stance a bit. People should wear a mask if they want; they should learn how to do it properly; we probably don't have enough evidence yet to compel people to wear mask, but it's not a burdensome requirement so I guess it doesn't matter if it's law; please do remember deaf people often need to see your mouth to communicate.

It's weird how masks in the US are super polarising, and have become signs of political alliance.

But there's genuinely not much evidence that masks worn by members of the public when they're walking about do much to protect them from getting or transmitting the virus. There's a plausible mechanism of action (they trap droplets), but there are also plausible mechanisms of harm (they don't trap that many droplets; they embolden ill people to go outside; the could cause people to reduce their social distancing). In the UK I see a few people wearing masks and every single one of them has done weird things - taken the mask off to cough; taken the mask off to spit(!!!), taken the mask off smoke; left the mask on while speaking on a mobile phone (etc etc).

> The approach a lot of places seem to be taking is to forgo "significant precautions" and simply approach reopening as something where, as long as you do it slow enough in a phased approach, maybe things will just turn out fine. As if the virus can be tricked if we're sneaky enough about returning to normal.

I completely agree. We need a plan to come out of lockdown. That plan needs to include stuff like protecting the very vulnerable, test track and trace programmes to monitor the virus, clear guidance about social distancing in services and workplaces (how are cinemas ever going to re-open?), and it needs to be informed by science of virology and epidemiology. But at the moment (at least in the UK) we've got a less coherent mishmash of unclear advice that no-one can follow.
Why does Swift by Sundell not use any client-side JavaScript?
A public stackoverflow/github/angellist profile does not leak information to my employer that I'm seeking new opportunities.

Tripebyte is fundamentally different and dangerous there.

It make no difference whether you're sorry that people feel that way. It's the wrong thing to do - you're going to hurt people doing this.

It make no difference that it's a fantastic opportunity for you and Tripebyte. It's not what you told people when they signed up and entrusted you their names and jobseeking. It's the wrong thing to do - and only lawyers are going to end up benefiting.
Aaah so we have come full circle from Java applets.
The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987)
There is a simpler explanation for that phenomenon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Beneath_the_Ground!
Yes, and most of the time after the onboarding your manager will pick you up and show where you will be working if you haven't met your manager before the onboarding. That's my experience.
Meeting rooms can actually be great for collaborative work, it' judt that they're often used for that rigid status-update manner that makes it seem unappealing
1. Starship - https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/

Completely reusable rocket that can carry 100 tons into low Earth orbit, refuel, and then continue on to places like Mars. Launches are estimated to cost SpaceX about $2M, compared to the SLS $1B (estimated, similar lift capability) and space shuttle $1B (27 tons). The engines are real, test vehicles are flying (another test launch is likely to happen in the next week or two). Follow the SpaceX subreddit for progress updates

2. Commonwealth Fusion Systems - http://cfs.energy

Lots of reactors have struggled with scale and plasma instability. CFS has adopted a design using new REBCO high temperature superconductor magnets that are stronger and smaller, which can be used to build smaller reactors and better stabilize the plasma. They are building a prototype called SPARC, expected to produce net energy gain by 2025.
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That's illegal in the EU. So you could just send them a cancellation email and stop paying.
Yeah but the contract has a clause that says if either of you wants to stop working together, there's a few months notice, right? It's only permanent in the sense that the end date is not known beforehand.
Thought this was a criticism post... until I realized it was CEO himself talking about why this is good
My gym (a very popular UK-wide chain) has suspended all customer payments while their gyms are closed during lockdown. Instead they're spamming me trying to get me to pay for their workout app which they obviously knocked out in a hurry in an attempt to salvage some cashflow during this crisis.

I can't blame them for trying, but it's definitely not a good time to be running a gym.
> What does worth it mean to you?

Not the parent, not having a strong opinion on the author, but have felt similar about some people in the past. "Difficult to work with" is an issue, and I too prefer to avoid people that sort into that category. They'd have to be actually brilliant to make up for it, just being really, really good doesn't cut it.

Why? Because they add friction to things, and they poison the team's ability to get work done. Difficult people are not fun to work with, so everyone avoids them. And then they avoid using things the difficult person built because using it would mean you'd have to work with them if you run into issues, or want to improve it etc.

It's just much easier to find people that are easy to work with, and working with them is much more enjoyable. Even if they were not as good, my personal experience is that replacing one difficult person with two others is well worth it. A happy team is way more productive and makes up for it easily, so accepting someone that's difficult to work with is generally "not worth it" to me.
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Our lawyers thought it was a clear cut case and they were willing to defend a lawsuit in favor of the dogs. I think at the end that's what it comes down to: which side the legal team sides with. Odds are in a pro-dog company, they will side with the dogs.
You don’t see food costs in Walmart adjusted based on you income, even though supply and demand would also dictate that you’d be willing to pay more for milk if you have a higher income. It’s not supply and demand to allow once side to differentiate costs based on factors that shouldn’t matter to them, that’s rigging the system.
Collectively exhaustive? I'm just summarizing the two direct replies I've gotten, both of which are making assumptions about what her behaviors must have been on her first day. They're diametric opposites, silently sulking or loudly whining.

I think the OP can be criticized at a basic level of being overly negative as well as being a personal rant rather than anything particularly insightful for HN. Rachelbythebay had a bad experience at some job and feels like the onboarding experience was a big red flag--that doesn't offer us much to learn. And that's fine, I can see a criticism of the post like that and half-agree. Maybe it's not for HN, and that is her own personal blog, so it fits that she might write posts on her blog that can miss the mark here.

Making assumptions about her exact behaviors beyond what was written in the article, that's just weird to me. It's an odd defensive position you're taking in which you don't like the post so you have to defend the company by making shit up.

"She must have been sulking silently!" Interesting, tell me more about this moody, sulking woman. What else did she do wrong?
> some of the common programming characters

I’m not sure what problems you had “barely typing letters on it”, because I personally got used the that part extremely quickly and found it comfortable.. but I agree that some of the characters are placed in rather unfamiliar place, however, you can remap them. Better yet, I use a foot pedal (the three pedal one, I use one pedal as shift, a second as Fn and still haven’t mapped the third to anything) and just mapped the symbols to foot oedal (fn) + home row keys for super easy typing (although over the years I got used to their default positions more and stopped using the Fn+home row mappings, I should revisit them)
I think we can all play the stupid 24 hour news cycle headlines in our head at this point. [insert politician here] disbands security at airports! They don't care about lives!
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This model has seemingly taken over completely for online phonebooks. 10 years ago it was trivial to do things like reverse phone lookups online for free but now its an endless circlejerk of paywalls, search manipulation, and fraud. Almost makes me wish i still had an old fashioned book delivered.
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Catalina is checking notarization of unsigned executables
Exactly. And while I don't want have the urge to use Netflix anyway, I'd sign-up for a gym that charges for actual usage without hesitation.

But that's why it only more interesting. We all are sadly accustomed that selling subscriptions you would never is the business model of most gyms. But then, what would be the reason for Netflix not to do this? This is really weird, I don't believe they would do this just to be good guys, and I don't see what can be the reason for them to do that otherwise.
Any specific objections to the research links provided?
Svelte

Flutter

Zig, Nim & Crystal programming languages

Please.build (bazel clone in Go)

GraalVM's native image and CoreRT for .NET (though not much is heard about progress on CoreRT)
How to write a programming book
What you describe is a way to write newspaper articles for impatient and overburdened readers who probably won't finish reading them.

New Yorker stories have a different purpose and a different audience. People who subscribe to the New Yorker like it because it gives them stories written just this way. If you don't, wikipedia is right there. You can tell it will be a New Yorker story because it says so.

I guarantee you that the writing is not that way to "drag" anyone through ads or to strain their patience.
I interviewed for their generalist interviewer offer that they were advertising heavily a couple of years ago. I aced the lengthy and nontrivial generalist quiz, and then waited for a callback.

Two weeks later I sent a polite email to check in. No reply. Repeat two weeks later.

About two months later I received a reply that said the positions were filled, but that they would love to offer me as a candidate to US companies. This was useless to me as I live in Europe.

I believe the interviewer position was a sham, and they were just eating people's time in order to get detailed developer data.
A European living anywhere is covered.
In the context of the US, the lack of proper financial support coupled with the lack of a proper vocational education system means that a lot of people go to college when they will not succeed.

In the case of struggling students. I think it's hard to dismiss a person because they struggle in a single course. I failed calculus 2 and now I'm about to finish a PhD doing statistics and machine learning. Should I have been "let go" so to speak upon that failure?

Failures matter when they are cumulative not singular. This is why early warning systems in education fail so much. They rarely have enough information to provide a warning that is actually early.
It is not necessary to hold someone's hand to socialize. Working remote can contain just as much people as a regular office.

There doesen't need to be a social obligation to force you to work proper. Feeling appreciated and important is a hell of a morale-boosting drug. Gaining some breathing room to do your own thing is the best way to achieve that
> The amount of crap I have to slog through on Windows is insulting and ridiculous.

Really? I spent two minutes removing some default start menu items. My mac continually sent me pop ups insisting I use the Apple version of every product.
But can you get the new connection window back after closing all connections without quitting and reopening?
Wow. Thanks for this. I ignored the email because Triplebyte just feels a bit spammy to me now so I mentally block it out.

Have logged in to stop this from happening and currently apparently I'm "Open to discussing new opportunities", which is news to me. On trying to change it to "Not interested in any new opportunities" there's a dropdown that says "I’d be open to new opportunities in:" and most you can set it to is 2 years. These are whole new dark patterns.

UPDATE You can turn off the setting they're talking about by going to [0] and then clicking the little grey "Visibility settings" under the Profile URL section.

UPDATE There's a delete your account option on this page [1], though YMMV:

>> Government identification may be required and we may ask you for more information in order to verify your identify

[0] https://triplebyte.com/candidates/profile_builder

[1] https://triplebyte.com/privacy-center
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I think the wider point is that it's amazing how lax and careless so many people are with their personal finances. They think nothing of wasting hundreds (thousands?) of $$$ a year on unnecessary purchases, including things that they don't even use (like old software subscriptions.) Then they complain that they're broke.

When I hear sob stories about how #{big_number}% of people can't afford an unexpected $500 bill, I'd love to know how many of those people would easily have $500 in savings if they cancelled all their unused subscriptions and stopped buying a new smartphone every year.
As a counterpoint, I work for a 1500 company and was told/shown who the management and such were in my first week. I guess it depends on the company, you and your boss.
I wouldn't trust such 3th party service. It's better to host everything yourself and for free: https://github.com/subspacecommunity/subspace
Any plan to integrate with Gitlab Ci? Can’t wait.
You somehow think that not pirating would translate into paid movie/TV show watching? IIRC, pirating actually means more folks watch the shows - which translates into folks talking about the shows (Free advertising). Besides, lots of folks subscribe to one streaming service (like Netflix) and pirate the things that aren't available.

If Netflix (and the producers of shows and films) want folks to watch, they need to improve. One could start by removing geographic restrictions and merely cull their library for legal reasons (X topic is restricted in X country: Y topic is only available after 8pm).

Also, Netflix doesn't rely on cinemas for its films. The other production companies can follow suit if they decide they want to. The companies can find ways to finance things and reduce piracy, but so far... nope. They are still dragging their feet.
This is utterly amazing. He just blew up his company with one horrible decision. It’s over. The people they rely on (talented software engineers) are almost all one or two degrees away from HN. They’ll never trust TripleByte again. I expect you’ll see TripleBytes partner companies start to distance themselves next week as well.
Cadmium telluride is not the prefered technology for solar cells. Silicon is still the major player, and it is free of any pollutants. I checked the wikipedia page for "solar cell". Given these informations, any consumer or technologist can adopt solar without compromising on pollutants.
I'm watching this exact problem for SEO in Turkey and I can say that it was in full-force way before pandemic. Google doesn't care. Instead, they're busy flagging pages discussing "penisilin (penicillin in Turkish) application for kids" as AdSense Policy Violation since the page contains "penis".
If the anecdotes in Glassdoor about triplebyte are true, this behavior and its CEO response are no surprise.
I would think this might be triggered by a decline in revenue. When Netflix can't continue to grow organically into new markets and the share price starts to suffer, they might resort to less friendly tactics for increasing the revenue per customer.
Facebook will let some employees work from anywhere, could cut pay checks
Others have addressed the obvious privacy issues, so let me address your logic on the business side of things.
I apologize in advance for the tone, but your move with exposing profiles made me angry. Good thing my TB profile is fake (and performs worse than my actual, real life resume despite all the embellishments)

1) There is no lock in - I can move on and off LI whenever I want, and have. I've exported my data and used it to create my own resume site with analytics that I send out to companies. I can see who viewed my CV, when, and whether or not they actually read through it or bounced immediately.

I've also learned to track the progression of my candidacy through the organization using this trick (recruiters tend to view my CV on their Windows desktop during work hours, hiring managers tend to check out resumes in the evening on their iPhones or Macbooks, engineers/tech leads tend to use Macbooks, desktop Macs or Android phones in the morning or during lunch time. Usually when I've hit the engineering lead I tend to get invited to interview).

It's extremely easy to create your own CV website for free (github/lab pages) that's versioned by git and deployed automatically using a CI script.

2) You're attacking the tech hiring problem from the wrong angle, like everyone else. There is no issue with discovery of candidates and employers. LI and stackoverflow, etc do a great job of approximating this O(N^2) exposure process, the filtering and sifting.
The ACTUAL problem is on the hiring end - companies won't take a chance on non-traditional candidates (not talking about race and gender here, more about credentials).

You have to start by chipping away at the costs of showing competence for a candidate (the traditional way to do this is to get a three- or four-year degree that's either expensive in terms of time and money, or useless, and if you get a degree with a low score, doubly so, even though you might be a better programmer than the people who scored over 90%).

This will only happen by convincing hiring orgs to hire non-traditional candidates, and this requires establishing a very strong signal/noise ratio for candidates coming from your hiring channel.
Before you start PRing me about how great TB is at this - no it isn't. Not any better than leetcode etc, and those are terrible at predicting engineering competence.
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Jai? Jonathan Blow’s new programming language might be an option for you.

https://inductive.no/jai/
Sorry, I checked and you are probably wrong, in the sense that silicon based solar panels (the vast majority) is free of heavy metals. The one you are maybe thinking about is cadmium telluride, and it's far from being widely adopted, precisely because of toxicity concerns.
Then they are on the wrong spot to start with, and really didn't got the message what FOSDEM is all about.

It is a bit hard to be an aspiring FOSS contributor given the foundations those contributions are built upon.

Those same Apple loving users would be laugh upon at FOSDEM if they demoed any of their stuff on Windows instead.

Yet, there is hardly any difference between those corporations going all the way back to their origins.

Somehow after NeXTSTEP's adoption as OS X, NeXT and Apple's proprietary behaviour was forgotten and everything excused, because "hey they are shipping an UNIX clone"!
> I think there's a lot of room to just display what matters to engineers/eng hiring managers better.

There's no doubt a lot of truth there.

What matters a lot to engineering managers are the answers to questions like "What other roles is this candidate interviewing for?" "How well did this candidate do in their Triplebyte interviews for our competitors?" "What are the salary ranges of other roles this candidate has clicked on or applied for?"

Will that also form part of every user's public profile, with the same "1 week to opt out, 30 days to enable opt out" process? Or will that data only be available to hiring managers with Triplebyte Premium accounts?
We may want that to be true, but some US courts have disagreed.

https://www.lawfareblog.com/second-circuit-rules-united-stat...

See this for one recent decision indicating that the NSA bulk collection program was both constitutional and legal.

The unfortunate reality is that it falls into a legal grey area and has, in fact, been held by certain courts to be legal.

Which comes back to my original point - any whistleblower who wants to exit with a clean slate really needs to be uncovering unambiguously and horrendously illegal activity. “Possibly illegal” PRISM just wasn’t bad enough for Snowden to get the political or legal protection of public sympathy.
Reading this document suddenly made learning Rust a lot scarier, and also increases my respect to Rust developers (people writing programs in Rust). It kind of shows that increased safety doesn't come for free.
> GROAN.

> After another hour of this, I had enough.

> I wound up camped like a refugee

I'm not assuming anything. She spells it out right there in TFA. This is the definition of sulking.

> Interesting, tell me more about this moody, sulking woman.

Not sure why you're so intent on this gender strawman. Just because she's a woman does not absolve her of bad behavior. I never said she was moody. I don't know her in the least bit. What I do know is that she handled this situation poorly, but is undoubtedly emboldened by people like you who will trip over yourself to play the gender card.
They're just capitalizing on the leetcode interview fetish among certain cargo-culting startups.
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I'm going to try this out. I assumed the resolution of the Quest wasn't quite there to make coding in a virtual desktop comfortable. How has your experience been?
I just wondered why STUN/TURN was needed in particular, if you can communicate details over IRC, having an external service for this when other p2p communication methods can be made using IRC seemed strange.

But then I remembered DCC (and xDCC) are unusable these days because of NAT. So STUN wouldn't help, but you need the TURN relay.

I really can't wait until IPv6 is everywhere; I believe it will allow p2p to have a second renaissance.
I think the point was that brains are the best pattern and object detection computers, not necessarily just human brains.
I have been running OpenBSD for all my dev work in a VM for quite some time now.

This just makes me wanna start using it for more things besides dev work :(