skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's good that they exceeded it. IIUC, generally accepted negotiation theory says that the first person to name a number loses.
A TikTok Mansion for Startup Founders. Launch House Isn’t What It Looks Like
Are NFT marketplaces building an experience worthy of today’s internet?
For NFTs and blockchain to truly become mainstream, the end experience for users needs to be similar to that of the existing products they use.
If they opt to not pay do you leave the bug in your system forever?

I've always been a little annoyed at this model, because with so many companies it comes down to "I paid you $120,000/year for this support contract and you're telling me you've been able to track down this bug I reported, but you're not going to fix it because it's not on the project your developers are currently working on." And then they get really miffed if you drop the support contract next year, telling us how we'll be locked out of security and feature updates, even though there were zero releases in the past calendar year. If I'm playing for the equivalent of a full time junior developer I expect at least some action on my bug reports.
This is a horrible proposal. Do I have to put a price on my family's home? And if I price it just right, be forced to sell to some speculator who wants it just because he has more money than I do?
"... is there anything you would like to be implemented in modern MMO and is technically possible?"

I don't play any games like this anymore but I did play a lot of MUDs and, later, years of UO.

What I always wanted were procedurally generated items - like weapons and armor and so on.

roguelike games randomize the names and colors of items, but we all know what they all are and there are a fixed set of them. UO was even worse - you knew exactly what every item was and what it did and that was that.

It seems obvious to me that a very enjoyable and delightful aspect could be added to games like this if every time you picked up an item you had no idea what it might be, or what it did, or how it could be used.

Obviously there would be some kind of templating involved and a number of attributes that could be randomized, etc., and perhaps even some kind of generalized discovery mechanism where you could divine exactly what this plain looking sword does.

Bottom line: I, as a brand new player, just outside the beginner town, should get a plain old short sword off of this dead orc 99 times out of 100. But 1 time out of 100 I should get a short sword that glows blue when I get close to undead creatures and has +X against wolves. Or whatever.

To put it another way, there should be an infinite number of different items I can run into throughout the game and they should do lots of unexpected and fascinating things (albeit rarely).
I wonder - if you got an unfair[1] exploding offer, why not just accept it and keep shopping quietly?

[1] A small company may have only one spot open and another candidate lined up, so that's fair enough. But larger companies likely have more than one position open so they are just bossing you around. Nothing fair about that, and you don't have to make it easy for them.
Funny how doing an Internet search engine search for the topic or any of the red flags yields many articles from different domains which are all basically the same article. I bet we will see this same post again in the future.
I know Apple isn’t for everyone but Intel is going to have some rough years ahead with these metrics and AMD doing such a good job.

I hope they come back. Competition is good for a market.
Not a bad idea to skim through the appropriate page when you’re starting a program to avoid the inevitable gotchas. The Spanish one would have instantly solved my confusion over the idiomatic “buenos dias”.
certainly not, they are gods
On my hacked Sony camera, you can program the camera to change focus and take a picture each time in rapid succession, no need for anything more than a tripod :)
Also pixz, which can use multiple threads for decompression.
In theory, the cool thing about UBI is that you can dismantle all that other stuff and just have the one safety net that covers everybody, replacing the piecemeal safety nets that are supposed to catch people in certain situations.
maybe they want to unpack rar-archives?
I bought a USB-C rechargeable light bar, works like a charm.
The actual article said he didn't want to wait for 4 weeks while something shipped from China, so he 3D printed. Nothing implied not being able to afford a $10 part.

I would also stipulate that someone with a BMD 6K camera has other cameras as well. The BMD is typically the upgraded to vs started with type of camera. Sure, edge cases and what not
Fantastic to hear you have that Michelin/James Beard experience. And as someone that does, I'm sure you know that style of cooking (esp. much of Michelin) is not the entirety of gastronomy.

I spend my time around the Michelin/50 Best chef crowd, so I hear often this "respect the ingredients" mindset, but it's just one mindset. It's limiting to think of spices "covering up" a bad ingredient, when one can also think about the dish in totality - which includes everything from spices to how its cooked to the quality of the main ingredients.

One can enjoy Asador Etxebarri, and the technical excellence on how the chef expertly plays with fire to complement the main ingredient, and also enjoy mole from Oaxaca, rendang from Indonesia, and so on.

You can also combine both. I have had phenomenal laksa in the Basque country, playing on the bright flavors of Asian spices and the amazing product (seafood) found in the Basque country.

Gastronomy is that full breath of that experience. We can prefer more one of the other, but you're cheating yourself to be so dismissive.
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Wallethub let me register email+wh@gmail.com but did not allow + sign in login. Cant signup again with email@gmail.com Had to ask support to fix that.
Why is it Electron based when it’s not cross platform?
Also relevant, spice (and salt) preferences have a high subjective component. It drives my wife crazy but I don't even read amounts any more for things like this, I just put whatever I think, and add more if it seems like it needs it after I taste it. Conveniently its also the best, and perhaps only, way to develop in to a good cook because it teaches you how ingredients impact the flavour of your meal, and in turn how that is percieved by the people consuming it.

If its helpful to anyone not well versed in cooking, focus on salt first. IME its by far the most important component in most dishes.
I used to have FU money. Now I don't. Well, not entirely true - I still do but the lifestyle creep has snuck up on me as I wasn't deliberate in my spending.

Made a couple of bad decisions like building a second home in a country which I'll likely never visit again due to its political circumstances but seemed like a bargain at the time (yeah, I know).

Also my family has slowly got used to more expensive gifts and higher expense entertainment choices and now the seven figure balance sheet doesn't feel so liberating anymore :(

I'm now working towards being more deliberate with spending and cutting down our set of possessions that provide us little value. Mostly that second house.
> Another big thing (for me, as a web person) is lack of https in stdlib, which means realistically that you'd have to setup cross compilation of C source for curl or bearssl or whatever.

But that should be very easy in zig, as zig can compile c?

https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-replace...
This doesn't work at the scale of the US. Where would you find sufficient investable assets? A sovereign wealth fund similar to Norway in the US would contain a large fraction of all wealth globally.

Scarcity of investable assets is already a problem. Increasing demand by $50-100T will make it worse. Part of the reason the US issues trillions in debt is to absorb some of the existing demand.
The only thing that comes to mind is the lack of par files or some equivalent construct.
The biggest drawback is that you may have the intention of giving money in the future, but you end up never doing it. Unless you put it into some guaranteed-for-charity vehicle like a Donor Advised Fund.

Giving now, even if you are also putting some off to give later, is the better course of action.

A good read: https://concepts.effectivealtruism.org/concepts/timing-of-ph...

> giving now creates a habit of giving, and removes the temptation to spend savings which were originally intended to be donations.
Dimensionality Analysis – Multiple Dimensions
My spouse, who does not work in an IT/software related field, has an email address that is firstname@lastname.com and quite a large number of people refuse to believe that such a thing is possible. There has been more than one instance where some person treated them as if they were so clueless that they didn't know how to properly format an email address.
Does 7-zip support multiple processors like pbzip2 or similar tools?
> Undue pressure to accept an offer letter

These are called "exploding offers". It's horrendously shady.

edit: I once got one with a limit of one hour before expiration. I was completely naive and took the position anyways. What a complete nightmare.
> We're getting better, but sometimes there are legitimate reasons for things like delays and ghosting that can't be disclosed to the candidate.

Can you elaborate? I'm having trouble imagining a legitimate reason to ghost a candidate, other than a court order or National Security Letter.
I think a lot of what you see, given modern laptops, isn't so much low-quality webcam issues as it is poor lighting issues, whether because of low light levels, backlighting, or a combination of the two.
Recovery records.
An OS that represents the user should have the option to "allow" extraneous permissions (perhaps even by default), but return junk data - mock location, fake contacts, arbitrary device identifiers, etc. And to transparently proxy network traffic as well. The point of sandboxing is that an app should not be able to know whether it has been given access to private information, plausible garbage, or a mix of both.

I have no idea if this particular OS can do this. But it's a possible difference between proprietary and Free land, and where the Free world needs to head to fight back against nonconsensual permission demands.
>The "something" to be manufactured isn't nuclear power plants.

Wrong, actually. Whenever multiple nuclear plants for submarines in a given class are manufactured, the fact that multiples are being built does lower the cost, although most of that is just from having a complete design to use rather than any kind of mass production. Navy reactors aren't really SMRs since they're also old technology, but they're a good example of how much easier/cheaper/greener it is to build small reactors instead of large ones.

> It seems like the 5 GW one might be cheaper.

Small modular reactors typically run up to 300MW in size. There are very few applications for a 5GW reactor. Besides, the costs of the small reactors in terms of time, money, operating expense, security and other things are so much less than for the large plants that the math really doesn't work anyway, even for your extreme example of 1000 5MW reactors.
Looks like it's hardwalled, which means it's off topic for HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
Why don't people migrate the systems to vms, then you could run them on vastly cheaper hardware? You have all this data across the complex storage system, but all of that could be virtualized if they wanted. The vms I worked on in the 1980s had so many different os variants, cics etc but if I was working on this approach I'd try to run things in vms, eventually teeze out the pieces I could into new services. But the parts that are too hard could just keep running in vms. You have to virtualize your data sources and provide apis to read those old disk drives or virtualized tape drives etc.

But if you are spending a billion dollars, how much code do you have? Also, on the lack of programmers, just pay them more and you'll get a lot more applicants.
When I worked at BT in the UK you had to do a 2.5 day residential course and pass it before you where allowed to interview people.
You are right, my message did come out as snarky... sorry about that, it was not my intention. I agree with you, the Zig language appeals precisely to those people who enjoy proper, modern C, and want a better language. It does not appeal at all to people who want "a better C++". Thus I was suggesting to understand the distinction between C and C++ as the main point.
Nice, thanks!

I was less interested in the code sample as a "how-to" and more for skimmability – rather than reading a bunch of words I just wanted to see what it would look like.

Eg, from that link:

terraform {
required_version = ">= 0.13"
required_providers {
b2 = {
source = "Backblaze/b2"
version = "~> 0.2"
}
}
}

provider "b2" {
}

resource "b2_application_key" "example" {
key_name = "test-b2-tfp-0000000000000000000"
capabilities = ["readFiles"]
}

data "b2_application_key" "example" {
key_name = b2_application_key.example.key_name
}

output "application_key" {
value = data.b2_application_key.example
}
Stop trying to police what people think. It's disgusting.
> but the hiring at that company was a whole other song and dance that took very little input from anyone about the hiring process.

That doesn't sound healthy to me.
Did you read the article?

"I record short 4K ProRes422HQ clips and use them for focus stacking directly in helicon focus. For this fly I used an average of 160 frames."

Clearly, he recorded multiple clips, and then exported individual frames from individual clips.

After all of that, he didn't even record in RAW.
I have personally given up on "whiteboarding people"... reminds me of waterboarding.

I skim the resume, underline anything we use internally and talk to them about experiences.

We've done over 300 interviews in the last expansion year (2017) because we had to build a brand new development office (+50 devs).

After hiring all of these people, we've quantified this as three things: Curiosity, Ability to Learn and Ability to Listen. 2 out of 3 is good, but 3 is best. Almost every person we've hired who has been a success has had some of these, they're willing to be curious about new technologies and how things work, they are capable of learning (desiring isn't the same thing, they are capable of it), and listening is a good trait for enabling communication.

It is still possible that we chose these traits yet rejected other traits which are far more successful, and there is a chance we also rejected good people who would have also succeeded.
I feel like he could've got it going with 5 or 10 emoji and spent a lot less. Also impressed with his commercial.
Some years ago I was applying for a job and had to fill out a form for a background check. The background check asked for my last several addresses — and I had no idea what they were. Even then, it seemed obvious to try googling myself. Scary! In a few minutes I had every address I had ever lived at.
> That said, I never got an offer from something like SV startup or a FAANG, so I can imagine it's totally different over there.

It's not.

They can choose to be dicks about it or not, but the way they use their leverage isn't any worse. Competition for employees is fiercer than other markets. You yourself can get away with being a dick to them.
> Why would anyone work when they can just speculate on stocks and create digital art worth million.

They can't. Between the speculation as input and the money on the other side as output there is a giant random number generation box.

- Everyone pretends that they understand how the box works.

- You're hearing only about the people that get more out of the box than they put back in.

- You're observing a time when the box is more favorable to a higher number of people. (It will eventually start keeping more than it gives back.)
lol

yea, sourceforge went throu a lot of sketchy shit but nothing an adblocker and common sense could not defeat.
I'm a little unclear how you could possibly get that many interviews in such a short time unless you're a famous "rockstar" coder. I'm not familiar with the blog author, is he a very well known person?
It's really quite astonishing how powerful a force that is, and how well Wikipedia channels it toward something good!
Why the aggressiveness? If you want to believe that, be my guest.

This is a film production company, they most certainly have a stack of DSLRs they could use it it was that much more convenient, and with much better resolution. Not sure why you’d assume stupidity.

The software supports importing videos directly: https://m.facebook.com/heliconsoft/photos/new-version-of-hel...

As for RAW, unless you need that bit of extra dynamic range, it makes no difference (they don’t here, as it’s a studio shot with fully controlled lighting), ProRes422 is enough for 10-bit HDR even.
A corporate email lookup & verification tool targeted to sales & marketing, HR, and Recruiting teams/individuals.

Due to a unique approach to lookup of corporate emails, Poirot will sometimes surprise you with alternative domain names ready to be searched or possible relevant emails on different domains. It will also try to enrich domain search results with title, position, and LinkedIn profile link when found.

It is a perfect tool for both individuals and teams as it provides easily switchable team workspaces for each account.

Referrals are also available to all users from the beginning.

There is a forever Free plan (no card required) that gives you 20 lookup searches and 100 verifications per month, while each new signup brings 25 permanent credits to both referrer and referee.

Either way, a great feeling finishing it from the first line of code, and looking forward to your comments and feedback on the app.
Wait until you see how much it costs to retrieve your entire backup from Glacier.
With the caveat that I've only worked on toy projects, I've found the built-in stdlib to be perfectly adequate. I supplement with some well-known modules from dbuenzli@ and haven't felt like I was missing any basic functionality.
The toxicity of nuclear waste does not even begin to compare with kidney beans. I'm not sure why you're making that analogy, but it's a bit absurd to me.

It's like there's a conscious tactic to compare nuclear power to things people consider harmless.

You're also lecturing me about properly weighing in on upsides and downsides, but you just compared it to salad!
xz is almost identical compression depending on flags used but lacks encryption. Some people use 7zip to also encrypt their files.
20-some years ago my friend, who was born in Hong Kong, went back for the handover celebrations. The biggest DJs spinning for the largest parties in the world, enormous fireworks, everyone celebrating. It's hard to believe now that that was the reaction to the handover of Hong Kong to the communists.
If Big Tech has our data, why are targeted ads so terrible?
Jeff Geerling just uploaded a tutorial video on focus stacking if you want to check it out!

https://youtu.be/pinYVZxBF2Q
First dinosaur preserved sitting on nest of eggs with fossilized babies
I do this because I'm in it for the long run. Sure, maybe it won't pay off, but my "first directive" is, to get people to use my open3A. If they've put all their data in it and miss some feature in the future it is more probable that they will just buy it from me instead of going through the hassle of moving to another solution. If they have a good support experience that just gives them a better feeling with my software.
> And remember, if you're writing in English, that a lot of your readers won't be native English speakers. Their understanding of ideas may be way ahead of their understanding of English.

Ah, condescension. The secret ingredient for a fantastic essay.
Need I say that Mad Magazine beat Larry Niven to this one?
If you can get hired without a college degree, then the people who will go to college will be those who want an education, not just a job. That should reduce the demand for college education, which should in turn lower the price (supply and demand, and all that). It should also open up a lot of jobs to a lot of people.

But I want more than that. I want the ability to cobble together a real, recognized degree out of courses like this. I want to be able to get a degree in materials science this way, or in pre-law, or in English literature, or in physics. (Western Governors University does something like this, but like Google here, they don't cover enough topics/majors.)
I wasn't addressing the person being censored, nor did I criticize the act of "speaking". It's deeply ironic that you're using the phrase "false equivalence".
Well, if I don’t know how to prioritize my time and cut down on time-wasters, I can’t be a good employee either.
Just be prepared for them to be hard - “as hard as iron slag” isn’t far off it - first time I had one I nearly broke a tooth - they have the consistency of concrete.

Tasty, though. Great with a frosty beer after a day roasting in the steppes - which is where I first encountered them - mysterious spheres presented with a brew in dusty Aktobe.
Depends on the purpose, I guess. If the point is just to convey information, ideas, then yes, write simply. If the purpose is to, at least in part, to entertain, then don't.

Thinking about the entertainment perspective and e.g. the journalists and bloggers I like, I think it's pretty similar to how we perceive music. I remember a paper from quite a few years ago that found (through fMRI) that we most enjoy music that our brain can mostly predict, but sometimes it would mispredict/would be wrong about the next few notes that follow. It's a balance.

Non trivial writing must be similar. I.e. it may not be about music, but entertainment: it should be somewhat in line with what you expect but at the same time throw challenges at you. It should make you work at an enjoyable level.

What he says about ageing, OTOH, is probably pretty universal. There is some debate in my country (Hungary) about the literature curriculum in elementary and high schools. Traditionally children are supposed to read XIX and early XX century novels from some of our great writers. This hasn't changed since I went to school decades ago. I remember hating these. Most of them were very hard to follow, very hard to decipher the story from the complex text. I guess what happened is that what they were writing was challenging to the level of being entertaining to their contemporaries (just like it is with today's writers, of course) but then the change in the language made it too challenging for most of us (at least the young, untrained minds).
The key feature I wanted for VHA was the ability to scroll through thumbnails without having to be connected to hard drive where videos reside. This is particularly great when you have many external hard drives and/or remote volumes but just want to see if you have a particular video already.

With my app, clicking opens the video with your default video player. At the moment you cannot stream to another device (though it's a feature I'm hoping to add in one day).
Yeah, if I name a number and you exceed it that shows you want me. If you force me to name a number and you still come in below that is going to be a no even though I might have accepted it if you didn’t force me to give a number.

I just had a 3 month interview experience with Apple and the recruiter was the worst ever, kept lowballing and giving small improvements and the hiring manager accused her of lying to him. It was a role that i care a lot about but after that interaction there was no way I could say yes.