skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best I can recommend is allow the free tier to move away their data locally (export): not sure if that makes sense in your context. That reduces the chances of them becoming pissed off (I always liked the distinction between British and US "pissed" though :)), even though it won't help with conversions much.

I don't think it's such a big deal anymore: users are already conditioned to expect entire free services to be gone tomorrow (somehow Google with Plus, Reader... comes to mind ;), so moving to being there but paid is not such a big deal.

Unless you promised it will be free forever (eg for beta testers etc).
> you usually make offers to the best candidate, and if they decline, move down the list.

When I've been involved in hiring, we almost always have more than one opening, so this one doesn't resonate with me. We could always make a decision on 'would we like this person or not'. I've decided to hire an iffy candidate because of a corporate imposed time crunch (position went away if we didn't hire by X, so we went with someone), and it was worse than being understaffed, so I lean heavily towards only hiring good enough people.
> brief and pithy overview

I've seen people using "pithy" around here a lot lately.

Is being "pithy" a good thing?

My main previous exposure to the word is in regards to woodworking, where the pith is generally weak wood that you want to avoid when making things.
Negotiating the developer-to-tester ratio. 3:1 is just the beginning
As others mentioned, many sites have multiple bangs. Twitter for example, my guess would be "!tw" and it is correct.

Also, if you want to know one of the bangs, "!bang twitter" lists all if the ones involving Twitter.
Netflix programmers can help you find what you want to watch. All the content in the world won't help them if you spend your time staring at the home screen while bad algorithms recommend the wrong things.
> Managing mediocre-performing employees is harder and more time consuming. By keeping our organization small and our teams lean, each manager has fewer people to manage and can therefore do a better job at it.

If managing great employees is easier / less work, then shouldn't each manager be able to manage more people?
This rings true. There's a YouTube channel where a man with a campervan goes out camping in the nature and cooks food, sips whiskey and looks into the horizon. So simple yet so attractive and there's many comments of older people saying they can no longer do that but live it through these videos. I'd rather be doing that on my weekends than busting my back to get that promo.

One life so we might as well just live it.
I seem to recall some one (Argon) has just launched a case for that Pi plus an m.2
'In my experience, Windows XP runs fine on relatively modern hardware.'

How modern? And what hardware models? Was the newer hardware Win 7 compatible or later?

I wish you'd be more specific and tell us how as it's never worked for me even after mucking about with different PC hardware and various different AHCI and other drivers.
I hadn't thought about the search highjacking problem but it does help explain why Mozilla is intentionally making it harder to mess with the search engine settings. It does sound like an external program would be the only way to do it...
I wish there was something readily available like the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 but with mechanical keys. Change the spacebar into two pieces to avoid the need for custom keycaps if you like. Most/all of these fancy split keyboards are missing something, like this Ultimate Hacking Keyboard has no numpad or multimedia keys.

I'm currently using a Varmillo 110% mechanical keyboard that has all the fancy keys (music/mail/calculator/My Computer keys, numpad, and multimedia keys on Fn-pressing the F keys). But it's not ergonomic; there's no curve, wrist rest, or option for a negative tilt.

A lot of mechanical keyboard options are more for show than practicality, which is a bit sad considering mechanical keys are nicer to type on.
So that means Uber is in full compliance?
TEDtalk by Ted at the TED2 conference, 1990 (YouTube)
Sorry if I’m being daft but can you provide a link? Something that will dynamically do LTO with shared libraries
Captcha Can Be Annoying
If the super-predators ad was a central example of the voter deterrence campaign I can’t see why people think it should be stopped. On the continuum between someone voting for one group and someone voting for another group I think a lot of voters will not vote if they don’t significantly prefer one option. This criticism seems to imply if you don’t think your message is good enough to flip someone’s voting intention but good enough they have second thoughts about voting for an alternative then you have a moral obligation to stay silent.
It's not like this is being advertised when you are subscribing to some service. "Subscribe now and if you ever want to cancel, we'll make you pay! PS. We know where you live."

What could the consumer do apart from relying on word of mouth to avoid such services?
It's too bad they don't offer them on the Edge, but if RGB lighting isn't essential they have the 'quiet red' switches available on the Freestyle Pro, which is basically the same model without the backlit keys.
The parent is talking about dividend vs capital gain taxation; your comment does not address this issue.
Nope. The L4ish offers certainly would be far too low if that was 4 years, and these are supposedly "manually verified."

The hovertext also says they explicitly divide by N.
> Whenever i hear someone talking about "cyber" a large part of my brain switches off. Im sure that some people are told they simply have to use the term, but i find real experts shy away. If i have a choice between talks on "remote exploitation analysis" or "cyberwar weapons research" ill go with the boring title every time.

You actually have two different sets of experts here with their own jargon: the military/political leaders and the soldier-hackers. The HN readership likely has a lot more in common with the latter than the former, but it might be a mistake to insist that all groups use the latter's jargon. Kinda like it would be a mistake to insist biologists talk in the jargon of particle physics.
I agree. I would estimate 90% of all Linux packages (over all distros) are based on make. Well, for the distro it does not matter, because packages are typically built from scratch and not incrementally. But everybody hacking on such a package will be affected by the mtime issues. I would claim it hardly ever happens. Of course if it happens it might cause great frustration and waste of half a day.
Building GStreamer text rendering and overlays on Windows
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Explains Why His Company Pays So Well
IMO, I don't think it should be a surprise that we will eventually find signs of extraterrestial (but not necessarily intelligent) life in our solar system. The real question is: does it share any common building blocks with life on Earth or not? The answer to that question could dramatically change our understanding of our place in the universe as well as open up entire new fields of productive research in biochemistry.
Not working for me on iOS
The pace of environmental change can doom or save coral reefs
DDG should show them at the bottom of their first search result page.

That way, starting a new search with a bang operator wouldn't be such a hassle, e.g. on mobile, where it takes like 7 screen-taps to restart a search with e.g. "!g" appended to it.

I might actually switch to DDG if they had that.
> less germs could give a civilization a developmental edge.

Interesting idea, but the way I see it, disease is a cost of civilization in a way. The reasons that there was more disease in Eurasia are also the reasons that caused civilization to progress faster there to begin with. I'm not sure you could have your cake and eat it too.

> Europe lost probably hundreds of years of progress to the Black Death.

Based on what I've read about the Black Death, I don't think that's the case. Unlike the fall of the Roman empire, there wasn't a collapse of civilization despite the devastation caused by it: technological and engineering knowledge was not lost in the process. Some argue that the Black Death was actually benefitial in some ways. There was a big population boom leading up to it, but afterwards the survivors had a better economic situation, and more leverage against nobles resulting in the power shifting more towards farmers and other workers.
Usually it’s good. It means short and to the point in most contexts. Maybe things can be too pithy, if they’re so short that they’re incomprehensible. But it’s much better than meandering and off topic.

(This response was not pithy)
> Would you disqualify companies that had bootstrapped successfully, were profitable, and did not take any outside money?

Yes. Absolutely. If you're going to pay me in equity, I am an investor. If you can't paint a picture of goals, timelines and a sense of what an exit looks like - I'm not joining you.

If you're paying my comp in cash, then you can do whatever you want. But know that the cash comp will have to be very high to convince me - probably too high for a bootstrapped startup.
gog.com provides many DOS-based games with ScummVM, when ScummVM supports them.
They don't provide feedback if you don't get an interview. If you do get an interview and are rejected, usually, they provide feedback.
The author is to Engineers what Machiavelli is to Princes.
This is a problem with many subjects, including math and science. Sure, somebody with a math major and teaching certificate might have a hard time getting a job outside of teaching, but had they not pursued the teaching credential, they'd be adequately employable without it. A friend of mine just quit his high school physics teaching gig and now has a nice industry job.

And it doesn't take a computer science degree to teach coding, just as it doesn't take one to learn it. My mom taught programming at the high school and college level for several years during the 1980s, and her degree is in chemistry.

Two things we don't know how to teach are: Coding and teaching. What I mean is there's no sure fire way to turn more than about 10% of any group into coders or teachers. Even mathematical ability isn't necessarily a good predictor of coding ability. So the good coders and teachers actually come out of the same pool.
"...on that day, on that burning day, which cut off my childhood, I realised that most people were fools, most authority was malignant, god did not exist, and everything was wrong. And these have been my guiding beliefs since that time."
Fix the law, just like they could fix the ACA if the GOP would pass bills.
Wrong on nuclear. They operate in load following in France just fine.
They're not optimizing for knowing the theory or problem solving ability.

They're optimizing for how far are you willing to go to jump through this here hoop of ours?
I built a simple node JS server to use as my default search engine. What you describe could be a 2-line change to my code.

My motivation was using Google "I'm Feeling Lucky" without JS. The node app detects the "!lucky" bang, downloads the search results, finds the first link, and redirects to it.

Let me know if it interests you.
DARPA sets sights on making AI self-aware of complex time dimensions
Now imagine one a law that takes money of of CEO's pockets. It's not going far.
Well, if we're allowed to just redefine the terms, you can make and prove whatever claim you wish, but its unsatisfying and ultimately pointless. I'm not sure why you think the above (which, I'm sorry, parses as gibberish for me) is useful given my assertion that mathematics is not the same species of thing as human language, as opposed to whatever the thing you're describing above is.
There's an important detail omitted in the article though. Netflix also has a 'no brilliant jerk' policy. So, they effectively filter for brilliant people who can also serve as multipliers to their respective teams. And then they play the Henry Ford salary trick on them, ensuring that they are not really incentivized to move on to pipe-dream offering startups or potential competition. Seems to be working out well for them.
I don't think this one has a specific name. There are a lot of unnamed craters on Mars, even much bigger than this one. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_craters_on_Mars
Yep indeed, I've asked before I got in. In this case I was getting a cab from the airport after a long haul flight. I'd normally use Uber but to try and speed things up I took a black cab because they're allowed use bus lanes and it was 9am.
FANG was just a term coined by Jim Cramer for high growth tech stocks. Apple wasn't included at that point. People have re-purposed it to mean big tech companies that pay a lot and modified the acronym.
I can never decide if Mike Judge is really this good, or we are really this transparent that a mostly-outsider can peg us so accurately.
Feel free to cherry-pick a recent success story from Areva / Framatome to counter mine.
Do you have plans to open source the tool that generates the vector file for cutting?
People who aren't successful tend to convince themselves that people who are successful got there by underhanded means.
Ah, the rising tide lifts all boats. This seems also true in business, money is made riding trends.
I don't know... Glassdoor's system seems to work pretty well for collecting this kind of data. Sure the number of reported salaries is maybe too small to say anything specific about individual companies, but in aggregate places like Glassdoor and LinkedIn could probably tell us with high certainty what the distribution looks like.
Yeah, if it's really similar it will blow brains for one reason, and if it's really different for another.

I hope it's really different. I don't want to be that special.
I remember the bit about women having fewer teeth than men from college but I never got an explanation how he could think this.

Does anyone know how Aristotle held this belief, which is so easily disproven?
Well put. I completely agree. One thing I'd like to add though is that choosing to not play this game does not mean there's no path to large impact / success by conventional metrics. I came away from this article with the distinct feeling that it is focused on big corporate jobs. That certainly is where a large segment of workers are at, but it's not the only place you can be. In particular, I think that in the early stage startup world you don't get a lot of what the article is talking about. In early stage startups decisions made by rank-and-file employees can have very tangible and significant impact on the time scale of weeks to months, not quarters to years like this article seems focused on. Does this early stage startup world have its own set of issues? Of course. But there do exist good opportunities where culture is healthy and good work gets rewarded.

I really like this article's take on this general notion. http://www.samkyle.com/work-for-yourself/
Is there any reason other than tax deduction that a company operating in the UK would offer their services through a Dutch subsidiary?
Capacitor issues are causing RTX 3080/3090 crashes
Netflix pays their software engineers huge salaries because stocks and bonuses are not a significant part of their compensation. Stocks are not a significant part of their compensation because the culture at Netflix - at least what they promote externally - is that they are a high-performing team, and players may get cut next year. In that kind of environment, stock which takes time to mature is not attractive. Bonuses imply doing more, but again, their culture is that everyone is a higher-performing player.

Base salaries at the other FAANG companies is lower because stocks and bonuses are a significant fraction of the total compensation. But total compensation is similar for all of them.

I thought this was common knowledge? Reference: https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Amazon,Apple,Netflix,Google,...
That's interesting but I don't know if it helps with the parents concern. If I arrive into a project, the same reasons that made them choose rust mean that they have likely chosen the latest version of rust, with all its complexity and power.

If I am inspecting code for safety that is doing low level things then I want to have a clear and simple (imperative) model in my head. I don't want to spend the review admiring how clever the author is. I want to know as directly as possible what is going on in the machine.

In another domain the ability for the author to do clever things could make me very productive but it doesn't matter because the safety of low level code is not a concern.
You can add "!g" to your dictionary and initiate it with a quick swipe (e.g. I use "bang" to add it). Cool thing is, that you can add it anywhere in your query - DDG will pick it up
I have several hex editors installed (yay, font engineering) but I'd _much rather_ have it as part of a single solution tool belt.
That's not the point here. OP said, that the Netflix team could at the time deliver scale, while other teams couldn't.
There is a much simpler argument to be made, with regard to protectionism. Whether you agree with the morality or not, it it benefits American companies to have their competition banned. They are then free to clone it, without having to fight for users. Considering the isolationist and nationalist tendencies of the current administration, such a decision is consistent and fitting. One could argue, it most benefits the national security of the country to keep its tech giants strong, and free from external threats. And that entire argument can be made without bringing up data.
It's /2 on all of these if it's not FANNG.

The stats doesn't make sense, it's skewed to the top.
Yep.. I bought a second hand Kinesis Advantage off ebay to "see if this would work for me". I used that one for almost 10 years and it was old when I got it. I had to use a usb adapter plugged into a ps/2 adapter into the original AT keyboard plug. Currently I have an advantage pro. Thinking about getting an advantage 2, but would only to get upgraded function keys.
There is just no such thing as software that can't change; I realize this might mean decentralized systems are simply impossible, but "it is what it is"?

I do feel you just don't understand this still, though: if the miners all upgrade and you don't it isn't like they can force anything down your throats as you didn't upgrade.

I feel like your mental model is somehow "if 51% of everyone does something invalid then the system is now invalid", but what that actually means is that those people are rejected from your consensus.

So, if all the miners decide to run a different software this is effectively just a different distributed system. Your computer, which is checking everything, rejects all of them and keeps playing with the people who are playing the same game.

You aren't trusting anyone or assuming anything: that wouldn't be decentralized at all really. Now, is any of this efficient? No. But that wasn't a goal ;P.
That's very disturbing. I never thought I will consider myself lucky after what I went through.
Maybe if your "document" is the Encyclopedia Britannica? Wikipedia has hundreds of editors working at once, but that only really works because it's broken up into millions of smaller parts that don't interact much.
This is a fascinating topic that I hope to follow up with a more technical blog post. The short summary is that there is room for functions to grow, and if they still exceed the padding, they get moved around to a new location in both virtual memory and in the file. Because of indirect function calls this means callsites remain the same; only the GOT entry has to get updated. The actual function body is moved with the copy_file_range syscall, where available.
I am going to turn 40 in a couple of years. Honestly, I have never liked the idea of 'preparing for interviews'. If I want to switch job I mostly want to apply what I have learnt so far to clear the interview.

The interview at my last two jobs (current and previous one) were both vastly based on a coding task. I always prefer this as it is closest to how I work.
In a world where (A) compensation is typically mostly in the form of liquid equity grants and (B) compensation amounts change rapidly year-on-year, Glassdoor's system vastly understates compensation in the field.
I think it's less of an IQ test and more akin to a gang initiation ritual.

Instead of "the condition of joining our gang is you need to murder a random in cold blood" they are saying "our hazing ritual is grinding several hundred hours of leetcode and finally running the leetcode gauntlet, if you can endure that, you're in".
That's great to know the rules are on my side, but the last thing I want is an argument with a driver who has already decided he's breaking the rules. What's the dispute process for a black cab if I'm sitting outside my door with a £30 fare racking up and an angry driver? With Uber, I say "thanks" and type a message when I get back to the apartment and it's handled. With black cabs it looks like I have to phone them. Presumably I also need a receipt or at least a cab number too?
You should thank Robert Bork for gutting the proper understanding of antitrust in US.
This thread made me read about conditional types in TS and in general more about its type system. I was ignorant. I agree now that it's advanced. Previously I only heard bad things about it without bothering to study it myself. Turns out, it's not all bad, there is some good as well. Still wouldn't want to work with it, ever; but that's beside the point.
Funny to see this downvoted to hell because it's a very astute observation.

It's very popular for Americans to portray capitalism in a negative light these days but in my experience if you get these people to define how they are using the word capitalism it has almost zero overlap with a traditional text book definition of the word relating to open capital markets and the ability to exchange goods in markets with money, and what they are angry about is something more like your "managementism", financialization, or crony capitalism.

There is a contrarian money manger who does some good blogging on this topic which shows up on HN from time to time who has written extensively on this topic:

https://www.epsilontheory.com/this-is-water/

His style can be off putting sometimes but I think his underlying messages are usually pretty astute.
Very interesting project. If you want a deep dive into TypeScript generics, this project's code is truly a must-read! This project really shows how powerful TypeScript has become over the years.

Shameless plug: we're also working on project in the same domain. It actually uses the TypeScript compiler API to generate/update your SQL schema's and a typesafe (mongo like) API on top PostgreSQL. It's still very early stage, but if you're interested: https://samen.io
> Does linking somehow get faster or easier with in-place patching?

Check out that 5 min demo video! I think it's pretty exciting.
Because that's reality?

It's emergent behavior based off efficiency and the harsh realities of childbirth (i.e. men and women have very different parts to play in childbirth). It's not sexism.
The Direction of Fashion Change
Not enough study. To use this trend watchman, a context is important to clarify how the trend started and how it might advance inside a social network.
1) UHK without the palm rest is pretty small keyboard to carry. Mine is with palm rests (because I've started feel pain in wrist so invested at the max). But had no problems bring it back home with latop from the office while commuting on bike. I've used old padded sleeve of 14" laptop as a case.

2) That was the reason why I've picked UHK - it is open source. Parts can be easily replaced. Though it does not seem it is going to break soon.