skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The position must be filled someone quickly.
Some positions must be filled by someone quickly. There are many many many positions that are not urgent or the candidate pool is limited enough that moving on is more akin to restarting the interview process.

Expecting someone to make a major life decision in less than a week is frankly silly.
> Would you take care of every detail ? Would you groom yourself, comb yourself even though you are not a barber or a stylist?

Would you _go to_ a barber or stylist, or at least have a friend give you a once-over to make sure you look your best?

That's what you should do with your resume. First, second or twentieth language doesn't matter, care and attention to detail does.
While its possible some of it is due to travel, I've definitely read that there is plenty of reason to believe these mutations are arising independently in different nations. Basically the virus is mutating all the time, but the vast majority of mutations are meaningless or have negative impact on the fitness of the virus. However some mutations may be more commonly observed, either because certain mutations in particular regions are more common (due to the physics/chemistry of the proteins involved) or because the mutation changes the virus in a way that makes it more like to stick and ultimately spread among the population. Some of these mutations are basically like local minimums in a mathematical function, and its not uncommon to see random traversals of that function coalesce around these minimums, at least temporarily.
> We truly do live in a simulation.

No, we truly live in a world where human beings have decided that it is ok to exploit others for their own gain. These criminals use corporate-speak because that's the language of exploitation.
It sounds like you might be a good person to review and give your thoughts on this interview between Bret Weinstein, an evolutionary biologist, and Geert Vanden Bossche, a virologist, who discuss this in length and detail it for layperson? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNyAovuUxro
It's a tool designed for professionals. Professionals operate with standards, so in a professional kitchen in America, you will never, ever need or want to read a temperature in Celsius. In the rest of the world, nobody will ever use Fahrenheit.

Having a button that changes it with a single press is actually an impediment to working quickly, and only introduces uncertainty and anxiety about the tool. Measuring temperature isn't like measuring weight - seconds matter. A moment of confusion could be enough to ruin a process, and a failure to notice the change in settings could create a dangerous situation. Nobody wants a button to see the wrong number.

Think of it like compile-time config. It's there, you can change it if you want, and everyone will have a preference, but if you need to change it often, you're not the target market.

In the rare consumer case in which you may be using foreign measurements you can change it once at the beginning of the recipe.
> it's typical to have a 'contribution' on GitHub every day

What about long running feature branches that get squashed before merging?
this is why i preferred Corporation backed open source project like Microsoft's VS code. MSFT fund it. no drama.
There are huge privacy implications but anyone who would be willing to understand that already does not use Echo, Ring, etc.
> Do you believe people have a right to privacy in their financial transactions?

Not really, no. Private financial transactions are of extremely limited usefulness to regular people, and are massively, overwhelmingly useful to criminals, and allowing them causes real, societal harm.

As, again, we can see right here.
In some european countries, 911 calls are forwarded to 112 for this exact reason, the cultural presence of 911
While I am totally excited about Starship and version 2 (that blows my mind, btw).

I cannot wait to see Starship dock (in orbit) with a frame that houses either nuclear or ion propulsion and then goes to Mars in 90 days or less. I envisage such infrastructure to allow for interplanetary crossing, while chemical rockets are used to escape gravity wells.

That will change everything again. Hopefully in my lifetime I'll see similar infrastructure parked near planets and moons to allow hopping through the solar system.

Edit: clarification and thanks to codeulike for linking to version 2.
Management? Fundraising? There's more to running an organization than just coding.
I’m a little surprised no one has mentioned the canonical name for this game: Exquisite Corpse

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse
As long as they don't do it inflight, ok. But I see no recommendation to do it strictly onground. So this could lead to several new crashes, when the operators strictly try to follow the rules.
A Misleading CDC Number
Excuse my complete ignorance but how does measuring the temperature of food help you with cooking? When I do a BBQ, I've only ever judged by colour and appearance. Usually the challenge is not to burn the outside while the inside is undercooked.
> low risk and relatively safe

While the outcomes for victims is fantastic unfortunately, it is definitely with some risk:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20420572
https://www.nature.com/articles/mp201397

Death is an extreme negative outcome. Hamilton Morris makes a good point that if we view all chemicals by their mortality or OD potential then we are missing the big picture, and potentially demonizing medicine. But we should also look at non-deadly negative outcomes.

Anecdotally, I suspect MDMA is quite psychologically addictive because it provides a once-in-a-lifetime serene feeling that can never be reproduced- once you use it, you will never experience it again as you did the first time. Moreover, the layman will try to overcome this by increasing dosage. Even responsible & informed adults may go against their better, rational, selves and reason about doing so on the basis of emotion.
Earlier this year we decided to invest in solar and a battery. It was an expensive decision, especially given that our state has very low energy prices, but I firmly believe these types of things will be the norm in the future, not the exception.

It’s a beautiful feeling know that even without the grid, I can run my pump, grow my food, and keep my freezers cold.
Medium looks good and somewhat credible, so in a job interview you can say respond to fizz buzz questions with "Well, I solved a similar problem in my medium dot com article". It's not really about actual readers, though those are nice.
Totally. The time of my life where I read the most was when I spent about 1 hour daily on the metro.
The straight-jacket is the syntax in Ada. I don't feel locked in by the correctness measures, but if you are going to have elaborate declaration blocks I prefer "let foo = bar in ...".

Because everything else is "let" in disguise. ML got the syntax right.
Threads like these are a great reminder how out of touch city dwellers(HN) are to reality. Utopia version of humanity kicks in once the power goes out. lmao
Yep. It's le bon ton to frown at the x86's baroqueness, but other ISAs had their share of bizarre ideas as well: e.g. MIPS had no interlocks until MIPS-II, so every instruction had a delay slot.

I personally liked the SIB byte from x86-32, it's a neat way to repurpose an ACU into basically another ALU.
I'm sure neither you nor I watch Fox News; I typically recommend people ignore cable news completely.

What does lead to socialism/communism is the modern urban/suburban American lifestyle. If you grow up in a fully state-funded education system, have all of your personal outcomes controlled and motivated by government initiatives, and live in a city that is ostensibly fully controlled (facilities, transportation, construction, etc.) by the government, you start to believe that all good things come from the state, and you start to believe that all problems can be fixed by more legislation and rules, paid for by more taxes and enforced by state actors. I've been around too many disparate sets of people whose only understanding of how large-scale problems can be solved is "more government" to think that I'm seeing a phenomenon that's unique to my own experience.

Most American citizens are disconnected from law, fighting, farming, construction, manufacturing, etc., and the ones that aren't usually range from weak to strong conservative.
Making the shift from blue to red for better LEDs
> You can have an agenda, create fear to further your goals and say you didn't have an agenda - pretend the results were accidental.

But that's not what's happening? It's not like we have IRA setting off bombs and then saying "it's us but it's accidental wink wink". Terrorists are interested in creating fear, hence why they take attributions in the first place.

>It can't be that easy - if some government is going to charge you, they'll do it based on what you achieved, not what you say.

You do realize something can be a crime and still not be terrorism, right?
Miami, New York, San Francisco: What Makes a Tech Hub Prevail
>One of the most imposing bridges, that of Ballıgerme, was blown up with dynamite in 2020 by treasure hunters who erroneously believed they could find gold in the ruins.

What? I couldn't find anything else about this story, but my search revealed an even more bizarre story where Bulgarian treasure hunters blew up a Roman bridge looking for Turkish treasure. Only a millennia or so off on their dating.

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2016/02/23/treasure-hunters...
It shouldn't be difficult, but it should be foolproof. Someone not paying attention could mistakenly get a Fahrenheit reading expecting Celsius, and serve undercooked food to others.
That's the pay the employee gets? Before their taxes, but after the employer has paid a fare share of expenses on it?
GNU Guile is a weird Lisp variant. Nobody is switching from Python to that; be realistic.

I do agree in some applications like data science / machine learning you could never get people to switch from Python because everyone uses it. But Python is also used for loads of other things, e.g. hacky build systems, web scraping, etc. that could easily switch.
To add another data point, on the BabelJS Slack, in the last 12 months, @Henry (hzoo, based on the matching profile pictures) has posted 96 messages, and @nicolo-ribaudo 251.

One can bring the messages up with these filters:

"from:@Henry before:2021-05-12 after:2020-05-11" and
"from:@nicolo-ribaudo before:2021-05-12 after:2020-05-11"
Yup, same in South-West Europe and most places I've worked as a developer and manager. These quoted salaries are extreme for private companies and I don't understand them at all for open source work, even less when they don't even seem to work full-time.

But then I don't live in Silicon Valley either, where these salaries seems to be judged from.

Seems extreme weird to hire people who live in Silicon Valley though for a supposedly global project. Hire people so you can make it sustainable without having to pay extreme salaries. The rest of the open source ecosystem already figured out that you need a nimble operation, wonder why it's hard for team Babel to understand?
Testing Perl: To plan or not to plan
Reading the article, no it isn't. Daniel Goleman, who also invented the term "Emotional intelligence", states you can have positive amygdala hijacks: let's say you're uproariously laughing out of control, that'd be a hijack that isn't panic related.

On the negative valenced side, it's not just a panic attack. It's more related to fight-or-flight than anxiety, though I see cases where amygdala hijack is overlapping with a panic attack.
for battery electric use cases it saves energy: you do just the necessary computations and you sleep the CPU until the next cycle. if little has changed you can sleep a lot. if a lot of rumpus is happening, you use the full cycle.
I'm not normally one to nitpick but Robert Boyle was Anglo-Irish, not English :)
I don't take too much offense at that one; frequency hopping is a hard enough thing to explain to a lay-person, but it is an enabling technology for wifi. It's like saying Albert Einstein invented the atom bomb... wrong, but not an absurd misunderstanding.
Starships will not be launched on F9s
Is US household wealth becoming a national emergency?
I think Group Policies are a very incomplete, partial solution. As you said, you usually have to combine it with a few more things to get the job done, and that is how any sysadmin job works. But: You need not only a one-off-script to make things really work.

You need a script that is idempotent, so you can execute it on all your machines and maybe do a retry or two if some are unreachable or an error happens. So the script should not only change things it is supposed to change (e.g. append a configuration line somewhere) but also check if that action is necessary or already done (e.g. that line has already been appended). Then you maybe need to restart the respective service to reread it's configuration. But of course you wouldn't want to unnecessarily restart it, since that might be disruptive or expensive, so you have to check if that configuration has been changed or not before restarting. Then handle automatic application for machines that are currently offline, have just been installed or need a refresh. Add in a some templateing and parameters, different groups, logging success/failure and you are at quite a complex script.

Or rather, a script that no-one should write, because it is exactly what configuration management is supposed to do. If you are writing all that by hand for each one-off, you are doing it wrong because you are reinventing the wheel, and usually badly. If you aren't doing all that, you are missing important parts. So imho configuration management like puppet, salt, chef, … is table stakes for any kind of sysadmin work. I'm not familiar with Windows DSC, but I find it strange that you dismiss it as pandering to the Linux crowd.
> And the code itself is a liability - it must be maintained in the face of changing requirements and technology.

A nitpick: the better analogy is that code is an inventory asset. It can decay or rot, it costs money to acquire and money to maintain.

But it is not a debt owed to someone else, as a liability is.
At first I was thinking this was a component like internet or in-flight entertainment. Then:

> This alarming-sounding situation comes about because, for reasons the directive did not go into, the 787's common core system (CCS) stops filtering out stale data from key flight control displays. That stale data-monitoring function going down in turn "could lead to undetected or unannunciated loss of common data network (CDN) message age validation, combined with a CDN switch failure".

Excuse me? Clearing the queue is not a "solution" if you have to remind a human to do it.
Wasn’t if more climactic change that brought about their demise more than prehistoric people?
Outside of CS jobs, sending out hundreds of CVs isn't unfamiliar.

I'm in biotech. Job searches routinely take 6-9 months, and hundreds of applications. The supply of good jobs is low and the demand is high. As such, it takes a while. Granted, I last searched for a job in the before times, so things have likely changed.

I've friends in legal, engineering, and other 'white collar' sectors. It took them a long time too.
When that “carpenter” is also answering the phone and doing quotes for work, apparently. If Henry is also the community manager and main fundraiser (which from the sounds of other posts he is), I’d argue that the last thing you’d want him spending time on would be code.
Your last statement runs contrary to centuries of business evidence. "Build it and they will come" is a myth.
If you still have the Thermapen they will likely replace it or repair it for free or cheap (like $10).
software engineers in Italy are vastly underpaid, but USD 72k are EUR 60k, and as an employee the company is spending much more in taxes, healthcare, retirement etc.

You should compare this with a self-employed consultant-style job, not with a normal employee.
>Exactly, I thought the reason that US developers are so highly paid compared to everywhere else in the world was to offset the high cost of living in silicon valley.

You know not all developers live in Silicon Valley, right? And London is just as expensive, why aren't the salaries the same there?

Bizarre post. Why would you brag about being underpaid?
Not per day, but over an entire year. If you're making things that are held together with nails then that is not a bad starting point for evaluation.
I was curious about the space shuttle solid rocket booster, so I looked it up...

Out of 270 SRBs launched over the Shuttle program, all but four were recovered – those from STS-4 (due to a parachute malfunction) and STS-51-L (Challenger disaster). Over 5,000 parts were refurbished for reuse after each flight. The final set of SRBs that launched STS-135 included parts that flew on 59 previous missions, including STS-1. Recovery also allowed post-flight examination of the boosters, identification of anomalies, and incremental design improvements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Solid_Rocket_Boo...
Evan's metric and henry's are not directly comparable.

Someone on vue core team (perhaps evan himself) said internal group co-ordination and management is handled by other team members, most prominent among them being Chris Fritz[1] (before he stepped down) and Sarah Drasner[2].

This reduces managerial burden on Evan and gives him more energy & time to focus on technical challenges

While Henry is the senior most member in babel team, so most of the management work is on him. which eats his time a lot more.

[1] https://twitter.com/chrisvfritz
[2] https://twitter.com/sarah_edo/
By this way fo you mean full of corporations that lie to us?
Airplanes also have to lift their own fuel, yet are not, in practice, hostage to the rocket equation (though early, grossly inefficient jets may have experienced something like it.) Three things that make the rocket equation a problem for orbital launches are, firstly, you have to take along the oxidizer as well; secondly, you have to do much more lifting (and, considerably more significantlty, accelerating) than an airplane; and thirdly, without dynamic lift, all the lifting and accelerating has to be done directly by engine thrust.

Also, while fuel oil is buoyant, it still has mass and weight, and the fuel in a ship contributes its own weight's worth of displacement. Displacement, in turn, causes wave resistance.

The larger a ship gets, the less significant, proportionally, both wave and friction drag become, reducing the incentive for foiling. It seems significant that the YC company mentioned elsewhere in these comments (Boundary Layer Technologies) positions itself as competing with air freight rather than shipping (and, as flying in the thin air of the tropopause is pretty efficient compared with generating lift in water, I would guess part of their calculation involves building much larger-capacity vessels than current and projected air freighters.)
If anyone is interested, I wouldn't mind collaborating to create a privacy oriented SmartTV or PC for devs or simply an industrial grade dumb TV. I have experience designing and building 70" industrial displays that utilize Samsung LCD panels. These "industrial" panels are normally twice the price of consumer grade ones but are designed to operate 24/7 with a MTBF of 100k hours (approx. 11 years) and are usually twice the brightness of normal ones (a very noticeable difference). I also have direct relations with Samsung for sourcing. Displays I've designed and built: https://bit.ly/3vV9jVm
Biden reviving a philosophy of growth that the party hasn’t embraced since LBJ
If you're a pilot, you should read the article carefully.

This 787 bug and others cause silent data corruption during flight beyond what the title implies.

If this happened in IMC or at night, that would be a big problem, similar to pitot/static blockages which have cost several airliners.
There’s an insane wage gap between tech in US and the rest of the world.
Amazon's user data policy is very similar to Apple. They have more of it because of their reach but they don't sell it.
> It also fails to mention that it surpassed Challenger in successful landings with its tenth

I think hailing that as an accomplishment might be in bad taste.
Cloud config storage, feature flag management
Avoid Being a Headline: Not All Domain Registrars Are Created Equal
There's also a question of - what's the job description?

Henry makes it clear in a March 2018 blogpost that he doesn't see it as a primarily coding job, and his Twitter bio describes him as 'steward', not 'developer'.

https://www.henryzoo.com/in-pursuit-of-open-source-part-1/
https://twitter.com/left_pad

So, why is he being taken to task on only quantity of code as a measure?
> And if this true does it mean AMD is open to license AMD graphics IP?

This is not the first time this happens. There was an Intel CPU with AMD's GPU.

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/130411/...
Has anyone seen hybrid propeller / jet-pump boats or foils?

It seems like it would make sense to have a gas engine and propeller to get the foil on-plane from stopped, then when "gliding" switch to a battery powered jet pump to keep it at speed.
Presumably because that is the alternative, requiring sufficient incentive to stay away from the alternative? It is not like you need to live in SV to work in SV.
AI Is a Mirror for Humans
I would love to know how this project came about. Is this the famed 20% time?
"We don't know how long they're going to last so we're going to launch our own dogfood until one explodes."
Are you referring to V2 as to the German WW2 rocket? What’s exciting about it nowadays?
The big thing about the space shuttles is that all those missions were manned.

When you have a mission with multiple humans on board, the stakes are much higher.
> 1-based indexing is definitely not a flaw.

It really is. We've known it for literally decades:

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/E...
I'm ok paying NewEgg's (sometimes) slightly higher prices because they took the time to put together a good search.
can you explain what makes this statement an "absolute torching?" I must be missing something
> Gosh, I see this stuff and I just want to be 10 years old again.

“42”.[0,1]

[0] https://sourceforge.net/projects/fortytwospacecraftsimulatio...

[1] https://software.nasa.gov/software/GSC-16720-1
That doesn't justify a $100k+ difference in salary, sorry.
Has The Register gotten rid of its motto "We bite the hand that feeds IT"? I can no longer find it.

This article is still critical, but they are pandering to FAANG etc. (see for instance the recent Stallman coverage).
It’s pretty common in Europe to be self-employed tech positions, so this might as well be pre-tax.
Chapters are often 1-3 pages long and come out every day/few days.
I would agree. I was pleasantly surprised with how my company handled the pandemic. I knew going into the job that they had a reputation for treating their employees well, but I saw it first-hand with how they handled work from home, letting employees be flexible with time, letting employees take home equipment, and a million other little things. (We have a huge manufacturing footprint and quite a few place-dependent workers in other areas. I’m unsure if they are as happy as most of the work-from-home crowd, to be fair. I just don’t interact with that part of the org)

Because of how well they have treated us, I see the occasional advertisement for yoga classes or meditation sessions as a perk I’m not interested in, instead of as a symptom of a poor workplace environment. However, if I felt constantly overworked, under appreciated, and under-equipped, each one of those emails would definitely feel like a slap in the face.