skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you accept non-US people, tell me what company you work for so I can send my resume.

Because all the issues the guy pointed out I am on receiving end of them right now.

And although I've been in leadership roles before and started programming when I was 6 years old (my dad taught me), I started lately to see if sending my applications to junior developer roles will get me any replies (people don't even tell me they got my application, except the occasional robot).
People often take statements from employees of companies as more authoritative than they are intended. If you are going to comment on something people are likely to make incorrect assumptions about and you know that, it makes sense to clarify that. In the case we're talking about here, it's better for both the employee and the employer.
To be honest, I used a Telegram alerts group (Brobot) for 3090s and 5950Xs and was able to get both within a week of trying. There were only a couple opportunities but I managed to get 2x3090s and a 5950x within those windows. It's definitely doable, just very annoying. I'd rather get a spot in line than race to be through the door every time.
Anything Frontend JavaScript Framework since 2010.
I looked at this post and the user facing blog post, but I’m not sure if I’ve understood this. Is it just a way to organize different rooms together for easy access (like Telegram’s folders, which is just for each person, but here these can also be shared with others)? If yes, then can someone please point to similar implementations (preferably with screenshots) on other platforms for comparison and where the similarities and differences lie?
The rise of online vigilantes in the US is disgusting. I find the self-admitted "cancellers" know even less than the people they're cancelling.

For example, none of the 5 people who died on Jan. 6 were killed by protesters - 4 died of natural causes, and one was shot by Capitol police.

I used to laugh at stories about the CCP "50 Cent Army" in China, but we now have the same thing in the US, despite having a functioning LEO and court system here.
Considering the plummeting birth rate, I don't think it will be necessary to colonize new space to find space for more people, unless we start cloning people en mass.
KeePass is free and we all already pay for some type of cloud storage (gdrive, itunes etc). Combine with your own encryption method to compress, forget about pass
Jews who fled Nazi Germany would like a word with you.
Or looked at another way, with only a year of mining you cover your costs, and everything after that is profit. I don't GPU mine, but I can certainly see why people do.
Correct! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTvS9lvRxZ8)
If you talk to daily Instagram users, you'll find out what problem it solves. In particular, it was the lucky winner in the crowd of early photo-sharing-on-mobile apps. But the demand for that was proven by early photo sharing successes like Flickr. Realizing people would want to do that on their pocket camera device is not a big leap given what people were already doing to share photos from their mid-aughts cameraphones phones.

There's no such plausible story for 3D video calls. It's not like people are already demanding 3D displays for any of their other 3D stuff. The 3D first-person shooter, for example, has been around for decades. But 3D displays have never been popular despite being available for at least a decade.
I moved from a 2/5 to a 4.5/5. Doesn't mean it was necessarily a satisfying move. There's 6 - great mission and product, which the first one had and the new job is weak in, but it factors for a lot more than the other 5 in attractiveness of the job, at least for me
Yes, it incentivizes investing in better store of value like bitcoin (or gold, or Apple stocks).
The Textbook That Unleashed Ramanujan's Genius
If your place pays FANG ish and allows full remote (as Facebook does) feel free to hit me up. Preparing final round at facebook but it's a crapshoot (philosophecles0@gmail.com)
That may have been true at some point, but I don't think it's true now. E.g. Project Zero finds Firefox sandbox escapes noteworthy.
I can't tell during my limited time in an interview if a developer has that knowledge because they crammed (and therefore will forget quickly on the job) or if they actually study and understand this stuff.

I can tell during my limited time in an interview if a developer is capable of making logical deductions and not flail when exposed to a problem they may not have seen before. And, better yet, if they do study algos for fun, this will become apparent!
I mean, this is the whole point of the dreaded coding whiteboard interview, no? You can't memorize your way out of it, and with any luck the interviewer will be looking at the big picture of how you tackle the problem and what headway you make, instead of sniping at syntax or the names of library calls.
These kind of semantics are not really important for the masses.

As I said, the end user's OSI layer 1 is the infrastructure's OSI layer 6 anyways. How the routing layer is achieved doesn't matter, as the masses use HTTP as a protocol (Android, iOS, Browser).

Sidenote: The torrent protocol and BENCODE is usually encapsulated in its transport layer (and yes, it's HTTP/S) as raw UDP is blocked and can't be used to discover peers in most settings due to carrier-grade NATs not offering a way to have a public IP anymore.

I never denied that other protocols exist, hence the reason for my previous comment.

But when people actively shame others for not knowing how routing infrastructure is solved, I think the argumentation baseline is wrong on the technical side that should know better and therefore argue better.

Users use HTTP. Mobile E-Mail clients that use SMTP/IMAP are dying out and moving over to HTTPS infrastructure and REST/JSON based APIs.

Look at G-Mail, look at Outlook, look at any large-scale E-Mail provider's Apps in the Play Store or App Store. The AOSP E-Mail client is the rare exception, and their network traffic gets blocked in most countries I've visited when not using a VPN.

My comment was about the argument that other protocols exist for legacy reasons, and I was challenging the general assumption in the sense that mobile took over most portions of the "internet". And mobile only uses web-based network protocols.

My argument was that in the future, it's very likely to see other protocols for our infrastructure to move over to HTTPS as a transport layer. SMTP/IMAP via HTTPS or something similar is very likely to be once DNS via HTTPS is rolled out and the default.

> Either way, arguing that the web == the internet based on protocol usage is to me a bit like arguing TCP == HTTP/S

Coming back to the argument that someone might also argue that TCP==HTTP/S:

As all internet traffic is encapsulated by SONET on the ISP side, the very same argument would be that UDP and TCP aren't used (so VC == TCP/UDP?) - as the real transport layer is VC4 or similar containerized point to point protocols.

We can also play this a little longer up to the point where cables are not really cables anymore because of fibre infrastructure and how wavelengths are multiplexed, but that wasn't my point.

My point was that given the "internet infrastructure" of users having a router box thingie at home and they connect to their view of the internet, they'll use HTTP most of the time.

ISP-provided routers usually don't even have a configuration capability to unblock other protocols anymore, so other network protocols will very likely die out soon because UDP 53 and HTTP are always allowed (hence the reason for the DNS via HTTPS movement).

And having worked at an ISP to know these things is a very rare conditional state, and therefore that specialized knowledge cannot be extrapolated to the general society.
Ultimately all databases scale the same way, by splitting up data into shards/partitions/segments and spreading them out over several servers, along with replication for durability. The partitioning is done by a primary/sorting/distribution key on the data for each table.

Implementations vary but there are the 2 major architectures: systems like Vitess/Proxy SQL/Citus/Timescale that act as a proxy layer on top of existing RDBMS running on multiple servers to make them look like a single database, and entirely custom projects like CockroachDB/TiDB/Yugabyte/Cloud Spanner which have their own native processing and data layers.

OLAP relational data warehouses like Vertica/Greenplum/MemSQL/Redshift/Bigquery are also natively distributed but focus on large-scale analytics with features like column-oriented storage and vectorized processing.
youtube is having an outage
What Would Open Source Look Like If It Were Healthy? [video] [transcript]
If you've ever been on the other end of the pipe for hiring you'll understand the need for filtering. The alternative is to never list jobs and hire through networks, which has other problems.
Name and shame the recruiter.
Links to these scanners? Right now whenever I send one of my PDF resumes I get zero replies.
Given the ad hominems and the repeated misunderstanding of what seemed like a simple request to me, I don't see a lot of value in trying to explain my question to you yet again.
Unreasonable demands that I be an expert in a range of things YES.

Be curse at because I was not NEVER.
Out of curiosity what do you define as being paid well? What country and region or state and what’s the compensation?

I had a recruiter try to lure me for a $130K “senior” role on the east coast in the US. I earn several times that.
GitHub Flavored Markdown seems like a nice extension to Markdown to me. Fenced code blocks? Great idea. Lots of other flavors of Markdown do the same thing. I don't know who's the leader or follower here, but I'm glad they're doing it. I'm not sure what's the gold standard for wikis, but they all seem like the kind of thing every vendor has similar, flawed, good-enough solutions for. And I know there are other thoughts around how to manage merges, but having a merge commit (or a squash merge or a fast forward) seems like a reasonable contender for handling a feature branch. But maybe there's something I'm missing? I guess any hegemony is bad for innovation?

Are there a lot of walled gardens that only allow sign-in with GitHub? That's not really an issue I've run into. I can't think of any site I want to invite my aunt/uncle/cousin to log into that only accepts GitHub login. In fact, I'm not sure there's a lot of tools I want my colleagues to use that require a GitHub login that isn't already tied to a GitHub hosted repo.

I would love to hear what I'm missing though.
Is this auto filtering happening at the senior level for FAANG? Amazon keeps reaching out to me (a junior who already failed one of their interviews) on LinkedIn. Google did as well at one point.

If I am somehow worth personal attention as a not terribly impressively pedigreed and inexperienced developer, are they really dumping seniors through crappy filtering software and missing them there?
Sounds pretty exactly like PS5 availability
Me neither. Every single point the author makes does not match my (or any other dev I know) experience. The only explanation is the guy is in a really bad tech market, in which case, move.
Here's some alternative answers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotor_ship

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbosail

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windmill_ship
> I am sick and tired of <xyz>

Is this style of discourse really what Hacker News is about? I come here specifically because it is one of the few places where vague sentimental ranting is discouraged over directness and constructing thought out arguments for points. It's disappointing to see something make it to the top just for having an aggressive "hot take" and not because the content is well presented.
Yeah this sounds more like a crazy anecdote to me. I once had a new CTO come in at a place I’d been working at for about a year and a half, and he refused to interview any candidates that weren’t Muslim (as existing staff were replaced 1 at a time). While this is extremely fucked up, I would be surprised if I could find another tech company in the state where this happened. Cursing at someone for having experience in Rust sounds…similarly absurd albeit more benign
Cardano's ECR20 converter will convert Ethereum tokens to its native blockchain
We’ll solve that problem in 50 years, don’t you think? BTC and ETH are just pioneers in the future of financial systems.
The Tether Ponzi Scheme
Developer: How to Get Deno up and running
Apple no longer cares about providing computers to niche users like musicians.
Writer doesn’t seem to know what drives a lot of things and seems to suspiciously get a lot of poor interactions.

I have never been cursed at for anything by an interviewer. I have never heard anyone I know tell me they were cursed at.

The older guy who had his school paid for? Guess what? College was insanely cheaper back then. Also, it was extremely rare. Today, all the education you need to learn any language is available for free in any medium you like. Even CS fundamentals.
I think you need less soy
If I had created the DAO and I was the one going to lose 50 million, no fork would have happened, and Buterin (and you probably) would have told me, from their high horses, "though luck pal, you see, that's the beauty of smart contracts, they're final and no one should be able to do anything about it".

If you preach a set of principles and then backtrack on them when it's convenient for you, you're a hypocrite and have no integrity. If you do this on purpose, to deceive people, and there's money involved then you arrived at the definition of fraud, +- some extra words.
A humorous example is the misspelling of the referer HTTP header: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer#Etymology
This is a good point, and the disadvantage of crowd-sourcing it. There's no actual network analysis going on on DownDetector, so there's definitely room for some confusion if people blame the wrong thing.

That said, the info here: http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm definitely seems to suggest something beyond just youtube.
Honest question: just how often do you actually need to worry about algorithms in your day to day work? The vast majority of software dev, even/especially in hot startups and the like, is bog-standard CRUD and 99.9% of the time the correct response to "I need to do something slightly complicated" is "call an existing library function".
I was curious too and found this slide deck:

http://creativity.arch.tamu.edu/_common/FoVI3D_DeepDrive.pdf

The explanation of how it works begins on p. 13.

It seems to basically just have a huge number of very dense pixels, and in front it has some tiny lenses that direct each pixel at a different angle.

Presumably there's a maximum distance you can view from because the further you get away from the display, the smaller the angle between your eyes. I would guess it's no coincidence that Google has set it up as a booth with a back wall that would ensure you keep close enough:

https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/ima...
Yeah, hiring someone with no c++ experience and expecting them to OJT is a great way to farm memory corruption vulnerabilities...
Depends on whether you have any experienced C++ folks on the team who can mentor, review, and hack out the tricky bits.
I've never been on the other side of things, but it's always fascinated me that so many people who have say things like this.

It's hard for me to fathom that such a large proportion of candidates are terrible.
And many more that made millions. The ones that get caught get penalized in public/shamed, but there are many more that were not - I personally saw many amazon sellers doing it for months without any apparently penalty.
The Mental Benefits of Being Terrible at Something
A pretty empty statement, as noted QE did not really help employment and contributed to asset inflation. We haven't seen debasement yet, but we're 2/3 bad outcomes.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but being offline is not a slashable penalty. You would slowly lose ETH and eventually be ejected, but not slashed like a malicious validator would be.
Used on Amazon is $2099.00
No, it has been relabeled.
I wonder if it is possible that the recruiter said something like "ah, damn" which would be unprofessional of course, but seems in the general range not-completely-absurd human reactions.
This presentation from 2019 gives an idea about some of the GC avg/max runtimes using the NameNode: https://www.slideshare.net/xkrogen/hadoop-meetup-jan-2019-dy...
Except none of his points apply to FAANG companies either.

>A bad interview is when you ask them the definition of some specific thing in some specific framework like “Tell me what a closure in javascript is.” then treat them like they’re stupid if they don’t know.

FAANG companies do not interview like this. I've done interviews with most of them twice in the last 5 years and all questions are the typical algo stuff.

Then his whole rant about credentials... I am a self-taught dev with no degree, none of my interviewers ever cared about that. Every interview is about whether or not you can solve the algo question.
But if that is the person you need, expecting them to already know C++ is entirely reasonable.
Yes and no. A good programmer could learn it, but it exposes concepts that python and java abstracts from the programmer.

C++ requires you to think quite a bit about memory. Modern C++ not so much. However the kind of job that requires C++ will probably require you to know some hardware / embedded which is a completely different domain than web devs and could make java / python transitions even more difficult.
C++ is one of those languages where people have deep expertise. They are on standards committees, they have a high profile in the industry. But yes if you have general programming experience you can certainly pick up modern C++ and not make a complete mess of things. It’s a multi-paradigm language with lots of gotchas that take a while to learn and require a career to memorize and stay on top of. But I think if you are an average developer in, say, a functional and OO language, you can be expected to become an average C++ developer with a little effort.
It sounds like you could have just opened the PDF that was generated to double-check it too. Sending off a derivative file without proofing seems like a big YOLO move to me
I'm pseudonymous for a reason but here's a list of companies, none of which I am employed at, that have similar pay and issues with staffing:

Uber, Doordash, Asana, AirBnB, Pinterest, LinkedIn and literally so many more. Especially if you are willing to accept mature but not yet liquid equity and then there's Stripe, Airtable, Robinhood and so many more.

Post your resume. Tried to go to your personal website but it wouldn't load.
As a perfectly competent dev having immense difficulty getting anyone to consider me for any position, I cannot see this as anything other than false.

I have a job now (and by all accounts my employer is really happy with me), but the interview gauntlet I had to run to get here was absolutely ridiculous.
Patients Fare When Private Equity Funds Acquire Nursing Homes
"Patients admitted to private equity-owned nursing homes are 50 percent more likely to be placed on antipsychotic medication. By sedating patients rather than applying behavioral therapy, nursing homes can reduce staffing needs...."
There's no magic here. It's just people experienced with that specific product / tech. Once you get large enough scale you get more specialisation, so you do get a person who can deal with debugging X on the fly better than others.

Senior engineers are ok for that.
Could you recommend a scanner?
The article doesn't mention the #1 problem with tech hiring: leetcode. Some advice for recruiters: try starting your emails with "NO LEETCODE" in the subject line and watch your response rate from senior experienced engineers skyrocket! There is an artificial "shortage" caused by this barrier.
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> According to Apple, compared to the 21-inch Intel iMac, the new M1 iMac’s volume has been reduced by more than 50 percent, and its overall footprint reduced by 30 percent — even though the display size increased from 21.5 to 24 inches. The volume reduction is what makes it look sleeker, but it’s the footprint reduction that makes it more versatile.

anyone who would do the same to a 21 inch unit would basically be making a hybrid ultra-tablet. I long for those days.

Samsung & Philips had some 18.5 inch tablets, the galaxy view & some model numbered thing, back in like 2013. incredibly hopeful awesome systems. I wish we'd try again. tablet sizes have crept up up slowly, to 12.4 inches or whatever, but I really think portable 17-22 inch displays that happen to also be tablets make all the sense in the world.

oh by the way, Lenovo is releasing a tablet or foldable or whatever next week that also has HDMI in, that acts as a monitor.
she's trying to pump her for pay stock research service
I looked up the author, he does not have any more than ~6 months experience at any jobs, none are at serious companies.
I believe the allusion was to The Prisoner.
Dunno about that particular case.

But I have a story myself: A certain company that is probably in the top100 biggest of the world, one time attempted to hire me, but their hiring process was a mess and they forgot me in the middle.

Then I noticed they kept complaining on media about not finding anyone for that job. 2 YEARS later, after they posted another complaint, I decided to apply again, and even mentioned the previous hiring process.

The HR department said they were sorry, explained that the previous time it was a contractor and they were bad at their job and got fired. So I thought this time I would get hired.

Went through their entire process... and then HR sent me a sad letter, that the headquarters in the company home country, blocked my hire because it would violate policy.

The policy in question, is that for that job, people needed experience. But also, they needed a local. But... they were the first company offering that particular job in the country, ever. So you have this company trying to be the first company to hire for a particular job in the country, but wants someone with experience, complaining endlessy about it on the media. I felt bad for the employees that were dealing with that bullshit.

(the job in question was Game Producer, I have a bachelor degree for it, but back then this company was the only company in the country with such job opening. Some other game companies DID exist in the country but all of them imported producers from their other studios, so for example there was some french and canadian producers in the country)
Oh yes they do: https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=2080ti
Exactly. And paxos is not the best algorithm at it. There is Raft which is an alternative that is easier to understand.
Yes! But that isn't something that all (or even most?) companies have full control over.

Most people aren't going to be passionate about building, oh, I dunno, software for insurance companies, but it still needs to get done. There might be a handful of "disruptive" companies doing something in the space, but 99% aren't.

There's a lot more "boring" software (even in the startup world) that needs to be built than anything else. The problem is really that these companies don't seem to be self-aware and they don't adjust #1-#5 (especially #1) accordingly.
> I think the author is talking about pretty large, well-known companies (e.g., FAANG -- see his first point).

Except almost nothing outside of some amount of resume filtering fits his points. Seriously, go to levels.fyi and look at the pay of the FANGs (ex. Amazon). You think his bad pay point is a problem for them?
I have been told multiple times by C++ advocates, that C++ (whatever year is latest) doesn't have memory management issues... Is that not true?