skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Does this mean that only family members and friends of managers get promoted? Or that you have to bribe folks in the company to advance? What do you actually mean?

In many cases I've seen people being promoted due to being close friends with the managers while contributing little to nothing of value. Also dishonestly claiming credit for others work is a great way to advance. Donald trump types get promoted.

> What I would say is that most companies haven't really put much thought into building career ladders for their people.

These career ladder guidelines often make the problem worse. They allow poor engineers to get away with avoiding real work in favor of soft "cross-team impact". Often the lower level engineers working on the difficult technical problems are making the real contributions. Good engineers should be focused on solving the most difficult problems, whether cross-team or not. They should not be focused on gaming silly HR guidelines, people who take these guidelines seriously make the worst engineers.

> Algorithms interviews only tell me that somebody can pass an algorithms interview -- one in which the solution space is very narrow, and there are a few correct answers.

> In real-world engineering, this is very rarely the case.

I don't agree. Psychometrics shows general cognitive ability is very important, and algorithms interviews to an extent seem like a decent test of it. Coming up with difficult solutions isn't happening without proper grasp of the basics and strong general cognitive ability.
Yes I like lainchan too. Some of the blue boards on 4chan are fine most of the time as well.
I've seen their repo, it's pretty lame. CoreMark is still difficult for compilers to optimize away so I think it's better than DMIPS.
It's nepotism and corruption when you are not part of the club, sure.

It is like average looking girls calling hot chicks 'bitches'. Just because you weren't born beautiful, doesn't mean somebody else is a 'bitch', just means you wish you had what they've got :)
Slide is definitely a better experience than that. It's also released under the GPL and available at https://f-droid.org/en/packages/me.ccrama.redditslide/
This is a content-free podcast. Don't bother.
He's doing the opposite of gatekeeping. He's trying to argue that you don't have to pay any ridiculous tolls for useless gadgetry on the road to fitness.
Isn't that a good thing for alternative social media sites? A centralized site run by that crowd is probably the optional solution for everyone.
There is no use arguing in this woke universe. I am fed up with it. Gosh I am so fed up. If you still want to try, sincere good luck.

As soon as you try to actually be given precise examples to back the myriad of baseless assertions, because you actually want to learn something as long as it's proven (ie scientific), then you are given the runaround, the goalposts are shifted, you are gaslighted and told to be supportive instead of asking questions, or simply ignored. This whole dogma is simply unfalsifiable. Plain and simple.

And even if you get to the scientific arguments... how to explain (and be believed!) that a significant part of the scientific world has been hijacked, and there is now an entire part of science where rigorous scientific methodology does not apply. To the public eye it's still written science, therefore truthful.

Disclaimer: Of course, I am not saying anything that I am not actually saying, despite the current tendency of some people to extrapolate to the moon the darkest opinions, thoughts, intentions and general respectability from someone speaking a narrow intervention on a specific topic. The issues evoked here are important, my rant has nothing to do with their gravity. I should not have to say it if people were reasonable in the first place.

Thank you internet for reading my rant. I am not sure it has accomplished anything, but apparently the submit button has been clicked anyway :)
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>I've been in the same boat for 12 years now. I have a litany of half-complete revolutionary ideas.

Perhaps this is typical mind fallacy, but I feel like this is 60%+ of all HN users.
This is only my personal taste, but I can't stand it when people put an emoji after every sentence.
Making Yeast Produce Deer Milk and Egg Whites
Can anyone point me to other RSS-able newsletters I should follow?
Between This Week In Matrix, Sergey Tihon's F# Weekly, Pine64s updates on the Pinephone, and now this XMPP newsletter (which admittedly I thought was a Johnny-come-lately approach to showing that XMPP was cool like Matrix, see, we've got the newsletter stuff too! - but A: it's clear they have been doing this for a bit and B: I digress), I'm enjoying reading tech 'periodicals' and keeping up with what's new in my favorite technologies.
Particularly chilling if you engage with some of the recent theories about a certain power user who recently stopped posting.
I suspect this has something to do with the author's intentions. The author here has no reward attached to people believing her conclusions drawn from this data. Instead she may wish to just show people "look at this dumb cool thing I made" or she is using this to pitch her skills at potential recruiters, in which case honesty is a good policy to filter for good employers.

For scientists and commercial interests, the quality of the data could be fundamental to the point they are trying to make. So admitting their data sucks would basically ruin their whole argument, or at least make people more skeptical about the conclusions drawn. In science, the bad data eventually gets called out and everyone else is left wondering why the miracle panacea for discovering the genetic basis of complex disease still hasn't solved schizophrenia.
Kanye West reveals plans for Wakanda-style White House
TI Silent 703: Typerwriter/Terminal
Swing got an undeservedly bad reputation due to the bad default LAF. I wrote some pretty sweet stuff in Swing.

Anyway Qt is reasonably close as well, but with a compile per platform.
I don’t think that those are good analogies. Cooking for yourself is more akin to bathing yourself or wiping your own butt. It’s super easy if you grow up assuming that you should be doing those things yourself and unbelievably expensive if you pay others to do it for you.
I've always wanted to work on a peach harvesting robot, having grown up on a peach farm. You're right that it's an incredibly hard problem.

We actually had an automated peach harvester when I was a kid. It worked by encircling the base of the tree with a huge net and then shaking the tree trunk to make the peaches all fall into the net. It worked poorly and bruised the peaches too much to be used, so it sat and rusted away. A useful peach harvesting robot must pluck each peach individually.
The DNA evidence suggests the opposite, in fact.

Many lines of evidence, linguistic, genetic, cultural suggest that polynesia was colonized west to east, probably originating in ancient Taiwan.

Heyerdahl pulled of an impressive feat, but his raft was a real dogs breakfast compared to a voyaging canoe or flying proa.
The more GitHub resembles LinkedIn, the sooner I will be withdrawing out of the platform. I've used it for years, and it's quite good, but anything that resembles the cringe-fest that is LinkedIn and the level of tracking they do is a complete no-no for me.
“microsecond performance” irks me because you can’t get latencies of a microsecond without very expensive special network cards and APIs which they don’t seem to mention and I doubt they use. So they either mean 10s to hundreds of microseconds or they’re taking the reciprocal of their throughput which would be weird and misleading.

If you’ve made a fast product that’s great! Show us with well-explained benchmarks not the term which sounds best but you can still hand wave as justified, because it’ll make people suspicious.
5 mods control 92 of the top 500 subreddits. Those bury brigades are real, but instead they just remove what they don't want seen or promote content they do want seen with huge influence in the most popular subreddits. The same issue with Digg power users having too much control (among other reasons it failed) is also apparent on Reddit.

https://i.redd.it/bfhl8s6o2fn41.png
Maybe a bit off-topic for this comment but I really like (most of) the web's security model and I wish I had the same on my desktop. Specifically I'd like a strong per-program permission model, ideally in some sort of pluggable fashion (like, have a configurable chain of programs determine other programs' permissions, à la middleware).

You could take this to the extreme and have every program run in a "pure" fashion per default (i.e. no inputs other than command line args - no outputs other than the exit status).
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Even aside from the fact that it's an SPA full of ads and big graphics, the performance is especially terrible. Plenty of SPAs of similar functionality are able to deliver much snappier experiences.
Totally agree. I’ve been trying to create a simple way to digitize my training log and rather than an app, I came up with a simple markup language. I would love any feedback you may have on it: https://www.traindown.com
Glad I didn't lock in a "low" price with my gas supplier. Everyone was predicting higher energy prices.
Used YNAB a lot to develop discipline, then switched to Lunch Money [0]. It's being worked on by a solopreneur; she's awesome.

The app is, I think, a natural evolution for the YNABer who got the discipline and now doesn't need to track every single dollar all the time.

[0] https://lunchmoney.app
> * Nonfree software is generally demarcated as such. There is nonfree software that has available source (in the case of some codecs), other that comes as blobs.

This is the same in apt as it is in the Snap Store. Compare https://snapcraft.io/chromium to https://snapcraft.io/spotify for example: the license field is clearly presented there.

> * The Chromium package is open source, and in most distros comes as binary built from the toolchain set up by the package maintainers. In all free software distros if you don't want to download the binary, you can download the source and build locally with the provided build scripts (in the case of most APT packages in Debian/ubuntu).

Also true for the Chromium snap (see next item for details).

> * Serving Chromium binaries with Snap removes the option of downloading, inspecting, and running the build chain locally

This is outright false. The Snap Store page for Chromium is available here: https://snapcraft.io/chromium. It links to the source, which is the git repository here: https://code.launchpad.net/~chromium-team/chromium-browser/+.... You can use these source together with snapcraft (which is Free Software, licensed under GPL-3.0) to download, inspect and run the build chain locally, including with any modifications that you want to make. You'll get a snap package as output, which you are free to distribute and other users can install it using the snap CLI.

> * Serving a different version of Chromium, or replacing the stock version with a different variety, cannot be done without creating a new Snap repository.

Partly false. You can ship a different version of Chromium in the Snap Store under a different name. This is an automated process, rather like creating a PPA. As long as you aren't misleading anyone and you follow the terms of the relevant licenses[1], nobody will stop you.

> * Because there is no open source Snap repository software, Mint is unable to set up an alternative repo that could work around some of the objections they have with Ubuntu.

Partly correct. One generally cited reason for this is that the same criticism was leveled at Launchpad which was opened in response - but nobody is running an alternative production of Launchpad anywhere so Canonical doesn't want to waste that sort of effort again. Another is that store fragmentation is bad. I'm just stating the other side's position here. Please don't shoot the messenger.

[1] Chromium's licenses are listed as: Apache-2.0 AND BSD-3-Clause AND LGPL-2.0 AND LGPL-2.1 AND MIT AND MS-PL AND (GPL-2.0+ OR LGPL-2.1+ OR MPL-1.1)
Yeah, if your subset of JavaScript is not Turing complete.
If you ever want to digitize your training log, I’d love for you to try out my markup language: https://www.traindown.com
Seasteads: Self-Isolation for the Ultra Wealthy
All quarantined subs have been banned now though?
Beautiful Flutter UI Themes for Developers
Developing an app from scratch is a costly and time-consuming process, but a Flutter app template is affordable because much of the code is already written for you.
First app I wrote professionally I shipped 2 years ago.

Half the stuff I would have spent more time on before remain on my list and nobody has asked for.

Meanwhile I spent time adding and adjusting completely different features.

Another related app I created (sort of a companion app)...went in another direction that I wouldn't have predicted.

Things change dramatically in production. It seems obvious at times but how people use an app and what they want "now" is hard to know.
This was done 19 years ago. It was called Lindows. It came with a fancy GUI and custom packaged applications using a private app repository. Wal-Mart sold PCs pre-installed with it. I bought one.

Needless to say, that was not enough for Linux to go mainstream.
I was with you on the HN part...but then you compared it to Twitter. HN is full of mostly educated, inspired, helpful people. Twitter is a dumpster fire full of people spreading lies and rumors, arguing, and trying to get each other fired. In what world are the two in any single way alike?
Since the story has been posted umpteenth times, this is what should be posted these days. Very entertaining, thanks!
Is anyone using ubuntu-core and snaps in backend production? Automatic updates seems like a pretty big show stopper.
Wow. All I can say is that you have very different priorities than most others. Most are ok with those changes temporarily. Almost nobody is willing to make that sacrifice permanently.
firefox/tor browser with resistfingerprinting.
Is standard editor of Gnome desktops (gedit or xed) "native" one?
And pretty much all Gnome apps for that matter?

They use XML and CSS for UI definitions...

I mean it is hard (if at all possible) to draw clear "native"/"non-native" divider these days.

It seems that "non-native app" is just a synonym for "app that uses browser based UI" ...
Such an insane user model!

Could you effectively DOS an account by creating thousands of shadow accounts with different passwords?

The login handler is only going to try to bcrypt so many times before timing out.
From a duplication of effort standpoint, how much of this can be combined (-intended) into a single process with the right implement? I know little about farming.... What is the purpose of the mowing? I know that things like alfalfa are often tilled into the soil to improve fertility. <p> Would a mower/tiller/broadcaster (all in one pass) be feasible or is there a reason these things happen separately? It would represent a substantial time & cost savings
Let me just say that I have seen queries that are megabytes in size with joins all over the place :)
I'd be interested why this comment is greyed out?

Can anyone explain?
Has anyone made a desktop app with a really simple UI for detecting text in images? I'm thinking something that lives in the taskbar, lets you make a box around the text you want to read, and then returns it as plaintext?

In my job as a support engineer I sometimes get screenshots of complex technical configurations and end up having to type them in one character at a time, so this would be really handy.

Looks like maybe I could just create a wrapper around EasyOCR.
One of the most endearing xkcd strips. A bit lightbulb moment when I figured this out in my life.
This move made me 100% opposed to snap. Don't beta test on my daily-drivers as a default.

The calculator should -always- load in a couple ms. It's one of the simplest tools on the shelf! If a calculator snap can't load immediately then I have no interest in a single other snap app. Waiting more than a second is a nightmare, and I've definitely waited 5+ seconds at times. That's about how long it takes my system to boot. As far as I'm concerned it's a complete failure and I couldn't possibly trust it on any desktop or server that I manage.
I've really loved Reddit's new design. It's very clean and focused. I found their old design to be cluttered and give too much emphasis to clickbait titles over actual content. I frankly wasn't really interested in Reddit until the redesign.
wow I didn't know uBlock could do that!

Does it actually prevent the large media elements from downloading? how?
> it's my responsibility to communicate that I'd like to try to do this a bit differently.

Yes, and please, to all interviewers, tell candidates WTF they’ll be expected to do/talk about in the interview, in the greatest detail possible, as early as possible. If FAANG can basically publish study guides you can give more than “here are the people you’ll be talking to, and when.” What about? Will there be exercises. Leetcode? Easy, medium, hard? One of these or is it like half the day? You’ll want to chat about networking? JavaScript trivia most people don’t remember because they use patterns that avoid those parts of the language, and have for years?

Again, if FAANG can give the kinds of guidance they do then Bob’s Mobile Dev Agency can give candidates something about what they should expect without ruining the process.

Like, it doesn’t all need to be scripted but most employers seem to think it’s fun to make candidates come in with no idea whether they’ll be white boarding all day or sitting around singing Kumbaya in rounds
The FAA's position on booms changed dramatically once Boeing abandoned their project. Many Europeans believe the ban on supersonic flights over the US mainland was more about protecting US manufacturers.
Every jet engine, barring the first few independently-developed ones, was derived from predecessors, so this may mean something significant, or it may not.

The TSR-2 never went into production, which raises the question of which (if any) of these projects was riding the coattails of the other. I accept that the total bill written-off could have been reduced if there was some R&D cost-sharing, but, as the TSR-2 was a ground-hugging strike aircraft intended for relatively short European-theater missions as opposed to intercontinental flight, I suspect the issues that needed R&D were quite different for the two aircraft.

As for supersonic interceptors, the missiles that rendered the high-altitude supersonic bomber irrelevant did the same for the interceptor. The only supersonic interceptor both developed and deployed by the UK was the EE/BAC Lightning, the predecessor of the TSR-2. At least, unlike the TSR-2, this airplane was put into production and into service.
A few things about where this guy is wrong on the definitions. For testing there are:

Unit Tests - This is usually per method and on a disconnected basis (you don't have a direct call to a resource on this)

Integrations - this is a combination of other unit tests. May use stubs and or mocks to isolate the external resources involved.

Functional/feature- This is where you get embedded services involved

Product acceptance test - This tends to test the individual application from deployment to running. This tends to verify outward features with live resources behind it. (Pipeline - it's one piece of the pipeline running live)

System test - this is where you can get live test environments setup and prepped for it. This tends to test the system as a whole (Pipeline- it's the entire pipeline in a test environment)
Usual definitions are:

Smoke test - a briefer test of the System test.. but meant to prove out things work. Doesn't verify
It's not even a website now. It just a wall that begs you repeatedly to download the damn app. I don't want the stupid app. You just want better tracking.
I want a short HOWTO linked from this article.
This is not the same point addressed in the post. The post references the 80/20 attractiveness bias. YetAnotherMatt is referencing a different phenomenon - that men rate women similarly to each other, whereas women rate men with much higher variance. See https://www.marketingcharts.com/demographics-and-audiences/m...
Are you referring to the Work at A Startup posts? I agree that it's perhaps one of the best cases of aligned incentives I've seen. How do you get a group of high competency engineers to congregate in the same place so you can hire them? Create a forum with content uniquely of interest to high competency engineers (who consequently engage with and enjoy the content, creating more content, causing more engineers to join).
Do you know what exactly I should search for when looking for a "TB3 to PCI-E x16 adapter"? Will this utilize all thunderbolt lanes available? I've got a newer laptop that, I believe, has all lanes available.
Try the Old Reddit Redirect extension, I've been using for over a year and I haven't seen the new reddit since then.

For Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...

For Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...
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Ironically in my opinion subreddits are the only thing keeping the site useful at all. It’s all about curating a set of smaller subreddits targeted at your interests or frequented by people whose content you like. Beyond that it’s just terrible.
If the front page is any guide, it's full of people even more insufferable than the worst parts of Reddit.
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> Unfortunately, it seems most functional languages are built on infrastructure that was intended for procedural languages

But what about Haskell and Scheme? They’re the first two languages that come to mind when I think functional.

I think all those other languages are built on existing infrastructures like .Net or JVM because infrastructure is one of the biggest barriers for any language. I’d love to see a general purpose platform designed for functional languages, but I don’t even know what that would look like.
probably related to the integration of imgur?
https://eos.org/articles/basalts-turn-carbon-into-stone-for-...

I assume farmland because it's convenient for mass spreading and well-irrigated.
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Reddits eternal September was 2011 if we're going to try and out hipster each other.
> Once you have electric control, you can start putting logic between pilot inputs and actual control surface movements. You can create dynamic, real-time-conditions-based safety stops that prevent pilots from doing common mistakes like pitching up too much and falling from the sky.

Which may end up doing more harm than good, as seen in Air France 447.
Outside some unique individuals... I really don't see this as much more than a huge cost and hassle for little to no upside.
Not to sound like an idiot - but aside from CPU usage, what's the downside to this exactly?
Sadly I don’t have a solution for mobile. The truth is that I mostly use it on the computer though so it really hasn’t been a problem.

My backup method is pretty simple but it’s been silently chugging along for months now without a single hiccup. It’s just a git commit via cron job:
https://thelinell.com/using-vimwiki/
Being first to market is overrated, once the market is established you have much better information on how you can carve out your slice, whether that be on pricing or some other point of difference.

Even the established players in a field get complacent or too large to move quickly to address an emerging need and leave themselves open to disruption.
Maybe so, but that's just one of dozens of controversial communities reddit has banned. So I think reddit still has a 'defensive moat' of disgruntled offensive ex-redditors looking for a new reddit-clone.